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its largest enrollment, 122 students from 27 school districts across the Maine.

According to the school’s website, MeANS includes day students from the local region and boarding students from across the state.

“Located in central Maine on several hundred acres of wilderness, organic farmland and river frontage, MeANS uses hands-on learning experiences tailored to a student’s interests, introducing them to careers in farming, forestry, sustainability, alternative energy and other related fields,” the website states.

Arnold served eight years as a school principal in Fryeburg, Stratford, N.H.,

and Lake Region Middle School. She was nominated for Maine Principal of the Year in 2015 and Maine Teacher of the Year in 2005.

“We are thrilled to welcome Tonya Arnold to the Good Will-Hinckley community as the new Principal of the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences,” said Good Will-Hinckley Vice President of Operations and Interim President Rob Moody. “Our focus — at MeANS and all of the programs on campus — remains providing nontraditional students with individualized attention, hands-on learning opportunities and a chance to succeed. Tonya Arnold shares that commitment and has the adminis-

LEAVES LRMS — Principal Tonya Arnold has left SAD 61 to become the leader of a charter school in Fairfield. trative experience we need as MeANS continues to grow.”

On the MeANS website, Arnold said, “I am honored to have the opportunity to work and lead the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences,” said Arnold.

LEADERS, Page 2A

LEA keeps close water watch

By Leigh Macmillen Hayes Special to The News For more than 40 years, the Lakes Environmental Association has been monitoring the water quality of area lakes on a biweekly basis from May through October.

Regular testing from boats provides a general idea of a lake’s state of affairs at that given moment. From the information gleaned, LEA staff learns how much plant growth occurs in the water and the amount of nutrients available.

During a recent discussion, Assistant Director Colin Holme said, “With enough data, we can track changes.

We’re starting to get enough now to filter through changes caused by the weather and understand cyclical patterns.”

Though LEA continues to conduct these traditional tests because they provide a good assessment at regular intervals, lakes are far

PRETTY BUT BAD FOR LAKES — Gloeotrichia or “Gloeo” is a species of blue-green algae. more complex. In recent years, it became apparent to Holme and LEA’s Executive Director Peter Lowell that there were other parameters yet to be examined.

Under the guidance of Holme and Researcher Amanda Pratt, advanced water quality tests have been

added to the traditional testing techniques on 25 lakes in the region.

Pratt was hired a few years ago to analyze 15 lakes for Gloeotrichia, or “Gloeo,” a species of blue-green algae.

Six of the 15 lakes showed increased concentrations of Gloeo.

Gloeo looks like tiny (1/16-inch diameter), round, yellow-green dots about the size of a pinhead and resembles pine pollen suspended throughout the water column.

This algae spends the early part of its life cycle on bottom sediments in shallow water where it absorbs the nutrient phosphorus.

When conditions are right, it becomes buoyant and floats to the surface where it rapidly reproduces. This unique strategy helps it thrive in clear, low-nutrient lakes.

Gloeo testing has procured academic interest and larger lake associations like LEA are collaborating throughout New England to collect and examine data because scientists hypothesize that the presence of this algae in the water column is related to poor water quality.

Working with Dr. Holly WATER, Page 7A

Camp Arcadia — Like having hundreds of sisters

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer OTISFIELD — Eleanor Tracy Cochran and her younger sister, Ann Tracy Ross, remember the skills they learned at Camp Arcadia such as swimming, canoeing, archery, marksmanship with a rifle, as well as weaving and letterwriting.

The director of the all-girls camp on the shores of Pleasant Lake believed that to be confident in the world, young women should be confident in the outdoors. So, campers spent a lot of time in the water. When out of the water, the campers learned valuable life skills and made long-lasting friendships.

While this might seem to be the status quo at any summer camp, the Tracy sisters went to Arcadia Camp in the 1930s and ‘40s.

“You have to remember it was still the turn-of-thecentury, women had just got the voting rights in 1920,” Eleanor said.

The girls’ summer camp was quite progressive for the time period, she said.

About 50 years later, Ann’s granddaughter, Tracy (Ross) Spalsbury, 32, had a great affinity for the lake. There, at camp, she met friends who would ask her to stand in as a bridesmaid, and those who would invite her to weddings, and those who would stay in touch through Facebook.

“I lived at the H-dock,” Spalsbury said.

“I did a lot of swimming and some windsurfing, and a little bit of canoeing,” Spalsbury said.

Her mother Wendy, who spent three summers at Camp Arcadia from 1967 to 1970, gravitated toward theater.

Wendy recalled the friends and comradery, and the starring roles she played on stage. At Camp Arcadia, her natural interests started Wendy on a path that led to a career in television.

Wendy’s cousin Paige Cochran, who is Eleanor’s daughter, expressed high acclaim. “If it weren’t for Camp Arcadia, I wouldn’t be alive — literally,” she said.

“This is where my grandparents met,” Paige said.

Her grandmother — whom everyone referred to as a “very independent woman,” was the rifle range instructor

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Residents: Lawyer contradicts DEP

SAD 61 loses leaders with school weeks away

By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer With the start of the new school year just two weeks away, SAD 61 is searching for a new middle school principal and adult ed director.

Tonya Arnold resigned as Lake Region Middle School principal effective Aug. 11. She has been named the principal of the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences (MeANS) at Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield — the state’s first charter high school to focus on natural sciences.

Arnold became principal at LRMS in 2011, and now moves on to a school in Hinckley that will open the new school year with

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By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — Several citizens of Naples brought it to the attention of elected public officials that statements made by the town attorney in mid-July contradicted a letter dated December 2014.

The residents spoke on Aug. 10 during the bimonthly Naples Board of Selectmen meeting; and they asked for an explanation of the contradiction.

Residents referred to a July 13 meeting, at which time Town Attorney Sally Daggett said that the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and not the town’s code enforcement department, had recommended moving a home back from the high water mark to comply with the setback on the site plan as well as shoreland zoning laws.

The letter, which circulated around the meeting room last Monday, was written

by DEP’s Mike Morse and addressed to Naples Town Manager Ephrem Paraschak.

“While we feel that the town could legally pursue the relocation of the structure, the circumstances sur-

rounding this matter have caused the department to conclude that it would not pursue separate enforcement action on the matter if the Town’s CA (contract agreement) allows the structure to remain,” Morse wrote.

The letter was written six months before a consent agreement ended up on the selectmen’s agenda.

The consent agreement, which came about after more than a year of negotiations, is between Naples’ property-owners Tim and Kerrie Slattery and the Town of Naples.

Nobody on the state or municipal level is asking for the newly constructed home to be moved back.

The house owned by the Slattery’s will stay on its foundation, where it now sits on the property off Long Lake.

In fact, the consent agreement that was signed by the Slattery’s in late July does not request that the home be moved at all.

On Aug. 10, what several citizens were calling into question was the contradiction between Daggett’s statement and the DEP letter.

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By Emily Butterfield Contributing Writer FRYEBURG — Selectmen voted to extend the lease agreement with Fryeburg Rescue for space for the police department until 2018. Over the past year, space for the police department has been a hot button issue.

In August of 2014, Fryeburg Rescue announced plans to add additional space to their building and inquired whether or not the police department would desire to use any of the extra space.

Currently the police operate in 440 square feet of office space as well as a shared basement.

In November of 2014, the board of selectmen attempted to relocate the police department to a bigger space on Porter road. This was met not only with harsh criti-

cism from some, but a legal clause disallowing the board from entering into multi-year leases without town voter approval.

At the annual Town Meeting in June of 2015, voters approved allowing the selectmen to enter into existing multi-year leases without having to hold a Special Town Meeting and/ or vote, such as the lease with Rescue, but shot down the article that would allow the selectmen to enter into new multi-year lease contracts. Many said that such a big decision should be left to voters.

Over the course of the discussions, the selectmen were told that they must give Fryeburg Rescue a concrete answer on whether or not the police department, who have been there for well over 20 LEASE, Page 6A

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — Residents and town officials in Casco started a conversation about ways to reduce the number of vehicular accidents that occur on Route 11.

On Tuesday, it was noted that earlier that day along Route 11 a driver had lost control of a vehicle, which ended up taking out a guardrail and landing in the steep embankment near Coffee Pond. The driver survived the accident.

That stretch of road has several consecutive blind curves.

What really got the attention of residents was the fatal-

ity of a 4-year-old child on Aug. 11. That vehicular accident occurred on Route 11 near a sharp curve north of the Hancock Lumber Yard.

During the Casco Board of Selectmen meeting on Tuesday, resident Linda Mocello said it was time to move from sorrow to action.

“There have been too many fatalities on Route 11.

There are memorials along the road; and we say, ‘Oh how sad.’ But, there is more the town can do,” Mocello said.

She suggested additional lighting for nighttime drivers, more signs to warn of dangerous curves coming up, or the ACCIDENTS, Page 8A

Fryeburg extends Rescue lease

Concerns over Rte. 11 crashes

CAMPING BOND — Wendy Ross and her daughter Tracy Spalsbury are among the alumni who spent the weekend of Aug. 7 – 9 at Camp Arcadia, the girls’ camp located along Pleasant Lake in Otisfield.

(De Busk Photo) in 1929. During her time as a camp employee, she was introduced to her future husband. The couple married three months later.

Over the weekend of Aug. 7 through Aug. 9, the alumni from multiple generations met at the 365-acre spread to celebrate 100 years of camping memories at Camp Arcadia.

In many ways, not much has changed from decade to decade.

Tracy Spalsbury was once again spending her free time at the H-dock. She exited from the water to visit with her mom.

100S OF SISTERS, Page 8A

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SAD 61 loses leaders

(Continued from Page 1A) “Good Will-Hinckley has a 125-year history of making sure all young Mainers have an opportunity to succeed, and the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences is quickly becoming a renowned place for innovative, hands-on learning in the natural sciences. I look forward to the coming year and years to come, working with students, parents, faculty and community leaders to continue that growth and success.”

Arnold succeeds Troy Frost, who had a 29-year career at the school, including helping to create and launch the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences and who served as its first Principal in 2012.

The school serves nontraditional high school students from anywhere in Maine who are interested in hands-on learning, the natural sciences and careers in farming, forestry, sustainability, alternative energy and other related fields. MeANS is a separate entity, with its own board of directors, that resides and uses facilities on the Good Will-Hinckley campus.

Now, SAD 61 must find a successor with school set to start on Sept. 2. At Monday’s school board meeting, Chairman Janice Barter and Superintendent Alan Smith said the district has advertised the vacancy and plan to start interviews this week. While it may be late in the hiring season, Barter and Smith strongly stated that SAD 61 won’t simply “settle” to fill the position. If a strong and desirable candidate fails to emerge, the district could name an “interim” principal until a suitable candidate is found, Smith said.

Directors were also informed of the resignation of Stephen McFarland as Community and Adult Education director, effective July 31. Again, SAD 61 is advertising for a new director, but again will consider

“some available options” if a successor is not immediately found, Barter said.

SAD 61 has faced a major turnover in its top leadership over the past couple of years with the departure of Superintendent Dr. Kathleen Beecher along with the retirement of Songo Locks Principal June Conley, and the recent resignations of Lake Region High School Principal Ted Finn, LRMS assisstant principal J.P. Yorkey and Adult Ed Director Carrie Castonguay.

School Board notes • Architect hired — Stephen Blatt Architect of Portland emerged as the firm to work with SAD 61 regarding the renovation and construction of new instructional space at Crooked River School.

School Board members listened to presentations by four architectural groups, and decided to hire Blatt Architects.

“Blatt was thorough and covered all the bases,” Facilities Committee Chairman Phil Shane of Casco said.

Superintendent Smith echoed that thought, saying Blatt “covered everything we asked for” and touched on a “few things that we hadn’t thought of.”

SAD 61 plans to put together a project proposal that will reopen Crooked River as a Grade 3, 4 and 5 school.

The timeline calls for the proposed project to go to public meetings in late October and then to a referendum vote on Nov. 3.

Superintendent Smith pointed out that the proposal will also include improvements to parking and access points at Songo Locks School.

• Smarter lunchroom — SAD 61 has revamped its school lunch program to be “smarter, nutritious and efficient,” and has received USDA recognition for its

efforts.

By using fresh and local produce and fruits, SAD 61 has taken major steps to improve its lunch offerings, according to Andy Madura, director of Transportation, Maintenance and Food Service.

Those efforts did not go unnoticed.

Starting next week, TV networks in Maine, and possibly across the country, will air public service announcements about school efforts as part of the “Let’s Go! Smarter Lunchroom” program.

The 2-minute, 23-second video includes clips of the Lake Region High School cafeteria, as well as remarks from students and teachers.

• Partnership with BH — High school athletes will soon benefit from a new partnership between Lake Region and Bridgton Hospital.

The LR athletic office will team up with an athletic trainer from the BH Physical Therapy Department. The trainer will meet each day with athletes at 2 p.m. to work out “bumps, bruises and other issues,” according to Athletic Director Paul True.

The trainer — a full-time BH employee — will also be at home athletic events, and will conduct concussion testing.

True told the school board that the partnership will also result in a member of the hospital’s PT department to put athletes through Fundamental Movement screenings — an eight- to 11-step test of the muscular system, which could pinpoint weaknesses athletes may possess, as well as “trends” teams might show, which could result in some changes in physical training that might prevent future injuries.

True noted that the services LRHS receives will be more than in past years when the school hired a part-time trainer, but at the same budgeted amount.

• Gift of music — Dick Albert was a close friend of

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The Hornabergers were killed in a motor vehicle accident on Route 302 in Casco.

At age 82, Dale played in six different band groups, Albert told the school board.

“I’m a lifelong musician and will do it until I can’t,” Albert said.

In memory of the Bridgton couple, and on behalf of the family and friends of Ed and Joe Beck, a donation of a baritone horn, a trumpet, a trombone and an alto saxophone was made to the Lake Region Music Department.

The school board also accepted the donation of $200 from Rita Perez for the Greenhouse Fund at Stevens Brook Elementary School.

• Personnel moves — The school board approved the following personnel moves: Paul Carignan as a special education resource room teacher at Lake Region M.S. This is a new position. There

were 14 applicants, four were interviewed.

Debra Roy as a Grade 2 teacher at Stevens Brook Elementary, replacing Rebekah Belanger who resigned. There were 18 applicants, two were interviewed (two canceled just before the interview time).

Jessica Littlefield as a special education tech III at Stevens Brook, replacing Kerry Stewart. There were 10 applicants, seven were interviewed.

Beth Boos as a special education educational tech II at Songo Locks School, replacing Danielle Spearrin who transferred. There were 10 applicants, seven were interviewed.

Thomas Coady as a Lake Region Middle School Math teacher, replacing Linda Dutil who transferred. There were 16 applicants, five were interviewed.

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Robert Kerr as a special education tech III at Lake Region M.S., replacing Bonniejean Wightman, who transferred to another position. There were 10 applicants, seven were interviewed.

Adam Potvin as a special education day treatment support technician at Lake Region M.S., replacing Melissa Kluge who resigned.

There were 10 applicants, seven were interviewed.

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Louise Bonjour as a health care attendant at Sebago Elementary (two days) and Songo Locks (three days). There was one applicant.

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August 20, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 3A

Voters okay lot purchase for Casco Town Hall when the project has long been on the wish list.

The Town Hall construction project, which was approved at the Town Meeting in June, will have some extra space on the blue-

SAD 61 personnel

(Continued from Page 2A) William Lucas as a school bus driver, replacing Barry Bisco. There was one applicant.

Stefanie Crockett as a school bus driver, replacing Daveen Bell. There was just one applicant.

Christopher Maguire as a school bus driver. He was employed by the district for two years, resigned in June to take another job, and requested to return to his bus driving position.

William Libby as a district-wide maintenance technician, replacing Greg Crosby who resigned. There were seven applicants, four were interviewed.

Philip Bowman as a district-wide groundskeeper (seasonal), replacing Daryl Fernald who transferred. There were three applicants, three were interviewed.

Amy Hannah resigned as a special education tech III at Lake Region H.S. Leah Heyman resigned as a Lake Region M.S. science teacher.

Shirley Ball resigned as a Lake Region H.S. secretary.

Eli Clemmer resigned as a Lake Region H.S. library media specialist.

Claton Conrad resigned as a Lake Region M.S. science teacher.

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That’s because the Town of Casco will purchase a oneacre lot of undeveloped land with roadside frontage.

Casco residents, at a Special Town Meeting on Tuesday, gave the goahead to using money in the Undesignated Fund Balance to purchase the property adjacent to the fire station lot.

Furthermore, in the spirit of land conservation, the majority of the residents favored using the Undesignated Fund Balance instead of the Open Space Account. The latter account was recommended by the Casco Finance Committee a week ago, according to Town Manager Dave Morton.

On Tuesday evening, the Casco voters decided to refrain from touching any money in the Open Space

Account, which is a fund allocated for land purchases that preserve natural spaces and/or easements that give the public access to undeveloped land.

Going forward, the $79,000 for an acre of land and the control of how that part of the Village District will look in the future — that money will come from the Undesignated Fund Balance.

This allocation of funds will not directly affect the tax rate, Morton said.

Approximately 80 residents, or slightly less than 100 people, packed the large meeting room in the Casco Community Center to weigh in on the land purchase.

Resident Dana Watkins made his concerns known when the warrant article (whether or not to purchase a one-acre parcel for $79,000)

was on the floor.

“I am a little disappointed in the selectmen and the salaried officers of our town — the town manager, the CEO and the planner — that this did not emerge in the Town Meeting in June,” Watkins said.

“I feel like we are being played a little fast here,” he said.

He said that in June voters were told that the current town-owned parcel was big enough to support a new town hall and parking lot. “It had been made clear to us that the existing property was satisfactory,” he said.

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disappointed in this (Special) Town Meeting” being held now and not in June, Watkins said, glancing at the number of people in the room.

“I am encouraged that there are a lot of people here.

Sometimes these things slip through without much notice.

At least there are plenty of people here to get a fair vote,” Watkins said.

He shifted the topic to say he “did not like the use of Open Space money.

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Bridgton Police Department blotter These incidents appeared on the Bridgton Police Department blotter between the dates of Monday, Aug. 10 and Sunday, Aug. 16 (This is only a partial listing).

Monday, August 10 9:35 a.m. People were seen arguing over a road rage incident at Pondicherry Square.

5:43 p.m. A South Bridgton Road resident reported her son was missing.

5:16 p.m. Juveniles swimming at Woods Pond Beach broke off a ladder on one of the town docks, and a resident took the ladder to his home for town employees to pick up.

8:29 p.m. A car hit a deer on the Portland Road near Hannaford.

9:36 p.m. A Memory Lane resident saw a flashlight in her backyard.

11:42 p.m. A Pinhook Road resident said a vehicle with no headlights has been coming down the dead-end road three nights in a row, and not coming back out.

Tuesday, August 11 12:59 p.m. Two women and a man were seen going inside a vacant Main Street apartment.

2:40 p.m. A hit-and-run accident occurred at the corner of Main and Walker Streets.

2:55 p.m. A Main Street resident said items were taken from his apartment.

5:05 p.m. A man asked for police assistance in retrieving his vehicle after the person he sold it to reneged on the payment arrangement.

Wednesday, August 12 7:45 a.m. Officer McCormick responded to a report that a 22-year-old male had been assaulted and had walked to Hannaford.

1:53 p.m. Officer McCormick inves-

tigated a report of damage done to empty condos on Hoyts Ridge Road.

Thursday, August 13 11:40 a.m. Officers Jones and Hammond responded to a report of a possible drug overdose.

11:55 a.m. A disturbance was reported at 3 Fowler Street involving a man who wanted to retrieve his belongings.

4 p.m. Officer Gaumont investigated a theft by someone writing a bad check.

5:30 p.m. Five motorcycles were seen speeding past the Naples Causeway, headed toward Bridgton.

6:45 p.m. Officers Reese and Gaumont responded to a disturbance on Willet Road involving knives.

6:48 p.m. Loud party music was causing a disturbance on Piper Way. 7:56 p.m. Officer Gaumont investigated a report that someone was camped out behind the Magic Lantern Theater, by the bridge.

9:18 p.m. A report of domestic violence was made by a mother and son who went to the Emergency Room at Bridgton Hospital. They said they needed a place to stay that was safe.

Friday, August 14 2:14 a.m. A Main Street resident said he was missing a knife and believed a Bridgton police officer had taken it.

2:38 a.m. Multiple rounds from a high-powered rifle and also perhaps a pistol were heard coming from the Highland Pines area.

6:31 a.m. A person found used needles in the sandy area near a stream on Chadbourne Hill Road.

7:11 a.m. A Sweden Road resident said he has been woken up several times by gunshots late at night and early in the morning.

10:28 a.m. A dog left in a white truck

in the parking lot behind Water’s Edge Gallery was possibly in distress. 12:16 p.m. Police were asked whether anyone had turned in a wallet that had been lost on Thursday at the Bridgton Municipal Complex.

12:51 p.m. A person riding a bike near the Bridgton Skate Park was hit by a vehicle. The person suffered road rash but declined ambulance assistance.

3:22 p.m. A dog was left inside a Subaru with the windows up that was parked on Main Street near TD Bank.

3:35 p.m. Officer McCormick responded to Bridgton Hospital for an out-of-control patient.

6:34 p.m. Gunshots were heard in the middle of the night over several nights in the area of Crotched Pond Road.

7:08 p.m. Gunshots were heard on Highland Pines Road, possibly coming from the area of Briar Road.

7:36 p.m. A group of kids were seen drinking and swearing on the Bob Dunning Bridge.

9:42 p.m. Officers Hammond and Gaumont investigated a report that a Bridgton man had written a message on Facebook that sounded like a suicide note.

10 p.m. A woman said she has been getting constant unwanted telephone calls from a man and she wants it to stop.

10:04 p.m. Five cars were still parked in the parking lot at Highland Lake CONFISCATED items by the Fryeburg Police Department Beach after closing time, and the people during a recent drug arrest.

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Saturday, August 15 2:06 a.m. A man and woman were yelling and screaming at each other at a Kansas Road residence.

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10:20 a.m. Police handled a civil issue at the corner of Maple and Main Streets.

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Tuesday, August 11 1:44 p.m. Police handled a criminal trespass complaint on Bridgton Road.

7:15 p.m. A “peace officer” detail occurred at a North Fryeburg Road home.

Thursday, August 13 2:02 a.m. Responding to a complaint on Farnsworth Road, police charged Katelyn M. Lake, 20, of Albany, N.H. with criminal mischief.

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Friday, August 14 10:08 a.m. A motor vehicle crash occurred at a Main Street parking area.

11:45 a.m. Michael G. Keough, 32, of East Wareham, Mass. and Daniel J. Thomas, 29, of Sandwich, Mass. were charged with drinking in public at the public boat launch on Fish and Game Road.

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6:01 p.m. Police were sent to a Maple Street location regarding an alleged assault.

7:39 p.m. Police went to Fiddlehead Campground on Lovell Road regarding an overdose.

9:08 p.m. A theft occurred on Belair Estate Road.

10:30 p.m. Responding to a drug complaint at a Lovell Road campground, police charged Joseph V. Chaisson, 19, of Weymouth, Mass. and Brian Tinkham, 20, of Pembroke, Mass. with unlawful possession of a schedule drug.

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Dealing with pain of loved one’s mental illness

By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Two women from the Lake Region have made it their mission to help families cope with the pain, guilt and horrible helplessness that comes when a loved one is diagnosed with a mental illness.

Deborah Buffington of Bridgton and Susan Dovell of Harrison didn’t know each other when they went to Augusta this spring to train to become trained instructors for the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Maine.

Independent of one another, they reached out to volunteer, because both of them share the wish to give back for all the good that NAMI has done for them.

Together they will teach an

intensive 12-week Family-toFamily Education Program in Harrison that they both only wish they’d taken when they were trying to help their siblings (see sidebar on NAMI course, page __).

“If they’re anything like I was, when I was in the throes of being responsible for my sister, it can be completely consuming. And you feel helpless,” Dovell said.

The training provides knowledge, resources and tools that transforms helplessness into empowerment, and also helps families understand what they simply cannot do, she said.

Dovell’s sister suffered for decades with her bipolar disorder before it was diagnosed 20 years ago. And her parents, brothers and sister suf-

Coffee with Cops

True to his word, new Bridgton Police Chief Richard Stillman is taking steps to create a culture of community policing in town, so both police officers and residents can listen and learn from one another.

In his first few weeks on the job, Stillman has made the rounds around downtown, greeting business owners and residents on the street. This Saturday, Aug. 22, he and any members of his department who choose to will be at the Bridgton Farmers’ Market from 9 to 11 a.m., meeting with residents in an informal venue he’s calling Coffee With Cops.

“I think it’s important to have a visible presence in town,” said Stillman, who was known for doing the same thing at his former job as police chief in Walpole, Mass. “We’ll provide the coffee.”

Stillman is hoping that any resident with questions or concerns about crime in the community, and/or how the Bridgton Police Department is going about their duties, will stop by the market to talk to him. At least one other police officer will be there as well. They’ll be there on their own time.

Coffee With Cops is not meant so much as a meet-andgreet as it is a way for residents to put a face to the officers entrusted with enforcing public safety, and help them be more effective in their job, said Stillman. He plans to make the event a regular part of community life.

fered with her. They watched her self-medicate with drugs and alcohol during cyclical rounds of deep depression.

They bore the brunt of her tremendous anger and unhappiness during her manic phases.

Her brothers finally “kind of gave up” while her parents “were just simply overwhelmed,” Dovell said. “And they felt tremendously guilty for not having spotted it earlier.”

Dovell tried to be the responsible family member, but it was hard to help long-distance when her sister moved to the West Coast and she was in Virginia. Finally Dovell turned to NAMI and took the Family-to-Family Education Program. She learned from her peers how to listen and communicate with her sister, and just as important, how to talk intelligently with her sister’s doctors and therapists about her symptoms and side effects from medications.

“It is one of the most powerful things I’ve ever taken,” said Dovell. “They give you a four-inch thick notebook full of information — these classes often become support groups of their own.”

For the last five years of her sister’s life, Dovell said she felt she could be truly helpful. Then, tragically, after her sister had stabilized, gone back to school and had a boyfriend, she got cancer, and died within a year.

Right after Dovell finished her training, another family member was diagnosed with mental illness.

Only this time, she said, she had the tools she needed to

Susan Dovell, left, one of the co-teachers of a 12-week Family-to-Family Education Program being offered in Harrison Sept. 9 by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Maine, poses with her sister, right, and her mother taken the year before her sister’s death. “She was happy and healthy at this point — a very good memory,” said Dovell. feel she was really helping.

“Some days it’s all you think about, but it wasn’t that long ago, when all of a sudden you’re not worried.

You realize how effective you are,” Dovell said. She was thrilled to learn, after recently moving to Harrison, that NAMI has such a strong organization in Maine. The former president of NAMI Maine is now the president of the national organization, she said.

Debbie’s story When Buffington’s brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia in the early 1980s, NAMI was only a few years old, and families had little or no resources to turn to.

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(Continued from Page 3A) at Pike’s Corner in the village district,” Watkins said.

Ultimately, the vast majority of residents agreed with Watkin’s take on which account to use for the purchase.

Other residents, Eric Dibner and Barbara York, spoke in favor of protecting the Open Space Account.

York testified that taking almost $80,000 from the Open Space balance would leave $40,000 — a sum that would not cover the cost of getting the ball rolling on a real estate deal.

“That isn’t even enough to bring a project to the town,” she said.

Resident Trevor Tidd also addressed the topic of the Open Space account.

“I really like the idea of keeping money in there so when things can come up” the town can act on it, he said. “As I recall, at the last two Town Meetings” no additional funds were added to the account, he said.

“Really good work you guys are doing. I’d like to see the money stay there,” Tidd said.

Bridgton Police blotter items (Continued from Page 4A) going on at an Abenaki Road residence.

6:59 a.m. Loud music was still being played after going on all night at a residence near Camp Pondicherry.

7:42 a.m. A brown leather wallet was lost in the area of the Big Apple.

8:19 a.m. A Kansas Road resident said her boyfriend was smashing her car windows with a mallet.

8:41 a.m. Someone left their wallet inside Rite Aid. 1:34 p.m. Gunshots were heard again on Briar Road near Highland Lake.

4:47 p.m. A Cedar Road resident reported a theft from a vehicle.

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4:21 p.m. Police handled a theft complaint on Lovell Road.

12:07 p.m. A report of unwanted subjects on Bridgton Road was filed.

4:41 p.m. Peace was restored at a Maple Street home.

7:10 and 8:30 p.m. Police dealt with a liquor violation and later a criminal trespass complaint on Lovell Road.

Sunday, August 16 12:45 p.m. Andrew R. Clark, 19 of Billerica, Mass. and Michael Eggleston, 18, also of Billerica, Mass. were charged with illegal possession of liquor by a minor on the Saco River.

2 p.m. A theft occurred at a Main Street store.

2:09 p.m. A motor vehicle crash occurred on Main Street.

7:58 p.m. Someone fired off a cannon on Camp Pondicherry Road.

8 p.m. A silver minivan almost hit multiple cars and kept going into a ditch on the Portland Road and was last seen turning on Burnham Road.

9:54 p.m. Very loud music was still going on near Camp Pondicherry and it was being very disruptive.

Sunday, August 16 12:12 a.m. A South High Street resident said someone slashed his tires and tried to assault him.

2:42 a.m. A man was making a lot of noise standing in the hallway outside a Main Street apartment, and the person in the apartment was too scared to go to sleep or confront the man, who he believed was trying to break into another apartment.

3:20 a.m. A dog inside a residence on Church Street had been barking out the window for some time, and seemed to be in distress.

8:35 a.m. Backup was requested to handle a man who was being belligerent at Beth’s Café on Main Street.

9:58 a.m. Someone threw a rock through the window of a vehicle parked in the grass on Willett Road across from the Hannaford parking lot.

10:29 a.m. A Church Street resident said he was being harassed by another man who almost hit him with his vehicle on several occasions.

1:03 p.m. Vehicles were parked on both sides of the road in the area of the Moose Pond Boat Launch.

2:14 p.m. Two Chevy vehicles collided in front of the Big Apple on Main Street.

3:50 p.m. A woman calling from New Hampshire said she may have left her purse at a rest stop while traveling through Bridgton.

9:49 p.m. A dead deer was seen on the side of Portland Road near Napa Auto Parts.

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(Continued from Page 5A) lic knowledge back then,” Buffington said. “It was such a heavy burden for the family.” His sudden and total break with reality, coming at age 23 during his last semester of a college forestry class, devastated her family.

“We found him in a homeless shelter in Manchester, New Hampshire,” said Buffington. Up until then he was very intelligent and studious, with a kind, sweet disposition and always smiling, she said. “He had a wonderful fiancée.”

Only later did she learn that an undiagnosed case of diabetes had likely triggered her brother’s genetic predisposition for schizophrenia, which typically manifests in a person once they are in their 20s.

After the family found him, he ran away several times until he finally found a doctor he trusted, and was put on Depacote, a powerful anti-psychotic medication.

Over time, her brother was

able to develop natural supports living with his parents in Lovell, taking long walks with his Labrador retriever, and attending church every Sunday.

She attributes his stabilization to a conviction in her family of “always having hope and never giving up on them, because when you stop having hope, you lose the connection.”

Buffington said she and her brother shared a strong bond, and while working and raising her own family she visited him often over the years, and even though she wasn’t involved with NAMI, she tried to advocate for him as best as she could. Then five years ago, at age 53 and 30 years after his break with reality, he suddenly collapsed with a brain tumor.

Buffington said he wouldn’t leave for the hospital until she got there, so she could help him get ready to go.

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Her brother had surgery to relieve the pressure on his brain, and he only lived for another two weeks, she said. But during those two weeks, as grace would have it, “He had this time of clarity, the most he’d had since he had the break,” said Buffington.

“He told every person why they were special to him, and how much he loved them,” she said. “Even people with mental illness have this capacity to show compassion and empathy to

others, so we should show the same to them.”

It wasn’t until after he died that Buffington got involved with NAMI. Now she said she wants to teach the Family-to-Family classes “to inform as many family members that I can the valuable information that I only wish was there when my brother got diagnosed. If I can make a difference for members of just one family, it will help me give back a little portion of what the information has done for me.”

NAMI to offer indepth course

HARRISON — For the first time ever in Northern Cumberland County, the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Maine, known as NAMI, is sponsoring its free 12-week Family-to-Family Education Program for families of people diagnosed with mental illness.

The free series of classes from the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization will be offered in Harrison beginning on Wednesday, Sept. 9, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Those who sign up will be given the location details once they have contacted Susan Dovell at 583-8054. The program is also being offered in Westbrook beginning Tuesday, Sept. 3, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. (Call Karen, 653-6269, or Jack at 653-7600), and in Brunswick beginning Monday, Sept. 14, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. (Call Valerie, 319-7956).

The course is an evaluated, national best practice program, and will cover information about schizophrenia, the mood disorders (bipolar disorder and major depression), panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other major mental health challenges. In addition, coping skills such as handling crisis and relapse; basic information about medications; listening and communication techniques; problem-solving skills; recovery and rehabilitation; and self-care around worry and stress will be included.

The course is designed specifically for parents, siblings, spouses, teenage and adult children and significant others of persons with severe and persistent mental illness. The cur-

riculum has been written by an experienced family member mental health professional, and the course will be taught by NAMI family member volunteers who have taken intensive training as course instructors.

Both of the co-teachers for the Harrison course are local; Dovell is from Harrison and the other instructor, Debbie Buffington, is from Bridgton. Both also have had family members who were mentally ill.

“This course is a wonderful experience!” says Christine Canty Brooks, Director of Peer and Family Programs at NAMI Maine. “It balances basic psycho-education and skill-training with emotional support, self-care and empowerment. We hope families with relatives who have mental health challenges will take advantage of this unique opportunity.”

For more information, contact Christine at the NAMI Maine office at 1-800-464-5767, ext. 2305 or e-mail ccantybrooks@namimaine.org

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — The consent agreement has been signed and filed with the Cumberland County Registry of Deeds.

For that reason, the Naples Board of Selectmen decided not to revote on the matter on Monday night. Simply put, the chairman provided reasons why the agreed-upon consent agreement would stand.

For that reason, a few residents have decided to stand together and take steps to halt the consent agreement.

The citizens are the abutting neighbors of the Long Lake waterfront property owners, Tim and Kerrie Slattery, who in late July signed a consent agreement with the Town of Naples.

The consent agreement is the result of regular meetings over the duration of this autumn and winter between the lawyers representing both parties.

This type of resolution — the consent agreement (CA), also referred to as a consent decree — stems from an incident on the Slattery’s property

that evening, another abutter, Marty Zartarian told the board he had hoped the selectmen would have taken their testimony — their viewpoints — into consideration.

“I, too, am disappointed with how the town has conducted this. It was a building permit issue. It was an error.

It was an honest mistake,” Zartarian said.

A week earlier the board had stated it would review the Slattery case and the item was placed on the agenda for a selectmen’s meeting the following Monday.

On Monday, the board reviewed the history of the Shoreland Zoning violations on the property. Caron read a 2012 letter from the DEP. Caron cited some specific violations not being discussed as frequently as the house setback and the deck removal.

Specifically, he cited a retaining wall which held fill that had been brought in without the proper permit for the Shoneland Zone.

“There were multiple violations. We talked about this in Executive Session,” Caron said.

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On Monday, the group made known its intentions to hire an attorney and file an injunction to prevent the town (and the property owners) from putting into action the requirements of the consent decree until such time as a building permit error is sorted out.

“This is not a done deal.

The neighbors are going to hire counsel to put an injunction against the signed consent agreement,” said resident Jim Grattelo.

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On Monday, the board did not reconsider the CA; and, therefore, the board did not recast their votes regarding the CA. The neighbors spoke during public participation, which had been moved on the agenda to the end of the meeting.

“The abutters have asked” the selectmen to sidestep the section of the CA that would force the Slattery’s to remove the deck. The abutters had argued that the removal of the deck would not help with water quality or lake conservation, Zartarian said.

The people who are neighbors with the Slattery’s have requested that the deck removal not be part of the CA. Zartarian said he was disappointed in the selectmen for “not listening to us to make a decision” that would put everyone at ease.

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LEA keeps close water watch

(Continued from Page 1A) Ewing of Bates College, who developed the sampling procedure Pratt uses, Gloeo appeared in seven of the 24 lakes tested in 2014.

Keoka Lake displayed the highest level and elevated levels were discovered in Long Lake, Moose Pond, Crystal Lake, McWain Pond, Peabody Pond and Brandy Pond.

The identification of this algae in the Lake Region led to many questions including these: What other algae lurks in our lakes? And what does it mean to water quality?

Looking at what other organizations are doing about testing protocol, LEA decided that the next logical step was to have Pratt create a baseline snapshot of all algae present in our lakes. An expensive undertaking indeed, this included purchasing a high-powered microscope with monies from a Norcross Wildlife Foundation grant, and hours upon hours spent gathering, examining and categorizing algae from ten lakes.

LEA Simultaneously, staff learned about HOBO® data loggers from Dr. Dan Buckley of the University of Maine at Farmington. LEA attaches small digital temperature sensors every other meter from the top to the bottom and programs them to record readings every fifteen minutes. Upright buoys mark the location of the sensors, which create a temperature profile and determine fluctuations over time. Temperature controls the density of the water — lighter, warmer water sits on the top; denser, cooler water sinks.

While the traditional regime tests temperature at a particular time and day, the HOBO® sensors are installed in early spring and remain in the water until November.

LEA then provides local lake associations that help fund this and other tests with an analysis of the data.

Progress in data collection doesn’t end there. With the receipt of a large grant from

an anonymous foundation in 2014, LEA purchased a fully-automated hydrological GLEON buoy that you may have seen on Highland Lake.

GLEON stands for Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network. With lake-based monitoring devices, the buoy gathers temperature and oxygen readings every 15 minutes round the clock.

Temperature and oxygen structure are strongly tied to lake health. As Holme said, “All life needs oxygen.”

Decaying organic material sinks to the bottom of a lake, thus using up the oxygen.

Low oxygen or non-existent oxygen (anoxic) levels can be detrimental to fish and drinking water supplies.

The GLEON buoy has a fluorometer, another new device for LEA. This measures chlorophyll and phosphorus by shooting a light wave into the water column.

It analyzes spectral reflectance and provides a calculation of the green pigment found in plants. The higher the chlorophyll, the higher the algae.

A solar-powered computer inside the buoy records all of the measurements and transmits them to the LEA office via a cell signal.

In addition, interns use a new hand-held fluorometer to test coves and other areas of the lake, thus creating an overall picture.

With the data from these varied tests, Holme and Pratt

will create an assessment for Highland Lake, which can be compared to other lakes across New England and the globe.

Eventually, the data from the buoy will be available in a user-friendly form on LEA’s website: mainelakes. org The last advanced initiative LEA has recently begun is sediment coring. In 2013, shallow sediment cores were taken from 25 of the 40 lakes in LEA’s jurisdiction.

The core mechanism is a specially designed pipe that is lowered into the sediment.

A stopper that slips into place captures 6 to 8 inches of mud in the pipe. Of this, only the top one-inch of sediment and water gets analyzed.

The 2013 test indicated that five lakes had low amounts of aluminum in relation to the amount of iron.

Pratt said, “That means if there’s low oxygen levels in those lakes, there is a greater risk that phosphorus will be released from the sediment.”

“Overall, the test was reassuring,” said Holme.

“Perhaps the reason why our lakes have traditionally been so clean.”

In September 2014, the same anonymous foundation granted LEA funds to conduct deep sediment cores on Highland Lake and Long Lake in conjunction with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute.

Gathering a sample a

couple of feet deep reveals 200 to 300 years of sediment build-up. About 25 centimeters of accumulated sediment was sectioned off and dated using lead-210.

By processing these samples, researchers at the Institute were able to determine when water quality changes occurred based on diatoms preserved in the sediment.

Pratt explained, “Diatoms are a type of algae with hard, silica-based shells, whose preferred environmental conditions differ depending on their species. Changes in the amount of diatoms indicate a shift in the water conditions at the time.”

The study revealed Highland Lake changed in species composition in the 1950s. These changes were tied to shifts in water stability according to scientists at the University of Maine and likely a result of increased overall lake temperature.

While Highland Lake likely warmed since the ’50s, there were no changes in the nutrient level. Similar results were found for diatom abundance on Long Lake, but the change occurred about 1900.

Around the 1950s, however, nutrient levels on Long Lake had increased.

All of this indicates that these lakes are experiencing longer periods of stratification or layering than they had in the distant past. The results do strengthen the argument

Fourteen Maine business and municipal leaders including Matt Hancock of Casco — owner of Mt. Abram Ski Resort — along with legislators, educators and representatives of nongovernmental organizations will travel to Denmark this month to study energy policy, renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Climate Tour: Denmark 2015 will focus on how Maine and local communities can achieve energy independence and prosperity while supporting community sustainability.

Denmark is a world leader in addressing climate change and has reduced its fossil fuel use by over one-third since 1971.

The delegation from Maine will engage with Danish business, government and nonprofit leaders to explore opportunities for economic improvement through renewable energy development. The tour runs from Aug. 30 to Sept. 6.

Climate Tour: Denmark 2015 is focused on cities and towns in Denmark that have community-based initia-

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Five billion dollars leave Maine every year to cover the cost of fossil fuels used for heat and transportation.

Maine cities and towns are poised to reduce this cost and move forward to engage citizens and businesses in living more sustainably.

“Maine towns want to reduce the financial burden and environmental impact of relying on fossil fuels,” says Inches, “and the Denmark program will provide tools and inspiration to do just that.” Partners in the Denmark project are GrowSmart Maine, Hurley Travel and State of Green,

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GrowSmart Maine is a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to conservation of natural resources, community revitalization and economic development.

Amanda Pratt calibrates oxygen during LEA water testing.

Kelsey Boeff UMaine Climate Change Institute holds a deep sediment core.

(Photo by Colin Holme) that our lakes are warming.

What does all of this data mean for us as residents and visitors of the Lake Region?

With informed test results, we can develop a better understanding of how lakes react to natural weather patterns as well as changes to the landscape and ecosystem caused by people.

“LEA’s testing program can aid us in understanding and diagnosing lake issues

but ultimately, we will all have to look to the watershed and work together as a community to keep our lakes clean,” Holme said.

LEA hopes these initiatives are just the beginning of a dynamic way to keep people interested in local lake ecology. And this in turn will help everyone make informed decisions about how we all impact our surroundings.

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Having 100s of sisters

(Continued from Page 1A) “There are people who I have been lifelong friends with since I was 12,” said Spalsbury, who attended camp from 1995 to 2000, and returned as a counselor in 2003.

It would be difficult to not form a bond since the girls lived in close quarters for up to six weeks.

“We spent all our time together, from the time we made our beds in the morning until we went to sleep at night,” she said. “When we were older, rest time was great. We would hang out, dance, lay out in the sun and listen to music,” she said.

“It was the best time. We just unplugged. It was our world,” she said.

Many important learning experiences were tied to the friendships and the way the girls were taught to treat one another.

Spalsbury valued the moral teachings on Sunday — something that Wendy appreciated as a mom and as a camper.

“That is the virtue of this camp. You learn that you are your own person and that you are okay. You find your own inner self and you help others find theirs,” said Wendy, who was a camper from 1966 until 1970.

The alumni gathering gave her the opportunity to see three women she knew as a girl.

“The interesting thing is they remember who you were,” Wendy said.

“Cathy was bubbly and funny and always made me laugh. Cathy remembers me as being involved in theater, having a take-charge personality, and encouraging others to perform on stage,” she said.

Cathy McCormick laughed about Wendy’s role of support in “my one and only performance on a stage in my life.”

McCormick went to Camp Arcadia from 1966 to 1970. Unlike Wendy, she was a first-generation camper. “My two sisters and I had the privilege to be here,” she said.

One of the things that most impressed her was the older campers who tried to earn their Junior Maine Guide certificate. “The image that the girls could do what boys do,” stuck with her.

Mostly, she loved the singing that was such a vital part of campership.

“The singing is what I remember. We sang in the cabin. We sang in the canoe.

We sang in harmony. We sang all the time — even at meal time,” she said.

Wendy’s cousin, Paige Cochran, got a taste of Camp Arcadia from 1977 through 1980.

“I loved meal time,” she said.

“It was the most magi-

cal time. We would eat and sing. I have the best memories of just hanging out with girls all the time. It was like hanging out with 10 of your best friends 24/7. No parents, no boys, no distractions,” Cochran said.

“Oh, and the food was good, too,” she added.

The camp life had some routine to it. However, the girls were given free time “to gravitate toward what we liked,” she said. In addition to tennis, Cochran “was into camp crafts, hiking, living outdoors.”

“This is not a girlie camp.

You learned to take care of yourself,” she said. “And the older girls take care of the younger girls. They adopted me,” she said.

Her mother Eleanor laid claim to a bunk in one of the cabins in the late 1930s.

Then, camp counselors stressed that the girls were competing against themselves, and not each other, she said, adding that the campers and the counselor were supportive.

“It is a very supportive environment — this whole camp. It’s like having hundreds of sisters.” Paige said.

Camp Arcadia is not just a place where parents drop off their daughter for the summer, Eleanor said. The young girls returned home with newfound skills, she said.

Eleanor and Ann described the ritual of cleaning their

(Continued from Page 1A) Resident Jim Grattelo said, “Everyone was trying to blame the DEP that night, repeatedly.

(Selectman) Kevin (Rogers) asked if we go back to DEP, and Sally Daggett said no,” Grattelo said.

He showed the board the letter, asking if they were aware of its existence. The board members remained silent.

Daggett said DEP advised moving the home so it matched the proper setback, while in comparison the town did not advocate for this action. Instead, as per the consent agreement, the Slattery’s would be required to remove the deck that hangs within the 100-foot boundary of the shoreland zone.

During the July 13 meeting, Daggett said if the Slatterys declined to sign the

proposed consent agreement, “a court would find those terms to be fair and equitable.”

Marty Zartarian also spoke to the issue during the selectmen meeting on Aug. 10.

“We were led to believe, and it was stated several times at the July 13 meeting, that the DEP wanted the house moved past the 100foot setback from the lake and the town’s compromise was to keep the house in the same location, to remove the porches, and include an extensive planting of new vegetation. However when we contacted the DEP on this matter we found that moving or altering the house is not the DEP’s position,” he said.

John Nostin brought the letter before the board, too.

“This was dated Dec. 11, 2014. The town attorney

(Continued from Page 1A) posting of a digital sign that tells drivers how fast they are going.

There have been at least 10 fatalities in as many years, Mocello said.

“Sadly, a four-year-old lost his life there,” Selectman Grant Plummer said, referring to the section of roadway between Leach Hill Road and Quaker Ridge.

Chairman Holly Hancock said that the fatalities on Casco’s state-owned roads have a domino effect that ripples through the community.

Not only do the vehicular accidents claim lives, but additionally those accidents alter the lives of family and friends

of those who die.

“There is a cost to the public safety people. This most recent one — we arranged for stress debriefing for the people involved. We worry about what effect these repeated accidents have on people who are first responders,” she said.

“That is a cost the town bears for it town employees,” Hancock said.

Plummer said it was time to identify the most problematic sections of road and take that list to the Maine State Transportation Department (MDOT).

“There are a couple areas that are heavy hitters for accidents,” Plummer said.

“I think we have good rea-

REMINISCING ABOUT CAMP ARCADIA — the all-girls’ overnight camp, are sisters Eleanor Tracy Cochran and Ann Tracy Ross, who attended in the 1930s and ’40s.

(De Busk Photo) cabins and writing letters on Sunday evening. “This is where I learned how to make ‘hospital corners’ with the sheets,” Ann said.

Paige was 12 years old when she first enrolled in camp. Her daughter Brooke is 11, and has been a camper since 2011.

“I like Camp Arcadia because there are not so many people in a cabin. I can organize my own space in my cabin. I have my own space in the bathroom,” Brooke said. “Every Friday, we have mud pies,” she said, listing the white cake with hot fudge topping among her favorite

things at camp.

“Each cabin has a CTG, a counselor training guide.

They come over to our cabin every night. They are fun to hang out with because they teach you,” Brooke said, of the older teens. “They are like role models, but also, they are friends,” she said.

actually lied when she said the DEP wanted all these things done, when DEP didn’t,” Nostin said.

The following day, on Aug. 11, members of the community said their questions had not been sufficiently answered.

“Given the attached letter from Maine DEP to Ephrem dated 12/11/2014, and the (selectmen’s) acknowledged awareness of the letter at last night’s meeting, Attorney Daggett’s multiple assertions at the prior (selectmen’s) meeting that Maine DEP wanted the Slattery house moved, raises a whole host of concerns and questions,” resident Jim Turpin wrote in an e-mail addressed to Chairman Bob Caron II. “Was Attorney Daggett deliberately lying or was she just misinformed? I have to assume the latter, which begs

the questions by whom was she misinformed and why,” he said.

“Why did the selectmen or the town manager make no effort to correct Attorney Daggett’s incorrect assertions or lack of understanding of DEP’s position,” Turpin wrote.

A greater concern, Turpin said, was whether or not the Slatterys and their lawyer had that information prior to agreeing to the terms of the consent decree.

According to Naples Code Enforcement Officer Renee Carter, it was likely that Daggett was referring to correspondence with DEP from 2012, when the shoreland zoning violations were first made known to the state and the town.

Initially, the DEP recommended moving the home foundation back to the

91-foot mark, which was approved in site plan, instead of the 79-foot where it now sits, Carter said last week.

Moving the foundation would disturb the soil, doing more harm than good to the lake health, she said.

Her department advocated for removing the deck and replanting more vegetation to counter-balance the shoreland zoning violation that occurred from the home’s setback, she said.

Therefore, Morse wrote a new letter in 2014 to reflect and support the town’s decision.

On Monday, at a specially scheduled Naples Board of Selectmen meeting, Chairman Caron read from the letter to which Daggett referred.

The DEP letter is dated November 2012.

“Regarding the structure

setback violation, clearly the town should require that the owner relocate the structure further back from the shoreline, at least in accordance with the site plan approved by the town,” Caron read from the DEP letter.

Morse’s letter also recommended “imposing a monetary penalty on the landowners in addition to the mitigation requirements.”

At the July 13 meeting, Daggett said that fines and penalties would be forgiven if the property owners completed the checklist.

Morse is the assistant shoreland zoning coordinator for a branch of the DEP, the Bureau of Land and Water Quality.

Daggett specializes as a land use and zoning attorney and is employed by the law firm, Jensen Baird Gardener & Henry.

son to look at a few segments, and sit down and try with the state” to help figure out how to mitigate traffic accidents on the state-owned road, he said.

Some solutions could be to erect flashing lights and dangerous curve signs. Hopefully, MDOT would foot the bill for signage, he said.

Also, at the town level, the local plow trucks sometimes sand icy parts of Route 11 to help out drivers during the winter “even though they aren’t responsible for that,” Plummer said.

Town Manager Dave Morton reported on MDOT’s stance.

“The position of the state has not changed over time.

Our request has been to reduce the speed limit. Reducing it is not going to stop people from speeding,” Morton said.

However, the MDOT engineer for the Route 11 reconstruction project has been in correspondence with the town on the topic of reducing accidents. He said that the staff at the Scarborough-based MDOT office has been trying to assist the town.

Last summer, 10 miles of Route 11 were reclaimed and received surface paving. The improved pavement has inadvertently permitted people to drive faster.

Morton said Mocella might

have landed on some good ideas with the suggestions of signage and lighting, including solar lights.

After all, a few summers ago, a sign that said, “Welcome

to Webbs Mills, Please reduce speed” was quite effective in slowing down drivers — even if only temporarily, he said.

“It might be time to think out of the box,” Morton said.

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Final update for Village Folk Festival

Best Beard Contest will be judged on the stage at 6 p.m.

Friday, followed at 7 p.m. by a Contra Dance on the grass with Puckerbrush and Eric Rollnick.

On Saturday they start all over again, with coffee and food, music and fun things to do.

• Take a History Hike in the morning Saturday, and meet Moody Bridges and members of this fledgling community. This one-hour

journey will shed light on post-colonial times in the new town of Bridgton. Meet at the Pondicherry Park entrance in the municipal parking lot on Depot Street at 8:45 a.m. The hike will be repeated at 10:30 a.m. Sturdy shoes are recommended for the nonstrenuous hike, which will take around an hour. The Bridgton Public Library will be on site from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with storytelling and activities for kids.

• Saturday offers the same

REHEARSALS ARE BEGINNING for the Lake Region Community Chorus, shown here at a concert performance at Twitchell Chapel, at Bridgton Academy.

Singers needed for LR Community Chorus Auditions are not required.

Programs are made up of a variety of pieces from many musical genres and styles.

There is something for everyone, and the Chorus wants to make sure the singers and audiences have a very enjoyable time at rehearsals and performances.

Rehearsals run from 6:30

to 8:30 p.m. on Monday evenings. Registration begins at 6 p.m. Sept. 7, and there is a $25 registration fee that helps cover the cost of the music.

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The Chorus welcomes altos, tenors and basses, but especially needs sopranos to balance out the sound.

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“We are proud of our history and honored to have served our local communities for the past 150 years,” said Patricia Weigel, president and CEO of Norway Savings Bank. “The art contest provides the opportunity to showcase the tremendous talent of Maine artists and ties in perfectly with our ‘Colorful Solutions’ brand.”

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all the way from Springfield, will be serving up a menu of festival favorites from burgers and dogs to fried dough.

• Friday night features the Festival’s Farm to Table Feast. There’s no charge, but please be sure to donate generously. You’ll be served in a chow line and seated longtable style, and yes, they’ll set up under cover if it rains — either way, the food will taste just as good.

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great vendors, same great food and same Beer Garden at noon. Rusty Wiltjer drums in the Folk Circle from noon to 2 p.m. At 2:30 p.m., there’ll be a first-time wheelbarrow parade — dress up or come as you are, even if you don’t have a wheelbarrow, followed by Contractor Games at 3 p.m. Local teams will compete on an obstacle course with a wheelbarrow — which is what they do every day, only with an audience. Should be fun to watch!

Then one and all will dance it out and close it down with a great lineup of musicians. Could there be a better way to spend a weekend?

Rain or shine! There’s tent space if it drips. Bring your umbrella.

Depot Street will be closed beyond the town parking lot.

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• Tai Chi Maine will hold its practice class on the grass at 10 a.m. Friday, and Katherine Rhoda will bring the Folk Circle to life from 10 a.m. to noon.

• The fantastic music lineup was published in last week’s News. If you missed it, you can find it posted on site.

• All sorts of art and craft activities will be ongoing, both in the street and in the Art Tent, including a chance to be a rock hound and look for “tumbling rough” — real fancy rocks and minerals. For a small fee, you can take one home.

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• New this year, a Festival Beer Garden will be open from noon to 9 p.m. both days, brought to you by Standard Gastropub of Bridgton. At the Garden they’ll be serving Maine beers, wine and smoked BBQ sandwiches with local grass-fed beef and pork and organic free-range chicken, and Elote, Mexican street corn.

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Quarry walk tonight at 7 SWEDEN — Have you ever wondered where the rocks for Maine’s miles of stonewalls and granite house foundations come from? And have you puzzled over how they were cut, extracted and moved to their present locations?

Granite expert Steve Swenson will answer these questions and more during his presentation, “Quarrying Granite and Its Uses,” on Thursday, Aug. 20, at 7 p.m. at the Sweden Town Meeting

House, 144 Bridgton Road (Route 93).

Swenson belongs to the family that operates Swenson Granite works in Concord, N.H. (the “Granite State) and Westbrook. The Swensons have been quarrying and cutting granite in New England for four generations since 1883, and have contributed to a number of prestigious building projects including the Brooklyn Bridge, interstate highways, and numerous famous buildings in vari-

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Saturday, Aug. 22. Meet at the Sweden Town Meeting House, 144 Bridgton Road (Route 93) to carpool to the site. The quarry site is a short walk through woods, so wear appropriate walking shoes.

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Geology talk at Hacker’s Hill CASCO — Join Loon Echo Land Trust for a fun and informative program on the geology of Hacker’s Hill and the northern Sebago Lake region on Thursday, Aug. 27, from 3:45 to around 6 p.m.

Special guests Walter Anderson, Chief Geologist of the International Appalachian Trail, and Dr. Robert

Marvinney, State Geologist with the Department of Conservation’s Maine Geological Survey, discuss the northern Sebago Lake region from a geological standpoint. The land between the west shore of Sebago Lake and the White Mountains offer an interesting story of ancient ocean

SIGNS OF GLACIERS — State Geologist Dr. Robert Marvinney points out ancient sediment layers and drag marks from glaciers, on display in the bedrock of Hacker’s Hill.

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shorelines, glaciers and multiple ice ages. Hacker’s Hill provides a great vantage point for this unique program.

Participants will hear an overview of the origin of the Appalachian Mountains, believed to have been formed 267 million years ago, as well as the bedrock geology of Hacker’s Hill. Visitors will be able to view a variety of metamorphic rocks and minerals that reveal clues to our geological past. Guests will also learn how Sebago Lake’s world-famous landlocked salmon came to be.

To visit Hacker’s Hill, take Route 11 from Naples to Quaker Ridge Road in Casco.

Parking is available at the top of the hill. Binoculars, camera and a chair are recommended. The event will be canceled if it rains.

For more information, please contact Stewardship Manager Jon Evans at jon@ lelt.org or 647-4352.

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Arts

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.

Boston mixed-media wall sculptor Mireille Clapp is exhibiting her work through September at the Old White Church next to the Saco River Theatre in Bar Mills.

In her work, referred to as “jewels for walls,” Mireille combines either steel, copper, aluminum, bronze and brass with contrasting materials such as wood, glass, stone, coral or cloth to provide surprising textural relationships.

Saturday, August 22 The Fryeburg Maine Street Festival Arts & Crafts Fair, sponsored from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

by The Fryeburg New Church, offers a variety of homemade crafts from local artisans, baked goods for sale, plus music, hot dogs, popcorn, lemonade to enjoy, and a kids’ zone for the young and young at heart. It’s all happening in Bradley Park, Fryeburg (Rain location: Fryeburg Fair Craft Pavilion). FMI: 935-4509.

Sunday, August 23 Bruce Brown, one of Maine’s foremost art collectors and curators, will be giving tours of his People exhibit at the Pace Galleries inside the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy. Time is 1 to 4 p.m., and admission is free.

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DAVE MALLET returns Saturday, Aug. 22, at 7:30 p.m. to the Saco River Theatre in Bar Mills.

Concerts & Entertainment

Thursday-Sunday, August 20-23 Arts in Motion Theater Company presents Into the Woods at the Eastern Slope Playhouse in North Conway, N.H. The production will also be offered Aug. 26-29. FMI: 603-3560110, artsinmotiontheater.com Thursday, August 20 A concert featuring Hobson’s Choice will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Brick Church for the Performing Arts, Christian Hill Road, Lovell. The new and creative group of four musicians will offer a mix of music including jazz, blues, swing, country, rock ‘n’ roll and folk. Tickets at the door are $10.

Come to Deertrees Theatre in Harrison for an incredible evening of improvisations on rock, jazz, classical favorites with The Aeterna Trio, who take your requests and make them the program of the evening, playing violin, cello and piano.

It’s opening night for M&D Production’s Spamalot, lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The play retells the legend of King Arthur by featuring a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits and French people. Showtime is 7:30 p.m., and show dates are Aug. 20-22 and Aug. 27-29, Sept. 3-5 at Your Theatre, White Mountain Highway in North Conway, N.H. FMI: 603-733-5275.

Friday, August 21 Center Stage Theater presents Charlotte’s Web at 7:30 p.m. at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy. General admission at the door is $3.

Deertrees New Repertory Company presents a production of Rounding Third by Richard Dresser, starting at 7:30 p.m. at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison. The comedic play revolves around two mismatched Little League coaches who clash while cajoling their young team into the playoffs.

Western Maine’s only late-night cabaret, the Nite Owl, takes its final bow at 9 p.m. at the Denmark Arts Center with an eclectic evening of entertainment that include a solo cello performance by longtime DAC collaborator Brent Arnold; a short dance spectacle by Hio Ridge Dance, and a dramatic emoji recital by DAC Director Jamie Hook. Come join the fun; this is a pay-as-you-wish event.

Saturday, August 22 The Emilia Dahlin Quartet will weave mesmerizing tales with raw, rootsy folk and dynamic jazz vocals in a 7:30 p.m. concert at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison. FMI: 583-6747.

Complicated, Inc. presents an interactive theatrical staged reading based on the life and teaching of Rangeley, Maine’s own Dr. Wilhelm Reich, weather engineer, sexual scientist and psychological revolutionary, at 7:30 p.m. at the Denmark Arts Center. FMI: 452-2412.

The New England Jazz Band will give a concert at the Rand Farm Field on Dryad Woods Road in Raymond from 4 to 7 p.m. in support of the Raymond Community Forest Project, a 350-acre parcel the Loon Echo Land Trust is purchasing. The band is a 20-piece big band made up of music educators and musicians who play music of the 1940s to 1960s.

FMI: 647-4352. A $10 to $25 donation is suggested.

David Mallett returns once again to the Saco River Theatre in Bar Mills, after an unforgettable sold out show last year. David is one of America’s true original troubadours. In a career spanning four decades, he has recorded 14 albums and is known for his carefully-written, poetic offerings. Showtime is 7:30 p.m., and tickets are $28/$25. FMI: 929-6472.

Sunday, August 23 Concerts on the Village Green in Naples welcomes the Mill Town Road Show, providing a mix of bluegrass and country music at 6 p.m. In case of rain, the concert will be held in the vestry of the Naples Methodist Church.

As part of the Denmark Arts Center’s Films For Young and Old series, the Swedish film The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared will be shown at 7:30 p.m. This outrageous film is sure to bring a spring to even the most broken-down of elderly steps. There’ll be a postscreening discussion of the pros and cons of assisted living led by longterm care expert Philip DuBois.

The Mountain Aide Strings will be the featured performers at a Music in the Woods Concert at 7 p.m. at the Chatham Congregational Church, Route 113B, Chatham, N.H. Monday, August 24 Join the Poland Spring Preservation Society at 7 p.m. in the All Souls Chapel to see The Mollyockett Chorus, a Region 1 Chapter of Sweet Adelines International that sings barbershop harmony musical style. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. at the Chapel, located on Route 26 in Poland. FMI: 998-4142.

Friday, August 28 Phil House and Kathy Haley will finish up the Summer Concert Series at the All Souls Chapel of the Poland Spring Preservation Society on Route 26 in Poland with a 7 p.m. concert. House is an organist at the First Universalist Church in Auburn and Haley is the Choir director at the Court Street Baptist Church of Auburn. FMI: 998-4142.

Saturday, August 29 The National Theater of Opera Nouveau presents a Tarot Show, a blend of physical theater, chance operation, audience participation, multimedia and live music, at 7:30 p.m. at the Denmark Arts Center. A reading for seven tarot cards at the beginning of the performance dictates both the story arc and the characters, be they The Magician, The Fool, The High Priestess, etc. FMI: 452-2412.

Sunday, August 30 Concerts on the Village Green in Naples welcomes The Dunnemans, coming all the way from upstate New York for a concert of Gospel music at 6 p.m. In case of rain, the concert will be held in the vestry of the Naples Methodist Church.

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August 20, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 3B

Registration for Fall Senior College now open

By Allen Crabtree Registration is now open for the Fall Term at the Senior College at Bridgton.

There are four classes that meet from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., once a week for six weeks, Tuesdays through Fridays, Sept. 15 through Oct. 23. Classes are held at the Magic Lantern Theater Pub, 9 Depot Street, Bridgton (use same parking lot as for the Community Center).

Great Decisions with Henry Precht and Clifford Gilpin, Tuesdays, Sept. 15 to Oct. 20, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

A celebrated discussion course developed by the Foreign Policy Association, topics will include Russia and its Near Abroad, Privacy in the Digital Age, India Changes Course, and The U.S. & Africa: The Rise & Fall of Obama Mania, Syria’s Refugee Crisis. Henry Precht will lead off the series with a discussion of Sectarianism in the Middle East. Foreign Policy Association discussion

booklets to be distributed prior to the first class. Class Limit: 20.

Precht is a retired Foreign Service officer, whose extensive work in the Middle East has included the Arab-Israel Desk after the 1967 war, political-military officer in Tehran, State Department Iran Desk during the revolution and hostage crisis, and deputy ambassador in Cairo, 1981-85.

Gilpin taught in Nigeria and Kenya from 1974 to 1996.

He served in the Education Sector of the World Bank in Africa and East Asia. A Maine resident since 1996, Gilpin is on the board of the World Affairs Council of Maine, president from 2010 to 2014.

Figaro Here, Figaro There! with Homer Pence and Margaret Reimer, Wednesdays, Sept. 16 to Oct. 21, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

A look at the dramas of the Figaro Trilogy by Caron de Beaumarchais, and the two great Figaro operas based on those plays, Rossini’s Barber

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of Seville, and Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. The movie Beaumarchais, the Scoundrel examines his amazing personality as well as his roles in the French and American Revolutions.

Social and family structures, women’s rights, freedom of the press, even religious criticism are all addressed by Beaumarchais through the always-resourceful Figaro.

Class limit: 25.

Margaret Reimer is adjunct professor of English, University of Southern Maine.

Homer Pence is professor emeritus of the School of Music, Ball State University, Indiana.

Mark Twain with Ken Gibbs and Father Craig Hacker, Thursdays, Sept. 17 to Oct. 22, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain simply a magnificent children’s book, or one of America’s greatest novels?

Admittedly a flawed mas-

terpiece, Huckleberry Finn does probe essential conundrums of American society: the relationship of freedom and restraint, innocence and experience, nature and society.

In addition to discussing Huckleberry Finn, the class will consider how some of the themes become expanded and even nightmarishly exaggerated in a later novel by Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.

Both books are free to class members, at Bridgton Books, 140 Main Street.

Ken Gibbs, retired professor of American Literature at Worcester State University, Massachusetts, will teach the course, with assistance and additional insights provided

by Father Craig Hacker, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Bridgton.

Founders’ Son: The Next Generation with Dee Miller, Fridays, Sept. 18 to Oct. 23, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

In 1832, the sole surviving signer of the Declaration of

Independence died. Leaders of the younger generation no longer had a direct connection to the ideals and principles of that founding document.

Could they remain faithful to these ideals during a period of growth and change? Examine the political life and times of Abraham Lincoln to seek an answer.

Founders’ Son by Richard Brookhiser is free to class members, at Bridgton Books, 140 Main Street. Please read Chapters 1-3 as preparation for the first class.

Dee Miller, a retired teacher of History and Political Theory, has taught many classes for Senior College, and has been with the organization from the beginning.

About Senior College The Bridgton Senior College is the hometown program for anyone 50 years or older in Bridgton and surrounding Lake Region communities to learn new things and meet new friends.

Senior College has sessions

in the spring, fall and winter each year that are designed to appeal to every interest.

Registration for each Fall Term class is $15 and is open to Senior College members.

If you wish to take a course you must become a Senior College member.

Membership is $20 annually and runs from Sept. 1 through Aug. 31. Copies of brochures with descriptions of the Fall Session classes, as well as a Registration Form, are available at the Bridgton Public Library and at the Bridgton Senior College website at www.seniorcollegeatbridgton. org If you would like to have a brochure and registration mailed to you, send an e-mail to seniorcollegebridgton@ gmail.com or contact Kappy Registration, at 647-5593.

Registrations are due by Sept.

11 and should be mailed with a check to Senior College at Bridgton, P.O. Box 308, Bridgton, ME 04009.

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WATERFORD — The Waterford World’s Fair is sponsoring a dance with Peter Allen and Hurricane Mountain, Saturday, Public invited to After Aug. 22, from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Waterford World’s Hours at Mr. Butcher’s Fairgrounds, 36 Green Road, Waterford. This is a 21+ event, The Greater Bridgton and is BYOB. Cost is $10 per person. For more information, Lakes Region Chamber of please call Lisa Scribner at 890-7669.

Commerce and SCORE will sponsor a Chamber After Fryeburg New Church holding Yard Sale FRYEBURG — The Fryeburg New Church is holding its Hours event on Thursday, annual Yard Sale on Saturday, Aug. 22, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Aug. 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. the church, located at 12 Oxford Street. Last year there was a at Mr. Butcher’s, 19 Sandy large array of items, and organizers expect even more items this Creek Road, Bridgton. Come year. If you have items you would like to donate, please contact network and meet new friends at this free public event.

Jen Richardson at 935-4509.

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Pickwick Club to meet Aug. 22

Savvy Caregiver AUBURN — The Pickwick Club, Maine’s Dickens reading WINE TASTING — Visit J.Decor this Saturday for their next Free Wine Tasting with training offered and discussion group, will meet on Saturday, Aug. 22, from selections from the Charles Smith & K Vintners lines. They are very pleased to be Savvy Caregiver training 10 a.m. to noon at the Auburn Public Library. The novel to be hosting a representative from the Charles Smith Winery, who will be talking about this discussed: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The moderator will be for family caregivers of people unconventional winemaker and his wines. Tastings available noon to 5 p.m. at J.Decor, with dementia will be offered Joan Moes. For more information, call Joanne at 583-6957 or at the Bridgton Community 31 Main Street, Bridgton.

Alexis at 778-4510 (cell 779-8979).

Center, starting on Friday, Fryeburg Fire Dept. holding Car Show hosting a dedication of the original Rosenbloom Peddlar’s Aug. 28. The series runs on FRYEBURG — The Fryeburg Fire Department will hold Fridays, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. for six sessions. This evidence- Wagon and New Carriage House on Sunday, Aug. 30, at 2 their 16th annual Memorial Car Show on Saturday, Aug. 22, based training program is designed for people who are assist- p.m. at the Col. Samuel Osgood House, 83 Portland Street in from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with lunch served at 11 a.m., at the ing a family member or friend with dementia, and helps them Fryeburg. After the dedication there will be root beer floats Fryeburg Fire Station, 520 Main Street. Entry and admissions develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes to make caregiving and light refreshments. Please bring a chair and join others for are free, but donations are welcome, with all proceeds benefit- easier. a lovely Sunday afternoon gathering. For more information, ing Jen’s Friends Cancer Foundation in the name of Lee and Participants are asked to plan to attend all six classes in the please contact Diane Jones at 256-7468 or e-mail ewjones@ Joan Day. This year’s show is being held in memory of Danny series. To preregister (required), please contact Ann O’Sullivan roadrunner.com Charles and will include the help of volunteers from Fryeburg at Southern Maine Agency on Aging, 1-800-427-4711, ext. 541.

Fire, Fryeburg Rescue, and Fryeburg Police. There’ll be a free Last tour of season at Scribner’s Mill cookout lunch, trophies for entrants, live entertainment and HARRISON — The last Open House of the summer will be judging by participants, the public and judges. Bring a vehicle to show or just check out the cars; all vehicles are welcome, held Saturday, Aug. 29, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the 1847 Scribner’s from special interest to show vehicles to diamonds-in-the- Mill and homestead site on Scribner’s Mill Road in Harrison, Saturday, August 22 at the Crooked River Bridge. Visitors will be guided on a tour rough.

A Harvest Supper will be served to watch dry barrels parts being manufactured, and will be able from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the North Loon Echo holding annual meeting to help assemble a barrel. While supplies last, barrels may be Sebago United Methodist Church on RAYMOND — Join the Loon Echo Land Trust for their purchased for $40. In the long shed, the shingle mill and edger Route 114 in North Sebago. Corned 28th annual meeting at Camp Nashoba North in Raymond on will be demonstrated. They’ll be invited into the Scribner beef will be the main dish.

Sunday, Aug. 23, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. There will be updates Homestead across the road, interpreted as it appeared in the It’s the last Saturday Night on the Crooked River Forests Project, Raymond Community 1920s and home to many original Scribner furnishings. The Supper of the summer from 5 to 6 Forest and other ongoing projects. LELT will also elect officers barn, icehouse and blacksmith shop will be open to view the p.m. at the Casco Village Church, and review the financial report. Cost is $25, either by calling large collection of antique mill equipment. A minimum dona941 Meadow Road, Casco. Don’t labor over a hot stove on 647-4352 or e-mailing membership@lelt.org a hot summer night — come enjoy a chicken barbecue, with tion of $5 is requested per adult. To schedule a group tour or a potato salad, coleslaw, corn on the cob, rolls, dessert and Fish and Game Club to hold 3-Gun Shoot school field trip, call Nancy Grigg at 647-4459. To arrange for beverage. Cost is $9 adults, $6 children 8 and under, and HARRISON — The Western Maine Fish & Game Club will a private tour, call 583-6455. families with young children eat for $25 max. be holding a 3-Gun Shoot starting at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. Brownfield Lions Dance Aug. 29 23, at the Club Range on Route 117 in Harrison, just past the Wednesday, August 26 BROWNFIELD — Linwood Cash and The Ridge Riders Transfer Station. For a $30 entry fee, participants (providing will play country western music at a dance on Saturday, Aug. All are welcome to attend a Free Dinner starting at 5:30 p.m. at St. Peter’s Church, 43 Sweden Road, Bridgton. The their own guns and ammo) will shoot five shots on the rifle 29, from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Brownfield Lions Den, menu is savory meat pie, salad, rolls and dessert. range, five shots on the handgun range and 25 shots on the trap Routes 5 and 113, Brownfield. Admission is $15 for this 21 field. Bring extra ammunition in case of a shoot-off. The top and older, BYOB dance, which will have a bottle and 50/50 Friday, August 28 prize is a Stevens Model 320 12-gauge pump shotgun with two raffle. Proceeds will benefit the Brownfield Lions Community A Harvest Supper will be served buffet-style at the barrels (18” and 28”). Other prizes are available. A background Projects Fund. For more information or reservations, call Earl Bradley Memorial United Methodist Church, 454 McNeil check is required in order to claim prize. Refreshments will be at 935-2911.

Road, Fryeburg Harbor, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The menu is available. Rain date is Sunday, Aug. 30. For more information, lean corned beef, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, turnip, beets, Every dog a winner at Mutt Show gingerbread, coffee and cold drinks. Takeout is available. call Arlin at 583- 4535.

DENMARK — Is your dog an “underdog”? Finally, here’s a Cost is $10 for adults, children under 5 free. Follow the Guided walk to Shell Pond dog show for you! The Denmark Arts Center is holding its first signs on Route 5 between Fryeburg and Lovell.

LOVELL — The Greater Lovell Land Trust is sponsor- annual Denmark Mutt Show — where every dog is a winner, ing a guided walk to Shell Pond in the White Mountain be they mongrels or purebreds with “issues.” Best of all, the National Forest on Wednesday, Aug. 26, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. whole thing is a fundraiser for Harvest Hills Animal Shelter, Participants on this moderate walk will explore an older forest, on Sunday, Aug. 30, from 3 to 5 p.m. Prizes will be given, and a beautiful hemlock grove, and the shore of Shell Pond, looking there’s a $5 registration per mutt. Preregister your pooch at Mon. by chance Sun 9am-3pm for animal sign while discussing how the dominant tree species www.denmarkarts.org. All dogs are welcome!

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Sun shone on popular Lovell events

The sun was shining for the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library’s 40th Arts and Artisans Fair. This was their premier fundraiser, and the work that all the volunteers put into it was amazing. They lugged and sorted out books, made baked goods and sandwiches for the lunch crowd and put all the artisans in the right place.

The school cafeteria was full of folks looking for books and a snack or lunch, and in the gym the artisans were doing a brisk business. It was another great job done by all those who put in a lot of effort for the library. Lovell is lucky to have such a great library with a staff that really cares.

It was also great weather for another event that took place the weekend before, the 30th annual Dave Mason Tennis Tournament. Sixty-eight people took to the courts under sunny skies, and the competition saw some great matches. The following are the 2015 winners: Men’s Doubles — Mark Green and Don Schneider over Jack Weiler and Scott Weiler, 6-4, 7-5; Ladies Doubles — Sherrie Irwin and Olivia Leavit over Danielle Rowland and Denise Turner, 6-2, 6-3; Men’s

Singles — Jack Weiler over Mark Green, 6-3, 6-0; Mixed Doubles — Martha Gryzb and Walter Gryzb over Charlie Dattlebaum and Gloria Kushel, 6-2, 6-0; and Juniors — Johnie Loftus over Grace Carolanza, 6-4, 6-3.

After the prizes were awarded to the winners, Dave Mason was presented with the Glenn Moore Memorial Award. Glen was one of the original principal organizers of the tournament with Dave Mason. Dave was given the award for his continued dedication to both the tournament and the community of Lovell.

Gary Heroux, Elliot Lillien and Jim Carty again gave the town a tournament to be proud of, and thanks to all of those who participated. The tournament wouldn’t be possible without the great support of the Stowe Corner Store’s Maureen and Jim. Great job. If someone lost their glasses on the back porch, Gary has them, and you can call 925-1001.

The Sweden Days and the Sweden Historical Society will present Steve Swenson on Thursday, Aug. 20, at 7 p.m. at the Sweden Town Meeting House. He will be talking about granite quarrying. On

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The rain date is Sunday, Aug. 23.

The summer monthly speaker program at the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library will center on author Derrick Jackson on Tuesday, Aug. 25, at 7 p.m. Project Puffin tells of the effort to recover the important breeding and nesting colonies of puffins off the coast of Maine. At one time, the islands off the coast of Maine were the home to thousands of puffins until they were killed off.

Jackson will tell the audience how the recovery was made and the importance of having these birds in residence. All are welcome, and refreshments

will be served.

The Greater Lovell Land Trust walk on Wednesday, Aug. 26, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. will take place on Shell Pond.

Included in the walk will be a stand of older forest trees and looking for signs of animals.

This will be a moderate walk, but with all the heat, make sure you bring water.

The Fryeburg Historical Society will be holding a dedication of the original Rosenbloom Peddlers Wagon and New Carriage House on Sunday, Aug. 30. This event will be held at the Col. Samuel Osgood House, 83 Portland Street, at 2 p.m. At the conclusion of the dedications, there will be root beer floats and light refreshments. Come bring your own chair and enjoy a summer afternoon.

The Kezar Lake Country Club will be hosting the Kezar

Trailbreakers 9th Annual Golf Tournament on Thursday, Aug. 27, starting at noon. The format for the tournament will be a best ball scramble. The price to play is $50, which includes 18 holes of golf, a cart, lunch and a goodie bag. There will be cash prizes for the best players.

For more information, contact Jenny York at 925-2050.

The Fryeburg/Lovell VFW Post Auxiliary #6783 is sponsoring “Paint the Town” at the VFW Hall on Monday, Aug. 31, at 6 p.m. Karen from Paint the Town will help you to create your own special painting.

The cost to participate is $40, which also includes paint supplies, a 16”x20’ canvas that will be your own painting to

take home. For more information, contact Melinda Hamilton at 935-4457 or e-mail melindah197@hotmail.com. When you sign up there will be a required $20 deposit. Space is limited, so call or e-mail Melinda early. Refreshments will be served.

The Chatham Congregational Church in Chatham, N.H., will be holding a Music in the Woods Concert on Sunday, Aug. 23, at 7 p.m. The featured performers will be the Mountain Aide Strings. The church is located on Route 113 B, off Route 113 at the Stowe Corner Store.

Dessert will be served. Free will offerings will be gratefully accepted.

Rozzie May fundraiser

NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — As a nonprofit begun eight years ago, the Rozzie May Animal Alliance works hard to keep prices low to ensure its services are affordable and accessible.

Their largest fundraiser of the year, the Annual Auction & Luncheon, goes a long way toward that mission.

The animal welfare group, which has “fixed” more than 9,000 dogs and cats since their incorporation, will hold its annual benefit auction and luncheon on Sunday, Aug. 30, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Red Jacket Mountain View Resort, 2251 White Mountain Highway, North Conway, N.H. The organization hopes to double their number of surgeries in the next five years, but to do that, they need donations, and is counting on the public to support its biggest fundraising event.

“All our services are subsidized through donations and grants, making them truly accessible. This is key to fighting pet overpopulation, because it removes the main objection people have to spaying or neutering — cost,” says Meaghan Woodsome, RMAA program director.

“We’re asking for support from the community to help us continue these crucial services,” said Eileen Lippe, RMAA president. “Attending our event will help us raise the funds needed to address pet overpopulation at its source and prevent future cases of animal cruelty.”

The event will feature a delicious buffet, live music and many great auction items, including a week at Attitash Mountain Village, Red Sox and Bruins autographed memorabilia, jewelry, local services and products, art, golf rounds and more. The meal will be a catered buffet of chicken cordon bleu, vegetarian lasagna, London broil, homemade rolls and soup, seasonal vegetable and potato sides and a dessert table.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.RozzieMay.org. For more information, call 603-273-7243.

KITE DAY AT HACKER’S HILL — Join Casco Recreation Department and Loon Echo Land Trust for a Kite Day on Hacker’s Hill in Casco on Friday, Aug. 21, at 1:45 p.m. Come along on what will be a fun afternoon of kitemaking and flying led by kite specialist John Martin, who will help kids build, decorate and fly their own kites. This event is free to Casco residents, with a $5 fee for non-Casco residents. Preregistration is encouraged at recreation@ cascomaine.org or 627-4187. For more information about this event, contact Jon Evans at jon@lelt.org or 647-4352.

Free medical clinic at the Bridgton Alliance Church

As part of the third annual SPARK Week, Dr. Alan Bean will provide free medical screenings at the Bridgton Alliance Church Thursday and Friday, Aug. 20-21, from 8 a.m. to noon. Assisted by nurses Faye Daley, Laurie Daugherty, Cindy Ranco and Misty Sulloway, the clinic is open to all.

Dr. Bean studied at Florida State University and the University of Florida Medical School. He did his residency at Maine Medical Center in Portland, and practiced emergency medicine for 10 years.

Since 1997, he has practiced Occupational Medicine. No appointment is needed.

If you would like to be seen

at the clinic and need a ride, please call the church at 6472027. The church is located at 368 Harrison Avenue, Route 117, Bridgton.

SPARK Week is a weeklong offering of free activities for all. For a detailed bro-

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August 20, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 5B

“Walk with a Doc”

Seen at the 2015 DamJam

CLAY FAIRY HOUSES adorn this tree in Bicentennial Park in Denmark as people engage in creative collaboration during the DamJam on Saturday. (De Busk Photo)

AL FRESCO CONCERT — Saturday afternoon, people set up chairs and blankets to enjoy live music from multiple bands during the 2015 DamJam, which was held at Bicentennial Park in Denmark.

(De Busk Photo)

Waterford Library Sound of Music Sing Along WATERFORD — The Waterford Library will be presenting a Sound of Music Sing Along! on Saturday, Oct. 10.

The library will be celebrating 50 years of the Sound of Music with a Sound of Music Sing Along. This spectacular library fundraiser will start with brats, sauerkraut and a biergarten at 5 p.m. The movie on the lawn starts at 5:30 p.m., and moviegoers are encouraged to sing right along with the movie.

Get out the lederhosen or dress as your favorite character — because, at intermission, there will be a costume contest, a Julie Andrews look-alike contest, raffles, prizes and more.

In the Fall of 2016, the

library will hold an Auction Fundraiser. Please keep the library in mind while you are cleaning out your barn and please put aside any items you would like to donate to the auction.

Volunteers are always welcome to join the library. Help in the community garden, with Story Time or other kids programs, work at the circulation desk, work on books for the book sale, sponsor or host an event, write a grant or volunteer for an event. Training is available for new volunteers, and this is a fantastic way to get to know your neighbors and get involved in your community.

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NAPLES — Hank and Cecile Wernau of Edes Falls in Naples celebrated their 50th anniversary Aug. 15 with about 100 old and new friends, relatives and neighbors. Just as the festivities were beginning at 3 p.m., the skies grew dark and thunder rumbled from every direction. Amazing but true, the storms went around the party and the sun returned for a full day of fun and games and amazing food.

The couples’ grandson Andrew Martin, a Johnson and Wales trained chef, catered the event and served everything from shrimp cocktail and lobster rolls to grilled pork tenderloin, chicken and hot dogs with all the fixings.

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The Opportunity Alliance Public Health Program will host the second of Bridgton’s “Walk With a Doc” walks on Saturday, Aug. 29, at 9 a.m. at Pondicherry Park, starting from the Dunning Bridge on Depot Street.

Doctors Peter Leighton and Jen Smith invite the community to join them for a walk the last Saturday of every month.

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EVEN ADULTS LIKE to use this giant-sized Spirograph set to make designs. This was one of the activities for participant at the DamJam at the Bicentennial Park in Denmark on Saturday. The DamJam is an annual fundraiser for Denmark Arts Center.

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Calendar ATTENTION TO ALL ORGANIZATIONS! All calendar listings/press releases must be sent in at least one week before the event.

E-mail bnews@roadrunner. com or mail to P.O. Box 244, Bridgton, ME 04009.

BRIDGTON Thur., Fri., Aug. 20, 21 — Free medical clinic by Dr. Alan Bean, 8 a.m. to noon, Alliance Church. FMI: 647-2027.

Thur., Aug. 20 — American Red Cross Blood Drive by Bridgton Rotary, 1-7 p.m., Masonic Hall, Rte. 117.

Thur., Aug. 20 — Bridgton Planning & Development gathering for new business, 2-5 p.m., Shawnee Peak. FMI: 6478786.

Thur., Aug. 20 — Cast Iron Program with blacksmith and Skillet-throwing practice, 3 to 5 p.m., Narramissic Farm, Ingalls Rd., So. Bridgton.

Thur., Aug. 20 — Free Juggling Show with The Supreme Court Jesters, 6:30 p.m., Courtyard, Bridgton Library.

Thur., Aug. 20 — Shaping the Lake Region: a geology presentation w/Dr. Samuel Roy, 6:30 p.m., LEA office, 230 Main St., must preregister at 647-8580, adam@leamaine.org Fri., Aug. 21 — Geologythemed hike up Pleasant Mountain by LEA, starts 9 a.m., must preregister at 647-8580, adam@leamaine.org Fri., Sat., Aug. 21, 22 — Village Folk Festival, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Depot St. Fri., Aug. 21 — Last day for Kids Summer Food Program, noon to 1 p.m. at Community Center, Highland Lake Beach, Sawyer Circle & Woods Pond.

Sat., Aug. 22 — Coffee With Cops, bring your questions or concerns, 9 to 11 a.m., Bridgton Farmers’ Market, Depot Street.

Sat., Aug. 22 — Free Car Wash, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Central Fire Station, Gibbs Ave. Sat., Aug. 22 — Pets on Parade Pet Show, 2 to 4 p.m., Alliance Church, Rte. 117.

FMI: 647-2027.

Sun., Aug. 23 — Ernie & Jason Couch Revival, 9:30 a.m., Alliance Church, Rte. 117.

Tue., Aug. 25 — SCORE meeting, 8:30 a.m., Community Center.

Tue., Aug. 25 — Guided Paddle on Beaver Pond with LEA’s Education Director Adam Perron, call/e-mail to reserve, 647-8580, adam@leamaine.org Tue., Aug. 25 — Republican Town Committee meeting, 6:30 p.m., Community Center.

Thur., Aug. 27 — Chamber After Hours, 5 to 7 p.m., Mr. Butcher’s, 19 Sandy Creek Rd. Thur., Aug. 27 — Mushroom Talk with plant pathologist/mycologist Jesse Dubin, 6:30 p.m., Maine Lake Science Center. Exploration of mushrooms at Holt Pond Preserve to follow Aug. 28, 9 a.m. FMI: 647-8580.

Fri., Aug. 28 — Savvy Caregiver Training six-session series begins, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Community Center. FMI: 1-800-427-4711, ext. 541.

Sat., Aug. 29 — “Walk With a Doc” walk w/Drs. Peter Leighton & Jen Smith, 9 a.m., Pondicherry Park, meet at Dunning Bridge.

BROWNFIELD Thur., Aug. 20 —

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

Sat., Aug. 22 — Seed Saving Workshop, 11 a.m., library. FMI: 935-4977.

Sat., Aug. 29 — Dance with Linwood Cash and The Ridge Riders, 8 p.m. to midnight, Brownfield Lions Den, Rtes. 5 & 113. FMI: 9352911.

CASCO Fri., Aug. 21 — Kite Day, kit making, flying, led by kite specialist, 1:45 p.m., Hacker’s Hill. FMI: 6474352.

Thur., Aug. 27 — LELT program, “Geology of Hacker’s Hill & Northern Sebago Lake Region,” 3:45 to 6 p.m., Hacker’s Hill, Quaker Ridge Rd. FMI: 6474352.

DENMARK Fri., Aug. 21 — Difficult hike to Kearsarge North, No. Conway, N.H., by Denmark Mountain Hikers, meet 8 a.m. at Denmark Congregational Church. FMI: 756-2247.

Tue., Aug. 25 — Guided Paddle with LEA Education Director Adam Perron, Beaver Pond. Must preregister: adam@ leamaine.org or 647-8580.

Thur., Aug. 27 — Crystal Bowl Healing, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Nurture Through Nature. FMI: 239-595-2695.

Fri., Aug. 28 — Easy hike to Peary Mountain, Brownfield,

by Denmark Mountain Hikers, meet 8 a.m. at Denmark Congregational Church. FMI: 756-2247.

Sun., Aug. 30 — Denmark Mutt Show, fundraiser for Harvest Hills, 3-5 p.m., Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St. FRYEBURG Sat., Aug. 22 — Maine Street Festival Arts & Crafts Fair, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Bradley Park.

Sat., Aug. 22 — Fryeburg Fire Dept. Annual Memorial Car Show, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., lunch 11 a.m., fire station, 520 Main St. Sat., Aug. 22 — Annual Yard Sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fryeburg New Church, 12 Oxford St. FMI: 935-4509.

Sun., Aug. 30 — 25th Anniversary of dedication of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, 10:30 a.m. Mass, 857 Main St. FMI: 603-520-9828.

Sun., Aug. 30 — Dedication of Rosenbloom Peddlar’s Wagon and New Carriage House, 2 p.m., Fryeburg Historical Society, 83 Portland St. FMI: 256-7468.

HARRISON Sat., Aug. 22 — Summer Pie Sale by VFW Ladies Auxiliary, 8:30 a.m. until sold out, library parking lot.

Sat., Aug. 22 — Bridgton High School Classes of ‘62, ‘63, ‘64 Reunion, 1-5 p.m., St. John VFW Post, Waterford Rd. FMI: 225-3684, 831-3285.

Sun., Aug. 23 — Harrison Lions Club Car Show, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Crystal Lake Park, entertainment by Christian Martin from 10:30 a.m. to noon. FMI: 693-4051.

Sun., Aug. 23 — 3 Gun Shoot, starts 10 a.m., Western Maine Fish and Game Club Range, Rte. 117. FMI: 5834535.

Sun., Aug. 23 — Harrison Village Cemetery Assn. Annual Meeting, 2 p.m., Fire Station, lower meeting room.

Wed., Aug. 26 — Harrison Historical Society Museum & Farmhouse Open House, last

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Taking part in the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Lotus Garden in Naples were (left to right) Mike Bray, Nancy Hanson, Brauc Palmer, Bobbi Dorsey, Joyce Lam, Rick Lam, Greater Bridgton Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Sue Mercer, Sam Chan and Joyce Chan. one of season, 1-4 p.m., Haskell Hill Rd. FMI: 583-2213.

Sat., Aug. 29 — Open House Tours, 1-4 p.m., Scribner’s Mill and Homestead, Scribner’s Mill Rd. FMI: 583-6455.

LOVELL Thur., Aug. 20 — GLLT Guided Walk to explore stonewalls & cellar holes on Amos Mountain, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., meet at Galle Trail, Rte. 5, moderate. No dogs, please.

Tue., Aug. 25 — Author Derrick Jackson on Puffin Project, 7 p.m., library.

Wed., Aug. 26 — GLLT Guided Walk to Shell Pond, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., moderate. Meet at trailhead, Shell Pond Rd. FMI: 925-1056.

Thur., Aug. 27 — Kezar Trailbreakers 9th Annual Golf Tournament, starts noon, Kezar Lake Country Club. FMI: 9252050.

NAPLES Sat., Aug. 22 — Maine Lakes Conference, 7:30 a.m. registration begins, ends at 4 p.m., Camp Skylemar, Trickey Pond. FMI: www.mainelakessociety.org Mon., Aug. 24 — Summer Youth Program, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Cornerstone Gospel Church, grades 5-9. FMI: 8032199.

Mon., Aug. 24 — The Food Basket and Kyrie’s Kitchen, 1 to 3 p.m., Town Hall gym. FMI: 615-3226.

Sun., Aug. 30 — Naples Causeway 5K Walk or Run to support Patrick Dempsey Cancer Center, starts 8 a.m. from Bray’s Brew Pub. FMI: 693-7248.

RAYMOND Sat., Aug. 22 — New England Jazz Band Concert to benefit Raymond Community Forest Project, 4 to 7 p.m., Rand Farm Field, Dryad Woods Rd. FMI: 647-4352.

Sun., Aug. 23 — Knitting/ Crocheting Group, 1-3 p.m., library.

Sun., Aug. 23 — Loon Echo Land Trust Annual Meeting, starts 5:30 p.m., Camp Nashoba North, 198 Raymond Hill Rd. RSVP: 647-4352.

Thur., Aug. 27 — Raymond Food Pantry, 4-6 p.m., Lake Region Baptist Church, 1273 Main St. FMI: 232-5830.

Thur., Aug. 27 — Book Group discusses Salt Dancers

by Ursula Hegi, 7 p.m., library.

Sun., Aug. 30 — 125 Year Celebration, 4 p.m., East

Raymond Chapel UCC, 394 Webbs Mills Rd. FMI: 6553501.

SEBAGO Tue., Aug. 25 — Sebago Food Pantry, Nazarene Church, Rte. 114, 9-11 a.m. & 5-7 p.m.

FMI: 274-1569.

SWEDEN Thur., Aug. 20 — Lecture on granite quarrying by Steve Swenson, 7 p.m., Sweden Town Meeting House, 144 Bridgton Rd. WATERFORD Sat., Aug. 22 — Waterford World’s Fair Dance with Peter Allen and Hurricane Mountain, 8 p.m. to midnight, fairgrounds, 36 Green Rd. FMI: 890-7669.

AREA EVENTS Sat., Aug. 22 — Yard Sale, 8 a.m. to noon, Christ Episcopal Church, 35 Paris St., Norway.

Sat., Aug. 22 — Mountain Biking Tour of East Bear Paw parcel, Conway, N.H., by Upper Saco Valley Land Trust, to participate call 603-356-9683.

Sat., Aug. 22 — WMVAC Golf Tournament, Fairlawn Golf Course, Poland. FMI: 7449156.

Sat., Aug. 22 — Pickwick Club discusses The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens, 10 a.m. to noon, Auburn Library. FMI: 7784510, 583-6957.

Sat., Aug. 22 — Maine Native American Summer Market, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Rte. 26, New Gloucester. FMI: 926-4597.

Sat., Aug. 22 — Exhibit, talk by Cumberland County Beekeepers Association, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Maine Wildlife Park, Rte. 26, Gray. FMI: 6574977.

Sun., Aug. 23 — Oxford County Democrats Fundraising BBQ, starts 4:30 p.m., 4-H Camp, Bryant Pond. FMI: 8752116.

Mon., Aug. 24 — “Steamboats on Sebago” program by Windham Historical Society, 7 p.m., Windham Veterans Center, Memorial Dr., Windham. FMI: 892-1306.

Sat., Aug. 29 — Woodsmen’s Day Open House, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Hiram Works, 22 Hampshire St., Hiram. FMI: 625-3396.

Sat., Aug. 29 — Centennial Celebration of Soldiers Memorial Library, 1 p.m., library. FMI: 625-4650.

Sun., Aug. 30 — Rozzie

May Animal Alliance Annual Auction & Luncheon, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Red Jacket Resort, 2251 White Mtn. Hywy., No. Conway, N.H. FMI: 603-273-7243.

ONGOING WEEKLY DAILY Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., Clyde Bailey Center, Rte. 302, Casco.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon to 1 p.m., St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Sweden Rd., Bridgton. O/D MONDAYS Sebago Food Pantry, 9-11 a.m., Nazarene Church, Rte. 114. FMI: 274-1569.

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 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: 595-2754.

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

FMI: 647-4476.

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.

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.

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.

A l c o h o l i c s Anonymous, 7 to 8 p.m., Clyde Bailey Center, Rte. 302, So. Casco.

THURSDAYS AA Ladies StepMeeting, 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.

Gathering Place Support Group, noon, Bridgton Community Center.

Pinochle, 1 p.m., Bridgton Community Center.

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

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

Bingo, last game of the season, doors open 5:30 p.m., early birds 6:30 p.m., regular play 7 p.m., St. Joseph Church, 225 So. High St. Coed Adult Softball, 6 to 8:30 p.m., Crystal Lake Park, Harrison. FMI: 583-2241.

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.

Over 40 Men’s Basketball, 4 p.m., Brownfield/Denmark School.

Bingo — Early bird 6:30 p.m., Lovell/Fryeburg VFW Post #6783, Lovell.

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. Green Space.

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.

SUNDAYS Alcoholics Anonymous, 6:30 p.m., Harrison Congregational Church.

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August 20, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 7B

Project Puffin at Hobbs Memorial Library LOVELL — The Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library presents “Project Puffin” with Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson on Tuesday, Aug. 25 at 7 p.m.

Project Puffin, coauthored

by Stephen Kress and Derrick Z. Jackson, is the inspiring story of how a beloved seabird was restored to longabandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast.

As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had nested on nearby islands until exterminated by hunters in the late 1800s. To right this environmental wrong, he resolved to bring puffins back to one such island — Eastern Egg Rock. Yet, bringing the plan to reality meant convincing skeptics, finding resources, and inventing res-

toration methods at a time when many believed in “letting nature take its course.”

Today, Project Puffin has restored more than 1,000 puffin pairs to three Maine islands. But even more exciting, techniques developed during the project have helped to restore rare and endangered seabirds worldwide.

Further, reestablished puffins now serve as a window into the effects of climate change. The success of Dr. Kress’s project offers hope that people can restore lost wildlife populations and the habitats that support them.

The need for such inspiration has never been greater.

Derrick Z. Jackson, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for commentary and an accomplished photographer, is an associate editor and edito-

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Rules of cloud engineering DENMARK — When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in February of 1954, filed an injunction against Rangeley resident Dr. Wilhelm Reich, it precipitated the final and most calamitous battle of Reich’s checkered career — one from which the defendant would never recover, dying in jail in 1957 just 10 days shy of his parole. The exceptionally curious story of Reich vs. the USA, and the strange case that led up to it,

are the subject of a new theatrical work to be presented on Saturday, Aug. 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main Street, Denmark.

Rules to Follow in Cloud Engineering is a work in progress co-commissioned

by Complicated, Inc. and the Denmark Arts Center, with the support of the Maine Humanities Council, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the

Arts. The work brings to the stage Reich’s life, especially his late-stage weather control work. Fresh from a two-week residency at the Berkeley Rep in California, in advance of a spring 2016 premiere in New York City, Rules presents music, imagery, and history in a staged reading that speaks of Reich’s life, the history of Maine and the intersection of the two here in the middle of DERRICK JACKSON, a columnist for the Boston Globe, will present a program, the last century. A $12 dona- “Project Puffin” at the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library in Lovell on Tuesday, Aug. 25 at 7 p.m. tion is suggested.

Wabanaki artists holding Summer Market NEW GLOUCESTER — The seventh annual Maine Native American Summer Market featuring some of Maine’s finest, awardwinning Native American artists will be held at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village on Saturday, Aug. 22, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Admission is free.

More than 40 members of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Micmac and Maliseet tribes will demonstrate important, traditional Wabanaki art forms, including basketmaking, woodcarving, bark-etching, doll-making, beadwork and jewelry, in addition to featured perfor-

mances of drumming, dancing and storytelling. Highquality, handmade crafts will be available for sale.

This rain-or-shine event is the southernmost gathering of Wabanaki artists in the State of Maine. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn about and experience first-hand Maine’s

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Camp Sunshine picked for Star Trek Beyond campaign CASCO — Camp Sunshine is pleased to announce its partnership with Paramount Pictures and online fundraising giant Omaze. Each cast member from the upcoming film Star Trek Beyond personally selected a charity to be beneficiary of the proceeds raised from the campaign.

Camp Sunshine was selected by cast member Anton Yelchin who plays Pavel Chekov in the film.

Camp Sunshine will use the funds in support of their Family Sponsorship Program, which ensures that there is never a charge to participating families.

“We couldn’t be more pleased, and humbled, by the commitment of the cast to change the lives of ill children and their families around the world. We are equally excited

to be able to boldly go forward and serve even more families through this partnership,” said Michael Katz, Camp Sunshine’s executive director.

This past June, Camp Sunshine was contacted through one of their volun-

teers with the opportunity to participate in the campaign.

Star Trek is one of the most widely-known movie franchises internationally. “The real windfall is the awareness this will create,” said Michael Smith, Camp Sunshine director of Special Events.

New chamber member The Greater Bridgton Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce welcomes new member Dirty Bristles Chimney Sweep, Inc. of Bridgton.

The company offers exceptional and honest sweeps and services with customers’ safety in mind. Jeff St. Cyr has been a full-service hearth professional since 2005. After leaving the propane and natural gas service industry, Jeff completed the Chimney Safety Institute of America’s certified chimney sweep program. He has been factory-trained by several manufacturers on a wide variety of gas, wood and pellet appliances. Jeff is a fully-licensed and qualified sweep with full certifications. He brings his knowledge, his skills and his genuine work ethic into the home.

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Soldiers Library holding Centennial Celebration

HIRAM — Soldiers Memorial Library in Hiram was dedicated in August 1915, and a Centennial Celebration is planned for Saturday, Aug. 29, at 1 p.m.

Jane Watson, who baked the spectacular cake decorated with models of iconic scenes to celebrate the Town of Hiram’s Bicentennial in 2014, will bake a cake decorated with a model of the library. Internationallyknown folk singer, multiinstrumentalist and song leader Katherine Rhoda will give a concert, singing heartfelt songs and playing such unusual vintage instruments as the Marxophone, dulcimer and violin-guitar.

The program and refreshments are free. Donations are welcome and will help support the library, which is on the National Register of Historic Places and was recently refurbished in anticipation of its centennial year. 100 YEAR CELEBRATION — Folk singer Katherine Rhoda will perform when For more information, call Soldiers Memorial Library, 85 Main Street, Hiram, celebrates 100 years on Saturday, the library at 625-4650.

Aug. 29, at 1 p.m.

Baby Quilt Raffle

BABY QUILT RAFFLE — Bridgton Arts & Crafts is raffling this Winnie the Pooh baby quilt and a queensize wildlife quilt made by members this winter. The baby quilt measures 30”x50”, and tickets are $1 each or six for $5. Come check out their nonprofit store on Depot Street and see what’s new. Profits from the raffles help with the upkeep of the store, which is the old GAR building, and also allows the cooperative to make donations to other Bridgton nonprofit organizations.

QuickBooks basics — the expanded version NORWAY — Oxford Hills SCORE is pleased to offer a third QuickBooks workshop this year for small businesses in our community and beyond. QuickBooks can help with invoicing, tracking sales and expenses, and handling your bookkeeping

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The sessions will be held Sept. 15, 17, 22 and 24 for three hours each night at the Norway Town Office, 19 Danforth Street. This expanded version is intended to broaden your understanding of QuickBooks, allow for greater hands-on functionality and expand the details previously provided in the May workshop. The version you will use targets the PC platform and not the Apple laptop so please insure you are a PC-based user.

This workshop requires you to bring your own PC laptop and we will install

a temporary QuickBooks Accountant 2015 license for these four classes so please come to the first class by 5:30 p.m. Please let us know if you do not have a laptop to use.

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The fee for this workshop is $30. Please plan to register by Friday, Sept. 4 for this workshop to be held on Tuesday, Sept. 8 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Norway Town Office on Danforth Street.

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PULLING INTO THE LEAD in the opening Great Adventure Challenge kayak race is Olympian Kris Freeman, who finished in 21:16. (Sheila Weeman Photo)

SPIRITED GROUP OF M&Ms — As part of their summer festivities, friends Chace Conroy, Clare Conroy, Rosemarie Chandler, Julia Peet and Samantha Buckenmaier competed individually, but remained together over the GAC course. Each year, the group enters in different costume, from the barbershop quintet with moustaches to the raging princesses. (Sheila Weeman Photo)

In it, to win it

Olympian sets GAC course record

THROUGH A MUD HOLE — Cyclist Candace Sabol of Orono cuts through a mud hole during her 16-mile ride.

(Drew Sanborn Photo)

TRYING TO COOL DOWN on his descent from the summit of Pleasant Mountain is Chris Pingree Felts of Naples.

(Rivet Photo)

By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer When they hopped into their kayaks, pushed off the Alpine Village beachfront and paddled to the imaginary starting line on Moose Pond, Kris Freeman and Chace Conroy had very different thoughts on their mind.

Freeman, an Olympic cross-country skier, was in it to win it. The Thornton, N.H. resident had his sights clearly set on breaking the Great Adventure Challenge triathlon course record in his debut.

Conroy, meanwhile, was one of five colorful M&Ms — a spirited group of young ladies looking to make “lasting memories with best friends” while trying to conquer a challenging 3-mile paddle, 16-mile bike course and 2-mile hike up and down Pleasant Mountain.

On a hot, humid Saturday, they each put their bodies to the ultimate test.

As expected, the worldclass athlete dominated the field. Freeman set a blistering pace, smashing the old record by nine minutes with a time of 1 hour, 49 minutes, 4 seconds.

“I have competed in and won the Top Notch Tri in Franconia, The Wildman Biathlon in Gorham, the Josh Billings in Great Barrington, the Sugarbush Triathlon, and the Pole Peddle Paddle in Bend, Oregon. I was looking for a new challenge and this looked like a great event,” Freeman said. “I liked the layout of the mountain bike course. It was mostly fast dirt roads, but there were just enough technical sections to keep it fun and exciting.”

Like most competitors, Freeman found the trek up Pleasant Mountain the least enjoyable leg of the GAC. “Transitioning from biking to running up Shawnee (Pleasant Mountain) was a terrible feeling,” he said.

“My legs did not want to move.”

The Old Guys — a team of three led by captain Jeff Fisher of Durham — also broke the two-hour mark, setting a new team record of 1:57.25.

Yet, as Race Director Rob Knowles likes to tell all competitors — the ones he has snared and have become loyal supporters of the event (that benefits Good Neighbors, Inc.) and those he hopes to entice to give it a try — the challenge is to finish, likely through plenty of sweat, cramps, possibly blood and tears, all for a very good cause.

For Chace Conroy and fellow M&M Julia Peet, it was a much longer day out on the course.

As Knowles was handing out trophies and volunteers were folding chairs and taking down tents, Peet and Conroy finally approached the finish line. Quickly, volunteers held up the “Finish” banner for the two young ladies to cross under. Their times, 4:57:39 and 5:10:26 respectively.

For most GAC triathletes, the story line was similar: They fought through physical and mental hardship and fatigue to reach a goal and to proudly say, “I did it.”

They were exhausted, yet exuberant to cross the finish line.

They were challenged, but not broken.

They survived, they vowed to return for another bout, and they had stories to tell.

Why put yourself through hell?

For Chace Conroy of Washington, D.C. and her fellow M&Ms — Clare Conroy, Rosemarie Chandler of Avon, Conn., Samantha Buckenmaier of Annapolis, Md. and Julia Peet of Windham, N.H. — the Challenge is a chance to have some fun and put their friendship to the test.

“Something our team looks forward to every year is the planning and creating our costumes. As the barbershop quintet the first year and the warrior princesses last year, we decided to be the M&Ms, also known as the Mighty Mainers, this year,” said Chace as a spokeswoman for the group.

“The costumes not only add another element of anticipation and fun, but they also help keep us unified and a connection on the course.”

Although each is entered as individuals, they stay together throughout the race to support each other.

“We always have a prerace huddle to remind every member of our team that our goal for the event is to have a blast and finish as a team,” Chace said.

Mike Murrin of Harrison always wanted to try a triathlon, but because he is not a strong swimmer, he wasn’t comfortable to enter some events. When he saw the GAC featured a paddle instead of a swim, Murrin signed up immediately.

“It was a combination of all the things I enjoy, but never tried to do competitively. After meeting Rob and competing in the first race, I was hooked,” said Murrin, who made his seventh GAC appearance. “Great group of people raising money for a great cause while having a great time (if pounding your body sounds like a great time to you…).”

TRIATHLON DIRECTOR Rob Knowles

Athletes share common bond

By Rob Knowles GAC Director Benchmarks are an interesting thing. Some people focus on them and strive to attain them constantly; others just note them as they pass.

This past weekend, as Race Director of the Great Adventure Challenge triathlon, I got to check off a benchmark that I’ve had for years and only really focused on occasionally. This weekend, I helped put together a race that had a genuine Olympian and some Special Olympians competing against each other on the same course, at the same time, in the same conditions, with the same expectation — to finish and to win.

Forty years ago, I club raced motorcycles at Loudon, N.H. and in one endurance race, I competed against riders that were honing their skills and would later become world champions. Now, all I really did was try and stay out of their way while they flew past me; however, I had and still have the right to say that I competed, head-tohead, against people who were world champions.

Today, folks from Momentum, an agency in Casco that works with people that have intellectual challenges, can say that they competed, head-to-head, against a genuine Olympic athlete.

Ed Rock, general manager of Shawnee Peak, and I envisioned this race 20 years ago. I still remember talking about how great it would be if the people I work with — intellectually- and physically-challenged — could be seen without their disabilities for at least one day; to be seen as only athletes. We decided that they should compete in DIRECTOR’S NOTE, Page 2C Murrin missed just one GAC, Year 2 due to a schedule conflict.

“My goal has always been the same — have fun and finish without the need of a Med Flight!” he said. “Also watch out for the racers around you, it’s easy to get hurt out there.”

Kelly Edwards of Raymond, along with her husband, Brian, competed in the GAC for the first time back in 2012.

“I was a runner with a

love of recreational kayaking and my husband was a cyclist with the same love of kayaking. We discovered this race by searching for local triathlons and this is close to home and had the kayak twist. Although I was not a cyclist, I told Brian I wanted to do it. He wanted to do it, too, but said he thought I was crazy because I don’t mountain bike (I owned a 15-year-old rigid Raleigh with about 10 total GAC, Page 2C

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trophy and pictures with Rob. Nice!” she recalled. miles on it). I told him that I “The following year, I decidwanted to challenge myself. ed that I would pass on doing That I did! Holy crap it was the race so I could be a spechard! I was in a recreational tator for Brian. I knew that I kayak, slow…, my biking would never see him finish in skills were so bad, I had a his glory if I was out there, pretty bad crash and came too. He had another great race, finishing third overall.

I was proud. Then, Brian got me a new mountain bike, full suspension Scott. So I started to bike, a lot. 2014 comes up and I decide to do it again, hopefully to redeem myself from my first year. We both signed up again. I borrowed a kayak, and had my new bike. I had a good kayak leg, then got on the bike, and got passed repeatedly. I get to the turn into the wooded section and the volunteer starts cheering and saying, ‘You’re the first woman in!’ What? They must have missed someone ahead of me…But, no, really! Each new section I came to with volunteers on the course, they cheered for me as the first woman through. I finish the bike, head up the mountain to see Brian making his final descent to the finish. I cheer him on and continue to climb. I finish my ascent, climb back down to find that holy crap, I did it. I was the first woman to finish overall!

Finish time of 2:33:55. Then, I realize that Brian was also the first male finisher overall. ook me all day to bring my feet back to the ground.

Redeemed myself.”

Obviously, Kelly felt an obligation to defend her title this year, which she did for women 50-plus (2:40:39).

Brian Edwards’ goal was to win, but he was unable to chase down Olympian Kris Freeman.

“But, I did complete the CONQUERING THE HILL — Jennifer Genovese of Windham, who was the second overall woman, celebrates course in my fastest time (2:11:07, fourth overall) out reaching close to the top of Pleasant Mountain. of four so I’m going to call (Rivet Photo) (Continued from Page 1C)

out with a black eye, finally made it to the run, which was a welcome respite after the biking. I finished with a total time of 3 hours and 28 minutes. My place was 78 out of 91 finishers. To both of our surprise, Brian finished third in his age group, got a great

it a win,” he said. “Frankly, I enjoy being able to finish near the front of the pack!

That’s not usually a possibility for me, but the combination of these three events works.”

Jennifer Genovese, a fifth year GAC triathlete, was determined to beat the bike record in the 35–49 age class after being just five seconds behind the leader last year.

She came up about 50 seconds short Saturday.

“I love to support such a great cause and this event incorporates all the outdoor activities I love,” she said. “I wouldn’t miss it!”

Denise Taddeo of Portland had competed in other triathlons, but was looking for a new challenge. So, she decided to try the GAC. “I was looking for a new challenge. This event definitely delivered on that!” she said. “My primary goals were just to finish and do the paddle on my paddleboard. The organizers were very accommodating to this request. I did finish the event and managed to finish third in my age group (only five women in the 35–49 year old group though), which was unexpected. I enjoyed the scenery on all three legs of the event — great location for this type of challenge.

Even as brutal as the hike was the views were amazing!”

Dr. Michael McLeod of Bridgton signed up six years ago for the first time as a goal to get into shape and complete the race.

“After four years of medical school, three years of residency and two children, I was not in very good shape.

The race is always a challenge and keeps me active,” he said. “Rob has done an amazing job bringing his creation to life. It is different every year with course conditions, competitors and weather.”

McLeod enjoys the people, “The friends, new and old, that we see each year.”

And his goal? “My goal is the same each year, not to get hurt (and to beat my wife, Angela, in the race). This was my sixth and her fifth year competing. She broke a few records this year and I am very happy for her!”

Indeed. Angela set the kayak mark of 30:30 and the run in 39:30.

Act 1: The Paddle Whether one enjoys or detests the 3-mile paddle on Moose Pond might depend upon the kayak, canoe or paddleboard one chooses to use.

“I least enjoy the kayak, mostly due to that there are so many different types of kayaks and the time is dependent mostly on the equipment. The kayaks range from 8-foot whitewater type (slowest possible choice) to the 20-foot racing boats,” Mike Murrin said.

“Needless to say, if you have a racing type at your disposal you will have great time, not so much if all you have is a small recreational boat.”

Act 2: The Bike For the M&Ms, the bike course proved to be the most challenging.

“Within the first few feet, we lost one of our teammates to dehydration and exhaustion and had to go on without her. Luckily, there was an ambulance nearby that took great care of her and responded promptly,” Chace Conroy said. “Continuing on with a smaller but nevertheless mighty group, we had to persevere through every terrain imaginable. With our fair share of blood, sweat and tears, we emerged from the brush and were wel-

INTO THE FOREST is cyclist Kim Gluck of Newton, Mass.

(Photo by Greg VanVliet/LakeRegionPhotography.com) comed by the sweet sounds of vuvuzelas played by our extended family.”

Dr. Angela McLeod also found the bike course the most challenging element of the GAC. “I think it is the duration of the course. It is just physically exhausting to ride for 16 miles, especially after kayaking straight out for 30 minutes,” she said. “This was the first time I wore

a heart rate monitor during this race and I realized that I never got my heart rate down below 175. This is not typical for me! The heat of the day also was exhausting!

I think it has never been that hot in the five years that I have done this race.”

Aidan Crawford of Lovell wore a t-shirt with a slogan on the backside, “Still running strong.” It ended up ATHLETES, Page 3C

GOOD BALANCE shown by cyclist Chad Savage of Auburn, who placed 14th overall. (Sheila Weeman Photo)

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SOME ENCOURAGEMENT — Kelly Edwards of BACK FOR ANOTHER BONDING EXPERIENCE, PAUSE FROM THEIR HIKE FOR A PHOTO were Raymond, the first woman overall, offers some encour- Part 2 were Tim Greszler and daughter, Megan, of Alissa Towle of Cumberland (left) and Genanne Brandon agement to another competitor.

Oberlin, Ohio. of Yarmouth.

(Rivet Photos)

Challenging, but rewarding day for athletes (Continued from Page 2C)

being somewhat prophetic for the local 18-year-old.

His bike chain snapped at Mile 3 of the bike course. He ran with the bike for a mile to the aid station, but volunteers couldn’t repair it so Aidan asked if it was okay to leave his bike there and then run the remaining 13 miles of the 16-mile bike course — which they said he could.

“He did that (in a pretty fast time for a half marathon — around 1 hour 40 minutes) and then ran up and down Shawnee for the final leg,” his mother Blair said.

“His famous last words to me before he set out on the Challenge was ‘how bad can it be!’”

Although the bike course has treacherous rock spots and tough climbs, riders find this segment a favorite.

“It was great to be neckin-neck with clearly strong men. Smiles and fun comments back and forth. I love the woods and the trails.

I’m a total convert!” Kelly Edwards said.

Act 3: The Climb Mike Murrin knew what to expect as he started his climb up Pleasant Mountain, but it didn’t make his life any easier.

“The hike is the most

challenging because you are already tired from the bike ride and the sun, humidity and temperature are at their highest,” he said. “Also getting your body to transition from biking to hiking straight uphill takes a little time and hydrating enough to avoid pulling a calf or have your quads cramp up while making sure you don’t over drink and get stomach cramps (or worse) is a delicate balance.”

The heat brought one competitor to his knees just a short distance from the top of the mountain. After a few minutes, he managed to work out leg cramps, and pushed ahead.

“2015 will be remembered in my mind as the ‘Hot’ year! Hot, Hot, Hot, especially on the trek up the mountain. Many bottles of water were poured over my head. Thought I would tank completely. Saved by the four-wheeler driving up handing out water,” Kelley Edwards said.

Jennifer Genovese added, “As you look up, it never seems to end! I just kept telling myself how close I was to the finish.”

When competitors reach the summit, they get their lanyard, which is a ticket on a string around their neck, “punched” by a race volun-

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this venue with no advantage or handicapping whatsoever; no special divisions. If they kayaked hard enough and pedaled strongly enough and hiked/ran fast enough, they would win or place in their division.

This weekend, Kris Freeman trashed the course record of the Great Adventure Challenge at 1:49:04 and won first overall. Kris is an Olympic and national champion crosscountry skier.

The Nature Trekkers from Momentum took third in the 51 to 100-age group with a time of 3:03:47. Momentum does extraordinary work with these folks. They start training in April and commit to improving constantly, just like any good athlete.

So, the goal Ed and I set 20 years ago has been reached.

It wasn’t a priority, but it was there and I feel good about accomplishing it. I hope that Kris comes back next year and brings some friends.

Now, not only the folks from Momentum but all those who participated in the Great Adventure Challenge Saturday can say that they competed, head-to-head, with a real Olympian, with no advantages in the same race. That ain’t bad.

teer and then jog or walk around the warming hut before starting their descent.

Many felt rejuvenated as they started the return trip, partly knowing the end was near.

“I really was excited when I turned around the corner at the warming hut at the top of Shawnee Peak and knew that all I had to do was run down the hill and it was over,” Angela McLeod said. “When I had trained on the mountain earlier in the summer, the fastest I had run down the mountain was 11 minutes and that was when I was chasing my husband, Mike, and trying to catch up to him. So I knew that it would only take me 11 minutes and I would be done with the entire racecourse.”

Final thoughts Heat and humidity took its toll on many triathletes.

Knowles said he had stocked 30 cases of water and later brought in two more.

Gatorade was also provided.

David Moore of Marblehead, Mass. placed 13th overall. “(My) goal was to have an injury-free day, celebrate the active outdoor lifestyle, and contribute to a good cause — I met all three, but must admit my quads are wicked sore from running downhill,” he said.

“I enjoyed the banter before and after, the thrills and spills on the bike before I started going backwards with fatigue, and making the turn around the warming hut.

Rob and the volunteers were exceptional as usual.”

For Angela McLeod, the heat proved to be her biggest enemy.

“The heat of the day was really too much so, although I enjoyed each and every part

of the triathlon, once I finished I really felt physically ill. I think I had a combination of heat exhaustion and hypoglycemia,” said Angela McLeod, who was 29th overall and the third female overall finisher. “My goal was to make this a comeback year for my knee. So I really just wanted to do well overall and I am just thrilled with my performance!”

Last year, Angela had to compete as a team member.

In March 2014, she tore her ACL and meniscus while skiing (falling, actually) at Shawnee Peak. She had surgery in April and by August was able to kayak, but not able to mountain bike or hike on the mountain.

“Although I had an awesome team and loved this aspect of the competition, I was anxious to go back to competing as an individual and see what I could do for myself,” she said. “My husband, Mike, signed us up in January and before we really

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got training for this year’s event, I had a significant fall on the Lions Head trail on Mount Washington this April and dislocated my shoulder.

So although my knee was in good shape I was now worried about my shoulder for kayaking and biking.”

As the summer season progressed, Angela continued to train and healed well and felt confident going into the race.

“As you can see from the record results, I had a personal best and also broke the record time for kayak and hike for my age group,” she said. “I couldn’t have asked for a better comeback!”

She and others were very appreciative of the work done

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Mason tennis tournament sizzles with strong play LOVELL — This year marked the 30th year of the Dave Mason competition.

The tournament had a float in the Lovell Old Home Days parade. But prior to the first day of play the tournament committee knew that six former players, including four ex-champions, were injured and would not be able to compete. Along with this none of the regular participants from Pennsylvania (five) intended to come.

The day play was to start Gary Heroux, the tournament director, was informed by the library adjacent to the main courts that it was, that very day, holding a children’s animal exhibit which included

a live tarantula and a small tiger. It was felt that the presence of the animals might hold down attendance.

Nevertheless, 80 applied to play and 62 were accepted.

The tournament will hold a satellite event during the rest of the summer for mixed doubles teams that were left out.

Eight others, in men’s doubles and singles, could not be accommodated. Women’s doubles was one team short.

Otherwise, all spots were filled and all matches played.

The quality continued to improve. For example, six of the eight men’s doubles teams could have been in the final. The weather was excellent throughout and there

were no injuries.

Spectators preferred doubles, 51 watched the men’s doubles finals, while less than 10 were present at the men’s singles finals. This was unfortunate in that the men’s final was of high quality.

Perhaps the reason was that more local players were in the doubles. The men’s final had two out-of-staters, while locals appeared in both the mixed and women’s doubles.

The Results In men’s singles, Jack Weiler, the defending champion successfully repeated, defeating Mark Green, 6-3, 6-0. Weiler simply had too much power and covered too much court.

Although Green had a complete game. he was unable to match angled shots, both forehand and backhand, from the backcourt. Weiler also served well and his return of serve was consistent and forcing. Green was playing his sixth match in three days, which didn’t help.

Toward the end of the second set, he approached the scorers table and noted that “The balls are getting heavier and heavier.”

In the semis, Weiler defeated Don Schneider, a champion from 15 years ago. Schneider played cleverly and kept the ball in play, but, same as Green, he could not cope with Weiler’s sharp winners. He lost, 6-2, 6-2.

The other semi saw Green defeat Scott Weiler, Jack’s father, 6-2, 6-0. Here, Green made nearly no errors. He said he had “played the best match I could remember.”

Weiler showed a good game, but it is difficult to defeat an opponent who makes no mistakes, volleys well and puts MEN’S SINGLES title winner Jack Weiler receives his away overheads. trophy from tournament founder, Dave Mason.

In men’s doubles, this

was the most anticipated match of the whole tournament because it contained all the singles semifinalists, pitting Schneider and Green against the two Weilers. It would be speed and power against craft and so it was.

Schneider and Green won 6-4, 7-5. Green, ably assisted by Schneider, gradually assumed control by sharp volley, decisive overheads and steadiness. Schneider matched his steadiness and, by adroit placement, induced

his opponents into error, or into set-ups for his partner.

Weiler and Weiler hit a lot of winners and forcing shots.

But they hurt themselves with double-figures double faults, giving Schneider and Green free points. The largest crowd of the tournament watched this match.

In the semis, Schneider and Green had beaten Matt Connelly and Garrett Goldsmith, 6-4, 6-0. Once again, they made fewer mistakes and were tactically

superior, a superiority, which increased as the match went on. Goldsmith showed good ground strokes and served well, while Connelly is a terror at net. Green and Schneider kept him in the backcourt most of the time.

They were never seriously threatened.

The other semi saw the Weilers eliminate Jose Azel and Tom McDonaugh, 6-2, 6-4. The second set was close because McDonaugh hit a MASON, Page 5C

MIXED DOUBLES CHAMPS — Walter Gryzb and Martha Gryzb receive trophies from tournament director, Gary Heroux.

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August 20, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 5C

This week’s puzzle

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18. *A portable one is great for camping 19. eBay participant 21. *Power provider 23. *A smart one syncs everything you write 24. *Pretty hot and tempting, in a text 25. Public health org.

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Mason tennis tournament highlights baseline game, which combined drives and underspins.

Carrolanza was not intimidated by the serve, which she successfully hit back most of the time. She also showed great consistency and poise.

What decided the match was the ability of Loftus to bring her in and then lob over her

head.

In the semis Loftus defeated Mary Carrolanza, 8-5. The match resembled the final except that Loftus won many more points with his serve.

Mary Carrolanza had good ground strokes and court coverage. Her game was not as big as that of Loftus.

In the other semi, Grace Carrolanza won over Tim Kendall. Steadiness alone won this match. Kendall hit some excellent serves and scored winners with angled MASON, Page 7C

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In the juniors, Johnie Loftus won the title, defeating Grace Carrolanza in the final, 6-4, 6-3. He had a serve that was bigger than that of many of the senior men’s players, and hit overheads for winners. He also had a steady

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lot of winners and Azel did some fine retrieving. But, they never led. Jack Weiler’s serve dominated this match.

He never lost it.

In women’s doubles, Olivia Leavit was the outstanding player. She had a bigger game than anyone else. Her partner, Sherry Irwin, supported her with steadiness and good positioning. Their team reached the net before any of their opponents and hit decisive volleys and overheads. They also covered the court well and, before the finals, had not lost a set. Therefore, it was feared that they would blow out Danielle Rowland and Denise Turner in the final.

That this did not happen is a tribute to the determination of Turner and Rowland.

They scurried around and hit clean, sharp shots from the backcourt. They lost, 6-2, 6-3 but made a very respectable showing. The match was very entertaining.

In the semis, Leavitt and Irwin had beaten Martha Gryzb and Jennifer Regan, 6-2, 6-1. They just had too much power. Gryzb volleyed well and Regan returned serve decently, but they were unable to cope with a stream of winners that they could not reach.

The other semi was much closer, with Rowland and Turner finally outlasting Gloria Kuchel and Charlene Flynn, 7-6(4), 6-4. This match lasted a long time.

Turner and Rowland covered ground while Kushel had a strong net game and showed advanced match experience.

Flynn kept the ball in play and anticipated well.

Probably the fact that Rowland and Turner were younger had something to do with the final outcome. There was little choose between the two teams.

In mixed doubles, Walter and Martha Gryzb won, having been seeded fourth. They defeated both the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds on their way to the championship. They reacted as a team and did not beat themselves. Martha Gryzb, especially in the final, put away a large number of points, both by her sharp volleying and her conclusive overheads. Walter was steady and also was able to run down balls seemingly beyond his reach.

In the final, they met Charlie Dattlebauma and Cloria Kushel, who had just come off a 6-4, 4-6, 11-9 win over Jim Carty and Danielle Rowland. Dattlebaum and Kushel put out a game effort, but did not seem to have much left after the previous day’s match, losing 6-2, 6-0.

Both semifinals were contested down to the last point.

In their win over Carty and Rowland, Dattlebaum and Kushel came from down 4-0

in the first set. They led, 9-6, in the tie-breaker, saw that advantage disappear and then won on two interception volleys by Kushel, who was active at the net the whole match, disrupting the play of her opponents.

Dattlebaum played steady tennis and hit low, winning spin shots while covering ground well. Carty put away many points at net and Rowland hit forehand ground strokes with accuracy and depth. They could have easily won but lacked consistency.

In the other semi, Gryzb and Gryzb finally won over the top seed, Matt Connelly and Jennifer Regan, 6-4, 4-6, 10-3. In this match, they were confronted by Connelly, at 6-foot-7, who had won both mixed and men’s doubles in prior years. He concluded many points some of which bounced out of the court and over the fence. Regan also won points, most often from the backcourt. The two teams appeared equal until the tenpoint tiebreaker, in which Martha Gryzb accounted for the majority of points by superior positioning and unreturnable volleys and overheads.

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1,000 miles under the boots

The Wild River in Evans Notch.

(Photo by Rick Dennen)

Over the years, I have climbed many of the mountains these columns have covered either by myself or with my boys and friends.

One of my biggest delights, however, is hiking with the Denmark Mountain Hikers, an eclectic group of likeminded individuals who head for the hills every week yearround to tackle mountains big and small in our area.

The Denmark Mountain Hikers began tramping the hills and mountains in Maine and New Hampshire in January 2010, and have taken a hike nearly every Friday, all year round, rain or shine, since then. To celebrate the 1,000 miles the group has put under their boots in 5½ years, I was fortunate to be able to join 15 other members of the group to celebrate the milestone with a hike, a swim and lunch in Evans Notch on July 31, 2015.

Fifteen of us started with an easy hike to the Roost, a small promontory (1,374 feet) overlooking the Wild River valley near the old logging town of Hastings. The Denmark Mountain Hikers have done the Roost a couple of times in the past, and always marvel at the sign at the first ledge pointing to “the view,” another open ledge a short distance down the mountainside. From the north trailhead the initial 100 yards is steep, and then moderates to climb to the first set of ledges at 0.5 miles. There are nice views to the Baldfaces, Royces and Mount Hastings. The trail continues along the ridge and descends a moderate grade along an old woods road to the south trailhead on Route 113.

We did not do the entire 1.2 miles in the loop, opting instead to go back the half-mile we’d come from the trailhead and the river.

The half-mile hike to the first ledge was enough of a leg-stretcher to get us loosened up for a dip in the Wild River at a pretty beach and deep pool where Evans Brook enters. The water was surprisingly warm and it was

Denmark Mountain Hikers consulting their map The Roost in Oxford County, Batchelder’s Grant to identify peaks seen from the summit of the Roost. Township, ME (l-r Carol Nugent, Jeff Sturgis, Nancy Sosman, John Difficulty – Easy Patrick.

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by Allen Crabtree

a delightful chance to enjoy swimming and jumping off rocks into the water.

After cooling down and enjoying the water, we all headed down Evans Notch to the Stow Corner Store, where one of our hikers, Margaret Mathis, was waiting on us.

Her July 4th parade foot injury has kept her sidelined on crutches for the past several weeks and she was unable to join us for the hike or swim, but vows to be back on the trail again as soon as she heals.

The Stow Corner Store is a “must” stop whenever the Denmark Mountain Hikers have a hike in Evans Notch — either for ice cream or sometimes for a fresh-baked pastry or a meal. My favorite is their seafood chowdah — the best, I think, in all of Maine or New Hampshire — loaded with fish, crab and lobster.

Hikers had lunch and celebrated our 1,000-mile

achievement with good company, door prizes, and a contest to see who could identify the most hikers from an array of their baby pictures. Hiker statisticians Rick Dennen and Dianne Sinclair presented certificates for members who had hiked the most miles since 2010. Our leader, John Patrick, topped the list at 794.47 miles, and I was pleased to come in second with 699.22 miles. Close on our heels were 20 other Denmark Mountain Hikers who had each racked up more than 100 miles.

As a token of appreciation for everyone’s hard work climbing some of those “easy” hikes that turned out to be anything but, for their patience in hearing the summit was “just around the corner of the trail,” and fortitude in venturing forth in all weather, whether dry and sunny or wet and icy, Nancy ROOST, Page 7C

Older Lifestyles About the Writer: With these articles, Clay Johnson wishes to share a little of his story, as well as encourage and help older adults to have an active lifestyle. He has a master’s degree in exercise physiology and more importantly 50 years experience training persons of all ages for athletic competitions.

Improving one’s common core

Who would have thought it? Some people actually read this column and have asked questions. As a classroom teacher, I always appreciated students asking questions about the lesson. Now, we could do some real teaching.

Question 1: Why haven’t you mentioned the core? Isn’t it important for us seniors? Now, you tell me if your core is everything except your legs and arms, if it is the stabilizers and your center of gravity, if it is the responsibility for trunk rotation and carrying out most all daily tasks then how important is it?

When my 14-year-old grandson asked me to help him develop a “six pack” he was mostly interested in the aesthetic effect. If that’s what motivates you go for it. I have one that is well hidden and insulated below a layer of adipose tissue.

Too many people think core is just about developing that “sixpack.” As you can see from the above, it is way more and very important that we work on it.

We have not overlooked or failed to include the core in our exercise program. Just the opposite. We have been working on your core from day one. It’s like sneaking in the veggies so the kids don’t know they are there. Just look at the exercises and their execution.

• Incorporate as many muscles groups as possible.

Everything connects.

• Working every day on flexibility and balance equals improved core.

• Doing slow 6- to 8-second repetitions equals stabilizers.

• Yoga and Pilates. You may not realize it, but they are all about the core.

Let’s take a look at just one simple exercise — the push up. When you are in the up position it can be called the plank.

(The plank is the pet exercise in all core classes.) Taking 6 to 8 seconds to complete a push up by the time we complete our daily 100, we have also done several seconds of the plank.

Now if you think you need additional time, throw in anything you know will work the core. Don’t overthink it and don’t overdo it.

Question 2: What is a good warmup? Let me start with what is not a good warmup. Unfortunately a whole generation of USA athletes growing up in the Seventies were taught that warmup was laying on the ground doing nothing but static stretch. “Bend it, hold it, don’t bounce and relax.” This is so much bad smelling baloney, but some of it still lingers.

Warmup means getting the body ready for more strenuous activities. There is a physical and chemical process that needs to take place. Sort of like oiling the machine and getting off the rust. The best way is by moving the entire body in every direction possible and through full ranges of motion. (Sound familiar?) Are you getting ready for some heavy lifting? Start light and work up. You want to show the granddaughter you are still a great swim sprinter. You best do some slow swimming first.

Question 3: “When are you going to hit us with the old adage, ‘No pain No gain.’” Look out, we may be hiding the veggies. Back in the Eighties, this was a common expression made famous by the infamous Jane Fonda exercise tapes. For most people, they were too much too soon too often. A good dose of no common sense. To improve any component of physical fitness you have to overload. Simply put, you have to do more than normal. Been going for a 30-minute walk?

Increase the distance and/or pace. Flexibility training? Move that stubborn joint a little beyond comfortable. You now lift 25 pounds 25 times? Either up the load or increase the reps or the duration of the reps. Balance on one leg for 10 seconds?

Go for 15. All of this going beyond your comfort zone is overloading. Know the difference between pain and discomfort and apply some common sense. Do just a little more each day. Which day? Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Notice there is no Someday?

Like Willie Nelson would say, “Hey, ain’t it funny how time slips away?”

Regional sports

August 20, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 7C

Youth field hockey Have you ever thought about playing field hockey? Here’s your chance. Casco Recreation is offering field hockey for all Lake Region third through sixth graders.

Join Lake Region High School varsity field hockey coach Pauline Webb and staff to learn the basic fundamentals of the game. Practice will be held twice a week from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m., starting in September. Play dates will be scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays. Cost is $25. Registration required prior to starting.

For more information, contact Beth Latsey, Casco Parks and Recreation director, at 627-4187.

Soccer signup extended

Ladies Division winner — Marty Scarlett

Men’s Division winner — Jeff Audet

The Towns of Bridgton, Casco, Naples and Sebago have extended their deadlines for Lake Region Youth Soccer registration.

Registration forms must be in by 4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 28. No new teams will be formed after Aug. 28. Registrations will only be accepted after Aug. 28 if space allows.

Lake Region Youth Soccer also offers Kindergarten Soccer, which is an ongoing registration period! Please contact your town recreation director for more information.

Lake Region Youth Soccer is also in search for energetic volunteer soccer coaches. Fees are waived for volunteer coaches. Please contact your rec director if you are interested.

Gary Colello, Bridgton Recreation Director, 647-8786 Beth Latsey, Casco Recreation Director, 627-4187 Harvey Price, Naples Recreation Director, 693-6364 Denise Olsen, Sebago Recreation Director, 787-2457.

Fairway chip shots

David Donohue — co-host, with the trophies he had made, collecting final scores

Putting for a good cause SEBAGO — A putting contest was held recently at the private course and home of Pamela and David Donohue in Sebago.

This was the second event they have hosted to benefit Sebago’s Spaulding Memorial Library. Though it was a bit cooler and the weather a bit iffy that morn-

Jeff Cutting — later putted a hole-in-one

ing, no rain arrived and the afternoon was a success.

Some serious golfers arrived with their own putters, while others tried their hand at putting for the first time. Various members of the Donohue family kept score at each of the four holes and a group of granddaughters treated participants to fresh lemonade at

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the last hole.

From there, attendees made their way to a cookout held lakeside, and served by volunteers from the library.

Trophies were given out by David Donohue, after a “puttoff” to break a tie. Winners of the putting contest were Marty Scarlett and Jeff Audet.

Runners-up were Cindy Adams and Dan Phillipchik.

Jeff Cutting scored a hole-inone to celebrate his birthday that day.

Library trustees and volunteers are especially grateful to the entire Donohue family for all their efforts and generosity, with special thanks to Pam and Dave Donohue. Trustees are also very thankful to many others who helped make the day a success.

Once again, two volunteers from VIPS (Standish Volunteers in Service),

a program that helps the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, were on hand to control traffic, and to make sure that everyone made their way safely to the course.

The Church of the Nazarene made their parking lot available that afternoon.

Jordan’s Store and Lake Region Catering also were generous in their assistance.

Donors to the Silent Auction included: Jordan’s Store, Brookside Lobster, O’Dan’s Restaurant, Bridgton Highlands Golf Course, Naples Golf and Country Club, Rick Dennen, Linda Panzera, Long Beach Marina, Richard Allen, Rita Tranter, Doug Newton, Alpha Water Systems, Crabtree’s Blueberries, Dot O’Donnell, Barbara Scott, Jada Fitch, Tom Mullen, Theresa, John, and Marie-Claude Rousseau.

Thank you to everyone.

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again Rob Knowles! See ya on the mountain!”

Kelly Edwards of Raymond added, “It’s a great event for a great purpose and Rob Knowles is a personal hero to me. He and his team of volunteers go above and beyond every expectation to make sure that all participants have a great experience.”

Her success at the GAC has prompted her to take another big step. After just turning 50 years old, she decided it’s time to do a full Ironman.

“I considered doing the Mont Tremblant in Canada.

When I realized the date is the same weekend as GAC and told Brian, he said, ‘Have fun in Canada, I’ll be at the Great Adventure Challenge.’

Not to worry, I’ve registered for the Ironman Lake Placid on July 24, 2016. My August weekends are open :),” she said.

Brian Edwards also saluted Rob and his crew for a job well done.

“This is my fourth year doing this event. Rob really puts his heart and soul into it.

The volunteers are all great.

I do quite a few events every year and this one is the most down to earth and has the friendliest people,” he said.

“All the finishers are excited to share their stories from the race, it’s fun.”

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Rob Knowles for working tirelessly to make The Great Adventure Challenge exactly that — great! I have watched it grow over the last eight years and watched Rob and his family work through the whole year to support this.

They spread the word at meetings, 5Ks, make brochures, advertise in The Bridgton News, send e-mails, and update Facebook,” Angela said. “Rob has contacts that allow us to use the beach, woods, back roads, private logging trails and Shawnee Peak. There are t-shirts to print, three courses to set up, food to buy, volunteers to organize and more. And on race day, Rob works harder than any competitor for a longer duration than the last one off the mountain. All the proceeds go to help adults with developmental disabilities in the greater Bridgton community through Good Neighbors, Inc. So when asked what the best part about the race is, I reflected more and thought it’s not the kayak or the bike or the hike.

The best part of this race for me is community. The GAC is in our community and for our community. For me, the other athletic events I do throughout the year are just training. This is the one with real meaning. Thanks

Bridgton Highlands The Ladies Golf tournament played was “Tee To Green,” that is total score minus putts. First place winner was Pauline Elmer. Second place was won by Elaine Tinker. Third place went to Yvonne Gluck. Fourth place went Carrie Colby.

Closest to the Pin on Hole 8 was Eleanor Nicholson at 19-feet 5-inches.

Harvest Hills golf benefit Harvest Hills Animal Shelter will hold the Harvey’s 8th Annual Golf Challenge on Saturday, Sept. 19 at Bridgton Highlands Country Club in Bridgton (rain date Sept. 20).

Shot gun start at 9 a.m. Cost is $300 for a team (four people), which includes cart, prizes and lunch; or $75 per player, who will be teamed up with others, including cart, prizes and lunch.

For a registration form, call 935-4358 or go to the shelter’s website.

Sponsorship opportunities are also available at $750 (gold), $500 (silver) and $100 (hole sponsor). HHAS also accepts gifts to be used as door prizes and/or goodie bags, such as gift certificates or even golf balls, tees, note pads, key chains, etc.

Harrison Library golf tournament The Sixth Annual Harrison Village Library Golf Tournament will be held on Sunday, Sept. 20, at Lake Kezar Country Club in Lovell.

A shotgun start will be at 9 a.m. Registration at 8 a.m.

Fee for the scramble format is $70 per individual or $280 for a team of four (if registered and paid by Sept. 1), which includes golf, cart and meal! After Sept. 1, the fees are $75/ player and $300/team.

Contests and challenges include closest to the pin (men/ women), longest drive (men/women) and putting.

If you would like to sponsor a hole ($75) or donate prizes (items or services), please contact the Harrison Village Library for more information at 583-2970.

Roost hike

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Sosman presented hikers with their very own Denmark Mountain Hiker patch for their packs or jackets.

The Denmark Mountain Hikers meet every Friday to take a day hike to a nearby mountain in Maine or New Hampshire, and are dedicated to enjoying the beauty of God’s world and the good fellowship of one another’s company. We believe in the liberating power of the hills and mountains and explore trails known and unknown in weather fair and foul, yearround all summer and all winter.

We have shared both the efforts of the trail and the spiritual experiences of the mountaintop, wonderful views, long meaningful talks, the occasional prank, gentle snowstorms, bitter frigid cold, and personal epiphanies. Those who were once strangers have become close friends and compatriots, sharing something special in our weekly outings. Each of us has learned to challenge and stretch our personal physical capacities, doing things that we never thought we were capable of, while enjoying the confidence that comes with it. All are welcome to join the Denmark Mountain Hikers on one of their weekly hikes, or at least follow our hike reports through being on our e-mail list.

Mason tennis (Continued from Page 5C)

forehands. But, Carrolanza kept the ball in play and did not make many errors.

Moore Award For the third year, the tournament selected someone who had shown loyalty to the event as a whole to receive the Glenn Moore Award. Dave Mason was this year’s recipient.

He deserved the award in spades, having both founded the tournament and arranged for its major courts to be built.

The Stow Corner Store once again sponsored, providing sandwiches for the players and officials. Their menu was bigger this year, adding Italians, tuna and veggies.

For more information about the Great Adventure Challenge go to the event’s website.

Trophy Winners Men Overall (age 17-34) 1st: Kris Freeman 1:49:04* 2nd: Nevin Rallis 2:11:33 3rd: Chris Pepter 2:16:53 Men Overall (age 35-49) 1st: John McCarthy 2:05:12 2nd: Brian Edwards 2:11:07 3rd: Thor Emory 2:12:12 Men Overall (50+) 1st: David Drew 2:19:04 2nd: Allan Lobozzo 2:24:17

3rd: Robert Beaudoin 2:42:22 Women Overall (17-34) 1st: Megan Greszler 2:52:14

2nd: Candace Sabol 2:54:12 3rd: Jodi Willey 3:16:49 Women Overall (35-49) 1st: Jennifer Genovese 2:47:15 2nd: Angela McLeod 2:49:48 3rd: Denise Taddeo 4:03:50 Women Overall (50+) 1st: Kelly Edwards 2:40:39* 2nd: Kim Gluck 2:56:40 Team Overall (combined age of 51-100) 1st: Stormin’ Norton 2:48:16 2nd: Superflies 2:52:22 3rd: Nature Trekkers 3:03:47 Team Overall (combined age of 101-150) 1st: Gents on the Move 2:16:33 GAC, Page 8C

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GREAT DAY TO ROW — The Highland Lake Regatta enjoyed great conditions on Saturday, Aug. 15.

(Photos by Vernon Russell)

Top GAC finishers, times (Continued from Page 7C)

2nd: Mountain Goats 2:30:50 3rd: Crew 222 2:36:40 Team Overall (combined age of 151+) 1st: The Old Guys 1:57:25* 2nd: The Gimps 2:16:49 * New records For full race results, go to the Great Adventure Challenge website at www. maineadventureracing.com OVERALL 1. Kris Freeman, 1:49:04 2. The Old Guys, 1:57:25 3. John McCarthy, 2:05:12 4. Brian Edwards, 2:11:07 5. Nevin Rallis, 2:11:33 6. Thor Emery, 2:12:12 7. Gents on the Move, 2:16:33 8. The Gimps, 2:16:49 9. Chris Peter, 2:16:53 10. David Drew, 2:19:04 11. Allan Lobozzo, 2:24:17 12. Mountain Goats, 2:30:50 13. David Moore, 2:31:39 14. Chad Savage, 2:33:45 15. Mike McLeod, 2:34:16 16. Crew 222, 2:36:40 17. Greg Kolvoord, 2:37:19 18. Tim Merchant, 2:39:55 19. Kelly Edwards, 2:40:39 20. Robert Beaudoin, 2:42:22 21. Ralph Colarusso, 2:42:39

22. Barry Towle, 2:45:10 23. Justin Rowe, 2:45:38 24. Mike Towle, 2:46:40 25. Jennifer Genovese, 2:47:15 26. Tom Tieman, 2:47:36 27. Mike Adams, 2:47:55 28. Stormin Norton, 2:48:16 29. Angela McLeod, 2:49:48 30. Jonathan Curran, 2:51:01 31. Lawrence Taylor, 2:51:55 32. Megan Greszler, 2:52:14 33. Tim Greszler, 2:52:18 34. Superflies, 2:52:22 35. Candace Sabol, 2:54:12 36. Kim Gluck, 2:56:40 37. Andy Gluck, 2:56:43 38. TJ O’Connell, 2:58:12 39. David Peck, 2:59:17 40. Nature Trekkers, 3:03:47 41. Chris Cloutier, 3:06:32 42.

John D’Agostino, 3:06:48 43. Mike Murrin, 3:09:48 44. Ryan Paveglio, 3:15:03 45. Greg Baxter, 3:15:28 46. Dan Scott, 3:15:40 47. Aidan Crawford, 3:16:04 48. Jodi Willey, 3:16:49 49. Jerrod Widor, 3:17:50 50. Peter Paveglio, 3:19:26 51. John Shepard, 3:23:18 52. Tom Shepard, 3:23:22 53. Elaine Kelley, 3:25:04 54. Mystery Riders, 3:28:07 55. Chris Roy, 3:34:38 56. Andrew Norkin, 3:51:43

57. Clarke Beaudry, 3:55:50 58. Glenny & The Jets, 3:56:51 59. Denise Taddeo, 4:03:50 60. Farm Stand Clan, 4:06:36 61. Kerri Calhoun, 4:14:14 62. Alissa Towle, 4:36:55 63. Genanne Brandon, 4:36:57 64. Julia Peet, 4:57:39 65. Jeff White, 5:09:47 66. Chace Conroy, 5:10:26

Land Trust Shell Pond walk LOVELL — The Greater Lovell Land Trust walks are free and open to the public.

Look for “Land Trust Walk Today” signs posted on Route 5 and leading to the trailhead, which is on Shell Pond Road (aka Government Road) this week.

To reach the trailhead, approach from the Evergreen Valley end. Please carpool if

possible as parking is limited.

Wednesday, Aug. 26, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Shell Pond, Shell Pond Road, Stoneham.

The Natural Communities of Shell Pond. We will explore an older forest, a beautiful hemlock grove, and the shore of Shell Pond, looking for animal sign while we discuss the trees in the area and see how the dominant tree species affect the

understory. We will follow a trail and do some bushwhacking, so be prepared. The walk is approximately three miles long.

Dress appropriately and bring lunch and plenty of water.

Degree of Difficulty: Moderate.

One self-guided walk permanently located at the Wilson Wing Moose Pond Bog on Horseshoe Pond Road, where

new signs have recently been installed.

The second self-guided nature walk is located at a different GLLT property each year. This year, shrub and tree signs are visible around the perimeter of the Fairburn parking lot on Slab City Road until Labor Day. Check the kiosk for information about flowers currently in bloom.

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August 20, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 1D

Irreverence, Irrelevance, Whatever...

by Mike Corrigan BN Columnist

As I said before

I don’t think I should have to explain the things I said at the first Republican candidates’ debate on Fox, because real Americans speak American and that is the language I spoke that night.

Nevertheless, I see by the poll numbers that my message didn’t really get out there, so I am following up with a position paper in The Bridgton News, the world’s only remaining newspaper.

Biography: I am an old white male. Overqualified!

Immigration: I’m against it. I am for electrified fences at all borders.

Abortion: I’m against it. I am for electrified fences around abortion clinics. And around expectant mothers. And around all of our daughters, for that matter.

Gun control: I’m against it. Besides, with enough electrified fences, there should be no need to shoot anybody except for those rapists and murderers who have made it through already.

Climate change: I’m against it. I’m against even discussing it. And anyway, if we build those fences high enough, storm clouds won’t be able to penetrate our borders. And that’s a scientific fact, according to my TV weatherman.

Women: I’m against them. No wait, I’m for them, but in BEFORE, Page 2D

Earth Notes

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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.

CANNING IN THE DARK — Karen Lewis continues to work on canning despite a power outage. To add illumination, husband and BN columnist Peter Lewis went out into the front garden and yanked out three solar-powered path lights and brought them into the kitchen, where, after being gently scolded for getting dirt on the counter, he brightened things up considerably.

Sucking up the ladybugs Views from the Uppermost House

by S. Peter Lewis BN Columnist

I could never be single.

My wife Karen and I do lots of stuff together. Have for over three decades. We don’t live extravagantly. Can’t afford it. Wouldn’t do it anyway. And so our days are simple and straightforward, ordinary; some might even think them lackluster and pedestrian.

By Price Hutchins We recently cleaned out our shed, for instance. Nasty Martin Litton: “To compromise is to lose……because what you give away will never come back — ever. When it building, that old shed. In the not-so-distant past when our comes to saving wilderness, we cannot be extreme enough.” daughter was in her “personal zoo” stage, it housed chickens I have a fascination of the Grand Canyon born during a and rabbits, and is currently a catch-all place for old farm and 10-day dory trip down the Colorado River. I love everything Grand Canyon and I can’t pass up any book about it. I recently finished “The Emerald Mile” by Kevin Fedarko (2012), which dealt with the near failure of the Glen Canyon Dam and the making of the record dory speed run down the Colorado during that spring flood window of 1983.

Fifty-seven deaths occurred in 2014 in Maine from The book has several central characters. One of which was Martin Litton. A founder of the modern environmental heroin overdose, the Portland paper reports. The next day, movement, Litton passed away just this past winter at 92. the paper reports that the governor wants to call out the His was the first enterprise to take tourists down the rapids National Guard to deal with the emergency — in exactly of the Grand Canyon. Litton early on grasped that the more what way is left blank. Meanwhile the legislature has he opened up the Grand Canyon to everyday Americans the added funds for additional agents, prosecutors and judges. greater his ability to muster public opinion when needed. “Chump change,” the governor calls it.

Plainly, the governor and his legislative opponents are He sponsored rafting trips populated exclusively by senators, governors and policy makers. Around nightly canyon adhering to the position that the state’s drug epidemic campfires, Litton would provide rambling orations mixed should be dealt with through tough-minded enforcement with geology, history, old west lore and heavy doses of envi- of laws on the books. As with most issues in this country, ronmental themes. Now, years after Litton’s business was there are two fiercely contested answers to the question, passed on, the guides continue this as though it is as much an “What is to be done?” The other side calls for increased medical care and rehabilitation for addicts. ingredient of a Canyon adventure as the class 5 rapids.

The debate is unresolved because neither answer, whenLitton was both revered and hated depending upon the side of the argument the person found himself. He can be credited ever and wherever applied, seems to take care of the with the invention of the term “litterbug.” He transformed depressing problem. Our jails are crammed with drug the Sierra Club from a club of weekend hikers to the power- offenders and yet the totals of druggies rise relentlessly. ful conservation organization it is now. He is famous and The number of Mainers seeking treatment for heroin addicinfamous for his role in saving parts of The Big Sur, stopping tion from 2011 to 2014 rose from 1,115 to 3,463 according the progression of dams on the Colorado, and opposing the to the paper. How many emerged clean is not stated.

Normally, in seeking to deal with an epidemic of the big dams on the Columbia. One of the operating tenants of his vocal career was never compromise. He was known as a proportions of the American drug problem, the first step is brutal trench fighter for the defense of wilderness as well as to determine its origins. Why are so many people — largely young folks — caught up in this epidemic? How exactly a powerful orator.

I think I am pretty open to opinions that are not in did it begin and how did it spread?

Not surprisingly, there doesn’t seem a single, off-theCOMPROMISE, Page 5D

Compromise

garden junk of all kinds, dead snow blowers, broken tools, empty fuel containers, old bikes, a big pile of old doors with paint-a-peeling, and such like detritus of country living.

Karen, with the hope of providing a clean port in the storm for any passing cyclists during downpours, got into one of her unrestrained cleaning fits, and so we spent a pleasant afternoon schlepping out some of the past refuse of our lives, making piles for yard sale and dump, and finishing with a pair of brooms that sent dust everywhere.

On most summer weekends, we pass each other constantly in the house and in the yard. Mowing the lawn and carting stuff out to the barn, neatening up the garage, fussing about in the gardens, taking trips into the village for small things forgotten at the grocery or hardware store.

And, like the aforementioned shed expedition, we often gang up on tasks that take more than one person. We go on berry-picking adventures after church or on a pleasant evening, fold laundry together, make meals side-by-side in the kitchen, and fall asleep holding hands.

This time of year, due to the combination of manure, rain, and sunshine, rampant fecundity out in the garden means that LADYBUGS, Page 7D

Waging a real war on drugs

Happy hikers

To The Editor: A quick note to tell you how much we enjoy Alan Crabtree’s articles on hiking in the Bridgton area. We have tried a few and have found them true and very enjoyable.

Dorothy Dwyer Bridgton and Newtown, Conn.

Not the case

To The Editor: It would be wonderful news if the great Robert E. Peary was actually from Brownfield and lent his name to Peary Mountain…but, not the case, sorry (in regards to Allen Crabtree’s Senior Rambles hiking column, Aug. 6).

The Admiral’s widowed mother had relatives in Fryeburg, where the North

The welfare workforce

To The Editor: An open question to the political ruling class of Maine: I have a question about the unemployment numbers and who is considered “employed.” According to www.maine.gov/labor/cwri/ laus3.html Maine’s unemployment rate is 4.7%.

According to: www. twincitytimes.com/politics/ maine-is-a-national-leaderin-welfare-spending and I quote: “As of June 2012, 402,722 people are enrolled on Medicaid, TANF or food stamps (EBT) in the state of Maine, representing an increase in the participation rate from 29% to 30.5%.

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Pole discoverer did spend time, but Peary Mt. is associated much earlier with the families by that name in Brownfield.

Fryeburg does have interesting connections with Adm. Peary, but not so in Brownfield.

The mountain indeed has beautiful vistas of the lovely local towns. Hikers should certainly enjoy the amazing views from the top. An easy climb and worth every step.

Jo Harmon Cumberland Editor’s note: Jo grew up in Brownfield and is a volunteer historian with the Fryeburg Historical Society.

Jo’s great-great-grandfather settled at the foot of Peary Mt. in Brownfield, where there were many Peary families, but not related to the explorer.

Medicaid participation has increased from just fewer than 300,000 to 330,474.”

So here are my questions: 1. Why aren’t people on welfare between the ages of 18 and 68, the age group that is commonly referred to as “The Work Force,” counted in the unemployment numbers?

2. When did Maine start considering those on welfare as part of the work force?

3. What occupation is “welfare recipient” classified in? I cannot find a job classification, on the tax forms, for “welfare recipient?”

Now, my note to all of you who are not part of the ruling political class. I don’t expect to get an answer to those questions from any in the ruling political class, I just want you to see what the two-party system has brought you. You work and work, pay taxes and feed your own family and yet you are counted as if you were on welfare.

When I think about politicians, I think about John 8:44 — Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a LETTERS, Page 2D

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by Henry Precht BN Columnist

shelf explanation. Each case is different in its components.

But, to generalize broadly, there are two elements, which cover virtually all cases: First is the erosion of societal restraints. It used to be that the family filled this role and when it failed, the immediate community picked up the responsibility. In many drug-infected areas the family no longer exists as an entity; too often the head of the household is herself or himself a victim of the drug culture. Life on those terms hardly presents the context for defeating the enemy in a “War on Drugs.” Additionally, the government — from the federal to the local level — is scorned as ineffective and useless by conservative folks, who propose no substitute.

The other popular incentive for turning to drugs, it seems to me, is that the chemicals help fill the gap of expectation in modern American (and many foreign) lives.

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Medicare nugget

By Stan Cohen Medicare Volunteer Counselor This Nugget is about people who have multiple chronic illnesses so it won’t be fun reading.

Research has found that in general, health care spending on a person with one chronic condition is nearly three times that of an individual without a longterm ailment. Spending on someone with five or more chronic conditions is roughly 15 times as much! So the impact on Medicare is very significant.

According to a USA Today report, two-thirds of traditional Medicare beneficiaries older than 65 have multiple chronic conditions. What’s more, more than four million have at least six long-term ailments.

Those sickest seniors account for more than 41% of the $324 billion spent on traditional Medicare. The most common ailments among the Medicare population are: High blood pressure (54.4%), high cholesterol (44.0%), arthritis (29.2%), heart disease (27.7%) and diabetes (26.9%).

Contrary to general wisdom, Baby Boomers (who have already begun to move into their Medicare years) are sicker than their predecessors. On the other hand, they will live longer and therefore will struggle longer with diseases such as diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart failure, depression and Alzheimer’s. The trouble is, says the report, neither the medical community nor the seniors themselves are prepared for the financial and emotional crisis ahead.

Medicare volunteer counselors are available for free, one-on-one consultations. Call the Bridgton Community Center at 647-3116 to arrange for an appointment.

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by Jean Preis BN Columnist

Who are you?

I was pouring frozen Maine blueberries onto the top of my cereal when a movement in the bushes outside the kitchen window caught my eye. A little bird just hopped from a bush onto the edge of lawn, and just as quickly it hopped back into the underbrush. I stuffed the bag of blueberries back into the freezer and reached to the end of the kitchen counter for a pair of binoculars. Now, there were two little birds in the bushes, moving so quickly I could not get a good look at either one. I am fairly certain they were warblers, but with at least 28 possible species of warblers that either breed in Maine, or migrate through here, figuring out which ones were in front of me might be a challenge.

One bird had an olive colored back, and a yellow throat.

One bird, partially hidden behind the leaves, had what appeared to be a remnant of a black mask on the face, and I think it could be a common yellowthroat but I could not see the color of the throat. Was it the same bird I saw a second ago? Birds flit here and there. At first, I thought there were only two, but then I glimpsed an olive colored bird that flicked its tail, and I saw it had soft yellow on the top of the tail. This was a different individual. Was it a female or immature American redstart? I wondered, who are you? The bird vanished.

In spring, many of us learn to identify warblers by the brightly colored plumage worn by most of the males. The vibrant colors are a sign of the male’s health, which helps him attract a mate and declare dominance over other males BIRD WATCH, Page 5D

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(Continued from Page 1D) murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Rev. Bob Celeste Harrison

Thief in our midst

To The Editor: I asked Carmen Lone for a quote for this letter about my “extreme upset” over my stolen tomato. Ms. Lone, the executive director of the Bridgton Community Center, had this acerbic comment: “Don’t steal, stupid.”

She was responding to my complaint over the theft of my prized tomato from my bed behind the Community Center. It was my only ripe tomato, and her comment was meant to suggest that the thief could have been a little more considerate of my tomato and taken one from another bed, which had a cluster of ripened tomatoes.

Why so much upset over one tomato?

Well, I haven’t had very many gardens and this was my first attempt at growing

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A place in the family

Again, I was reminded of why we have children when we’re young. Daughter Annie visited with her four children: Claire, almost six; Lila, four; and twins Henry and Luke, two-and-a-half down at our South Portland house. Annie is a marvel of energy, patience, and love as she mothers her brood.

We explored the waterfront, flew a kite, threw rocks into the sea, saw numerous jets fly toward and away from the Portland Jetport, and watched boats large and small make their way in and out of Portland Harbor. I was charmed by the wonder in the grandchildren as they took all this in. That’s one of the joys of being a grandfather. I’m the one who chronicles it all.

Well not all of it, but some. I take pictures and write pieces like this.

My camera is always nearby because I always expect to see beautiful things. Seldom am I disappointed, especially when the grandchildren are around. When I’m with them, it’s nearly always hanging from my right shoulder. The girls made fairy houses in my wife’s garden, drew a hopscotch grid on the front

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by Tom McLaughlin BN Columnist

walkway and challenged the rest of us to hop along, something I hadn’t done since my sisters issued a similar challenge more than 50 years ago.

I’m happy to say I can still do it.

It’s a different life at their home in Sweden, Maine (population 391) on a dirt road where no neighbors are visible unless you’re willing to take a long walk. Seeing the sights in Maine’s largest metropolitan area is a great thrill for them all, especially for the twins. For them, every plane that flew overhead was something to marvel at. The deep base of larger ships sounding their horns as they moved along thrilled them so much that all they could do was point wide-eyed exclaim, “Whoa!” Back at the house they mimicked the sound.

The twins still take afternoon naps, so I went with

Annie and the girls on another waterfront expedition. Returning, we found the boys dressed only in their diapers and playing in the yard with their grandmother.

It occurred to me that boys really do mature more slowly than girls of that age. Their sisters were housebroken before they were two, and girls are much more verbal, much earlier. I remember having lengthy conversations with them when they were two. Although the twins understand almost everything they hear, their expressive vocabulary is much more limited.

With each other, however, there’s a curious non-verbal communication understood only by them. During a break in the hopscotch, they began a pantomime during which one would bend over and pretend to scoop something up off

the ground with both hands, then offer it to the other who would bend over and pretend to eat or drink, I couldn’t tell which. Then, the other one would bend down and do the same thing for his brother.

This, they repeated two or three times before going on to something else. I have no idea where it came from, but I was quite charmed to watch their mutual giving. Who knows what kind of bonds they developed in utero together for nine months and being together constantly ever since. Though I grew up with seven siblings in a relatively small house, I preferred to be alone whenever possible. I cherished solitude and still do, keeping my own counsel most of my life. In spite of this, I rather envied the twins’ closeness.

We grandparents don’t have the energy we had as parents, but we are more experienced upon which to reflect, and the time to do so.

There’s an important place for us in the extended family and I’m very content in the role.

Tom McLaughlin of Lovell is a retired middle school U.S. History teacher.

tomatoes, so I was nurturing this one like a baby: planted it; watered it; talked to it; encouraged it; sang lullabies to it. Actually, I didn’t sing to it, but that might have hastened its ripening and, truth be told, I was actually on my way down there to pick my one, my only, my beloved tomato, and if it had ripened earlier, it might have been saved from the clutches of the nefarious poltroon who stole it.

Also, the Community Center has had a rash of thefts and vandalism recently, so my prized tomato was not the only victim.

I have an “incident’ form from the Bridgton Police Department, and I may still file a complaint; it may be petty theft to you but, to me, it is grand larceny!

Bob Casimiro Bridgton

White lines helping

EIGHTY FAMILIES HELPED — At a recent visit of the Good Shepherd Food Truck, members of the Harrison Lions Club and the Harrison Community Food Pantry joined forces to help distribute food to area recipients.

To The Editor: Pictured are (left to right) Jen McDonald and Andy Poulin of Good Shepherd, Barbara Fogg-Merrill, Tricia Desimio, I attended the Bridgton Kevin Varney and Jason Young of Efficiency Maine. Over 80 families received fresh produce, canned goods and other Selectmen’s meeting regard- food staples. Efficiency Maine distributed energy-efficient light bulbs. ing the painting of white lines on the edges of Kansas Road.

Many good points were made not had to swerve away even passage in the Maine House sism and the beginning of the chairman of the NAACP and and the lines were painted. once to avoid the front end of of Representatives. Now, over rampant spread of a drug cul- after that returned to finish One benefit was not men- a vehicle sticking out into the $10 million in LMF funding ture, which spread throughout his education. He became a has been lost. the nation like wildfire. well-known professor, finally tioned. Folks pulling out of road since the painting.

Hal Bartke I was disappointed to By 1988 when I was work- ending up at the University their driveway now know Bridgton learn that my state represen- ing as a family therapist and of Virginia to teach. He conwhere to stop prior to entertative, Nathan Wadsworth social worker at a Community tinued to be a media star. So ing the traffic lane. I have (R-Hiram), voted against Rehabilitation Center with indeed, it seemed, after the LD 1378. Furthermore, Rep. nonviolent teenage black civil rights movement burst NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING Wadsworth voted against LD offenders, Julian Bond had into full flower and after the 1454, a resolve that would become a folk hero. By that war in Vietnam ended, that have forced the governor time, he had a wife named history had truly shifted gears To The Editor: The Harrison Village Cemetery Association I am writing to express to release the 2010 voter- Alice and several small chil- and America was now on a will hold its annual meeting on Sunday, my disappointment in my approved LMF bonds. While dren. Julian had already won roll to fulfill its basic intenAugust 23, 2015, at 2 p.m. at the fire state representative, Nathan I am disappointed in both a major legal victory after tions to bring about “life, libstation lower meeting room.

Wadsworth (R-Hiram), for of these votes cast by Rep. being denied the seat he won erty and the pursuit of happivoting against the Land for Wadsworth, I appreciate his in 1965 in the Georgia State ness.” In 1988, Julian Bond Anyone who owns a lot in the cemetery, or who Maine’s Future (LMF) pro- willingness to listen to other Legislature. This suit was was an established American points of view. won in the Supreme Court. icon. Marion Barry, another is a relative of a lot owner, is urged to attend. gram.

Charlotte Fullam Julian Bond went on to serve activist, had become mayor The Land for Maine’s Allan Denison, Secretary 1T34 Porter six terms in the Georgia State of Washington, D.C. My exFuture program is one of Legislature. He then ran for husband had returned from Maine’s most successful land a seat in the U.S. House of Mississippi and was now a conservation programs conPublic Notice Representatives, losing his seat lawyer for The Lawyers tributing to Maine’s natural to fellow SNCC worker John Committee for Civil Rights resource-based economy Lewis. Julian soon became through the conservation of LETTERS, Page 3D Public Hearing farms, trails, mountains, for- To The Editor: Today, I’m thinking about ests, water access, wildlife The Board of Selectpersons will hold a meeting on August 24, habitat and working water- Julian Bond, a celebrated civil 2015, at 7:00 p.m., at the Municipal Office Building located at fronts. Maine voters have rights activist, almost exactly 15 Village Green Lane. On the agenda: consistently supported land my age, certainly an extended (Continued from Page 1D) 1. An application for a Liquor License for Bray’s Brew Pub member of my own family bonds by 60%.

As most readers know, during the civil rights move& Eatery, located at 678 Roosevelt Trail, submitted by their place.

Governor LePage held over ment. My mother, Virginia Michael Bray.

Blacks, Hispanics, Moslems, anybody but white $10 million in voter-approved Foster Durr, with whom I males: See remarks on “Women.”

2. An application for a Special Amusement Permit for Bray’s funding for LMF projects share my name and a compliWelfare fraud: I’m against it. If we ever uncover Brew Pub & Eatery, located at 678 Roosevelt Trail. hostage this legislative ses- cated contentious past, used to any. sion until he got his way on say, “I declare Julian Bond is Obamacare: I’m against it. The Affordable Care Public welcome.

2T33 separate policy issues. This the handsomest, most brilliant Act, maybe. was, in my opinion, an over- young man I ever knew.”

Same-sex marriage: I’m against it. reach of power by the govThose were heady days TOWN OF BRIDGTON Question from the audience: Where do you stand on ernor. As a result dozens of when my then husband Frank issues like income inequality, voting rights, national 3 CHASE STREET, SUITE 1 LMF projects are now thrown Parker, Julian Bond, Marion energy policy, control of the financial sector, policing BRIDGTON, MAINE 04009 into a status of uncertainty.

Barry, James Foreman and so policies, deindustrialization, military spending, water LD 1378 was proposed many other white and African problems in the West, student debt and real unemployVOLUNTEERS WANTED to address this power grab. American young men and ment and underemployment? As I said that night: “The The Town of Bridgton is seeking volunteers to serve on the Had LD 1378 passed, it women took the lead from free market will take care of all problems, so these newly-created Capital Improvement Committee. Interested indiwould have ensured that Martin Luther King Jr. Rosa ‘issues’ aren’t relevant. Besides, we’ve already covvoter-approved bonds are no Parks and so many others viduals are urged to complete a Committee Application and subered the important stuff.” longer held hostage by any with the purpose of ending mit it to the Bridgton Town Office, Three Chase Street, Suite 1, We didn’t notice Mike at the first debate, but there governor for political lever- racial segregation, discrimiBridgton, Maine 04009, by Friday, September 4, 2015. were so many speakers we must have missed him, age. LD 1378 would have nation, economic exploitation and it seems like they all said something like this.

Applications are available on the Town of Bridgton website at ensured good governance and and war. Alas, the heyday of Hopefully, he has been able to sharpen his message www.bridgtonmaine.org or at the Bridgton Town Office. that the will of Maine voters the Sixties was a time of ramthrough The Bridgton News, America’s only source of Questions may be directed to Bob Peabody Jr., Town Manager, be honored. Unfortunately, pant sexism, heedless sexual unbiased information. the bill fell five votes short of promiscuity, creative narcisat 207-647-8786.

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Goodbye Julian Bond

As I said before

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(Continued from Page 2D) Under Law. My mother, who had won some celebrity status as a civil rights heroine herself, had come to visit me in 1988, where I was living in a small apartment in Washington, D.C. as a single parent raising a son. At the time, I was working with inner city nonviolent young black drug offenders as a family therapist. When my mother came to visit me in D.C., I was hoping she might use her vast political and social connection to help me acquire a few computers for the young black men with whom I was working because the young men were talking about writing an in-house newspaper where they might publish articles about their involvement with a group called City of Peace. Also, beyond selling drugs, playing basketball and playing video machines, the young men had found some real interest in both photography and theater.

Alas, my mother, instead of using her political influence for new computers was busy on the phone raising money to get “poor Julian Bond and poor Marion Berry” out of jail for snorting cocaine. I was more than a little furious as it was my belief that instead of demonstrating the kind of character encouraged by Martin Luther King Jr., Julian Bond and Marion Berry were not behaving like role models but like irresponsible idiots.

Many women I knew then, ended up as single parents, living on welfare and often

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completing their education under very stressful conditions. We all had a lot to learn about hard work and taking on responsibility.

In retrospect, there were many forces in collusion from both the right and left causing our country into a free fall backwards in the 1980s.

Ronald Reagan became president. “Trickle down” economics took hold. Deregulation, loop holes and offshore banking investments meant less taxation for the wealthiest and less opportunity for both the middle class and the poor.

Corporations partnered with the new technical empire and before long manufacturing jobs were being lost by sending manufacturing out to be done by cheaper labor.

Also, people were replaced eventually by robots. The cost of health and mental health rose exponentially, housing became unaffordable, debt increased as credit cards became the mode for financial transactions, consumer items increased while wages decreased. Unions became almost obsolete and to tell the truth, with all their talk about racial injustice and gender discrimination and justice, these young men who rose up from the civil rights movement certainly were terrible husbands and fathers. Perhaps, Julian eventually reformed himself and maybe this happened for Marion Berry as well and so many others. I really don’t know. I am pleased that Julian Bond remained a champion of human rights rather than concentrating exclusively on race. I am sad that he is no longer with us. So I say goodbye to you Julian Bond. I hope the new generation can

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TWO TONS OF BERRIES PICKED — The lucky winner, whose blueberries brought the total picked at Crabtree’s Blueberries in Sebago to two tons on Saturday, Aug. 8, was Rhonda Poliquin of Denmark. She is shown at the blueberry shed in this photo with Polly, the “blueberry dog in training” and Jake Johnson. “This is the earliest we’ve ever reached our two-ton landmark, and the picking continues strong,” said owner Allen Crabtree. emulate what you achieved at your best and remind themselves that of what your/our generation did at both its best and its worst. We need to know this in order to move onward.

Virginia (Tilla) Durr Bridgton

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At our last Naples Planning Board meeting, I allowed a member of the audience to speak even though the topic was not on our agenda. After listening to this woman vent her anger at the board with unsubstan-

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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.

Discriminatory Advertising under the Fair Housing Act

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.

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HELP WANTED

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN — For local established electrical company, Lake Region area. Call 838-6755. tf29

HELP WANTED

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 207-4159166. tf18

FIRST IMPRESSIONS — cleaning looking for experienced cleaners. Must have a valid license and own transportation. Seasonal with possibility of year round. Call 647-5096. tf31

WORK WANTED

EXCAVATING — Have hoe, will travel. Snowplowing, removal and sanding. Site work, foundations dug, back filling, septic systems, sand, loam, gravel. Call Brad Chute, 653-4377 or 627-4560. tf3

DAYCARE

ABC ACADEMY — Pre-school has openings for the upcoming school year. The 3-year-old session is on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

4-year-olds on Mon., Wed. & Fri. Class hours are 9 a.m.-noon. Your child will have tons of fun while developing basic fundamentals, skills and working on academics that will be beneficial when starting kindergarten. Excellent references! FMI call Sandy at 207807-0122 or 647-3040.

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FOR SALE

$5 FOR TATTERED — U.S. Flag when purchasing new U.S. Flag 3’x5’ or larger. Maine Flag & Banner, Windham, 893-0339.

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48” DR POWER GRADER ­­— $850. Great for smoothing SEMI-RETIRED CONTRACTOR up gravel driveways, roads and — looking for plumbing work in ball fields. Attach behind your the local area. Call 647-8026. tf30 4-wheeler or lawn tractor Call 2071t34x ODD JOBS — By the hour, day, 557-2566. week or job. Also power washing. WESTERNMAINEFIREWOOD.com Free estimates. Call 627-4649. — Seasoned hardwood. Aged 12

4t34x months or more. Cut, split and TREE WORK — lawn care, delivered. Cord $300; Half cord brush removal, garage cleanups, $160, 583-4113 or 595-5029.

55t31x bark mulch, light trucking and more. Call 595-8321.

8t33x PRIDE POWER — Wheelchair CNA — w/28 years experience $750 OBO. Excellent condition. and current certification specializ- Sells new for over $3,500. Just ing in Alzheimer’s and Dementia had check-in at servicer, new HD Care is available for private home batteries. Ready to roll. Call 2071t34x care in the Bridgton area; reason- 557-2566. able rates and excellent references. LOAM & FIREWOOD — Call Cara 508-261-5619 5t31x Firewood delivered in 1/2 cord loads. Please call Ron Robinson DAYCARE between 4 and 8 p.m. 595-8359.

OASIS CHILDCARE — Casco.

19t21 Before & after school care rates $60 and up. 30+ years experience 95 COBALT — 220 Bowrider. working with children. Maine State Inside storage, 275 HP Volvo duo License, CPR/First Aid/AED, Water prop, Bimini top. Many extras.

Certification. Call Kelly at 207-329- Boat is on Long Lake ready for 2658 or visit us on Facebook for inspection and a test drive. $8900.

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12t33 201-819-5390.

CATERPILLAR CLUBHOUSE RED’S FIREWOOD — Cut, — Childcare has two full-time split and delivered. Any amounts. slots available starting 8/28/2015. Call 615-6342 for details. tf35 Licensed family childcare program. USED DOCK SYSTEM — and Active all-age curriculum. Open 7 jet ski lift. For more information a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through call 655-6205.

5t31x Friday. State programming accepted. For more information call GOT WOOD — Selling wood 4t34 that will be ready to burn for Melissa at 595-5209. the 2015 season. Call today to CINDY’S CARE BEAR ­— Day schedule your delivery. $250 per Care has two full-time openings for cord. 207-647-8146. Jack. tf16 children ages 6 weeks to 12 years old. Meals and snacks included.

Please call Cindy at 647-2878.

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FOR SALE

ATTENTION — Hair salon owners and stylists. One complete hair salon station and/or booth. One Kaymark all-purpose hydraulic chair, Belvedere lg. shampoo sink, reception chairs, free-standing dryers, on wheels, covered rollabout on wheels, saddle hydraulic stool and all supplies. Light gray and black. All in very good condition and all at a great price.

FMI 207-647-3967. For viewing: www.wrightrealty.com, 23 Old County Rd., Bridgton 2t34x FIREWOOD — $225 per cord green. Ask about volume discount. 2 cord minimum for delivery. 207-925-1138. westernmainetimberlands.com

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VEHI­CLES FOR SALE

1998 FORD E150 — Conversion van $3,500 OBO. Great condition.

Beautiful interior, 4 captain’s chairs and rear bench seat that folds down to make a bed. Call 207-557-2566.

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FOR RENT

BUSINESS SERVICES

NORTH BRIDGTON — Very nice 3-bedroom ranch on corner lot. Den with wood stove, living room, dining room and kitchen.

Stove and refrigerator included.

Washer and dryer connections.

2-car garage. $890 month, utilities not included. Security deposit and excellent references required. Call Gail at 689-5425. tf33

DJAY SERVICES — Events, birthdays, graduation parties, school dances, corporate functions, company picnics, beach parties.

Call 207-595-4606. tf18

CASCO — Completely furnished rooms, heat, lights & cable TV included. $120 weekly. No pets. Call cell, 207-595-4946. tf37

WOOD CUTTING — Will cut trees, standing or on the ground, with no possible damage to your home or barn. Will haul away for wood. Call John at 376-5480.

BRIDGTON — First floor, 1-bed- 4t31x room apt. Central location, quiet area. Cats okay, no dogs. $750/mo. RON PERRY CARPENTRY ­— utilities included. 1 mo. deposit, Renovations and new construction.

1st mo. rent in advance. Call Victor 35 years of experience, no job too 207-650-8071. References a must. small or too big. Bridgton, Me.

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DEN­MARK HOUSE — Painting, Inc. Inter­ior and Exterior Paint­ing. Also, Paper­hang­ing. 40 years of painting ex­pe­ri­ence. Call for esti­mates. Call John Math­ews, BRIDGTON — Single-family 207-452-2781. tf49 house, dead end street. 4 rooms newly renovated, 2 bedrooms, 1 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE bath. Large private yard, appli- MT. WASHINGTON — view lot, ances, washer-dryer included. First 5 acres, So. Bridgton. Driveway mo. rent, security deposit and ref- and underground conduit in place. erences. $750 per month plus utili- Deed covenants $99,000. Tele: ties. Possible pets. 207-452-2585, 207-205-6349; 207-637-2260. cell 207-615-7344 tf34 22t21x

JESUS IS LORD – new and used auto parts. National locator.

Most parts 2 days. Good used cars. BUSINESS SERVICES Ovide’s Used Cars, Inc., Rte. 302 Bridg­ton, 207-647-5477. tf30 LOOKING FOR INTERIOR — painting jobs for 2015 season.

FOR RENT Fully insured, free estimates, 27 years experience. Dirigo Custom BRIDGTON — Slope-side con- Painting, 743-9889.

4t33 do, 3 levels, sleeps 8. All amenities including cable and WiFi. Fully- NEED ANYTHING ­— cleaned furnished and beautifully-decorat- up or hauled off to the transfer ed. Enjoy lake views and mountain station? My trailer is 6’x10’. Call breezes. Available through No- Chuck’s Maintenance, 743-9889. vember. Weekly/monthly. Please 8t33 call for rates. 671-8189. tf26 HEAP HAULERS — Towing HARRISON — Nice, 2-bed- service. Cash paid for junk cars. room, 1-bath log cabin with ac- Call 655-5963. tf12 cess to Crooked River. Please go to Craiglist.com: Rental/Harrison ME for more information. 2t34

HARRISON — Efficiency apartment. Size limits the number of people to 1 person. The apartment includes kitchen and full bath. No pets, no exceptions. 1-year lease.

Nonsmoker. Credit is checked and so are references. Quiet area, clean and neat. 6 miles out of the center of Harrison, 5 miles from the center of Naples. $600 per month.

Includes electric and heat. Leave name and number at 207-415tf34 9166.

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

GARAGE SALE — Antiques, glassware, linens, prints, furniture and lots more. Sat. 9-5, Rte. 37, 563 N. Bridgton Rd., Bridgton.

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The Casco Inn Residential Care Facility

434 Roosevelt Trail, Casco, ME 04015 – 627-7199 The Casco Inn Residential Care Facility, is hiring the following positions to help care for our elderly population:

PER DIEM CAREGIVERS – All Shifts Experience and certificates a plus but willing to train exceptional candidates as Caregivers and Medication Aides.

Contact Cindy at 627-7199 for an application and interview.

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Classifieds

Ledgewood Manor Healthcare — A 60-Bed Nursing Home — Rte. 115, Windham, ME 04062

LOOKING FOR — experienced nail technician for a busy new salon. All the Raven Salon is located in Casco, Me. Call Robyn at 6273t32x 4242.

HOUSEKEEPING/LAUNDRY

We currently have a 2-day per week position available. The hours are 6 a.m. – 2 p.m. This position requires working every other weekend.

We are also looking for Per Diem employees.

The hours are 6 a.m. – 2 p.m. and 2 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Join our team.

For more information contact Michelle Shane, Housekeeping Supervisor at 892-2261, or stop in for an application.

NOW HIRING SALES ASSOCIATES

E.O.E.

Cindy’s Care Bear Day Care has 2 full-time openings for children ages 7 weeks to 12 yrs.

Outside Activities, Storytime.

Please visit our store at Settlers’ Green or apply at newbalance.com/careers

The UMBRELLA FACTORY SUPERMARKET

Opportunities await for Direct Support Professionals in the Bridgton area to provide services to persons with Intellectual and Cognitive Disabilities. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, assisting with personal care, facilitating activities and community involvement, documentation, and promoting life skill development.

Contact Cindy LeBlanc at 647-2878 3T34CDX

~ Licensed for 17 years ~ ~ CPR Certified ~

Now taking applications for employment.

Bridgton Health & Residential Care Center

Must be 18 or older. All positions part-time.

Apply in person at The Umbrella Factory.

186 Portland Road (Route 302), Bridgton, ME 04009 Phone: 207-647-8821 Fax: 207-647-3285

NAPLES SHOPPING CENTER Route 302, Naples, ME 207-693-3988

EVENING CHARGE NURSE and C.N.A.s – All Shifts

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70 Fairview Drive Fryeburg, ME 04037 Phone 207-935-3351 Fax 207-256-8303

Harrison Village Library

Fryeburg Health Care Center is a family-owned long-term care facility that prides itself on providing high-quality care to our residents. As summer winds down we find we are able to offer the following positions for most shifts:

is accepting applications for the position of

LIBRARY ASSISTANT

CNAs, CRMAs and Licensed Nurses

The successful candidate will have a friendly and welcoming demeanor, superior customer service and communication skills, and the ability to accomplish diverse tasks in a busy environment. For details and a complete job description, please visit our website at www.harrison.lib.me.us

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We have full-time, part-time and per diem positions available.

If you are interested in being part of a friendly and supportive work environment we would love to speak with you. Stop in for an application at Fryeburg Health Care Center, 70 Fairview Drive, Fryeburg, or visit our website at www.fryeburghealthcare.com and download an application.

IN-HOME CAREGIVERS

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Mature, caring adults invited to become members of a unique team of professionals who work at helping our neighbors remain living in their own homes with dignity.

Part-time shifts available — overnights and weekends.

Competitive hourly pay rate. Personal care experience a plus.

A commitment to helping others is a must.

Call 207-627-1126 for more information.

Now Hiring Log Truck Driver

Applicants must have a minimum of three years driving experience and be able to operate a log loader. A valid Class A CDL, medical card and clean driving record are also required.

We offer competitive wages and a comprehensive benefit package including: Health & Dental Insurances - Simple IRA Retirement Uniforms - Paid Holidays - Paid Vacations Qualified applicants should apply within at 65 Bull Ring Road Denmark, ME ~ 207.452.2157

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Raymond / Naples / Bridgton Areas

No experience is necessary, as all training will be provided. Requirements do include a minimum of a High School Diploma or GED, must be at least 18 years of age, possess a valid driver’s license, and a basic proficiency in computer skills.

Direct Support Professionals, interested in per diem positions (requiring 30 hours per month) that possess a current DSP and CRMA certificate, are eligible to receive a starting wage of $11.50 per hour in lieu of benefits.

Regular positions are also available for immediate overnight, weekend and evening shifts in the Bridgton area. Highly-competitive rates and benefits are offered based on qualifications and desired positions.

We are a 43-bed skilled nursing facility and 16-bed specialized residential care facility for the memory-impaired.

We offer weekend and shift differentials.

Inquiries should be directed to: Susan Robbins, Director of Nurses, at (207) 647-8821.

Are you ready to BE more?

Are you ready to DO more?

Come Grow with us at Good Neighbors, Inc.

Meals and Snack included.

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Interested applicants are welcome to apply within at: Good Neighbors, Inc., 119 Sandy Creek Rd., Bridgton ME 04009. For further information, please contact Wanda Millett, Human Resource Manager at 647-8244 Ext. 11 Make a difference today and come join our team of Direct Support Professionals!

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Opinions

Classifieds YARD SALES

COMMUNITY YARD SALE — 8/22, Fryeburg New Church, 12 Oxford St., Fryeburg, 8-2.

Furniture, antiques, kitchen items, linens, tools, sports equipment, toys, holiday decorations and more. Rain or shine.

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Wallboard Specialist Plaster - Drywall

207-515-0415

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Residential / Commercial Repairs – New Ceilings 23 Years Experience Free estimates

JDN ENTERPRISES • 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

August 20, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 5D

YARD SALES

2-FAMILY YARD SALE ­— 750 Maple Ridge Rd., Harrison, Saturday, August 22, 9-5. Oak drop-leaf table, ornate gazebo, electric push mower, Toro riding mower (for parts), 10-speed road bike, 10-speed mountain bike, camping equipment, new hiking boats, in-line skates, baskets, 4 rimmed snow tires (Pontiac Vibe), 4’x6’ truck bed liner, 3 large propane tanks, 3 bay soda cooler, all items priced to go and in excellent condition/ 1t34x

YARD SALE — 132 Pond Rd., Bridgton, Fri. & Sat., August 21 & 22, 8-3. Something for everyone.

1t34x GARAGE SALE — ­ 261 Highland Road, Bridgton, Aug. 22-23 from 8 to 1. Pickup tool box, gun cabinet, 2007 Suzuki trike, tools, household items, books, kid’s stuff.

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STUARTS AUTOMOTIVE NEW INSPECTIONS & 14-DAY PLATES 1999 Dodge Dakota Ext. Cab 4x4, only 115k miles..................$3500 2002 Ford Taurus, auto, loaded......................................$2500 2007 Honda Accord sedan, 5-speed....................................$5500 2007 Saab wagon, loaded, mint..........................................$4500 214 Casco Road, Naples, Maine

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Buying and Offering US Coins Gold & Silver Bullion

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RESTORATION Painting Interior | Exterior Powerwash Carpentry | Flooring Roofing | Siding Landscape Tree Work | Yard Care

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142 Main Street Conway, NH 603-447-3611 Metal Detectors

Andrew Fogg

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Paying TOP DOLLAR for Junk Cars

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STUART SALVAGE

DENMARK SELF-STORAGE 207-452-2157

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10' x 10' Unit $50.00 per month

Earth Notes: Compromise

(Continued from Page 1D) agreement with mine. And, as a moderate and sofa environmentalist I balk at rigid idolatry of causes. The inability of our political leaders to find a path to consensus is this nation’s great challenge today.

There is room for both wilderness and skidders in the Maine woods. For unbounded wilderness and property owners’ rights. For unmarred ridgelines and quiet homesteads tucked into a hillside. In Maine, we must acknowledge that our pets are really just a great dinner opportunity for the wolves, coyotes and birds of prey that we have protected so vigilantly.

Thankfully, this state and many of its citizens embrace some form of organized recycling. But, recycling, repurposing and re-using, comes in a range of enthusiasms. I compost and separate and stop to pick up trash along the road. My sister, while certainly not rabid, could re-purpose nearly anything. I think she comes home from the dump with more than she brought. And, there are the more extreme environmentalists.

Most of us have some experience with the wonders of nature. I, for one, have seen Niagara, and Old Faithful, The Big Sur and Acadia, Mt. Washington and The Smokey’s. There are places that at first encounter

appear to be a cooperation of man and nature like the carriage roads of Acadia, Mt. Rushmore and the Hoover Dam, but these are not examples of where man and nature really cooperated. Niagara, for instance is not improved by the motels and gifts shops and no parking signs.

So, there is also a need for steadfastness as well as an understanding of the scale or scope of compromise. I cannot describe or picture where that line might be drawn. Martin Litton could.

He advocated that to compromise when nature was on the altar was to give it up forever.

We each must make a line beyond which we cannot go and then search for those who have also drawn a line and begin a conversation about moving the line. It’s not correct to demand no trees cut and live beside a manicured lawn. Or step around coyote poop as you pick up your dog’s pile with a plastic bag.

Complain bitterly about a dog’s bark and not acknowledge that your cat is in the process of wiping out the bird and frog populations in your neighborhood.

And with that must come an acknowledgement that we do not now and may never grasp the intricate, interwoven, co-dependent web of nature.

So, regardless of where you draw the line between

Letters

Christine Powers. Christine not only knows the workings of the library, she has vast knowledge and experience with town and state affairs as our elected selectwoman and state representative.

One wonders what criteria the trustees use to determine the worthiness of an employee. Apparently, they believe they do not have to answer to the public for their actions because the library is a private institution. However, where would the library be without public participation; the work of the volunteers worth countless dollars; the donors who respond to the annual appeal and other fundraisers; to say nothing of the Naples taxpayers who vote for an annual gift of $74,000 at town meeting.

I write this letter because of my great concern for the future of our wonderful town library if these practices continue.

Woodsie Entwistle Naples

(Continued from Page 3D) time she proceeded to walk out while I was responding to her.

I was dismayed when I read the front-page article in The Bridgton News by Dawn De Busk (on Aug. 6).

Although her articles are usually well written, she missed the boat in this one.

There is no public participation at planning board meetings except for items on the agenda. Ms. Bernard spoke only because I let her speak, at which time, shocked by her vitriolic attack on the board, I felt the need to respond. Apparently, because I defended the board, Dawn decided that I was the member being attacked, and she then inserted her opinion in the news story, which implies that I was lying when I told Ms. Bernard I had no idea what she was talking about.

Opinions belong in editorials, not in a news article!

Articles like this only encourage McCarthy-like tactics.

Hopefully, we won’t hear about all the Communists on the town boards next.

To The Editor: Larry Anton Greetings to the readers Chairman of the Precht Persuasion (I Naples Planning Board sincerely hope that I can count all of you on two hands).

The reason for this opinion piece is Henry’s article of July 30, 2015 in The To The Editor: Bridgton News. In it, he Once again, the trustees listed people and things of the Naples Public Library “who merit honor and have dismissed a qualified respect,” and went on to employee, Library Director praise President Obama

Undeserved praise

Measuring worthiness?

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Martin Litton utilizing and protecting, pause for a moment this summer and give thanks for the stalwarts in the cause of protecting what we have. Many of whom live amongst us in western Maine.

Price Hutchins is at the peak of a mediocre career.

This career includes restau-

rant owner, carpenter, toilet paper salesperson, stay at home dad, chemical salesperson, entrepreneur, and Home Depot associate. Price and his wife Ann are now back in Lovell and continue the renovation of their Lovell house.

The only yellow house in the village!

Who are you?

(Continued from Page 2D) who might try to encroach on his territory. By this time of year, though, warblers have finished nesting and raising their young, and their feathers have suffered considerable wear and tear. After flying here and there, defending nesting territories, brushing against foliage, and catching and hauling limitless numbers of insects to hungry nestlings, it is time for those feathers to be replaced with new ones, but the new plumage is less colorful, and less familiar to many birdwatchers.

Normally, the colors of the throat, breast, belly, and undertail, would be important clues to a warbler’s identity in the fall, but since I cannot see an entire bird, the pieces of the puzzle do not fit together. I remember to look for the presence or absence of wing bars, streaking on the breast, tail pattern, and any facial markings, but by now the birds in the bushes have become a kaleidoscope of muted colors and patterns: an olive back, pale whitish underneath, possibly a gray head, but on different birds. Or are they on the same bird? Does that yellow throat extend to the belly? Do I see a white-eye ring? What is the undertail color? Who are you?

The birds appear to be hunting for insects among the dense foliage. Many small birds migrate at night, so this may be just one of many refueling stops on their way to wintering areas in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean islands, and even South America. They stay only a few minutes and then they are gone.

After breakfast, I will leaf through the pictures in my field guide, and read about various warbler species in the Peterson Field Guide to Warblers of North America. I still may not know what I have seen, but hope to be better prepared the next time migrating warblers stop in our yard to fatten up on insects. For now, I will take my bowl of cereal and blueberries out onto the screened porch, where I can enjoy my breakfast and watch familiar, bright yellow and black goldfinches on the seed feeder.

and Secretary John Kerry along with others. I have no problem (in fact, strongly agree) with “the others,” but Obama and Kerry?

Let’s start with Kerry.

Henry bemoans the fact that

“this brainy and wise man” was not elected president.

Come on, Henry — did you write the piece before the Iran deal?

I’m assuming you LETTERS, Page 7D

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• Tree Removal • Logging • Fully Insured

• Lots cleared • Buying Standing Timber

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• Recycled Asphalt • Seal Coating & Striping • Grading & Gravel Camp Roads

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which soften, weaken and destroy asphalt pavement.

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Obituaries

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Lucius M. Schurman

John M. Ledoux

Sharon D. Bundy

PORTLAND — Lucius M. Schurman, 88, passed away on Friday, Aug. 14, 2015.

He suffered a massive brain injury and passed surrounded by his loving family.

He was born in Cutler, the oldest of eight children of Ira Bliss and Juanita Ackley Schurman. He attended school in Cutler and the University of Maine at Gorham. Shortly after the death of his father in 1944, Lu enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of 17. After basic training at Simpson Naval Training Center, Geneva, N.Y., he was assigned to the light cruiser USS Amsterdam. His tour of duty took him to Trinadad, Panama, and Hawaii. In the final months of World War II, he was with the Seventh Fleet in Tokyo Bay. At the close of the war, he was transferred to the destroyer, the Clarence K. Bronson, where he finished his enlistment.

He settled in South Portland, where he studied store management and meat cutting under the G.I. Bill of Rights. For nearly 25 years, he was the meat department manager for Goodwins Red and White (the new Shop ‘n Save). For two years, in the late 1960s, he was employed

by Service Master of Boston as housekeeping Coordinator at Mercy Hospital. He was disabled due to service-related post-traumatic stress disorder, which forced an early retirement. However, at age 56, he was able to return to work in the funeral industry. After two years at Hay and Peabody Funeral Home, he was hired by the Hobbs Funeral Home in South Portland, where he worked into his late seventies. Lu said his one regret was that he didn’t get into this work as a young man. He found it a wonderful way to serve the community he loved.

He was a good listener and had a knack for making people feel comfortable. One of Lu’s favorite pastimes was traveling with his wife, Marjorie, along the Maine coast and spending time in Bar Harbor, Boothbay Harbor and Canada. When traveling through a Portland, Oregon salvage yard, he found a piece of teakwood decking from the USS Amsterdam. Lu enjoyed regaling his family and friends with Downeast humor and was a household name in South Portland.

Lu was a member of the South Portland Church of the Nazarene, where he served in many areas, including: N.Y.I. president, Sunday school teacher, assistant superintendent, trustee, steward on the church board, choir member, soloist and greeter.

He longed to be reunited with his beloved wife, Marjorie (Libby) Schurman, who passed away from breast cancer on July 14, 2011.

Lu is survived by his two sons, Paul M. Schurman of Oklahoma City and David H. Schurman of South Portland; two daughters, Beth L. Schurman of Portland and Heather D. Schurman Grass of Sebago; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two sisters, Janice Santillo of Meriden, Conn. and Virginia McGuire of Cutler.

Visiting hours will be from 4 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015 at Hobbs Funeral Home, 230 Cottage Road, South Portland. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, Aug. 21, 2015 at the South Portland Church of the Nazarene, Highland Avenue, South Portland.

Interment will be at Black Point Cemetery, Scarborough.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Parkinson’s Disease Association or the Susan B. Komen Foundation.

LEBANON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — John Marc Ledoux, 63, of Lebanon Township, N.J. passed away suddenly at home on Aug. 4, 2015.

He was born in Portland on Dec. 26, 1951 to Jean and Marcelle (Chretien) Ledoux.

John grew up in Westbrook. He was an Eagle Scout and was valedictorian of his eighth grade class at St. Mary’s School. He attended Cheverus High School in Portland, where he excelled both academically and in sports having played four years of football for Cheverus.

After graduating in 1970, John attended the University of Maine in Orono and served as president for his fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha. It was there he met his wife Janet (Kelly) Ledoux. He graduated in 1974 with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. He and his wife, Janet, were married June 1, 1974 and moved to New Jersey where they both began working for AT&T. He later worked for Alcatel-Lucent as a senior manager continuing in that role until his retirement in 2011.

Even though John was a native New Englander, he was a diehard New York Yankees and New York Giants fan. Sports were always a huge part of his life. He also during his youth played on basketball leagues at the Cumberland Gym in Westbrook.

John was known for his sarcastic wit, big hearty laugh and his big heart.

He is survived by his wife, Janet Ledoux of Lebanon Township, N.J.; a son, Christopher Ledoux of Florham Park, N.J.; twin daughters, Kimberly Ledoux of Jersey City, N.J. and Kelly Ledoux of Annandale, N.J.; three grandchildren; three sisters, Jane Meehan of Westbrook, Julie Harmon of Bridgton and Jacqueline Ledoux of Bridgton; two nephews, a niece, an aunt and many cousins.

Friends and family are invited to attend a Celebration of Life for John at Bruno’s Restaurant, 33 Allen Avenue, Portland, from 12 to 3 p.m. on Oct. 17, 2015.

Donations may be made to the American Heart Association.

VENICE, FLA. — Sharon Bundy, 72, passed away peacefully on Saturday, July 25, 2015, in Venice, Fla., with her husband Dean and daughters Holly, Kelly and Tara by her side.

She was born Jan. 14, 1943, in Conway, N.H., the daughter of the late Stanley Oliver Douglass and Lillian Douglass. She attended schools in Sanford. She met and married the love of her life, Dean Bundy, on Dec. 21, 1960. They raised four beautiful children, Holly, Kelly, Tara and Dean.

Sharon was employed by Fairchild in South Portland for three years. She worked for Lake Region High School for several years before purchasing the Stagecoach Restaurant with her husband in 1979.

Sharon was famous for her home-style cooking, pies and desserts.

After retiring from the restaurant, she enjoyed traveling and spending time playing games with friends and family. In 1996, Sharon and Dean wintered in Bradenton, Fla., and later moved to North Port, Fla. She enjoyed pottery, painting, crocheting and spending time on her computer, staying in touch with family and friends through e-mail and Facebook.

She set an example for everyone who knew her of the importance of family, and each year remembered to send a homemade birthday card to every single member of her family and another special card at Christmas to friends and family. She was a wonderful wife, mother and Mimi.

She was an amazing woman who lived her life to the fullest. She remained brave throughout her illness, never complaining.

She is survived by her husband of 54 years; three daughters, Holly and her husband Nathan Chase, Kelly and her husband Edward Kaeser, Tara and her husband Steven Russo, and Dean Bundy and his fiancée Angel Curley; 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She is also survived by a brother, Paul Prouty of Florida, and Linwood Douglass of Las Vegas, Nev. A family celebration of her life will be held in October.

AUBURN — Philip C. “Dusty” Roberts, 65, of Dixfield, died Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, at the Hospice House in Auburn.

He was born in North Conway, N.H., on Sept. 16, 1949, the son of Harry and June (Quincy) Roberts Sr., and had attended schools in Fryeburg and Beverly, Mass.

Phil worked at the Rumford Paper Mill and on the Clothes Pin Line at Diamond International in Dixfield. He was a former member and Past King Lion of the Dixfield Lions Club and a very active member of the Dixfield Congregational Church. He loved to cook and was always entertaining family and friends. He enjoyed playing cards, woodworking and loved a good joke. He loved spending time with his family, especially attending the family reunions. He will be sadly missed by his family and many friends.

Phil was married in West Peru, on June 29, 1974, to the former Wanda J. Hodge, who died May 11, 1999.

Survivors include his daughter Sara Jane Roberts of Mexico; three grandchildren; sisters Carolyn Libby of Somersworth, N.H. and Aloha Kelley of Glen, N.H.; brothers Roger Roberts, Harry Roberts Jr. and Jeff Roberts, all of Lovell, and Ike Roberts of North Fryeburg; and many nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents, wife Wanda, and son Adam.

Friends are invited to sign the family guest book and share their thoughts, condolences and memories online at www.meaderandson. com Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, at the Dixfield Congregational Church, High Street, Dixfield, with Rev. John Gensel officiating. Interment will be at the Demerritt Cemetery, West Peru. Friends are invited to call at the church after 10 a.m. Monday, prior to the funeral.

Memorial services will be conducted at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015, at the North Fryeburg Community Chapel, Intersection of Route 113 and Fish Street, North Fryeburg, with Pastor Louise Maillett officiating.

Arrangements are under the care of the Meader & Son Funeral Home, 3 Franklin Street, Rumford.

Rear Admiral Stanley Earl Bump, USN (Retired) passed away Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015 after battling ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) for several years.

He was the son of C. Earl and Estelle (Childs) Bump, who predeceased him.

Rear Admiral Bump was born in Portsmouth, N.H. in 1936. He graduated from Bridgton High School in 1954 and the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He served an illustrious 33-year career in the Navy, where he held multiple command positions, among them the submarine tender USS Holland (AS32), Submarine Squadron SIXTEEN and Submarine Group SIX. RADM Bump retired from the Navy on Oct. 1, 1991.

Upon retirement from the Navy, RADM Bump joined North American Energy Services Company (NAES) in Issaquah, Washington and served as the vice president, Power Plant Operations and Technical Services. NAES operated and maintained power plants throughout the Americas. He retired from NAES on June 30, 2000.

Stan was actively involved in the city of Sammamish and served on the Planning Commission. He was regular attendee at Sammamish City Council meetings. He loved Sammamish and wanted to see the town center develop into an entity capable of merging the old and the new.

Stan is survived by Ellie (Benway), his loving and supportive wife of more than 54 years; their three children Jeff, Margie and Greg; three grandchildren, two step-grandchildren; brother, David of Dallas, Texas; a sister, Priscilla McFarland of Sumner; a close cousin and several nieces and nephews.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Sept. 5, at 1 p.m., at Timber Ridge, Issaquah, Washington.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Stan’s name to the ALS Association, Evergreen Chapter, 19226 66th Avenue South, Suite L-105, Kent, Washington 98032 or to Evergreen Health Hospice Services, 12822 124th Lane NE, Kirkland, Washington 98034.

Carl M. Cudlitz Carl Martin Cudlitz, 63, a longtime Bridgton resident, passed away on July 16, 2015 at Presbyterian Kaseman Hospice Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Carl was born on May 27, 1952 in New London, Conn. to Stephen and Marcia Cudlitz. He grew up in Newton, Mass. and Marblehead, Mass., graduating in 1972 from Marblehead High School.

Carl married Kimberly Conklin in 1999 in St. Joseph, Mich.

He is survived by his son, Nikolai Cudlitz of Nashville, Tenn. and Bridgton; a daughter, Kajsa L. Cudlitz of Boston, Mass. and Bridgton; and wife, Kimberly.

He was predeceased by his parents and a brother.

In Loving Memory On your birthday August 21, 1983

Memorial Service Doris L. Osgood

There will be a memorial service for Doris Libby Osgood, who died on Jan. 15, 2015, on Friday, Aug. 28 at 1 p.m. at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Denmark.

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Friedrich W. von Kannewurff Friedrich Wilhelm von Kannewurff, 83, passed away on Friday, Aug. 14, 2015.

Fred was born on Sept. 30, 1931 in Baitkowen, East Prussia. The von Kannewurff family estate became a collective farm in Poland after World War II, and Fred’s studies turned to business.

He learned to love international travel during his school years at the Schloss Schule Salem in Baden-Wurtenberg, Germany, Gordenstoun School in Elgin, Scotland and Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. His career in international sales at Texaco spanned four decades, and the globe.

Fred was a Knight in the Order of St. John and a committed member of Rotary International. He enjoyed jogging around the Imperial Palace in Tokyo and the Botanical Gardens in Singapore.

He also loved the mountains and spent as much time as he could hiking and climbing. The White Mountains drew him to Bridgton.

His wife, Ingrid von Kannewurff; children, Christian, Stefanie, Michael and Patrick; grandchildren and sisters will miss him.

Please join us for a Memorial Service on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Bridgton.

In lieu of flowers, please honor Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice with a donation (Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice, 15 Strawberry Avenue, Lewiston, ME, 04240 or at www.ahch.org

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DENMARK — Arleene M. Keresztessy (Eibel), 77, beloved wife of William M. Keresztessy for 56 years, passed on August 18, 2015, after a six-month battle with cancer.

Born in New York City, N.Y., she moved to Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y., where she was raised by her grandmother. She then moved to Huntington, N.Y., where she graduated from Huntington High School in 1956. She met the love of her life in 1958, and they were wed six months later on May 31, 1959. They spent the first six months of their marriage at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Eventually they bought a home in Centereach, N.Y., where they raised their young family for 10 years. She and her family moved to Coventry, R.I., in 1972. She graduated from CCRI in 1978 as an LPN, a desire she had had since high school. She worked at Kent County Memorial Hospital for 20 years.

She and her husband moved to Denmark, in 1996. She worked at Clipper Nursing Home for 10 years and proceeded to do home care for another three years, retiring in Nov. 2014. She had many passions aside from being a loving wife and mother. These included canning, baking, quilting and sewing.

She is predeceased by her son William M. Keresztessy Jr. She also leaves in mourning Cynthia L. Brewer (Keresztessy) and her children, Sarah, Emily and Thomas; William R. Keresztessy and his daughter Ashley Moran; John F. Keresztessy and his girlfriend, Lorri Jennings; Frederick M. Keresztessy and his wife Tracy and their daughters, Brooke and Faith; and Frank J. Keresztessy and his son Dylan.

Visiting hours will be held from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, Aug. 21, at Wood Funeral Home, 9 Warren Street, Fryeburg, Maine. A funeral service will be held at Wood Funeral Home, Saturday, Aug. 22, at 10 a.m. Please no flowers. Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.woodfuneralhome.org

LEWISTON — Theodore P. “Ted” Curran, 63, of Sabattus, passed away on Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, surrounded by his family after a short battle with cancer.

He was the husband of Helene T. (Potvin) Curran.

Ted was born April 29, 1952, in Lewiston, a son of the late Leo E. and Francoise (Veilleux) Curran. He met the love of his live, Helene, at St. Dominic High School; they married on Sept. 2, 1972, at St. Louis Church in Auburn.

Ted served in the U.S. Air Force, returned home and graduated from Central Maine Vocational Technical Institute as a machinist. He worked nearly 40 years at Elmet Technologies. Ted was also a member of the Teamsters, a shop steward, and won the world competition in Rome, Italy, on the “Maintenance Attack Team.” He also served the Town of Sabattus as selectman and a member the Recycling Committee.

Ted was a longtime parishioner of Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Sabattus. He looked forward to the weekly after-Mass breakfasts with his dear friends, Robert and Claire Gervais. He also enjoyed his lifelong friendship with Daniel Leblanc of Berlin, Mass., and working with Ronald Lessard.

Ted loved a good debate, but more so, his wife of almost 43 years, Helene. His greatest joys were walking at Reid State Park — or anywhere, for that matter — hand in hand with her.

Spending time with his grandkids was an important part of his life, as was proclaiming to dislike everyone — with Ted, you always knew how he felt and he showed with his actions the depth of his love. He was a proud man who lived to be the support and anchor of his family.

Besides his beloved wife, Helene, he is survived by his son, Steven Curran of Lewiston; his daughter, Angela Duncan Ostrander, Ohio; three grandsons and a granddaughter; his sister, Agnes Perkins of Carlisle, Pa.; his brothers, Jean-Paul Curran and Daniel Curran, both of Sabattus, Ronald Curran of Sebago and Michel Curran of Sabattus; and several nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by a nephew.

Please visit www.advantageportland.com to sign Ted’s guestbook and to leave memories and condolences for the family.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend a Memorial Mass on Friday, August 21, 2015 at 4 p.m. at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, 131 High Street, Sabattus.

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August 20, 2015, The Bridgton News, Page 7D

Waging a real war on drugs in America

(Continued from Page 1D) Work — when it exists — doesn’t supply a sense of value and fulfillment. For too many, trading in drugs provides a greater sense of achievement and, usually, cash that is missing from their lives.

Consequently, the dreams fueled by drugs are a more attractive option — despite

the risk of imprisonment and the dark cloud that will cast over the future of hardened and amateur drug users with little distinction. There is little realistic hope for choking off the imported supply of cocaine or heroin (or, where illegal, marijuana).

The prospect, it seems, is that the supply will contrive to satisfy demand despite

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in so many ways: militarily, economically, socially, spiritually, etc. What is to honor or respect? It is certainly not Obamacare or the lack of sovereign nation immigration policy. Your children and grandchildren will be burdened for life due to the trillions of dollars of debt that has been incurred.

Well, let’s not end on a negative note. As mentioned earlier, there is a lot in the article for which we should give thanks. The Town of Bridgton is one, and I sense a more positive “bring-iton” attitude in the air.

Thanks for the opportunity to write this, Robert Buck Bridgton and Macon, Ga.

(Continued from Page 5D) Prechtites remember Henry was the Iranian Desk Officer for the State Department when we failed to support the Shah (in 1979?). Now that is something to bemoan.

Had we, many lives, dollars, etc., would have been saved. Maybe “brainy and wise” is State Department code for “poor negotiator.”

Now, on to Obama.

Where does one begin?

Remember, our reference is “honor and respect” and we have lost both locally and internationally. The Great Divider has weakened us

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Is nothing to be done?

That is, nothing with a prayer of success?

Nothing short of a reordering of our scheme of values. The first component is a shift to new leadership that takes the problem seriously and keeps at it relent-

lessly. For some victims, a tighter social safety net is a first move. Vastly improved education can help. And, most importantly, work that preserves dignity and hope.

For the worst cases a kind of work camp (like the New Deal CCC) can provide refuge. All of this should be financed by higher taxes on those abundantly able to

spare cash and a transfer of our national objectives away from foreign terrorism and similar enemies and toward those who burden the home front with their drug-driven, destructive behavior.

Making milder drugs like marijuana legal and sold by state-approved outlets with a physician’s approval is probably an idea that will be

widely adopted.

The need demands that our society treat politics as if we were actually engaged in warfare: No party politics, no cynical carping.

Instead, a nation united in recognition of a deepening threat and clear danger to out future.

Henry Precht is a retired Foreign Service Officer.

POST OFFICERS INSTALLED — American Legion Post 155 of Casco, Naples and Raymond held an installation of officers for 2015-2016 on June 2. Pictured left to right are: Commander Ron Edson, 1st Vice President Bill Shane, 2nd Vice President Jim Proctor, Adjutant Curtis Merrill, Finance Officer Dick Bell, Historian Robert Shaw and Sgt. At Arms Dave Poulas.

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passing comment on a frig- next summer” can cause an wife peers at you over the (Continued from Page 1D) we are canning on an almost id February evening about inundation of green slivers pressure cooker with the kind daily basis. It’s funny how a having “a few more beans of such magnitude that your of stare that calls your judgment and prudence into question: “reckless” is a word usually associated with bad driving, not to overzealous vegetable gardening.

One day last week, just as dusk was settling in for the evening, the power went out unexpectedly in the middle of a pressure-cooker load of beans. But since we cook with gas, we just lit candles and carried on. To add illumination, I went out into the front garden and yanked out three of those little solarpowered path lights and brought them into the kitchen, where, after being gently scolded for getting dirt on the counter, I brightened things up considerably.

And so our quiet little life goes on.

We had to swoop our box spring recently because Karen had run over it with the Toyota (don’t ask). And so we maneuvered big and awkward things around the bedroom for a few minutes, and just before dropping the new box spring into place Karen suggested that we clean under and behind the bed first — one of those little jobs that no one ever gets to because, let’s face it, it’s not like you run over a box spring with your car every day.

After what Karen calls “dejunking” under the bed, we noticed that there were dead ladybugs all over the place, so I stayed inside the vacant bed frame while Karen went and got the vacuum cleaner.

“I’ll hold up all the electrical cords,” I said, kneeling and reaching awkwardly.

“While you suck the little critters up.”

When we were done, after the vacuum had whined down to silence and I had replaced the cords, I looked up at Karen and said, “This is marriage, isn’t it?”

“I was just thinking the same thing,” she said. And then she smiled at me so sweetly.

I could never be single.

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Supporting all our family caregivers

There are more than 40 million individuals in our nation who know all too well the compassion, commitment, and endurance that it takes to be a caregiver of a loved one. They also know the frustration and exhaustion that often results. Our caregivers devote their time and attention, and they frequently must make many personal and financial sacrifices to ensure that their loved ones have the care they need day in and day out. Most impor-

tant, America’s caregivers enable many of our nation’s seniors to remain living in the safety and comfort of their own homes.

Basic demographics illustrate some of the challenges faced by our family caregivers. Simply put, our nation is aging.

According to the Census Bureau projections, 21 percent of our population will be 65 and older by 2040, up from just under 14% in 2012. Every day, 10,000 baby

THREE LITTLE GIRLS — Maddie, Cora and Lillie Fleming, daughters of former Bridgton resident Anne Chalmers Fleming, learn how to paint a mural in the Rufus Porter style at the Museum on 67 North High Street in Bridgton. The room called the Exploratorium is filled with toys reminiscent of the Porter era. It has been very popular with the young crowd this summer. Children under 15 years of age are free (accompanied by an adult per child), and are invited to spend time exploring. The Museum will remain open until Oct. 10, Tuesday through Saturday, from noon to 4 p.m. By the way, have you noticed the wonderful changes at the Rufus Porter Museum’s John and Marie Webb House on Main Street?

The rear section of the building has been removed to keep the house consistent with its 1830s era. The two chimneys have been repointed, a new roof has been installed, and the building itself has been prepared and freshly painted to its original white. With the support of a grant from the Kendal C. and Anna Ham Foundation, work is being scheduled to create an interior appropriate for exhibiting art.

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by Susan Collins United States Senator boomers celebrate their 65th birthdays, and many of them have chronic health conditions. Americans 85 and older are the fastest growing segment of our population. This is the very population that is most at risk of multiple and interacting health problems that can lead to disability and the need for round-the-clock care.

At the very time that our population is aging and the need for care and support is increasing, declining birthrates mean that the population of caregivers is shrinking. In Maine, where we already are the oldest state in the nation by median age, this trend poses a particular challenge.

Today, there are seven potential caregivers for each person over 80 and at the highest risk of requiring longterm care. By 2030, there will be four, and by 2050, the number drops to fewer than three. As a consequence, more people will have to rely on fewer caregivers Families will likely continue to be the most important source of support for people with long-term care needs. In 2013, family caregivers provided an estimated $470 billion in uncompensated long-term care — in Maine alone, that estimate is $2.2 billion.

Family caregivers face tremendous challenges. The typical family caregiver is a 49-year-old woman, who takes care of an older relative and in some cases, they are also caring for children.

Thirty-four percent of family caregivers, however, are seniors age 65 or older.

Nearly one in 10 is 75 or older. Many of these caregivers are putting their own health at risk, since caregivers experience high levels of stress and have a greater incidence of chronic conditions like heart disease, cancer, and depression.

Most family caregivers are employed and struggle to balance their work and caregiving responsibilities.

Nearly seven in 10 caregivers report making sacrifices in the workplace because of their caregiving responsibili-

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ties. Family caregivers age 50 and older who leave the workforce to care for a parent lose, on average, nearly $304,000 in wages and benefits over their lifetime.

As a nation, we must do more to care for our family caregivers.

I have introduced bipartisan legislation, which has been endorsed by the AARP and the Alzheimer’s Association, to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a national strategy to support family caregivers. Titled the Recognize, Assist, Include, Support, and Engage, or RAISE, Family

Caregivers Act, the legislation is based on a recommendation of the bipartisan Commission on Long Term Care. It is modeled after a law that I co-authored in 2010 with then-Senator Evan Bayh that created a coordinated strategic national plan to combat Alzheimer’s disease that has made a real difference in our fight against Alzheimer’s disease.

The RAISE Act directs HHS to establish a National Family Caregiving Project to develop and sustain a national strategy to support family caregivers. The bill would create a Family Caregiving Advisory Council composed of relevant federal agencies and non-federal members. It would include family caregivers, older adults with long-term care needs, individuals with disabilities, employers, health and social service providers, advocates for family caregivers, state and local officials, and oth-

ers with expertise in family caregiving.

The Advisory Council would be charged with making recommendations to HHS. The strategy and plan would be updated annually to reflect new developments.

The plan would include an initial inventory and assessment of federally funded caregiver efforts. It would then identify specific actions that government, communities, employers, providers, and others can take to support family caregivers.

The Project would be funded entirely from existing HHS funding.

Family caregivers are an invaluable resource to our aging nation. Chances are that, sooner or later, we will all either be family caregivers or someone who needs one. We need to do more to support those who have given so much to care for a family member with significant long-term care needs.

LANDMARK FOR 125 YEARS — The historic East Raymond Chapel United Church of Christ, 394 Webbs Mills Road (Route 85) in Raymond, invites the public to their “Quasquicentennial Celebration” marking 125 years since it was built, to be held Sunday, Aug. 30, at 4 p.m. The Chapel, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, holds services at 8:30 a.m. each Sunday during the summer months. There will be special music by the Longfellow String Quartet, with Evan Cuddy. Please RSVP to Carol Fogg at 655-3501 or e-mail nanafogg44@yahoo.com