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Vol. 144, No. 48

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Bridgton, Maine

November 28, 2013

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GrandyOats: Success not artificial, organic

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer BROWNFIELD — Two owners of a Maine-based granola factory are glad that they decided to join forces and become their own bosses 18 years ago. They are doubly satisfied that they jumped on the chance to bake and distribute granola.

Co-owners Nat Pierce and Aaron Anker have expressed extreme pride in what has been accomplished at GrandyOats during the past two decades.

The company manufactures more than 900,000 pounds of edible product: 11 flavors of granola, six different trail mixes, seven types of roasted nuts, instant oatmeal cups, and organic oats grown in Maine.

Based in Brownfield, GrandyOats now supplies its products to mainstream grocery stores encompassing 150 Hannaford stores and more than 100 Wegmans stores plus numerous natural food stores, including Morning Dew Natural Foods, Grocery and Deli in Bridgton.

Also, GrandyOats sells its products to university and college cafeterias all throughout the Northeast, and is eying expansion to upstate New York’s educational institutions.

Additionally, the business employs 18 people in rural western Maine. Plus, approximately 300 acres have been set aside for growing the organic oats used in GrandyOats’ granola recipes.

This October, GrandyOats hit two sizable milestones, according to co-owner Pierce, who is in charge of production at the plant.

The locally-grown company experienced its “busiest October ever,” he said.

Plus, in late October, GrandyOats was named the 2013 Food Producer of the Year.

The Maine Grocers Association and Food Producers Alliance announced that GrandyOats was the recipient of this recognition during the alliance’s annual awards banquet. Bow Street Market in Freeport was chosen for the 2013 Grocer of the Year award.

Gov. Paul LePage gave kudos to the two companies in a press release.

“Both of these family-owned Maine businesses are doing it the right way by investing in their employees and local PRODUCTS MADE HANDY — GrandyOats co-owner Nat Pierce shows off two of communities,” LePage said.

“Bow Street Market and GrandyOats the Maine-based business’ products that received revamped, re-usable packaging a GRANDYOATS, Page A few years ago.

(De Busk Photo)

No one should ever be hungry Symposium begins to break false stereotypes

WHICH ONE WILL IT BE? — Henry Hamilton whets his axe while the turkeys he and his wife Shirley raised from day-old poults wander about the yard.

(Photos courtesy of Henry and Shirley Hamilton)

Thanking the turkey

More people opting for free range birds

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer OTISFIELD — An Otisfield couple has an agreement with the free-range turkeys that they raised from dayold poults.

“The turkeys have a contract with us,” Shirley Hamilton said.

“We are going to feed you for six months; and then, you will feed us for six months,” she said.

“I was raised on a farm.

We would buy animals, and I would have hard time killing and eating them. The deal was that when you had an animal, you took care of it as best as you could. You are the steward of it. Then, it takes care of you by becoming food on the table,” she said.

“As my grandson says, ‘Farm animals are transformed into meat,’ ” she said.

“Thinking of it that way always makes it easier,” she said.

On Monday, Shirley’s husband Henry sharpened his axe, put a pot of water on the outdoor fire pit, and prepared to butcher and dress the last of their eight turkeys.

“We raise all our animals.

We let them know when the time comes that we appreciated them,” Henry said.

Most Americans opt to

grab their Thanksgiving turkey a natural food store that can from the freezer section of the ensure the turkey ranged free local grocery store. A growing and ate organically. percentage of people take the Although farming used to extra steps to find a farm or TURKEYS, Page A

By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer From farms and food pantries, nonprofits and churches, the people who care about hunger came together Nov. 9 with people who care about sustainable agriculture and the Lake Region economy.

Around 40 people gathered at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church with an arguably ambitious agenda: to start working together to help and support one another in their common goals; to build a coalition with the power to make government stand up and join their efforts, so that no one need ever feel ashamed about not having enough to eat.

“This isn’t about rich people giving to poor people.

This is about us giving to one another,” said Tilla Durr, a member of St. Peter’s Church and organizer of the region’s first Hunger Insecurity and Agricultural Sustainability Symposium. “That’s the beginning of community, when we stop judging.”

The day began by viewing the film, A Place at the Table, which looks at federal policies and uses case studies to break false stereotypes of who is hungry. Those attending reinforced the message the film conveyed: that increasingly, hunger is impacting everyday working families who find it increasingly hard to get by without help.

“These people aren’t them, they’re us,” said Bob Mawhinney. “There is nobody in this room who is immune from needing help.”

With the middle class thinning rapidly over the past five years, many more people are going hungry than ever before, and individual food pantries and communities can no longer handle the problem of hunger on their own, said Father Craig Hacker of St. Peter’s Church. A regional response is needed, one that promotes a new understanding, that economic development and community development aren’t opposing interests, but must be married in spirit.

HUNGER, Page A

Project success

Thanksgiving will be a special day for many less fortunate residents because of the efforts of caring and generous neighbors.

As the result of a strong community effort, local churches will help more than 136 families.

To the greater Bridgton community, Thanksgiving Project co-chairmen Sandra Libby, Beth Cossey and Roger Plante said, “A heartfelt ‘Thank You’ goes out to all who helped to make the Community Thanksgiving Baskets Project such a wonderful success! The good folks at First Congregational and St. Joseph Churches packed and provided Thanksgiving boxes to more than 136 families in our community. This would not have been possible without the helping hands and willing donations of many individuals.”

Several local civic groups and a number of individuals provided cash donations which were used to purchase PROJECT, Page A

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OUT OF THE OVEN — Shirley Hamilton removes from the oven a cooked turkey, which she and her husband raised on their farm. The couple says the turkeys taste much better than store-bought ones; and the flavor of the meat varies from year to year, depending on what plants are most plentiful.

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Hunger symposium

Time to break stereotypes

(Continued from Page A) Joanna Moore, coordinator of CrossWalk Community Outreach in Naples, said she serves 100 families every other week, and many of those people come from working families.

“We made a decision as a board early on to serve whomever is hungry,” said Moore of CrossWalk, which offers both a community kitchen and food pantry twice a month. “If someone’s humble enough to come through the door and they say they’re hungry, we feed them.”

That’s true even if they don’t meet the federal guidelines, but CrossWalk is only able to take such an approach because it doesn’t rely on federal money.

Ray Turner said that at the Bridgton Food Pantry, where he volunteers, federal guidelines must be followed, “so we’re somewhat selective on who we can serve.”

He and others make the 40mile round trip to the Good Shepherd Food-Bank to pick up produce, which is free, but other staples must be bought at 16 cents a pound — and the pantry needs to get between 900 and 1,500 pounds of food each trip.

“We need to find ways to switch the economy of food” in the region from big agribusiness to small-scale sustainable agriculture, as the film suggests, said Carmen Lone, executive director of the Bridgton Community Center. “We need to find the political will to do it, and keep pounding on it until it does happen.”

Heather Zimmerman, an Americorps Vista worker at the Preble Street Resource Center, said people think they are doing all they can by donating food or money to their local food pantry.

But it is also just as critical, especially currently, to make repeated calls to local legislators, she said. In a Farm Bill now before Congress, slated for decision next month, the Senate is proposing to cut

$4.5 billion from the federal food stamp program, she pointed out. Other nutrition programs would also suffer significant cuts.

Durr said the food subsidy system favors cheap, processed food over healthy food.

“Good foods are costly. Changing that system is going to be a long-term proposition. And it isn’t going to happen until we come together,” she said.

In the afternoon panel discussion at the symposium, Moore said CrossWalk’s vision is the same as every other food pantry — to feed people with dignity, and teach them the skills to grow and cook healthy food on their own.

“The most important thing that’s happening is that we’re all sitting together,” she said. “If we all work together, we can have a huge impact.”

A big part of that mission means working with progressive small farming concerns in the Lake Region like Pietree Orchard, symposium members agreed.

Naomi King said the Sweden orchard is doing its part to educate the public.

“There’s no part of my mission I don’t love,” she said. “At the same time, even if we max out, we’re still not making this part (of western Maine) food secure.” She said the region needs more education for farmers, to change the “get in, get out” mentality that dominates large agricultural businesses.

King said one crucial component would be to promote the creation of local processing facilities for farm products, such as cheesemaking concerns and canning businesses.

Terry Garnette, one of the original coordinators of the Sweden Food Pantry, said she’s been a recipient of the pantry’s food.

“The one thing we could do a far better job of is to make people feel they

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are not just beneficiaries of charity but are also needed and wanted,” she said.

One simple way to accomplish that is to encourage pantry recipients to give back by volunteering.

Lone said it is important for everyone who cares to help change the perception about who is hungry.

“All of us can say, we’re just one life situation away from needing that help ourselves.”

Father Craig called the symposium “an exceedingly successful day,” and said the signup sheet will be used to keep everyone in contact as the group begins to formulate an action plan.

CARING ABOUT HUNGER — Tilla Durr, standing, left, addresses panelists at the Nov. 9 symposium on Hunger Insecurity and Agricultural Sustainability. Seated from left are Carmen Lone, executive director of the Bridgton Community Center; Joanna Moore, coordinator of CrossWalk Community Outreach of Naples; Jamel Torres, Bridgton Community Gardens; Nancy Grieg, Maine Cooperative Extension; Terry Garnette, Sweden Food Pantry; and Naomi King, Pietree Orchards.

(Geraghty Photos)

PEACHES ARE HER PASSION — Naomi King of COMING TOGETHER — Terry Garnette, former Pietree Orchards said of her work as business manager, coordinator of the Sweden Food Pantry, right, gets a hug from symposium participant Ursula Duve.

“There’s no part of my mission I don’t love.”

Third party review rules move on

By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer The Bridgton Planning Board, on Tuesday, made solid progress in fine-tuning language that would give them the option of hiring an engineering consultant to help them with project proposals, both during the review process and during the construction phase.

After running into resistance from several local developers, the board has added some conciliatory language that now appears acceptable, although final

approval was tabled until the next meeting.

The process would now require that the consulting engineer be chosen from a list kept on file by Code Enforcement Officer Robbie Baker, and that the person chosen must be “mutually acceptable” to both the town and the applicant. That way, developers cannot say that the engineer was biased against the plans.

Also, an estimate of costs would need to be drawn up at the time of review, to avoid the possibility that

the engineer would have an “open checkbook” approach to the project.

It was also considered to be important that the same engineer be assigned throughout the process, since that would be the person most likely to have the best knowledge of the plans.

The need for a third party review process to be spelled out in detail was precipitated by a request from the Lakes Environmental Association.

LEA conducted a study of developers’ track records in

following through on project promises for phosphorus controls and other environmental concerns and found an alarming percentage of cases in Bridgton and other towns where plans were violated during the construction phase.

In other action Tuesday, the board tabled consideration of a new fire suppression ordinance after Fire Chief Glen Garland did not attend and bring a map outlining the town’s dry hydrant locations and their conditions.

Area news

November 28, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page A

Thanksgiving boxes project (Continued from Page A) turkeys and other perishable items that were included in the boxes. Students at Stevens Brook Elementary School conducted a food drive, and donated approximately 20 boxes of canned goods, including vegetables and soups. The local Boy Scouts conducted a neighborto-neighbor food drive for nonperishable items packed

in the boxes. Members of both churches conducted weekly collections of canned goods, desserts, stuffing, sauces, soups and numerous other items throughout October and November in preparation for the packing of the Thanksgiving boxes.

Five Field Farms once again provided bags of apples for each box.

“There were many, many

kind folks who assisted with packing the boxes, and with distribution, including the youth groups at each church, and local Girl Scouts,” the Project coordinators said.

“Thanks to all of you out in the community for your generous support. With your contributions and labor, many families were able to participate in a traditional Thanksgiving feast.”

For seven years, Lakes Environmental Association has been removing variable leaf milfoil in the Songo River using a diver assisted suction harvester, or DASH. LEA’s DASH boat, the S.S. Libra, has been instrumental to the organization’s success in clearing acres of milfoil out of the river and Brandy Pond. A pump on the boat creates suction for a 30foot hose held by two divers.

The divers pull milfoil by the root and send the plant up the suction hose to the deck of the modified pontoon boat where the plants are bagged.

The bags are brought to a safe location where they are emptied and the milfoil is

composted. The DASH boat allows the crew to work quickly and selectively, leaving native plants in the river to repopulate areas once nearly overtaken by the invasive milfoil.

In 2014, LEA’s eightperson crew will double the amount of suction harvesting time over previous years.

With the Libra already running at full capacity throughout the summer, the group plans to build a second suction harvester and replace the deck of the heavily used Libra.

To make this initiative possible, LEA will need a place to remodel the boats, either LEA, Page A

LEA to double milfoil work

PREPARING THANKSGIVING BOXES at the First Congregational Church in Bridgton were (top) Elsa Freeman, John Meserve and Dick Coombs (right).

(Photos courtesy of Kevin Murphy)

Causeway events policy NAPLES — It is an economic fact that the longer people stay in an area that offers shopping opportunities and restaurants, the more money they will spend.

The business owners who belong to Naples Main Street have been talking about ways to capitalize on this, according to member Bob Neault.

“We would like to have planned events on the Causeway — events that draw more people,” Neault

said.

On Monday, Neault asked the Naples Board of Selectmen to draft a set of policies for using the public space on the Causeway.

Naples Main Street members are already looking at the summer calendar, but nothing has been penciled in yet, Neault said.

“We are in the preliminary stages of planning events for next summer,” he said.

One idea that was dis-

cussed was piggybacking on activities that are already taking place like the Memorial Day parade or the Independence Day parade, he said.

For now, an important component is having the policies in place to dictate the use of Naples’ public space on the Causeway.

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Paying town taxes online HARRISON — Taxpayers now have an easier way to pay their taxes online.

Through AndroPay, when a taxpayer uses his/her checking account, the fee is only $1 no matter the amount being paid. Visa, Mastercard and Discover are also accepted. Visa debit is a flat $3.95.

All others are 2.98% of the amount being paid.

Go to www.harrisonmaine.org and click on the link to AndroPay, select “Harrison” as the town from

the drop down menu. Create an account or make a onetime payment. Accounts are updated weekly. If an account is past due, the payment is applied to the oldest bill first.

Interest accrues daily.

For more information, call the town office at 5832241.

Employee training & certification Over the past six months, Town Clerk Mary Tremblay has attended a variety of training courses and test-

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LEA to double milfoil work

SHERI MONTGOMERY RN, with presentation bouquet, was presented The Daisy Award, in recognition of nursing excellence at Bridgton Hospital. Also pictured, (left to right): Karen Harding RN, Crystal Drew RN, BH President David Frum, BH Vice President of Operations John Ludwig, Nancy Murphy RN, Donna Goodridge RN and Director of Acute Care Services Jill Rollins RN.

Montgomery honored

The DAISY Award honorees at Bridgton Hospital personify Bridgton Hospital’s remarkable patient experience.

A DAISY Award nurse consistently demonstrates excellence through their clinical expertise and extraordinary compassionate care, and they are recognized as outstanding role models in our nursing community.

The DAISY Award is an international program that rewards and celebrates nurses

with both extraordinary clinical skills and compassion.

Bridgton Hospital is proud to be a DAISY Award Partner and presents the award quarterly during the year.

Bridgton Hospital presented its most recent Daisy Award on Nov. 8 to Sheri Montgomery, RN, a nurse on the Inpatient Unit. She has been a member of the Bridgton Hospital team for over five years, and has recently taken an interest in furthering her

education in wound therapy and rehabilitation services.

Her peers have characterized her as thorough and detail oriented as well as enthusiastic and dedicated to her patients.

Ms. Montgomery, as a DAISY Award Honoree, was presented a bouquet of daisies, a DAISY certificate, a DAISY Award pin, and a hand-carved stone sculpture entitled A Healer’s Touch.

She also has a dedicated parking spot on campus.

OXFORD — Pro All Stars Series President, Tom Mayberry has announced and released his 2014 PASS North schedule for the PASS Super Late Models, as well as the PASS Mods, and PASS Sportsman.

The series will kick off in April, and end in late September.

Oxford Plains Speedway will be the home track of the Series and the season opener will be on Saturday, April 12, with a rain date of Sunday, April 13. The event will fea-

ture PASS Super Late Models, Mods and Sportsman.

April 26 has been reserved in case of bad weather or wet grounds for the opener.

Beech Ridge Speedway will be the next event on the card scheduled for Saturday, May 3. This night will feature PASS Super Late Models, as well as PASS Mods and Sportsman.

Star Speedway is set to return to the PASS schedule in 2014 on Saturday, May 10 with the Pass Super Late Models and PASS Mods on

the card.

The PASS North Series heads across the border to Chardiere, Quebec for Round #1 of the Triple Crown Series for Super Late Models on Saturday, May 17. The following week, May 24, the Super Late Models head to White Mountain Motorsports Park for a 150 lap main event. The Tour will sit idle until Saturday, June 14 where there will be an event on the schedule. Track and divisions have yet to be posted.

The PASS Mods will have a stand-alone event at the Hudson Speedway, in Hudson, N.H. on Sunday, June 22.

The PASS Super Late Models slide back over the border the following

(Continued from Page A) side by side or one after the next over this winter. LEA’s work on the Songo River has been one of the most successful milfoil removal projects to date. The Lakes Environmental Association is seeking a partner in the Lake Region with space available for LEA staff and volun-

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During a recent phone conversation, Grant said the town could save the front part of the structure, using the bathrooms and storage space for the Casco Recreation Department.

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November 28, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page A

Items on Bridgton Police blotter These items appeared on the Bridgton Police Department blotter (this is a partial listing): Tuesday, November 19 8:58 a.m. A hunter discovered 60 to 80 fluorescent light bulbs illegally dumped on a snowmobile trail across from Keene Lane.

12:24 p.m. A bicycle was found on North High Street.

4:54 p.m. Police were notified about a motor vehicle striking a deer on Kansas Road.

Wednesday, November 20 8:05 a.m. Police responded to a domestic disturbance at a Cross Street residence. A woman claimed she had been choked by a male. Robert H. Avery, 27, of Bridgton was arrested for aggravated domestic violence assault by Bridgton Police Officer Phillip Jones. Avery was transported to the Cumberland County Jail in Portland.

6 p.m. Dale W. Seamon,

56, of Bridgton was arrested for possession of sexuallyexplicit material of minors

by Bridgton Police Officer Brad Gaumont. Seamon was released on bail.

7:44 p.m. A caller reported that a woman was under a table and yelling following a domestic disturbance at a Fowler Street apartment. Tammy J. Crosby, 47, of Bridgton, was arrested for domestic violence assault by Bridgton Police Officer T.J. Reese. Crosby was transported to the Cumberland County Jail in Portland.

Thursday, November 21 8:26 a.m. A motorist reported that the window of her 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee “blew out” while traveling on Sandy Creek Road.

1:19 p.m. A woman claimed she was being poisoned.

3:44 p.m. Two vehicles collided on Main Street. The drivers were identified as Patricia L. Bradshaw, oper-

ating a 2003 Pontiac Grand AM, and Norma M. Vivian, operating a 2012 Honda. No injuries were reported.

Friday, November 22 10:39 a.m. Police investigated a disturbance between two individuals at the Community Center.

3:47 p.m. A caller reported that her 14-year-old daughter was either missing or was a runaway.

9:05 p.m. Brad B. Thompson, 27, of Biddeford, was charged with illegal attachment of license plates following a stop on Portland Road by Bridgton Police Officer T.J. Reese.

Saturday, November 23 12:19 a.m. Police assisted hospital personnel with an “extremely” intoxicated patient.

4:47 p.m. A caller reported that a subject was seen shooting at a deer from inside a white pickup truck on Middle Ridge Road.

Man dies when tractor rolls over

NAPLES — A Naples man was killed Saturday afternoon when a tractor rolled over him at a Mallard Drive residence.

Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Naples Fire and Rescue Department personnel responded at 4:10 p.m. to a report of man trapped under a tractor that had rolled over on him. The tractor was pulling a compact car in an effort to jumpstart the car when the accident occurred.

The victim was identified as Shawn J. Crouch, 31, of Naples.

Police say Crouch lost control of the John Deer tractor and it rolled over pinning him. Crouch was pronounced dead at the scene. No one else was hurt in the accident.

The State Medical Office was notified (protocol) and the matter remains under investigation by the ME’s Office and the Sheriff’s Office.

5:16 p.m. Police were asked to remove a subject from a South High Street residence.

10:31 p.m. Allan Q. Millar, 27, of Bridgton was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence

by Bridgton Police Officer T.J. Reese. Police received a report of a 1999 Volkswagen Jetta in a ditch off North High Street. Millar was released on personal recognizance.

Sunday, November 24 9:21 a.m. Police responded to a domestic disturbance on Mitchell Lane.

4:47 p.m. Police investigated a theft at a local store.

10:16 p.m. Police searched North High Street after receiving a report of suspicious activity involving a male, who was seen nears cars at a residence.

Recap: This past week, the Bridgton Police Department responded to 89 calls for service including: 7 motor vehicle stops, 17 suspicious activity/disturbance complaints, 4 animal control complaints, 5 motor vehicle crashes, 1 missing person complaint and 2 services of court paperwork.

There were also five arrests resulting in the following criminal charges: 2 domestic violence arrests, 2 OUIs, 1 illegal attachment of registration plates, 1 possession of sexually explicit materials and 2 thefts.

WINGER, a 2½-year-old Belgian Malinois, wears his new protective vest. Winger patrols in Washington and Hancock counties with Trooper Christopher Smith.

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Eight dogs from the State Police canine team have received new protective vests thanks to donations from a Massachusetts charity and a national chain of pet supply stores.

The vests, which are bullet and stab proof, will help protect the dogs as they work with their Trooper partners around Maine. The vests cost $950 each.

The State Police canine teams receiving the vests include: Trooper Chris Smith and his dog, Winger, who patrol in Washington and Hancock counties; Trooper Rick Moody and Foster from Troop C in Skowhegan; Trooper Kevin Rooney and Howie from Troop A in York County; Trooper Shawn Porter and Myka from Troop D in Augusta; Trooper Adam Fillebrown and Aros from Troop B in Gray; Trooper Eric Verhille and Clint from Troop D in Augusta; Trooper Matthew Williams and Landy from Troop A in York County; and Sgt. Chad Fuller and Gleni from Troop F in Aroostook County.

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Police news

On Fryeburg Police log The Fryeburg Police Department responded to the following incidents (this is a partial listing): Monday, November 11 12:01 to 3:37 a.m. Fifteen building checks.

12:44 a.m. Motor vehicle accident on Lovell Road.

7:14 p.m. Traffic complaint on Main Street.

Tuesday, November 12 12:42 to 3:26 a.m.

Seventeen building checks.

3:25 p.m. Drug complaint on Menotomy Road.

Wednesday, November 13 1:05 to 5:55 a.m. Thirteen building checks.

3:09 a.m. Assist a citizen on Cobb Street.

5:32 p.m. Suspicious person report at Tall Pine Terrace.

7:15 p.m. Suspicious activity report at Belair Estate Road.

Thursday, November 14

Sebago man charged

A Sebago man was arrested Saturday at noon for allegedly violating a protective order and eluding a police officer.

Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a Sebago Road residence to investigate a report of a violation of a protection order. The suspect, Robert J. Rowe, 48, had just recently been released from Cumberland County Jail on Friday, Nov. 22, after serving a sentence for crimes against this same victim. Deputies began looking for Rowe in order to arrest him for the violation.

Deputy John Grabler located Rowe in his vehicle on Sand Pond Road in Baldwin and attempted to make contact to arrest him. Rowe sped off after being signaled to stop, police say. A pursuit ensued onto Baldwin Road to Pequawket Trail.

The pursuit crossed into Oxford County. Assistance was requested from both the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office and the Maine State Police. Rowe turned onto a dead end road and crossed a yard to get onto River Road in Hiram. Rowe lost control of his vehicle trying to turn into a private driveway and crashed into a small group of trees.

Rowe suffered minor injuries, but was transported to Maine Medical Center by Sacopee Valley Rescue for treatment of the medical condition.

Rowe was also served summonses for theft, not as a result of this incident.

12:28 to 3:12 a.m. Seven building checks.

Friday, November 15 12:23 a.m. to 2:47 a.m.

Three building checks.

2:47 a.m. Ian Wellinghurst, 21, of Fryeburg was charged with eluding a police officer, refusing to submit to arrest or detention (physical force) and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence. He was stopped on Route 302

by Officer Stephen Witham.

Wellinghurst was transported to the Oxford County Jail in South Paris.

6:19 a.m. Suspicious activity on Highland Park Road.

12:58 p.m. Complaint on Stanley Hill Road.

Saturday, November 16 2:28 to 5:56 a.m. Six building checks.

6:52 a.m. Motor vehicle accident at the intersection of Lovell Road and Melanie Lane.

8:47 a.m. Suspicious activity on Newman’s Road.

9:32 a.m. Animal complaint on Ice House Road.

8 p.m. Suspicious activity on trail after Hemlock Bridge Road.

11:19 p.m. Suspicious activity at a Main Street store.

Sunday, November 17 12:28 a.m. Medical emergency on Main Street.

PREPARING THANKSGIVING BASKETS — Fryeburg Police and Rescue members teamed up to put together Thanksgiving baskets to help over 50 needy families in the Fryeburg area.

4:51 a.m. Suspicious activity at Glenda Circle.

8:23 a.m. Juvenile offense on Hillside Street.

1:59 p.m. Theft on West View Drive.

4:48 p.m. Warning issued in regards to complaint on Pine Street.

8:25 p.m. Burglar alarm sounded on Portland Street; building checked.

Police, rescue pitch in FRYEBURG — Fryeburg Police Officers have teamed up with Fryeburg Rescue members and other volunteer organizations to deliver Thanksgiving baskets to over 50 needy families in the Fryeburg area.

Representatives from major donating companies such as Poland Spring, Hannaford, Thriftway, and more will be gathering at the Fryeburg Rescue Station on Wednesday, Nov. 27 at 11 a.m. to start delivering the baskets.

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CHIEF WEYMOUTH AND OFFICER LYONS took part in the Thanksgiving basket drive. a turkey, cranberry sauce, peas, green beans, corn, gravy, stuffing, pickles, rolls, sweet breads and cookies.

“Our officers are honored to take part in this opportunity of giving. This is a great way to give back to the less than fortunate members of our

community,” said Fryeburg Police Department Sergeant Joshua Potvin. “Taking part in these thanksgiving baskets further supports our motto to not only protect but to serve the members of our community.”

Sheriff’s log

The Cumberland County area incidents (this is a parSheriff’s Office responded to tial listing): the following Lake Region Saturday, November 16 11:23 a.m. Theft complaint on Scribners Mills Road in Harrison; Deputy Emery responded.

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More people opting for free range turkeys (Continued from Page A) be a way of life in our nation, very few people now-a-days raise their own turkeys for the upcoming Thanksgiving dinner.

Henry has a Master’s Degree in Animal Science and Genetics. Shirley earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Agricultural Economics with a double major in horticulture and animal science.

Together, they operate a small farm on about 35 acres.

People can purchase the turkeys, which the couple continues to care for. Then, they help their customers butcher and dress the birds.

This year, some of the turkeys were butchered earlier than planned because they were getting too big to fit in the oven, Henry said.

According to the Hamiltons, flavor plays a factor in that decision for many people.

“The taste: It is much richer. It tastes more like a turkey,” Henry said.

Their turkeys have more flavor “because they free range versus a bird that eats commercial feed,” Shirley said.

“Our turkeys will have a better flavor. The flavor will reflect the natural grasses and bugs they have been eating,”

she said.

“If it was raised in say Bosnia, it would taste different,” she said.

“You know how people say, ‘You are what you eat.’ Our turkeys are the same. Their meat will taste like what they have been eating,” Shirley said.

“Our turkeys will have a subtle difference in how they taste every year. Every year is different; the taste reflects the weather,” she said.

Certain plants will be more abundant, depending on whether it was a dry or a rainy season, she said.

“I have heard that commercial turkeys have been fed Twinkies and expired baked goods,” she added.

A stuffing suited for fresh game With such a delightful flavor, it would be a crying shame to use stuffing from a box. What kind of stuffing best compliments free-range turkey?

According to Henry, his wife’s thanksgiving stuffing reflects the spicy cuisine they were exposed to as humanitarian aides in the Mideast, from Turkey to Pakistan.

Shirley said the spice is derived from crushed red pepper and fresh jalapenos.

“We like spice at this house. Spice is very good for immune system,” she said.

She also adds herbs from the garden such as sage, parsley, and thyme.

“I grow my own onions, too,” she said.

She uses giblet broth for the water, and the uneaten heels of homemade bread for the stuffing.

“The stuffing comes out different every time,” she said.

Free-range turkeys not only taste better than those raised on commercial farm; but, many people also prefer free-range turkeys to the taste of wild turkeys.

Definitely, wild turkeys taken during the spring will have only had access to buds after foraging during the winter, Henry said.

“Turkeys taken in the fall have been out eating bugs all summer,” he said.

Henry knows people who enjoy hunting wild turkeys because they are so skittish and quick to hide. However, some of those hunters do not care for the taste. So, they gift those birds to Henry for his freezer, he said.

“If wild turkeys had access to as much turkey grain as our

THIRTY POUNDS OF FRESH TURKEY ready to headline a Thanksgiving feast. turkeys do, they would probably taste better,” Henry said.

In addition to a free-range diet and plenty of wood ticks, the Hamilton’s turkeys do eat turkey grain.

The fowl associated with Thanksgiving comes into their life a day after hatching from eggs. They buy them at Farmer’s Union.

“They go in a brooder, an enclosed area that doesn’t

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allow any draughts and has a heat lamp. They have to be 99 degrees until they have all their feathers,” Shirley said.

“When they get the most grains, they grow very fast,” she said.

According to Henry, the poults grow wing feathers immediately because they need to fly. It takes between three to four weeks for the other feathers fill in.

“We started out with eight.

One was taken by a coyote, so we ended up with seven,” Henry said.

“It would take something as big as a coyote to grab a 30pound turkey. It didn’t kill it. It wounded the turkey under the wing, and took a guinea hen instead,” he said.

Later, he noticed a wet spot on the feathers and lifted its wing.

“By then, gangrene had set in. So, the coyote ended up killing it anyways,” Henry said.

Fowl loaded with personality Apparently, turkeys have great personalities.

For starters, turkeys enjoy a nice bath and a good shampooing, Henry said.

“They just chill out and go limp,” he said.“Turkeys are the friendliest birds in the barnyard,” he said.

“Over the centuries, people who raised animals always

keep the friendly ones. It has something to do with genetics.

They are now longer wild, and more comfortable with human beings, he said.

“Turkeys are very friendly.

They are the only bird in the barnyard that approaches people,” Henry said.

People who aren’t familiar with turkeys sometimes think the birds are chasing them, but they are just trying to socialize, he said.

“Of all the birds, we raise for our freezer, sometimes they are the hardest ones to put in there,” he said.

Shirley admitted that even at retirement age — after growing up around farm animals and having operated the Otisfield farm for almost a decade, there are still pangs of sorrow when an animal gets butchered.

“I am saddened by the death of an animal,” she said, “but, life and death go handin-hand.”

She said they do a blessing of the turkeys long before they make their way to the table.

“We don’t do it in a ceremonial way. We just say thank you. We let them know we appreciate them and their contribution,” she said.

“Knowing that you raised it and interacted with it, that is part of the enjoyment,” she said.

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GrandyOats named ‘Food Producer of Year’ (Continued from Page A) have sharpened their competitive edge and established a foundation for success and continued prosperity,” LePage said.

GrandyOats’ Chief Granola officer Anker responded to the recent recognition.

“It is a tremendous honor.

We were nominated by other food producers, and other retailers. So, that was really nice,” Anker said.

“We have got some great compliments in the form of e-mails from buyers and customers,” he said.

“We are trying to enunciate it as much as we can,” Anker said.

“As one of the owners, I am really proud that GrandyOats received the Food Producer of the Year award. I am mostly proud that we employ people in a part of the state that doesn’t have much employment,” he said.

“We are 100 percent organic. That means less and less chemicals, pesticides, go back into the earth,” he said.

“And, I am really proud of our quality,” he said.

Anker works mostly outside of the factory — promoting the company and selling the 28 different products it offers. Meanwhile, Pierce maintains a presence in Brownfield and oversees daily production.

“I like being an employer in a rural area,” Pierce said.

“We strive to be positive, have fun, and allow our workers to have fun,” he said.

“We don’t take out the whip. They have fun while they work,” he said.

In fact, a few weeks ago, the entire staff went to Stone Mountain Arts Theater and saw the comedian Bob Marley.

Humor abounds during work hours.

When asked what he was thinking of while hand-mixing the granola, an employee dreamily said, “Skiing.”

But, he was on the ball

GRANOLA SALES GROWING SINCE 1979: An example of re-useable packaging is shown here. GrandyOats, located in Brownfield, recently received the 2013 Producer of the Year award.

(De Busk Photo) instead of the moguls as he prepared the pans of granola mix before the previous batches were ready to be removed from the ovens.

Meanwhile, forklift operator Jaime Pelosi was all smiles and jokes as he loaded pallets onto a United National Foods truck.

Grandyoats products are shipped all over the United States, and even to Japan, according to Pierce.

At one point in time, the factory was actually a barn.

The downstairs stalls that housed horses were transformed into the bakery. A loft upstairs is used solely for labeling the varieties of products that the company distributes. The production space is 5,000 square feet, including the upstairs for space. Also, there is 1,500 square feet of storage outside of the barn.

The upper floor — formerly living quarters — provides a down-to-home office space for workers.

In addition to being located in a barn, the company has a rather intriguing history.

GrandyOats was founded by two friends, Penny Hood and Sarah Carpenter, in 1979. At that time, the small business

was located in Farmington.

The women decided to sell their business in the late 1990s; and the prospect of owning GrandOats piqued Pierce’s interest.

“I knew the natural food industry was gaining popularity,” he said.

In 1997, Pierce bought the business, moved it to Bridgton, and operated out of his basement.

Later, he called a former college classmate who had also majored in business and asked him if he was ready to work for himself.

In 2000, Anker agreed to the offer. A year later, on Labor Day weekend, GrandyOats moved to its current spot in Brownfield.

As the general population has embraced organic granola, production levels have revved up.

In the basement of Pierce’s home, he was utilizing two ovens two days a week. Then, in the first factory in Bridgton, four ovens baked the product two to four days out of the week.

“Now, we run seven days a week with six ovens,” Pierce said.

In recent years, the products have evolved for coffee shops and college cafeterias.

“We have targeted universities —– that is a great market for us. We are starting to get some university cafeterias in upstate New York,” Pierce said.

“A lot of schools are focusing on food service.

Parents who have fed their children organic foods ask what the school will feed them. If they are unsatisfied, they can take their tuition money elsewhere,” Pierce said.

In 2010, GrandyOats made a switch in some of it packaging.

“We consciously made the decision to change the packages,” he said.

“We were working with Stonyfield Organic Yogurt at

the time,” Pierce said, holding a yogurt-style tub filled with granola.

First, GrandyOats conducted a survey via the Internet, asking customers how they re-used the plastic bags with zip-lock tops.

“We got one e-mail.

Someone used the bag to store used sponges under the kitchen sink,” Pierce said, adding that was not the image to promote recycling of their packaging.

“Anyhow, we decided to switch to yogurt containers. They are good for our older consumers. It is easier to scoop out of a tub than a bag, and they can re-use it,” Pierce said.

Another plus: the tubs stack and stay standing up at the grocery stores much better than the bags, which often fall down on shelves

and cannot be as easily seen, he said.

“As far as retail packaging, that is a small portion of our sales. So, it was not a huge risk to make the switch,” he said.

“Why we did it: Branding.

It is seen by people at coffee shops and in natural food sections of grocery stores.

People make a connection between the logo and the name of our business. That didn’t happen with our bulk products,” he said.

“We still do promote bulk buying because it puts less stress on the environment,” he said.

As part of GrandyOats’ mission statement, the company strives to promote sustainability and be aware of potential impacts to the environment.

The business is dedicat-

ed to creating less negative environmental impact.

“Organic farming has been shown to improve wildlife habitats, increase soil health, and create more jobs than industrial farming,” the website said.

“We give back to the earth and the earth gives great ingredients back to us,” the website said.

Pierce said that his handsdown favorite granola is the classic recipe.

Anker agreed that the classic granola tastes the best.

“Breakfast is such a ritual. People very often eat the same thing. They love our product, and it’s 100% organic,” he said.

“Granola is a great way to start your day,” Anker said.

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King speaks at Chamber Awards Night

By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer A record number of business and community leaders gathered Friday at Shawnee Peak for the Greater Bridgton Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Awards Dinner.

Many were drawn by the chance to hear the latest about Washington politics from U.S. Senator Angus King Jr. King, the keynote speaker, delivered on that promise, offering his views on such recent news as Thursday’s Senate vote to limit use of the filibuster to the messy start of the Affordable Care Act. But first he took note of what had happened 50 years ago last Friday — the day John F. Kennedy Jr. was assassinated. King recalled being told why Arlington Cemetery was chosen as Kennedy’s burial place. It was because when Kennedy visited Arlington Mansion, and stood on the porch overlooking a broad vista that took in the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial and the rows and rows of stones marking the dead, “He said, ‘I’d like to be here forever.’ And he is.”

On the filibuster vote, King, an Independent, voted with Democrats in eliminating the 60-vote hurdle to clear a filibuster on most presidential nominations. “This was not a decision I took lightly,” said King. But he was finally persuaded by realizing how greatly the filibuster rules have been abused, particularly since Barack Obama became President.

“In the entire history of the United States, 23 appointments to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have been filibustered. Twenty of those

23 times were nominees of Barack Obama.” King said he’s taken plenty of flack for his stance, but said filibustering was not meant to be used “to the place where you can’t govern.” The two-thirds majority vote rule should apply to the most important issues, not presidential nominations, he said.

King said the partisanship and polarization in Washington politics has been very frustrating for him. “It makes it very difficult to settle differences when compromise is a dirty word.” A chart he saw recently showed that in 1982, there were 344 politicians considered as middleof-the-road. “Now there are eleven. It’s all you need to know about American politics in one chart.”

Today it’s hard to win a seat in Congress if you are “reasonable” in your thinking, he said. “Folks, if we defeat people for being reasonable, then this country is in trouble.”

The recent government shutdown “sort of chastened everyone a little bit,” King said, and he’s hopeful the mood toward more temperance will continue.

King’s speech was brief, but he spent at least as much time taking questions from those attending the chamber dinner. On the Affordable Care Act, King said he supported the need, “but the bad part is they’ve totally screwed up the implementation of it.”

He said he used to teach a class at Bowdoin College in which he liked to tell his students that “execution is as important as vision,” and that “they warned the President, the White House, the Cabinet” to delay the rollout of health CHAMBER, Page B

AND THE WINNERS ARE — Posing for a group photo at Friday’s Greater Bridgton Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce annual dinner are, from left, Justin McIver, Main Eco Homes, Small Business of the Year; Jane and Carl Talbot, chamber and Naples Lions Club, Community Volunteers of the Year; (seated) Naomi King, Pietree Orchard, President’s Award; Mike Tarantino, Bridgton Community Center Treasurer, Business Person of the Year; and (second from right) Donna Woodward, Fryeburg Business Association, Community Nonprofit of the Year. With them are Barbara Clark, chamber executive director, and Ken Murphy, chamber president.

KING OF THE DRAW — U.S. Senator Angus King Jr., right, was a definite draw for the crowd of around 130 business and community leaders who attended the Greater Bridgton Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce annual dinner and awards Friday at Shawnee Peak INCOMING PRESIDENT of the Greater Bridgton Lakes Resort. With King are Barbara Clark, chamber executive Region Chamber of Commerce Madeline Lintz, with outdirector, and Ken Murphy, chamber president. going President Ken Murphy.

Let’s “Fill the Truck” at Nearly 200 Operation Christmas Angel Bridgton kids The Magic Lantern & Tannery Pub will be hosting a “Fill the Truck” Toy Drive with Bridgton Fire & Rescue to benefit Operation Christmas Angel. A fire truck will be parked in the Magic Lantern parking lot on Saturday, Nov. 30. Bring a donation to help “Fill the Truck,” and receive 10% off in The Tannery Pub.

The Magic Lantern & Tannery Pub will also be hosting a “Shoppers Brunch” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., as well as having deals on gift cards and baskets as part of Small Business Saturday. Everyone is encouraged to “Shop Small” and help Bridgton’s economy this holiday shopping season.

Area Events Snowflake Stroll & Tree Lighting

NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — Giveaways, face painting, caroling and wine tasting await those who attend North Conway Village’s Snowflake Stroll & Tree Lighting on Saturday, Nov. 30, in Schouler Park and at various businesses along Main Street. Many small businesses will offer specials, and there’ll be caroling and tree lighting by M&D Productions.

Fryeburg New Church: Milk & Bookies

FRYEBURG — Join The Fryeburg New Church on Sunday, Dec. 1 for a Milk & Bookies event from 4 to 6 p.m. Your child can bring or purchase, inscribe, and donate a book for kids ages 0 to 5. The Book Warehouse from Conway, N.H. will be available to help with purchases. All the books collected will be going to the Fryeburg Head Start Program. Participants will decorate cookies and hear a special Christmas story from Mrs. Claus. Then they will walk to the Christmas Tree Ceremony at Bradley Park, which begins at 6 p.m.

About Operation Christmas Angel, every year Bridgton Fire & Rescue collects toys and donations for underprivileged children and families in Bridgton. The toys are then distributed by fire truck on Christmas Day by members of Bridgton Fire & Rescue (in their full gear) and Santa.

About Small Business

Saturday: Small Business Saturday started in 2010 as a day to celebrate the Shop Small Movement and get shoppers to spend some of their holiday budget at local merchants across the United States. For every dollar you spend at a local small business, 50% of it goes back into your community.

Waterford Library on Monday, Dec. 2, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The topic is “Are Humans the Masters of Their Fate?” The moderator will be Jim Kearney. Come for good, thoughtful talk, congenial people, coffee and light refreshments. For more information, call 583-6957.

Promise Singers Christmas Concert

The Promise Singers, a group of local women who’ve been singing together for around 20 years, will give their annual Christmas Concert on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. at the First Congregational Church on South High Street in Bridgton. Snow date is Dec. 4. The concert is open to all, and admission is free.

Fryeburg Historical Christmas Party

FRYEBURG — The Fryeburg Historical Society will hold its annual Christmas party at their new home, the Col. Samuel Osgood House, 83 Portland Street, Fryeburg, on Tuesday, Dec. 3, beginning at 5 p.m. Those attending are asked to bring a main dish, salad or dessert to share for the potluck dinner, and a small wrapped gift for a Yankee Swap after the dinner. Coffee and punch will be provided. For further information, please contact Diane Jones at 697-3484 or e-mail ewjones@roadrunner.com

Harrison Historical Show & Tell

HARRISON — The Harrison Historical Society will Socrates Café in Waterford hold the popular Annual Show and Tell Program on EVENTS, Page B WATERFORD — The Socrates Café will meet at the

need clothes

Adopt-a-Child and help our local families who may be struggling this holiday season.

Nearly 200 Bridgton children are enrolled in the First Congregational Church’s Adopt-a-Child for Christmas clothing distribution program. Organizers are seeking donations and invite you, your business, or organization to participate by “adopting” one or more children.

“Two hundred is a big number. We know that many of the families with children enrolled in our school system are struggling financially,” said Charlotte Nolan, chair of the Adopt-a-Child for Christmas Program. “Our program makes it possible for families in need to get warm clothing for their children in time for Christmas gift-giving.”

Children who live in Bridgton and are 18 years old or younger are eligible. Each child’s clothing requests, age and sizes are listed on “wish list” cards. Names are not included. “Adopters” pick out one or more cards and use them to purchase the gifts the child’s or children’s parents have requested. Organizers also use financial contributions they receive to purchase gifts for children. Adopters return the unwrapped gifts to the church, and parents then pick up the gifts just before Christmas.

If you would like to contribute to the program, you can send your check with “adopt-a-child” in the memo section to First Congregational Church, P.O. Box 243, Bridgton, ME 04009; or drop off your donation at the church office any weekday between 9 a.m. and noon. Or, if you’d like to purchase the gifts yourself, call Nolan at 776-0654 to request a child’s wish list card. Wish list cards will also be posted at the church between 11 a.m. and noon on Sunday, Dec. 1 and Sunday, Dec. 8.

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Local dancers perform in the Nutcracker

PORTLAND — Eleven young dancers from The Ballroom in Harrison, plus their teacher, Juliette Lauzier, will be dancing in the Maine State Ballet’s production of the holiday classic The Nutcracker at Merrill Auditorium in Portland.

Show dates include Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 6, 7 and 8.

The talented local dancers earning parts in this season’s show are Zoe Bean, Linnea Bradbury, Sarah Douglas, Haley Ellis, Natalie Gelinas, Chloe Grover, Kaya Joseph, Madeline Manjourides, Jasmine Rondeau, Lauren Ruby and Acadia Webb.

Their teacher, Juliette Lauzier, will be dancing in her 34th Nutcracker this season (starting her Nutcracker career as a little reindeer) having danced with the Maine State Ballet since its inception!

This lavish production accompanied by the Maine State Ballet orchestra is sure to delight audience members of all ages. For tickets, contact PortTix at ticket.porttix. com or 842-0800.

The Ballroom offers a wide range of movement arts classes with a focus on professional dance instruction. For information, contact Ballroom director, Nan Brett, at www.theballroomharrison. NUTCRACKER DANCERS — The Ballroom in Harrison dancers include: (kneeling) Juliette Lauzier; (middle row) Jasmine Rondeau, Hannah com or 583-6964.

Leonard, Madison Perkins, Breahna Jenkins and Lauren Ruby; (back row) Elise Dekutoski, Nikki Moore and Linnea Bradbury.

Auction to precede Jonathan Sarty CD party FRYEBURG — New England-based recording and performing artist Jonathan Sarty will release his new album Cold River Radio Standards Vol. 1, with his new Cold River Radio Band in a live performance on Sunday, Dec. 8 at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center in Fryeburg.

Sarty, a New England native, is known as a charismatic, versatile, and dynamic performer. Sarty also serves

as host of the new popular variety show, the Cold River Radio Show, which is held live every two months at Theater in the Wood and broadcasted on 93.5 WMWV. The Cold River Radio Show features authors, storytellers and musical acts, but the upcoming show in December is an exclusive Jonathan Sarty and the Cold River Radio Band performance.

Cold River Radio Standards Vol. 1 is Sarty’s first release

since his 2011 solo album, This Road. The combination live and studio CD covers a collection of classic jazz standards that Sarty performs with his newly-found Cold River Radio Band, a group of Boston-based musicians.

Preceding the performance will be a live auction to raise funds to offset the 2014 operations of the Cold River Radio Show. Among the featured items is an original oil on canvas by world

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Dec. 13,14, 20, 21: Stone Mountain LIVE Christmas Shows Carol Noonan and The Stone Mountain Boys host Maine’s Own Christmas Revue…with Special Guests Bluegrass greats, The Gibson Brothers Stone Mountain LIVE at Christmas is the whole “Experience”…it takes all the best aspects of this special place on the hill and packs it into one fun festive night! And it would not be Christmas without hearing Carol’s Oh Holy Night! You don’t have to go to Portland for the “magic” anymore!!!

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And Don’t forget… SMAC Gift Certificates make great Christmas gifts… with no expiration, and they are good for tickets and dinner!

Show is presented by the Mount Washington Valleybased nonprofit, Mountain Top Music Center. Doors open to the general public at 6:30 p.m. Concert tickets are $15 and are available at Spice and Grain Natural Foods Store in Fryeburg, White Birch Books in North

Conway, N.H., J-Town Deli in Jackson, N.H., Water’s Edge Gallery in Bridgton, online at www.coldriverradio.com, and at the door until sold out. The Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center is located at 18 Bradley Street, Fryeburg, on the campus of Fryeburg Academy.

This original 20”x24” oil on canvas by world-renowned artist Erik Koeppel, Mt. Washington from Tin Mine Road, done in the spirit of Hudson River School painters, will be auctioned off at the live auction preceding Jonathan Sarty and The Cold River Band’s concert Sunday, Dec. 8, at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center in Fryeburg.

The art serves as the cover for Sarty’s new CD, Cold River Radio Standards Vol. 1.

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(Continued from Page B) Wednesday, Dec. 4, at the Carlson Homestead across Haskell Hill Road from the museum. Join them at 5:30 p.m. for a potluck supper, and bring an interesting item for everyone to see. For more information, please call Elaine Smith at 583-2213.

Sing just for the joy of it

Do you like to sing? Even if you don’t carry a tune well, come to Joy of Singing at the Bridgton Community Center on Depot Street (behind Renys) from 3 to 5 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 6 and 13. Sing old favorites and holiday songs from the 20s to new. The first meeting was well-attended, and those who came liked it so well they decided to meet twice a month. Zero cost, lots of fun. Bring your voice and smile all the way home. Questions? Call 583-6304.

Community Chorus Winter Concert

Lake Region Community Concert is holding a Winter Concert on Friday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m. at the Twitchell Memorial Chapel on the Bridgton Academy campus at 11 Academy Lane in North Bridgton. Come and hear a variety of holiday music with piano and instrumental accompaniments. The snow date is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 7, same time and venue. Refreshments will be provided, and donations are appreciated.

Music Ministries Silent Auction

OXFORD — The Resistance Ministries and The Blacksmiths Music Ministries are having their 7th annual Silent Auction fundraiser on Saturday, Dec. 7 at the Oxford Recreation building on King Street in Oxford. Both ministries are nonprofit ministries that work with youth. The doors will open at 1 p.m., and the ticket drawings start at 2 p.m. Advance tickets at a discounted price are now on sale and can be purchased by calling 743-6500 or visiting www.theblacksmiths.wix.com/tix. There will also be a dollar table and 50/50 raffle at the auction. Food and drink will be available for purchase.

For more information, call 743-6500.

Christmas Concert by Casco Village Church

CASCO — It’s music for the Christmas season at the Casco Village Church United Church of Christ, 941 Meadow Road (Route 121) in Casco. Join others on Sunday, Dec. 8, at 4 p.m., when the choir will sing classical and contemporary musical selections under the direction of Eugene Long with accompanist Evan Cuddy. Admission is free, and there will be a free will offering and refreshments afterward in the Great Hall.

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Artist Erik Koeppel has spent over a decade studying these masters, researching their writings and notes, and discovering how they captured the feel of nature in their paintings. By mastering these lost techniques Koeppel has produced an array of works featured in prominent galleries throughout the world.

One of his pieces, titled A View of Mt. Washington from Tin Mine Road, is featured as the cover for the Cold River Radio Standards Vol. 1 album. A portion of the proceeds from the original work will be donated by the artist to the Cold River Radio Show 2014 operations budget.

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NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — Get into the Christmas spirit with a Silent Auction and performance of It’s A Wonderful Life on Sunday, Dec. 8, with proceeds benefiting the North Conway Public Library. The evening will begin with a champagne and dessert reception at the Eastern Slope Inn at 5:30 p.m., with several unique items offered in a silent auction. At 7 p.m. at the Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse, there’ll be a production of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry. The production, EVENTS, Page B

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November 28, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page B

Put this list right up on your fridge The Hurst family has much to be thankful for this year — my own successful surgery, my oldest son’s open heart surgery and the birth of my great-grandson Hunter on April 1. I hope my readers have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day with their family.

Since Thanksgiving is this week, it means that the Christmas season is already here. There are many events to take place in the next few weeks leading up to Christmas Day, so I suggest that you cut out the items below and put them on the fridge.

• Monday Dec. 2, at the Lovell United Church of Christ, there will be a 7 p.m. concert by the St. Petersburg Men’s Ensemble from Russia.

It should be very interesting and entertaining and a unique experience. Vadim Smantser, Andrei Volikov, Kirill Sokolov and Sergey Shapinskiy have all attended music colleges, and between them have sung in many

musical groups throughout the years. Their music and training will show off their many talents, with renditions of both sacred and secular music. Donations will be accepted.

• Friday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m., the Annual Christmas Tree Lighting will take place at the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library. The tree lighting will take place after the singing of carols at the tree. Have you noticed how tall the tree is getting? After the lighting, our yearly guests, Santa and Mrs. Claus, will arrive with the help of the Lovell Volunteer Fire Department.

All the folks will then adjourn to the Stephen and Tabitha King room. There, the kids get a chance to tell Santa exactly what they’d like to see under their tree Christmas morning and receive a gift.

There will be refreshments for both the adults and the children.

• Saturday, Dec. 7, the Lewis Dana Hill Memorial

Area births

Kimberly A. (Pierson) and Jerrod L. Coffin of Naples, have a son, Christopher Matthew Coffin, born on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013 at Bridgton Hospital.

Christopher joins Ayana, age 5, Jeremish, 3 and Tyson, 1.

Mortisha M. Harrington and Roger L. Smith of Bridgton, have a daughter, Chyanne Lilith Smith, born on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013 at Bridgton Hospital. Chyanne joins Damien, age 15, Kaira, 14, Nadia, 12 and Carrianna, 3. Maternal grandparents: Cissie Harrington of Bridgton; Charlie Spiller of South Portland. Paternal grandparent: Belle Smith of Bridgton. Great-grandparents: Lizzie Harrington of Bridgton.

Mary A. Vaughn and Everett A. McCabe of Bridgton, have a daughter, Kaylin D. McCabe, born on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013 at Bridgton Hospital. Kaylin joins Caydence Riley, age 9 and Camren Zogopoulos, 6. Maternal grandparents: Sheila Warner and Lincoln Warner of Bridgton.

Paternal grandparents: Vicky Hatstat of Waterford; Charlie McCabe of Caribou.

AJ and Christina LaMontagne of Otisfield have a girl, Sophia Elora LaMontagne, born Nov. 17, 2013 at Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway. Sophia weighed six pounds, 10 ounces and joins sisters Chloe, 9, Aliana, 2½, and brother Tyler, 7. Maternal grandparents are Catherine and Gary Bell of Harrison. Paternal grandparents are Debbie and Arthur LaMontagne of Otisfield.

5th Annual Bake-Off STANDISH — Volunteers from Saint Joseph’s College and the community will gather together for the fifth annual Great Thanksgiving Pie Bake-Off at the school’s cafeteria on Wednesday, Nov. 27, starting at 11 a.m. The goal? To bake 225 pies in three hours!

On Wednesday afternoon, the apple pies, baked with ingredients provided by the college, will be distributed to community members in need at Standish Town Hall by staff from Catherine’s Cupboard Food Pantry as part of Thanksgiving food baskets.

“It’s a fantastic community event,” said Stuart Leckie, manager of Pearson’s Café, the college’s food service. “We have students, faculty, staff and community members all working together. To see the baskets distributed afterward at Catherine’s Cupboard is very rewarding.”

Catherine’s Cupboard Food Pantry is located at Standish Town Hall on 175 Northeast Road. It was founded in 2008

by Campus Ministry at Saint Joseph’s College, the town of Standish and Bon Appétit Management Company as a collaborative outreach of the college.

Campus Ministry received an endowment from Andrew and Helen McSween through Saint Joseph’s College to conduct good works in the town. Initially operated in the Steep Falls fire station, the town of Standish provided space in its BAKE OFF, Page B

Lovell

by Ethel Gilmore-Hurst Lovell Correspondent 925-3226 ehurst3@yahoo.com Library in North Lovell will celebrate Yuletide Patron Appreciation Day. This is an invitation to all those who use and support the library to come and enjoy the holiday season with friends and neighbors, while browsing to see the library’s new books.

The festivities run from 9 a.m. to noon. Refreshments will be served to all.

• Friday, Dec. 13, is a lucky day for the folks of Lovell because the Fryeburg/ Lovell VFW Post #6783 will present a special Christmas concert with “Fan Fare.”

This is a gift to the community from the VFW to herald in the holiday season of

Christmas. The band is made up of everyday people who love to play music, especially “Christmas music” for their audiences. Each year the band brings their music to Lovell, the hall gains more folks. For those who haven’t attended, if you come this year we might get a full house. The band has always ended the program with the armed services anthem to salute those who serve their country. There will be refreshments during the break, and a chance to talk with band members. This is a free concert, but donations are gratefully accepted.

Because the members come from all over Maine, if the

weather is bad, the concert will be canceled.

• Saturday, Dec. 14, there will be a Santa’s Workshop at the New Suncook School from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. At the workshop, each child will have the opportunity to make a gift for family or friends.

Each New Suncook student will be given a free gift coupon, and other gifts can be bought for $1. Because the gift the child may be making will be for a parent, all parents are banned from the workshop in order to keep the child’s secret. To earn money for their field trips, the 4th and 5th graders will be having a bake sale. In the library, there will be a Scholastic Book Fair. To keep the parents busy, the PKA will have a table set up with Beads for Life for sale. Of course a Santa’s Workshop isn’t a workshop without Santa, so he’ll be there and the children can have their pictures taken with him. The PTA does a great job and to add to all the

other stuff, each child will have a chance to win a door prize. If anyone has questions or would like to volunteer to help, they can contact Jean Andrews at 925-1163. If anyone would like to donate a small gift for the $1 table. it would be very welcome.

• Sunday, Dec. 15, the Lovell Historical Society’s Kimball-Stanford House will be festive with decorations for the Society’s Christmas Open House. From 1 to 4 p.m., members will greet those attending. There will be access to the museum exhibit, with goodies of all sorts in the bakeshop and free refreshments including punch, tea, or coffee on the Hospitality Table. The kids will have a chance to decorate cookies as well as eat them. There will also be a raffle of three items: a $200 gift certificate for heating fuel purchase, dinner for two at the Center Lovell Inn (minus alcohol and gratuity) and a $100 gift certificate to Ebenezer’s Pub.

$10 goes a long way at Pantry Last Tuesday was a typical Tuesday at the Bridgton Food families received food here.

Pantry, which operates as an independent, all-volunteer orgaThat’s 90 families served each week, month after month nization out of the Bridgton Methodist Church at 214 Main — and that’s a lot of food. They arrive on Tuesdays between Street. And just like every other Tuesday, as many as 90 10:30 and 10:45 a.m., and the food is usually gone by noon.

Miraculously, Deb Davenport, director of the Bridgton Food Pantry, and Diana Whitehouse, Bridgton Food Pantry board member, order, salvage and purchase food and supplies to meet this weekly challenge. They coordinate and oversee amazing volunteers, determine food distribution, arrange for pickup and manage all of the paperwork. In addition, on the third Tuesday of the month, 100 “to-go” bag lunches are provided by St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.

The Methodist Church provides the space and covers the pantry’s utilities, and also contributes financially to this much-needed program. The Bridgton Food Pantry is governed by an independent board of directors, however, and is truly a community effort, dependent on the generosity of everyone in Bridgton. And food is not the only need; other items needed are coffee, paper goods and personal hygiene items.

As you are thinking about your seasonal giving, please consider a check to the Bridgton Food Pantry. All donations are gratefully received, including purchased items.

When volunteers from the pantry drive to the Good Shepherd Food-Bank in Auburn, they are able to purchase food at 16 cents per pound. Before you buy a can of something for $1.29, consider how many pounds can be purchased if the Bridgton Food Pantry had that $1.29 to work with.

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What’s happening at Raymond Library?

At a Glance Sunday, Dec. 1 — Annual Tree Lighting, 5 p.m., library Sunday, Dec. 1 — Holiday Story Time, 4:30 p.m., library Wednesday, Dec. 4 — Holiday Table Arrangement Class, 6 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 8 — Annual Bake and Gift Basket Sale, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 25 — Christmas Day, the library is closed.

Wednesday, Jan. 1 — New Year’s Day, the library is closed.

Tree Lighting The Annual Tree Lighting

will take place on the library lawn, Sunday, Dec. 1 at 5 p.m.

This community event is sponsored by the Raymond Lions Club in conjunction with the Raymond Village Library and begins the Holiday Season each year in Raymond. All are invited to attend; carolers from Raymond Elementary School will lead us in song and refreshments are available. There will be a special story time in the library beginning at 4:30 p.m., conducted

by Lisa Davison, youth services assistant.

Floral Arrangement Class On Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 6 p.m., Jessica Fay, owner of

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(Continued from Page B) originally performed as a 1940s live radio broadcast in front of a studio audience, will feature five actors from Arts in Motion performing the dozens of characters in the play as well as producing the sound effects. It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play premiered in 1996 and has since been produced around the country to critical acclaim. Tickets are $25 to the reception and play.

For more information, visit www.northconwaylibrary. com, call 603-356-2961 or e-mail ncpl@myfairpoint.net

Dempsey Center Reiki session

LEWISTON – The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing is offering a free Reiki workshop Monday, Dec. 9 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Dempsey Center, 29 Lowell Street, Lewiston. Reiki is a gentle, hands-on technique intended to relieve stress and discomfort. Reiki is one of the integrative medicine services provided by the Dempsey Center which complement the medical treatments prescribed by a physician. Dempsey Center Reiki Coordinator Meredith Kendall, RN, MSN, will lead the workshop. Pre-registration is required and available by phone at 795-8250; toll-free 1-877-3367287 or online at www.dempseycenter.org

Parent’s Night Out in Brownfield

BROWNFIELD — Drop your kids off for a night of fun for you and your children at Parent’s Night Out on Friday, Dec. 13, from 5 to 9 p.m. The cost of $15 includes dinner, with multiple discounts available.

Preregistration is requested by calling the rec department at 935-2007.

Met Opera presents Verdi’s Falstaff

FRYEBURG — The first new Met Opera Falstaff to be produced since 1964 will be shown on the big screen Saturday, Dec. 14, at 1 p.m. at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy. Ambrogio Maestri sings the title role of the brilliant and blustery Sir John Falstaff, opposite a marvelous ensemble that includes Angela Meade, Stephanie Blythe, Lisette Oropesa and Franco Vassallo. Tickets are $26 for adults, $23 seniors and $18 students. For more information, call 935-9232.

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the Raymond Village Florist, will conduct a class on how to make a lovely evergreen table arrangement for the holidays.

The cost for the class, which includes all materials, is $15; a signup sheet is available at the library and payment is due at time of registration.

Class is limited to 15, so be sure to sign up early. Please bring your own scissors or pruners to the class.

Annual Bake and Gift Basket Sale On Sunday, Dec. 8, beginning at 10 a.m., the library will have tables filled with delectable pastries, delicious cookies, candies, pies, breads and all kinds of scrumptious sweets. There will also be unique, reasonably-priced Holiday Gift Baskets for sale.

The baskets will continue on sale during the month of December, while they last. Those donating to the bake sale are asked to bring food items to the library on

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His name is Omega and he is carrying a baby bear called Alpha. This astounding animal is no longer available in stores, so this is a wonderful opportunity to either add to an existing collection or begin one.

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Simply like them on their Facebook page. If you do not belong to Facebook, you can easily access it by typing in www.facebook.com/ RaymondVillage Library. It is kept current and has lots of pictures of library activities.

E-Newsletter Another way to keep in touch with the Raymond Village Library’s news is to receive the e-newsletter, direct to your computer, once a month. If you do not already

NAPLES — The Naples Public Library launched its 2013-14 Annual Appeal to raise funds to maintain the library, and to provide the community with free access to its collection, WiFi, public access computers and programs for all ages. Donations may be made at the Circulation Desk or on their website: www.naples.lib.me.us Christmas Season Schedule: Children’s Library • Santa and his helper will drop in at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10 • Christmas Gift Craft Night on Wednesday, Dec. 18,

4 to 5:30 p.m.

Adult Library • The Annual Bring-a-Dish Christmas Buffet will be at noon on Tuesday, Dec. 10 • Carol Drew of Watkins Flowers will lead a Holiday Flower Arrangement workshop at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10. Pre-registration is required, along with a $20 materials fee.

Holiday Hours Tuesday, Dec. 24, Christmas Eve — library will close at 1 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 25, Christmas Day — library closed Tuesday, Dec. 31, New

Year’s Eve — library will close at 4 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 1, New Year’s Day — library closed Regular monthly programs: Children’s Library • Preschool Storytime, 10:30 a.m. every Tuesday • Musical Storytime, 10:30 a.m. every Thursday • Pajama Storytime, 6 p.m. every Thursday • Lego Clubs, 4 to 5 p.m.

2nd and 4th Thursdays, two age groups: K-3 and 4th grade and up • Pokemon Club, 4 to 5 p.m. 1st and 3rd Thursdays • Movie, 4 p.m. Despicable Me 2 on Tuesday, Dec. 17

Adult Library • Tues., Dec. 3, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Medicare Part D with Phil Ohman • Wed., Dec. 4, 7 p.m., Paper Rosettes demonstration with Susan Bohill • Tues., Dec. 10, 7 p.m., Scrabble Hours Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Wednesday 2 to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

For further details, contact 693-6841, check the bulletin boards and their website. www.naples.lib.me.us or sign up for the monthly e-mail newsletter.

King speaks at Chamber Awards Night (Continued from Page B) care “but they just didn’t listen.”

President Obama, said King, is “terribly smart and he’s a visionary, but he’s not a manager.”

In his past 11 months as a U.S. Senator, King said he hasn’t been inundated by requests from lobbyists.

“Being in the Senate, I expected giants. The most surprising thing to me is, these are regular people.” He said the average U.S. Senator has to raise $8,000 to $10,000 a day, every day, for six years, just to pay campaign expenses. “That’s obscene, and by the way, you quickly run out of friends and family.”

King said he really enjoys working with Maine’s other Senator, Susan Collins, who

he views as “smart and tenacious.” On the nation’s energy needs, King said natural gas offers the most promise in the immediate future, calling it “a transition fuel to a renewable future.” In the long run, he said, “renewables (such as solar, biomass and offshore wind power) are where we ought to be.”

Chamber Awards Main Eco Homes was chosen Small Business of the Year in the 2013 Chamber Awards announced following King’s speech. The Fryeburg Business

Association was selected as Community Nonprofit of the Year, while Mike Tarantino was chosen Business Person of the Year. Honors for the Community Volunteers of the Year were Carl and Jane Talbot, and Naomi King of Pietree Orchard earned the President’s Award. The following are details on the winners, as announced by Chamber President Ken Murphy: Small Business of the Year Justin McIver formed Maine Eco Homes in 2009

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Story Time December Hours There will be no story times the weeks of Dec. 25 and January 1. The children’s programs will resume on Monday, Jan. 6 at 10:30 a.m.

For more information, call the library at 655-4283.

Author of the Month Andriana Trigiani is the featured author for December.

She is beloved by readers around the world for her hilarious and heartwarming novels. Best known for her sweeping Big Stone Gap trilogy, other favorites are: Lucia, Lucia, Very Valentine and Brava Valentine. Her most recent novel is The Shoemaker’s Wife. These are all available at the library. For an entertaining, well-written story, try out a new author and ask for her books when you come into the library.

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Saturday, Dec. 7 between 4 and 6 p.m. This enables those working on the sale to get them arranged and priced for the next day.

Winter Library Hours The library will be closing at 5 p.m. on Sundays, beginning Dec. 8, during the winter months. The library hours will be as follows: Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Monday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. If in doubt, call the library at 655-4283.

Winter Weather Remember, in case of inclement weather, please call ahead as the library may be closed. If the Raymond schools are closed or delayed, then story time for that day will be cancelled; however, the library may still be open.

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Community Nonprofit of the Year Under the leadership of its President, Donna Woodward, the Fryeburg Business Association has seen tremendous growth in the past few years. The organization makes regular use of networking opportunities, and has a committed group of volunteers who know how to use sponsorships and social media to build awareness of the attractions of Fryeburg businesses. The group holds monthly meetings at the Fryeburg Fairgrounds and regularly sends out press releases to keep the public informed.

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Obituaries

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Polly D. Hayton

Shawn J. Crouch

Robert F. Allen

HARRISON: — Polly D. Hayton, 85, of Harrison and Leesburg, Fla., formerly of Natick, Mass., passed away peacefully on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, at her lakeside home after a lengthy illness.

Born in Arlington, Mass., on March 8, 1928, she was the daughter of Edward C.H. and Hilda Prescott Denton. She was raised and educated in Newton, Mass. Upon graduating from Massachusetts College of Art, Polly taught art in the Sudbury, Mass. school system for 25 years.

She was a member of the Daughter’s of the American Revolution, the American Watercolor Society, and an active member of Gallery 302 in Bridgton.

She is survived by her loving husband of 65 years, William M. Hayton Jr.; three daughters, Wendy Barton of Whitewater, Colo., Judy Mitchell of Hampstead, N.C. and Betsy Kelly of Hampden and Harrison; four grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren; and devoted brother, Howard Denton.

A celebration of her life will be announced in the spring.

In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be sent to Harvest Hills Animal Shelter, 1389 Bridgton Rd., Fryeburg, ME 04037.

NAPLES — Shawn Jason Crouch, 31, of Naples, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013 at his home due to a tractor accident.

Shawn was born in Portland to John Crouch Jr. and Gloria (Tracy) Crouch on Jan. 27, 1982. Shawn graduated from Lake Region High School. He was the co-owner of JC & Son’s Excavation, where he worked with his father, John Jr., and older brother, John III. Shawn enjoyed fishing, hunting, snowmobiling and enjoying time with his son, friends and family. He will always be remembered and loved for his big heart and crazy sense of humor.

Shawn is preceded in death by his mother, Gloria Ann Tracy Crouch; a sister, Pamela Redfield; and a brother, William Crouch.

He is survived by his father, John Crouch Jr. of South Paris; a son, Shawn Crouch of Naples; life partner, Laura Berry of Naples; sisters, Gloria Sawyer of Windham and Crystal Griffin of Portland; brothers, John Crouch III of South Paris and Dan Grover of Casco; and many nieces and nephews.

Online condolences may be left for the family at hallfuneralhomeinc.com A funeral service will be held at Hall Funeral Home in Casco on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013 at 11 a.m.

CASCO — Robert Freeman Allen, 49, died suddenly at his home on Nov. 20, 2013.

Born in Massachusetts, he was the son of the late Janet Doris (Bedley) and the late William Reed Allen Sr. Bob spent his childhood in Reading, Mass., with his seven siblings. He attended Reading Memorial High School, where he met his beloved wife, Nancy (Lento) Allen. The couple married in 1985 and resided in various Massachusetts towns including Leominster, Winchendon and Westford.

Bob worked as a caseworker at Stetson School for Boys and Minuteman Arc for Human Services until he left the workforce to become a full-time dad. He devoted his time to raising the couple’s four boys, Joshua Freeman Allen, Reed Francis Allen, Timothy David Allen and Shawn Robert Allen; chauffeuring them to activities, helping them with homework, and generally containing the chaos. The family moved to Casco in 2010.

For Bob, giving and helping others, especially children, was a way of life. Carefree, warm and outgoing, he could strike a talk with a stranger and then find himself engaged in hours of conversation. He always had time for whoever needed his help. Bob enjoyed cooking, traveling, camping, gaming and spending time with his family. Since moving to Casco, Bob volunteered full-time at Poland Spring Academy in Poland, where he applied his culinary skills to preparing a weekly meal for the students and staff, ran the food bank, and assisted in whatever was needed, from hauling trash to occasional substitute teaching. It was here that he formed an once-in-a-lifetime friendship with Gary Howard.

In addition to his sons and wife, he is survived by seven siblings, Janet Moroney, JoAnne Oram, Kathy Whittaker, Joyce Nakhoul, Jennifer Piantedosi, William Reed Allen Jr. and Cynthia Grant; many nieces and nephews; great-nieces and nephews; inlaws; and aunts and uncles.

Viewing hours were held on Monday, Nov. 25 at Hall Funeral Home, 165 Quaker Ridge Road, Casco. A celebration of life gathering and light lunch followed immediately after at Poland Spring Academy, 14 Hope Springs Drive, Poland. Per Bob’s wishes, requested attire at all services was jeans and sneakers (no suits or ties).

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Bob’s memory to Nikki’s Fund, a scholarship fund established by Bob and his wife in memory of their late niece, Kelsea Nicole Lento. Donations may be mailed to: Poland Spring Academy, 14 Hope Springs Dr., Poland, ME 04274. Checks may be made out to Poland Spring Academy, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Arline M. Morse

Terry L. Anderson

OCALA, FLA. — Arline M. Morse, 90, passed away in Ocala, Fla., on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013.

She was born in Malden, Mass., on March 16, 1923. She was WEST BALDWIN — Terry Lee Anderson, 66, of West a retired Registered Nurse. She was a member of Joy Lutheran Baldwin, formerly of Westbrook, passed peacefully in his sleep at Church and the Order of Moose, both in Ocala, Fla. She moved home on Nov. 7, 2013. to this area in 1976 from Yarmouth. She was a volunteer at Terry was born and raised in Westbrook and graduated from Munroe regional Medical Center in Ocala, Fla., and she was an Westbrook High School in 1965 at which time he joined the U.S. avid golfer.

Navy and was proud and honored to serve his country as a sailor She was predeceased by her loving husband, Warren, of 46 upon the USS Enterprise. Following this service, Terry came home years. to work for Weyerhaeuser Co. and Southern Container Co. for the She is survived by a son, Douglas Morse of Yarmouth; a next 32 years. daughter, Susan Morse of Casco; three grandchildren and two Terry was his happiest when out in nature fishing, boating, great-grandchildren. hiking, hunting, canoeing and riding his motorcycle. He lived his A memorial service will take place at Joy Evangelical last 10 years in West Baldwin, where he loved puttering around Lutheran Church on Friday, Nov. 29, at 1 p.m. Arrangements the house, doting on his cats, and socializing with the local towns- by Roberts Funeral Homes Bruce Chapel West. To leave condopeople and merchants. lences: robertsfuneralhomes.com Terry retired from working at the age of 59 after a short employment with Steep Falls Building Supply in Standish. He will be remembered for his quick wit and terrific sense of humor. He In Loving Memory of made everyone smile.

Gloria Gene Chaplin Terry was always giving of himself and the best husband, son, father, brother and friend that anyone could hope to have.

Terry will be sadly missed by his wife of 30 years, Laurie Pease Jacques of West Baldwin; and his mother, Thelma Anderson of Westbrook. He is also survived by his stepchildren, Tiffany Parent of Cornish, Kimberly Jacques of Brownfield and Henry Jacques of Westbrook; his sister, Crystal Shute of Queen Creek, Ariz.; brother Gary Anderson of Westbrook; an uncle and aunt; five adoring The Bridgton News grandchildren; and several loving nieces, nephews and cousins.

There will be a celebration of Terry’s life this coming spring with announcement forthcoming. At that time, his remains will be spread upon the ocean per his wishes.

Terry will forever be in our hearts. Terry was very much a The News will run, at no charge, obitupatriot and donated often to the Disabled American Veterans. It 12/1/1953 - 12/7/1973 aries that have local connections. Photowould be greatly appreciated if any condolence offerings may be graphs may be submitted at no addiA 60th Birthday Party made as charitable contributions to your favorite veterans’ funds. tional charge, and whenever possible,

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FRYEBURG — Richard L. Holden, 90, of Fryeburg, passed away peacefully from this life on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013. He was born Jan. 8, 1923, in North Bridgton, the 10th child of Alpheus S. Holden and Iva Mae (Warren) Holden. He was raised at the family farm on “Holden Hill” in North Bridgton, and graduated from Bridgton Academy. As a teenager, he met the love of his life, Hazel Gurney, and thus began their life together, first as high school sweethearts and later as husband and wife.

During World War II, he was employed in the shipyard at South Portland.

After the war, he and his five brothers formed Holden Bros.

Lumber Company, which operated in Sweden and North Bridgton until 1956. They then formed the automobile dealership, Holden Bros.

Chevrolet, which operated in Fryeburg until the facility was destroyed by fire in the spring of 1968. In 1969, Holden Bros. Ford was established at the rebuilt location and continued into the early 1990s.

Also immediately following the war, the brothers acquired a stable of harness horses, and participated in the New England Harness racing circuit, with Richard acting as the principal driver for their stable during the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s.

In 1962, Holden Bros. Insurance Agency was formed, with Richard as the principal agent. The initial office was located at Bridgton Avenue, Portland, and then was moved permanently to the rebuilt “Garage” facility on Portland Street in Fryeburg in 1970.

During the 1970s the brothers entered the business of real estate residential development with the creation of subdivisions in Fryeburg, Brownfield and Bridgton.

Richard had a lifelong passion for golf, having caddied as a youngster at Bridgton Highlands Country Club. He was an avid player throughout his life until age and health forced him to cease. His last participation was at the age of 89 in the “Holden Memorial Scramble” at Bridgton Highlands in June 2012.

He was predeceased by his five sisters, Alice May, Bertha, Mildred, Velma and Doris; and his five brothers, Ernest, Donald, Raymond, George and Verdell; as well as by his daughter-in-law, Patricia (Ross) Holden.

He is survived by his wife, Hazel G. Holden, his companion and partner in life, who for over 74 years selflessly provided him with love and care throughout, and particularly during his recent declining years.

He is also survived by his four sons and their wives/companions, Gary R. Holden (Betty), Craig L Holden (Melissa), Dale A. Holden (Mary) and Terry W. Holden (Antoinette); his eight grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

At his request, there will be no visiting hours or funeral service.

There will be a graveside service at the convenience of the family.

Cards of condolences may be addressed to 652 Main Street, Fryeburg, ME 04037. Arrangements are made with Wood Funeral Home, Fryeburg, Maine. Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.woodfuneralhome.org

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Herbert J. Dvorscak CASCO — Herbert J. Dvorscak, 88, formerly of Trenton, Fla. went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013 at the Maine Veterans’ Home in Scarborough.

He was born in North Arlington, N.J. on Jan. 13, 1925, son of the late John and Gladys Dvorscak. He was preceded in death by his wife Edythe “Mickey” (Earl) Dvorscak in May of 1999.

Herbert was a member of our greatest generation, serving in the U.S. Army Europe during World War II. After his service he returned home to N.J. and worked as a builder with his father and brothers at Dvor Homes and Argyle Block Company.

Later he became a restaurateur, operating five family-style restaurants over many years.

He is survived by two sons, James Dvorscak and his wife Lettie of Casco, and Larry Dvorscak and his wife Patricia of Crystal River, Fla. He also leaves three grandchildren, Michael, Kimberly and Christopher; as well as a brother Kenneth Dvorscak of Pompton Plains, N.J.; three great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

A private service will be held for immediate family only.

To sign Herbert’s guestbook and to leave condolences for the family, please visit www.advantageportland.com In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: Maine Veterans’ Home, 290 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough, ME 04074.

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Robert E. Chute FRYEBURG — Robert Erlon Chute, 88, of Fryeburg and Casco, passed away in the loving company of his family, on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, in Maine, following a brief illness.

Robert was born in Gray, on July 14, 1925, to Robert and Jenny Chute of Casco. He attended Casco schools and joined the Army at age 17 before the draft.

Robert married Phyllis A. Eldridge on Nov. 11, 1942. They lived in Casco and raised their six children.

Robert served in the U.S. Army during WWII and earned several medals including sharp shooter and the Purple Heart while scouting Anzio Beach, Italy.

He worked as a carpenter for much of his life and is credited with developing a certain portion of land known as Rattlesnake Mountain, Casco. Where there once was only woods, there are roads, electricity and numerous houses built with his own hands, including one built atop the mountain. His family is most grateful for this legacy.

His family is grateful for the loving care provided by staff at the Fryeburg Health Care Center during these past few years.

Robert is survived by his loving companion, Beatrice Harvey, of 17 years, and six children, Larry, Bradley, Brian, Loretta Thurlow, Brenda Chute and Helen Chute; 15 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren; A great-great-grandson, Caleb Lane; his brothers Edward and Ivan; sister Esther Gallagher; and numerous nephews and nieces.

He was predeceased by his beloved son Jackie W. Chute, his loving wife Phyllis A. Chute, his parents, Robert Dingley and Jenny Foster Chute, grandson Derek J. Chute, and greatgrandchild Caleb Miller.

Robert will always be remembered for his love of nature walks, especially his Rattlesnake Mountain trails, his adventurous spirit and his sense of humor.

Visiting hours were held at Hall Funeral Home on Saturday, Nov. 23, from 2 to 4 p.m. A Funeral service was held Sunday, Nov. 24, at 1 p.m. Burial will be private at the “Phyllis A. Chute Memorial Cemetery,” Rattlesnake Mountain, Casco, Maine.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: AAAneurysm Outreach at aoutreach.org

Merilyn E. Ward PORTLAND — Merilyn E. Ward, beloved Mom, Grammie, Sister, and friend joined her Angels Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, at the age of 71. She passed at Maine Medical Center in Portland after a long illness, with over 20 family members at her side.

She was born in Freeport on Feb. 6, 1942, to Albert and Roberta (Goud) Graham. She grew up in Bridgton and attended school there. She was married to Arthur W. Ward for over 20 years and together they had three sons.

Merilyn was a longtime employee of Malden Mills and a homemaker for many years. She had been retired for 20 years due to her health.

She loved her social life at Silver Pines with her many friends, collecting Angels, Bingo night and, of course, anything Elvis (starting her first Elvis scrapbook at the age of 14). She had made two pilgrimages to Graceland. She also loved family and family events and all the day trips she and her BFF and sisters made over the years.

Most of all Merilyn loved her “boys” and grandkids, and cherished any time spent with them. The grandkids will forever have stories to tell about “Skip Bo.” Merilyn is survived by her three “boys” and their wives, Wayne and Deb of Harrison, Wyatt and DiAnne of Albany, Wade and Kimberly of Buckfield; stepchildren (whom she loved as her own), Melanie (Baker) Farrington of Fryeburg, and Jarrett Baker and his wife Teresa of Fryeburg; 13 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Mindi, Nikki, Tia, Adam, Jason, Falishia, Whitney, Martika, Wade, Kylie, Kaylin, Bryson, and Madelynn; siblings, Arlene Matlock, Joan (Paul) Kiesman, Virginia (Roger) Pinkham, Jennifer (Rod) Blood, and Roland H. Graham; and many nieces and nephews whom she cherished. She is also survived by her BFF, constant traveling companion, and sister-in-law Margie (Phil) Ward.

Merilyn was predeceased by her parents; siblings James Randall, Mary Antoniak Smith, Nancy Payne, Albert (Butch) Graham, Ann Marie Goldthwaite; her grandson Wayne Wescott Ward; and her beloved housemate, her cat Kailey.

A small family service was held on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013. at the North Fryeburg Community Chapel.

In lieu of flowers Merilyn would love to have donations made to Harvest Hills Animal Shelter in Fryeburg.

Please visit www.advantageportland.com to sign Merilyn’s guestbook and to leave condolences for the family.

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Church opens doors during the parade Exciting things are happening at the Bridgton United Methodist Church, located at 214 Main Street in Bridgton.

In September they held a Chocolate Festival to raise money for the “Imagine No More Malaria” campaign.

Tables were loaded with all types of sweet chocolate goodies. Through the generosity of community members they were able to send $242.50 to this outreach program.

The proceeds will buy nets to cover beds of families in Africa in order to reduce the number of deaths caused by mosquito bites. Every $10 buys a mosquito net that saves yet another family.

In October, on Halloween, their doors were open to all trick or treaters. They offered a place to come in from the cold, use the bathroom facilities, seating to rest a while, treats for kids and adults as well as hot cocoa, popcorn and apple cider. Close to 250 people stopped in, dressed in a wide variety of creative costumes. Every visitor appeared to enjoy themselves and the church volunteers had a great time as well.

The church will again be opening the doors during the Festival of Lights on Saturday, Dec 7, for parade watchers and carolers. A warm room and bathroom facilities will be available, as well as a few goodies for those stopping in.

Deb Davenport, director of the Bridgton Food Pantry, keeps things running smoothly, with incoming and outgoing foodstuffs for local families in need. The church not only provides physical support but also financial support to the pantry. They have monthly “items needed” donation boxes for congregation members to fill, with items that are difficult or unavailable from other sources.

They also participate year round in raising funds to provide toys to needy local families’ children for Christmas. Their church service begins at 11 a.m. on Sunday mornings. All people are welcome.

MINI ART — Marge Dacko of Naples checks out the new pieces of original art donated by local artists for the Naples Public Library’s Annual Mini-Art Sale to be held on Saturday, Nov. 30 in the library’s Gathering Room. There will also be a Cookie Walk and Santa Sale to get everyone in the holiday spirit.

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CASCO — The Casco Village Church United Church of Christ, 941 Meadow Road (Route 121) in Casco invites you to attend the annual Christmas in the Village celebration on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 29-30. It all begins Friday night in Casco Day Park, with Christmas tree lighting at 6 p.m., caroling, a special performance by the Mayberry Hill Preschoolers, and cookies, crafts and Santa after at the Community Center. Christmas in the Village continues on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with wreaths, music, food, vendors and shopping at the church and vendors, music, food and more shopping at The Community Center. From 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. there’ll be a Lobster Roll and Corn Chowder Luncheon in the Church’s Great Hall. Also, for the first time this year, there will be a silent auction with many fine items including glassware and collectibles. Call 627-4282 for more information.

‘Made in Maine’ Christmas Fair

WINDHAM — A “Made in Maine” Christmas Fair will be held on Saturday, Dec. 7, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 919 Roosevelt Trail in Windham. There’ll be handmade treasures, gift baskets, baked goods, jewelry, exceptional raffle items including Boston and Portland art museum passes, gift certificates to restaurants, spas, Portland theatre tickets, vintage hand-sewn quilt, a fully furnished quality dollhouse and much more. Breakfast and lunch will be served at the Snowflake Café, with homemade food to eat in or take out.

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DENMARK — The Denmark Congregational Church will hold its Annual Christmas Fair on Saturday, Dec. 7 at the Denmark Municipal Building from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. There’ll be a Cookie Walk, soup and sandwich lunch, raffles, crafters and a silent auction.

Santa’s Workshop for Kids Shopping

SEBAGO — Come bring your child to the 6th Annual Santa’s Workshop for Kids Shopping on Saturday, Dec.7, from 8 to 11 a.m. at Sebago Town Hall, Route 107, 407 Bridgton Road, Sebago. Children will be able to select from items under $1, after they have Breakfast with Santa. The event benefits Maple Grove Grange #148 Student Programs, and volunteers are needed. If you can help, call 787-2489.

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December Artist of the Month: Julieanne Reed NORWAY — The Western Maine Art Group’s Main Street Gallery in Norway will host a special First Friday reception and Holiday Party on Dec. 6, from 5 to 8 p.m. at 426 Main Street.

On display will be paintings of Julieanne Reed, Artist of the Month for December.

With rich pastel pigments on large canvases, Julieanne paints animals and magical beings. Her models are the birds and animals that dwell in her surroundings and just out of view. Her focus is much on the in-between times — the light as the day begins and ends, capturing moments of serious play in a world where messengers come in all forms, many of them winged. She draws on dreamtime to see what is often hiding in plain sight.

In addition to Julieanne’s paintings, the Main Street Gallery continues its holiday sale, an exhibit of miniatures — paintings no larger than ten by ten inches — all for sale and suitable for holiday gift-giving.

At the holiday open house, view the collection of original arts, mosaics, landscapes, figurative paintings, still life paintings, wood sculptures, jewelry and more. Visitors to the gallery on First Fridays will receive 10% discounts

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Country living

November 28, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page B

Volunteer Advocates needed for Helpline SOUTH PARIS — Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Services is looking for volunteer advocates to respond to its 24-hour crisis and support line and make a difference in the lives of people affected by sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, stalking or sexual harassment.

Volunteer advocates listen and provide support, information, and referrals to people calling for assistance. Calls can require supporting someone through a difficult memory of childhood sexual abuse, providing support and education about available resources.

Volunteer advocates receive extensive training and support to prepare them for effectively responding to callers. The training provides insight and information in the areas of sexual harassment, stalking, child sexual abuse, sexual assault and the challenges faced by survivors and their supporters. Volunteers are taught the various options and resources available for survivors of all ages in our communities and learn crisis intervention and advocacy

skills through training and role-play scenarios with special emphasis placed on the importance of self-care.

Volunteer advocates are notified of calls that need to be responded to through their cells phones from the answering service. This allows them to be on call from their homes and they can choose from a variety of scheduling options.

A stipend is available for volunteer advocates who cover evening, weekend and holiday shifts.

Volunteer advocates must be over the age of 18, empathetic and dependable with access to reliable transportation. All potential volunteers must complete the training and a screening process, which includes criminal and DHHS background checks. No prior experience is necessary.

Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Services is the name of the agency providing sexual assault related services throughout Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties, historically known as REACH in Oxford County.

In addition to its 24-hour

response line, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Services staff offer accompaniment to local hospitals, law enforcement and court proceedings; individual advocacy; and support groups. It also provides prevention education to local schools on a variety of topics including Internet/technology safety, healthy relationships, sexual assault, and sexual abuse prevention.

To learn more about programming, visit the website at www.sapars.org A new training session for volunteer advocates is scheduled to take place toward the end of January 2014 at the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Oxford County Office in South Paris. Days and times of the training will be decided once all interviews are complete (trainings runs four to six weeks). To learn more about becoming a volunteer advocate, please contact Lauren Dembski at 7439777, ext. 5. If you are unable to attend this session but are interested please still contact Dembski about trainings in the future.

King speaks at the Chamber Awards Night (Continued from Page B) Center for eight years. He also has been active in helping with the chamber’s Winter Carnival and served as Vice Chairman and Chairman of the former Bridgton Economic Development Committee.

Tarantino has long been active on a state and national level with the American Lung Association, the American Heart Association and the American Public Health Association. He serves currently as a part-time nonprofit and management consultant.

Community Volunteers

of the Year Carl and Jane Talbot have been actively involved in chamber affairs for many years, both dedicated volunteers who can always be counted on to take care of the necessary details, especially when it comes to public awareness and fundraising.

They are also active members of the Naples Lions Club.

President’s Award Pietree Orchard was purchased by Tabitha King in 1007 with the mission to grow and sell great fruits and vegetables, to educate the public

and to employ local people.

To build a stronger community, Pietree sent more than two tons of fresh produce to local food banks. At the height of the season, 30 locals were employed in 2013, with Tabitha’s daughter Naomi King acting as business manager. Pietree is growing daily, moving into maple sugar products this winter. With the addition of greenhouses, they have added a winter and an early spring growing season.

They employ local people throughout the winter.

Naples Christmas for Kids NAPLES — Every year, volunteers at the Community Resource Council of Naples work toward providing a happy Christmas for kids in need within the Naples community.

If you are a Naples family that could use help this holiday season and wish to register your child/children for the Christmas for Kids program, please contact Connie at 5952754.

The registration deadline is Friday, Dec. 6.

The CRC is an agency of United Methodist Church of Good Fellowship, and relies on the community for support of this program. Look for the

Food Pantry (Continued from Page B) When you make a financial contribution to the Bridgton Food Pantry, you know that 100% of that money is spent on providing food to your neighbors, friends and maybe even family. Please make your check payable to “Bridgton Food Pantry” and mail to P.O. Box 207, Bridgton, ME 04009. Your donation is taxdeductible.

At 16 cents per pound, $10 can go a long way.

Bake Off (Continued from Page B) new municipal center, greatly increasing the capacity for service. In addition to food assistance, programs include a ‘Kid’s Korner,’ health screenings and educational activities for all ages.

For more information, contact Stuart Leckie at sleckie@sjcme.edu. To learn more about Catherine’s Cupboard Food Pantry, contact Amy Russell, the pantry’s coordinator, at 893-7790.

yellow stars on the Christmas tree at The Umbrella Factory Supermarket located in the Naples Shopping Center, if you would like to help a specific child. If you wish to make a donation, please make check or money order payable

to the Community Resource Council of Naples. Include “Christmas for Kids” on the front of your check or money order and send your donation to: Community Resource Council of Naples, P.O. Box 447, Naples, ME 04055

AUTUMN VIEW — This oil on panel, Toad Stool, by Wendy Newcomb is one of the special works created in a 6”x6” format for the “Six Squared Show” holiday art exhibit

by Hole In The Wall Studioworks, a first for the gallery, to run from Friday, Nov. 29, through Friday, Jan. 31. There will be affordable works in oil, acrylic, encaustic, watercolor and hand prints, and the artists were excited to be challenged to work in a smaller format than they usually do. The public is invited to stop in during the gallery’s Holiday Open House, on Friday, Nov. 29 through Sunday, Dec. 1, for refreshments and to view the exhibit. Gallery hours are Monday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Hole In The Wall Studioworks is located on Route 302, in Raymond. For more information, call 655-4952, or e-mail jlmastro@maine.rr.com

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Naples Lions celebrate 10-year anniversary NAPLES — For 10 years, Lions have served Naples and its residents.

The huge stone fireplace in the dining room at Camp Sunshine was the perfect setting for the Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Naples Lions Club on Saturday, Nov. 16.

A sumptuous buffet table, provided by the camp chef, featuring freshly-carved prime rib of beef was enjoyed by a host of Lions from across the state of Maine. The program for the evening was filled with accolades, awards and recognition of a job well done by the local club.

Founding president, David Gerrish, served as the master of ceremonies and shared the dais with current King Lion John Horne.

Following dinner, words of welcome were brought by Matthew Hoidal, executive director of Camp Sunshine.

However, the tables were turned and Hoidal was the

surprise recipient of a special Melvin Jones Fellow award. He was selected by the local Lions for his exceptional leadership during the nearly thirty years the camp has been in operation. Hoidal has been awarded the four-star rating (the highest possible) for nonprofit management for the last five years

by Charity Navigator, the top accreditation agency for American Camp Association.

Ron Johnson, a Lions Club past international director, was the evening’s keynote speaker. Johnson, a member of the nearby Sebago club, was instrumental in the establishment of the Naples club and is frequently called their “Founding Father” by its members. He worked tirelessly with Gerrish during 2003 to recruit sufficient men and women to charter the new organization.

Naples was the first new club to be chartered in over 10 years in southwestern Maine.

During the organizational process, Johnson stated that

he was often perplexed by the erratic attendance at the sessions.

“However, I was encouraged that at every gathering the late Judy Flick was always there,” he said. “She kept me going and believing that the club was a possibility.”

Flick became a charter member and continued to support the club faithfully until her health began to fail. She was named an “honorary member” in July of 2010 and died in December of that year.

The inside cover of the evening program bore a memorial tribute to her life and spirit of service.

During his speech, Johnson cited the exceptional service, which the club has given to both the local community and to Lions’ various causes and charities. He made reference to the fact that the club, which was only three years old at the time, was an inspiration to the rest of the Lions’ district when they pledged to become

EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP — P.D.G. Harvey Buzzell was also presented a “progressive” Melvin Jones Fellow for his service to his home club, to Lions District 41 and for his exceptional leadership as District Governor in 2008-09. “Progressive” awards are given to Lions who have previously received a M.J.F. but who have continued to serve in an exceptional manner.

Looking on is P.I.D. Ron Johnson who presented the award and K.L. Jack Horne who has just completed the reading of the citation from the international foundation.

a “Model Club” for the Lions International capital drive “Campaign SightFirst II.” In 2006, the club pledged $400 per member to the campaign and became the first club in the state to do so. During his presentation, he paid tribute to Past District Governor Al Glover of Bridgton. Glover was the “Guiding Lion” for the club during their first two years. The excellence of his leadership gave a sound foundation to the Naples group.

Along with Gerrish and Horne, P.I.D. Johnson presented Glover with a “Progressive Melvin Jones Fellow” award; a distinguished additional service honor given by the International Association of Lions.

Later on Johnson also paid tribute to P.D.G. Harvey Buzzell for his exceptional leadership to the Lions district over the past ten years; most especially for Buzzell’s willingness to step in, at the last minute, to fill the role of District Governor for the Lions year of 2008-09.

In recognition of his service, a “Progressive Melvin Jones Fellow” was also presented to Buzzell by his home club.

“Words cannot adequately express the level of leadership Harvey has offered to Lionism, a role that he continues to fill,” Johnson stated.

Greetings and 10-year membership awards were presented by Leo Gould, the current District 41 governor, to charter members. Several past district governors, who served during the past ten years, spoke of the unique role the Naples Club has played within the district. They cited the exceptionally large amount of funds the club has been able to raise and, in turn, given to a broad range of charitable needs. One of the P.D.G.s in a impromptu moment led the group in the “Lions Roar” cheer.

In his concluding remarks, Gerrish spoke of the club’s appreciation to the greater Naples community for their support of the club’s fundraising efforts. Mentioning specifically the three summer cruises aboard the Songo River Queen II and the “Spring Fling” single charity event.

A “wrap up” of the evening was given by P.D.G. Duke Goranites of the Harrison Club, who dismissed the gathering with a prayer for a safe journey home.

MELVIN JONES FELLOW — Camp Sunshine Executive Director, Matthew Hoidal, was presented an honorary Melvin Jones Fellow award by the Naples Lions.

The award was presented for outstanding service and leadership and is made possible through grants given to the Lions Clubs International Foundation.

GATHERING OF LIONS — Past District Governor Al Glover, second from right, was given a “progressive’ Melvin Jones Fellow award at the anniversary event. Glover, a member of the Bridgton Lions Club, served as the “Guiding Lion” of the Naples group during the first two years of their existence. Other Lions shown are King Lion “Jack” Horne, Dave Gerrish (founding president) and Past International Director Ron Johnson of Sebago.

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November 28, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page C

LR top athletes named

Lake Region had several fall athletes named as Western Maine All-Conference selections. They include: Field Hockey: Lucy Fowler, first team, All State; Casey Heath, second team; Courtney Yates, second team Football: Cody Gibbons Cross-Country: Audrey Blais, All State Girls’ Soccer: Katie Throgmorton, Isabelle Scribner, Devynn Turner, honorable mention Golf: Tyler Walker

Hoops round robin

IT’S OFFICIAL — Lake Region star center Tiana-Jo Carter signed her letter of intent last Wednesday, commiting to the Division I University at Albany. She is pictured with Laker teammates, head coach Paul True (left) and AAU Coach Rick Libby.

Signing day

Laker senior center to attend Division 1 Albany

By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer When Tiana-Jo Carter moved to the Lake Region in fourth grade, she was immediately told she would be playing basketball.

It was a likely assumption since Tiana was taller than her classmates.

Tiana, however, wasn’t so sure.

“In the beginning, I really didn’t know what basketball was. I was awful, at first,” Tiana recalled. “Once I started, I fell in love with the sport. To be able to go to college and play the sport I love is just a dream come true.”

The dream became reality last week when Tiana officially signed her collegiate letter of intent to play Division I basketball at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

She is a Laker right now.

She will be a Great Dane in the near future.

To celebrate the signing and the achievements of the AllConference, 6-foot-2 center, a special ceremony was held at Lake Region Vocational Center last Wednesday night.

With parents, fans and her teammates on hand, Tiana signed on the dotted line, witnessed by Lake Region varsity girls’ basketball coach Paul True and her AAU hoop coach, Rick Libby.

“It is true that it takes a community to raise a child. I may be a little biased, but our community is a special place — where everyone knows your name; is always there to give a helping hand; to show

support or to invite you in and pull up a seat at the dinner table. Because this generosity is certainly evident in Tiana’s journey, there would be so many people to thank. The truth is so many can take great pride in this special day for this special young lady,” True said. “As early as Tiana’s early recreation playing days, we knew we had something special. That was crystal clear by her ability to perfectly execute cartwheels, either on the baseline while her coaches were giving instructions or better yet while in transition running up and down the floor.”

True told the large crowd that Tiana’s signing is the reward for her hard work and commitment.

“This day is not attainable without work ethic and a passion to play at the highest level possible. From her experiences gained through her high school program, as well as her AAU exposure, this day has been made possible through her commitment,” True said.

“This will be a new chapter for Tiana. We want her to know once a Laker, always a Laker. We will always be behind her future endeavors unconditionally.”

Tiana was touched by the outpouring of community support and pride.

“I thank those members of the Lake Region community who have watched me grow and develop into the person I am today,” she said. “ I thank my coaches for coaching and inspiring me to be the best I can be, on and off the court. I thank my teammates

University at Albany State University of New York Nickname: Great Danes Conference: America East Record: 5-0 Ranking: Presently #15 in the Mid Major Poll; the only America East team in the Mid Major Top 25 Last Year: 27-4, 16-0 in the conference (second straight conference title) Head Coach: Katie Abrahamson-Henderson, fourth season (66-28), 10th head coach in the program’s history; previously was the assistant head coach at Indiana University; 1990 graduate of the University of Iowa; worked as an assistant of Joanne McCallie at the University of Maine, Orono, 1992-94 UA Roster: The Great Danes are led by sophomore 6foot-1 forward Shereesha Richards of Jamaica, who posted 28 points and 15 rebounds in a win over Marist. This week, she was named the America East Player of the Week for the third time this season. The Great Danes also have 6-foot-9 junior Megan Craig of New Zealand. Roster make-up: 1 senior, 3 juniors, 3 sophomores, 6 freshmen.

for always pushing me to be better, not only for myself but the team as well. I thank my family for their support and love.”

College scouts started to take notice of the gifted center two years ago. Albany was right at the head of the line.

Others, including Indiana and Syracuse, joined the list of suitors for Tiana, who has a career stat average of 15 points, 17 rebounds and 4 blocked shots to help lead the Lakers to two state final appearances.

“It was a long process. It was crazy with all of these colleges contacting me. Once I decided on where I wanted to go, it went really well. It took a lot off my shoulders,” she said.

Albany was there from the start. Other suitors included Indiana (too far away) and Syracuse.

“Family is very important to me so staying nearby was really important. A lot of people think that New York is far away, but it’s only about 4½ hours away from here. If you are going D-1, you’re not going to be coming home often to begin with,” Tiana said. “At first, it was cool to see the number of schools interested in me.

Then, when it came down to make a decision, it was very stressful. All kinds of things went through my mind.”

Tiana heard all kinds of advice as she pondered multiple offers. In the end, two A GOOD FIT — Tiana-Jo Carter believes taking her baspieces of advice really aided ketball talents to the University at Albany (N.Y.) will be a her in making a final decigood fit.

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Area fans looking to get a first glimpse of the defending Class B West champion Lady Lakers girls’ basketball team can do so this Saturday.

The Laker Round Robin will be held on Nov. 30 at LRHS. The schedule is as follows: 9 a.m. Poland vs. Mt. Ararat 10:30 a.m. Lake Region vs. Lawrence 12 p.m. Waynflete vs.

Gorham 1:30 p.m. Winslow vs. Mt. Ararat 3 p.m. Gorham vs.

Lawrence 4:30 p.m. Winslow vs.

Waynflete 6 p.m. Lake Region vs.

Gorham Admission is $3 for adults, $1 for seniors and $1 for students. The concession stand will be open.

Silas leads Colby

The bright lights of Nationals didn’t faze Silas Eastman.

The Colby College freshman finished first for the Mules for the first time this season, finishing in 96th place out of 275 racers at the NCAA Division Championships held at Hanover College last Saturday in Indiana.

Eastman had a time of 25 minutes, 52.6 seconds over the 8-kilometer course.

Connecticut College’s Michael LeDuc won the individual national title with a 24:29.3 clocking.

Colby was making its first-ever team appearance at the NCAA meet. The Mules had a team score of 529, good for 22nd in the 32-team field.

The Mules beat New England Region rivals MIT and Bates.

St. Olaf won the team title.

The former FA standout had two days off before traveling to Canada on Tuesday to start his preseason Nordic ski training.

Stevie enjoys seeing world on foot Skating

By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer Stevie Dembowski has found that the best way to see and experience the beauty of nature is by walking.

“I’ve been in love with the outdoors for as long as I can remember. I grew up on Sebago Lake, and went on many family hiking and camping trips,” said the Casco resident, who graduated from Lake Region High School in 2005.

Stevie attended summer camp at Camp Pondicherry in Bridgton and Camp Natarswi in Baxter State Park (years later, she would return to the camps as an employee), which sparked her appreciation for outdoor living.

“I hadn’t really done much backpacking until my sister suggested we do the 100-Mile Wilderness in 2010,” she said.

The 100-Mile Wilderness is the section of the Appalachian Trail (AT) just before Baxter State Park and is considered the most remote part of the Trail as it neither crosses a paved road or is near any towns.

“Our trip was a success and it was where I first

got the inkling that hiking the AT was a thing I could do. It was a big time commitment though, so I put it on the back burner,” Stevie said. “My hike of the 100-Mile Wilderness gave me the confidence that I needed that walking across Ireland could be a viable option.”

After high school, Stevie attended Cornell University, where she graduated in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in Animal Science. She went on to work for Pineland Farms Natural Meats in Fort Fairfield for a couple of years. Stevie realized she wanted to travel before settling down in a career and grown-up life.

So, in the fall of 2011, Stevie decided to realize a lifelong goal of visiting Ireland.

“Having wanted to go for so long, I realized that I had no idea what I wanted to see. I wanted to take in as much as possible on a rather meager budget. I decided the cheapest way to travel would be on foot.

So, I researched long-distance walking paths across Ireland,” she said. “I found a ton and began planning my route. This resulted in a two-month backpacking tour across the country, covering 600 miles. At the

close of my journey, I hopped a ferry to Scotland and essentially couch-surfed my way across Great Britain for a month staying with old friends I’d made back in summer camp some years ago.”

After the trip, Stevie returned to the States, needing work and to replenish her finances. Hiking, however, became a passion.

“After backpacking and visiting all my old camp buddies, I recalled how important those summers had been to me and resolved to find some way to find the magic of summer camp during the school year. I discovered it in the field of Outdoor Education and traveled to Texas to work there. It was in Texas that I made friends with the girl who I would go on to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail with,” Stevie said.

Stevie felt she was prepared to take on this challenging excursion. She had experience as trip leader, having worked at Camp Natarswi and Camp Runoia (in Belgrade Lakes), and taught outdoor living skills at Pondicherry and Natarswi. She also participated in the Junior Maine Guide Program.

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The Bridgton Ice Arena in North Bridgton will offer public skating during the month of November and December as follows: Wednesday, Nov. 27, noon to 2 p.m.

Special Friday, Nov. 29, 5 to 7 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 1, 15, 22, 29 from noon to 2 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 8, Special benefit for On Eagles Wings, 3 to 5 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 30, 2 to 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 3, 10, 17, noon to 2 p.m.

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Tiana selects U-Albany (Continued from Page C) sion.

“A lot of people gave me advice, but maybe the best was, ‘Do what is best for me.’ I have a tendency of trying to please other people, make sure they are happy,” she said. “The other was, ‘Do it because you think it is right, not what other people have to say because I am the one that’s going to be there the next four years.’ Albany is such a ‘family’ team. It means a lot to me. I loved the campus, and the coaches and staff are great.”

When Tiana visited Albany, there was an instant connection.

“You always hear that when you walk onto a campus you’re going to know if it is right for you, that happened for me. I wanted to make sure it was the right decision. Every time I went back, I loved it even more. This is where I wanted to go,” she said. “I really enjoyed Northeastern. I am not a huge city person, but when I was on campus, it really didn’t feel that way. I didn’t get the same feeling as I did with Albany.”

Tiana plans to major in accounting.

“I’ve always loved math. Last year, I took

an accounting class and found that is what I want to major in,” she said.

Playing in America East, Tiana will return to her home state at least once each season when the Great Danes take on the UMaine Black Bears. To the south, fans can also catch Tiana when Albany plays the University of New Hampshire in Durham.

For now, Tiana’s sights are set on leading the Lakers back to the big game. She has been working to improve her post moves (“There is always room for improvement,” she said), a must since most teams will continue to double and triple team her inside the lane this winter.

As for the Lakers’ chances of emerging as a top contender in Class B West again, Tiana likes her team’s chances.

“We did lose some players from last year and it will be felt, no question about that, but I think it is just a matter of working together and pushing each other every day,” she said.

“As long as you have team chemistry, you will get far, which has happened the past few years. You will always face challenges. It is THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT — In making her announcement last week to attend what you learn from the those challenges that the University at Albany, Tiana-Jo Carter thanked her coaches, teammates, family and (Rivet Photo) makes you better. I look forward to the chal- community for supporting her over the years.

Stevie’s love of backpacking (Continued from Page C) “While trip leading for Camp Runoia in the summer of 2012, a lot of our hiking and backpacking trips took place on the AT. I continued to meet thru-hikers and was further inspired,” she said.

On March 15, 2013, Stevie stood on the summit of Springer Mountain in Northern Georgia watching the sun set. After spending the winter making preparations, she was finally at the start of the Appalachian Trail.

Now, the only thing left to do was walk.

Hiking the Appalachian Trail was the longest hike Stevie would tackle. It runs through 14 states on the East Coast totaling 2,185.9 miles in length and, on average, the trail takes four to six months to traverse.

“I feel as though challenges and memorable occasions go hand in hand. I once overheard a guide say, ‘The trouble with good stories is that you have to survive them first.’ A lot of the people I met on the Trail started solo and made friends along the way. I started with a friend of mine, a girl named Jackie Lambert from Richmond, Va. We also finished together, which is the question most people follow with. After hiking Ireland by myself, it was a welcome change,” Stevie said.

The AT experience will always be a memorable one for Stevie Dembowski. There were good days. There were bad days.

“Everyone grumbles about the rocks of Pennsylvania, the place Bill Bryson noted, ‘where boots go to die.’ He wasn’t TAKING IN THE VIEW AT THE TRAIL’S END — Stevie Dembowski of Casco. wrong. It’s the kind of rocks that they are that cause such damRain can be a challenge to some, but after hiking Ireland, it age,” Stevie said. “Being from Maine, I know a thing or two to fall apart. Women retained weight better than men, but their about hiking on rocks, so I loved every minute of my time in feet swelled and ached. Toes developed ingrown nails or blis- wasn’t one for Stevie.

“Thunderstorms are no joke, but sometimes you can’t help Pennsylvania. I think I was the only one.” After Pennsylvania, ters.

“I had a pair of shoes that blistered me up pretty good before where you are when they hit and the only safe thing to do is hikers battled bugs in Connecticut. Despite being in New England and so close to the finish, Stevie couldn’t fault anyone I was able to retire them and get a new pair,” Stevie said. “My hike on,” she said. friend Jackie hiked her shoes to pieces. The lack of support The biggest challenge came in Maine, right after the group’s for dropping out there. entrance into the 100-Mile Wilderness. Along the way, Stevie “They were maddening. Mosquitoes, swarmed by the hun- messed up her legs until she got a new pair of shoes.”

Right after the Maine border, Stevie’s knees started to act up, met many people from all backgrounds and vary in hiking dreds, making it impossible to stop for water, let alone catch styles and speeds. your breath or eat food,” she said. “Bug spray, even the good no doubt as a result of her propensity to “bomb down hills.”

“The hills were quite steep in the section we’d just com“Some stick with you for an hour, some for months. A stuff, didn’t last long because it was so humid, you sweated it off in minutes. Or, it was raining. The bugs were still out when pleted: The White Mountains. The pain never went away, but boy who’d been walking with us since the halfway point in I was far too close to quit, so I just wrapped my knees, and Pennsylvania slipped and fell and was having trouble putting it rained.”

All along the Trail, at different points, hikers’ bodies started carried on,” she recalled.

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Skating times at BIA (Continued from Page C) Thursday, Dec. 26, noon to 3 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 13, 20, 27, 6 to 8 p.m.

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(Continued from Page C) be able to power through, we fixed him with an ankle brace we had with us and he said he wanted to press on,” Stevie said. “Remember now that there are no roads and towns in this section of the Trail.”

After about half the day had passed, the group had barely gone five miles (on an average day, the merry party could do 15 to 20 miles). The boy decided that he couldn’t do the rest of the Trail. The group only had enough food for five days because that’s how long they knew it would take them to travel the distance (barring any disasters). At their current pace, they wouldn’t make it. By a stroke of pure luck, they happened across a gentleman, who had a map of the area that showed an old logging road nearby.

“We were able to escort our friend out. When it was all said and done, our friend, who we later learned had broken a bone near his ankle, hiked eight miles that day. Without him, we only hiked a few more, but we would have to hike much farther in the following days to get to Abol Bridge Campground, on the other side of the Wilderness, to get more food,” Stevie said. “We were successful, but, the fact that we were so tight on food had us scared. Hikers need a lot of food to get by. They burn way more calories than they consume.”

Trudging down the road from Franconia Notch State Park, the hikers planned to make a pit stop in town for a chance to eat, do laundry and take much-needed showers. The hikers hoped to hitch a ride into town, but there was absolutely no traffic heading the way they wanted to go. The sun was boiling. Just when they thought the day couldn’t get worse, a car pulled up alongside and asked the hikers if we needed a ride.

The three hikers piled in and the driver asked them where they wanted to go.

“Showers had been on the forefront of our minds. But that was at noon. Now, all we wanted was food. I told the gentleman at the wheel that my sister had told me about this place called the Woodstock Inn. It was a microbrew and I knew we could all use a beer. When we rolled out of the car and as we eyed the place, I had immediate doubts about being let in. It looked kind of classy, and that was the opposite of our current condition. Our chauffeur informed us they he would find us a way in and a seat outside so we wouldn’t offend the patrons with our smell,” Stevie said. “He returned a short time later and led the way to the patio. Then this charming fellow, by the name of Adam Britton, took a seat alongside us and listened to us as we regaled him with stories of our adventures.

He told us of his time over in Japan where he’d been stationed for some years.”

When it came time to order, Stevie found the largest burger on the menu — 36 ounces of meat, topped with a BLT that she hoped would quell her hunger.

“When it came time to pay for the check, I realized I didn’t even know the cost of the monstrosity I had ordered.

I had been too hungry to care. Then, the most amazing thing happened. Despite watching three dirty thru-hikers eat like savages, the wonderful human that is Adam Britton paid for our meals and our beers,” she said. “There are so many great stories of folks showing kindness to hikers, an act referred to on the Trail as ‘trail magic.’ I could talk for ages about all the good will received despite the look and smell of us.

There are days that are hard. There are days you wouldn’t believe if you hadn’t been there yourself. But there are also days that are magical, that renew your faith in humanity, or leave you baffling in awe at the beauty of nature. At no point in my journey did my hardships outweigh the wonder.

I would do it again in a heartbeat and I would recommend it to all who are able.”

On Aug. 16, five months and a day after her start from Georgia, Stevie and her hiking companions woke up in the wee hours of the morning to climb the final mountain: Mount Katahdin, the northern terminus of the AT. “Our hike was made mostly in the dark in order to reach the summit in time to watch the sun rise. With that final ascent, not only did I successfully complete my thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, I was rewarded with a beautiful sunrise,” Stevie said.

The trip did not disappoint in doling out adventure. Stevie saw snow in four of the southern states. She climbed mountains in thunderstorms, gale force winds, clouds of bugs, and extreme heat and humidity. She experienced southern hospitality, moonshine, and delicious barbeque.

After such a lengthy trek, some folks hang up their hiking boots forever. Others immediately start planning their next hike. As for Stevie, she is still as much in love with backpacking as she ever was. Many who continue their love affair with hiking after the AT go on to walk the Pacific Crest Trail on the West Coast.

“It looks like fun but I feel no reason to limit myself to just this continent. There’s a big world out there that I’d like to continue to explore,” Stevie said. I know I do my best work on foot.”

Stevie hopes to continue to pursue her love of backpacking and the outdoors.

“I would like even more to find a job that is conducive to such hobbies. That is currently where I stand: on the search for my next adventure and the funds to make it possible,” she said.

Stevie is the daughter of Paul and Theresa Dembowski.

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52. “C’___ la vie!”

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By Peter C. Berry Special to The News The Bridgton Fair was first held at the town hall in the fall of 1884 and then at the fair grounds on the west side of South High Street in 1892. A half-mile trotting track and grandstand were added in 1897. Interest waned in the 1920s and the fair was discontinued.

During the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps took over the grounds for a camp and in the early 1960s, Northern Cumberland Memorial Hospital acquired the property and built a new hospital.

When I began hunting deer in the early 1950s, this fairgrounds and the woods surrounding it were my area of choice because it was within walking distance of home and the old grandstand, or what was left of it, provided an interesting place to hunker down and scan the woods for the elusive whitetail.

On one memorable day, I met my good friend and hunting mentor, Pease Boutillier, at my house and we walked along Main Street in the dark headed for Percy’s Restaurant at the top of Main Hill. The businesses we passed along the way were dark and shuttered and where, during the day, the town was a bustling center of commerce, at this predawn hour we were the only sign of life as we trudged toward a hearty breakfast before continuing to the fairgrounds less than a mile down South High Street.

We arrived at what was left of the grandstand before daylight and quietly positioned ourselves behind two large pine-spill covered mounds just west of the old, wooden relic. It was, as I remember, very dark and foggy that morning and as I peered into the gloom I could swear I saw, through breaks in the fog, dozens of deer milling about and grazing on what was available.

I quickly slipped back behind the mound and rubbed my eyes as if to eliminate the obviously false vision I thought I had just seen. I looked at Pease and he, too, had seen something startling so I crawled toward him and as I did he put his finger to his lips and pointed to the woods beyond.

I whispered that I thought many deer were just a short distance away and he nodded and motioned to rise up slowly and take a look. At first, I saw nothing then after a few seconds a slight breeze created a break in the fog and there before us stood more deer then I had ever hoped to see. Deer of all sizes were looking right at us, several of them with antlers, and at the rear of this herd a stately old buck half hidden in the brush watched us with a cautious eye.

My heart began to pound as Pease slowly raised his 30-30 and took aim. I was armed with a borrowed half pistol, half rifle single shot 38-55 and I, too, took aim and as I did Pease cocked his rifle. That barely perceptible click, the slightest of audible sound, was all it took to spook those deer. In the wink of an eye, we were looking at an empty space. Where once a mass of deer had stood, now nothing. The deer had vanished with hardly a sound. They were there one second and gone the next.

We looked at the tranquil glen where so many deer had been and couldn’t believe what had just happened.

I guess we hoped to see a straggler, but the woods were quiet and peaceful except for the chatter of a few chickadees.

The walk home was a quiet one and it was only when we were sitting at Mom’s kitchen table and sipping hot tea did the emotions of this episode come out as we told her of the events of the hunt. She said later that we sounded like two young magpies jabbering all at once.

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Speckled Mountain from the summit of West Royce Mountain.

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Freedom of the Hills

Hike to West Royce Mountain

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away,” — Anonymous

By Allen Crabtree Guest Writer West Royce and East Royce mountains sit on either side of the MaineNew Hampshire state line — West Royce in New Hampshire and East Royce in Maine.

Both summits are rewarding climbs and can be climbed separately or, through a network of connecting trails, climbed together on one outing. The two peaks are part of the Bald Face-Royce Range in Evans Notch.

The two mountains were labeled on Holland’s 1794 map of New Hampshire,

and were named for Captain Vera Royce, an Irishman who lived in Fryeburg, and surveyed portions of the Saco Valley. In return for his role as a soldier in the French and Indian War, he received a 2,000-acre grant of land in the upper Saco River. Other historical trivia about the area include: Evans Notch is named for Captain John Evans who had led a group of militia in the 1781 Indian wars; the Evans Notch Highway (ME 113) was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1936; and the once bustling sawmill town of Hastings used to be located at the confluence of the Wild River and Evans Brook.

West Royce can be climbed from the north, via the Burnt Mill Brook Trail and the Royce Trail, from

A waterfall on the Burnt Mill Brook Trail to West Royce Mountain.

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the east from Evans Notch and the East Royce Trail, from the west from the Basin Rim Trail, or from the south via the Royce Trail. The most popular are the northern and eastern approaches.

The Denmark Mountain Hikers have climbed both West and East Royce mountains, and enjoyed the views from the northern Burnt Mill Brook Trail approach.

There are stream crossings with any of the approaches, so care is recommended during times of high water.

The views from the summits are worth the hike.

Hike facts West Royce Mountain is located in Coos County, Chatham/Bean’s Purchase, Evans Notch, N.H. Difficulty: Moderate Trail distance: 2.7 miles to summit via Burnt Mill Brook Trail and Royce Trail Hiking time: 2½ hours to summit Elevation: 3,210 feet Vertical gain: 2,264 feet Coordinates: 44° 18’ 8’’ N; 71° 1’ 6’’ W Topographic Map: USGS Wild River 7.5-minute quad Directions to the West Royce Burnt Mill Brook Trailhead: This series of trails climbs West Royce from the north. From US 302, take Maine 113 North into Evans Notch past the height-of-land. Turn left (west) on to Wild River Road (FR12) and go 2.7

miles to the trailhead parking area. A WMNF parking permit is required ($3 daily — the daily permit can be obtained at the parking lot). The road through Evans Notch is gated from about Nov. 1 through the winter.

Directions to the East and West Royce Evans Notch Trailhead: This series of trails climb West Royce from the east, and shares part of the route with the trail to East Royce.

From US 302, take Maine 113 North into Evans Notch to the height-of-land. Just north of the height-of-land there is a White Mountain National Forest parking lot on the west side and the trailhead to East and West Royce. A WMNF parking permit is required ($3 daily — the daily permit can be obtained at the parking lot).

The road through Evans Notch is gated from about Nov. 1 through the winter.

Burnt Mill Brook Trail Information: The Burnt Mill Brook Trail climbs easily from the trailhead on the Wild River Road following the course of the brook for most of its 2.0 miles to the junction with the Royce Trail in the col between East and West Royce Mountains. The Royce Trail climbs more steeply over open ledges and through spruce to the summit. There are two outlooks to the east with views of Speckled Mountain.

Evans Notch Trail

The Denmark Mountain Hikers on the trail to West Royce Mountain.

(Photo by Trudy Dunn) Information: The East Royce Trail leaves the trailhead on Evans Notch and crosses Evans Brook and several other small streams in the first half-mile. In the spring these streams will be running fairly full and the sound of water is never far from the hiker’s ears along the trail. The last brook crossing is at 1.0-miles and here the Royce Connector Trail to West Royce diverges to the left. The Royce Trail is joined at 0.2 miles and continues for another 1.4 miles to the summit of West Royce, passing the Burnt Mill Brook Trail coming in from the right.

Hikers should consult the Appalachian Mountain Club

(AMC) White Mountain Guide for more information on West Royce.

What to bring: Clothes suitable to the season (hat, gloves, jacket), rain gear, touring poles, sunglasses, water and snacks, personal first aid kit, pocket knife, whistle, matches or fire starter, map and compass, flashlight or headlamp and cell phone. Let someone know your hiking plans before you leave!

Next: The next hiking column will be on Pondicherry Park in Bridgton. For the next Denmark Mountain Hikers’ climb, check the Bridgton News community calendar.

Deer tagged at Jordan’s Store (Continued from Page C) Dale Cressey of Baldwin, buck, 10 points, 190 pounds; Bruce Hilton of Standish, doe; James Galipeau of Standish, buck, 6 points, 128 pounds.

November 21 Kurt Christensen of Sebago, buck, 8 points, 163

pounds; Anthony DiBiase III of Portland, buck, 8 points, 167 pounds; Frederick Welch of Sebago, doe.

November 22 Nathan Reynolds of Baldwin, buck.

November 23 Matthew Peavey of

Oxford, buck, spike horn; Barry Jordan of Sebago, doe; Jama Kenney of Sebago, buck; Thomas Mazza of Gorham, buck; Shawn McKeough of Westbrook, doe; Timothy Profenno of Gorham, buck, 6 points, 115 pounds; Hannah Buckley of Baldwin, buck;

Darrell Cox of Sebago, buck, 4 points, 108 pounds; Molly Christensen of Sebago, doe, 106 pounds; David Merrill of Windham, buck; Kenneth Tarbox of Sebago, doe, 115 pounds; Gayle Small of Cornish, buck.

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Opinion & Comment

November 28, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page D

The real story of first Thanksgiving

Remember those November-time plays you performed in elementary school, the servers in paper Pilgrim’s hats, all the third graders running around like wild Indians, an early form of type-casting? Well, Thanksgiving wasn’t actually like that in 1621 — though today it is, provided you take the family out for dinner to McDonald’s.

The history you read in school is all a pack of lies.

The following scenario sets straight at last the real history of the First Thanksgiving.

A small gathering hunches around two picnic tables, praying over a pile of corncobs and a roast wild turkey.

John Alden has the grill going

in the background. From the nearby forest, glittering eyes monitor the proceedings (no bodies, just glittering eyes, monitoring, monitoring.) A young girl runs past, rolling a small hoop with a stick.

Miles Standish: Stop frolicking, She-Devil!

Girl: Yes my lord! Throws herself on the ground and dies.

Miles Standish: That’s better.

All: Amen!

John Alden: Man, this maize is delicious!

Squanto: It tastes even better if you cook it.

John Alden: Really? We’ll have to get the recipe. Taters, please…

Squanto: Gravy?

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by Mike Corrigan BN Columnist Sir William Gravy: What?

Squanto: Not you. Sorry.

Charles Sorrie: What?

Squanto: Cursed homonyms!

Sir Joseph Gay: Now don’t start in on me!

Gravy, Sorrie and Gay leave in a huff, a small Indian cart with three wheels.

Miles Standish: So, I see you’re a diplomat. Sign this.

Squanto: Sure. Signing.

What is it?

John Alden: It appears to be… fine print.

Squanto: Zaba-dee! My dream! Still signing. How many k’s in Squanto?

Miles Standish: As many as you like, my man. Grabs paper. Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Now we own all the way to Oregon!

Squanto: What? But this is our land. We use it to hunt

game, we move our towns around in order to rotate the crops. Someday, there’ll be casinos…

Miles Standish: Silence, heathen! Remove your bonnet. Were you brought up in a barn?

Brass band enters. Plays The Star-Spangled Banner.

Miles Standish: It’s official. We own it all now. We claim this land of Pilgrim’s pride where in due course our fathers will have died. Or someone’s fathers… hmmm, that would probably be us…

Anyway, here’s the deed. You signed.

Squanto: I guess I did.

But… Maybe we could share?

Miles Standish: Indian

giver!

To cap off the day of goodwill and thanksgiving, the Englishmen break out a bottle of brandy. Squanto, in a funk, gets absolutely hammered.

Soon, weaving, he passes around his own comestibles.

John Alden: What’s this?

Squanto: You give me alcohol, the curse of my people for the next three hundred years; returning the favor, I give you something we call to-mah-to.

Standish (taking a puff and smiling): Hmmm. You say tomah-to, I say to-bac-co.

CURTAIN. Mike’s story of the first Arbor Day also blows the lid off American history. Can’t wait till April!

Planning Front

by Anne Krieg Bridgton Director of Planning, Economic & Community Development

Planning for a bit of everything

Hi all — I hope this note finds you getting ready and likely in the midst of a fun holiday season! I need to keep it short and sweet this month, so I can get to the paperwork on my desk!

November has been a month of research work, everything from land use data to tax increment financing. I was also part of emergency management training, parking on Main Street in the winter discussions, and got a trails grant out the door on Pondicherry Park (making it accessible.) The best part of a local planning and development position is you get to do everything, even if your mind is in every different direction!

The Community Development Block Grant projects are moving along — we are in the midst of interviewing the design and engineering professionals for the Depot Street project, as well as getting the Moses House started, the Rufus Porter Museum finished, and all the programs moving along smoothly. It’s also budget time for next year, as well as time for the Annual Report, and it’s time to get applications ready for next year’s Community Development Block Grant program.

The Memorial School redevelopment and cleanup planning is also humming along; I am hoping to get a great development project going there in the next two years that will get to you for your review for the June 2014 Town Meeting. How does that timeline work, you ask? Stay with the project at the Selectmen’s meetings and on the website/online to find out.

In December, we will be getting the design and engineering work going for Depot Street. I will go visit the business incubator space in Orono, and the CDBG projects applications for next year will go out. Stay tuned, and as always, stop me if you see me to chat, call me, e-mail me, LinkedIn with me, like me on Facebook and follow me on Twitter! Best wishes for the season and for coming year.

Letters Important omission

To The Editor: I am probably not the first to write about the omission of the name of the author of The Soldier on Crutches in your Nov. 14 edition. It is certainly a fine poem.

As a life member of the VFW, who was never wounded in Europe during WWII, I certainly agree with (in particular) the last paragraph! I enlisted in the Army Air Corps while I was still at Bridgton High School. I moved to Connecticut after my marriage in 1950.

Dick Johnson Oakdale, Conn.

Editor’s note: The poem’s author was Edgar Guest.

Goodness of the heart

Editor’s Note: Sue Durkee of Casco submitted the following letter, feeling “We need to read more about the good things people do, as there are too many letters of disagreement. It is so great when things like this happen.” She wanted to recognize a good deed done by David Willette: To The Editor: On Monday, you observed me in the line at our local supermarket trying to buy two turkeys for the Casco Village Church Thanksgiving baskets (65) for those in our community who are in dire

PRACTICE WHAT ONE PREACHES? — Photographer Jim Medcalf asks, “What was once a wetland with peepers and ducks is now a sign infested site. How many signs are necessary to encourage people to eat at McDonalds or at any other establishment? Almost comical is the Town of Bridgton’s own 18 signs that dot the boat launch ramp on Highland Lake. I’m glad that the board of selectmen has made this issue a focus.”

No runs, no hits, plenty of errors These past weeks have revealed damaging mistakes in Washington. All — with a little attention to detail and a lot of inspiration driven by the public good — might have been avoided. None, especially without that crucial second condition, will be easily corrected.

If we lived in a “shame” society like Japan’s, there would have been by now a series of high-level resignations — and possibly some even more gut-wrenching res-

Small World

by Henry Precht BN Columnist olutions of self-assumed guilt.

Instead, we get a modern American tactic of responding to that guilt: “I take full responsibility for the foulup,” the public is told. That

is considered sufficient to end remorse and the assignment of blame. “Forgetaboutit. Let’s move on,” is the message.

Let’s take President Obama’s gaffes first. They are

straits and might otherwise have no meal. The store’s rule was that a customer could only buy one turkey per visit. I was told I could return and buy another turkey at a subsequent visit. The wonderful employees apologized for this rule and tried to be so helpful, as they always are. I put one turkey aside.

You observed this, bought the turkey yourself, located me in the parking lot and donated the turkey yourself to these needy families and refused to allow me to reimburse you.

It is so heart-warming to once again experience the love and helpfulness of people in our community. The Lake Region is a wonderful place to live because of kind people like you. May you have a special reward in your future for your kindness. Have a beautiful Thanksgiving holiday.

Sue Durkee Casco

Finding good food

To The Editor: I just have to ask C.A. Snow School Principal Mark Schrader and SAD 72 Superintendent of Schools Jay Robinson which planets they commute to work from?

As for the “wellness policy,” we need to ask lots more questions about where the food being sold or served in SAD 72 schools is coming from and how much time is spent checking for sugar and salt counts on labeled foods available at local food banks, too.

SHADOWS on Mayberry Hill in Casco, captured by photographer Alexa Baumgardner LETTERS, Page D of Naples.

mainly two: First, a failure to ensure that the computer registration of applicants for the new health care arrangements would work as designed.

Secondly, the president’s election campaign assurance that people who liked their health insurance would be able to retain it.

Now for the Republican failings: First, broadly surveying present politics, is the embittered determination not to go along with any sigERRORS, Page D

Medicare nugget

By Stan Cohen Medicare Volunteer Counselor Hospice care is available for Medicare beneficiaries with a terminal illness who are certified by a hospice physician as having a life expectancy of six months or less.

But because there are consecutive “add-on” benefit periods, terminally ill Medicare beneficiaries can live more than six months, and not fear loss of coverage for their hospice care.

Regulations require a face-to-face encounter by a hospice physician or nurse practitioner to determine the continued eligibility of a patient.

There is also a requirement that for the third and subsequent benefit periods, the physician compose a narrative explaining how the clinical findings gathered during the faceto-face encounter support a life-expectancy of six months or less. Such documentation decreases inappropriate discharges and creates a strong record for appeals if and when coverage for hospice services may be inappropriately denied.

Stan Cohen, a Medicare Volunteer Counselor, is available for free, oneon-one consultations at Bridgton Hospital on Tuesdays from 8 to 11 a.m.

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USDA investments in rural Maine

At the Plant Home in Bath, I recently visited with 90-year-old Phyllis Goulette.

For the last nine years, she has lived in this retirement community overlooking the Kennebec River.

While having to leave home for full-time care is never an easy decision, Phyllis says her time at the Plant Home has been wonderful. The staff is nice, she lives in a small unit by herself and is close to her family. (On the day I visited, her 2-year-old great-granddaughter was there, too.) Working for many years as a telephone operator and in other jobs to support her family, Phyllis certainly deserves the quality of life she finds there.

Since 1917, the Plant Home has provided a comfortable, loving place for all who need care, regardless of their income. It’s such an important service. Most of us would probably wish to stay home in our older years, but that’s not always possible.

It’s critical that seniors like Phyllis have places where they can get quality care while being able to see their family and live an enriching life.

Depending on where you live, though, these services can be hard to come by, especially in rural areas. While there are some great facilities in Maine, their capacities are being stretched by our aging population. To help fill these needs in the Midcoast area, the Plant Home is expanding its facilities to more than double the number of residents it serves. The expansion is made possible with

Views from Congress

by Chellie Pingree United States Congresswoman

$10 million in loans and loan guarantees from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development’s Community Facilities program.

USDA Rural Development (RD) administers numerous programs like this one that help provide housing assistance, economic development, and essential services to rural communities. These programs have been absolutely critical in Maine.

In just the last few months, RD has financed a new assisted living facility in Scarborough and helped the Town of New Gloucester build a public water system. A farmer in Vassalboro received a grant to convert his hay into biofuel. Last year, RD helped over 2,300 Maine families buy homes by backing their mortgages.

And RD has helped hundreds of Maine businesses with technical assistance, grants, workforce development, and investments in renewable energy sources.

Why is it so important for the USDA to support these efforts? This country’s agricultural and natural resource industries depend on rural communities and the people who live and work in them.

In Maine, so much of our economy relies on fishing,

forestry, and agriculture, not to mention the tourism our rural areas attract. To keep these critical parts of our economy strong, we need

vibrant rural communities that offer essential services — like assisted living facilities — and opportunities to its residents.

Living in Maine, you’re probably aware of the challenges rural towns face, such as a lack of services, jobs, and affordable energy. To address those challenges, RD works with communities to finance local efforts, promote economic development, and provide resources to busi-

nesses and other forms of assistance to residents. As the economic downturn hit rural areas harder than others, these efforts have been especially important.

One of my priorities on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture is making sure RD programs have adequate funding. Sequestration, a contentious budget climate, and the inability of Congress to pass a Farm Bill all pose threats to

the future of our rural communities by putting them at needless risk.

I will continue to bring success stories from Maine to Washington to help in the fight. Because after working so hard for so long, seniors like Phyllis shouldn’t be denied a nice place to call home because they live in a rural area. And Maine should have the same kind of opportunities as the rest of the country.

USDA INVESTMENTS IN MAINE — U.S. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (left) is pictured with Maine resident Phyllis Goulette, and USDA RD State Director Virginia Manuel (right).

Help heating Maine homes An easy meal

The days are shorter, temperatures are dropping, and families across the state are preparing for the cold months ahead. As winter arrives, a large portion of Mainers’ incomes will be devoted to keeping warm. With each passing year, the cost of heating rises and for many families a higher heating bill means making difficult decisions. Families may be forced to choose between staying warm and other necessities like food or medicine.

In Congress, I’ve been tackling this issue on two fronts: by working to reduce heating costs and to maintain adequate funding for programs such as the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Mainers who rely on heating oil are often those who must shoulder the greatest financial burden.

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by Angus King United States Senator Home heating oil is expensive, the price is volatile, and its emissions are harmful to our natural environment.

That’s why I’ve been encouraging the transition away from oil, toward renewable and domestic energy sources like biomass, wind, solar and natural gas.

This year, Senator Susan Collins and I introduced legislation to promote the economic and environmental benefits of biomass thermal energy. The Biomass Thermal Utilization Act of

2013 amends the tax code so that thermal biomass systems receive the same tax incentives as other renewable energy technologies. Biomass systems, such as wood pellet boilers, offer a local and efficient way to generate heat, save money and invest in our state.

I know this is just a first step in helping keep people warm during the winter. As cost-saving opportunities offered by gas and alternative energy sources continue to evolve, cold winters remain

a serious challenge for our state’s most vulnerable families. In the face of persistently high energy prices, it is essential that we have in place adequate home heating safety nets for those who need them most.

Recognizing the significance of LIHEAP funds to millions of Americans, a group of senators, including myself, wrote to the Obama administration urging the immediate release of federal heating aid to the state agencies that administer the LIHEAP program. In early November, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the LIHEAP program would receive $33 million for home energy assistance in lowincome households in Maine.

While I’m glad that these funds are being released, the HEAT, Page D

Bird Watch

by Jean Preis BN Columnist This morning, there is a thin skin of ice in the quiet corner of the cove, and the back lawn is white with frost.

The oak tree by the shore, the last tree in our yard to lose its leaves every fall, stands denuded of any foliage. I am sitting at the kitchen table, eating my breakfast and watching the bird feeders. Chickadees come and go, staying only long enough to take a single seed before flying away to consume it somewhere else. Two titmice occupy the lowest perches of the tube feeder, one on each side, but when a white-breasted nuthatch arrives in a flurry of outspread wings the titmice leave. Yesterday, all the perches on the feeder were taken by goldfinches, who jabbed their beaks and flapped their wings at anyone who tried to land there.

The poor chickadees didn’t stand a chance and finally gave up trying.

We have only two feeders at this time of year, the tube seed feeder and a small cage that holds a block of suet. That feeder has been up for only about a week, but the birds are hungry and are already into their second block of suet. Suet provides important protein and fat to chickadees, nuthatches, and titmice, as well as to downy and hairy woodpeckers. Some winters we see red-bellied woodpeckers at the suet, but although occasionally we see pileated woodpeckers in the yard, they do not come to our feeder.

The downy and hairy woodpeckers use their tails to help them balance on the suet cage as it swings back and forth. Normally, they use their stiff tail feathers to prop themselves against the trunk of a tree while they dig into the wood with their strong bills and extract insects. After the woodpecker has opened a hole in the tree, or in the ground, it uses its long slender tongue, coated with a sticky substance, to extract food. The tongue of woodpeckers who extract soft larvae and insects from deep inside trees has a spear like tip, with four or more backward facing barbs to grab and hold prey, but the tip of the tongue varies among different species, according to the bird’s diet.

Yellow-shafted flickers and yellow-bellied sapsuckers are migratory woodpeckers, who are here only in the breeding season, and by now have gone south for the winter. The tongue of the flicker, who pulls ants from the ground, has a flattened tip. The sapsucker’s tongue is brush like at the tip, to hold sap.

Storing a long tongue, which can extend as much as four inches, might pose a dilemma, but the problem is neatly solved because the base of this specialized tongue actually wraps around the inside of the woodpecker’s head, and is anchored by muscles attached to extremely delicate hyoid bones curving around the back of the skull. In some woodpeckers, the base of the tongue begins at the forehead before it winds around the inside of the crown to the mouth. In other species of woodpeckers, the hyoid bones and muscle coil around the right eyeball like a spring.

It seems impossible that woodpeckers can hammer into trees without damaging their brains, but to protect their brain, eyes, and ears from impact, the skull is thicker than that of other birds, the attachment of the bill is modified and cushioned, and the specially broadened ribs support larger chest and neck muscles that help absorb impact.

These physical adaptations allow woodpeckers to extract food from places that would be inaccessible to other birds.

Right now, a hairy woodpecker is clinging to our suet cage, pecking at a soft block of suet. How much easier that is than hammering into the hard wood of a tree and digging out insects. No wonder our suet disappears so quickly.

Opinions

November 28, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page D

Alzheimer’s urgent national priority

It was President Ronald Reagan who first declared November as National Alzheimer ’s Disease Awareness Month in 1983.

At that time, fewer than two million Americans had the disease. Today, that number has more than doubled — to nearly 5.4 million Americans. Based on current projections, as many as 16 million Americans over the age of 65 will have Alzheimer’s disease by 2050. In addition to the human suffering it causes, Alzheimer’s costs the United States more than $200 billion a year, including $142 billion in costs to Medicare and Medicaid.

Alzheimer’s is a terrible disease that exacts a tremendous personal and economic toll on both the individual and the family.

Like many families, mine has experienced the pain of Alzheimer’s, and I know that there is no more help-

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less feeling than to watch the progression of this devastating disease. It is equally painful to witness the emotional and physical damage inflicted on family caregivers, exhausted by an endless series of “36 hour” days. Alzheimer’s disease is the only cause of death among the Top 10 in our nation without a way to prevent it, cure it or even slow its progression.

This problem will only worsen as the baby boom generation ages. If we fail to change the current trajectory of Alzheimer’s disease, our country will not only face a mounting public health crisis, but an economic one as well. If nothing is done to slow or stop the disease, the Alzheimer’s Association estimates that Alzheimer’s will cost the United States an astonishing $20 trillion over the next 40 years.

It is estimated that

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by Susan Collins United States Senator

nearly one in two of the baby boomers reaching 85 will develop Alzheimer’s.

As a consequence, chances are that the members of the baby boom generation will either be spending their golden years with Alzheimer’s or caring for someone who has it. In many ways, Alzheimer’s has become the defining disease of this generation.

If we are to prevent Alzheimer’s from becoming the defining disease of the next generation, it is imperative that we dramatically increase our investment in Alzheimer’s dis-

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ease research. According to a study commissioned by the National Institute on Aging, Alzheimer’s and other dementias cost the United States more than cancer and heart disease.

This study finds that both the costs and number of people with dementia will more than double within thirty years, skyrocketing at a rate that rarely occurs with a chronic disease.

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million on Alzheimer’s research. We currently spend $6 billion a year for cancer research, $3 billion a year for research on HIV/ AIDS, and $2 billion for cardiovascular research, all worthy investments.

Surely we can do more for Alzheimer’s given the tremendous human and economic price of this devastating disease.

The National Plan to Address Alzheimer ’s Disease was authorized by the 2010 National Alzheimer’s Project Act, a bipartisan bill that I introduced with then-Senator Evan Bayh. The National Plan has as its primary goal, to “prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer’s disease by 2025.” The chairman of the Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, Care and Services created by the National Alzheimer’s Project Act, has testified before Congress that the OIL DEALERS

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I recently joined my colleague, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), in introducing a Resolution declaring that the goal of preventing and effectively treating Alzheimer’s by 2025 is an urgent national priority. Our resolution recognizes that bold action and dramatic increases in funding are necessary to meet that goal and resolves that the Senate will strive to double the amount of funding the United States spends on Alzheimer’s research in fiscal year 2015 and develop a plan to meet the target of $2 billion a year over the next five years.

A strong and sustained research effort is our best tool to slow the progression, find better treatments, and ultimately a cure for this devastating disease.

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(Continued from Page D) Food banks are finding themselves increasingly stretched by donation limitations, volunteer help limits, and constantly increasing numbers of families needing help every year. As much as we wish it were easy to find really sensible, truly nutritious foods in our local grocery stores, I can testify that it is a jungle out there, because I have to be extremely careful what I eat since being diagnosed with type II diabetes quite a few years ago.

I know that it has been harder, rather than easier, to find “nutritionally sound” prepared foods of any kind, even after big pushes from our current first lady in Washington, D.C. She can grow her own vegetables in a large area behind the White House, and closely supervise the chefs who feed her family. Of course, most really nutritional offerings seem to cost more, too. I’m going back to buying natural ingredients that aren’t too high priced, using my husband’s home-grown vegetables, eggs laid daily by our new hens (or from Illusion Farms), and cooking from scratch. My mother cooked from scratch and so did I even when we worked outside our homes when necessary. It’s not a matter of denying ourselves the occasional surrender to a sweet tooth, it’s a matter of teaching our kids how to make choices, not how to make every choice for them.

They need to be shown how to practice moderate portion amounts, too.

How many dads out there drink just one beer during a Super Bowl victory celebration? Home-baked desserts are most often much more nutritionally sound than mass produced snacks with “additives” that research is proving may be responsible for increasing health problems nationwide. The most disturbing part of the cookie dough dialogue with the SAD 72 School Board is that at some point school board members must have forgotten that they are responsible for policies that apply to what happens in classrooms, school buildLETTERS, Page D

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November 28, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page D

Calendar BALDWIN Thur., Dec. 5 — Cumberland & Oxford Union Pomona, potluck supper 6:30 p.m., meeting 7:30 p.m., Mount Etna Grange Hall, No. Baldwin.

BRIDGTON Thur., Nov. 28 — Free Zumba Class, “Burn the Turkey,” with Vicki Toole, 910 a.m., Town Hall.

Fri., Nov. 29 — Start of 4th Annual Holiday Online Auction by Bridgton Academy, runs thru Dec. 8.

Visit www.bridgtonacademy. org Fri., Nov. 29 — Girl Scouts, 3:45 p.m., Community Center.

Sat., Nov. 30 — Fill the Truck Toy Drive by Bridgton Fire & Rescue to benefit Operation Christmas Angel, truck parked in Magic Lantern parking lot all day.

Sat., Nov. 30 — Craft/ Vendor Fair to benefit Laurie A. Carter Bergen Softball Field, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Town Hall, 26 No. High St. FMI: 627-7380.

Sun., Dec. 1 — Food Ministry Distribution by Vineyard Church, 1-3 p.m., 402 Main St., near ballfield.

FMI: 831-0737.

Mon., Dec. 2 — Bridgton Hospital Guild lights their “Tree of Love,” with carol- Items for the Community Thanksgiving “Baskets” were gathered in the basement of the First Congregational Church in Bridgton and distrib(Photo courtesy of Kevin Murphy) ing, 4 p.m., outside main en- uted to more than 136 families. A fine example of the “community” within our community. trance to Bridgton Hospital.

Tue., Dec. 3 — Chamber Casco Day Park, cookies, Alumni Office.

Sun., Dec. 1 — Boston Dempsey Center, 29 Lowell Harrison Town Office. FMI: Board meeting, 7:15 a.m., crafts & Santa in Community Tue., Dec. 3 — Annual 583-4510.

Post Cane presentation to St., Lewiston. Pre-register: 1Community Center.

Center. FMI: 627-4187.

Christmas Party by Fryeburg Barbara Thorne, 11:30 a.m., 877-336-7287.

LOVELL Tue., Dec. 3 — COPD Sat., Nov. 30 — Christmas Historical Society, 5 p.m., So. Sebago Center Community Tue., Dec. 3 — White Sat., Nov. 30 — Holiday Support Group, 1 p.m., in the Village, craft fairs at Samuel Osgood House, 83 Church by Sebago Historical Mountain Writers Group, Open House, noon to 6 p.m., Community Center.

Casco Village Church, 941 Portland St. FMI: 697-3484.

Society for Town of Sebago. 4:30 p.m., Conway Library, Harvest Gold Gallery, Rte. Tue., Dec. 3 — Boy Meadow Rd., Community Fri., Dec. 6 — Veterans Sat., Dec. 7 — 6th Annual Conway, N.H. Scouts, 5:30 p.m., Community Center. & Country Village Service Officer, 9 to 11 a.m., 5, Center Lovell. FMI: 925- Santa’s Workshop for Kids Tue., Dec. 3 — Free 6502.

Center.

Assisted Living, 9 a.m. to 2 American Legion, Bradley St. Shopping, after Breakfast workshop for cancer patients, Mon., Dec. 2 — Concert Tue., Dec. 3 — Promise p.m.

FMI: 324-1839. with Santa, 8 to 11 a.m., “Soothing Creations for by St. Petersburg Men’s Singers Annual Christmas Sat., Nov. 30 — Lobster Sun., Dec. 8 — Jonathan Sebago Town Hall, Rte. 107. Body & Soul,” 6 to 7:30 p.m., Concert, 7 p.m., First Roll & Corn Chowder Sarty CD Release Party, live Ensemble, 7 p.m., Lovell Volunteers needed: call 787- Dempsey Center, 29 Lowell United Church of Christ, Congregational Church, So. Luncheon, 11 a.m. to 1:30 performance, doors open 6:30 2489.

St., Lewiston. Pre-register: 1Center Lovell.

High St. p.m., Casco Village Church, p.m., show 7 p.m., Leura Hill 877-336-7287.

WATERFORD Fri., Dec. 6 — Caroling Wed., Dec. 4 — Bridgton 941 Meadow Rd. Eastman Performing Arts at library, followed by Thur., Dec. 5 — Tree Mon., Dec. 2 — Socrates Bookies, The Talk-Funny Girl Sun., Dec. 1 — Hanging Center, Fryeburg Academy. Christmas Tree Lighting, 7 Café, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Lighting, 7 p.m., Maine

by Roland Merullo, 3 p.m., li- of the Greens, 10 a.m., Casco FMI: 935-9232 Veterans’ Home, 477 High library. FMI: 583-6957. p.m., library. brary. FMI: 647-3641.

St., So. Paris.

Village Church, 941 Meadow HARRISON Sat., Dec. 7 — Public Sat., Dec. 7 — Yuletide Thur., Dec. 5 — Last Rd. Fri.-Sat., Dec. 6-7 — Thur., Nov. 28 — St. Patron Appreciation Day, 9 Stuffed Haddock Supper date for Medicare Open Sat., Dec. 7 — Bean Jude Turkey Day 5K, regis- a.m. to noon, Lewis Dana Hill by Waterford World’s Fair It’s a Wonderful Life Live Enrollment, 1 p.m., Bridgton Supper by Sunshine Club, Radio Play by Oxford Community Center. FMI: 5-6 p.m., Webbs Mills ter starting 7 a.m., Harrison Memorial Library, 2079 Main Assn., 5 p.m., Waterford Hills Comprehensive High Village.

FMI: Barb Stauble, Congregational Church, St., No. Lovell.

396-6524, 1-877-353-3771.

Community Hall.

583-4445. across from Melby’s Market. School Drama Club, 7 p.m.

Fri., Dec. 6 — Joy of NAPLES Fri., 2 p.m. Sat., OHCHS Sun., Dec. 8 — Annual Tue., Dec. 3 — December Singing group, 3 to 5 p.m., Christmas Concert by Casco Sat., Nov. 30 — Annual FMI: 595-2430.

Auditorium. Donations at Senior Social, 11 a.m. to 1 Community Center.

AREA EVENTS door.

Village Church Choir, 4 p.m., p.m., Fire Station Community Mini-Art Sale & Cookie Walk Fri., Dec. 6 — Girl Scouts church at 941 Meadow Rd. Sat.-Sun., Nov. 30-Dec. 1

by Naples Library, 9 a.m. to 1 Fri.-Sun., Dec. 6-8 — Room. FMI: 583-2241.

Dance, 6 p.m., Community p.m., library gathering room, — The Nutcracker by Maine Miracle on 34th Street, 7:30 DENMARK Wed., Dec. 4 — Annual Center.

State Ballet, 2 and 7 p.m. p.m. Fri. & Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., lower level. FMI: 693-6841.

Fri., Nov. 29 — Annual Show & Tell Program Fri., Dec. 6 — Winter Tue., Dec. 3 — Medicare Fri., 2 p.m. Sun., Merrill Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Concert by Lake Region Turkey Shoot by Denmark by Harrison Historical Part D with Phil Ohman, 10 Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Richville Rd., Standish. FMI: Community Chorus, 7 p.m., Lions Club, 6:30 p.m., Society, 5:30 p.m., Carlson a.m. to 2 p.m., library.

Portland. Also Dec. 6-8. FMI: 642-3743.

Homestead, Haskell Hill Rd. Twitchell Memorial Chapel, Denmark Arts Center.

Wed., Dec. 4 — Paper 842-0800.

Sat.-Sun., Dec. 7-8 — Fri., Nov. 29 — Moderate across from museum. FMI: Rosettes demonstration with Bridgton Academy. FMI: Sat., Nov. 30 — Snowflake Made in Maine Christmas hike to Pleasant Mountain 583-2213.

310-3234.

Susan Bohill, 7 p.m., library. Stroll & Tree Lighting, give- Fair, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sat., Thur., Dec. 5 — Soup & Sat., Dec. 7 — Book Traverse, Denmark, by Thur., Dec. 5 — Pokemon aways at various businesses, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sun., Signing of Mish The Denmark Mountain Hikers, Song, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., up- Club, 4-5 p.m., library.

Schouler Park, No. Conway, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Mushroom Man by author meet 8 a.m. at Denmark stairs musical program, live Sat., Dec. 7 — Children’s N.H. Church, 919 Roosevelt Trail, Cheryl Johnson, 1 to 3 p.m., Congregational Church. FMI: nativity 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Christmas Party including Sat., Nov. 30 — Rhythm Windham.

United Parish Congregational lunch with Santa, 1 to 3 p.m., Future Quartet in concert, 7:30 756-2247.

Bridgton Books.

Sat., Dec. 7 — Christmas Thur., Dec. 5 — Crystal Church.

Sat., Dec. 7 — Candlelight American Legion Post #155, p.m., Saco River Theatre, 29 Fair, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Poland Fri.-Sat., Dec. 6-7 — Rte. 11. FMI: 400-1853.

Stroll on Main Street, 5:30 Bowl Therapy, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Salmon Falls Rd., Bar Mills. Community Church, Rte. 26, Nurture Through Nature, 77 Christmas in Harrison, sleigh p.m., Pondicherry Square.

Tickets 929-6472.

Poland.

RAYMOND Sat., Dec. 7 — Annual Wilton Warren Rd. FMI: 452- rides, tree sales, give-aways, Mon., Dec. 2 — Cancer Sat., Dec. 7 — Annual Fri.-Sun., Nov. 29-Dec. 1 2929.

Harrison Village.

Festival of Lights Parade, folSupport Group for Women, Christmas Fair, 9 a.m. to — Reception for Six Squared Fri., Dec. 6 — Easy Fri., Dec. 6 — Christmas lows Candlelight Stroll, Main Show, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., noon to 1:30 p.m., Stephens 2 p.m., East Otisfield Free St., Santa & tree lighting to hike to Bald Pate Mountain Tree Lighting, arrival of Santa, Hole in the Wall Studioworks, Memorial Hospital, Norway. Baptist Church, 231 Rayville follow at Community Center. in Bridgton by by Denmark 6:45 p.m., visit with Santa, 7 Rte. 302. FMI: 655-4952.

FMI: 744-6173.

Rd. Methodist Church open dur- Mountain Hikers, meet 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Town Office.

Tue., Dec. 3 — Free Sat., Dec. 7 — Holiday Sat., Nov. 30 — Free at Denmark Congregational Sat., Dec. 7 — Christmas ing parade. FMI: 242-9417.

Community Meal, 4:30 to workshop for cancer patients, Fair, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Church.

FMI: 756-2247. in Harrison Buffet Breakfast Sun., Dec. 8 — On Eagles “You Can Learn to Love Sat., Dec. 7 — Annual by United Parish Church 6 p.m., Christ Chapel, 37 Change,” 3:30 to 5 p.m., The Community School, Wings Bake Sale, 3 p.m., CALENDAR, Page D Christmas Fair by Denmark of Harrison/No. Bridgton, Northern Pines Road.

Community Center.

Sun., Dec. 1 — Holiday Congregational Church, 7:30 to 9:30 a.m., Olde Mill BROWNFIELD Story Time, 4:30 p.m., 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Denmark Tavern.

Mon., Nov. 25 — Annual Municipal Bldg.

Sat., Dec. 7 — Christmas library.

Turkey Shoot by Brownfield Sun., Dec. 1 — Annual in Harrison Parade, 9:30 a.m., FRYEBURG Fire Dept., 6 p.m., Community Tree Lighting, 5 p.m., Village.

Sun., Dec. 1 — Christmas Center. FMI: 890-6706.

Sat., Dec. 7 — Cookie library lawn.

Sat., Dec. 7 — Annual Tree Lighting, 6 p.m., Bradley Walk, Gingerbread Man Wed., Dec. 4 — Holiday S.T.U.D. Vendor Fair, 9 Park.

Arrangement Class, 6 p.m., Decorating, 10 a.m. to noon, Mon., Dec. 2 — Socrates a.m. to 3 p.m., Community library. Pre-register at 655Cafe, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., li- library.

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Sat., Dec. 7 — Annual brary. FMI: 583-6957.

Sun., Dec. 8 — Annual CASCO Artists and Craftsmen Exhibit Tue., Dec. 3 — Fri., Nov. 29 — Annual Registration for Fryeburg and Sale during Christmas Bake & Gift Basket Sale, 10 Christmas Tree Lighting, 6 Junior Ski Program, 4:30 to in Harrison, 10 a.m. to 3 a.m. to 7 p.m., library.

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Accomplishments are moving Maine forward

ALL ABOARD for the Maine State Museum! Whether making a first-time discovery of model trains chugging along the tracks or revisiting memories of days gone by, family members of all ages will delight in the sights and sounds of the upcoming Model Railroad Celebration at the Maine State Museum in Augusta. The two-day event runs on Friday, Dec. 6, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The museum will be open free of charge both days.

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Tamworth, N.H. FMI: 603323-7000.

Sat., Dec. 7 — Annual Shaker Christmas Fair, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Rte. 26, New Gloucester. FMI: 926-4597.

Sat., Dec. 7 — SilentAuction fundraiser for Resistance Ministries, Blacksmiths Music Ministries, doors open 1 p.m., drawings start 2 p.m., Oxford Rec Bldg., King St., Oxford.

FMI: 743-6500.

Sat., Dec. 7 — Kids Night Out, 5:30 to 9 p.m., Saint Joseph’s College, Standish.

FMI: 893-7661.

Sun., Dec. 8 — Heather Pierson Quartet presents A Charlie Brown Christmas, 3 p.m., Universalist Church, Main St., Norway.

Sun., Dec. 8 — Silent Auction to benefit No. Conway Library, 5:30 p.m., Eastern Slope Inn, No. Conway, N.H. followed by play It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, 7 p.m., Eastern Slope Inn Playhouse. FMI: 603-3562961.

ONGOING WEEKLY DAILY Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m., Clyde Bailey Drop In Center, 224 Roosevelt Trail (Rte. 302), Casco.

Alcoholics Anonymous, noon to 1 p.m., St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Sweden Rd., Bridgton. O/D MONDAYS Jumpin’ Janes Senior Fitness, 9 a.m., Town Hall, No. High St., Bridgton.

Storytime for Preschoolers with Miss Liz, ages under five, 10-11 a.m., Lovell Library.

Baby/Toddler Playtime, 10:30 a.m., Raymond Library.

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

The Food Basket and Kyrie’s Kitchen, every other Monday, 1 to 3 p.m., Naples Town Hall gym. FMI: 6153226.

Knotty Knitters, noon to 2 p.m., Soldiers Library, Hiram.

FMI: 625-4650.

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

Mousepaint Storytime, 2:30 to 4 p.m., Lovell Library.

Coed Adult Basketball, 6 to 7:45 p.m., Harrison Elementary School gym, Rte. 35, Harrison. FMI: 583-2241.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

A site walk will be conducted by the Harrison Planning Board on Wednesday, December 4, at 3:00 p.m. The site walk will take place at 8 Harrison Pines Road, off Route 35, Naples Road, Harrison, Tax Map 45, Lot 48, owned by Ken and Wendy Davis. A Planning Board meeting will be held that same evening at 7:00 p.m. at the Harrison Town Office meeting room.

The meeting is open to questions and comments for anyone interested.

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Respectfully submitted, Mary M. Tremblay, Assistant CEO PUBLIC NOTICE

Our administration has been working nonstop since we took office to reform government and improve the lives of Mainers. We often get bogged down in the daily battles over politics or the intensity of getting our work done. So it’s nice to stop, step back and take stock of what we’ve done.

I’m the first to admit that I am a hard-charging person who likes to tackle tough problems head-on.

But once I’ve fixed the problem, I’m on to the next.

Sometimes, it’s easy to forget just how much our administration has accomplished in such a short time. When I saw that one governor passes out a card with his major accomplishments on it, I suggested we do the same.

That four-by-six card has since turned into a 28page book. Entitled Moving Maine Forward, the book lists our administration’s

every 4th Monday except Dec. 23, 6:30 p.m., library.

Casco Food Pantry, 6 to 7 p.m. third Monday of month, Casco Alliance Church. FMI: 344-5370.

Narcotics Anonymous, 7 p.m. Bridgton Community Center, 15 Depot St. ODLH Narcotics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Clyde Bailey Drop In Center, 224 Roosevelt Trail (Rte. 302), Casco.

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

Sebago Food Pantry and Clothes Closet, Nazarene Church, Rte. 114, 4th Tuesdays, 9 to 11 a.m. & 5 to 7 p.m.; clothes closet Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. FMI: 274-1569.

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

Tai Chi Maine New Beginners’ Classes, 9:30 to 11 a.m., Town Hall, No. High St., Bridgton.

Naples Food Pantry, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., United Methodist Church, Village Green. FMI: 595-2754.

Preschool Storytime, 10:30 a.m., Naples Library.

Mother Goose Time, 10:30 a.m., Bridgton Library.

Bridgton Food Pantry,

Views from Augusta

by Paul LePage Governor of Maine

accomplishments since we took office.

Some of these accomplishments are well known.

We paid the hospitals $750 million of welfare debt owed to them. We passed the largest tax cut in Maine’s history, and we reduced welfare cases by 41%.

In most administrations, that would be enough. But, we have done so much more.

We have improved the state’s fiscal standing, eliminating almost $2 billion of pension liability, right-sizing state government and bringing accountability to the 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Methodist Church, 98 Main St. FMI: 6474476.

Sebago Senior’s Luncheon, noon, Sebago Church of the Nazarene.

Prayer & Meditation Time, 12:15 to 12:45 p.m., First Congregational Church, Bridgton.

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

Womanspace, 3:45 to 5 p.m., group room, Tri-County Mental Health, 32 No. High St. FMI: 523-0700.

Teen Sports Night, 6-7:45 p.m., Harrison Elementary School gym, Rte. 35, Harrison.

FMI: 583-2241.

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

Wood Carving Group, 7 p.m., Ice Rink behind Town Hall, No. High St., Bridgton.

AA Step Mtgs., 7 p.m., Clyde Bailey Drop In Center, 224 Roosevelt Trail (Rte. 302), Casco.

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

WEDNESDAYS Jumpin’ Janes Senior Fitness, 9 a.m., Town Hall, No. High St., Bridgton.

Free Well Woman Clinic, by appt., 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.,

NOTICE: TIMBER FOR SALE BY SEALED BID TIMBER STATE G P.O. BOX 157 GRAY, MAINE 04037 207-272-4270

November 18, 2013 Stumpage Buyers From: Greg Foster, Timber State G PROPERTY OF: Town of Raymond SHOWING: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 9:00 AM. Meet at Raymond Picnic Area on Route 302. This will be the only showing, however, you are free to examine the timber at your convenience.

DEADLINE: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 4:00 P.M. Bid Opening at Town Office at 5:00 P.M. LOGGING CHANCE: Good, rolling well-drained terrain with some stony areas, overall good land to work on.

TIMBER QUALITY: Good ESTIMATE OF TOTAL VOLUME TO BE CUT SPECIES

The Harrison Board of Selectmen will hold public hearings on Thursday, December 12, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., at the Town Office regarding applications submitted by Walter Connell to operate an Automobile Graveyard/Junkyard on 60 Springhouse Road, Harrison, Tax Map 53, Lot 3E-2; and John Campbell, d/b/a Sports Cars, to operate an Automobile Graveyard/Junkyard on Edes Falls Road, Harrison, Tax Map 3, Lot 12-3.

All interested individuals are encouraged to attend.

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s/Melissa St. John, Town Clerk

PUBLIC NOTICE

TOWN OF LOVELL PLANNING BOARD

The Lovell Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, December 4, 2013, on a proposed amendment to the Town Beaches and Landings Ordinance adopted at Town Meeting on June 14, 2011. The ordinance, as adopted, included a provision for its expiration. The proposal is to re-adopt the ordinance, but will the expiration provision deleted. The hearing will be held at the Town Office beginning at 7:00 p.m.

Copies of the proposal are available at the Town Office.

Interested persons should plan to attend or submit written comments to the Board at PO Box 236, Center Lovell, ME 04016, prior to the hearing.

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White Pine Hemlock Red & Pitch Spruce Red oak sawlogs White oak sawlogs White birch Soft Maple Misc. Hardwood1 Totals

VOLUME Boardfeet

Cords

62,755 25,385 415 1,000 39,650 190 1,430 4,795

141 64

135,500

498 703

In addition I estimate about 400 tons of biomass will be produced from tops and small stems.

SCALE: Volume estimates are based on the International 1/4" rule and standard rough cords.

NOTES: 1. This lot has been managed in the past and areas have well established desirable seedlings, saplings and small pole stems that are the future forest. We expect the successful bidder to operate in a manner that will preserve as much of this young growth as possible. As most of you know, I love baby trees and particularly baby pine trees too!

Visit www.raymondmaine.org for bid forms and additional information about property and other properties being harvested by forester. _______________

1 You may bid for sawtimber on a per grade basis. Let us know what the specifications are of the mill to which the logs will be delivered.

A minimum price per MBF must be set for hardwood sawlogs.

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Maine Turnpike Authority and Maine State Housing Authority.

Most importantly, we are changing the culture of state government to make it more business friendly.

We have cut red tape and streamlined regulations, which have allowed companies to do what they do best: create jobs. We believe government should work with job creators, not against them.

Our efforts are paying off. At least 8,000 jobs have been created since we took office. Because of this job growth, fewer Mainers are unemployed.

The unemployment rate in Birthwise Community Clinic, The Birth House. FMI: 6475968, ext. 108.

Mother-Baby Tea Time, 10 a.m. to noon, The Birth House, 28 So. High St., Bridgton.

FMI: 647-5968.

Preschool Storytime, 10:30 a.m., Raymond Library.

Sweden House Food Pantry, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 1st & 3rd Wednesdays, Sweden Church basement, 137 Bridgton Rd. FMI: 647-4429, 647-5399.

Gathering Place Support Group, noon, Bridgton Community Center.

Senior Lunch, noon, Bridgton Community Center.

Knitting Group, 1 to 3:30 p.m., Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library, Lovell.

Discovery Kids, 3 p.m., Community Center.

Makers Club, 3 p.m., Bridgton Community Center.

Reading with Holly Dog, 3:30 p.m., Bridgton Library.

Cope Group session, 68 p.m., Harrison Fire Station Community Room. FMI: 508633-0159.

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

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

Wednesdays, Standish Town Hall, Rte. 35.

Wood Carving Group, 7-9 p.m., Ice Rink building, behind Bridgton Town Hall.

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

THURSDAYS Bridgton Rotary Club, 7:15 a.m., Bridgton Alliance Church, Rte. 117.

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

Storytime, 10 a.m., Harrison Library, Harrison Village.

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

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

Gathering Place Support Group, noon, Bridgton Community Center.

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

Brownfield Food Pantry, 1 to 5 p.m. third Thursdays, 701 Pequawket Trl. FMI: 9352333.

Tai Chi Maine Set Practice, 2:30 to 4 p.m., Town Hall, No.

Maine has been lower than the national average since I have been in office.

Because more Mainers are working, the Unemployment Insurance Tax rate will drop in 2014 to its lowest rate since 2009. That will save businesses $30 million in 2014 — that is $30 million that can be reinvested in Maine’s economy.

Our book lists major achievements by all state agencies. These range from protecting our environment to improving our schools to repairing roads and bridges. We have helped our veterans, we have improved public safety, and we have brought awareness to domestic violence.

We cannot list all of our accomplishments in this short time. Please look for our book, Moving Maine Forward, which is available on Maine.Gov/ Governor (www.Maine. gov/governor).

High St., Bridgton.

Raymond Food Pantry, 46 p.m., 2nd & 4th Thursdays, Lake Region Baptist Church, 1273 Main St. FMI: 232-5830.

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

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

Teen Sports Night, 6-7:45 p.m., Harrison Elementary School gym, Rte. 35, Harrison.

FMI: 583-2241.

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

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

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

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

FRIDAYS Jumpin’ Janes Senior Fitness, 9 a.m., Town Hall, No. High St., Bridgton.

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

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

AWANA Youth Program, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Cornerstone Gospel Church, corner Rtes.

302 & 114, Naples. FMI: 6936102, 803-2199.

Narcotics Anonymous, 7 p.m. Bridgton Community Center, 15 Depot St. ODLH SATURDAYS Tabletop Role Playing Games, 9:30 a.m., Bridgton Community Center.

Makers Club, 10 a.m., Bridgton Community Center.

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

SUNDAYS Table Tennis, 1-4 p.m., Bridgton Town Hall, No. High St., all welcome. Equipment provided free, 7 tables.

Adult Basketball, 6 p.m., Town Hall, No. High St., Bridgton.

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

Helping Mainers heat their homes

(Continued from Page D) amount has been cut under sequestration — this is unacceptable. That’s why, as part of my role on the budget conference committee, I’ve been working to undo the sequester.

Finally, we need to keep in mind that our first line of defense against the bitter cold is proper home weatherization.

Effective insulation plays an invaluable role keeping us warm by keeping the cold air out. For those qualifying for financial assistance, the Maine Housing Authority and Efficiency Maine, as well as the federal weatherization assistance program (WAP), offer weatherization grants that can help reduce heating costs by improving home energy efficiency.

These are all important first steps and as we move into winter I will continue to keep a close eye on heating fuel prices, LIHEAP funding, and the difficult choices that some Mainers face in their efforts to keep warm. Please contact my state offices toll free at 1-800-432-1599 for assistance or more information.

Opinions

November 28, 2013, The Bridgton News, Page D

LUCKY FALL — A huge pine tree succumbed to Sunday’s high winds in front of the Noble House Inn on Highland Road in Bridgton. The fall toppled a flagpole, but otherwise proved fortunate in that the tree landed between the porch and the inn’s roadside sign.

Sexual assault in military not gender specific

Sexual assault complaints in the U.S. military has increased by 46% last year, the Pentagon reported.

Sexual violence in the military, like sexual violence in civilian life, is not a problem specific to one gender. Both men and women experience sexual violence while enlisted in the military — and at high rates.

The most recent available data from the Department of Defense, estimates that 26,000 people in the military were sexually assaulted during the 2012 fiscal year, which is up from 19,000 during the same period the year before. The same survey suggests that victims of sexual assault in the military do not report because they

fear retribution, or fear that the military will not prosecute crimes they report.

Impacts of sexual violence in the military — called military sexual trauma by the military and the Veterans’ Administration — are similar to those civilian sexual violence victims/ survivors experience, but often more acute. The victim/survivor is often in the same unit as the person who raped or assaulted her/him and is forced to remain there unless they request a transfer (which requires disclosing the assault).

Experts often liken the impacts of military sexual violence to those of incest, because so many victims/ survivors feel as though

they have been betrayed by someone they are trained to consider family. Research shows that survivors of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment in the military suffer from depression, stress, and substance abuse and have difficulty finding employment after discharge from the military. Military sexual trauma is the leading cause for post-traumatic stress disorder among women veterans.

The United States military’s handling of sexual assault cases has come under increased scrutiny in recent years, especially with the release of The Invisible War, a documentary film that chronicles military sexual violence survivors and

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their experiences reporting sexual assault. Suggestions for policy changes have included replacing the current system of handling military sexual assault by taking the cases outside of a victim’s chain of command; reducing standards of evidence for tying a veteran’s mental health issues to sexual assault (thereby easing sexual assault survivors’

ability to get service connected for treatment); and eliminating senior officers’ ability to overturn jury findings in sexual assault cases.

Policy changes such as The Military Justice Improvement Act (MJIA) S.967, introduced by Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), will reach the Senate floor for a vote as soon as this week as part of the 2014 National

Defense Authorization Act. The decision will determine whether to prosecute sexual assault cases out of the chain of command and give it to independent, objective, trained military prosecutors.

If you have been a victim of military sexual violence you can either use the 24hour Department of Defense Safe Helpline’s number at 1-877-995-5247 specifically for cases of sexual assault in the military or contact Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Services covering Oxford County, Bridgton and Harrison, which supports any survivors of sexual assault at 743-9777, or the statewide 24-hour helpline at 1-800871-7741.

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No runs, no hits, plenty of errors

(Continued from Page D) nificant Obama initiative or appointment. Secondly, the shutting down of the federal government for over two weeks at an estimated cost of over $24 billion to the taxpayers. Even established Republicans admit that the unwisely motivated closure hurt their party badly.

The faults on both sides revolve around Obama’s health care initiative — the president trying to establish and celebrate it, the Republicans trying to denigrate and destroy it. At this moment in the race, the wreckers seem to be ahead

of the builders. It is said that those who would roll back the legislation fear that getting to full implementation would make most Americans understand the benefits that Obamacare promises them — assuring strong future support for the Democrats.

Let’s try — even as liberals — to be fair in examining the record. First, no one expects a president to get into the weeds of a computerized system and make sure it works. (Well, maybe Jimmy Carter would have done that.) And everyone expects political advisers to pull a president back when

he makes promises that he cannot keep. Nevertheless, we do expect a president to select staff who are alert and scrupulously careful and willing to speak up when truth or efficiency are at risk. Similarly, we do not expect Republican leaders to be able to control their members’ actions when a fanatical bunch of knownothings are at the controls.

But leaders should at least try to lead.

The bottom line is that the political systems of both parties should have been made to work as designed. Pride that won’t permit confessing

error, the quest for donated funds and the lazy hope that “everything will work out in the end” may be blamed for the damaging outcomes.

There is, however, an even more fundamental consideration that deserves attention: The United States is the only modern, industrialized nation that does not have a national, single-payer system of health care. Europeans and others in the upper block of developing nations have had one for decades. Moreover, Americans pay more and often get inferior care compared to their less wealthy fellow nations.

There are historic, economic and social reasons for this sad anomaly. Interest groups — insurance companies, hospitals, doctors principally — have succeeded for around a century in derailing any move in the direction of “socialized medicine.” And we can’t disregard a basic truth: Health care is not deemed a right for all citizens. If you can pay the going prices, you will enjoy the benefits of our system.

If you are poor, you must depend on charity or, more often, the emergency room supported by tax and insurance paying citizens (who are

unaware that they are bearing those costs).

Because politics wouldn’t allow the adoption of a single-payer system or something like Medicare for all, Obamacare, a terribly complex system, was the best available outcome. Over time, it will undoubtedly be modified in the direction, we hope, of greater efficiency and simplicity. That will take all politicians working together for a more inclusive and efficient and less costly system. We can only hope.

Henry Precht is a retired Foreign Service Officer.

Letters

Let’s face it. You are not stout; not pleasingly plump; not full sized; not chubby.

You’re overweight, or obese.

This is not to criticize, but to encourage. I’ve been there, done that — several times.

Last winter, my weight was at the boiling point of water. My Body Mass Index (BMI) put me at “overweight,” disturbingly close to the dreaded “Obesity” label.

Three months later: 175, normal.

My first encounter with the Tubby Syndrome was in the 1970s and was caused by physical problems. Therapy solved the physical problem, but an improved diet came from constantly reading books on nutrition. Adelle Davis was the doyenne of the nutrition movement back then and I read hers and other books on the issue. I read, and read, and read and it gradually transformed my thinking and attitude. Rather than eat a lot of junk food, I started doing all my own cooking and it paid off several months later when the magical moment arrived; the Hallelujah Chorus moment.

When I left work each day I always stopped at BaskinRobbins on my way home for one of those yummy 28 flavors. One day, however, I skipped the daily scoopa-doop, drove right by Baskin-Robbins, and stopped at the grocery and bought — apples.

With my latest battle of the bulge, I went to the

Internet and fashioned a diet of 1000-1,200 calories a day, at least 20 grams of fiber, and at least 50 grams of protein. No tracking of fat, because if you stick within these guidelines you can’t consume any appreciable amount of fat and stay within the guidelines because of how fast the calories add up.

And, definitely, no junk food.

And three quarts of water a day. And weigh yourself first thing every morning — every morning!

And, of course exercise, in my case walking, but don’t rely on exercising to lose weight; it’s the diet, stupid.

Finally, don’t eat after 9 p.m.; that’s the answer former TV star Donna Mills gave when asked how she kept her trim figure.

And remember what that noted cigar-chomping, rotund, British statesman said: “Never, never, never, never, give up.”

So, Tubbies and Tubbettes, you can do it — if you want to.

Bob Casimiro Bridgton

of those, a number had an affiliation with either the Bridgton Community Center or the Bridgton Recreation Department. This was not a community consensus at all.

As for the commented

remark, that this property is “too valuable to have 40 people have the use of it,” that was never implied at all.

The reality is that there is little, if any attractive intown housing, and could be vital

to a more active and vibrant village. And the tax revenue could assist in the support of recreation and needed social services.

Sandra J. Collins Bridgton

(Continued from Page D) ings and on school property only. As far as I know, we do not live in a socialist society or under a dictatorship yet in the U.S.A. Sometimes, even our right to vote may bring about unexpected roadblocks to public welfare, but we still are free to choose and deal with the consequences. I do not feel I’m being coerced into buying cookie dough to support our children, but I am not pleased to note that parents who are taking action to help them are being forced to put extra time in defending a relatively harmless and obviously popular fundraising activity.

One more thing — perhaps our principal and superintendent could get together for a few hours for firsthand research of their own in local supermarkets and food banks.

I would be really interested to see how they make out with the amount most local moms have to spend weekly on food.

Cindy Alden West Fryeburg

Hey, Tubbies

To The Editor: Obesity in men increased from 27.5% in 1999-2000 to 35.5% in 2009-2010.

Not a consensus

To the Editor: There should be a clarification regarding last week’s report of the Memorial School meeting as reported.

There were only 17 people who attended and voted, and

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