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Serving Bridgton and the surrounding towns of Western Maine since 1870.

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December 22, 2011

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What will new economic development director do?

By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer The new Director of Economic and Community Planning and Development for the Town of Bridgton will have duties assigned to him or her that focus on attracting new commercial enterprises to the community while retaining current businesses and assisting them in expanding.

However, the position description has been revised to seek out someone who also has obtained certification as a municipal planner.

Alan Manoian has submitted his resignation from the Economic and Community Development Director’s post, effective Jan. 2, 2012. Manoian’s job title did not include the word “Planning”.

The Bridgton Board of Selectmen discussed at length, last week, who should review the applications of the candidates for Director of Economic and Community Planning and Development, as well as what duties the person will be asked to carry out. In the end, they voted unanimously to approve the draft job description and go forward with the process of seeking a replacement for Manoian.

Under the town manager/board of selectmen

form of municipal government prescribed by state law, the town manager has the authority to hire and/or fire all appointed positions. However, it is the board of selectmen who set policies and approve job descriptions.

In a memo to selectmen dated Dec. 6, regarding replacing Manoian, Bridgton Town Manager Mitch Berkowitz stated, “The position description is revised and it will require municipal planning skills, as well.” Berkowitz said Dec. 13 that he expects the successful candidate for the position will be paid in the range of between $45,000 and $50,000.

Berkowitz said further, “I am also proposing to follow a similar hiring process as we did with Chief of Police (Kevin) Schofield,” which used a committee to select and interview prospective candidates. The town manager went on to recommend the committee be comprised of one member each from the Board of Selectmen, Bridgton Community Development Committee, Bridgton Economic Development Corporation and the Bridgton Planning Board, as well as “one citizen at large member chosen by the town manager.”

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Donation helps Hacker’s Hill drive; good tax break

SANTA LOVES KIDS — At a recent Mother Seton House Christmas party, Santa Claus held court with Patricia Hoover and her son, Bentley Hoover.

Realizing a dream

Mother Seton House a go in 2012

By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer FRYEBURG — It started out three years ago as a tiny seed of an idea tossed about by five people, to provide shelter to pregnant women, new mothers and infants in need.

That seed has since blossomed into 50 volunteers, $65,000 in donations, and — thanks to a recent matching $65,000 gift from the Kendal C. and Anna Ham Charitable Foundation — will take full flower next August, when Mother Seton House in Fryeburg Village finally opens its doors.

“I can’t tell you how amazing it is, the people who say yes to this all the time,” said Cyndi Broyer, volunteer director of the nonprofit Mother Seton House, Inc. The faith-based organization finalized purchase Nov. 28 of the home on a quiet, safe street, where from four to six women will live at no cost during their pregnancies and up to a year after the child is born.

“Our goal is to help women to transition to independent living situations, with the skills and resources needed to support themselves and their children,” Broyer said. Their families, in most cases, lack the space or financial resources to provide such support, and many pregnant teens or young mothers end up “couch surfing” at

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one place or another, without a stable home base.

The house will have a resident staff person who will provide security and promote healthy community living, and will also hold cooking and parenting classes for mothers not living there. The women will also be provided with counseling, physical, emotional and spiritual support.

After their stay at Mother Seton House, some of the mothers may opt to transition to Grace House, a smaller residence in North Conway, N.H. that was donated to the nonprofit by the Schiavi family and has been in operation since August. The up to two mothers who live here will be enrolled in some type of post-secondary education program, toward a goal of providing financially for their newborn.

The seed is born Broyer, a teacher at New Suncook School in Lovell, was one of five members of the Social Justice and Peace Committee of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church who came up with the idea as a service project. The idea led to an organizational meeting of 20 people in August of 2007. The idea then evolved into an independent organization, led by an eight-member board of direc-

tors, and has been embraced by many churches and service groups in the Greater Fryeburg area.

The all-volunteer board of directors members have backgrounds in law, finance, business, education and law enforcement, and include Father Joseph Koury of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church and St. Joseph Catholic Church in Bridgton. The 50 volunteers, including members of the Knights of Columbus, Lions clubs and local churches, have been organized into committees, and support the mothers through fundraising, publicity, donations, social interactions, workshops, baby showers and special events.

“Sixty-five thousand dollars — from an idea,” said Broyer, who has seen first-hand the power of faith in action as the project has unfolded.

She cited, as just one example, the time an unexpected check came in the mail that just happened to cover the cost of plane tickets to Arizona so she and her husband Alan Broyer (board chairman) could visit Maggie’s Place, a home with a similar mission to Mother Seton House.

Another peak moment came HOUSE, Page A

FRYEBURG — Daniel G. Lee, Jr., will retire as headmaster at Fryeburg Academy in 2013.

“My decision to retire on June 30, 2013 after 20 years as headmaster was arrived at rather easily, but there will be nothing easy about leaving this extraordinary school, which has been my life’s work and my family’s home,” Lee wrote in a Dec. 5 letter to Asa O. Pike, IV, president of the Fryeburg Academy Board of Trustees.

He added, “At the risk of resorting to clichés, it’s time for a change. The Academy

will prosper with a new voice of leadership, fresh ideas and renewed energy. A wonderful institutional opportunity lies ahead including the excitement of a national search and the challenges we all face giving my successor the best possible foundation for further school improvement and growth.”

Headmaster Lee recognized the efforts of Pike, as well as former Board President Conrad Eastman and others during his tenure, which have “strengthened the Academy’s programs, protected its freedom and independence, enhanced the

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — Year-end donations could give the campaign to purchase acreage on Hacker’s Hill a running start as the final five months of fundraising approach.

According to Carrie Walia, executive director of Loon Echo Land Trust (LELT), the nonprofit trying to buy the Hacker’s Hill property for public access, fundraising pledges are ideal at year’s end because they are tax deductible, and will help to achieve LELT’s goal.

“We’d be thrilled to reach the $500,000 point by Dec. 31,” Walia said on Tuesday.

As of this week, the campaign drive has raised

$452,000, she said. A total of $800,000 is needed for the purchase, while one-eighth of that amount will be used for transaction costs as well as for perpetual care once the 27acre tract is secured, she said.

Regarding the removal of religious artifacts, as requested by Land for Maine’s Future (LMF), which has promised $220,000, Walia said the latest word is “wait and see.”

A letter this month from LMF’s Sam Morris stated, “LMF is currently reviewing the recently-submitted letter (from ACLU) and intends to work with Loon Echo towards the mutual goal of protecting the hilltop from development.”

“LMF reaffirmed that they

are committed to the success of the Hacker’s Hill project,” the letter said.

Walia clarified that because the religious artifact piece is being examined does not mean the project is in jeopardy, and there continues to be ardent support in the community.

In mid-December, as part of the fundraising campaign, LELT finished sending out mailings to all individuals and businesses on the Casco property tax list, Walia said.

“Already, we are seeing some of those gifts being mailed in,” she said.

Casco residents and business owners received the flyers because Casco is “the hosting home town,” Walia explained.

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‘Ingalls’ gains prelim approval

By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Despite the sharp drop off and a gravel road that narrows considerably at the end of Ingalls Road, K & W Timberlands, LLC won preliminary approval from the Bridgton Planning Board to extend the road to create a seven-lot subdivision of two- to five-acre view lots on part of its vast holdings of 1,700 contiguous acres in Bridgton, Denmark and Sebago.

The approval came over the strong objections of Ingalls Roads residents after nearly an hour-long hearing on Dec. 6. The project was originally given tentative approval in October, but that approval was deemed improper after the town

realized the abutters had not been notified.

The logging company, which is also pursuing subdivisions in the Shawnee Peak area, was nearly denied its application after two of the three board members ruled that the subdivision would create unsafe road conditions because the road narrows to less than two lanes near the end.

But the two board members, Dee Miller and Roxanne Hagerman, agreed to reverse their ruling on the unsafe road standard when they realized it would leave the board no choice but to deny the overall subdivision — something the board has never done. They were also aware that, as a town road, it

is the town’s responsibility, and not the developer, to ensure that the road leading up to the subdivision is safe to travel.

K & W Timberlands plans to extend the road past the hammerhead turnaround at its end to provide frontage for the lots, and only the newly-built portion of road will be kept private and be maintained by a road association. Fire Chief Glen Garland, who met with project developer’s agent Tom Greer of Pinkham and Greer, has asked that the turnaround be enlarged in width to accommodate portable tanks for water-shuttling operations in case of fire.

Greer said K & W owner Nate Wadsworth has agreed INGALLS, Page A

FA Headmaster Dan Lee to retire in 2013 school’s funding sources and built a campus for the new century.”

Lee’s contract expires in 2013. The headmaster decided to make his retirement announcement early to “provide every opportunity for a smooth transition — one that will foster the future success of our school.”

In a letter to the Fryeburg Academy community, Pike said some officials have known for some time of Lee’s plans.

“He (Mr. Lee) has been most diligent in terms of being sure that, while vacating the post he

has held for two decades, would bring inevitable change to the school, his departure would not leave us unprepared,” Pike said. “I know that he has every intention of continuing to fulfill his duties with all of the enthusiasm and all of the effort

that he has dedicated to our school and its people for nearly two decades. While he doesn’t necessarily carry a visible list with him every day, he knows and keeps us aware that there is much to do before he ‘graduRETIRE, Page 12A

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Talking with Santa

What will new director do?

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer STANDISH — Santa Claus traveled via Sebago Lake to appear at a tree lighting event at Saint Joseph’s College, where he granted an interview to The Bridgton News — after all the children had told Mr. Claus what gifts they wanted for Christmas.

Q: What is it like to fly with your reindeer over Sebago Lake? Do they ever follow the Songo River?

Santa: When we come into Maine, Sebago Lake is one of the biggest landmarks we use. It is 55 square miles so we can see it from a long way away. Once we have delivered around the lake area we head up toward Long Lake, using the Songo River as our guide.

Q: Southern Maine had the warmest temperature on record for the month of November, and this region does not have any snow on the ground. How is the North Pole faring?

Santa: The North Pole is holding up well, it is very rare if there is not snow all year round. Plus with modern technology we now have a great snow-making system.

Ho Ho!!

Q: I heard you support communities buying locally — not just food, but gifts and goods. What are the primary reasons you support the buy local concept?

Santa: Well — It is important that communities stay as self-sufficient as possible. My grandfather tells me that they never purchased any food from out of state all year long. This provided better quality food, more local jobs and a community spirit

SPENDING SOME QUALITY TIME WITH SANTA — This youngster had a chance to take a walk with Santa following a tree lighting at Saint Joseph’s College last week.

Q: What are the advantages to eating locally?

Santa: Because eating locally tastes better, encourages biodiversity, is more nutritious, supports local farms and families, preserves open spaces, supports the local economy and protects the environment and helps wildlife.

Q: What kinds of local ingredients could people buy fairly easily to make holiday recipes?

Santa: This time of year it is possible to get many local ingredients to compliment the holiday season. Potatoes are available for traditional mashed potatoes; pumpkins are available to make delicious pie. You can also get root vegetables for lots of dishes including adding them to your favorite desserts. Just Google it!! You will also find plenty of Maine-made jams, hot sauces, preserves, pickled vegetables, just to name a few. Also in abundance is good old Smiling Hill Farm Milk processed in Westbrook!! Still using the tra-

ditional glass bottle from seven generations ago!!

Q: What are your favorite restaurants in the Bridgton, Naples and Casco area?

Name several and why – menu items, atmosphere, staff, or view.

Santa: Well – I enjoy wings at Bray’s Brew Pub, nice casual atmosphere and plenty of friendly staff. Little partial to the home brew ales myself. The Black Bear would be a favorite for a good Irish Breakfast or a Pizza for dinner. When I take Mrs. Claus out I head up to Bridgton where I enjoy the Black Horse Tavern, A little more formal and she enjoys a nice glass of sherry. Has a nice Christmas atmosphere and cheerful staff Q: Do you have any suggestions for where people can find locally-made Maine gifts for Christmas giving?

Santa: You can find plenty of great local gifts at Blacksmiths Winery in Casco, Good Life Market in Raymond, Renys in Bridgton.

According to Town Manager Dave Morton, there are no set rules for who can speak during a workshop, but rather it is a decision for selectmen to make. “The board can invite anyone they like to speak during workshop,” Morton said.

“They don’t have to be on the agenda.”

Earlier in the evening, the concept of workshop rules had been brought up and discussed between selectmen. At the time, the topic was a subject with

which members of the Casco Energy Committee were familiar.

Both Chairman Barbara York and Selectman Mary-Vienessa PARAMETERS, Page A

Workshop parameters debated

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — Casco’s elected officials discussed the parameters for workshops — and whether the protocol is different than for regular meetings, when residents can speak on subjects during public participation.

When the Casco Board of Selectmen met this month, most of its time was spent in workshop. During that period, the board briefly pondered “the rules of workshop.”

(Continued from Page A) Berkowitz said the position could be advertised beginning Dec. 19 and use a target date of Jan. 9, 2012 for the receipt of applications with the first round of interviews scheduled for the week of Jan. 16. He said he expects this would lead to a second round of interviews “of the top two or three candidates” on Monday, Jan. 23, with “a third interview of the top candidate” the week of Feb. 2.

“With a good process, the Board of Selectmen would hear of the recommended finalist during the week of Feb. 6 with a public notification at your Board of Selectmen meeting of Feb. 14th,” Berkowitz said, in his Dec. 6 memo.

Selectman Paul Hoyt said Dec. 13 that when the town hired Chief Schofield last spring the review committee members “were all professionals in that (law enforcement) area…I don’t see the same professional aspect with this committee.”

Bridgton Board of Selectmen Chairman Arthur Triglione Sr. stated, “I think we’re going to be hard pressed, to some degree, to have a review committee (for this position) made up of professionals — with law enforcement (professionals), they were all around us.”

Selectman Woody Woodward said that, while he commends Town Manager Berkowitz for recommending a selection committee for the post of Director of Economic and Community Planning and Development he “feels confident” that Berkowitz alone can handle the hiring duties.

“His authorization is to hire that position,” said Woodward, “and I don’t believe a committee is needed.”

Selectman Doug Taft said he agreed with Selectman Hoyt, as to not needing a committee comprised of some professional planners.

“But, I would like to get a planner (on the committee),” Taft said. “I think that someone from that position would maybe give us some light to travel by.”

On the other hand, Selectman Taft said he did not feel having a citizen at large serve on the committee was necessary.

“It’s optional — it’s nice to

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Cash stated, “and I don’t think we need an economic development director, per se, as much as a planner. The Town of Freeport, as big as it is, just has a planner. A lot of professionals on that Economic Development Committee could do that (economic development) job — let this (new) person do something else, or something more in depth.”

“I feel impelled to move forward, and time is of the essence,” the town manager told the selectmen.

Job description The position narrative for the Town of Bridgton Director of Economic and Community Planning and Development states: “This position is responsible for the ongoing development and implementation of a strategic plan that achieves both economic and community development through state-of-the-art economic and community planning practices. The Director is accountable for administrative and technical work, which includes managing a program of economic and community development activities using a variety of revenue sources including Community Development Block Grants and their proper administration. Work involves monitoring present business activity, developing ways to retain current business and assist in their development and growth. Emphasis shall be placed on attracting new business to the Town as well as business expansions. The priorities of this position are to retain and improve job opportunities, expand the tax base and develop the necessary capacities for future growth of the Town.”

It furthermore states that the applicant selected “has a successful philosophy of interaction with volunteers, business leaders and citizens.”

The job description lists “Necessary Special Requirements” of the post as: “Demonstrated and certified skills and abilities in the development and execution of a community wide economic development and Comprehensive Plan that includes multilevel promotions, advertisements and successful achievement of business and job expansions. Development of critical planning policies and necessary ordinance development to achieve the desired outcomes of those plans. Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with outside agencies, businesses, municipal officials, employees and the general public.

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Selectman Bernie King said he agreed with Taft.

“Yeah, I don’t agree with a citizen at large, but I have to agree with Doug that we are going to need somebody with economic development and planning expertise,” said Selectman King.

Furthermore, King said, “I don’t agree with Woody, to leave it up to the town manager — I think the same (procedure) falls with this as it did with the police chief’s (position).”

“Well, it’s Mitch’s recommendation that we have a committee,” Chairman Triglione replied.

Selectman Woodward said he questioned if this would set a precedent in the future hiring of municipal positions such as “rec director, public works director and the transfer station supervisor.”

Town Manager Berkowitz said the selection committee, as he recommended it be made up, “represents the user groups of that person’s skills and talents. This is a userbased committee. There will be some positions I’ll hire in the future where there won’t be a committee.” Berkowitz said he would add a professional planner to the selection committee’s makeup.

“I will find a municipal planner who is willing to sit in — I think that will round it out,” said Berkowitz. “The committee still has to recommend the candidate to me.”

“I’m saying the (town) manager is competent to do it on his own,” said Woodward. “If he feels he needs the input, I don’t have a problem with it.”

Local developer Mark Lopez suggested the town share a full-time certified planner with neighboring communities, such as Harrison or Fryeburg.

“I question that we need a full-time planner, and besides, planning is a regional concept,” Lopez said. Lopez also asked if any thought had been given to “paying a planner on a consulting basis.”

Selectman Woodward responded to Lopez’s comments, saying, “The biggest thing I’m hearing is (Alan Manoian) is already spread too thin…I think this (new) person will be fulltime and then some.”

“It’s the middle of winter and there’s not a lot going on,” Lopez replied.

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Workshop parameters debated (Continued from Page A) Fernandes sit on the board as well as resident Peg Dilley.

Dilley walked to the microphone to speak, while Selectman Paul Edes said public comment was not allowed during the workshop.

Chairman York offered to have Dilley add to the comments, particularly since her statement might pertain to the topic at hand, she said.

“No, it’s a workshop,” Edes

said.

Selectman Ray Grant continued on the heels on that thought with, “The agenda is long” and there was not time for everyone to speak.

Dilley leaned into the microphone and said, “I just wanted to say…

Edes said, “I said, ‘No.’ ” At that Dec. 12 meeting, the board talked about the protocol for allowing speakers during future workshops.

With numerous timely issues — including prioritizing the paving list for town roads and learning the A to Zs about property revaluations, the selectmen have a lot of information to cover in their workshops.

As clarified by Morton, no municipal laws or town charters govern who can speak during the workshops. Instead, the board makes the determination of who can and cannot step up to the microphone, he said.

Bridgton: Revenues & expenses

Bridgton Town Manager Mitch Berkowitz reported to selectmen last week on state revenue sharing, revenues and expenses and the status of tax foreclosures.

State revenue sharing — “We have just received our November share of the Revenue Sharing and I track this since it accounts for almost 13% of our revenues after taxes,” Berkowitz said, in his Dec. 13 report. “To date, we have received $127,538 which is 45.2% against the benchmark of 41.6%. My concerns lie in

the first quarter of 2012 and the amounts we receive may be more reflective of the economy.”

Revenues and expense report — “With the close of November, we were 41.7% into our budget year,” Berkowitz reported. “Expenses were 44.9% year to date while revenues were 47.3%. In addition, our cash flow appears to be solid and our property tax collections for the second payment due November 15 was about 47%. This indicates some slippage if the trend contin-

ues since this would only be about a 95% collection rate. We would remind all taxpayers to make their quarterly payments and if they want to pay more frequently for budgeting purposes please contact the town offices.”

Berkowitz said further, “Projecting the revenues and REVENUES, Page A

when Mother Seton House competed for #1 top honors in an online Pepsi Challenge grant, when supporters logged on for a month in such numbers that Mother Seton rose to the #83 position. They didn’t win, and Broyer’s computer crashed from all the activity. But she said, “I was so proud of that.”

The trip to Maggie’s Place likewise energized everyone involved in the Mother Seton mission, said Broyer. “It was so exciting to see that it could really work.”

The 100-year-old two-and-ahalf-story house in Fryeburg was purchased in a pre-auction foreclosure bid by a benefactor, and held for a year until the nonprofit was able to raise money to take it over.

The house needs new plumbing (the pipes were frozen), electrical upgrades, lead paint removal, a fire suppression system and new windows, and $30,000 still needs to be raised for those renovations.

But as far as the layout of rooms is concerned, little needs to be changed.

“The set-up is really perfect for a residence. We want to keep its homey atmosphere,” Broyer said. Eventually, the garage may be renovated for office space for the organization, but the priority for now is on the women and their needs.

The lack of a physical house hasn’t deterred Mother Seton House from moving full-steam ahead on its mission. Since 2007, Mother Seton House has worked with 12 new mothers and pregnant women, offering classes and regular distributions of free diapers, baby clothing, furniture, books and toys. When the home opens, the nonprofit will narrow its focus to the women who live there.

The house will run on an annual operating budget of $40,000, and will include such programs as the Cooking Matters classes, lactation counseling, and both academic and parenting education.

While one might think there will be a long waiting list of pregnant mothers to live for free at Mother Seton House, “they’re not going to be pounding down the door,” Broyer said. That’s because in return for all the support they’ll be receiving, the women will be giv-

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It’s a loving environment, but April, by creating a Facebook it’s structured,” Broyer said. page called “Mommy’s Little Legally speaking, the home will Helper.” Here’s a typical postoperate as a boarding house; no ing: “Hi everyone, I just wanted boyfriends will be allowed to visit to let you all know that with the (although involvement by biologi- help of The Mother Seton House, cal fathers is supported), and no I now have clothing for both boys active substance abusers will be and girls, up to size 18 months, allowed. If the woman has at as well as many other baby items least three months’ clean time and such as hats, socks, bibs, bouncy is trying to recover, she may be seats and more. I would like to allowed, however. Women who invite anyone who could use any are either pregnant or with a child baby items to message me for under the age of one are eligible appointments.” to apply if they meet financial The Facebook page has criteria similar to federal rules for inspired an Oxford Hills mothTANF assistance. er to create an “Oxford Hills “Our mothers are not stupid. Mommy’s Little Helper” page for They’re brave, they’re smart, donations and pick-ups closer to they’re very capable and very lov- her home. ing,” said Broyer. “What they Both of the alumni mothers are is poor. And that’s not a good are also pursuing higher educastart.” tion. Sonjia, or “Sunny” as she is Around four times a year, known, is studying at Granite State Mother Seton House has offered College in Conway, N.H., hoping what it calls “The Distribution” to work with teens, and Robyn — a day when baby and infant is attending White Mountain supplies, diapers, clothing and Community College, studying furniture are laid out on tables at social work.

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‘Knights’ give a lending hand

NFI North’s Dodge House School and Bridge Crossing residential program recently received a generous donation from the Fr. Michael J. McGivney Knights of Columbus Council of St. Joseph Parish in Bridgton.

The programs both serve children with behavioral and emotional disabilities in the Bridgton Community. Over the past three years, the Knights have built a strong relationship with the program through regular donations and support to program activities and programs.

The Knights of Columbus have long been known for their annual fundraising and donations through the Tootsie Roll Drive to support children and adults with cognitive disabilities.

In addition, the council supports

many community efforts including a recent donation of a bike to a child with autism, and their tireless support to the Mother Seton House in Fryeburg, which supports young single mothers and their babies.

NFI and Bridge Crossing are very pleased to be thought of and recognized by the Knights of Columbus for their work serving children and families in the Bridgton community.

The funds will be used to assist with student/client activities, field trips, supplies and materials. NFI and Bridge Crossing would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the Knights of Columbus for their kind and thoughtful donation as well as their support and volunteering of their time. It is greatly appreciated.

TAKING INVENTORY — Dale Brown, chairwoman of the First Congregational Church (UCC) of Bridgton Community Action Task Force Committee, has helped with the Adopt-a-Child for Christmas program nearly 30 years.

Making Christmas bright for kids

It will be a good Christmas after all for many local children thanks to the effort of caring community members.

The fellowship hall at the First Congregational Church DONATION TO HELP KIDS — Kurt Berger, program direc- (UCC) of Bridgton was a flurry tor of The Dodge House School (center) accepts a donation of activity last week as church from the Knights of Columbus Council of St. Joseph Parish, members organized, sorted and packed items like new coats, presented by Phil Garbardi (left) and Bob Pelletier.

boots, hats and mittens for 189 Bridgton children.

All the planning, organizing and fundraising, which began around Labor Day, culminated with 75 families receiving Christmas gifts on Friday, Dec. 16.

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children who needed help this year,” said Charlotte Nolan, coordinator of the program, “and the people in our community were so generous — purchasing gifts, donating their time or money to help make Christmas warmer and brighter for so many children and families.”

Those donating include the employees at Bridgton Hospital, Stevens Brook Elementary, L.L.Bean, Bridgton Lions Club, Harrison VFW, Maine Street Graphics, Oberg Insurance and Real Estate Agency, Pondicherry Chapter of the Eastern Star, Jones & Mathews, members of St. Joseph Church, South Bridgton Congregational Church, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church and

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The church has sponsored the Adopt-a-Child for Christmas program for more than 30 years.

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December 22, 2011, The Bridgton News, Page A

Ingalls Road subdivision gains preliminary approval

(Continued from Page A) to enlarge the turnaround, but pointed out that Public Works Director Jim Kidder had deemed the road is adequate to handle the increased traffic that the subdivision will cause.

“You say the town has failed to maintain the road in a safe condition, but that’s a conclusion that is not supported by the staff. I ask you to consider that very carefully,” Greer told the board.

Neighbor Kathy Berger, who, along with Lee Eastman, lives near the end of the road, after the driveway that leads to the

Narramissic Farm, said even as the situation is now, “If Lee was coming in and I was going out, one of us would have to back up. It’s not a two-lane road.”

Berger did acknowledge that the town does “a good job of maintaining it, such as it is.”

However, Berger said the problem of safe passage will be increased significantly during construction, when large trucks are going back and forth several times a day, and once the project is built out. She disputed Greer’s estimate that it will likely take 10 years for all seven lots to be built upon.

Berger and other residents also pointed out that dust and road rutting is a major issue on the road now, and will become unbearable during construction. Ingalls Road is paved from its intersection with the South Bridgton Road, Route 107, to Evans Road — and then turns to gravel.

Miller said the board can not prevent a developer from having access to his or her property because of the condition of a dirt road. Chairman Steve Collins agreed, and pointed out that the board set a precedent that developers weren’t respon-

‘Adopt-a-child’ project (Continued from Page A)

First Congregational Church, and several anonymous donors.

The high cost of fuel, food, and housing combined with high unemployment, underemploy-

ment, and decreasing funds for social programs contributed to the increased need, noted Nolan.

The program has typically served 150 to 160 children per year.

One mother who participated

Revenues & expenses

(Continued from Page A) cash flows, we are expected to have about $1.6 million prior to the February 15, 2012 quarterly payment and therefore would not need to borrow funds for operations.”

Tax foreclosure notices sent — “Pursuant to state statutes, we have sent out 118 45-day notices to those property owners who are delinquent on their 2009 property taxes,” Berkowitz

stated. “We are encouraging full payments before the deadline of January 21, 2012, otherwise the Town’s lien automatically forecloses and the property owners lose their properties. Last year, we sent out 100 notices and ended up with 13 automatic foreclosures. Having just completed the tax sales on the 2008 foreclosed properties, it would appear that the national and local trends are similar.”

in the program expressed the sentiment of many, “I just couldn’t have done it without you this year. Thanks a million and Merry Christmas.”

Donations continue to be accepted. Send your check to First Congregational Church, P.O. Box 243, Bridgton, ME 04009.

Please note Adopt-a-Child program on your check.

Jeanette’s Closet is open every Tuesday from 9 a.m. to noon, beginning Jan. 3, 2012.

The First Congregational Church is located at 33 South High Street in Bridgton. Sunday services are at 10 a.m. and there is childcare and Sunday school available. For more information, call 647-3936 or visit the First Congregational Church website at www.bridgtonucc.org

sible for unpaved town roads when it allowed a four-lot subdivision to go in off the Harmon Road several years ago.

“To some extent, you make a decision to live on a road like that,” Collins said.

Berger said the road’s residents prefer it be kept unpaved, because people drive “at a good clip” as it is, when they attend events at Narramissic Farm.

Wadsworth, in response to a concern that more lots would be developed, said only the sloping property just down from the turnaround offers views and would be marketable. He said he didn’t want to agree at this point, however, to a stipulation that the lots could not be further subdivided in the future.

Wadsworth said he and his partner own 1,700 contiguous acres in the region, with 600

in Bridgton, 1,000 in Denmark bilers and four-wheelers, who and 100 in Sebago. He said they use the old Narrow Gauge rail keep the land open to snowmo- bed for recreational riding.

Senior College at Bridgton announces its winter 2012 session.

Scheduled to begin Monday, Jan. 16, the program offers single, two-hour presentations on Mondays and Tuesdays over the course of several weeks.

Each presentation is free to Senior College at Bridgton members and is open to non-

members for a fee of $5, to be paid at the start of each class.

Membership costs $20 each academic year and those planning to take multiple classes are encouraged to become a member.

The classes include: Week 1, Monday, Jan. 16 offers a review of the scenic and environmental features of a

DRAWN TO THE VIEW — The narrow gravel road past Narramissic’s driveway on the Ingalls Road ends at a hammerhead turnaround beside Lee Eastman’s house, to the left, to reveal a panoramic view of distant hills and mountains.

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Hacker’s Hill donation drive

(Continued from Page A) “We have limited resources to cover expenses for mailings. So, we haven’t reached out to neighboring towns like Raymond or Naples,” she said.

“It would be great if anyone in the region who appreciates Hacker’s Hill could send a gift of any amount,” Walia said.

Grant Plummer and Eric Dibner, two members of the Hacker’s Hill Steering Committee, agree December is a great time to give — not just putting gifts under the Christmas tree, but putting aside this green space for years to come.

Dibner said it is not uncommon to see a final push of charitable donations at the end of the year, because people can include those financial gifts when filing taxes.

Both Dibner and Plummer said they would be involved in future fundraising. They said Walia would be guiding the committee on the next plan of action for the New Year. Loon Echo does not have any wintertime events planned on the Quaker Ridge site for 2012.

However, on April 21, LELT will hold a second hawk migration watch on Hacker’s Hill.

Dick Anderson, the former

director of the Maine Audubon Society, will lead the springtime hawk watch that will last most of the day, Walia said.

“People will be watching, and counting to see how many hawks they see return,” she said.

“We will also plan another event in the summertime to celebrate Loon Echo taking ownership — if we raise the necessary funds,” Walia said.

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Obituaries

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David H. Purington

Everett H. Eastman

Beverly R. Jensen

ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. — David H. Purington, 82, died Friday, Nov. 18, 2011.

He was born Nov. 12, 1929, to Ivory L.B. Purington and Avis (Smart) Purington.

He lived most of his life in Harrison, working for the family business (Purington Lumber Co.) with his dad. He also ran a small convenience store on Main Street in Harrison for a number of years. He worked for his lifetime friend, Eddie Rolfe, as a machine operator, and continued that line of work in his move to Florida, until his retirement at the age of 80.

He moved to Florida in the mid 1970s and fell in love with the state. There, he met his wife, Kandi, and spent many happy years, boating and camping and enjoying all that Florida had to offer. He was able to make a visit to Maine in June, and was able to visit many friends and family members. He will be sadly missed by all who knew and loved him.

He leaves his wife Kandi Purington; former wife, June Bishop and their children Gregory Purington of Harrison and Janet LeBlanc of Otisfield; former wife, Terri Purington and their son, Wade Purington of Georgia; a sister, Virginia Taylor of Harrison; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

He was predeceased by former wife Joanne Purington; brothers, Ivory Purington, Jr. and James Purington.

At David’s request, there will be no funeral or memorial service.

CHATHAM, N.H. — Everett Herbert Eastman, 84, of Chatham, N.H., passed away peacefully at his homestead farm on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011 with his son, Jason, by his side.

Herb was born on Aug. 10, 1927 at his homestead farm in Chatham and was the eldest of seven children of Everett and Carrie Eastman. Growing up, he worked on the farm and spent much quality time with his “Uncle Hickory.”

Herb started working for the State of New Hampshire in 1943 until he was drafted by the Army and was a veteran of WWII. He served his country in Okinawa, Japan. Upon his return, he continued his career with the State of New Hampshire until his retirement in December 1984. During his career with the state, he was employed as the road patrolman in Chatham and Crawford Notch. After his retirement, Herb worked for Gordon Brown Logging for seven years. He started in the repair shop and then moved on to groundwork, where he assisted in the construction of two Forest Service roads. He also worked for Indian Acres/Forest Acres as well as other contractors as a carpenter, which he enjoyed very much.

Herb was happily married to his late wife, Kathryn (Jordan) Eastman of Fryeburg for 27 years. During their life together, they enjoyed dancing, camping, traveling and being with friends and family. After his beloved wife passed away, he continued woodworking, mowing fields, splitting wood, hunting, breaking and fixing the tractors and “tinkering” to stay busy and active.

Herb attended the Fryeburg New Church every Sunday and also participated in his Bible study group each week. He also served as a dedicated selectman for the Town of Chatham from March 1989 until March 2007. On Dec. 10, 2011, Herb was proud to be best man in his son’s wedding.

Through Herb’s life experiences, he offered to all who knew him and to anyone he met, many, many stories and wisdom. He was well-known for his helping hand, sense of humor and his jokes. Herb led a full life and had an abundance of friends and family.

Herb is predeceased by his wife, Kathryn (Jordan) Eastman. He is also predeceased by his special companions, Ola Mae Dickey Wheaton and Anna Eastman, both of whom he had many good memories with.

He is survived by his son, Jason S. Eastman of Chatham, N.H.; his brothers, Norman Eastman of Soldotna, Ala., Richard Eastman of Chatham, N.H., Frank Eastman of Chatham, N.H., Nelson Eastman of Chatham, N.H. and Charles Eastman of Silver Lake, N.H.; his sister, Jean Eastman of Chatham, N.H.; as well as many nieces and nephews.

A graveside service will be held later in the spring at Chatham Center Cemetery in Center Chatham, N.H. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Fryeburg New Church, 12 Oxford Street, Fryeburg, ME 04037.

Arrangements are made with Wood Funeral Home, Fryeburg. Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.woodfuneralhome. org

SOUTH CASCO — Beverly Rose Jensen, 81, of South Casco, died on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011, at the Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice in Auburn.

She was born in South Portland, the daughter of Harold A. and Angie Oliver Smith. Bev attended Falmouth schools and was a 1948 graduate of Falmouth High School.

She worked for the former Casco Bottling Company in Portland.

After raising her family, Bev worked for Cumberland County Civil Defense as a radio operator. She also worked at the Sebago Trading Post in North Windham, and later as a real estate broker for Doreen Warren.

Bev was also employed by Fairchild in South Portland, the Manchester School in Windham as a noon aide and was called Granny by all of the children, Clarostat in Gorham and the Maine Correctional Center in South Windham as a switchboard operator for 21 years, retiring in 2009.

Bev has been a resident of South Casco since 1988. She had attended East Windham Community Church, where she also taught Sunday School; was a member of the East Windham Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary; and was a former member of The Deborah Hospital Foundation.

Her family as well as her home meant everything to Bev. She also enjoyed bowling, gardening, dancing, and playing cards. As a teenager, she sang on the stage with Ken MacKenzie.

She was predeceased by her brother, Lloyd H. Smith.

Surviving besides her husband of 56 years, Richard E. Jensen of South Casco, are two sons, Richard H. Graves of Mechanic Falls and Dana E. Jensen of Windham; three daughters, Karen L. Thompson of Naples, Lori A. Jensen and Lynne M. Jordan, both of South Casco; a brother, Richard Smith of Florida; 12 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and many nieces and nephews.

Visiting hours will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, at the Dolby Funeral Chapel, 434 River Road, Windham, with a funeral service to follow at 11 a.m. in the chapel. Burial will follow at Smith Cemetery, Windham.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice, 236 Stetson Rd., Auburn, ME 04210.

Winnifred P. Kiesman

EAST FRYEBURG — Winnifred Pearl (Hiersche) Kiesman passed away peacefully Dec. 15, 2011.

Winnie was born on Sept. 14, 1920 in Ludlow, Mass., the daughter of the late Albert D. and Pearl (Goodell) Hiersche. She was a graduate of Ludlow High School. Before marriage, she was a bookkeeper and proofreader at the stationery/print shop, A. H. Bartlett Co., in Ludlow, Mass.

On May 23, 1944, she married Laurence “Larry” Kiesman of Fryeburg. Larry was in the Air Force during World War 11, and Winnie accompanied him during his next 24 years of military service, except for the one year he spent in Thailand during the Vietnam War. She spent that year with their two children in Springfield, Mass., to be near her parents.

Winnie was a homemaker after marriage, living the life of a military wife and mother. She had many homes during that time. They lived in: Lawrenceville, Ill.; Austin, Texas; Tacoma, Wash.; San Angelo, Texas; Cheyenne, Wyo.; Aurora, Colo.; Anchorage, Alaska, where they drove up and back with their two children, then a son, 6 years old, and a daughter, 2 years old, on the Al-Can Highway.

From Alaska, they moved to Fairborn, Ohio and lived there six years before Larry spent a year in Thailand. After Thailand, they returned again to Fairborn, where he was reassigned to Wright Patterson AFB. They made many auto trips over those years to visit their parents and family and after retirement made trips across country to visit family and friends. After Larry’s retirement in 1968, they moved to Fryeburg, where he built their house on the banks of the Saco River. Winnie accompanied Larry to Augusta when he was the Maine State Representative for six years.

She attended every legislative session those six years. She really enjoyed learning all about how the legislature is run and attended every day it was in session. She was a member and officer of the Fryeburg Woman’s Library Club (serving as secretary and trustee), the Extension Club, the Saco Valley Garden Club, and served as secretary of the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Association.

Winnie was predeceased by Larry, her husband of 60 years, as well as her parents, Pearl and Albert Hiersche of Ludlow, Mass.; a brother, Dexter Hiersche of Ludlow, Mass.

She is survived by a son, Terry Kiesman of Attleboro, Mass.; a daughter Becky Leonard of Salida, Colo.; two granddaughters and a grandson; a great-grandson; sisters, Ida Long of Pine Grove, Pa. and Erna Manchester of Ithaca, NY.; a brother, George Hiersche of Ludlow, Mass.

A memorial graveside service at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Denmark will be held in the spring.

Donations in lieu of flowers can be made in memory of Winnie to Fryeburg Rescue, P.O. Box 177, Fryeburg, ME 04037.

Arrangements are with Wood Funeral Home of Fryeburg. Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.woodfuneralhome.org

Harland E. Stultz

GORHAM — Harland E. Stultz, 76, of Gorham, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough.

He was born in Portland, the son of Paul L. and Pearl H. (Small) Stultz. He was raised in Gorham and attended Gorham schools. Harland served in the United States Marine Corps.

He owned and operated New England Boat in Bridgton for many years. He was a member of the Luckson Ski Club at Highland Lake.

He was an avid skier for many years. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, and snowmobiling. Harland also had his pilot’s license and owned a floatplane for many years.

He is survived by his wife, Patricia A. (Reid) Stultz of Gorham; his stepmother, Bertha D. Stultz of Cape Elizabeth; his son, Christopher L. of Harrison; a stepdaughter, Patricia Peisel of Quincy, Mass.; two stepbrothers, Paul Stultz Jr. of Maryland and James Stultz of Providing Windham; two stepsisters, Diane companionship, respite Shepard of Brewer and Martha Jane Eaton of Scarborough; and a care, home care and grandson. transportation.

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Doris M. Waterhouse

NORWAY — Doris M. Waterhouse, 78, of West Paris, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 at Stephens Memorial Hospital.

She was born in Woodstock, March 26, 1933, to Lamont Toothaker and Arlene (Smith) Cummings. She attended various schools in the area. On June 18, 1950, she married Lloyd Waterhouse. For many years, she worked as a housekeeper at Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway as well as at Penley’s and Mann’s Mill.

She was a member of Grace Fellowship Church in Oxford and the Ladies for God. She had served as Den Mother for the Boy Scouts. She looked forward to going to the Allagash with her husband, Lloyd every year.

Doris loved feeding the birds and especially loved seeing orioles and cardinals. She liked horses, enjoyed watching the Red Sox and stock car racing, and raced in the powder puff and demolition derby, where she was known as “Hot Dot.” Doris is survived by her husband of 61 years, Lloyd Waterhouse; three sons, Kevin Waterhouse of West Paris, Gary Waterhouse of West Paris and Fred Waterhouse of Norway; daughter, Gail Boutilier of West Paris; stepmother, Ruth “Nana” Toothaker; brothers, Garfield Toothaker of Gorham, Dickie Toothaker of Weld and Eddie Toothaker of Fryeburg; sisters, Pat Smith of China and Carol Parisi; 12 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandchild; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her brother, Cliff Cummings; sister, Ellie Witham; and foster mother, Dorothy Putnam.

Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.oxfordhillsfuneralservices.com Visiting hours were held on Saturday, Dec. 17, from 10 to 11 a.m. followed by a funeral services at 11 a.m. at the Grace Fellowship Church, 29 Poplar Street, Oxford. A reception was held at the church. Interment was at the Wayside Cemetery in West Paris. Arrangements under the care of Oxford Hills and Weston Funeral Services, 1037 Main Street, Route 26, Oxford.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Doris’ memory to the Grace Fellowship Church, P.O. Box 162, West Paris, ME 04289.

11 homes burglarized

RAYMOND — The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s assistance, in its investigation into burglaries at 11 homes on Indian Point Road here Dec. 13.

Captain Don Goulet said a work crew was in the area when they “discovered a single seasonal property that had been broken into.”

A neighborhood canvas was performed by Sheriff’s deputies during the initial investigation, at which time it was determined a total of 11 properties had been burglarized.

Items stolen include electronics, sporting equipment, personal belongings and alcohol.

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Kenyon Bartlett SOUTH PORTLAND — Kenyon S. Bartlett, 91, of South Portland, passed away Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, at a Portland Hospital.

Mr. Bartlett was born in Lewiston, the son of Carl Eractus and Erma Elmina Rand Bartlett. He was educated in the South Portland schools and graduated in 1939. He also graduated from Wentworth Institute in 1942.

During World War II he served in the United States Air Force as an airplane mechanic and flight engineer.

While living in South Portland he was a member of the First Congregational Church and was active with the Boy Scouts of America.

For 35 years he was a toolmaker with the Chaplen Corporation and also Tenneco Packaging.

When not working to support his family, Mr. Bartlett was a creative and busy man. He built and flew model airplanes when his children were young, sharing that passion with them. He was a boater and fisherman throughout his adult life, expanding that interest into his basement workshop where he built two professional quality boats from scratch.

His later hobbies included square dancing, and round dancing with his wife.

They were members of the Sunset Squares for 22 years. He was also a member of Elks in Portland for 25 years.

Surviving are his wife of 65 years, Marjorie A. Cressey Bartlett of South Portland; four children, Sally A. Flynn of Harrison, Jeffrey S. Bartlett of Freeport, Robert Bartlett of South Portland and Joanne Morton of Westbrook; a sister, Elaine Van Dyke of Iowa; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Visiting hours will be held from 12 to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 22, with a funeral to follow at 1 p.m., at the Hobbs Funeral Home, 230 Cottage Road, South Portland. Interment will follow at Forest City Cemetery in South Portland.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.hobbsfuneralhome.com.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in his memory to: The Alzheimer’s Association, 170 U.S. Route 1, Suite 250, Falmouth, ME 04105.

Extension offers beekeeping class The University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Cumberland County will be offering a two beekeeping courses this winter. The two courses are designed for two different audiences — beginner level beekeepers and intermediate level beekeepers.

The Beginner Beekeeping Course involves five sessions and will be taught by two experienced beekeepers, Geoff MacLean and Jack Hildreth. The beginner course will be offered on consecutive Wednesday evenings starting Wednesday, Jan. 18, in Portland. The fee for the beginning course is $80 per person and covers the cost of the textbook, a bee disease publication and the beekeepers reference notebook.

The Intermediate Level Beekeeping Course will be taught by Master Beekeeper Erin Forbes, and is scheduled for six consecutive Monday evenings starting Monday,

The Bridgton News

Thank You

The News will run, at no charge, obituaries that have local connections.

Photographs may be submitted at no additional charge, and whenever possible, they should be emailed as a jpg file.

The family of Milton Prouty wishes to thank everyone for the cards sent, food brought and all the condolences to our family during this difficult time.

The News will include: Individuals – predeceased by parents, siblings, spouse, children; survived by spouse, significant other, children, parents.

Names of spouses of surviving relatives will not be included. In most cases names of the grandchildren, nephews and nieces will not be listed, just the number of each. However, if the deceased individual’s only connection to the area is a nephew, niece or grandchild, that person will be identified. The News reserves the right to edit all free obituaries.

Thank you for all the memories and paintings shared at Milt’s celebration of life.

OBITUARY POLICY

Requests for more complete obituaries will be accepted as paid advertisements.

Contact: The Bridgton News, P.O. Box 244, 118 Main Street, Bridgton, ME 04009. Tel. 207-647-2851, Fax 207-6475001, Email: bnews@roadrunner.com

Special thanks to “Bear” Zaidman and Ed Rock from Shawnee Peak for allowing us to fulfill Milt’s last wishes.

Catherine Prouty Karen and Tom O’Shea and family Bob and Teresa Prouty and family Stephen and Susie Prouty and family Paul and Judee Prouty and family Bob and Deb McHatton and family Elaine Roberts and family

Feb. 6, and will be held at the University of Maine Regional Learning Center/Extension Office in Falmouth. The fee for the intermediate level course is $130 per person.

For more information, see the website at http://umaine.edu/ cumberland/programs/2012beekeeping-courses/ To request a registration form or to register over the phone with a credit card, call the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Cumberland County at 7816099 or 1-800-287-1471.

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Mom you are missed greatly and thought of always by your family & friends.

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December 22, 2011, The Bridgton News, Page A

Heather Pierson to leave Open Mic NORWAY — After much thought and consideration, Heather Pierson has decided that, after 10 years, she is leaving as the host of Norway Open Mic Night.

“This doesn’t mean necessarily that NOMN will be no more. There are some rumblings of someone taking over and continuing on with the monthly tradition,” she said.

“Unless someone does step up to take my place, Norway Open Mic Night will wrap up when I host for the last time this comWE DID IT! — The Wheatons graduate from Cooking ing Friday, Dec. 23.”

Matters.

Pierson said 10 years “is a long time to keep at anything consistently.”

“A decade of friendships formed, songs shared, lives touched, connections made,” she said. “Lots of fun, community, music, poetry, laughter and good times. I’m very proud of those years and the contribution that NOMN has made to western Maine culture and community during that time.”

Pierson added, “It’s a bittersweet ending, and I’m so thankful to all of you who have

By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer There is a lot to be said for families learning together that “Cooking Matters.”

The Cooking Matters program teaches adults and kids how to prepare delicious and nutritious low-cost meals and how to stretch families’ dollars.

Given the numbers of parents and children who enrolled in the first Pequawket Kids Association’s “Cooking Matters” program last spring, the next six-week session in January should be just as

family, and they’re saving money!”

One of the lessons learned, Laura said, is that buying whole chickens and cutting them up is cheaper than buying them already cut up.

Chefs who participated in last spring’s Cooking Matters classes are Waneeta Marquis of The Darby Field Inn, Theo Timberlake-Alves of The Muddy Moose and Derrek Schlottman, chef at the Admiral Peary House.

“This is a family affair,” said Laura. “Families can support each other and buy things that are better for them, nutritionally. Parents are asking, ‘When are we going to do this again?’ It’s an enriching experience, for everyone!”

To enroll in the next Cooking Matters six-week session that starts on Jan. 3, call Laura at 935-1900 and leave your information and she will send out registration materials. Each Cooking Matters session needs eight to 10 new enrollees, Laura said, to satisfy grant requirements.

Pequawket Kids Association Pequawket Kids Association, now in its fourth year, offers daily academic support, healthy snacks, recreation and enrichment programs to students who are enrolled, when school is in session. There were 188 students enrolled in the Pequawket Kids Association during the 2010–2011 school year.

Families learn that cooking matters

SAD 72 subsidy FRYEBURG — School Administrative District 72 may be receiving over $200,000 in additional state subsidies, Superintendent of Schools Gary MacDonald recently announced at a school board meeting.

MacDonald told the SAD 72 Board of Directors, “I say this hesitantly…we got a printout this week of projected subsidies that show we may receive $200,000 more than we anticipated.”

However, the superintendent urged caution Oct. 12, saying there are also anticipated budgetary shortfalls at the state level.

“There are some shortfalls at the state level — so, there’s good news and then there’s reality.”

If the additional subsidy is, in fact, forthcoming, Supt.

MacDonald said, “It would be the first increase in subsidy in many years.”

Senior College

(Continued from Page A) William Blake, and his attempt to evoke an earlier “golden age.” Tuesday offers a real turn about when Sally Chappell tells about the prevalence of toxic chemicals in products we use every day.

Week 4 begins, on Monday, Feb. 6, with Margaret Reimer offering a sure-to-be-compelling study of the equally compelling classic film, Casablanca, staring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. In the Tuesday class Homer Pence will continue his study of how some prominent themes are treated in opera. His topic this winter is opera and the sea.

This winter Senior College will offer a bonus class. On Monday Feb. 13, Steve Stevens, owner and restorer of Bridgton’s classic William Perry House, has agreed to offer a tour of his beautiful building. He will tell of the building’s history and show off the quality and care being put into its renovation.

Senior College members and those on the current mailing list should soon receive information and registration materials in the mail. Materials may also be obtained, after Jan. 1 by email at seniorcollegebridgton@ gmail.com or by visiting the website: seniorcollegeatbridgton.org

Matters program was offered to children and their parents at Brownfield-Denmark School, while C.A. Snow School and New Suncook School offered the program to adults and provided child care.

The next session of Cooking Matters for adults will begin at 6 p.m. on Jan. 3, 2012 at the New Suncook School in Lovell, according to Laura.

Each Cooking Matters lesson is provided by Share Our Strength Cooking Matters, a program sponsored locally by the Good Shepherd FoodBank, and is laid out in collaboration with a professional chef, a nutritionist and the PKA coordinator.

Every week, parents receive a bag of groceries provided by Hannaford so they can make at home the very foods they learn to prepare in class.

During the fifth week, students in the adult classes go to Hannaford, where they receive a $10 gift card to use to purchase food needed to prepare a complete meal for a family of four. They then report on their success at the final session.

Laura credits former SAD 72 Wellness Director Eileen Grant-Szeto with bringing the Cooking Matters program initiative to her attention.

Laura said attendees at the first six-week sessions of Cooking Matters have been sharing what they learned with others.

Said Laura, “They’re sharing it with their friends and

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at 6:30 p.m. and Open Mic begins a little after 7 p.m.

Heather will be “streaming” the event too, so if you are unable to attend, tune in by going to this link: http://www. ustream.tv/channel/norwayopen-mic-night

Joins First Light

Vance Jordan has joined First Light Home Care, a nonmedical, in-home care provider company serving residents of the greater Bridgton area, as a member of the caregiver staff.

Jordan is a resident of Waterford, and is a longtime volunteer with Beacon Hospice.

He is also the pastor of the Congregational Church of South Bridgton, where he has served since October 1999.

Jordan joins other members of the First Light Home Care staff in offering companion and personal care so that individuals can remain living in their own home in a safe manner, regardless of limitations and/or disability.

Vance Jordan Member of caregiver staff

Interviewed by ‘Globe’

Major Brian Southard, formerly of Casco, was recently quoted in a Boston Globe story entitled, “It’s Their Country; let them have it,” regarding the United States’ withdrawal from Iraq.

A 1996 graduate of Lake Region High School, Brian is the son of Carmen Southard and the late Townsend Southard.

He earned a master’s degree in 2005. He is a graduate of Norwich University, and presently a Chief of Operations with the 82nd Airborne Division. He served four tours in Iraq.

Globe reporter Brian MacQuarrie interviewed U.S. troops stationed at the Iraq-Kuwait border. Published Dec. 18, the article’s subtitle was, “Weary of Iraq war’s sacrifice, but proud they gave democracy a chance, the last unit out of the country reflects on nine long, hard years.”

Writing about the 700-solider unit’s departure from Baghdad to Camp Virginia in Kuwait (nearly 22 hours and more than 300 miles), MacQuarrie described the convoy’s journey and interviewed soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division, which is based at Fort Bragg, N.C. and had served seven months in Iraq.

On the subject of staying alert, Major Southard, age 34, said, “They’ve been trying to get their licks on us for some time now.

The sigh of relief will come when I recline in that seat on an airplane and don’t think about indirect fire.”

During the daytime on Friday, the unit stopped due to a roadside bomb that disabled a civilian truck in a preceding convoy.

The 27-hour journey was a long, stressful one.

“My riding lawn mower goes faster than what we’re doing,” said Staff Sergeant Justin McCarty.

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Laura Riggs-Mitchell, 21st Century Community Learning Center After School Program Director in School Administrative District 72, said the Cooking Matters program was first offered to parents and adult family members of students enrolled in the Pequawket Kids Association program at three SAD 72 elementary schools last spring — Brownfield-Denmark School, New Suncook School in Lovell and the C.A. Snow School in Fryeburg. The Cooking

helped make it the success that it has been by showing up every month to share your creativity and your presence!”

Open Mic is held at the First Universalist Church, located at 479 Main Street in Norway.

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Harrison winter rec programs

DOG TALK — Nancy Troubh speaks to children and adults about the Maine Search and Rescue Dog program at the Casco Public Library.

Casco Library dog program Maine Search and Rescue Dogs (MESARD) is a nonprofit, all volunteer organization formed in 1983 with the help of the Maine Warden Service.

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Both handlers and dogs must prove their proficiency as well as pass certification tests on a variety of realistic search problems. Handler training includes first aid, CPR, land navigation, radio communications, wilderness survival, crime scene preservation, incident command system, ground search techniques and search organization.

MESARD dogs are certified in obedience and one or more of the following: wilderness air scent, tracking/trailing, water search, human remains detection search and article search.

Games: Senior adults ages 60 and older, first Tuesday of each month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Congregational Church in Harrison. Bring a food dish to share. Dessert, beverages and games provided. Join the fun and chat with friends.

Red Claws trip: Trip to Maine Red Claws game at the Portland Expo on Sunday, Jan. 22. Cost: $12 per person. The game is at 5 p.m.

Bus leaves the Harrison Town Office parking lot at 2:30 p.m. and returns at 8:30 p.m. Call Rec Director Paula Holt for details. Everyone welcome!

Skate Fest: The Super Bowl Skate Fest at the Bridgton Ice Arena at Bridgton Academy will be held on Sunday, Feb. 5 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Assorted size skates available. Children under 8 are encouraged to wear a helmet and must be accompanied by an adult. Refreshment table.

All Harrison residents welcome! Cost: Free.

Snow Tubing: Snow Tubing at Oxford Plains Snow

Place for seniors to socialize

HARRISON — A Senior Social — potluck, games and bingo for adults ages 60 and older — will be held on the first Tuesday of each month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Congregational Church in Harrison (across from Crystal Lake Park).

The first Social is scheduled for Jan. 3, 2012.

Attendees should bring a food dish to share. Dessert and beverage will be provided. Cost: free!

A door prize and prizes for bingo winners will be given. Call Rec Director Paula Holt with questions at 583-2241.

Sponsored and hosted by Harrison Recreation, Senior Social is a great opportunity to gather, socialize, relax, play bingo and just have fun!

Tubing Park will be held on Monday, Feb. 20 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bus leaves the Harrison Town Office parking lot at 9:15 a.m. and returns at 2 p.m. Cost is $16. Town and tubing release waivers available at the Harrison Town Office. Call Rec Director Paula Holt for details. Everyone welcome!

Sledding: Sledding at High View Farm on Wednesday, Feb. 22 from 1 to 4 p.m.

Kids and families will enjoy three hours of sledding on the Big Hill located off Edes Falls Road on the left (two miles from center of town).

Children ages 8 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Hot cocoa and snacks will be available. Bring your sled. Dress according to the weather.

Fishing Derby: The youth and family Ice Fishing Derby: “Hooked on Fishing Not on Drugs” will be held on Saturday, Feb. 26 from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 26 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Long Lake, in partnership with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Win a youth lifetime fishing license.

Lots of prizes and raffles! For more information, call Derby Coordinator Joe Jack at 9074344. Food and warming fire will be available! Vendors at the Town Office.

Call Rec Director Paula Holt at 583-2241 for more detailed information or contact her by e-mail at pholt@ harrisonmaine.org or visit the town website at www.harrisonmaine.org

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HARRISON — The Harrison Rec Department will offer the following activities and programs this winter: Youth Basketball: Girls and boys, grades 1-6. Weekly practices with games on Saturdays, December through February. Round robin playoffs for grades 5-6.

Co-ed Teen Basketball: Young adolescents in grades 7-11 on Tuesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Harrison Elementary School Gym. Follows school calendar. No cost.

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BROWNFIELD Brownfield Community Church Dec. 24: Candlelight Service, 7 p.m.

CASCO Casco Village Church UCC Dec. 24: Christmas Pageant, 7 p.m., O Holy Night Service, 11 p.m. to midnight.

Dec. 25: Christmas Day Worship, 10 a.m.

FRYEBURG St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church Dec. 24: Christmas Eve Mass at 7 p.m.

HARRISON United Parish Congregational Church of Harrison and N. Bridgton Dec. 24: Candlelight Service and Christmas songs, 5 p.m.

Dec. 25: Christmas Day Service with Communion, 10 a.m.

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Dec. 25: Christmas Day Worship Service, 10:30 a.m.

NAPLES Naples United Methodist Church Dec. 24: Christmas Eve Service, 7 p.m.

Dec. 25: Christmas Day Worship Service, 10 a.m.

OTISFIELD East Otisfield Free Baptist Church Dec. 24: Christmas Eve Service at 7 p.m.

Dec. 25: Christmas Morning Service at 10 a.m.

Will Rhys in ‘A Christmas Carol’

Lakes Environmental Association is sponsoring A Christmas Carol, starring Will Rhys, on Friday, Dec. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Stevens Brook Elementary School. For more information, call 647-8580.

The American Red Cross is sponsoring a blood drive on Saturday, Dec. 24 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Masonic Hall on Route 117. For more information, call 1-800-482-0743.

Christmas Eve church services will be held Saturday, Dec. 24, at 6 p.m. at the Community Center.

My wish for all my friends and readers of my column in The Bridgton News is God bless each one. May joys increase with the New Year. Happiness for each, a world of peace, a heart sublime for you this Christmastime, and may God bless you.

SEBAGO North Sebago United Methodist Church Dec. 24: Christmas Eve Service, 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 25: Christmas Day Service, 10 a.m.

Stephanie Lauer and Alexander Baltos

Engagement

Lonnie and Linda Lauer of Bridgton are happy and pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Stephanie Lauer, to Alexander Baltos, son of Peter and Francine Baltos of Westbrook.

Stephanie graduated from Lake Region High School and the University of Maine in Orono.

Alexander attended Westbrook High School and University of Southern Maine.

They both live and work in the Portland area. Stephanie teaches computer usage to elementary students (K-2) in South Portland. She also works part time at Amato’s, sells Pampered Chef products and is a swim instructor in the summer at Bridgton Town Beach. Alexander is a manager at Amato’s and is currently working on another degree.

The couple will be married on June 16, 2012 in Gorham.

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This heartwarming tale is a holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time. The film stars Martin Landau, Ellen Burstyn, Adam Scott and Elizabeth Banks, and is rated PG. Tickets are $8 for adults and $4 for students. For more information, call the box office at 935-9232 or visit www. fryeburgacademy.org/pac

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Barbara J. McDonough and Nester T. Beckwith

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Nester T. Beckwith Jr. (“TJ”) of Greenville and Barbara J. McDonough of Naples are pleased to announce their engagement.

Nester is the son of the late Nester T. Beckwith and Maggie Devlin. Nester is employed by Ted Hamilton Builders.

Barbara is the daughter of Edward McDonough and the late Barbara J. Wright. Barbara is the secretary for the Town of Naples.

The couple resides in Harrison on Long Lake. A September wedding is planned, followed by a honeymoon in Bermuda.

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We will be serving lunch and dinner Friday 12/30/2011 and Saturday 12/31/2011.

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Recuperating at grandma’s house

Kiersten Eldridge, daughter of Kevin and Connie Eldridge, is recuperating at her grandmother’s house in Naples after having being treated for a surgical dislocation of her left hip Dec. 2 at Boston Children’s Hospital.

She spent seven days in the hospital and had complications due to her medications.

She will be having the same surgery in three months on her right hip. If you want to send her a card, the address is: 23 Knight Drive, Naples, ME 04055. She’s not happy about not being able to play basketball. Get well soon, Kiersten.

Well, Jolene and I went back to Mark’s Lawn and Garden to learn to make the kissing balls. That was so much fun. You can see them when you go by the house.

I think they came out rather well for the first time doing it. While we were there, as we couldn’t go the next day, we made centerpieces as well.

If I was a Scout leader, I’d have my girls or boys do this as a project next year. They can make wreaths, kissing balls or centerpieces and give them to moms, grams or aunts or even to folks around town.

Should be able to get a badge from it as well. Think it over,

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by Nony O’Hara Correspondent Tel. 647-3565

Saw grandson’s Christmas concert

Bob and Mary Mawhinney made a special trip to Sturbridge, Mass. to see their grandson Donavan in a Christmas concert, and visit with their children Eric and Sheila Mawhinney.

Cindy Dore went to Wakefield, N.H. for a few days on her vacation to stay with her family, Jessica and Joshua Nason, and grandchildren, Sara, Parker, Juleah and new baby Jillian. One evening, they went to the Poor People’s Pub for dinner.

Country living leaders, and give Mark a call.

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Jolene and I would like to send best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year from our house to yours.

I was going through some of my mom’s things, and found the following item. I thought it would be kind of appropriate for this time of year, so here it is: A Dog’s Plea Treat me kindly, my beloved friend, for no heart in all the world is more grateful for kindness than the loving heart of me.

Do not break my spirit with a stick, for though I should lick your hand between blows, your patience and understanding will more quickly teach me the things you would have me learn.

Speak to me often, for your voice is the world’s sweetest music, as you must know by the fierce wagging of my tail when your footstep falls upon my waiting ear.

Please take me inside when it is cold and wet, for I am a domesticated animal, no longer accustomed to bitter elements. I ask no greater glory than the privilege of sitting at your feet beside the hearth.

Keep my pan filled with fresh water, for I cannot tell you when I suffer thirst.

Feed me clean food that I may stay well, to romp and play and do your bidding, to walk by your side, and stand ready, willing and able to protect you with my life, should your life be in danger.

And, my friend, when I am very old, and I no longer enjoy good health, hearing and sight, do not make heroic efforts to keep me going. I am not having any fun. Please see that my trusting life is taken gently.

I shall leave this earth knowing with the last breath I draw that my fate was always safest in your hands.

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Why we celebrate Christmas I wrote this poem for my granddaughter Shannon when she was five years old, she is now 23.

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One evening my small grandchild climbed upon my knee In a quiet voice she asked of me Grandma why do we celebrate and give presents on Christmas Day? I pondered a moment searching for the words to say In the Bible it says, God

created the heavens and earth, I began When all was right he created man The earth and his people prospered which made him glad But soon he saw evil and this made him sad So he decided to send someone to teach them what was right

Several locals have expressed interest in collecting memorabilia from Bridgton High School. The building still exists relatively unchanged, but the years have taken a toll on the graduates of this small school, which operated from 1949 to 1970 on Depot Street. While the memories are still alive, it is important to tap into the school’s history.

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It happened on a cold winter’s night He sent his only son Jesus to earth Christmas is the day of his birth Mary his mother was a virgin maid On a lowly manger was the baby laid Angels told shepherds to go witness the event And Wise Men from afar led by a starlight heaven sent Gifts they brought to the newborn king While heavenly voices his praises they sing That is why we celebrate this holy day With presents and carols joyously gay I looked to see if she understood what I said When a wonderful warm feeling came over me instead For on her face when I took a peek Was a great big smile though she was fast asleep I leaned over placed a kiss on her brow Content to sit as we were now And holding her small body remembering Christmases past I prayed there could be peace on Earth Good will to man at last

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HAM OPERATORS — Bridgton Hospital employees (left to right) Karen Mentus, George Gardner and Paula Cox recently received their HAM licensing.

Hospital employees obtain HAM operator licenses

Three members of the Bridgton Hospital staff have completed the requirements, and received their licensing, as HAM radio operators.

George Gardner, Karen Mentus and Paula Cox met weekly over six weeks with a HAM radio instructor (an “Elmer” as it’s known to HAMs) to learn about radio operation, safety, radio etiquette, FCC rules, and basic electronics.

The “Elmer” for the Bridgton Hospital class was local George Drisko (KB1AQE).

The class ended at the end of November with the licensing test presented by Volunteer Examiners.

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for their licenses.

The primary reason Bridgton Hospital staff participated in this HAM licensing course was to provide an additional layer of back up communications for the hospital in the event of a disaster.

The staff members also found the class very enjoyable, brining

a level of camaraderie that being a HAM provides.

According to Gardner, “With the right frequency and rig (radio) you can talk to virtually anyone in the world, including the International Space Station!”

Gardner serves as head of the Emergency Preparedness Committee at the hospital.

Socrates Café

WATERFORD — A Socrates Café gathering will be held at the Waterford Library on Monday, Jan. 2, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Meetings are held on the first Monday of each month. The group offers a forum to discuss current topics and ideas in a warm, friendly atmosphere, where divergent views will be welcome.

The topic for the January meeting will be “Income Inequality: How Does This Affect Us As A Society?” The moderator will be Connie Allen.

For more information call 583-6957 or e-mail the library at wla@ waterford.lib.me.us

Bring your family and friends to Stevens Brook Elementary School on Friday, Dec. 23 at 7 p.m. for the festive telling of the Charles Dickens’ classic.

Come dressed in your pajamas and enjoy milk and cookies as renowned actor and director Will Rhys brings Ebenezer Scrooge to life!

Rhys has had a varied career as both an actor and director.

He was a founding member of The National Theatre of the Deaf and was also a resident director and later artistic director of The Cleveland Play House, where he appeared in more than 40 productions and directed another 20.

He also has appeared in the Broadway productions of The Changing Room and Jumpers and the off-Broadway productions of The Balcony, Romeo and Juliet, Three Valises and The Velvet Weapon, and has worked at regional theatres across the country.

Join Lakes Environmental Association on Dec. 23, as Rhys once again, brings to life Marley’s Ghost, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, the Cratchit Family, Nephew Fred, Mr. Fezziwig, and, of course, Scrooge himself.

Donations of $5 per adult and $1 per child are appreciated; all proceeds will benefit LEA. For more information, call 647-8580 or e-mail sarah@leamaine.org

WILL RHYS brings the character of Ebenezer Scrooge to life on Friday, Dec. 23 at Stevens Brook Elementary School at 7 p.m.

DAVE PIETRO and the NYA Wayne Shorter Ensemble will perform at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy on Monday, Jan. 9 at 7:30 p.m.

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FRYEBURG — Dave Pietro and the NYU Wayne Shorter Ensemble will be performing at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for seniors (65-plus) and students. Group rates are available for parties of ten or more.

Tickets are available for purchase online at www.fryeburgacademy.org/pac or by calling the Box Office at 935-9232.

The theater is located at 18 Bradley Street on the Fryeburg Academy campus. Parking is free.

A native of Southboro, Mass., Dave Pietro has been on the New York music scene since 1987. His talents as a gifted saxophonist, composer, and educator have made him an in-demand musician, who has performed at jazz clubs, jazz festivals, schools and concert halls in more than 30 countries throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America.

For this performance, he will be joined by some extremely talented students from New York University.

Pietro received a bachelor’s degree in music education from North Texas State University, where he toured and recorded four albums with the school’s One O’Clock Lab Band. He has a Master of Arts degree in jazz composition from New York University, where he cur-

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Dave has given hundreds of workshops and concerts at schools around the country and is sponsored by Rico Reeds and the Conn-Selmer Instrument Company.

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Area news

Childcare opens in shop built in honor of ‘dad’

RAFFLE WINNER — Christmas came early for Mike Feero (center) of Waterford. Bev Rand (left) of Lake Region Auto Supply drew the winning ticket for this year’s Christmas raffle.

Barry Gilman (right) owner of Bridgton’s NAPA store, presented the all-metal replica pedal truck to Feero.

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Banks to sail aboard tall ship Sarah Banks, daughter of Kathy and Henry Banks of Denmark, is enrolled in the Sea Education Association Semester, a study abroad program through SEA in Woods Hole, Mass.

While away from her studies at Warren Wilson College, Sarah has completed the Sea Semester’s six-week shore component, earning academic credit for curriculum in oceanography, nautical science and

maritime studies.

Sarah, a 2007 graduate of Fryeburg Academy, developed a research project that will be tested and completed aboard SEA’s 134-foot sailing school vessel, the Corwith Cramer.

She will be sailing on the tall ship, one of the most sophisticated research equipped vessels under sail in the U.S., from St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands with possible port stops in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic,

Jamaica and Key West, Fla. In addition to collecting data for a research project, Sarah will help provide weather observations to a national database, learn to chart the course of the vessel using celestial navigation and serve as the Junior Watch Officer, taking full command of the vessel during a watch. Sarah’s shipmates come from colleges and universities around the country.

CASCO — Army Cadet Joseph R. Lanham of Casco has graduated from the Army ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) Leader Development and Assessment Course, also known as “Operation Warrior Forge,” at Joint Base LewisMcChord, Tacoma, Wash.

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vide the best possible professional training and evaluation for all cadets in the aspects of military life, administration and logistical support. Although continued military training and leadership development is included in the curriculum, the primary focus of the course is to develop and evaluate each

cadet’s officer potential as a leader by exercising the cadet’s intelligence, common sense, ingenuity and physical stamina.

Lanham is a student at University of Southern Maine, Portland. He is the son of John and Nadine Lanham of Stagecoach Hill Road in Casco.

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Jana and Joseph Brooks have put his mother’s former gift shop on Leach Hill Road to good use, with the August opening of Brooks Family Childcare on Leach Hill Road.

The couple said they knew right away, when they bought his parents’ former home in 2007, that they eventually wanted to use the gift shop space to create a family business. Dian Brooks sold trinkets out of the shop, including hand-painted slates that were cut by her husband Steve, using a handmade slate cutter.

After Steve died tragically in a snowmobile accident in 2002, the Army National Guard built a new shop for Dian, so she would be able to continue to run her gift shop and take care of her family, said Jana Brooks.

Jana has been working in the childcare field for over six years, mostly as a nanny for families in the Lake Region area.

“In 2010 our son Dayne was born, and I know I wanted to be able to stay home and raise our son, and still be able to support our family,” she said.

At the time, she was working as a nanny for a family in Raymond, but she knew those children would be starting school in the fall. So the couple decided the time was right to renovate the former gift shop and garage as a childcare center, and construction began this past spring.

“I am truly honored to use the building built in Steve’s honor for our childcare,” Jana said.

She said Brooks Family Childcare is unique, in that it is a small, intimate group, but the space is run more like a childcare center. “This gives the children and parents the best of both worlds,” Jana said.

They place a large focus on nurturing self-esteem and security through social and emotional development, using hands-on

LOVING DAY CARE — is being provided by Jana Brooks at her new Brooks Family Childcare business on Leach Hill Road, the site of her mother-in-law Dian Brooks’s former gift shop. Posing with Jana are some of her little clients, from left, Wynter McCoach, Joshua Grace, Aidan Mitchell and Dayne Brooks.

The childcare center is open play and discovery programs.

“I believe that all children from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday are special and unique,” said through Friday, and stays open Jana, who encourages parents until 5:30 p.m. if needed. Visit to discuss with her the expecta- their Facebook page, e-mail them tions they have for their child. at brooksfamilychildcarellc@ “I am always open to any feed- yahoo.com or call them at 6273288. back.”

Lee to retire in 2013

(Continued from Page A) ates’ at the end of June in 2013.”

In early January 2012, the Academy will open a national search for a new headmaster. The top candidate will be a “person with the appropriate combination of teaching skills, personality and wisdom.”

Pike added that Lee’s tenure moved the Academy from a “school” upon his arrival to a “true campus that provides a highly positive overall life experience, particularly for our students, but also for all who spend their adult lives teaching and working here.”

“When this man departs the corner office on the second floor of the main classroom building, we must be sure that we have found a headmaster who will continue to nurture that campus experience,” Pike said.

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December 22, 2011, The Bridgton News, Page B

Our view

It Dawned on Me

by Dawn De Busk News Columnist

Life circles back

Seeing certain parts of this region jumpstarts my brain’s memories of Alaska.

Two stretches of scenery along Route 121 do this to me instantly. It is a “commute” every other week as part of my coverage of Casco’s municipal meetings for The Bridgton News.

Many people are probably familiar with the area of Route 121 as one heads toward the village. There is a long curve in the road and a parallel pullout that also curves next to a guardrail. The stop overlooks Pleasant Lake, with its homes on a hilly backdrop.

Most would agree the view is idyllic, and it is offered twice with a second pullout.

The other spot that “takes me home” is closer to the RaymondCasco line. As I head toward Route 11, it is to my right. That terrain reveals an extended family of the ugliest, most mangled trees. The trees are probably being strangled by phosphorous in their swampy home. It reminds me of a section of the Kenai Peninsula, where a forest fire occurred in the 1970s. Actually, the Casco version is prettier. Sometimes, it reminds me of the forests existing near the low-lying brush and bog at the edge of Bishop Creek — a haven for canoes and fishermen. There, a creek echoes in the culvert under a road that connected neighbors to one another.

The Casco scenery has become my eye candy each time I drive past it. The game I play is to name another place in Alaska that reminds me of it, and I haven’t thought of before.

In December, for the first time in a whole year of traveling this road rather regularly, I noticed something I had overlooked.

Beyond the beautifully twisted and malnourished stand of trees was a pair of rounded mountains — a lady lying back in repose like so many twinned mountains in Alaska with crazy names and fables to explain their formation.

In conversations, my younger brother has told me that it is pleasant, more present moment, to let go of comparisons. But, I have not yet learned to do this. Five years after my feet hit the East Coast, I am still making those comparisons and connections between Alaska and Maine.

Each June, I get wicked homesick. The summer solstice is Alaskans’ best time of the year. Roll out the red carpet. The sun gives us increased hours of daylight until there is a crescendo — a sunset close on the heels of a sunrise.

As summer solstice grows near, I get super busy so I don’t harbor my homesick heart. I volunteer for stuff to take my mind away from my June 21 malady. During summer 2011, I put in office hours while everyone spent time at Raymond’s public beach. I wrapped up work as the day waned. Later, we arrived at a friend’s home a few hours before sunset; lawn chairs circled an active fire pit. While the company and conversation was fine and familiar, I excused myself to walk the property with my daughter.

We followed a trail to the tiniest brook, where I spotted something as familiar as breathing. Thousands of blue forget-me-nots, Alaska’s state flower. I was stunned by the holiest shade of sky blue from the flower whose name I had uttered as I grew up. The dank earth I could smell and fierce mosquitos I could feel were witnesses as I acknowledged that I had come home to Raymond, Maine.

Besides the fact that forget-me-nots grow wild here, my birth year is the same as two things in the State of Maine: the Maine Turnpike, and the Yarmouth Clam Festival. All three will be 47 years old in 2012.

On the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, I called my father. I was excited to share with him that not even 40 miles from me, right here in Maine where I live, ships were shipped out to support the World War II effort in the 1940s. My dad informed me that those Liberty Ships were the ones that arrived in Whittier, Alaska, in the mid-1960s, where he worked as a longshoreman.

Ships that originated from the Northeast coast were re-fitted for continued service on the water, he said. I lived in Whittier in a time too early for memories to take hold.

After I hung up, gradually I remembered the rusty ship that was part of Arness Dock. All my life I had known the ship that people said was from the war. The vessel was permanently docked until the sea wore it into time. In my hometown, a Liberty Ship existed, like the ones people would tell me about when I was 46 years old, and walked into the Casco Inn to hear their stories for a newspaper article.

Repeatedly, those moments happen that swing me back to Alaska’s south-central coast and ring a bell of clarity as to why I gravitated to this region of Maine.

Letters to the editor Thanks for support

To The Editor: To the people of Lovell and surrounding communities who have supported me and my family, thank you!

Close to 500 people attended the benefit dinner on Dec. 3 for me and my family, and it was a great success. The support has come in various forms: spiritual, emotional and financial. This all means so much to me as I go through my struggle with cancer.

I would like to thank personally Scott Thomas, who is an inspiration to me as he continues with his own battle with cancer and who spearheaded the benefit dinner.

Thank you to Mark Moulton, Tom McKenzie and the Lovell Volunteer Fire Department for hosting the dinner, Mark Kurnick

for cooking the dinner and to all of the people who donated desserts as well as their time.

A special thanks to F.W. Webb for donating items for the raffle.

To my family and extended family, we couldn’t go through this without your support. If I could thank everyone personally for all they have done we would, and if given the opportunity to do so we will. It has been quite heartwarming to get so much support from the community and it fills my heart and gives me strength to continue to go through the treatments.

Also, the strength that has been gained by the survivors and their families who have walked this walk before me has given me much hope. Thank you for sharing your stories.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Paul and Christine McLaughlin Lovell LETTERS, Page 2B

BEAUTIFYING BRIDGTON — Hanging a wreath in Farragut Park, Bridgton, on Dec. 3 were Bridgton Boy Scout Troop 149 members, from left, Chris Kuvaja, Josh Axtman, David Robbins, Joey Trumbull, Mason Hamilton and Tyler Rondeau. Not pictured as part of the boys’ wreath-hanging service project at the town monuments was Brady Tolliver. The troop is thankful to town officials who helped them with this project.

The repository of profound scribble

We all have tics and quirky little absent-minded fidgets that we do out of habit, or possibly because we didn’t get enough phosphorus when we were toddlers.

My son can’t keep still when he sits with one leg up and his foot cocked across the other knee — his ankle jumps and twitches like a cat taking a shower; my grandfather never got out of a chair without saying, “Well, yup!” first, as if to gather momentum; and my college-age daughter seems to start every sentence with “Dude…”

One of my tics is mild hypergraphia — I just have to write things down. I carry a notebook with me everywhere and write down every little thing that might ever be important again. And then I record everything in a database so I can search and sort later (by keyword, date, topic, humidity, emotion at the time, etc.). I’ve done this for years and I know it sounds like obsessive-compulsive behavior, but it’s remarkable how often I actually go back and find stuff that I need (for instance, most of my column ideas have been spawned from some doodle in a notebook). Plus, it’s really the only part of my life that is organized (you should see the inside of my car — think explosion in a locker room), so I doubt my hypergraphia is anything I need to be medicated for.

Views from the Uppermost House

by S. Peter Lewis News Columnist

At my day-today job, w h i l e banging away editing medical textbooks (hey, it’s inside work with no heavy lifting), I often have Christian radio on in the background so I can listen to some of my favorite pastors. And whenever one of them says something compelling or profound or challenging or encouraging, I jot it on a sticky note and slap it against the wall (the repository of profound scribble).

In this, the season of thanks, I’m thankful for faithful men and women who communicate truth in ways that cause me to pause, reevaluate, repent, and then charge ever forward with more love in my heart and renewed resolve. Here are some poignant notes from the wall: Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always be who you always were.

Lord, without your power, it’s all just good intention.

Life is lived at the intersections.

Opportunities are often lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

The sum total of our lives is our investment in other people.

God: For everything that has been, thank you; for everything that will be, yes.

Not what a man can do, but what the Lord can do with a man.

Smooth words mean nothing, a sensitive heart means everything.

People will forget almost all of what you say and most of what you do, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Whatever you are overflowing with will spill out when you’re bumped.

What you spend is gone forever; what you give away is yours forever.

Find a cause greater than your fear, and chase it.

There is no tragedy greater than the unopened, unused gift.

A brook would lose its song

if God removed the rocks.

Eighty percent of what we do, anyone can do. Fifteen percent of what we do, anyone can do with training.

Five percent is unique to us.

Find out what you do best, and do it.

The heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart.

God loves us the way we are, but He loves us too much to leave us that way.

Forgiveness: giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.

Be light, not glare — they should see the light, not the lamp.

And I’ll end with one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever read. Just typing the words (knowing the context), brings tears to my eyes.

The author was Jim Elliot, a 28-year-old missionary to Ecuador who was speared to death in 1956 on a remote jungle sandbar on the banks of the Curaray River by members of the Waodani tribe — the very people he had come to serve (who had been lied to about his intentions).

As many of us prepare to celebrate the ultimate sacrifice — the son of God giving His life so we can have new life — the young missionary’s words speak as loudly as any inspired verse.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

Defining the shortfall — seeking answers

Most of the activity this past week at the State House, and there has been a lot, especially for this time of year, has been about the proposed cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

First, on Tuesday, DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew and a retinue of experts from the Department attempted to answer questions from the Appropriations Committee concerning the exact nature and extent of the shortfall.

Unfortunately, the answers they gave still left many questions. They were able to document that there does indeed appear to be a budget shortfall for DHHS for this fiscal year that ends June 30, 2012.

They could not state with any certainty the exact size of the shortfall, however. Numbers for the next fiscal year were even less clear.

Another question they were unable to answer with certainty was how much of this

Views from Senate

by Bill Diamond State Senator, D-Windham

shortfall is going to recur year after year and how much is made up of one-time expenditures. This will make a huge difference in how we should approach making up the difference. While the state has to pay its bills in either case, cutting programs like drugs for the low income elderly and Head Start for children is not the most responsible way to meet one-time expenses, especially if those one-time costs are the results of errors committed by DHHS, as appears could be the case.

The rest of the week was spent hearing from the public

on how the cuts will impact them. Hundreds of people were willing to wait in line to speak. There was a great deal of very moving testimony against the cuts, as well as a few people who came to speak in support of them. It was an exhausting and emotional process for all involved.

The governor had originally wanted to push this all through on a fast track, but, this is too important a subject, and there are still far too many unanswered questions.

The legislature is going to slow that process down and demand more hard answers

from DHHS, and others to determine the exact need for reductions and how they should be made to do the least possible harm. We may very well have to make some cuts to balance the budget, but they should be smart, well thoughtout and surgical in an effort to reach a level of efficiency in the department. Rushing forward without sufficient deliberation is the wrong way to go and could end up costing the state more in the end.

Input from the public is an important piece to solving this puzzle, so please let me know if you have any ideas.

Just call my office at the State House at 287-1515 or visit my website, www.mainesenate. org/diamond to send me an e-mail.

Senator Bill Diamond is a resident of Windham, and serves the District 12 communities of Casco, Frye Island, Raymond, Standish, Windham and Hollis.

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Letters

(Continued from Page B)

Fuel fundraiser

To The Editor: Last Saturday, Dec. 17, at the Bridgton Academy Chapel, Deertrees Theatre presented a Christmas program of words and music to raise monies for the Fuel Collaborative of Bridgton and Harrison. A total of $502 dollars was raised.

The afternoon was a unique Christmas presentation of a different look at Christmas, especially in words. The talented cast included David and Maureen Butler, Carolyn Currie, Elisabeth Hardcastle, Andrew Harris, Mark Honan, Susie Stauble, Randall Tuttle of Portland Stage, and Chris Vigneau of North Bridgton on the piano.

I want to thank Bridgton Academy for the venue, Greenwood Manor of Harrison for hosting the cast party, The Bridgton News for its coverage and ad, and the many locations around the two towns for letting us place the playbill.

If you did not attend, you missed a great presentation of Christmas. I hope this will become an annual event.

I want to thank those that attended, helping Deertrees to raise the much needed dollars for the Fuel Collaborative.

Al Glover, President Deertrees Theatre and Cultural Center

Letters

To The Editor: I made my usual Thursday morning trajectory from Sweden to Bridgton and back again to get my Bridgton News and have it read before noontime. I must say, each time I venture forth, I hope to see my own words printed believing them necessary to my community at the time of the writing.

Alas, I’m often forced to deal with some humbling of the old ego when I discover my “precious words” (which I incessantly revise and shorten in order to combat dyslexia) were not as necessary, cogent or as pleasing to the editor or anyone else as I originally hoped would be the case.

I fear (perhaps quite right-

fully) my sort of information does not make the slightest impact on anyone. I wonder why I am so driven to keep writing year after year despite it all. Sometimes — not too often — a Bridgton News reader goes to the back pages to read my letters and writes in to say they are so good that I deserve my own column. On those very rare moments, my ego swells like an untethered helium balloon. At other times — not too often — those like Geoff Jones of Denmark prick my balloon.

I’m not always sure whether it contains hot air, toxic ego or my God-given spirit as I make my dispirited descent and collapse into a sobering reality, which is not always so pleasing. Somehow, Mother Earth comforts me with her awesome beauty and reminds me to keep trying the best I can to speak the truth, to love justice and non-violence, and the best I do is good enough.

On Dec. 15, Jones wrote, “A writer suggested Ms. Durr be retained as a regular columnist, but I trust even you (meaning the editor of The Bridgton News) recognize that as well intentioned as her epistles are, they lack any grounding in fact.” Geoff Jones suggests that Henry Precht, a former columnist, return to write for The Bridgton News. Unlike myself, a social worker who spent years unsuccessfully challenging the corporate ethics of the mental health industry, Precht does have “a background in the business of politics and foreign affairs.” Therefore, unlike myself, perhaps he can “provide a serious alternative to Tom McLaughlin.”

Oh! Woe is me! Indeed, I did enjoy Henry Precht’s opinion pieces and missed him when he no longer wrote for The Bridgton News. Robert Dow’s letter in favor of the “Occupy” movement was excellent, although unlike Mr. Dow, I believe babies are about as narcissistic and greedy as they come (not evil) — that is until they are taught boundaries and how to take turns and share. Alas, unregulated egos are having a field day in our political system. On the same page, in “Earth Notes,” Sally Chappell wrote a superb, wellresearched opinion piece filled with statistics regarding corporate manipulations of consumers. Her column has my unqualified approval for style,

NOT SHY — The weekend before Thanksgiving, beaver(s) came up into Shorey Park and rampaged on one of the River Birch trees near the stairs. The lights had just been put on the tree and the beavers left a real mess when they couldn’t haul the branches free. They made the five-stem clump into a three-stem clump and then came back and made it a two-stem clump, even though the tree had been wrapped up with silt fence. The trees are now protected with wire. Unfortunately, this tree gets less sun and had been outgrown by the one to the south, though they were the same size at planting. Now, the two are no longer matched at all. “Lots of people are losing trees along the lakeshore to the beavers. I just want them all to know the beavers come right into Town too!” said Lucia Terry of Perennial Point of View, who provided the photo. information and content. Rev. Plaisted’s letters, using quotes from Scripture, are the very best. Robert Champagne’s letter this week was one I could agree with. So, at least, as a woman, I’m in the company of men who express my own sentiments. Perhaps, these men believe I should stay home, watch television and nurse my arthritis rather than try to include myself in writing letters to the editor. Perhaps, I should leave writing up to Sally Chappell, Gail Geraghty, Joyce White, Lisa Ackley and so many more women, who write really well about issues I care about in The Bridgton News.

As I complete Geoff Jones’ rant about my own inadequacies as a writer (which perhaps make him “chortle”) followed by a rant about the discrimination of smart white men in favor of dumb minority groups or women who try to get jobs in the police and fire departments, “where everyone knows they (the women) can’t perform all the duties needed to

make the beneficiaries of the services safe,” I feel vindicated and, I must say, very grounded in factual information. Tom McLaughlin, Geoff Wolf, Robert Cross and others are excellent first-hand source material.

Virginia (Tilla) Durr Sweden

Yes, Virginia

you should look into a MiracleEar®. Needless to say, I sat back, sucked wind and thought —wow — she knows what I’ve been trying not to tell myself.

Only a friend would tell you the truth.

So hear (here) I am — new eyes — new ears. Let me tell you, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

Do yourself a favor — get your ears tested. You might be as surprised as I that I flunked it.

It was a tough month before I got my aids. To make it easier, I wish I had read up on hearing loss. Denial is wonderful, don’t you think? I’m reading now, The Consumer Handbook on Hearing Loss & Hearing Aids: A Bridge to Healing (Didn’t even know I needed healing).

The great think about turning 75 is that there is so much I don’t know about. I shall not list them at this point; frankly, I don’t know what they are. But when they come, I hope the good Lord makes it this easy for me. Grateful to live in Denmark, Maine, Suzanne K. Fone Denmark

To The Editor: Hearing aids or ear aides are like earrings, only just a little more expensive. They are one of the best investments I’ve ever made.

I’ve only had mine two days, and what a change in my life.

The clock’s tick again. Opening and closing doors are noisy. The floors creak and crack like they did when they were new.

I hear the furnace come on.

The garage doors scared the h_ __ out of me when they opened.

The telephone was so loud, I’m sure the neighbors could hear it (I had turned those up some time ago!).

You put those aids on as early as you can in the morning. God forbid you miss anything.

It’s a new world out there.

Instant happiness! Doesn’t get any better than that!

I wondered, how long have I needed these? I had my cataracts To The Editor: Taking a serious look at the taken care of this fall. It’s nice to see again! A friend said, now history of the United States,

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To The Editor: Many thanks to the actors and musicians who brought us a new presentation this year, “A Deertrees Christmas,” at Bridgton Academy. Donations to the event benefited the Harrison and Bridgton Fuel Collaborative.

They melded readings of traditional Christmas stories we love with music both familiar and new. Their presentation style brought us Charles Dickens and Dylan Thomas as if we were sitting in a London theater.

Hopefully, this will be a new holiday tradition for our area!

Thank you, Deertrees Theatre!

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one sees movement to the right and then left; the pendulum of history. One could argue that over time, we have gone further to the left than to the right, constituting progress.

Movement to the right is conservative. The pendulum has been swinging to the right for the past 40 years. Now, at its extreme limit, the pendulum is starting to swing left. The conservative sees this and laments the present.

They claim the sky is falling or the country has seen its day, etc., etc. Consider the current debates among Republican primary candidates to verify this view. Read the newspapers of the 1780s or 1860s, or 1930s and one finds similar views.

President Obama looks to the future with a vision that is the antithesis of conservatism.

There are similarities to the 1930s when President Franklin Roosevelt put forth the same concepts as currently put forth

by President Obama. So, the pendulum is starting to swing to the left. It will traverse this course for the next few decades while liberals break out the gramophone and play, “Happy Days are Here Again!” This will lead to the excesses of the left that we saw in the past, such as the 1920s and 1960s.

The truly lamentable fact in all of this is we have seen this before over the past 235 years.

One would think it’s time for a better idea.

Even more regrettable than the pendulum swing, is the current vituperative, hate speech we find in current political discourse. Republicans do not want to defeat President Obama politically; they want to destroy him. They hate the man! President Obama is not evil. So where does this vitriol come from?

I am a moderate independent. I believe in accountability. If one believes President Obama’s vision is wrong, then vote him out of office. But don’t hate the man. This is well below our dignity as a nation.

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens died last Friday. Though it’s too early to say with surety, it seems he died as he lived — convinced that as the title of his last book declared: God is Not Great, and further convinced there was no such thing as God. Many of us wondered whether he would have a change of heart after being diagnosed with terminal cancer of the esophagus but, so far, there are no reports that he did.

Unlikely as it would seem, Hitchens interested me as he did other conservatives. Unlikely because he was an apologist for communism, an admirer of Leon Trotsky who, with Lenin and Stalin, led the Russian Revolution, and he was a bitter critic of Mother Teresa. He was a darling of the left because he was an intelligent, articulate, atheist socialist.

He was a champion for the principles of leftist orthodoxy until he came out in support of President Clinton’s impeachment in the late 1990s. The left was in shock. Then he wrote a book about the Clintons called No One Left to Lie to: the Values

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by Tom McLaughlin News Columnist

of the Worst Family. That was heresy for a “progressive.” Next came the September 11th attack on the United States, which, among other things, made him decide to become a U.S. citizen. Following that, he exposed the left’s myopia in its refusal to condemn radical Islam in spite of its treatment of women, homosexuals, its denial of free speech, freedom of religion, and its willingness to use violence wherever and whenever to impose sharia on everyone.

The final straw occurred when in 2003, he supported the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Hitchens pursued truth as he perceived it. He had heart and he had integrity. That’s more than I can say about most of the people I encounter on life’s journey. We didn’t see the world

in the same way, but I trusted the man in some intuitive way.

He seemed to put the search for truth above himself, and I’ve discovered that I can relate only to people who do that. I’ve come to believe that Truth has a capital “T” but Hitchens denied that to his death.

In his last essay for Vanity Fair, Hitchens wrote: “Before I was diagnosed with esophageal cancer a year and a half ago, I rather jauntily told the readers of my memoirs that when faced with extinction I wanted to be fully conscious and awake, in order to ‘do’ death in the active and not the passive sense. And I do, still, try to nurture that little flame of curiosity and defiance: willing to play out the string to the end and wishing to be spared nothing that properly belongs to a life span. However, one thing that grave illness does is to make you examine familiar principles and seemingly reliable sayings.

And there’s one that I find I am not saying with quite the same conviction as I once used to: In particular, I have slightly stopped issuing the announce-

December 22, 2011, The Bridgton News, Page B

ment that ‘Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.’” He was referring to the debilitating effects of chemotherapy on his body.

That last quote is, ironically, attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche — author of the famous phrase, “God is Dead” that has become the mantra of 20th century secular nihilism and championed

by Hitchens during his lifetime.

Nietzsche, however, predicted that the post-Christian 20th century would cause a decline in civility, indeed of western civilization itself, because Christianity has been responsible for the rise of those cherished western values including individual freedom and equality.

As frequent Hitchens’s debate opponent Dinesh D’Sousa put it, “Unfortunately for the critics of Christianity, even values they care about will, according to Nietzsche, eventually collapse.”

Ironically, Christopher Hitchens had a brother, Peter Hitchens, also a writer, who is both a Christian and a political conservative. Evidently, they were never close, even in childhood, but they were civil to each other most of the time. Often, they debated God publicly and politely. After his brother’s death, Peter Hitchens wrote, “While I was making my gradual, hesitant way back to the altarrail, my brother Christopher’s passion against God grew more virulent and confident. As he has become more certain about the non-existence of God, I have become more convinced HITCHENS, Page B

Medicare nugget

By Stan Cohen Medicare Volunteer Counselor In order to qualify for coverage under Medicare, home health care is care that must be received in the home to treat an injury or illness. Medicare will only cover home health care if the person receiving the care meets all the following criteria: they are homebound, need intermittent (less than 24 hours) skilled nursing care provided by licensed nurses or therapists, have a signed home health certification from their doctor, and receive the care from a Medicare-certified home health agency.

Homebound means that leaving the home requires a considerable and taxing effort, such as using a wheelchair or requiring help from another person. People who are homebound can leave the home for medical treatment, adult day care, religious services, and special non-medical events such as graduations and family reunions. Some beneficiaries need help with activities of daily living such as getting

dressed or preparing meals.

This is called custodial care.

Medicare only covers custodial care if it is in addition to skilled care. Examples of skilled care include helping to change bandages and administer intravenous antibiotics, or providing physical therapy.

A person does not need to have been in the hospital in order to get Medicare coverage for home health care. All that is necessary is that the requirements listed above are met. In cases where there is no prior hospital stay, Part B covers home health care at 100% of the Medicare approved amount. Medicare Advantage plans are required to offer the same home health benefits as Original Medicare, but may or may not charge co-insurance.

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Page B, The Bridgton News, December 22, 2011 drugs. What a great thing if you are a senior living on a low, fixed income of under $14,500.

Will 72,000 Maine people lose access to their doctors and their prescription drugs? What a nightmare that would create for our neighbors, our friends and our families.

Richard Farnsworth Chairman AARP Maine Capitol City Task Force Portland

ernor would even consider balancing the state budget by ripping to shreds the already threadbare safety net that exists for our (Continued from Page B) poorest citizens? It is the poorest of the poor who could needlessly suffer if the right conclusions are not reached in the coming To The Editor: weeks.

Mainers really spoke up at the Our elderly citizens need our State House on Dec. 14 in strong support, and our state should not reaction to Governor LePage’s turn its back on them. At AARP, proposed budget cuts. These cuts we extend our hand to work with would have an extremely negaall legislators, on both sides of tive impact for thousands and the aisle, and the governor, to thousands of us across the state. develop a plan that will keep our I testified on behalf of the 72,000 elderly citizens safe and healthy. who are in the Medicare Savings Rich Livingston Program or MSP. I can only To The Editor: AARP Executive Council With the myriad of problems hope that the members of the Auburn Appropriations Committee were that older adults and challenged individuals in this state face, it is listening and heard what I had our job as both advocates and legto say.

If the MSP is cut, medical islators to protect Maine’s most care and prescription drug cov- vulnerable populations. This is To The Editor: It’s the time of year to sit erage will end for 72,000 low- a tough economy, but it is even down and take stock in what we tougher when one is frail, elderly, income seniors and adults with disabilities. Several years ago, alone and frightened. Seniors in have or have not. Christmas isn’t legislators from both sides of Maine have watched all sum- a celebration of how much we the aisle approved the MSP for mer long as their hard-earned get for Christmas, but a celebrathose on low, fixed incomes who Social Security benefits were tion of Jesus. I know this will were over 65 and on Medicare debated over and over again in offend a lot of people but it is the or disabled. We were pleased Washington. For two years, they truth. Christmas is not the time that the legislature decided that haven’t benefited from a cost of of year to value ourselves by the amount of Christmas presents we it was better for our seniors and living increase.

In the last 10 years, hunger get or how many Christmas cards more cost effective to pay for them to be part of this important among older adults has increased we get, or how big our bonus program. MSP covers Part B pre- by an unbelievable 80 percent. check is. It is about the birth of miums for Medicare, which pays Social Security is the only our Savior, Jesus Christ. Without for all doctor visits, preventive source of income for one-third of him, how cruel and empty our care, screenings and outpatient Mainers age 65 and older. Many hearts, soul and the world would older Mainers rely upon every be. I know if it wasn’t for Jesus care and costs.

The other great part about dime, every penny, to get them Christ and God, a lot of us would the MSP is that the Federal gov- through each month. The state not be here today.

Christmas is a time to reflect ernment pays Medicare Part D has alternatives, but these are on how obedient you have been prescription drug premiums for Maine residents who do not.

What has happened in Maine to God. How have you lived your all eligible members so they have access to low-cost prescription that our legislature and our gov- life over the year. Have you ever thought how much your neighbor is struggling, that maybe he/ she needed a ride to the store, EDUCED R to the bank or some little thing E C I ll!!

PR must se that could be done for him/her Builder to make his/her life just a little bit easier? But instead, you just walked away. Have you ever visited a nursing home and see how lonely those people are? A lot of them have no relatives to visit or even care for them. They have no one to look forward to at Christmas time. It must be a lonely place for them. Some don’t 18 Riley’s Run, Bridgton, Maine even have very good clothes to wear. I know this because I have 28' x 40' energy-efficient, exposed beams, granite tops, wood flooring. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, seen it firsthand. It’s sad to see stone hearth. On ITS, minutes to Shawnee Peak. Feed wildlife in your own yard! $259,900. this in today’s society. Most of Call Kurt Christensen – 207-329-5671 or kurtandlinda@gmail.com for more info. us have lives that are too a busy

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or we just do not care. We have so many problems in our world today that it seems fruitless to care. Please do not let this sentiment be the norm.

It’s time to turn the table and start caring more for our neighbors and less about ourselves.

Times are going to get tougher, I’m afraid. We all need to pull together if we are to survive.

We cannot survive alone. It is a team effort. It doesn’t take a lot of money to help someone, just a little bit of your time to help them in a task around their house. Show them and tell them that you care. It’s no big deal to you, but it’s a big deal to them just going to visit them or telling them that you care. Just a little word like I care about you and I would like to help you means a lot to a senior citizen who has no one.

Let’s take this holiday as a time to reflect, to help someone in need, and to see what we can do next year to make our world, our community, and our town a better place to live in.

Let’s take this time to remember those service men and women all over the world that are protecting us and trying to build new democracies and defending our freedoms. A lot of these service members have never been away from home before, not to mention they are in strange lands and living amongst strangers. A lot of these service members are young, scared and lonely.

Some have very little family or friends. I know when I was in the service and spent many a night going through boot camp learning combat techniques sitting in a foxhole all alone or doing a patrol or recon mis-

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To The Editor: Patty, Jeanne and I signed up for Landmark’s “The Magic of Christmas” bus trip. We boarded the spacious VIP bus at the Bridgton Community Center last Friday, and 55 of us arrived at Merrill Auditorium in Portland rested and ready to enjoy the show. And, enjoy we did from our posh front row seats.

Thank you Landmark staff — Mary Beth, Judy, Christopher and so many other good folk — for making this lovely day possible. And thank you also to our fellow passengers for heartfelt singing and friendly “Merry Christmas” goodbyes as we departed the bus.

And, I can’t forget the great picnic lunch. We worked up a healthy appetite while enjoying the Portland Symphony’s sounds and sights of the season.

Thank you for raising our spirits and for renewing our appreciation for the good work being done in our community.

Merry Christmas and God bless everyone.

Wanda Dunlap Formerly of Bridgton

Christopher Hitchens

and the Christian fear there is a God, but the Christian also hopes there is one.”

Christopher Hitchens believed fervently that his body would turn to dust and that would be it — lights out. I wonder what he’s thinking now.

Tom McLaughlin of Lovell is a retired U.S. History teacher. He can be reached at tommclaughlin@fairpoint.net

(Continued from Page B) we cannot know such a thing in the way we know anything else, and so must choose whether to believe or not. I think it better by far to believe.”

So it seems Peter Hitchens’ belief in Christianity is informed more by Pascal’s Wager than by intrinsic faith. During one of his debates with brother Christopher he said, “I think both the atheist

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sion on Christmas night. It was very lonely. All sorts of things go through your mind. It was even tougher when you are far, far away in a strange land. The worst thing was when you are out there and you get no letters from home or a Christmas card from anyone. It makes it tough on a soldier. Sometimes, it’s just a Christmas card or a letter from home telling a soldier that there is someone who cares.

That was especially important during the Vietnam War, and it is still as important today. So please, if you know someone in the Armed Services, write them often or send them a care package once in awhile. Sometimes, this is the only way a soldier can measure whether he is doing the right thing and people really do care. It is a great morale builder and keeps a person from going insane and committing suicide.

At this time, I would like to thank all the readers (and advertisers) of The Bridgton News for supporting this great newspaper and wishing you and The Bridgton News a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Richard E. Cross Naples

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Directory Church Service, 6 p.m., Community Center.

Dec. 26 — Tot Time, 10 a.m., No. Bridgton Library.

Dec. 26 — Knitting Circle, 11 a.m., No. Bridgton Library.

Dec. 26 — Cribbage, 2 p.m., St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 92 Sweden Rd. Dec. 27 — Tai Chi Maine beginners’ class, 10 to 11:30 a.m., Town Hall.

Dec. 27 — Chickadee Quilters, 10 a.m., Community Center.

Dec. 27 — Food Pantry Distribution Day, last names AL, noon to 3 p.m., St. Joseph Church; last names M-Z, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Methodist Church.

Dec. 27 — Bridge, 12:30 p.m., St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 92 Sweden Rd. Dec. 27 — Mushers Bowl meeting, 5 p.m., Community Center.

Dec. 28 — Senior Lunch, noon, Community Center.

Dec. 28 — Local author reading, 1 p.m., library.

Dec. 28 — Bible Study, 6 p.m., Community Center.

Dec. 29 — Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club, talk on

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BRIDGTON Dec. 22 — Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club, Club Assembly, 7:15 a.m., Alliance Church.

Dec. 22 — Gathering Place Support Group, noon, Community Center.

Dec. 22, 29 — Continuing Tai Chi, 3:30 to 5 p.m., Town Hall.

Dec. 23, 26, 28, 30 — Jumpin’ Janes Senior Fitness, 9 to 10 a.m., Town Hall. FMI: 647-2402.

Dec. 23, 30 — Mother Goose Time, 10:30 a.m., library.

Dec. 23 — A Christmas Carol, LEA benefit production starring Will Rhys, 7:30 p.m., Stevens Brook Elementary School. FMI: 647-8580.

Dec. 24 — American Red Cross Blood Drive, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Masonic Hall, Rte. 117.

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Dec. 29 — The Gathering Place Support Group, noon, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 92 Sweden Rd. Dec. 30 — Animal Stories, 23 p.m., library.

BROWNFIELD Dec. 28 — Playgroup, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Community Center.

CASCO Dec. 22-31 — $1 a Bag Sale, Wings & Things, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sat.; 2-4 p.m. Tues.-Thurs., Casco Church, 941 Meadow Rd. Dec. 27 — Storytime with Michelle, 10:30 a.m., library.

FRYEBURG Dec. 22 — Independent film, Lovely Still, 7:30 p.m., Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, Fryeburg Academy.

FMI: 935-9232.

Dec. 26 — Fryeburg Bridge, 12:30 p.m., Legion Hall, Bradley St. HARRISON Dec. 22, 29 — Drumming, Dance & Hoops, 6 p.m., Community Room, fire station.

FMI: 583-2241.

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CONSULT OUR LISTING OF BUSINESS SERVICES AND LET AN EXPERT DO THE JOB! ACCOUNTANTS Chandel Associates Accounting, Taxes Audits, Full Service Payroll 3 Elm St., Bridgton Office 647-5711 Jones & Matthews, PA Certified Public Accountants Accounting and taxes Roosevelt Trail Prof. Bldg.

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ALARMS WAM-ALARM Systems Installation, Service, Monitoring Burglar-Fire-Temperature Sensors Free Security Survey 647-2323

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McHatton’s Cleaning Service Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning Fire, Smoke, Soot, Water Certified Technicians Bridgton 647-2822, 1-800-850-2822

ATTORNEYS Shelley P. Carter, Attorney Law Office of Shelley P. Carter, PA 110 Portland Street, Fryeburg, ME 04037 935-1950 www.spcarterlaw.com

Thurlow’s Carpet & Home Center Sales & Service Meadow Rd. (Sandy Creek Junction) Bridgton 647-5562, 800-310-5563 www.thurlowscarpet.com

CATERING A Fine Kettle of Fish Catering Personal chef service/catering Sheila Rollins 583-6074 www.finekettleoffishcatering.com

CHIMNEY LINING The Clean Sweep LLC Chimney Cleaning Service Supaflu and Stainless Steel Chimney lining and relining Dana Richardson 935-2501

CLEANING SERVICES

John’s Cleaning Service Meticulous cleaning service Prof. carpet cleaning, windows Local family business. Exc. references 207-393-7285 Lake & Mountain View Property Maintenance Cleaning & caretaking Exceptional references 207-650-1101

Michael G. Friedman, Esq., PA 132 Main St. P.O. Box 10, Bridgton, ME 04009 647-8360

McHatton’s Cleaning Service Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning Fire, Smoke, Soot, Water Certified Technicians Bridgton 647-2822, 1-800-850-2822

Hastings Law Office, PA 376 Main Street – PO Box 290 Fryeburg, ME 04037 935-2061 www.hastings-law.com

Servicemaster Prof. Carpet Cleaning – Home/Office Fire/Smoke Damage Restoration 1-800-244-7630 207-539-4452

Robert M. Neault & Associates Attorneys & Counselors at Law Corner of Rte. 302 & Songo School Rd. P.O. Box 1575, Naples 693-3030

TLC Home Maintenance Co. Professional Cleaning and Property Management Housekeeping and much more 583-4314

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CARETAKERS Caretake America Managing and Patrolling Kevin Rogers, Owner/Manager Rte. 35, Naples 693-6000 North Country Home Watch “We’ll be there when you can’t” www.nchw.us 207-713-0675 Rick Lewis Property Surveillance Seasonal and Year Round Bridgton 207-415-4476

CARPENTRY Robert E. Guy General Carpentry – Additions Repairs – Remodeling www.bobguy@myfairpoint.net Harrison 743-5120 239-4804 (cell)

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COMPUTERS Ms. C’s Computer Repair Virus and spyware removal PC repairs 207-228-5279 27 Zion Hill Road, Bridgton Naples Computer Services PC repair/upgrades – on-site service Virus and spy-ware removal Home and business networking Video security systems 71 Harrison Rd., Naples 207-693-3746

CONTRACTORS Dan’s Construction Homes/cottages/garages Siding/rep. windows/roofing Insured/ references/ 25+ yrs. exp.

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Ellia Manners, LCPC In Her Own Image/Counseling for Women Call for brochure/Insurance accepted www.elliamanners.com 207-647-3015 Bridgton

DANCE INSTRUCTION The Ballroom Dance - Exercise - Yoga - Aikido Main St., Harrison, Maine 207-583-6964

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EXCAVATION K.S. Whitney Excavation Sitework – Septic Systems Materials delivered Kevin 207-647-3824

EXERCISE/FITNESS Dee’s BodyCraft Personal Training, Aerobics, Pilates Certified – Experienced Bridgton 647-9599

Mountain View Dentistry Dr. Leslie A. Elston Cosmetic/restorative & Family Dentistry 207-647-3628 MountainViewDentistryMaine.com

DOCKS Great Northern Docks, Inc. Sales & Service Route 302, Naples 693-3770 1-800-423-4042 www.greatnortherndocks.com

ELECTRICIANS All Service Electric John Schuettinger Licensed Master Electrician Residential, Commercial Alarms Bridgton Phone 647-2246 A to Z Electric “The Boss Does The Work” David S. Gerrish, Master Electrician Residential/Commercial/Industrial 30+ yrs. exp., Naples 693-6854 D. M. Electric Inc. & Sons Dennis McIver, Electrical Contractor Residential/Commercial/Industrial Licensed in Maine & New Hampshire Bridgton 207-647-5012 J.P. Gallinari Electric Co. Residential - Commercial - Industrial Aerial - Auger - Lifting Service Bridgton 647-9435 McIver Electric “Your on time every time electricians” 221 Portland Rd, Bridgton 647-3664 www.mciverelectric.net R.W. Merrill Electrical Contractor 24 hour Emergency Service Residential & Commercial Harrison 583-2986 Fax 583-4882 David K. Moynihan Master Electrician Licensed ME & NH Bridgton 647-8016

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EMPLOYMENT SERVICES Bonney Staffing & Training Center Temporary & Direct Hire Placements Call us with your staffing needs Rte. 302 Windham 892-2286

Hills Duplicate Bridge Club, 9:15 a.m., Rec. bldg., King St., Oxford. FMI: 783-4153, 7439153.

Dec. 23 — Last-ever Norway Open Mic with Heather Pierson, sign-ups 6:30 p.m., open mic 7 p.m., Universalist Church, Main St., Norway. FMI: 603733-6350.

Dec. 28 — Knotty Knitters, noon to 2 p.m., Soldiers Memorial Library, 85 Main St., Hiram. FMI: 625-4650.

Dec. 31 — Beginning Knitters, 10 to 11 a.m., Soldiers Memorial Library, Hiram. FMI: 625-4650. ##### AREA FOOD PANTRIES BRIDGTON — Bridgton Food Pantry, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Tuesdays, Methodist Church, 98 Main St. FMI: 647-4476.

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

CASCO — Casco Food Pantry, 6 to 7 p.m. third Mondays, Casco Alliance Church.

HARRISON — Harrison Food Pantry, 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Tuesdays, Seventh Day LP GAS Maingas Your Propane Specialist 1-800-648-9189

MASONRY D & D Masonry Chimneys/fireplaces/walks/etc.

Fully insured Free estimates Darryl & Doug Hunt 693-5060

FLIGHT INSTRUCTION

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Sheila Rollins Private/instrument/multi-engine instructor Flight training – Ground school Flight review 583-6074

Bridgton Moving Residential & light commercial bridgtonmoving@verizon.net – Glynn Ross 240 N. High St. – 647-8255 – 671-2556 (cell)

FOUNDATIONS Barry Concrete Foundations Tim Barry Inc. Poured foundations – Frost walls Bridgton 207-650-3507 tbconcrete@myfairpoint.net Henry’s Concrete Construction Foundations, Slabs, Floors Harrison Tel. 583-4896

HAIRDRESSERS Victoria’s Hairitage One Beavercreek Farm Rd (top of Packard’s Hill – Rte. 302) Vicki Crosby Owner/Stylist Jessica Zaidman Color Specialist 647-8355

Bridgton Dental Hygiene Care, PA Complete oral hygiene care-infant to senior HEATING Most dental insurances, MaineCare accepted 207-647-4125 email: info@bdhc.me A –1 Thompson’s Services LLC Cleanings and repairs, Boilers Fryeburg Family Dental Furnaces, Monitors, Oil tanks Preventative Dental Hygiene Services New installations, 24 hr burner service 19 Portland Street / PO Box 523 Licensed and insured 207-256-7606 www.fryeburgfamilydental.com 207-693-7011

Douglass Construction Inc. Custom Homes/Remodeling/Drawings 30 years exp. in Lakes Region Phil Douglass, 647-3732 - Jeff Douglass, 647-9543 Sweden Rd. Bridgton Stanford Electric Commercial, Industrial and Jeff Hadley Builder Residential Wiring – Generators New homes, remodels, additions Naples 693-4595 Painting, drywall, roofing, siding Kitchens, tile & wood floors Tuomi Electric Fully insured – free estimates Chip Tuomi, Electrical Contractor 27 yrs. experience 207-583-4460 Residential & Commercial

Jerry’s Carpentry & Painting Carpenter & General Contractor Log homes – decks – remodeling Newhall Construction Fully insured – Free estimates – 207-527-2552 Carpentry Shawn 743-6379 Northern Extremes Carpentry Quality Custom Carpentry Custom Decks – Additions Specializing in remodeling & additions Remodeling – Free Estimates Jeff Juneau Naples Log Hunting and Fishing Camps 207-655-5903 Insured Bridgton 647-5028

Dec. 26 — Coed Adult Pickup Basketball, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Harrison Elementary School gym.

Dec. 27 — Coed Teen Pickup Basketball, 6-8 p.m., Harrison Elementary School gym.

NAPLES Dec. 22, 29 — Storytime with Music, 10:30 a.m., library.

Dec. 22, 29 — Pajama Storytime, 6 p.m., library.

Dec. 23, 26, 28, 30 — Step Into Fitness Indoor Walking Program, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Lake Region High School. FMI: 6473116.

Dec. 23 — Movie, Gods and Generals, part 2, 6:30 p.m., Cornerstone Gospel Church, Sebago Rd. Dec. 27 — Preschool Storytime, 10:30 a.m., library.

FMI: 693-6841.

Dec. 27 — Scrabble Club, 5:30 p.m., library.

Dec. 28 — Men’s Discussion Group, 6-7 p.m., library.

Dec. 31 — Movie, Courageous, 6:30 p.m., Cornerstone Gospel Church, Sebago Rd. AREA EVENTS Dec. 23, 30 — Oxford

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Bass Heating Oil Burner Service Sales and Installations Waterford (207) 595-8829 Thurlow’s Carpet & Home Center Monitor Heaters Sales & Service Meadow Rd. (Sandy Creek Junction) Bridgton 647-5562, 800-310-5563 www.thurlowscarpet.com

INSULATION Western Me. Insulation Inc Batts, blown or foamed Over 30 yrs experience Free estimates – fully insured 7 days a week – 693-3585

INSURANCE Ace Insurance Agency Inc. Home/Auto/Commercial 43 East Main Street Denmark 1-800-452-0745 Chalmers Ins. Agency 100 Main St., Bridgton Tel. 647-3311 Harrison Insurance Agency Full Service Agency 100 Main Street, Bridgton 583-2222 Oberg Insurance Auto, Home, Business, Life 132 Main St., Bridgton Tel. 647-5551, 888-400-9858 Southern Maine Retirement Services Medicare Supplements & Prescription Plans Life and Long-Term Care Insurance 150 Main St., Bridgton 1-866-886-4340

KENNELS Bridgton Veterinary Kennels Boarding Route 117, Bridgton, Me. Tel. 647-8804 Wiley Road Kennels Groom & Board Wiley Rd, Naples 207-693-3394

LAWN MAINTENANCE Chapman’s Lawn & Yard Works Mowing - Cleanup - Brush Cutting Debris removal – Bark mulch Blaine Chapman 647-5255

LP GAS Bridgton Bottled Gas LP Gas Cylinders/Service Route 302 Bridgton 207-647-2029 Country Gas, Inc. LP Gas Bulk/Cylinders Box 300, Denmark Tel. 452-2151

MUSIC LESSONS Up Scale Music Studio Piano Lessons – All Levels Composition-Theory-Transcription Evan 647-9599

OFFICE SUPPLIES The Printery General line of office supplies In stock or special orders Rubber stamps - Fax Service - Labels Rte. 302, Bridgton 647-8182

OIL DEALERS Dead River Co. Range & Fuel Oil Oil Burner Service Tel. 647-2882, Bridgton McBurnie Oil/Casco Oil Delivery and Service Denmark, Maine Tel. 207-452- 2151

PAINTING CONTRACTORS Bob Champagne Painting/papering/some carpentry Small jobs – reasonable rates Lead safe certified 26 Zion Hill Rd, Bridgton, 207-647-5571

Adventist Church, 2 Naples Rd. FMI: 583-6178.

FRYEBURG — Food Pantry, Fryeburg Assembly of God, by appointment, 8 Drift Rd. FMI: 935-3129.

NAPLES — Naples Food Pantry, 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays, United Methodist Church, Village Green, FMI: 838-9045; The Food Basket and Kyrie’s Kitchen, 1st & 3rd Mondays, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Naples Town Hall gym, FMI: 615-3226.

RAYMOND — Raymond Food Pantry, 4-6 p.m., 2nd & 4th Thursdays, Lake Region Baptist Church, 1273 Main St. FMI: 232-5830.

SEBAGO — Sebago Food Pantry and Clothes Closet, Nazarene Church, Rte. 114, 4th Tuesdays, 9 to 11 a.m.; clothes closet Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

STANDISH — Catherine’s Cupboard Food Pantry, 6 p.m.

Wednesdays, Standish Town Hall, Rte. 35.

SWEDEN — Sweden House Food Pantry, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

1st & 3rd Wednesdays, Sweden Church basement, 137 Bridgton Rd. FMI: 909-208-6377, 2567380.

REAL ESTATE Oberg Agency Residential, Business,Lake Shore Property 132 Main St., Bridgton Tel. 647-5551, 888-400-9858

RUBBISH SERVICE ABC Rubbish Weekly Pick-up Container Service Tel. 743-5417 Bridgton Trash & Rubbish Service Serving Bridgton Weekly pick-ups Tel. 207-595-4606

SELF STORAGE Bridgton Storage 409 Portland Rd 28 units & 4000’ open barn Bridgton 647-3206 JB Self Storage Rt. 5 Lovell, Maine Monthly/yearly secure storage 207-925-3045

SEPTIC TANK PUMPING Bridgton Septic Pumping Free Estimates 647-3356 329-8944 Dyer Septic Septic systems installed & repaired Site work-emergency service-ecofriendly 1-877-250-4546 207-583-4546

SNOW REMOVAL Webber Snowplowing Service Camp roads and driveways Fully insured – dependable Lakes Region (207) 831-8354

SURVEYORS F. Jonathan Bliss, P.L.S. Bliss & Associates Surveying, Land Planning P.O. Box 113, Route 5 Lovell, ME 207-925-1468

George Jones Quality Painters Interior/Exterior – Fully Insured Free Estimates Excellent References 207-318-3245

Maine Survey Consultants, Inc. Land Information Services P.O. Box 485, Harrison, Maine Off: 583-6159 D. A. Maxfield Jr., P.L.S. Over 10,000 surveys on file

Gotcha Covered Painting Interior/exterior-deck refinish-powerwash Serving the Lakes Region over 15 years Free estimates Kevin 693-3684

Pioneer Surveying & Mapping Services Boundary/topographic/construction surveys Commercial/residential Kenneth Farrar PLS PO Box 368, W Paris ME 04289 674-2351

Jerry’s Painting Service Quality Painting – Interior/Exterior Fully Insured – Free Estimates 207-527-2552

PLUMBING & HEATING A Plus Plumbing & Heating Inc. Plumbing Supplies – LP Gas BBQ Gas Grill Parts & Access.

Portland St., Bridgton 647-2029 Collins Plumbing & Heating Inc. Specializing in repair service in The Lake Region 647-4436 Ken Karpowich Plumbing Repairs/Installation/Remodeling Master Plumber in ME & NH Over 20 years experience 207-925-1423

PRINTING The Printery Single Color to Multi-Color Business Cards - Letterheads Brochures - Forms - Booklets Wedding Announcements Rte. 302, Bridgton 647-8182

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Clement Bros. Lawn and Landscape Organic lawn & garden maintenance Shoreline restoration Creative stonework, property watch Snowplowing & sanding 207-693-6646 www.clementbros.com

REAL ESTATE Chalmers Real Estate 100 Main St., Bridgton Tel. 647-3311 Coldwell Banker Lakes Region Properties “At the Lights in Naples” Waterfront, Residential Commercial & Land 207-693-7000

TOWING Stuart Automotive Free Junk Car Removal 838-9569

TREE SERVICE Q-Team & Cook’s Tree Service Removal-pruning-cabling-chipping Stump grinding-bucket work-bobcat Crane-licensed & fully insured Q Team 693-3831 or Cook’s 647-4051 Toll free 207-693-3831 www.Q-Team.com Rice Tree Service – Sheldon Rice Complete tree service – free estimates Removal-prune-chipping-stump grinding Licensed and insured – Utility and Landscape Arborist Waterford ME – 583-2474

VETERINARY N. D. Beury, DVM Spay/Neuter – Well-pet care North Bridgton For Appointment 583-2121 Bridgton Veterinary Hospital Small Animal Medicine & Surgery Rt. 117, Bridgton, ME 647-8804 Fryeburg Veterinary Hospital Small Animal Medicine & Surgery Route 302, Fryeburg 207-935-2244 Norway Veterinary Hospital Naples Clinic Corner Rte. 302 & Lambs Mill Rd.

By Appointment 693-3135 Rozzie May Animal Alliance Low-cost spay/neuter www.rozziemay.org - Conway, NH By appointment 603-447-1373

WELDING Welding Repair Services Aluminum, stainless, steel Tig, mig, brazing, soldering Route 114, Naples 712-3391

Classifieds

Classified advertising is sold in this space at the rate of $3.50 for 20 words or less and 15¢ a word over 20. All ads are payable in advance.

Repeats are charged at the same rate as new ads. Ads taken over the phone must be called in by Monday with payment arriving by Tuesday. A charge of $1.00 per week extra is made for the use of a box number if requested. A Charge of $1.00 per classified is made if billing is necessary. Cards of Thanks and In Memoriams are charged at the same rate as classified ads. Poetry is charged by the inch.

Classified display is sold at $6.25 per column inch. Classified advertisers must furnish written copy.

The Bridgton News assumes no financial responsibility for typographical errors in advertisements other than to reprint that part of any advertisement in which a typographical error occurs. Advertisers will please notify the business office promptly of any errors that may occur, phone 207-647-2851.

Discriminatory Advertising under the Fair Housing Act

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 at 42 U.S.C. 3604(c) makes it unlawful “to make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale, or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.

CHALMERS INSURANCE

SEEKING PERSON — familiar with electronics, such as condensers, resistors, vacuum tubes, amplifiers, etc. Contact Howard Dearborn, P.O. Box 310, Fryeburg, ME 04037. 2t50

WORK WANTED

EXCAVATING – Have hoe, will travel. Site work, foundations dug, back filling, septic systems, sand, loam, gravel. Call Brad Chute, 6534377 or 627-4560. tf44 GOT’CHA COVERED — Painting.

Interior, exterior, superior service at affordable prices. Fully insured. Free estimates. Kevin 693-3684. 11t50x

SEMI-RETIRED CONTRACTOR — looking for plumbing and electric work in the local area. Call 647-8026.

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DAY CARE

WITS END CHILD CARE — Center & Community Resources Inc., a state-licensed facility located on Route 302 in Bridgton, has full/part time openings for children from 1 year to 5 years old. We offer a safe, clean, and quality year-round program for all ages, including Preschool, Jr. Pre-school, Infant and Toddler development. We participate with the State of Maine Quality Rating System, and our quality staff offers a combination of 25+ years of experience in child development and social services. All staff are certified in adult/infant/child CPR and First Aid. Our hours are Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. FMI call 647-2245 or stop in, we would love to show you around!

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FOR SALE

FOR RENT

HILLTOP FIREWOOD — BRIDGTON — 2-bedroom mobile Seasoned, $220 cord delivered. Call home. W/D, partially furnished. Private for details, 890-9300. tf20 lot. No pets. $650 month plus utilities.

207-839-2172.

9t44x SEASONED FIREWOOD — $250 a cord, cut, split & delivered. Call HARRISON WATERFRONT — 583-4694.

9t48x office. 720 square feet, $500 per month.

1st, last & security deposit required.

REFRIGERATOR/FREEZER — Call 583-4948. tf49 Very clean, runs well, $75. Antique brass light hall fixture, $55. Card table HARRISON — 3-bedroom house, with 4 chairs, $45. 647-9585. 2 baths, $1,200 month, call 207-595 2t50 1466 or e-mail: tipper1canoe@gmail. com 3t51x HOOSIER CABINET — in good condition. Etched glass on top, great DOWNTOWN BRIDGTON — First storage space. $775. Call 693-3980 or floor 2-bedroom apartment in resi756-4008.

3t51x dential neighborhood. $725 month includes propane heat, trash, plowing, SNOWMOBILE PARTS — New water/sewer. On site parking and coin parts, 11 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. weekdays; laundry. No smoking. Call 358-0808.

9 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. weekends; used tf49 parts 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. weeknights; 9 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. weekends. Closed CASCO — Completely furnished Wednesdays. D & G Snowmobilers rooms, heat, lights & cable TV includDiscount, 207-583-2312.

4t49x ed. $120 weekly. No pets. Call cell, 207-650-3529. tf44 SEASONED FIREWOOD — Cut, split & delivered, $230 cord. Green, CASCO — 3-bedroom apartment, cut, split & delivered, $190 cord. kitchen, living room, bath, all utilities Wendell Scribner, 583-4202. 10t44x included plus cable TV. Available Jan. $1,350 month. No pets. Call 207VEHI­CLES FOR SALE 15.

650-3529. tf50 JESUS IS LORD – new and used STONEHAM — House for rent, seaauto parts. National locator. Most sonal or monthly. 3-bedroom, 3-bath, parts 2 days. Good used cars. Ovide’s modern open interior, surrounded by Used Cars, Inc., Rte. 302 Bridg­ton, White Mountain National Forest, close 207-647-5477.

tf30 to Sunday River and Shawnee Peak ski areas, on state snomobile trail, crossFOR RENT country skiing/hiking/biking from door, BRIDGTON – 1, 2, and 3-bedroom close to Kezar lake, 2-car garage. $850/ apartments. $550-$675 mo. plus ref- month & utilities, 1-month’s deposit, no erences and security. JPD Properties, smoking, small dogs considered. Call 310-0693. tf2 207-890-4501.

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BRIDGTON — Furnished 1-bedroom apartment. Heat & utilities included. $200 per week plus security $5 FOR TATTERED – U.S. Flag deposit. Call 647-3565. tf38 when purchasing new U.S. Flag 3’x 5’ or larger. Maine Flag & Banner, BRIDGTON — 3- and 2-bedroom Windham, 893-0339. tf46 apartments and homes, great spaces. (different areas of Bridgton.) All rents PLEASE CONSIDER – donating need application and security deposit your leftover garage sale items and and first month rent when approved. your attic, basement and closet over- Call Ralph at Lake Country Property flow to Harvest Hills Animal Shelter. Rentals (207) 693-3032. tf50 For more information, call 935-4358 ext. 21. Thank you. tf28

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REAL ESTATE

Part of the Chalmers Group

100 Main Street, Bridgton, ME 04009 Phone: 207-647-3311 Fax: 207-647-3003 www.chalmers-ins.com BN 51

HELP WANTED

DRIVERS — Start up to $.41/mile.

Home weekly or bi-weekly. CDL-A 6 months OTR experience required.

Equipment you’ll be proud to drive!

(888) 247-4037.

2t50x DEPENDABLE PERSON — needed to help shovel/snowblow this winter season. 647-2591.

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FIRE­ARMS – Sup­plies. Buy, sell, trade. Wan­ted, firearms, ammunition & mili­tary items. Swe­den Trad­ing Post. 207-647-8163. tf43

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL — Logger and heat with carbon neutral wood or wood pellets.

Purchase a Central Boiler outdoor wood furnace on sale, EPA qualified to 97% efficient. 603-447-22 82.

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NORTH BRIDGTON — 2-bedroom apartment, close to lake, large yard & parking. $475 month plus utilities.

No smoking or pets. References and security. Call 233-5758. tf46 SEBAGO — 2-bedroom duplex, private, clean, deck, yard, newly painted, new flooring, washer/dryer hookups. $650 lower unit or $750 upper unit.

First, security and year lease. Call 647-3883. tf48

Plowing & Sanding Private Roads & Driveways in Denmark PROVEN RELIABLE SERVICE

Jeremiah Gill at 207-452-2942

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Apply in person at:

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Hayes TrueValue Hardware 204 Portland Road Bridgton, Maine

is accepting applications for the following positions:

ED TECH III (3 yrs. college minimum): Part-time Library Aide at Molly Ockett Middle School Responsible for managing day-to-day operations, clerical duties, assisting and instructing students and staff; promoting the library to the school community.

For more information, please visit servingschools.com Send application, resume, and letters of recommendation to: Gary MacDonald, Superintendent of Schools 124 Portland Street, Fryeburg, Maine 04037 Application Deadline: January 5, 2012

www.osgoodspowerauto.com

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AUTOMOTIVE and SMALL ENGINE SERVICE

NORTH BRIDGTON — 1-bedroom REAL ESTATE FOR SALE apartment, second floor, nice location, heat included, $650 month. Call 617- BRIDGTON — Beaver Creek Farm 272-6815.

5t50 Road, 3 acres, black top road with electricity, site cleared with driveway.

HARRISON — Main Street, sunny View of Mt. Washington and other 2nd floor 2-bedroom apartment, fully mountains. $33,000. 583-6695. tf23 -applianced in “like new” condition.

Available now at $895/month heat NORWAY — Lot on cul-de-sac at included. For information or to apply, Frost Homestead. Offers quiet setting, contact Susan at Heritage Rentals at spectacular Mt. Washington views, and 207-583-6001. tf42 tennis courts. $95K. 207-743-8703. www.FrostHomestead.com 1t51x BRIDGTON — 1-bedroom apartment $500 month, utilities included. No pets. BRIDGTON — Beaver Creek Farm Non-smoking. 647-5562.

2t51x Road, 3.27 acres, well, black top road, mountain views, electricity. $27,000.

NAPLES HOUSE — Section 8 583-6695. tf23 accepted. Two bedroom, 1 bath W/D, BRIDGTON — Hio Ridge Road, 3 acres. $1,100 month, 1st & security deposit, call 978-873-3971.

5t49 approx. 27 acres for sale by owner.

Good developable land, mostly BRIDGTON — Apartment, conve- cleared. $59,000. 207-650-5669. tf21 nient intown location, 2nd floor, one BUSINESS SERVICES bedroom. $500 per month. Call 6475367.

2t50x HEAP HAULERS — Towing serCASCO — 2-bedroom houses & vice. Cash paid for junk cars. Call tf12 mobile homes starting at $575 month. 655-5963.

Call 655-2194.

5t48x B & L ROOFING — 20 years experiBRIDGTON — 3 bedrooms, 3 bath- ence, fully insured. New roofs and retf20 rooms, 1-car garage condominium on pairs. Call 207-650-6479. the golf course. $1,100 month plus DEN­MARK HOUSE — Painting, utilities. 409-8579.

6t46x Inc. Inter­ior and Exterior Paint­ing.

NAPLES — 1 bedroom/1 bath 2nd Also, Paper­hang­ing. 40 years of paintfloor apartment on Sebago Lake. No ing ex­pe­ri­ence. Call for esti­mates. Call utilities included. $550. Call 693-1188. John Math­ews, 207-452-2781. tf49 HARRISON: 4-bedroom house, no utilities included. $1,200 month. Call 693-1188.

1t51x BRIDGTON — Second floor apartment, one bedroom in a quiet and convenient location near Hannafords. Newly-painted. Heat, electric and plowing included. One month rental as security deposit and no pets. $550 per month.

Call 647-2587 for inquiries. tf50

Buying and Offering US Coins Gold & Silver Bullion TFCD

142 Main Street Conway, NH 603-447-3611 Metal Detectors

The Math Teacher provides individualized math instruction to a small population of middle, high school and rising college students. Undergraduate degree and demonstrated experience with individual educational planning and academic advising is required.

The Admissions Associate will join the admissions and marketing team and frequently be the initial point of contact for parents and other referral sources providing program information and coordinating the flow of communication with external sources. Superior organizational, communication and interpersonal skills are critical. Significant computer experience with database development and maintenance is required. Tech savvy and familiarity with social media is necessary. The position is primarily office-based.

Undergraduate degree required.

These are full-time year round positions. Competitive pay and benefits are available. Please e-mail or fax a resume to (207) 697-2021 or moyler@summitachievment.com. Deadline for applications is 1/6.

207-452-2157

Paying TOP DOLLAR for Junk Cars

STUART SALVAGE 838-9569

693-5499

• We Buy Standing Timber • Crane Work • Firewood

• Tree Removal • House Lot Clearing • Pruning • Brush Mowing

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E.O.E.

3RD GENERATION

Summit Achievement of Stow, ME is a nationally-recognized outdoor behavioral healthcare program combining therapeutic wilderness and tailored academics to adolescents with mild to moderate social, emotional and educational issues.

Openings:

MAINE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICT NO. 72

HARRISON WATERFRONT — 1bedroom apartment. Fully furnished WEST BRIDGTON — Beaver including washer & dryer. Propane Pond. Quiet studio apartment includes heat included. $800 per month. 1st, heat, $400 month. Available now. Call last and security deposit required. Call Suzanne, 781-631-6731. tf44 583-4948. tf49

10' x 10' Unit $50.00 per month

Summit Achievement

CASHIER

LOVELL — Very large apartment: 1 bedroom, full kitchen & bath, and living room with fireplace in new carriage house. $995 month includes electricity, laundry hookup, and 50% of heat. Quiet with mountain views and Kezar Lake access. No pets/ no smoking. 1 year lease/first and security deposit/reference check required. (207) 925-6586.

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DENMARK SELF-STORAGE

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HELP WANTED

BRIDGTON — Very nice two-floor apartment on quiet street near monument. 2 bedrooms, plus mezzanine that could serve as office or 3rd bedroom.

Classic building with 4 units. $700 month plus $1,000 deposit. Water included but electricity and heat for renter’s account.

Possible rent reduction in exchange for caretaker services. Ample off-street parking and pleasant back yard. Snow removal and lawn care provided. Call 647-5465. or cell 207-423-3281. tf51

FOR RENT

BRIDGTON — New commercial office space. Great intown location.

Second level is 580 square feet, $650 plus utilities or first level is 1,000 square feet, $1,200 plus utilities. Private deck. Call 207-756-0650. tf48

SNOWPLOWING ROOF SHOVELING BRIDGTON • NAPLES • HARRISON 647-4351

FOR RENT

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HELP WANTED

CLASSIFIED DISPLAY ADS Deadline: Friday 4:00 p.m.

CLASSIFIED LINE ADS Deadline: Monday 5:00 p.m.

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25 Years Experience � Fully Insured

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Warranty and Parts Dealer for MOST outdoor products

Tecumseh • Kohler • Kawasaki • Briggs & Stratton • MTD • York NEW FALL HOURS Mon.-Fri. 8–5 330 Bridgton Road Route 302, Fryeburg, ME Fax 935-3026

207-935-2121

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PUBLIC NOTICE

TOWN OF CASCO JOB OPENING Code Enforcement Officer

The Town of Casco is seeking qualified candidates for the full-time position of Code Enforcement Officer for the Town of Casco. The current Code Enforcement Officer has held the position for 30 years and is retiring. The qualified candidate must have a strong background in residential construction. The successful applicant will be certified or be able to become certified in several categories as required by State law.

Interested parties may submit a resume in support of their qualifications for this position. Applications may be obtained at the Casco Town Office, 635 Meadow Road, Casco, Maine during normal office hours.

Applications and resume must be submitted to the office of the Town Manager, PO Box 60, Casco, ME 04015 or delivered to 635 Meadow Road no later than the close of business hours December 28, 2011. 3T49CD

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Police & court

December 22, 2011, The Bridgton News, Page B

Incidents appearing on the Bridgton Police blotter 51, of Harrison, was arrested and charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant, following a traffic stop on North High Street (Route 302). Helms was released on personal recognizance.

Wednesday, December 14: 2:54 p.m. A summons for illegal possession of drugs was issued to Allana M. Tracy, 24, of Bridgton, following the execution of a search warrant at a Plummer’s Landing address.

9:15 p.m. A subject was issued a warning for drinking in public, following a report of suspicious activity on Pond Road.

Thursday, December 15: 11:19 p.m. A police officer responded to a report of suspicious activity on Harrison Road (Route 117) near the Bridgton Alliance Church and arrested Eric S. Corthell, 19, of Harrison, and charged him with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant

(with a passenger under the age of 21) and operating a motor vehicle after license suspension.

Corthell was also charged with illegal transportation of liquor by a minor and was released on personal recognizance. Dennis C. Croy, 19, of Harrison, was arrested and charged with permitting the unlawful use of a motor vehicle. Croy was also charged with illegal possession of liquor by a minor (by consumption) and possession of a useable amount of marijuana and was released on personal recognizance.

Saturday, December 17: 12:35 a.m. Two horses were reported running loose on Upper Ridge Road.

10:19 a.m. A theft on Hospital Drive was reported.

11:30 a.m. Brian R. Tosi, 26, of Gray, and who was also listed as a “transient from Naples” on the Cumberland County Jail arrest log, was arrested on an

outstanding warrant for failure to pay fines for reckless conduct and was transported to the Cumberland County Jail in Portland.

Sunday, December 18: 12:06 a.m. Officers responded to a report of a disturbance at an apartment on Sawyer Circle where two women were allegedly having a dispute. Both women were issued warnings for disorderly conduct, and one of the women was transported to a residence in Naples. Peace was restored.

12:20 p.m. The theft of $15 in gas from a convenience store on Main Street was reported.

2:32 p.m. Several campers were reported broken into at Salmon Point Campground.

6:08 p.m. Suspicious activity was reported on Kimball Road, whereby someone cut a window screen on a bedroom window — the homeowner was unsure when this happened.

FRYEBURG — The following is a partial listing of incidents handled by the Fryeburg Police Department from December 12 through 18, 2011: Monday, December 12: 2:45 p.m. John W. Chase, 49, of Fryeburg, was issued a summons for theft of services, following a complaint regarding the alleged non-payment of heating oil to a local oil company.

3:10 p.m. A police officer responded to a Main Street address for a report of a daytime burglary.

9:18 p.m. A police officer responded to a report of a domestic disturbance on Main Street.

Tuesday, December 13: 11 p.m. Kristopher J. Karpowich, 24, of Fryeburg, was issued a summons for attaching false motor vehicle registration plates.

Wednesday, December 14: 7:45 a.m. No injuries were reported, when a 2005 GMC pickup truck operated by Harry G. Roberts, of Lovell, left Route 5 and went in to a ditch.

10:20 a.m. A subject came

to the police station and reported criminal mischief, whereby someone tried to pry open a door at a building on Porter Road.

10:50 a.m. Richard A. Perreault Jr., 30, of Fryeburg, was issued a summons for operating a motor vehicle after habitual offender revocation (prior conviction), following a traffic stop on Porter Road.

Friday, December 16: 5 p.m.

A report of suspicious activity on Battleground Road was investigated and determined to be a juvenile prank.

Saturday, December 17: 9 a.m. A subject from Pleasant Street reported vandalism to his motor vehicle sometime overnight while it was parked in their yard.

Sunday, December 18: 11 a.m. The theft of a snow machine from a residence on North Fryeburg Road was reported.

Ryan Scott Charles, 23, of Fryeburg, was arrested and charged with failure to appear in court and was transported to the Oxford County Jail in Paris.

Items on the Fryeburg Police log

County arrests; Grand Jury indictments Raymond, at 7:57 p.m. on Dec. 13 in Raymond by the Maine State Police for failure to appear in court and on a hold for another law enforcement agency.

Brian S. Cobb, 20, of Raymond, at 11:53 p.m. on Dec. 15 in Raymond by the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office for theft by unauthorized use of property.

Robert Edward Dadmun III, 20, of Casco, at 1:11 p.m. on Dec.

CASCO/NAPLES BULKY WASTE Casco/Naples Transfer Station NOTICE OF CLOSING CASCO/NAPLES BULKY WASTE AND TRANSFER STATION CLOSING SATURDAY, DEC. 24TH AT 12:00 NOON

16 in Casco by the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office for failure to pay a fine.

Christopher Daniel Mulvihill, 48, of Raymond, at 10:33 p.m. on Dec. 16 in Raymond by the Maine State Police for violating a condition of release.

INDICTMENTS PARIS — The following indi-

INDICTMENTS, Page B

The Town of Naples is seeking an individual to serve on the Transfer Station Council. The appointed person will be filling an unexpired term until 2013. The Transfer Station Council meets the second Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m. as needed.

The Board of Selectmen is seeking individuals to serve as members on the 2012–2013 Budget Committee. Anyone interested in serving may apply at the Harrison Town Office. Applications are being accepted until Friday, January 13, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. Applications will continue to be accepted until the positions are filled.

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s/George Finch Town Manager Town of Harrison

PUBLIC NOTICE

M.S.A.D. #61 BEGINNING JANUARY 3, 2012, THERE WILL NO LONGER BE A SCHOOL CROSSING GUARD ON PORTLAND STREET BY THE FRANCES BELL DRIVE AND BLACK HORSE TAVERN CROSS WALK. This elimination is due to no longer any crossing of unsupervised children happening at that cross walk.

Please contact Andrew Madura, Director of Transportation, Facilities and Food Service for SAD #61 if you have any questions or concerns at 647-5343. 1T51

The Town of Harrison is requesting bids for the care and maintenance of the Town’s Parks and Beaches which include, but may not be limited to: Crystal Lake Park and Boat Ramp, Mill Pond Park, Long Lake Park, Long Lake Beach and Boat Ramp, Town Common and Parking Lots, Zakelo Beach, Mill Street Park, and Fire Station. The Contractor is responsible for supplying all equipment and tools for repair and maintenance of all facilities. Bids should be mailed or dropped off in a sealed envelope to the attention of the Town Manager, George Finch, P.O. Box 300, Harrison, ME 04040 no later than 4:30 p.m. on Friday, January 13, 2012. The Board of Selectmen reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

The Town of Harrison is seeking an individual to mow and maintain, with minor repairs, 17 small Town-owned cemeteries and the mowing of all non-playing areas, and interior roadways of the RADR Complex. This mowing will be scheduled with the facility manager. Both will be under a contract arrangement.

The contractor will be responsible for providing the equipment necessary to complete the job.

Bids should be mailed or dropped off in a sealed envelope to the attention of the Town Manager George Finch, P.O. Box 300, Harrison, ME 04040 no later than 4:30 p.m., Friday, January 13, 2012. The Board of Selectmen reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids. s/George Finch, Town Manager 5T49

IN OBSERVANCE OF CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR’S DAY, THE TOWN OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED ON MONDAY, DEC. 26TH AND MONDAY, JAN. 2ND. Should you have any questions, please contact our offices at 693-6364.

Happy Holidays!

BOARD OF SELECTPERSONS PUBLIC HEARING The Naples Board of Selectpersons will hold a Public Hearing on December 26th, 2011 at 7:00 at the Naples Municipal Office Building located at 15 Village Green Lane. On the agenda: An application for a Street Vendor Permit Application for the Naples Winter Carnival, submitted by Dan Allen.

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Budget Committee The Town of Naples is seeking four (4) individuals to serve on the Budget Committee. The appointed persons will be filling unexpired terms until 2014. The Budget Committee meets weekly February – April (this may vary).

Interested parties please contact Barbara McDonough at the Naples Municipal Offices (693-6364) during regular business hours.

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NOTICE

Holiday Hours

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If you have any questions, please call the Town Office at 647-3944.

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The Town Office will be closed for the upcoming holidays on December 24, 2011 through December 26, 2011 and January 2, 2012.

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TOWN OFFICE HOLIDAY HOURS

By Lisa Williams Ackley Staff Writer PARIS — A 38-year-old Naples man has been indicted by an Oxford County Superior Court grand jury for allegedly breaking in to the home of a Maine State Police trooper earlier this month in Waterford and stealing jewelry.

Thor Sinclair Sr. was indicted Dec. 16 on one count of Class B burglary and one count of Class E theft. He was transported to the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn following a bail hearing where his bail was set at $50,000 surety or $5,000 cash bail, according to an intake officer at the jail Dec. 19.

According to a Maine State Police report, the home of Trooper André Paradis was broken into Dec. 8 and some of his girlfriend’s jewelry was stolen.

Eyewitnesses reported seeing a black GMC Yukon in the vicinity of Paradis’ home when he was not there. Trooper Adam Fillebrown was investigating an incident in Poland in which a woman reported that someone knocked on her door and when she opened it she observed a black GMC Yukon matching the description of the one seen near Trooper Paradis’ house. The woman was able to take down a partial license plate number, according to the police report, and noticed that the SUV’s license plate had an American flag on it that designates it as belonging to a disabled veteran. Police identified the vehicle’s owner who told them he had given it to his daughter and her husband.

Trooper Thomas Welch contacted the man’s daughter and Sinclair. The woman, who has not been charged, allegedly told police that she had driven Sinclair to different homes and that afterward they sold several pieces of jewelry and gold to pawn shops in Portland and Windham, according to the police report.

It also noted that the woman who allegedly accompanied Sinclair said he told her that he had seen a state police uniform at one of the homes he broke in to and was afraid he would be apprehended.

Public Notice

Interested parties please contact Barbara McDonough at the Naples Municipal Offices (693-6364) during regular business hours.

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Town of Sweden Residents

Man indicted for breaking into home

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Transfer Station Council

CLOSED SUNDAY, DEC. 25TH HAVE A HAPPY HOLIDAY!

viduals were indicted December 16, 2011 by an Oxford County Superior Court grand jury for crimes allegedly committed in the Lake Region: Alicia Carman, 25, of Waterford, one count of Class C receiving stolen property.

Norman P. Dakin, 44, of

a.m. Bridgton Police assisted the Bridgton Fire Department at a report of an electrical problem at a house on Kansas Road.

Tickets: During this reporting period, police issued nine summonses and 57 warnings.

s/George Finch, Town Manager

PUBLIC NOTICE

The Town of Harrison is requesting bids to do roadside mowing of the town roads in Harrison. Bids to be based on 40 miles of road, both sides and to mow/bushhog the field at the Transfer Station. The contractor will be responsible for providing the equipment necessary to complete the job. The Town desires a lump sum bid. Bids should be mailed or dropped off in a sealed envelope to the attention of the Town Manager, George Finch, P.O. Box 300, Harrison, ME 04040 no later than 4:30 p.m. on Friday, January 13, 2012. The Board of Selectmen reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids.

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s/George Finch Town Manager

For sale by bid, the following tax acquired property: Map/Lot 26-2 Minimum Bid: $ 3,000 Map/Lot 26-9 Minimum Bid: $10,000 Map/Lot 26-12-13 Minimum Bid: $10,000 Map/Lot 26-14 Minimum Bid: $ 3,000 Map/Lot 22-41C Minimum Bid: $ 4,500 Map/Lot 22-46 Minimum Bid: $ 6,000 The Board of Selectmen of the Town of Fryeburg, Maine is accepting bids for the purchase of the municipality’s interest in six tax-acquired properties. Each property bid must be in writing and in a separate sealed envelope marked “Tax Sale Bid Map/Lot _____” on the outside.

Each bid must also include the bidder’s name, mailing address, and phone number and must be accompanied by a deposit in the form of a certified check, or money order in an amount equal to or greater than 10% of the bid price. Each successful bidder’s deposit will be credited to the total purchase price for that parcel. Deposits will be returned to the unsuccessful bidders. Any bid that does not contain the proper deposit will be rejected.

Bids will be opened, reviewed and awarded by the Selectmen at the Town Office on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at the Board of Selectmen’s meeting that begins at 6 p.m. The Board of Selectmen reserves the right to reject any and all bids. The successful bidder shall have 30 days from the date of the bid acceptance in which to complete the purchase, which includes all associated costs. The property will be conveyed by a quitclaim deed without covenants. In the event that a successful bidder fails, for any reason, to complete the purchase in the time stated, the bid acceptance is void and the bidder’s deposit shall be forfeited to the Town. The Board of Selectmen may thereafter negotiate a sale of the property with any or all unsuccessful bidders.

Tax maps and other public information concerning the property may be reviewed at the Town of Fryeburg office at 16 Lovewell Pond Road, Fryeburg, Maine 04037, during its normal business hours, which are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m., and Thursday, 12 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Selectmen reserve the right to accept or reject any or all bids.

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CUMBERLAND COUNTY The following individuals were arrested and charged with crimes allegedly committed in the Lake Region and were transported to the Cumberland County Jail in Portland: Carl Glidden, 31, of West Gardiner, at 10:33 a.m. on Dec. 12 in Raymond by the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office for failure to pay a fine.

Travis Curt Brown, 29, of

8:11 p.m. A 2005 Ford Freestyle operated by Stewart Frost, of Fryeburg, struck a deer on North High Street (Route 302). The deer died at the scene.

Monday, December 19: 7:57

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These items appeared on the Bridgton Police Department blotter (this is a partial listing): Tuesday, December 13: 8:26 a.m. A police officer responded to a report that an employee at a business on Nulty Street arrived at work and found the front door kicked in and had not entered the building.

10:33 a.m. A report of vandalism and criminal mischief at a boys’ camp on Woods Pond was investigated.

2:23 p.m. Bridgton Police assisted the fire department at a report of a structure fire on Oak Street where a smell of gas was reported.

4:13 p.m. No one was injured, when a 2003 Hyundai Sonata operated by Dorothy Snow, of Bridgton, collided with a 2002 Ford Escort operated by Ann M. Brown, of Bridgton, in the Hannaford parking lot on Portland Road.

9:23 p.m. Judith E. Helms,

Fun & games

Page B, The Bridgton News, December 22, 2011

Gas price watch

This week’s puzzle

Theme: 2011 in review

55. Nervous twitching 57. *They were super 61. *Royal beau 65. Autumn color 66. Witness 68. Polynesian kingdom 69. Like a new car 70. Employ 71. Homework assignment 72. *Pitched at Occupy Wall Street 73. 6th sense?

74. Reminiscent of the past DOWN 1. Big talk 2. “Rome” in Italy 3. Matured, as in wine 4. Like Elvis’s famous shoes 5. Official messenger of news 6. Tangerine/grapefruit hybrid 7. Legendary West 8. Rainbow-producing device 9. Jazz singing 10. Stroke on a green 11. Cain’s unfortunate brother 12. Original home of the Saxons 15. Eats noisily 20. Stroke of luck 22. Her counterpart

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24. Graceful or refined 25. *Site of nuclear disaster 26. Convex molding 27. With no face value 29. *Retired from “60 Minutes” 31. Roentgen Equivalent Man, pl.

32. Particulars 33. One born to Japanese immigrants 34. Chewed on 36. Smart but awkward 38. “The Way We ____” 42. Straight muscles 45. It loves company 49. Mixed breed puppy

Gorham, one count of Class C possession of a firearm by a felon.

Allan L. Edwards, 34, of Lewiston, one count of Class C theft.

Brian G. Flynn, 29, of Brownfield, two counts of Class C theft and one count each Class C aggravated criminal mischief and Class E theft.

Keith R. Hodgkin, 28, of Waterford, one count of Class C receiving stolen property.

Cory S. Robinson, 26, of Conway, N.H., one count of Class C criminal operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant.

Curtis J. Smith, 32, of Fryeburg, one count each Class B aggravated trafficking in Scheduled drugs, Class C aggravated marijuana cultivation and two criminal forfeitures.

51. Out of ______ 54. October’s “Time,” e.g.

56. Bring to an end 57. Well-mannered Emily 58. Heart feeling 59. Body part that can double 60. Superman’s last name 61. “Read’em and ____” 62. In or of the present month 63. Petri dish gel 64. ____ Clinic 67. Female suffix

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13. Scoundrel 14. Needlefish 15. Diver’s lung 16. Independent African ruler 17. Big Island necklace 18. Type of paint 19. *Deposed despot 21. *Atlantis was the last one 23. Right-angle building extension 24. Another spelling for #16 Across 25. ___ Bon Jovi 28. Like Jekyll and Hyde’s personality 30. *Arab ______ 35. Stratfor-upon-____, Shakespeare’s birthplace 37. “The Man Who ____ Too Much” 39. Become established 40. Holy Father 41. It cuts edge of yard 43. ____ Verde National Park 44. A rooster to farmers?

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53. Diamonds or hearts, e.g.

Average retail gasoline prices in Maine have fallen 3.3 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.34 per gallon Sunday. This compares with the national average that has fallen 4.3 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.23 per gallon, according to gasoline price website MaineGasPrices. com Including the change in gas prices in Maine during the past week, prices Sunday were 24.2 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 11.4 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has decreased 13.4 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 26.4 cents per gallon higher than this day one year ago.

“Gas prices across much of the nation continue their downward move, bringing the national average for a gallon down to its lowest level since late February,” said GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst, Patrick DeHaan. “While some motorists are thinking these falling gasoline prices are nice, I’ll unpleasantly remind them that gasoline prices will still set record highs this Christmas across much of America — motorists have never seen average prices this high on Christmas. As prices typically reach a low point during early winter, this sets up a troubling start to 2012 in terms of gasoline prices.

Summer gasoline prices typically are 80 cents to $1.20 per gallon higher than where prices stand around Christmas.”

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Lakers shake off pesky Falcons

By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer On a night when the Lakers needed someone else to be a dominant inside presence, Kelsey Winslow stepped into the limelight.

With starting center TianaJo Carter battling foul trouble, Winslow scored 15 points and collected 6 rebounds as the Lakers withstood a pesky Freeport team, 49-25 Saturday night at Nutting Gymnasium.

“Kelsey had an unbelievable night. I couldn’t be happier for her. She works very hard.

She runs the floor so well, and always gives us a consistent effort, be it scoring on the fast break, or making a strong move to the basket or rebounding the

FEELING THE LAKER HEAT — Freeport’s Alexandra Mitch tries to escape a double team from Lakers Rachel Wandishin (left) and Sydney Hancock Saturday afternoon.

LR boys fueled up, capture first

By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer Maybe, Jeff and Rebecca Hall should invite the Lake Region boys’ basketball team over to their Casco home for a spaghetti dinner before every game.

Coming off a disappointing one-point loss to Waynflete last Thursday night, the Lakers bounced back behind a 23point, 17-rebound night from senior center Alex Hartford to beat Freeport 73-63 Saturday night at Nutting Gymnasium.

Mike Triglione dropped 16 points while Cody Gibbons came off the bench to score 15 points and haul down 5 rebounds as the Lakers ended a three-game losing skid.

“It was very disappointing (the loss last Thursday), especially knowing that Waynflete is going to be worth a bundle of Heal Points. I was glad that the kids were disappointed. It shows that they care,” Lake Region Coach J.P. Yorkey said.

“They bounced back real well.

They had a very good practice.

We had a great team dinner at the Halls’ house, which you could see that the kids get along very well. That team unity carried over to today. It was good to see that.”

Freeport started the game with a hot hand from the outside as Chandler Birmingham buried two jumpers while Matt Shulties (8 points) connected for three baseline shots as the

basketball,” LR Coach Paul True said. “She gave us what we needed tonight.”

This Falcon team did not resemble past Freeport squads, which the Lakers seemed to run over with regularity.

Sophomores Nina Davenport (12 points, 9 rebounds) Vanessa Lee (8 rebounds) were tough inside all night at both ends of the court.

Laker pressure forced seven turnovers in the opening quarter, but the home team led just 14-6 because on several breaks, players attempted one too many passes resulting in Freeport steals.

“It was crucial for us to approach this game with the right frame of mind, because

in the past, we’ve handled Freeport. I thought our kids did a great job of really being focused,” Coach True said.

“Our ball movement on offense was much better tonight than in games past. There were times that we penetrated (the lane) and should have been thinking shot instead of a pass at that point.”

Winslow was a major force in getting the Lakers off on the right foot. She continually beat Freeport defenders down the court, resulting in two lay-ups and a 4-for-4 outing at the foul line.

Unlike past Freeport teams, the Falcons adjusted to the game’s quick pace and committed just four turnovers in the

Raider girls still searching for ‘O’

By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer FRYEBURG — Sometimes, it’s tough to erase a bad memory.

Still “shook up” after scoring just 10 points two days earlier at Falmouth, Fryeburg Academy players had to wonder if they were headed toward another dreadful night last Thursday at Wadsworth Arena.

Cape Elizabeth jumped out to a 10-0 lead halfway through the opening quarter as the Raiders committed 12 turnovers. As the final minute ticked off the clock, senior guard Maggie McConkey prevented a shutout with a one-handed flip shot.

Despite their shortcomings on the offensive end, the Raiders were scrappy and refused to quit. The effort paid off as Fryeburg nearly pulled off the comeback before falling to the Capers 26-21.

With 3:26 left, McConkey made two foul shots to pull the Raiders to 22-21. But, McConkey (6 points, 9 rebounds) missed a jumper in the lane with two minutes to go and the Raiders went scoreless down the stretch.

Sophomore center Skye Dole was high scorer for the Raiders

second quarter. When LR inside enforcer Tiana-Jo Carter picked up her third foul with 5:07 left in the half, the 6-foot-1 center went to the bench with her team up 10 points.

Freeport took advantage of Carter’s absence. The Falcons out rebounded the Lakers 95, scoring three buckets off offensive boards. Davenport energized her team with two scores in the final minute as Freeport inched closer, 22-17.

However, LR ended their twominute scoring drought when freshman guard Sarah Hancock dropped a perfectly placed deep pass to Winslow for a lay-up to end the half.

Lakers 24, Freeport 17.

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with 8 points. She added 9 rebounds and 2 blocked shots.

“Obviously, you can’t spot a team 10 points, especially when we’re having trouble scoring,” FA Coach Dan Leland said.

“After our last game, we had some opportunities. We executed, but just didn’t finish.”

Defensively, Coach Leland felt his club played well, allowing the Capers just 16 points over the final 16 minutes of the game.

“We ran some things that we haven’t done except in practice.

We took their best player out of the game to keep it close,” Coach Leland said. “We had some foul trouble, which certainly made a difference in our pressure. We had to back off when Maggie picked up her fourth foul (with 2:22 left in the third quarter).”

Cape hardly put on an offensive showcase, going nearly eight minutes after Emma O’Rourke drained a 3-pointer to make it 10-0 before Kisa Tabery broke the scoring drought with a free throw at the 4:20 mark of the second quarter.

Meanwhile, the Raiders slowly chipped away at the def- LOOKING OVER THE DEFENSE — Fryeburg Academy’s icit as McConkey and Kendra Sydney Charles brings the ball over halfcourt during last week’s game against Cape Elizabeth.

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‘Never quit’ Raiders nearly pull upset

By Wayne E. Rivet SET TO BLOCK — Laker Staff Writer Mike Mageles (#3) prepares FRYEBURG — In years to block a shot, but Freeport’s past, if the Raiders fell behind Landon Easler passed the ball a perennial power like Greely — a wise decision. by double digits early, players Falcons jumped ahead 20-14. figured the game was over.

Momentum shifted when The mindset is different this sophomore Gibbons entered year. the game. His physical play Fryeburg fell into two dousilenced Birmingham on the ble-digit holes Saturday against Greely, but Coach Sedge FIRST WIN, Page 10B Saunders’ group refused to go away quietly.

In fact, the Raiders nearly pulled out an upset at Wadsworth Arena. Bright Amoako scored 15 points and Mike Costa drained two 3pointers en route to a 10-point night as the Raiders fell 53-50.

“The bottom line is we knew if we played hard and improved on the execution we had a good chance to be in this game in the fourth quarter and sure enough we were,” Coach Saunders

said. “The sad thing is we had a few costly mistakes that could have been the difference. We fell behind by double digits twice and to the kids’ credit, they battled back and showed tremendous resiliency.”

Feeling Greely’s guards were questionable against pressure, the Raiders stepped up their defensive intensity and forced several turnovers.

“Had it not been for a horrendous second quarter (Greely out scored the Raiders 7-0) the outcome certainly could have been different,” Coach Saunders said. “We were shutout due to a combination of things. The paced slowed and we missed some easy ones — just one of those crazy quarters.”

Down 11 at the half, the Raiders applied full-court pressure in the third quarter and cut the deficit to 4 points, 38-34.

Fryeburg would take this

game down to the final seconds.

With 12 seconds left, Fryeburg had a tough time searching out a good shot against Greely’s 23 zone defense.

“We didn’t do a good job of getting our guys into a quick hitter against it (the zone). Deep down, I was hoping they’d go ‘man-to-man’ because we knew Bright could take his defender off the dribble and create a scoring opportunity.”

With time ticking off the clock, sophomore guard Walker Mallory took a shot, but it was off the mark.

“Walker showed guts taking the shot,” Coach Saunders said.

“We actually got the offensive rebound, but were called for traveling. We still had a chance to tie the game after Greely hit some free throws, but our desperation shot fell short.”

Amoako added 8 rebounds and 7 assists. Dgordie

COLCHESTER, VT. — As one of eight children, Saint Michael’s College senior Coreen Hennessy (Chatham, N.H./Fryeburg Academy) is used to being part of a team.

Over the past two seasons, as her older teammates have ceded their leadership roles upon graduation, Hennessy has stepped into the spotlight, serving as a captain of the Saint Michael’s women’s basketball team this winter while nearly tripling her career scoring average entering the season.

A 5-foot-7 guard, Hennessy is shooting 49.5 percent after leading the squad last winter (47.4). She entered this BATTLING FOR POSITION — Lake Region’s Alex Hall year with a 5.6-point career (left) fends off Freeport’s Nick Wilson for position in the lane scoring average but turns in during Saturday’s game at Nutting Gym. (Rivet Photo) 13.5 per game in 2011-12,

going for at least 13 eight times in 10 games. She also leads the squad in assists (2.7) while placing second in scoring, shooting, field goals (48), free throw shooting (80.0) and three-pointers (11). Hennessy’s 28 free throws are tied for second on the squad.

Just 10 games into the Purple Knights’ schedule, which includes a number of national powers in the 16team Northeast-10 Conference, Hennessy is only three assists short of her career high and is averaging 4.7 more points than the career-best 8.8 she had last winter.

Among her best games were a 20-point effort on 7-of-11 shooting in 22 minutes of an 85-76 loss at Shippensburg

University on Nov. 12, and a 14-point, seven-assist performance in a 69-53 win against the University of Massachusetts at Lowell on Nov. 22. She shot 5-for-7. Hennessy netted 13 points versus a pair of nationally-ranked squads last month, going 5-of-7 on free throws in a 63-62 loss to No. 17 Franklin Pierce University on Nov. 27 and adding four rebounds and three assists during a 75-66 setback at No. 1 Bentley University on Nov. 30.

The Purple Knights are 5-5 overall and 2-4 in the NE-10, having just snapped a threegame losing streak during which they lost by an average of 5.0 points. Saint Michael’s breaks until hosting Pace University on Jan. 3.

Hennessy leading Knights

Obradovich played well in the paint especially in the pivotal third quarter. He scored 6 points. Walker Mallory hit two big threes in the second half, while Mike Costa had “his best game yet with some clutch shots and nice post entry passes,” Coach Saunders said.

Tyler Saunders played some hard-nosed defense and Kevin Knowles continued to show tremendous improvement, scoring 5 points.

“Bobby Ramsay is starting to bounce back from his ankle injury and had a key offensive put-back when we were making our run,” Coach Saunders added. “We are starting to get key contributions from different people and develop an identity. I like the make-up of this team.”

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Coreen Hennessy

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PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Colin Bridge-Koenigsberg

By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer Because he is so dedicated to indoor track, Colin BridgeKoenigsberg makes himself and his teammates better.

“Colin deserves recognition for his work with the throwers and his leadership.

He is often at our 6 a.m. practices leading the throwers through their workout,” LR Coach Mark Snow said. “We have not had any meets this year, but last season Colin demonstrated great sportsmanship while competing in any event the team needed.

I expect he will do the same this year. His teammates will learn a lot from his dedication to the team.”

In recognition of his strong work ethic, determination, commitment and good sportsmanship, Colin is this week’s Boosters and Hancock Lumber “Player of the Week.”

Each week, a Lake Region athlete is recognized for his/ her dedication (does more than what is asked), work ethic, coachability and academic good standing. Recipients receive a specially-designed t-shirt, sponsored by Hancock Lumber.

The Bridge-Koenigsberg File Name: Colin BridgeKoenigsberg Year in School: Senior Town: Naples Parents: Leslie McConnell and Edward BridgeKoenigsberg School Activities/Sports: Cross country, indoor track & field, lacrosse and Student Council Q. Why did you choose indoor track? CBK. I thought it would be fun. It is different than anything I have done before.

Q. What do you hope to accomplish this season?

CBK. To set a personal record in my main events.

Q. What do you enjoy the most? CBK. I like being with my teammates and competing against many different kids.

Q. What do you like the least? CBK. “Indoor” track implies that we would run inside, but we don’t. I’m not a fan of running out in the cold.

Q. What makes you successful? CBK. Working hard COLIN, Page 11B

Wolverine paw prints

By Alison Vigneau Sports Information Director Bridgton Academy had their final week of competition before the winter break.

The Junior A hockey team had a home game Friday night, and fell 4-2 to the New England Stars. They then traveled to play the Hill Academy, and ended the first semester with a 4-2 win.

The basketball team spent their last weekend of the first semester in Montreal, where they participated in the Sun Youth Tournament. After advancing to the Championship Game, the Wolverines fell to Lee Academy 78-73.

Ice Chips As the Junior A hockey team faced off against the New England Stars, it promised to be a close matchup. While the Wolverines kept in the game for the most part, they ultimately fell to the Stars 4-2.

Jimmy Magrath (Medfield, Mass.) tallied Bridgton’s first goal of the night as he rebounded Alex Pompeo’s (Hingham, Mass.) shot from Steve Bellew WOLVERINES, Page 12B

Hannah Perkins

By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer Hannah Perkins has a way of energizing her indoor track teammates.

“Hannah is very vocal at practices. The team feeds off her energy. She knows all of our drills and is great at demonstrating them for the new team members,” Lake Region varsity indoor track & field coach Mark Snow said.

“Hannah also performs well in the classroom and on the track. She works hard and gets good grades. She has school records for the indoor and outdoor season.”

This year, Hannah will be experimenting more with the 800 meters.

“She was only a second or two off the indoor school record. It will be interesting to see how she does with it this season,” Coach Snow said.

In recognition of her strong work ethic, determination, commitment and good sportsmanship, Hannah is this week’s Boosters and Hancock Lumber “Player of the Week.”

Each week, a Lake Region athlete is recognized for his/ her dedication (does more than what is asked), work ethic, coachability and academic good standing. Recipients receive a specially-designed t-shirt, sponsored by Hancock Lumber.

The Perkins File Name: Hannah Perkins Year in School: Junior Town: Sebago Parents: Carolynn Taylor and Dan Perkins School Activities/Sports: Varsity soccer, track & field, Math Team Q. Why did you choose indoor track? HP. I chose this sport because I love running and staying fit.

Q. What do you hope to accomplish this season? HP. I hope to break my previous records and hopefully take the 800-meter record!

Q. What do you enjoy the most? HP. I love the indoor team. There’s just something about indoor track that makes everyone so close. I also love the pride in doing well in an individual event.

Q. What do you like the HANNAH, Page 11B

Laker boys capture first win, 73-63 (Continued from Page B) defensive end, while his strong moves to the hoop eventually carved out more operating room for teammate Alex Hartford, who scored 8 points in the second to give the Lakers a 36-30 halftime lead.

“When Cody came off the bench, Birmingham (9 points) wasn’t much of a factor the rest of the way,” Coach Yorkey said. “Cody is a difficult matchup, especially when he is on the floor as a guard. There are a lot of skinny kids in our league, and Cody is tough to keep off the backboard. He leaps well.

He was a little rusty coming into the season, but appears to be shaking that off. He has the potential to be a real good scorer.”

Gibbons’ presence helped offset the loss of center Erik Christensen, who was out of action due to a concussion suffered in the Yarmouth game.

“I think we wore them (Freeport) down some. Our kids played real hard defensively, extending the pressure into the backcourt,” Coach Yorkey said.

“We rotated guys better than we have.”

Hartford keyed the LR comeback by playing big at both ends of the court. He had five rebounds and a blocked shot as the Lakers pieced together an impressive 22-10 second quarter charge.

“Alex keeps his hands high and is a quick jumper,” Coach

“What was great about tonight was seeing our kids make basketball plays. They read the situation and made plays,” Coach Yorkey said.

“We were much better in transition offense. Tonight was like watching some of the drills we run in practice. It was great to see them finishing.”

For the Lakers, Alex Hall tossed in 4 points, Sam Smith 2, Lewis Morton 1 and Ben Chaine had 1 point.

In the rebounding department, the Lakers held a 35-28 advantage. Other rebounders were: Hall 4, Mageles 4, Chaine 3, Triglione 1 and Morton 1.

Free throws: LR 21-32, Freeport 13-21.

Turnovers: LR 27, Freeport 18.

• The Lakers were issued a technical foul with 40.1 seconds remaining because the uniform number of a reserve entering the game had been incorrectly recorded in the official scorebook. Freeport’s Landon Easler made 1-of-2 shots.

In other action Waynflete 41, Lakers 40: The Lakers were unable to hold onto a 3-point lead in the fourth quarter as the Flyers snatched a 1-point victory at Nutting Gym last Thursday night.

Junior Mike Triglione led the Lakers with 14 points, including two 3-pointers, while senior Alex Hartford chipped in 12 points. Other scorers were: Mike Mageles 9 points (two

TAKING IT STRONG to the basket for a score is LR’s Mike Triglione (#15).

3-pointers), Sam Smith 3 and Cody Gibbons 2 points.

Lakers 70, Gray-NG 47: Mike Triglione and Alex Hartford each scored a gamehigh 23 points as the Lakers hammered the Patriots (1-3) Tuesday night. LR (2-3) broke the game open with a 20-8 third quarter. The Lakers enjoyed first half leads of 15-12 and 32-23.

Other LR scorers were: Mike Mageles 9, Cody Gibbons 6, Ben Chaine 4, Alex Hall 2, Derek Douglass 2 and Erik Christensen 1.

Up next: The Lakers travel to Cape Elizabeth tonight, Dec. 22, for a 7 p.m. game.

During the holiday break, the Lakers will play at the Portland Expo on Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 5 p.m. against South Portland, and on Thursday, Dec. 29 at 4 p.m. against Windham.

Raiders unable to keep pace with Cape (Continued from Page B) Saunders had 2 points.

“If we can survive this murderous stretch before Christmas, we feel good about the second half of the season,” Coach Saunders said. “We have made it a priority to be better every time we take the court.”

Hawks snip Cats DOVER, N.H. — Marshwood scored three goals in the second period and rolled to a 5-1 victory over the Fryeburg Academy/ Lake Region Ice Cats in varsity hockey action Saturday.

Down 4-0, the Ice Cats finally got on the scoreboard as TJ Leach scored at the 13:14 mark.

Assists went to Tyler Harnden and Donnie Kellough.

The Hawks (3-0) fired 41 shots at Ice Cats goalie Tyler LeGoff, who had 36 saves.

The Ice Cats (1-2) managed 11 shots. Neither club was proficient on the power play with the Cats going 0-for-3, while the Hawks were 0-for-5.

Up next: The Ice Cats return to the Bridgton Ice Arena this Friday night, Dec. 23, for a 7 p.m. game against Bonny Eagle.

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Yorkey said. “He can help us in a lot of ways — as a ballhandler, rebounder and scorer.

Alex had a good season last year (our second leading scorer and leading rebounder), so his experience has been very helpful. He’s a competitor. For a kid as slight as he is, he plays very tough inside.”

Freeport’s Drew Shane hit the Falcons’ first shot of the second half to narrow the gap to four points, but Gibbons answered at the other end with a power move that resulted in an old-fashioned 3-point play. Gibbons added four more points as the Lakers built a 45-35 lead with 5:27 left in the third quarter.

The Falcons climbed back into the game by scoring the last six points of the quarter, four by captain Mitch Loeman who scored 21 points to go along with 13 rebounds.

Up 51-45, the Lakers fought off Freeport’s challenge as Mike Mageles and Hartford each drained 3-pointers and Triglione sliced past two Falcon defenders for a lay-up to push the margin back to 10 points.

Down the stretch, the Lakers executed their offense well to produce some easy inside shots. If there was one glaring problem, it was free throw shooting. After a 7-for-8 run in the second quarter, the Lakers were 5-for-10 over the final two minutes.

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In other action Cape 63, Raiders 38: Fryeburg stayed close for a half, trailing by nine at intermission, but Cape Elizabeth pulled away with a 17-6 third quarter outburst.

Fryeburg managed just 11 points in the second half and

were outscored by 16 points.

Dgordie Obradovic was high scorer for the Raiders with 11 points, while Bright Amoako and Mike Knowles each chipped in 8 points. Milos Todosijevic scored 4 points, Walker Mallory 3, Tyler Saunders 3 and Jon Burk had

1 point.

Up next: Tonight, Dec. 22, the Raiders travel to Yarmouth for a 7 p.m. contest against the Clippers. FA returns to action on Friday, Dec. 30 at 6:30 at Poland.

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December 22, 2011, The Bridgton News, Page 11B

Laker girls, 5-0

(Continued from Page B) Foul trouble would continue to haunt the Lakers in the second half as Winslow headed to the bench with 3:11 left in the third after picking up her fourth personal.

What may separate the Lakers from the rest of the West is the team’s overall depth. Senior Shannon VanLoan turned in quality minutes as the Lakers upped their lead to 34-24 after three quarters. VanLoann had 5 rebounds and a blocked shot.

“We, as coaches, talked about what great kids we have.

Shannon, a game ago, didn’t play at all. Tonight, she comes in and plays some huge minutes for us and played fantastic. She put in a lot of work in the off-season, and it is showing,” Coach True said.

“Again, we’re deep. We have a lot of kids on the bench that do a great job when they come into a game. It goes to show that our depth is a factor and our physical conditioning is pretty good.

I thought a big part of tonight’s game was the fact that we wore them down.”

Carter’s presence also changed the game’s complexion. She finished the night with 23 rebounds and two blocked shots. Her return signaled the end to second-shot chances for Freeport. Coach True also liked how his club played defense over the final 16 minutes.

“I thought our kids did a good job when asked to play multiple defenses tonight. They adjusted well. We gave them a number of different looks,” he said.

After a scoreless first half, guard Sydney Hancock became a little more offensive minded in the third quarter, knocking down two 3-pointers to get the LR offense rolling.

“Sydney has been looking to pass first, shoot second. She has to look at shot first, and if she is being overplayed and can’t get a shot off, then it is time to attack and find an open player,” Coach True said. “She did a good job of that tonight. As a guard, if you are penetrating and thinking about pass first, you won’t locate the rim and likely won’t make the shot.”

The fourth quarter was a Laker clinic, both offensively and defensively. Crisp passing produced easy inside buckets as four different players scored, and unlike past games, the Lakers converted at the foul line (6-of-8) to close out their opponent.

Carter was a force, hauling down 7 rebounds over the final eight minutes. More importantly, she played the final six minutes with four fouls.

Defensively, the Lakers completely shut down Freeport as the Falcons managed just one point as Alexandra Mitch prevented a goose egg for the quarter by sinking a foul shot with 13.3 seconds left.

“I was very happy compared to our showing at Waynflete, where we were 3-of-16 shooting 3-pointers in the first half. It shows that the kids are paying attention and making adjustments. They did a great job of getting the ball inside tonight,” Coach True said.

True liked the fact that his team was under pressure for three quarters and his post players faced a physical challenge.

“Our big kids have to know that they are going to be doubled and tripled teamed,” he said. “We have to adjust and respond to it.”

For the Lakers (4-0), Sydney Hancock fired in 10 points (three 3-pointers), Carter 9, Abby Craffey 6, Sarah Hancock 4, Allison Clark 3 (a trey) and Rachel Wandishin had 2 points.

For Freeport, Jocelyn Davee had 4 points, Mitch 3, Morgan Brown 2, Lee 2 and Leigh Wyman had 2 points.

Rebounds: LR 45, F 30.

Turnovers: LR 19, F 21 Free Throws: LR 11-22, Freeport 5-12 In other action Lakers 45, Waynflete 36: At times, the Lakers fall in love with the 3-point shot and forget what their true offensive strength is.

After going 3-of-16 from behind the arc and leading Waynflete (1-2) just 23-16 at the half, the Lakers (3-0) went to their strength — they’re inside game.

Tiana-Jo Carter scored 13 points and Kelsey Winslow added 12 as the Lakers turned back a spirited Flyer fourth-quarter comeback last Thursday in Portland.

Carter and Winslow converted on key buckets inside the final minute to offset a big night by Waynflete’s Martha Veroneau, who scored a game-high 25 points.

Abby Craffey knocked down two 3-pointers and finished with 7 points, while Rachel Wandishin contributed 6 points, Kasey Huntress had 4 and Sydney Hancock 3 (a trey).

Lakers 59, Gray-NG 26: Patriot Coach Mike Andreasen may have summed it up best about how tough it is to play the Lakers.”They’re in your face at both ends of the court,” he said.

After a slow start Tuesday at Gray (up 7-5), the Lakers were indeed in the Patriots’ face as Abby Craffey scored six points during an 11-0 second quarter run as the Lakers blew out G-NG (2-2) to improve to 5-0. Craffey finished with 8 points.

The Lakers rolled in the middle quarters — 18-6 and 20-5.

Tiana-Jo Carter paced the LR attack with 14 points. Other scorers were: Allison Clark 12, Kelsey Winslow 8, Kate Cutting 6, Kayleigh Lepage 5, Sydney Hancock 3, Jordan Turner 2 and Sarah Hancock 1.

Up next: The Lakers host Cape Elizabeth tonight, Dec. 22 at 7 p.m.

MORE PROGRESS MADE — Good weather has allowed work to continue at the Kendal C. and Anna Ham Recreation Complex on BRAG Way in Bridgton, despite what the calendar says. Informal play will begin on the fields in 2012. The picture shows backstops, dugouts and outfield fencing for the four baseball/softball fields. Basketball courts, soccer fields, concessions and a playground will round out the complex.

(Photo by Jon Evans)

FA girls edge Poland for first win

(Continued from Page B) Fox each scored on offensive rebounds and Dole connected on a jumper from the wing to make it 10-8.

FA trailed 15-10 at the half after Brenna Gerchman connected on a pair of foul shots in the closing seconds.

With Cape scoring just one point over the first six minutes of the third quarter, Fryeburg tied the game at 16-16 as Dole drained two jump shots and Fox made a nice cut to the hoop, converting a pass from Dole into an easy lay-up.

Mel Vangel and Maddy Riker each scored lay-ups in the final two minutes to give Cape a 20-17 lead headed into the final quarter.

Neither team shot well in the fourth, combining for just

10 points as Cape escaped with its second victory. Fryeburg fell to 0-3.

“You hate to talk about moral victories when you are a couple of weeks into the season and we’re already behind the eight ball. The good thing is we play them again. We made some progress after our last game,” Coach Leland said.

“Offensively, we lack in skill players. We’re a good defensive team, but we struggle on the offensive end, especially when teams take away our two scorers — Maggie and Sky. It was good for us to be in a competitive game tonight. I think we’ll feel good about playing them next time.”

Despite the 0-3 start, the Raiders continue to work and play hard — two components

Profile: Hannah Perkins

(Continued from Page 10B) least? HP. The stress! Track is such an individual sport that you don’t have anyone helping you. You determine how well you do.

Q. What makes you successful? HP. Working hard, being focused and having a positive attitude.

Q. What would your dream moment be? HP. Winning a state title in my event or placing in the Junior Olympics, which I compete in during the summer.

Q. What has indoor track taught you? HP. This sport has taught me to be confident in myself, to work hard, and that you can do anything you put your heart to.

Q. Who has inspired you? HP. My parents inspire me.

They’ve always worked hard, which has led me to do the same.

Profile: Colin Bridge-Koenigsberg (Continued from Page 10B) and listening to my coaches.

Q. What would your dream moment be? CBK. To be part of a state winning relay team.

Q. What has indoor track taught you? CBK. To work hard and never give up; to try new things.

Q. Who has inspired you? CBK. Ryan Skillern. He works hard at everything he does.

which Leland believes will result in rewards sometime down the line.

“This group never gives up.

York had us by 12 or 15 points, but we kept cutting it back to 8 points. Even at Falmouth when the game was getting out of hand, we didn’t stop playing.

I’m proud of the kids,” he said.

“If they keep working hard, something good will happen eventually. It’s a tough start. It’s a tough schedule. We’ll have opportunities, but we need to stay positive. We’re a work in progress.”

For the Raiders, Fox scored 5 points and had 4 rebounds.

For Cape, O’Rourke and Vangel each had 6 points, Marla Dell’Aquilaa 5, Kayla Raftice 3, Tabery 3, Riker 2 and Kate Miklavic 1.

Turnovers: FA 26, Cape 19 Free Throws: FA 5-7, Cape 6-23 In other action Greely 39, Raiders 29: With three minutes left Saturday night, Fryeburg had a shot at upsetting Greely.

Down just six points, the Raiders just couldn’t come up with another hoop to put more pressure on the Rangers as Greely escaped with a victory.

“We are progressing. Things are starting to come together,”

Coach Leland said. “We are looking forward to the games this week. I hope we can turn the corner.”

Greely led 14-10 after one quarter, 28-17 at the half and 32-24 entering the final eight minutes.

Senior guard Maggie McConkey had her best offensive showing of the season, scoring 12 points to go along with 7 rebounds, 4 steals and 3 assists. Center Skye Dole chipped in 7 points and 10 rebounds.

Other FA scorers were: Sarah Welch 6 points, 2 rebounds; Sydney Charles 2 points, 2 rebounds, 3 steals; Kendra Fox 2 points, 2 steals.

Raiders 44, Poland 43: Maggie McConkey sank 1-of2 foul shots with seven seconds left and then stole the ball at halfcourt to lead the Raiders (1-4) to their first win of the season Tuesday night at Wadsworth Arena.

Poland drops to 0-5.

McConkey scored a season high 16 points. Other FA scorers were: Sydney Charles 6, Emily Wilson 6, Kendra Fox 5, Maddy Smith 4, Sarah Welch 3, Skye Dole 3 and Brenna Gerchman had 1 point.

Up next: The Raiders host Yarmouth tonight, Dec. 22 at 6:30 p.m. at Wadsworth Arena.

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Page 12B, The Bridgton News, December 22, 2011

LRHS announces first honor roll

Musicians selected for Festival

FRYEBURG — Molly Ockett Middle School will be well represented at the District II Honors Instrumental Music Festival next month in South Paris.

General and Instrumental Music Instructor Charles Condello announced that the school will send nine musicians (see names above) to the District II event.

District II refers to the method in which schools are

grouped according to the festival music groups. It has nothing to do with actual school districts in which these schools are located geographically.

There are over 30 middle schools from which instrumental music students have the opportunity to audition for the District II Instrumental Music Festival.

The concert will be held at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School on Friday, Jan. 27

(rehearsal day) and Saturday, Jan. 28 (rehearsal and concert day), 2012. The concert time is scheduled at 3 p.m. (The storm date for this event will be Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012.)

Oftentimes, the number of people in attendance at this music festival is upwards of 1,000! Also, there are several hundred student musicians in grades 7 to 12, who will be playing in a middle school orchestra and band and a high

(Continued from Page 10B) (Hingham, Mass.).

The Stars tied things up with an unsuccessful penalty kill by Bridgton with just over seven minutes to play in the first period. Pompeo tallied his second assist of the night as he set up Brendan Glynn (Quincy, Mass.) who flipped the puck over the Stars’ goalie to tie it up 2-2. Going into the third period, the NE Stars were able to pull ahead to secure the 4-2 win.

The Junior A team ended

the first semester with a big 42 win over the Hill Academy.

The team hit the ice hard in an effort to make up for their loss the previous night, and did just that. Mike Marchionda (Hyde Park, Mass.) led the scoring with two goals in the game.

Ryan Connors (Marshfield, Mass.) and Billy Boudreau (Newburyport, Mass.) added the last two goals for BA. Jordi Van Gaal (RyMenam, Belguim) had a big night in goal, saving 30 of 32 shots.

The team enters break with a winning record of 13-6-2.

On the Hardwood The Wolverine basketball team traveled to Montreal this past weekend to participate in the Sun Youth Tournament.

Upon arrival, the team won their initial games to advance to the championship round against Lee Academy. Bridgton led by two points with less than one minute to play. They had battled back from trailing most of the game, behind 44-36 at the half.

In the end, BA lost the game to Lee Academy 78-73.

To advance to the finals, BA defeated Dawson College, Sun Youth and Algonquin College. ALEX POMPEO of Hingham, BA heads into break with a 12-5 Mass. had a strong weekend of record. competition for the Bridgton Academy hockey team, tallying two assists in Friday night’s game.

school orchestra and band. The entire event lasts approximately one and one-half hours, and “is an event you will never forget and an event that will greatly advance these students in their musical ability and motivation to want to continue on in musical excellence,” Condello said.

“I also want to thank Mrs. Goldenhar for her invaluable help as an instrumental music instructor,” he added.

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HONORS PLAYERS — Molly Ockett Middle School General and Instrumental Music Instructor Charles Condello is proud to announce that the school had nine out of 10 of its seventh and eighth grade instrumental music students accepted through audition into the prestigious District II Honors Instrumental Music Festival. “We also sent more students, per capita, than many larger middle schools,” Condello said. Players include: (front, left to right): Matthew Boucher, grade 8, Eb Alto Saxophone; Alex Ouellette, grade 8, Percussion; Nick Landano, grade 8, Eb Alto Saxophone; (top row) Amber Wheeler, grade 7, Trumpet; Emily Robinson, grade 7, Trumpet; Tabitha Day, grade 7, Trombone; Alexis L’Heureux-Carland, grade 8, Flute; Renae Fournier, grade 8, Flute; Tyler Worcester, grade 7, Trumpet. Honorable Mention goes to Laura Friedman, grade 7, Flute.

Lake Region High School Principal Ted Finn has announced the first Trimester Honor Roll: Grade 12 High Honors: Jonathan Fox, Kathryn Merrill and Rachel Wandishin.

Honors: Jesse Bell, Julia Berbel, Allison Clark, Keisha Cleveland, Forrest Grant, Jessie Gray, Tonner Hann, Caitlin Harden, Mostafa Hassan, Patrick Hayes, Merrissa Hill, Gregory Locke, Chelcie Murch, Tyler Panter, Alice Sanborn, Ryan Skillern, Mariah Sloat, Wesley Sulloway, Victoria Waugh and Kelsey Wilcox.

Merit Recognition: Abigail Craffey, Samantha Dole, Alexander Hartford, Timothy Leach, Lindsay Nason and Shelby Rider.

Grade 11 High Honors: Julia Carlson, Savannah DeVoe, Kasey Huntress, Mason Kluge-Edwards, Jack Mills, Derrek Schrader and Kelsey Winslow.

Honors: Dylan Balestra, Lucas Brown, Brian Butler, Rashawnda Currier, Jared Curtis, Kathryn Cutting, Samantha Duncan, Kassandra Girard, Kayla Gray, Sydney Hancock, Patrick Irish, Erin Levasseur, Maude Meeker, Kayla Reinhard, Margaret Rickert, Emma Walker and Breanna Wilkinson.

Merit Recognition: Thomas Chagrasulis, Hannah Conley, Nicole Conley, Derek Douglass, Kayla Grant, Brittany Hayes, Molly Hook, Tyler LaPlante, Kayleigh Lepage, Hannah Perkins and Michael Triglione.

Grade 10 High Honors: Amy Marie Angelone, Kathryn Caulfield, Miranda Chadbourne, Taylor Cronin and Elisabeth Waugh.

Honors: Mikayla Fortin, Casey Heath, Paige Kenison, Frances Kimball, Danielle LaPointe, Meredith Lastra, Abigail Lucy, Nicole Marucci, Samantha Marucci, Mackenzie McHatton, Amina Meziani, Zoey Perham, Elizabeth Schreiber, Zachary Tidd, Jordan Turner and Courtney Yates.

Merit Recognition: Erik Christensen, Lucy Fowler, Chance Gallant, Briana Gallinari, Cody Gibbons, Jacob Hammond, Brendon Harmon, Zachary Heath, Alyssa Kepler, Joshua Knox, Even Logan, Benjamin Roy, Dakota Russo, Drew Shane, Sam Smith and Caitlynn Willett.

Grade 9 High Honors: Nicole Noble, Margaret Scarlett and Sullivan Tidd.

Honors: Nicholas Ball, Courtney Bertin, Sarah Carlson, Eleanor Cusack, Kyle DeSouza, Christina Engstrom, Nicole Fox, Elise Gianattasio, Sarah Hancock, Whitney Harriman, Austin Kaeser, Benjamin Lauer, Madison Lawler, Garrett Logan, Carolyn Lucy, Galen McLaughlin and Michael Rust.

Merit Recognition: Lily Barrett, Talya Bartlett, Harold Bracy, Christopher Hall, Sean Hedly, Cole Jakobs, Gaelon Kolczynski, Monica Martin, Brittany Perreault, Abigail ScottMitchell, Isabel Scribner, Lucien Sulloway, Meghan VanLoan and Elizabeth Wildey.