The Portland Daily Sun, Tuesday, January 11, 2011

‘A chilling effect’ TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2011

Maine lawmakers react to Arizona shooting

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Saturday’s shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 17 others brought strong reaction across Maine, including asser-

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tions from lawmakers that the attack is both a confirmation and a wake-up call about inflammatory political rhetoric.

“I was afraid something like this was going to happen,” said Diane

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Russell, state representative for Portland’s District 120. “It’s caused me to pause and think about what I say and how it could be interpreted,” she said.

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Emotions soar over Sudanese vote

BY DAVID CARKHUFF “It was an amazing day, THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN “It was an amazing people were waiting for over 57 Five-year-old Maluak conyears to have a vote to be indeday, people were pendent. It was a very excittinues to be fascinated by his father’s right forefinger and its waiting for over 57 ing moment,” he said. “A lot of telltale stain of blue ink. years to have a vote people were crying.”

His father, Mariano Mawein, Thousands converged at the was one of dozens of south to be independent. polling center in Boston. For Sudanese immigrants who It was a very excit- Portlanders, ground work for boarded buses in Portland ing moment.” — these shuttles to Boston had and traveled to Boston to vote been laid months earlier.

Sunday for an independent Mariano Mawein, a “Back three months ago, four south Sudan. Polling officials spokesman for the months ago, we began the prostained the right forefingers of cess in Portland as a commuSudanese Commuthose who voted with blue ink nity. We had a lot of meetings, nity Association of we shared ideas,” Mawein said. to mark their participation in the historic referendum.

Southern Maine boasts the Maine Mawein, a spokesman for largest organized Darfuri refuthe Sudanese Community gee population in the United Association of Maine, said, “I called my States, and many in that community are son yesterday when I was in Boston, that’s cheering the vote for independence for the first thing I did. I called to say I voted, southern Sudan.

I voted for an independent south. ... I told “We hope that the result will be coming him, ‘I voted for your second country.’ He very soon and we will celebrate together asked, ‘When are you going to come back here in Portland,” said El-Fadel Arbab, an so I can see your finger?’” activist with Fur Cultural Revival and Mawein proudly displays the evidence survivor of the genocide in Darfur. of his vote, a source of optimism for Port“South and North they will be peaceland’s Sudanese community. Voting will ful, two different communities that will continue through the end of the week on live peacefully. The issue will be between whether southern Sudan should sepaDarfur and the north’s government,” he rate from the north and become an indesaid. pendent country; a majority of southern Although Sudanese President Omar AlSudanese living in the United States Bashir is now wanted by the international were expected to vote Sunday, Jan. 9, courts for war crimes, genocide in Darfur according to news reports. continues, leading to continued rallies and Mawein recalled the celebratory atmoevents, including several in Portland to sphere as four buses, each holding 55 commemorate a July 23, 2004 congressiopeople, made the journey from Portland nal resolution condemning the genocide. to Boston. see SUDAN page 9 “From here to Boston, for two hours, people were singing, sharing some values, sharing independence. Exciting things. I RIGHT: Mariano Mawein shows 5-year-old son, did not realize we were in Boston, I did Maluak, his painted finger, evidence that he voted in an independence election for southern Sudan. not realize it was two hours,” Mawein (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO) recalled.

Trial begins in Portland decapitation murder case

BY CURTIS ROBINSON THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The murder trial of a Portland man accused of strangling his girlfriend before cutting off her head, pouring gasoline over her and setting the body on

fire will hinge on an insanity defense, officials said.

Opening arguments in the case against Chad Gurney, 29, began in Portland yesterday.

In opening salvos, prosecutors say the former student of a college founded by the late televangelist Jerry Fallwell knew what he was doing and knew it

was wrong.

“It’s going to be a state-of-mind case. It’s not a whodunit,” Deputy Attorney General William Stokes, who oversees the office’s criminal division, told the Associated Press. see TRIAL page 12

New ‘Art’ for Boothby Square?

A right to bear Glocks?

Wedding show, Smith celebration lead food news

See Bob Higgins on page 4

See Gail Collins’ column on page 5

See Margo Mallar’s column in Locavore, page 8

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The Onion creates SportsCenter parody (NY TIMES) Few television programs are as familiar to fans as ESPN’s “SportsCenter.” By filtering news through its pacing, theme music, anchor banter, graphics and set design, “SportsCenter” reflects and contributes to the national sports obsession.

To The Onion, the satirical newspaper and Web site, “SportsCenter’s” quotidian elements offer a rich target for extreme parody.

The result, a half-hour weekly program called “Onion SportsDome,” starts a 10-episode run on Comedy Central on Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. Eastern, preceding “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.”

Will Graham, an executive producer and director of the series, said, “The fun part is there are 36 channels of ESPN running 24 hours a day, a whole world of sports media that is cultish and ripe to mock.”

Considerable work has been put into making the “SportsDome” come off as a warped, steroidal version of “SportsCenter.” The wellgroomed anchors (played by Matt Oberg and Matt Walton) read stories at a desk or beside a giant monitor.

“A lot of our job is an elocution exercise,” said Oberg, who plays Mark Shepard, “to read the Onion jokes as fast and as loudly as possible.”

Oberg, and Walton, as Alex Reiser (who is coming off a suspension as the series begins), speak to studio insiders, cut to field reports and stoke debates with well-rehearsed mock seriousness. Sound bites from news conferences convey the frequent banality of the real thing. Hearttugging features (like one about a dying girl, a Phillies fan, whose last wish is to brutally heckle Mets third baseman David Wright) capitalize on every familiar, mawkish note.

“You can’t do a silly version of ‘SportsCenter,’ ” Graham said. “You have to skew it.”

Like the Onion newspaper, which started in 1988, the taped “SportsDome” tweaks, twists and distorts reality.

Highlights and big names (LeBron James, Shaquille O’Neal, Gary Bettman) are raw meat for the staff writers.

Bettman fakes his kidnapping (by N.H.L. players), complete with a hostage video.

O’Neal has a heart attack (his fourth of the season), which temporarily kills him, and a stroke, yet keeps playing against Oklahoma City. James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade demand 27 changes to N.B.A. rules (dribbling is optional if your dunk is sweet).

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Suspect in Arizona shooting faces charges in federal court

BY MARC LACEY ued detention without bail after THE NEW YORK TIMES Wallace H. Kleindienst, a federal prosecutor, labeled him a danger PHOENIX — Jared L. Loughand a flight risk. That prompted ner, his head shaved bare and the judge to quickly rule, based his hands and feet in restraints, on the serious charges, that Mr. was led Monday into a federal Loughner was “a danger to the courtroom, where he agreed not community” and ought to be to contest his continued imprisheld without bail. onment but offered no hint on “Good luck to you, Mr. Loughwhether he will contest the ner,” Judge Anderson said as murder and attempted murder the defendant, who could face charges linking him to the the death penalty if convicted, Tucson shootings that left six received a pat on the back from dead and 14 injured.

“Yes, I am Jared Lee Lough- A mug shot of Jared Lee Ms. Clarke and was led away by ner,” he told Magistrate Judge Loughner released by the security officers.

Lawrence O. Anderson, staring Pima County Sheriff’s Office. Ms. Giffords remained in critical condition on Monday after blankly ahead with his lawyer, (NYT PHOTO) surviving a single gunshot to the Judy Clarke, a veteran public head fired at point-blank range at a gatherdefender, at his side. The defendant, a ing Saturday morning with constituents out22-year-old college dropout, was wide-eyed side a grocery story parking lot in Tucson. and had a wound to his right temple. At Doctors said they were increasingly optithe defense table, his eyes darted back and mistic because Ms. Giffords continued to to forth and his mouth curled up at one point follow simple commands and there had been into a quick smile. no additional swelling in her brain. Dr. G. Ms. Clarke signaled that she intends to Michael Lemole Jr., chief of neurosurgery at push for the case to be moved out of AriUniversity Medical Center in Tucson, cauzona, since one of the victims her client is tioned that swelling in cases like this could accused of killing was Judge John M. Roll last days. of the Federal District Court in Tucson.

“At this stage in the game, no change is Already, all the federal judges in Tucson good,” Dr. Lemole said. have recused themselves. As some of Judge Doctors removed nearly half of Ms. GifRoll’s friends and colleagues looked on in fords’s skull to prevent damage to her the courtroom, Ms. Clarke said she had brain caused by swelling. While she has “great concern” about any Arizona judges remained under sedation, hospital officials or prosecutors handling the case. corrected earlier statements that she had Mr. Loughner faces two federal murder been in a medically induced coma. charges and three attempted murder Doctors said that two of the patients charges in an attack that prosecutors injured along with Ms. Giffords were in described as an attempt to assassinate good condition. Five others are in serious Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Democondition and may require additional surcrat of Arizona, who was struck in the head gery, they said. by a single bullet but survived.

An outpouring of grief has been on disMr. Loughner, dressed in beige prison play around the country since the attack. garb, a white T-shirt and blue slip-on In Washington, President Obama stood shoes, agreed not to challenge his contin-

somberly with his wife, their heads bowed, overlooking the South Lawn of the White House at 11 a.m. Eastern time, as a single bell tolled to honor the wounded and the dead. On the steps of the East Front of the Capitol, hundreds of Congressional aides gathered to mark the moment as well.

“Obviously all of us are still grieving and in shock from the tragedy that took place,” Mr. Obama said in the Oval Office where he was meeting on Monday with President Nicolas Sarkozy of France. “Gabby Giffords and others are still fighting to recover.

Families are still absorbing the enormity of their losses. We have a criminal investigation that is ongoing and charges that no doubt will be brought against the perpetrator of this heinous crime.”

At the start of the state Legislature’s session in Phoenix on Monday, Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, decided to scrap the traditional annual address laying out her legislative agenda to instead honor the dead and call upon people across the state to pray.

“Arizona is in pain, yes,” Ms. Brewer said.

“Our grief is profound. We are yet in the first hours of our sorrow, but we have not been brought down. We will never be brought down.”

Meanwhile, new details also emerged about the suspect’s actions before the shooting, which was carried out with a Glock 19, a medium-sized, 9 millimeter semi-automatic pistol that is the same model wielded by Seung-Hui Cho in the Virginia Tech killings in 2007.

A man resembling Mr. Loughner called AAA Full Transportation on Saturday morning for a taxi ride to the Safeway supermarket where the congresswoman was meeting with constituents, said the general manager of the cab company, Joe Acosta. A driver, John Marino, picked him up, entered the supermarket with the suspect to make change and then left the scene.

Voting peaceful in Sudan despite border clashes

BY TYLER HICKS THE NEW YORK TIMES

JUBA, Sudan — As voters continued flooding the polls Monday for a landmark referendum on southern Sudan’s independence, officials said more than 40 people had been killed over the weekend in intense skirmishes in a contested area along Sudan’s north-south border.

The voting, which began on Sunday, is proceeding jubilantly and remarkably smoothly, with high expectations and few serious complaints anywhere across southern Sudan. But if the referendum passes and the south breaks off from the north, the

disputed border will become the next issue to resolve, and some fear that the specter of a significant border clash is rising.

The Abyei area, where the skirmishes broke out on Friday and Saturday, is considered the most combustible and intractable of all the disputed areas. Both the north and the south claim historic ties to it and are refusing to budge. Some Western analysts have called Abyei “Sudan’s Jerusalem.”

Most people here in Juba, the southern capital, were unaware of the rising tensions along the border, which is several hundred miles away. Voters con-

tinued to pour into polling places on Monday, to dance and whistle and sing, and to talk excitedly about how secession will bring new bridges, new roads, new schools, new hospitals, new jobs, even new food.

“You’ll be able to eat what you want and do what you want,” said Daniel Bior Garang, who voted for secession.

Thabo Mbeki, South Africa’s former president who is in Sudan observing the election, said the sky-high hopes reminded him of the heady days of the 1960’s when so many Africans broke free from their colonial masters.

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“I try to put forth a positive discourse, but I take certain strong stands and positions. The idea that someone might use that against me is certainly frightening,” said Russell.

Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, and at least 17 others were shot Saturday morning when 22 year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire outside a supermarket where Giffords was meeting with constituents. Six victims died, including John M. Roll, the chief judge for the United States District Court for Arizona, and a 9-year-old girl.

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, a longtime friend and colleague of Giffords who serves with the representative on the Armed Services Committee, was one of the first sources to appear on CNN, warning of a possible “chilling effect.”

“When she was brutally shot, Gabby was out doing what she loved to do — meeting with her constituents in a local setting, allowing people to speak to her directly about the issues that concerned them,” wrote Pingree in an immediate press release.

“This act of shooting Gabby and many others is an act of unthinkable, uncivilized brutality and we all fear acts like this could have a chilling effect on our democratic system,” Pingree wrote.

In a letter printed in the Huffington Post on Tuesday, Pingree suggested removing rhetorical language from a Republican bill to repeal health care reform, titled “Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act.” “Don’t get me wrong — I’m not suggesting that the name of that one piece of legislation somehow led to the horror of this weekend — but is it really necessary to put the word “killing” in the title of a

major piece of legislation?” Pingree wrote.

The Maine Republican Party responded quickly, asserting that “Chellie Pingree should be ashamed of herself.” Charlie Webster, chairman of the state GOP, also accused Pingree of using the Arizona incident for political gain.

A spokesperson from Pingree’s office said the congresswoman will conduct business as usual while keeping abreast of possible threats.

“She doesn’t have any specific plans to change how she does her job, meeting with constituents face-toface is a very important part of what she does,” said Pingree spokesperson Willy Ritch.

“With what’s happened, everybody has a heightened sense of awareness. She’ll probably be a little more careful,” Ritch said. see LAWMAKERS page 12

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John W. Austin, 52 John W. Austin, 52, of Saco, passed away on Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 at Maine Medical Center after a brief illness. John was born on Oct. 29, 1958, the son of Mary W. Austin of Scarborough and the late Robert W. Austin.

John is survived by his loving wife, Beth Reeves Austin, cherished children, Reeve and Kylemore, all of Saco; his beloved sisters, Elisabeth Austin of Scarborough, Jenness Austin Whitaker and her husband David of Scarborough, Moira Peterson and her husband David, of Wrentham, Mass.; his adored nieces and nephews: Abby, Nathan, Kari, Marin, Cullen, Caitlin, Reagan, Gunnar and Henry; his in-laws, John Reeves and his wife Julie, of Old Town, Mark Reeves and his partner Scott Nichols, of Ellijay, Georgia, Gail Phetteplace and her husband Eric of Wake Forest, North Carolina; mother-in-law, Judith A. Reeves, of Bangor, and father-in-law, the late Philip W. Reeves. He is also survived my many close friends.

John was a passionate businessman and avid outdoorsman. He loved the beauty and serenity of Maine. John was a devoted family man and had no greater joy in his life than spending time with his family on Moosehead Lake and in Mattawamkeog with his beloved uncle, the late Thornton Austin. He loved everything about the outdoors, including fishing, boating and snowmobiling. John loved to tell stories about his life experiences, time spent with his dad and how proud he was of his wife and children. He was especially proud of his son Reeve’s ability with running heavy equipment and excavators and teaching him to drive up north. He loved speaking of his daughter Kylee’s achievements in basketball and softball.

John was generous and kind in both his personal and professional life. He gave to numerous charities, never asking for, or wanting, recognition. He was actively involved with the Dana Farber and breast cancer research.

Mary (Young) McElroy, 85 SOUTH PORTLAND — Mary (Young) McElroy, age 85, died at home on Jan. 8, 2011.

She was born in East Providence, R.I. on May 7, 1925, the daughter of Joseph and Eva Young.

Mary was a graduate of East Providence High School and the Rhode Island Hospital School of Nursing and a member of the U.S. Cadet Nursing Program at R.I. Hospital. She did her nursing at R.I. Hospital and the Providence Lying In Hospital in Providence, R.I. She married James E. McElroy in East Providence on Oct. 8, 1949.

Mary was active in the Holy Cross Parish on the School Board, and the Christmas Fair. She was also active in the Cheverus Mothers Club.

She is predeceased by a brother, Edward and his wife, Olga.

Mary is survived by her husband of 62 years, James and five children: James E. McElroy and his wife, Evelyn of South Portland, Christine M. McElroy and her husband, Howard Bauchner of Cambridge, Mass., Marianne L. McElroy of Somerville, Mass., Eugene J. McElroy and his wife, Terri of Glen Allen, Va., Terence McElroy of Bronx, N.Y. Also a brother, Dr. Joseph J. Young and his wife, Frances of Washington, D.C. Mary is also survived by six grandchildren, Mason, Mathis, Camden, Phoebe, Lydia and Julian.

Visiting hours will be 4-7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 11 at Hobbs Funeral Home, 230 Cottage Road, South Portland. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 1 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 12 at Holy Cross Church, South Portland. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery, South Portland.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Covenant House, P.O. Box 731, Time Square Station, New York, NY 10108-0900 or the South Portland Food Cupboard, 29 Aspen Avenue, South Portland ME 04106.

Working tirelessly for his family and community, John dedicated his efforts to caring for his mother and supporting his sister’s battle with breast cancer.

John was formerly a police officer in Massachusetts and held several positions in the transportation industry. His proudest accomplishment, however, was owning Portland Air Freight for the past 18 years. He grew a successful business with many of the people employed and associated with the company today. John was always proud of his employees, speaking often of them, regarding many as his closest friends. He had an open door policy for all employees.

John worked tirelessly and passionately to promote business in Maine.

He was a long time member of Maine Motor Transport Association’s Board of Directors, served as the Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Chairman of the Nominating Committee and the MMTA’s Political Action Committee and Budget Committee. John also served on the Board of Trustees for the MMTA Workers’ Compensation Trust and

was chairman for a number of years; his contributions instrumental in the group’s tremendous success. As he did throughout his life, John made lasting and impactful relationships throughout the trucking industry.

A time of visitation for friends and relatives was held on Monday, Jan. 10, at Hobbs Funeral Home, 671 U.S. Rt. 1, Scarborough. There will be a memorial service Tuesday, Jan. 11 at 10 a.m. at Maximilian Kolbe Church, 150 Black Point Road, Scarborough.

The family would like to thank the staff at Maine Medical Center for their kindness, support and tireless efforts during John’s brief illness. The family would also like to thank the countless friends and family for their endless support, love and strength that has been such a source of comfort during this difficult time.

For further information, please go to www.hobbsfuneralhome.com.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Maine Center for Cancer Medicine & Blood Disorders, 100 U.S. Route 1, Suite 108, Scarborough, ME 04074.

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Church should clear its sidewalks Editor, I would be embarrassed to be a member of a congregation whose church showed so little regard for its neighbors that it still had not cleared the snow from its sidewalks a week after a storm. And doubly embarrassed if one of those sidewalks abutted a grade school.

This is nothing new since the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland has neglected to maintain passable sidewalks on the Franklin Street and the Locust Street sides of its property for years. It makes one wonder why the City of Portland would clear the snow from the Congress (Photo courtesy of Jay York) Street and Cumberland Avenue sidewalks adjacent to the Church when the Church thumbs its nose at the city ordinance that requires it to remove snow from it’s other abutting sidewalks. It would seem that the Catholic Church gets special treatment from the City while disobeying the law and on top of that doesn’t have to pay property taxes. What a sweet deal!

Jay York Portland

LePage is making writer nervous Editor, Thanks to Curtis Robinson for highlighting this hypocrisy and compelling backstory (“Big LePage break came despite lack of English skills,” column, Jan. 8). I’ve been generally ambivalent about Mr LePage since his election because I know nothing about him, but he’s making me nervous — the no poem reading thing; dumbing down everything in service to the ‘Business’ interests in the state.

Still, that could just be politics as usual and there could be some hope for his successful governorship, but first, Mr. LePage should read what Mr Robinson wrote, and weep — then try to govern with humanity and intelligence, not ideology, giving us all a chance to succeed in business or whatever we endeavor. For me the jury is still out on Governor LePage. I hope to read more news stories like Mr Robinson’s that can help keep Governor LePage, and me, honest and balanced.

Paul DiBiase Portland

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New ‘Art’ for Boothby Square?

While engaged in my usual Friday public service project trying to reduce over-serving by depleting the Old Port of its entire beer supply, I ran into a frequent reader of this paper and a friend of mine, Artie Tavano.

Sometimes he is out and about these days, sometimes not, as he is engaged in a new business venture, the “Simpsano Meat Company.” Respectful business cards, smoking of bacon, and a catchy logo, “It’s Not People.” Occasionally, he finds time on his hands to wonder about the events of the day, and on this particular Friday, he had a few observations.

“I notice that the city will be tearing down the ‘Tracing the Fore’ public art thing. Any thoughts about what is going to go in there?”

I have to admit, that one had me stumped. I assumed that when the art installation is torn out in the spring, the area is either going to be paved back over or the holes filled in and grass grown there in the center median.

When mentioning that I’d not heard anything yet, he chimed right in. “I had a thought.” Not just with Artie, but when folks in Portland say that, I usually catch a whiff of burning rubber, oil, or occasionally even sulphur.

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist “Why not build some kind of ship there?”

He went on to expand on the idea a bit. “Portland has a long history in ships, shipbuilding.

Why not build something there, I don’t know, that kind of resembles a ship. Kids could climb on it.”

The idea does have some merit. Over the course of the next few minutes, I pointed out that in today’s litigious society, kids would be climbing all over the thing, falling off it, breaking limbs and suing the bat-snot out of the city.

Then, there is the drunkard problem. If you build anything resembling a ship, some late night seafarer will suddenly discover his “Captain Jack Sparrow” roots, don an eye patch, and suddenly become a loud obnoxious observer of what he loudly proclaims as “booty!”

Plus, drunks fall off things and break limbs, too.

In expanding the idea, we even

turned this mini art project into a jobs program. There are numerous construction workers in the city who, while on the city assistance program, are required to do some kind of civic work.

Usually, it involves a day or two at the Barron Center working in the laundry, or out picking up trash.

Why not put some of that alleged construction expertise building a mini ship in the center of the plaza?

You wouldn’t even need to spend a lot to make it look ancient and abandoned. Just build it out of whatever construction debris and materials leftover from various city projects, and the harsh environment of the waterfront will do the rest. Wood left untreated after a year of Maine weather would start to resemble the famed wreck of the Hesperus.

On a funny note, a local art dealer reportedly told curious art seekers that the mess of the art that was there was the remains of a plane crash, that we left as a monument to the survivors. Allegedly, they swallowed the story.

Perhaps we could make the ship look fairly ancient, and claim that it was a landlocked wreck blown ashore in a hurricane. see HIGGINS page 5

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A right to bear Glocks?

In 2009, Gabrielle Giffords was holding a “Congress on Your Corner” meeting at a Safeway supermarket in her district when a protester, who was waving a sign that said “Don’t Tread on Me,” waved a little too strenuously.

The pistol he was carrying under his armpit fell out of his holster.

“It bounced. That concerned me,” Rudy Ruiz, the father of one of Giffords’s college interns at the time, told me then. He had been at the event and had gotten a larger vision than he had anticipated of what a career in politics entailed. “I just thought, ‘What would happen if it had gone off? Could my daughter have gotten hurt?’ ” Giffords brushed off the incident.

“When you represent a district — the home of the O.K. Corral and Tombstone, the town too tough to die — nothing’s a surprise,” she said. At the time, it struck me as an interesting attempt to meld crisis control with a promotion of local tourist attractions.

Now, of course, the district has lost more people in a shooting in a shopping center parking lot than died at the gunfight of the O.K. Corral, and the story of the dropped pistol has a tragically different cast.

In soft-pedaling that 2009 encounter, Giffords was doing a balancing act that she’d perfected during her political career as a rather progressive Democrat in a increasingly con-

Gail Collins ––––– The New York Times servative state. She was the spunky Western girl with a populist agenda mixed with down-home values, one of which was opposition to gun control.

But those protesters had been following her around for a while. Her staff members were clearly scared for her, and they put me in touch with Ruiz, who told me the story.

Back then, the amazing thing about the incident in the supermarket parking lot was that the guy with a handgun in his armpit was not arrested. Since then, Arizona has completely eliminated the whole concept of requiring a concealed weapon permit. Last year, it got 2 points out of a possible 100 in the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence state score card, avoiding a zero only because its Legislature has not — so far — voted to force colleges to let people bring their guns on campuses.

Today, the amazing thing about the reaction to the Giffords shooting is that virtually all the discussion about how to prevent a recurrence has been focusing on improving the

tone of our political discourse. That would certainly be great. But you do not hear much about the fact that Jared Loughner came to Giffords’s sweet gathering with a semiautomatic weapon that he was able to buy legally because the law restricting their sale expired in 2004 and Congress did not have the guts to face up to the National Rifle Association and extend it.

If Loughner had gone to the Safeway carrying a regular pistol, the kind most Americans think of when they think of the right to bear arms, Giffords would probably still have been shot and we would still be having that conversation about whether it was a sane idea to put her Congressional district in the cross hairs of a rifle on the Internet.

But we might not have lost a federal judge, a 76-year-old church volunteer, two elderly women, Giffords’s 30-yearold constituent services director and a 9-year-old girl who had recently been elected to the student council at her school and went to the event because she wanted to see how democracy worked.

Loughner’s gun, a 9-millimeter Glock, is extremely easy to fire over and over, and it can carry a 30-bullet clip. It is “not suited for hunting or personal protection,” said Paul Helmke, the president of the Brady Campaign. “What it’s good for is

killing and injuring a lot of people quickly.”

America has a long, terrible history of political assassinations and attempts at political assassination.

What we did not have until now is a history of attempted political assassination that took the lives of a large number of innocent bystanders. The difference is not about the Second Amendment. It’s about a technology the founding fathers could never have imagined.

“If this was the modern equivalent of what Sirhan Sirhan used to shoot Robert Kennedy or Arthur Bremer used to shoot George Wallace, you’d be talking about one or two victims,” said Helmke.

Giffords represents a pragmatic, interest-balancing form of politics that’s out of fashion. But, in that spirit, we should be able to find a way to accommodate the strong desire in many parts of the country for easy access to firearms with sane regulation of the kinds of weapons that make it easiest for crazy people to create mass slaughter. Most politicians won’t talk about it because they’re afraid of the N.R.A., whose agenda is driven by the people who sell guns and want the right to sell as many as possible.

Doesn’t it seem like the least we can do?

Poisonous politics in the wake of tragedy On Feb. 15, 1933, Republicans, after a rough elecGiuseppe Zangara, delution, of creating an atmosphere sional and a loner, fired his in which a deranged mind may .32-caliber pistol at FDR in have been driven to try to kill the Bayfront Park area of FDR. Miami.

That came three decades Five feet tall, Zangara later, when conservatives were could not aim over the charged with having “created crowd. So, he stood on a foldthe atmosphere” in which JFK ing chair and was piled on was assassinated.

––––– after the first of five shots.

Lee Harvey Oswald was a He wounded four people, communist who had defected Creators including Mayor Anton to Russia and a member of Syndicate Cermak of Chicago. the pro-Castro Fair Play for In two weeks, Zangara, Cuba Committee, who had only who pled guilty, had been sentenced to recently arrived in Texas. Yet moral 80 years. When Cermak died on March culpability for what he did was laid at 6, Zangara was retried for murder and the door of the city of Dallas and the sentenced to the electric chair, where rising American Right. he died on March 20, 1933.

Had not, the press asked, Adlai SteIn that time, if you knew what you venson been lately jostled by a crowd were doing, knew the penalty for it in Dallas? Had not LBJ and Lady Bird and then committed the crime, you been verbally abused in the lobby of a paid the price — and swiftly.

Dallas hotel in 1960? Was Dallas not There was no wailing that Zangara, a hothouse of the right? a misfit suffering from a stomach ailThe same smear tactic was ment, was not fully responsible. employed when Timothy McVeigh There was no campaign to accuse blew up the Murrah building in Okla-

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homa City, killing 168, among them 19 children. Right-wing radio and its anti-government rhetoric, it was said,

created the atmosphere that made it easier for McVeigh to feel justified in see BUCHANAN page 6

Ship could be sold as a landlocked wreck left by a hurricane HIGGINS from page 4

It was left there, lest we forget those that go down to the sea in ships.

During the summer festival season, the deck of a landlocked ship could suddenly become a non-moving carnival ride. In the late night hours, when the beverages have been flowing since the early hours, drunks could suddenly find themselves leaning over

the rails. This would be the last full maritime experience.

But only if merchants in the Old Port could find a way to charge for it. This is public art, and the grant money for such is a bit on the thin side these days.

Money to build such a structure would have to come from some kind of private donation. Like everything else in the district, why not attempt to make it profitable art?

The idea on its face has some merit. Obviously, the public art is going to be replaced with some other hideously grotesque modern interpretation that makes about as much sense as a round brick.

Why not replace it with something that better shows off Portland’s maritime heritage?

(Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

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United in horror When John F. Kennedy visited Dallas in November of 1963, Texas was awash in right-wing anger — over perceived cold-war betrayals, over desegregation, over the perfidies of liberalism in general. Adlai Stevenson, then ambassador to the U.N., had been spit on during his visit to the city earlier that fall. The week of Kennedy’s arrival, leaflets circulated in Dallas bearing the president’s photograph and the words “Wanted For Treason.”

But Lee Harvey Oswald was not a right-winger, not a John Bircher, not a segregationist. Instead, he was a Marxist of sorts (albeit one disillusioned by his experiences in Soviet Russia), an activist on behalf of Castro’s Cuba, and a man whose previous plot had been aimed at a far-right ex-general named Edwin Walker.

Nine years after Kennedy was killed, George Wallace embarked on his second campaign for the presidency. This was the early 1970s, the high tide of far-left violence — the era of the Black Panthers, the Weathermen, the Symbionese Liberation Army — and Wallace’s racebaiting politics made him an obvious

Ross Douthat ––––– The New York Times target for protests. On his final, fateful day of campaigning, he faced a barrage of coins, oranges, rocks and tomatoes, amid shouts of “remember Selma!” and “Hitler for vice president!”

But Arthur Bremer, who shot Wallace that afternoon, paralyzing him from the waist down, had only a tenuous connection to left-wing politics. He didn’t care much about Wallace’s views on race: he just wanted to assassinate somebody as “a statement of my manhood for the world to see.”

It’s possible that Jared Lee Loughner, the young man behind Saturday’s rampage in Tucson, will have a more direct connection to partisan politics than an earlier generation’s gunmen did. Indeed, many observers seem to be taking a kind of comfort from that possibility: there’s been a rush to declare this tragedy a teachable moment — an opportunity for people to cool their rhetoric, abandon their anger, and renounce

the kind of martial imagery that inspired Sarah Palin’s PAC to place a target over Gabrielle Giffords’s district just months before Loughner gunned down the Arizona congresswoman.

But chances are that Loughner’s motives will prove as irreducibly complex as those of most of his predecessors in assassination. Violence in American politics tends to bubble up from a world that’s far stranger than any Glenn Beck monologue — a murky landscape where worldviews get cobbled together from a host of baroque conspiracy theories, and where the line between ideological extremism and mental illness gets blurry fast.

This is the world that gave us Oswald and Bremer. More recently, it’s given us figures like James W. von Brunn, the neo-Nazi who opened fire at the Holocaust Museum in 2009, and James Lee, who took hostages at the Discovery Channel last summer to express his displeasure over population growth.

If overheated rhetoric and martial imagery really led inexorably to murder, then both parties would belong in the dock. (It took conservative blog-

gers about five minutes to come up with Democratic campaign materials that employed targets and crosshairs against Republican politicians.) When our politicians and media loudmouths act like fools and zealots, they should be held responsible for being fools and zealots. They shouldn’t be held responsible for the darkness that always waits to swallow up the unstable and the lost.

We should remember, too, that there are places where mainstream political movements really are responsible for violence against their rivals. (Last week’s assassination of a Pakistani politician who dared to defend a Christian is a stark reminder of what that sort of world can look like.) Not so in America: From the Republican leadership to the Tea Party grass roots, all of Gabrielle Giffords’s political opponents were united in horror at the weekend’s events. There is no faction in American politics that actually wants its opponents dead.

That may seem like a small blessing, amid so much tragedy and loss. But it is a blessing worth remembering nonetheless.

Swift justice, not smear tactics, should be the response to Arizona tragedy BUCHANAN from page 5

blowing up a federal building.

Saturday, even before Jared Loughner had been charged with murdering six people in Tucson, including a 9-year-old girl and a U.S. judge, and wounding 13 in an assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the old smear machine had been wheeled out.

Giffords, it was said, had been “targeted” by Sarah Palin for defeat in ads depicting her district in cross

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Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, a Democrat and friend of Giffords, kicked off the campaign Saturday with this excoriation.

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anced people, how they are — how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths, about tearing down the government, the anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous.”

Dupnik later narrowed it to some “people in the radio business and some people in the TV business.”

Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell narrowed it further to Fox News, the home of Glenn Beck.

Elements on the left are now connecting the dots — the words of Palin and Fox News — to the deeds of accused mass murderer Jared Loughner.

This is not political hardball. This is political dirt ball.

Do any such dots exist in reality? Or only in the embittered minds and malevolent motives of those unreconciled to the defeat they suffered on Nov. 2?

Undeniably, political rhetoric is hotter than it has been since the 1960s and ought to be dialed down.

But Barack Obama, talking tough in 2008 about how he would deal with Republican attacks, himself said, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun. ...

Folks in Philly like a good brawl.”

In 2010, Obama called on Hispanics to join him and “punish our enemies.” Harry Reid in 2009 called Tea Party critics “evil-mongers” who disrupt town-hall meetings with “lies, innuendo and rumors.”

It is easy for journalists to imply or impute a causal connection between hot words and horrible acts.

Simply twin the two in a story, or ask an interviewee if he thinks these words and those deeds are not connected. And then let the public imagination do the rest.

As of today, there is not a shred of evidence of any connection between what Sarah Palin or Fox News said and what Jared Loughner did. From the evidence, Loughner had his first and perhaps his only encounter with Giffords in 2007, a year before Palin ever came to national attention as the running mate of John McCain.

The man charged with this awful atrocity is Jared Loughner.

Our country would be better served if, instead of accusing each other of moral culpability for these crimes, politicians and media joined to demand that Loughner be denied the fame (or infamy) he sought, and that he receive the same swift justice as Giuseppe Zangara.

(To find out more about Patrick Buchanan, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.)

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Tuesday, January 11, 2011— Page 7

Woman charged with shooting at neighbor’s dog

BY DAVID HENCH THE PORTLAND PRESS HERALD

CASCO — A Casco woman was charged this morning with reckless conduct with a firearm after she shot a .38 caliber revolver at a neighbor’s Labrador retriever, missing the dog but potentially endangering people in nearby homes, authorities said.

Deputies with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office charged Patricia Ann Smith, 47, at her home on 40 Tassel Trail.

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Deputies initially responded at 6:41 a.m. to a report of a woman who had shot a black lab that was chasing her grandson. They found that Smith had fired at the dog, but after the grandson had already boarded the school bus.

Smith had left her house to confront the dog which was not in her yard but on the public right of way, said Lt. Thomas Williams. Her claim that she needed to shoot to defend herself or someone else was not true, he said. The neighborhood includes several homes

close together, he said. She was charged and taken to Cumberland County Jail then released on $560 bail.

Smith had previously complained to police about the dog, saying it bothered her by barking, and has complained about the neighbors who own the dog.

If convicted of the felony, Smith would be barred from owning a gun.

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Don Lindgren and Samantha Hoyt-Lindgren of Rabelais books, who are programming events at the Food Lab, will be on hand to talk about what kinds of events and programming will be happening there.

The potluck is open to all, Slow Food members and non-members alike.

• Slow Food Portland has also announced the 2011 First Annual Young Food Writers Competition, open to any student enrolled in public or private school, or being homeschooled in Cumberland County. The competition is at three levels: grades 3-5, grades 6-8 and grades 9-12. The three winners will each receive a full family share from a CSA of their choice, an award value of up to $500. Three runners up will receive a $50 restaurant gift certificat. The winner of the grade 9-12 competition will be invited to read the essay at the Slow Food Portland Writer’s Night event on March 10, 2011.

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Electrical vault being replaced on Congress St. Mickey Hall (front) and Carton Casey steady a slab of concrete and steel weighing about 1.5 tons as the Shaw Brothers Construction crew removes the slab from the sidewalk in front of Local Sprouts on Congress Street Monday. Central Maine Power hired the company to replace electrical vaults, receptacles for providing electrical service to the building, due to deterioration of the steel, Shaw Brothers reported.

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All week, people of Sudan continue voting in referendum “I just want to thank all of the southern Sudanese people from the state of Maine, their contribution, their feeling, this is where we are, we came, we united, we went together and we voted for independence,” Mawein said.

Results of the referendum aren’t known, and there’s still a chance that conflict will erupt over southern Sudan and its wealth of natural resources.

But Mawein wanted to savor the historic moment.

“This country belongs to everybody, it doesn’t belong to any tribe,” he said. And the referendum vote, he predicted, will be a turning point for Sudan.

Looking at his son, Mawein said, “He’s 5 years old, so he should be OK.”

SUDAN from page one

“Every single month we will have rallies locally here and the national one will be in Washington, D.C. on July 23,” El-Fadel said.

Since 2003, more than 400,000 people have died in Darfur, Sudan, officials estimate. A vote for an independent southern Sudan could signal an end to bloodshed in Darfur, observers hope.

“They worked so hard to get their freedom, the people of Darfur we also have to work very hard to get our freedom,” El-Fadel said. “That’s what our dream is, they really struggled so much before us.”

“Most likely we are very close to Darfurians,” agreed Mawein. “What happens to Darfur right now is of concern to the south. We will support them.”

Mawein was born in the state of Warab in southern Sudan. He is a member of the Deink tribe, one of the largest tribes in Sudan.

In 1986, Mawein left southern Sudan, and in 1998, he came to the United States.

“Before I left there was a lot of violence in the north, you didn’t have any right to speak up. Any south Sudanese people in the north were suspect. ... the southern people who were in the north, a lot of them went to jail, many lost their lives,” he recalled.

He marveled at the prospects for his native country.

“Now we’re going to have two countries, people who came here a long time ago to become citizens, like me, I have three children born here and now I

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Polling officials stained the right forefingers of those who voted with blue ink to mark their participation in this week’s historic referendum for southern Sudan. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

have a new country. It is amazing to have two countries,” Mawein said.

“When I came back yesterday from Massachusetts, inside the bus, there was an old lady, she was over 70 years old, she was saying that if she were going to die today, then she left a country free. It was a very exciting moment for everybody,” he said.

On Monday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. at CTN/Hour Exchange, 516 Congress St., Hour Exchange Portland, the Sudanese Community Association of Maine and the Fur Cultural Revival will present “From My Eyes: Sudanese in Maine and Beyond,” an evening of multicultural education in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr., with speakers from Darfur and southern Sudan.

A Peace Rally for Darfur featuring the film, “Violence Against Women and the Darfur Genocide,” will take place Sunday, Jan. 23, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., at the Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St., Portland. This rally will feature guest speakers from the local Darfuri community, including El-Fadel Arbab, lecturer for Fur Cultural Revival, and area activists.

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CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll get a reaction from people today. Some smile, some laugh, and others just seem startled. That’s to be expected.

When you knock long and loud on the door of success, you’re going to wake some people up.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Complaining is a nasty habit. You’re working on breaking yourself of it completely, and you are doing a good job. You’ll busy yourself with fulfilling your own needs so there is nothing left to complain about.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You may be slipping out of your routine due to added pressures and responsibilities. Good nutrition, exercise and sleep should not be optional for you. Delegate so you can get back to healthy living.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Make the most of the calm because it’s not going to be this way tomorrow. You’ll enjoy the peace now and will take care of a million organizational details so you can enjoy the social swirl tomorrow.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2011. There are 354 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 11, 1861, Alabama became the fourth state to withdraw from the Union, with delegates voting 61-39 in favor of an Ordinance of Secession during a convention in Montgomery.

On this date: In 1805, the Michigan Territory was created by an act of Congress.

In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon National Monument (it became a national park in 1919).

In 1913, the first sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th National Automobile Show in New York.

In 1935, aviator Amelia Earhart began an 18-hour trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., that made her the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.

In 1942, Japan declared war against the Netherlands, the same day that Japanese forces invaded the Dutch East Indies.

In 1943, the United States and Britain signed treaties relinquishing extraterritorial rights in China.

In 1964, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued the first government report that said smoking may be hazardous to one’s health.

In 1977, France set off an international uproar by releasing Abu Daoud, a PLO official behind the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

In 1995, 52 people were killed when a Colombian airliner crashed as it was preparing to land near the Caribbean resort of Cartagena — however, a 9-year-old girl, Erika Delgado, survived.

One year ago: Mark McGwire admitted to The Associated Press that he’d used steroids and human growth hormone when he broke baseball’s home run record in 1998.

Today’s Birthdays: Producer Grant Tinker is 86. Actor Rod Taylor is 81. Composer Mary Rodgers is 80. The former prime minister of Canada, Jean Chretien (zhahn kray-tee-EHN’), is 77. Actor Mitchell Ryan is 77. Actor Felix Silla is 74. Rock musician Clarence Clemons is 69. Movie director Joel Zwick is 69. Country singer Naomi Judd is 65. World Golf Hall of Famer Ben Crenshaw is 59. Singer Robert Earl Keen is 55. Musician Vicki Peterson (The Bangles) is 53.

Actress Kim Coles is 49. Actor Jason Connery is 48. Contemporary Christian musician Jim Bryson (MercyMe) is 43. Rock musician Tom Dumont (No Doubt) is 43. Rhythm-andblues singer Maxee Maxwell (Brownstone) is 42. Movie director Malcolm D. Lee is 41.

Singer Mary J. Blige is 40. Musician Tom Rowlands (The Chemical Brothers) is 40.

Actor Marc Blucas is 39. Actress Amanda Peet is 39. Actor Rockmond Dunbar is 38.

Reality TV star Jason Wahler is 24.

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He grabbed my throat, squeezing it tight, and then went out the window. I called 911 and waited inside a closet for help. I made out a report and told my parents.

They never found the guy, and ever since, I have become extremely paranoid when left home alone, even if it’s for only an hour. In the past few months, it has gotten worse. I keep thinking there’s someone trying to get in, or I hear imaginary footsteps in the hallway. Until my parents come home, I keep a kitchen knife by my side. A secondary problem is that when I think someone is going to touch my back or neck, I tense up.

I don’t know how to express my feelings to my family without sounding pathetic. I don’t want therapy, because my parents can’t afford it. Do you have any suggestions about how to get over my phobia? -- Paranoid in Southern Calif.

Dear Paranoid: Your parents should know how you feel because they will want to help. But if you are reluctant to speak to them, talk to your school counselor or nurse. It sounds as if you are suffering from post-traumatic stress, and some shortterm therapy could be extremely helpful in working through your fears and learning techniques to cope with your anxiety.

Dear Annie: My boyfriend was divorced a couple of months ago. He and his ex-wife have six children together. She is very bitter about the divorce and dislikes me intensely.

The ex’s mother passed away last week. My boyfriend attended the wake and funeral. The problem is, he felt I should have gone with him to be supportive, regardless of what his

ex thought about it. I say that because this woman dislikes me so much -- and has for 30 years -- it was better that I did not attend the funeral and make a bad situation worse for her and their children. What do you say? -- Sure I Did the Right Thing Dear Sure: You behaved correctly. This was not about your boyfriend. It was about his ex-wife. Your boyfriend was there to pay his personal respects and support his children. Your presence would have created tension and anger, adding more pain for the bereaved. If your boyfriend needed your support, he could find you at home.

Dear Annie: I would like to reply to “Pleading for a Little Privacy,” who works nights and sleeps days and can’t get people to leave her alone.

My wife and I work opposite shifts so one of us can be home with our sons. We have done this for 11 years. If someone rang the doorbell, I would not answer. I used to have a problem with my father-in-law, who would come over and ring the doorbell or phone me about things that could have waited.

I had a simple solution for this. Whenever he would wake me up during the day, I would call him at the corresponding time late at night and do the same to him. If he woke me up at noon, I would refuse to talk to him. Then, when I got to work, I would call him at midnight and ask him what he wanted to talk about. After my third call, he got the hint. Now he never calls me during the day. In fact, he never calls me at all. If he needs something, he will call my wife. This has worked pretty well, and I get a lot more sleep. -- Andrew from Illinois Dear Andrew: You’ve solved one problem, but we hope you haven’t created a second one with an alienated father-inlaw.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

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by Scott Stantis

Crime shocked the city TRIAL from page one

The AP also reported that Gurney once told a friend that he believed he was a prophet.

The crime shocked Portland after firefighters responded to a fire call on May 25, 2009 and discovered the body of Zoe Sarnacki, 18, laying on a bed.

Items including a cross were reportedly found at the scene.

Officials said Gurney told detectives that that he’d strangled the woman and used a knife to sever her head before getting gas from a filling station, pouring it on her and lighting the fire.

The AP reported that Robert LeBrasseur, lead defense counsel, says that Gurney was never the same after a traffic accident while he was student at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. Gurney was a lacrosse player at Liberty in March, 2005, when the team’s van was rear-ended by by another school vehicle. The collisionreportedly pushed the passenger van carrying Gurney and others into the path of a truck. Reports say Gurney sustained a brain injury and had to undergo several surgeries to save a damaged leg.

Gurney received what’s been reported as a “substantial” settlement from the accident and it’s presumed some of that settlement went to a $1.3 million civil settlement to Sarnacki’s family last year.

The case is being considered by a judge after Gurney waived his right to a jury trial.

Security briefing planned for members of Congress LAWMAKERS from page 3

Ritch said there will be a security briefing for members of Congress and their staff in Washington on Wednesday.

“We work closely with the Capitol police. They have a threat assessment team so whenever we have anything we’re concerned about, like the atmosphere of a public meeting or a constituent who is particularly upset, we talk to them,” he said.

In Portland, Pingree is also well looked after, according to Ritch. Pinegree’s office is choosing not to follow a suggestion from Congressional security to appoint a law enforcement coordinator.

“I think that’s more important in some offices, but we have an excellent relationship with the Portland Police Department,” said Ritch. “We had some officers came by today who were sort of just making the rounds, saying ‘we want to let you know we’re here’,” he said.

Russell suggests that the shooting may be a byproduct of the sort of extremist hyperbole that has slowly become a staple of modern political speeches.

“The language has become vitriolic and dehumanizing. Rhetoric like cross-hairs, targets, taking up arms, the Second Amendment, these are all calls to revolutionary action. For someone who is unstable, it’s just the justification they need,” she said.

While much has been made of a web-page created

by Sarah Palin last June depicting cross-hairs over Gifford’s congressional district, little is known about Loughner’s motives in Saturday’s shooting.

“I don’t believe the Sarah Palins of the world want people to take up arms, but it’s easy to get caught up in the moment and react to those around you when your standing in front of a cheering audience,” Russell said.

“Anytime you create an ‘other’ in society, it creates space for people who are already imbalanced to justify their actions,” she said. “I hope it is a wake up call and more people wake up to fact we need to be treating people with respect,” she said.

Russell said that the tragedy in Arizona should not be cast in a partisan light, but rather deconstructed for future reference.

“Nobody’s right on this. The left isn’t right, the right isn’t right. But if we don’t look past this and look inward about what our impact might have been, what we did to contribute to a culture like this, we are doing no justice to [the victims],” she said.

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–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– EVENTS CALENDAR––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Larmon, Dena Riegel, Michael Dix Thomas, Ian Carlsen, Joe Bearor, Amanda Painter, Deirdre Fulton, Andrew Sawyer, and Claire Guyer.” SPACE Gallery. This production made possible in part by the University of Southern Maine Department of Theater. $10. www.space538.org/events.php

Tuesday, Jan. 11 ‘A Visit Home to Sudan’

5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. “In the summer of 2010, Literacy Volunteers-Greater Portland (LV-GP) student Nyarok Kouk and her 15-year-old son went home for the Friday, Jan. 14 first time in several years to visit family and their home village in South Sudan. To publicize the work ‘The Wizard of Oz’ of LV-GP, a program of Learningat Old Port Playhouse Works, Nyarok and her tutor Jane 7:30 p.m. “The Wizard of Oz,” the sell-out Hahn will present a slide show of hit musical returns to Old Port Playhouse photos from Nyarok’s trip home to with Gina Pardi returning as “Dorothy South Sudan. Nyarok’s pictures of Gale.” “Full of special effects, colorful coseveryday life in Sudan eloquently tumes and all your favorite characters, this demonstrate the similarities and show sold out before it opened last season. differences between us. Students Because of the intimate space within this like Nyarok make up the majority 70 seat theater, kids of all ages not only of students served by LV-GP. While see OZ, they experience it! Due to the the classic image of a literacy studemand for tickets, OZ will play for four dent is of an older, working-class weeks beginning Jan. 14. And to make it man or woman who cannot funcaffordable for everyone, the Playhouse has tion effectively in their own lives priced all tickets at only $15.” Fridays at because of their inability to read, in 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m.; Sundays at fact the reality is more complex. A 2 p.m. To make a reservation or for more full 64 percent of LV-GP’s constituinformation, call 773-0333 or go to oldportents are English language learners playhouse.com.

— immigrants to America and to Portland whose inability to speak, ‘Crying at Movies’ read and write English impairs their 7:30 p.m. Acorn Productions presents the day to day functioning.” Nyarok third play in the company’s inaugural Studio Kouk; Jane Hahn; Phyllis de Fano, “Crying at Movies” by Acorn Productions performs Jan. 14 through Jan. 30, with shows Friday and Saturday night Series when “Crying at Movies,” a new Executive Director of Literacy Vol- at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 5 p.m. at the Acorn Studio Theater, Dana Warp Mill, 90 Bridge St., Westbrook. Tickets John Manderino play based on his wellunteers-Greater Portland; Literacy are $10, $8 for students and seniors, and may be purchased online at www.acorn-productions.org or by calling received memoir by the same name, preVolunteers-Greater Portland stu- 854-0065. (COURTESY PHOTO) mieres in the Acorn Studio Theater. In the dents and tutors. LearningWorks, piece, Tony recollects how his experiences lative Exchange Council (ALEC). DiMillo’s Floating Restau181 Brackett St. For more information: Bodi Luse, Director watching leading ladies in movies as he matured affected rant, 26 Long Wharf, Portland. For more information, please of Donor Relations, 775-0105 (x122). his relationships with women. The play is as a tour-de-force contact Amanda Clark, the Maine Heritage Policy Center, for two actors, one of whom serves as narrator and remains at 321-2550 or aclark@mainepolicy.org. Also same time on on stage the entire play, while the other takes on the roles Wednesday, Jan. 12 at Sea Dog Brewing Company BanWednesday, Jan. 12 of more than a dozen women in his life. Acorn’s production quet Center, 26 Front St. Bangor. is directed by Producing Director Michael Levine, and feaThe legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tures Naked Shakespeare’s Paul Haley and former Acorn Eggs & Issues on technology 4:30 p.m. The University of Southern Maine and Southern Shakespeare Ensemble member Kerry Rasor. Featuring 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. The Portland Regional Chamber features Maine Community College, in collaboration with Learningreferences to well-known movies such as “La Dolce Vita,” David Shaw, managing partner, Black Point Group, and Works, will facilitate a four-day project in the after-school “Close Encounters of the Third Kinds,” and “The Gradufounder and former CEO of IDEXX, who will discuss how programs at Reiche and East End Community Schools that ate,” the play serves up a feast of memories for movie fans technology is changing industries and the consumer expewill bring into focus the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King through a series of comic scenes featuring romantic misriece. www.portlandregion.com Jr. as a role model. This project will include four enrichhaps. “Crying at Movies” performs Jan. 14 through 30, with Author Rushworth ment activities lead by students from USM and SMCC, shows Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays with assistance from University of New England and Casco Kidder at the library at 5 p.m. Tickets are $10, $8 for students and seniors, and Bay High School students. Volunteers will lead elementary noon to 1 p.m. Rushworth Kidder, author of “Good Kids, may be purchased online at www.acorn-productions.org or school students as they explore the ways in which Dr. King Tough Choices,” will appear at the Portland Public Library by calling 854-0065. was a role model and the ways in which they themselves for a brown bag lecture. Free and open to the public. Kidder can be leaders and critical members of their community. is founder and president of the Institute for Global Ethics, a Saturday, Jan. 15 Students will learn about Dr. King’s life and explore what nonprofit organization that promotes character and integrity aspects of his legacy lead us to describe him as a role In corporations and other groups. He focuses on parentmodel. As the week progresses, the students will identify ing issues in his latest volume on the subject of ethics. His Fore River Sanctuary walk role models in their immediate community and the characbook addresses such questions as how to respond when 8:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. Portland Trails is excited to announce children lie or steal, how kids can overcome selfishness, teristics and qualities that they possess that give them the a 2011 Winter Walk series. This free series, made possible and how to react when a child breaks school rules. For potential to emulate Dr. King. A display of the artwork and by a grant from Healthy Portland, is for adults and families more information, call the library at 871-1700, ext. 758 or photographic documentation of the project’s activities will with children who are making an effort to get more exercise, visit Portlandlibrary.com. be on display in the project’s classrooms at 4:30 p.m. on but are stymied when it comes to winter recreation. ParticiThursday.

Parents and friends are invited to attend.

Grants pants are reminded to wear warm clothing, hats and gloves Medical Marijuana Info Session from the University of Maine System, Maine Campus Comand bring snowshoes if there is adequate snow on the 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Medical Marijuana Info Session with pact, and the Maine Commission for Community Service ground. Portland Trails has snow shoes available (free for Compassionate Caregivers of Maine. “Learn about Maine’s make this project possible. members, $5/non-members) which can be reserved ahead recent changes to the Medical Marijuana Laws and how of time. Please register for any walk by emailing info@trails. changes may affect one’s ability to use medicinal marijuana Scarborough Community Chamber org or calling 775-2411. For more information or to check for side effects brought on by cancer treatments. Free; 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Scarborough Community Chamber Busicancellations due to the weather go to www.trails.org. pre-registration required. Phone: 774-2200; Email: info@ ness After Hours. Thursday, January 13, 2011 Business Trail Foreman Charlie Baldwin will lead a walk through the CancerCommunityCenter.org; Web: www.cancercommuAfter 5, Ameriprise Financial Services, 707 Sable Oaks Fore River Sanctuary. Expect birds, hills, a bridge over the nitycenter.org/calendar. Visit 778 Main St. (Rte. 1), South Drive, South Portland. www.scarboroughcommunitychammarsh, a beautiful waterfall and historic kiosks explaining Portland. ber.com or www.portlandregion.com the C&O Canal. Meet at the Udder Place, 428 Brighton Ave.

West End Neighborhood Association meeting

Not Just Another Year! with Pat Grosser

6:30 p.m. The West End Neighborhood Association governing board, the association will be holding its annual meeting to elect a governing board and the offices of President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary. “Chris Hirsch has graciously offered to run the election as he has done during our past annual meetings. Anyone interested in a board position can e-mail their willingness to serve to me at dmartin7@maine.rr.com. Our focus for winter/spring 2011 is to put on another successful WestFest, and continue our work with Wayside, Community Policing and kid’s swimming.”

6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “Tired of creating resolutions and setting goals that are rarely fulfilled by year-end? Look at lessons and insights from 2010; take stock of the present; establish a solid foundation on which to build your new year. This can be your year!” Free; pre-registration required.

Phone: 774-2200; Email: info@CancerCommunityCenter. org; Web: www.cancercommunitycenter.org/calendar. Visit 778 Main St. (Rte. 1), South Portland.

Thursday, Jan. 13 ‘ObamaCare: How Maine Can Fight Back’ noon to 1:30 p.m. Presented by Christie Herrera, director, Health and Human Services Task Force, American Legis-

‘Blood Wedding’ 7:30 p.m. “Blood Wedding” by Frederico Garcia Lorca.

Directed by Tess Van Horn. “A lively, committed theater ensemble comes together to present Lorca’s Blood Wedding, a classic tragedy that is at turns violent, beautiful, strange, and funny. The play deals with the big desires and grudges that can bloom and fester in small towns.

Sound familiar? With Amanda Huotari, Peter Brown, Nicholas Schroeder, Pat Mew, Laura Chakravarty Box, Annie

Laughter Training for Professionals 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Laughter Training for Professionals.

Become a Laughter Professional with Katie West. $295 for Saturday and Sunday. Sadhana, the Meditation Center, 100 Brickhill Ave., South Portland. FMI: www.SadhanaMe.com.

Draw-a-Thon III to Bring Our War $$ Home 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Draw-a-Thon III to Bring Our War $$ Home. Held in conjunction with Robert Shetterly’s exhibit, “Americans Who Tell the Truth: A Collection of Portraits & Quotes. Paintings by Robert Shetterly,” CODEPINK Maine and The Union of Maine Visual. “Artists are co-sponsoring this opportunity for artists to work with images created at previous Draw-a-Thons, to help the public connect the dots between war spending and budget cuts at home.” Portland Public Library, Monument Square. see next page

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Portland Conservatory of Music open house 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Open house, instrument demos, classical, rock, jazz. Try out an instrument or have a mini lesson.

Door prizes, free popcorn. Portland Conservatory of Music, 202 Woodfords St., (Woodfords Church) 10 to 1. Free. Five percent off new student tuition. 775-3356 or 318-7465.

Using the Circle Symbol for Art and Healing 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Using the Circle Symbol for Art and Healing with Suzanne Liller & Brady Nickerson. “Circles give us an experience of wholeness amid the chaos of every day life, making the ‘sacred circle,’ one of the very coolest art therapy interventions for both soothing the soul and meeting oneself. Join us for this two-hour art immersion experience; no formal art training/skills are required. Free; pre-registration required. Phone: 774-2200; Email: info@CancerCommunityCenter.org; Web: www.cancercommunitycenter.org/ calendar. Visit 778 Main St. (Rte 1), South Portland.

Ice Seal Response Training Workshop 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. College of the Atlantic’s marine mammal research center, Allied Whale, is also the authorized group for handling rescues and recoveries of marine mammals from Rockland to the Canadian border. To cover this area for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Northeast Region Marine Mammal Stranding Network, the college relies on numerous trained volunteers. Allied Whale will be hosting its annual Ice Seal Response Training Workshop in the college’s McCormick Lecture Hall. At the training, volunteers will learn how to conduct marine mammal assessments, how to relay that information to the veterinarian, and how to aid in the collection and transport of the animals to a rehabilitation facility. Rosemary Seton, Marine Mammal Stranding Coordinator, 288-5644, 801-5682, or rseton@coa.edu.

Church of All God’s Children potluck supper 5 p.m. The Church of All God’s Children will host a potluck supper at the Washington Gardens Community Hall on 66 Churchill St. Cost is $4.

‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Old Port Playhouse 2 p.m. “The Wizard of Oz,” the sell-out hit musical returns to Old Port Playhouse with Gina Pardi returning as “Dorothy Gale.” “Full of special effects, colorful costumes and all your favorite characters, this show sold out before it opened last season. Because of the intimate space within this 70 seat theater, kids of all ages not only see OZ, they experience it!

Due to the demand for tickets, OZ will play for four weeks beginning Jan. 14. And to make it affordable for everyone, the Playhouse has priced all tickets at only $15.” Fridays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. To make a reservation or for more information, call 773-0333 or go to oldportplayhouse.com.

Self-help author Steff Deschenes at the Scarborough Bull Moose store 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Self-help author Steff Deschenes will visit the Bull Moose Scarborough store, 456 Payne Road, for a book signing. Deschenes examines life through a humorous review of the parallels between human personalities and ice cream flavors in her newest book, The Ice Cream Theory. The book brings together anecdotes from Deschenes’ own adventures with broader-reaching social commentary to help others recognize the wisdom and joy inherent in a beloved dessert. Deschenes, suffering from a broken heart, realized that people’s likes and dislikes change. Ice cream, with its many flavors and combinations, can be compared to the individual personalities of people. Deschenes’ tongue-in-cheek Theory was called “Charming and humorous, The Ice Cream Theory is an intriguing and highly recommended read that shouldn’t be missed,” by the Midwest Book Review and earned several Readers Favorite awards in the SelfHelp category. Deschenes is from Lewiston.

‘The Juke Box Boys’ 7 p.m. “The Juke Box Boys,” Tribute to Do-Wop; $39.95 p/p five-course dinner, beer and wine available. Free parking. January 15, 22 and 29 at Anthony’s Dinner Theater, 151 Middle St., Portland. Call for reservations. 221-2267.

Sunday, Jan. 16 Great Northeast Radio Rally 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Blunt Youth Radio Project announced the first-ever Great Northeast Radio Rally to be held at University of Southern Maine. The Rally invites audio producers (and aspiring producers) of all ages and stripes to mingle and talk shop while getting new ideas and inspiration for their craft. The Rally will feature workshops on a variety of audio-related topics, including oral history, telling stories through sound, covering elections for radio, pitching stories to NPR, and creating compelling multimedia. Rally

On Monday, Jan. 17, Hour Exchange Portland, The Southern Sudanese Communities, and Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine), will present “From My Eyes: Sudanese in Maine and Beyond” at CTN/Hour Exchange, 516 Congress St. (FILE PHOTO) workshop presenter Colin Kelley, a former Blunt member and current Digital Media Specialist at Bates College says, “We’re deluged with this idea that media-making is something that everyone can do. Buzz-words people in my field use include: citizen journalist, digital native, multimedia storyteller. Yet, access and training to the tools is limited.

Small, radio-centric conferences like the Radio Rally open up the idea that radio really is for everyone.” The Rally runs 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Wishcamper Center on the campus of the University of Southern Maine, and concludes in the evening with what may be the world’s first Audio Slam, a friendly but serious competition at Space Gallery in downtown Portland. The Slam starts at 7 p.m., and it is free and open to all ages. The Audio Slam is similar to a poetry slam with a few twists: Audio producers enter 4 minutes of produced audio, and these entries are played and judged live at the Slam in a series of one-minute rounds. The winning prize is $500. Also, all entries will air on Blunt, the weekly show of Blunt Youth Radio on WMPG, Greater Portland Community Radio. Entries are being accepted until Jan. 10 at 5 p.m. More information, competition guidelines, and registration details for the Great Northeast Radio Rally may be found at bluntradio.org. This event is funded through the Maine Arts Commission.

‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Old Port Playhouse 2 p.m. “The Wizard of Oz,” the sell-out hit musical returns to Old Port Playhouse with Gina Pardi returning as “Dorothy Gale.” “Full of special effects, colorful costumes and all your favorite characters, this show sold out before it opened last season. Because of the intimate space within this 70 seat theater, kids of all ages not only see OZ, they experience it!

Due to the demand for tickets, OZ will play for four weeks beginning Jan. 14. And to make it affordable for everyone, the Playhouse has priced all tickets at only $15.” Fridays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. To make a reservation or for more information, call 773-0333 or go to oldportplayhouse.com.

30th Annual MLK Celebration Dinner 6 p.m. From Civil Rights To Human Rights: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Demand for Economic Justice. Reception: 5 p.m.; dinner: 6 p.m. Holiday Inn by the Bay, Portland. “In order to acknowledge our historic milestone of 30 years, the traditional breakfast program will take place as a dinner on the night before the King Holiday allowing for the holiday to be utilized for a community conversation on poverty, a March for Justice, and family activities aimed at developing healthy minds, bodies and souls. The dinner includes a keynote address, recognition of exceptional community leadership, and an interactive dinner exercise to glean specific ways in which we can take action in the fight against poverty. Two high school senior students will serve as MC’s of the program in order to encourage youth participation and leadership in the human rights movement.” www.portlandmlk.net/

Monday, Jan. 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates 9:30 a.m. Two generations of prominent social activists — one of them described by the Rev. Martin Luther King

Jr. as “the greatest teacher of nonviolence in America” — offer keynote addresses during Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Lewiston’s Bates College on Monday, Jan. 17. The college’s theme for its 2011 King Day programming is “Get Up, Stand Up: The Fierce Urgency of Now.” The speakers are the Rev. James Lawson, a definitive figure in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ‘60s, and Asher Kolieboi, co-director of an organization that works against campus violence toward members of the lesbiangay-bisexual-transgender community. All MLK Day events at Bates are open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 786-6400 or visit the college website at www.bates.edu.

Debbie and Friends at One Longfellow 11 a.m. Debbie and Friends at One Longfellow Square.

These concerts are fun for the whole family. Parents and kids join in this interactive “variety show,” which includes a diverse array of styles including rock, pop, country, reggae, and Broadway-esque tunes. You’ll become the Big Bad Wolf and blow the house down, fix Rosie’s wrong rhymes, test your skills with the Simon Sez Song, and share a special moment with your loved ones singing “Love Is a Family.” $8 adv/$10 door, Kids 2 and under get in free! www.debbieandfriends.net

MLK March for Justice 2 p.m. Preble Street Resource Center to Portland City Hall.

An open community conversation will be held at Preble Street Resource Center beginning at 1 p.m. “Following the community conversation from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., marchers will walk from Preble Street Resource Center to the steps of city hall to give voice to our commitment and solidarity in addressing poverty in our community. A large copy of MLK’s Bill of Economic Rights and proposed Community Compact for Justice will be displayed. Key business leaders, antipoverty leaders, tribal representatives and human rights advocates will briefly speak.” www.portlandmlk.net

‘Sudanese in Maine and Beyond’ 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Hour Exchange Portland, The Southern Sudanese Communities, and Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) will present “From My Eyes: Sudanese in Maine and Beyond” at CTN/Hour Exchange Portland Office, 516 Congress St., Portland. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Hour Exchange Portland, The Southern Sudanese Communities, and Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) present “From My Eyes: Sudanese in Maine and Beyond,” an evening of multicultural education featuring speakers from Darfur and Southern Sudan at the CTN/ Hour Exchange offices at 516 Congress St. Speakers will share stories from their experiences migrating to the United States, and information about the current political climate in Sudan. Following the presentations, the audience is encouraged to engage in a Question and Answer session with the speakers. This event is open to the public, and international refreshments will be provided.

Donations are requested to support local organizations such as Fur Cultural Revival. For further information, please contact Sarah Davis at 207-653-1750 or at sdavis@ccmaine.org, or El-Fadel Arbab at 207-221-5197 or at elfadelfcr@gmail.com.

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Girls playing well on Deering boys hockey team

BY JEFF PETERSON SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Hockey has become an equal-opportunity sport at Deering High School this season as two girls join the “boys team” roster.

Rebecca Silver and Adie Broadwater lace up the skates for the Rams every practice and every game.

The situation came about because, at the beginning of this season, only six girls were signed up to play on the Deering girls hockey team.

That wasn’t even close to being enough so the school asked the Maine Principals Assocation if they could merge with Portland High School to form a cooperative team. That request was denied, so with the Deering boys needing some extra players, the girls were invited to join that team.

Silver and Broadwater were the only two players who decided to play with the boys.

“At first I was very upset,” said forward Rebecca Silver. “I had played hockey my first three years at Deering, and now during my senior year it looked liked I wouldn’t get to play.”

The girls were then told that they could play with the boys if they wanted to by the Deering athletic director. Silver and Broadwater, decided to take a shot. “At first, I was a little nervous,” admitted forward Adie Broadwater. “Boys hockey is so much different than the girls game. There is checking, and the boys are a lot more competitive. I am very excited, though. I keep getting better and better.”

The girls don’t get as much ice time. During a girls game, Silver and Broadwater would play most of the game. Now they ride the bench a lot more. “During a 45-minute game, we play around seven minutes,” said Silver. “That comes out to a couple of shifts each period. We play mostly defense and help out a lot, giving the other players a rest.”

“It is frustrating at times,” admitted Broadwater.

“I would love more playing time, but our coach, Jack Lowry, is good to us and really appreciates us being there.”

The boys game is a lot different than the girls, and both Silver and Broadwater found that out in a hurry.

“During our first game, both of us got flattened,” said Silver. “We are not used to the checking. The boys did not take it easy on us. They don’t care if it is a boy or a girl when they check. A few of the boys

Rebecca Silver (above left) and Adie Broadwater (above right) lace up the skates for the Deering High School Rams every practice and every game. (Photos by Rhonda Farnham)

On the girls team, we wanted to win, but it was more about having fun. Now it is a lot more competitive.” — Hockey forward Adie Broadwater really welcomed us to the team, but I know a few really didn’t want girls on the team. I think we are fitting in and are looking forward to the rest of the season.”

“I’m not nervous about getting hurt,” said Broad-

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Now it is a lot more competitive.”

Deering is 1-3 so far this season. The next game for the Rams is Thursday at the Portland Ice Arena against Marshwood. The girls aren’t sure how far their team can go, but they sure are having fun.

“It all depends on what you are tying to get out of it,” said Broadwater. “I like playing with the boys, and it looks like it will be a great way to end my high school career.”

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Wednesday, Jan. 12 Jessica Fichot at One Longfellow 8 p.m. Chanteuse and songwriter Jessica Fichot is a lot like her hometown of Paris: French at heart, but with a soul that’s truly international. Her multi-ethnic French / Chinese / American upbringing colors the songs on her debut album.

It’s called Le Chemin, “The Path,” and for good reason: Jessica takes the listener on a twisting journey out of the French chanson tradition, into the lands of gypsy jazz, Chinese and Latin American folk music, through the classic American repertoire, and off into the wilderness of her imagination. $12 adv/$18 at the door.

Thursday, Jan. 13 Noonday Concert at First Parish noon. Free Noonday Concerts feature faculty members from the Portland Conservatory of Music, organists from the area and guest artists. There are soloists, chamber ensembles, choral groups and jazz musicians included in the Noonday concert series. Featuring Harold Stover, organ, Jennifer Elowich, violin. FMI: First Parish 773.5747 or www.firstparishportland.org

Friday, Jan. 14 Sam James at One Longfellow 8 p.m. “Take the songwriting of Bill Withers and Tom Waits.

Now combine that with the soul power and energy of James Brown. And the charisma of P.T. Barnum. Enter in the guitar playing of Leo Kotke and you’re starting to get an idea of what Samuel James is all about. Samuel James is like a time machine — the same one that keeps Son House and Mississippi John Hurt traveling back to the public consciousness.”

— The Portland Phoenix. $7.

Highland Soles 7:30 p.m. Highland Soles will share its talents with Portland audiences at Woodford Congregational Church’s Memorial Hall. Tickets are $14 ($9 for students and seniors) at the door, and $12/$8 in advance at www.highlandsoles.com. This is the band’s third annual January concert at Memorial Hall, the first two having been sponsored by the Portland Conservatory of Music, where Ed taught fiddle for six years. Being near to Jan. 25, the birthday of Scotland’s great bard and songwriter Robert Burns, some Burns music and stories will be included. Flavors of Irish, jazz and classical will be heard as well. More info at 767-6396 or info@highlandsoles.com.

Saturday, Jan. 15 Ramblin’ Red CD release at Mayo St 8 p.m. Inspired by the crashing of the ocean, the creak of the back porch, the crunch of homemade tacos, and the wonders of wine, Portland Maine based quartet Ramblin’ Red takes you down original folk roads with old-time twists and bluegrass turns, in funky dance-off shoes. Celebrating the release of The Acorn EP, Ramblin Red plays with guests Monique Barret and FEN. From Beatles covers to the traditions such as songs from The Seldom Scene and Bill Monroe Fen mixes a variety of styles, arrangements, and instruments to produce an entirely new and unique style of bluegrass. Driving accompaniment from banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bass and piano complement strong vocals and four part harmonies creating a whole new live experience. $8 advance, $10 day-of.

Thursday, Jan. 20 Noonday Concert at First Parish noon. Free Noonday Concerts feature faculty members from the Portland Conservatory of Music, organists from the area and guest artists. There are soloists, chamber ensembles, choral groups and jazz musicians included in the Noonday concert series. Featuring the Portland String Quartet. FMI:

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Soul Clap! Dance-off at SPACE 9 p.m. You’ve heard of emcee battles, you’ve heard of air guitar competitions but are you ready for a danceoff? New York maximum rock and roll party machine DJ Jonathan Toubin returns to SPACE after repeatedly bringing us the best dance parties we’ve ever had.

SOUL CLAP is making it’s way across the nation where everyone is welcome to get down to classic 45s from Etta James to James Brown.

You can move your feet to your favorites AND get your mind blown by Toubin’s crate of obscure soul gems.

Later in the evening, the bravest, boldest, and baddest can choose to compete in the dance-off, grab a number, and compete for a $100 cash prize (and some serious clout). The competition winner is determined by a panel of local judges, a celebrity smorgasbord of some of your favorite faces in town. SOUL CLAP has become notorious in New York and all over the world for bringing together wild raucous crowds of folks young and old who want to dance and prove that they know how to shake their thing. Come show us what you’ve got. $5, 18 plus.

Friday, Jan. 21 Robot Party at Mayo Street Arts

Chanteuse and songwriter Jessica Fichot is a lot like her hometown of Paris: French at heart, but with a soul that’s truly international. She takes the listener on a twisting journey out of the French chanson tradition, into the lands of gypsy jazz, Chinese and Latin American folk music, through the classic American repertoire, and off into the wilderness of her imagination. She will appear Wednesday at One Longfellow Square. (COURTESY PHOTO)

8 p.m. ID M Theft able, Power Lines and Computer at Sea invade Mayo Street Arts for an electro-robot dance party! ID M Theft able: Portland based audio performance artist. Power Lines: Portland based instrumental/electronic duo. Computer at Sea: Portland based live electronics act. $5 for humans, free for robots.

Bayside Fuzz Fest at Bayside Bowl 8:30 p.m. The Outsiders, Jonny Earthquake Band and Whistlebait Burlesque. 21 plus.

Tuesday, Jan. 25 ‘From Russia With Love’ 7:30 p.m. “From Russia With Love” Tuesday Classical in Merrill Auditorium. This concert opens with the world premiere of Elliott Schwartz’s Diamond Jubilee, co-commissioned by the PSO for the composer’s 75th birthday. Guest pianist Andrew von Oeyen will then join the orchestra for Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. The Los Angeles Times declared von Oeyen possessed of “indisputable gifts [and] an extravagantly thorough and effortless technique.” The evening will conclude with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, the politically-charged composition with hidden messages underneath the crowd-pleasing lyricism. A Concert Conversation will be held at 6:15 p.m. Following the concert patrons are invited to a

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Friday, Jan. 28 Dead of Winter 5 — Death of D.O.W. 8:30 p.m. Five years ago, soon-to-be SPACE Programmer Ian Paige and not-quite-yet Brenda frontman Joshua Loring had a good idea: Create an event that helps Portland musicians and audiences get through these darkest days of winter with hot toddies, cozy candlelight, and intimate performances from a cross-section of our city’s finest musicians. All good things must come to an end, however, and Josh and Ian are going to see this wildly successful series out with a bang.

They’ll be joined by a boatload of Portland celebrities visiting the stage as your hosts sit by the fake fire in their armchairs, snifters in hand, guiding you through performances by Tyler Jackson (Foam Castles), Samuel James, Aleric Nez, Dave Noyes and Kelly Nesbitt, Sean Morin, Leif Sherman-Curtis (AOK Suicide Forest), JD Walker and Sontiago, Emily Dix Thomas, and more! 14-year-old wunderkind Leander Johnson dj’s the night with the sound of snowflakes falling and expect a ton of surprises from the likes of Joe Ricchio (Portland Food Coma), Crank Sturgeon, Mayor Nick Mavodones, TJ Metcalfe (Dead Man’s Clothes) and Sean Wilkinson on one of our favorite nights of the year! $6, 18 plus.

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