The Portland Daily Sun, Friday, January 21, 2011

Amy Chua is a wimp

The rise of Chinese Cheneys

See David Brooks and his critique of a parenting book on page 4

See Nicholas Kristof and his foreign policy analysis on page 4

FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011 “Tracing the Fore,” a landscape sculpture

by Shauna Gillies-Smith, was voted by the Public Art Committee for removal from its current location in Boothby Square after a slew of complaints from neighboring business owners. (MATT DODGE FILE PHOTO)

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BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The future of the controversial Tracing the Fore sculpture is still uncertain as the Portland Public Art Committee considers either relocating the piece or removing it from their collection

permanently.

While the head of the group’s Tracing the Fore committee discussed possible sites where Shauna Gillies-Smith’s sculpture could be reinstalled, both the PPAC chairman and a city councilor voiced concerns that

the committee might lack the funds to have the piece reinstalled.

While sub-committee chair Terry DeWan displayed maps and photos of a possible site for relocation along the Fore see SCULPTURE page 3

Marshall

R.I. group moves ahead with JFK

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Portland’s loss is Rhode Island’s gain, say those who support turning the retired aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy into a museum and memorial in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay. “Obviously this is good News that the news for our effort, but I Portland City Council on Wednesday also try to put myself in the scuttled efforts to locate the ship position of the supporters of the project in Maine, in Casco Bay was met with muted and I know how badly I approval by those would feel if the roles were jockeying to site the ship in Rhode reversed. It’s not like we’re Island. taking any kind of enjoy“I am happy that there is now only ment out of this, it is what one site looking to it is.” — Frank Lennon, host the JFK,” wrote leader of the Rhode Island Steven Duffey of Boston in a mes- Aviation Hall of Fame, Inc. sage to The Portland Daily Sun. A contingent of Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame, Inc. leadership, USS JFK veterans, volunteers and consultants are still working to make Asked for his thoughts on the Portland City “Big John” into a museum and memorial at Newport. Many veterans who served on the aircraft carrier are pushing for its restoration. Dennis Council’s vote not to endorse an effort to bring Gagne, a former plankowner (member of first crew) on the USS JFK CV 67, said he has been interested “in attempts to rescue her from the see JFK page 8

mothball fleet and establish (her) as a museum in Rhode Island.” This photo of the JFK was taken during a tour of the ship in Philadelphia last December. (Photo courtesy of RIAHOF volunteer David Gamache)

And they’re off! Mayor’s race draws early candidates

BY CURTIS ROBINSON THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

And they’re off!

Well, a few of them anyway.

There will be more.

The city’s race for its first elected mayor already has several announced hopefuls and was joined

yesterday by the 38-year-old communications consultant and political newcomer who managed the campaign to create the job in the first place.

In fact, says Jed Rathband of East Bayside, it was spearheading that campaign that “inspired” him to run.

He was initially identified as the first to launch

his candidacy on The Portland Press Herald website, but that was quickly updated to say he merely joined the field. Trust me, it won’t be the last time we lose track of how many folks are running.

Rathband actually joins at least two others who see MAYOR page 5

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Wal-Mart to promote healthy foods WASHINGTON (NY Times) — Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest retailer, will announce a five-year plan on Thursday to make thousands of its packaged foods lower in unhealthy salts, fats and sugars, and to drop prices on fruits and vegetables.

The initiative came out of discussions the company has been having with Michelle Obama, the first lady, who will attend the announcement in Washington and has made healthy eating and reducing childhood obesity the centerpiece of her agenda.

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Blackwater founder is said to back African mercenaries WASHINGTON (NY Times) — Erik Prince, the founder of the international security giant Blackwater Worldwide, is secretly backing an effort by a controversial South African mercenary firm to insert itself into Somalia’s bloody civil war by protecting government leaders, training Somali militias, and battling pirates and Islamic militants there, according to Western and African officials.

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behemoth with billions of dollars in American government contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, work that mired him in controversy and lawsuits amid reports of reckless behavior by his operatives, including the deaths of civilians in Iraq. His efforts to wade into the chaos of Somalia appears to be Mr. Prince’s latest endeavor to remain at the center of a campaign against Islamic radicalism in some of the world’s most war-ravaged corners. Mr. Prince moved to the United Arab Emirates late last year.

Lebanese crisis deepens as talks break down BEIRUT (NY Times) — Lebanon’s worst crisis in years escalated dangerously on Thursday, as a last-ditch effort to reach a negotiated solution ended in failure and the Americanbacked caretaker prime minister struck a defiant note toward Hezbollah and its allies, who brought down his 14-month-old national unity government earlier this month.

The events cast the crisis into an unpredictable moment, as each side became ever more entrenched in positions with

and Hezbollah and its allies, backed by Iran and Syria, squarely around the personality of Mr. Hariri himself.

In his address, he said he would seek to form a new government in talks next week, defying demands by Hezbollah and its allies that he step down and raising the prospect that the Shiite Muslim movement might revert to the street — be it protests, labor strikes or even violent confrontations — to ensure Mr. Hariri is unable to do so.

little common ground, over indictments expected to name members of Hezbollah in the assassination of the prime minister’s father, Rafik Hariri.

The 17-minute speech by Prime Minister Saad Hariri was delivered just hours after Turkey and Qatar announced that they had abandoned work on their diplomatic initiative.

It brought the long-running confrontation in this flammable country between Mr. Hariri’s supporters, backed by the United States and France,

Shake-up at Google as co-founder takes over SAN FRANCISCO (NY Times) — Google said Thursday that Larry Page, its co-founder and president of products, would take over as chief executive, succeeding Eric E. Schmidt.

Mr. Schmidt will remain executive chairman and serve as adviser to Mr. Page and Sergey Brin, the other company cofounder and its president of technology.

The shake-up, which will take effect April 4, is the biggest change in management at the company since Mr. Schmidt joined as chief executive in 2001.

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Winners of Radio Rally Audio Slam announced Competition in radio production was tight; top finisher won by only a tenth of a point DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT Blunt Youth Radio Project announced the winners of the first-ever Great Northeast Radio Rally Audio Slam, which brought together 26 contestants at SPACE Gallery in Portland on Sunday evening, Jan. 16 to compete for a $500 prize.

Radio producers from New York City to Belfast, Maine, from teenagers to sixty-somethings, competed for a $500 prize. Judging the slam were five media professionals: Josie Huang, reporter, Maine Public Broadcasting Network; Bill Nemitz, columnist, Portland Press Herald; Paul Santomenna, founder, Strategic Narratives; Kerry Donahue, assistant professor, Columbia School of

Journalism; and Suzi Piker, multimedia producer and alum of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

The winners were: first place: AJ Frazier, Radio Rookies, WNYC; second place: Vikky Cruz, Radio Rookies, WNYC; third place, Patrick Presby, Blunt Youth Radio, WMPG; fourth place, Jesse Newcomb, independent producer, Portland.

Each producer entered 4 minutes of produced audio, and these entries were played and judged live at the Slam in a series of one-minute rounds. Round one had 26 contestants, all hoping to hang on until the final round. Only eight contestants moved up to round two, and only four slammers moved to the final round.

“Round four was exciting, with very close scores — the winner won by only 1/10 of a point,” organizers reported.

“Two members of the New York Citybased Radio Rookies took the two top spots. Two Maine natives took third and fourth places.”

Presby, the third-place winner, grew up in Old Orchard Beach and participated in Blunt Youth Radio as a teenager. With Blunt, he produced radio pieces about juvenile detention, the life of Nelson Mandela and a remembrance of his late step-mother, Barbara Jean.

“For his Nelson Mandela piece he interviewed producer Joe Richman and was proud to have spoken directly to someone who’s shared a meal with Mandela.

He is even more proud of his baby son,

Cameron. Pat will be re-joining Blunt as a volunteer staffer very soon,” organizers stated. He now lives in Gray.

Newcomb, the fourth-place finisher, was born and raised in Maine and has called Portland home since fall 2009.

She spends her time serving coffee, helping to build a curvy sculpture house in the woods, making forts with kids, and providing basic services at the Preble Street day shelter. New to the field of radio production, “she has a strong interest in the power of stories and their role in creating broader understanding and a more just world,” organizers reported. Maine Arts Commission provided financial support.

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Bayside Seating Committee discusses how to solicit more designs SCULPTURE from page one

River adjacent to Mercy Hospital’s Fore River location, PPAC Jack Soley slowed down the proceedings, citing the cost of any such relocation.

“We don’t have budget right now to relocate it,” said Soley, who hopes to have the committee devise a plan of action by spring so the much-maligned sculpture may be removed as soon as the ground thaws at Boothby Square.

“My concern is that we have a plan for spring and can hit the ground running as soon as it thaws,” said Soley.

Soley estimates that removal of the piece to run about $8,000 including landscaping, and another $25,000 to reinstall the sculpture at another location. “Bare minimum that’s a $35,000 to $40,000 project,” he said.

City Councilor Dave Marshall, who serves on the PPAC board, also brought a reality check to the process, advising his fellow members that they would likely lack the support of the city council if they attempted to relocated the piece.

“I’m not confident the votes will be there on the council to move the piece,” said Marshall, suggesting that the council might favor deaccessioning the piece — removing it from the PPAC’s collection so that it may be sold to a private collector or corporation.

Marshall said he would talk with the mayor and solicit some specific feedback for the committee on the

issue, but advised the PPAC not to get too deep into the relocation process.

The sculpture initially cost the city $135,000 in materials, labor and artist fees — $71,000 more than the project’s original estimate.

The committee voted 7-3 in November to remove Gillies-Smith’s sculpture after an outcry from Boothby Square business owners, who circulated a petition to have the jaggedmetal landscape sculpture removed from its location, citing issues of aesthetics and safety.

During the same meeting, the committee also discussed plans for a “second call” for entries in the Bayside seating project citing an underwhelming number and quality of entries in the first round.

At issue for the Bayside Seating Committee is how to solicit a larger and more impressive crop of bench designs. The project calls on local artists and designer to submit proposals for benches to be installed along the Bayside Trail, but the PPAC decided to reopen the search after receiving far fewer proposals than expected and having no clear favorites. “We need dozens [of submissions], not a dozen,” said Soley.

Some $2,174 of the $3,000 budgeted for the project has already been used, according to Alex Jaegerman, planning division director for the city.

“We’ll probably need to allocate additional funds,” said Jaegerman, who suggests that the process could be

done cheaper the second time around.

“I think by simplifying the process it will be manageable,” he said.

Some said the language of the call for submissions should be relaxed to encourage more adventurous, daring designs. The last proposal places a focus on Bayside’s historical context, asking for designs which tied into the industrial and maritime history of the neighborhood.

“We need to have a lighter touch,” said Alice Spencer, chair of the Bayside Seating Committee. “At the bottom it said ‘have fun,’ but it was clearly at the bottom.”

“Sometimes you get more interesting, lively ideas where you don’t require too much heavy lifting from your candidates,” she said.

One artists in attendance said that the project’s requirements turned even him, a furniture maker, away from the bench-design contest.

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Councilor Marshall said that the idea of artists-designed benches is by no means an original project, suggesting the PPAC might receive more compelling submissions if it were to relax the guidelines even further.

“My feeling with the benches is that we didn’t inspire a heck of a lot of people with it. It’s been done before, it’s not a fresh new idea. I would like to be on the verge of doing something that is new,” he said.

Soley said that the bench project “does have merit” and he’s willing to give it another try. “It seems the will of the committee is to try it one more time. If we don’t get results we’re looking for, we’ll know the idea is done and we don’t need to pursue it anymore.”

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Amy Chua is a wimp Sometime early last week, a large slice of educated America decided that Amy Chua is a menace to society. Chua, as you probably know, is the Yale professor who has written a bracing critique of what she considers the weak, cuddling American parenting style.

Chua didn’t let her own girls go out on play dates or sleepovers. She didn’t let them watch TV or play video games or take part in garbage activities like crafts. Once, one of her daughters came in second to a Korean kid in a math competition, so Chua made the girl do 2,000 math problems a night until she regained her supremacy. Once, her daughters gave ––––– her birthday cards of insufThe New York ficient quality. Chua rejected Times them and demanded new cards.

Once, she threatened to burn all of one of her daughter’s stuffed animals unless she played a piece of music perfectly.

As a result, Chua’s daughters get straight As and have won a series of musical competitions.

In her book, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” Chua delivers a broadside against American parenting even as she mocks herself for her own extreme “Chinese” style. She says American parents lack authority and produce entitled children who aren’t forced to live up to their abilities.

The furious denunciations began flooding my in-box a week ago. Chua plays into America’s fear of national decline. Here’s a Chinese parent working really hard (and, by the way, there are a billion more of her) and her kids are going to crush ours. Furthermore (and this Chua doesn’t appreciate), she is not really rebelling against American-style parenting; she is the logical extension of the prevailing elite practices. She does everything over-pressuring upper-middle-class parents are doing. She’s just hard core.

Her critics echoed the familiar themes. Her kids can’t possibly be happy or truly creative. They’ll grow up skilled and compliant but without the audacity to be great. She’s destroying their love for music.

There’s a reason Asian-American women between the ages of 15 and 24 have such high suicide rates.

David Brooks

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The rise of Chinese Cheneys When Deng Xiaoping made a landmark visit to the United States in 1979, he was seated near the actress Shirley MacLaine.

According to several accounts that Ms. MacLaine confirmed this week, she told Deng rhapsodically about a visit to China during the Cultural Revolution.

She described meeting a scholar who had been sent to toil in the countryside but spoke glowingly about the joys of manual labor and the terrific opportunity to learn from peasants.

Deng growled: “He was lying.”

In that blunt spirit, let me offer a quick guide to some of the issues that we have put on the table during President Hu Jintao’s state visit to Washington, at a time when Chinese-American relations are deeply strained and likely to get worse. American opinion tends to be divided between panda-huggers (“China is fabulous!”) and panda-muggers (“China is evil!”), but the truth lies between this yin and yang.

Trade is at the heart of the tensions, and China is clearly keeping its currency artificially low (and probably will continue to do so) in an effort to preserve jobs at home. This is destabilizing the international system — but let’s not exaggerate the impact on our own economy. Chinese goods

Nicholas D. Kristof ––––– The New York Times mostly compete with products from Mexico, South Korea and other countries, and it is stealing jobs from those countries more than from America.

Trade figures also exaggerate China’s exports. For example, China assembles iPhones, so their full value counts as Chinese exports. But, in fact, less than 4 percent of the phone’s value is contributed by China, according to a study by the Asian Development Bank Institute. A greater share is contributed by Japan, Germany, South Korea and the U.S. Aggressive territorial claims

by Beijing are unnerving China’s neighbors as well as Washington.

My take is that China has a strong historical case in claiming the disputed islands in the East China Sea known as the Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese. But China’s claims to a chunk of the South China Sea are preposterous, and its belligerence is driving neighbors closer to America.

There’s also a real risk that

Chinese harassment of American planes and ships in international waters will spark a conflict by accident. The collision of Chinese and American military aircraft in 2001 led to a crisis that was defused only because then-President Jiang Zemin was determined to preserve relations with Washington. If such an incident occurred today, President Hu would probably be unwilling or unable to resolve the crisis.

Human rights are complex.

Christians are persecuted less than they used to be just a few years ago, and the regime gives ordinary people much more freedom to travel and greater individual space than when I lived in China in the 1980s and 1990s.

That said, the Communist Party has been cracking down hard in the last few years on dissidents and ethnic minorities such as Tibetans and Uighurs. Its imprisonment of the great writer Liu Xiaobo, and its tantrum after he won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, damaged China’s image.

Mr. Obama must speak up: How can one Nobel Peace Prize laureate be silent when meeting the man who imprisons the next?

Support for rogue states, such as North Korea, Iran, Myanmar, Sudan and Zimbabwe, makes conflicts and nuclear proliferation more see KRISTOF page 5

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It’s unlikely that any candidate will top 50 percent MAYOR from page one

have taken out papers and announced their candidacy, at least among friends or on the Internet. One is serial candidate Charles Bradgon, who lost repeat attempts for city council in District 1 and at-large and also fell short in a Green Independent primary election to become that party’s candidate for state rep for District 120.

The other is Zouhair Bouzrara, who says on his Facebook page that he is a “registered Democrat” who is “thinking of running as an Independent since the Humanist Party doesn’t exist yet.”

Rathband Since one of the tough jobs as the field crowds will be gaining status as a “serious candidate,” we should note that Bragdon raised some political eyebrows when he gathered 9,445 at-large votes in his latest city council race.

As for Rathband, his background excludes elected office but includes serving on the Greater Portland Landmarks board for several years and being a member of the Portland Public Schools Marketing Committee. He’s also been active in his neighborhood, serving on the East

Curtis Robinson ––––– Usually Reserved Bayside Neighborhood Organization, where he chairs the economic development subcommittee.

You may hear a lot about that last group, because the newly minted candidate does not hesitate to name economic development as a first priority, followed by dealing with “diminished city service and rising Bragdon taxes.”

“We want to create neighborhood-led development, and as mayor I’ll be championing that,” said Rathband, who also notes that campaigning for creation of the position educated him on what the new mayor can do — and, one would suppose, what the office can’t do.

As for being among the first into the fray, he says that was part of his strategy.

“There is going to be no shortage of candidates,” he predicted. “I don’t even care to speculate [how many],

but I’m sure there will be a lot of candidates.” And since he’s lesser known than some of the other likely candidates, he added, he needs to get started meeting with voters, getting organized and raising money.

He also says that ranked-choice voting will make this race even more “interesting.”

That qualifies as an early contender for “candidate understatement of the year,” although it’s only January. Let’s review: Portland voters approved returning to the popularly elected mayor last November, while also approving electing the position by ranked-choice voting.

That system allows voters to pick up to three candidates, and if nobody gets a majority the second-place votes come into play.

In a field that’s likely to draw more than a dozen candidates, it becomes unlikely that any single candidate will top 50 percent.

So the variety of ways to game the ranked choice voting will lend the mayoral quest the subtle dignity usually reserved for junior high school prom royalty – “I’ll like you if you like me.”

But even in that context, I have to say that Rathband has the sound of a real candidate.

For example, he notes “rumors” that some of those who opposed creation of the mayor’s office are likely to seek that office. When asked if it might make sense for somebody to say: “Well, sure, I don’t think it

should exist, but since it does I’d be the best person for it,” he does not hesitate to answer.

“I think that’s a bit disingenuous,” he admits.

It’s not a formal thing, but the over/ under based on casual surveys is at 15 candidates, but some feel it could literally hit something like 25. That means the ranked-choice system of removing the bottom candidates could indeed become quite interesting, and raising the proposal that somebody with precious few first-choice votes could become our first mayor since F. Scott Fitzgerald ruled literature.

And there’s even “buzz” among some non-candidates, including the musician Spencer Albee who set off rampant speculation via his Facebook page.

Albee, perhaps best known for a variety of musical production and promotion efforts and as a onetime member of the Rustic Overtones group, posted an image of a candidate registration form and a post that he was “... seriously thinking about it.”

Within hours, more than two dozen people had posted in, from the joking to the serious potential supporters.

Says as-yet non-candidate Albee: “I’d like to be part of a growing and dedicated group of Maine people who are working to restore dignity to the Democratic party.”

(Curtis Robinson is editor of The Portland Daily Sun. Contact him at curtis@portlanddailysun.me.)

The school cafeteria can be more intellectually demanding than the library BROOKS from page 4

I have the opposite problem with Chua. I believe she’s coddling her children. She’s protecting them from the most intellectually demanding activities because she doesn’t understand what’s cognitively difficult and what isn’t.

Practicing a piece of music for four hours requires focused attention, but it is nowhere near as cognitively demanding as a sleepover with 14-year-old girls. Managing status rivalries, negotiating group dynamics, understanding social norms, navigating the distinction between self and group — these and other social tests impose cognitive demands that blow away any intense tutoring session or a class at Yale.

Yet mastering these arduous skills is at the very essence of achievement. Most people work in groups.

We do this because groups are much more efficient at solving problems than individuals (swimmers are often motivated to have their best times as part of relay teams, not in individual events). Moreover, the

performance of a group does not correlate well with the average I.Q. of the group or even with the I.Q.’s of the smartest members.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon have found that groups have a high collective intelligence when members of a group are good at reading each others’ emotions — when they take turns speaking, when the inputs from each member are managed fluidly, when they detect each others’ inclinations and strengths.

Participating in a well-functioning group is really hard. It requires the ability to trust people outside your kinship circle, read intonations and moods, understand how the psychological pieces each person brings to the room can and cannot fit together.

This skill set is not taught formally, but it is imparted through arduous experiences. These are exactly the kinds of difficult experiences Chua shelters her children from by making them rush home to hit the homework table.

Chua would do better to see the classroom as a

cognitive break from the truly arduous tests of childhood. Where do they learn how to manage people? Where do they learn to construct and manipulate metaphors? Where do they learn to perceive details of a scene the way a hunter reads a landscape? Where do they learn how to detect their own shortcomings? Where do they learn how to put themselves in others’ minds and anticipate others’ reactions?

These and a million other skills are imparted by the informal maturity process and are not developed if formal learning monopolizes a child’s time.

So I’m not against the way Chua pushes her daughters. And I loved her book as a courageous and thought-provoking read. It’s also more supple than her critics let on. I just wish she wasn’t so soft and indulgent. I wish she recognized that in some important ways the school cafeteria is more intellectually demanding than the library. And I hope her daughters grow up to write their own books, and maybe learn the skills to better anticipate how theirs will be received.

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likely. But, in fairness, China has much less leverage over these countries than Americans assume. And in the last couple of months, it has played a helpful role in both Sudan and North Korea.

Chest-thumping, especially from the military, is poisoning Chinese-American relations. Even Xi Jinping, a pragmatist who has been chosen to replace Mr. Hu as the next supreme leader of China, gave a nasty speech in October falsely accusing the United States of using germ warfare during the Korean

War. In truth, Mr. Xi seems to admire the United States — he just sent his only daughter to attend Harvard as an undergraduate — but he apparently feels the need to join the nationalist parade.

President Obama started out very conciliatory toward China, but Beijing perceived that as weakness and walked all over him. Now Mr. Obama is tougher, as he must be.

My take is that China is going through a period resembling the Bush era in the United States: hawks and hard-liners have gained ground in domestic politics, and they scoff at the country’s

diplomats as wimps. China’s foreign ministry seems barely a player.

Domestic concerns trump all else, partly because Chinese leaders are nervous about stability and about the delicate transition to Mr. Xi and his team two years from now. A Chinese poll has found that public satisfaction is at its lowest level in 11 years, and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao upset hard-liners by calling publicly for more pluralism (he was censored).

The upshot is that China-Firsters — Chinese versions of Dick Cheney — have a greater voice.

Brace yourself.

Page 6 — THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Friday, January 21, 2011

Body found in N.Y. identified as missing Maine woman

BY AL BAKER AND NOAH ROSENBERG THE NEW YORK TIMES

One of the four women whose bodies were found on a Long Island barrier beach last month was identified by Suffolk County officials on Wednesday as Megan Waterman, a Maine woman who had been missing since the spring.

The death of Ms. Waterman, 22, of Scarborough, Me., has been ruled a homicide, according to the police and prosecutors working on the case, which has raised suspicions about a possible serial killer.

Ms. Waterman’s remains were among those found in the brush, hundreds of feet apart from one another, off a highway along Gilgo Beach, a barrier beach between Jones Beach and Fire Island.

Ms. Waterman, who had advertised herself as an escort on Craigslist, disappeared after traveling to Suffolk County. In an interview on Wednesday, her mother, Lorraine L. Ela, said that the authorities in Suffolk County had notified Detective Donald Blatchford of the Scarborough Police Department.

“Detective Blatchford went to my mom’s house,” Ms. Ela said, to deliver the “bad news.”

Though Ms. Waterman’s death was ruled a homicide, officials at a news conference at the Suffolk County police headquarters, in Yaphank, did not specify a cause of death or say precisely how her remains had been identified.

Thomas J. Spota, the Suffolk County district attorney, said investigators were getting closer to identifying the three remaining victims Waterman and determining what had caused their deaths. He added that they could have conclusive information within days, but declined to discuss any possible links in the case.

Richard Dormer, the commissioner of the Suffolk County Police Department, said, “We are very close to identifying the other three bodies.”

The bodies, officials said, could have been left on the beach over a period of two years.

Mr. Spota said the authorities had received information, including medical and dental data and DNA, since the cases came to light. He said that information had been given to New York City’s medical examiner’s office, whose forensic anthropologists are also working on the case. Mr. Spota, citing the integrity of the investigation, declined to say whether investigators believe the deaths were the work of a serial killer.

At Gilgo Beach on Wednesday, the parking lot was empty except for two vehicles filled with surfers, who were later seen walking along Ocean Parkway.

The highway, a faded strip of blacktop that connects a series of barrier beaches, is desolate in wintertime, a wind-swept landscape of sand dunes, the Atlantic Ocean and ice-covered marshland.

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Christopher Ray Hinton, 38 SCARBOROUGH — Christopher Ray Hinton, 38, of Scarborough, died peacefully in his sleep on Monday night, Jan. 17, 2011 in Scarborough, Maine.

He was born in Louisville, Ky., on Sept. 29, 1972 at Saint Joseph’s Hospital, the son of Kenneth Ray and Peggy (Holsclaw) Hinton. Chris completed high school at Beth Haven Christian High School in Valley Station, Ky. Before moving to Maine in 2000, Chris worked at DJ Plastics and Milliard Distribution companies in Louisville. After obtaining a commercial truck driving license, he became a cross-country driver. While living in Maine, he was employed as a truck driver in seafood processing, construction, waste management services. He was last employed as a materials handler for SYSCO. Chris excelled in sports in school and held the high-point scoring record of 52 points during a tournament basketball game. He was

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“Archie” was the nickname given by his school mates. He was a fan of the Dallas Cowboys football team, and the Louisville Cardinal basketball team. He loved life and was known for testing the limits in most situations.

Chris was predeceased in death by several close and loving relatives: his dear father, Kenneth Ray Hinton of Lebanon Junction (LJ), Ky.; maternal grandparents Leslie Earl and Dorothy Ann (Simms) Holsclaw; great grandparents Ed and Elizabeth (Formhals) Holsclaw of Belmont, and Lee and Mattye Simms of Louisville; grandfathers, Marion Hinton and Albert Bradbury, both of LJ; uncle “Buddy” Leslie Earl Holsclaw Jr. of Shepherdsville, Ky.; step brother Travis Wade Allen; and adoring aunts Betty Jo (Holsclaw) Bullard of Louisville and Sue Hinton of L.J. Survivors include his loving

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THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Friday, January 21, 2011— Page 7

New Portland fire engine under construction

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Seagrave Manufacturing has started construction on a replacement for the Portland Fire Department’s 1989 Pierce Arrow pumper.

The new truck, a $650,000 fire engine that will carry 500 gallons of water and offer a pump capacity of 1,500 gallons per minute, is expected to be in service in late fall 2011, Fire Chief Fred LaMontagne said.

Based at the Central Station, Engine 5 is one of Portand’s busiest fire companies and responded to 2,501 fire and other emergency calls in 2010, he said.

Seagrave was selected after a competitive bid process and was selected for its quality of construction, safety features and stainless steel fabrication experience, according to the fire department.

The new truck was approved by the city council in the 2009 Capital Improvements Program, LaMontagne said.

“We’re thankful for the council’s support and citizens’ support for keeping the fleet current,” he said.

“It’s a traditional fire truck; the big advantage is with narrow streets in the Old Port and all of our streets when we have a severe winter, we benefit

from the increase in maneuvability and the increase in steering,” LaMontagne said.

Deputy Fire Chief Robert Wassick said the new fire truck replaces a pumper that put in its years.

“You get to the point after 15 or 16 years with a truck, after 2,000 calls a year, they get tired,” he said.

“We keep them up the best we can. In general, the life expectancy of a city fire truck is 10 or 12 years,” Wassick said.

Neighborhoods on the Casco Bay islands often inherit old trucks, or the replaced vehicles are sold, he said.

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Portland City Council declined to back JFK in Casco Bay JFK from page one

the USS J.F.K. to Portland’s harbor, Duffey wrote, “I want to see the ship saved, and as they say too many cooks spoil the broth. Now that Rhode Island will be the only applicant, it makes it easier for the Navy to make its decision.”

Duffey said he served on the JFK in the 1970s, making it his “home for 2 1/2 years.”

Frank Lennon, leader of the Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame, Inc., which hopes “to develop a worldclass, financially self-sufficient family attraction, education and job training center, museum and memorial” out of the aircraft carrier said he was on his way to Washington, D.C. today to meet with Navy officials.

The Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame, Inc. hopes to locate the retired aircraft carrier on the Aquidneck Island (Newport) side of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay. “Obviously this is good news for our effort, but I also try to put myself in the position of the supporters of the project in Maine, and I know how badly I would feel if the roles were reversed. It’s not like we’re taking any kind of enjoyment out of this, it is what it is,” Lennon said in a telephone interview Thursday.

Lennon’s counterpart, Steve Woods, CEO and executive director of the USS John F. Kennedy Museum, appealed to the Portland City Council Wednesday night to keep the project alive, giving a presentation touting the tourism potential of a JFK museum in Casco Bay. But opponents spoke out against the visual impact of an aircraft carrier in the harbor, warning that the museum — while independently funded — might carry hidden costs for the city.

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A total of 21 former USS John F. Kennedy commanding officers now support the Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame, Inc.’s effort to salvage the ship, according to the group’s website (www.ussjfkri.org). (Photo courtesy of RIAHOF volunteer David Gamache)

“The longer a competition goes on the more you drain each other’s resources.” — Frank Lennon, leader of the Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame, Inc. haste,” Portland’s Steven Scharf wrote on Facebook.

“There’s always going to be gadflies, there are always going to be people who oppose it,” said Lennon, who added that he kept up occasional correspondence with Woods during their dual efforts to secure a home for the JFK. “Over the past month, the communication, although not extensive, was certainly positive. I certainly congratulate him for the effort he has put in,” Lennon said of Woods.

Facing a Feb. 2 submission deadline

with the Navy, Lennon said the Rhode Island effort doesn’t face the hurdles that Portland’s campaign did.

“Our situation is no where near that difficult, in fact it is primarily positive,” he said. “Part of that is because Rhode Island is a Navy state. We’re one of the claimants to the birthplace of the American Navy.”

A total of 21 former USS John F. Kennedy commanding officers now support the Rhode Island effort, according to the group’s website (www.ussjfkri.org), and the effort there has been under way for nearly a dozen years.

Volunteers in Rhode Island originally conceived their effort as the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation, Inc., centered around the Saratoga (CV 60). They had to regroup on April 2, 2010, when the Secretary of the Navy, citing concerns about that ship’s deteriorating condition, notified Congress that the Navy had

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Now, Lennon said the group has “a majority of the population behind us,” noting, “We have not had the constantly negative public comment and public feedback.”

In an online poll by the Newport Daily News, 91 percent responded positively to the group’s reactivation plans for the JFK, he said.

Now, the Rhode Island group doesn’t need to look over its shoulder at Portland.

“The longer a competition goes on the more you drain each other’s resources,” Lennon said.

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Friday, January 21, 2011— Page 9

Lawyer joins immigrant advocacy board DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT Drew Anderson, an attorney and director at the Portland law firm, Murray, Plumb & Murray, was recently elected to the board of the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, the firm announced.

ILAP provides free and low-cost immigration information and legal assistance to low-income Maine residents.

“I feel honored to be part of such an important agency in Maine,” said Anderson. “ILAP helps our newest residents access opportunities to build stable families and

communities throughout Maine.”

Anderson concentrates his practice in commercial real estate and corporate law and handles a wide variety of real estate matters, including the Anderson purchase and sale of commercial and industrial buildings, and multi-family

apartment buildings. He also heads Murray, Plumb & Murray’s title services group, which provides, as agent for Lawyers Title Insurance Company, First American Title Insurance Company and Old Republic National Title Insurance Company, title insurance products to real estate owners. He is a member of the Cumberland County, Maine State, New York State, and American Bar Associations. Anderson earned his B.A. from Boston College and his law degree from Suffolk University Law School.

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For any graduate of the selected schools who qualifies for admission to the undergraduate program at Maine College of Art, the college will provide a guaranteed $12,000 scholarship each year for four years or until they complete the bachelor of fine arts degree, provided they maintain good academic standing.

Eighteen years ago, Maine College of Art purchased the Porteous, Mitchell and Braun department store with the ambition to transform it into a vibrant campus for art and design, the college noted in a press release. This past year, MECA completed its consolidation goals, bringing together all academic and studio facilities under one roof, providing students with five floors and 200,000 square feet of contiguous space in the heart of the Arts District.

“With MECA as the anchor, the Arts District is filled with galleries, performance spaces, studios and creative businesses,” the college noted. “It is a national destination for arts and culture.”

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). There may be disharmony in your personal life, and yet it affects you in a good way. You use the energy produced by this conflict to do something excellent for yourself and the other person.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Be kind.

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CANCER (June 22-July 22). You will be slightly more transparent today.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). If you volunteer, you’ll be praised in the moment, but that moment will pass. And then you’ll be expected to work and be responsible for the results. If that’s the fun part for you, then you’re volunteering for the right thing.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You are willing to add layers of knowledge and style to your lifestyle in order to fit into a certain social group. You’re not sure exactly who these sophisticated, glamorous people are yet, but you know you’ll fit right in.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Friday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2011. There are 344 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 21, 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and four other Southerners whose states had seceded from the Union resigned from the U.S. Senate.

On this date: In 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.

In 1911, Sen. Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin announced creation of the National Progressive Republican League with the goal of promoting “popular government and progressive legislation.”

In 1915, the first Kiwanis Club was founded, in Detroit.

In 1950, former State Department official Alger Hiss, accused of being part of a Communist spy ring, was found guilty in New York of lying to a grand jury. (Hiss, who proclaimed his innocence, served less than four years in prison.) George Orwell (Eric Blair), author of “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” died in London at age 46.

In 1954, the first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched at Groton (GRAH’-tuhn), Conn.

In 1968, the Battle of Khe Sanh began during the Vietnam War as North Vietnamese forces attacked a U.S. Marine base; the Americans were able to hold their position until the siege was lifted 2 1/2 months later.

In 1970, the Boeing 747 went on its first commercial flight as Pan Am passengers traveled from New York to London.

In 1976, the supersonic Concorde jet was put into service by Britain and France.

One year ago: Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards finally admitted fathering a child during an affair before his second White House bid. Toyota recalled 2.3 million U.S. vehicles to fix accelerator pedals.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Ann Wedgeworth is 77. World Golf Hall of Famer Jack Nicklaus is 71. Opera singer Placido Domingo is 70. Singer Richie Havens is 70.

Singer Mac Davis is 69. Actress Jill Eikenberry is 64. Country musician Jim Ibbotson is 64. Singer-songwriter Billy Ocean is 61.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke is 61.

Attorney General Eric Holder is 60. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is 58. Actor-director Robby Benson is 55. Actress Geena Davis is 55. Basketball Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon is 48. Actress Charlotte Ross is 43. Actor John Ducey is 42. Actress Karina Lombard is 42. Rapper Levirt (B-Rock and the Bizz) is 41. Rock musician Mark Trojanowski (Sister Hazel) is 41. Rock singersongwriter Cat Power is 39. Rock DJ Chris Kilmore (Incubus) is 38. Actor Vincent Laresca is 37. Singer Emma Bunton (Spice Girls) is 35. Country singer Phil Stacey is 33.

Actress Izabella Miko (MEE’-koh) is 30.

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Friday, Jan. 21 Richard Boyd Pottery Studio & Art Gallery 10 a.m. Richard Boyd Pottery Studio & Art Gallery, 15 Epps St., Peaks Island, presents “Serenity,” a group show from Jan. 21 through Feb. 20. The exhibit features recent works in porcelain by gallery artists, potters Rick Boyd and Pamela Williamson. For more information contact the Art Gallery by phone 712.1097, email: williamson955@aol.com or visit www.richardboydpottery.com. Richard Boyd Gallery is located at the corner of Island Ave. and Epps St. on Peaks Island, first building on the right.

WGME 13, Portland telethon for Haiti 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The city of Portland and local news station, WGME-Channel 13, will sponsor Maine to Haiti — One Year Later, a Portland-based telethon to raise funds for Konbit Sante Cap-Haitien Health Partnership and its work in Cap-Haitien, Haiti from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM during WGME’s evening news casts. The telethon will focus on the local nonprofit’s efforts to help rebuild the nation’s health care system after the devastating earthquake. One year later, thousands of people live in camps where uncleared rubble remains a part of the landscape and in Cap-Haitien, the population has swelled with households struggling to find room for the additional family members. The risk of infectious disease and recent cholera outbreak strain an already limited health system. A year ago, Jan. 21, 2010, the city and WGME sponsored a day-long telethon, raising more than $60,000 for the fund, which when combined with other donations brought the total donations for the earthquake response to more than $450,000. These dollars were put to immediate use including providing health care to earthquake victims, purchasing medical supplies, food and water, and sanitation systems in the camps in Port-auPrince. In the months that followed Konbit Sante shifted its focus to more long-term permanent and sustainable change. From establishing medical mobile units to expanding health care outreach efforts, donated funds continue to support rebuilding efforts one year later. The city of Portland is uniquely tied to Haiti through its sister city relationship with Cap-Haitien, a community in northern Haiti. This relationship results from the work of Konbit Sante, which supports health and medical programs as well as other public health projects in the northern part of the country. Viewers can also contribute online at www.healthyhaiti.org.

2011 Sea Dogs Hot Stove Dinner

The Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Hall was built in 1888 as the “Headquarters” of the Fifth Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry 18611864. Kim MacIsaac, director and curator of the hall, will speak on “The Forest City Regiment: Death, Mourning and Loss” at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 29 at the Maine Historical Society. (COURTESY PHOTO) 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.

5:30 p.m. The Portland Sea Dogs, Double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, have announced that Red Sox prospects Tim Federowicz and Will Middlebrooks have been added to the list of guests for the 2011 Sea Dogs Hot Stove Dinner and Silent Auction, presented by Hannaford Supermarkets.

The event takes places at the Marriott Hotel at Sable Oaks in South Portland. Additionally, new Sea Dogs’ manager Kevin Boles will be formally introduced at the event. Highlighting the event are Red Sox outfielder and former Sea Dog Ryan Kalish and Maine native and Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Mark Rogers. All proceeds from the dinner and silent auction will benefit the Strike Out Cancer in Kids Program. Tickets can be ordered by phone at 879-9500 or online at www.seadogs.com. Individual tickets are $50 each; reserved tables of 10 are also available for $500.

Everyone who attends will receive a signed 8 X 10 photo of Ryan Kalish and Mark Rogers.

Edward Albee’s ‘The Goat’

Spanish Movie Night

9 a.m. The Portland Police Department will host its fifth annual Portland Police Award Breakfast during which awards will be presented to members of the department as well as to local residents for their contributions to making Portland a safe community to live and work. Awards will be given for Bravery, Officer of the Year as well as commendation for merit for officers going above and beyond the call of duty. Sponsors for the breakfast include the Eastland Park Hotel, MEMIC, Portland Downtown District as well as area businesses. Eastland Park Hotel,157 High St.

6:30 p.m. The movie: “Estadio nacional” from Carmen Luz Parot; movie will start at 7 p.m. “After a military coup overthrew the democratically elected Socialist government of Chile on Sept. 11, 1973, the capital’s National Stadium was the scene of the indiscriminate mass detentions of more than 12,000 suspected dissidents, and the brutal interrogations, torture, and executions they underwent. This film is the first in-depth investigation into the chilling events that took place in the stadium. With the testimony of more than 30 witnesses — former prisoners, priests, soldiers, journalists, nurses, and neighbors — this film provides a detailed and moving account of the experiences of those detained in the stadium. This courageous film unearths a part of Chilean history that is still taboo 30 years later. It opens with the 2000 presidential elections held in the stadium, where one of the vote counters who was also a detainee muses on the irony that people were exercising their democratic rights ‘in the same place where people were detained and robbed of their freedom.’” 90 minutes, Spanish subtitles. The Language Exchange, 80 Exchange St. Cost: $10/person (to help with snacks, refreshments, and moderator’s fee). Moderator: Francisco Andreu.

‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Old Port Playhouse 7:30 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

7:30 p.m. “The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?” through Feb. 6 at Lucid Stage. “Martin — a hugely successful architect who has just turned fifty — leads an ostensibly ideal life with his loving wife and gay teenage son. But when he confides to his best friend that he is also in love with a goat (named Sylvia), he sets in motion events that will destroy his family and leave his life in tatters. Albee’s most provocative, daring, and controversial play since ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’.” Mad Horse Theatre Company is a resident, professional theatre ensemble based at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard. www.madhorse.com

Saturday, Jan. 22 Portland Police Award Breakfast

Cancer Community Center one-day symposium on personal growth and career advancement 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Join the Cancer Community Center and personal and professional development experts David Lee, Fran Liautaud and Michelle Neujahr for the second annual one-day symposium focusing on personal growth and career advancement. “Each workshop explores methods to transcend our limiting behaviors and discover our unique gifts and talents. The ideas and strategies will result in improved communication, better relationships, a stronger sense of direction and purpose and a greater ability to bring your talents and gifts into the world.” The symposium will take place at St. Maximilian Kolbe Church, 185 Blackpoint Road, Scarborough. Cost is $55 for the seminar and includes lunch. Each presentation will last an hour and will include opportunities for Q&A. There will be a one-hour lunch break, during which attendees are encouraged to network and visit personal growth and wellness exhibitor tables. There will also be a full session dedicated to net-

working and action planning, to ensure that our participants return home and can apply what they learned. Reservations can be made by calling 774-2200, online at www.CancerCommunityCenter.org or in person at the Cancer Community Center, 778 Main St. (Route 1) South Portland. The snow date for this event is Saturday, Feb. 5.

Nathan Clifford Elementary School packing party 9 a.m. to noon. Families, neighbors and staff at Nathan Clifford Elementary School in Portland will hold a packing party at the school to help prepare for the move to the new Ocean Avenue Elementary School (OAES). The move is slated to take place during the February vacation. Parents, children and community members will help the staff prepare by putting together boxes and filling them with books and other materials. Coffee and donuts will be provided. For more information, please contact Principal Beverly Coursey at coursb@portlandschools. org. Nathan Clifford is located at 180 Falmouth Street.

‘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.

‘Fiddler on the Roof’ 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. National Broadway Tour presented by Portland Ovations. “The Tony Award winning musical that has captured the hearts of people all over the world with its universal appeal comes to Portland. Based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ has been lauded by critics again and again. Filled with a rousing, heartwarming score, which includes ‘Tradition,’ ‘Matchmaker, Matchmaker,’ ‘If I Were A Rich Man’ and ‘Sunrise, Sunset,’ ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ is a timeless classic. No other musical has so magically woven music, dance, poignancy and laughter into such an electrifying and unforgettable experience. Merrill Auditorium. Pre-concert lecture: In City Hall, conference room 24 (entrance on Myrtle Street to the left of the Merrill Auditorium doors).

Soup and Stew Cook-off 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Soup and Stew Cook-off, Westbrook Eagles No. 2977, 89 Saco St., Westbrook. To enter, call Maggie at 310-8510. Entry fee is $5. To come to taste and vote: $5. see next page

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‘Best of Women in Harmony’ 7 p.m. Women in Harmony presents “Best of Women in Harmony,” a choral concert featuring songs about women’s experiences and work for social justice, on Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. and Jan. 23 at 4 p.m. at Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford Street, Portland.

Tickets are available at the Women in Harmony Web site (www.wihmaine. org). They also may be purchased at Longfellow Books and Starbird Music in Portland, Nonesuch Books in South Portland and at the door. Ticket prices are $12 in advance, $15 at the door and $10 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are free.

at 58 Alder St. in Portland. Five percent of all proceeds will go to EHSC. There will be a raffle to win a free Bayside Bowl cheese pizza at 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. for everyone who is out bowling to support EHSC. The Environmental Health Strategy Center is a Maine based nonprofit that works to reduce cancer and learning disabilities by eliminating exposure to toxic chemicals in everyday products and create new safe alternatives such as plastic made from Maine potatoes.

Assessment of national healthcare reform at Bates College in Lewiston

4:15 p.m. Joseph Newhouse, a professor of health policy and management at Harvard University and founding director of the university’s doctoral program in that field, visits Bates College in Lewiston to offer an assessment of the national healthcare reform enacted last year. “An economist known worldContra Dance at COA wide for his work on health and 7:30 p.m. Contra Dance with Big Moose health insurance issues, Newhouse Contra Dance Band and caller Chrissy is the John D. MacArthur Professor Fowler in College of the Atlantic’s Gates of Health Policy and Management, Center, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. Lesdirector of the Division of Health sons at 7:30 p.m., Dance begins at 8 Policy Research and Education, p.m. $6. Children free. www.coa.edu or The Portland Museum of Art is displaying the exhibition, Weston: Leaves of Grass, with works by Edward Weston from a chair of the Committee on Higher 288-5015. cross-country photo exploration. The Limited Editions Club of New York invited Weston to make photographs to illustrate Degrees in Health Policy and direcThe Peterson Project the club’s deluxe edition of Walt Whitman’s epic poem “Leaves of Grass.” (COURTESY IMAGE) tor of the Interfaculty Initiative in at Sunday River Health Policy. He is a member of his own television program in the 1950s and countless solo 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. BluesGraZZ music (acoustic blues, the faculties of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, recitals and performances around the world with orchestras bluegrass and jazz mash-up) by The Peterson Project at the Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public and chamber ensembles. Schubert, a Viennese composer Sunday River. The Peterson Project is a bluesgrazz acousHealth and the faculty of arts and sciences, as well as a facwho lived a short but astonishingly prolific life in the early tic trio (blues, bluegrass & jazz mash-up), formed in 2009. ulty research associate of the National Bureau of Economic 19th century, is known for melodies that attain both formal Working a single mic, they slide from one genre to another, Research.” This talk will take place in the Keck Classroom and lyrical elegance.

While he may be thought of more often sometimes mid-tune. Mark Peterson’s voice is smooth, his (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk). The for his contribution to vocal music, specifically the song and blues harmonica commanding; when not taking the lead it talk is sponsored by the Bates economics department and song-cycle forms, Schubert’s piano writing offers a brilliant supports the back beat for Mike Conant’s bluegrass-style is open to the public free of charge. For more information, distillation of his artistry. instrumentation (guitar, banjo, and occasionally frenetic please call 786-6490. fiddle). Keeping this train on the tracks is jazz standup bass‘Best of Women in Harmony’ ‘The Play About the Baby’ ist Tim Clough. Tim not only keeps the heartbeat going but 4 p.m. Women in Harmony presents “Best of Women in 7:30 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre’s Dark Night Series presents frequently takes this ensemble to places where the tracks Harmony,” a choral concert featuring songs about women’s “The Play About the Baby” Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdon’t go. It’s a work in process (that’s why it’s called a projexperiences and work for social justice, on Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. day evenings, Jan. 24 through Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. While ect); no two performances are the same. Part of the Legand Jan. 23 at 4 p.m. at Woodfords Congregational Church, Mad Horse Theatre Company’s production of Edward ends in the Grand Summit Hotel series, 97 Summit Drive, 202 Woodford Street, Portland. Tickets are available at the Albee’s “The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?” is being performed Newry. 824-3500. www.thepetersonproject.net Women in Harmony Web site (www.wihmaine.org). They on the Main Stage, the Company’s Dark Night Series also may be purchased at Longfellow Books and Starbird returns with the perfect companion piece, Albee’s The Play Music in Portland, Nonesuch Books in South Portland and Sunday, Jan. 23 About the Baby. By turns funny, mysterious and disturbat the door. Ticket prices are $12 in advance, $15 at the ing, The Play About the Baby concerns a young couple door and $10 for seniors and students. Children under 12 who have just had a baby, and the strange turn of events Peaks Island Independence Committee are free. that transpire when they are visited by an older man and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The Peaks Island Independence Commitwoman. Performances of the Dark Night Series run Monday Fur Cultural Revival peace rally tee is conducting a public meeting to provide an update on through Wednesday nights, when the theatre would other7 p.m. to 9 p.m. A Peace Rally for Darfur featuring the the progress of the independence bill that has been subwise be dark, giving theatre enthusiasts yet another chance film, “Violence Against Women and The Darfur Genomitted to the Maine Legislature. Peaks Island Community to experience the work of this living icon of the American cide” is planned at The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress Center Meeting discussion topics include the Indepentheatre. “The Play About the Baby” is directed by William St. Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community dence Bill and progress to date; work to do and standing Steele, Professor of Theatre at the University of Southern Center of Maine) presents a Peace Rally for Darfur, feacommittees; and the steps and rough tmeline for indepenMaine. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland. Suggested turing a showing of the documentary film, “Violence dence, which involve a legislative hearing, enactment of donation of $10. 899-3993, or order online at www.lucidAgainst Women and the Darfur Genocide.” This rally will the bill, negotiation on debt and asset issues, binding arbistage.com feature guest speakers from the local Darfuri commutration, and an Island-wide vote for ratification. For more nity, including El-Fadel Arbab, lecturer for Fur Cultural Tuesday, Jan. 25 information, please contact Rand Gee, (585) 451-9530 or Revival, and area activists. Also, the documentary film, email randgeeonpi@gmail.com “Violence Against Women and The Darfur Genocide,” ‘How to Succeed at Poetry without Really Trying’ The Maine Jewish Museum presents ‘The Thinking will be shown. “Violence Against Women and The Darfur at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Genocide” is a short documentary film produced by The Heart — the Life and Loves of Etty Hillesum’ 4 p.m. There are many ways to create poetry says Andrew Save Darfur Coalition. This film provides a background 2 p.m. “The Thinking Heart—the Life and Loves of Etty Periale, who is teaching at College of the Atlantic this term. on the genocide in Darfur and details the use of rape as Hillesum,” an ensemble performance work in two voices, Periale will be taking an innovative approach to talking about a weapon of war. Since 2003, more than 400,000 people with cello, based on the journal and letters of Etty Hillesum, writing poetry in a presentation he calls “Showing Up: Or have died in Darfur, Sudan. More than 2.7 million people a Dutch woman who opposed Nazism with compassion How to Succeed at Poetry without Really Trying.” The talk, have been displaced. Southern Maine boasts the largand love, will be presented at The Maine Jewish Museum, part of the college’s weekly Human Ecology Forum, will be est organized Darfuri refugee population in The United Etz Chaim Synagogue, 267 Congress St., Portland on in the college’s McCormick Lecture Hall. Periale, who works States.

Although Sudanese President Al-Bashir is now Sunday, Jan. 23, at 2 p.m. (Snow date Sunday, Jan. 30, at 2 as a puppeteer, playwright and poet, has the following to wanted by the international courts for war crimes, the p.m.) Admission is free. say about writing poetry: “There are all kinds of ways to genocide in Darfur continues. This rally is intended to ‘Sundays With Schubert’ create poetry. There is the flash of brilliance that floods your demonstrate support for the people of Darfur both here 3 p.m. Shining a light on one of the most important comentire being while relaxing in the bath, or when you notice in The United States and throughout the Darfuri diasposers of the Classical era, renowned pianist Frank Glazer that the stain on your favorite T-shirt looks exactly like Lady pora. It is free, and the public is encouraged to attend. performs three “Sundays With Schubert” programs at Bates Gaga. There is the passion ignited by a just cause. And then For further information, please contact El-Fadel Arbab at College in January and February. All at 3 p.m., the perforthere is the workmanlike decision to just show up, that is, 221-5197 or at elfadelfcr@gmail.com or visit www.furculmances take place on Jan. 23, 30 and Feb. 6 in the Olin to write every day, rain or shine, in sickness and in health, turalrevival.org.

Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Admiswhether you feel like it or not.” College of the Atlantic, 105 Monday, Jan. 24 sion is free, but tickets are required. For more information, Eden St., Bar Harbor For more information about the talk, please contact 786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu. An artist in which is free and open to all, contact John Visvader at jvisresidence at Bates since 1980, Glazer, of Topsham, is arguEnvironmental Health Strategy Center fundraiser vader@coa.edu or 801-5715. ably Maine’s best-known pianist. Turning 96 in February, he 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. The Environmental Health Strategy has enjoyed a long career marked by numerous recordings, Center will be holding a fundraiser at Bayside Bowl located see next page

‘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.

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DownEast Pride Alliance event 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “Business After Hours” Networking Event by the DownEast Pride Alliance at Yankee Lanes, 867 Riverside St., Portland. Snacks, cash bar and reserved bowling lanes will be provided.

“The DownEast Pride Alliance (DEPA) is a GLBTQ business networking group in Southern Maine meeting monthly at local establishments for ‘Business After Hours’ events that provide a safe forum for, and help strengthen, the local gay & gay-friendly business community. Bring business cards to share on our Media Table. No fees or RSVP to attend. All in the community are welcome to come for ‘cocktails & conversation.’” FMI www.depabusiness.com

Portland Trails’ 20th anniversary 5:30 p.m. Portland Trails kicks off its 20th anniversary year with its annual meeting at the Portland Public Library. The evening starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Lewis Gallery with a reception for Portland Trails Members and Volunteers with special guests, Portland Trails’ founders Tom Jewell, Nathan Smith, and Dick Spencer. Directly after the reception a presentation in the Rines Auditorium, “20 Years and Building: Stories from the Trail,” will be followed by special announcements, proclamations and an unveiling of the new 20th Anniversary Edition Portland Trails Map and Guide. This event is kindly sponsored by Woodard & Curran, with refreshments provided by Whole Foods Market and Shipyard Brewing Co. Portland Trails was founded in 1991 by Tom Jewell, Nathan Smith, and Dick Spencer, who envisioned a land trust with a mission to preserve open space and build a network of trails throughout Greater Portland. Over the past 20 years Portland Trails has created a network of over 35 miles of trail that support biking, walking, exercise and people powered commuting year round. The organization works to build and maintain the trails as well as to create events and guided walks year round to promote healthy outdoor activity. Portland Trails also houses the School Ground Greening Coalition which works with local schools to create naturally landscaped playgrounds and classroom curriculum that supports outdoor exploration and education. To RSVP (required) email info@trails. org or call 775-2511. The Portland Public Library is located at 5 Monument Square in Portland.

Rosemont crime watch meeting 7 p.m. Portland City Councilor Ed Suslovic and members of the Portland Police Department will host a meeting to help members of the Rosemont neighborhood establish a crime watch for the area. Senior Lead Officer for the neighborhood, Tim Farris, will present various strategies that can be used to establish a crime watch and help guide the neighborhood as they develop a program that best meets their needs and concerns. “This meeting is a great first step toward improving the safety of the Rosemont neighborhood and reducing crime,” said Councilor Suslovic. “When you organize the eyes and ears of a community, it not only allows the residents to feel safer and more in control of their neighborhood but it also brings people together to form a more close knit community. For more information about the meeting or crime watch efforts, contact Officer Tim Farris at 6508763 or timf@portlandmaine.gov. St. Ansgar’s Church, 515 Woodford St.

The Art of Delegating with Jim Millken 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Seminar — The Art of Delegating with Jim Millken. Chamber Offices, 60 Pearl Street, Portland. Free to Chamber members; $10 for nonmembers.

Jim Milliken is a consultant who specializes in helping individuals and organizations become more productive. He works on-site with executives and managers to

improve the processes and structures of organizations, and to provide customized skill-building training. He also presents classroom training, with workplace-based designs that emphasize practical skills in Project Management, Communication and Personal Productivity. Few things in the workplace are as difficult as delegation – or as important. Anyone in a position of supervision, management or leadership must be able to get results through the work of other people. The process must be reliable and effective. It must be handled without excessive duplicated effort, and it must produce a net gain in output and in the value of the mutual relationship. “Delegation is a special combination of teamwork, supervision and project management. When it is done well, it creates remarkable productivity. As a bonus, it provides a very satisfying growth process for everyone.”

Effective Caregiving with Michael Brescia 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Effective Caregiving with Michael Brescia. “Michael’s wife, Grace, passed away at age 46 in 2006 after a courageous battle with breast cancer.

What he learned about caregiving for his wife and children during the course of her illness. Most relevant for husbands and partners of women who have cancer; useful for anyone providing support to a loved one with cancer.” Free; pre-registration required. Phone: 774-2200; Email: info@ CancerCommunityCenter.org; Web: www. cancercommunitycenter.org/calendar. Visit 778 Main St. (Rte 1), South Portland.

Wednesday, Jan. 26 ‘Leading Edge School Choices’ 6:30 p.m. “The message of National School Choice Week is very simple: let parents decide which kind of school works best for their child. It might be a charter school (which is just another type of public school), a cyberschool, a private school, a religious school, or a traditional public school. Whichever option they choose, parents should have the right to decide which school will best help their child to learn and grow. Led by the Maine Center for Constitutional Studies, this event is part of National School Choice Week.” Bruno Behrend, director of education reform, The Heartland Institute; Ken Capron, CEO, Maine Center for Constitutional Studies are among the guests. 5:30 p.m. dinner ($25). Presentation begins after dinner at approximately at 6:30 p.m. Italian Heritage Center, 40 Westland Avenue, Portland.

Located behind Shaw’s Westgate. www. maineccs.org/wMCCS/Heartland.html or www.schoolchoiceweek.com

Thursday, Jan. 27 Developing an International Nonprofit 11:10 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. Florence Reed, president and founder of Sustainable Harvest International talks about Developing an International Nonprofit to Jay Friedlander’s Launching a New Venture class.

SHI is a nonprofit dedicated to working with rural Central American communities to implement sustainable land-use practices.

Straus Seminar Room in Turrets. College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. jfriedlander@coa.edu or 801-5716. Free.

‘Fracturing the Burning Glass’ 5 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art features “Fracturing the Burning Glass: Between Mirror and Meaning,” Jan. 26-April 10. Opening reception: Jan. 27. Gwenäel Bélanger, Susan Leopold, Daniel Rozin, Alyson Shotz. “Navigating the disparity between the actual and the understood, the artists in this exhibition break the plane of the mirror, suggesting that illumination comes not always from what is reflected, but from what light slips

through the cracks.” Artist Talk by Daniel Rozin on Feb. 10 at 3:30 p.m. in Osher Hall. http://www.meca.edu

‘Storytellers’ public reception at USM 5:30 p.m. University of Southern Maine’s Kate Chaney Chappell ’83 Center for Book Arts exhibit, “Storytellers,” will be on exhibit from Monday, Jan. 24 through Saturday, March 12, in the Unum Great Reading Room on the seventh floor of USM’s Glickman Family Library, 314 Forest Ave., Portland. There will be a free public reception and panel discussion to celebrate the opening of the exhibit at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 27 in Library’s University Events Room. The exhibit is free and open to the public during library hours: 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday; 7:45 a.m.-11 p.m., Monday-Thursday; 7:45 a.m. -8 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday. Closed holidays.

Guest Curator Henry Wolyniec was invited to curate this group show, which includes eight Maine artists who make it their business to ask questions by using their visual skills to tell stories that inquire, provoke and analyze.

Greta Bank, Patrick Corrigan, Carl Haase, Adriane Herman, Charlie Hewitt, Lisa Pixley, Alex Rheault, and David Wolfe will have work included in the show. Exhibitors Greta Bank, Adriane Herman and Carl Haase will participate in the Jan. 27 panel discussion. For information about library hours and access, call 780-4270.

Police to hear from gay community 6 p.m. Later this month, the City of Portland Police Department will host a forum with the city’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population to discuss safety concerns and ways the department can improve its relationship with the gay community. The forum will provide an opportunity for members of the GLBT community to share their thoughts openly and hear from the department about efforts to ensure that Portland is an inclusive and safe community for all.

“Easy access and open communication are basic tenants for how the police depart-

ment operates in Portland,” stated Portland Police Chief James Craig. “This forum provides members of the city’s gay community an opportunity to voice their concerns and be heard.” University of Southern Maine, Abromson Community Education Center, Room 213, 88 Bedford St. For more information about the forum, call 874-8601 or email lindaw@portlandmaine.gov.

Friday, Jan. 28 ‘The Nature of Woodwinds’ 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. The Portland Symphony Orchestra presents “The Nature of Woodwinds, ” an exploration of the musical sounds of nature, beginning in Lewiston on Jan. 28. Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston. The PSO Woodwind Quintet will compare elements of music: tempo, rhythm, and melody, with elements in nature: the seasons, weather, and wildlife. “The Nature of Woodwinds” will visit seven towns in Maine.

Sponsored by Time Warner Cable, Other KinderKonzerts will take place Thursday, Feb. 3 at 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. at East End Community School, Portland, and at 1 p.m. at Reiche Community School, Portland; Monday, Feb. 7 at 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Saco Museum, Saco; Friday, Feb. 11 at 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. at Fryeburg Academy Performing Arts Center, Fryeburg; Thursday, Feb. 17 at 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. at Windham High School, Windham; Friday, Feb. 18 at 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School, Brunswick; and Tuesday, March 1 at 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. at Margaret Chase Smith School, Sanford, and at 1 p.m. at Carl Lamb School, Sanford. KinderKonzert tickets are $4 per person. For reservations or additional information, email education@ portlandsymphony.org or call 773-6128. see next page

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Octopus’s Garden exhibit opening at COA 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Octopus’s Garden by Melita Westerlund at the Ethel H. Blum Gallery of College of the Atlantic. Gallery hours, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sculpture and two-dimensional work dedicated to coral, reflecting the artist’s fascination with and concern over the state of coral, which has deteriorated badly from pollution. College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. Jan. 28 through Feb. 17 cclinger@coa.edu, 288-5105 or 801-5733. Free.

Comedians of Chelsea Lately 7 p.m. Join Chelsea Lately regulars Loni Love, Natasha Leggero, Chuy and Josh Wolf live at the State Theatre in what is sure to be a side-splitting comedy show. The State Theatre is a historic venue located in Portland, Maine.

Originally opened in 1929 as a movie house, the theatre has experienced a lively history as a music venue and a porn house until it shuttered its doors in 2006. This year, New York City based promoters The Bowery Presents and regional promoter Alex Crothers have taken the reins to return the State Theatre to its original glory by modernizing the venue including refurbishing the stage, new seating and upgrades to the infrastructure, such as new sound and lighting, offering both artists and music lovers alike the best concert experience. Please note: Most material will be of an adult nature). For more information or to purchase tickets log on to http://www.statetheatreportland.com/ or call the State Theatre at 956-6000.

‘Little Shop of Horrors’ 7 p.m. Enjoy a bit of musical theater and help support a local high school! Come see the Casco Bay High School production of “Little Shop of Horrors” Jan. 28 and 29 on the Portland High School Stage at 7 p.m. Our diligent students have worked tirelessly to bring you this stellar show! Tickets are available at the door for just $5, so take some time to sample the arts without damaging your wallet. For more information, call 874-8160 and ask for Mr. Hale.

‘Paul Bunyan’ tour 7:30 p.m. Audiences in Portland, Westbrook, Peaks Island and Freeport will soon be treated to some wild and wooly chronicles of Maine’s own Paul Bunyan, Mighty Woodsman, Inventor of Logging, and Hero-Leader of the best band of jim-crackin’ rip-snortin’ rogues that ever tramped

the Maine woods, by The Figures of Speech Student Ensemble (FOSSE), an after-school program for students from Freeport High School, currently in its fourth year. The “Paul Bunyan” tour will open on Friday, Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mast Landing School in Freeport. The run continues on Sunday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Lucid Stage in Portland; on Friday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Warren Library in Westbrook, and on Sunday, Feb. 6 at 1 p.m. at the Peaks Island School. Funding for the development of “Paul Bunyan” comes from a grant from the Maine Arts Commission’s SMART program, as well as support from the Freeport Performing Arts Boosters. For more detailed information on locations, tickets, etc., go to www.figures.org/projects/ FOSSE or call Figures of Speech Theatre, 865-6355.

‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Old Port Playhouse 7:30 p.m. “The Wizard of Oz,” the sell-out hit musical returns to Old Port Playhouse with Gina Pardi returning as “Dorothy Gale.” 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.

Saturday, Jan. 29 Evergreen Cemetery walk 8:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. Portland Trails is excited to announce a 2011 Winter Walk series. This free series, made possible by a grant from Healthy Portland, is for adults and families with children who are making an effort to get more exercise, but are stymied when it comes to winter recreation. Participants are reminded to wear warm clothing, hats and gloves and bring snowshoes if there is adequate snow on the ground. Portland Trails has snow shoes available (free for members, $5/non-members) which can be reserved ahead of time. Please register for any walk by emailing info@trails. org or calling 775-2411. For more information or to check cancellations due to the weather go to www.trails.org. Caitlyn Horose will lead folks along the vast trail network at the Evergreen Cemetery. If there is enough snow people are encouraged to bring snow shoes or reserve some ahead of time from Portland Trails. Meet at Good Eats Boutique, 463 Stevens Ave.

‘Death and Survival in the Civil War’ 10 a.m. Spirits Alive, the advocacy group for Portland’s Eastern Cemetery will offer a three-lecture series of pre-

Alyson Shotz’s Luminous Harmonic (detail), acrylic mirror on aluminum, 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Derek Eller Gallery, New York.

This work is included in the upcoming exhibition “Fracturing the Burning Glass: Between Mirror and Meaning” on view at the ICA at Maine College of Art, Jan. 26 through April 10. (COURTESY PHOTO) sentations around the theme, “Death and Survival in the Civil War.” Supported in part with funding from the Maine Humanities Council, admission is free, but donations are suggested. The theme of the lecture series was chosen in support of the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War (2011-2015). “These lectures will offer insight into this country’s greatest national crisis in relation to death and dying. It is estimated that up to 700,000 people, or 2 percent of the population died in the War Between the States.” On Jan. 29 is “The Forest City Regiment: Death, Mourning and Loss” by Kim MacIsaac, director/curator of the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum on Peaks Island. Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St. Free, donations suggested. The Forest City Regiment included 1,046 men from southern and central Maine, and left Portland in July 1861. After 3 years, this fighting regiment mustered out only 193-the rest were killed in action, died from disease, were wounded, deserted, or transferred to other regiments. Visit the Fifth Maine Regiment’s website for more: http://www.fifthmainemuseum.org.

Support your H.O.M.E. Team!

Ever wonder when somebody is going to do something about the clearly troubled or horribly intoxicated people who sometimes make our streets difficult? Well, if you know about the “HOME teams,” you know somebody already is. And with great success.

It’s a simple idea: Trained teams who know what social services are available literally walk the beat, engaging merchants and street people and defusing problems. For shop keepers, it means a way to deal with a problem short of calling the cops – and it means a better, faster, cheaper access to help for those who needs it.

The HOME – or Homeless Outreach and Mobile Emergency – teams, are putting up impressive numbers (as reported in The Daily Sun): In the HOME team area – mostly downtown and in the Bayside neighborhood – the Portland Police Department reports a 23 percent drop in calls involving people who are intoxicated; • Police report a 55 percent drop, in that same area, in what are called “layouts,” meaning people too drunk to stand;

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