The Portland Daily Sun, Saturday, October 15, 2011

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Corps of Engineers, state both looking at dredging in harbor

BY DAVID CARKHUFF

It turns out the city's new $6 million deep-water pier isn't that deep.

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When the city christened its new cruise-ship pier this week to great fanfare, topped off by a ribbon-cutting with Gov. Paul LePage, the primary message was how the new state-funded "megaberth" could accommodate larger cruise ships in Portland Harbor.

But, as it turns out, work isn't done, and the state is looking at dredging Portland Harbor on the eastern end of the deep-water pier.

The Maine Port Authority sent out a "letter of intent" last month to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as an exploration of cost, route and amount of sediment removal so a shallow area near the pier can be deepened. see DREDGING page 8 RIGHT: A Portland Fire Department fire boat navigates in front of a cruise ship in Portland Harbor at the site of a new $6 million deep-water pier Wednesday. Dredging around the deep-water pier is in preliminary scoping, according to the Maine Port Authority. A federal agency will review the state’s plans. “We are coordinating whether they have to do any bottom sediment analysis, and if so how much and where, and that’s really at the stage we’re at now,” said Jay Clement,senior project manager for the U.S. Corps of Engineers, New England District. Maine Port Authority, as a subsidiary of the Maine Department of Transportation, would also need state and federal environmental permits, he said. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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Churches show a love of animals (NY Times) — As a boy in San Antonio, Paul Flotron helped his family raise miniature schnauzers. He was there for the dogs’ births, and his family showed the dogs at competitions all over Texas.

When he was 10, his family moved to St. Louis, where he accumulated “the Flotron Miniature Zoo,” including “dwarf crocodiles, African pancake tortoises, birds, boa constrictors, hermit crabs, fish, and always dogs.”

Today, Flotron runs Creature Comforts Great and Small, a St. Louis petcare business, and leads Noah’s Ark, a pet ministry of Grace Church, a large nondenominational Protestant church. Noah’s Ark runs a pet-food drive, supports a no-kill rescue, brings pets to visit the sick and infirm, and hosts a grief group for those who have lost a pet.

“We actually have Bible study and discuss passages that are animal related,” Flotron said.

In a culture obsessed with dogs and domestic pets of all kinds, religious groups are paying attention, too. Many megachurches, where members often meet in smaller affinity groups, are sponsoring groups for pet lovers. In 2007, the Humane Society hired a liaison to religious communities, and next month its Web site will start a directory of affiliated ministries.

In seminaries and divinity schools, the study of animals and religion is growing.

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Obama administration to scrap part of health care law (NY Times) — The Obama administration announced on Friday that it was scrapping a long-term care insurance program created by the new health care law because it just would not work. Premiums for the program, known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Support (or Class) Act, would be so high that very few people would sign up, officials said.

The program had a longtime champion in Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat

of Massachusetts, before his death from a brain tumor in August 2009 and was seen as a breakthrough in addressing the need for long-term care. But critics, including some Democrats, said they feared that it was unworkable. Some administration officials shared that concern, but did not speak up when the law was passed in March 2010.

Last month, workers were reassigned from the office that was developing the program, but at the time, Erin Shields, direc-

tor of communications for health issues at the federal Department of Health and Human Services, said only that the office was being “reduced” and that a study of the program was continuing.

“As we have said in the past, it is an open question whether the program will be implemented,” Ms. Shields said. “A Class program will only be implemented if it is fiscally solvent, self-sustaining and consistent with the statute.”

Kansas City bishop indicted Radioactive hot spots point in reporting of abuse by priest to wider problems in Tokyo KANSAS CITY, Mo. (NY Times) — The Roman Catholic bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Robert Finn, and the diocese he leads have been indicted by a county grand jury on a charge of failure to report suspected child abuse in the case of a priest who had been accused of taking lewd photographs of young girls.

The indictment is the first ever of a Catholic bishop in the 25 years since the scandal over sexual abuse by priests first became public in the United States.

Bishop Finn is accused of

neglecting to report abuse that occurred as recently as last year — almost 10 years since the nation’s Catholic bishops passed a charter pledging to report suspected abusers to law enforcement authorities. The bishop has acknowledged that he knew of the existence of the photos last December but did not turn them over to the police until May. During that period Bishop Finn and the diocese had reason to suspect that the priest, the Rev. Shawn Ratigan, might subject a child to abuse, the indictment said.

TOKYO (NY Times) — Takeo Hayashida signed on with a citizens’ group to test for radiation near his son’s baseball field in Tokyo after government officials told him they had no plans to check for fallout from the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Local officials said there was nothing to fear in the capital, 160 miles from the disaster zone.

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City’s planning and urban development director departing effective Oct. 28, Rees reports Penny St. Louis plans to leave her post as the city’s planning and urban development director at the end of the month in the pursuit of new professional opportunities, according to a city press release.

For nearly 14 years, St. Louis served the city in two capacities, first as associate corporation counsel and then as planning and urban development director, according to a press release by Portland City Manager Mark Rees. In 2008, St. Louis was asked by Portland City Manager Joseph Gray to oversee the reorganization of the Planning and Urban Development Department and lead efforts to revamp and streamline the department in a way that makes it

easier and more accessible to the public. “For the past three years, she led the overhaul of the city’s site plan standards, implemented a number of internal reorganizations to shift to a more customer service focus, and oversaw changes to the administration of the city’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program to ensure a fair and equitable application and allocation process,” Rees reported.

“Penny has been a real asset to the city and her positive impact within the department as well as across the city will be felt for many years to come,” Rees said. “No undertaking was too large or too challenging for her and I, as well as my predecessor Joe,

thank her heartily for her hard work and commitment to the city.”

During St. Louis’ tenure, she led efforts to reinvigorate the city’s waterfront through changes to the city’s Central Waterfront Zone; St. Louis also worked closely with local businesses and developers to ensure redevelopment or new development in previously depressed or blighted areas.

St. Louis’ last day of service will be Oct. 28. In the coming weeks, Rees will make announcements for an acting director of planning and urban development as well as a national search process.

— Staff Report

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Bulletin: Republicans and Democrats do something “Republicans and Democrats do something.” I kid you not. That was the headline I heard on the radio driving home. I switched channels and still heard it.

In Washington, it is news. Almost extraordinary. Is that pitiful or what?

The “something” in question was the congressional approval of trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia. The agreements, which have been in limbo for years, were sent to Congress by President Barack Obama for approval only nine days ago. Majorities in both Houses agreed that the free-trade agreements could help to create jobs in the United States, not to mention expanding access for Americans to competitive products made abroad.

The swift approval signals two things.

––––– First, the protectionism that Creators once dominated trade debates Syndicate — the very question of whether expanded free trade would create American jobs or cost them — seems to have lost out, to me at least, in favor of the right answer.

The history of protectionism is almost undisputed: It costs jobs, rather than saving or creating them. This is not to say that there aren’t those on both sides of the aisle who continue to disagree with the president and Congress. Still, consensus was achieved. Imagine that.

Second, these people are capable of working together and finding common ground if they choose to. Simple as that. The problem is that most of the time, they don’t. Now, I’m inclined to blame the Republicans for that, but that kind of blame game is exactly what most people don’t want.

People want Democrats and Republicans to work together, more than they want almost anything else in Washington. They want them to focus on jobs — that is, jobs for the voters, not the politicians. I really don’t think Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell scores points with anybody but the minority of Obama-haters in this country when he says that his priority in the next year is to see Obama defeated.

But I also fear that the president will not score points if it looks like he is picking fights in Congress for the sake of making the Republicans look bad.

Everybody who takes the oath of office pledges to put public welfare over partisan victory. I suppose McConnell would tell you that he believes the

Susan Estrich

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Parking wars heat up a notch Portland’s ever popular and highly efficient parking division is at it again.

Every year, when summer meanders into fall, there seems to be a lightning bolt of efficiency that passes through the parking department. Tickets for parking overtime at a meter appear with the swift certainty of monthly electrical bills, cats looking to be let in, and politicians banging on your doors looking for votes.

With this flurry of activity comes the boot. Those who might be described as parking scofflaws, having accumulated more than three tickets, are given the time-honored vehicle immobilization device known as the “boot.”

You are forced to pay off all your old tickets, plus the new ticket, and the boot fee before your car is unlocked from its new sidewalk home.

On Tuesday, wandering up to the offices of this paper in Longfellow Square, I caught sight of one of those boots. The difference between this one and a normal one was obvious.

It seemed to have gone through some sort of diabolical Doctor Evil shrinking process. Yeah, it was still the same industrial orange color, but shrunken a bit.

It was attached not to one of the

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist new mini smart cars that occupy the space of the average phone booth, but to a moped.

Yup, you heard it here first. The City of Portland is now booting mopeds.

On the surface, it seems kind of silly. You could actually just pick the damned things up and impound them, making the owners of such vehicles use their own boots to get down to the city impound lot and pick up their putt-putts.

Ticketing and parking wars have been the subject of much column fodder for many publications. Last year, the city seemed to go scooter crazy, between all the electrical ones, the bike conversion kits, the stand only models, and the less than 25cc weedwhacker ones that sound like you are being pursued by a swarm of particularly angry bees, on a diet of bath salts.

The city has even set aside areas of free parking just for

motorcycles and mopeds, on that whole sustainable transportation thing that has been the buzzword of local vehicular types. The free spaces fill up quickly, leaving the owners to seek alternative parking.

They seek it on the sidewalks, a big no-no that gets you a ticket. They seek it by chaining it to trees, another big negative.

They squeeze in between parking spaces. All of which gets you a ticket.

Now, the city has purchased at least one of the mini-boots, and used it Tuesday. On walking down the street and seeing it for the first time, the loud laughter gave way to the you’ve-got-to-be-kidding me response, before a final utterance of an acronym shared with the World Trampoline Federation.

To be fair, if it’s big enough to require a plate, it’s big enough to get a ticket. Scooters have to follow the same traffic laws as everyone else on the road, so they should be held to the same standard while parking on the side of it.

However, if three members of “Portland’s Scooter Army” (yes, I’m talking to a few special ladies out there that wanted to start a club) decide to stop for something to eat, all park in the same metered see HIGGINS page 5

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Jetport expansion improves ‘BosWash’ commute For anyone participating in the BosWash community economy – even if we don’t really call it that yet – the neighborhood just got an upgrade.

That came this week when, amid predictably lavish praise, the Portland International Jetport opened its new $75 million expansion. It comes with 145,000 square feet of new terminal space and hopes of dispelling any notion that the Jetport is anything less than a major regional airport.

The only downside? A slight loss of that “what the heck are they doing now?” feeling upon entering the construction zone.

The eventual success for the airport expansion, of course, will largely be functional – it does not matter how beautiful an airport is if you’re enjoying the splendid view during a 45-minute security-line process.

But the opening is a true milestone and comes only months after a fairly major study by the Cheapflight.com website identified our Jetport as the

Curtis Robinson ––––– Usually Reserved least expensive in the area, helping its management dispel the “drive to Boston” or, perhaps worse, “drive to Manchester” tendencies.

Jetport Director Paul Bradbury said as much in response to the study, telling reporters that the airport’s own research echos the findings and stressed that there are other savings in time and money for those using the Jetport.

A quick survey of a half dozen locals who use the airport offer support for that view, noting that you still have to shop around but the Jetport more than holds its own.

Taken together, the facility upgrade

When will parties work together?

ESTRICH from page 4

most important thing he can do for the public welfare is to elect a Republican president. And it’s easy for him to say that, because none of the Republican senators has to win a national election next fall. Indeed, most of them don’t even have to run in their home states. And even though every senator (like every alderman) sees a president when he shaves in the morning (or when she does her hair), none of them is running for president this time around, averting any claim that he or she is the leader of the do-nothing Senate.

As for Obama, he’s really left with few choices. If he doesn’t want to anger a good many Americans, especially swing voters, by playing tit-for-tat with McConnell, his only other option is to try to go over his head, to get out of Washington and try to win over the only audience Washington really cares about.

In the meantime, perhaps that audience will see in this trade bill approval a powerful reason to insist that if Washington could do it this week, it should be able to do it next week and the week after that — at least to the point that it’s reported as news and not a special bulletin from the front.

How small will we go with boots?

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spot, pay the meter fee and lunch happens to go long, do they get one ticket or three?

What about the whole bicycle thing? Do they get tickets? I’ve heard a few stories from friends this year telling me they were “advised” by members of the Portland PD to get a light for their bikes, as a bike without one is technically in violation at night.

Will we be building parking garages for scooters?

Optimistically, you can only use the things about nine months out of the year, and a couple of those requires stout gloves and a wind chill tolerance on par with wooly mammoths.

This latest foray into an exploratory field of

revenue enhancement for the city was interesting. The boots run around $385, according to the manufacturer’s website. That is a lot of scooter scofflaws to make even one of the devices pay for itself in any rea-

sonable amount of time.

But a hint. I found the place that makes the padlock keys. I wonder what the fine is for that.

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

This moped was found booted in Portland, apparently a new initiative by the city's parking division. (BOB HIGGINS PHOTO)

and the increasing perception of competitive pricing, all this brings us to some very subjective aspects of the BosWash economy, even if we don’t call it that yet.

First some background: BosWash is an increasingly commonly used term (well, by me) for the area from greater Boston to greater Washington, usually identified as being from Portland to Richmond, Virginia. It’s from 50 to 55 million people; that is more than Italy or Spain and we’re more densely populated per square mile than Japan. We account for 20 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, and if BosWash was an independent country we would have a top-10 economy and, I presume, a fortified border wall to keep our desperate Southern neighbors from accessing our quality of life.

(Wiki has a bunch more on BosWash.)

The conservative American Spectator magazine has embraced the oneregion concept by calling for creation of a new BosWash state that would draw the liberals into its confines and, we assume, have the social advantage of limiting them to only two senators.

They were kinda joking. I’m fairly sure they were joking.

The subjective comes when you move from the quantitative to the qualitative.

There is a virtually every-workday interchange between Portland and the cities of Washington and/or New York.

The 6 a.m. flight to the D.C. area can feel like a commuter shuttle, having

you in Northeast D.C. for a meeting by 9 a.m. for $65.

Granted, you have to land in Baltimore to get that price, but you hop the free shuttle and grab the next train into D.C. (travel hint, it’s not always the ACELA high-speed train) and you’re there.

(And, trust me on this, that can be just a bit unsettling if you once lived 30 miles outside the city and it took 90 minutes for that “local” commute.)

It’s always interesting to discover the “back story” of people who do the BosWash air-commute. But the core is usually a quality of life issue, even among families that moved to Maine after the 9-11 attacks.

And a huge part of that, apart from our relative absence of traffic stress, is the ease of using the local airport.

That’s why it was comforting to hear so much of the Jetport planning focused on “human scale” and aesthetic concerns about making sure travelers are arriving in (or coming home to) Maine, not some generic air terminal.

Granted, without competitive prices that just means we’re driving by a nicer airport on our way to Logan or Manchester. But, coupled with newly documented price advantages the airport is helping anchor Portland as the northernmost BosWash center.

Even if we don’t call it that yet.

(Curtis Robinson is founding editor of The Portland Daily Sun.)

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Mayoral candidates in their own words Question: Does Portland have a homelessness problem? Specifically, what if anything should the city council and the mayor do to reduce the number of people seeking food and shelter?

Nick Mavodones Age: 51 Occupation: Operations manager, Casco Bay Lines Neighborhood: Back Cove If there is one person who does not have a place to sleep, then there is a problem. Portland has a robust safety net and a strong network of social service agencies, but there is often a challenge in connecting the people who need services with the people who provide them.

In a global sense, we can reduce the number of people seeking emergency food and shelter assistance by making it easier to create jobs. People want to work, and if there are good paying jobs for them to do they will not be forced into a situation where they need assistance with basic necessities.

Another way to reduce homelessness is to increase graduation rates.

For many at risk teenagers, school is the only stable presence in their life.

Nationally, 75% of homeless youth have dropped out of school. Keeping children in school gives them the opportunity to overcome adversity in other parts of their life, and gives them the opportunity to succeed as adults.

Finally, we must provide sufficient funding for emergency food and shelter programs as well as substance abuse and mental health treatment programs. Having enough beds for people is necessary, but solving the root causes of homelessness is essential.

For most people, Portland is a great place to live. But poverty and homelessness deprive too many people access to the things that make our city great. I will continue to work with the community, businesses and advocates until every one of our neighbors has the opportunity to enjoy what is special about our city.

Charles Bragdon Age: 43 Occupation: Cab driver/newspaper publisher Neighborhood: Munjoy Hill The homeless problem has reached epic levels.

We can not continue to try and provide services to the homeless of the entire New England region and as it stands right now, that is exactly what we are doing. I am with the Governor on the residency requirement for services.

We should try to help local people before we continue to break ourselves helping everyone. The trick isn’t identifying who is local and who isn’t, that

is the easy part. If you have a piece of mail or an ID with a local address, then you obviously are local. I also understand that there are a lot of people who can’t do workfare, but we should also try to utilize those that can more productively. We need to stop giving all the handouts we do and start giving people a real hand up. I think we need to work more with local businesses and landlords and try to get more people back to work and off the street.

Hamza Haadoow Age: 36 Occupation: Assistant manager, Goodwill of Northern New England Neighborhood: East Deering Yes, Portland has homelessness problem.

As elected leader, I will put extra time to eliminate homelessness in the early stage by talking to the lenders and keeping Portlanders in their homes.

I am big believer that prevention is better than cure. Second we have to create jobs, jobs, jobs. Equal economic growth is important to our future.

Jed Rathband Age: 39 Occupation: Owner, Stones Throw Consulting Neighborhood: East Bayside Yes – I would consider anyone living on the streets to be “a problem.”

We have excellent services and a community committed to assisting this need, but we must work regionally and nationally to address this growing problem. If you look at the root causes of homelessness - lack of access to healthcare, domestic abuse, substance abuse, and mental illness - it all points to problems that affect society at large, and it’s not going to be solved solely by Portland citizens.

This is a problem that requires a new way in which we address economic development in the City. Those who are chronically homeless due to mental illness or substance abuse, or a combination of both, need acute services, which we have, and which we must provide affordably. However, aggravating this problem is the growing number of people who are slipping into the poverty abyss due to a stagnant economy.

Further, we must look for innovative partnerships between non-profit organizations and the city to provide the myriad of services that homelessness necessitates. A great example of this is the Milestone Foundation’s “Home Team.”

Finally, we must cultivate a community that better understands homelessness. As Hubert Humphrey once said, “The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.” Portland must do better.

Jodie Lapchick Age: 49 Occupation: Strategic Marketing Consultant Neighborhood: West End We do have a homelessness problem here and we need to do a much better job educating voters so they understand that investing in housing for people who are homeless would significantly reduce the cost of caring for this underserved population.

Permanent supportive housing programs in all areas offer a viable longterm solution to stabilizing the costs associated with housing for people who are homeless. The continued improved quality of life and appropriate care offered through permanent supportive housing is essential to the recovery process for people who had experienced homelessness. This effective housing intervention provides sustainable results and tangible cost savings while helping citizens resume stability in their path to recovery. Quality of life is returned to people at a cost less than providing no assistance.

For instance, service delivery costs are below pre-housing levels for tenants in Portland. Permanent supportive housing placements have reduced costs in the following areas: emergency room by 49%, incarceration by 87%, ambulance transportations by 53%, and police contacts by 51%, according to MaineHousing. Perhaps most relevant is the additional 46% reduction in Health Care costs representing a $264k decrease in health costs.

So we know what works. And with a new full-time Mayor, City Leadership can do a better job promoting the public interest and tax benefits of investing in permanent supportive housing.

Ethan Strimling Age: 43 Occupation: CEO of LearningWorks Neighborhood: West End As someone who has been the CEO of a social service agency for 14 years, I know that John F. Kennedy’s proclamation that the best social program is a job, rings very true. To that end, our first step in helping our homeless and hungry is strengthening our economy. Bringing jobs to Portland will stabilize the lives of many people living in our shelters and eating at our soup kitchens.

For the chronic homeless and those without the developmental assets to pull themselves up, we need more educational and life skills programs, like the ones we have at LearningWorks. We also need more programs like the collaborations Preble Street and AVESTA created at Florence House and Logan’s Place. These

organizations put many of the basic pieces in place that families need to rebuild their lives.

We also need to take the issue of people sleeping in our parks more seriously. For some reason, we have a laissez faire attitude not to intervene. This is neither good for the person sleeping on the bench, nor is it good for our city’s business climate.

Jill Duson Age: 57 Occupation: Retired Attorney; Former Director, Bureau of Rehabilitation Services, Maine Dept. of Labor Neighborhood: North Deering Portland’s population includes people who are homeless. Portland city council and policy makers should do all we can to reduce the circumstances that lead people to become homeless and hungry.

Portlanders, Mainers, Americans are worried about not just the faraway but the immediate future. So many of us are one unexpected illness or accident, one missed check, or bad breakup of a key business or personal partnership, away from ourselves becoming hungry and/or homeless. I support the city approach to partner with social service agencies to gain efficiencies and assure that families receive the help they need.

We elected officials should work to make certain that families in need are not invisible to us as we go about our daily lives. As Mayor, I will continue to reach out and engage with disadvantaged communities’ where they are. I will continue be a reliable volunteer at the Preble Street soup kitchen and visit with families while they wait in line at food distribution programs across the city.

Michael Brennan Age: 58 Occupation: Policy Associate at the Muskie School at the University of Southern Maine Neighborhood: Back Cove For the last 35 years, I have been deeply involved in trying to resolve issues related to emergency shelter, affordable housing, and homelessness. As the Executive Director of the Cumberland County Affordable Housing Venture, I helped raise over a million dollars to support the development of affordable housing and end homelessness. I served on Preble Street’s first Advisory Board and have worked closely with the agency ever since. I am proud of the strides Portland has made in assisting homeless persons, but I believe that see next page

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there is more we can do.

As mayor, I would focus attention on the need for transitional housing and supported living opportunities. Preble Street has been at the forefront of developing innovative solutions to homelessness with programs such as Logan Place and Florence House, models that should be used in the design of future initiatives. Furthermore, we need to focus additional attention on issues of employment, mental health, substance abuse, and services for veterans. More thought should be given to instituting evidence based practices that lead to better outcomes.

If a person graduates from high school, he/she immediately reduce their chances of being in poverty by 50%. Continuing to provide education and job training are key elements to reducing poverty and homelessness. I have always supported the concept of making work pay so that when people find jobs, particularly single parents, they do not loose day care, transportation, MaineCare and other support services. Finally, I have supported having a livable wage scale in Maine and increases to the minimum wage.

David Marshall Age: 33 Fine artist, landlord, gallery owner, and City Councilor Neighborhood: West End Portland is experiencing increasing homelessness due to the Great Recession. The issues we face in Portland are similar to those across the country and internationally. Around 70% of individuals seeking assistance in our shelters are from Maine with about half of the total from Portland. The remaining homeless individuals in our shelters – approximately 30% - are from other places and are returning Maine to be close to their families. As your Mayor, I will reduce the number of people seeking food and shelter by: 1. Incentivizing Housing First developments with federal funds and compliment this with professional support through collaborations with social service providers; 2. Developing more affordable housing using incentives to encourage mixed-use housing districts and building in vacant lots near the downtown and in the business corridors; 3. Attracting new businesses by promoting business assistance programs and updating the land-use codes; 4. Creating green jobs by incentivizing energy efficiency investments in buildings; 5. Expanding job training programs to assist homeless individuals in utilizing skills to reenter the work force; reforming the TIF policy to focus on creating jobs for Portland residents; 6. Creating permanently affordable artist live/work space using Housing and Urban Development funds in partnership with Creative Portland, other non-profit organizations, and private property owners; 7. Improving the volunteer opportunities for General Assistance recipients participating in the Work Fare program to increase skills, involvement in the community, and make connections

with residents and business owners; 8. Funding the Homeless Outreach Mobil Emergency Team to assist homeless individuals with accessing resources; 9. Partner with social service providers to support group homes for individuals with mental health issues and compliment with professional support.

Ralph Carmona Age: 60 Occupation: Civic Leader Neighborhood: Munjoy Hill Immigrants and poor people come in disproportionate numbers to urban centers like Portland because we provide public services that are not available in less diverse and smaller rural cities.

We need to deal honestly with issues like disorderly conduct from alcohol and drug addiction and lobby for shelters and affordable housing as steppingstones toward social stability. I will make a business case for affordable housing, along with the health and safety benefits when dealing with the addicted and mentally ill.

With less housing demand comes market shrinkage and homelessness.

An estimated 7,000 people were forced to stay in Portland emergency shelters last year. Short-term, especially during the winters, I will address the crisis of hunger and homeless as I would a natural disaster.

I will work City Hall to support local growth and lobby Augusta and Washington, D.C. to make the case for affordable housing. We need to make sure existing ordinances are implemented with affordability being integral to development projects.

I will advocate for affordable housing as a sustainable growth opportunity that increases Portland’s consumer demand and decreases carbon, safety and health care costs. It keeps the working poor within the city, and contributing to Portland’s economy means greater employee productivity and construction employment.

The average working poor make $22,500 for a family of four. A car costs an average $9,000 annually for those living outside of Portland. Affordable housing avoids the expense of car use and an estimated 20 miles per person average commute.

Good decent housing means decreased police and hospital emergency calls. With the development of Florence House and Logan Place, for example, such calls decreased dramatically.

Markos Miller Age: 43 Occupation: Teacher Neighborhood: Munjoy Hill Yes, we do have a homelessness problem; it is the problem of the entire state.

Portland’s mayor must communicate to August that we are taking care of people from across the state, and that we need greater support from the state.

Caring for the most vulnerable must be shared work; as mayor I will work with communities across the state so

that services can better be provided in local communities, keeping people connected to their communities and relieving some of the demands placed upon Portland. Portland has a big heart, but we can not be expected to do this work alone.

Homelessness and hunger are results of deeper social problems, including high housing costs, economically challenging times, and a lack of attention to drug, alcohol, and mental health issues. Spurring economic activity to create jobs and implementing policies to create more mixed-income housing is essential to address these issues. As mayor I will work with the council to advance such policies; particularly through the revitalization of Bayside.

Providing shelter beds is not enough to stabilize lives. Home First programs such as Logan and Florence Houses provide permanent supportive housing, laying a foundation on which residents can rebuild their lives. Milestones’ H.O.M.E. Team is a pro-active program that seeks to address issues of drugs, alcohol, and mental health issues, providing long-term solutions instead of short-term band aids. As mayor I will work with the community and social service providers so that such programs have the support they need to succeed.

Richard Dodge Age: 59 Occupation: commercial real estate broker, business owner Neighborhood: Deering I firmly believe that towns should take care of their own. For to long most of Maine and other states have been sending their unwanted to Portland.

I believe that we should take care of our own. We can not afford to take care of others at the expense of our own. Last check fully two-thirds of the shelter people were either from away or other towns in Maine. Yes, we do need to take care of our own, but other towns must do the same. I would buy each and every one not from Portland, a bus ticket home. This would free up limited resources to give our people a hand up.

Chris Vail Age: 40 Occupation: Portland Firefighter Neighborhood: North Deering Yes, Portland has a homeless problem. I have been in the Portland Fire Department since 1999 and see evidence of this every day on the job. I have not seen any of our city leader’s tackle this with any concentrated effort, focus or determination. The first action I will take regarding the homeless in Portland will be to call all of the parties involved to one table to resolve the shell game of responsibil-

ity that has been the historical norm.

I want to see the intelligent people from our public safety departments, hospitals, non-profits, soup kitchens, shelters and all groups, advocates and agencies in one meeting. I want everyone on one page and everyone to be accountable for answers, solutions and timely progress. I will be the face of responsibility that our common goals get accomplished and every entity involved will be held accountable for the success of resolving homelessness and hunger in Portland. We have plenty of resources, but I also believe we have abuses to the system.

I know we have interested and passionate people, but I know we are not channeling all of our efforts to the one common goal. I will call everyone to one table to make clear our goal, our schedule and our responsibilities. I will create a pool of resources and get the resolutions out onto the street and not be slowed by red tape or hindered by those who think they can take advantage of the system. We can do better and need to produce answers during this difficult economic time, when the populations of need are only going to be growing in the near future.

John Eder Age: 42 Occupation: grassroots organizer, mental health technician, student Neighborhood: West End Rents are too high in Portland. We know something is badly broken in our society when people are working full-time, yet still can’t meet their basic needs like food and shelter. As Mayor, my first approach to the issue of homelessness is to prevent it by getting affordable housing for working people of Portland, who are one check away from homelessness—before they fall through the cracks. We need basic, one-room efficiency units, like those at the former Portland Hall, on Congress Street. We need a lot of them, built sustainably, on the peninsula, affordable; without subsidies. We should give a tax break to spur this development. We’ll require living wage jobs be created for Portland residents in exchange for those tax breaks, or we’ll take them back. In this way, we can create jobs, raise wages in Portland, and get people housed. Currently, I work with people who have the misfortune of battling mental illness, addiction, and homelessness. These conditions lead to persistent homelessness. We can create self-sustainable, mental health consumer housing co-operatives, to form communities of support. According to the census, a migration of hundreds of thousands of people is coming to Maine in the next few decades. If we want Maine to stay beautiful, we need to build up in the downtown in order to avoid sprawling out. This issue of the people, who will come seeking shelter, needs to be addressed with planning and forethought. We are the other 99% and we must act now!

Editor’s Note: Next week, the candidates will discuss education and whether the mayor should be involved in our schools.

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“Constructed by Reed & Reed and funded by a Maine Transportation bond, the nearly 1,200-footlong Ocean Gateway Pier II doubles the city’s berthing capacity for cruise ships and other large commercial vessels, providing economic benefits to the city, region and state,” the city reports on its website.

“It's been very successful, the captains all love it, everyone we've spoken to,” said Robert Leeman, Maritime Manager for the Port of Portland. “The walkways and everything are very accessible, we've had nothing but good reports.”

But in the midst of another stellar cruise ship season, city officials saw this report in the Portland Press Herald: “The Caribbean Princess left abruptly Sept. 27 — surprising some of its passengers ashore — to ride out an astronomical low tide in deeper water. The ship, which draws 27 feet, could have been left less than a foot from the bottom, which is not enough clearance for comfort.”

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“The cruise ships knew what the tides were,” he said. “It was a cruise ship decision, it was something that was preplanned the night before,” Leeman said of the Caribbean Princess episode.

But Leeman added, “We need to do a little more dredging in that area (of the megaberth); we are affected on the extreme negative tides.”

Shallows in the deep?

Part of the deep-water pier is built over a hole that was created for the drydock for Bath Iron Works, before Bath Iron Works decided to leave the megaberth area in 1998.

“It’s just a matter of making the hole a little larger,” Henshaw said.

The plan was presented to then-Gov. John Baldacci but never executed.

“It was identified as a need at least as far back as 2010,” Henshaw said.

The pier area boasts depths of 65 feet, but the shallowest part or “controlling depth,” according to pilots, is 29.1 feet, he said.

A clearance under the keel of a ship of 1 foot is required when a ship is berthed, 2 feet when the ship is underway, Henshaw explained. Ideally, a pierarea dredging would bring the controlling depth in line with the rest of the channel, or 35 feet, he said.

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About 700,000 cubic yards of sediment would be dredged from the 35-foot channel under a federal proposal, which would also remove five rock “pinnacles” or ledges — totaling about 1,500 cubic yards — just above the 35-foot-deep plane.

Jay Clement, senior project manager for the U.S. Corps of Engineers, New England District, said shoaling, or accumulation of sand bars and sediment, is one problem in Portland Harbor.

“The Corps does routine and on-demand hydrographic surveys in which we have a survey boat that takes soundings and determines what the existing depths are relative to what we would like them to be or what they are supposed to be,” he said.

“We certainly have identified a need for dredging in Portland Harbor,” he said.

The U.S. Coast Guard maintains certain requirements for under-keel clearance for commercial vessels, in particular oil tankers, and shoaling and ledging could impede entrance into the harbor, possibly leading to a decline in traffic.

“Certainly, it could impede the ability of some ships to move in and out of Portland Harbor at particular times of the tide,” Clement said.

“Depending on the tide, the tide range in Portland Harbor is roughly 9 feet or so, 9 plus; at any given stage of the tide, what you have beneath you if you're a larger vessel varies. If you no longer have a 35-foot channel ... then you may be restricted to only being able to come into Portland Harbor at tidewater or high tide,” Clement explained.

Funding uncertainties So while the federal government is trying to secure funding to dredge Portland Harbor’s Fore River channel, the Maine Port Authority hopes to develop a separate plan and secure funding independently for its megaberth-dredging effort, Henshaw said.

"It would be a separate project," Henshaw said, although the state could try to coordinate use of dredging equipment if federal dredging were underway at the same time. But, based on wrangling in the U.S. Congress over the nation's deficit, officials say don't hold your breath for federal dredging to win a funding appropriation.

"I don't know that we would want to wait for the federal dredging," Henshaw said.

Willy Ritch, spokesman for U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, said Pingree met with a senior official at the Army Corps earlier this year “to basically express her frustration (over congressional inaction) with not getting this dredge done. She believes there should be more funding coming to projects like the one in Portland.”

But a bipartisan “supercommittee” in the U.S. Congress isn’t looking at appropriating money but rather trying to find cuts during what could be contentious deficit-reduction efforts.

“It's a tough environment, there's a lot of uncertainty because of the supercommittee,” Ritch said.

Ritch said Pingree appreciates the importance of keeping Portland Harbor navigable and that she has tried to push for appropriations.

“Dredging Portland Harbor is an excellent investment of federal funds, and it's really about economic development, all you have to do is look out at the harbor and see the cruise ships and the oil tankers and the container ships that come to the International Marine Terminal,” Ritch said.

In 1998, Portland became the largest port in the Northeast based on tonnage, according to the Port of Portland.

In 2009, the Port of Portland handled 21 tons of commerce, making it the 33rd busiest port in the United States, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Nineteen million tons of that total tonnage represented foreign imports, the Corps' Navigation Data Center reported.

Significant investment has gone into the harbor recently. The Ocean Gateway terminal, a city-owned

harborfront property, cost $20.7 million and was developing a plan but is expressing difficulty identifinanced by $3.6 million in city funds, $4.5 million in fying the approximately $100,000 needed to underfederal funds and $12.6 million of state funding, the take this activity,” the update report states. city’s website reports.

Also, the update report acknowledges a private Also, the Maine Port Authority has started a $5 see PIER page 10 million reconstruction project at the International Marine Terminal, according to media Portland’s reports.

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The Norwegian Jewel cruise ship calls to port at the Ocean Gateway terminal earlier this year. Large cruise ships are touted as an economic benefit for Portland, but finding a place where they can berth means providing a deep enough channel. “You’re competing with the Mississippi River, projects on the East Coast, projects on the Gulf Coast,” said Jay Clement, senior project manager for the U.S. Corps of Engineers, New England District, about finding congressional approval of $10 million or more to dredge Portland Harbor. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Ritch: ‘Dredging Portland Harbor is an excellent investment of federal funds’ PIER from page 9

effort by pier owners — now apparently tabled — to consider the excavation/dredging of 250,000 cubic yards of material in order to contain con-

taminated sediment from several private berths. This project would cost an estimated $9 million, the Army Corps estimated.

“We wouldn't expend any federal funds on this,” Karalius said. “If they

want to dredge in conjunction with the federal project, if they want to dredge some of their berths, that's $9 million they would have to spend.”

A sponsor for this project hasn’t emerged. It may be a tough enough challenge to secure a congressional appropriation for the federal dredging.

“There are some harbors in the state of Maine that are looking seriously at doing their own dredging,” Clement said.

Boston Harbor, Penobscot River and myriad other waterways vie for federal

funding, so Portland Harbor can only make sure it’s “shovel ready” — funding is in no way guaranteed.

“Commercially, it's one of Maine's most important ports, if not the most important port, but it has to compete for a relatively finite pot of money that exists at the national level,” Clement said.

Karalius concluded, “We have no funds for it, so it's still off in the future.

What we're doing now is the environmental coordination for the project.

We're trying to get all the approvals.”

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By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You won’t be sure if someone is being aggressive with you or is simply angry with the world. Either way, the best thing is to leave the hot heads behind as you steer toward tranquil horizons.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

Loved ones may inconvenience you, but you are happy for the opportunity to demonstrate your loyal and abiding affection. It’s nice, after all, to be needed.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

A bit of nostalgia calls you back and makes it difficult to let go of old stuff, even when you’re absolutely sure you have no use for it in your current incarnation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

Are you seeing romance or opportunity where it doesn’t exist? If so, pat yourself on the back. Not seeing it will ensure that it never exists. With your way, there will always be possibility.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You understand the many ways in which you are tremendously fortunate. As you get this at a very deep level, you’ll create the kind of good fortune that few experience in this lifetime.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 15).

You’re a supernova. The next six weeks show you taking risks to move your life in a new direction. You’ already will be passionate about a project when a partner adds fuel to your fire in November.

Family and special friendships end the year on a sweet note. There’s a fun plot twist in your professional life in February. Taurus and Gemini people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 25, 41, 3 and 40.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your chances of achieving one of your ambitions before the month is over are quite good. Much depends on the work you do today and your ability to repeat this work more or less daily.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You know what you want. Even when you think you don’t know, you realize that you’re just momentarily afraid to say it out loud or admit it to yourself. Boldly remind yourself now of what you already know.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). “What if?” isn’t always a good question to ask yourself. One upsetting question leads to another, e.g., “What if I said the wrong thing?” Behave as though there are no “ifs.” Be certain in your course.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Expectation will play a role in your success.

That’s why it’s important to imagine a happy outcome before you even begin a project. When the time comes, you’ll create what you imagined.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The winds of change will be more forceful than usual, so stay flexible. The more pliant you are the better you’ll handle all the excitement. The branch that bends won’t break.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You don’t know the possibilities unless you push past what everyone else is doing.

Your charming, sly smile makes it easier for you to do this. You won’t believe what you can get away with!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You feel inclined to favor fantasy over reality, and who could blame you? Your imagination is absolutely splendid. There’s a fine line between delusion and brilliance.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, Oct. 15, the 288th day of 2011. There are 77 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 15, 1951, the classic situation comedy “I Love Lucy” premiered on CBS with the episode “The Girls Want to Go to the Nightclub.”

On this date: In 1858, the seventh and final debate between senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place in Alton, Ill. In 1860, 11-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, N.Y., wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, suggesting he could improve his appearance by growing a beard.

In 1917, Dutch Dancer Mata Hari, convicted of spying for the Germans, was executed by a French firing squad outside Paris.

In 1928, the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin landed in Lakehurst, N.J., completing its first commercial flight across the Atlantic.

In 1945, the former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed for treason.

In 1946, Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering (GEH’-reeng) fatally poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.

In 1964, it was announced that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev (KROOSH’chef) had been removed from office.

In 1969, peace demonstrators staged activities across the country as part of a “moratorium” against the Vietnam War. In 1976, in the first debate of its kind between vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in Houston.

In 1991, despite sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, the Senate narrowly confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, 52-48.

One year ago: The Obama administration reported that the federal deficit had hit a near-record $1.3 trillion for the just-completed budget year.

Today’s Birthdays: Singer Barry McGuire is 76. Actress Linda Lavin is 74. Rock musician Don Stevenson (Moby Grape) is 69.

Actress-director Penny Marshall is 68.

Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Palmer is 66.

Singer-musician Richard Carpenter is 65.

Actor Victor Banerjee is 65. Tennis player Roscoe Tanner is 60. Singer Tito Jackson is 58. Actor-comedian Larry Miller is 58. Actor Jere Burns is 57. Actress Tanya Roberts is 56. Movie director Mira Nair is 54. Chef Emeril Lagasse is 52. Rock musician Mark Reznicek is 49. Singer Eric Benet is 45.

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Lewiston man faces murder charge in missing woman case

Report: Press Herald laying off 61 MaineToday Media this week announced plans to cut 61 jobs at the Portland Press Herald and three positions at newspapers it owns in Central Maine.

According to the Associated Press, the company announced Thursday that 38 full- and part-time workers were being laid off from Portland Press Herald.

Another 23 employees accepted voluntary layoffs.

Most of the layoffs were made in the news depart-

ment, AP reported.

The number of job cuts was well above the 40 layoffs announced by the company last month, which officials blamed on “declining revenue.” Two weeks after that initial announcement, the company raised the prices for its Monday through Saturday editions from 75 cents to $1 per copy.

Richard Connor, editor and publisher of the Press Herald, has repeatedly claimed in recent months that the company is profitable and growing.

“Our business is inextricably tied to the national economy so, like many other companies, we’ve had to confront declining revenue with a downsizing of the workforce,” Connor said in a statement to the AP. “Nevertheless, it is difficult to part with talented and loyal employees, some of whom have contributed many years of service to our company, and none of whom is responsible for the economic conditions in which we operate.”

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LEWISTON — Local and state authorities on Thursday arrested a Lewiston man and charged him with murder in connection with the death of Christiana Fesmire, who had been missing since July.

Buddy Robinson, 30, was arrested about 11:30 p.m. at his girlfriend’s house, on Gloucester Road, in New Gloucester, according to a State Police press release.

He was taken to the Androscoggin County Jail and made his first court appearance yesterday afternoon in Androscoggin Superior Court.

Robinson is accused of killing Fesmire, 22, who disappeared July 1. Her body has not been recovered.

Both victim and suspect were, at one time, residents of a two-unit apartment house on Highland Avenue in Lewiston, where police say Fesmire was killed and

her body transported elsewhere.

Police searched the apartment house in September and evidence from the building was analyzed at the State Police crime lab which lead investigators to conclude Fesmire was killed inside the building.

Robinson has been employed at a call center in Lewiston.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I am one of three sisters. Our mother is 93 years old and has Alzheimer’s. For the past four years, my 44-year-old son has been her full-time caregiver. He shops, cooks, does her laundry, makes sure she takes her medications and is up half the night helping her use the bathroom.

He listens to her complaints on a regular basis. He truly loves his grandma.

My older sister is in charge of Mom’s money. A year ago, I suggested that my son be paid for his caregiving services, and she decided he was worth $250 a month. Because my son takes care of his grandmother, he cannot work full time elsewhere. This is his primary occupation. He has put his life on hold because he doesn’t want his grandmother to go into a nursing home.

I don’t live close, but I see my mother every three weeks and stay with her overnight. Neither of my sisters will spend the night, so they don’t get the whole picture in terms of what my son has to deal with. I told my sister he needs a raise, and she said, reluctantly, that she’d give him $500 a month. However, doing so has caused friction between us, and now I am not speaking to either of them. I’ll reconsider when they offer to spend a couple of nights there.

I know my son is saving Mom a lot of money because no one else in our family would do what he does. His care is worth a million dollars to me, and I love him so much for taking on this job, yet he gets no praise from either of my sisters.

Am I wrong to resent them? -- In the Middle Dear Middle: Your son deserves both praise and remuneration for his caregiving. However, holding grudges and being resentful solves nothing. Make a few calls and find out how much a hired caregiver would cost in Mom’s area. Present this

information to your sisters so they have a better understanding of the value of the job. They may be unwilling or unable to pay your son what he’s worth, and your son may not insist on it. But tell them they can make it up to him by being more appreciative of his contributions.

Dear Annie: I am horrified watching young parents today raise their kids. When I raised my children, I fixed a meal and everybody ate it. Today, it’s short order for each child.

When I set a bedtime, the children said “good night,” brushed their teeth and went to bed. Today, children negotiate their bedtimes and often retire as late as their parents. When I organized an activity, everybody went. Today, if the kids don’t want to participate, it changes the routine for everyone. The kids think they are in charge, and they ARE. Please, parents, set some good examples, draw the lines, make rules, and stick to them. I say this for the benefit of our children. They are getting the wrong ideas about how the world works. If parents don’t wise up, these kids will be unfit to enter adulthood. -- Concerned Grandma Dear Concerned: Thank you. Nothing speaks with more authority than the voice of experience.

Dear Annie: I am an RN. “Wish There was a Time Machine” missed being in college. She said she is seeing a counselor and taking an antidepressant, but still feels awful. She is battling serious post-college depression.

She should consider a change in counselor. More importantly, she should see a therapist who can prescribe a different antidepressant that might work better for her. Some medications help, some don’t, and the wrong one could actually make things worse. Ongoing monitoring is necessary. Please make sure she knows. -- New York

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Saturday, Oct. 15 WENA’s Fall Neighborhood Clean-up 8 a.m. to noon. West End Neighborhood Association will hold its Fall Neighborhood Clean-up. Meet at Reiche Community Center to sign in and pick your area of responsibility.

Rakes, shovels, bags and gloves will be provided — bring your own gloves if you want. www.wenamaine.org

Journey of Elderism: The Spirituality of Aging 8 a.m. to noon. Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland. Saturdays, starting Oct. 15, 8 a.m. to noon. This is a facilitated salon for discussing and exploring our own personal journey and how we are facing our spiritual aging. ... This program is sponsored by Clay Atkinson and Ann Packard and will be facilitated by Pauli Juneau.

Pauli has had extensive related experience working with seniors and has facilitated a broad range of groups. Clay was involved in the revival of the salon process and he and Ann are now addressing aging issues at this stage of their lives. FMI or to register: 797-7240 or email office@A2U2.org.

Deering Players benefit costume sale 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Deering Players will be holding a benefit costume sale on the lawn of Deering High School (370 Stevens Ave., Portland). Costumes prices will range from 25 cents to $25. All proceeds will help fund the drama club’s activities for this year. A rain date is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 16.

Race to benefit Friends of the Eastern Prom 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Eastern Promenade. Casco Bay Cyclocross Race. The bicycle race, presented by Casco Bay Sports, benefits Friends of the Eastern Promenade.

Cyclocross combines mountain biking and road racing in a cross-country race that challenges riders’ bike-handling skills. The race, which will be run rain or shine, features a 1.5-mile loop weaving throughout the Eastern Prom, utilizing manmade and natural obstacles, steep climbs and unique downhills. Riders from across New England will be competing in the race. To volunteer at the event, please email Kristin at kristin@friendsofeasternpromenade.org.

Used Book Sale at the Falmouth Memorial Library 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Also Sunday from 1 to 5. Thousands of great books for all ages and interests. Fresh stock throughout Saturday. Sunday special sale: $3 for all you can fit in a bag. Bring your own bag. 781-2351.

Bradbury Mountain State Park hike 10 a.m. Located on Route 9 near Freeport (528 Hallowell Road, Pownal). Skill Level: Easy, 1 hour, half mile. Meeting Location: Summit Trailhead by the shelter. :”This easy hike provides beautiful views across forested lands all the way to the coast. Bradbury Mountain State Park is a great destination, especially for families with young children. This hike will take approximately one hour. Held rain or shine unless conditions are treacherous.” 688-4712.

Rockupy Maine!

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A concert and rally for the anti-Wall Street protest in Portland. Location is Congress Square. “Come celebrate the vibe and meet your fellow 99%! Find out about Occupy Maine.” www.occupymaine.com or email occupymaine@gmail.com.”

New Gloucester Community Fair 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The New Gloucester Historical Society will have a booth at the New Gloucester Community Fair, New Gloucester Fairgrounds, Bald Hill Road. All veterans with ties to New Gloucester are asked to come to the booth and add their names to the Honor Roll that the society has started.

Jack Sharkey, Paul Brady, Seamus Heaney, author Maurice Fitzpatrick and Shane Paul O’Doherty gather for a photo. Fitzpatrick is featured at the Maine Irish Heritage Center on Sunday. (COURTESY PHOTO) 741-5500, www.smccME.edu.

Pumpkin Festival noon to 4 p.m. The South Portland Skillin Elementary School PTA, in collaboration with a variety of local businesses, will be sponsoring this year’s family friendly Pumpkin Festival, rain or shine. Hundreds of pumpkins will be ripe for the picking from Skillin’s own Pumpkin Patch. There will be harvest themed activities, races, games and contests; including a cakewalk, scarecrow contest, hayrides, a mystical obstacle course, face painting, kids crafts and more!

Visitors can also experience intrigue and amazing insight from Skillin’s amazing Fortune Teller. There will be a variety of concessions selling tasty treats. Large pumpkins are only $5. Game and activity tickets are 50 cents each. The scarecrow contest is a $1 entry fee. Proceeds from the event will support the Skillin Elementary School PTA. The PTA wishes to thank all the festival sponsors, supporters and volunteers that have helped make this event successful.

Skillin Elementary School is located at 180 Wescott Road in South Portland. For more information on the Skillin School Pumpkin Festival, sponsorship, vendor or volunteer opportunities please e-mail SkillinSchoolPTA@Gmail.com.

Metropolitan Opera Live in HD in Fryeburg 1 p.m. The Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center in Fryeburg begins its third year participating in the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD. The Met’s 2011-12 season opens with Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, starring Anna Netrebko. Tickets are $26 for adults, $23 for seniors (65 plus) and $18 for students and are available for purchase online at www.fryeburgacademy.org/pac or by calling the Box Office at 935-9232. The theater is located at 18 Bradley St. on the Campus of Fryeburg Academy in Fryeburg. Parking is free.

Maine Home Movie Day

SMCC Fall Campus Open House

1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Maine Home Movie Day with Northeast Historic Film, at Maine Historical Society. “Do you have reels of old film in your attic that you’ve never been able to watch? Footage that captures a family event, community gathering, sporting match, or performance way back when? If so, we invite you to bring them to Maine Home Movie Day. Home Movie Day provides the opportunity to screen your 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm movies, get advice on their care and storage, and/or to just sit back and enjoy the films that others bring in. While many folks have such gems on their shelves or in their closets, most don’t have a projector or the knowledge to handle and assess their films. Archivists from Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport will be present to conduct on-site inspections and screen the films.” www.mainehistory.org

11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. A Fall Open House will be held at Southern Maine Community College. The event is open to anyone interested in learning more about the college and the 40 degree programs it has to offer. Faculty and current students will be on hand to answer questions along with staff members from Admissions and Financial Aid. Learn about the application process, academic programs, student activities and athletics, and enjoy a walking tour of the beautiful, oceanside campus. Prospective students can also learn about SMCC’s new Midcoast Campus in Brunswick, which opened for classes in August. For more information call

1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Nearly 50 young dancers from across southern Maine will take the stage Saturday, Oct. 15 and Saturday, Oct 22 as Maine State Ballet presents its version of the classic story, “Hansel and Gretel.” “The show features an imaginative set, intricately designed costumes, and the hauntingly beautiful music of Engelbert Humperdinck’s famous opera. It tells the tale of a brother and sister who get lost in the woods and stumble upon a Gingerbread House, where they must find a way to outwit the Gingerbread Witch before she outwits them.” “Hansel and Gretel” will be per-

White Cane Awareness Walk 10:30 a.m. 16th Annual White Cane Awareness Walk The walk starts and ends at Monument Square, will be a gathering place of vendors, music and entertainment. Donations are tax deductible. “There are over 100,000 Mainers who report they have trouble seeing even with corrective devices or who cannot see at all. Of these people, 40,000 can benefit from the services of The Iris Network — and the number is expected to double over the next 10-15 years! The Iris Network’s mission is to help people who are visually impaired or blind to attain independence and community integration.” Registration 9:30 a.m., Walk 10:30 a.m.

The walk starts and ends at Monument Square.

‘Hansel and Gretel’ in Falmouth

formed at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 15, and at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 22. Tickets are on sale for $15. They can be purchased at www.mainestateballet. org, or by calling 781-3587 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. The public also can buy tickets at the Maine State Ballet offices, 348 U.S. Route One, Falmouth.

‘The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow’ ballet 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow” presented by Portland Ballet Company at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center. $35 adults/$25 children 18 and under.

“Inspired by the timeless appeal of Washington Irving’s tale, Nell Shipman has created a dance that brings Ichabod Crane’s fearful imagination to life, combining humor and drama to tell the story of the famed headless horseman.

Who will win the heart of the lovely Katrina — townsman Brom Bones or itinerant teacher Ichabod Crane? Robert Lehman and the PBC Orchestra will play the commissioned music by composer Kirt Mosier.” https://tickets.porttix. com/public/show.asp

‘Life in a Day’ at the PMA 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. ”Oscar-winning film director Kevin Macdonald’s ‘Life in a Day’ was born out of a unique partnership between Ridley Scott’s Scott Free UK and YouTube. The film is a user-generated, feature-length documentary shot on a single day-July 24, 2010. Enlisted to capture a moment of the day on camera, the global community responded by submitting more than 80,000 videos to YouTube. The videos contained over 4,500 hours of deeply personal, powerful moments shot by contributors from Australia to Zambia, and from the heart of bustling major cities to some of the most remote places on Earth. Copresented by SPACE Gallery and The Portland Museum of Art. Saturday, Oct. 15, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Sunday, Oct,16, 2 p.m. Not Rated. Admission $7, at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square. www.portlandmuseum.org/events/movies.php

Snowlion Repertory Company fundraiser 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Portland’s newest professional theatre company, Snowlion Repertory Company, is pleased to announce a pay-what-you-can fundraiser sponsored by Steve & Renee’s Diner to benefit their inaugural production of the New England premiere of the Charles Dickens holiday musical “The Christmas Bride” which will run Dec. 15-21 at Lucid Stage in Portland. The All-You-Can-Eat Lasagna Dinner will be held Friday, Oct. 14 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Steve & Renee’s Diner, 500 Washington Ave., Portland. For the cost of a donation to the company, guests will be served lasagna with all the trimmings, dessert and coffee, and be treated to songs from the show. For more information visit www.snowlionrep.org or call 518-9305.

Portland Pirates open season at home 7 p.m. The Portland Pirates hockey team, which opened its 19th season of competition on the road against the Bridgeport Sound Tigers on Oct. 8, bring the action will open home for the 35th season of AHL action at the Cumberland County Civic Center, on Saturday, Oct. 15 when the Manchester Monarchs visit in a 7 p.m. start, featuring a JobsinME.com Magnetic Schedule giveaway. see next page

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–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– EVENTS CALENDAR––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– supporting Making Strides Against Breast Cancer are as unique and special as the story that motivates you. This is your opportunity to not only honor breast cancer survivors and remember people we have lost, but also to raise funds and awareness to help save lives and create a world with less breast cancer and more birthdays! This 3-mile walk (with a 1-mile option) is not a race; it is a celebration of survivorship, an occasion to express hope, and a shared goal to end a disease that threatens the lives of so many people we love. When you raise funds for a Making Strides event, you’re helping create a world with less breast cancer and more birthdays — where breast cancer never steals another year from anyone’s life.” http://makingstrides.acsevents.org

from preceding page

Sunday, Oct. 16 Fall Bird Walk on Eastern Prom 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Derek Lovitch of Freeport Wild Bird Supply will guide Friends of the Eastern Prom’s annual Fall Bird Walk in the peak of “scrubby-migrant” season. “We’ll seek out a variety of sparrows and other late passage migrants and hope for the rare-but-regular treats such as Dickcissel and Orange-crowned Warbler as well as osprey and shore birds.

Meet at 8 am at the bandstand at Fort Allen Park with your binoculars. Free for members of Friends of the Eastern Promenade, $5 for non-members. RSVP to kristin@friendsofeasternpromenade.org.”

Farm To Farm Ultra Run

Film screening, lecture: ‘The Boys of St.Columb’s’ 2 p.m. At the Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St., Portland, Maurice Fitzpatrick writer and film producer, will be featured. “Educated at Trinity College Dublin, Fitzpatrick was the producer and writer of the film ‘The Boys of St.Columb’s,’ and also the author of the similar titled book. ‘The Boys of St.Columb’s’ tells the story of the first generation of children to receive free secondary education as a result of the ground-breaking 1947 Education Act in Northern Ireland. This film tells the story of how the political and historical conditions of Northern Ireland altered as a result of the mass education of its population, culminating in the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1960s which drew its inspiration from the USA. The film uses St. Columb’s school in Derry, an excellent example of a school that underwent the shift from the day post-war years into the more liberal 1960s, as a lens to understand the effect of the 1947 legislation. St. Columb’s in Derry boasts two Nobel Prize winners — John Hume and Seamus Heaney among it’s many notable graduates. This appearance is supported by a grant from the Maine At 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, is the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, hosted by Friends of Casco Humanities Council.” www.mainehumanities.org Bay at the University of Southern Maine, Hannaford Hall, Portland. A reception to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Casco Baykeeper Joe Payne is included. (FILE PHOTO)

8:30 a.m. Registration is now open for the “Farm To Farm Ultra Run” between Crystal Spring Farm in Brunswick and Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport.

Running long for conservation and locally grown food in Maine, The Farm To Farm Ultra Run (F2F) is a long-distance, road-running event in Brunswick and Freeport, consisting of a 50 Mile, 50K, 25K, 50K Relay, 50-Mile Relay, and 1K Kids Run. “Replacing the well known and locally loved, Pennellville 50 mile ultra run, the F2F course connects Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport to Crystal Spring Farm CSA in Brunswick over rolling-to-flat roads that traverse woods and coastal farmland.

The start and finish of the race are both staged at Wolfe Neck Farm in Freeport which is offering a full harvest festival on race day including a hayride, pumpkin patch, end of race BBQ and a beer tent provided by Byrne’s Irish Pub. ... There will be a cookout and beer tent available after the race in Wolfe Neck Farm’s giant outdoor tent, so stick around. Meals will require a ticket. Runners and non-runners alike may purchase meal tickets. Meal tickets are $5 if purchased during online registration. Meal tickets will also be available for purchase on race day for $10. Farm to Farm is organized in partnership with the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust, Maine Track Club and Wolfe’s Neck Farm.” Farm to Farm is a “green” event, and its charitable purpose is to support conservation and locally-grown food in Maine. For more information or to register for the event go to: www.farmtofarmultrarun.com

Reiche International 5K 9:30 a.m. “Please join us for a beautiful 5-kilometer run through Portland’s scenic West End neighborhood in support of Maine’s most ethnically diverse school, Reiche Elementary. This will be a community event celebrating Reiche’s amazing international student body representing 32 nationalities! This year, we will feature a centipede division again. Four or more closely attached runners will participate as a team. See Entry Form for section to add your centipede team name. Participants are invited to wear a costume. Walkers are welcome. This year’s costume theme is Monsters. The race starts and ends at Reiche Elementary. The well-marked single loop course begins on Brackett Street and continues through the streets of the West End including Chadwick, Neal, Pine and Spring Streets. It includes one climb — behind the Western Prom Cemetery.

Otherwise it’s fast and flat.” All ages. Portland’s West End, starting at Reiche Elementary School at 166 Brackett St., Reiche International 5K. c/o Reiche PTO.

Author and speaker Doug Pagitt presentation at Portland church 9:30 a.m. Noted author and speaker Doug Pagitt will be speaking at Williston-Immanuel United Church. Pagitt, the author of “Church in the Inventive Age” and “A Christianity Worth Believing” will be leading Adult Forum and Worship. Adult Forum is at 9:30 and Worship is at 10:30. Pagitt is known as an innovative church leader and is the pastor of “Solomon’s Porch” in South Minneapolis. “WillistonImmanuel is a welcoming and affirming congregation, and is a member of the Maine UCC and American Baptist communities.” All activities of the former Williston-West Church and the former Immanuel Baptist Church are now functioning under the new name, Williston-Immanuel United Church. The new church continues “the active and loyal participation and affiliation with the regional associations, national denominations and ecumenical connections each has historically enjoyed. All programs of the new Church will take place at 156 High St. (across from the Eastland Park Hotel near Congress Street) in Portland.” For more information please call the church at 775-2301 or visit www. ibcportland.org.

Monday, Oct. 17

Sebago Lake State Park hike 10 a.m. Located just north of Portland off Route 302 in Casco (11 Park Access Road, Casco). Skill Level: Easy, 2 hours, 3 miles. Meeting Location: Day-use area boat launch.

“This easy 3-mile walk by the river offers pleasing views of a colorful wooded forest and is a great hike for families. We will explore the reasons behind the autumn color and seasonal changes with a Maine Forester and Park Ranger. This Hike will take approximately two hours. Dress appropriately for changing weather conditions. We recommend that you bring cameras, binoculars, snacks, and water.Held rain or shine unless conditions are treacherous.” For more information call 693-6231.

Step Up for Kids 10 a.m. and noon. Each year, Step Up for Kids brings together thousands of people to show widespread support for investments in children and families. Events across the states raise awareness among voters and political candidates regarding the issues American children face, among them access to early learning and after-school programs, poverty, child abuse and neglect and health care. Maine is observing the fourth annual Step Up for Kids Day by opening up the Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine, 142 Free St. in Portland, for free between 10 a.m. and noon.

Oakie the Acorn from Oakhurst Dairy will be joining in the festivities.

Old Orchard Beach Woofstock 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. “Come join family and friends (furry ones that is) for a fun filled day at the annual OOB Woofstock — held at the Old Orchard Beach Ballpark. Enjoy the various demonstrations, the pet parade and dog contest (don’t forget it’s close to Halloween so we’ll also be having a costume contest). Your mouth is going to water as you walk by all the food vendors. Grab something to eat and sit and listen to the band play. Do you want to see what animals are available for adoption? Visit one of the many animal rescue group tables — dogs, cats, rabbits, horses, just to name a few—to grab some information and ask those questions you’ve always wanted to know. Would you like to buy that special item for your dog—it’s getting close to Christmas y’know? There are a lot of unique items from various vendors. Does your dog or cat need a rabies shot? Maine law requires all dogs and cats to have rabies shots. This is a great time to get that discounted rabies shot.” OOB Ballpark.

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 11 a.m. 2011 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Portland walk, at Monument Square. “Your reasons for

Cell Phones and Cancer: Should We Be Concerned?

1 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Researchers, a former patient, a local legislator and others will be at the University of Southern Maine this coming Monday afternoon, October 17, to help increase knowledge and awareness of the potential risks of cell phone use. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Room 102 of the USM Wishcamper Center, Bedford Street, Portland. The event is hosted by the USM School of Nursing and Health Professions, in cooperation with the Environmental Health Trust. The trust was founded to educate individuals, health professionals and communities about environmental health risks and policy changes needed to reduce those risks. For more information, contact USM Professor of Nursing Helen Peake-Godin at 780-4140.

L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Colloquium Series 4:45 p.m. “J. Trevor Hughes will discuss the responsibility of businesses’ private consumer data and how the individual is affected in his lecture ‘Data Environmentalism.’ This installment of the L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Colloquium Series will be held at 4:45 p.m., University Events Room, Glickman Family Library on the Portland Campus. J. Trevor Hughes is president and CEO of the world’s largest association of privacy professionals and co-author of Privacy Law in Marketing, a continuously updated subscription-based CCH legal reference volume. In the 21st Century economy, consumer data has become both a strategic asset and a potential liability. Mr. Hughes will discuss the related legal expectations, privacy and disclosure concerns.” Followed by a short reception. This event is free and open to the public, but to ensure a seat RSVP at: http://jeffgramlich.org/colloquium/ registration/oct17/forms/form1.html or call 780-8232 for more information.

Film project: Orbit(film) 7 p.m. Orbit(film). Monday, Oct. 17, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, Oct. 19, 7 p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 23, 1 p.m. University of Southern Maine’s Southworth Planetarium, 96 Falmouth Road, Portland. Admission $8/$6 for kids 12 and under. Co-presented

by SPACE Gallery. www.space538.org. “Orbit(film) is a project that uses the art of cinema to inspire the art of science and education. A collaborative, 80-minute omnibus movie about our solar system, Orbit(film) is intended for all ages, as grade-schoolers will have their interest in art and science piqued, and older generations will have their youthful love of space renewed.” see next page

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Tuesday, Oct. 18 Know Your Employer Retirement Plan Options 6 p.m. Free Seminar — Roll It, Take It, Leave It, Move It: Know Your Employer Retirement Plan Options. Hosted

by Seth Cheikin, AAMS, Financial Advisor. Participants will learn more about: the five most common distribution options; avoid having the IRS withhold 20 percent of retirement distributions; special considerations if you own employer stock; factoring taxes, penalties, and investment options into your decision. Join us at Edward Jones, 251 US Rte. 1, Falmouth Shopping Center, second floor, Falmouth; Oct. 18 at 6 p.m. and Oct. 20 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

To reserve your place, call Carole Vreeland at 781-5057.

‘Art in the Streets’ event 7 p.m. The Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance will host its second Creative Conversation in the fall 2011 series, “Art in the Streets,” in Osher Hall at the Maine College of Art (MECA). Confirmed panelists to date include Mary Costigan of the City of Portland and Abbeth Russel, a local street artist and MECA student. The event is free and open to the public. The discussion follows a 5 p.m. meeting at Portland City Hall of the City’s Health and Recreation Committee where councilors will hear public comment on the proposed creation of a craft market. “We want Tuesday’s conversation to bring everyone interested in this issue up-to-date on the craft market proposal as well as the City’s rules regarding street artists,” said Jennifer Hutchins, PACA executive director. “It will also be a chance for artists, artisans, merchants and others to ask questions about how any changes in City policy might affect them.” Creative Conversations is a discussion series, hosted by PACA each spring and fall, designed to strengthen Portland’s arts and cultural network and to catalyze the community with information, insights, connections and opportunities. www.portlandarts.org

Foreside Garden Club 7 p.m. The next meeting of the Foreside Garden Club will be held at the Falmouth Public Library. The program will feature the preparation and use of herbal vinegars and oils.

Everyone will make and go home with a bottle of oil and a bottle of vinegar. There is a $3 fee for this one meeting.

All are welcome and encouraged to attend. FMI: call Mimi Hinkel at 829-3578.

Andy Andrews, motivational speaker 7 p.m. Presented by Begin Doing, a local company, Andy Andrews comes to Merrill Auditorium. “Andy Andrews is a NY Times best selling author, speaker and peak performance coach to Fortune 500 companies. He appears consistently on CNN, FOX news and ABC’s Good Morning America. His book, The Traveler’s Gift remained on the NY Times bestseller list for 17 weeks. His keynote address will be a combination of pure entertainment mixed with the same tips he’s given Fortune 500 companies to create success: personal, financial, and in other facets of life.” https://tickets. porttix.com/public/default.asp

Wednesday, Oct. 19 Avesta Housing appreciation luncheon noon to 1:30 p.m. Appreciation luncheon and Mike Yandell Award Presentation by Avesta Housing, 307 Cumberland Ave., at Grace Restaurant on Chestnut Street. Join Avesta officials as they express appreciation and share their story with the Avesta Housing community. RSVP to jturner@ avestahousing.org or 553-7777.

FoEP Annual Meeting & Elections 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. East End Community School. Friends of the Eastern Promenade Annual Meeting & Elections. “We’ll have a special presentation on the Fort Allen Park Restoration Project, committee reports and lots of time for socializing with fellow members and others interested in the Eastern Prom. Members will be electing the 2012 Board of Directors. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. at the East End Community School.”

Bob Higgins vs. The Mayoral Candidates 6:30 p.m. Bob Higgins vs. The Mayoral Candidates, Peaks Island Lecture Series. Baby sitting available; 5:35 p.m. ferry available for mainland residents. Higgins, a columnist for The Portland Daily Sun, also writes for Big Gonzo Politics.

At the Legion Hall.

Thursday, Oct. 20 AARP Driver Safety Class 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. An AARP Driver Safety Class for drivers age 50 and older will be presented at the AARP Maine State

Office, 1685 Congress St., Portland. The registration fee is $12 for AARP members, $14 for others. To register, phone Phil Chin, AARP volunteer instructor, at 846-0858. Because class size is limited, early registration is advised.

The Ultimate Seafood Splash noon to 2:30 p.m. The Ultimate Seafood Splash, Maine’s top chefs and fishermen prepare seafood sensations from coastal Maine waters at The Ultimate Seafood Splash, Ocean View Room. “There is truly something for everyone at this year’s Harvest on the Harbor. Whether a full-fledged foodie or an emerging gourmand this year’s events will offer tastes and temptations at every turn. From the Grand Tasting on the Harbor, to celebrity chefs and cooking demonstrations, to the Savory Samplings at the Marketplace filled with delectable food and wine samples. Fall Food & Wine Festival, Oct. 20-22. www.harvestontheharbor.com

Labyrinth Walk 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Trinity Episcopal at 580 Forest Ave. (entrance in rear) is offering its indoor Chartre-style labyrinth for meditative walks. Allow about 30 minutes. FMI 772-7421.

Sampson Center Catalyst for Change Award 5:30 p.m. “Howard M. Solomon of Bowdoinham, who has spent decades advocating for LGBT communities, will be the recipient of the 2011 Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine Catalyst for Change Award. The Sampson Center Catalyst for Change Award acknowledges an individual who has been in the forefront for change regarding diversity, equality, and human and civil rights in Maine.” Past recipients include Rabbi Harry Sky (2007), Dale McCormick (2008), Sallie Chandler (2009), and Allen Sockabasin (2010).” Solomon will be honored at an awards dinner at the Keeley Banquet Center, 178 Warren Ave., Portland. For tickets and further information please contact Susie R. Bock, 7804269, bocks@usm.maine.edu.

Halloween: Walk Among the Shadows 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. October 20-22 and Oct. 27-29, $10 per person, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., tours run every 15 minutes, by Spirits Alive at Eastern Cemetery. First-come, first-served In cooperation with Portland Playback & Acorn Productions. “Our annual fundraiser encourages attendees to feel the presence of those buried within on an evening tour of a spooky colonial graveyard. This year’s theme focuses on the spirits’ connection to the sea. These family-friendly tours are led by shrouded specters through the cemetery in groups. Tours depart about every 15 minutes and last up to 1 hour. The group stops at various points along Funeral Lane to hear the cemetery residents come to life and voice their strange tales against the eerie, dimly-lit, gravestone-filled background.” www.spiritsalive.org

Jonathan Lash presents Annual Coffin Lecture 7 p.m. Jonathan Lash, president of Hampshire College, will present the University of Maine School of Law’s 19th Annual Frank M. Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service.

Lash’s lecture, “Community, Rights and Climate: A Challenge for a Clever Species,” will take place in USM’s Hannaford Lecture Hall located in the Abromson Community Education Center at 88 Bedford St. in Portland. The annual Coffin lecture is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the USM parking garage on Bedford St. To attend, RSVP to Lexie Moras by calling 780-4344 or amoras@usm. maine.edu.

New Gloucester Historical Society 7 p.m. The next monthly meeting of the New Gloucester Historical Society will be held at the New Gloucester Meetinghouse, 389 Intervale Rd. (Rte. 231) (next to the Town Hall). The program will be about Moses Greenleaf, New Gloucester native and famous Maine geographer, presented by Holly Hurd. Members and the public are invited.

Refreshments served. Members’ business meeting follows.

Shakespeare’s ‘MacBeth’ 7:30 p.m. Join Freeport Factory Stage for Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” Halloween production. Three witches define the future for MacBeth, whose bloody rise to power results in catastrophe. This is Shakespeare at the height of his creative power. October 20 through Nov. 6, Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m. Special Halloween performance Monday, Oct. 31 at 7:30 p.m. No performance on Thursday, Nov. 3. Tickets are $19 general/$15 students and seniors. Special group rates available by calling the box office, 865-5505. www.Freeportfactory.com.

‘Monty Python’s Spamalot’ 8 p.m. “Monty Python’s Spamalot” National Broadway Tour, also Friday. Presented by Portland Ovations. “Winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Best Musical, Monty Python’s ‘Spamalot’ is the outrageous musical comedy lovingly ripped off from the film classic ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail.’ Based on the Tony Award-winning direction of Mike Nichol, with a book by Eric Idle and music and lyrics by the Grammy Award-winning team of Idle and John du Prez, ‘Spamalot’ tells the tale of King Arthur and his Knights of

the Round Table as they embark on their quest for the Holy Grail. Flying cows, killer rabbits, taunting Frenchman and show-stopping musical numbers are just a few of the reasons audiences everywhere are galloping to ‘Spamalot.’” https://tickets.porttix.com/public/default.asp

Friday, Oct. 21 Portland Expo Ski & Snowboard Tent Sale 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. The Portland Expo Ski & Snowboard Tent Sale begins Friday, Oct. 21, and runs through Sunday, Oct. 23, located at the Portland Expo Building, 239 Park Ave., Portland, and is presented by the Ski & Snowboard Liquidation Center in North Conway and Sport Thoma.

Maine Lobster Chef of the Year, part of Harvest on the Harbor noon to 2:30 p.m. Three lucky finalists have been selected to compete in this years Maine Lobster Chef of the Year competition. Kristian Burrin, Ryan Campbell, and Tom Regan will compete before a live audience of lobster enthusiasts, journalists and industry representatives to try to win the title of Lobster Chef of the Year. The audience will watch each finalist create their recipes featuring Maine Lobster and get a chance to taste a sample of each dish. Audience members, after being treated to three delicious dishes, will submit their votes for their favorite recipe and crown the 2011 Lobster Chef of the Year. Presented by the Maine Lobster Promotion Council, the annual Maine Lobster Chef of the Year cook-off competition helps celebrate and showcase Maine’s peak lobster harvest season by allowing the opportunity for esteemed Maine chefs to vie for the prestigious title. The Lobster Chef of the Year competition is a part of the larger Greater Portland Convention & Visitors Bureau’s culinary event Harvest on the Harbor at Ocean Gateway in Portland

Tales of Terror at Victoria Mansion 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Noted storyteller Lynne Cullen shares spine-tingling stories from 19th century writers as Victoria Mansion’s lights are dimmed to gaslight levels. This year’s selection includes “The Telltale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “Dracula’s Guest” by Bram Stoker; on Oct. 21 and 22 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. On Sunday, Oct. 23 at 6 p.m. the Mansion will host its first Family Fright Night which features “King o’ the Cats” by Joseph Jacobs and other spooky folktales for kids 10 and under. Admission: Adults $20; Museum Members $15; 17 and under $10. www.victoriamansion.org

2011 Halloween-Fest at Maine Wildlife Park 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 21 and Oct. 22, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Maine Wildlife Park’s ever growing and very popular eighth annual “Halloween-Fest” will run on both Friday and Saturday nights, Oct. 21 and Oct. 22 under the light of the waning moon. For more information, call the Maine Wildlife Park at 657-4977; or visit www.mainewildlifepark.com.

‘Sholem Aleichem’ 6:30 p.m. “Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness,” Friday, Oct. 21, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 22, 2 p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 23, 2 p.m. Movies at the Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets: $7 and available on the day of the show. For a complete list of movies, visit moviesatthemuseum.org.

First annual Portland Early Music Festival 7:30 p.m. An Age of Ayres: Song in 17th-century England and France. Fifteen Early Music Specialists come together to play the lute, harpsichord, cello, viola da gamba and violin will reverberate as they did centuries ago. Bach, Biber, Frescobaldi, Pachelbel and Purcell are just a few of the composers you will hear and enjoy. The audience can learn about early music instruments from some of the finest early music practitioners of the area. They can attend workshops on the lute and harpsichord, or listen to a lecture on violin and bow construction.lute, harpsichord, or listen to a lecture on violin and bow construction. Friday, Oct. 21 to Sunday, Oct. 23; Memorial Hall at Woodford’s Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland. Call 775-3356; www.portlandconservatory.net.

Congregation Bet Ha’am Service focuses on educating Maine’s recent immigrants 7:30 p.m. Congregation Bet Ha’am in South Portland will hold a special Shabbat service about the educational needs of Maine’s recent immigrants. An immigrant who is enrolled in adult education classes and working toward her GED will give the sermon. The service will provide information about how volunteers can tutor English language learners, help prepare people for the U.S. citizenship test and assist in adult education classes.

The service will include performance of a song by Bet Ha’am member Rita Kissen about her immigrant grandmother’s long-held desire to learn how to write her own name. Congregation Bet Ha’am is a Reform Jewish congregation with more than 350 household members. The synagogue is located at 81 Westbrook Street. All are welcome. For more information, please call 879-0028.

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Saturday, Oct. 15 Rockupy Maine! at Congress Square 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Congress Square (between Eastland Park Hotel and Portland Museum of Art), 10 a.m., march from Monument Square to Congress Square; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Stream Reggae; 1-1:30 p.m., Dead Trend; 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., DJ Psydways (Beltek Foundation) with MC Pensive (Sandbag); 3 p.m., rally featuring guest speaker Michael Hillard followed by a solidarity march; 4 p.m. to 5 p.m, Wood Burning Cat. “Free outdoor concert with Occupy Maine.

Come reclaim the public square with your fellow 99%! We’ll begin at Monument Square and march to Congress Square for music, chanting, discussion and a another march with some local organizations. Bring your own signs, noisemakers and voices.” Find out more at www.occupymaine.com or email occupymaine@gmail.com

Deep River with The Lomax 7:20 a.m. Steeped in the music of the 60’s and early 70’s, Deep River plays blues and rock from all era’s, together with original contributions from the band. At Mayo Street Arts. (www.myspace.com/thelomaxband/music). Followed

by Contradance with Soupbone (Southern Appalachian). www.williemcelroy.com/soupbone.html

Lucy Kaplansky at One Longfellow 8 p.m. “The Manhattan minstrel sings tenderly, provocatively, and always wisely, about being loved and being loveless, the loss of loved ones, and the sweet contagion of a small child’s wonder.” (The Boston Globe). Birdsong At Morning opens! One Longfellow Square. www.onelongfellowsquare.com

dilly dilly at Port City Music Hall 8 p.m. low fi, dreamy, songy type music ... soon to be expanded into much much more. One Night Only - a special welcome home performance — with Marion Grace Acoustic and The Last Sip. www.portcitymusichall.com

Cimarron at SPACE 9 p.m. The Cimarron Project is an ensemble dedicated to showcasing the diversity of Afro-Cuban music and dance at its most traditional — rumba, son, pillion, chanqui and other deeper forms. An extraordinary opportunity to hear six of NYC’s most sought after Cuban musicians: Roman Diaz, Onel Mulet, Yunior Terry, Yuniel Jimenez, Mauricio Herrera and Stevie Insua. Prepare for a captivating experience on the dance floor. The evening begins with a special performance of a double masquerade, featuring Cimarron’s lead dancer and Oscar Mokeme, Nigerian Chieftain and Director of Portland’s Museum of African Culture. SPACE Gallery, www.space538.org

Monday, Oct. 17 John Hiatt at The Landing at Pine Point 8 p.m. John Hiatt at The Landing at Pine Point, Scarborough. “To watch Hiatt these days is to wonder that he was ever a shoe-gazing folkie. These days, He prowls the stage, delivering the bluesy stuff in a whiskey-burn howl, shouting the rock stuff and fronting a formidable band that can turn on a dime, from ballads to bombast.” www.thelandingatpinepoint.com

Amos Lee has been out on tour throughout the summer debuting the new songs for delighted fans at major festivals including Denver’s Mile High Music Festival, San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music Festival, and the Minnesota State Fair in Minneapolis. On Thursday, Oct. 20, Lee will perform with Pieta Brown at the State Theatre. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Tuesday, Oct. 18

Saturday, Oct. 22

Spin Doctors at Port City

Gorham, Fiddle-icious Concert

7 p.m. Spin Doctors; performing “Pocket Full of Kryptonite” at Port City Music Hall. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Spin Doctors’ landmark debut album Pocket Full of Kryptonite, the band’s four original members — frontman Chris Barron, guitarist Eric Schenkman, bassist Mark White and drummer Aaron Comess — can still appreciate the uncanny, enduring musical rapport that’s allowed them to maintain the upbeat energy and restless creativity that first endeared them to their fiercely devoted fan base.” With pop artist James Maddock.

7:30 p.m. Maine’s Largest Fiddle Orchestra, 80-plus traditional musicians playing Quebecois, Scottish, Irish and Acadian tunes, step dancing and singing too! McCormack Performing Arts Center at Gorham High School, 41 Morrill Ave., Gorham. Tickets available at the door. Adults $10 and seniors and students $8. Also Sunday, Oct. 23 in Saco at Garland Auditorium at Thornton Academy, 438 Main St., at 2 p.m.

Tickets available at the door. FMI: www.fiddleicious.com

Thursday, Oct. 20

Sunday, Oct. 23 Barber, Bloch, and Schubert by the PSO

WCLZ presents: Amos Lee and Pieta Brown 7:30 p.m. WCLZ presents: Amos Lee and Pieta Brown at the State Theatre. Since the release of the Amos Lee album in 2005, the Philadelphia-born and –based former schoolteacher has been one of his generation’s most celebrated songwriters. After being named one of Rolling Stone’s “Top 10 Artists to Watch,” Lee quickly went on to tour with such giants as Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard, Paul Simon, and Elvis Costello. www.statetheatreportland.com

2:30 p.m. The Portland Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Music Director Robert Moody, presents Barber, Bloch, and Schubert’s “Great” at Merrill Auditorium. Visit www.portlandsymphony.org.

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Using up its nine lives? This black cat gets lucky

BY MICHAEL J. TOBIN SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

For Cabot the cat, there were three challenges going against him. He had been surrendered to the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland in Westbrook, he was 14 years old and he was black (not a popular color for adoptable animals, given superstition).

Fortunately, Christine Louise Marshall, director of Mad Horse Theatre's current production, "The Lieutenant of Inishmore," needed a cat for their show.

After much discussion with Animal Refuge League and Director of Operations Toni McLellan, Cabot the cat was chosen to star in the play. Good fortune got better when a Mad Horse company couple, Bari Robinson and Cait Hylan, decided to adopt Cabot and make him a permanent member of their family.

"Bari and I had been talking about getting a cat for a while now, particularly Bari," Hylan said. "We were interested in adopting an older one, but we didn't think the time was right. But given that the play needed a cat, and we were in a position to take one, we couldn't resist having one dropped into our

laps! He's been absolutely worth it!"

However, Animal Refuge League Executive Director, Patsy Murphy, said many animals aren't as fortunate.

"In the last six months, we have had 794 cats and 587 kittens surrendered to the shelter," Murphy said. "We've also had 479 dogs, 49 puppies, 55 rabbits and 212 other kinds of animals brought to us. There were 524 animals surrenders in August alone."

Murphy explains that there are several reasons they're seeing a rise in animal surrenders, especially at the beginning of the month when people are typically moving. However, the economy is playing a huge role in people's decision to give up their pets.

"Work situations change and people are losing their homes, forced to move into a rental property that doesn't allow pets," Murphy said. "Many people just can't afford the costs associated with animal care, from vet costs to food expense."

Murphy said that pets with medical issues are a challenge for many families on a limited income.

Animal surrenders are also caused by pets who don't get along with other pets or children in the house-

hold. Murphy sees pets arriving at Animal Refuge League because their owner has passed away or is admitted to a long-term care facility.

"Allergies to animals is also another reason people give up their pets," Murphy said.

Kari Waterman of Portland had to make the decision to give up two dogs when she lost her job last July. Still unemployed and a single mom with two kids, there was no way she could afford to care for her family and the dogs with all the mounting bills and expenses she was facing.

"It was like I was giving up my kids," Waterman said. "Those animals did not ask to come into our lives, we brought them in — making a commitment to love and care for them. Try telling your young kids that you have to get rid of their pets, try explaining it to them so they understand. I will never forget the look on my children's faces, they still cry. I'm so angry that I had to do it but what choice did I have?"

Murphy sympathizes with people like Waterman but said that there are options to help people, depending on the severity of the situation. see CAT page 20

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Rabelais has recently bought several large collections and has amassed one of the largest collections of cocktail books in the world, in addition to rare and out-of-print cookbooks or gastronomy books, Hoyt Lindgren said. “We are literally bursting at the seams."

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These rare books, while they rarely sell in the retail store, can fetch anywhere from $150 to $5,000 per copy at book fairs and other industry events.

But many are stacked in boxes kept in storage, the store's backroom and at the couple's home.

“Selling a rare book is like selling a fine bottle of wine or an expensive car … it’s usually a long conversation,” Hoyt Lindgren said. “One of the things we can do in the new space is have room for customers to come sit down and spend time with the books."

Meanwhile, changing consumer tastes and the growing popularity of E-books and Amazon.com have also affected Rabelais, although the owners say that wasn’t the reason they decided to move.

“It’s getting much harder for bookshops, not only because of E-books and Amazon, there is just an awful lot of pressure which adds up to a tough environment,” said Lindgren, who specializes in rare book sales and owned a rare book shop in New York City in the early 2000s.

Before settling on Biddeford, the owners looked in Brooklyn, Boston and other spots in Portland. The new site is affordable, close to the family’s home in Alfred and large enough to meet their needs, said Lindgren.

The Middle Street location will remain open through the holidays. The new store is unlikely to open until the “first quarter” of 2012, he said.

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BY CASEY CONLEY Rabelais, the food and wine-themed bookstore on Middle Street, will move to Biddeford next year and change its business model to focus on selling rare books, owners Samantha Hoyt Lindgren and Don Lindgren said this week.

When it opens in early 2012, the new store in North Dam Mill will have limited retail hours, but will be about three times as large as the current location, allowing more space to display and organize hundreds of boxes of antiquarian books the couple has acquired, Hoyt Lindgren said.

“It does take a lot of time and energy being here five, six, seven days a week,” she said, referring to the retail side of the business. “That is time and energy that … could be spent working with the antiquarian material."

The new store will also have a test kitchen that gives the owners a chance to try some of the recipes they discover in rare books.

The blog Portland Food Map first reported that Rabelais was moving.

Since it opened nearly five years ago, Rabelais has stoked Portland’s reputation as a leading food city.

The shop regularly hosted national authors and has been mentioned in several articles, including the New York Times.

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‘My dad said we didn’t have enough money to feed Shrek’ CAT from page 19

"Although there are no free vet services," Murphy said, "there are low-cost spay and neuter clinics and several veterinary offices will offer reduced cost clinics for vaccinations. For those that can afford it, pet insurance is also an option. There is care credit, which is a line of credit you apply for specifically for medical costs for people and animals."

Animal Refuge League has a pet pantry to help people who can't afford food for a short period of time. They also offer a Little Helpers program for adult cats with a litter of kittens. Animal Refuge League will take all the kittens when they are old enough and them spayed and neutered and then adopt them out. They will also provide the cat owner with a certificate to get the mom cat spayed.

Nine-year-old Ben Blanchard began to cry when he spoke of his cat, Shrek.

"My dad said we didn't have enough money to feed Shrek," Ben said. "I told him that he could have my food."

Ben's Dad, Jake, said the decision to give up their cat was one of the hardest things he had to do, but a necessary one.

"My wife was not working and I couldn't make ends meet working two jobs," Blanchard said. "We found a local family that took Shrek and Ben was able to visit.

One day, they told us that they had to give Shrek up because they were moving and they had given him to a shelter. We never found Shrek. That was a few months ago and Ben still cries. So do I." There is no slow period at the shelter, animals are being surrendered every day but, typically spring and summer are busiest times at Animal Refuge League. However, there has been an increase in homeless animals in the winter.

"We're getting those animals that have been surviving on the streets during the good weather," Murphy said. "Or the animals that have been part of a neighborhood community where multiple families

Mad Horse Theatre guest artists Bari Robinson and Cabot the cat.

(MICHAEL J. TOBIN PHOTO)

provide food. When the temperatures dip below zero, we see those animals at the shelter."

The recent abandonment of a four-week-old puppy named Puck, which was found Friday along a Buxton road, is not an isolated incident, according to Lynn McGhee, Animal Refuge League community relations manager. On Saturday a litter of 12 four-weekold kittens was brought into the Animal Refuge League by a good Samaritan who found them in a banana box along the River Road in Windham.

“When we got the kittens, they were starving and desperate for food," Sarah Ashe, Animal Refuge League feline manager said. "They were covered in fleas and it took over four hours to get them taken care of. It was heartbreaking.”

The kittens are now in foster care and appear to be doing well thanks to the person who found them and brought them to the Animal Refuge League.

“Animal cruelty is a crime and these incidents are being investigated.” Ashe said.

Because the Animal Refuge League does not euth-

anize due to space, the shelter is currently housing over 40 dogs alone and many more in foster homes.

"Foster homes are key to being able to handle large numbers of animals," Murphy said. "We also have great relationships with area rescue groups and shelters. In fact, we have partnered with Coastal Humane Society of Brunswick."

Murphy wants to stress the importance and responsibility an owner has when considering animal adoption and Animal Refuge League is doing its part in making sure it's a perfect fit. It's important to match adopters expectations with the animal's temperament, Murphy said. Using the ASPCA's Meet Your Match program, adopters fill out a survey and introduce people to animals who match their lifestyle,in an effort to begin a relationship and a dialogue with the potential adopter.

"This reduces incidences of animals being returned to the shelter because they were not a good fit for the family," Murphy said. "It also makes the family aware of their responsibilities as a pet owner and to make sure they can afford to take on a pet."

Pet owner Sam Parker was very vocal on the subject of owning a pet.

"People see how cute little kittens and puppies are and want to get them but they don't think about their longterm responsibility to these animals," Parker said. "People need to remember that these animals rely on you to take care of them, not just while they're young or it's convenient for you, they need you for the rest of their lives to survive. They love and give so much unconditionally and deserve the same back."

For Cabot the Cat, it's been a happy ending. For the over 180 cats at Animal Refuge League today and another 150 off site in foster homes, their fate has yet to be determined.

The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland is located at 449 Stroudwater St., Westbrook. For more information, call 854-9771 or go to www.arlgp.org.