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Contractor digs into natural gas upgrade for local schools

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Police were investigating the second robbery of a Portland pharmacy in less than 48 hours Wednesday morning, after a man used a note to demand prescription drugs from Hannaford’s Pharmacy.

Officials say the man approached the pharmacy counter at the Hannaford’s on Riverside Street at about 8:30 a.m. and passed a note demanding medication. No weapons were displayed during the robbery, said Lt. Gary Rogers, a Portland see CRIME page 6

Net neutralized: Irene-related damage downs region’s Internet

John Morin with New England Utility Constructors Inc. excavates for a new natural gas installation at Portland Arts and Technology High School Wednesday, part of a city and school effort to update its heating sources. The upgrades are part of an $11 million bond package approved by the Portland City Council about a year ago. Ten schools and eight city buildings will see energy savings, worth about $900,000, the city reports. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Relax, everyone. The Internet is back.

Time Warner Cable says stormrelated cable damage from Hurricane Irene was responsible for a nearly four-hour Internet blackout yesterday that affected 350,000 customers in Maine, New Hampshire and parts of Western Massachusetts.

“What happened is that our network was damaged by the storm, and then today what happened was ongoing flooding and storm damage impacted our backup system,” which at the time was being used as the company’s main fiber optic line for this region, said Andrew Russell, a Time Warner Cable communications manager. see INTERNET page 3

Asst. city manager leaving for Camden

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Assistant city manager Pat Finnigan, who earlier this year was passed over for the city's top administrative post, has been appointed town manager in Camden.

As Portland's second in command for the past four years, Finnigan has steered the city's economic development efforts and also worked on waterfront issues and with the city's state and federal congressional delegations.

Before that, she spent 13 years as Auburn's city manager.

Finnigan served as acting city manager for nearly six months after Joe

Gray retired in February. She was a finalist for the permanent city manager position but was ultimately passed over in favor of Mark Rees in a contentious 5-4 city council vote in late May. In an interview Finnigan yesterday, Finnigan admitted being disappointed that she did not get the manager job in Portland, but said it did not influence her decision to apply for the Camden job.

"I was pleased when got opportunity to serve as acting city manager and it reminded me how much I like being a city manager," Finnigan said.

"I was disappointed when I didn't get the (manager) job but everyone said, 'Things happen for a reason' ... and shortly afterward the job came open in Camden."

She adds that Camden has always been a place where she's wanted to work.

Finnigan is the latest high-profile departure from the city, which in the past year has lost a city clerk, a police chief, a city manager and now an assistant city manager, among others. see FINNIGAN page 6

Thousands still without power

The vacation pile

Manhattan to Manhattan Bus

‘Legally Blonde’ a live treat

See News Briefs on page 3

See Bob Higgins on page 4

See the story on page 7

See Michael Tobin’s review on page 8

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Heroes are back to No. 1 (NY Times) — When the latest issue of Justice League is released on Wednesday by DC Comics, it will be scrutinized like no other installment in the 76-year history of that publisher of superhero adventures.

Some readers may be drawn in by its cover depicting revised incarnations of Superman and Batman, or a story line that tells of a tense first meeting between these costumed characters before they became allies.

But DC is betting that more potential customers will be attracted by an insignia that boldly declares this to be issue No. 1 of Justice League; never mind the hundreds of chapters that came before it.

Starting on Wednesday, the publisher is resetting all 52 of its continuing series, including venerable titles like Action Comics and Detective Comics that introduced Superman and Batman in the 1930s, at issue No. 1, and using the opportunity to revise or jettison decades of continuity in the heroes’ fictional lives.

Within the DC universe, this new status quo is the result of efforts by the fleetfooted Flash to alter the course of history. But in the real world it is a last-ditch plan to counteract years of declining sales throughout the comics business.

The success or failure of this plan will have farreaching implications: it could alienate longtime fans for the sake of new readers. And it could portend a more widespread exhaustion with film and television projects that are adapted from comic books and that are constantly starting over from scratch.

In an entertainment industry that is perpetually looking to breathe new life into old properties, and that has planned several years of movies and multimedia projects about back-tobasics superheroes, this revisionist strategy could determine “whether or not DC Comics, as a comicbook publishing company, will continue in the future,” said Rich Johnston, a blogger who covers the comics business for the Web site Bleeding Cool. “There’s an awful lot at stake here, and that’s why they’ve thrown everything and the kitchen sink at this.”

DC, which is owned by Time Warner, has long lagged behind its rival Marvel Comics, the Disney-owned publisher of Spider-Man and Captain America, in market share if not audience enthusiasm.

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Debate debate: Boehner, Obama duel over timing of jobs speech Republican presidential debate at same time as proposed Obama speech

BY HELENE COOPER AND JACKIE CALMES THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — Any hopes that a kinder, gentler bipartisan Washington would surface once Congress returns after Labor Day were summarily dashed on Wednesday when President Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner clashed over, of all things, the date and time of the president’s much-awaited speech to the nation about his proposal to increase jobs and fix the economy.

Speaker John A. Boehner rejected President Obama’s request on Wednesday to address a joint session of Congress in a week.

In a surreal volley of letters — each released to the news media as soon as they went to their respective recipients — Mr. Boehner rejected a request from the president to address a joint session of Congress next Wednesday at 8 p.m.

The president opened hostilities first, since the date and the time that he asked for is exactly the date and the time that a Republican presidential debate — the first one featuring Gov. Rick Perry of Texas — is scheduled.

“No, of course not,” replied Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, when a reporter asked if the timing of speech was meant to play havoc with the Republican debate plans. He said that “one debate of many was not reason not to have a speech when we wanted to have it.”

However, when the White House wanted to have the speech is not, apparently, when Mr. Boehner wanted to have the speech. In an extraordinary turn, the House speaker fired back his own letter to the president saying, in a word, no. Might the president be able to reschedule for Sept. 8 instead?

“As the majority leader announced more than a month ago, the House will not be in session until Wednesday, Sept. 7, with votes at 6:30 that evening,” Mr. Boehner wrote. “With the significant amount of time, typically more than three hours, that is required to allow for a security sweep of the House chamber before receiving a president, it is my recommendation that your address be held on the following evening, when we can ensure there will be no parliamentary or logistical impediments that might detract from your remarks.”

Mr. Boehner did not specify what votes were scheduled for 6:30 that evening that could not be moved. The House calendar shows that members are expected to vote on the “suspension calendar,” generally minor bills like naming a post office.

Congressional historians said Mr. Boehner’s move was unprecedented.

“The Senate Historical Office knows of no instance in which Congress refused the president permission to speak before a joint session of Congress,” Betty K. Koed, associate historian with the Senate, said in an e-mail. “Permission to speak in a joint session is given by resolution of the House and Senate, and arrangements are made through the leadership offices of each chamber.”

For both Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehner, this now amounts to a very public game of chicken, at a time when public confidence in Washington to move beyond partisan bickering is at historic lows. The fracas

also has the potential to rattle already jittery markets.

“If the objective of the White House and Speaker Boehner was to demonstrate to the American people that they have gotten the message from the markets and from voters that our economic straits are so dire that it is time to set petty politics aside, they have failed before they started,” said David Rothkopf, a former Commerce Department official in the Clinton administration. “This childish gamesmanship regarding timing reconfirms to the world that Washington is a sandbox full of petulant children who don’t play well together.”

He called Wednesday’s antics “late-summer silliness.”

In fact, Mr. Obama’s initial proposal to go head to head with the candidates’ debate immediately became fodder for heated talk-radio discussion over whether the president was trying to upstage the televised event.

Before Mr. Boehner said that a joint session on Wednesday would not work, the debate’s sponsors had said their event would go on as planned — potentially creating a lively opportunity for counterprogramming. The sponsors did not specify a time for the debate, leaving open the possibility that it would take place after a presidential address.

“We are thrilled that we now have a terrific opportunity to hear from national leaders of both major parties about the most pressing domestic issues facing the country,” the sponsors said in a statement.

Still, the political gamesmanship also leaves little hope of compromise once the maneuvering over the optics of the speech gives way to the actual speech, and the White House promise for job growth proposals and plans to get the economy moving.

U.S. moves to block merger between AT&T and T-Mobile

BY EDWARD WYATT THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday sued to block the proposed $39 billion merger between the cellphone giants AT&T and T-Mobile USA, arguing that keeping them separate would preserve competition in the wireless industry and even help save jobs of American workers.

In a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court here, the Justice Department argued that the proposed deal, which would join the nation’s second- and fourth-largest wireless phone carriers, would result in higher prices and give consumers fewer innovative products. The companies disputed those assertions, and labor unions that support the deal said that

the merger would add jobs, not cost them.

“The view that this administration has is that through innovation and through competition, we create jobs,” said James M. Cole, the deputy attorney general, at a news conference announcing the lawsuit. Mergers usually reduce jobs through the elimination of redundancies, he said, “so we see this as a move that will help protect jobs in the economy, not a move that is going in any way to reduce them.”

The lawsuit, which could take years to wind its way through the courts, sets up a prominent antitrust battle — a rarity since the election of President Obama, who campaigned with promises to revitalize the Justice Department’s policing of mergers and their effects on competition, which he said had declined significantly under the Bush

administration.

AT&T said it would fight the lawsuit.

“We plan to ask for an expedited hearing so the enormous benefits of this merger can be fully reviewed,” Wayne Watts, an executive vice president and general counsel at AT&T, said in a statement. “The D.O.J. has the burden of proving alleged anticompetitive effects, and we intend to vigorously contest this matter in court.”

Deutsche Telekom, the German parent of T-Mobile USA, said that the Justice Department “failed to acknowledge the robust competition in the U.S. wireless telecommunications industry and the tremendous efficiencies associated with the proposed transaction, which would lead to significant customer, shareholder and public benefits.”

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Backup line was located somewhere in Vermont INTERNET from page one

Russell said the backup line was located somewhere in Vermont, but said security reasons precluded him from offering a more precise location.

“Our system is built on redundancies, we have them all over New England,” he explained. “In this case, one of the redundant lines was (serving as) the backup, and that got damaged.”

The Internet (as well as other Time Warner Services such as digital phone and certain television channels) went down at about 2:30 p.m. yesterday. Service was restored at about 6 p.m. Wednesday after crews repaired the affected fiber optic line which is exactly as it sounds — a large tube with “dozens upon dozens” of fiber strands.

“When (a line) breaks, you can’t just splice it together, you have to do it individually,” Russell said.

While losing the Internet was no doubt an inconvenience for many office workers, it meant lost sales for numerous businesses that lost access to a credit card reader.

Russell called the outage an “unusual event,” and said the company appreciates its customers’ patience. He said the company is working to repair all of its stormdamaged networks to prevent another outage.

LEFT: Catherine Wygant works the Internet at Hurley Travel Experts on Cumberland Avenue in this file image. Time Warner customers found themselves going through Internet withdrawals Wednesday due to a lengthy outage of service. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

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Thousands still without power

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Central Maine Power reported nearly 30,000 customers still waiting for their lights to be turned back on three days after Tropical Storm Irene knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of Mainers.

At least 10,500 Cumberland County customers were in the dark Wednesday evening as crews hoped to restore electricity to all by 20,000 customers by the end of the night. The storm caused outages in all 14 counties served by the company and there were 102 towns in 10 counties still without power yesterday.

“We had set a goal of getting down to 25,000 outages, and with the progress we've made so far, it looks like we’ll beat that by the end of the day," Tom Depeter, CMP's director of operations, said in a news release.

The storm affected utilities at least 310,000 Maine homes and businesses.

CMP said it received additional crews from as far as Nova Scotia to help with the repair effort after nearly 250 poles were broken over the course of the storm.

A spokesman for the company, John Carroll, said officials felt they were on track to have power restored to 100 percent of its customers by sometime late tonight.

The Maine Emergency Management Agency issued a statement Wednesday asking residents to stay clear of all emergency crews working to clear debris and repair lines, citing safety concerns.

“It's a natural thing to want to approach and speak with workers in your neighborhood,” stated

MEMA Director Rob McAleer. "However, it is never safe to enter a work area, whether it is road repair, tree work or line repair. Please allow these workers to focus on their repairs. This will allow them to get the job done that much quicker."

He said residents can call the state's toll-free outage reporting line at 1-800-696-1000 for updated information.

Man burns to death in Westbrook; police suspect accidental cause Westbrook police say a man burned to death Wednesday after he may have accidentally ignited his oxygen tank by smoking a cigarette.

Officials say Gerald Demers, 63, was outside of his 9 Tramway Lane home and possibly smoking while using oxygen. Emergency officials responded to a call of a man on fire and said he was nonresponsive by the time they arrived.

The State Fire Marshal's Office was assisting in investigating the incident.

Demers was on the front porch of the building.

Officials received the call at about 4 a.m.

Police identify suspected carbon monoxide poisoning victims The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office released the names of a couple in their 80s suspected of succumbing to carbon monoxide poisoning Tuesday.

Lewis and Elizabeth Somers, 85 and 84, respectively, and from Lafayette Hill, Penn., were found dead in the Raymond home they both owned, police

said. Officials were called to the residence at 76 Musson Road when a neighbor found them unconscious after checking on their welfare.

When emergency officials arrived they found high levels of carbon monoxide inside the residence and a running generator in the basement, police said. Their power was knocked out from Tropical Storm Irene.

State health officials reported numerous other cases of carbon monoxide poisoning the day of their death, but none of the other known cases of exposure to the deadly gas resulted in fatalities.

Carbon monoxide is an orderless, colorless and tasteless gas that deprives the body of oxygen. Exposure to high levels of it can cause death in a short period of time, officials said. Health officials warn that generators should never be inside closed spaces or within 15 feet of a building.

Town searches for tree cutter culprit Town of Raymond police and officials are on the hunt for a person who they say destroyed a cityowned tree.

Raymond's town manager, Don Willard, issued a statement Wednesday asking anyone with information to come forward regarding the person who sawed down one of the town's ornamental maple shade trees.

Officials are offering a $500 reward for information leading to the successful prosecution of the person or persons who destroyed the tree. It was planted near Route 302 at the end of County Road, officials said.

The tree was cut down sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning, Willard said. He estimates it will cost the town $2,500 to replace the tree.

Willard released a photo of the damage, which shows the tree was never moved after it was cut down.

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Obama’s last economic policy chance President Obama’s post-Labor Day “jobs” speech will be his last chance to launch an economic policy with any chance of manifesting its effect — both economic and political — before the November 2012 elections.

He has three options. In order of descending likelihood they are: a timid hodgepodge of previous proposals, a bold left of center initiative or a turn to free markets “nuclear option.”

It’s that nuclear option that is the most fascinating and most unlikely. He could decide to embrace all the major Republican, Tea Party, free market ideas: marginal business and personal tax rate cuts (leading to a net tax cut); big discretionary spending cuts to be imple––––– mented before the 2012 election; Creators genuine long term reductions in Syndicate Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security costs written into law now; major deregulation — including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dodd-Frank financial burdens and nanny-state consumer regulations; unlimited oil- and gas-drilling, and shale-fracking authorization; permanent extension of the Bush tax cuts, repeal of the double tax on American corporations’ foreign profits, limits on unemployment

Tony Blankley

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The vacation pile I’ve never been one for taking much time off work. In the last three years, it comes out to about a day off, so the whole week of vacation is kind of a waste, with the exception of that extra paycheck.

During the whole mayoral debacle of the previous week, that option wasn’t even there.

There was a pile of things to write about before leaving, one that seemed to need some sort of structural support involving concrete and cables. On my return, the pile had grown to something you’d need binoculars to see the top of, almost dense enough to have its own gravitational field.

Hence, the whole “hating vacations” thing. Sooner or later, you just have to deal with the pile.

The only way to do so at this point is to wade in and start digging, perhaps divide the update into two separate bits to get it done faster.

Word came to me a few days ago about a happy coincidence.

Back in early summer, I helped out a bit at the “Big Lebowski” film showing at One Longfellow Square. A friend passed on some happy news, that he and his girlfriend were fairly sure that night was the “bingo” night. They are expecting. I passed on the word to

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist folks at One Longfellow, and after some initial confusion, I was able to let them know the baby wasn’t conceived ON THE PREMISES, but later that night. So there is a little Lebowski out there, on the way.

To add to the confusion leading up to last weekend, I had totally forgotten that the “24 Hour Book Project” had been scheduled for that time. Drat the whole end of summer concept of getting stuff done before the holiday week.

The project was a success, with local writers Chris Allen, Alice Levesque, Pat Larrabee, Maggie Knowles and Zachary Brockhouse all throwing down for the challenge. It’s a free book, you can download a copy of it at 24hourbookproject.blogspot.com. Came out to about 19 pages of good stories, all written in a 24-hour period. Good work, folks!

It didn’t take long for word to get out that I would be off the pen for a while, and the gover-

nor wasted no time in passing an “Executive Order” last week prohibiting agencies from making or changing rules, or proposing changes without his official rubber stamp. The governor has put himself ahead of the rest of the citizens of this state, as now agencies must clear changes with his office FIRST before publishing the changes for public comment.

This comes as a cross between Napoleon the Pig from “Animal Farm” changing the “all animals are equal” painted on the side of the barn to “but some are more equal than others” and good old Jar-Jar Binks granting the emperor “emergency powers.”

There was a lawsuit on the redistricting issue, Turcotte Versus LePage, where a citizen of this state wanted the whole redistricting thing taken away from the governor and the legislature, and put in the hands of a private commission. Doubt that is going to go far, as the issue will end up in the courts before his lawsuit even hits the docket.

The interesting little lawsuit that cost the city close to a million dollars (967k) that I wrote about shortly before leaving took an interesting turn. Randy Billsee HIGGINS page 5

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What price life?

So the big, bad storm huffed and puffed and didn’t blow all the houses in.

Reversing Katrina, on the sixth anniversary of that shameful episode in American history, the response to Irene was more powerful than Irene.

And that made some solipsistic Gothamites who missed their subways and restaurants grouchy. There is no greater abuse to New Yorkers than inconvenience.

Once the storm became “Apocalypse Not,” as The New York Post called it, there were those who accused Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey of overreacting to make up for their infamous underreactions to last year’s Christmas blizzard, when Hizzoner was baking in Bermuda and the Guv was playing at Disney World in Florida with his family.

In a Wall Street Journal column, Bret Stephens suggested “a new edition of the Three Little Pigs, this one for the CYA age.”

Ordered to evacuate from his Manhattan home near the Hudson River, Stephens took his family to his parents’ wood-framed house in Connecticut, where a 50-foot elm crashed in the yard.

So he went hard on the Chicken Little mayor. “What’s the wisdom of the ages,” Stephens asked, “when a mayor wants to erase the stain of mishandling last winter’s snowstorms by forcibly relocating people from his zone of responsibil-

Maureen Dowd ––––– The New York Times ity to places that are somebody else’s zone of responsibility?”

Should those whose job it is to prepare for the worst be punished because the worst didn’t happen?

What determines your judgment of politicians’ reaction is what happens to you. Those washed out from North Carolina to New Jersey to Vermont don’t think government overreacted. As Mel Brooks once said, “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.”

Asked at a Saturday hurricane briefing about the response in relation to the debate about the role of government, Christie made it clear that saving lives was the most important thing.

The Republican said he didn’t think that Democrats and Republicans were debating this: “Protecting the safety of our citizens is one of the bedrock roles of government.”

Not so bedrock for some of the Flintstones types in Washington who are now hotly debating austerity versus salvation. The impressively hands-on

performances of Christie, Bloomberg and Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York were not enough to make Tea Partiers, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor root for big government against rampaging nature.

Paul, a libertarian whose scorn of government is so great that he doesn’t even want it to coordinate in natural disasters, insisted that FEMA, which he calls “a giant contributor to deficit financing,” should be shut down.

Though his state of Virginia was the epicenter of an earthquake before being hit by Irene, Cantor has insisted that additional money for cash-strapped FEMA must be offset by spending cuts, echoing his remarks in May that money sent to traumatized tornado victims in Joplin, Mo., would mean cuts somewhere else.

The callous comments about disaster relief in recent days by Cantor, Paul and, believe it or not, the disgraced former FEMA Chief Michael “Heck of a job, Brownie” Brown infuriated Bernie Sanders, the independent Vermont senator touring his inundated state.

He told Carl Hulse of The Times that coming together to help on disasters “is what being a nation is about.”

In a briefing at the White House Monday, FEMA Director Craig Fugate said that the lesson of Katrina is for the federal government to “get things

going earlier” and not wait until an overwhelmed state “says we’re going to need help.”

Too bad that didn’t occur to W. in 2005. He met with Gov. Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Air Force One and correctly assessed that they were not up to the job but then retreated behind clinical states’ rights arguments as a great American city drowned.

In his new memoir, Dick Cheney faults Blanco for dithering and not requesting that the president federalize the response to Katrina. It’s a variation on Rummy shrugging that “You go to war with the army you have.”

Always the hard-liner, Cheney notes: “President Bush has written that he should have sent in U.S. troops earlier, which may be true, but which to my mind lets state authorities off the hook too easily.” Why save lives if you can slap bumbling Democrats around?

Proving once more that he is truly delusional, Vice praised President Bush in the wake of Katrina for “reaching out to people who needed to know that their government cared about them.”

The awful hypocrisy is this: As we saw when they spent trillions trying to impose democracy on Iraq and Afghanistan, W. and Cheney believe in big government, in a strong, centralized executive power. But with Katrina, they chose not to use it.

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insurance extensions; and withdrawal of his big union initiatives, such as the National Labor Relations Board’s opposition to Boeing Co. building a factory in South Carolina.

Republicans would, of course, vote for them all, as they are Republican positions. The Republican candidate for president as well as GOP congressional candidates would be left with almost nothing (except opposition to Obamacare) on the economic front to oppose in the president’s policies.

Here’s the kicker, if all those proposals were passed in to law, with overwhelming bipartisan support, it might well trigger an explosion in business investment and consumer confidence, and thus, economic growth and job creation at an invigorating level.

In fact, something like that is probably the only thing — short of electing a free-market Republican president and Congress in 2012 — that can break the current paralysis of business investment and consumer spending that is necessary before a real economic recovery can begin.

What Republicans and other free-market analysts have been calling the overhang of “uncertainty” regarding business fears of new federal interventions, regulatory burdens and federally mandated employee costs to business has — after three years of the Obama administration — actually turned into

a “certainty.”

It has become sadly obvious that even if the current administration veers into an occasional pro-business policy (such as the lame duck extension of the Bush tax cuts) — investors and businesses correctly have become convinced that the administration’s default policy position is a social justice based ideological hostility to free markets, business and profits.

Thus, it has become not only a political fact, but probably an economic fact as well, that the “uncertainty” will only dissipate — and thus recovery begin — with the departure of the current administration after the 2012 election.

If a sizable percent of the voting public comes to the same conclusion that investors and businesses have clearly come to, then even current supporters of the president may well conclude that his presidency has become an obstacle to economic recovery.

With the current Gallup polling data, among many others, showing that only about a quarter of the public has confidence in the president’s economic policy, it is a fair guess that the public may be moving to the business and investor view of the matter.

Thus, only by a legislative embrace and resulting statutory law of such free-market policies, could the president convert his presidency from being seen as an obstacle to recovery into a force for recovery.

But here is the point about the president’s speech.

A speech — any speech — will no longer do it for the

public on the matter of the economy. If he proposes a timid hodgepodge of previous proposals, including some reference to $4 trillion dollars in deficit reduction over the next 12 years, it is unlikely to change the economic fact that investors, businesses and the public have lost confidence in the president.

If he proposes new “shovel-ready” spending, the various chambers of commerce, understandably, will support it because it means dollars to their members.

But while they will take the money with smiles, they will not change their view of the larger danger of Obama’s economic policy.

If he proposes a Paul Krugmanesque left-wing, anti-bank, huge statist initiative, he will thrill his deflated base, but he will not gain enactment of his proposal, he will not change the economic facts, and he will not regain the public confidence in his presidential stewardship of the economy.

Of course, it is always possible for the economy spontaneously to explode with growth and jobs — half a million jobs a month for the next year, say. But few economists of any stripe believe that any longer.

I concede it is extraordinarily unlikely that the president would take up my free-market economic policy proposal. Sadly, many presidents, both Republican and Democratic, fail because they remain enthralled to their early policy positions — ineffective as they may have proven to be — and find themselves emotionally unable to divorce themselves from those early mistakes.

Did Jar-Jar Binks grant Maine’s emperor ‘emergency powers’?

HIGGINS from page 4

ings over at the Forecaster reported while I was gone that a judge had ruled a reduction in the amount by $96k, tossing out almost half the interest due to date.

Funny how the City Council ordered the judgment paid, yet this whole thing happened behind

the scenes without notification of the council, or at least a public meeting about it.

Word also came down that a Portland institution will be re-opening, though not one for the terminally bewildered this time. Granny’s Burritos is planning to re-open at the Public Market House on Congress Street this Sunday, “Subject to the laws of Mr Murphy.” The former venue location on Forest

Ave. known as “Venue” is re-opening as well, with the name “The New Venue.”

That manages to get us all back to about halfway through the week. This process could take months.

(Bob Higgins — except when running for mayor of Portland — is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

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Prescription for crime? Another pharmacy robbed CRIME from page one

Police released this image of a suspect they say robbed a Portland pharmacy Wednesday morning, less than 48 hours after a similar robbery on Monday night. (Image courtesy of the Portland Police Department)

police spokesman.

“He was given medications and then left the store,” Rogers said.

A police K-9 was used to attempt to track the man down, but police said he couldn’t be located.

The incident came on the heels of a Monday night robbery of a Portland CVS Pharmacy on Brighton Avenue.

No weapons were displayed during that incident.

In both cases the men were given undisclosed amounts of prescription pills. Rogers wouldn’t specify what medications were taken.

He said investigators would determine if both robberies were committed by the same suspect.

“It’s possible. We’re certainly looking into it, but it’s too early at this point to rule that in or out,” he said.

“It’s something that we’re looking at.”

Despite not identifying what medications were taken, Rogers said oxycodone pills are popular among prescription drug abusers. The synthetic opiate drug is typically pre-

scribed for pain relief and is in high demand among users, Rogers said.

“Generally speaking, the going rate is $1 a milligram,” he said. “So, if you’re talking about even a bottle with 20 of those 30 mg pills, then you’re talking about $600.”

Rogers described the drugs as being “very addictive.”

Just last week, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested five people and seized more than 200 oxycodone pills and about $21,000 in cash in Portland.

The street value of the seized drugs was more than $6,000, police said.

The arrests came after a twomonth investigation into increased importation and sales of oxycodone pills. The MDEA reported a surge in criminal activity surrounding the medication and expected more arrests to follow.

Police ask that anyone with information on the two burglaries to contact them at 874-8533 or text an anonymous tip from a mobile phone sending keyword “GOTCHA” plus their message to 274637 (CRIMES).

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“From advocating for the city at the state and federal level to her efforts to revamp the city’s economic development division, Pat’s impact on our community will be felt for years to come and I speak not just for myself but for city employees, businesses and residents by offering my heartfelt thanks Pat for her service to Portland," he continued.

Mavodones said Finnigan has done "a fantastic job for the city both as assistant city manager and in her tenure as acting city manager. Camden is very

lucky to get her."

Finnigan was selected as Camden's town manager from a pool of 60 candidates.

Camden, located on the coast about 80 miles northeast of Portland, has 6,000 year-round residents. The town population roughly triples during the summer months with the arrival of tourists and seasonal residents.

As with Portland and Auburn, Finnigan said she anticipated much of her time would be spent on economic development issues.

"I think people who know Camden think of it as an iconic place. When they think of Maine, they think of a place like Camden," Finnigan said. "Being able to maintain quality of place is really important. (Camden) has a lot of natural assets: it's got mountains, the waterfront, recreational activities and culture, but (the town) also wants to diversity its tax base and create jobs without hurting the overall quality of place."

City officials have not announced any plan for replacing Finnigan, whose last day is Sept. 30.

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Despite Finnigan's announcement, Mayor Nick Mavodones said he doesn't believe employees are "fleeing" City Hall.

"It does give you some concern," said Mavodones, who noted that in most cases the city tries to prepare succession plans to preserve institutional knowledge.

"But I don't see that as some warning bell," the mayor said, adding that all of the departures have been for personal or professional reasons.

Indeed, Gray retired, chief James Craig left to become police chief in Cincinnati, and Cohen returned to a career in real estate.

Finnigan's efforts at City Hall, which include securing funding for the megaberth at the Ocean Gateway Terminal and spearheading the city's stimulus application process, drew high praise.

“Pat’s breadth of experience has been a real asset for Portland, and Camden will undoubtedly benefit

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Manhattan to Manhattan Bus scheduled to stop in Portland today DAILY SUN STAFF REPORTS In honor of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Patch Project’s Manhattan to Manhattan Bus will stop in Monument Square today from 9 a.m. to noon, the city announced.

The bus has traveled state to state from Manhattan Beach, Calif., to Manhattan, New York City, visiting hundreds of local fire departments to raise funds through the sale of 9/11 patches for the FDNY Bravest Scholarship Fun, Terry Farrell Fund and the Feal Good Foundation, the city reported. The bus will arrive in New York City in advance of the anniversary to join the FDNY in Brooklyn as well as the International Association of Firefighters Motorcycle Group for the final leg of the trip. For details, visit www.9-11patchproject.org.

City plans march to 9/11 Memorial in 10th anniversary of terrorist strike On Sunday, Sept. 11, the Portland fire and police departments, IAFF Local 740, and city officials will march along Congress Street to the 9/11 Memorial at the Eastern Promenade in honor of the 10th anniversary of the attacks, the city reported.

Local firefighters, paramedics and law enforcement officers will march in full turn-out gear and uniforms as a tribute to the 403 uniformed men and women who lost their lives when the towers fell in New York City, according to a city press release.

“Members of the public are invited to march as well and are asked to wear white shirts as a sign of solidarity with the fallen heroes. Marchers will have the opportunity to carry the name of one of the 403 lost. At the end of the march, the city will lay three wreaths for the three locations attacked at the 9/11 memorial,” the press release stated.

At 8 a.m. on Sept. 11, the public can gather for the march at Congress Square Park; at 8:46 a.m., the march will begin; and at 9:30 a.m., officials will participate in the wreath laying at the 9/11 Memorial.

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“We are excited to see this project underway,” noted Alice Spencer, co-chair of the Portland Public Arts Committee. “The proposed designs take into consideration surrounding views, future land uses, landscape setting, and other factors. We expect a lively discussion and welcome all points of view.”

The meeting is Monday, Sept. 12, at 5:30 p.m. at Zero Station, 222 Anderson St. Spencer added, “Goals for the project include enhancing the Bayside Trail with high-quality, appealing, durable, public seating; creating objects of art that function as public seating; providing a trail amenity that resonates with Portland’s diverse communities and stimulating creative thinking about the built and natural environment of the trail.”

The process included a request for qualifications resulting in over 100 artist submissions from which three artists, SkyeDesign in Washington, D.C., Aaron Stephan of Portland, and Gary Haven Smith from Northwood, N.H., were invited to develop a concept and cost estimate with a $1,000 stipend.

Three sites were identified for the Bayside Trail Seating Project: 1. Plaza at Elm Street near Trader Joe’s.

2. Paved circle near Franklin Street to the rear of the Planet Dog building.

3. The Trail Junction at the connector for the Bayside Trail, Eastern Prom Trail, and Loring Trail. (A fourth site, the paved circle along the trail near the end of Marginal Way at Plowman Street, was identified as a potential location for the Stephan proposal.)

The artists were allowed to choose any of these sites, or a combination, and were not limited to a specific budget, although guidance was provided that the PPAC is hoping to construct three seating elements within the available budget. The three artists’ concepts were received on Friday, Aug. 5.

The Bayside Seating Project Panel includes Spencer, Anne Pringle, Ron Spinella, Terry DeWan, Melissa Cilley, Jan Piribeck, Alex Jaegerman, Rachel Talbot-Ross and Nan Cumming, who reviewed all of the submissions. From these submissions, the selected artists were asked to develop a design concept. The Portland Public Art Committee reviewed the design concepts at their meeting on Aug. 17 and will make a recommendation to the Portland City

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“This is an opportunity for the public to participate in a very exciting project,” said Spencer. “All comments will be most welcome. Please join us.”

Economic development grant of $375,000 awarded in region The Greater Portland Public Development Commission announced a multi-year grant of $375,000 has been awarded to the Greater Portland Economic Development Corporation, a regional organization that focuses exclusively on job creation and retention and attracting and keeping business in the Greater Portland area.

The Greater Portland Economic Development Corporation, a regional public-private partnership whose mission is to further economic development opportunities in the Greater Portland region, serves the communities of Portland, South Portland, Scarborough, Westbrook, Falmouth and Cape Elizabeth and is actively working on a plan to attract and retain businesses in the region through marketing, workforce development and links with institutions of higher learning, according to a Portland city press release. The GPEDC will also serve as a single point of contact for businesses looking to locate, develop or expand in the Greater Portland region.

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A few blonde moments with ‘Legally Blonde’ Production features star turns, great fun, but a few opening night lapses noticed ‘Legally Blonde, The Musical’ Ogunquit Playhouse Omigod, nothing this fun should be legal! If you want one “Elle” of a good time, go see “Legally Blonde: The Musical,” now playing at the “very pink” Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit through Sept. 17.

Based on the hilarious MGM film of the same name, “Legally Blonde” follows sorority star Elle Woods, an underestimated blonde who doesn’t take “no” for an answer. When her boyfriend, Warner Huntington III, dumps her for someone more serious, Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style.

Becky Gulsvig (Elle Woods) is flawlessly perfect!

With her triple threat talent and winning smile, you can’t help but fall in love with her character and want to see her succeed. Having performed the role in the first National Tour for over two years, Gulsvig commits 200 percent, as if she were living her journey for the first time. Gulsvig is the next Kristen Chenoweth!

TV star Sally Struthers (Paulette) is show-stealing FUNtastic! From the second she enters, she commands the stage with her heartfelt acting and hilarious comedy — her singing and dancing have never been better. It was wonderful to see her be so giving to those on stage with her, a real pro, a real star! Tony Award-winning, Michael Rupert (Professor Callahan) is Broadway brilliant! Rupert makes

his performance seem so effortless — his signature vocal quality soars, his acting spoton! The waaaaaay-toocute Frankie (Bruiser) and Chloe (Rufus) were amazingly talented dogs, perfectly trained

by Bill Berloni.

Barry Anderson (Emmett) is charming, blending all the right ingredients to make the perfect love interest for Elle. Matt Raga (Warner) and Laura D’Andre (Vivienne) are a strong support, although I feel their character transition from film to stage was not as strong in the musical. D’Andre It was distracting to showcased her vocal chops with see so many of the the Legally Blonde stage crew adjusting Remix. Dan Lobuono (Kyle) proved set pieces on and to the why the UPS man is everyone’s fan- sides of the stage. Many tasy; Lobuono was times actors could be like walking porn seen preparing behind and Ms. Struthers was the lucky recip- the set. I wanted to yell ient. Tiffany Engen out the ol’ theatre rule, (Serena), Maggie Taylor (Margot) “if you can see the audiand Brit West (Pilar) were hilari- ence, they can see you.” ously top-notch as Elle’s Delta Nu sisters — the musical number “Bend and Snap” was a show stopper!

The entire ensemble played multiple roles with energized enthusiasm and commitment — their singing and dancing exploded in every musical number. (Note: the men in the ensemble let you see just how perfect their male bodies are, to the delight of the women and most men in the audience that night). The “Whipped Into Shape” number was a highlight with jump ropes!

With original Broadway staging by Jerry Mitchell, direction was re-created by Marc Bruni and choreography re-created by Rusty Mowery. Thankfully the “Legally Blonde” formula was re-worked as if done for the first time. These two men (along with several of the cast) know this show intimately, having been involved with it for many years, and I give them all a standing ovation for not just resting on its previous successes, but giving us a “like new, first time” production that was fresh, bright and fun.

Musical Director Alan J. Plado did a great job with the vocals, although there were times that it was hard to hear and understand the singers. Kudos to Plado for adjusting the musical number “Serious” when Raga’s body mic didn’t work.

The set was designed by Robert Andrew Kovach and constructed by Gateway Playhouse with costumes provided by Kansas City Costume Company and Gateway Playhouse, all under the coordination of Brent M. Bruin. Lighting design by Richard Latta was good but seemed uninspired at times, not Latta’s usual creative efforts.

Unfortunately, the technical aspects of the show had issues opening night. Set pieces didn’t travel well or fit together properly and scene changes seemed uncontrolled and sloppy. It was distracting to see so many of the stage crew adjusting set pieces

Michael J. Tobin

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Becky Gulsvig plays Elle Woods, here carrying Bruiser (played by Frankie) in “Legally Blonde, the Musical,” now on stage at Ogunquit Playhouse. (COURTESY PHOTO)

on and to the sides of the stage. Many times actors could be seen preparing behind the set. I wanted to yell out the ol’ theatre rule, “if you can see the audience, they can see you.” I realize that the change over from “The Music Man” to “Legally Blonde” was done in very few hours so I applaud their enormous efforts, but given the changeover complexity of the last few shows and how amazing they did, I was disappointed in this one technically. I know that with a bit more time and a well deserved day or two off, the entire production will be well balanced on and off stage.

With the unfortunate current trend of making movies into musicals, “Legally Blonde” is not the strongest book or score, but the triple threat cast makes it well worth finding your way to this “end of summer” show — omigod!

The Ogunquit Playhouse, Rte. 1, Ogunquit. Box Office 1-800-982-2787 or go online ogunquitplayhouse.org for online ticketing and more information.

Next on stage, Miss Saigon, Sept. 21-Oct. 23.

(Michael J. Tobin has been a professional actor, director, theatre administrator and educator for 30 years in theaters throughout New England and around the country. Mr. Tobin has performed and directed in 350-plus shows Off-Broadway, National Tours, Regional Theatre, Summer Stock, Children’s Theatre and Community Theatre. Mr. Tobin lives in South Portland.)

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Pigskin season again

Nick Lewis of the Cheverus High School freshman football team carries the ball Wednesday during a practice at Payson Park. The team will host Kennebunk at 3:30 p.m. on Friday at Cheverus High. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Bonds avoids new trial on three perjury charges He was found guilty of impeding a

BY JULIET MACUR THE NEW YORK TIMES federal investigation in 2003 when he provided intentionally evasive, false Barry Bonds will not face a new or misleading statements during the trial on charges of lying to a federal grand jury testimony he gave in congrand jury about his use of steroids nection with the Bay Area Laboratory and human growth hormone, accordCo-operative steroids case. ing to papers filed Wednesday in fedThat conviction carries a maxieral court. mum 10-year prison sentence, though In a brief statement, the United federal guidelines suggest 15 to 21 States Attorney’s Office in San Franmonths. Bonds, however, is likely to cisco said it would drop the remainbe sentenced to only a fraction of that ing three perjury charges on which — if any time at all. jurors failed to reach a verdict during Regarding the perjury charges, a Bonds’s trial last spring. The judge had panel of eight women and four men declared a mistrial on those counts, voted for acquittal, 8 to 4, on the prosand prosecutors had spent more than ecutors’ allegations that Bonds knowfour months mulling whether to retry ingly lied when he said he never used him. steroids.

The jury voted, 9 to 3, for That decision comes less than a acquittal on the charge that he knowweek after United States District ingly lied when he said he never used Court Judge Susan Illston ruled that human growth hormone. she would not dismiss Bonds’s conOn the third perjury charge, regardviction on an obstruction of justice ing whether anyone but his personal charge. Bonds’s lawyers said he was doctor ever injected him, Bonds was improperly convicted for obstructing nearly convicted, with 11 of the 12 justice when the jury did not find him jurors finding him guilty of lying guilty of perjury, too, but Illston did about it. not agree.

Bonds, whose lead lawyer, Allen Ruby, did not return an e-mail for comment, is likely to appeal that ruling to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

A prosecutor, Jeff Nedrow, did not return a phone call seeking comment.

Bonds, the former San Francisco Giants slugger, is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 16 for the obstruction Barry Bonds’s obstruction of justice conviction was upheld Aug. 26. of justice conviction. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press/The New York Times)

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By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’re not exactly schooled in the ways of magic, and yet your knowledge makes you a magician in someone else’s eyes.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

Sometimes you wonder whether you will make a difference in the world. You already have. And these days, your influence is even greater than you realize. Keep the faith.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

“Live and let live” is your policy. Because you are able to tolerate the idea that people have beliefs that are different from yours, you will make friends and do business on a larger scale.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You will speak accurately with great compassion and convey a positive, uplifting feeling. The reason you are able to do this is because you really believe in what you are selling.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You will feel guided to act. The guidance may come from a teacher or a book, or even a person with whom you do not have a personal relationship but who nonetheless inspires you from afar.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 1).

Love fulfills you in delightful, unplanned ways. You’ll demonstrate your knowledge and will be chosen for a special position. The next 10 weeks bring successful efforts in higher education and advanced training. In November, new fans will appreciate your sense of humor and entertaining qualities.

Cancer and Scorpio people adore you.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Beauty captures your attention, especially when it’s unexpected. You will be drawn in by a person’s elegance. The sparkling laugh and dancing eyes make their way straight to your heart.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your interest may be impractical, and that is part of the appeal. Claim your right to your own wonderful nonsense. You don’t love a hobby because it is useful.

It is useful because you love it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Your unique spirit shines through today. You won’t show your feelings in the way everyone else does. You’ll give a special kind of love, and it will take a special kind of heart to receive it.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Dietary changes are on the horizon for you.

Preparing your own meals puts you in touch with what is in them. You’ll take a break from fast food and frozen food in order to be hands on with the raw ingredients in your food.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Getting too used to having someone to look out for you could cause you to become lax about looking out for yourself. Take a solo journey to fortify your self-reliance.

You don’t want to go soft!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It is said that the squeaky wheel always gets the grease. What goes without mention is that it also gets cursed and kicked. If it’s necessary to annoy people, be very careful in your methods.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You can furnish a lot of your own personal selfcare without help. You’ve even been known to cut your own hair. But if you can treat yourself to a little help, it will be an excellent treat.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, Sept. 1, the 244th day of 2011. There are 121 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

On this date: In 1715, following a reign of 72 years, King Louis XIV of France died four days before his 77th birthday.

In 1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr was found not guilty of treason. (Burr was then tried on a misdemeanor charge, but was again acquitted.)

In 1923, the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama were devastated by an earthquake that claimed some 140,000 lives.

In 1941, the first municipally owned parking building in the United States opened in Welch, W. Va. In 1951, the United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty.

In 1961, the Soviet Union ended a moratorium on atomic testing with an above-ground nuclear explosion in central Asia.

In 1972, American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik (RAY’-kyuh-vik), Iceland, as Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union resigned before the resumption of game 21.

In 1981, Albert Speer, a close associate of Adolf Hitler who ran the Nazi war machine, died at a London hospital at age 76.

In 1983, 269 people were killed when a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace.

In 1995, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.

One year ago: President Barack Obama convened a new round of ambitious Mideast peace talks at the White House as he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the first face-to-face negotiations in nearly two years.

Today’s Birthdays: Former Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird is 89. Actor George Maharis is 83. Conductor Seiji Ozawa is 76.

Attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz is 73. Comedian-actress Lily Tomlin is 72.

Actor Don Stroud is 68. Conductor Leonard Slatkin is 67. Singer Archie Bell is 67. Singer Barry Gibb is 65. Rock musician Greg Errico is 63. Talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw is 61.

Singer Gloria Estefan is 54. Former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers is 50. Jazz musician Boney James is 50.

Singer-musician Grant Lee Phillips (Grant Lee Buffalo) is 48. Country singer-songwriter Charlie Robison is 47. Retired NBA All-Star Tim Hardaway is 45. Actor Ricardo Antonio Chavira is 40. Rock singer JD Fortune is 38.

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Federal austerity threatens to change disaster relief to change the traditional dynamic when it comes to government relief in the aftermath of a storm, an earthquake or other calamity. It has touched off an intensifying debate over whether the government should just tack needed money onto the deficit or try to find a way to adjust the budget to cover the costs.

Holding fast to their push for lower federal spending, top Congressional Republicans have argued that any federal aid in the aftermath of the double whammy of an earthquake followed by a hurricane should be offset, if possible, by spending less on other programs.

“Clearly when disasters and emergencies happen, people expect their government to treat them as national priorities and respond properly,” said Brad Dayspring, a spokesman for Representative Eric Cantor, the Virginia Republican and majority leader who has advocated offsetting emergency aid. “People

also expect their government to spend their dollars wisely, and to make efforts to prioritize and save when possible.”

Representative Ron Paul, the Texas Republican who is seeking his party’s presidential nomination, has gone beyond that view to argue that the federal government’s role in disaster preparation and relief should be cut substantially. Mr. Paul said he saw little value in the Federal Emergency Management Agency, saying the federal approach has given birth to an intrusive bureaucracy and supplants what should be an area for private insurance.

“The bleeding heart will say, well, we have to take care of them,” Mr. Paul said on “Fox News Sunday,” calling FEMA “a gross distortion of insurance” and saying that workers for the agency “hinder the local people, and they hinder volunteers from going in.”

“So there’s no magic about FEMA,” he concluded.

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WASHINGTON (The New York Times)— As Sen. Bernard Sanders toured Vermont by helicopter on Tuesday to assess the damage from what he said could be his state’s worst-ever natural disaster, the idea of cutting other federal programs to aid towns pummeled

by Hurricane Irene was stoking his outrage.

“To say that the only way you can come up with funding to rebuild devastated communities is to cut back on other desperately needed programs is totally absurd,” said Mr. Sanders, an independent, responding to a call by leading Republicans to balance any financial relief with spending reductions elsewhere.

“Historically in this country we have understood that when communities and states experience disasters, we as a nation come together to address those.

“That is what being a nation is about,” he said in an interview.

The new push for federal austerity is threatening

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I fear what will happen when I go back to work soon. It is putting a strain on our relationship, and arguing is exhausting. What can I do so that I am not living in a constant state of annoyance? -- Frustrated Wife Dear Wife: New mothers often become exhausted and depressed. Try to separate yourself from the mess. If Bill tosses clothes or other things on the floor, kick them into an out-ofthe-way corner and say nothing. He knows he’s a slob, and he’s rebelling. When you go back to work, see if you can set aside some money to pay for occasional cleaning assistance.

If Bill doesn’t like the expense, tell him sweetly that it is obviously his choice, since he isn’t capable of pitching in.

Dear Annie: My mother died recently. Over the years, she had managed to alienate everyone, including her children.

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But some hurts go deep and need to be addressed, not ignored. Why didn’t my mother try to fix things? Wasn’t I worth it? Did she really love me? As children grow into adults, we learn to accept our parents’ shortcomings.

I am writing to beg your readers to show their love to their children, through words as well as actions, and to heal relationships before it’s too late. Apologize for any wrongdoing.

Don’t expect your child to be someone he or she isn’t. Make every effort to love your child’s partner, and never force your child to choose between you. Please don’t leave your children with the painful legacy of doubting they were truly loved.

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I am planning to get counseling, but I hope this letter can help someone else avoid my pain. -- Grieving in Georgia Dear Georgia: Thank you. We are certain it will. Please know that this is not about your worthiness to be loved. It is about your mother’s inability to show it.

Dear Annie: A lot of seniors write to you complaining that their children are not attentive enough. My father was fond of saying that two parents could take care of 10 children, but 10 children could not take care of two parents.

Now that I am 87 years old, I have the same complaint. I make a point not to get upset. I understand that my daughters and their children are busy with their own lives and childrearing, and they contact me when they find the time.

I’d love to hear from them more often, but know that “what goes around comes around.” Someday, they will experience the same longing and will have to learn to live with it. -- Glendora, Calif.

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Thursday, Sept. 1 United Way of Greater Portland food drive 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. United Way of Greater Portland is kicking off its annual fundraising campaign with a food drive designed to help re-stock food pantries in Cumberland County. The food drive will take place at One Canal Plaza, on Middle Street, Portland. “United Way is appealing to community residents to stop by and donate items of food, which local pantries have indicated they need, including: healthy snacks for kids, pasta, rice, canned vegetables and fruit, spaghetti sauce, canned meat and fish, cooking oil and pancake mixes. A recent report by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) showed that one in five families in Maine does not have enough money to purchase the food their family needs. This food drive is one of the ways in which United Way is responding to the recent loss of $143,000 to the Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) for Cumberland County.”

USM Welcome Husky Fest 2011 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lawn between Payson Smith and Luther Bonney Halls, Portland campus, University of Southern Maine. “Follow the paws to Husky Fest! USM’s largest event ... the 11th annual welcome kick-off party! FREE BBQ for all students! Live Music and activities! Campus departments, student organizations, and community vendors will all be present to help you get connected to the USM community! Rain location: Sullivan Gym, Portland Campus.” 228-8200

Ocean Avenue Elementary School holds grand opening ceremony 4:30 p.m. A ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the Ocean Avenue Elementary School will take place at the school, located at 150 Ocean Ave., Portland. The ceremony will include brief remarks by Mayor Nick Mavodones, Portland Superintendent James C. Morse, Sr., Portland School Board Chair Kate Snyder and Portland City Councilor Cheryl Leeman. Students, families, staff and community members are invited to attend. For more information, please call 874-8180.

Students from the former Clifford Elementary School moved into Ocean Avenue Elementary School last February. Beginning in September, the school will fully open to students from the Back Cove neighborhood. www2.portlandschools.org

Portland Food Co-op open house 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Portland Food Co-op will host its first open house event at their new location at 56 Hampshire St. on the East End of Portland. The event is free and open to the public. Community members and current member-owners are invited for an opportunity to see the new space, learn about the benefits of becoming a member-owner and learn about the PFC’s goals for its new space. Food, refreshments and live music will be provided. The PFC received a donation of a five-year lease on the building this past September from Maine businessman and philanthropist, Donald Sussman. Sussman’s gift also included additional resources to design and renovate the building specifically for use by the PFC. Over the past several months, PFC member-owners, community volunteers and local business owners came together to complete the first phase of renovations in the former tobacco distribution company. Sussman, a longtime supporter of farming and fishing communities, expressed enthusiasm for the new use of the property and lauded the volunteer renovation efforts by PFC member-owners and the community. “At their roots, co-ops are about communities working together to grow and prosper,” stated Sussman. “This space has been transformed from an unused warehouse into a vibrant community resource, and that’s good for all of us. Let’s face it, local food is healthy food. I’m proud to support the Portland Food Co-op and its efforts to bring the best of Maine farmers, fisherman, and foragers to the tables of Portland families.”

Friday, Sept. 2 Library of Congress traveling exhibition in Portland noon to 8 p.m. A special Library of Congress traveling exhibition — mounted in a customized 18-wheel truck — will visit Portland. “Gateway to Knowledge” will be in Portland on Friday, Sept. 2, and Saturday, Sept. 3, and will be parked at Monument Square. The exhibit is free and open to the public from noon to 8 p.m. both days. For further information about the exhibit, visit www.loc.gov/gateway/.

‘Curtain Up!’ in Congress Square.

4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “Curtain Up!” showcases Portland’s theater community. Part of Sept. 2 Art Walk. The vitality and diversity of Portland’s theater community will be on display at “Curtain Up!,” an exciting preview of what Portland’s many theater companies will be offering during the 2011-

Randall Tuttle, April Singley and Karen Ball appear in an Acorn Studio Theater production of “The Secret of Comedy,” by Michael Kimball.

Acorn Productions is one of the organizers of Curtain Up!” in Congress Square on Friday, Sept. 2. The event also is being sponsored by the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance and produced by AIRE (American Irish Repertory Ensemble) and Lucid Stage. (COURTESY PHOTO) 12 theater season. The event will take place in Congress Square (at the corner of Congress and High Streets) on Friday, Sept. 2, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. as part of the First Friday Art Walk. Theaters will perform brief excerpts from their shows to introduce themselves to Artwalkers, who will receive a Theater Sampler card including information about each company and ticket discounts. Curtain Up!” is being sponsored by the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance (PACA) and produced by Acorn Productions, AIRE (American Irish Repertory Ensemble) and Lucid Stage. “This is a great opportunity for people attending Art Walk to sample the terrific work that Portland theaters are doing,” said Michael Levine, producing director of Acorn Productions and lead producer of the event. “And it gives us, as a community, a chance to present a unified presence as a vital part of the arts scene in Portland.”

Susan Reilly, Managing Director of AIRE, added, “We hope to reach out to different kinds of people interested in the arts who may not be regular theatergoers. And the Theater Sampler will be a handy take-away that prospective audience members can hold on to and use throughout the season. If all goes well this year, we hope to make this an annual event.” Participating theaters include Acorn, AIRE, Children’s Museum and Theater of Maine, Fenix Theater Company, Good Theater, Lucid Stage, New Edge Productions, Portland Playback Theater, Portland Stage Company, Snowlion Repertory Company and more!

First Friday Art Walk 5 p.m. Join Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance for a free selfguided tour of local art galleries, art studios, museums, and alternative art venues on the First Friday of every month from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. PACA is a nonprofit organization with a mission of “strengthening Portland by strengthening the Arts.” www.firstfridayartwalk.com

First Friday Art Walk opening, ‘Monsters of Men’ 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Paintings by Andy Finkle at the Green Hand Bookshop, 661 Congress St., Portland. “In his inaugural exhibition in Maine, Andy Finkle presents a series of monsters and the men that search for them. This acrylic bestiary presents interpretations of some of the most notable characters in cryptozoology. From Bigfoot to the Owlman, these elusive subjects are available for public viewing in vivid full color. Finkle’s work is influenced more by ‘In Search Of’ reruns than college art courses. Inspired by comic books, Finkle treads the painterly line that separates the whimsical from the grotesque. His work has appeared in the only bowling alley in Antarctica and the most recent issue of Horror Hosts and Creature Features. While currently based out of South Carolina, Finkle is patiently plotting his next appearance in Maine.” (On display through the month of September.) As an extra bonus, the Watchers will be playing their peculiarly exciting style of mysterious surf rock at around 7 p.m. 450-6695 or michelle.souliere@gmail.com

First Friday Art Walk at Peek-A-Boo Tattoo 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. 574 Congress St. (upstairs), Portland. Live music with When Particles Collide. A guitar and drum duo

steeped in mid -’90s indie rock, late ‘70s art pop-punk with a hint of folk. Simultaneously strong willed and vulnerable vocals supported tightly locked rhythms. Free beverages, free tattoo give away, and oil paintings on display by Belou Call 899-6001 for more information or look for the business on Facebook. This is an 18-plus event.

Oliver at Maine Charitable Mechanic Association 5 p.m. For First Friday Art Walk, the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association library will be hosting local artist Jeffery Oliver, with drawings and underwater photography. The MCMA library is starting a book club that will meet on the first Tuesday of each month at noon; bring a sandwich, dessert coffee and tea provided. Bring a list of what books you would like to read and discuss. First Book Club meeting is Tuesday, Oct. 4 in the library. Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, started in 1815 with 65 members, in 1859 built a landmark building on Congress Street where the membership library still exists today and is open to many public events.Library is open Tues., Wed. and Thurs, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., phone 773-8396

Mariah K. Brinton at the St. Lawrence 5 p.m. First Friday Art Walk opening at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. The St. Lawrence Arts Center is owned and operated by the nonprofit corporation Friends of the St. Lawrence. Parish Hall Theater, see the newest installation; Photographs by Mariah K. Brinton. Complimentary snacks and wine on hand. “Photographic exhibits range from San Francisco in 2004-2005, with her first solo show in December 2004, to the Netherlands, New York and Brooklyn. With a style formed by the time she spent as a teenager exploring the NYC streets with a 35mm Pentax in hand and her love of fashion, the combination is an aesthetic reminiscent of William Klein’s New York street work.” www.stlawrencearts.org

First Friday Exhibit at Mayo Street 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Exhibit at Mayo Street Arts.

Portraits, group show curated by MSA artist in residence Heidi Powell. Jim McGinley, Daniel Meiklejohn, Hillary White, Sonia Cook Broen, Baxter Long, Heidi Powell, Zoe Ryan-Humphrey, Jessica Beebe and Russell Ouellett. The opening is immediately followed by LIT. More info on all events at www.mayostreetarts.org.

Susan Elliot’s ‘Trees: In a Different Light’ 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Artists’ Social for First Friday Art Walk at The Gallery at Harmon’s & Barton’s. Exhibition through September.

Gallery hours: Mon thru Fri, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sat 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., 584 Congress St. 774 5948. “With a background in Natural Resources, a wellspring of humor, and rampant, joyous imagination, Maine tree artist Susan Elliot’s subjects are always the embodiment of one or more of these qualities.

Narrowing her focus in 2008 to simply drawing trees, Elliot discovered that choosing a subject matter close to her heart immeasurably widened the range of her creativity.” see next page

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Prison Inmates Art Exhibit 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Meg Perry, 644 Congress St., Portland. A First Friday Art Walk exhibit at Meg Perry Center will feature both visual and musical art produced by inmates from within correctional facilities throughout the state of Maine. “There will be visual arts items submitted by both adult prisoners from Maine Correctional Center, Two Bridges Regional Jail, and Maine State Prison, as well as from juveniles housed at Long Creek Youth Development Center. Items will range from sketches and paintings to wood crafts and quilts. Also on hand will be Guitar Doors — Instruments of Change, a local nonprofit dedicated to bringing music and music programming to those incarcerated. There will be CDs available and playing that are the original compositions and recordings from inmates at the same facilities and more.”

First Friday Art Walk at SPACE Gallery 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Zone by Maya Hayuk and Pulled by Mike Perry. “Come celebrate the re-opening of our main space and the opening of Maya Hayuk’s installation, Zone. Take in the large scale mulit-colored bullseye, the floor to ceiling drippy woven wall textile, the paper peice that trails onto the wall and the glow-in-the-blacklight neon mural on our newly constructed wall. In the annex, soak up the beautiful variance of techniques and styles in the screen-printing exhibition, Pulled, by Mike Perry.” www.space538.org/ events.php

‘Legally Blonde the Musical’

‘Up Up, Down Down’ screening

8 p.m. “Legally Blonde the Musical,” on stage at John Lane’s Ogunquit Playhouse. “This award-winning Broadway musical sensation is based on the hit movie of the same name and follows college sweetheart and homecoming queen Elle Woods as she puts down the credit card, hits the books and heads for Harvard Law School in pursuit of her boyfriend Warner, who just dumped her for someone more serious.” www.ogunquitplayhouse.org

7 p.m. A part of the St. Lawrence Arts Center’s Local Monthly Film Series. $5. “Don’t miss the premier screening of Portland filmmaker Allen Baldwin’s much anticipated premier of ‘Up Up, Down Down’. This will be Portland’s only screening and DVD release of the final theatrical version so we hope that you come on down. In the works since 2009, ‘Up Up, Down Down’ is Baldwin’s most recent feature length film; a coming of age story that tells the tale of a young couple of underachievers eating cereal, playing video games and facing the trials and tribulations of an unforeseen pregnancy. Featuring lead performances by Erik Moody and Kristina Balbo. Written by Jeremy Stover and Allen Baldwin. Shot by Luke Pola.” Following the screening on September 3rd will be a open table Q&A session with the director and actors involved in the feature. Tix and information: www.stlawrencearts.org

LIT at Mayo Street Arts 8 p.m. A literary happening curated by Portland poet and theater reviewer Megan Grumbling. This month’s theme for LIT is an exploration of the works of Brecht, and dovetails with Lorem Ipsum’s upcoming production of The Three Penny Opera at Apohadion Theater later in the month. $5-10 suggested donation. www.mayostreetarts.org.

Comedian Bob Marley at the Landing at Pine Point 8 p.m. “Our Labor day Weekend kickoff show is here again with the fabulous comic antics of Bob Marley. The Landing at Pine Point is recognized as kicking off the Labor Day weekend with a bang and what better way to do it than with the hilarious work of Mr. Marley.” The Landing at Pine Point, 353 Pine Point Road, Scarborough.

Ride in memory of 9/11

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. New show: “Having in Paris a Great Success”: French Fashion, 1928-1936, Maine Historical Society. “Join us during Portland’s First Friday Art Walks (9/2, 10/7, 11/4, 12/2) to see two fabulous fashion-themed shows, “Having in Paris a Great Success”: French Fashion, 1928-1936 on display in the Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Lecture Hall and Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In: Adornment & Identity in Maine, on display in the museum. Mingle with friends, enjoy refreshments and music, and discover Maine history.” www.mainehistory.org/programs_events. shtml#event_233

9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Two Wisconsin men on a motorcycle ride to honor military personnel and those affected by 9/11.

“Despite a recent diagnosis of a brain aneuresym, Woody West of Wisconsin has organized a 17-state, 15-day ride to honor rescue workers and those who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks. During the ride, organized and joined by Terry Werdewitz, they will be stopping at the Pentagon, Ground Zero and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, as well as visiting 19 local fire stations along the route as a part of the Remember Rally patch exchange. Woody is a Viet Nam Vet. They are inviting anyone along the way to join them in their Ride To Remember, whether for one mile or a hundred.” The ride will stop at the Portland Fire Department at 380 Congress St. in Portland. www.rememberrally.com

5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Indian Trail in the Peaks Island Land Preserve. “Join Ellen Mahoney, Island Institute Community Leadership Fellow, for a hike along the Indian Trail which weaves its way through the Parker Preserve on Peaks Island. Catch the 5:35 p.m. Ferry at Casco Bay Lines Ferry Terminal, the tour starts right when you get to the dock at Peaks Island.” http://www.trails.org/events.html

Forgotten Wars at Sanctuary Tattoo 6 p.m. First Friday Art Walk opening, at Sanctuary Tattoo.

“The collected crypto-historical works of Graham Meyer, Sarah Tarling Matzke and Christian Matzke chronicling the parallel antiquities of Forgotten Wars... The 1905 Invasion of Mars, and the 1913 Lantern Annexation of the Industrial Empire of the East. Featuring portraiture, artifacts and illustration curated in a museum-style exhibit. History is crafted; Speculation is an Art.” 31 Forest Ave.

Southworth Planetarium full dome shows 7 p.m. The Southworth Planetarium is offering full dome video planetarium shows starting on Sept. 2. “On Friday nights in September, we will have a Full Dome Double Feature at 7 p.m. and at 8:30 p.m. ‘Two Small Pieces of Glass’ is a program about the history and science of telescopes.

How have telescopes enabled astronomers discover the outer Universe? From Galileo’s little scope to the Hubble Space Telescope, we’ve used optical equipment to study the cosmos and its myriad wonders. ‘IBEX’ is a new show about the probe which surveys the solar system’s outer edge. Where does the solar system end? What exotic objects lurk around its periphery? Join us as we explore the nether edge of our own planetary system. A full dome show is an total immersion experience. Both shows encompass the entire dome. As opposed to traditional programs in which both static and moving images appear at various locations, the Full Dome show is entirely digital video that covers all 360 degrees above the audience.” www.usm. maine.edu/planet

Portland Playback Theatre in the workplace 7:30 p.m. CTN5, 516 Congress St., right next to MECA, $5 at the door. Theme: What happened at work. “The workplace is an epicenter of everything from ego-ridden chains of command to secret, perilous office romances. It can be a playground of imagination and purpose, or a wasteland of meaningless drudgery. And after work, we let loose and tell stories - of what happened at work. Tell us a story from your workplace life and watch our team of improvisors immediately play it back! Or just come to watch! Now in its sixth year, Portland Playback Theatre puts five talented actors at your disposal to replay the stories of your life. Learn more at www.portlandplayback.com.”

8:30 p.m. “Legally Blonde the Musical,” on stage at John Lane’s Ogunquit Playhouse. “This award-winning Broadway musical sensation is based on the hit movie of the same name and follows college sweetheart and homecoming queen Elle Woods as she puts down the credit card, hits the books and heads for Harvard Law School in pursuit of her boyfriend Warner, who just dumped her for someone more serious.” www.ogunquitplayhouse.org

Saturday, Sept. 3

Two Fabulous Fashion Exhibits

Indian Trail in the Peaks Island Land Preserve

‘Legally Blonde the Musical’

Open House at the New Gloucester History Barn 9 a.m. to noon. The September Open House at the New Gloucester History Barn, Route 231 (behind the Town Hall), New Gloucester, will be held from 9 a.m. to noon. The special exhibit this month will be photos and artifacts related to New Gloucester schools. The exhibit of historic vehicles remains on display. Admission is free.

Unity hosts dog show 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Unity of Greater Portland, 54 River Road in Windham, will host the Second Annual Scoop Robbins Dog Show with Craft and Book Sale. If last year’s event was any example, there should be fun for the whole family and plenty of prizes for the family dog. Lots of ribbons will be awarded for such unusual categories as “Dog with the Longest Ears” and “Saddest Eyes.” Maggie the Beagle has already announced her intention to attend and defend last year’s title for “Waggingest Tail.” Entry fee $5 per dog, humans free. You do not need a dog to participate. For more info go to the dog show webpage at www.adevadesigns.com/dogshow/dogshow.htm or visit the church website, www.unitygreaterportland.org.

Sunday, Sept. 4 Lions Club breakfast on Peaks 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Lions Club breakfast at Greenwood Gardens, Peaks Island. Pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee, milk, orange juice. Adult: $6 Child: $4. http://www.peaksisland. info/calendar_2011.htm#September

Paws in the Park at Payson Park 10 a.m. The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland’s annual fundraiser, Paws in the Park, is scheduled in a brand new location, Portland’s Payson Park. Registration begins at 10 a.m. and the dog walk at 11 a.m. Each registrant will receive a gift for participating. There will be lots of fun festivities beginning at 10 am. There will be agility demonstrations, pet items for sale, raffles, rescue groups, adoptable dogs, animal communicators Sara Moore and Jailene Fontaine, Reiki demonstrations, micro-chipping and a host of other activities. Erin Ovalle from WMTW 8 is honorary MC and WGAN’s Dynamic Duo Ken and Mike will serve as judges for the Cool Canine Contest held after the walk. Prizes will be awarded to the team, child and adult with the highest dollar value in pledges. The proceeds will help provide food, shelter, emergency, and preventative veterinary care, as well as provide new beginnings for the more than 4,000 animals who come through the shelter’s doors each year. To celebrate the ARL’s 100th Anniversary, this year there will also be a 5K run which will precede the dog walk. The Furry Friends 5K will begin at 9 a.m. (registration at 7 a.m.) and also be in Payson Park. To register and collect pledges for Paws in the Park or The Furry Friends 5K visit the ARL website at www.arlgp.org.

New Gloucester Community Market

10 a.m. Irish genealogy/history roundtable at the Maine Irish Heritage Center. “Bring your lunch, genealogy, old photos, questions, etc. This is the center’s third monthly meeting of its kind. The MIHC will host a roundtable the first Saturday of every month.”

11 a.m. Filled with a diverse selection of local products, the New Gloucester Community Market will be premiering on Sunday, Sept. 4. Music, a barbecue and raffle will add to the festivities on opening day. The Market will set up shop at Thompson’s Orchard, 276 Gloucester Hill Road, New Gloucester. There you will find products such as vegetables, bread, jams and preserves, eggs and dairy, meat, plants, berries, herbs, soaps, alpaca yarn and wears, and more. The Market will be held Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Thursdays from 2 to 6 p.m. and is slated to run through the end of October. For more information, contact Noah Fralich, 232-1304, or norumbegafarm@gmail.com.

Portland Brew Festival

Portland Brew Festival, day two

noon to 8:30 p.m. Portland Brew Festival at the Portland Company Complex. “2011 is the inaugural year for the Portland Brew Festival, what promises to become one of the jewels of summer in Maine. With three buildings for exhibitors, over 75 varieties of regional craft brews, home-brewing supplies and demonstrations, the best in food, local music how could it really get better? But we realize after 3 1/2 hours of tasting-sized samples and a whole head-load of beer education, you’ll likely want to get out and get friendly with a full-sized pint or two and see how some of your new favorites stand up to your favorite dishes. So we’re putting this whole craft beerstravaganza right on the edges of Munjoy Hill and the Old Port where you can meander into town after the fact and get feel for these beers in a real-world context.” Organizers are partnering with Sail Maine, a local nonprofit supporting sailing in Maine at the grass-roots, community level. A portion of the proceeds of the event go to benefit community boating through Sail Maine. Also Sunday. www.portlandbrewfestival.com

noon to 3:30 p.m. Portland Brew Festival at the Portland Company Complex. “2011 is the inaugural year for the Portland Brew Festival, what promises to become one of the jewels of summer in Maine. With three buildings for exhibitors, over 75 varieties of regional craft brews, homebrewing supplies and demonstrations, the best in food, local music how could it really get better? But we realize after 3 1/2 hours of tasting-sized samples and a whole head-load of beer education, you’ll likely want to get out and get friendly with a full-sized pint or two and see how some of your new favorites stand up to your favorite dishes. So we’re putting this whole craft beer-stravaganza right on the edges of Munjoy Hill and the Old Port where you can meander into town after the fact and get feel for these beers in a real-world context.” Organizers are partnering with Sail Maine, a local nonprofit supporting sailing in Maine at the grass-roots, community level. A portion of the proceeds of the event go to benefit community boating through Sail Maine. www.portlandbrewfestival.com

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Handmade Puppet Dreams Volume I 7 p.m. Film screening with intro/talk by filmmaker Tim LaGasse $7, Mayo Street Arts. “Tim LaGasse is a renowned puppeteer and filmmaker and we are thrilled to have him join us for the first screening in the four-volume HMPD series produced by Heather Henson’s Ibex Puppetry.” www.mayostreetarts.org

‘The Karate Kid’ 9 p.m. MENSK is pleased to announce a rooftop screening of “The Karate Kid.” The public is invited to the top level of the Spring Street parking garage in Portland for a screening of “The Karate Kid.” First, we’ll show local “The George Kareman Variety Hour: RL Stine” by Your Boy George and Mint Films. The films begin around sunset, (or by 9 p.m.)

Bring your own lawn chair, blankets and snacks. Enter at 45 Spring Street. A free event, hosted by MENSK. Sponsored

by Coffee By Design. For more information, visit www.menskmaine.org

Monday, Sept. 5 Toys-for-Tots Car Show 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Labor Day will be the third annual Toysfor-Tots Car Show at Portland Motor Club. It is a joint effort between all the car clubs in Maine (as opposed to being hosted by one group) and usually attracts a couple hundred classic and sports cars and hundreds more spectators. The show is a “cruise-in” car show format so that there is no preregistration or entry categories. Cars line up and attendees walk around and enjoy the cars, the people and the activities as well as get a peak inside Portland Motor Club.

The event starts at 10 a.m. and will wrap up at 2 p.m. with a parade of cars heading out to an area ice cream shop. Cars are welcomed after 9 a.m. at Portland Motor Club which is located at 275 Presumpscot Street in Portland. This is a rain or shine event.

Tuesday, Sept. 6

Classes will begin on Sept. 6 for students in first through 12th grade in the Portland Public Schools. Here, the Cheverus High School freshman football team takes practice at Payson Park. The team will host Kennebunk at 3:30 p.m. on Friday at Cheverus High’s playing fields.

(DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO) Police Department, 109 Middle St. A donation of $25 for the course is suggested. All donations support the Amy St. Laurent Fund, which sponsors the R.A.D. training. Due to attendance issues, all donations must be paid prior to the first class (send checks to ASLF/PPD RAD Program, Portland Police Department, 109 Middle Street, Portland ME 04101). To sign up for the class or receive more information about Portland R.A.D., e-mail ppdrad@portlandmaine.gov or call 874-8643.

Students return to schools

Portland mayoral election gathering

8:55 a.m. Classes will begin on Sept. 6 for students in first through 12th grade in the Portland Public Schools. Kindergartners will start school on Sept. 8. The normal daily schedule is: Elementary schools: 8:55 a.m. to 3:05 p.m.; middle schools: 8:25 a.m. to 2:35 p.m.; high schools: 8 a.m. to 2:10 p.m.; West School: 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Portland Arts and Technology High School (PATHS): Morning session — 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.; afternoon session — 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Students are released one hour early on Wednesdays from October through May. The PATHS schedule on early release days is 8 to 10 a.m. (morning session) and 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. (afternoon session). The Portland Public Schools has added five more instructional days for students this year, giving the district one of the longest school years in Maine. The additional days, spread throughout the year, were made possible by a new, three-year contract agreement between the district and the Portland Education Association (PEA). Teachers gave up one professional development day and two days of personal professional time. They also agreed to work two additional days at no cost to the district in order to have more time in the classroom with students. www2.portlandschools.org

7 p.m. The Portland Club, 156 State St., Portland. (Just down from the Longfellow statue on the right, before Mercy Hospital.)The event will begin in our grand ballroom with a photo op featuring all 20 candidates; following that each candidate will be given two minutes to state why people should vote for them for mayor; following that the candidates will adjourn to individual tables with their names on them to host the public and the media for as long as they wish to; following that the candidates will be free to circulate throughout the mansion to interact with the public and the media.” No admission charge. Free parking at the rear of the building.

York County Jobs Alliance meeting 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The York County Jobs Alliance (YCJA) will host its first meeting of the fall season. University College – Saco Island. David Lee, founder of Human Nature at Work, will deliver a presentation, “How to Stay Positive, Upbeat and Energized During your Job Search and Upon Returning to Employment.” The event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP by calling Ryan Anderson at 571-3301 or email ryan.anderson@goodwillnne.org. Light refreshments will be served. More information can be found at www.goodwillnne.org.

Rape Aggression Defense Training 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. This September, the Portland Police Department will offer its Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) Training class. “R.A.D. provides women with the tools they need to both avoid dangerous situations and escape them.

The course is specifically designed to help women survive situations in which their lives are in jeopardy. This class is open to all women, ages 13 and older, in the Greater Portland area who would like to develop real life defensive tools and tactics.” The Basic Self-Defense Course consists of a series of four classes and one scenario day. The class is scheduled for Sept. 6, 8, 13, and 15, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Sept. 17 from 8 a.m. to noon (registration deadline August 31). All classes must be attended to complete the course. The classes will be held at the Portland

Wednesday, Sept. 7 Mayoral Mixer and Fundraiser at Bayside Bowl 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Bayside Bowl 58 Alder St., Portland is hosting a mayoral mixer and fundraiser benefiting Preble Street Resource Center. Twelve of Portland’s mayoral candidates will be on hand, along with their bowling teams, to compete in the first Mayoral Mixer Bowling Tournament.

Supporters of the candidates are encouraged to show their team spirit by making a donation to Preble Street. Additionally, Bayside Bowl has pledged 5 percent of all food and dining sales to Preble Street.

Southern Maine Children’s Chorus auditions 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Southern Maine Children’s Chorus is auditioning new members for its fall performance. Auditions will be held at Corthell Hall, University of Southern Maine, Gorham. Auditioning singers grades 12 and younger have the option of singing a prepared song or a familiar song, such as “Happy Birthday.” The audition will also include singing back pitch patterns and a range check. The audition will take approximately 5-10 minutes. Some previous choral group experience is recommended. Rehearsals will be held on Wednesday evenings in Gorham. The University of Southern Maine School of Music administers this program, with support from Macy’s. Find more information on the School of Music and its community programs at www.usm.maine.edu/music. To schedule an audition time, or for more information, contact Marshunda Smith at marshunda.smith@maine.edu.

Unity of Greater Portland Hosts World Day of Prayer 7 p.m. “Prayer is the most powerful instrument for change available in our world today. On Sept. 7 and 8, Unity of Greater Portland, 54 River Road in Windham, will host a series of special activities that will focus the conscious-

ness of our community on the Annual World Day of Prayer (www.worlddayofprayer.org), a world-wide celebration affirming peace, abundance, and love on an individual and global level. This 18th annual event will involve people from 160 countries in a world-wide effort to uplift our world in shared prayer consciousness. This year’s theme is ‘Together We Shine, we are channels through which Spirit illumines the world.’” On Wednesday Sept. 7 at 7 p.m., Unity of Greater Portland will hold a service focused on Forgiveness, followed by a 24-hour prayer vigil. “The prayer vigil will end at 6 p.m. on Thursday followed by an hour of silence. At 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 8 will be the World Day of Prayer service which will feature prayers from many of the world’s religions. This service prepares the way for moving into a space of open heartedness so we can be the channel through which Spirit illuminates the world. After this service, we will conduct a spirit-filled candlelight walk of the Unity labyrinth.” For more information about Unity of Greater Portland or World Day of Prayer please contact our church office at 893-1233 or visit www.unitygreaterportland.org.

Thursday, Sept. 8 So You Think You Can Mayor?

7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland is the site of this candidate forum. “The Maine League of Young Voters is corralling the city’s mayoral candidates, putting them on stage in front of you and demanding: so you think you can mayor?! Join us for an evening of audience participation, civic engagement, political discourse…and, oh yeah, food and fun! So bring a friend, bring a neighbor, bring a question, bring an ear to listen with (preferably your own), but be there for this first-in-adog’s-age, not-to-be-missed, once-in-a-lifetime (or more accurately, every four years) event to help you determine who is best suited to steer Portland headlong into the future!” www.lucidstage.com

Film: ‘Page One: Inside The New York Times’ 7:30 p.m. SPACE Gallery screening. “In the tradition of great fly-on-the-wall documentaries, ‘Page One: Inside The New York Times’ deftly gains unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as our main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, ‘Page One’ chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil.

Writers like Brian Stelter, Tim Arango and the salty but brilliant David Carr track print journalism’s metamorphosis even as their own paper struggles to stay vital and solvent. Meanwhile, their editors and publishers grapple with existential challenges from players like WikiLeaks, new platforms ranging from Twitter to tablet computers, and readers’ expectations that news online should be free.

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Friday, Sept. 9 The Black Frame Art Sale

Art Opening: Moths 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., presents a special opening reception for “Moths,” a show of photography by Erica Burkhart. “Burkhart is a photographer, writer and musician living in Portland and working as a nurse. She studied photography at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Most recently she took a trip with a friend to Marbiel, a rural village in Haiti, to volunteer holding medical clinics. While there she had the opportunity to re-explore documentary photography with the gracious people of Marbiel.” www.lucidstage.com

5 p.m. The Black Frame Art Sale returns to Merrill Auditorium Rehearsal Hall in Portland for its eighth annual show, which features more than 150 works from 34 Maine artists all priced at $200. Doors open and sales begin at exactly 5 p.m. and continue until 8 p.m.

Art collectors appreciate this show for its value and regularly form a line outside the door (even in the rain) ahead of the 5 p.m. opening in order to get first dibs on the artwork. The show features well-known and Open Mic/Poetry Slam in Auburn emerging Maine artists selected to partici7:15 p.m. Open Mic/Poetry Slam. First Unipate in the show by a curatorial committee. versalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St. Artists in this year’s show include Marsha Free. FMI 783-0461 or www.auburnuu.org.

Donahue, Lindsay Hancock, Daniel Minter, ‘Unnecessary Farce!!’

Caren-Marie Michel, and Matt Welch. All 7:30 p.m. The comedy “Unnecessary Farce!!” the works in the show measure 10-inches Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Road by 10-inches, are custom framed in identi(Route 114), in Standish, 7.5 miles north of cal black wooden frames and sell for $200.

Work is sold on a first-come, first-served “Martinis and Art,” an annual art raffle to benefit Maine cancer patients will be held on Thursday, Gorham center. The show will only run for 3 basis. Admission is free and refreshments Sept. 22, from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute on Commercial Street in weekends starting on Friday, Sept. 9. Friday and Saturday performances will rock the stage will be served. The nonprofit Bayside Neigh- Portland.Prominent Maine artists donating art to the event include Jac Ouellette (shown here is his at 7:30 p.m. Sunday shows will be at 2 p.m. borhood Association hosts the event and oil on canvas, “Islands”), Lindsay Hancock, Holly Ready, Anne Ireland, Ronnie Wilson, Dietland Vander But tickets will go fast for this one, so make splits all sales with the artists. The money Schaaf, Jeffrey Peacock, Catherine Breer, and more. (COURTESY IMAGE) your reservations early. Ticket prices are $10 for raised by the Bayside Neighborhood Assostudents and seniors — $12 for adults. Make ciation is used to support children’s art promation, visit the PSO Designers’ Show House page. The your reservations soon by calling 642-3743 or online at www. grams, neighborhood clean-ups, the community garden, PSO also offers Patron Tickets for $250, which include the schoolhousearts.org. “Unnecessary Farce” is directed by an annual health fair and other community activities in Gala Party and unlimited access to the Show House and all Keith Halliburton (Limerick). It stars Rebecca Cole (Windham), this diverse downtown neighborhood. For more informaspecial events. Seventeen area designers have been workTed Tocci (Standish), Steve Morin (Gorham), Karyn Diamond tion visit www.blackframeartsale.com or call 332-0253. ing on the Designers’ Show House for nearly five weeks (Standish), Mike Reardon (Biddeford), Charlie Cole (Windham), to completely redesign this historic and architecturally sigand Terri Plummer (Limington). Schoolhouse Arts Center is a Great Gatsby Jazz Age Lawn Party nificant Portland-area home. The Gatsby Jazz Age Party is nonprofit, community-driven organization dedicated to arts 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The 2011 Portland Symphony Orchestra the only opportunity to see the completed house before it education and the presentation of the arts. “Our mission is to (PSO) Designers’ Show House, 149 Western Promenade, opens to the public with tours on Sept. 10. Admission to the encourage individual growth and a spirit of community through will be held in a stunning 1920s stone and slate Tudor. In Show House from Sept. 10-Oct. 2 is $25 per person or $20 participation in the arts. ... The Schoolhouse Art Center is the spirit of the era, the PSO will host a Great Gatsby Jazz if purchased by Sept. 8. Tickets are available through Portlocated at 16 Richville Road Route 114 just west of the interAge Lawn Party as its preview event on Friday, Sept. 9, from TIX, 842-0800 or porttix.com. Tickets will also be available section with Route 35, 7.5 miles north of Gorham center.”

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets to attend are $100 per person and at the door for $25.

For tickets to the special events, visit For more information about the Schoolhouse Arts Center, are available through the PSO office at 773-6128 ext. 311 call 642-3743 or visit www.schoolhousearts.org. portlandsymphony.org. or by email, events@portlandsymphony.org. For more infor-