The Portland Daily Sun, Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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Stabbing Portland coach recalls a ‘star on suspect the field’ whose life was cut short caught in Texas

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Portland man arraigned after arrest near border

BY MARGE NIBLOCK

The coach of Deering High School soccer team says teammates of the 17-year-old Portland senior who drowned in the Presumpscot River Saturday are working through the shock and grief of their friend's untimely death.

Mohamed Hassan, a rising leader

of the Deering boys soccer team, drowned while swimming with four friends in Falmouth near the Allen Avenue Extension, police said.

Hassan was swimming near a dock when his friends told police that he briefly threw his arms in the air and then disappeared.

They attempted to find him under the water, but couldn't because the

water was too murky, according to police.

His body was recovered shortly after a dive team entered the water.

They found Hassan five feet from where he originally went under, police said.

"He was a player to watch," said Joel Costigan, the team's coach. "He see STAR page 9

Forecasters warn of coastal dangers from Maria

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A local man was arraigned Friday after being extradited from Texas on a warrant issued by the District Attorney’s Office in Portland charging him with elevated aggravated assault.

Abdi Awad, 25, was arrested on Aug. 22 in the small Texas town of Sierra Blanca, about 80 miles from Juarez, Mexico. The population of Sierra Blanca was under 500 when the last census was taken.

Awad was wanted in Portland for stabbing a man March 6, a little before see STABBING page 3

Something to crow about?

Plan would let more city dwellers raise chickens

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

In 2009, city councilors approved an ordinance allowing residents to keep up to six female chickens in backyard pens — so long as the structures met zoning rules and were at least 25 feet from adjacent homes.

Meteorologist Steve Capriola researches weather data at the Gray station of the National Weather Service Monday. “People have to be careful of (Hurricane Maria’s effects), you can have a nice, sunny day but anyone who goes into the water or even near the water can run into problems, maybe a crashing wave or a riptide that takes them out to sea,” Capriola said. See the story on page 8. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

see CHICKENS page 8

Would-be wallet thief thwarted

Mayoral what ifs

Seeing stars

Jonny Lang coming to the State

See Crime Briefs on page 3

See Bob Higgins on page 4

See James Howard Kunstler on page 4

See the Music Calendar, page 7

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Study: Dads have less testosterone (NY Times) — This is probably not the news most fathers want to hear.

Testosterone, that most male of hormones, takes a dive after a man becomes a parent. And the more he gets involved in caring for his children — changing diapers, jiggling the kid on his knee, reading “Goodnight Moon” for the umpteenth time — the lower his testosterone drops.

So says the first large study measuring testosterone in men when they were single and childless and several years after they had children. Experts say the research has implications for understanding the biology of fatherhood, hormone roles in men and even health issues like prostate cancer.

“The real take-home message,” said Peter Ellison, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard who was not involved in the study, is that “male parental care is important.

It’s important enough that it’s actually shaped the physiology of men. I think American males have been brainwashed” to believe lower testosterone means that “maybe you’re a wimp, that it’s because you’re not really a man. My hope would be that this kind of research has an impact on the American male. It would make them realize that we’re meant to be active fathers and participate in the care of our offspring.”

The study, experts say, suggests that men’s bodies evolved hormonal systems that helped them commit to their families once children are born. It also suggests that men’s behavior can affect hormonal signals their bodies send, not just that hormones influence behavior. And, experts say, it underscores that mothers were meant to have child care help.

“This is part of the guy being invested in the marriage,” said Carol Worthman, an anthropologist at Emory University who also was not involved in the study. Lower testosterone, she said, is the father’s way of saying, “ ’I’m here, I’m not looking around, I’m really toning things down so I can have good relationships.’ What’s great about this study is it lays it on the table that more is not always better. Faster, bigger, stronger — no, not always.”

Experts said the study was a significant contribution to hormone research because it tested men before and after becoming fathers and involved many participants: 600 men in the Philippines’ Cebu Province who are participating in a larger, well-respected health study following babies who were born in 1983 and 1984.

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

—William Shakespeare

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White House would cut deductions to fund jobs plan families making over $250,000 a year. The rest would come from provisions affecting oil and gas companies, hedge funds, and the owners of corporate jets.

Mr. Lew said that the congressional panel charged with finding at least $1.2 trillion in savings this fall as part of the agreement to raise the debt ceiling will have the option of accepting the payment proposals submitted by Mr. Obama, or proposing new ones of their own.

Republicans were quick to signal their continuing opposition to the tax increases that Mr. Lew described, which have been suggested by the administration before.

Brendan Buck, spokesman for House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, said the White House plan was not showing a “bipartisan spirit.”

Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House majority leader, said: “I sure hope that the president is not suggesting that we pay for his proposals with a massive tax increase at the end of 2012 on job cre-

ators.” If Mr. Obama’s bill resembled the 2009 stimulus plan, he said, “I don’t believe that our members are going to be interested in pursuing that; I certainly am not.”

Like that stimulus plan, Mr. Obama’s jobs bill is made up largely of tax cuts, such as the expanded reductions of the payroll taxes that finance Social Security. The White House wants to cut both employee and employer contributions in half next year, putting more money in the pockets of all wage earners and on the bottom line of most smaller companies.

Mr. Obama, speaking in the Rose Garden, held up a copy of the American Jobs Act, which will be sent to Congress on Monday evening. Flanked by people from across the country who he said would be helped by the law if it passes, the president struck tones similar to those of his big jobs speech last Thursday.

“On Thursday I told Congress that I’ll be sending them

a bill called the American Jobs Act,” Mr. Obama said, holding up a folder. “Well, here it is.”

Mr. Obama said the jobs act was “based on ideas from both Democrats and Republicans.”

Americans, he said, cannot afford to wait 14 months until the next election for lawmakers to act, particularly given the dire economic straits and the high unemployment rate.

“We’ve got a world economy that’s full of uncertainty right now,” Mr. Obama said. “Some events are beyond our control.”

By contrast, he said, his jobs bill is “something we can control.”

Mr. Obama is heading to Ohio and North Carolina this week to push his jobs plan. In Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, in Speaker John A. Boehner’s home state, he will argue once again that Congress should act; he will be making a similar pitch in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina on Wednesday. While the president won both states in 2008, they are expected to be highly competitive in next year’s election.

Scores dead in Kenya pipeline explosion

One dead in blast at French nuclear plant

BY HELENE COOPER THE NEW YORK TIMES

The White House said on Monday that it would cover most of the cost of his payroll tax cut and other job initiatives by limiting the deductions that can be claimed on the tax returns of wealthier taxpayers.

President Obama, repeating what is clearly going to be the mantra for his stump speeches this fall, called on lawmakers Monday to “pass this bill” — his $447 billion jobs package.

At the White House, his budget director described how the administration would propose to pay for the plan, as the president has promised to do.

Jack Lew, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the bulk of the plan –- some $400 billion over ten years — would be raised by limiting the itemized deductions, such as those for charitable contributions and other expenditures, that may be taken by individuals making more than $200,000 a year and

BY JEFFREY GETTLEMAN THE NEW YORK TIMES

The pipeline had burst — again — and gasoline was splashing freely down by the river.

The whole slum seemed to spring into action, with men, women and children grabbing buckets, oil tins, battered yellow jerry cans — anything to carry the leaking fuel. Even minibuses raced in from miles away, looking for free gas, a small godsend in a place where most people are jobless and live in rusty metal shacks that rent for $25 a month.

But then the wind shifted, witnesses said on Monday, and embers from the garbage fires that routinely burn by the river wafted toward the area where the fuel was gushing out. There was no time to escape. The fuel exploded, sending a giant fireball shooting up over the slum, engulfing scores of people and scattering bodies that were left in various poses of anguish, burned to the bone.

“All I can say is pole sana,” said Kalonzo Musyoka, Kenya’s vice president, using the Kiswahili words reserved

for condolences. “These people died like goats.”

Kenyan officials estimated that more than 100 people may have perished in the fire on Monday morning. This is not the first time scores of poor Kenyans have died in a terrible blaze while scooping up spilled fuel. In 2009, at least 113 people were burned to death after a huge crowd descended on an overturned gasoline tanker, which then blew up.

Several other spills have exploded into infernos, and a few weeks ago the Kenyan police were criticized for firing into the air and wounding a woman in an attempt to drive people away from a fuel spill.

It has already been a difficult week for the police. On Sunday, a boatload of Somali gunmen snatched a British tourist from a fancy $1,300-a-night resort just south of the Somali border.

The gunmen killed the woman’s husband before racing away with her, prompting the Kenyan police to deploy search planes, helicopters and small boats to scour the area. But on Monday there was no word on where the woman might be, and most officials suspected

she had been taken deep into Somalia, kidnapped either by the Shabab, an Islamist militant group, or by gangsters looking for ransom.

While that case was a bit of an aberration, residents of the Sinai slum, where the fire broke out, said fuel spills happened all the time.

“I can remember four times,” said Zackiyo Mwangi, a vendor of pirated CDs. “People started saying this morning, ‘There’s a spill, in the usual place; let’s get over there.’ ” “Yeah, I know,” Mr. Mwangi added, “it’s dangerous, but that’s how life is here.”

Sinai is a warren of ironsheeted shacks and muddy footpaths tucked behind Nairobi’s industrial area, not far from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. A major pipeline, owned by the Kenyan government, carries gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from the port of Mombasa across the entire span of Kenya, slicing through this tightly packed slum.

In 2008, the pipeline company tried to evict residents, saying it was illegal — and very dangerous — to live right above a high-pressure pipeline, but the people refused.

PARIS (New York Times) — One person was killed and four were injured Monday afternoon in an explosion at a nuclear waste treatment site in southern France, according to the French Nuclear Safety Authority.

The authority and local police officials said there had been no radiation leak. Some five hours after the explosion, the authority announced that the episode was over. The site, about 20 miles from Avignon, has no nuclear reactors, the authority said.

Olivier Isnard, an emergency manager at France’s Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety, said the explosion took place in the foundry of the waste processing plant, which was melting down about four tons of used, mildly radioactive metal objects. The cause of the explosion was not yet known, he said, but he emphasized that the level of radiation — about 67,000 becquerels — contained in the molten metal was minor.

“This is very, very low — nothing close to the radioactivity you would find inside a nuclear power plant,” he said.

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Portland police report numerous contacts with stabbing suspect STABBING from page one

1:30 a.m., at 1192 Forest Ave. The location was rented out for a private party, and the organizers hired security people for the occasion.

A security officer was in the process of breaking up a fight, during the course of which he was allegedly stabbed in the back by Awad. “He was conscious and alert at the time,” according to police spokesman Lt. Gary Rogers, who said the victim was transported to a hospital by Medcu.

Rogers stated, “Initial reports described the suspect as a Somali male.” He said that officers recovered the weapon used in the stabbing at the scene, that there was a lot of investigative follow-up, through interviews with witnesses. “It took a while before warrants were issued.”

Awad was arrested twice in Portland between the time of the stabbing and the issuance of warrants, which came immediately after the grand jury met the first week in August. He was picked up on March 19 and charged with operating after suspension and was arrested July 9 for trafficking in dangerous

knives, in violation of conditional release.

At the afternoon arraignment in front of Judge Wayne R. Douglas, Awad appeared in courtroom 1 wearing a yellow jail jumpsuit, with his wrists handcuffed in front of him. His hair was closely cut, giving him a very different appearance. He pled not guilty.

Matters were resolved very quickly when there were no objections to any of the conditions desired

by Assistant District Attorney Will Barry, who requested bail of $200,000 surety or $100,000 cash, and no third-party bail. Conditions of bail also included no possession of dangerous weapons and no contact with a list of people whose names were read into the record. Awad was also told he could not leave the State of Maine under any circumstances.

Attorney Scott Hood was appointed by the judge to represent Awad in the upcoming trial for the Class A felony with which he’s been charged.

Portland police have had numerous contacts with Awad over the past several years. The charges against him included aggravated assault, assault, refusing to submit to arrest, robbery, terrorizing, disorderly conduct, and violation of bail conditions. On

one occasion drugs were discovered in Awad’s possession during processing at the jail, according to jail officials.

A knife had been displayed by Awad during a 2009 robbery of a couple in East Bayside, police said.

In May of 2011 Awad was arrested in Rumford, Maine. At that time the charges were felony violation of bail, reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, and refusing to submit to arrest.

A handgun Awad was trying to dispose of discharged as he was fleeing police in Rumford, police reported.

A call to the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Office in Sierra Blanca led to a conversation with one of the jailers where Awad had been housed before the U.S. Marshal Service took him into their custody and accompanied him back to Maine. The Texas employee stated: “He had a bad attitude.”

The man then explained that after Awad was warned that he’d lose all privileges if he continued with his poor behavior. Awad then kept to himself and kept a low profile, only exhibiting his “attitude” occasionally.

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Would-be wallet thief faces robbery charge

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A Portland woman’s attempt to run off with a man’s wallet was thwarted when his friends took the woman’s purse and held it until police arrived, officials said.

Melissa Savage, 37, was charged with robbery after police said she swiped a wallet from a man’s back pocket who had stopped to ask her for directions to a restaurant. The man was walking near Longfellow Square shortly after midnight Sunday with two women, police said.

“As they separated and walked away he checked for his wallet, realized it was missing and then confronted her,” said Lt. Gary Rogers, a police spokesman.

Rogers explained that the victim saw Savage with his wallet and the two got into a struggle over it. The man’s friends also began to struggle with Savage and ultimately were able to grab her purse.

When police arrived the women was located nearby, Rogers said, adding that she stuck around because they had her purse.

No serious injuries were reported.

Homeless man smashes hospital equipment A man receiving treatment at Mercy Hospital was arrested for smashing a $10,000 EKG machine during an altercation with a nurse, police said.

Michael McCann, 29, was being

treated at the hospital when the fight occurred shortly after 5 a.m. on Monday. Police said he threw the machine on the floor and broke it after having words with a nurse at the hospital.

McCann didn’t list an address when he was booked at the Cumberland County Jail.

He was also issued a criminal trespass notice and is barred from being on the hospital’s property unless in a medical emergency, police said.

Brunswick mobile home raided; drugs, cash seized Drugs agents arrested five people and seized $5,000 worth of crack and prescription pills during a Friday afternoon raid on a Brunswick mobile home, police said Monday.

The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Brunswick Police Department arrested five people on various drug trafficking and possession charges after finding 77 oxycodone pills and 18 “rocks” of crack cocaine individually packaged and ready for sale, police said. They raided the mobile home at 28 Tufton Road in Brunswick following an investigation that began in August.

Police also seized nearly $6,000 in cash, a small amount of other prescription drugs, a 12-gauge shotgun and a rifle at the residence. Officials said they found the homeowner, Raymond Bourgion, 44, hiding under a pile of clothes.

Kristian Adams, 26, was charged with trafficking crack cocaine and trafficking oxycodone; Errol Holden, 31, was arrested on aggravated crack cocaine and possession of oxycodone

charges; and Lavar Cord, 28, was charged with aggravated trafficking of crack cocaine and aggravated trafficking of oxycodone. All three are from Bronx, N.Y. Megan Lausier, 24, of Brunswick, was arrested for cocaine possession,

and Bourgion also faces a cocaine possession charge. Both were summonsed at the scene, police said.

MDEA supervisor Sgt. James Pease said additional arrests are expected in the Brunswick area in the near future.

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Seeing stars I don’t want to be party pooper, but is it possible that all the 9/11 remembrance hoopla was a kind of weekend refuge from reality for this psychologically spavined nation? Memorializing is easy; acting resolutely in the here-and-now is another matter.

To me, the various 9/11 doings that radiated out over the media gave off an indecent odor of triumphalism — a correspondent of mine referred to it as “self-important histrionics.” We seem to put on these shows because we don’t know what else to do, and because the only truly effective homegrown industry left in the USA is public relations, the business of making your own reality.

The trouble is that reality accepts no substitutes (as the old ad jingle goes). It does its thing regardless of whether you acknowledge it or not. I was in Mexico City mid-week and sojourned behind the Zocolo at the ruins of the Templo Mayor, headquarters of the ––––– New World’s champion peopleGuest eater, Huitzilopochtli, a bad-ass Columnist mutha of a god if ever there was one. The Aztecs had everything going for them except their reality, at the center of which was this bloodthirsty hallucinated monster demanding fresh beating hearts by the hundredweight. And so, consumed by this insane myth, a half a million of them allowed themselves to be destroyed by three hundred adventurers from Spain.

Strange to relate, the environs of the ruined pyramid was the most tranquil spot in the entire supergigantic permanent catastrophe of Mexico City. Old Huitzee would like these times, I thought: a bad moon rising and plenty of fresh meat everywhere.

The way the stars were lining up, a pitiless deity could really get his mojo on. It made my skin crawl, I hardly know where to start this week.

I’ll yield to the obvious, then, and turn to President Obama’s jobs speech. I don’t believe for a minute that it added up to much beyond more political game-playing — although there is more than one game being played judging by the knuckleballs and downfield juke-moves displayed by Mr. O. You can throw in some rope-a-dope, too, since the main objective was to make a virtue out of weakness. So, the Republican-dominated Congress will pass a few fragments of the proposals (probably some tax cuts

James Howard Kunstler

see KUNSTLER page 5

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Some points that were missed Before anyone gets any strange ideas, let me state again for the record. I’m not in the mayoral race.

Over the past couple of weekends, I’ve taken some time off from my weekend gig as Captain Oblivious (He who is able to drink large quantities of beer in a short time) and backslid a bit back into the old “Captain Obvious” persona. It’s good to go back a bit and see some of the big details that were missed, and then bring them forward, so everyone involved can do the face-palm.

Three of the candidates for the position of mayor of this fine city are already on the council. Normally, that is the usual thing, but the shuffling of seats to create the job led to the “shuffling of feets” of At-Large council member Dory Richards Waxman. Her seat on the council has been eliminated.

But let’s step back and throw a bit of illumination on this thing.

Two of the folks running (Council Members Jill Duson and Current Mayor Nick Mavodones) are at-large seats. If either one of them wins the whole onion, we’ll be looking at a city-wide special election to fill their slot.

If Council member David Marshall wins, would he have to be replaced? The mayor is suppos-

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist edly the mayor for the whole city, so wouldn’t that leave the fine folks he represents in district 2 out hanging in the breeze?

If none of them win, Marshal and Mavodones could just go back to ther old seats for a year.

Duson could go back to hers for two.

At some point, should we have had the discussion about “giving up your seat” if you are going to run? Seems like this fine little detail got missed, or at least has the potential for creating havoc with the charter stuff.

Let’s all go out on that treacherous limb a bit further. Say one of the candidates who could be politely described as “bat-snotcrazy” (me, for example, were I still in the race) wins the whole onion through the ranked choice process. Are we really stuck with them for four years?

According to Ballotpedia, a wiki for all things elections, Maine’s original laws in 1979 as

updated by the Maine Municipal Association read thus. “In some communities, voters can remove an elected official from office before his or her term expires.

Such recall provisions, if included in a town or city charter or local ordinance, allow the citizens, after presenting a valid petition, to vote on whether or not they want to allow an official to continue serving in an office to which he or she was elected.”

It’s been tried a few times, but only succeeded once, with the removal of Anthony Cogliandro, an Acton selectman in 2010.

If a mayoral candidate was like myself, voted in High School most likely to be indicted for civil, criminal or other forms of malfeasance, and was accidentally elected through ranked choice voting due to a late hour at the bar, you COULD find a way to get rid of them, but it’s a long process.

What if a mayor died? Does the council find someone to finish his/ her term, or does the decision go back to the voters? Such questions fall under a kind of “25th Amendment Free For All Fun Zone” where politics comes down to the art of a lot of folks standing around with their hands in see HIGGINS page 5

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An impeccable disaster On Thursday Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank or E.C.B. — Europe’s equivalent to Ben Bernanke — lost his sang-froid. In response to a question about whether the E.C.B. is becoming a “bad bank” thanks to its purchases of troubled nations’ debt, Mr. Trichet, his voice rising, insisted that his institution has performed “impeccably, impeccably!” as a guardian of price stability.

Indeed it has. And that’s why the euro is now at risk of collapse.

Financial turmoil in Europe is no longer a problem of small, peripheral economies like Greece. What’s under way right now is a full-scale market run on the much larger economies of Spain and Italy. At this point countries in crisis account for about a third of the euro area’s G.D.P., so the common European currency itself is under existential threat.

And all indications are that European leaders are unwilling even to acknowledge the nature of that threat, let alone deal with it effectively.

I’ve complained a lot about the “fiscalization” of economic discourse here in America, the way in which a premature focus on budget deficits turned Washington’s attention away from the ongoing jobs disaster. But we’re not unique in that respect, and in fact the Europeans have been much, much worse.

Listen to many European leaders — especially, but by no means only,

Paul Krugman ––––– The New York Times the Germans — and you’d think that their continent’s troubles are a simple morality tale of debt and punishment: Governments borrowed too much, now they’re paying the price, and fiscal austerity is the only answer.

Yet this story applies, if at all, to Greece and nobody else. Spain in particular had a budget surplus and low debt before the 2008 financial crisis; its fiscal record, one might say, was impeccable. And while it was hit hard by the collapse of its housing boom, it’s still a relatively low-debt country, and it’s hard to make the case that the underlying fiscal condition of Spain’s government is worse than that of, say, Britain’s government.

So why is Spain — along with Italy, which has higher debt but smaller deficits — in so much trouble? The answer is that these countries are facing something very much like a bank run, except that the run is on their governments rather than, or more accurately as well as, their financial institutions.

Here’s how such a run works: Investors, for whatever reason, fear that a country will default on its debt. This makes them unwilling to buy the

These countries are facing something very much like a bank run, except that the run is on their governments rather than, or more accurately as well as, their financial institutions. country’s bonds, or at least not unless offered a very high interest rate. And the fact that the country must roll its debt over at high interest rates worsens its fiscal prospects, making default more likely, so that the crisis of confidence becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. And as it does, it becomes a banking crisis as well, since a country’s banks are normally heavily invested in government debt.

Now, a country with its own currency, like Britain, can short-circuit this process: if necessary, the Bank of England can step in to buy government debt with newly created money.

This might lead to inflation (although even that is doubtful when the economy is depressed), but inflation poses a much smaller threat to investors than outright default. Spain and Italy, however, have adopted the euro and no longer have their own currencies.

As a result, the threat of a self-fulfilling crisis is very real — and interest rates on Spanish and Italian debt are more than twice the rate on British debt.

Which brings us back to the impeccable E.C.B. What Mr. Trichet and his colleagues should be doing right now is buying up Spanish and Italian debt — that is, doing what these countries would

be doing for themselves if they still had their own currencies. In fact, the E.C.B. started doing just that a few weeks ago, and produced a temporary respite for those nations. But the E.C.B. immediately found itself under severe pressure from the moralizers, who hate the idea of letting countries off the hook for their alleged fiscal sins. And the perception that the moralizers will block any further rescue actions has set off a renewed market panic.

Adding to the problem is the E.C.B.’s obsession with maintaining its “impeccable” record on price stability: at a time when Europe desperately needs a strong recovery, and modest inflation would actually be helpful, the bank has instead been tightening money, trying to head off inflation risks that exist only in its imagination.

And now it’s all coming to a head.

We’re not talking about a crisis that will unfold over a year or two; this thing could come apart in a matter of days. And if it does, the whole world will suffer.

So will the E.C.B. do what needs to be done — lend freely and cut rates?

Or will European leaders remain too focused on punishing debtors to save themselves? The whole world is watching.

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and maybe even unemployment extensions) but they’ll wrinkle their noses at everything else and the result will barely make a difference — given the nature of this economy, which is having its Thelma and Louise moment.

None of them has a clue that reality has other plans for the U.S. economy, which is to contract, deglobalize, downscale, and go local. That so-called economy they’re trying to bring back? It’s gone, baby, gone. I saw the remnants of it in the supermarket yesterday afternoon, endless freezer displays of unbelievable food-like crap such as Fridays © frozen fried cheddar-stuffed jalepeno poppers and something called “Rattlesnake Pasta.” What kind of people are we? Is Huitzilopochtli behind all this, fattening us up for the alter? The fact that chili peppers are involved makes me suspicious. Anyway, this trip to the supermarket was like a visit to some unholy museum. A lot of the stuff behind those glass freezer doors I’d never actually noticed before, and surely never imagined in my wildest Iron Chef fantasies. In a few years, when the US public has become accustomed to a diet of cabbage soup and corn-pone, the memory of all that will astonish us.

As to Mr. Obama’s delivery, I wish he would give up that little vocal trick he employs of constricting his windpipe so as to sound extra-special sincere.

In fact, every time he puts that phony voice on, I discount what he is saying, such as you would if listening to a speech by Pinocchio and seeing his nose grow at every utterance. The non-entity former governor of New York, George Pataki, who mounted a seventeen-minute campaign for president a month or so ago, also favored that speech-delivery trick. All it accomplished was to make him look like he was straining himself to appear authentic. Note that the most self-consciously clueless political podcasters in the whole pod-world, the jokers at The New Yorker Magazine’s podcast, gave Obama super props on delivery. For them, it was all about public relations, of course. They have no idea what kind of economy is greeting us in reality. Not your grandpa’s Wheel of Fortune Rotary Club extravaganza, I assure you, Rick Hertzberg and Ryan Lizza. They’re thrilled that Mr. Obama may finally be getting John Maynard Keynes right. OMG....

The stars are lined up now pointing straight at the tragic heart of Europe. I really don’t quite see how the Euro currency gets through to the end of this week. German government officials are making

noises about an orderly bankruptcy in Greece. What do they mean by that? Does Greece walk into its lawyer’s office with a tidy list of assets for sale? Say, the Parthenon, assorted caryatids, the contents of the Thessalonica Country Club’s trophy cabinet, and Uncle Nikos’s fabulous stamp collection? I don’t think so.

More likely, you can expect an unholy s-storm of credit default swaps setting every bank in the OCED (and few outside it) on fire, and by extension every executive mansion, until you turn around on Saturday morning and the world’s currency system looks like an incinerated slice of smoldering wonder bread. It was a wonder that the Euro nations could keep their end of this unholy racket going as long as they did, since their constitution doesn’t even allow bail-outs, period. Anyway, it is nowhere recorded in the annals of Bernal Diaz or the Aztec codexes that Huitzilopochtli liked sandwiches. He was a straightup barbeque deity, though a little molé on the side goes nicely with a plate of human thigh.

(James Howard Kunstler is the author of several books, including “The Long Emergency,” “The Geography of Nowhere,” and “The Witch of Hebron.” He can be found online at www.kunstler.com)

A list of what ifs for mayoral candidates, voters to ponder HIGGINS from page 4

their own pockets (for a change) and saying “Gee, I dunno.”

One last one, then I’m back to the suds. Erick Bennett also failed to gather enough signatures to get on the ballot. He claims to have turned in more than

enough, but is the victim of a city clerk’s office who tossed out valid signatures on petitions, keeping him off the ballot.

Ah, the irony. I wonder if he sees the irony; as Paul LePage’s alleged social media spokesman during the campaign, I truly wonder if there would have been as much intense scrutiny of all signatures, from all

the candidates, had his old buddy Paul and Charlie Webster up in Augusta not put so much emphasis on the subject of fraudulent voting.

Petard, meet the hoist.

(Bob Higgins is an erstwhile mayoral hopeful and regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

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Tuesday, Sept. 13 Jane Brox, author, at Falmouth Memorial Library noon. Jane Brox, author, at Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth. Jane Brox’s fourth book, “Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light,” is now available in paperback from Mariner Books. “She is the author of three previous books: ‘Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm’; ‘Five Thousand Days Like This One,’ which was a 1999 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; and’ Here and Nowhere Else,’ which won the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award.”

UMaine School of Law, Preti Flaherty: Sports Law Symposium: Law and the Olympic Movement 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. “Please join The University of Maine School of Law and Preti Flaherty for a Sports Law Symposium featuring: Law and the Olympic Movement. Join us in exploring the law as it affects the rights of athletes.

Hear from sports professionals and attorneys who will discuss the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act, the World Anti-Doping Code, and the athlete’s right of publicity. Please join us for a reception immediately following the panel discussion. Cost to attend is $35.”

University of Southern Maine, Abromson Community Education Center, 88 Bedford St. Kim LeBlanc kleblanc@ preti.com; 791.3161 or Lexie Moras, amoras@usm. maine.edu; 780.4344.

One Longfellow Square Community Celebration 5:30 p.m. “Please join the board of directors and staff at One Longfellow Square for an evening of community and celebration to mark our transition into a nonprofit 501c3.

Join us for an overview of our newly developed mission to make youth development, arts education, and expanded community programming an ongoing part of the offerings at One Longfellow Square. We will offer details of the many programs we are initiating in partnership with many diverse non-profit and educational groups throughout the greater Portland area.” 5:30 p.m. open bar and hors d’oeurves, 6:30 p.m. presentation, music following. Please rsvp to rsvp@onelongfellowsquare.com

‘10 Tips for Effective Marketing & PR’ 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Encore Leadership Corps (ENCorps), which offers free training and support for volunteers over 50, will host a workshop –– “10 Tips for Effective Marketing & PR” –– at the Peter A. McKernan Hospitality Center at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland.

Connie Gemmer, a partner at the consulting firm of Barton & Gingold, will share her expertise while participants sample desserts made by SMCC’s Culinary Arts students. Free for Encore Leadership Corps members; $10 for nonmembers.

Sign up to become an ENCorps member at the event and attend for free! Contact Patti Foden at 767-5352 or info@ encoreleaders.org for more information.

2011 Employment Law Seminar 7:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Preti Flaherty’s Labor and Employment Practice Group is hosting the 2011 Employment Law Seminar in Portland. “Now in its 17th year, this fullday seminar will cover the most up-to-date legal issues in employment law and practical tips for implementing these requirements within a workplace. Attendees include human resources managers, management responsible for workplace benefits and policy enforcement, in-house counsel and other professionals involved in employment-related policies, discipline or health plan benefits.” The seminar will be held from 7:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. at the University of Southern Maine Abromson Center. The cost to attend is $95/attendee which includes breakfast and lunch. This seminar has been approved for five recertification hours by HRCI (PHR/SPHR credits). For more information or to register, visit www.preti.com/2011EmploymentLawSeminar or call 791.3224.

Wednesday, Sept. 14 Fundraiser for the Animal Refuge League 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. SpaTech Massage is once again doing a fundraiser for the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland. They will be offering foot massage, chair massage (clothes on), reflexology and scalp massage for a donation.

The donations will go to ARL. No appointments necessary. They are located at 100 Larrabee Road in Westbrook.

Phone for more info: 591-4141.

Thursday, Sept. 15 AARP Driver Safety Class 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. AARP Driver Safety Classes for drivers age 50 and older will be presented in Portland from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Sept. 15, and in Windham on Sept. 17,. The class in Portland on Thursday, Sept. 15, will be held at the

In “Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light,” Jane Brox traces the fascinating history of human light from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future — and reveals that the story of light is also the story of our evolving selves. She will appear at Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, today. (Photo by Luc Demers) AARP Maine State Office, 1685 Congress St., Portland. The class in Windham will be presented on Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Windham Public Library, 217 Windham Center Road, Windham. The registration fee is $12 for AARP members and $14 for others. To register, phone John Hammon, AARP volunteer instructor, at (207) 655-4943. Registration no later than Sept. 9 is recommended as class size is limited.

Labyrinth Walk 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Trinity Episcopal at 580 Forest Ave. (entrance in rear) is offering its indoor Chartre-style labyrinth for meditative walks on Thursday, Sept. 15 between 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Allow about 30 minutes. No charge; donations gratefully accepted. FMI 772-7421.

The Greek Economic Crisis by Prof. Irwin Novak 4 p.m. Greece owes 350 billion euros — or nearly 150 percent of its GDP! — and the country is experiencing unprecedented continuing protests. Through video, graphs, slides and lecture material Prof. Irwin Novak will spell out the issues and open a discussion on Greece’s current economic crisis during a free talk in Room 133 Wishcamper Hall on the University of Southern Maine Portland campus.

The talk is presented by the Hellenic Society of Maine with the support of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Rm. 133, Wishcamper Hall, University of Southern Maine, Portland. A professor geology at USM, and not an economist, Dr. Novak will share his observations of recent events and outline the details behind the international headlines surrounding Greece’s financial predicament. He is keenly interested in modern Greece and has been studying the Greek financial state of affairs for some time. He has been a summer resident of Greece for more than 20 years.

WENA on Art at Work discussion 6:30 p.m. West End Neighborhood Association monthly meetings are at the Reiche Community Center, 166 Brackett St., Portland. “On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 a group of WENA members met with the Art at Work Portland staff (Marty Pottenger and Belinda Ray) to offer the West End an opportunity to be involved with the project ... (and) we would ask that you all vote on whether we would like to take advantage of this opportunity to recruit and engage more neighborhood residents with this project for 2011-12. Art at Work is a one year project starting in September 2011. The goals of the project are to strengthen neighborhood organizations as partners with government; expand memberships to reflect socioeconomic and cultural diversity of community; increase civic participation and fortify the cultural and economic viability of neighborhoods. This is accomplished by directly involving residents and businesses in art workshops that focus on neighborhood histories, assets and challenges, capacity building and leadership development. Art at Work has chosen the West End as a priority neighborhood and would need our support to proceed. The Project would meet once a month at Reiche Community Center, thus enhancing the use of this community space, for a two-and-a-half-hour session. The goal would be 25 participants engaged in the process by the

end of one year. Each month would be a new project using a new art medium, led by professional artists from the Art at Work project. Art at Work would run the classes, help recruit community members to participate, provide materials, food and refreshments, and work to recruit West End artists as the teachers/facilitators. In addition to the 25 participants we also must commit to trying to raise $5000 by the end of the year with the help of a professional fundraiser’s advice and support. We could do this through WestFest, another neighborhood fundraiser, corporate and private donations, bake sales, art sales, etc.” www.WENAMaine.org

Acorn Productions free workshops 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Acorn Productions begins its 2011-12 season of programming for the community with a pair of free offerings for adults and kids at the company’s studios in Dana Warp Mill in Westbrook. The adult sessions will be held on Thursday, Sept. 15 and Monday, Sept. 19 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Two sessions for kids also take place on Monday, Sept. 19 and Thursday, Sept. 22 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. All of Acorn’s free workshops are taught by Producing Director Michael Levine, and they are designed to provide beginning and continuing actors with an introduction to the actor’s craft, as well as a sense of what transpires during a full-length acting class. Students in the workshops participate in a series of acting games and theater exercises that will introduce them to many common acting terms.

No experience necessary, but pre-registration is required.

Interested students may sign up on line at www.acorn-productions.org or call Acorn’s business office at 854-0065.

The Acorn Acting Academy starts its fall session of eightweek classes for kids and adults the week of Sept. 26

A One Woman Play by Elizabeth Peavey 7 p.m. Premier of “My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother,” $12 Students/Seniors; $15 Adult. St. Lawrence Arts Center.

“Losing a parent is difficult enough. Losing your final parent presents an additional challenge: What are you supposed to do with all your family’s stuff? Join celebrated Maine author Elizabeth Peavey as she confronts this question in her hilarious and heartbreaking one-woman show, My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother, which premieres at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Portland. ... For months, Peavey avoided wading through her late mother’s things. But when her mom’s condo sells, she’s forced to reckon with its contents. As she does, objects surface, triggering memories and emotions. Possessions she once thought would be easy to chuck – the Polynesian hors d’oeuvre platter, the milkglass and tea-cup collections, the kinda Colonial decorative scoop – suddenly take on epic stature, forcing the question: How do we know when to let go? Elizabeth Peavey is the author of ‘Outta My Way: An Odd Life Lived Loudly,’ a collection of columns from her Casco Bay Weekly days, and of ‘Maine & Me: 10 Years of Down East Adventures,’ which was awarded the Maine Literary Award for Best Mainethemed Book.” www.stlawrencearts.org see EVENTS page 14

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Tuesday, Sept. 13 The Moody Blues 8 p.m. Steve Litman Presents, The Moody Blues in concert. Tickets $109.50, $77, $67 (includes service fee). “The Moody Blues are an English Rock band that have sold 70 million albums worldwide and have been awarded 14 platinum and gold discs. With hits such as ‘Nights in White Satin,’ ‘Just a Singer in a Rock n Roll Band,’ ‘Ride My See-Saw,’ and ‘Question of Balance,’ Moody Blues have been around since 1964!” Merrill Auditorium. https://tickets.porttix.com/ public/show.asp

Saturday, Sept. 17 Catie Curtis at One Longfellow 8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents Catie Curtis. Curtis has recorded 10 critically acclaimed solo albums and has had songs featured in numerous TV shows including “Dawson’s Creek,” “Felicity,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Alias,” as well as in films such as “500 Miles to Graceland” and “A Slipping Down Life.”

Singer/songwriter Elijah Ocean 9 p.m. Singer/songwriter Elijah Ocean was born at home in the Hudson River Valley. He comes to Brooklyn, New York by way of the woods of Maine, where he learned to write adventure stories and play guitar in the loft of a renovated barn.

Ocean will appear with Christian Cuff, Basement Band and Grimis at Empire Dine & Dance, 575 Congress St.

Wednesday, Sept. 14 Cut Copy, Washed Out, Midnight Magic 8 p.m. State Theatre presents. Cut Copy: The festive explosion of kaleidoscopic Californian acid hippie reborn as UK glam star explored new terrain, hinting a further evolution for a group that is yet to make the same record twice.

Washed Out is Ernest Greene, a young guy from Georgia (via South Carolina) who makes bedroom synthpop that sounds blurred and woozily evocative, like someone smeared Vaseline all over an early OMD demo tape, then stayed up all night trying to recreate what they heard. When Midnight Magic popped up on Tim Sweeney’s Beats In Space ‘Best of 2009’ they really should’ve had a record out. They also should’ve had something available for download when they appeared on a recent Best of Myspace U.K.

Sunday, Sept. 18 Laura Darrell CD Release 8 p.m. Laura Darrell at One Longfellow Square.

Laura Darrell began singing professionally at age 9 in the classical genre before she transitioned into musical theatre and pop in her adolescence.

She sang with the Portland Symphony Orchestra when she was 13 and was discovered by Producer Con Fullam who produced her Christmas Album which earned her a N.E. Emmy nomination after her concert debuted on PBS. www. onelongfellowsquare.com

Friday, Sept. 23 Dirty White Hats

Thursday, Sept. 15 Gabriel Kahane at One Longfellow

Blues rocker Jonny Lang is coming to the State Theatre on Friday. (COURTESY PHOTO)

8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents Gabriel Kahane. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times earlier this year for “an all around dazzling performance,” Gabriel Kahane is not part of a scene. He writes string quartets and musicals and pop songs, and his heart is fully in all of those endeavors. But what unites all of his musical efforts is the desire to communicate honestly and without pretense. http://onelongfellowsquare. com/Results.asp?category=2

JJ Grey and Mofro at Port City 8 p.m. Port City Music Hall presents Adam Ezra Group and JJ Grey and Mofro. Adam Ezra Group is a dynamic acoustic roots/rock band rising to the top of the Boston music scene. A mixture of old school rhythm & blues and down-home roots rock ‘n’ roll, has carried JJ Grey & Mofro from the backwoods of Florida to hundreds of concert stages across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia. www.portcitymusichall.com/events

Friday, Sept. 16 The Edith Jones Project 8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents the Edith Jones Project. Maine’s All Women Big Band (86 percent less testosterone ... 200 percent of the swing) plays modern big band jazz made famous by Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, the Count Basie Orchestra and others. Members of the band include some of the most talented performing and teaching musicians in Maine. Band members include faculty from Bates College, USM, UNH, and high schools, middle schools and elementary schools throughout southern Maine. http:// onelongfellowsquare.com/Results.asp?category=2

USM Spotlight Concert Series 8 p.m. Broadway performer Mark Jacoby joins a collection of USM faculty and visiting guest artists gathered by School of Music faculty member Betty Rines to perform two extraordinary instrumental/narrative works, Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat and Walton’s Façade, in the first in the University of Southern Maine School of Music’s Fall 2011 Spotlight Concert Series. Join Betty Rines and Friends in Hannaford Hall, Abromson Community Education Center (Bedford Street), USM Portland. Spotlight Concert tickets cost $15 general public; $10 seniors/USM employees; $5 students/children. Tickets may be purchased at the door.

For additional information, contact the USM Music Box

Office at 780-5555. Sponsored by the School of Music Advisory Board.

Putnam Smith & Travis Cyr 8 p.m. Mayo Street Arts presents Putnam Smith and Travis Cyr. Admission $8. Putnam Smith, who hails from Portland, Maine, could be an old-world troubadour fresh from the 19th Century. After all, he lives in a log cabin, plays his Grandfather’s banjo, and prints up the jackets to his CDs on a 1901 Pearl Letterpress (hand set type, pedal powered!). Yet this rootsy multi-instrumentalist songwriter (he also writes and performs on guitar, mandolin, fretless banjo, and piano), steeped as he is in old-time Appalachian traditions, is very much a storyteller for the modern age. the modern folk music of Travis Cyr and the Strings of Calamity will be coming to an eardrum near you soon!. He is proud to have shared the stage with some of Maine’s best musicians including, Putnam Smith, Tree By Leaf, Frank Hopkins, Dark Hollow Bottling Co., the Toughcats, the Lucid and Emilia Dahlin. http://mayostreetarts.org/ calendar/

Jonny Lang and Farren Butcher Inc. 8 p.m. WCLZ Presents Grammy Award winner: Jonny Lang and Farren Butcher Inc. at the State Theatre. In more than ten years on the road, Jonny Lang has toured with the Rolling Stones, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, B.B. King, Blues Traveler, Jeff Beck and Sting.

In 1999, he was invited to play for a White House audience including President and Mrs. Clinton. Lang also makes a cameo appearance in the film Blues Brothers 2000 as a janitor. In 2004, Eric Clapton asked Lang to play a the Crossroads Guitar Festival to raise money for

9 p.m. Portland hip hop act Dirty White Hats at Port City Music Hall. “We’re brewing up new songs for our next show; Dirty White Hats and Whitcomb @ PCMH,” the group reports.

Thursday, Sept. 29 Chris Botti at Merrill 7:30 p.m. Merrill Auditorium, Portland. “Since the release of his 2004 critically acclaimed CD ‘When I Fall In Love,’ Chris Botti (pronounced boat-tee) has become the largest selling American instrumental artist. His success has crossed over to audiences usually reserved for pop music and his ongoing association with PBS has led to four No. 1 Jazz Albums, as well as multiple Gold, Platinum & Grammy Awards. Over the past three decades, he has recorded and performed with the best in music; including Frank Sinatra, Sting, Josh Groban, Michael Buble, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, John Mayer, Andrea Bocelli, Joshua Bell and Aerosmith’s own Steven Tyler.” http:// portlandovations.org

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Forecasters warn of coastal dangers from Maria Casco Bay is shown with a megaberth deep-water pier extending beyond pilings.

Coastal currents could be treacherous due to the influence of Hurricane Maria.

(DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The calm after the storm in Maine doesn't mean it's entirely safe for beachcombers. Hurricane Maria could create hazardous coastal conditions, even as fall weather turns thoughts to sunshine and cool, crisp temperatures.

Rough surf and rip currents are expected along the U.S. East Coast this week due to Maria, which largely has gone unnoticed by Mainers.

"We do have Hurricane Maria that is going to scoot out to sea ... that's not going to be much of a problem for us, beyond maybe some swells and a little bit of rough surf and maybe some rip currents," said Steve Capriola, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray. "People have to be careful of that, you can have a nice, sunny day but anyone who goes into the water or even near the water can run into problems, maybe a crashing wave or a riptide that takes them out to sea. You have to be careful of those things, you don't think of a hazard when it's sunny and nice outside."

In his wrap-up report on the summer in Portland, Capriola said June, July and August brought temperatures reminiscent of the Three Bears. June was too cold, July was too hot, and August was just right.

"The average temperature in July was 3.6 degrees above normal," Capriola wrote. "The average high tempera-

ture was 3.8 degrees above normal and the average low temperature was 3.4 degrees above normal. The Portland Jetport reached the 100 degree mark on July 22, the first time ever in the month of July at the Portland Jetport. This set a record for the date and the month. This was the first time Portland has hit the century mark in over 35 years and only the fourth time ever at the Jetport. After having a record warm month in July, August followed up with an exactly normal month, temperature-wise. June was a little colder than normal, but due to July being so much above normal the summer turned out to be nearly one degree (0.9 degree) above normal and was the 12th warmest summer in the

past 71 years."

At the end of August, Hurricane Irene brought heavy rain and strong wind gusts to Portland, with 1.63 inches of rain on Aug. 27 and 28. On Aug. 28, a daily record for precipitation was set with 1.42 inches, breaking the previous record of 0.91 inches set in 1922.

Still, although Central Maine Power reported 275,000 customers without power in Maine and the state experienced some flooding as a result of Irene, mostly up in the mountains, the impacts were not as severe as earlier predicted.

Capriola said, "I think the forecasts were pretty good, I mean the models had quite a variation on where it was

going to go, if it was going to stay off the coast, or if it was going to track inland or well to our west."

A wind gust of 52 miles per hour was recorded at the Portland Jetport, although Capriola said other higher gusts may have occurred.

"Power went out at the airport, and they do have generator backup for certain things, but our equipment doesn't have that. We were able to gather some of the wind gust data from the tower. ...

The tower saw a peak wind of 52 mph, so we know it was at least 52 mph," he said.

Now, fall weather is settling in.

Portland's average temperature in September was 64.3 degrees as of Monday, only 0.6 degrees above normal, the weather service reported.

A nip of autumn is in the air.

"The weekend we're going to have widespread frost, probably Saturday morning and Sunday," said Tom Hawley, weather service meteorologist.

"Interior sections will see their first frost I believe this weekend," Hawley said.

Temperatures may dip to the mid30s in interior York County Saturday morning, he said.

The weekend should be dry, with high temperatures on Friday only climbing into the upper 50s, lower 60s.

"Even high temperatures will be fairly cool," Hawley said.

Committee also expected to hear from city manager about police chief hiring CHICKENS from page one

Since then, at least 22 households have received permits to raise chickens within city limits.

But that number could soon grow under a plan set to be introduced tonight at the city council’s Public

Safety Committee.

The committee is also expected to hear from City Manager Mark Rees about how he intends to fill the vacant police chief position. The meeting will be held tonight at 5:30 p.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall.

Councilor Dave Marshall said he’s

planning to introduce an amendment that would reduce the 25-foot buffer as well as setback requirements in certain residential zones with the goal of allowing more Peninsula residents to keep chickens legally.

Marshall said the initial ordinance that passed in 2009 was amended to include more restrictive setbacks. But now that the program has proven to be noncontroversial, he said it was time to revisit those regulations.

“From what I have been able to find, there have not been many issues” involving chickens, he said yesterday in a phone interview. “I feel as though it’s appropriate now to move forward and allow people who live in more densely-populated areas” to have chickens.

In 2009, dozens of residents flooded city council chambers to speak in favor of the measure. Advocates argued that chickens would provide a healthy, low-cost food and let city residents be more sustainable.

According to a memo from Associate City Attorney Mary Costigan, only one person has been cited for keeping chickens without a permit (the person lived on Stevens Avenue, where the chickers were apparently allowed to roam free). That said, it's long been rumored that at least as many residents were keeping chickens as were getting permits.

Marshall didn’t specify how much he intended to reduce the setbacks and buffer rules, saying he first wanted to discuss the matter with city staff.

However, Marshall said he might try to align the setback rules with those

regulating sheds or other small structures.

“What we are just talking about is where the chicken coop is going to go,” he said, adding, “the coop is more like a shed than anything else.”

Marshall doesn’t anticipate much pushback on the plan, which would need support from the full city council to take effect.

In addition to the chickens discussion, Rees is expected to offer details tonight about how he intends to replace former police chief James Craig, who left Portland in July to become Cincinnati's chief. Craig came to Portland in May 2009 after more than two decades with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Portland Police Department has been under the command of an acting chief, Michael Sauschuck, since Craig left.

Sauschuck is a 14-year veteran of the department and has said publicly that he's interested in a permanent position as chief. Some city councilors have said publicly that Sauschuck should be named chief, while others favor opening the position up to a nationwide search.

A city spokesperson wouldn't say Monday what was expected to be discussed during the committee meeting, adding that Rees wanted to be the first to unveil the plan.

Whoever Rees recommends for the position will need to be confirmed by the City Council.

(Reporter Matt Arco contributed to this report)

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was a star on the field. (He had) a great personality, always lit up smiling ... and always trying to motivate kids."

Costigan spoke about Hassan on the heels of a Sunday candlelight vigil near the spot where he was swimming. He said hundreds attended the event, including members of his close-knit soccer team.

"They're very hurt and upset. These guys are really close," said Costigan, referring to the team.

"We're family."

A game slated for today against Gorham was canceled after the incident, and Costigan said the team planned to travel together to Auburn yesterday and attend Hassan's services. When they return to the field for a home game on Thursday, Costigan said the young men plan to celebrate his life by dedicating the game and their season to him.

"We're going to bring his jersey out together (on the field and) the rest of the year we'll have the jersey right on the bench with us," he said. "We want to come back at home in front of our home crowd with people to support us and to support Mohamed and his family."

Costigan described Hassan as being entirely dedicated to the game, so much so that he would not hesitate to text his coach about soccer at all hours of the night.

"He texted me first at 10:53 one night talking about the game and saying things like, 'Coach, I think we need a run because we're not focused in

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A bicyclist rolls along Thames Street on the East End late last week. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

practice,'" said Costigan.

Later, the coach said that the messages would be sent to his phone at 1:50 a.m., then one at nearly 4:30 a.m. read, "Coach, I am going to try really hard to make captain this year!"

Costigan described Hassan as finding his own way and on the path to becoming a captain. His persistence, hard work and development was paying off, he said.

"I'm not sure how we're going to present it yet, but we're going to make him an honorary captain," said Costigan, adding that even before hearing the news of Hassan's death, he planned to make him captain sometime this season.

Hassan's friends told police that they didn't suspect anything was wrong Saturday when he briefly threw his arms in the air. They told police they thought he was having fun, said Lt. John Kilbride,

of the Falmouth Police Department.

Kilbride explained that drownings can happen in an instant and that "a lot of people don't know it's happening until it's over."

He said there was no evidence of alcohol being consumed, and that police are ruling the event as an accident.

"We believe at this time, in talking to his friends, that he didn't have a lot of swimming experience," he said. "That's what we're thinking. He just didn't know how to swim that well and got too far out.

These things happen so fast."

The incident occurred at about 5:30 p.m. About 30 to 40 emergency officials responded to the scene.

"It was a very sad scene," Kilbride said. "It's very tragic for the family, obviously, and very sad for the first responders. They're very upset that they weren't able to get to him and save his life."

DAILY CROSSWORD TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES

by Lynn Johnston

By Holiday Mathis something out of the ordinary. You’ll be in a social mood, though you might have to initiate the fun to make it happen.

Call a friend to go bargain hunting or to take a bike ride on a scenic route.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

Because of your selflessness, you’ll make a favorable impression on someone interesting. This person will, at some later date, help you out. For now, though, you’ll just be glad for the favorable attention.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

Your excitement over a project will be contagious. Make sure that you also have a specific plan. Work it through on your own before you share it. Your instructions will be followed to the letter.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You will look back to when a problem first began. You might recognize that it started with circumstances very much like the ones you encounter today. You will take preventive measures.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You don’t want to be the “bad guy,” but someone might put you in that position anyway. It’s because you have such a soft way of delivering the hard facts.

You’re gifted in the art of letting people down easy.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 13).

You’ll have more time with someone who makes your heart beat a little faster.

Take in new scenery in October. Unexpected visitors bring excitement at the end of 2011. January ushers in a different routine and increased energy and vitality. Your success will be intertwined with the success of family. Cancer and Capricorn people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 14, 3, 20 and 16.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your plans are more ambitious than you first realized, though they are still very much within the realm of possibility. You will need a lot of help. Think about how you can rally people around your vision.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You will have limits placed on what you can and can’t do. The funny part is that you actually welcome the rules and impositions because you want to be challenged. How else are you going to become great?

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll see 10 possible solutions to a problem, while the average person sees maybe one. So speak up. The world needs to hear your advice, even if they don’t take it. You’ll get people thinking differently.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). When you look around your home, you see a lot of things you really need -- and a lot of things you don’t. Instead of increasing the number of things you own, scale down the number of things you want.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You won’t be worried about your image or what others are thinking about you. You’ll have an impact on someone’s life, and that makes you feel absolutely marvelous.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It is said that misfortune brings a fool to his senses. But you don’t have to be a fool to receive the wakeup call. Minor accidents, for instance, a slight slip or spill, will remind you to slow down.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There is such a thing as being too diplomatic. A line will be drawn today, and you’ll be moved to take a stand. You will have the opportunity to declare a loyalty.

There is dignity in this.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Do

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2011. There are 109 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 13, 1971, a four-day inmates’ rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed a total of 43 lives — 32 inmates and 11 employees.

On this date: In 1759, during the final French and Indian War, the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City.

In 1788, the Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election, and declared New York City the temporary national capital.

In 1803, Commodore John Barry, considered by many the father of the American Navy, died in Philadelphia.

In 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

In 1959, Elvis Presley first met his future wife, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, while stationed in West Germany with the U.S. Army. (They married in 1967, but divorced in 1973.)

In 1970, the first New York City Marathon was held; winner Gary Muhrcke finished the 26.2-mile run, which took place entirely inside Central Park, in 2:31:38.

In 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

One year ago: Japan freed 14 crew members of a Chinese fishing ship nearly a week after their vessel collided with two Japanese patrol boats near disputed southern islets.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Barbara Bain is 80. Actress Eileen Fulton (“As the World Turns”) is 78. TV producer Fred Silverman is 74. Actor Richard Kiel is 72. Rock singer David Clayton-Thomas (Blood, Sweat & Tears) is 70. Actress Jacqueline Bisset is 67.

Singer Peter Cetera is 67. Actress Christine Estabrook is 61. Actress Jean Smart is 60.

Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. is 57. Actress-comedian Geri Jewell is 55. Radio-TV personality Tavis Smiley is 47. Rock musician Zak Starkey is 46. Actor Louis Mandylor is 45.

Olympic gold medal runner Michael Johnson is 44. Rock musician Steve Perkins is 44. Actress Louise Lombard is 41. TCountry musician Joe Don Rooney (Rascal Flatts) is 36. Actor Scott Vickaryous is 36. Singer Fiona Apple is 34. Contemporary Christian musician Hector Cervantes (Casting Crowns) is 31. MLB pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka (DYS’-kay maht-soo-ZAH’-kah) is 31.

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Bank of America to cut 30,000 jobs by 2014 (NY TIMES) — Bank of America’s chief executive, Brian T. Moynihan, vowed on Monday to eliminate $5 billion in costs annually by 2014, a move that will eliminate at least 30,000 jobs at the company, which employs 288,000 people and is the largest bank in the United States.

In a widely anticipated speech at an investor conference organized by Barclays in New York, Mr. Moynihan outlined his plan to make Bank of America, the largest bank in the United States, more efficient and profitable even if that means sacrificing scale. “We don’t have to be the biggest company out there,” he said. “We have to be the best.”

While he did not specify the number of jobs that might be involved, the company announced shortly after his speech that 30,000 jobs are to be eliminated under the company’s Project New BAC cost-cutting initiative. The initial recommendations by the architects of New BAC, which takes its name from the company’s ticker symbol, were reviewed last Thursday and Friday by the company’s top management in Charlotte, N.C. “As the decisions are implemented, employment levels in the areas under review during Phase I are expected to be reduced by approximately 30,000 jobs over the next few years,” the bank said in a statement. “The company expects that attrition and the elimination of appropriate unfilled roles will be a significant part of the anticipated decrease in jobs.”

The first part of New BAC involves the consumer banking operations of the company, as well as its home loan, technology and support operations. Other parts of the business, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, will be reviewed in the second phase, which begins in October and continues through March 2012.

Feds extend E. coli ban (NY TIMES) — Federal food safety officials said on Monday that they would ban the sale of ground beef containing six toxic strains of E. coli bacteria that have increasingly been showing up in the food supply, taking a long-delayed step that was opposed by many in the meat industry.

“This is one of the biggest steps forward in the protection of the beef supply in some time,” said Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, the head of food safety for the Department of Agriculture, which regulates meat.

“We’re doing this to prevent illness and to save lives.”

The new rule means that six lesser-known forms of E. coli will be treated the same as their much more famous cousin, a strain of the bacteria called E. coli O157:H7, which has caused thousands of illnesses and prompted the recall of millions of pounds of ground beef and other products.

That strain was banned from ground beef in 1994 after it caused a major outbreak of illness that sickened hundreds and killed four children. Until now, that one strain of E. coli was the only type of dangerous bacteria to be banned from any type of fresh meat. It is not illegal to sell meat containing other types of bacteria, like salmonella, in part because cooking typically kills the pathogens. Regulators have treated ground beef differently from other meats and poultry because Americans like to eat it rare and resulting illnesses can be deadly and children are often the victims.

In recent years, however, scientists found that several other strains of E. coli in food were making people sick and they identified the six most potent, which were called the non-O57s or the Big Six. The American Meat Institute, an industry group, was highly critical of the new policy. “Imposing this new regulatory program on ground beef will cost tens of millions of federal and industry dollars — costs that likely will be borne by taxpayers and consumers,” the group said in a statement. “It is neither likely to yield a significant public health benefit nor is it good public policy.”

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‘Art’ at Freeport Factory Stage 7:30 p.m. “Art,” written by celebrated French playwright Yasmina Reza and 1999 Tony Award winner for best play.

A story about three men whose friendship is tested when one of them purchases an expensive work of abstract art. Featuring Chris Newcomb, Joe McGrann and local favorite James Noel Hoban under agreement with Actors’ Equity. Performances run through Sunday, Oct. 2, Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and one matinee at 2 p.m. on Oct. 2. Tickets are $15/$12 seniors and students and are available through our website: www.freeportfactory.com, 865-5505. The Freeport Factory Stage is located at 5 Depot St., downtown Freeport, one block east of L.L. Bean.

‘Bernard’ at Mayo Street 7:30 p.m. “The Demise and Fall of Bernard Madoff,” a modern tragedy in three acts. Staged reading of an original new work by playwright Cullen T.M. McGough. The cast includes: Dr. Howard Rosenfield as Bernard Madoff, Brenda Tubby as Ruth Madoff, Hal Cohen and Jessie Leighton as Mark and Andrew Madoff. The exceptional supporting cast includes: Harlan Baker, Lee Kerr, Stephanie Ross, Corey Gagne, MK Spain, April Singley, Michael Tooher, Josh Brassard, Jen Lazar and Daniel Shearer. Doors open at 7, show begins at 7:30 p.m.

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‘The Foreigner’ in Freeport 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15 to Oct. 2, Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook St., Freeport. Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. Preview performance Thursday, Sept. 15 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Comedy by Larry Shue. Characters in a small Southern town must deal with a stranger who (they think) knows no English. Nonstop hilarity and a wildly funny climax in which the “bad guys” are bamboozled and the “good guys” emerge triumphant. Advance tickets available online at www.fcponline.org/tix.htm or at Freeport Community Center Thrift Store, 43 Depot St., during their regular business hours. FMI: www.fcponline.org or 865-2220. Freeport Performing Arts Center also announces auditions for WFCP Home Time Radio Hour, Sept. 25 and 26, 6:30 p.m., Freeport Middle School, 19 Kendall Lane, Freeport. Roles for singers and actors in this old-time radio variety show. www.fcponline.org or 865-2220

Friday, Sept. 16 Constitution Day at UMaine School of Law noon to 1:10 p.m. The University of Maine School of Law will celebrate Constitution Day with a lecture by Professor Margaret Burnham titled “Public Memory and the Civil Rights Era: Cold Cases, Truth Projects, Apologies and Monuments.” The lecture will be held in the Moot Court Room, School of Law, Deering Avenue, Portland. This event is free and open to the public. “Burnham is a professor of law at Northeastern University. She is a noted expert in civil and human rights, comparative constitutional rights and international criminal law. Burnham is the founder of Northeastern’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project. Previously, she has served as an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, as an associate justice on the Boston Municipal Court and a partner in a Boston-based civil rights firm.” For more information, contact the School of Law at 780-4344.

Book Signing with Eric Hopkins 5 p.m. Portland Museum of Art. “Meet artist Eric Hopkins at the Museum Store and have him sign your copy of his new book Eric Hopkins: Above and Beyond (published by Down East Books, $50).”

‘The Princess of Montpensier’ 6:30 p.m. “In ‘The Princess of Montpensier,’ acclaimed filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier directs a spectacular cast in a riveting, lush romantic drama set in the high courts of 16th-century France. Against the backdrop of the savage Catholic/Protestant wars, Marie de Mézières (Mélanie Thierry), a beautiful young aristocrat, finds herself married to a young prince (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Love Songs) she does not love, haunted by a rakish suitor (Gaspard Ulliel, A Very Long Engagement) from her childhood, and advised by an aging nobleman (Lambert Wilson, Of Gods and Men) harboring his own forbidden desire for her. The Princess of Montpensier must struggle passionately to stay alive in the intrigue of this corrupt political and romantic web of duty, passion, religion, and war. In French with English subtitles.” Movies at the Museum, Portland Museum of Art. Also Sunday at 2 p.m.

Bad Dog Barks 8 p.m. A night of staged readings of comedic, tragic and tragi-comedic short plays by Seth Berner at Lucid Stage.

Benefit for Lucid Stage, suggested donation; $10/$8 for seniors and students; call 899-3993 for tickets.

Steve Hassom, a retired district fire chief, stands next to a 1938 McCann fire engine in the Portland Fire Museum. At 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8, the City of Portland’s Fire Department, IAFF Local 740 and the Portland Veteran Firemen’s Association will host the Ninth Annual Open House at the Portland Fire Museum. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

Saturday, Sept. 17 Quimby Colony $5 meal 9 a.m. to noon. Quimby Colony, 769 Congress St., Portland, features an event by Slow Food Portland and Jonah Fertig of Local Sprouts: a $5 meal. “We’ll be gathering at Quimby Colony’s (located in the old Roma Restaurant) new renovated kitchen facility, everyone will put $5 into a spending pool, we’ll walk down to the Saturday Farmer’s Market in Deering Oaks Park, buy locally grown ingredients, and then come back and together cook a delicious $5 lunch for everyone. Jonah Fertig of Local Sprouts Cooperative and Cafe will lead the market shopping expedition and lunch preparation.”

Maine Buddy Program Training at the Cancer Community Center 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Cancer Community Center seeks cancer survivors and co-survivors (partners, parents, and family members of cancer patients as well as those who have lost a loved one to cancer) who would like to use their own experience to help others. The Center is offering a Maine Buddy Program Training at the Cancer Community Center, 778 Main St. in South Portland. Lunch will be provided and pre-registration is required. Cancer survivors and co-survivors should be at least six months out of their own cancer experience or loss in order to be trained to be a Maine Buddy. Pre-registration for this training is required. To learn more about this training or ways to become involved with the Maine Buddy Program, contact Jani Darak-Druck at 774-2200 or jani@CancerCommunityCenter.org.

PRLT Annual Meeting & Outdoor Family Walk 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Presumpscot Regional Land Trust will host a program from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.; guided walk begins at 11:15 a.m. at Randall Orchards, 1 Randall Road, Standish. From 9 a.m. to 9:45, a.m., refreshments, introductory presentation, PRLT business meeting; 9:45 a.m. to 10 a.m., overview of PRLT programs in 2011-2012; 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m., Randall Orchard Protection Effort Presentation; 10:45 a.m. to 11 a.m., Q&A; 11 a.m., refreshments; 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., guided walk on the Randall property.

Apple picking and farmstand will be open. Cider and baked goods will be served. “Come enjoy this beautiful property with others in your community. Learn about this conservation effort in Standish and Gorham. FMI: contact Tania at prlandtrust@yahoo.com.”

Mad Horse Theatre Family Fun Day 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre Company is putting out a call for crafters for a Family Fun Day on Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Hutchins School, 24 Mosher St., South Portland. The event will run 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine.

There is a large, recently paved parking lot surrounding the entire facility, and we will also have food, games, and facepainting and special fx makeup booths for kids and adults alike. The charge to participate is $25, and participants provide their own tables and displays.

Chair Taping Workshop 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Shakers pioneered the use of cloth tape for chair/stool seating and visitors can learn the same traditional method at a Chair Taping Workshop to be held at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Route 26, New Gloucester. Fee: $35. Pre-registration required. Contact the Shaker Village for special workshop instructions. 926-4597, usshakers@aol.com.

Open Lighthouse Day 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The third annual Maine Open Lighthouse Day will take place, rain or shine, with many of the state’s coastal, island and river lighthouses planning to welcome the public. “Eighteen thousand people visited 25 open light stations during last year’s event, and 5,000 people climbed up light towers for the lantern room view. The event is coordinated by the U.S. Coast Guard, in partnership with the Maine Office of Tourism and the American Lighthouse Foundation. It is the largest event of its kind in the country.

Maine lighthouse fans can learn about participating lights and share their Lighthouse Day plans on the new event Facebook page at www.facebook.com/MaineOpenLighthouseDay.” Most lighthouses will be open to visitors from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for guided or self-guided tours of keeper’s houses and light towers. Some light stations will have limited accessibility or special restrictions. For details about visitor hours, fees, activities and transportation to each participating lighthouse, visit www.lighthouseday.com or contact the friends group of an individual light.

13th annual Fall in the Village Art Festival 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ”View the works of talented artists from Maine and New England ... ... all in the artistic setting of a historical coastal Maine village.” Live music showcased on the L.L. Bean Discovery Park Stage all day. Discovery Park on the L.L. Bean campus. www.freeportusa.com/artfestival.html

Fourth Annual Touch a Truck 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Gateway Shoppes at Scarborough will host the Fourth Annual Touch a Truck to benefit the Maine Chapter of the March of Dimes. Join hundreds of local families as they experience a variety of exciting vehicles from around the region. Dump trucks, racecars, fire trucks and classic cars are just a few of many types of vehicles that will be at the event. The event will be held at the The Gateway Shoppes at Scarborough, (Exit 42 off the Maine Turnpike and home of Cabela’s) rain or shine.

Touch a Truck, sponsored by Hannaford, AAA Northern New England, The Maroon Group LLC, and Bill Dodge Auto Group, gives children the opportunity to touch, sit in and experience these awesome vehicles up close and personally. Admission is $5 per person and free for children under the age of 2. Funds will directly benefit the March of Dimes.

Children will not be admitted without an adult. In addition, Touch-A-Truck will feature children’s entertainment, raffles, and refreshments. see next page

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Third Annual Family Jamboree in Wells 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Third Annual Falmily Jamboree is sponsored by the Wells Chamber of Commerce. Come join the family fun at the Spiller Farm. There will be hayrides, music, farm games, apple pickin’, food, crafters, kids area and more. Spriller Farm, 1054 Branch Road (Route 9A) Wells. www.wellschamber.org

St. Dominic’s Reunion at Maine Irish Heritage Center noon to 4 p.m. St. Dominic’s Reunion at the Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St., Portland. Buffet served at 1 p.m.

“This will be a great opportunity to see former classmates, parishioners, and share your memories All are welcomed, please RSVP by Sept. 1. To reserve your place at $25 each send check made payable to: St. Dominic’s Reunion/MIHC PO Box 7588, Portland, ME 04112.”

Auditions for ‘The Wandering Beggar’ 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. An original adaptation of Solomon Simon’s ”The Wandering Beggar” or “The Adventures of Simple Schmerel” on Sept. 17 and 18 at the Acorn Studios, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., 90 Bridge St. in Westbrook. Performance date Friday through Sunday, Dec. 2-Dec.18. There is a stipend for actors. To audition, sign up at www.acorn-productions.org or call Harlan Baker rehearses lines at Lucid Stage. On Saturday, Lucid Stage will celebrate its one-year anniversary. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) 854-0065 for an audition appointment. and the awards ceremony.” http://trails.org/10k-static.html The 16th annual Epicurean Auction Benefit

2011 Portland Museum of Art Auction

5 p.m. Portland Museum of Art. Doors open at 5 p.m. Silent Auction and Cocktail Party: $75. Live Auction and Dinner: $125 (ticket includes admission to Silent Auction as well).

At the PMA. “The evening will feature a Live Auction of 20 extraordinary items with Auctioneer Tom Saturley and a Silent Auction of 200 fabulous items from categories such as Art, Dining and Edibles, Jewelry, Home & Garden, Excursions and Entertainment, and Antiques and Collectibles.” http://www.portlandmuseum.org

Second annual Apple Festival

1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Second annual Apple Festival at the First Congregational Church at 3 Gray Road, North Yarmouth.

Phone: 829-3644. www.maine.info/events/festivals.php

Wine Wise Sail 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The Casablanca, 18 Custom House Wharf, Portland, offers a sailing trip and wine education class rolled into one. Tickets are $50. To make reservations or for more information visit www.winewiseevents.com.

Moon Festival

P.E.E.R. Awards

5 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Chinese and American Friendship Association of Maine will hold its annual Moon Festival, Woodford’s Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St. (off Forest Avenue/Route 302); potluck dinner (please bring a dish to share). Moon cakes tasting Guzheng music, songs and recital of poems with a moon’s theme (performers welcome).

7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, presents the First Annual P.E.E.R awards, recognizing outstanding theatrical contribution in Greater Portland. “If you have been involved in the making of professional theater in the Greater Portland area sometime in September 2010 to September 2011, consider yourself and/or your show nominated. ... This gala event’s purpose is to recognize Greater Portland’s Professional Theater Community. The event is open to all members of that theater community … so spread the word!”

Lucid’s One Year Celebration Open House 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, celebrates one year on Baxter Boulevard. “Stop by Lucid Stage’s Open House tonight and help us celebrate our first year in business! Free admission, tours, and live entertainment!” www.lucidstage.com

Monday, Sept. 19

Playing For Change — Playing For Maine

Looking to Latin America to Save Ourselves

9 p.m. The Playing For Change — Playing For Maine event will take place at The Big Easy, 55 Market St., Portland, and features performances by Toussaint Liberator: Defender of Roots, Protector of Soul, Portland’s own The Beat Horizon, MAMM students, The OxyMorons, and MAMM Instructor and local beatboxer, Chas Lester. Doors open at 8 p.m.

Show at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 adult/$8 atudents and are for sale at Bull Moose Music stores. Ticket proceeds will benefit The Maine Academy of Modern Music and The Playing For Change Foundation. “The Playing For Change Foundation (www.playingforchange.org) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating positive social change through music education.”

7 p.m. Peace Action Maine will host Lisa Sullivan, coordinator for the School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) Latin America Project. “Sullivan will share insights on how people in the U.S. may learn from the people of Latin America as they have struggled with political, economic, military, and social exploitation. While media attention in the U.S. has been focused on the Middle East and North Africa, enormous changes have been happening in Latin America.

There, ten countries have elected progressive presidents over the past ten years, launching creative initiatives that have slashed poverty rates, dramatically raised educational levels and galvanized citizen participation. ... The School of Americas Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas, through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work. Its goal is to connect grass roots movements in the US and Latin America, to organize and facilitate delegations which will contribute information and logistical support to human rights campaigns in Latin America.”

Sunday, Sept. 18 Portland Trails 10K ‘Trail to Ale’ 9 a.m. “Join us for the 12th annual Portland Trails 10K ‘Trail to Ale’ this year. ... The race starts on the Eastern Promenade Trail, loops Back Cove, and finishes at East End Beach. The course is exclusively off-road and offers beautiful views of Portland harbor and Back Cove. Registration to the race is only $20! After the race, join us for the best post-race party in town ... free beer and pizza, generously donated by Shipyard Brewing Company and the Portland Pie Company in addition to healthy snacks from Whole Foods Market are offered to all runners. Dance to the sounds of DJ David SKYY and stick around for raffle prizes

Tuesday, Sept. 20 Civic Center Finance Committee Meeting noon. Cumberland County Civic Center finance committee meeting, agenda items include proposed FY2012 Operating Budget, FY2012 Capital Budget, Proposed County Warrant and suggestions for closing budget gap.

5:30 p.m. “Join us for an evening of exquisite food and wine, silent and live auctions, and delectable desserts and coffee served onstage at Merrill Auditorium. Sample delights from Maine’s finest restaurants while bidding on a selection of unique and exciting items. Proceeds benefit Ovations Offstage, our community-based arts programs.” 773.3150

Wednesday, Sept. 21 Community Development Block Grant meetings 6 p.m. The city of Portland receives approximately $1.9 million annually of federal funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for urban planning, development and social service needs in Portland Districts 1, 2 and 3. City Councilors Kevin Donoghue (District 1), Dave Marshall (District 2) and Ed Suslovic (District 3) and city staff are seeking input and feedback from residents about CDBG funding at work in their community at a series of public meetings next month. District 1 meeting is Sept. 21 (Bayside, East Bayside, Munjoy Hill and Cliff Island), Merrill Rehearsal Hall, Myrtle Street; District 2 meeting (West End, Parkside, and St. John Valley) is Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 6:30 p.m. at Reiche School and Community Center, 166 Brackett St.; District 3 meeting (Libbytown) is Monday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at West School, 57 Douglass St. For more information about these meetings or CDBG programs, contact Amy Grommes Pulaski, HCD Program Manager at 8748731, or avp@portlandmaine.gov.

Thursday, Sept. 22 U.S. Cellular smartphone clinic noon to 2 p.m. “With a recent study showing a nearly 80 percent increase in smartphone shipments from a year ago, there are plenty of first-time smartphone users who may want a little help figuring out everything their advanced devices have to offer. U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) is hosting a free workshop ... at 494 Congress St. in Portland to guide attendees through all of the features and functions of the company’s Android-powered, Windows Phone and BlackBerry devices that can enhance their lives. Associates will answer questions and demonstrate common features such as e-mail access, web browsing, calendar synchronization, browsing for apps and how the device can be personalized to fit their lifestyles.” The Device Workshops are open to current smartphone owners, as well as those interested in upgrading to a smartphone. Attendees do not have to be a U.S. Cellular customer. All smartphone accessories will be 25 percent off. 772-7740. see next page

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A lighthouse in York occupies a snowy ledge in this winter scene. The third annual Maine Open Lighthouse Day will take place Saturday, Sept. 17. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

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Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner and Leadership Awards 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Portland Regional Chamber announces its Annual Dinner and Leadership Awards at Holiday Inn By The Bay, 88 Spring St. “The winner of this year’s Henri A. Benoit Award for Leadership in the Private Sector is Merton G. Henry of the law firm Jensen, Baird, Gardner & Henry.

Among his many community activities, Mr. Henry has been a Trustee of Maine Medical Center, the Portland Museum of Art, and Bowdoin College, served as Chairman of the Portland School Committee, and was a long-time advisor to Senator Margaret Chase Smith. The Neal W. Allen Award, for Leadership in the Public Sector, will be presented to former Portland City Manager Joe Gray. Mr. Gray worked for more than 40 years in city government, the last 10 years as City Manager. He retired in February of this year.

For Economic Development, the Robert R. Masterton Award will go to Mike Dubyak, President and CEO of Wright Express. Mr. Dubyak has spent almost 20 years building the company and driving the strategic plans, infrastructure and operating philosophies that guide the company’s success and contribute to the region’s economic growth.

The President’s Award will be presented to Josh Broder, President of Tilson Technology Management, an independent information technology project management company. Mr. Broder is responsible for strategy, leadership, and business development for the company and has led growth throughout the North American market. We will also be announcing the Chamber’s Volunteer of the Year Winner.” www.portlandregion.com

‘Martinis and Art’ 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Martinis and Art,” an annual art raffle to benefit Maine cancer patients will be held at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute on Commercial Street in Portland.

The centerpiece of the evening will be an art raffle where lucky event ticket holders will win pieces from top regional artists. Those attending will be treated to a night of food, drinks, music by jazz piano trio Standard Issue, and great art. Bob Crowley, Maine resident and winner of Survivor: Gabon in 2008, is the event’s Master of Ceremonies. Tickets

can be purchased by calling the American Cancer Society at 373-3700, and press option 3. The cost is $85 each for event admission and includes one raffle ticket. Additional raffle tickets can be purchased at the event for $40 each or three for $100.

Girl Scout Dropout launch party 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Girl Scout Dropout launch party at Grace Restaurant in Portland. The event will take place in the basement of the renovated church, now high-end restaurant, Grace. “Girl Scout Dropout is a newly launched community for women (and men) who embrace their rebellious spirits and celebrate the fact that their personal ‘rules’ do not coincide with the guidelines that have been laid out by society. Sandi Amorello’s Girl Scout Dropout community for alternative-thinking women (and men) of all ages was created to support the Irreverent Widow Project, a combined art exhibit, website and blog that supports women suffering through a variety of life’s perils. ‘This party is not for the faint of heart,’ said Sandi. ‘Girl Scout Dropout is about like-minded women who celebrate their independence and share experiences with their senses of humor firmly intact.

That’s why we decided to hold our launch party in the basement of a renovated church that is now a great restaurant in Portland because Girl Scout Dropouts do drink in church basements.’ On Sept. 22, women (and men) everywhere who believe in the GSD philosophy or who want to learn more about the quirky community won’t want to miss this event! There will be a complimentary glass of wine for all attendees and light hors d‘oeuvres will be served. Prizes and giveways will be available and there is no charge to attend. Part of the proceeds from any GSD merchandise sales will go to the Irreverent Widow Project to help people who are dealing with a loss or a difficult time in their life.

Anyone interested in joining the GSD community can do so for free online at www.girlscoutdropout.com.

SheSpeaks at Mayo Street 6:30 p.m. “An evening of storytelling that explores the many ways we honor ourselves as women. Guest Speakers Jeanne Thompson, Shay Stewart Bouley, Jessica Esch, Monique Barrett, and Karen Wyman will offer perspective, and inspiration on the topic of ‘honoring.’” Mayo Street Arts Center. Tickets $12 in advance/$15 at the door. www.

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