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Don’s Lunch returns to old site with hopes of expanded restaurant

By Michael Kelley WESTBROOK - After months of searching for the perfect location for his food truck, Craig Bernier, owner of Don’s Lunch, will be returning his business to the parking lot of Friendly Gas at 925 Main Street.

Bernier said he has plans to lease the whole building, except for a small section where Friendly Gas will continue to operate. The building will then be renovated into a restaurant similar to Rapid Ray’s in Saco.

Bernier operated the business at the gas station site from 2015, when he purchased the food truck, until last fall, when the lease agreement ended over a dispute about rent. Bernier looked at a number of different possible relocation sites downtown, including in front of the former Mechanic Street fire station. Councilors nixed that idea, however, causing Bernier to look elsewhere.

“We had a few offers, but when you

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Bullying questions raised in Gorham

By Robert Lowell

For years, Don’s Lunch has been a go-to stop for burgers, hot dogs, french fries and sandwiches. The business re-opened this week at 925 Main Street.

File photo look at the big picture as far as parking and location, you want the right site,” Bernier said, stopping short of naming the businesses that offered

Don’s Lunch space. “We feel this is the right spot and the best of the few that

Don’s Lunch, page 10

GORHAM — Stories of bullying and racial slurs hovered over the Gorham School District this week with some families wanting more action from school officials to curb problems.

Gorham Middle School parent Patrick Moore said Monday his son, a sixth grader, was bullied earlier this year and expelled for three days following a school fight in which Moore said his son only defended himself. He feels his son was unfairly punished.

The day of the incident Moore said he

Bullying, page 23

State OKs 11-district regional school service center

By Elizabeth Clemente AUGUSTA — The state Department of Education has approved a regional service center that includes 11 southern Maine school districts.

The Greater Sebago Educational Alliance Regional Service Center includes public schools in Portland, South Portland, Westbrook, Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough, Brunswick, Gorham, Regional School Unit 5 (Freeport, Durham, Pownal), Regional

School Unit 6/School Administrative District 6 (Buxton, Hollis, Standish, Limington, Frye Island), Regional School Unit 14 (Windham, Raymond) and School Administrative District 15 (Gray, New Gloucester).

According to an announcement Monday from the DOE, the Greater Sebago Alliance is one of 12 approved by Education Commissioner Robert G. Hasson Jr. as part of the department's EMBRACE Regionalization Initiative.

The 12 centers represent 84 school administrative units and 56 percent of Maine's students. The department also said the process is "ongoing," and it expects an opportunity for a second round of applications in the next fiscal year.

The centers are defined as nonprofit, multi-service agencies formed "for the purpose of serving its member units' needs"; increasing access to "high-quality, engaging" student programming; increasing effectiveness through techni-

cal assistance; providing regionally shared services to districts, and implementing grants received for state initiatives.

Services shared by the districts in the Greater Sebago Education Alliance will include joint purchasing of food supplies; joint professional development offerings; joint substitute teacher recruiting, training, and diversity recruitment processes, and joint English Language Learners

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Briefs Scholarship Application Due Lamey Wellehan eliminated bags at all of their stores in 2014 “with the goal of helping to reduce the millions and millions of shopping bags that are flooding our environment.” Since then, they’ve invested the money they once spent on bags to fund three four-year, $1,000, renewable scholarship to Maine high school seniors.

According to the Lamey Wellehan website, The Maine Difference Scholarship, which has existed for 20 years, is intended to aid in the cost of attaining a college education for a Maine young person

studying at a Maine college or university.

To be eligible, the Maine high school senior must be focussed on the ecology and economics of Maine with the goal of improving Maine’s economy and environment.

“It’s our mission to educate Maine’s children and afford them the opportunity to better their great state,” said Erica Dube, a Women’s and Children’s Buyer at Lamey Wellehan, in a press release.

The deadline for applications is May 30. For more information, eligibility requirements and an application, go to https://bit.ly/2K5SEHn.

College planning PORTLAND - Through the month of May, The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will be hosting free Essentials of College Planning workshops for those 19 years old or older.

The workshops, which last up to two hours, will focus on the four steps in the college process: admissions, financial aid, career planning and study skills.

Goodwill Workforce Solutions, located at 190 Lancaster Street, will host a workshop Monday, May 21 at 1 p.m. The Greater Portland Career Center, at 152 Jetport Boulevard will host workshops at 10 a.m.

on Tuesday, May 22 and Tuesday, May 29.

The Portland Adult Education center, at 14 Locust Street, will hold sessions at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 23 and Wednesday, May 30.

Through funding from the United States Department of Education, The Maine Educational Opportunity Center "helps qualified adults make the transition towards a college education" by providing free GED/ SAT preparation, college planning, referrals/advocacy, career advising and financial aid advising. The center helped to place 587 Maine adults into college last year.

For more information, or to register call 1-800 281-3703 or visit meoc.maine.edu.

Tax rate increase in city among largest in area

By Michael Kelley WESTBROOK - With little debate, the City Council passed the city's operating budget at first reading April 30 and are set to adopt the budget next Monday.

The overall $68.4 million fiscal year 2019 municipal operating budget under review represents a 6.1 percent increase over the

current year. Taxpayers will be asked to foot $37.5 million, a $1.5 or 5.1 percent increase. Spending will increase the tax rate 5.56 percent, or $1.05 million from $18.88 per thousand assessed valuation to $19.93 per thousand of assessed valuation.

Over the last 10 years, the city's tax rate has climbed from $16.70 in fiscal year 2010 to $17.40 in fiscal year 2012, where it lev-

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eled off before decreasing to $17.20 for fiscal years 2014 and 2015. The rate then jumped 4.53 percent to $17.98 in fiscal year 2016. The rate has risen another 90 cents over the last two years to the current rate of $18.88.

The projected fiscal year 2019 tax rate in Westbrook is estimated to be the highest when compared to other nearby communities, including Cumberland, Yarmouth, Windham, Falmouth, North Yarmouth, Standish, South Portland, Brunswick and Gorham. The 5.56 percent increase, however, is trumped by the tax rate increases in North Yarmouth (a 10.6 percent increase), Gorham (10.12 percent increase) and Standish (5.66 percent increase). Westbrook's tax rate increase of 14 cents for municipal spending is lower than five of the nine communities, but its 88 cent tax rate increase for school is among the three highest.

Councilor Victor Chau said in the future he would like to see "better cooperation between the school committee and city council" to come up with a budget that doesn't rely so much on tax increases.

"I understand we have different goals and

the school committee does an excellent job with our kids. I can't commend them highly enough. They do an awesome job with what they have, but we need to work together to try everything possible lessen the impact on taxpayers," said Chau before joining councilors Lynda Adams, Ann Peoples and Anna Turcotte in voting to approve the budget at first reading.

Councilors Gary Rairdon and Vice President John O'Hara voted against the budget.

Council President Brendan Rielly recused himself from the vote because he works for Jensen Baird Gardner & Henry, the city's legal counsel. Regardless of if people agree with him on the budget, Rairdon hopes voters will turn out at the polls Tuesday, June 12 to weigh in on the school budget.

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

"When we vote on the school budget, I want to see every available taxpayer and citizen to go to the polls and vote either yes or no. I am not going to say either way. It is going to be a primary vote, so I'd like to see the numbers really high," he said.

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My Place provides safe teen space for 20 years

By Michael Kelley WESTBROOK - My Place Teen Center has meant a lot of things to a lot of people over the years. For the last 20 years, the center has provided teens from all over the city and surrounding area an accepting place to come after school.

"We are a safe haven. I don't think that can be understated. Kids come here to be safe. They come here to keep out of trouble," My Place Teen Center Executive Director Donna Dwyer said.

My Place Teen Center was founded in 1998 as Mission Possible Teen Center in response to a shocking teen suicide in 1996 and results of a survey of area youth regarding alcohol and drug use that the former Westbrook Hospital had commissioned.

The idea for the center came from Bruce Dyer, a former pastor at First Baptist Church in Westbrook who has worked as a counselor at Westbrook High School for the last 17 years. He reached out to a number of people he knew in the community about starting a center that provided services for at-risk youth.

Dyer said the group could have tried to work with groups like the Boys & Girls Club or Big Brothers Big Sisters to start a location in the city, but wanted to make the center uniquely Westbrook.

"Everyone had a role in it. My role was to gather people together and everybody gave a little something, so I see this as truly a team effort on the part of some key

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The teen center was set to get a $130,000 federal grant to get it up and running, but two days after the award was announced, there was a glitch in the application. Dyer said that glitch "withdrew the money as fast as it was awarded to us."

Luckily, the Cornelia Warren Association came forward with a $120,000 donation. Dyer said that donation really "energized a lot of people" and spurred in-kind donations to turn a space on the first floor of the Dana Warp Mill into a teen center.

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The initial effort, set in motion a center that, 20 years later would, as Dwyer said, provide "character development, academic excellence and civic engagement" five hours a day Monday through Friday year-round. The center began offering hot meals at dinner during the school year and at lunch during school vacations, eight years ago and served more than 9,000 meals last year. Recently center staff began developing a curriculum around food service, so students learn culinary and restaurant skills.

Dwyer said while the center offers academic support for the students,

its strength is "social and emotional learning."

"We are worried about who these kids are now and who they will be as adults and what the skill sets are that they need now to thrive and what skill sets they are going to need as an adult." Dwyer said.

Dyer said Dwyer has been able to "grow the budget, continue and expand the vision and create a center that provides life healing and hope for kids and that changes lives."

Westbrook Middle School student Ransom Johnson, 12, has been coming to the teen center for the last year to play games and catch up with friends and has found his place at the center.

"The staff cares about you if you need anything," he said. "They are just there for the kids for whatever they need."

Last year, the center served more than 450 teenagers ages 10 to 18, primarily from the city of Westbrook. The center, Dwyer said, typically sees 40 to 70 youth a day, some of whom stay the entire day and some just for an hour or so.

The ride has not been easy for the center or for Dwyer, who came on board as executive director seven years ago. When the center moved to its current location in 14 years ago, the building, a former church, was in rough shape. The organization started as Mission Possible Teen Center

My Place, page 21

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Additional terms will be announced at the sale. The mortgagee's attorney for purposes of this sale is Jeffrey B. Herbert, Esq., Jensen Baird Gardner & Henry, 10 Free Street, Portland, Maine 04101 (207-775-7271).

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Opinion Thursday, May 3, 2018

Peace through strength works

Mega-kudos to President Donald Trump for standing up to Kim Jong Un, who was defiantly testing nuclear weapons, but now, miraculously, is following a more peaceful path with his southern neighbors on

by John Balentine the Korean Peninsula.

The Bob Dylan lyric, “They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn,” sprang to mind upon hearing the Korea news. After 25 years of fearing the growing North Korean nuclear threat, we seemed at a tipping point just mere months ago. The winds of war were blowing hard. But now we’re watching leaders of South Korea and North Korea holding hands. Can this be true? Is peace at hand? Or is that cute smile from the plump Kim hiding a more sinister plan? Time will tell.

But seeing the "Little Rocket Man," as Trump so aptly described the brutal North Korean dictator, change his tune is so uplifting and remarkable that it makes one proud to be an American again, knowing our president, and his tough talk and willingness to back it up with military spending and action – otherwise known as peace through strength – is the reason for the seeming breakout of peace.

Standing up to a bully requires steadfast focus. Ronald Reagan did it with the U.S.S.R. in the 1980s. He built up America’s military might while pursuing diplomacy, and the communist country imploded. Trump has never wavered on North Korea, and his derision of Kim on a personal level, coupled with his pronouncements that America was ready to blast North Korea into smithereens if Kim continued to follow a nuclear path – all the while pursuing diplomatic efforts and increasing our military spending – seem to have convinced the regime to change its ways.

Of course, North Korea has made overtures to peace in the past, and Trump wisely acknowledges this by saying he’s not going to accept anything less than full denuclearization by North Korea.

This is a textbook example that the peace-throughstrength concept is a winning strategy. And as Trump supporters have been saying since he entered the 2016 race, Trump’s willingness to show strength is just what the country needed after so many years of presidents who haven’t been willing or daring enough to put America’s full power

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“Term limits are something that can re-engage voters,” Barton, co-director of the term-limits referendum campaign, told the Portland Press Herald back in 1992. “New candiby Al Diamon dates bring in new voters so the process is churning at every level.”

That churning prediction was accurate. The re-engagement not so much.

Supporters told you term limits would make elected officials focus on priorities.

“Term limits are needed ... to make elected officials focus on priorities,” proclaimed a ’92 campaign brochure from the Committee for Government Reform.

After a quarter century of term limits, the Legislature recently adjourned in chaos, leaving most of the major issues before it unresolved.

The pro-limits committee also put out a press release promising that term limits would reduce the influence of

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powerful special interests and well-entrenched bureaucrats.

Term limits, their release said, will “(r)educe the influence of powerful special interests and well-entrenched bureaucrats.”

Several studies have shown that since term limits became law, lobbyists and state officials, with their extensive knowledge of issues, have become far more influential than inexperienced legislators in swaying the course of lawmaking. And it’s worth noting that both Barton and campaign co-director Ted O’Meara made their livings as political consultants advising exactly the sorts of special interests they were supposedly intent on thwarting.

There was one other promise the term limits crowd made repeatedly, although they were never courageous enough to do so publicly. Term limits, they whispered, are the only way we’ll ever get rid of John Martin.

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The self vs. the selfless Children are naturally self-centered. The constructions aimed at explaining the process of aging, if one does so gracefully, is human condition, which is that we find ourone of abandoning the self, of letting go of selves on a rock in space where we once did not exist and soon will personal attachments cease to do so. in order to be truly My religious practice free. It has taken me is Christianity informed the better part of seven by pragmatism and decades to realize this this-world empiricism. I and I am nowhere near

by Edgar Allen Beem am not big on the herethere yet. after. I tend to think this The consciousness of self becomes most acute with the aware- is it. We are told that the kingdom of God is ness of mortality. Nothing focuses the mind within. It is our job to transform this phelike death. As an adolescent I was so full of nomenal world into heaven on earth. So far, myself that I could not imagine my non-ex- we have not done a very good job of it.

My doubts about my Christian faith are istence. Like most young people I acted as many, so I am deeply troubled by fundathough I would live forever.

I have never seriously contemplated sui- mentalists who can admit of none. I have cide, but I do remember thinking when I trouble respecting any religious practice was a teenager that if I failed this test, didn’t that says, “We are right and you are wrong. finish that term paper, lost that girlfriend God loves us. God doesn’t love you.” There I could always kill myself and that would is a self-centeredness about all conserbe the end of it. It was, in a perverse and vatism, whether spiritual or political, that strikes me as a failure to evolve. Me short-sighted way, a consoling thought.

The notion that self-destruction might put first. Every man for himself. What’s mine an end to suffering, no matter how slight, is mine. That attitude makes a virtue of eventually gave way to the realization that selfishness, overvaluing the self at the no one, despite all claims to the contrary, expense of all others.

If I were true to my beliefs I would probhas the slightest idea what happens after death. Suicide might not be the end. It might not provide relief from pain and suffering at all.

As a teenager I became an egotistical existentialist, embracing the absurdity and apparent meaninglessness of existence with an enthusiasm for Albert Camus' dictum, “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.”

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide,” Camus wrote. “Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.”

Judging life worth living, I spent several years as a philosophy major in college searching for a system of thought to help me make sense of the world and I found it in the very American pragmatism of William James. James talked about the “cash-value” of truth.

“Grant an idea or belief to be true, what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life?” James asked.

The idea that there are no absolute truths, only individual conceptions of it, resonated with my own experience.

“Truth happens to an idea,” James wrote.

“It becomes true, is made true by events.”

I was raised in the Congregational tradition of Christianity, which I stubbornly cling to to this day, despite deep doubts. But it seems to me that all religions are human

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ably be a Buddhist. The goal of true selflessness is appealing, but elusive.

“Selflessness is the interdependent nature of all things. Without interdependence, nothing could exist,” writes Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh.

Some years ago I had the privilege of sitting with one of the monks of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing as he lay dying in a Vermont monastery. Half a world away from his birthplace in Vietnam, Thay Giac Thanh was in the process of letting go of all his worldly attachments.

“The emptier I get,” he told me, “the happier I become.”

Surrendering one’s self is an act of wis-

dom. It enables one to look with compassion upon all living things. Ironically, letting go of self also makes one bold to speak and to act as there is nothing to lose.

One of my own glaring imperfections, of course, is a lack of compassion for the mean, the foolish and the short-sighted. I may get there. I may not. Ultimately, however, what I believe only matters in so far as those beliefs make life better for those around me. What will be, will be – despite what I think, do or believe.

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The definition of education is not simple My facebook feed and email inbox have but much of Europe offers free college and been showing an interesting trend. There graduate studies. New York is experimenting. It’s doable. are many memes and What’s more, we articles all asking: Is have a lot of conthe cost of education fusing, big probworth it? lems facing us. I do I sympathize with not see how a socithe question. College

by Heather D. Martin ety in which peotuitions are steep. Stuple are able, and dent debt is crippling entire generations. At the same time, the encouraged, to continue studying, quesemployment landscape is shifting and tioning and learning can be anything but what were established career paths not great. Imagine how many creative solulong ago are no longer certain. It makes tions we could discover.

This actually brings me to my second sense to question. But are we asking the disclosure: I do not believe college is the right question?

“Worth it” implies a tally sheet. One one only way. Trade schools are great, and side of the equation, we have the costs: should receive a lot more recognition than tuition, books, housing, etc. On the other they do, but I am not talking about them side, we have the benefit: lifetime earning either. For the purposes of this discussion, I consider trade schools colleges. There potential.

Here’s the thing though: That’s not a are plenty of smart, interesting, and curiconversation about “education,” that’s a ous people who not only don’t go to college, but don’t want to. Why? Well, it might conversation about “training.”

Before we tease all that apart, and I be a lack of opportunity (which would be swear, it’s not just semantics, full disclo- solved by free tuition), but it might also be sure: I believe in free tuition. Completely. because college doesn’t suit them.

Maybe they don’t enjoy the academic I literally do not understand the argument structure, or maybe what interests them against it.

Yes, there are loads of logistics to be is best explored elsewhere. Whatever the worked out in making it a viable reality, case, that’s fine. A college diploma is no

guarantee of wisdom, or an indicator of worth to society. Diplomas don’t make you wiser, kinder, or more fun to have around.

But again, we are getting tangled in words.

Diplomas are not a measure of “education,” they are a certification. Diplomas speak to training – the study, practice (and hopefully perfection) of a particular skill, be it a measurable one, such as engineering, or the less tangible areas of structured thought (shout out to the philosophy majors).

Education, however, is a different animal. Related, sure, but different. Education is not about any given topic or factual piece of information. Rather, it serves the learner as “... a means of recognizing their personalities so that learning would become a way of life for them,” according to learning theorist Bruno Bettelheim.

Education then is less about your career path, and more about who you become, how you learn to interact with information, and how you move within the world at large.

Why am I concerned about this wordplay? Because it is shaping our attitudes about learning – and not in great ways.

Training matters, and I do not mean to imply that it is lesser than education. Not at all. Training is what allows all of us to do

our work well. It provides a career, or an income. It actually makes a tremendous amount of sense to put training, even liberal arts “training,” through the cost-benefit analysis. It makes sense to take a logical look at what you will be able to earn with your chosen certification.

By subjecting “education” to the same measure, however, we are creating a false and self-perpetuating concept.

From the earliest days of formal education, we mistakenly use standardized testing to determine “worth.” This despite the fact that the tests themselves are widely understood to be worthless as a measure of actual learning.

Meanwhile, one good teacher can reach right through the subject matter, show a child that they matter, and instill a lifelong love of learning. From there, a person can go on to training – or not. Regardless, they themselves will be a learner, they won’t be able to help themselves. Problems will no longer be roadblocks, but puzzles; questions will reveal themselves at every moment; and curiosity will drive them forward.

The life of a learner is rich, no matter what the career. Training can be tallied.

Education is priceless.

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inevitable fanatical, anti-American takeover of those places. But officially ending the Korean War would be America’s best accomplishment since our Greatest Generation won World War II. And Trump deserves the credit.

The Korean example demonstrates how, even though anti-military non-interventionists don’t want to admit it, the world needs America to stand strong. For eight dark years, Barack Obama was a de-facto enabler of North Korea, Syria, Iran and Russia, as he foolishly led from behind.

He failed to use, or convincingly threaten to use, America’s full moral and military might, and thousands have died and suffered. In Trump, there’s hope and light on the foreign front. While the Middle East still rages, the darkness in one formerly tumultuous area of the world is lifting precisely because we have a realistic adult in charge.

And Trump is doing all this while taking heavy bombardment from domestic political foes. Stories of Russian collusion, porn stars and scandals involving cabinet secretaries are dredged up almost daily by a mainstream press that rarely questioned

anything Obama did or pursued anything that may have dimmed his aura. Trump’s resiliency is amazing. Put yourself in his shoes. Could you handle the barbs? Despite it all, Trump perseveres.

Yes, Trump has his negatives. He seems to tweet crazy stuff daily; so much so that even die-hard supporters wish he’d delete his Twitter account. But this guy is different. He’s a New York bare-knuckle brawler accustomed to duking it out with unions, political bigwigs and everyone else he had to deal with in the property development world. He fearlessly defies fate and creates his own better reality, and that’s what Trump supporters love.

He’s a stark contrast to Obama, that’s for sure. Just as the optimistic Reagan reversed the general-malaise presidency of Jimmy Carter, strongman Trump is exposing Obama’s hallow-man presidency for what it was: all talk and no action. Despite Trump’s personal downsides, I’d rather have a president who may be a little rough around the edges, but understands how to use America’s well-earned moral authority and military might to create a more peaceful world.

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I don’t think I’ve ever been more proud of my country. I wish I could say our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan were proud moments, but they’re not, since our intervention there is merely serving to delay the

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Letters To the editor, When we found out that Heather Sanborn was seeking the Democratic nomination to represent Westbrook in the Maine Senate, we were both overjoyed.

Not only is Heather a good friend, a dedicated and talented state legislator, and the co-founder, owner and operator of Rising Tide Brewing Company, but she is an important part of Westbrook’s business scene with Rising Tide’s 8,400 square foot warehouse located in Westbrook.

Heather knows Westbrook and we are confident she is ready to represent our city in Augusta.

Not long after we first got to know

Diamon, from page 4 Lake, was elected speaker of the House of Representatives shortly after Columbus arrived in the New World and held that job until a 1992 ballot-tampering scandal involving one of his aides forced him from the post. With only the slightest of interruptions, he’s continued to serve in the Legislature ever since, always in key positions.

In spite of this inelegant record of abject failure, there have been surprisingly few attempts to overturn the 1993 referendum that imposed term limits. Martin engineered an unsuccessful 2007 referendum that would have increased the time legislators could serve from four two-year terms to six. In 2015, Martin introduced a bill to simply repeal the law. It went nowhere.

Appearing before a Bangor Daily News reporter in a cloud of sulfur and brimstone, the ageless incarnation of political endurance explained his reasoning:

Heather, we discovered very quickly that she was among the smartest, most fearless people serving in Maine government.

As a first-term member of the Maine House, Heather – without even blinking – took on two of the most technical and most lobbyist-infested committees in the Legislature (Energy, Utilities and Technology; Insurance and Financial Services).

Over the past two years, the power companies, the big telecoms, the insurance firms and the bankers have thrown everything they could at the Legislature in one final attempt to squeeze whatever they could out of the Maine people in the

last year of the LePage administration.

But instead, Heather Sanborn led the fight on behalf of Maine families and has already become one of the strongest champions for consumer protections in Maine. In fact, she got two new laws passed unanimously regulating debt collectors and is already researching her next batch of bills for 2019. That will be good news for students, workers and anyone who has ever found themselves trapped in a cycle of debt.

As Westbrook’s next Senator, Heather will push for more renewable energy, greater access to health care, and an end to the days when Maine’s Department of

Health and Human Services and Maine State Housing let our most vulnerable citizens slip through the cracks.

That is the kind of leadership Westbrook needs and deserves.

We both have unwavering faith in Heather to do what’s right for Westbrook and the entire state. Primary Day is June 12 (or sooner if you want to vote absentee). Let’s send this tireless advocate for Westbrook and Maine people to the Senate.

Sincerely, Rep. Drew Gattine, D-Westbrook and Westbrook City Council President Brendan Rielly (Ward One)

“Anybody who knows anything about the legislative process knows that it’s not working. As more and more time goes by, you have less and less experienced legislators with no history of what’s going on.

The history comes from the executive branch departments or the lobbyists.”

Give the devil his due. Martin makes a good point, even if it is with the business end of a red-hot trident.

We’ve tried term limits through a dozen election cycles, and we have nothing positive to show for it. As with many feel-good ideas — public financing of campaigns, ranked-choice voting, putting a runner on second base in extra-innings baseball games — it may give us the warm fuzzies, but those little boogers are mostly clogging up the sections of our brains that are supposed to think logically.

Term limits are justified only in cases where there’s a danger an individual might accumulate too much power if allowed to stay in office indefinite-

ly. That’s why they make sense for the executive branch, where there’s always a Putin-like threat of autocratic overreach.

In the legislative branch, Maine limits leadership posts such as Senate president and speaker of the House to two twoyear terms for the same reason. One John Martin is plenty.

But all freshman legislators are ineffectual boobs, who require extensive exposure to the governing process before they can locate the restrooms and learn not to co-sponsor anything backed by racist

weirdos like Larry Lockman. By the time they’re sufficiently educated to accomplish anything, they’re often on the verge of being involuntarily ejected from office, depriving their constituents of the value of that hard-earned experience.

If you’re still not convinced term limits have to go, ask yourself this question: Does the State House run better today than it did 25 years ago? (Hint: It doesn’t.)

Time to do some un-limiting.

Talk back to Al Diamon at aldiamon@ herniahill.net.

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Gorham & Westbrook Notes Doucette has been able to trace both his mother’s and father’s lines back to the early 1600s in the United States and in some cases into the 1500s in Europe. He has among his ancestors five Mayflower ancestors including John Alden, Priscilla Mullins and Myles Standish.

He served as president of the Greater Portland Genealogy Chapter of the Maine Genealogical Society from 2013-2016 and as program chair for the Maine Genealogical Society from 2014-2016. He was instrumental in having a Southern Maine Genealogy Conference in Portland in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

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Doucette honored Paul Doucette of Gorham was presented with the Award of Excellence for Genealogical Service by the Maine Genealogical Society at a workshop on April 21.

The Gorham Village Alliance “Sparkle Project” kicks off on Saturday, May 5 at 8:30 a.m. in front of Baxter Memorial Library, 71 South St. Volunteers will be provided with appropriate safety gear (vests, gloves) and trash bags and assigned an area of the Village to walk and pick up trash. Refreshments will be provided.

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May 5, at Riverbank Park and 192 Brown St. The city will supply gloves, bags and safety vests. The first 50 participants will receive free “Sustainable Westbrook” reusable bags. Teams and individuals are welcome. For more information or to register, call 591-8135

Trinity Lutheran Church in Westbrook this weekend concludes its seventh annual “Climb Aboard the Food Train,” a city-wide food drive for the Westbrook Food Pantry.

“Many of our elderly, children, disabled, unemployed and underemployed people in the community come to the pantry on a regular basis in order to have enough to eat,” the church said in a press release.

Church members have placed money jars and food boxes in business establishments and churches all over Westbrook. The jars and food will be collected the first weekend of May. On Saturday, May 5, the train will be parked at the bicentennial skateboard park by Hannaford’s and in the parking lot by Shaw’s. On Sunday, May 6, the “food train” will pick up donations at the churches. Everything that has been collected will then be brought to the food pantry at the Westbrook Community Center.

For more information, leave your name and contact information with the Trinity Lutheran Church office and someone will be in touch with you. The church can be reached at 854-5653 or email office@trinitywestbrook.com.

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Gorham residents may drop off brush 8 a.m.-noon, on Saturdays May 5 and 19 at the Public Works facility, 80 Huston Road. Residents only, no commercial drop off. Also, no stumps will be accepted. As always, leaves and grass clippings (no lawn/leaf bags please) will be accepted at Public Works in the designated spot throughout the season.

Westbrook Senior Citizens will meet at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, May 7, at Westbrook Community Center, 426 Bridge St. Don Campbell will entertain.

The seniors are planning two trips. The group will travel to Montreal, Quebec, Can., for four days and three nights July 10-13. For more information, call 8542705.

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We Love To Eat Community meal - Thursday, May 3, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Chicken pie, $5.

Free dinner - Thursday, May 3, 5:30-6:30 p.m., St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 678 Washington St., Portland.

Free lunch buffet - Friday, May 4, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., North Yarmouth Congregational Church, 3 Gray Road, North Yarmouth.

Haddock chowder, a monthly special, biscuits, beverages, and desserts will be offered.

Chowder luncheon – Friday, May 4, and every Friday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., North Deering Congregational Church, 1364 Washington Ave., Portland. Bowl of haddock chowder

with crackers, $9; or lobster roll lunch with chips, $10; cup of chowder, $6; combination lobster roll with cup of chowder, $13. All lunches include fresh baked bread, pickle, cookie and beverage. Takeouts available.

Public supper - Saturday, May 5, 5 p.m., West Gorham Union Church, 190 Ossipee Trail (Route 25), Gorham. Three kinds of beans, chicken pie, clam casserole, chop suey, macaroni & cheese, barbecued hot dogs, Jello salads, coleslaw, delicious homemade pies, coffee and punch. Ticket sales start at 4 p.m. $8, $3.

Bean supper - Saturday, May 5, 4:30-6 p.m., White Rock Community Club, 34 Wilson Road, Gorham. Two kinds of beans, hot

dogs, coleslaw, potato salad, macaroni & cheese, homemade biscuits and pies. $8, $4.

Bean supper - Saturday, May 5, 5 and 6 p.m., Prides Corner Congregational Church, 235 Pride St., Westbrook. Beans, ham, macaroni & cheese, coleslaw, Italian bread, homemade pies and beverages. $8, $5.

Bean supper - Saturday, May 5, 4:30-6 p.m., Hollis Lions Club, intersection routes 202 and 35, Hollis Center. Two kinds of beans, red hot dogs, chop suey, coleslaw and desserts. $8, $3.

Spring bean supper - Saturday, May 5, 4:30-6 p.m., Windham Friends Meeting House, 374 Gray Road, Windham Center.

Homemade baked beans, brown bread, sal-

ads, hot dogs, rolls and pies. $9, $1.

Free meal - Wednesday, May 9, 5-6 p.m., Westbrook Community Center, 426 Bridge St. Sponsored in collaboration with Wayside Food programs and Trinity Lutheran Church. Handicapped accessible and free parking.

Bean supper - Saturday, May 12, 5-5:30 p.m., Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Two kinds of beans, chop suey, red hot dogs, coleslaw, and homemade pies. $8, $3.50.

Nonprofit organizations who want to list public meals should email information 10 days in advance to rlowell@keepmecurrent.com.

Gorham Police Notes Log Scream, no shots Officers Todd Meslin and Michael Hinkley responded about midnight on March 13 to a Main Street address after a caller reported hearing a woman scream and what sounded like three gunshots. Occupants at ther residence said they were being loud but no shots had been fired.

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Don’s Lunch, from page 1 offered space.”

Don’s Lunch reopened for the season on Wednesday, May 2. Bernier hopes the Friendly Gas site is the home of Don’s Lunch for the foreseeable future.

“We don’t want a Where’s Waldo and get to the point where people are looking for us,” he said.

His hope is to sign a five-year lease at the 925 Main Street site.

“There is nothing set in stone yet, but that is the direction it is heading,” he said.

Gardy Patel, the owner of Friendly Gas, said he is happy to have Don’s Lunch back.

“Everything worked out for both parties,” he said.

The menu in the food truck will remain as it has, but a new menu will be offered once the restaurant is up and running.

“It is going to be more of a standup grab and go type of thing,” Bernier said.

Bernier said he would like to open the restaurant in the next couple months, but that timeline may be impacted by the work that needs to get done and the permitting that needs to be secured.

Once the restaurant is open, the plan is to bring the food truck to concerts and other outdoor events.

Bernier hopes the new Maine Medical office building at One Riverfront Plaza will increase foot traffic at his food truck.

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customers back, but also welcome the arrival of new ones,” he said.

Bernier is happy to once again etch out his place in the downtown food scene and said the more restaurants in an area, the more reason people have to come to that area. One example of that, he said, is the fact Westbrook has a handful of pizza places within a short distance that are all thriving.

“Someone may come to my restaurant today, but go to yours tomorrow,” he said.

The business has a long history in the city. Don’s Lunch was started in the 1970s by Don and Yvonne Richard at 959 Main St., but was sold in 2001 to Bill and Nancy Bombard, who moved it to the parking lot of Bernie’s Auto Repair at 517 Main St. The couple ran it

for a number of years, before leasing it out to James Richard, Don and Yvonne’s son. The state shut it down in February 2015 after non-compliance with Maine sales tax statutes. Bernier bought the business, revamped the food truck and moved it to the Friendly’s Gas site.

“It has been a staple in the city of Westbrook for many years and we hope to continue that for years to come,” he said.

Don’s Lunch, which sells hamburgers, hot dogs, clam cakes, chicken sandwiches, french fries and other items, is open Monday through Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays from 11:30 a.m. to 2 a.m.

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We Love Sales Spring book sale - Friday, May 4, 9 a.m.6 p.m., and Saturday, May 5, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Gorham Recreation Department, 75 South St. Sponsored by Baxter Memorial Library.

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all kinds of used pots, garden tools, lawnmowers, spreaders, wheelbarrow, power saw, patio chairs and other gardening and summer goodies; and an assortment of handmade birdhouses. As always, there will be hot dogs and beverages for a light lunch. This is a rain or shine event.

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Westbrook grabs quick lead, but falls to Portland in long run

By Adam Birt PORTLAND—The Blazes grabbed the very first goal, a Josh Cavallaro strike, when they dropped in on Portland on Thursday afternoon, April 26. Westbrook couldn’t maintain their momentum, though; the Bulldogs took over, cruising to a 6-2 lead after one and eventually prevailing 14-5.

“They’ve got a good club there, Portland; tip your hat to them,” Westbrook head coach Pete Lyons said. “Hopefully we improve and give them a better tussle when we play them again — the end of the season.”

Westbrooker Jared Grant won a good deal the game's faceoffs for the Blazes, including the opener. Westbrook's initial possession, though, produced nothing.

On the other hand, neither did the Bulldogs’ follow-up possession. Cavallaro converted on Westbrook’s next opportunity, juking nimbly inward from the left side to best Portland netminder Aaron Hoekstra.

Portland wasted little time in responding and surging ahead. Reilly O’Brien kicked off the Bulldogs’ scoring with 8:47 to play in the first; just over two minutes later, Sam Shaw echoed O’Brien, and a mere 30 seconds after that, Tristan Arcand made it 3-1. With 5:01 remaining, O’Brien struck again, curling around from the top-left of the Westbrook zone to the top-center, firing through traffic and getting the better of Blazes goalie Christian Childs. 4-1.

Lyons and his boys knew, coming in, that they needed to focus on O’Brien and Shaw. “Yeah,” Lyons said “We knew what they were doing. They like to iso from the middie ... Sometimes, we got our first slide there, but they moved the ball very well.

They found their open guys in the crease, and we’re just not experienced enough to be consistent with our second slide. So we’ve got to work on that.”

Portland continued to build as the quarter elapsed. Sam Gerber battled straight through the middle of Westbrook’s defensive spread to score on a feisty shot in close at 1:55. 5-1. Grant then won another faceoff (his umpteenth), jetted up the left side and flipped the ball over to Evan Pednault; Pednault pulled the trigger from high on the right side, beating Hoekstra for 5-2. O’Brien responded with just 4.5 seconds to play for 6-2 after 12 minutes.

“We’re man-to-man, and they were kind of better than us,” Lyons said, chuckling.

“I was feeling okay with our first line, and we just didn’t get our second slide in. And they fed the ball nicely to the crease.”

The Blazes slowed the ‘Dogs down substantially in the second: Portland managed just one point in the stretch, another

Jared Grant battles amidst a handful of Bulldogs defenders.

O’Brien point, this one on a Gerber assist.

But Westbrook couldn’t find the back of the net themselves, and halftime arrived with the scoreboard at 7-2.

The Blazes nearly matched Portland again in the third: While the Bulldogs tallied three, Westbrook tallied two. In the fourth, however, Portland again dominated. Blaze Gabe Martin notched the first goal of the stretch, but the ‘Dogs then seized control, hashing the last four of the outing for the 14-5 result.

Cavallaro finished with two goals for Westbrook, as well as one assist; Martin had two and Pednault the one. Grayson Post had two assists, and Ryan Shackley and Grant one each.

Lyons praised Grant, Cavallaro and Martin. “Our faceoff kid is strong; Jared does a really nice job," Lyons said. "Josh does a nice job. And we have a kid, a freshman, Gabe Martin, who had two goals for us today.”

Post and Shackley are important weapons for the Blazes; Portland’s success in shutting them down for the entire game is noteworthy. Lyons observed as much.

“We need to do a much better job,” he said, “working the ball through Grayson and Ryan, and getting those guys to step up a little ... We were a little stagnant on offense, which is my fault.”

Lyons also nodded at Childs’ work in the cage. “I would like to mention Christian Childs, who’s never played goalkeeper before in his life, and agreed to step in.

In particular, he had a really nice second quarter, kept us in the game, made some nice saves. He’s an attackman, so he handles the ball well.”

Andrew Hatch ducks around a Bulldogs defender.

Westbrook has struggled in the past couple years to find the right fit for the netminder position, and it’s cost them. Very little in the way of experience in goal has come up through the ranks and joined the team, so they’ve had to search for a natural talent.

“I don’t know that [Christian] is our longterm solution,” Lyons said. “I know he thinks he’s not; so we’ve got to figure that out too. We have a freshman goalkeeper we’re still working with named Nathan England. Hopefully, we can get him a little more game-ready.”

Staff photos by Adam Birt

O’Brien added two assists alongside his eight goals. Gerber and Shaw contributed two points apiece, with Shaw also logging two assists. Arcand and Kevin Moore had a goal each, and Moore and Evan Bay an assist each.

Westbrook travels to Morse on Saturday, April 28; they visit Windham on May 1. Portland, meanwhile, travels to Edward Little on Saturday and welcomes Biddeford on May 2.

Adam Birt can be reached at abirt@keepmecurrent.com. Follow him on Twitter: @ CurrentSportsME.

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Bonny Eagle flattens Erskine Academy 9-1

By Adam Birt STANDISH—Tyler Williams led Bonny Eagle in battering visiting Erskine 9-1 on Saturday afternoon, April 28; Williams hashed four goals and three assists for the Scots in their victory over the Eagles.

“Tyler’s really stepped up,” Bonny Eagle head coach Andrew Slefinger said of Williams. “He’s worked hard in the off-season to get that shot down, and it showed again today.”

“We’ve never played Erskine before,” Slefinger went on. “I know they’re a new program in the past five, six years or so.

Had no clue what they had, what they brought. We knew what we had, and we rolled what we had.”

The Eagles fended off the Scots successfully through much of the first quarter; finally, with just a couple minutes to play before the buzzer, Williams broke the

deadlock. A few minutes into the second quarter, Vinnie Bruni made it 2-0 from the top-right corner of the Erskine zone on an assist by Dylan Cobbett.

“Slow start,” Slefinger said. “I thought we could’ve given a little more intensity in that first quarter. A lot of fundamental lapses...but they turned it around. A lot of in-game adjustments. I think a lot of guys looked at each other, a lot of picking each other up.”

Bonny Eagle added just one more goal in the second: Griffin Madore notched midway through the stretch, grabbing a ground ball in close on the Erskine net after teammate James Conley dumped a shot inward from the outside-left.

The Scots really heated up in the third, when Madore scored early for 4-0, Williams shortly thereafter for 5-0, Cobbett 63 seconds after that for 6-0. The Eagles got on the board — Brady Studley did the

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Vinnie Bruni pulls the trigger on a (soon-to-be-successful) shot.

Eagles’ honors — with 2:06 remaining, but Williams answered 56 seconds later. 7-1.

Erskine didn’t look bad throughout the game; they simply couldn’t finish. But that, of course, is a testament to Bonny Eagle.

“We shut them down a little bit through the boxes,” Slefinger said. “That was translating into more offensive chances. Second game (of the season); I thought we could be a little bit better on the ground balls. But that’s just the way it goes.”

The Scots added two more in the final quarter. John Merrill struck for the team at 8:46 and Max Zygaldo did likewise at 1:12, capping what would’ve looked like a routine win, had it not come so early in the year, when nothing is yet routine.

Beyond Williams’s seven points on the day, Madore finished with two goals and two assists, Merrill with one and one, and Zygaldo, Cobbett and Bruni with a goal apiece. Also of note: Wyatt Blanchette went 12-14 on the faceoff.

“The [offensive] spread this year,” Slefinger said, “I’ve got a lot of new guys. Leaning offensive talent. A couple of the new guys are really focused and dialed-in.

It’s fun to coach kids that — I’ve got kids that stay after every day and shoot 100, 150 balls, just to get better every day. The

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group that I’ve got right now is incredible.

Very young — I think we only graduate two this year. So we’ve got the leaders, the seniors, but the young guys’ve really got to step up, and they have been so far.”

“Wyatt Blanchette on the face,” Slefinger went on when asked who else (besides Williams) played well. “He absolutely dominated today. He is dialed-in.

He knows his role on the team; he works hard at it every single day. He brings what he needs to to be successful. It was great to watch him; we had so many offensive chances just off his efforts.”

The win is Bonny Eagle’s second of the season; they’re now 2-0. Their first game, against Noble, was another blowout, 14-2.

“Last year, we lost a lot of games by close scores — one-, two-goal games,” Slefinger said. “But things are going pretty well right now. We’ve got a heavy stretch the next couple weeks. I think we play six games in fifteen days.”

The Scots travel to Massabesic on Wednesday, May 2, and Biddeford on Friday, May 4.

Adam Birt can be reached at abirt@ keepmecurrent.com. Follow him on Twitter: @CurrentSportsME.

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Bonny Eagle baseball team played in Florida

By Robert Lowell STANDISH - The Bonny Eagle High School baseball team spent the recent school spring break playing in Florida and even met some pro baseball players.

Head coach Richard Hession said the team played at the Pittsburgh Pirates' spring training facility in Pirate City. The Bonny Eagle team played three games against Souhegan High School from Amherst, New Hampshire.

Hession said the players and coaches bonded during the trip and two of his players had never flown before. "It was a great experience," Hession said about the trip.

Mike Coffin, an assistant coach and a Gorham school resource officer, said working with the players was an extension of the classroom and an opportunity to help them prepare for their futures.

"This trip was amazing to work with the players each and every day and night," Coffin said.

Coffin said there was fun, lots of laughs and a "true honor" to work with the young men.

Hession said the team even had an opportunity to meet and mingle with some of the Pirates' players who were there during extended spring training."One of the Pirate players also talked to both teams about his experience and his journey to playing professional baseball," Hession said.

This year marked the third consecutive spring Florida trip for Bonny Eagle players and the second year playing in the Pirates' facility. Hession said several Bonny Eagle parents also traveled to see the team play.

"We played a lot of baseball in 85-degree weather," Hession said.

The Bonny Eagle High School baseball players and coaches traveled to Florida during spring break from school. Front row, from left: Ethan Hamilton, Casey Maturo, Tyler Fitz, Will Whyte, Bailey Walker, and Bobby Faucher. Back row, from left: Head coach Ricky Hession, Greg Emerson, Ian Jarvis, Connor Sirois, Arlo Pike, Will Hendrix, Christian Napolitano, assistant coach Mike Coffin, Jackson Bean, Logan Fogg, Pat Hussey, Cam Phinney, Corey Labrecque, assistant coach Kelsey Phinney and Khyler Hart.

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Sports Briefs Maine Baseball Hall of Fame welcomes this year’s inductees

By Adam Birt YARMOUTH—10 new names will join the ranks of those immortalized in the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame when it holds its annual induction ceremony at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland on Sunday, July 22, including Edmund "Ned" Beyer (Milton, Massachusetts), Willie Boynton (Skowhegan), Jim Cameron (Trenton), Ronald "Mickey" Foster (posthumous; Standish), Dave Gaw (Guilford), Jason Jensen (Topsham), Robert Lippert (Augusta), Maynard Maxwell (Lee), Brian O'Gara (formerly of Westbrook) and Shan Slicer (Waterford).

According to a press release and his

obituary, Foster went undefeated on the mound during his stint at Standish High School in the late '40s and early '50s; he earned Triple-C All-Star Honors in each of those four years as well, building a reputation as one of the Portland Evening Express's most ferocious batters.

He signed with the Kitty League Fulton Baseball Club in 1953 before moving up to the Piedmont League Hagerstown Baseball Club the following year. As a pro pitcher, Foster even faced off with that other Mickey — Mickey Mantle.

Foster passed away on May 11, 2016.

O'Gara has worked in the Commissioner's Office of Major League Baseball for 23 years as Vice-President of Special Events.

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Service center, from page 1 intake processes.

The application states the center will also serve "as an incubator for new regional programs and services."

In addition to potential cost savings, districts in regional service centers will also receive a "Regionalization and Efficiency Assistance Allocation" – more money –as part of General Purpose Aid from the state for being involved.

And, while the districts involved in the Greater Sebago Education Alliance stated on their application they do not anticipate "major savings will be realized" through the collaborative effort, those involved do believe "the economy of scale" will improve the quality of services provided and provide efficiencies.

According to the Greater Sebago Education Alliance application, the center will be governed by a board of directors that includes the superintendents of each of the districts involved, or their designee.

SAD 6 Superintendent Paul Penna also said his district is the fiscal agent for the group as the center decides on a director.

The proposed operational date is July 1, 2018.

From the front page The next step for each district involved is to receive an affirmative vote on a state-mandated interlocal agreement from their respective School Boards, followed by town approval via a local vote.

Regional service centers that receive final approval from Hasson will begin serving their membership in the 2018-19 academic year.

Gorham Superintendent Heather Perry said the Greater Sebago Education Alliance is an expansion of the Sebago Educational Alliance, a coalition of public schools including SAD 6, RSU 14, Scarborough, Gorham and Westbrook, which Gorham has been involved in for 15 years.

Perry said the Gorham School Committee will discuss the interlocal agreement in a workshop this month, and vote on it in June.

At this point, she added, Gorham's focus in the regional service center will be purchasing food and food-related supplies, recruiting substitute teachers and professional development.

RSU 5 Superintendent Becky Foley said her district's School Board will be discussing the interlocal agreement at its May 9 meeting. If it passes, local voters will have the opportunity to ratify the decision in

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During Phase I of the application process in November, RSU 5 was included on an initial application with Brunswick and SAD 75 (Topsham, Harpswell, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham), to form a different regional service center, called the "Mid-Coast Collaborative." After SAD 75 withdrew its proposal, however, Brunswick and RSU 5 opted to join the larger service center.

SAD 15 Superintendent Craig King said he thinks there is "a lot of mutually beneficial potential" for the collaboration, and it could be helpful with the district's upcoming need to take on child development dervices for 3- and 4-year-olds.

The RSU 14 School Board already approved the necessary interlocal agreement on April 25. Superintendent Sanford Prince said the vote authorizes submitting the agreement to the Commissioner for approval.

He added RSU 14 will receive revenue of more than $55,500 for joining the center.

In the center's first year of operation, Westbrook Superintendent Peter Lancia said his district, like Gorham schools, is interested in participating in joint food purchasing, recruitment and training of substitute teachers, recruitment of professional staff, and professional development.

Lancia said Westbrook schools would also explore intake for ELL students, "but that would likely be in the second year at the earliest."

South Portland Superintendent Ken Kunin said the district is hopeful about the possibilities surrounding collaborations for services, but it is going forward cautiously.

"I think it will be really good for South Portland," Kunin said, adding municipalities have had interlocal agreements for agencies such as fire departments through mutual aid, but this is a new education concept.

Kunin also said there are structures to create efficiencies with services, but also protections if collaboration does not serve a district.

Cape Elizabeth's interim superintendent, Howard Colter, said his district's board will vote on the interlocal agreement in September, and he is "excited" about the collaborative effort.

Like RSU 5 and Brunswick, Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough schools also submitted a preliminary application last fall to form their own regional service center, called the Scarborough Cape Alliance, but both ultimately decided to join the Greater Sebago Education Alliance.

"We decided we want to go with this group because locally it's more our neighborhood. There's multiple opportunities in this that we find appealing," Colter said.

He added the benefits of regionalizing services go beyond monetary perks.

"The districts that are working together have had a lot of great ideas," Colter said. "... It's a cost savings, but it's also so much more than that. It's a way to be more congenial and cooperative with one another, and I really like that."

Staff writers Matthew Junker, Michael Kelly, Juliette Laaka, Bob Lowell and Jocelyn Van Saun contributed to this report. Elizabeth Clemente can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 100 or eclemente@theforecaster.net. Follow Elizabeth on Twitter @epclemente.

Christine Marie Fuller-Aguirre, 8/11/1967- 4/21/2018 Christine unexpectedly passed away peacefully in her sleep at her Westbrook home. She had been battling health issues for a good part of her life, but that would not get in the way of what a strong family oriented person she was. “Inspirational for sure “. She was every child’s “Nana”. She loved all the children in her life.

There wasn’t any occasion a child would go without a thoughtful gift from her. The most loving, caring and excepting person you’d ever meet. We will miss those blue eyes. She was pre deceased by her father Wayne Fuller and husband Michael Aguirre.

She leaves behind four adult children-Christopher his wife Rachel Aguirre, Daughters-Corrina, Catrina and Alyssa Aguirre, seven grandchildren-Maxwell, Mateo, Jayden, Cameron, Isaac, Zoey and Bentley.

Grandmother- Joan Martell, Mother-Pamela Fuller, two sisters, Bobbi-Jo Green and husband Mark Green, Patrice Cota. Brother-in-law Daniel Aguirre and wife Diane, Sister-in-Law-Susan Anderson and husband Roy. The extended family goes on, as everyone was considered her immediate/close family no matter the distance.

She will be laid to rest with her husband on Cinco de Mayo.

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Tightened sprinkler ordinance vote delayed

By Robert Lowell GORHAM - On Tuesday, the Town Council unanimously postponed action to amend the town's sprinkler ordinance requiring a sprinkler system in all new homes.

The board will consider action in July or August following a workshop in June to discuss the matter. Gorham native Steve Willis, who heads the fire science program at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland, spoke in favor of the proposal.

Willis said survival time in today's homes is three or four minutes from the time a fire starts and he said new homes collapse faster than older homes. "We can not save lives by responding to fires from a fire station," Willis said.

Now, new homes not built in developments do not have to meet the town's sprinkler ordinance. The proposed amendment drew a nearly full house of residents in the council chambers.

Several Gorham realtors spoke. Keith Nicely asked the town councilors to think of the whole picture. "This came on out of

Peter Mason of Po-Go Realty asks the Gorham Town Council Tuesday for clarifications in proposed changes to the town's sprinkler ordinance. The Town Council postponed action to this summer on the measure requiring all new homes to have sprinkler systems.

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Peter Mason asked for clarifications in the language about whether manufactured housing and mobile homes would be required to comply with an amended ordinance.

And another realtor, Demetria Chadbourne, said, "I would love to see this tabled."

Developer Susan Duchaine said people should be encouraged to come to Gorham. "It's one more thing that is a deterrent to Gorham," Duchaine said about the proposed sprinkler amendment.

Gorham resident Mark Curtis urged the board to delay its decision and tweak language in the proposed amendment. "Take a step back, take some time and make a good decision," Curtis said.

Paul Gore of Gorham was concerned about the impact on sales of his properties. Gore advocated the Town Council take more time to weigh the matter before acting.

Resident Jim Means said sprinklers are expensive to install and maintain.

Means recommended that homeowners increase their insurance coverage by $10,000, if the sprinkler measure passes,

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because of the added expense in building a replacement home. Means also believed that the requirement and the associated costs would devalue house lots.

"Its excessive government intrusion," Means said.

But Town Councilor Marla Stelk disagreed. "I don't think its government overreach," Stelk said.

Town Council Vice Chairwoman Sherrie Benner moved to table the matter and Town Councilor Suzanne Phillips seconded the motion. The Town Council voted 7-0 for a postponement but appeared likely to pass it next time.

Means on Wednesday emailed the town asking for the name and address of each owner of a single-family home with a sprinkler system and a summary showing whether each owner has complied with annual inspections mandated under the existing ordinance.

In early February, Gorham Fire Chief Robert Lefebvre in a workshop discussed the proposed ordinance change with town councilors. State Fire Marshal Joe Thomas spoke in that workshop and also attended this week's Town Council meeting.

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Looking Back

May 5, 1993 Local 1069, United Papermakers and Paperworkers International, AFL-CIO, began at the S.D. Warren paper mill in Westbrook 25 years ago this year, William Carver, the local’s former president, reminded his co-workers at a dinner honoring Carver Friday, his last day as an employee of the mill. He now works full time for the union. Over the 25 years, the union has had only two strikes, “both successful,” Carver said. Marvin Ewing was the 1069’s president in the first, Carver in the second. Carver said he was recruited to accept an office in the union by Ewing. “He told me to think of others, not yourself.”

Westbrook City Councils for decades have invited public comment on every issue. The current council may not be that willing to listen. It voted Monday to consider changing its rules on public comment. The suggestion for a change in rules comes from Don Richards, who asked the council’s Committee of the Whole for “consideration of a public comment period during City Council meetings.” The wording appears to say that he wants to hear from the public less often than has been the practice.

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About 108 miles of Gorham’s 116 miles of roads need some kind of costly work, according to town engineer Bill Taylor’s survey. The town is spending no money on asphalt paving during this current fiscal year. During the 1991-92 fiscal year, $15,156 was spent and during 1990-91, $49,314 was spent. Taylor’s survey shows that 27.3 miles, or 23 percent of Gorham’s roads, need reconstruction, at a cost of $171,095 a mile. The largest

60 Years Ago The Westbrook American reported on May 7, 1958, that Alex McCabe of Monroe Avenue, Westbrook, had returned home after spending the winter in Miami, Florida.

Elizabeth Libby was general chairwoman of a rummage sale sponsored by the Ladies Guild at Westbrook Congregational Church.

This photo shows the original St. Hyacinth Church that was built on Brown St. in 1879. A Rectory (not visible in the photo) was built to the left of the Church in 1883. The large building on the right is St. Hyacinth School that was built on Walker St. in 1893. A small cemetery once occupied the site where the school is located. In 1883 the bodies were moved to the present day St. Hyacinth Cemetery on Stroudwater St. The old church was closed on October 18, 1942 and the present St. Hyacinth Church celebrated its first Mass on October 25, 1942. The old church was later razed.

Photo and research courtesy of Mike Sanphy portion, 33.6 percent, or 36.7 miles, need crack sealing and maintenance, which costs $33,533 a mile.

Gorham was swarming with more than 600 firefighters over the weekend, in town to attend Fire Attack School to hone old skill and learn new. The twoday event at Gorham High School was sponsored by the Cumberland County Fire Chiefs and the Gorham Fire Department.

Marland and Schonen Wing, Meghan, Marlanda, Melissa and Matthew, were hosts in their Cumberland Street, Westbrook, home for Easter dinner. Thirteenyear-old Marlanda made and decorated an Easter bunny cake that looked professionally done. Meghan, 15, made one of her favorite salads. Melissa, 10, arranged an attractive vegetable tray. Guest included Marland’s sister Marshalyn and family from Belgrade and his parents, Marshall and Florence Wing, Woodland

Road, Westbrook.

May 7, 2003 The Westbrook Food Pantry has found a new home at the Sebago Moc building next to the Dana Warp Mill. The pantry has the space for two years. Developer Tim Flannery, who owns the building, found the space for the pantry by negotiating with one of his tenants.

Meanwhile, the City Council has approved a $1.2 million short-term loan to Flannery for his $16.7 million office building. The loan could potentially cover a cash shortfall that apparently arose at the last minute for a project that is the cornerstone of the city’s downtown revitalization project. “I was on such a tight construction schedule. I’ve got to have the building ready by next spring. I didn’t have time to go out and find another investor.

A decision had to be made quickly,” said Flannery. He has secured more than $15 million in financing for the building.

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Gorham voters will decide next month whether to spend $2.4 million to demolish most of the historic Charles C. Shaw School on South Street and renovate a small section into office spaces, a choice some believe pits preservation against pragmatism. While supporters say the town can’t afford to renovate the entire building for an estimated $5.12 million – an option the Town Council did not put on the ballot – others argue the more expensive project would preserve a historic building and provide a central center for school and town offices.

In an unexpected move, the City Council Monday put a sudden halt to all the zoning changes that have been in effect since March. Opponents of the ordinance have filed suit to overturn it in Cumberland County Superior Court. And residents near the downtown were flowing into City Hall seeking approval for various home improvements, which hadn’t been allowed under the old zoning. Now all those people will have to wait. Mathew Eddy, director of economic and community development, admitted after the meeting that the ordinance had become quite convoluted and it might be best to start over.

At its annual meeting, the Gorham Business and Civic Exchange elected the following officers: Torey Carr (Edward Jones Investment), president; Judy Brown (ABBA Video Productions), vice president; Jason Beever (C.E. Carll Agency), treasurer; and Sterling Williams (Gorham Savings Bank), treasurer.

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Rock Row takes shape as gateway to Westbrook WESTBROOKWaterstone Properties Group, Inc., a Needham, Massachusetts-based real estate development company, announced that Rock Row will be the new name for the 1 million-square-foot, mixeduse complex the company is developing at the former Pike Industries quarry near the Portland-Westbrook border.

The site will embrace the 26-acre quarry as a natural centerpiece and foundation, combining elements of destination retail, urban living, modern workplaces, vibrant hospitality, entertainment, dining, wellness and recreation into one immersive experience offering something for everyone. Rock Row will welcome Market Basket Supermarket as its first tenant, having already broken ground and opening summer 2019.

“With Market Basket’s opening at Rock Row, we are one step closer to turning the site of the old quarry into a new gateway for the community,” said Josh Levy, co-founder and principal at Waterstone Properties. “Market Basket will be the first of many unique experiences we will create at Rock Row, a mixed-use destination unlike any other in New England.

We’re looking forward to continuing to work with our partners at the City of Westbrook, City of Portland, the state and the surrounding community to make our collective vision a reality.”

The development benefits from a collaborative partnership with the city. In March, the city council granted a tax increment financing (TIF) agreement, which will provide a financing vehicle for the equivalent of $12 million in public infrastructure costs.

Through the TIF agreement, 50 percent of the tax generated at Rock Row over a 25-year period will go directly to the city, helping to accelerate economic growth throughout Westbrook.

“The redevelopment of the former industrial quarry site into a thriving mixed-use development will have critical ripple effects throughout Westbrook,” City Administrator Jerre Bryant said. “We’re excited about the

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Mural brings Maine and Florida schools together

By Michael Kelley WESTBROOK - Westbrook High School senior Kelly Maguire dreams of one day using art therapy in her career as a child psychologist and last month Maguire got a taste of the therapeutic power of art.

During April school vacation, Maguire hand delivered a 9-foot by 8-foot mosaic mural of Marjory Stoneman Douglas made

by Westbrook students in the National Arts Honor Society. Douglas is the namesake of the Parkland, Florida high school that was the site of a school shooting in mid-February that left 17 students and staff members dead.

The mural was created as part of the honor society's spring exhibit "Strong Women in History." The exhibit, which is put on as part of the soceity's community service requirements, featured dozens of powerful and historical women. High school art teacher Debra Bickford said after hearing about the tragedy and learning more about Stoneman Douglas, a noted suffragette and environmentalist, she knew she had to be the exhibition's main focus.

Bickford said creating the mural gave her students an opportunity to reflect on what had happened to their peers in Florida and "make something beautiful out of something so horrible."

The idea was originally to take digital photos of the mural panels and mail the photo-

Westbrook High School senior Kelly Maguire, right, made a trip to Florida during April vacation to deliver a mural Westbrook students made of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the namesake of the Parkland high school where a school shooting took place in February. Accepting the mural was high school office manager and secretary Teresa Basilone. Courtesy photo graphs to the Florida high school to be reassembled there, but Maguire wanted to do more. She wanted to ensure the mural was going to get to where it was intended.

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Maguire, who was going to Florida during April vacation anyway to register at Florida SouthWestern State College, brought her idea up to Bickford and Westbrook High School Principal Kelli Deveaux, who agreed it would be a good opportunity for the young artist. After getting the approval, Maguire worked with high school art teacher Matthew Johnson to photograph and order each of the 72 sections of the mural so they could be reassembled in Florida.

Along with the panel pieces, Maguire brought with her a card signed by the students who worked on the portrait, photos of their process and what the mural should

look like when fully reassembled.

Maguire said she was warmly welcomed and was greeted with a hug by the principal's secretary who "thanked us and said it was beautiful." She said a staff member happened by the office and upon seeing the artwork "began tearing up and said 'this is one of the most beautiful things I have seen."

"They have received so many gifts (after the tragedy), so to see them react like that, I knew we really accomplished something.

It was made by students for students and something they can keep forever," Maguire said.

Visiting the school, Maguire said, was a "surreal experience."

"I saw the 17 ribbons tied to the trees and down the road, the memorials still laid out for the victims," Maguire said.

Bickford said she is proud of Maguire for the role she took in seeing her idea through to the end, despite roadblocks along the way.

"I am proud of her. This is something she will never forget. She'll walk out of this building proud of this for the rest of her life," Bickford said.

"From this experience, I’ve learned that even if we’re not directly impacted by a tragedy, it is our responsibility to show our support and be there for students and staff who are going through a difficult time," Maguire said. "I am honored to have been a part of this exhibition, and I hope Westbrook High School continues to support other schools and communities in the future, no matter where they are located."

Bickford said she and Johnson work hard to instill in their students that art is more than just creating something beautiful.

"We like to make sure that students know that art is much more than just a content area. There are a lot of other things you can learn through art," Bickford said.

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operating out of a space in the Dana Warp Mill but moved to Main Street in 2004 due to space constraints at the mill location.

"There was not one single nook or cranny that didn't need to be renovated, according to an engineer's report," Dwyer said. Funding from the Cornelia Warren Foundation and other groups has been "critical in keeping up the bricks and mortar" of the building.

The organization has owned the building outright since late 2014 when the New Generation Foundation of Maine gave My Place Teen Center a $325,000 grant to pay off its mortgage and do exterior improvement to the building.

In fact, grants and other donations have been the lifeline for the teen center.

Dwyer said although the center does get taxpayer funding — possibly $60,000 for the upcoming fiscal budget — 90 percent of the funding for the teen center comes from outside the city. She said that she starts the fiscal year only knowing where 30 percent of the center's funding is going to come from. For the last five years, the center has asked the city for $100,000 in funding and has only received about 40 percent of that request. She said the city used to provide $50,000 when My Place Teen Center served a third of the kids and one-ninth of the meals it does today.

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Dwyer said the "fact the teen center has been able to survive and in someways thrive, is a miracle. It is hard to be a non-profit. It is hard to provide free services to kids."

In 2016, My Place Teen Center was named the beneficiary of the TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K, in which the organization received $30,000 from road race proceeds.

"It's persistence (in finding funding) despite rampant rejection. This is categorical across the non-profit world. There are a lot of nice, caring funders, but they are not year-over-year consistent or at the level to fully meet the need," she said.

The success over the years, Dwyer said has been due to the many people who have supported the center with their funding and their time.

Dwyer said last year 120 volunteers contributed more than 6,000 volunteer hours mentoring, cooking, giving academic help or connecting with the children in other ways. The number of volunteers is always up year after year.

"They enjoy getting to know the kids and know they are helping them and changing the trajectory of a kid's life," Dwyer said.

Dyer, who was president of the board in the organization's early years, said through the years "the community has

embraced the opportunity to support, care for and love youth and provide them with a safe place where they can grow the thrive."

Don Esty, a retired educator in Falmouth, is happy to volunteer his time to the center.

"The teen center gives kids a place for social and emotional growth, role modeling and basic necessities. That's why I support it," he said.

Vice Chairman of the My Place Teen Center Board of Directors Lori Whitlock has been involved with the teen center for the last decade, including the last eight as a board member.

"It's not just a drop off center. The kids are learning how to be good community members. I've seen a lot of transformation in the center, the kids and the programming," Whitlock said.

She remembers a few years back, she was tending the garden when a group of three boys walked toward the center.

As the group approached the front door, one of the boys looked over to see what she was doing and started making rude comments. Within five minutes of entering the building, he was asked to leave because he was misbehaving. Whitlock saw him again shortly thereafter but in a much different mindset. After two weeks at the center, he was smiling and an active

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"Without the teen center, you wonder what might happen to him, and the other kids, going forward," she said.

"As for why am I still involved? How can I not be," Whitlock added. "I am a Westbrook resident."

To celebrate its 15th anniversary in 2013, the organizations adopted a new name — My Place Teen Center — and a new logo of the building's iconic red doors. Now, after 20 years of providing for the youth in and around Westbrook, My Place Teen Center may be expanding its programming into the Biddeford area. They'll need to find the right location first. The organization is in the final stages of securing the former St. Andres Church on Bacon Street.

"We knew we could be serving even more kids. Biddeford has been very interested in our business and programming model for the last three years and came knocking on our red door," Dwyer said.

It is not uncommon, she said for other communities to inquire about "how we do what we do and make it work" and tour the center.

The expansion into Biddeford is expected by July 2020.

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"I was promised they would be separated," Moore said.

But, three hours later, Moore said, a fight involving his son and the other kid occurred in the school and was captured on video.

Both were suspended from school according to Moore.

Weeks later, Moore, accompanied by his lawyer, and Superintendent Heather Perry with a town lawyer and viewed the video together. "It clearly shows he got attacked from behind," Moore said.

Moore said he had given his son "100 percent" permission to defend himself. "He hit the bully twice," Moore said.

Moore, a Gorham native, filed a report with police.

Moore said his son also has been targeted with racial slurs like "the little black boy" and "Ramen noodle hair" while his daughter, now a high school student, was called the n-word in middle school.

But, Moore said he is now taking a stand for all bullied children.

"Protect our kids," Moore said, "don't brush it under the rug."

Perry said in an email Tuesday she can't comment on student issues because of confidentiality restrictions.

"I can only say that the information that is being shared with you (American Journal) represents only one side of a complex equation and that it is not fully accurate information," Perry said.

Moore said his lawyer has sent correspondence to the school district but Perry declined Tuesday to release documents and Moore's lawyer did not return an email request by the American Journal deadline.

"In terms of any correspondences also related to this matter between the school and parent/guardians, or between the school and legal counsel, those too are confidential materials and, therefore, I cannot share these materials with you," Perry said.

Perry has repeatedly said every complaint of bullying is investigated.

"Gorham Schools take bullying complaints very seriously as we care tremendously about maintaining the high-quality learning environments that currently exist across all our schools," Perry said Tuesday.

A TV news segment about the fighting incident involving Moore's son aired a few weeks ago on CBS 13.

It prompted a former Gorham High School student, Ariana Gaston, 19, to step forward with her story. Gaston sent an email April 13 to Town Councilor Sherrie Benner, addressing the letter "Dear Town of Gorham."

"I was angry and want people to hear," Gaston told the American Journal last week.

Gaston said in her email to Benner she had dropped out of Gorham High School a few years ago because of "personal reasons and bullying."

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Before sending the email, Gaston said she attended the April 11 School Committee meeting to hear Perry's scheduled overview of the school district's bullying policy.

Perry said bullying must be investigated if it impacts a student.

Perry said through mid-March, there were 23 bullying complaints in the district's five schools during this academic year and 15 cases were substantiated. In 2016-2017, Perry said 21 bullying complaints resulted in 12 substantiated.

Perry in the School Committee presentation pointed to the district's code of conduct: respect, honesty, courage, compassion and responsibility.

In that School Committee meeting, a public comment time was allotted near the beginning, according to the printed agenda. Several people walked out after Perry's presentation on bullying. Gaston said in her email she felt "sick to my stomach" that no public comment opportunity followed Perry's bullying presentation.

"They sugarcoated bullying," Gaston, who is now attending a GED school and has been accepted at SMCC, she told the American Journal.

Gaston said she had been bullied for years in Gorham schools. "I use to love my town," Gaston said. "It's been downhill for a while."

Gaston also said her younger sister is a Gorham Village School student and has been bullied. Their mother, Sherry Garnett, believes the district should do more about bullying.

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Brian Porter called her and said she has the school's support and sought permission to talk with her daughter.

Perry said all Gorham school staff are trained annually on the district's bullying policies and "understand clearly their responsibilities to report and investigate complaints of bullying. Investigations into allegations of bullying behaviors conducted by our schools are conducted by each school's administrative staff and overseen by my office."

Perry said Gorham Middle School student reports this past spring from the Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey statewide survey data indicated that only 35 percent of "our students" report experiencing bullying behaviors at school while the state's average was 47 percent. She said data for Gorham High School reports 18 percent, compared to the state average 22 percent.

Asked if the district's bullying policy is sufficient, Perry said language in the district's bullying policies is directly from the statute passed by Legislature in 2014.

"If you are asking if the policies by themselves are enough ... the answer would, of course, be no. There are lots of different things that go into building positive learning environments for our students and policies are just one component," Perry said.

"In Gorham, we focus on relationships and it is the cornerstone of our mission/vision."

Perry said any Gorham parent/guardian, who has concerns regarding bullying, should reach out to her at 222-1012 or email heather.perry@gorhamschools.org to schedule an appointment.

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May 19 A family-friendly Contradance with Birds on a Wire and caller Eric Rollnick at Denmark Arts Center on route 160 at 50 West Main St., Denmark on Saturday, May 19, from 6-9pm.

Teaching session for first 30 min. $10 donation is suggested. FMI: call the Denmark Arts Center at 207-452-2412 or email info@Denmark Arts.org

May 19 The Royal River Chorus will perform women's barbershop on Saturday, May 19, at 7 p.m., at the North Windham Union Church, 723 Roosevelt Trail, Windham. Tickets will be sold at the door, $12 adults, $10 seniors/students. The box office opens at 6 p.m.

May 18 and 20 The Lake Region Community Chorus will sing Friday, May 18 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 20th at 3:00 p.m. at the Twitchell Chapel at the Bridgton Academy, 11 Academy Ln, North Bridgton. Donations accepted.

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Music Fourth Sunday The New Gloucester Slow Jam takes place the fourth Sunday of each month, 5-7 p.m. at the First Congregational Church Vestry, 19 Gloucester Hill Rd., New Gloucester. Come to play or listen. Donation $3. Linda Jacobs 207333-8110 or jacobslindas5@gmail.com.

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Hiroya Tsukamoto, a composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter from Kyoto, Japan performs Friday, May 25, 7:30 p.m., at the Saco River Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Road, Bar Mills, ME. Tickets for adults $20, seniors and students $18. Reservations advised: 207-9296472 or www.sacorivertheatre.org.

Theater May 5-7 "Sammy's, the Greatest College Bar in the History of Mankind" will be performed at the Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Rd., Standish. Shows are at 7 p.m. Friday, May 5, and Saturday, May 6; and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 7.

May 12 Randy Judkins, nationally known comedian/magician and John Ulmer, local magician presented by Raymond Arts Alliances on May 12, at 7 p.m. at the Raymond Village Community Church, 27 Main St. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; $10 donation suggested. Light refreshments will be served.

Exhibits Throughout May & May 11 Sandra Bell, exhibits her oil paintings at Gallery 302, 112 Main Street, Bridgton, May 5 through June 8. Join the artist for a reception with light refreshments, Friday, May 11, 5-7 p.m.

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