Health & Fitness

The Center Announces Expansion

C. Evers, executive director of Maine-based Biodiversity Research Institute. “The legislation introduced by Senators Collins and Carper allows the U.S. to take a leadership role in generating a comprehensive long-term mercury-monitoring program that will also benefit the entire global community.”

Mercury poses a serious threat to both health and to the environment, especially for children and pregnant women. An estimated 100 to 200,000 children born in the United States each year are exposed to levels of mercury in the womb that are high enough to impair neurological development. Mercury, a powerful toxin, affects the senses, the brain, spinal cord, kidneys, and liver, and it poses significant risks to children and pregnant women, causing an elevated risk of birth defects and problems with motor skills. While mercury exposure has gone down as mercury emissions in the United States have declined, levels remain high. Through the Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act, mercury monitoring sites would be established across the nation to measure mercury levels in air, water, and living organisms. This legislation would build on existing environmental monitoring efforts to create a comprehensive nationwide mercury monitoring network to provide sound mercury measurements.

The act would direct the Environmental Protection Agency, in conjunction with the Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the

National Park Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and other appropriate agencies, to See MERCURY on page 27

Cape Neddick

Women’s League

CAPE NEDDICKForty regulars and two alternates’ competed in the sixth week of the 2023 Cape Neddick Women’s League. In the team competition, Easy Aces led by the league’s top weekly performer Sue Quintilani with 24 Stableford points, finished in 1st place with a score of 16 points.

The ‘Aces’ have now finished in the top spot in three of the past four weeks. Four teams, ‘Birdie Juice’, ‘Calo Crushers’, ‘Chicks with Sticks’, and ‘On in Two’ tied for 2nd place with 14 points. At the halfway point of the season, ‘On in Two’ sits in 1st place with 94 Stableford points while Birdie Juice trails by 2 points with 92. Easy Aces now sit alone in third place with 88 points and Chicks with Sticks slipped to fourth place with 86 points. Flirty Birdie with 81 points and Calo Crushers with 79 points are in fifth place and sixth place, respectively.

The top three individual players this week were Quintilani, and Harri Rosenberg and Carol Zito who tied for second with 21 points each. With her 18 points this week,

Eileen Doucette moved to the top of the individual standings with a season-long total of 100.

Doucette sits 1 point ahead of Ashley Owen and 3 points ahead of Linda McCamic.

Dawn Fernald dropped to fourth place with her 96 points and Michelle Freni is now in fifth place with 95 points.

Justine Hebert was the top alternate, earning 21 Stableford points and moving into second place in the alternate standings. She now trails alternate leader Susan McDonough by just 3 points. Three golfers. Harri Rosenburg (12th hole), Justine Hebert (11th hole), and Kathy Calo (17th hole), got birdies this week. It was Hebert’s first and Rosenburg’s and Calo’s second of the season.

CNCC Men’s Senior League

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The Cape Neddick Country Club Men’s Senior League (aka ‘Over the Hill Gang’) reached the two-thirds mark in their season on Thursday, July 20th, as sixteen teams competed on the Par 36 back nine. Only one of the two-man teams, Mark Cuneo + Ron Pardus walked away with the maximum 3 points by winning their two separate singles matches as well as their four ball match. The top net four ball score was recorded by Bob Satter + Frank Zito who posted a 7-under par 29. With five weeks remaining in the season, Satter + Zito are in 1st place with 20 points, Jay Audet + Stu Rubinstein are now 1 point behind in 2nd place, and George Gochros + Doug Quagliaroli are in 3rd place with 18 points. The team of Keith O’Connor + Bob Whitelaw is the biggest moving team during the past three weeks. In that time, the pair earned 7 points and moved from 10th to 6th place in the league standings.

Individually, ‘A’ Division golfer Dave DiBona posted an impressive gross score of even par 36 (4-under net) and Frank Zito was the ‘B’ Division medalist after shooting a 10-over par 46 (5-under net). Scott Heminger now sits in 1st place in Division ‘A’ with 6.5 season-long singles points and Doug Quagliaroli leads all players in Division ‘B’ with 8.5 points. Eight golfers won net skins, led by Quagliaroli and Bob Whitelaw who each won two.