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Friday, January 25, 2019
Volume 15 • Issue No. 4
Maine Diner to Raise Funds on Blueberry Pancake Day WELLS The Maine Diner in Wells has been serving blueberry pancakes since the mid-eighties. Serving pancakes may be an everyday event at the Maine Diner, but Monday, January 28 is National Blueberry Pancake Day and the Maine Diner has something very special planned. They will be charging $1 per pancake or $3 for a stack. For each pancake sold, proceeds will go to a charity fundraiser close to the hearts of Maine Diner employees: Cure Sanfilippo Syndrome, a disease that is often called Childhood
Alzheimer’s. A former Wells High School wrestler is raising a young child who is afflicted with Sanfilippo Syndrome. Scott Lewia, the Wells High School wrestling coach, chal-
lenged his wrestlers to a “pin and win” fundraiser. Each wrestler will seek pledges for each pin and win they earn. People can also donate flat amounts in the name of the wrestler. Last year their goal
was to raise $2,500 and they raised five times that amount! This is the Wells High School wrestling team’s second year raising funds for Cure Sanfilippo Syndrome and Maine Diner wants to help. Special t-shirts will be on sale on the day at the Remember the Maine gift shop located next door to the Maine Diner. Each t-shirt will have a stack of pancakes on the front and will read “Get Stacked at the Maine Diner.” The back will read “Peace, Love and Pancakes, Bringing Awareness to Sanfilippo Syndrome 2019, Our
Favorite Short Stack Spencer Smith”. Coach Lewia and the Wells High School wrestling team will be present at the diner on and off during the day, pending classes and practice schedules. The wrestlers will mingle, munch on pancakes and seek pledges for their “pin and win” challenge. Maine Diner business hours are 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Please visit for delicious pancakes and raise funds to help cure Sanfilippo Syndrome, Spencer Smith, and other children afflicted with disease.
Statue of Liberty Originally Cared for by Kennebunk Man KENNEBUNK For the first time in the 132-year history of the Statue of Liberty, recently located photographs and memories of the first lighthouse keepers who staffed Lady Liberty have been published by Lighthouse Digest, the Maine-based lighthouse news and history magazine.
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Although most people don’t realize it, during the first 16 years of its existence, the Statue of Liberty was managed by the United States Lighthouse Board as an actual aid to navigation. It was also the first permanently electrified lighthouse in the United States operated by the lighthouse keepers using an onsite power plant. Among the never before published images in the January/ February 2019 edition of Lighthouse Digest are photographs of Albert E. Littlefield, a native of
Kennebunk, who was the head keeper for the entire 16 years that the Statue of Liberty operated as a lighthouse. There are also images of assistant keeper Charles Miller who, from 1890 to 1892, kept a daily journal that detailed duties, rescues, wildlife problems, and even finding dead bodies washed up on the island during morning rounds. The Lighthouse Digest article, which includes over two dozen rare photos, tells how the government also had trouble attracting reliable assistant keepers
for the Statue of Liberty during its first four years of operation; 12 of the first 14 didn’t last a year. There were also some nefarious
assistant keepers; one was found to be a member of the “Masked See STATUE page 28...
Raising Puppies as Companions for Independence YORK Canine Companions for Independence – a national nonprofit organization providing assistance dogs for children, adults and veterans with disabilities, is proud to announce the Dennis family of York recently began raising an assistance dog intraining for Canine Companions for Independence. Puppy Floyd II is a Lab/ Golden Retriever cross who will one-day know over 40 professional commands, and be matched with a person with disabilities. Volunteer Puppy Raisers
are critically important to the work of Canine Companions for Independence. Puppy Raisers take the pups into their home at eight weeks of age, raising them,
Lori and Patrick Dennis are going to give the ultimate gift to a person with disabilities by raising a Canine Companions for Independence puppy-in-training.
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types of surroundings. With the special yellow capes they wear, these dogs are permitted to go to many public areas that family pets aren’t allowed. When the dogs reach about a year and a half old, they are returned to the Canine Companions for Independence regional headquarters in Medford, NY. They begin 6 months of professional training with the organizations nationally renowned instructors, before they are matched with a child, adult or veteran with disabilities. For more information, visit www.cci.org or call 1-800-572BARK.
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