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Friday, February 23, 2018
Volume 14 • Issue No. 8
Local Officials Team Up for Emergency Training Emergency Services Want to Be Prepared
Back (left to right): Officer Patrick Roy, Officer Michael Grogan, Officer Dominick Romano, Officer Ben Cyr (Kittery PD); Front (left to right): Officer Bill Kelloway, Officer Brian Delaney, Officer Isaac Delabruere
By Timothy Gillis, staff writer ELIOT & SO. BERWICK In the wake of the tragedy in Florida last week, local officials held an active shooter training session. The work was scheduled last year, and is an annual requirement for local law enforcement, but it is quite timely. Police Chief Elliot Moya doesn’t believe the most recent mass shooting adds more pressure to the training session, but
he does hope it adds a realness to the event. The Eliot Police Department along with police, fire, and EMS agencies from surrounding towns held the training session at Marshwood Middle School in Eliot. This past Tuesday’s active shooter training was the first session in more than a decade that Chief Moya can recall being held at an actual school and not at a
mock training site. The training scenarios included identifying the threat of a shooter, hostage situation response, and responding to injured individuals while still in a hostile environment. Maine schools have long been working with local police departments to staff resource officers at schools in their districts. Jeffrey Upton, a full-time police officer for South Berwick, is the resource officer to all of the See TRAINING page 5...
Taste of Wells to Benefit Heating Assistance, Project Grad WELLS The first annual Taste of Wells is Sunday, February 25, from 12 to 4 p.m. at the Wells Activity Center, 113 Sanford Road in Wells. This event will benefit the Wells Heating Assistance Program as well as Wells High School Project Graduation 2018. You’ve seen “Taste of” events all around Maine — where established businesses vie to become the “Best of”
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champions. The contestants are expected to prepare a themed dish to be presented to a panel of judges who will select a winner based on taste, appearance, and theme. Our theme for this year is “Winter Warm-Up” and our competitors are fully up to the challenge. Participants include Ahtesh Emporium Beer & Wine, Aroma Joe’s, The Bistro At R&R Chocolate, Coast 2 Coast Caterers, Congdons Doughnuts, Hidden Harbor Brewing Company, Me & D’s Diner, Old Marsh Country Club, and 1690 House Bakeshop & Café. All will be handing out samples
of their creations based on our theme. They are competing for the Best Taste of Wells Award and you get to vote. There will be two awards given: the People’s Choice and the Judges’ Choice. This year’s celebrity judges are Norman Dufour, chef du jour at MC Perkins; Dr. Barbara Finkelstein, president of York County Community College; and Raina Keim of The Weekly Sentinel. Tickets are only $10 — an unbelievable price to sample some of Wells’ best foods and beverages. All proceeds will go direct-
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ly to the Wells Heating Assistance Program and WHS Project Graduation 2018. As you know, there is no
Honoring the Four Chaplains BERWICK In a solemn ceremony at the February meeting of the Charles S. Hatch, Unit 79 of the American Legion Auxiliary in Berwick, Chaplain Ann Urbanski, members Mona Allen, Susan Branyen and Caren Chandler read the life stories of the Four Chaplains. A candle was lit in memory of each Chaplain, and an empty chair with their picture on it reminds us of the ultimate sacrifices that they made. On February 3, 1943, the U.S. troop transport S.S. Dorchester was torpedoed off of Greenland in the early hours of the morning. There were 900 men sleeping. In the midst of the
ensuing chaos, the four Army chaplains, John P. Washington (a Roman Catholic Priest), Alexander D. Goode (a Rabbi), First Lts. Clark V. Poling (a Minister)
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and George L. Fox (a Minister) were quick to react. They passed out life jackets until all were gone, then gave the ones that they were wearing to men
Chaplain Ann Urbanski, Mona Allen, Susan Branyen, and Caren Chandler read the life stories of the Four Chaplains. (photo by Diana Lapierre)
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Seniors Maddie Lavalle, Dylan Adamsky, Jade Petrie, and Jack Talevi stand in front of the sign at the Wells Activity Center.
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typical Heating Assistance recipient. It may be a person who See TASTE page 4... who didn’t have one. In less than half an hour the S.S. Dorchester slipped beneath the waves taking more than 600 men with her, but because of the brave actions of the four chaplains more than 200 men’s lives were spared. Remaining on the deck, the four chaplains linked arms together, sang and prayed as the survivors watched them vanish into the sea. Chaplain Poling’s father, himself serving in North Africa at the time, received word of their noble acts and was inspired to erect a Chapel dedicated to their memory. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains in Philadephia, PA is an interfaith shrine with altars for each faith — Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant — represented by the four men. It is open See CHAPLAINS page 2...
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