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Friday, March 9, 2018
Volume 14 • Issue No. 10
Noble Students Find Solution for Town’s Water Trouble By Timothy Gillis NORTH BERWICK A few students and their high school teacher have discovered first-hand how teamwork can have a major impact on their community. Yuhong Sun, who Left photo: National finalists in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest. Right photo: The water filtration system they invented. teaches Chinese and a computer class at Noble High lem in the local water supply. teachers and students to solve technology. School, has been working with a In April, Noble High Sun and her students re- real-world issues in their comgroup of six active student team cently learned that their inven- munity using classroom skills School students will travel to members, and as many more tion has been selected as one of in science, technology, engineer- New York City and compete in part-timers, to invent a water ten national finalists in the Sam- ing, arts and math (STEAM). As the final event before a panel of filtration system to address the sung Solve for Tomorrow Con- a national finalist, Noble High judges – presenting their project persistent manganese-level prob- test, a program that encourages School will receive $50,000 in idea and sharing how it will ben-
efit the local community and beyond. At the final event, three grand prize winners will be chosen by the judges’ panel and awarded $150,000 in technology. In addition, a fourth school will be deemed the Community Choice Award winner and take home an additional $15,000 in technology, which will be determined by online public voting. David (Xue Yongle), a See WATER page 5...
Businesswoman Battled Odds to Reach Dream KENNEBUNK International Women’s Day was Thursday, March 8. Many area business and organizations are now run by women, and each year it seems that more opportunities are opening up. We met up with one local businesswoman who has a remarkable story. From working in
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a local pizza shop to military service to being diagnosed with a serious illness, Tiffani Ruszenas is now back where she started. This time, however, she is a business owner with two pizza joints to her name. Ruszenas started working at Domino’s Pizza as soon as she was able to get her work permit at age 14, following in the footsteps of her mother, an area supervisor. “I grew in Domino’s,” Ruszenas said. “My mom worked for Domino’s since
Tiffani Ruszenas (left) hands pizza to Becca Drawdy.
before I was born. I always knew I wanted to end up there.” She joined the U.S. Marine
Corps after 9/11, serving for five and a half years and two tours in Iraq.
“I was a junior in high school,” she said of hearing news of the attack on the Trade Center and Pentagon. “I was not really the college type. Like a lot of young people, I wasn’t sure what the future had in store for me, but I wanted to serve. I pursued it like my father. It gives you great skills for life.” Her father, Marc Cecilio, was in the U.S. Air Force. “Shortly after I graduated, I was stationed in Yuma, See RUSZENAS page 21...
Shipwreck Draws Visitors, Vandals YORK The reappearance of a shipwreck on Short Sands Beach last week garnered national attention from the press and attracted several historians who offered opinions on its origins. It also brought with it the unsightly spectacle of vandals trying to keep a piece. The remnants of the boat, now just a wooden hull, conjured up a romantic maritime past but also attracted hundreds of visitors, many of whom wanted to take a small piece of the boat home as a keepsake. York Beach Maine, a Facebook group with more than 9,000 members, posted several photos of the ship and the ensuing attention it drew, which eventually caused local officials to surround it with yellow police tape.
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“I went down a took some photos and made a stink about it on Facebook,” said Eric Larsen, group member. “From my point of view, the local people are kind of disgusted with it, the vandalism and disrespect. There were people standing on it, breaking off bits of it.” Earlier responses to the shipwreck’s ghost-like emergence from the sea were more academically oriented. Pat FitzGerald, librarian and archivist at Old York Historical Society, spoke of the shipwreck, which has “surfaced” several times since its first appearance on Short Sands beach in York in 1958. It reappeared definitively after major storms in 1978, 2013, and 2015, and possibly See SHIP page 26...
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