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Friday, March 13, 2020
Volume 16 • Issue No. 11
Brian Hall
Refuses to Slow Down for Parkinson’s By Jeanne Couturier, Staff Writer SEACOAST Brian Hall is a remarkable man who has lived and suffered with Parkinson’s Disease since he was 14 years old. Now 58, Brian shares the story of his personal journey in his book “Not Afraid to Fall” and also speaks in front of groups to empower others and offer messages of hope to other Parkinson’s sufferers. At a recent event (shown on left), Brian introduced himself and said, “It’s a physical battle isn’t it?” and continued by saying, “Physically I do the best I can,
but psychologically from time to time I need to give myself a pass because it’s bad enough I’m sick, why would I want to feel bad about feeling bad? If I fall I just get back up and keep going, and that attitude has been very helpful for me.” Brian’s road has been a long one. At 16, he saw a neurologist who told Brian his problem was psychosomatic (all in his head!). “What does a kid do with that? I didn’t know what was going on, so the worse I got, the more inward I got. I started to hide my feelings but that was as crippling
as the disease itself.” Another neurologist called it dopa responsive dystonia which is a disorder that involves involuntary tremors, muscle contractions and other uncontrollable movements. He was given drugs and some worked for a while but then didn’t. So basically from age 14 to 28 he was getting worse and worse and not knowing why. “I knew I was drugged up but what choice did I have?” Sometimes he felt like the drugs were actually making him worse See HALL page 14...
Sugarhouses Open Next Weekend for Maine Maple Sunday STATEWIDE Maine Maple Sunday is held annually, every fourth Sunday of March – March 22 this year. Participating sugarhouses will be open for visitors to enjoy freshly-made maple syrup and candy, demonstrations of syrup production, sugarbush tours, and a variety of other family activities. According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Maine’s maple production increased in 2019, providing 580,000 gallons with 1,900,000 taps, valuing at more than $21
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a holding tank through three strainers which filter out things like bugs or twigs. The sap then
works its way through to the big pan of the evaporator, where the level of it needs to be strictly con-
trolled. “Too low and it burns the pan and ruins it. Too high and the sap won’t boil,” said Rick. So the evaporator needs to be tended at all times, usually through 12 hours of boiling per day. And the wood stove that sits below the evaporator needs tending too. He explained, “Takes a lot of wood. Got to keep the stove as hot as we can – faster cooking.” As the sap cooks the syrup gets heavy, sinks to the bottom of the pan, and flows over to a tap on the side. Here it will be released and bottled by hand. It takes 40 See MAPLE page 2...
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million. Last year’s season ran from January 15 through May 10. Maine has the third largest syrup industry in this country, under New York and Vermont. Here in York County, the sweet aroma of sap turning to syrup fills the sugar shack at Chase Farms, 1488 North Berwick Road, Wells. Rick and Bellinda Chase and their righthand-man, McCormick Adams, collect sap in the morning, using work horses pulling a sleigh (pictured), from the 700 or so buckets that hang on sugar maples around the 300-acre farm. In the sugar shack, raw sap flows from
Con Artists Demanding Payment for Vaccine U.S. Senator Susan Collins, the Chairman of the Aging Committee, is warning seniors to be on guard against an emerging scam that seeks to capitalize on anxiety surrounding the coronavirus. The scheme, which has been reported to the Aging Committee’s Fraud Hotline, is another variation of the government imposter scam. Criminals deceive victims by claiming to be from a U.S. public health agency,
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and they demand that the victims pay hundreds of dollars to ensure they will be eligible to receive a coronavirus vaccine— even though a vaccine does not currently exist. The con artists insist that the victims pay immediately via credit card or else they will be refused treatment in their doctor’s office or in a vaccine clinic. Anyone receiving this type of call should immediately hang up and report it to the hotline at 1-855-303-9470. Social Security Scammers
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A warning has also been announced about a new tactic used by Social Security scammers. According to the Social Security Administration (SSA) Office of Inspector (OIG), individuals have reported receiving text messages on personal cell phones that appear to be coming from SSA. The texts warn about a problem with victims’ Social Security numbers and threaten legal action unless the recipients call to resolve the issue. Americans reported losing nearly $38 million to the Social Security
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