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Friday, March 21, 2014
Volume 10 • Issue No. 12
Marshwood Students Ready to Compete in Washington D.C. SOUTH BERWICK On April 25, students from Marshwood High School will travel to Washington, D.C., where they will represent Maine in the national finals of “We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution”. About 1,200 high school students from all fifty states will participate in the prestigious academic competition about the U.S. Constitution. These Marshwood students are enrolled in the school’s advanced placement U.S. government and politics course and have studied for months to prepare for their role as experts testifying on constitutional issues in a simulated congressional hearing. To represent Maine
Students from Marshwood High School will represent Maine in Washington during the “We the People: The Citizen and The Constitution” competition.
at the national finals, the class won the state competition held in on the University of Southern Maine Portland campus on February 7. Now in its 27th year, the annual three-day competition is the culminating activity of
We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, the most extensive civic education program of its kind in the country. The program provides students with an understanding of the fundamental values and principles of the Constitution and
Film and Talk on Proposed East-West Corridor KENNEBUNK The documentary film, The East-West Corridor: Why Not? – a production of Defending Water for Life in Maine –
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will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday, March 28, at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Kennebunk. A community dialogue will follow the 30-minute film with Chris Buchanan, the film’s director and producer. Buchanan is the Maine coordinator for Defending Water for Life in Maine and the statewide coordinator of Stop the East-West Corridor Coalition (STEWC).
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Chamber to Hold Patriotic Pie Contest
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Get ready to enter you prized pie in Ogunquit’s second annual American Pie Competition during Patriots Day weekend. (Photo from http:// secretlifeofachefswife.com)
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The event, co-sponsored by the Maine Sierra Club and the First Parish UU Social Justice Committee, is free and open to the public. Dessert will be served at 6:30 p.m. The East-West Corridor is a proposed transportation and utility corridor that would run for 220 miles from Calais to Coburn Gore, beginning with
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the Bill of Rights. The competition involves entire classes making presentations and answering questions on constitutional topics before a panel of judges recruited from across the country. Constitutional scholars, lawyers, and government
leaders, acting as congressional committee members, will judge the students’ performances. The first round of the national finals will be held on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia on April 26 and 27. The combined scores of the classes during the first two days of hearings will determine the top ten classes to compete in the championship round Monday, April 28 in congressional hearing rooms on Capitol Hill. During their stay in Washington, D.C., the students will also tour historical sites and have an opportunity to visit Senators Susan Collins and Angus King and District 1 Rep-
Chris Buchanan, statewide coordinator of the Stop the East-West Corridor Coalition (STEWC) addresses the crowd at the 2012 Rally in Portland. The STEWC will be showing the film Stop the East-West Corridor: Why Not? 7 p.m. Friday, March 28tat the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Kennebunk
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OGUNQUIT The Ogunquit Chamber of Commerce announces its second annual “American Pie Competition” during Patriots Day weekend, April 11 to 13. Community members are invited to enter their favorite creation Pies will be judged according to theme, appearance, and taste in two divisions: individual and business. Pie winners will receive Ogunquit gift certifi-
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cates, recipe inclusion in the next “Tastes of Ogunquit” cookbook, and of course, all-important bragging rights. Last year nine pies were entered into the competition. Girl Scout Brownie Troop 1103 of Ogunquit won first place with a pie made primarily of pudding, whipped cream, and thin mints, while Ogunquit resident Kay See PIE page 7...
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