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Friday, April 6, 2018
Volume 14 • Issue No. 14
Patriots’ Day Festivities Set for Next Weekend
Patriots’ Day in Ogunquit, April 13-15. (Photo by Linda and Dick Wickert)
OGUNQUIT Join in the 28th annual celebration of Ogunquit Patriots’ Day with a host of fun festivities, April 13 through 15. As the unofficial opening weekend for visitors to Ogunquit, this event also celebrates the unique character of the beautiful community with an arts and crafts fair, non-profit fundraisers, hay rides, a pooch pageant, food tastings from area restaurants, and much more. On the opening day, there will be a re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party, a fife-and-
drum concert, and an “Awesome ’80s Prom.” Saturday offers “stock photos” of your friend’s old-time incarceration, a Colonial flag treasure hunt, and an American pie contest. Round out the weekend with a Patriotic Pooch Pageant and Fashion Show. Ogunquit’s history of patriotism shines brightly as they join in remembering a revolutionary and historic event, honoring the forefathers throughout this educational weekend. They have put a call out to
any great pie makers interested in submitting a homemade pie in an “American” flavor, to the American Pie Contest. Pies will be judged during Taste of the Town in categories of theme, appearance, and taste. A grand prize winner will receive Gift of Ogunquit gift certificates. They are also seeking local area book authors to participate in a free reading and book signing feature event during this weekend. Named the Best Show of See PATRIOTS page 7...
Ryan Home Project: High School for the Homeless By Timothy Gillis ORTH BERWICK Sue Austin, director of the Ryan Home Project and assistant superintendent for MSAD #60, has been working with area homeless for the past 17 years. “On any given day, there are eight to ten homeless high school kids,” she said from the Ryan Home this past week. Children in need are able to get the food, clothing, and healthcare
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that will let them focus on being a teenage and tackling high school without having to worry about where they will sleep that night. These supports are in place now, through the good work of Austin and other community leaders, like Ron Robert, former North Berwick elementary School, who is spending his first year in retirement by serving on the project’s board. But a more reliable, permanent option for the area’s homeless youth is essential, and the Ryan Home Project is the right remedy. “We can support their academics, but we can’t give them a place to stay at night,” Austin said, adding that kids currently
Ron Robert (left) and Sue Austin at the Ryan Home. The project aims to house up to ten homeless youth to help them through high school.
find respite in cars, tents, or a friend’s couch. There are few options for
them now from area agencies. The York County Shelter does not take unaccompanied
youth. In Portland, where many homeless teens go for connections to a network of similarly situated kids. The Preble Street Shelter is a “low barrier center,” according to Austin, that “takes everyone.” She commended the Nasson Health Center in Sanford for not turning kids away, and Crossroads in portsmouth, NH, but even those shelters offering assistance have their limits, and none of them would allow the kids in question to continue schooling at Noble High School. In speaking about the Ryan Home Project and how it can be See HOME page 19...
Gifted Writer Medals at National Awards BERWICK Eleanor Mallett recently took home a silver medal at the National Scholastic Art & Writing awards. She lives in Berwick and is a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy in NH. She plans to attend Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA, where she will study English, history and political science. But that could all change,” she said this week. Mallett loves reading and writing, especially longer pieces that let her expound on an idea
or theme. She draws her writing inspiration from John McPhee, a New Yorker staff writer (which means he has an office available to him whenever he wants it, but you would not typically find him there.) McPhee is famed for creating his own major in college based on creative non-fiction, also known as long-form journalism. Other immersion journalists like Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, William T. Vollman provide the archetype for the genre, but Mallett’s drive to em-
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ulate her heroes is all-the-more remarkable in age of micro writing and 140 character tweets. The writing work that won was styled after McPhee’s “Reporter at large” lengthy exposure piece of life or situation of untold hero. Mallett wrote about Emmett Soldati, owner of the Teatotaller teahouse in Somersworth, NH. She said she was drawn to write about his and his teahouse because “he’s open to LGBTQ patrons.” See MALLETT page 5...
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