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Friday, April 26, 2019
Volume 15 • Issue No. 17
Festivities for Kennebunk’s 21st Annual May Day
May Day would not be complete without traditional May Pole dancing by the Portland School of Ballet. (Photo from Kennebunk’s Facebook page)
KENNEBUNK Kennebunk’s 21st Annual May Day Festival will be held on Saturday, May 4 and promises to be a full-day of familyfriendly, fun activities throughout Downtown Kennebunk. Start the day at Duffy’s Tavern & Grill with a $6 breakfast that includes pancakes, bacon, coffee and juice. Next, gather the family at the Kennebunk Free Library and visit the book sale, participate in the faerie festival, or visit the many nonprofits in our community who will be on the
front lawn. Next door, The UU Church will be hosting “Camp Ondalawn” with camping activities, s’more making, and corn hole games. Across the street, the Brick Store Museum will be hosting a make-your-own-may basket event and the Portland Symphony Orchestra instrument zoo. Check out the open house at KK&W Water District which will be celebrating “Drinking Water Week”. The Waterhouse Center will have a craft market and a photo booth for May Day souvenirs! Climb the rock wall
– its 25’ high with five climbing paths to keep traffic moving. In between there will be live music, safety demonstrations, and free wagon rides. At Rotary Park there will be a bound dance dome, gem mining, a wrecking ball, and a 5 sided game. The Chamber of Commerce is hosting free-form chalk art, a lobster toss game, kid’s fitness course, and pirate hats and swords. Also, always a big hit, is the YCCS paper hat making! See MAY page 2...
A Daily Commute That’s at the Mercy of the Sea Photos and story by Bram Hepburn from Eliot KITTERY It’s 3 a.m. with freezing rain, on the Memorial Bridge in Portsmouth, NH. The city is asleep and silent until the whining siren of the drawbridge sounds, and the giant steel span groans and slowly lifts. From out of the darkness on the Kittery side, comes the
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gurgling engine of a small lobster boat. As the sea worn vessel glides under the bridge, the captain and crew of two scurry across the boats rear deck, sliding and stacking bait barrels and lobster traps into position. The boat rocks with the waves, and a single hanging light bulb at the back of the cabin swings back and forth. The river’s powerful current is a swirling black menace below them, and they’re on a course heading them directly out into an even darker im-
mense sea. If there is a more dangerous commute to work, I haven’t seen it. And these men do it every single day. Bruce Collinson of Eliot currently works as a gate tender on the bridge, but for decades prior he toiled at sea, dredging for scallops off the coast, from Cape Cod to George’s Bank, and lobstering here on the Seacoast. If you ask him about those years, you’ll hear details of the treacherous adventures that takes place aboard those specks
of light you can see from shore at night, far out on the horizon. “Thirty-foot seas, lots of fast moving equipment… and
green horns.” Green horns are “new guys”, who see a weekSee FISHERMEN page 6...
Local Restaurateurs Receive Hospitality Award CAPE NEDDICK In a short period, Danielle and Justin Walker of Walkers Maine have created a hyper-local magnet on the South Coast. The creative force behind Earth at Hidden Pond, and before that Arrows Restaurant, this culinary power couple radiate successful restaurateur in Vacationland 2.0. The non-profit trade group HospitalityMaine has named Danielle and Justin Walker, owner of Walkers Maine in Cape Neddick, “Restaurateurs of the Year”. The couple will be recognized at a gala May 21 at Thompson’s Point in Portland.
“We couldn’t be more proud to share this news; and are very grateful for the continued support! To our crew, our friends, our guests, our family
Justin and Danielle Walker of Walkers Maine in Cape Neddick are winners of Restaurateur of the Year Award from HospitalityMaine.
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and our community ... Thank you!” they said in a statement. Taking over the Cape Neddick Inn and turning it into a rustic, chic retreat has boosted
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York County’s dining scene. Entering its second year in business, Walkers Maine is now a destination along Route One. The Walkers join a celebrated group of restaurateurs who have won this prestigious award in the past, including: Jonathan West of Jonathan’s in Ogunquit, and Mark Gaier and Clark Fraiser of Arrows. Other 2019 award winners from York County include Rob Labelle, director of marketing at the Nonantum Resort in Kennebunkport, as a “Rising Star”. Find out more at www. hospitalitymaine.com.
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