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Friday, May 10, 2019
Volume 15 • Issue No. 19
102-Year-Old Veteran Honored with WWII Service Medals OGUNQUIT U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) presented Dr. Ruth Freeman with four long overdue medals recognizing her service to the United States during World War II. Dr. Freeman, now 102 years old, served in the Women’s Army Corps in Europe before returning to Maine to complete an education and work as a family physician in Ogunquit. During a ceremony at Dr. Freeman’s home in Ogunquit, Senator
Senator Angus King presented medals to Dr. Ruth Freeman.
6th Grader Publishes Book By Nancy McCallum, Staff Writer SOUTH BERWICK Ada Milhauser is fond of the word “inspiration.” The Berwick Academy sixth-grader uses it frequently when talking about what compelled her to selfpublish her book The Four Apprentices. The fact of the matter is, this 11-year-old is an inspired and inspiring young lady, herself. Milhauser, of Dover, NH, created the 21-page hardcover
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book through Berwick Academy’s “Innovation Pursuit,”a year-long project that enables students to pursue a passion. The program is voluntary and is not graded. Each student is paired with a mentor; Milhauser’s mentor has been Melissa Williams, the Middle School Librarian and Writing Center Coordinator at the Jackson Library at the South Berwick school. Williams notes how “dedicated and patient with the process” Milhauser was. Milhauser, an avid reader, says her first inspiration for starting a story came from her eightyear-old sister Ileana. “She forcefully told me to go outside and look in nature for something to write about,” Milhauser says. In the yard, Milhauser found a bird’s nest with what appeared to be abandoned eggs. This, she decided, would be a good place to start. (Thankfully, the mother did return to her nest the next day.) Starting with an egg, Milhauser’s story then took flight and she crafted a story about “four ordinary children who have an adventure through time, in a time machine.” The children – the four apprentices –
state and nation.” Dr. Freeman, a graduate of Belgrade High School’s Class of 1933, worked first at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and then became part of the Women’s Army Corps. Freeman’s service brought her first to England and then to Paris, where she was a court stenographer. Upon returning home, Freeman graduated from Colby College in 1949 and went on to graduate from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1953. She completed her residency in Portland and spent the next half century as a family physician in Ogunquit before retiring from practicing medicine in 2005.
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land in a ”futuristic sci-fi utopia” where they learn that there is more going on the world than can be detected by the human eye, alone. There is a happy ending: “My book ends on a good note – out of the sci-fi world they realize this is not where they want to be – and in the present is the best place to be,” Milhauser says. Milhauser says one of the challenges she encountered was editing her work. “The first revision was particularly hard,” Milhauser says. “There were so many components I wanted to keep, but I knew I had to let go.” She also sought editing advice from her parents, Vinia and Robert Milhauser, from
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King presented her with the Women’s Army Corps Ribbon, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, and the Honorable Service Lapel Button. “Dr. Freeman represents the best our country has to offer. Through her dedication to serve, she helped see our nation through one of the darkest times in world history, and when she returned home, she continued to give back to her community for more than a half century,” Senator King said. “These medals, while long overdue, give Dr. Freeman the recognition she deserves, and it was an honor to present them to her on behalf of a grateful
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KENNEBUNK Robert Stuart felt lucky, so he bought a $25 “Ultimate Millions” instant game from the lottery vending machine. And when the player from Kennebunk scratched it, he was shocked to find that he had won the big prize of $1,000,000. Robert told the people at the Maine Lottery that he had walked into the store with no intentions of buying a ticket and was getting ready to leave and
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for some reason decided to go back and get a ticket. Robert’s winning ticket was purchased at the Hannaford supermarket in Kennebunk. The store will receive a bonus of $10,000 for selling Robert that ticket. After tax withholdings, Robert’s take-home check was $710,000. Four one-million-dollar winning tickets and $50 million dollars in total prizes were available to be won in the game.
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