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Friday, July 27, 2018 Volume 14 • Issue No. 30
York Days is Summer Fun for Everyone YORK The Town of York Parks & Recreation Department is thrilled to present this year’s York Days lineup. On Saturday, July 28, York Days kicks off with a double elimination slow pitch co-ed softball tournament, with teams from Maine and NH, plus several are sponsored by York businesses like Shoreline Construction and Ruby’s Wood Grill. The top three teams receive individual prizes, a group trophy and bragging rights.
On Sunday, July 29, there will be the 35th Annual Amidon Family Dentistry York Days Road Race, featuring a 5K certified by the Athletics Congress and a 12 and under Fun Run. Runners can pick-up their bibs and race packets at the Portsmouth Runner’s Alley on Saturday, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Race day registration is from 6:45 – 7:45 a.m. at the York High School. The race is limited to 1,200 participants and race-day registration is $30 (plus administrative fees). The race begins
Sands Beach, beginning at 9 p.m. Unfortunately, due to extensive restoration, there will not a July lighting of the Nubble this year. That event will take place on November 24. The following weekend you can enjoy the York Days Craft Fair, boasting more than 50 vendors and free activities for kids, including an inf latable pirate ship bouncy house and slide (pictured below). Vendors will exhibit jewelry, promptly at 8 a.m., so arrive early!
That same day, folks can enjoy fireworks on Short
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Caterpillars to Fight Invasive Plants on Marginal Way Story and photos submitted by Susan H. Pike PhD. OGUNQUIT The Black Swallow Wort (Vincetoxicum nigrum) is a particularly insidious, invasive vine that is twining its way along the Marginal Way. And unlike other other aggressive species like knotweed and bittersweet, tactics to battle this plant from spreading have had almost no
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impact. According to Joan Griswold who has been working as a volunteer for the last 10 years on the Marginal Way, efforts such as cutting it, digging it out and even applying a foam herbicide on foliage (to comply with public concerns about use of chemicals) have been unsuccessful. There was even an annual Pod Picking Day in 2011 with volunteers collecting the seedpods before they opened and spread. In fact, for the past 6 years over 5000 pounds of pods have been collected but the plant continues to spread. Additionally, the Black Swallow-Wort is particularly problematic because aside from smothering native plants it also impacts the beleaguered monarch butterfly. It tricks the butterflies into laying their eggs on it but none of the larvae hatched on this plant survive. A new approach, very wellresearched, out of the University of Rhode Island offers hope – biocontrol. Biocontrol is the use of living organisms to reduce the population of a pest organism. Dragonfly larvae used to control mosquitoes are one example that is widely used throughout the Seacoast. The Marginal Way was just given a permit for release of one such biocontrol agent, a cat-
erpillar (Hypena opulenta) that only feeds on swallow-wort - the first approved release in Maine. These come from the University of Rhode Island where the caterpillars were raised and tested in quarantine for 10 years before the USDA approved their release in the USA. See CATERPILLAR page 5...
AmpSurf New England Adaptive Learn-to-Surf Clinic LONG SANDS BEACH, YORK — AmpSurf™, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 2003 in Pismo Beach, California with operations in New England, New York and California, will hold their 9th annual adaptive learn to surf clinic on Long Sands Beach in York from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday August 4. The AmpSurf York, ME event will assist individuals with any kind of disability (disabled veterans, amputees, spinal cord injuries, autism, other) to participate in adaptive surf therapy with certified adaptive surf instructors. It takes about 60 volunteers along with the AmpSurf volunteer staff to run a surf clinic
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A Hypena Opulenta caterpillar eating Black swallow-wort leaf.
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and so far only about 30 have registered for Long Sands Beach event in York. Volunteers enjoy free coffee, snacks and pizza and can register at http://ampsurf. org/volunteer-registration-ampsurf-east/.
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Though the York event is currently full, the next clinic on September 8 at Jenness Beach in Rye, NH still has some slots available. For more information contact Steve at 978-382-3139 or surf@ampsurf.org.
Pets Consider a new fuzzy family member!
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