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Friday, August 17, 2018
Volume 14 • Issue No. 33
Scott Vogel By Nancye Tuttle, Staff Writer OGUNQUIT Scott Vogel is a young philanthropist on a mission to give back and help others. It’s been crucial to him all his life and has become even more important since he bought the Front Porch Piano Bar and Restaurant, an Ogunquit landmark, two years ago. “I’ve always been philanthropically involved, and it’s very important to me to give back,” said Vogel recently. At age 27, Vogel is muscular, healthy and handsome. He looks like many other young men in the prime of their lives. But it hasn’t always been that way, he said. “When I was six-months old, I was diagnosed with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), a rare immune deficiency that makes me very susceptible to infection. It started with an abscess on my neck,” he said. (CGD is an inherited immunodeficiency disease that increases the body’s susceptibility to certain bacteria and fungi.) That diagnosis in infancy
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led to Vogel’s life-long involvement at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, where he has received numerous life-saving treatments, including two stem cell transplants over the past 27
years. “Our pediatrician connected us to the NIH and I was placed on interferon gamma injections — a preemptive medication to build up the immune system,” he explained. He was healthy until third grade, when he developed a
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decade. In the meantime, he fell in love with Maine, worked at Amore and the Front Porch and attended University of Maine Portland, graduating in 2012 with a business and sports management degree. In 2014, his CGD worsened, necessitating another stem cell transplant at the NIH, with Josh again his donor. It worked and he is considered “clinically cured.” These days, Vogel watches his diet, avoids anything with bacteria “like leftovers and buffets” and serves on the board of directors of the Children’s Inn of NIH, while raising money for it and other organizations. His latest fundraiser, the See VOGEL page 4...
Annual Chili-Fest Spices Up Next Weekend WELLS The Wells Chamber of Commerce will be hosting their 18th Annual Chili-Fest on Saturday, August 25, at the Wells Junior High Campus on Route 1 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The “Maine State CookOff”, sanctioned by the International Chili Society, is among the last events available for “chiliheads” to qualify to compete in the World Championship which will be held this year September 28-30 in St. Louis, MO. Entrants for this cook-off have come from as far away as Florida, Nevada and Illinois. The winner of this event will represent the State of Maine. The Cook-off will feature cooks in three categories Red Chili (traditional) made with beef and red ripened chili peppers; Green Chili (verde) made with either chicken or pork and green chili peppers and Salsa. Cash prizes and plaques are given to the winners along with bragging rights. The chili cooks will be bringing their chili to be served from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the
“People’s Choice” competition with a $250 first prize. Ballots for “People’s Choice” are included in the “tasting kits” available for sale. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Wells Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Fund. Parking and admission are free. For more information, go to www.wellschilifest.com.
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mold-based pneumonia caused by the aspergillus fungus. “I spent a month in two New York hospitals and another two months at the NIH,” said Vogel, who grew up in New York but summered in Ogunquit with his parents, Bob and Grace, and brother Josh. NIH doctors treated him with life-saving experimental antibiotics. His Dad moved in to the Children’s Inn of NIH, a facility that offers support and lodging to families and patients being treated there. Scott received his first stem cell transplant at the NIH when he was in fifth grade. Josh, four years older, was his donor. The procedure worked, and after a 100-day hospital stay, Scott was fine for the next
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LanternFest in South Berwick SOUTH BERWICK LanternFest, a magical night of music and festivities, returns to South Berwick on Wednesday, August 22 (rain date: August 23) at Spring Hill, 117 Pond Road at 5:30 p.m. Hosted by Sobo Central, the event culminates in a parade of light that ends at Knights Pond with the launching of water lanterns and a few other surprises: The South Berwick Police Department will be on hand for touch-a-truck; ChildLight Yoga will offer family yoga; Natural Fitness Solutions has created See LANTERNS page 2...
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