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Friday, November 30, 2018
Volume 14 • Issue No. 48
Holiday Cheer Abounds at Annual Christmas by the Sea OGUNQUIT Ogunquit’s fun and festive Christmas By the Sea weekend takes place Friday, December 7 – Sunday, December 9. The annual event offers a variety of activities that have become crowd favorites over the years. Some of the events happening this year include: tree lighting & caroling, art & craft shows, wine tastings, a kid’s ornament and card making workshop, concerts, Christmas parade, fireworks, a visit with Santa and whole lot more! Friday, December 7, kicks
off with tree lighting and caroling at 6:30 p.m. at Perkins Cove followed by concert at 7
p.m. at the Ogunquit Baptist Church (157 Shore Road) where the Wells High School Select A
Tom O’Connor By Nancye Tuttle, Staff Writer YORK Tom O’Connor is everyone’s favorite uncle. Warm and fun-loving, he focuses on his family, friends and faith each day. That’s how it’s always been and that’s how he wants it to stay. O’Connor turns 100 on December 3. He’ll celebrate at a
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Cappella group will perform. At 8 p.m. there is 21+ Community Christmas Party at MaineStreet Ogunquit. And if the weather is permitting, enjoy some warm drinks, cookies and caroling for Town Tree Lighting at 8:15 p.m. at Veterans Park. Saturday, December 8 is a full fun day of family events that starts at 9 a.m. with a Goody Bag Giveaway at Bangor Savings Bank on Main Street and a chance to visit with Santa from 9 – 11 a.m. at the fire station on School Street. Be sure to have your photo taken
with Santa and pick it up later at the Ogunquit Camera Shop. For holiday shoppers there are plenty of great gifts and deals to be found at the Basement Bazaar at the Dunaway Center, the annual arts & crafts show at the fire station on School Street, a Mixed Cargo Sale at Gypsy Sweethearts on Shore Road and beautiful artwork at the Abacus Gallery on Main Street. Other highlights include Kid’s Ornament & Christmas Card making at the Ogunquit Baptist See CBTS page 2...
A Favorite Uncle Turns 100
family party hosted by his greatniece Kim Peck and her family at their York home, where O’Connor also lives. Spry and sharp, he sat down for a friendly chat with a visitor early this week, as Peck looked on admiringly. “Why have I lived so long? I have to ask the good Lord about that — it’s in his hands,” said O’Connor. “I didn’t smoke or drink and I played a lot of sports.” O’Connor also thinks being sociable has helped. “I always have people around me and have more friends than enemies. I smile a
lot and don’t spend time being grouchy. It pays to be cheerful,” he said with a grin. O’Connor was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on December 3, 1918, the youngest of John J. O’Connor and his wife Margaret Cryan O’Connor’s three boys and two girls. “Mom was a mill girl from the Acre neighborhood and Dad was a barber and dressing tender (pattern setter) in the mills,” he recalled. Tragedy struck the family when Tom was six and their mother died. “My sister Margaret was 13 when mother died. An aunt
wanted to take me away to Medford, but Margaret said ‘no, he’ll stay here.’ She finished 8th grade, then stayed home to handle the household, care for me and my sister, Mary, 8, and cook for the older brothers and our father. She never went to high school, but she was the smartest person I knew. Everything I learned about manners and how to treat people, she taught me,” O’Connor recalled. He graduated Sacred Heart School and later Lowell High School in 1937, then worked in the mills. See UNCLE page 19...
Kim Peck will host a 100th birthday party for Tom O’Connor.
Kick Off the Season at the Christmas Prelude KENNEBUNKPORT Kennebunkport’s “Christmas Prelude” 2018 is the ultimate seaside holiday celebration and a great way to kick off the Christmas season. Taking place November 30 through December 8, Prelude reminds revelers of Christmases past, when the whole town is transformed with bright lights, bows and boughs and everyone comes together to celebrate this festive time of year. The Christmas Prelude celebration began in 1982 and has since become one of the most
popular annual events in Kennebunkport. Visitors come from all over the world to witness and
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take part in fun signature events, craft fairs and activities. From the thrilling Dock Square tree
lighting and caroler music to historic house tours, a hilarious hat parade and concerts to a huge fireworks display as well as kids welcoming the big man himself, Santa, as he arrives in town on a real Maine Lobster Boat, Kennebunkport is the place to welcome the holiday season! For out-of-towners, local lodging properties offer great specials and package deals for affordable getaways and shoppers will delight in the deals around See PRELUDE page 4...
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