The Forecaster, Mid-Coast edition, March 1, 2013

March 1, 2013 News of Brunswick, Topsham, Bath and Harpswell Vol. 9, No. 9

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Bowdoin hockey teams advance 3

Harpswell Board of Selectmen candidates appeal to votersPage 4

IndexObituaries ...................... 11Opinion ............................7Out and About ..............16People & Business ........14

Police Beat ....................10Real Estate ....................27Sports ............................13

Arts Calendar ................15Classifieds .....................22Community Calendar .....17Meetings ........................17 Pages 17-19

Advocates say teachers, not restraint law, must changeBy Amber Cronin

FALMOUTH — Proponents of recent changes to Maine law governing physical restraint and seclusion of students say a legisla-tive attempt to loosen the restric-tions are the result of a lack of understanding.

At a Statehouse public hearing

held Feb. 20, other parents and educators demonstrated support for LD 243, proposed by Sen. Tom Saviello, R-Wilton, which seeks to loosen the guidelines.

“I am really disappointed that teachers think that using restraint is the answer to challenging be-havior,” said Deb Davis, a disabil-

ity rights advocate and Falmouth parent. “One of the last things they talked about at the public tes-timony was all these suggestions to use positive alternatives instead of restraint and asking how you could do that in this economic cli-mate. We can’t afford to train our teachers properly on restraint, but

we will instead restrain (students). I find that unsettling.”

She said the problem with Chapter 33, the Maine Depart-ment of Education’s rule govern-ing physical restraint and seclu-sion, lies not with the law itself, but with teachers’ understanding of the law.

“(Teachers) didn’t read the law, they don’t understand the law and the stories they told at the public hearing prove that,” Davis said. “Teachers said, ‘I was bitten by a student and I couldn’t do anything about it.’ But the law says if there

Where the rubber meets the river

ROgER S. DunCAn / FOR ThE FORECASTERPaul Glynn of Topsham takes his Geo Metro for a spin on the New Meadows River off Brunswick on Saturday, Feb. 23, when the New Meadows Ice Racing Association held its first race of the year: a three-hour endurance ice race that included drivers

from three states.

Ice racers Mike O'Donnell, above left, of Fairfield, Conn., Jeremy Hasbrouck, of

Berwick, and Bob Koenig of Massaschusetts on the New Meadows River in Brunswick on

Saturday afternoon, Feb. 23.Mark Cummings, left, of Bath was the winner

of Saturday’s race in his Dodge Neon.

Cost of Brunswick school upgrades could top $21MBy Dylan Martin

BRUNSWICK — A plan to upgrade two schools could cost the town more than the $21 million originally estimated, but the total won’t be known until the School Board’s March 6 facilities meeting.

“It wouldn’t surprise me if the costs were more than the $21 million,” Lyndon Keck, the principal architect working on plans for Brunswick Junior High School and Coffin Elementary School, said Tuesday.

Keck’s firm, PDT Architects, is the second firm hired by the town for the project. The $21 million estimate was from another firm that performed the first phase of the upgrade plan.

Superintendent of Schools Paul Perzanoski said the March 6 meeting, at 6 p.m. at Coffin, will be an op-

Charges still possible after probe of Bath explosionBy Alex Lear

BATH — A manslaughter charge has been ruled out after the state fire marshal’s office completed its inves-tigation of a Bluff Road apartment-building explosion that killed a 64-year-old woman on Feb. 12.

But Sgt. Ken Grimes, the supervisor in charge of the case, Wednesday said other charges are still possible.

“After consultation with the local district attorney’s office and the attorney general’s office,” Grimes said, “at this particular time there is not sufficient evidence to proceed with a manslaughter (charge).”

Meanwhile, the family of the dead woman, Dale Ann Fussell, continues to seek more information about the cause of the blast, with particular questions about a building heater, according to their lawyer.

“We’ve never suggested that anybody was criminally

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Central Maine Healthcare suspends merger with ParkviewBy Lindsay TiceSun Journal

LEWISTON — Central Maine Health-care has temporarily suspended its ap-plication to take over Parkview Adventist Medical Center in Brunswick.

CMHC, the parent organization of Central Maine Medical Center, sent its suspension request to the Maine Depart-ment of Health and Human Services on Feb. 21. The department for months has been considering a CMHC-Parkview merger, over the vehement protests of Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick that also wants to take over Parkview.

CMHC spokesman Chuck Gill said DHHS officials asked in January for a feasibility study to look at Parkview’s

services and forecast the best use of the hospital. CMHC needs extra time to com-plete that study, Gill said, and has asked to freeze the application process for up to 12 months.

He said CMHC remains committed to partnering with Parkview and the suspen-sion does not mean it wants to withdraw its application.

“While the delay is unfortunate, we expect to use the time to make Parkview even stronger,” Gill said. “We remain upbeat about Parkview joining Central Maine Healthcare in the future, and we believe Parkview will continue to serve the people of the mid-coast region with compassion and distinction.”

He said the decision was made jointly with Parkview officials. Parkview’s spokeswoman referred all questions to CMHC.

CMHC for years has helped sup-port the financially challenged, 55-bed Parkview. In 2008 it filed a letter of intent, the first step to a full application, telling the state it wanted to formally take over Parkview. But CMHC let that proposal expire a year later because it proved so controversial, Gill said.

“There was so much noise in the air in Brunswick,” he said

CMHC filed a new letter of intent in June 2012 and followed through with a full application in August. But this most recent proposal has proven to be just as controversial.

In October, about 300 people packed a public hearing to tell state officials what they thought of CMHC’s plan to take over Parkview. Some lauded CMHC’s proposal while others panned it, say-ing they wanted Mid Coast to take over Parkview – a competing plan that Mid Coast officially put forth with its own application but which was tossed out by DHHS because the department said it

“cannot and will not review the submis-sion on a competitive basis.”

Mid Coast spokesman Steve Trockman said Mid Coast leaders weren’t surprised that the state requested more information from CMHC.

“This is such an important issue for the economy and for health care in Maine and the mid-coast region,” he said. “Mid Coast Hospital’s position on this issue has not changed.”

Mid Coast believes it could improve health care and save the area money if it took over Parkview. However, Parkview leaders have said they have no interest in partnering with their competitor.

Once CMHC’s application is reacti-vated, DHHS’ Licensing and Regulatory Services Division will consider CMHC’s proposal and make a recommendation to DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew. She will make the final decision.

In addition to Central Maine Medical Center, CMHC runs small hospitals in Bridgton and Rumford, both of which were acquired through a similar process in 1999.

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Regional meeting to address declining clam populationBy Dylan Martin

BRUNSWICK — Casco Bay com-munities are being invited to a regional meeting that will discuss the alarming decline in clam population.

Biologists and clammers have said soft-shell clams, in particular, have been declining over the past decade due to predatory crab species and ocean acidi-fication.

The purpose of the March 7 meeting is to bring representatives from Scarbor-ough to Phippsburg together to begin dis-cussing a regional approach to shellfish conservation, Brunswick Marine Patrol Officer Dan Devereaux said.

“What we’re hoping to do is try to talk about a regional approach to conservation measures and management measures as they pertain to soft-shell clams,” De-vereaux said. “We’re trying to reach an audience outside of the fishermen and more towards the elected officials and town managers so they can understand the issues we’re facing.”

The meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the municipal meeting room at Brunswick Station on Station Avenue.

Devereaux said he will moderate the discussion, but he also will be joined by Chad Coffin, president of the Maine Clammers Assocation, for a presentation on the situation. He said the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership along with a other nonprofit organizations will discuss their recent conservation projects.

Devereaux said he hopes the meet-ing will serve as a kick-off for a greater discussion about regional conservation measures.

The conservation measures can vary in scope and work, Devereaux said, ranging

from setting local bounties on the green crab population that has been wreaking havoc on soft-shell clams, to seeking funding for regional programs.

Another discussion point of the night will be proposed legislation that will seek to put limits on bloodworm harvesting, which Devereaux said can have a harmful effect on soft-shell clams.

“We want to target areas of high densi-ty clam areas and if they haven’t reached a harvestable tipping areas, we want to conserve those flats,” Devereaux said.

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Plan to sell Brunswick Landing lots OK’d, with conditionsBy Dylan Martin

BRUNSWICK — A plan to subdivide lots for future development at Brunswick Landing was approved with several caveats after much debate and some re-sistance.

The Planning Board approved Mid-coast Regional Redevelopment Author-ity’s subdivision plan 3-1 Tuesday night, but only after the board set conditions and waived some requirements of the application.

“We got it approved, so we got that stuff out of the way,” Steve Levesque, MRRA executive director, said Wednes-day. “Now we can go forward and sell some properties and get the private sector engaged with the redevelopment effort.”

Last week, Levesque said there are at least five major developments that are awaiting approval of the subdivision plan, which will divide about 225 acres of land into 43 lots for sale or lease.

Now, he said, it will only be a matter of weeks until some of the the first sales or leases happen. But MRRA will first have to satisfy some of the conditions set by the Planning Board before its application is deemed complete.

Some of the plan’s conditions will require MRRA to do extra work for the subdivided lots within a specific time period, while others will require future developers who purchase or lease the lots

to conduct site reviews.“We enumerated several lots that have

to come back no matter what – if they’re going to put a shovel in the ground, if they have applied for building,” Town Planner Jeremy Doxsee said after the plan was approved. “There are a number of lots that are almost fully built out – they have existing buildings on them – and they’re not required to come back to the Planning Board per se, but only if they rise to the threshold listed in the zoning ordinance.”

Prior to Tuesday’s meeting, MRRA’s subdivision plan had undergone several revisions based on feedback from the Planning Board.

In the two meetings leading to the Planning Board’s final decision, the dis-senting Planning Board member, Steve Walker, insisted that MRRA’s plan did not satisfy some of the environmental requirements of the town’s zoning or-dinance.

His tone remained largely the same Tuesday night.

“I think that this has been a messy pro-cess and somewhat of a disappointment,” said Walker, who is a wildlife biologist at Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. “It’s been six years to pre-pare, six years to get the field work right and six years without many changes to our ordinance, so it was pretty clear the

path forward that MRRA had to take on this one. But yet we still had to do these last-minute contortions with waivers and conditions of approval.”

Some residents also raised concerns.

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Harpswell Board of Selectmen candidates appeal to votersBy Dylan Martin

HARPSWELL — Three candidates hope to win the Board of Selectmen seat being vacated by Selectman Jim Henderson.

Rick Daniel and C. Matthew Rich have previously run for the board; Ellen Shillinglaw is a first-time candidate. Vot-ing will take place at the March 9 Town Meeting.

Daniel, who ran against Selectman Ali-son Hawkes in 2011, has been living in Harpswell for 24 years with his wife and runs a carpentry business. He also serves on the town’s Budget Advisory Commit-tee and works for Harpswell Neck Fire and Rescue as a rescue driver and EMT.

“I just feel with my background and experience, my proven ability to work well with others to get the job done, I feel I can bring a lot to being an effective selectman for the town,” Daniel said.

Rich, a lawyer in private practice who most recently ran against board Chair-woman Elinor Multer in 2012, has been living in Harpswell since 2002.

If elected, he said he would focus on improving the town’s governance and try to expand the Board of Selectmen to

five members, with geographical repre-sentation by three members and two at-large members.

“The last 10 years have kind of shown me that a three-per-son select board is at its limit, because (past and current selectmen) will tell you that it wears them out,” Rich said. “It’s the breadth of it ... the span of control they have to exert is too vast for the three of them.”

Shillinglaw has lived in Harpswell for a year and a half, but she said she has 30 years of public service as legislative assistant to former U.S. Sen. William V. Roth Jr., R-Delaware; director of the Office of Legislation and Policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, and associate administrator for communications for the Health Care Financing Administration.

She currently works with the Town Lands Committee and the Board of Ap-peals.

“I think that the thing I want people to know about me is that even though I

haven’t been here a long time, I’ve gotten really involved very quickly, understand the issues,” Shillinglaw said. “... I made it a business to learn this stuff because I want to be involved with the community and I need to understand these things. It’s how my mind works.”

The candidates expressed support for certain articles on the Town Warrant, including borrowing money to secure public access at Robinhood Beach.

“I think (the selectmen are) doing a good job in being supportive of the (beach access) group,” Daniel said, “and being on the Budget Advisory Commit-tee, we suggested to put up the $220,000 towards the purchase of easement if they’re successful in gaining one.”

The three candidates also agree the Board of Selectmen should have the authority to lease the former West Harp-swell School building for up to three years to a planned charter school.

Regarding economic development, the candidates concentrated on the unde-veloped land the town owns at Mitchell Field.

To encourage future development, Daniel proposed more boat races, boat shows and other events at Mitchell Field to better advertise the land. He said if the town were to rehabilitate the pier, a decision he supports, it would be a prime location for something like an old naval vessel that people could visit.

“These are all things to create events, to create awareness and accessibility for people to see the potential of what’s there and for Harpswell to effectively become

its own advertiser,” Daniel said.All three candidates said when the

town considers business proposals for Mitchell Field, there should be more communication and participation with the public to factor in the final decision.

“Mitchell Field is a huge issue and this town cannot afford to have that property not be a revenue generator,” Shillinglaw said.

As a result of the town rejecting four business proposals for Mitchell Field so far, she said the town needs to address a possible perception that it may not be business friendly.

Rich suggested earmarking a small per-centage of tax revenue the town collects from small businesses and allocating it to the Harpswell Business Association for marketing purposes.

Daniel said the town has to consider its aging population in future develop-ment decisions. He said he would sup-port looking into starting a bus service for seniors, teenagers and others who can’t drive.

On marine resource matters, the candi-dates agreed that conserving the resource should be a town priority.

“I think we should be deeply involved in it. It provides the livelihood for a lot of clammers and fishermen,” Daniel said. “But the decisions must be well thought out, well researched before decisions are made.”

“Clamming is part of our heritage,” Rich said. “I’m willing to put manpower into it. ... I’d seek grant money to help the biology of it.”

Shillinglaw said “nobody can protect the water like we can, so we have to be excellent stewards of the water, excellent stewards of the land that abuts the water, and take care of our fragile but critically important asset.”


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Harpswell Town Meeting to vote on beach funds, budget, school leaseBy Dylan Martin

HARPSWELL — Besides electing a new selectman, residents will vote on beach funds and the 2013 municipal budget, among many other items, at the annual Town Meeting on March 9.

The meeting runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Harpswell Community School, 308 Harpswell Islands Road.

The meeting warrant, which authorizes the municipal budget, various appropria-tions, and ordinance changes, contains 71 articles and was scheduled to be finalized by the Board of Selectmen on Thursday.

One of the larger warrant items revolves around one group’s fight to open access to Robinhood Beach on Bailey Island (some-times referred as Cedar Beach). A similar article appeared in the 2011 Town Warrant.

Article 12 would authorize borrowing up to $220,000 for the acquisition of public access to Robinhood Beach. The money would only be used if the Cumberland County Superior Court finds that a public access easement exists on Cedar Beach Road and a part of Robinhood Beach in a pending lawsuit between beach access sup-porters and the property owners.

“We’re very pleased it’s coming out of the Board of Selectmen and going into the Town Meeting,” said Michael Helfgot, president of Cedar Beach/Cedar Island Supporters. “That’s what we wanted and we’re pleased with that.”

While most of the articles have been recommended by the Board of Selectmen, Town Administrator Kristi Eiane said the board hasn’t weighed in yet on the beach measure.

Article 35 would authorize selectmen to sign a lease for up to three years for the former West Harpswell School building. The article, which is recommended by the board, is a result of the town’s inability to lease the building for more than a year to a charter school that plans to open in the fall, Eiane said.

Eiane said the article is not specific to the charter school, but it could open the door for a future agreement between the school and select board.

“It’s got to be for more than a year,” said Joe Grady, chairman of the Harpswell Coastal Academy board. “We’ve been talk-ing to them the whole way through, but that’s where it would always stop.”

Article 38 would appropriate $40,000 to remove the water tank at Mitchell Field, something that is no longer usable and could be a liability, Eiane said. It would have cost around $300,000 to bring the tank to working condition, she said.

“I think there was a sense that it would be less costly now, given the costs of metal, to put that project out to bid,” Eiane said.

Article 39 would appropriate $8,000 to match a grant that would raise money to remove the north and south cells at the Mitchell Field pier. Eiane said the town has already applied for a grant, and the north cell has begun to collapse.

The town recently received a report that it would cost too much to completely rehabilitate or remove the old pier, Eiane said, but since regulatory agencies aren’t requiring any action, the town is planning to wait for any further decision.

Article 42 would appropriate $76,000 for the planning, design and construction of an emergency medical services vehicle garage, which is a requirement of an agreement between the town and Mid Coast Hospital for paramedic services that began last year.

The town appropriated $74,000 for the same purpose last year, but not all of that has been spent. Eiane said the town has decided to build a larger garage with extra amenities like office space and a bathroom, which would allow expanded use in the future.

“Total project costs will be approxi-mately $150,000, but we haven’t put the project out to bid,” Eiane said.

Articles 4 and 5 would amend the town’s Shoreland Zoning Ordinance to increase shore access and comply with state guide-lines, Town Planner Carol Eyermen said.

Regarding the budget, there is some good news.

Eiane said the proposed municipal bud-get has decreased by 1.6 percent from this year, to $4.3 million. She said the change

is a result of lower debt service and lower costs for special projects, health and wel-fare.

However, the budget does project in-creases in a few areas.

As a result of a referendum vote last Election Day, the Town Treasurer will become an appointed position effective March 9. The change will see the treasurer working more often, with a higher salary of $20,000.

The town’s annual appropriation for Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick has increased by 3.7 percent from last year to almost $124,000. Eiane said the increase was a result of increased operating costs for the library.

Eiane said the municipal budget took into account a projected decrease in the

second half of the year in subsidies from the state’s municipal revenue-sharing pro-gram, which is currently being proposed for a two-year suspension by Gov. Paul LePage.

Eiane said if LePage’s proposal goes through, the town would have to balance the budget with its fund balance.

Eiane also noted that the municipal bud-get does not include the town’s appropria-tion for School Administrative District 75, which is developed independently.

Eiane said initial school budget figures may emerge as early as March 12, and the town’s school spending will go to voters in June.


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RSU 1 plans public meetings before referendumBy Alex Lear

BATH — Regional School Unit 1 is planning to hold at least two public meetings before a March 19 refer-endum that would change the district’s cost-sharing formula.

A workshop to have been held at Woolwich Central School Wednesday was cancelled due to weather, but a public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, March 5, at Bath Middle School. Another meeting is at West Bath District School on Tuesday, March 12. Both start at 6 p.m.

RSU 1 had not determined Wednesday morning whether the Woolwich meeting would be rescheduled.

The RSU 1 Board of Directors unanimously approved a new per-pupil cost-sharing formula last December. It would go into effect next year.

The panel voted unanimously last April to change the cost-sharing formula for the current, fiscal 2013 budget, so that a law that created the school district would apply to its entire local tax calculation.

The local contribution from the five RSU 1 communi-ties – the funds raised through taxes – had been split into two elements: a minimum amount that the state requires, and a portion over and above that amount. State subsidy

Bath gets in the Irish spiritBy Alex Lear

BATH — For those who’ve had enough of white snow and brown mud, here’s a little green.

The City of Ships once again becomes the City of the Irish this month, hosting a variety of events centered

around St. Patrick’s Day, from March 11-17.Byrnes’ Irish Pub at 38 Centre St. offers an “Irish

Seisun” at 7 p.m. Monday, March 11, and an trivia the next night at the same time.

A “More than Blarney” Irish cultural evening, with poetry and traditional music from the country, will be held at the Bath City Hall Auditorium on Friday, March 15, from 5-6:30 p.m. A family dance with live Irish music will be held at Bath Dance Works, 72 Front St., from 6:30-8 p.m., and an “Ugly Green” contest will run at Mae’s Cafe, 160 Centre St., at 7 p.m.

A “Shamrock Sprint” 5k run will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 16; email [email protected] or [email protected] for registration forms, and call 522-7211 for more information.

What’s billed as Maine’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade will start at 11 a.m. that day, and the theme is Irish spirit. The route runs from St. Mary’s Church on Lincoln Street to Front and Centre streets, and it will wrap up at the City Park gazebo.

A tug-of-war at City Hall, sponsored by the Universe Gym, follows at 1 p.m. And then, from 7-10 p.m., is Bath’s second annual Blarney Ball. The Winter Street Center event, at 880 Washington St., costs $15 a person, and features light refreshments, dancing, a live band, desserts, door prizes and a cash bar.

An Irish soda bread-baking contest will be held at Now You’re Cooking, 49 Front St., on Sunday, March 17. Entries have to be dropped off between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and judges will looking at appearance, ingredi-ents, texture and taste.

A St. Patrick’s Day celebration will be held that day at downtown restaurants and pubs, with live music featured at Byrnes’ Irish Pub.

Log onto visitbath.com/events/bath-blarney-days for more information.

Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @learics.

to the district had been presented on a form based on the essential programs and services model.

The other local contribution piece was the additional amount each community must raise, beyond the EPS model. That contribution stipulated a cost-sharing for-mula based on equal thirds: student population, state valuation of a community and the community’s popula-tion in the most recent census.

The board heard arguments from the public in support of the change, but its decision drew criticism from some municipal officials.

Meanwhile, West Bath is suing RSU 1 to recover $1.9 million the town believes it overpaid in the first four years of the school district’s existence.

West Bath’s lawsuit, filed in October in Sagadahoc

County Superior Court, claims it should have been as-sessed a total of $8.2 million in fiscal years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, but instead paid $10.1 million.

The suit claims RSU 1 owes West Bath $1.9 million, plus interest. Both RSU 1 and Bath have filed motions to dismiss the case.

Bath was allowed by a judge to join RSU 1 in its de-fense of the lawsuit. West Bath also recently included Arrowsic and Woolwich as defendants in the case. West Bath claims that Bath, Arrowsic and Woolwich under-paid in the first few years of the RSU’s existence.

The case is scheduled to return to Sagadahoc County Superior Court in Bath on Tuesday, March 5.


Harpswell charter school names head

HARPSWELL — A charter school scheduled to open in the fall has named its education consultant as the head of school.

Harpswell Coastal Academy spokesman Will Mc-Claran on Friday said John D'Anieri will function as the school's superintendent and principal, among other administrative roles.

D'Anieri helped compile HCA's 468-page charter application, which was approved by the Maine Charter School Commission in early February. He previously helped the start-up of Poland Regional High School and Casco Bay High School in Portland.

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Media snooping, not public good, was motive for editorialBy Rep. Corey Wilson

In the wake of the Bangor Daily News sending letters to police departments across the state, demanding the names, addresses, and birth dates of all holders of concealed handgun permits in Maine, citizen activists and Repub-lican leaders have spoken out in support of making that personal identifying information confidential.

Meanwhile, the news media has made clear their op-position.

Last week’s editorial, “Informa-tion Doesn’t Kill People,” listed 22 randomly-chosen items that are part of the public record, subject to Maine’s Freedom of Access Act. The point was that by default, every record and meeting in state and local government is subject to the FOAA.

What the editorial didn’t sample was the 483 excep-tions to the FOAA. That’s right, written into statute are 483 government records that can’t be obtained by the public. They include many measures that concern personal privacy and public safety, just like my bill to keep the personal identifying information of concealed handgun permit holders confidential, and the governor’s bill enacted last week to do so on a temporary basis while my bill goes through the public hearing and committee process in Judiciary.

Last week’s vote was to enact FOAA exception No. 484. With it, Maine joined 35 other states that keep the personal information of concealed handgun permit hold-

ers confidential.What other parts of the public record fall into an excep-

tion? The names of General Assistance recipients are an example. It doesn’t seem right that taxpayers can’t find out who is receiving their money in the form of welfare benefits, but anybody can find out if you hold a concealed handgun permit.

What disturbs me so much about the news media’s out-cry over this legislation is not the fact that they’re bashing

a fairly common type of law – a FOAA exception – that was en-acted with sweeping bipartisan support, 129-11 in the House and 33-0 in the Senate, as a tempo-rary measure. No, what disturbs me is that unlike other issues they take an editorial stance on, here

they have self-interest.Broader access to public records makes the media’s job

easier, and so naturally they come to the defense of public records. But Maine people have other concerns that must be balanced. With the second highest rate of gun owner-ship in the country, Mainers are skeptical of organizations or individuals poring through their personal information, which happened to be publicly available until last week, in order to compile data on a controversial topic that could be used to thwart gun owners’ rights.

Mainers are also concerned that if they go through the trouble to obtain a concealed handgun permit, their tacti-cal advantage in personal protection may be jeopardized

by the public availability of that information. What’s the point of concealed-carry if anyone can know you carry? And yes, there is the concern of firearms theft, a concern flippantly dismissed by the editorial as, essentially, “crimi-nals are too dumb to think of that.”

I hope they’re right, but I’d rather be sure.Finally, many Maine gun-owners simply believe that

whether they have a concealed handgun permit is no-body’s business.

The entire tone of the editorial was one of anger and self-interest, not one of deliberative thought and reflec-tion on an issue of pressing public concern that deserves dispassionate review by one of the state’s major media outlets.

To the paper’s clever sound-bite, “information doesn’t kill people, people kill people,” a play on the NRA’s fa-mous slogan, I say this: does The Forecaster believe that it should have access to sensitive military information? If information doesn’t kill people, that shouldn’t be a prob-lem. But we all know that it is.

It must frustrate a newspaper whose job is made easier by more access to records that Mainers demonstrated late last week and, through their representatives in the Legis-lature, that they care more about keeping their personal information private than about a newspaper’s ability to snoop through it.

To them, that’s worth creating FOAA exception No. 484.

Rep. Corey Wilson, R-Augusta, serves on the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee.


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The importance of trading shoesI am not sure there was ever a time in my life

when I thought I knew everything.Well, that is not entirely true. Every time I

have ever told my husband something was a time in my life when I knew I knew everything.

That slice of life aside, I have always considered myself a work in prog-ress. As I age, the homework piles up, with every life les-son splitting off into two more.

One quiz I seem doomed to fail for the foreseeable future is “what is the appropriate first response to conflict?” By “conflict,” I do not mean armed conflict or scheduling conflict, but interpersonal, attitudi-nal, emotional conflict. My instinctual response to even the first whiff of any such strife is to, quite adorably, lose my mind.

The only redeeming aspect of this charac-ter flavor is that usually, the mind-losing is only internal. Exclamation points fly across my brain, asterisks and ampersands vaguely disguise swear words forming at my lips, and the backs of my eyes roll. As I drive the mean streets of Cumberland County, I craft scathing monologues, complete with stage directions for when I should angrily jab the air with my pointer finger.

While I suppose it is helpful my dressing-downs remain private performances, they do not help the way I address conflicts publicly. The frustration or anger simmers down, but it still simmers. I view the situation not with rose-colored glasses, but through cheap frames with lenses made of whatever substance stamps out light.

I do not aspire to be a dark, brooding person who scares puppies and makes children scan for the nearest exit. I must, therefore, regularly guide myself out of the indulgent playground where arguments become bullies and perspec-tive nose dives into the sand pit. I hit the reset button, and I take a step back, take a deep breath, take a hike.

I am starting to see a pattern in all this start-ing over.

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The proposed series is known internally as “Downeast Abbey” and nev-er got beyond the discussion stage. Now, however, the MPBN board believes that both the script and concept may be of considerable value, given the stunning popularity of the high-brow BBC soap opera bearing the uncannily similar name, “Downton Abbey.”

While some members of the MPBN board are recom-mending legal action against the BBC to enjoin produc-tion of further episodes, others see opportunity. There are unconfirmed reports that MPBN Evergreen Friends – as well as those who donate their vehicles to MPBN – will be invited to audition for leading roles in a long-awaited television production of “Downeast Abbey” that would air this fall.

Aspiring thespians may find the following excerpt from the pilot episode helpful in preparing for their auditions:

[Scene: Exterior of a secluded luxury cottage in Downeast Maine, somewhere between Tunk Lake and T8 R3. The camera pans up an immaculate gravel driveway to reveal two Lexus SUVs parked in front of a three-car garage. A young man exits one of the SUVs and, bearing several bags of groceries, approaches a side entrance to the home. He is greeted by Mr. Clossey, a dignified man wearing a flannel shirt and sporting a faded Red Sox cap.]

Clossey (in a thick Maine accent): Didja get the lobstahs and groceries and imported beeah like I toldja, Duane?

Duane: Ayuh, but I couldn’t find any gluten-free fet-tuccine at the Irving. So I picked up some Spaghetti-O’s instead. When’s Doc Grantham due?

Clossey: Float plane should be landing sometime this afternoon, just before suppah. You’d best get those grocer-ies to Mrs. Darling before she has a fit. She’s some nervous every year when the family arrives.

Duane: Oh, she’ll be fine. (He takes in the view). House looks nice. Got the dock all set up, I see.

Clossey: First thing I do, come ice-out. Doc Grantham likes his fishin.’

Duane: Well, I hope they’re bitin’ this summer. Plenty of flies about, that’s for sure. I laid in a supply of unscented Off! in the non-aerosol can for Mrs. Grantham.

Clossey: Good boy. Now let’s go set up the bah in the dooryahd. Be cocktail time before you know it. (They exit.)

[Action resumes in a tastefully appointed great room with vintage fishing tackle mounted on the walls, and cheery, overstuffed Maine Cottage Furniture adorning the space. A white-haired gentleman wearing L.L. Bean khakis, an Orvis fisherman’s vest and Sebago Docksiders swirls the ice in his cocktail glass.]

Grantham: Clossey, it is so good to be back. How’s Mrs. Clossey?

Clossey: Doin’ fine, Doc. Doin’ fine. Now, will you be wantin’ to take the skiff out tomorrow morning? I can have Duane stock the coolah. Gonna be a hot one.

Grantham: How well you know me, Clossey. I do intend to be out on the water first thing, right after Mrs. Grantham and I complete our Pilates routines.

[The doorbell rings. Clossey and Dr. Grantham exchange a look.]

Grantham: Now who could that be? We’re not hosting anyone this evening, are we, Clossey?

Clossey: Damned if I know, Doc. Let me go see. (He walks off stage. Voices are heard in the wings. Clossey returns.)

Clossey: Doc, it’s a Mister Vigue to see you. Here’s his business cahd. (He hands it to Grantham.)

Grantham: Hmm. V-i-g-u-e. That’s pronounced, “Veeg,” Clossey, in the French manner.

Clossey: Doc, around here it’s pronounced, “Vig-yoo,” in the Maine manner. I’ll go fetch him.

Vigue (entering the room and extending a hand): Doctor Grantham, I’m Pete Vigue. Good to meet you. I understand you’re the owner of this home.

Grantham: I am, sir. And may I ask to what I owe the pleasure of this visit?

Vigue: Well, it concerns a limited-access highway that I would like to see built across Maine, from New Brunswick on the east to Quebec on the west.

Grantham: Good Lord, man, have you taken leave of your senses? A highway across Maine? Do you know what that would do to my property values?

Vigue: I’m more concerned with Maine people who need to earn a living year-round than I am with rusticators like you, Grantham.

Grantham: Clossey, show this man out!Vigue: Oh, I’ll be back, Doctor. I’ll be back.[Camera fades to black.]MPBN officials won’t say if or when filming will

begin, but they stress that funding for future episodes of “Downeast Abbey” depends upon viewers like you. Consult your local listings for details.

Perry B. Newman is a South Portland resident and presi-dent of Atlantica Group, an international business consult-ing firm based in Portland, with clients in North America, Israel and Europe. He is also chairman of the Maine Dis-trict Export Council. His website is perrybnewman.com/.

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The UniversalNotebook

Edgar Allen Beem

Defending the SpencersWere I a prudent man, I would probably let well-

enough alone and not comment on the Falmouth High School underage drinking case. But I am not, so I will.

Back when news first broke that a party to celebrate a Falmouth baseball championship at the home of Paula and Barry Spencer had gotten out of hand and some students were found to have been drinking, I got the expected call from a reporter to ask what I thought about it. I tend to get trotted out every few years when there is an under-age drinking incident in greater Portland because back in 1999, I was involved in a similar situation after a Yarmouth High School prom.

For anyone interested in the sordid details, I tell the whole story in one of the essays in “Backyard Maine,” but suffice it to say that the Yarmouth prom fiasco was front-page news for a week and brought John Stossel of “20/20” to town to inter-view me. I said back then, and I say now, that I would not advocate that anyone do what I did, but I did what I felt I had to do at the time to help keep kids safe on a very vulnerable evening.

Another father and I stood guard outside a party at which 300-plus teenagers celebrated, let off steam and, yes, drank beer. Our all-night vigil earned us the designation “gatekeepers.” The fact that I was on the School Committee at the time only aggravated the situation.

It wasn’t my home, I did not supply alcohol, I did inform the police beforehand of what was going on, and, fortunately, no one got hurt. But I realized almost as soon as the party got going that it could have gotten wildly out of control

very quickly. One of the reasons it didn’t, I like to think, is that the students respected us for trying to protect them.

In any event, when the reporter recently called to ask what I thought about the Spencers, I said I didn’t think anyone knew enough about the situa-tion to judge whether they were guilty of anything or not. People were rushing to judgment.

If what the Spencers did constituted a crime, half the parents I know would be convicted criminals. The reason the Spencers’ case ended in a dead-locked jury was that responsible adults could easily imagine themselves caught in just such a situation. The Spencers didn’t furnish alcohol to minors and they did not intend to furnish a place for minors to consume alcohol.

The fact that stellar student-athletes, good kids with bright futures, could show up with 30-packs suggests that little, if anything, about our underage drinking laws and school athletic codes works. The Falmouth baseball and lacrosse teams, their friends and fans would have found another place to party if the Spencers had not hosted the championship celebration.

I had a few parents call me during the Spencers’ trial to say they thought the couple was being railroaded and that I ought to write a column in their defense. I decided to await the outcome of the trial, both because I don’t know the Spencers and I didn’t know the facts. The facts suggest the Spencers were not guilty of anything.

The outcome was – and should have been left at – a hung jury, half favoring conviction, half exoneration. It turned into a bad outcome when the Spencers had to agree to pay a $12,000 fine, make a $5,000 donation to a victim’s compensation fund, and do 100 hours of community service each in order to avoid being prosecuted again. There’s a word for that, and it’s not justice.

Freelance journalist Edgar Allen Beem lives in Yarmouth. The Universal Notebook is his personal, weekly look at the world around him.

demands, an acquaintance behaving spitefully, or a stranger making a decision I disagree with, my point of re-entry almost always looks the same; proverbially speaking, it looks like that person’s shoes. Yes, my wisdom-with-age breakthrough is none other than the first maxim many learn as children: don’t judge some-one until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.

Perhaps I am not being fair to myself. Perhaps the lesson is not simply that trading shoes is important. Perhaps the lesson is the importance of the trading shoes part.

The fewer cliffs I jump off, the more appreciation I have for the compact, elegant, fail-proof efficacy of the shoe trade. The more often I force myself to consider the other person’s concerns, their history, and their motiva-tions, the more I see the landscape of our interaction in panoramic view. I see it not through the clouded eyes of the emotionally invested, but with the brain of a casual observer.

From this refreshed vantage point, I can stake out areas of common ground, however small. I can identify the things I might be able to change and the things I never will. I can feel less overwhelmed and more in control.

The progress that comes from this position is hum-bling in its completeness, even if my carpooling is not quite as dynamic. I can formulate my argument better because I can focus on the prongs that might be convinc-ing. I can gain credibility by acknowledging the merit(s) of the other side. I can let go of my righteous rightness.

If there were infomercials for thought patterns, I would proudly hawk this one. I am convinced it makes molehills out of mountains and illuminates ways for-ward even in halls of mirrors. It is a one-size-fits-all tac-tic, helpful for the short-tempered, but also the grudge-bearers and the passive-aggressors. I am so confident everyone would love the approach that I would have no qualms with a money-back guarantee.

It’s not always easy for empathy to be your first re-sponder. The front-end work required to develop this habit, though, surely requires less energy, in the long run, than what is required to be constantly frustrated. At least, that’s what my homework indicates.

But what do I know?Abby Diaz grew up in Falmouth and lives there again,

because that’s how life works. She blogs at abbysleft-overs.blogspot.com and hellogiggles.com/abby-diaz, and can be reached at [email protected]. Follow Abby on Twitter: @AbbyDiaz1.

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2/21 at 8 p.m. Joseph Ingerson, 27, of Florida, was arrested on Central Avenue by Cpl. An-drew Booth on a warrant. He was also issued a summons on a charge of being a fugitive from justice.2/24 at 1:50 a.m. Brittany Kaler, 22, of Whis-keag Road, was arrested on Western Avenue by Cpl. Andrew Booth on a charge of operating under the influence.

SummonsesNo non-arrest summonses were reported from Feb. 18-25.

Fire calls2/18 at 12:15 p.m. Wires down on Washington Street.2/20 at 5:18 p.m. Gas spill at Big Apple.2/22 at 7:10 p.m. Propane leak on Varney Mills Road.

EMSBath emergency medical services responded to 44 calls from Feb. 18-24.

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2/19 at 10:56 a.m. Nathaniel E. Wing, no address listed, was arrested on B Street by Officer Jonathan O’Connor on charges of theft by deception, forgery and violating condition of release.2/20 at 10:10 p.m. Michael T. Turner, 23, of Cumberland Avenue, Portland, was arrested on Route 1 by Officer Brandon Paxton on charges of operating under the influence (drugs) and operating a vehicle without a license.2/21 at 2:21 p.m. Brian Cadorette, 29, of Route 202, Leeds, was arrested on Tibbetts Drive by Officer Jonathan O’Connor on charges of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer (shoplifting) and violating condition of release.2/22 at 11:28 p.m. Paul J. Murray, 35, of Oak Street, was arrested on Oak Street by Offficer Charles Reece on charges of domestic violence assault and criminal threatening. 2/23 at 12:46 p.m. Bruce J. Ramsey, 35, of Garden Lane, was arrested on Garden Lane by Officer Daniel Sylvain on a warrant.2/24 at 3:13 a.m. Corey A. Hinkley, 25, of Montello Street, Lewiston, was arrested on Route 1 by Officer Daniel Herbert on charges of operating under the influence with one prior and operating a vehicle without a license.2/25 at 5:07 p.m. Alison W. Harding, 27, of Maple Street, Topsham was arrested on Bath Road by Officer Mark Steele Jr. on charges of violating condition of release and theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.2/25 at 6:07 p.m. Ryan Whitten, 31, of Chops Cross Road, Woolwich, was arrested on Lin-coln Street by Sgt. Joel Bruce on a charge of domestic violence assault.2/26 at 3:12 a.m. Edgar Estrada, 25, of Perry-man Drive, was arrested on Perryman Drive by Officer Patrick Scott on a charge of violating condition of release.

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2/22 at 5:04 p.m. Two 16-year-old juveniles were issued summonses by Marine Resource Patrol Officer Paul Plummer on charges of harvesting shellfish without a town license.2/26 at 8:11 a.m. Autumn J. Fitch, 22, of River Road, was issued a summons on Barrows Street by Officer Charles Reece on charges of operat-ing with a suspended registration and operating a vehicle without a valid inspection certificate.

Fire calls2/22 at 8:14 p.m. Odor investigation on Tib-betts Drive.2/24 at 8:34 a.m. Vehicle crash on Bath Road.2/24 at 1:50 p.m. Vehicle crash on Pleasant Street.2/25 at 8:23 a.m. Vehicle crash on Pleasant Street.

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Obituaries

BRUNSWICK — Louisa H. Blake, 82, of Brunswick, died Sunday at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarbor-ough.

She was born Feb. 8, 1931, in Portland to Alfred Sr. and Grace Seavey Mil-liken.

Blake at tended Portland schools, g raduat ing f rom Deering High School with the class of 1949. She received her bachelor’s degree in teaching from Gorham State Teachers College.

While teaching, Blake attended Boston University, taking advanced classes in elementary education.

She married her husband, Douglas Blake, on Sept. 20, 1952.

Blake taught in elementary schools throughout her career, spending nine years in Kittery, four years in Ipswich, Mass., and 23 years in Weymouth, Mass., before retiring in 1987.

In 1988 Blake and her husband moved to Brunswick.

Blake was a member of Maine Mari-time Museum and the Weymouth Retired Teachers Association. She enjoyed oil painting, often depicting birds, other ani-mals and rural scenes. She also enjoyed gardening and cooking.

Besides her husband, surviving are three sisters, Eunice Hurd of Falmouth, Selma Wilbur of Saco, and Laura Lewis of Portland; one brother, Alfred Milliken

Jr. of Portland; and several nieces and nephews

A funeral was held Thursday at the Stetson Funeral Home in Brunswick, with pastor Neil Gastonguay officiating. Interment will be at Dunstan Cemetery of Scarborough in the spring.

Carl E. Wallace, 82BRUNSWICK — Carl E. Wallace, 82,

of Brunswick, died Saturday at his home.He was born Aug. 5, 1930, in Phipps-

burg to Niles L. and Dora V. Wallace. He attended West Point School in Phipps-burg.

In 1957, Wallace married Beverly L. Beal in Bowdoin.

He worked for a time as a clammer and commercial fisherman, and later as a textile worker for Worumbo Textile Mill and at Keena Corp. in Brunswick. He retired in 1996.

Wallace and his wife lived in Lisbon Falls until 2011, when they moved to Brunswick.

A considerate and helpful man, Wal-

lace loved fishing, hunting, being out-doors and collecting bottles around Durham and Freeport.

He is survived by his wife; a son, Eugene C. Wallace and his wife, Jose-

phine, of Topsham; two grandchildren, Sabrina L. Wallace, Nicholas C. Wallace and his fiancee, Sarah Hills, and a great-grandson, Elijah N. H. Wallace; as well

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compiled, written and edited by The Forecaster staff. There is no charge for publication, but obituary information must be provided or confirmed by a funeral home or mortuary. Our preferred method for receiving obituary information is by email to [email protected], although faxes to 781-2060 are also acceptable. The deadline for obituaries is noon Monday the week of publication.

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as several nieces and nephews.A funeral was held Thursday at Brack-

ett Funeral Home in Brunswick with the Rev. Ronald McLaughlin officiating. Interment will be at West Bowdoin Cem-etery in the spring.

Jean Louis Tardiff, 75TOPSHAM — Jean Louis Tardiff, 75,

of Topsham, died Saturday at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick.

He was born May 5, 1937, in Bruns-wick, the son of Gerard and Cecile Pou-liot Tardiff.

Tardiff attended St. John’s School and graduated from Brunswick High School in 1957.

He married Jan-ice Cunningham that year and became an apprentice at Bath Iron Works. Tardiff went on to work for the shipyard as a welder and later as a supervisor, eventually retiring after over 20 years of service.

He joined the National Guard during high school, and retired after 25 years.

Tardiff enjoyed the outdoors, espe-cially activities such as hunting, fishing, camping, farming and bee-keeping. He was a member of the Brunswick Elks, American Legion Post 202, and the Bee Keepers Association.

Besides his wife Janice, surviving are three sons, Jeffrey and his wife Sharon of Freeport, Michael and his wife Victoria of Cumberland, and Patrick and his wife Candy of Raymond; five grandchildren, Jessica, Jillian, Amanda, Courtney and Danielle; one great-grandchild, Kaelynn; and a brother, Joseph Roger Tardiff and his wife, Kathi, and family of Claremont, N.H.

Rose Marie Miller, 90BRUNSWICK — Rose Marie Miller,

90, of Brunswick, died peacefully Feb. 20 with her family by her side.

Miller was born Jan. 7, 1923, to John and Wilma Ruest. Mil ler graduated from Brunswick High School and lived in Brunswick all her life.

She married Bill Miller on Aug. 10, 1946, at St. John’s Church in Brunswick, where she was a lifelong member.

Miller loved gardening, music and spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She took in younger family members whenever there was a need and never asked for anything in return. She cared deeply for others and will be missed by many cousins, nieces, nephews and friends.

She is survived by a daughter, Elaine Newcomb and her husband, David, of Bath; three grandchildren, Jennifer Mar-tin of Keller, Texas, William Alderman, of Brunswick and Amy Newcomb, of Brunswick; and two great-grandchildren, Jade and Taylor.

A graveside service will be held in the spring.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to support re-search of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Winter sports season almost overAt press time, just one local high

school team, Brunswick boys' hockey, was all that remained of the winter sports season.

Here's a look back at the postseason action which transpired in recent days.

Boys' basketballHyde's boys' basketball team, ranked

second, made it to the Western Class D semifinals after a 45-35 win over Sea-coast Christian, but advanced no further, dropping a tough 55-53 decision to third-ranked Valley. The Phoenix finished the year 16-4.

Girls' basketballHyde and Mt. Ararat's girls' basketball

teams both met their demise last week in Augusta, at the hands of the eventual regional champions.

The Eagles, the No. 3 seed in Eastern A, advanced to the semis with a 56-44 win over Oxford Hills, but No. 2 Bangor was too much to handle in the next round and Mt. Ararat's season ended 16-4 with a 56-44 loss to the Rams, who went on to beat Cony and play in the state game against McAuley.

In Western D, Hyde, the No. 3 seed, beat Valley in the quarterfinals, 48-28, but lost to No. 2 Richmond, 43-36, in the semis, to finish 17-2.

SwimmingAt last week's Class A state swim

meets, Brunswick's girls nearly came away with a championship, but wound up a close second to Cape Elizabeth (282-268.5). Mt. Ararat (107.5) was eighth and Morse (106) came in ninth.

The Dragons got wins from Jessica Russell in the 200-yard freestyle (1 min-ute, 56.49 seconds) and Lynsie Russell in the 500 free (5:25.64). Brunswick also won the 200 free relay (Emma Blair, Madeline Cowan, Lynsie Russell and Jes-sica Russell, 1:41.92).

Celia Oullette won the 50 free (23.84 seconds) and the 100 free (53.29) for the Eagles.

The Shipbuilders top finisher was Catie Luedee, who was third in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.07) and fifth in the 200 individual medley (2:16.83).

In the boys' meet, won by Cheverus with 372 points, Brunswick (169) placed

sixth, while Morse (70.5) came in 13th. The Dragons got runner-up showings from Nate Samson in the 50 free (22.23) and the backstroke (53.23).

SkiingMt. Ararat's girls were seventh and the

boys eighth at last week's Class A Nordic skiing state meet.

The girls were led by Torri Pelletier, 17th in the classic (20 minutes, 2.9 sec-onds) and 20th in the freestyle (17:47.8)

The boys featured Sam Wood, who was fifth in the freestyle (12:50.50) and 10th in the classic (14:58.0).

HockeyBrunswick's boys' hockey team fin-

ished 10-7-1 after closing with a 5-1 vic-

tory at Edward Little and earned the No. 5 seed for the Eastern Class A playoffs. The Dragons opened at No. 4 Cony (11-4-3) in the quarterfinals Tuesday. Bruns-wick won at the Rams, 5-0, Dec. 15, then settled for a 2-2 tie Jan. 21.

If the Dragons were able to advance, they'd play No. 1 Lewiston (14-3-1) in the semifinals Saturday at the Colisee. Brunswick lost, 3-2, at Lewiston Jan. 30.

The regional final is Tuesday in Lewis-ton. The Class A state game is Saturday, March 9 at 6 p.m., also at the Colisee.

Mt. Ararat finished 7-11 and ninth, one spot out of the postseason, after closing with a 3-1 loss at Gray-New Gloucester/Poland.

Bowdoin hockey teams advance

Brian Beard / For The ForecasTerAbove: Bowdoin’s (from left) Kyle Lockwood, John McInnis and Ollie Koo celebrate one of Lockwood’s three goals during the Polar Bears’ 5-3 come-from-behind win over Hamilton in last weekend’s NESCAC quarterfinals. Bowdoin (20-3-2) will face

Middlebury in the semifinals Saturday at 4 p.m. The winner meets Williams or Trinity in the final Sunday at 2 p.m.

Left: Bowdoin's Kim Tess-Wanat slides the puck past the prone Williams goalkeeper during a 5-3 win for the Polar Bears in their

quarterfinal round game last weekend. Bowdoin (19-4-2) will play Amherst Sunday in the semifinals.

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A group of students and faculty from St. Joseph’s College of Maine travelled to Haiti in January for a service trip. The group, which included Associate Professor of Business Administration Beth Richardson and Molly Blumenthal, a nursing student. Both are Portland residents, and they worked with Partners in Development, a Massachusetts-based organization, in laying a house foundation, volunteering in a health clinic and providing expertise in developing budget spreadsheets, job descriptions and other administrative tools. Their work is part of ongoing efforts to help the people in a village on the outskirts of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.

Clark Insurance has launched a year-long TV campaign to support a number of area nonprofit and civic causes. The employee-owned insurance agency is using half its TV advertising budget to highlight eight different organizations on channels in the Time Warner Cable service area, using 300, 15-second announcements for each organization. The first two announcements spotlight “teaching excellence” and the Portland Stage Company. Other featured organizations will include Preble Street, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland, Woodfords Family Services, Port Resourc-es, The Community Schools and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute.

As part of Portland’s Downtown Dis-trict’s Light Up Your Holidays month-long celebration, Shop For A Cause Day is an opportunity for local businesses to give back to their community. Downtown Port-land shops, gallery and business owners select a recipient each September. In 2012, more than 40 participating businesses con-tributed $6,000 in sales on Dec. 1 to Junior Achievement of Maine.

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England’s largest law firms, contributed more than 2,900 hours of pro bono legal services, valued at more than $700,000, to nonprofit organizations and community service projects in Maine, New Hampshire and around the world in 2012. The firm also contributed the most hours of any law firm in Maine for the Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project, a project of the Maine Bar Founda-tion and Pine Tree Legal Assistance.

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WMTW Channel 8 signed a 3-year partnership agreement with Maine Cancer Foundation. WMTW will serve as the of-ficial multi-media outlet to promote the Tri for a Cure and the Twilight 5K. Maine Cancer Foundation is a nonprofit organiza-tion funding cancer research, education and patient support programs.

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Elizabeth “Liz” Cartland has been named director of development at the Portland Mu-seum of Art. Cartland will be responsible for managing the museum’s fundraising staff, overseeing the implementation of a major gifts program, managing an overall strategy of annual leadership giving pro-grams, and acting as lead fundraiser for the institution.

Charlie Woodworth has been named the new executive director of Maine Huts & Trails. Woodworth has been a member of Maine Huts & Trails for many years and replaces Nicole Freedman, who has returned to Boston. Maine Huts & Trails is a nonprofit organization which contributes to the economic, social and natural environ-ment of Maine’s western mountain region.

Grants

As a result of a $30,300 March of Dimes grant, Maternity Care at Mid Coast Hospital will be expanding its CenteringPregnancy program. The grant will support the pro-gram by allowing for increased scheduling opportunities and patient capacity. Center-ingPregnancy is an evidenced-based model of group prenatal care that integrates basic

prenatal health assessment and education with social support. Facilitated by a Certi-fied Nurse Midwife and Maternity Care nurses, the centering program at MidCoast Hospital allows women with similar “due months” to meet in a group setting and participate in their own care by weighing themselves, checking blood pressures and recording in their own charts.

Innovations

Fluid Imaging Technologies, a Yarmouth-based laboratory instrumentation manu-facturer, earned U.S. Patent No. 8,345,239 for the development of a new system and method for imaging birefringent particles in a fluid. The patented technology fea-tures two cross-polarizing filters that auto-matically detect the presence of anisotropic particles and microorganisms, take a digital image of each one and provide more than 30 different parameters of measurement data, all saved in a variety of formats. Light passes to the camera for imaging only af-ter passing through the particles and both polarization analyzers. The new advance effectively isolates birefringent targets of interest for analysis.

Highland Green in Topsham, Maine’s first and largest master planned active

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Bruce Balfour was named as the top producer for the Coldwell Banker Resi-dential Brokerage real estate office in Cape Elizabeth.

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Sun Media Group, The Forecaster’s par-ent company, has been granted a license to distribute Kidsville News, an award win-ning children’s publication, in Cumberland and Androscoggin counties. The full-color, educational tabloid is now available to all K-6 grade classrooms in Cumberland County free of charge, along with an edu-cational web resource with downloadable worksheets broken out by grade levels. Beginning Friday, The Sun Journal, also a member of Sun Media Group, will be-gin distribution in Androscoggin County. Kidsville News mascot Truman, a friendly, 6-foot dragon, visited the Family Ice Cen-ter in Falmouth on Feb. 20 to promote the publication.


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Mid CoastAuditionsBrunswick 2013 Hometown Idol is seeking participants for this year’s contest, held April 27 at 7 p.m. at the Orion Performing Arts Center in Topsham. Applications are avail-able in Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell schools and at Shaw’s at Cook’s Coner and Riley Insurance. For more information visit bruns-wickmainerotary.org or e-mail [email protected].

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Foreign Film Series: “Children of Heaven” (Iran), 7 p.m., Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 725-5242.

Friday 3/1“Revanche,” followed by round-table discussion, 7 p.m., Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall, Bowdoin Col-lege, Brunswick, 725-3375.

Saturday 3/2“Chasing Ice,” 7 p.m., Kresge Audi-torium, Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 725-3375.

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Saturday 3/9“Get Away Jordan,” 4 p.m., Bath United Methodist Church, 340 Oak Grove, Bath, 443-4707.

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Saturday 3/2“Quake,” 7 p.m., Wish Theater, Memorial Hall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 725-3375.

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Greater PortlandAuditionsSunday 3/3Portland School of Ballet CORPS Program, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Portland Ballet Studios, 517 Forest Ave., Port-land, 772-9671, $20 audition fee.

Books & AuthorsFriday 3/1Walter Bannon, “The White Pock-etbook.” 12:00 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Port-land. 871-1700 ext. 723.

Tuesday 3/5Page to Stage: “A Song About Twilight,” 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Port-land, 871-1700 ext. 723.

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Tuesday 3/12Author Talk with Kieran Shields, 6:30 p.m., South Portland Public Library, 482 Broadway, South Port-land, 767-7660.

FilmWednesday 3/6“Miss Representation,” 6 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monu-ment Square, Portland, 774-9994.

Friday 3/8“Holy Motors,” 7 p.m., SPACE Gal-lery, 538 Congress St., Portland, 775-6148.

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Tuesday 3/5Portland Symphony Orchestra: Haydn’s “The Creation,” 7:30 p.m., Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland, 775-2126.

Wednesday 3/6Standard Issue, 6 p.m., Gingko Blue, 455 Fore St., Portland, 541-9190.

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Theater & DanceFriday 3/1“Tribute,” 7 p.m., Deering High School, 370 Stevens Ave., Portland, 874-8260.

First Friday 10 Minute Showcase, 5-9 p.m., Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St., Portland, 766-6204.

Saturday 3/2“39 Steps,” 6:30 p.m., Falmouth High School, 74 Woodville Road, Falmouth, falmouththeater.org.

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“Once Upon a Mattress,” 8 p.m., Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland, 874-8260.

Sunday 3/3Mostly Puppets Festival: “Squirrel Stole My Underpants,” 2 p.m., Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland, Mayostreetarts.org.

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Monday 3/4Naked Shakespeare: The Appren-tice Showcase, 8 p.m., Wine Bar, 38 Wharf St., Portland, 854-0065.

Wednesday 3/6“Dead Man Walking,” 7 p.m., Cape Elizabeth High School, 345 Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth, 799-3309.

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‘Once Upon a Mattress’ in South PortlandBy Scott Andrews

A classic musical comedy from the middle of the 20th century takes center stage this week in the arts and entertain-ment calendar. Lyric Music Theater’s current community production of “Once Upon a Mattress” is a very funny and very tuneful fairy tale for adults. It’s based on the classic yarn of “The Princess and the Pea.”

Portland Symphony Orchestra has its annual major choral work scheduled for March 5. Franz Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation” will be presented with the Masterworks Chorus of the Choral Art Society as featured vocal ensemble, three solo vocalists plus guest maestro Donald Neuen on the podium.

One Longfellow Square has a topnotch instrumentalist slated for Saturday: Johnny A, who ranks among America’s guitar gods.

‘Once Upon a Mattress’What a hoot! That was my first im-

pression of “Once Upon a Mattress,” the exceedingly funny Broadway musical comedy that’s running through this week-end at Lyric Music Theater. If the latest turns in the weather have you longing for some belly laughs, turn to this wonderful community production.

Dating from 1959, “Once Upon a Mattress” is based on the classic fairy tale, “The Princess and the Pea.” With script by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller and Marshall Barer, lyrics by Barer and music by Mary Rodgers (daughter of legendary Broadway composer Richard Rodgers) “Once Upon a Mattress” has become a staple of community and school companies.

The libretto is characterized by campy satire performed by overdrawn, over-blown characters and several delight-fully surprising turns of the plot. Tops in

Lyric’s community production are John Robinson as Prince Dauntless, who is played as an overgrown schoolboy, and Crystal Giordano as Princess Winifred, a loudmouthed comedienne who also serves as the show’s improbably forward ingenue.

I also liked several of the supporting actors, especially Patricia Davis, as the domineering Queen Aggravain, and John Schrank as her long-suffering husband, King Sextimus the Silent. Kudos also to Vince Knue as The Minstrel and Joe Swenson as The Jester.

Director Michael Donovan maintains the fast pace this style of show requires to succeed. Lyric’s costumer, Louise Keezer, also excels in her longtime role.

Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St.

in South Portland, presents “Once Upon a Mattress” at 8 p.m. March 1-2. Call 799-1421.

Portland Symphony OrchestraTwo decades ago, Robert Moody was

an aspiring young musician who boasted formidable talents both as a cellist and vocalist. Torn between the prospects of choosing one career over the other, the high school sophomore had a revelation at the South Carolina All State Chorus Festival.

Performing a work conducted by Donald Neuen, Moody recalled that the combined forces of the instrumentalists and the chorus vastly exceeded the sum of the parts. And Moody’s eureka moment was seeing the conductor’s role in meld-ing instrumental and choral music into an awe-inspiring combination.

It was a life-changing moment, Moody recalled recently, and his career path be-came clear. He would become a conduc-tor. A few years later Neuen became his teacher and mentor when Moody studied conducting at the Eastman School.

Now Moody is returning the favor by inviting Neuen to conduct the Port-land Symphony Orchestra’s annual late winter choral concert. One work will be performed: Franz Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation,” a magnificent masterpiece that was inspired by George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah.”

Like “Messiah,” Haydn worked from an English-language libretto that comprised excerpts from very well-known works. For “The Creation” he used two books of the Bible – Genesis and Psalms – plus sections of John Milton’s epic poem, “Paradise Lost.”

The oratorio leads listeners from pri-mal darkness and chaos, through the six days of Biblical creation, to the earthly paradise of the Garden of Eden. The

Paul lydenGuitar god Johnny A. will visit Portland’s One

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composer’s genius is evident at the outset.“Haydn’s introduction to the work,

for orchestra alone, is one of the most astonishing pieces of music every com-posed,” PSO program annotator Mark Rohr writes. “This is the ‘Representation of Chaos,’ before creation, and to say it was ahead of its time is to understate the case.”

Over the course of “The Creation,” Haydn musically develops the elements of the text in myriad and fascinating ways. For example, one passage mimics the waves on the ocean, while the section on the creation of the animals evokes a delightful musical zoo.

Taken as a whole, “The Creation” is an overwhelming work. “The spacious-ness of his design, the rich colors of his orchestra palette, his harmonic genius and his devotion to the text all combine into an awe-inspiring grandeur full of glory and profound thanksgiving,” according to Rohr.

Three soloists have been engaged: soprano Lisa Saffer, tenor John McVeigh and bass Laurence Albert. Saffer and McVeigh are Maine residents, and both enjoy thriving careers on the global op-eratic circuit. Both have performed with the PSO and other Maine musical orga-nizations numerous times. Albert made his professional debut with the Detroit Opera in 1977, and has since performed a repertoire of over 50 operatic roles.

Neuen currently serves as the Univer-sity of California, Los Angeles Distin-guished Professor of Choral Conducting and Director of Choral Studies. In addi-tion, Neuen regularly directs the UCLA Chorale and the UCLA Chamber Singers and is the artistic director of the Angeles Chorale.

The Masterworks Chorus, directed by University of Southern Maine professor Robert Russell, is part of the larger Cho-ral Art Society, southern Maine’s largest ensemble devoted to singing.

Portland Symphony Orchestra presents “The Creation” at 7:30 p.m. March 5 at Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall. Call PortTix at 842-0800.

Johnny A.As a guitarist, how do you know when

you’ve reached such a pinnacle of success that you deserve the title “guitar god?”

Let me suggest one good criteria: when a major guitar manufacturer, such as Gib-son, puts your name on one of its models.

Johnny A., namesake of the Gibson Johnny A. – a hollow-bodied long-necked electric guitar – will be appearing this Saturday at One Longfellow Square.

A veteran of the Boston music scene – and one-time Portland resident – Johnny A. and his band are blues musicians who simultaneously emphasize melody and fiery instrumental wizardry in a repertoire that combines well-known covers and self-penned tunes. He boasts one of the most distinctive voices in modern Ameri-can music – and he doesn’t sing a note.

Johnny A. has been nominated for the Boston Music Awards’ Blues Musician of the Year, and on Saturday he will be play-ing selections from his latest CD, “One November Night.”

Catch Johnny A. at 8 p.m. March 2 at One Longfellow Square, corner of State and Congress in Portland. Call 761-1757.


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Sunday 3/3Fill out the FAFSA, 1-3 p.m., bring income tax documents, Region 10 Technical High School, 68 Church Road, Brunswick, 729-6622.

Sunday 3/3Japanese Festival at the Library, 12 p.m., Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., Bath, 443-4112.

Wednesday 3/6Blood Drive, 1-6 p.m., Knights of Columbus, 807 Middle St., Bath, 733-2767.

Sunday 3/10Pejebscot Genealogy Society, 2 p.m., Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 833-5430.

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Call for VolunteersAndroscoggin Home Care & Hospice has a growing need for hospice volunteers in the Bruns-wick area, training, call 777-7740, AHCH.org.

ArtVan Program seeks volunteers to help with art therapy program-ming with children and teens, promotional support and fund-raising efforts, contact 371-4125 or visit artvanprogram.org.

Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks volunteer mentors (must be 18+) willing to commit one year and spend eight hours a month with

a child 6-14 who lives in a single parent home, contact Brunswick office at 729-7736 or [email protected].

Chocolate Church Arts Center seeks volunteers for the art gallery and more, 798 Washington St., Bath, 442-8455.

The Greater Bath Elder Outreach Network, a program of Catho-lic Charities Maine, is looking for volunteers a few hours a week to assist seniors by providing companionship, transportation, assistance with errands and tele-phone reassurance for elderly and disabled people who live in Saga-dahoc County and the Brunswick area, Martha Cushing, 837-8810;

meetings 6-7:30 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month, Patten Free Library, Bath, 837-8810.

Habitat for Humanity/7 Rivers Maine needs volunteers at ReStore in Bath, minimum four-hour shift commitment, 386-5081 or [email protected].

Home to Home, an organiza-tion providing a safe place for parents to exchange children for visitations, needs volunteers, com-mitment of 1-2 hours per exchange period, police check and train-ing required, Mid-Coast Hospital, Brunswick, Rich Siegel, 837-4894, mainehometohome.org.

Meals on Wheels drivers urgently needed, Wednesdays and Fridays, information, 729-0475, Spectrum Generations, 12 Main St., Topsham.

Mid Coast Hospital, dozens of positions at the café, gift shop, or greeting patients, 123 Medical Center Drive, Brunswick, 373-6015.

Mid Coast Senior Health Cen-ter needs volunteers for various activities with seniors Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, welcome desk openings, 373-3646.

Parkview Adventist Medical Cen-ter, gift shop needs volunteers, four-hour shifts mornings, after-noons and early evenings Monday through Friday, every other Sun-day 1-4 p.m., will train, 373-4518 or visit the gift shop at 329 Maine St., Brunswick.

Pejepscot Historical Society needs volunteer tour guides for Skolfield-Whittier House and Josh-ua L. Chamberlain Museum and volunteer staff for Chamberlain Museum gift shop, 729-6606.

People Plus Center, ongoing op-portunities, 6 Noble St., Brunswick, 729-0757.

Red Cross training, Disaster Action Team, free, basic classes provide foundation for delivering assistance in emergency situa-tions, weekday evenings, course schedules at midcoast.redcross.org, register on line or call 729-6779, 563-3299, MidCoast-

RedCross.net, 16 Community Way, Topsham.

Road to Recovery, American Cancer Society’s transportation program seeks volunteers to help cancer patients get to their treat-ment appointments, call Janice Staples, 373-3715, [email protected], American Cancer So-ciety, One Bowdoin Mill Island, Topsham.

Spectrum Generations has vol-unteer opportunities in program development, outreach, and re-ception at its new Community Center at 12 Main St., Topsham, Dave, 729-0475.

Sexual Assault Support Services of Mid Coast Maine needs vol-unteers to provide support and information to callers on 24-hour hotline, 725-2181.

Dining OutFriday 3/1Lenten haddock supper, 5 p.m., St. Charles Church, 132 McKeen St., Brunswick, 729-3509.

100th Anniversary Luncheon, 12 p.m., Merriconeag Grange, 529 Harpswell Road, Harpswell, 729-8842.

Saturday 3/2Pancake breakfast, 8 a.m., Mer-riconeag Grange, 529 Harpswell Road, Harpswell, [email protected].

Japanese dinner, 6 p.m., Bath Middle School, 6 Old Brunswick Road, Bath, tickets available at Now You’re Cooking, 49 Front St., Bath.

Gardens & OutdoorsOrganic gardening methods, Jan. 13-March 17, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 27 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 729-7694.

Getting SmarterSaturday 3/2Ikebana workshop, Japanese art of flower arrangement, 12 p.m.,

Hampton Inn, 140 Commercial St., Bath, 844-0510.

Family Japanese Arts Festival, 1 p.m., Bath Middle School, 6 Old Brunswick Road, Bath.

Monday 3/4“Rural Development and Conser-vation in the West’s Forest,” 7 p.m., Main Lounge, Moulton Union, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 725-3375.

Health & SupportSaturday 3/2Lap Swimming, 7 a.m.-12 p.m., Bath Area YMCA, 303 Centre St., Bath, 443-4112.

Wednesday 3/6Holistic Nutrition for Seniors, 12:30 p.m., Bath Area Family YMCA, 303 Centre St., Bath, 443-4112.

Tuesday 3/12Long-term weight-loss solutions, 5 p.m., RunningStart Class Room, 3rd floor, 121 Medical Center Drive, Brunswick, 373-6056.

Just for SeniorsA Matter of Balance, Jan. 15-Feb. 7, Tuesday and Thursday mornings, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Senior Health Cen-ter, 58 Baribeau Drive, Brunswick, 373-4656.

Kids & FamilySaturday 3/2Children’s Hour, 10:15 a.m., Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., Bath, 443-5141.

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Far left: Brunswick Junior High School Principal Walter Wallace knocks on one of the sixth grade classrooms’ thin walls. “This is not very good for sound,” he said.”

Coffin Elementary School Principal Steve Ciembroniewicz says separating young children in mobile classroom units apart from the main part of school can create safety and scheduling issues.

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portunity for School Board members and the public to see why it may be time to upgrade the two schools – or possibly build a new one if that costs less.

Perzanoski said a projected increase in student popu-lation was one of the original reasons for pursuing the

plan in the first place, prompted in part by the closing of Jordan Acres Elementary School in 2011.

“But the main reason was that the buildings were falling apart and needed to be upgraded,” Perzanoski said. “Especially concerning was having classes in the (portable classrooms).”

Coffin has had five portable units for several years, and Perzanoski isn’t the only one who thinks they should go.

Standing on the road between Coffin’s entrance and three of the mobile classrooms, Principal Steve Ciem-broniewicz explained on Monday the time constraints and safety concerns the current setup creates.

“Imagine the transition times, and you’re bundling up ...,” Ciembroniewicz said while motioning to the cross-walk, where a class of small children and their teacher just crossed. “This is a big deal. This has to change. We don’t want little kiddos crossing all the time.”

Beyond increasing the safety for Coffin students and getting rid of the mobile units, Keck said Coffin and the junior high, both more than 50 years old, have structural issues that could increase the cost of the upgrade plan.

“These buildings are not terrific,” Keck told the School Board at the last facilities meeting. “They were not terrific when they were built.”

The cost upgrades will be presented at the March 6 meeting in four cost options, depending on the scope of work.

While the minimum amount of work would consist of basic repairs, like removing asbestos from beneath the floors and replacing broken toilet fixtures, another cost option would focus on adding more capacity to the schools, Keck said.

Keck said that while basic repairs would be less costly, they wouldn’t do much to increase the longevity of two buildings.

“If you do a full renovation you can say ... it’s more expensive,” Keck said, “but ... it’s a good investment and it will go on for another 40 years.”

Some of the work would entail updating the two build-ings to modern code standards and adding insulation.

Also, the walls between the classrooms at Coffin have quarter-inch plywood, which not only allows sound to travel into other classrooms, but also makes the build-ing more combustible, Keck previously told the School Board.

At the junior high on Monday, Principal Walter Wal-lace demonstrated some of his building’s deficiencies.

“These are partition walls. They fold, they open up,” Wallace said, pointing at the thin exterior walls of a few classrooms. “This is not very good for sound.”

Stopping by a classroom in another part of the sixth-grade hall, Wallace pointed down at the floor.

“You can see that it slopes down,” Wallace said, ex-plaining that several classroom floors have sunk from the hallway’s floor level. “Now you can take a marble and it will roll all the way across the floor.”

In case renovations prove too costly, Keck said he will also have cost estimates for new buildings.

Although the School Board will have to decide which path to take, the final decision will be left to voters when a bond issue goes to referendum, probably in November.

Last fall, Town Manager Gary Brown estimated a 6-7 percent increase in property taxes if the town bor-rows $21 million for the school upgrade plan. That figure could increase depending on the cost options that emerge March 6.

“If there’s not support for (a bond), the buildings stay exactly the way they are and we try to keep them run-ning,” Perzanoski said.

He said he will likely examine the costs of taking that route at one of the next school budget meetings. Dylan Martin can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 100 or dmartin@theforecaster.

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Johnson said. “The unique thing about some of this land is the groundwater exists very shallowly beneath the soil, so anyone who’s doing the simple task of planting landscaping may have the risk of coming into contact with groundwater.”

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Because we want all dogs toget an education, Jill and Amyoffer puppy and basic classesfor 120& to keep them reason-able for all. Specialty classesfor performance dogs andreactive/aggressive dogs canbe a bit more- 140-165. Pleasewrite to [email protected], orsign up at www.poeticgold-farm.com 2/20 WednesdayNights with Amy HerbertABCDT, 3pm Help! My Dog isOut Of Control! (this class is forpeople who are frustrated andready to give up on fixingnaughty behavior) $140 for 6weeks. The classes below areall $120 for 6 weeks: 4pm Inter-mediate Obedience (prep forcompetition in Novice) 5pmBasic Obedience, 6pm AKCStar Puppy, 7pm Conforma-tion/Show Ring Handling. Sat-urday March 2 with Judy MooreCPDT-KA, 9 am STARPuppy,10 am Manner I,11amControl Unleashed,11am Out-door Adventures For Shy/Inse-cure Dogs,12 pm Manners II1pm Leash Lungers/FrustratedGreeters,1pm ControlUnleashed, Sunday, March 3 toApril 7, 9 am to 10 am STARPuppy with Jill,10 am to 11 amFamily Dog Manners with Jill11am to 12pm Canine GoodCitizen/Therapy Dog Prep withJill, 1pm to 2pm Rally O withJill, 2pm to 3pm Rally O withJill, 3-pm to 4pm Noseworkswith Elisa (THIS CLASS ISFULL). 4pm to 5pm ControlUnleashed with Elisa (THISCLASS IS FULL). MondayMarch 4 with Judy MooreCPDT-KA,12pm Basic Man-ners I, 1 pm Control Unleashed4pm Canine Good Citizen,5pm Human Directed Aggres-sion (T.A.C.T. Program), 7pmManners II, Tuesday MorningsMarch 5 to Tuesday April 9, 9am to 10 am Rally O Excellentwith Jill (THIS CLASS IS NOWFULL). 11 am to 12 am ControlUnleashed with Elisa (THISCLASS IS NOW FULL).Wednesday, Day times: Febru-ary 27 to April 3 (Jill) All theseclasses are $120 per session8 am to 9 am Rally Excellentand Rally Excellent Advanced(THIS CLASS IS FULL). 9amto 10 am STAR Puppy, 10 amto 11am Canine Good Citi-zen/Therapy Dog Prep. 12pmto 1pm Family Dog Manners,1pm to 2pm Rally O, ThursdaysAfternoons and Evenings withwith Nancy Freeman-SmithCBATI,Tricks Class 6pm,Freestyle Class 6pm, GrowlyDogs (THIS CLASS IS FULL)BAT Instruction. Fridays atPoeticGold Farm Dog Training:Friday, March 1 to April 5 withJill Simmonshttp://poeticgoldfarm.com/signup.php10 am to 11am Rally O (Jill)11 am to 12 pm Breed Han-dling with Amy Herbert. Poetic-Gold Farm Dog Training207.899.1185

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POETICGOLD FARM Dog-Training: A Sound EducationFor Every Dog, Because wewant all dogs to get an edu-cation, we offer some puppyand basic classes likeCanine Good Citizen for120& to keep them reason-able. Please write to [email protected] or sign upat www.poeticgoldfarm.com 2/ 20 Wednesday Nights withAmy Herbert ABCDT, 3pmHelp! My Dog is Out Of Con-trol! (this class is for peoplewho are frustrated and readyto give up on fixing naughtybehavior) $140 for 6 weeks.The classes below are all$120 for 6 weeks: 4pm Inter-mediate Obedience (prep forcompetition in Novice), 5pmBasic Obedience, 6pm AKCStar Puppy, 7pm Conforma-tion/Show Ring Handling.Saturday March 2 with JudyMoore CPDT-KA, 9 am STARPuppy, 10 am Manner I, 11amControl Unleashed,11amOutdoor Adventures ForShy/Insecure Dogs, 1pmLeash Lungers/FrustratedGreeters, 1pm ControlUnleashed, Sunday, March 3to April 7, 9 am to 10 amSTAR Puppy with Jill,10 amto 11 am Family Dog Man-ners with Jill,11am to 12pmCanine Good Citizen/Thera-py Dog Prep with Jill, 1pm to2pm Rally O with Jill, 2pm to3pm Rally O with Jill, 3-m to4pm Noseworks with Elisa(THIS CLASS IS FULL). 4pmto 5pm Control Unleashedwith Elisa (THIS CLASS ISFULL). Monday March 4 withJudy Moore CPDT-KA, 12pmBasic Manners I,1 pm Con-trol Unleashed, 4pm CanineGood Citizen, 5pm HumanDirected Aggression(T.A.C.T.Program), 7pm Manners II,Tuesday Mornings March 5to Tuesday April 9, 9 am to 10am Rally O Excellent with Jill(THIS CLASS IS NOW FULL),11 am to 12 am ControlUnleashed with Elisa (THISCLASS IS NOW FULL)Wednesday, Day times: Feb-ruary 27 to April 3 (Jill) Allthese classes are 120$ persession, 8 am to 9 am RallyExcellent and Rally ExcellentAdvanced (THIS CLASS ISFULL) 9am to 10 am STARPuppy, 10 am to 11amCanine Good Citizen/Thera-py Dog Prep, 12pm to 1pmFamily Dog Manners. 1pm to2pm Rally O, ThursdaysAfternoons and Eveningswith with Nancy Freeman-Smith CBATI, Tricks Class6pm Freestyle Class 6pmGrowly Dogs (THIS CLASS ISFULL), BAT Instruction, Fri-days at PoeticGold Farm DogTraining: Friday, March 1 toApril 5, 10 am to 11am RallyO (Jill) 11 am to 12 pm BreedHandling with Amy Herbert.PoeticGold Farm Dog Train-ing 207.899.1185

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Maine Biomass®odern heating solutions at affordable prices

Natural, Energy-efficient, Eco-friendly, Sustainable

Hardwood Bricks, Blocks, and Pellets

Custom Delivery, Quality Chimney Services

[email protected] http://mainebiomass.com207-725-0387 11 Pleasant St., Brunswick, ME

Save Money - Reasonable PricingThe Smart Way to Keep Warm

We’re the complete service company of the wood industry

Pro Installationand

Maintainence

Wood & PelletStoves

SUCCESS STARTS HERE

For more information about graduation rates, the median debt of students who com pleted the program and other important information, visit www.intercoast.edu.

Call your nearest location to schedule a career planning session:

InterCoast, Kittery275 US Route 1,

Kittery, ME 03904

(888) 529-9797

InterCoast Portland Maine Campus207 Gannett Drive S.

Portland, Maine 04106

(888) 341-1616

InterCoast Salem, New Hampshire19 Keewaydin DriveSalem, NH 03079

(888) 449-8383

√ FINANCIAL AID AVAILABLE(to those who qualify)

√ Job Placement Assistance

ALCOHOL & DRUG COUNSELING STUDIESGIVE OTHERS HOPE. BECOME A SUBSTANCEABUSE COUNSELOR!

PRACTICAL NURSING PROGRAM *LOCATED IN MAINE

PHARMACY TECHNICIANMEDICAL ASSISTANT

BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY & ADMINISTRATION(ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, SECRETARY, HR)

COMPUTERIZED ACCOUNTING (BOOKKEEPING)

ELECTRICAL TRAINING PROGRAM

CAREER TRAINING AT INTERCOAST

BUSINESSOPPORTUNITY

NEED OUTGOING sales people for new

company in Maine. Call Joline #207-899-9235

CHILD CARE

DONNA’S DAYCARE

FMI 415-4314

Full & Part timeSummer Care openingsw/ trips to the lakesbeaches & state parks

School Age before & afterLicensed Daycare on Cumberland/

No.Yarmouth bus route

Plenty of fun outdoor playw/snacks provided

CHIMNEY

ADVERTISE YOUR CHIMNEYSERVICES in The Forecasterto be seen in 69,500 papers.Call 781-3661 for more infor-mation on rates.

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JUST USHOME CLEANING

• Handyman• Property Maint.

Snow PlowingSouth PortlandCape Elizabeth

653-7036

Shouldn’t you have it CLEANED your way?Friendly, reliable, trustworthy

and professional.Senior Rates. References provided.

Call today for a free estimate:

(207) 415-0249

It’s YourHOME!

C L EAN I NG

NEED HELP CLEANING?Looking to fill a few spots. If youneed your home cleaned by aprofessional then I’m your gal.References & resonable rates.229-5050. Melinda.

CLEANING

LOPEZ Cleaning ServiceWe offer many differentkinds of Cleaning Services:House Cleaning, Office &Apt. & Condo, Banks &Store Cleaning. Free Esti-mates, Fully Insured, Low-est Rates.

Abel & TinaCell: 207-712-1678

FOR HOME/OFFICE, NEWConstruction, Real EstateClosings etc. the clean youneed is “Dream Clean” theclean you`ve always dreamedof with 15 years of expert serv-ice. Fully Insured. For rates &references call Leslie 807-2331.


We Have OpeningsFREE ESTIMATES • Shirley Smith

Call 233-4191Weekly- Bi-Weekly

Home CleaningReliable service atreasonable rates.Let me do yourdirty work!Call Kathy at892-2255

CLEANING

Low Prices • Great Service!Free Estimates • Excellent References

Call Sonia-939-0983

HOME & OFFICECLEANING SERVICEApartments, Condos, Construction

Cleanups, Special Events

COMPUTERS

Certified in PC Board Repair / Inspection / ReworkAll Levels of Hardware Repair Can Be Performed

Disaster Recovery • Spyware – VirusWiFi Networks • Data Recovery

30 YEARS EXPERIENCE

A+ Network+ CertifiedComputer Repair

PC – Mac – TabletsMember of Sebago Lake Chamber of Commerce and BBB since 2003

SENIORS AREESPECIALLY WELCOME

Dave: 892-2382

All Major Credit Cards Accepted

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NEED COMPUTER HELP?• We Come To You• Problems Fixed/Repaired• “How To” Tutorial Lessons

• SENIORS Our Specialty• Reasonable Rates• References Available• Facebook Help

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ELDER CARE

CNA LOOKING for privateduty home care. Honest, reli-able and compassionate. Ican help with errands, per-sonal care, housekeeping,meal prep.Call Tracy@595-8039

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FIREWOOD

*Celebrating 27 years in business*

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$330 Kiln DriedAdditional fees may apply

Visa/MC accepted • Wood stacking available353-4043

www.reedsfirewood.com




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LOVEIf you are interested in joining an agency focused on sharing loveand warmth with the elderly, we’d like to speak with you. ComfortKeepers is a non-medical, in-home care agency that is dedicated toboth our Caregivers and our clients. Quality care is our mission, hiringcompassionate and dependable staff is our focus. Our Caregivers havefound:

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Production Technician

The Packaging and Distribution facility is seeking a fulltime dependable Production Technician for our night sideproduction operation. The ideal candidate should havestrong mechanical aptitude, the ability to handle multipletasks and demands of a diverse department. Computerknowledge a plus. Duties include setting up and troubleshooting of production equipment including repairing anymechanical breakdowns. Individual must be a team player.

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Packaging andDistribution Supervisor

The Packaging and Distribution facility is seeking a fulltime individual to work as part of a team to superviseour night side production operation. This person shouldhave strong mechanical aptitude, computer experience,the ability to handle multiple tasks and demands of adiverse department. Supervisory experience is necessary,the ability to communicate effectively with people andgood organizational skills.

Shift hours approximately 8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m.We are a fast paced 7 night operation. This is a greatopportunity for the right individual.

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Sun JournalAttn: Human ResourcesP.O. Box 4400, Lewiston, ME 04243-4400Or email: [email protected]

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Sun Journal is a division of the Sun Media Group

The Pressroom department is seeking a full time press op-erator to work nights. The ideal candidate will haveprinting experience and/or a strong mechanical aptitude.Some computer knowledge a plus. Work hours are from 8:15p.m. to 4:15 a.m., with two rotating days off. Pay commen-surate with experience.

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seniors in the greater Portland, Maine. If you possess aPSS or CNAcertificate, have worked with clients with dementiaor have provided care for a loved one in the past, we wouldlike to talk with you about joining our team. We have part-timeand full-time shifts available weekdays, nights and weekends.

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Alcoholics Anonymous Fal-mouth Group Meeting TuesdayNight, St. Mary`s EpiscopalChurch, Route 88, Falmouth,Maine. 7:00-8:00 PM.

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Freeport shoe retailer seeksexperienced, motivated salesassociate with flexible availabil-ity. Please send resume to:[email protected]

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is imminent danger to the student or others, you can use restraint. Time after time it is teachers blaming Chapter 33, when it isn’t the law, it is the lack of training.”

Chapter 33 was passed in June 2012, after a 2010 series published by The Forecaster revealed that physical restraint was being used frequently in Maine schools, in some cases in violation of existing policies.

In response to the reports, the Maine Department of Education formed a working group to examine the state’s restraint laws; stakeholders presented their revisions to the Legislature in early 2012.

Those changes included clearer definitions of physical restraint and seclusion, and limits on the use of both except in cases where “a student presents imminent risk of injury or harm to the student or others” and where less-intensive interventions have been unsuccessful.

Complaints from educators who said the law is too limit-ing prompted Saviello to propose his changes.

“Teachers want to teach,” he said during a press confer-ence Feb. 20 in Augusta. “The way Chapter 33 was written,

it took that ability out of their hands. Chapter 33 is well intended, but it needs to be clarified. It needs to be modi-fied to allow our teachers to teach again.”

Among other things, the law now prohibits any action that restricts a child’s free movement, including guiding them with a hand on a shoulder or back. Saviello’s proposal replaces the ban on such “physical escort” with language that allows “temporary touching or holding of the student who is acting out, for the purpose of inducing that student to walk to a safe location.”

It also allows “a brief period” of physical restriction by person-to person contact in order to protect and prevent a student from causing injury or harm, property destruction or disruption of the school.

It asks that Chapter 33 be amended to say that restraint or seclusion may be used in cases where a student may cause “significant property damage” and to “prevent disruption of the educational environment.”

Finally, it allows restraint or seclusion of students when precise circumstances are described in a written document signed by the student’s parent.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine said the proposed changes to the law go too far.

“Chapter 33 was crafted as part of a thoughtful, year-long process involving key stakeholders including edu-cators and the Department of Education, and should not be gutted by legislators in a matter of days,” said Rachel Healy, director of communication for the ACLU. “We believe that there is a lack of information and understand-ing about what Chapter 33 actually says and does and we should focus on clarifying the rule, not undermining it with emergency legislation.”

She added that the safety of teachers and students is “absolutely paramount,” but, like Davis, said the Depart-ment of Education should do more to make sure that teachers are educated on what the law actually allows.

Davis said that Chapter 33 requires teachers to receive training on restraint and seclusion from an approved train-ing program, but there is a significant gap between the law and training that is actually taking place.

When asked whether the Department of Education could do a better job providing training to teachers on physical restraint and seclusion, Deborah Friedman, director of policy and programs for the department, said she is not sure what that training could look like or that the Department would go around from school to school explaining the rule.

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Grimes noted that the Oil and Solid Fuels Board, an agency of the Maine Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, is still conducting its investigation into the regulatory aspect of the matter.

After it completes that process, he said, “we will be meeting with them, and because they are not a law-enforcement organization ... if there are any charges to be brought for regulatory issues, that is something that

we would facilitate for them.”Charges that come out of the process could be of

a civil or criminal nature, but who would be charged remains uncertain, Grimes said.

The investigation is determining “if there are any vio-lations that rise to the level of a court summons, and ... who would be responsible for those violations,” he added.

Investigators previously determined a propane gas leak caused the building explosion at about 5 a.m. on Feb. 12. It leveled the duplex at 29-31 Bluff Road in the Atlantic Townhouse Apartment complex, killing Fussell and launching debris throughout the neighborhood.

The probe traced the explosion to a leak from a gas line connecting an outdoor propane tank to two gas heat-ers, according to Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.

McCausland said the leak was in an outside wall of the building, and that the fumes probably seeped into a crawl space beneath the building, where they were ignited by an unknown source.

Garmey previously said the heater in Fussell’s apart-ment may have been replaced the night before the explo-sion. It’s important that Fussell’s family get whatever measure of justice is available to them, he said.

He added Wednesday that “at this point we’re not go-ing to point our finger at any particular party. I think that the facts, when they’re fully explored and discovered, will lead us clearly like bread crumbs in a forest ... to our destination. We just don’t know what that destina-tion is, yet.”


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“We don’t have the resources to do that and I’m not sure whether it is necessary,” Friedman said. “(But) we’d be interested in hearing suggestions about what would be helpful and feasible to improve understanding of the rule.”

What Friedman does think needs to happen is some clarification of language within Chapter 33, instead of a complete unraveling of what the law.

“Giving teachers back the tools they have used in the past to manage student behavior, as long as those tools have minimal risks of physical injury to the staff or student, because that is the underlying reason for the rule change (proposal),” she said.”

She said that changes could include language to allow

“shepherding” of students or brief contact between teachers and students should be made.

But Maine Education Association president, Lois Kilby-Chesley, said the language tweaks need to go further be-cause the current wording is too restrictive.

Kilby-Chesley said that word “imminent” in the law needs to be more clearly defined as it relates to an im-minent threat, because the definition of the word could be different from person to person.

The Maine Disability Rights Center agrees with that assessment.

“One of the things mentioned by the Maine Educa-tion Association in their testimony (at the Feb. 20 public hearing) was that it makes sense to remove the word ‘im-minent,’” said Karen Farber, a disability rights advocate at the center. “We have heard stories of teachers holding back and saying, ‘Is it imminent yet?’ No one wants to have

people sitting there not following their good instincts; if the word ‘imminent’ is causing a hang-up, creating pause where people feel like they are torn, (it should be changed).”

Saviello’s bill was scheduled to go before the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs on Feb. 5, but Friedman said Monday that the committee has not moved forward on it.

Davis said she hopes parents of affected children will have another opportunity to speak on behalf of maintain-ing Chapter 33 as it was written because the Feb. 20 public hearing was during school vacation, which may have pre-vented some from attending.

She said the proposed changes to the law go too far and suggested teachers can use tools like positive reinforcement to curb undesired behavior in students.

“There is so much that can be done instead of restraint,” Davis said.

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