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In 7-2 vote, City Council expresses its ‘concerns’ with tar sands crude oil Mayor, councilors disagree in resolution vote — See page 7

Bug Light Kite Festival soars in South Portland

Police launch survey to gauge public perceptions of crime, safety in city See page 15

Legislators spar over hospital repayment, health care bill See page 15

During the Bug Light Kite Festival on Saturday in South Portland, massive tethered kites soar against a blue sky, during ideal weather conditions for the event. Considered one of the best spots for kite flying in northern New England, Bug LIght Park teemed with people during the festival, which also featured a fundraising barbecue for the park museum and kite-flying demonstrations. For more photos of the event, see page 8. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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Apple avoided billions in taxes

WASHINGTON (NY Times) — Even as Apple became the nation’s most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and surprised experts, a Congressional investigation has found.

Some of these subsidiaries had no employees and were largely run by top officials from the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., according to Congressional investigators. But by officially locating them in places like Ireland, Apple was able to, in effect, make them stateless – exempt from taxes, record-keeping laws and the need for the subsidiaries to even file tax returns anywhere in the world.In 2011, for example, one subsidiary paid Ireland just one-twentieth of 1 percent in taxes on $22 billion on pretax earnings from various operations; another did not file a corporate tax return anywhere and has paid almost nothing on $30 billion in profits since 2009.

“Apple wasn’t satisfied with shifting its profits to a low-tax offshore tax haven,” said Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. “Apple sought the holy grail of tax avoidance. It has created offshore entities holding tens of billions of dollars while claiming to be tax resident nowhere.”

John McCain, the Arizona Republican who is the panel’s ranking member, added: “Apple claims to be the largest U.S. corporate taxpayer, but by sheer size and scale, it is also among America’s largest tax avoiders.”

Over all, Apple’s tax avoidance efforts shifted at least $74 billion from the reach of the Internal Revenue Service between 2009 and 2012, the investigators said. That cash remains offshore, but Apple could still have to pay taxes on it to American authorities if the company were to return the money to its coffers in the United States.

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Battle in Syria pulls Hezbollah further into Assad’s War BEIRUT, Lebanon (NY Times) — Fighting raged for the second day on Monday in the strategic Syrian city of Qusayr, as government forces, backed by Shiite fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, unleashed new airstrikes and rebels fought back fiercely in parts of the city, Syrian opposition activists said.

The toll of dead and wounded continued to rise for Hezbollah, which is fighting its

biggest battle yet on the side of President Bashar al-Assad. Both sides have depicted the fighting in Qusayr as a turning point in the war that is raising regional tensions as Hezbollah plunges more deeply into the conflict. Funerals for Hezbollah fighters were already being held in the group’s strongholds in the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition watchdog

group, reported that at least 28 Hezbollah guerrillas had died in the fighting. If confirmed, that would be by far the largest toll for Hezbollah in a single Syrian battle.

After heavy fighting throughout Sunday, in which regime forces appeared to be gaining ground, Syrian state media and pro-opposition sources gave widely divergent versions on Monday of the battles which raged in the city and left scores of fighters dead.

U.S. takes next steps to fix Iraq killings raise fears of security flaws at embassies renewed sectarian conflict WASHINGTON (NY Times) — By late this summer, the State Department plans to send dozens of additional diplomatic security agents to high-threat embassies, install millions of dollars of advanced fire-survival gear and surveillance cameras in those diplomatic posts, and improve training for employees headed to the riskiest missions.

The price tag for the security improvements proposed after the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last Sept. 11 has reached $1.4 billion to meet the most urgent needs, including additional

personnel. Diplomats and lawmakers say it will take years and billions more dollars to fully carry out the changes called for by an independent review panel that investigated the assault, which killed four Americans. The panel issued 29 recommendations, five of which deal with classified intelligence issues and were not made public.

The department is racing to fulfill the recommendations as threats against United States Embassies in Egypt, Yemen and other hazardous places have sharply increased in recent months.

BAGHDAD (NY Times) — A wave of car bombings and gunfire attacks hit cities in Iraq overnight and on Monday, killing at least 76 people and wounding more than 250, medical and security officials said. Some news agency reports put the overall toll even higher, at 86 or more dead.

The attacks sharpened concerns that sectarian violence was pushing the country toward a conflagration similar to the widespread fighting of 2006 and 2007, before the withdrawal of American forces.

In Baghdad, at least seven car bombs went off on Monday in Shiite neighborhoods, killing at least 25 people and wounding at least 150; some news reports cited as many as 10 car bombs and 48 deaths. The string of attacks followed bomb blasts in Sunni areas on Friday that killed at least 66 people. Also on Monday, two car bombs exploded at a restaurant and a bus stop in the southern city of Basra, killing 15 people, officials said.

White House says it didn’t loop Obama in on I.R.S. inquiry WASHINGTON — White House officials were first notified on April 16 about an investigation into Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of conservative groups and discussed its potential findings with the Treasury Department but never told President Obama, the White House said Monday.

The I.R.S. inspector general informed the White House counsel’s office about the agency’s nearly finished audit along with other reviews nearly a month before its release, the White House said. Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House counsel, was

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‘This is about human rights, not taking sides’ ‘Social Action as Spiritual Practice’ talk delves into Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Timothy Gillis

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To quote Art Linkletter, kids say the darndest things. Sally BowdenSchaible and Bob Schaible, who gave a talk this past Sunday, credit Sally’s daughter, Jaime Costigan, with awakening them to their newfound perspective on the potential for peace in the Middle East.

The talk, “Social Action as Spiritual Practice,” was presented at the Center for Grieving Children and focused on the role of interfaith ministry as a means to that peaceful end.

“It was during her undergrad work at Suffolk, and she was reading things about the conflict there,” Sally said.

“We started to question some of the things she was telling us.”

“I had followed this issue and saw a lot of wrong on both sides. I felt at first like Jaime was tending too much to blame Israel. Once we did the research, we realized there’s another whole story here we had never been exposed to,” Bob said.

“Once the door is open to anything, and you have a different perspective, you just can’t close the door again,” Sally said.

A visit to Jerusalem to see Jaime, who was there working for the Abraham Fund, helped reinforce her message and catapulted the couple into their new way of thinking.

“The first time we went to visit our daughter, who was finishing her masters from Brandeis, it was at end of her school work so she was able to show us around,” Sally said.

“If you go to Israel and get the tour, you get the standard Israeli view. We were able to visit places and talk to people you usually don’t,” Bob said.

The first-hand experience buoyed their current efforts, and fit into their past work in seemingly different fields.

Sally is a board member of ChIME, the Chaplaincy Institute of Maine,

which is a two-year but outside as well, and interfaith seminary in the cultivating of comPortland and was sponpassion,” Sally said. “It’s sor of the talk. She is also about me, but it’s also founder of the Insight about all of us together.”

Community of Southern “‘Justice will take Maine, which is devoted us millions of intricate to the study and pracmoves,’” Bob said, quottice of core Buddhist ing a line from the poet teachings. Bob is a proWilliam Stafford. “I see fessor emeritus in arts this effort as one of those and humanities at the ‘intricate moves.’”

University of Southern Maine. Retired in 2011, he is chair of Maine UPCOMING EVENT Voices for Palestinian ON ISRAEL/PALESTINE Rights.

“I was close to retireAt 7 p.m. on Friday, May ment at the time,” Bob 24, five New England Epissaid. “I was a preacher’s copal activists, members kid, and realized that Sally Bowden-Schaible on a visit to Israel. “If you go to Israel and get the tour, you of the 800-strong women’s this was the issue I get the standard Israeli view. We were able to visit places and talk to people you usu- organization The Outreach Committee of the Society of would be working on in ally don’t,” Bob Schaible said. (COURTESY PHOTO) the Companions of the Holy retirement.” a just peace and people who want to Cross, will make a talk/slide presentation The couple made two more trips just dominate.” of their two-week visit in Israel/Palestine to the Middle East, in the winter of “Or people who just don’t know,” earlier this year. Their trip was sponsored 2009-2010, and in May of 2012.

Sally said as a way of softening his

by Sabeel, the Ecumenical Liberation The“The broader narrative that is sort point. “Even among Jews living in ology Center in East Jerusalem. Topics to of feely circulated around here is that Israel — we’ve met well-meaning be covered include home demolitions, refuIsraelis want peace and Palestinians Jews who think that Palestinians gee camps, the separation wall, the spirit don’t,” Bob said. “Those conventional of the Palestinian people, Kairos Palestine, have all the rights they do.”

Rabbis for Human Rights and interfaith ‘truths,’ we have learned are simply They hoped to address a diverse nonviolent direct action. The event will take not so. People react strongly when we group of people, including ChIME place at the Wishcamper Center, 42-44 tell them this; they call them outrastudents, members of the public and Bedford St., room 133, University of Southgeous lies, but I want to call them outchurch communities interested in ern Maine, Portland campus. The presentarageous truths. They get upset to have social justice, as well as people intertion is sponsored by a coalition of peace their way of thinking challenged.” ested in increasing their awareness of and justice and religious organizations.

Bob admitted that he gets passionthis topic in the Buddhist community.

Q/A session will follow the talk. Palestinate, even angry, about injustice, and “Buddhism is an engaged, spiritual ian olive oil will be on sale. FMI: 239-8060; Sally helps temper his approach with ethic practice, about looking inside mvprights@gmail.com a Buddhist philosophy.

They began their talk with a “Sangha,” a word that refers to a community that comes together to practice and study. They used a meditation of compassion with the notion that one person’s suffering is the same as someone else’s.

Sally spoke about how Buddhism has affected her approach to social activism.

“This is about human rights, not taking sides,” Sally said. “It’s about being a witness to what’s happening.”

“Israelis have a right to live in a non-garrisoned state,” Bob said. “This is a conflict between people who want

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The new abnormal

The collective state of mind in the USA play in recent months, namely the idea these days may be even more peculiar that God has blessed the USA with a limthan what went on in Germany in the itless supply of new oil that will allow us early 1930s, when the Nazis were freely to keep driving to WalMart forever. This elected to lead the country and reconpropaganda from an oil industry desperstructed the battered national psyche ate for capital investment has been swalinto a superman cult that soon beat a lowed whole by people in authority who path to mass death and ruin. America ought to know better, just as that same has its own way of going crazy. We don’t class of people in Germany of 1934 should goose-step to tragedy; we coalesce into have known better about what they were an insane clown posse and stumble into bargaining for in economic well-being it by pratfall — juggaloes dancing backwith the Nazi agenda. wards off the cliff edge.

In our case, the propaganda drumWe’ve been softened up and made beat is being led by formerly respectextra-stupid on a 60-year-long diet of able news organizations. The New York ––––– TV and kreme-filled donuts. Instead of Times, National Public Radio, Blooma “master race,” our political fantasies Kunstler.com berg News, Forbes, and the Atlantic revolve around a master wish — to get Magazine are media giants that have something for nothing. Want to feel good lately spread the “good news” that about yourself? Smoke some crank. Want to become America will soon be 1) “energy independent,” economically secure? Buy a Powerball ticket or 2) the world’s leading oil exporter (greater than drive to the local casino. Want political esteem?

Saudi Arabia is now!), and the “go-to nation” for Plug a flag pin into your lapel. Want status? Borrow cheap manufacturing. free money from the Federal Reserve at zero interAll of these claims are false, by the way. The est and arbitrage it into massive earnings for your American way-of-life was designed to run on primary dealer bank. All these behaviors are the $20-a-barrel oil, not $90-a-barrel oil, and “new techconsequence of a culture that elevated advertising nology” has not changed that. The unfortunate and, to such a high social good, it ended up drowning in to some extent, mendacious memes about the wonits own manufactured b.s. ders of “new technology” have only snookered the A subset of our master wish has been on vivid dispublic into a false sense of security about a future

James Howard Kunstler

that will disappoint them badly and probably provoke an extreme political reaction as the reality of our predicament sweeps through daily life.

Most of the current “endless oil” fantasy revolves around shale oil. Just to get a visual idea of what this amounts to, consider this map. It depicts the two major shale oil production regions of the USA: the Bakken in North Dakota and the Eagle Ford “play” in Texas. Bakken production is confined almost entirely to four counties in North Dakota (Williams, Mountrail, McKenzie, Dunn). The Eagle Ford region touches perhaps ten Texas counties.

Now, realize that the oil fields all over the rest of the USA (including Alaska) are in decline. Here’s where the “bonanza” of new oil all comes from:

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Primary nominating elecmitted support group can gain the tions in the state of Maine endorsement of a well established are scheduled for just over political group. The “top two” open one year from today. Potential primary would require successful candidates for United States finalists to craft a message that Senate, Governor, and both would appeal to a large portion of all Congressional Districts are the eligible voters in the state.

One Man’s starting to organize campaigns This system would encourage Island and attract monetary support. broad debate at the primary stage Name recognition and previand bring the entire spectrum of ous campaigns are important factors for candidates. proposed leadership into debate. The finalists would Currently a bill is being considered in the Maine be able to respond to the recognized interests of the legislature to replace the current closed party priprimary voters in their fall campaigns. This system mary and Republican caucus system with rank would appear to end the “spoiler” general election choice voting similar to the municipal mayoral electhat has frequently been a problem in state wide tion held in 2012 in Portland. The problem with the elections in Maine. This system would seem to end proposal is the start up cost for computerized tabuthe strategy of supporting one candidate with the lating machines and selective software. The laudgoal of eroding support for a second candidate and able goal is encouraging participation by the large thereby helping a third candidate in the general number of unenrolled voters currently excluded election. from selecting primary candidates.

The “top two” open primary election provides a Certainly there are advantages to this proposal, better democratic educational process and promotes but the simple “top two” open primary used by early involvement of many voters that currently feel California for several recent elections appears to disenfranchised. This reform coupled with a signifihave the same advantages and reduces the costs cant reform in the way money can be contributed by of the primaries for the Maine Election Commisanonymous outside groups with no accountability sion. All eligible voters may participate in the priwould go far to restore voter confidence in the civic mary and successful candidates must appeal to fairness of the electoral system. Senator King has a wide number of voters to gain enough support claimed to be working with a group of senators that to qualify for the final run off election. Currently will propose accounting and disclosure of all contriextreme elements of the two major parties can butions over twenty-five hundred dollars. Citizens force their will on less motivated party supportneed to contact representatives and urge support for ers. This drives the debate to the extremes instead these worthwhile proposals. of encouraging moderation. Hot button issues like marriage equality or recreational marijuana (One Man’s Island columnist Robert Libby of Chedecriminalization can skew the primary result beague Island is a teacher, writer, organic gardener, in the small tent closed primary or caucus. Curexecutive director of the Maine Center for Civic Edurently a well funded individual with a small comcation.)

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Regarding East End Beach: ‘Let’s get on with more serious issues’ Editor, I am frankly flummoxed by Diane Davidson’s editorial about excessive traffic at the East End Beach car/truck ferry loading facility. I am an engineer on the Maine Narrow Gauge RR and cross Cutter Street six times a day with a train, several days a week, and have never noticed any “overload” at this landing. Considering all the other better uses of Portland waterfront, it is hard to imagine where this modest ferry traffic at East End Beach could be relocated without disruption to someone else’s “backyard.”

This seems to be a classic case of NIMBY, so I suggest the Friends of the Eastern Promenade just get on with life and live with it. The traffic through there seems pretty steady for the past three years I’ve observed it, so I don’t see this as a “growing” problem. The Friends do many great things for our city, but this effort to move the ferry won’t be one of them.

It seems to me the only place the ferry dock could relocate would be up the Fore River somewhere, which would increase operating costs for the ferry, and thus transportation rates for the Islanders (farther to travel, more fuel, more labor cost). That doesn’t seem a very neighborly thing to do.

Let’s get on with more serious issues, if there are any. Like the terrible possibility I heard of today that Shelley may not be back this summer with her hot dog and lemonade stand at East End Beach. Now that’s serious!

Donovan Gray Portland

The A, B, Cs of a poorly attended school budget election in Portland Editor, (and Thank You in advance, if you do publish), Bob Higgins’ most recent column (“You ARE the

1 percent,” May 17) brings great opportunity to draw a “connect-the-dots” picture, going from A to B to C and so on onto F. Rather than to come down so hard on Non and No-Show Voters in the most recent School Budget Election how about putting the accountability, (call it blame if you want), to lie right at heart and center of the Perpetuator, the City of Portland. A, for “Apathy”, connected to B, “Buffoons”,”Babysitter”, ________ or fill in your own blank, C, “Cash Cow of the City”,________or fill in your own blank, D, “Demographic Disregard”,”Dist rust”?,_________ or fill in your own blank, E, do we even have an E? and finally the infamous F,________, I’ll fill in the blank but keep it to myself.

Mr. Higgins’ piece clearly shows resounding Voter Apathy for what my guess would be “just one more local ‘supposed’ beneficial solution that the City is touting”; Buffoons, speak for itself, Babysitter is questionable to the actual ability of the Schools’ functioning these days; Cash Cow of the City, for how long now has almost every major issue facing the City been deflected to the illegitimate outcry to rally the troops for “our Children’s Future”, while at the same time ignoring that the Futures of yesterday’s and yesteryears Children ARE HERE NOW, TODAY! My “future” Grandchildren from the same old tired recitation of 20 years ago ARE HERE TODAY! (Isn’t that called the despised term, “Rhetoric”?); Demographic Disregard, when again the City continues to just look at the straight numbers, as they did with entering the Resettlement Program to pick up some cash without regard to any “special needs” that would be filling the School System as it becomes the Great Babysitter; disregard for “Cultural” diversity impact, etc.. ...

People fleeing their homeland to escape Human Rights Violations and Atrocities aren’t going to go rushing out to make any waves about the awesome Educational opportunity that they perceive their Children to be getting. (I know this, My own Mother was a full Korean Immigrant that didn’t speak English when she came here and for years after).

“FINALLY”, there, there’s the only “F” that I can give you, here; and I could go on and on right now, but I can’t.

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The excitement will all be over before 2020 KUNSTLER from page 4

The oil coming out of these places is high cost and low flow-rate oil. This is exactly the opposite of what US oil production used to be (low cost and high flow-rate) when we were busy building all the freeways, strip malls, housing subdivisions, suburban office parks and all of the other stranded assets that now make up the infrastructure of daily life in this country. Those were the days when you could pound a single pipe vertically 1000 feet down (not much deeper than many home water wells) into the temperate wheatfields of Oklahoma (drive to work in shirtsleeve weather!) and after that modest investment in drilling you could kick back and depend on a great flow rate (5,000 barrels-a-day, not unusual) of sweet light petroleum for years.

Horizontal drilling (often more than 10,000 feet down + many “laterals” an additional 10,000 feet horizontally) and then fracturing “tight” rock for shale oil is not only a way larger capital expense (lots of steel!) but the flow rates per well (82 barrels-a-day average) are laughable compared to the halcyon days of conventional oil little better than “stripper” wells. Consider also that shale oil well flow-rates decline greater than 60 percent in the first year (rapidly thereafter, too) and you can see easily that there will be no “kicking back” to run the pump-jacks like cash registers, as in the old days.

In fact, the rapid depletion only prompts more frantic drilling and re-drilling to keep the production at its current rate — the “Red Queen Syndrome” (“I’m running as fast as I can to stay where I am”), which means fantastic capital expenditure to keep drilling and fracking more wells (even more steel!). Consider

also, that the small “sweet spots” in the shale oil regions were the ones drilled first (in earnest after 2003), for the simple reason that they were the most promising. This was the “low hanging fruit” — easy to pick. Outside these sweet spots the oil may be too meager or difficult or costly to bother drilling for.

This is a picture of a boomlet that may run a few more years — if the banking system doesn’t implode and the massive stream of capital doesn’t quit flowing to the shale counties. The excitement will all be over before 2020, but I suspect that troubles in finance and banking will put the schnitz on the shale gas mania long before that date. What will happen when the American public discovers that they were lied to about yet another important matter? The discovery will coincide with very severe changes in daily life that won’t be avoidable. Everyone will be affected. Many will be impoverished and suffer real hardship. That’s when the public goes apeshit and starts tearing down the house.

Apart from the issue of sheer economic suffering and all the damage that will ensue, consider that it will be generations before anyone believes the “authorities” again — though, like the oil age itself, the era of giant national media will probably prove to be a one-shot deal, too. Future generations — if they are lucky — may read the news on one-page circulating broadsides, printed laboriously in handset type by letterpress. Or maybe they’ll be reduced to just parsing out rumors.

(James Howard Kunstler is the author of several books, including “The Long Emergency,” “The Geography of Nowhere” and “The Witch of Hebron.” Contact him by emailing jhkunstler@mac.com.)

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In complex operation, firefighters help answer medical call for two on Outer Green Island Daily Sun Staff Reports A complex water rescue on Friday required Portland Marine Division firefighters to swim to Outer Green Island, located five miles east of Portland at the head of Casco Bay, and furnish a rope line so two women could be transported via raft to a waiting boat for medical care.

On Friday, May 17, at approximately 1:28 p.m., Portland Fire Department’s

Marine Division, Marine 1, was dispatched to provide assistance to the Harbor Master of the Port of Portland in responding to a distress call from two individuals on Outer Green Island, the city reported. One of the individuals had become seriously ill and was unable to leave the island under her own abilities, a city press release stated. Limited access on the island requires visitors to row ashore in a small inflatable boat.

With no wharf or float, and a lack of protection from prevailing winds and seas, first responders developed a plan for a complicated technical rescue, the press release noted. Two firefighters, Firefighter Jeb Gerrish and Firefighter Nicholas Jewett, within the Marine Division donned water rescue

suits and swam approximately 200 yards to shore to establish a rope line that could be used for transport with a small inflatable watercraft. Two females were then transported to the harbormaster’s boat and with assistance provided by the South Portland Fire Department transported to Marine 1 where medical assistance could be provided. Upon the arrival of Marine 1 at the Maine State Pier, one individual was transported by Medcu 5 to a local hospital for treatment.

Outer Green Island is owned by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and is managed by the National Audubon Society and MDIFW. The island is closed to public visitation during seabird breeding season, April 1 to Aug. 31, the city reported.

Falmouth Spur southbound on-ramp opening delayed The reopening of the southbound onramp for drivers entering the Maine Turnpike from the Falmouth Spur at Exit 52 has been delayed, the Maine Turnpike Authority reported. Work lifting the bridge to increase under clearance for Turnpike traffic has not been completed, the agency reported.

The Maine Turnpike Authority hopes to reopen the ramp later this week, weather permitting. Weather forecasts calling for rain may also prevent paving and striping operations and further delay the reopening until at least Friday, May 24, the MTA warned. Visit MaineTurnpike.com for updates.

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Sunday, May 12 12 a.m., Dennis Paine, 28, of Topsham, was arrested for disorderly conduct on Fore Street by Officer Dan Aguilera.

12 a.m., Nathaniel Gagnon, 20, of South Portland, was arrested on a warrant for illegal possession of liquor by a minor on Congress Street.

1 a.m., Hamza Hassan, 26, of Portland, was arrested for disorderly conduct on Fore Street by Sgt. Jeffrey Calloway.

1 a.m., Jack Wright, 44, of West Orange, N.J., was arrested for theft of services on Brighton Avenue by Officer Zachary Finley.

4 a.m., Nathan Lewis, 22, of East Millinocket, was arrested for violation of conditional release on High Street by Officer Christopher Kelley.

8 a.m., Matthew Harris, 35, of address unknown, was arrested for criminal trespass on Munjoy Street

by Officer Kristan Steele.

12 p.m., Besmellah Kargar, 25, of Portland, was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident on Douglass Street by Officer Matthew Casagrande.

6 p.m., Kyle Upton, 28, of Peabody, Mass., was arrested for criminal threatening and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon on Riverside Street by Officer Jacob Titcomb.

9 p.m., Lisa Powers, 47, of Portland, was arrested for disorderly conduct on Oxford Street by Officer Jessica Brown.

10 p.m., James Maschiovecchio, 47, of Scarborough, was arrested for operating after suspension on Brighton Avenue by Officer Charles Frazier.

10 p.m., Merve Daley, 39, of Portland, was arrested for assault on Cumberland Avenue by Officer Dan Aguilera.

11 p.m., Anthony Santiago, 31, of Far Rockaway, N.Y., was arrested for violation of a protection order and violation of a protection order from abuse on Berkshire Road by Officer Matthew Pavlis.

Monday, May 13 3 a.m., Sierrha Frisbie, 21, of Westbrook, was arrested for refusing to submit to arrest or detention on Grant Street by Officer Christopher Kelley.

1 p.m., Vanessa Carini, 23, of Portland, was arrested for disorderly conduct and criminal trespass on Portland Street by Officer Kevin Murphy.

5 p.m., Larry Dow, 49, of address unknown, was arrested for public drinking on Marginal Way by Officer Brent Abbott.

7 p.m., Clyde Humiston, 31, of Portland, was arrested for assault on Anderson Street by Officer Charles Ames.

7 p.m., Krista Marie Zegouros, 27, of Portland, was arrested for driving to endanger and operating under the influence on Woodford Street by Officer

Evan Bomba.

11 p.m., Joseph Wilson, 34, of Portland, was arrested on a warrant for theft by deception on West Street by Officer Thomas Kwok.

Tuesday, May 14 12 a.m., Michael Butler, 38, of South Portland, was arrested for unlawful possession of scheduled drugs on Lancaster Street by Sgt. Robert Martin.

9 a.m., Perry Royster, 52, of Cambridge, Mass., was arrested for failure to register as a sexual predator and failure of a sexual offender to update or register on Thorndike Road by Det. Kelly Gorham.

9 a.m., Edward Fleischer, 46, of Portland, was arrested for obstructing a public way on Preble Street by Officer Daniel Knight.

12 p.m., Shamso Hirsi, 51, of Portland, was arrested for assault on Bramhall Street by Officer John Morin.

2 p.m., George Griffin, 37, of South Portland, was arrested on a warrant for forgery on Middle Street

by Officer Mark Kezal.

8 p.m., Gilman Ross, 32, of Portland, was arrested on a warrant for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer on Portland Street by Officer Laurence Smith, Jr. 10 p.m., Andrew Warren Elvin, 49, of Portland, was arrested for operating under the influence on Pearl Street by Officer Jason Leadbetter.

Wednesday, May 15 1 a.m., Robert Markley, 50, of Portland, was arrested for assault on Forest Avenue by Officer Edward Ireton.

9 a.m., Richard Snedden, 45, of address unknown, was arrested for criminal trespass on Portland Street by Officer Daniel Knight.

5 p.m., Paul Moynihan, 50, address unknown, was arrested for public drinking on Oxford Street by Officer Thien Duong.

6 p.m., Michael Palmer, 49, of address unknown, was arrested for public drinking on India Street by Officer Gayle Petty.

8 p.m., Clifford Heath Avery, 44, of Portland, was arrested on a warrant for assault on Congress Street

by Officer Ryan Gagnon.

Thursday, May 16 1 a.m., Christopher McCraw, 36, of Westbrook, was arrested for unlawful use of a license, permit, or identification card on Arcadia Street by Officer Mathew Dissell.

9 a.m., Geoffrey Withem, 48, of Portland, was arrested for criminal trespass on Oxford Street by Officer Cong Van Nguyen.

9 a.m., Christopher Labbe, 41, of Portland, was arrested for criminal trespass on Portland Street by Officer Daniel Rose.

10 a.m., Alberto Rodriguez, 45, of Portland, was

arrested for public drinking and violation of bail conditions on Preble Street by Officer Daniel Knight.

11 a.m., Gregory Allen Hahlbeck, 28, of address unknown, was arrested for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer on Forest Avenue by Officer Daniel Rose.

11 a.m., Eric Byrne, 50, of Portland, was arrested for aggravated assault on Spring Street by Det. Paul Murphy.

12 p.m., Brandi McLean, 32, of address unknown, was arrested on a warrant for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer on Dorset Street by Officer David Argistis.

2 p.m., Matthew Phillip Tozier, 34, of Steep Falls, was arrested for unlawful possession of scheduled drugs and carrying a concealed weapon on Middle Street by Officer Daniel Knight.

7 p.m., Steve Alphonse, 20, of address unknown, was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon on Grant Street by Sgt. Charles Libby.

10 p.m., John Aboda, 31, of address unknown, was arrested for criminal trespass on Oxford Street by Officer Michael Bennis.

Friday, May 17 1 a.m., Jonathan Conlan, 27, of Portland, was arrested for disorderly conduct on State Street by Officer Jonathan Roberts.

2 a.m., Craig Carrigan, 44, of Portland, was arrested for operating after suspension on Washington Avenue by Officer Ryan Gagnon.

7 a.m., Jonathan Morin, 38, of Portland, was arrested for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer and burglary of a motor vehicle on Oxford Street

by Officer Andjelko Napijalo.

8 a.m., Matthew Fournier, 32, of Portland, was arrested for misuse of identification and theft by unauthorized taking or transfer on Congress Street

by Officer Andjelko Napijalo.

8 a.m., Peter Schmale, 37, of address unknown, was arrested for violation of bail conditions on Riverside Street by Officer John Cuniff.

12 p.m., Catherine Geren, 22, of Portland, was arrested for operating under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident on Tyng Street by Officer John Cuniff.

6 p.m., David McKeen, 58, of address unknown, was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident on Washington Avenue by Officer Dan Aguilera.

Saturday, May 18 2 p.m., Jermaine Tanno Hill 32, of Portland, was arrested for assault on Forest Avenue by Officer Sara Clukey.

3 p.m., Shawn Wayne Anderson, 38, of Portland, was arrested for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer on Oxford Street by Officer Andjelko Napijalo.

(Information furnished by the Portland Police Department.)

The PORTLAND Daily Sun, Tuesday, May 21, 2013— Page 7

City council airs ‘concerns’ with tar sands City council balks at documenting opposition, eases resolution language

By Craig Lyons THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

When it comes to tar sands, the Portland City Council is more concerned than opposed.

The council voted 7-2 Monday night to support a resolution that expresses concerns about tar sands transmission through Maine but declined to state opposition due to the volume of conflicting information that was heard during more than two hours of public testimony.

The resolution states that the council is concerned about the transmission of tar sands in order to protect Portland’s natural resources; calls on the Maine Mavodones Legislature and federal government to better analyze the impact of tar sands being transmitted through Maine; and supports the creation of federal guidelines for tracking the chemical composition of the fuel being transmitted through Maine. The council based its concern on the potential negative impact that could be posed

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to Sebago Lake, Casco Bay and other waterways should there be a spill.

The original language in the resolution sought to document the council’s opposition to tar sands transmission through Maine but members of the council felt they lacked definite information to make that commitment.

“For me, it’s important we have Brennan the best available data. We have conflicting data,” said Councilor Nick Mavodones.

Mavodones said after doing some research and listening to public testimony, he’s sure that he’s concerned but not necessarily opposed. He said he’d feel better about coming out in opposition to tar sands if there was an objective analysis on tar sands.

Councilor Ed Suslovic said he felt it was premature to come Suslovic out in opposition since agencies that are charged with studying tar sands have yet to make their final reports.

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“I am opposed to tar sands,” said Mayor Michael Brennan.

The resolution before the council is simple, Brennan said, and a number of other towns have already come out in opposition to tar sands. He said he doesn’t see how the council can say they don’t understand the science, biology and data involved to the point that they won’t express opposition.

“I don’t lack that clarity,” he said.

Councilor Cheryl Leeman said she has absolutely no clarity on the issue of tar sands even after doing research on the Internet and reading the backup material provided to the council.

“I can’t get my arms around the facts, what is true and what isn’t true,” Leeman said, and that she’s not comfortable with just making an educated guess.

The resolution references the potential for the Portland to Montreal Pipeline being used for the transmission of tar sands oil, yet the company that owns the fuel conduit has stated that there is no project in the queue to reverse the flow.

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In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Charles Shipman Payson Building, the Portland Museum of Art announced plans to welcome the building’s architect, Henry N. Cobb, as the 2013 Bernard Osher Lecturer.

In this illustrated lecture titled, “The Streets of Falmouth Neck: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow,” Cobb will discuss Portland’s streets and squares “and the ongoing dialogue between the memory of the city’s past, preoccupation with its present, and dream of its future,” a press release stated. The lecture will be held on Tuesday, June 18 at the Holiday Inn By the Bay from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets are $15/$10 for PMA Members and can be purchased online at portlandmuseum.org or by telephone at 775-6148.

One of three founding principals of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Cobb’s architectural practice has embraced a wide variety of building types in cities across North America and around the world, including: the John Hancock Tower, Boston (1976); the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Boston (1998); and the Center for Government and International Studies, Harvard University (2005).

Cobb is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, academician of the National Academy of Design, and President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, and an honorary doctorate from Bowdoin College.

The talk comes against the backdrop of a controversial proposal by the city to sell to a hotel developer a portion of nearby Congress Square Plaza, which faces the Portland Museum of Art. The Westin Portland Harborview event center proposal for Congress Square Plaza has re-emerged as an issue after the new owners of the historic Eastland Park Hotel unveiled a revised proposal in late April for use of the plaza.

RockBridge Partners, a division of RockBridge Capital, announced the acquisition of the 202-room Eastland Park Hotel and announced that the property would undergo a $40 million comprehensive renovation and rebranding. A city exploratory committee subsequently met with representatives of RockBridge Partners to explore possibilities for the hotel’s new owners to build an events facility and ballroom in Congress Square.

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Flying a kite at Bug Light LEFT: During the Bug Light Kite Festival on Saturday in South Portland, Andrea Truncali of Portland and 2-year-old son, Julian Rice, prepare to launch from the park near Bug Light lighthouse. ABOVE: One of the tethered kites soars against a blue sky, during ideal weather conditions for the event. Considered one of the best spots for kite flying in northern New England, Bug LIght Park teemed with people during the festival. The American Kite-flyers Association offered a “How to fly kites” lesson, and a variety of kites were offered for sale in the museum gift shop. Sponsor Gifford’s Ice Cream donated ice cream. Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution promoted the festival on Facebook, noting that the fourth annual festival featured “some of the most creative kites in New England.” A fundraiser barbecue helped support the free admission in the South Portland Historical Society’s museum. Allagash International provided their parking lot; members of the South Portland/Cape Elizabeth Rotary Club offered rare tours inside the lighthouse. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

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Spring’s artistry On a sunny, spring day, waves crash on the rocks below Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth in a scene from earlier this month. Visitors to Fort Williams Park, home to Portland Head Light, and to other seaside destinations have enjoyed nearly ideal weather in April and May. April came in with an average temperature of 44.2 degrees, just 0.2 degrees above normal, the National Weather Service reported. “After a very snowy winter Portland enjoyed a much drier than normal April with mild typical spring temperatures,” the agency reported. “The average temperature was just 0.2 degrees above normal.

The average of 44.2 was the 30th warmest April in the past 73 years. The warmest April on record is 48.8 degrees set in 2010 and the coldest is 38.4 degrees set in 1943.” The average high temperature for the month was 53.3 degrees which was normal for April and tied three other years as the 32nd warmest on record, the weather service reported. The average low for the month was 35.0 degrees which was 0.3 degrees above normal and tied three other years as the 21st warmest, the agency stated. As of Sunday, May has logged an average temperature just above 52 degrees, less than half a degree above normal for the month, the weather service reported. Aside from a high of 78 degrees on Thursday, May 16, and a low of 32 degrees set on May 1, the month has stayed in the 50- and 60-degree realm. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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Today’s Birthdays: Rhythm-and-blues singer Ron Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 72. Rock musician Hilton Valentine (The Animals) is 70. Actor Richard Hatch is 68. Musician Bill Champlin is 66. Singer Leo Sayer is 65.

Actress Carol Potter is 65. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., is 62. Actor Mr. T is 61. Music producer Stan Lynch is 58. Actor Judge Reinhold is 56. Actor-director Nick Cassavetes is 54.

Actor Brent Briscoe is 52. Actress Lisa Edelstein is 47. Actress Fairuza Balk is 39. Rock singer-musician Mikel Jollett (Airborne Toxic Event) is 39. Rapper Havoc (Mobb Deep) is 39. Actress Ashlie Brillault is 26. Actor Scott Leavenworth is 23. Actress Sarah Ramos is 22.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Things that look good “on paper” look even better when carefully arranged within the electrified framework of a popular social media sight.

The reality of such things may be nonexistent.

Stay alert.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The egos involved at work may slow everyone’s progress. There are politics to be played here.

People who think a lot of their own contributions want full credit before they move forward.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You don’t like to be tricked by anyone, but especially not by a business, because that shows ill intent on many levels. People who do not stop a wrong from happening are culpable, and you’ll do what it takes to deliver justice.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 21). It’s not about being the most talented or outstanding; heaven’s will is carried out through your simple, unassuming ways. You will be praised, paid and rewarded, but that won’t matter to you nearly as much as the good that comes from your loving actions. June is romantic, October adventurous, November lucrative. Cancer and Leo people adore you.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). The person pressuring you believes that his or her personal agenda is more important than your comfort. When none of the options please you, you can always decide not to decide.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Remember what you wanted so badly? Now you have it, and you want entirely different things. You can appreciate the cycle, wherever you are in it. Your wishes keep you rolling forward.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The wonderful parts of life are often offset by something dismal. This is the way of the world, and you deal with each scenario as it comes, interpreting it in your own poetic way.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Instead of trying to cope with the circumstance, you want to change it. You’ll take on what you can. You may have a hard time accepting the fact that not everything is within your control.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You have great feelings for beauty now, and you’ll appreciate the seemingly disordered aspects of it.

You’ll direct people’s attention to things they wouldn’t have noticed, and this is a kind of mitzvah.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Power can be a phantom. Its sources are not always apparent. Keep this in mind as you assess your opposition and strategize your own rise to power.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). As valid as your concerns may be, it’s not important that each one gets addressed now. Helping others who are in need will give you the benefit of perspective.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). In the heat of the moment, your conversational partner will try to prove a wrongheaded point. Let it go. To argue would be proof that you care to be considered superior, which is wrongheaded in and of itself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your golden productivity hours will be in the morning. Do a job at 9 a.m. when your mind is fresh. At 9 p.m., the same job will take you

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On May 21, 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean as she landed in Northern Ireland, about 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland.

On this date: In 1471, King Henry VI of England died in the Tower of London at age 49.

In 1542, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River.

In 1863, the Seventh-day Adventist Church was officially organized.

In 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.

In 1892, the opera “Pagliacci,” by Ruggero Leoncavallo, premiered in Milan, Italy.

In 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 33½ hours.

In 1941, a German U-boat sank the American merchant steamship SS Robin Moor in the South Atlantic after the ship’s passengers and crew were allowed to board lifeboats.

In 1956, the United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

In 1959, the musical “Gypsy,” inspired by the life of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, opened on Broadway with Ethel Merman starring as Mama Rose.

In 1972, Michelangelo’s Pieta, on display at the Vatican, was damaged by a hammer-wielding man who shouted he was Jesus Christ.

In 1982, during the Falklands War, British amphibious forces landed on the beach at San Carlos Bay. In 1998, teen gunman Kip Kinkel opened fire inside Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore., killing two students, a day after he’d killed his parents. (Kinkel was sentenced to nearly 112 years in prison.) In the wake of deadly protests, Indonesia President Suharto stepped down after 32 years in power.

Ten years ago: Christie Whitman resigned as Environmental Protection Agency administrator.

The most devastating earthquake to hit Algeria in two decades killed at least 2,200 people. Ruben Studdard edged Clay Aiken to win the second “American Idol” competition on Fox. Five years ago: Oil prices blew past $130 a barrel and gas prices climbed above $3.80 a gallon. Israel and Syria unexpectedly announced the resumption of peace talks after an eight-year break. David Cook won “American Idol” in a landslide over David Archuleta.

One year ago: President Barack Obama and other world leaders meeting in Chicago locked in place an Afghanistan exit path that would keep their troops fighting there for two more years.

Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi, who’d used a webcam to spy on his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, who then committed suicide, was sentenced to 30 days in jail (he served 20). A Yemeni man detonated a bomb during a rehearsal for a military parade, killing 96 fellow soldiers; al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen claimed responsibility. Grammy-winning polka great Eddie Blazonczyk, 70, died in Palos Heights, Ill.

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This makes me feel as if he’s cheating on me in my own bed. I’ve tried talking to Victor about it, but he thinks I’m the one with the problem. What do you think? -- Betrayed Dear Betrayed: You must ask yourself what you want out of this marriage after 40 years. Can you make Victor stop having affairs and watching pornography? Not unless he understands that it is a betrayal and decides he doesn’t want to hurt you anymore. That would require effort on his part, and likely counseling to help him navigate a new way to relate to you.

If you think he would be willing, please suggest it. You also can get counseling on your own and learn what you are willing to tolerate for the sake of remaining in the marriage if you choose to stay. In the meantime, contact COSA (cosa-recovery. org), a 12-step program for those whose lives have been affected by another person’s compulsive sexual behavior.

Dear Annie: I’ve been friendly with a neighbor for some time, as we are both cat owners. I recently let my cat outside briefly, and he came in limping as a result of a catfight. I immediately rushed him to my vet, who performed emergency surgery and presented me with a big bill.

When telling my neighbor of the expenses, he said I was foolish to have been so concerned about a cat. Annie, I was

shocked to hear this from a fellow cat owner and have ceased speaking to him. He has made overtures toward friendship, and I’ve rebuffed him. Should I forgive and forget? -- Cat Lover Ed Dear Ed: No one expects you to agree with everything your friends think, do and say. Yes, we are surprised that a fellow cat owner would seem so callous. But this is essentially a difference of opinion about how much money one would spend on an animal’s treatment. If you think this comment means your neighbor is an unkind, nasty person, you don’t need to stay friends. But if he is otherwise a good guy and you miss his friendship, please forgive him.

Dear Annie: “Conflicted Adoptee in Kansas” was hurt that her biological mother didn’t want to tell her other grown children about her.

Three years ago, my 70-year-old grandmother walked over to my mother, handed her a piece of paper and said, “Well, you’ve always wanted a sister.” Grandma had given up a baby girl when Grandpa was still married to his first wife.

When she became pregnant again (with my mother), they finally wed.

At first we were shocked. Grandma was ashamed and embarrassed. My mother was excited to get to know her new sister, but they discovered that they really don’t care much for each other. In fact, no one in the family likes her, but we feel obligated to be nice and polite.

Grandma refuses to talk about it. The one thing she had written in the adoption records was that she didn’t want anyone in her family to know. I completely understand why some things are better left alone. -- Omaha, Neb.

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Tuesday, May 21 The Salvation Army annual breakfast

7 a.m. Guest speaker, Maine humorist Gary Crocker.

Ramada Inn at Saco Plaza, coffee and tea, 7 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.; buffet breakfast served at 7:30 a.m. Tickets are $15 each, can be purchased by calling 934-4381. All proceeds to benefit Camp Sebago.

Public invited to pray for peace

noon. “Wars and rumors of wars are much too present, and our faith urges us to pray for peace. State Street Church United Church of Christ located at 159 State St. in Portland continues holding a vigil at noon on the third Tuesday of the month. We invite members and the public to take some time to pray or meditate or contemplate the urgency of building a just and peaceful world. We will gather on the front steps of the church between noon and 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21, seeking a world where people strive for diplomatic relations instead of wars. Please join us if you are able.”

Night Owl Workshop

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The Telling Room presents. “Join fiction writer Charlotte Bacon for Intimate Strangers: Bringing Your Birth Stories to Life, May 21, May 28 and June 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m. “In this three-session class, participants will have the chance to write and tell the story of the arrival of the most amazing strangers they have ever met: their own babies. Over the course of three weeks with the guidance of a teacher and a midwife, participants are invited to explore and relive the memories and feelings of these unique events and set them on the page. Parents of all kinds, adoptive or biological, brand new or much older, and birth workers of all kinds are encouraged to join. This multisession workshop is $100, or $70 for TR volunteers.” http:// www.tellingroom.org/events

Foreside Garden Club

7 p.m. The next meeting of the Foreside Garden Club will be held at the Falmouth Public Library on Lunt Road in Falmouth. It will feature a program by master gardener Susan Snow on invasive plants in Maine. It will be followed by

refreshments and a brief business meeting. All are invited to attend this free presentation and learn about what to avoid in our gardens. FMI Mimi Hinkel 829-3578.

Wednesday, May 22 Hall School blood drive to honor school nurses

7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. “Fifth graders at Portland’s Hall Elementary School are working with the American Red Cross on a blood drive to honor school nurses. The drive will take place on May 22 from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the gym of Hall School, 23 Orono Road. To find out more and to sign up, call 1-800-RED CROSS or visit www.redcrossblood.org. Val Vassar’s and Rebecca Norling’s fifth grade classes at Hall learned about the function of blood in the body and the need for blood donations, especially to meet a shortage of O-negative blood. Fifth graders went to every classroom in the school to teach students about the importance of blood. They gave each student two invitations for friends or family members to donate blood. The fifth graders also made posters to publicize the blood drive, and they are making daily announcements over the school intercom.

Their goal is to collect more than 50 pints, the amount of blood donated during Hall’s first drive a year ago.”

‘The Retrofitting Movement’ by MEREDA

1 p.m. to 5 p.m. “The Maine Real Estate & Development Association (MEREDA) will host ‘The Retrofitting Movement: Repositioning Underutilized Commercial Real Estate’ will take place on Wednesday, May 22 at the Holiday Inn By the Bay in Portland, with a social hour to follow. Admission is $95 and pre-registration is required. MEREDA members are offered a $20 discount and, this year, students and municipal officials and employees are offered free admission with pre-registration. The conference is sponsored by Blais Civil Engineers, Libby Hill, Mainebiz, Pierce Atwood, EnviroVantage, Building Envelope Specialists, Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, SMRT and Sevee & Maher Engineers. Conversation around the cutting-edge concept of retrofitting and creative re-use planning at the annual spring conference, scheduled for May 22 in Portland. “MEREDA will wel-

come to Maine a leading expert on the topic of retrofitting, Ellen Dunham-Jones, and will host a panel of local experts.

Additionally, MEREDA will recognize the six most noteworthy and significant Maine commercial development projects from the previous year at the conference. Dunham-Jones is a leading authority on suburban redevelopment. She has been featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Design Magazine, Urban Land, Planning, Architectural Record, TEDx and other venues. Co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia, Dunham-Jones will share case studies of underperforming asphalt properties that have been redesigned and redeveloped into vital centers of community. Her presentation will focus on adaptive reuse of vacant buildings, environmental repair, revising zoning codes and public works standards and providing easements for future connectivity and adaptability. Local experts who will participate on the panel include Sarah Schindler of the University of Maine School of Law, Denis Lachman of Lachman Architects & Planners, Tex Haeuser of the City of South Portland, Vanessa Farr of the Town of Yarmouth and Craig Gorris of The Maine Mall. Each have been involved in the retrofitting movement and will support Dunham-Jones’ presentation by addressing some of the practical challenges and opportunities with respect to retrofitting in Maine communities.”

For more information and to register, visit www.mereda.org.

MOFGA Farm Training Project workshops

5 p.m. Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association’s Farm Training Project workshops begin on May 22!

These workshops, organized by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, are designed for and targeted to participants in MOFGA’s Apprenticeship Program but are free and open to anyone who is interested. The first workshops this season are titled “Starting with the Soil: Sustainable Soil Management.” They take place on Wednesday, May 22, at 5 p.m. at Six River Farm in Bowdoinham and on Thursday, May 23, at 5 p.m. at Village Farm in Freedom.

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Vintage Maine Images website event

5 p.m. “Maine Historical Society is pleased to announce the redesign and launch of Vintage Maine Images website.

We look forward to celebrating this milestone with you and introducing our business partner initiative.” 5 p.m. Arrival, Cocktails & Hors d’oeuvres. 5:15 p.m. Remarks by Portland Mayor Michael Brennan, MHS Executive Director Stephen Bromage. 5:30 p.m. “Vintage Maine Images and Your Business” presentation by MHS Image Services Coordinator Dani Fazio with Gretchen Roy, Szanton Company. 5:45 p.m. to 7 p.m. Refreshments, Music by Ms. H., Vintage Photo Booth, View the exhibit Vintage Maine Images: A Website Comes to Life. Cocktails by Maine Mead Works, Local beer by Shipyard Brewery, Hors d’oeuvres by Dandelion Catering. Host Committee: Evan Carroll & Sasha Salzberg, BILD Architecture; Edwige Charlot, Creative Portland; Tony Cox, Casco Bay Frames & Gallery; Nancy Montgomery & Jack Vreeland, Montgomery Design; Patrick Roche, Think Tank Coworking; Gretchen Roy, The Szanton Company/ Saco Falls Management; Nancy Trottier, Portland Regional Chamber.” Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland. http://www.mainehistory.org

Westin Portland Harborview proposal

5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Rockbridge Capital representatives have unveiled plans on the Westin Portland Harborview proposal for purchase of a portion of Congress Square Plaza for development of an event facility. The public is invited to a meeting of the Congress Square Redesign Study Group, Portland City Council Chambers. This will be an opportunity for the CSRSG to review the revised proposal and send their comments and recommendations to the Housing and Community Development Committee and City Council. http://www.ci.portland.me.us

Screening of ‘Welcome to Lee Maine‘

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. At One Longfellow Square, Portland (doors open at 5:30 p.m.), coordinated by Maine Military and Community Network, Portland Chapter. Cost: Free (Donations recommended). “ A film screening of ‘Welcome to Lee Maine.’ On June 23, 2007 his mother’s birthday, Joel House was killed by an IED while on patrol in Taji, Iraq. He was 22.

On November 30, 2007 Blair Emery was killed by an IED while on patrol in Baghdad, Iraq. Blair was 24. Both soldiers were from Lee, Maine. ‘Welcome to Lee Maine’ is a film about a small close-knit community in rural Maine; (pop 845) that must deal with devastating news that it has become the smallest community in America to lose two sons in the Iraq War. Lee, Maine is a town with strong Christian, patriotic and traditional values that struggles to overcome the shared heartbreak. While many have very different views of the war, they are united in their support of the families and each other in their loss. The evening will feature a panel of Cumberland County veterans immediately following the screening — giving the public a rare opportunity to hear firsthand from the veterans themselves about their experiences serving and their lives here at home. The panel will include Veterans of Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, Vietnam, and WWII, plus family members, and Veteran service providers. ... The Maine Military and Community Network (MMCN) seeks to provide a bridge between military members, their families, and the communities in which they live and work.

The network is a collaborative effort between Portland area agencies including: Preble Street Resource Center, Pinetree Legal, The Portland Vet Center, University of Southern Maine, Career Services, and many others. Clifford Trott, PhD, the local MMCN chapter coordinator, serves as the Team Leader at the Portland Vet Center, a center providing readjustment counseling and services to Veterans and their families.” http://www.portlandmaine.gov/

‘Maine’s Financial Time Bomb’

6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The Maine Heritage Policy Center presents “Maine’s Financial Time Bomb” with Stephen A. Moses, president, Center for Long-Term Care Reform. “Did you know that the Pine Tree State has one of the oldest average populations in the United States? Did you know that Maine also has one of the most generous Medicaidfunded long-term care programs in the nation? Are you aware that people with hundreds of thousands of dollars in wealth routinely qualify for that public assistance program, i.e. welfare? Meanwhile, Maine faces serious budget problems and struggles to finance basic government programs (education, public safety, and funding for roads). So, how are your finances? Are you struggling financially? Should you — the Maine taxpayer — have to foot the long-term care bill for wealthy Mainers and other recent New England transplants? It’s time for us to take our medicine and come to terms with reality.” 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, Schooners Seafood & Steakhouse, 5 South Main St., Brewer; noon to 1:30 p.m., Thursday, May 23, DiMillo’s On the Water, 25 Long Wharf, Portland. For additional information, please contact Kate Clark by phone at 321-2550 or by

Steven Atripaldi, facilities manager for the Maine Historical Society, relaxes and enjoys a sunny day in the reopened Longfellow Garden behind the Longfellow House on Congress Street. The garden had been closed for two seasons to accommodate the renovation and expansion of the adjacent MHS Library. This month, Maine Historical Society is pleased to announce the redesign and launch of the Vintage Maine Images website. A celebration is planned Wednesday, May 22, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland. Attendees are urged to RSVP by emailing Dani Fazio at dfazio@mainehistory.org. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) e-mail at kclark@mainepolicy.org.

South Portland Historical Society

6:30 p.m. Annual Meeting of the South Portland Historical Society, 6:30 p.m., at the South Portland Community Center, 21 Nelson Road. Guest lecturer, Bud Warren will present a lecture: “Tide Mills in and around South Portland.”

“Warren is a maritime historian and one of the founding members of the Tide Mill Institute. He will help us learn what a tide mill was, how they worked, and he will explore with us the tidal mills around this area, such as were found at Mill Creek and Long Creek.” Admission to the lecture is free for current members of the South Portland Historical Society; non-members may attend with a $10 donation. FMI, call the Society at 767-7299. South Portland Community Center, 21 Nelson Road, South Portland. May 22. 6:30 p.m. Free for current members of South Portland Historical Society; $10 donation for non-members. www.sphistory.org

Raised Bed Gardening

7 p.m. “Please join us on May 22 at 7 p.m. with guest speaker Richard Brzozowski from the University of Maine to learn more about Raised Bed Gardening. Admission is free and refreshments will be served. This is offered by the members of Highland Lake Grange No. 87. The Grange Hall is located at the corner of Route 302 and Hardy Road, Westbrook. The last gardening presentation for this year will be with Kate McCarty and will cover Food Preservation please feel free to join us for that on Sept. 25. Questions please contact David at 854-5753 or by email at gowenfrm@gwi.net.”

Thursday, May 23 Casco Bay High project about Malaga Island

11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. “Sophomores at Casco Bay High School in Portland will present their research and original historical fiction about Malaga Island in Phippsburg, formerly the site of a mixed race fishing community. A century ago, state officials evicted residents from the island and sent several to the Maine School for the Feeble-Minded.”

Talbot Lecture Hall, Luther Bonney, University of Southern Maine’s Portland campus. “This project is the culmination of students’ year-long investigation of the question, ‘How do we identify and treat the other?’ Experts who will respond to the work include the archeologist who led a dig on Malaga Island and a representative from the Maine State Museum, which currently has an exhibit about the island.”

Author Gail Rowe in Cumberland

2 p.m. “Gail Rowe will be at the Prince Memorial Library in Cumberland for the Meet the Author series at 2 p.m. to

talk about her book, ‘The Roots of a Family — Life in Rural Maine.’ Take a step back in time with the author as she describes the lives of her parents during the great Depression and World War II. Her maternal grandparents raised sixteen children in a four-room house without the benefit of electricity or indoor plumbing, while her paternal grandparents had a small dairy and market garden. Rich with historical details, this ‘remarkable tale captures a lost way of life in rural Maine … strikingly candid.’”

Screening of short films by Walter Ungerer

7 p.m. “On Thursday, May 23, St. Lawrence Arts will present a program of his recent short films including his latest work ‘Mauvais Garçon/Bad Boy’ involving a conversation with Portland artist Lisa Dombek, fine art photographer Dianna Rust, and Walter Ungerer himself. There will be a Q & A at the conclusion of the program. Walter Ungerer is a longtime filmmaker and artist of international reputation, beginning with the underground film scene in NYC in the early 1960s, continuing through to the 21st century in Maine. Ungerer’s works have been shown at festivals and competitions throughout the world including Florence, Tours, Athens, Hong Kong, Houston, Tate, UK and MoMA, N.Y. Two of Ungerer’s films with recent success on the international festival circuit are ‘Parva Sed Apta Mihi’ (Factory Art, Berlin, Germany Alchemy Festival, Scotland; Experimental Film Festival, Oregon) and ‘Green Eye’ (Atlanta Film Festival). They will be on the program.”

‘Images of Johnny Appleseed’

7 p.m. Maine Historical Society. “Images of Johnny Appleseed: Saint or Buffoon? Speaker: Russell Powell. John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, is among America’s most widely misunderstood folk heroes. Chapman (1774-1845) is widely credited with spreading the apple gene in America. But while schoolchildren everywhere learn some variation of Appleseed’s story, it is usually inflated by myth. It seems as if we cannot decide whether to revere Chapman or ridicule him, and many depictions do both. Author Russell Steven Powell will separate fact from fiction in describing Chapman’s peripatetic life and legacy, and show how many of the depictions of Chapman through the years reflect the values of the people portraying him rather than the man. Like Chapman, Powell is a Massachusetts native who has devoted much of his career to spreading the word about apples, most of that time as executive director of the New England Apple Association. Powell discusses Chapman and his legacy at length in his new book about apple growing in the United States, ‘America’s Apple’ (2012, Brook Hollow Press).” https://www.mainehistory.org

The PORTLAND Daily Sun, Tuesday, May 21, 2013— Page 15

Legislators spar over hospital repayment, health care bill Daily Sun Staff Report

Monday in a 20-15 vote, the Maine Senate passed a measure to repay Maine’s hospital debt and accept federal funds to expand healthcare coverage for nearly 70,000 Mainers, but Democrats and Republicans held sharply different views about the legislation. The bill, LD 1546, “An Act To Strengthen Maine’s Hospitals, Increase Access to Health Care and Provide for a New Spirits Contract,” faces additional votes in the House and Senate.

“The time for delaying and denying healthcare to thousands of Maine people has passed. The time for action is now,” said Democratic Alfond Senator Margaret Craven of Lewiston, in a press release. “Too many Mainers are one illness or accident away from financial ruin. It doesn’t have to be that way.”

But the Maine Senate Republican Office in a press release depicted the bill as an ill-fated effort to tie hospital repayment to a broader issue of health coverage.

Paying the $484 million hospital debt has long been a Republican priority, the GOP press release stated, but the fate of the bill is now in doubt after Democratic leadership decided to combine the legislation with an unrelated bill that would expand welfare benefits to 70,000 Maine residents, Republicans stated.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage has indicated he will veto the bill if it passes in its present form.

On May 16, as Democrats unveiled their legislation, LePage said, “There is no connection between paying an overdue bill left on my desk when I took office and increasing welfare.”

During the plan’s unveiling, Senate President Justin Alfond of Portland said, “Democrats have always been focused on repaying the state’s debt to the hospitals — even during the worst recession of our lifetime. Today, we commit to a swift upfront and immediate payment in full to put to rest our debt obligation.”

Republicans called Monday’s vote a disturbing sign of things to come.

“I am deeply disturbed by what happened in the Senate today, and I believe it sets a very negative tone for the remainder of the legislative session,” said Senate Republican Leader Michael Thibodeau in the GOP press release. “Medicaid expansion has been portrayed by our Democratic colleagues as ‘free money’ from the federal government. But the 100 percent reimbursement rate would only last for a few years. It’s estimated that by the year 2018, Medicaid expansion would cost Maine an additional $100 million per year. Rushing Medicaid expansion through the Legislature right now makes no sense.

What’s worse, the bill, in its present form, stands little chance of being signed into law. If it isn’t, the hospitals don’t get paid, jobs will go unfilled and construction projects will remain on hold.”

Democrats said nearly 70,000 Maine people can receive healthcare coverage if Maine accepts the

federal government’s offer: The federal government has agreed to pay 100 percent of the cost for covering all newly eligible people for the first three years and then gradually lowering its payment to no less than 90 percent of the cost by 2020.

“Passing this bill is fiscally responsible, medically responsible, and morally responsible,” said Sen. John Cleveland of Auburn. “The legislature can make that decision. We have it in our power to pay our debt to the hospitals and provide healthcare to the poorest in our communities.”

Maine is projected to save $690 million in the next 10 years if it accepts the federal dollars, according to the nonpartisan Kaiser Foundation and the conservative Heritage Foundation, according to the press release from Democratic leadership. Maine is also one of 10 states that will see Medicaid expenditures go down over the next 10 years.

Assistant Senate Republican Leader Roger Katz said, “I am disappointed in today’s Senate vote. We are missing a golden opportunity to pay our $484 million debt to the hospitals and do it now so that money can be immediately infused into Maine’s economy. On the other hand, the issue of Medicaid expansion should not be rushed through. I have an open mind on expansion, but until we know for sure what percentage of the bill for new enrollees the federal government will pay, how can we possibly make an intelligent decision?”

Katz added that LePage “is attempting to negotiate with the federal government for a better deal for Maine. Let’s give him some time to save us some money before we jump into this.”

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City seeks proposals for future use of vacant Nathan Clifford School Daily Sun Staff Reports

The city of Portland has begun its search for a developer who can revitalize the now-vacant Nathan Clifford School.

The city has released a request for qualifications for interested developers to submit preliminary plans for how to reuse the century-old school building, according to a press release.

“This is an exciting step for the neighborhood as we are all eager to see the creative reuse opportunities possible for the Nathan Clifford School and move towards putting this property back into productive use,” said Councilor Ed Suslovic, in a press release.

A re-use task force developed the possible guidelines and criteria for the reuse of the 100-year old school building.

The group’s recommendations — which were accepted by the City Council — encourages the city find future uses that are either education or research oriented; community uses; incorporate publiclyaccessible open space or play areas, low-impact commercial or institutional uses; or a creative mixed-use development. Underlying the encouraged uses is the see that a future development works within the school’s current R5 zoning designation, though other proposals will still be considered.

The deadline for the Nathan Clifford RFQs is July 19, according to a press release, and the city aims to select three developers who will move forwarded in the process.

Questions and comments regarding the re-use of the Nathan Clifford School or to request a copy of the RFQ should be directed to the city’s Purchasing Office at 874-8654 or via email at mff@portlandmaine.gov.

Maine’s law enforcement agencies step up seatbelt checks, enforcement The Maine State Police and a number of local police departments will be stepping up seatbelt enforce-

ment for the annual “Buckle up — no excuses” campaign.

State Police are joining 83 other Maine law enforcement agencies for the next two weeks in the annual “Buckle Up – No Excuses” campaign cracking down on those who don’t use their seat belts, according to a press release. Troopers will join local police departments and deputy sheriffs in the two week enforcement effort that runs from May 20 through June 2.

The Maine Bureau of Highway Safety has distributed just over $178,000 in federal highway safety funding to assist in the effort, which will pay for officer’s overtime.

The Bureau of Highway Safety reports there have been 30 highway deaths in passenger vehicles and 15 of the victims were not wearing a seat belt.

“Too many drivers and passengers are not wearing their seat belts, and half of the highway deaths this year in passenger vehicles were victims not buckled up,” said Col. Robert Williams, chief of the Maine State Police, in a statement.

Williams said the two week enforcement effort is similar to the beefed up enforcement of state troopers during in the first three months of the year. In that effort, Troopers handed out 2,478 summons for not wearing seat belts and another 2,549 warnings during January, February and March.

A seat belt summons in Maine costs $70 for the first offense (including court costs), $160 for the second, and $310 for the third violation.

Police launch survey to gauge public perceptions of crime, safety in city The Portland Police Department on Monday unveiled an online survey for Portland residents to take in order to better understand the public’s perceptions of crime and safety in the city.

The PPD sees the survey as a chance to reach out to people and learn how they think the department doing in regards to crime and safety, according to a press release. The survey results will help inform decisions related to crime reduction efforts, community policing efforts and ways to strengthen relationships with community groups.

The survey contains 40 questions. It is avail-

able by going directly to https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PortlandPD or clicking links on the city website (www.portlandmaine.gov), Police Department webpage, or the Portland Police Department Facebook page.

The survey was designed by representatives for the University of New England.

Ron Bibeau, executive director of The First Tee of Maine (left), receives a $250 donation from Brendon Croteau, co-founder of the Junior Golf Card. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Junior Golf Card donates $250 to First Tee educational program Ron Bibeau, executive director of The First Tee of Maine, recently received a $250 donation from Brendon Croteau, co-founder of the Junior Golf Card. The Junior Golf Card is only $29 and saves ages 17 and under 50 percent off at over 20 Maine golf courses and two driving ranges, as well as other discounts.

“The First Tee provides young people with characterbuilding and life skills lessons using golf as the platform. Through The First Tee, young people discover how skills essential to success on a golf course can also help them flourish in life,” according to its website, http://www.thefirstteemaine.org/club/scripts/public/ public.asp. For more information on the Junior Golf Card or to purchase the card go to www.juniorgolfcards.com or call 713-3879.

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