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Tiny patients, major goals BOSTON (NY Times) — Here at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a black mouse lies on a miniature exam table, his tail dangling off the end. A plastic tube carries anesthetic to his nose and mouth. He is asleep.

Before he was born, the mouse was injected with two mutated genes often found in human prostate cancer. As he lies on the table, a technician is measuring his two-millimeter prostate tumor with a petite ultrasound machine — the very exam a man would undergo, only on a dollhouse scale.

The animal is in what is called a “mouse hospital,” a new way of using mice to study cancer. Although mice have been studied in regular labs for years, the results often have been disappointing. Usually, the cancers were implanted under their skin, not in the organs where they originated.

And drugs that seemed to work in mice often proved useless in humans.

The mouse hospital at Beth Israel Deaconess and a few similar ones elsewhere are at the forefront of a new approach to studying human cancers. The mice are given genes that make them develop tumors in the same organs as humans, which means the researchers need scanners to watch the tumors’ growth inside the animals’ bodies. So the mouse hospitals have tiny ultrasound machines, CT and PET scanners, and magnetic resonance imaging machines with little stretchers to slide the mice into the machines. They also have mouse pharmacies to formulate medicines in mouse-size doses and mouse clinical laboratories specially designed to do analyses on minute drops of mouse blood and vanishingly small quantities of mouse urine. That lets them follow cancers’ growth and responses to treatments.

What’s more, with genetic advances in studies of human tumors, the researchers do not have to implant human cancer cells in all their complexity into mice to study the cancers; instead, they can give the mice just a few mutated genes that seem to drive a tumor.

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ISTANBUL — Riot police officers moved into Taksim Square in central Istanbul on Tuesday, firing tear gas grenades and water cannons and enveloping the center of this city with smoke and the sounds of ambulance sirens. The square, which has become a sprawling and eclectic hub of grievance against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was transformed into a tableau of urban chaos.

The operation took all day and was still in progress as the workday ended, when more protesters began reoccupying the square and police officers cleared it again with tear gas. The scene took on the air of a movie set: fireworks lit by protesters and nonlethal sound bombs set off by the police punctuated the chants of “Istanbul is ours! Taksim is ours!”

At intervals during the day, the police

would advance into part of the square, then retreat again to rest, as officers mingled with onlookers, smoked cigarettes or bought snacks from street vendors. Short outbursts of clashes with protesters alternated with intervals of calm, allowing onlookers and tourists to gather in relatively safe spots and watch the action unfold, and then flee down side streets when the tear gas became too thick.

Obama presses immigration Google wants to release bill as Senate opens debate details on classified requests WASHINGTON (NY Times) — With the Senate starting to cast votes on a bill to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, President Obama on Tuesday made a high-profile pitch for the legislation, saying, “There’s no reason Congress can’t get this done by the end of summer.”

“If you’re serious about actually fixing the system, then this is the vehicle to do it,” Obama said in a speech at the White House.

It was a carefully choreographed appearance by the president, who has tended to keep a low profile on the immigration issue to avoid stirring partisan opposition on

Capitol Hill to a bill that many Republicans regard as crucial to the long-term fortunes of their party. But it also underscored, as Obama said, that the debate had reached a critical moment.

Standing in the East Room, Obama was surrounded by proponents of new immigration laws, including law enforcement officers, business and labor leaders, and young people who would be beneficiaries of the Dream Act, which would provide residency to people who arrived in the United States as minors if they acquired a higher education.

SAN FRANCISCO (NY Times) — Google on Tuesday asked the government for permission to reveal details about the classified requests the technology company receives for the personal information of foreign users.

It is the first time that Google has publicly acknowledged that it has received requests under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which forbids companies from acknowledging the existence of requests or revealing any details about them. The technology company added that it complies with far fewer of these requests than it receives.

Google made the request after revelations of the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program, known as Prism.

The data the government collects as part of Prism – including email messages, telephone records and online chats -- is legally authorized by FISA. Google made the request in a letter from David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, to Eric H. Holder, the attorney general, and Robert S. Mueller, the director of the F.B.I.

A.C.L.U. sues to bar ‘dragnet’ collection of phone records WASHINGTON (NY Times) — The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its “dragnet” collection of logs of domestic phone calls, contending that the once-secret program — whose existence was exposed by a former National Security Agency contractor last week — is illegal and asking a judge to both stop it and order the records purged.

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Based on tentative ID, missing fisherman’s body found in harbor, police say The body of a missing fisherman, George Manning, 66, was found in Portland Harbor around 8 a.m. Tuesday, according to a tentative identification, police reported.

Police divers from both Portland and South Portland began searching Portland Harbor Monday in the area of Custom House Wharf after the fisherman was reported missing.

Manning was last seen walking down Custom House Wharf toward the fishing Manning vessel, Northstar, which was docked at the end of the wharf, according to the Portland Police Department.

Portland and South Portland Police Divers and the Harbor Master discovered a deceased man under Custom House Wharf Tuesday morning. The body was tentatively identified as Manning, who was living onboard the boat. The body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Augusta for an autopsy and positive identification. No cause or manner of death has been established, police said.

Police became concerned because Manning left his cell phone and wallet on board the Northstar, and had not been in contact with fellow crewmembers, according to Portland Police on Monday.

“The captain of the boat reported he had gone missing,” said Lt. James Sweatt, with Portland Police Department.

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tures submitted to the city have been verified.

The city clerk’s office verified that the Citizens for a Safer Portland Coalition had 2,508 valid signatures on a petition that aims to legalize the recreational use of marijuana for adults who are 21 years of age or older, according to a press release.

The signatures and petitions were Russell submitted with the goal to place the question on the November ballot to let city residents decide if marijuana should be decriminalized in Portland.

“Portland voters will get the chance to make history this November through adopting this ordinance,” said Tom MacMillan, chair of the Portland Green Independent Committee, in a statement. “The Maine Legislature failed again this year to end marijuana prohibition and this ordinance begins that process. The Green Independent Party did not expect the Legislature to be able to reform our marijuana laws, so we did the hard work of collecting thousands of signatures to put this to a citywide vote.”

The group needed to turn in 1,500 signatures that will be verified by the clerk’s staff to qualify for being placed on the ballot but submitted 3,229 to the clerk for verification.

The City Council will now need to set a public hearing on the ballot question that must take place within 30 days, according to a press release, and decide whether to adopt the ordinance or leave it to the voters to make that choice.

The Portland referendum initiative, which launched in March, came on the heels of Maine Rep. Diane Russell’s bill in the Maine Legislature that aimed to create a taxation and regulatory structure around the decriminalization of marijuana. Russell’s bill would have left it up to Maine voters to make the final decision on the legalization of marijuana through a statewide referendum.

The bill has since been voted down by both the Maine House and Senate.

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Today, the Maine Legislature’s Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs will hear public testimony on L.D. 1010, “An Act to Authorize a

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General Fund Bond Issue to Ensure Clean Water,” according to the office of Maine Rep. Ben Chipman, I-Portland.

The bill would issue a $50 million bond to the Maine Clean Water Fund to assist municipalities in achieving clean water as mandated by the federal Clean Water Act of 1972, Chipman, sponsor of the bill, reported in a press release.

“Sewer rates in many of our municipalities will skyrocket unless we act now. People are already struggling to keep up with rent, property taxes, and basic living expenses,” said Chipman.

Federal funding to support the Clean Water Act diminished in the 1980s, shifting the funding burden to states and municipalities in order to comply with fedChipman eral law, he said.

Today, storm water run-off is one of the major concerns facing Maine municipalities. Heavy rains cause sewage storage facilities to overflow, unleashing toxic, un-treated sewage into Maine’s bodies of water, he noted.

“We have a responsibility both to comply with federal law and to provide for public safety and the environment. This bill will establish a bond to

fund expensive upgrades in order to comply with federal mandates.” Chipman said.

It has been estimated that without state assistance, sewer bills for Maine property owners could double or even triple. The city of Portland alone has budgeted $169 million for its Tier 3 Program to upgrade its sewer system, Chipman noted.

A hearing on L.D. 1010 is scheduled for noon today in State House room 228, before the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs.

HUD offices to close Friday as the result of automatic spending cuts The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is notifying the public that it will close its offices nationwide on Friday, June 14 as a result of government-wide automatic spending cuts that took effect on March 1.

HUD will resume normal operation on Monday, June 17.

More information about HUD and its programs is available online at www.hud.gov.

For more about the Maine field office of HUD, visit http://portal.hud.gov/ hudportal/HUD?src=/states/maine/ working/fpm/contacts.

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Sexism’s puzzling stamina

This month the Supreme Court will issue raptly awaited decisions about affirmative action and gay marriage. But what’s been foremost in my thoughts isn’t race, sexual orientation or our country’s deeply flawed handling of both.

It’s gender — and all the recent reminders of how often women are still victimized, how potently they’re still resented and how tenaciously a musty male chauvinism endures. On this front even more than the others, I somehow thought we’d be further along by now.

I can’t get past that widely noted image from a week ago, of the Senate hearing into the epidemic of sexual assault in the military. It showed an initial panel of witnesses: 11 men, one woman. It also showed the ––––– backs of some of the senators The New listening to them: five men and York Times one woman, from a Senate committee encompassing 19 men and seven women in all. Under discussion was the violation of women and how to stop it. And men, once again, were getting more say.

I keep flashing back more than two decades, to 1991. That was the year of the Tailhook incident, in which some 100 Navy and Marine aviators were accused of sexually assaulting scores of women. It was the year of Susan Faludi’s runaway best seller, “Backlash,” on the “war against American women,” as the subtitle said. It was when the issue of sexual harassment took center stage in Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings.

All in all it was a festival of teachable moments, raising our consciousness into the stratosphere. So where are we, fully 22 years later?

We’re listening to Saxby Chambliss, a senator from Georgia, attribute sexual abuse in the military to the ineluctable “hormone level” of virile young men in proximity to nubile young women.

We’re congratulating ourselves on the historic high of 20 women in the Senate, even though there are still four men to every one of them and, among governors, nine men to every woman.

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Dishing it out and taking it, too My editor tells me when readers express opposition to a recent story, or heckle one of my loosely fact-based opinions, these are healthy interactions in the world of legitimate journalism. Not surprisingly, negative feedback somehow appears more credible than supportive kudos or any “Rock on with Your Bad Self” thumbs-up messages that also cross his desk, granted upon rarer occasion.

As unprofessional as it may be, I have developed a codependent relationship with those who read and respond to this column, and cannot help but take the comments — good, bad or otherwise — personally.

“I can learn from these things,” I tell myself as I blink back tears brought on by a particularly nasty email stating I obviously haven’t a clue about how things really work in a restaurant and am a “presumptuous hack with self-professed status.” Seriously?

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blatant lie, but the presumptuous hack part? According to my editor’s perspective, I must be the picture of journalistic health and well being because it just doesn’t get any more opposing than that.

Codependency is a tricky thing. I want to write, express and recant a tale (not to be confused with decant a wine) in a way people genuinely like and approve of. Not sure what I mean or why it matters? Think Sally Fields circa 1984, when she made an ass of herself at the Oscars with her, “You like me. You really like me,” thing. I want the writer/ reader codependent relationship to shine in a way that makes

people giggle and think a bit. In a way that makes people want to return to the paper every Wednesday, week after week. Come to think of it, in a way that eerily mirrors how I feel when routinely punching in at the little restaurant that is my home away from home.

Perhaps all of this is semantics for simply saying I’m overly sensitive, and as scrappy and selfassured as I seem to be from afar, I become like lime green Jello when someone thinks an article is out-and-out crap, my table side manner is less than stellar or my personal interactions are off base or inappropriate. It’s more than the symbiotic relationship between newspaper writer/reader or restaurant service provider/ customer, it’s outright codependency whisked with a heavy pinch of you-can’t-please-all-of-thepeople-all-of-the-time, so come to terms with it.

In the newspaper world, I am see LADD page 5

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Where are the action heroines?

BRUNI from page 4

covered in Sheryl Sandberg’s book tour.

But what about movies? It was all the way back in 1986 that Sigourney Weaver trounced “Aliens” and landed on the cover of Time, supposedly presaging an era of action heroines. But there haven’t been so many: Angelina Jolie in the “Tomb Raider” adventures, “Salt” and a few other hectic flicks; Jennifer Lawrence in the unfolding “Hunger Games” serial. Last summer Kristen Stewart’s “Snow White” needed a “Huntsman” at her side, and this summer? I see an “Iron Man,” a “Man of Steel” and Will Smith, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Channing Tatum all shouldering the weight of civilization’s future. I see no comparable crew of warrior goddesses.

Heroines fare better on TV, but even there I’m struck by the persistent stereotype of a woman whose career devotion is both seed and flower of a tortured private life. Claire Danes in “Homeland,” Mireille Enos in “The Killing,” Dana Delany in “Body of Proof” and even Mariska Hargitay in “Law & Order: SVU” all fit this bill.

The idea that professional and domestic concerns can’t be balanced isn’t confined to the tube. A recent Pew Research Center report showing that women had become the primary providers in 40 percent of American households with at least one child under 18 prompted the conservative commentators Lou Dobbs and Erick Erickson to fret, respectively, over the dissolution of society and the endan-

germent of children. When Megyn Kelly challenged them on Fox News, they responded in a patronizing manner that they’d never use with a male news anchor.

Title IX, enacted in 1972, hasn’t led to an impressive advancement of women in pro sports. The country is now on its third attempt at a commercially viable women’s soccer league.

The Women’s National Basketball Association lags far behind the men’s N.B.A. in visibility and revenue.

Even in the putatively high-minded realm of literature, there’s a gender gap, with male authors accorded the lion’s share of prominent reviews, as the annual VIDA survey documents.

Reflecting on that in Salon last week, the critic Laura Miller acutely noted: “There’s a grandiose self-presentation, a swagger, that goes along with advancing your book as a Great American Novel that many women find impossible or silly.”

I congratulate them for that. They let less hot air into their heads.

But about the larger picture, I’m mystified. Our racial bigotry has often been tied to the ignorance abetted by unfamiliarity, our homophobia to a failure to realize how many gay people we know and respect.

Well, women are in the next cubicle, across the dinner table, on the other side of the bed. Almost every man has a mother he has known and probably cared about; most also have a wife, daughter, sister, aunt or niece as well.

Our stubborn sexism harms and holds back them, not strangers. Still it survives.

Criticism from a guest comes especially hard to most restaurant professionals LADD from page 4

beginning to trust that for every person who expresses displeasure with something printed, no matter who the writer or what the topic, there are oodles more out there who applaud it, including my editor who loves the professional drama because it moves papers. In my personal life, it’s about boundaries, unrealistic expectations and other expensive psyco-jargon, action-based directives that, Jello shot aside, I am successfully resolving. In my restaurant reality, it boils down to doing the best I can with vast knowledge and skills that have developed over time (hack, huh?), along with back-up from my colleagues (hosts, bartenders, kitchen staff, dish dogs), making the “co” in codependency (aka teamwork) a good thing.

Due to the nature of our payment structure, criticism from a guest comes especially hard to most restaurant professionals. When a tip doesn’t reflect the quality of the food or service, or when a guest says everything is great and once again, the tip is crappy, it just fuels the fires of injustice that also accompany codependency.

Perhaps in this case, it would be

referred to as classic passive-aggressive behavior, or a combination of both. If I could turn the clock back, I’d ask Dr. Freud himself, but I’d have to politely ask him to put out his cigar before being seated in my section. And who knows, this could affect my tip.

The Down Low: Lindsay Tice of the “Lewiston Sun-Journal” had a great piece this past Sunday on grocery and convenience store Scooby snack sales tax, and how everyone from the end-user buying a bag of Cheetos to the powers that be in Augusta, are unsure who gets charged what, and why. While more clearcut, I anticipate an uproar when restaurant sales tax goes from 7 to 8 percent.

This is one situation where being part of the 1 percent isn’t going to feel good because as a server, I’m pretty sure I know who will be Peter and who will be Paul, when diners look for a place from which to rob to pay the extra tax.

(Natalie Ladd is a columnist for the Portland Daily Sun. She has over 30 continuous years of corporate and fine-dining experience in all front-ofthe-house management, hourly and under-the-table positions. She can be reached at natalie@portlanddailysun. me.)

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Garbage to Garden rides green movement with expansion of composting in region Marketing official: ‘It’s more than a composting service, it’s a movement’

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In less than a year, Garbage to Garden has seen a tidal wave of support for its local composting service.

For example, this past Saturday was World Oceans Day, and to commemorate the occasion, Garbage to Garden partnered with Surfrider Maine to help clean up Willard Beach in South Portland.

Volunteers descended on Willard Beach at 10 a.m. Saturday, encouraged to bring work gloves and trash bags, as well as a mug for coffee. They worked until noon, picking up debris and combing the beach of refuse for lovers of sand and surf to better enjoy the popular spot.

Tyler Frank, president of Garbage to Garden, said the day was a cause to celebrate the ocean and how important it is in people’s lives. But the event also illustrated Garbage to Garden’s rapid growth and expansion into communities.

Garbage to Garden was founded by Frank last August, and in just a short amount of time, the company has become a familiar fixture on curbsides throughout Greater Portland. Frank, who was raised in North Yarmouth and is a Cheverus High School graduate, said composting was a way of life for him while growing up.

“I moved to Portland last spring and found I had no way of doing it,” he said. “That’s how the idea was born.”

Interested customers can register online for the curbside pick-up at garbagetogarden.org. They will then receive a newsletter each month with volunteer events. The fee for the service is $11/month, and Garbage to Garden picks up residents’ compostables on trash day each week.

“You can get a bucket of compost returned to you every week, if you want,” said Frank, whose company donates surplus compost to schools and community gardens.

“It’s a low fee to participate, but we encourage volunteering as a payment method so everyone can get involved in the program,” he said.

ABOVE AND LEFT: Last Saturday, in celebration of World Oceans Day, Garbage to Garden teamed up with Surfrider Maine to clean up South Portland’s Willard Beach. Garbage to Garden curbside composting has yielded 30 tons a month of compostable material from households. (COURTESY PHOTOS)

So far, Portland, South Portland, Falmouth, Cumberland and Yarmouth residents are able to avail themselves

of the service, and the company is close to launching in Westbrook.

“We try to have events in all the towns that we service, so no communities get left behind,” Frank said.

Garbage to Garden curbside composting has yielded 30 tons a month of compostable material from households.

“We have 5 percent of the population of Portland composting,” Frank said. “Our goal is to have 10 percent by the end of the year.”

Garbage to Garden partnered with the Surfrider Foundation, a national group with a Maine affiliate, for the beach clean-up.

Caitlin Milliken, marketing and public relations director at Garbage to Garden, organizes their volunteer events and looks to team up with local nonprofits each time.

“We originally started it to encourage everyone to participate in composting,” she said of their volunteer efforts. “It’s more than a composting service, it’s a movement.”

They work with the Wayside Food Program four times a year, to help with their food drives at Whole Foods.

They join the farmer’s market programs by having information tables in Yarmouth and Portland, with volunteers helping out there to educate the communities about their programs.

Take Action Portland is also a nonprofit partner, and they have been working with Friends of Casco Bay on a storm drain stenciling project, stressing the importance of not dumping into drains.

“We have quite a few regular volunteers,” Milliken said, “And more and more joining all the time.”

South Portland wins $20,000 Blue Water Fund Grant to help restore Trout Brook Watershed South Portland has received a $20,000 Blue Water Fund Grant to help with Trout Brook Watershed restoration, the city’s water resource protection department announced Monday.

The Royal Bank of Canada’s Blue Water Project awarded the funds to a consortium of partners working with the international Gulf of Maine Council, the city reported. The council is leading the project for several groups in the Gulf of Maine Watershed, including two in the maritime provinces of Canada, two in seacoast New Hampshire and the city of South Portland. This international partnership is intended to raise awareness about urban water resource issues and targeted toward “on the

ground” projects that improve water quality in cities and towns, a press release noted.

Trout Brook and its tributary Kimball Brook do not meet state water quality standards primarily due to impacts from surrounding development, the city noted. South Portland recently received a $70,000 grant from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to implement key recommendations from the Trout Brook Watershed Management Plan.

The RBC Blue Water funds will be used to implement additional recommendations identified in the Watershed Management Plan, namely to correct erosion problems in Hinckley Park and perhaps other areas of the watershed if funds allow, the city

reported. Local partners for the South Portland project include the South Portland Land Trust, the Cumberland County Soil & Water Conservation District, the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership and the Maine DEP. “It is really great that we are partnering with the Royal Bank of Canada on this project,” South Portland City Manager James Gailey said. “We are leveraging their support by providing an additional $10,000 of in-kind services from local and nonprofit involvement. This funding will go a long way towards protecting the ponds that South Portlanders enjoy within Hinckley Park.”

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Maine Medical Center presses ahead with $40 million expansion Daily Sun Staff Report The MaineHealth Board of Trustees voted to join the Maine Medical Center board in approving a Maine Medical Center request to expand the hospital’s facilities and capabilities on its Bramhall Campus, the hospital reported.

The city planning board reviewed the proposal Tuesday night. Pending the city’s approval of the site plan and a Department of Health and Human Services review of a Certificate of Need, this $40 million project will locate new procedural suites on the rooftop of the existing Bean building, a press release stated.

“Maine Medical Center is committed to achieving our vision of making Maine the healthiest state in the nation,” said Maine Medical Center Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Sanders.

“This project moves us closer to that goal.”

This expansion and renovation plan is aimed at two primary objectives for the hospital, allowing Maine Medical Center to modernize and alleviate pressure in current operating rooms, which today are running at rates

that are higher than industry norms, Maine Medical Center reported.

The project is scheduled to be complete in October 2014 and is part of a larger master facilities plan that the center previously considered. Hospital leadership opted for a scaled-back project at this time with intent to revisit the remainder of the plan in the middle of this decade, the press release stated.

Construction is intended to begin this fall and will result in five new operating rooms and accompanying preparation and recovery areas on the Bean 2 rooftop; improved sterilization procedures and areas; and development of a cardiac hybrid operating room in the main surgical suite for advanced heart surgeries.

The majority of existing operating rooms at the Bramhall Campus, which were built in 1984, are 400 square feet. This expansion will result in new spaces that average 650 square feet, the press release noted.

“With today’s equipment and the number of specialists required and the technology needed for very sophisticated interventional activity, the rooms need to be bigger,” says Brad Cushing, MD, Chief of Surgery, Maine

On Tuesday, the city planning board held a Level III Site Plan and Conditional Use Review workshop for a Surgical Facility Addition, Emergency Department, at Maine Medical Center, 22 Bramhall St. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Medical Center. “Our surgeons are already looking forward to more flexibility, both in terms of operating space and in scheduling procedures.”

Maine Medical Center leaders are

also working closely with state and city officials and nearby neighborhood associations to minimize any impact to traffic and residents near the Bramhall Campus, the press release stated.

LePage seeks hospital repayment, warns MaineCare will run out of money

By David Carkhuff THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Governor Paul LePage on Tuesday said he is still waiting for Democratic leadership in the Maine Legislature to approve reimbursement of hospitals, revisiting a contentious issue that has occupied lawmakers for most of the session.

“It’s been 150 days and counting,” LePage said in a press release Tuesday. “How much longer must the hospitals wait? It is time to end the political games and get our hospitals paid. Democratic leadership has not allowed an up-or-down vote on my plan. Let’s get that vote, let’s get the hospitals paid, and let’s get our fiscal house in order so I can release job-creating bonds before the entire construction season ends this summer.”

Governor LePage’s plan to pay Maine’s hospitals and create a new contract for the state’s liquor business is languishing on the table at the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee, he said.

The bill, “An Act to Strengthen Maine’s Hospitals and to Provide for a New Spirits Contract,” is essentially the same as the governor’s proposal that was submitted 150 days ago, LePage said. The new bill was submitted on May 23 as emergency legislation, which means if it is passed, it will go into effect as soon as the governor signs it.

In late May, Maine Democratic Party Chair Ben Grant issued a statement accusing Republicans of playing politics with hospital repayment. In a 20-15 vote, Republicans in the State Senate sustained LePage’s veto of a Democratic bill to pay back Maine’s hospitals a $500 million debt, legislation that also sought to expand the state’s Medicaid program, MaineCare, by adding nearly 70,000 Maine

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residents to the rolls. The expansion in the Maine Department of Health and Human Services budget was a source of controversy for Republicans. Democrats said the bill sought compromise.

“Republicans have been demanding payment to the hospitals for months, yet here they go again voting ‘no’ on their alleged top priority,” Grant said in his statement at the time.

More recently, LePage met last Wednesday with legislative leaders “to inform them of the administration’s serious concerns about the state’s obligation to pay its bills for the remainder of the fiscal year, which ends July 1,” a press release from the governor’s office noted last week.

LePage said he met with Democratic leaders Senate President Justin Alfond of Portland and House Speaker Mark Eves of North Berwick and Senate Republican leaders Michael Thibodeau of

Waldo County and Alex Willette of Mapleton.

“If the budget is not approved, the MaineCare program will run out of money on June 19,” LePage said in his press release last week. “DHHS will not be able to pay for services for our most vulnerable Mainers,” said Governor LePage. “Democratic leaders have been solely focused on expanding welfare to cover people with no disabilities, they have forgotten that the bills need to be paid for Mainers who are already on Medicaid. This budget rests in the hands of Democratic leadership.”

Maine Rep. Ben Chipman, I-Portland, said June 30 is the deadline to pass the budget, but legislators may act sooner.

“The DHHS is sounding off alarms and saying that if we don’t get a budget done by the 19th or pass a supplemental budget they will run out of money,” he said. “I don’t think MaineCare is going to go broke, and we need to make sure it gets funded.”

The discussion, he said, involves “a lot of back and forth,” with past cuts to MaineCare creating concerns among some legislators.

“You always want to look for efficiencies but I think at some point you have to be willing to pay for things that people need and people want,” Chipman said in an interview late last week.

Republican and and Democratic members of the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee have talked to him and say they’re working together, Chipman added.

“It’s a process, there’s no budget introduced by any governor that gets passed the way it is,” he said.

Issues that remain up for debate include $200 million in revenue sharing cuts and $400 million in tax cuts passed last year, Chipman said.

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Rules seek to curb loitering in medians Proposed ordinance wins support as police argue for safety, cite surge in panhandling complaints

By Craig Lyons THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A proposed ordinance that will prevent loitering in Portland’s median strips will once again head to the City Council but with support of the Public Safety, Health and Human Services Committee and the public.

The ordinance would ban people from standing, sitting, driving or parking in a median, but still allow for pedestrians to use them for crossing from one side of the street to another, according to a staff memo. The Sauschuck proposed ordinance presented to the committee is the same one that was rejected last year by the City Council.

“The time is now to address this issue, before we have an accident,” said Councilor Cheryl Leeman, who last year voted against the ordinance. “... It’s about keeping people safe from harm.”

Leeman said she’s seen incidents during the last year where there have been near misses between a car and someone in a median. She said she’s seen people traversing lines of traffic seeking handouts from motorists and distracting drivers.

“I have to tell you, that someone’s going to get hurt,” she said.

Last July, the City Council — by a 3-1 margin — rejected an ordinance that would have prohibited pedestrians from loitering on median strips except while crossing the street. The proposed ordinance was decried as a means for the city to stifle panhandling and a potential infringement of free speech.

Unlike the discussion last year, the renewed effort to pass the measure focused on the public safety hazard posed by people standing in the medians more than on panhandling.

“This is all about median strips,” said Police Chief Michael Sauschuck. “ ... This is all about the public safety issues around median strips.”

The statistics generated by the Police Department indicated there’s been a 25 percent increase in calls related to panhandling during the first half of the year, according to a memo, and a 23 percent increase in reports that involve panhandling in a median.

From January to May in 2012, the department received 169 calls for service related to panhandling, with 101 involving a subject on a median.

In 2013, the department has received 212 calls, with 124 involving someone in a median.

“There’s so much more now than before,” Sauschuck said.

The chief said he and his staff pulled the calls for service related to the median complaints and found pages of examples where public safety hazards were created. Sauschuck said complaints the department received included intoxicated individuals who were falling into the roadway, people darting into traffic, panhandlers harassing motorists and pedestrians being treated aggressively while crossing the street.

Sauschuck said officers are in a reactive mode when it comes to deal-

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ing with issues surrounding people in medians given the limits of existing laws.

“That’s why I’m here tonight,” Sauschuck said. “To try to react to these issues before we have a problem.”

Councilor John Coyne said he’s pleased to see the ordinance come back before the council. He said the number of people loitering in the medians has increased dramatically and it will only get worse if it’s not addressed.

“I just think it’s imperative upon us to get this going,” he said.

Aside from garnering unanimous support from the committee, 20 of the 21 people who spoke during public comment favored the proposed ordinance.

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of the Preble Street Resource Center, said, after meeting with the chief and city staff, he’s convinced that the intention behind the ordinance is to preserve public safety and not an antipanhandling measure.

“We’re not going to oppose this ordinance,” he said.

Larry Kelly, a member of the Parkside Neighborhood Organization, said he worked in the social services sector for more than 20 years, and he doesn’t see that the ordinance is against homeless individuals or any single population but to preserve public safety.

“I don’t believe that this ordinance in any way prejudices their rights,” he said, and it’s about keeping them as safe as any other member of the public.

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Portland school district transportation director wins EPA Lifetime Achievement Award Daily Sun Staff Reports

Kevin Mallory, the Portland Public Schools’ transportation director, has won a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in reducing pollution from the district’s school bus fleet and raising awareness about the benefits of greener school transportation, the school district announced. The award will be presented on Wednesday, June 26 at 1 p.m. in a ceremony at the EPA’s Boston office.

More than a decade ago, Mallory began working to reduce exposure to school bus diesel emissions that can accumulate in and around idling buses and pose a significant health risk, especially to children.

“Kevin Mallory has been a leader in Maine and the country in addressing the problem of diesel emissions,” said Portland Schools Superintendent Emmanuel Caulk, in a press release.

“His efforts have helped the Portland Public Schools create a healthier environment for our students and staff.

The district’s bus fleet reflects our commitment to create a ‘green’ school district.”

In 2001, the Portland Public Schools was the first school district in Maine to establish and enforce a no-idling

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policy for school buses. The ban on idling was expanded to include private vehicles around school buildings. The district worked with the city of Portland to designate the city as a “Clean Air Zone” and to extend the reduced idling policies beyond the schools.

In 2004, the Portland Public Schools was one of the first districts in the country to retrofit its buses with pollution control equipment provided by the EPA. Two years later, the district replaced three diesel buses with buses running on compressed natural gas (CNG) that were purchased with money from a Clean Cities grant. Since then, the district has replaced seven additional diesel buses with cleaner-burning CNG buses purchased with assistance from Maine Department of Environmental Protection grants.

The Portland school district has obtained DEP grants to buy three more CNG buses. That will make Portland’s CNG fleet the largest of

any school district in New England, the press release noted. For the past five years, the district has used a blend of biodiesel and ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel in its diesel buses.

The district’s initiatives to reduce pollution have received state and national honors, including the 2005 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence and 2009 recognition from the national publication, “School Bus Fleet.”

Maine Clean Communities nominated Mallory for the Lifetime Achievement Award. He has worked in management positions in the transportation sector since 1973, and became the Portland Public Schools’ transportation director in 1996.

Portland’s coastal islands focus of wildfire risk abatement via chipping Next week, June 17 to June 21, the Maine Forest Service in partnership with the Portland Fire Department and Department of Public Services will begin work on Portland’s coastal islands by removing potential wildfire risks through the Defensible

Space Chipping Program, the city announced. Supported by federal funds, the program helps communities reduce the risk of wildfire near their homes by chipping debris and brush.

Residents interested in participating will need to preregister and then place brush curbside for chipping. The resulting wood chips can either be left for the resident’s use or the Maine Forest Service will move them to a preselected area on the islands. Those participating are reminded that trees within the shoreland zone should not be cut down, and rotted, punky wood will not acceptable. Additionally and as time allows, a Maine Forest Ranger will be on hand to show homeowners how they can increase and maintain the “defensible space” around their home. Portland’s coastal Islands qualified for the program by completing community wildfire protection plans with the Maine Forest Service.

Program schedule: June 17 — Peaks Island; June 18 — Cushing Island; June 19 — Little Diamond Island; June 20 — Great Diamond Island; June 21 — Cliff Island.

For more information about the program, residents can contact Mike Murray at 756-8288 or msm@portlandmaine.gov.

Today’s Birthdays: Singer Vic Damone is 85.

Songwriter Richard Sherman is 85. Actorsinger Jim Nabors is 83. Jazz musician Chick Corea is 72. Sportscaster Marv Albert is 72. Singer Roy Harper is 72. Pop singer Len Barry is 71. Rock singer-musician John Wetton is 64. Rock musician Bun E. Carlos is 62. Country singer-musician Junior Brown is 61. Singer-songwriter Rocky Burnette is 60. Actor Timothy Busfield is 56. Singer Meredith Brooks is 55. Actress Jenilee Harrison is 55. Rock musician John Linnell is 54.

Actress Paula Marshall is 49. Actress Frances O’Connor is 46. Actor Michael Muhney is 38.

Blues musician Kenny Wayne Shepherd is 36. Actor Wil Horneff is 34. Singer Robyn is 34. Actor Dave Franco is 28. Country singer Chris Young is 28. Actor Ryan Malgarini is 21.

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particular role. One good question is all it takes to open the door.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll take full possession of all that’s going on in your part of the world. This is what it’s like to be vibrantly alive. The moments in which you don’t feel connected will stand out because you are so regularly in a state of flow.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Nonconformity is your specialty, and you’ll challenge others to look at their automatic behaviors with new eyes. Your seemingly small gestures -- like bringing your own water bottle or grocery bags -- will catch on.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). If a bad choice isn’t available to you, you are no more virtuous for not choosing it. True virtue comes from choosing what’s right over the temptation of what’s wrong.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 12). A loved one sees you as someone who can do absolutely anything. You’ll start to see yourself that way, too. Your confidence in love will be fully restored in July. August brings more resources to work with. Money won’t solve a problem, but it will improve things markedly.

A family challenge leads to victory. Celebrate in October. Aries and Taurus people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 11, 15, 50, 38 and 13.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll be introducing someone to what is very familiar to you. Remember the basics. There’s much you take for granted about what you know.

Break it down. Don’t be afraid to get into the minutiae.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll be in a thoughtful mood, and the news you hear can’t help but remind you of a life you left behind. How did life progress for the other parties after you moved on? Wondering could lead to searching.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Youthful folly can bring success. It has before! Believe in the power of the young. They believe what older people can’t. They see a different horizon beyond what experienced eyes observe.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). New ventures will pack a fun-sized snack of chaos.

That’s what makes them so enticing. You might not like the taste of this, but you’ll love that you got to sample the untried.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It’s hard to imagine that you will someday reminisce about this time, but you will. So how can you document it better? More importantly, how can you live it better?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You get the message you’re supposed to get, because you are paying attention. You’ll hear but a few key words, and you’ll know that this one is meant for you. It’s not a message from the person who is speaking; it’s from beyond.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Dangerous situations do not always look like dark city alleys or smell like fire. Dangerous situations can be as innocuous as a kind and attractive person with a warm smile. Then again, there are some kinds of danger you like.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When you listen, you give your full attention so you can really take things in. You gather all of the power of what a person is saying and reflect it back like a brilliant mirror. This quality will serve you well today.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Wednesday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2013. There are 202 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On June 12, 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Miss. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001.)

On this date: In 1776, Virginia’s colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.

In 1898, Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain.

In 1920, the Republican national convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Warren G. Harding for president on the tenth ballot; Calvin Coolidge was nominated for vice president.

In 1939, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y. In 1942, Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received a diary for her 13th birthday, less than a month before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis.

In 1956, the Flag of the United States Army was officially adopted under an executive order signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In 1963, one of Hollywood’s most notoriously expensive productions, “Cleopatra,” starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison, opened in New York.

In 1967, the Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.

In 1982, a crowd estimated at up to 1 million people gathered in New York’s Central Park to demand a superpower freeze on nuclear weapons.

In 1987, President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”

In 1991, Russians went to the polls to elect Boris N. Yeltsin president of their republic.

In 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home. (O.J. Simpson was later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial, but was eventually held liable in a civil action.)

Ten years ago: U.S. fighter jets bombed a suspected terrorist camp and troops stormed through Sunni Muslim towns in Iraq, seeking Saddam Hussein loyalists in one of the biggest American military assaults since the war began.

Five years ago: In a stinging rebuke to President George W. Bush’s anti-terror policies, a deeply divided Supreme Court ruled that foreign detainees held for years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba had the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their indefinite imprisonment without charges. Three heavily armed robbers stole two Pablo Picasso prints, “The Painter and the Model” and “Minotaur, Drinker and Women,” plus two paintings by other artists from a museum in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (The works were later recovered.)

One year ago: Attorney General Eric Holder fended off Republican demands that he appoint a special counsel outside of the Justice Department to look into national security leaks. Democrat Ron Barber, who almost lost his life in the Arizona shooting rampage that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, won a special election to succeed her.

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Dear Annie: I have a friend who has a divorced daughter with two children. The ex-husband has a good job with the government. My friend is very strapped for money and sends as much as she can to the daughter. The daughter claims the ex-husband does not pay child support regularly.

I feel the daughter should go to his employer about the child support. There are laws about this. But my friend and her daughter both believe this might cause him to lose his job. Then there would be no money coming at all. I disagree.

I don’t believe you can be fired for garnishment of wages. But talking to my friend is like talking to a wall.

The new wrinkle is, the ex-husband is about to remarry. I have known this guy since he was a teenager, and he is a fine man. I don’t, however, have the same warm feelings toward my friend’s daughter. Is there some way I can look into her claim about the child support without causing trouble? My friend is about to lose her house, and I don’t think she should be giving away her money to her daughter.

I realize this is none of my business, but watching the effect this has on my friend breaks my heart. -- Just Concerned Dear Concerned: We cannot caution you enough to stay out of this. The mother may suspect her daughter is not telling her the truth and wants to give her the money anyway. The daughter may be perfectly honest about the child support, rendering your high opinion of the ex-husband unwarranted.

And there could be other things going on of which you are unaware. If the daughter is not receiving child support, she can take the matter to the courts. We understand your concern, but no good can come from your snooping around.

Dear Annie: My boyfriend and I have been dating for three years. This summer, we are planning to go camping with his

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Who’s wrong? -- Sleeping Alone Dear Sleeping: You are. These are his parents, and this is their camping trip. You not only should abide by their rules, but you should show them the kind of respect your boyfriend is showing by giving their sensitivities a priority when in their presence as their guests.

Dear Annie: I’d like to agree with “Encino, Calif.,” who needs a handicapped parking spot even though her disability is not visible.

I am an amputee. In the winter, no one can see my prosthesis under my pants. I can walk faster than a lot of people with two good legs, but I periodically get a sore “leg” and have fallen several times. So I legally park in the handicapped spot. I have never had anyone openly direct a nasty comment toward me, but I sure have had my share of dirty looks. Someone once “reminded” me that I was in a handicapped spot, so I lifted up my pants leg. That shut him up.

I would like to tell people that just because we don’t look disabled doesn’t mean we are not. Things beyond our control have happened to us. Also, to those of you who park in the handicapped spaces “just for a minute” to drop something off: I once had to cross a snow-covered parking lot in a wheelchair when the handicapped spaces were full of people without proper stickers or license plates. Shame on you! -- Michigan Girl

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Turnpike bridges to be closed in Falmouth, Sabattus, Lewiston areas Daily Sun Staff Reports The Maine Turnpike Authority will close four overhead bridges in the next several days for rehabilitation work and safety upgrades, weather permitting, the agency announced. The bridges carry local traffic over the Maine Turnpike and are scheduled to be reopened in early November.

The bridges subject to closure include: • Blackstrap Road at mile 52 in Falmouth: The work includes concrete deck replacement, raising the bridge to increase the under clearance over the Turnpike, concrete substructure modifications, repairs and approach work. The $3.5 million contract was awarded to CPM Constructors of Freeport, and includes the ongoing Exit 52 Interchange Bridge Project. Bridge closure is scheduled for Monday, June 17.

• Hurricane Road at mile 56.6 in Falmouth: The work includes new bridge wearing surfaces, deck repairs and raising the bridge to increase the under clearance over the Turnpike, concrete substructure repairs and approach work. The $800,000 contract was awarded to Scott Construction of Falmouth.

Bridge closure is scheduled for Monday, June 17.

• Snow Hill Road at mile 70.8 in Sabattus: The project includes replacement and raising of the existing bridge superstructure to provide a minimum vertical clearance of 15’-6”, and repair of the existing abutments and piers. It also includes reconstruction of the bridge approaches to match the raised bridge

structure. The $1.2 million contract was awarded to Wyman & Simpson of Richmond. Bridge closure is scheduled for Thursday, June 20.

• Old Lisbon Road at mile 81.8 in Lewiston: The work includes concrete deck and steel girder replacement, raising the bridge to increase the under clearance over the Turnpike, concrete substructure modifications, repairs and approach work. The $1.5 million contract was awarded to Wyman & Simpson of Richmond. Bridge closure is scheduled for Friday, June 14.

Electronic message boards are in place to give drivers advance notice of important project dates and restrictions, the Maine Turnpike Authority reported. Detours are available for local traffic. The projects may cause occasional lane closures on the Maine Turnpike below the bridges, which will be limited to off peak times and be unlikely to impact traffic, the agency reported.

The bridge projects are the next phase of the MTA’s ongoing 30-year plan of major bridge rehabilitation and repair projects, which began in 1994.

Portland schools, partners expand summer food service program The Portland Public Schools and the city of Portland are partnering with several local agencies to expand the program that provides free meals to children during summer, the school district announced Tuesady.

Beginning Monday, June 24, meals will be available free Monday through Friday to anyone 18 and younger at locations around the city, a school district

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press release stated. The program will serve meals from new sites such as Deering Oaks playground in an effort to boost the number of children participating.

More than half of the students enrolled in the Portland Public Schools depend on free or reduced-price school lunches and breakfasts for nine months of the year, the press release noted. Portland’s Summer Food Service Program helps students stay healthy and return to school ready to learn, the release stated, yet, about 80 percent of the 3,700 students eligible for free and reduced-price meals do not take advantage of the summer program.

The program’s sponsors say that many families do not know about the program. They hope to increase participation this summer by offering meals in new, convenient locations such as playgrounds and subsidized housing projects and by planning educational activities and other events to draw children.

“Portland children are going hungry because eligible families do not know about the availability of these nutritious meals,” said Donna Yellen of Preble Street’s Maine Hunger Initiative. “We need our community to help us raise awareness.”

Portland has 16 open meal sites where any child can go for a free summer lunch. Families can find a summer meal site near them by either calling 2-1-1 or texting MEALS4ME to 877-877.

The Summer Food Service Program is federally funded and administered by the Maine Department of Education. Local partners working to increase participation include Opportunity Alliance, Healthy Portland and Preble Street.

Seminarians to be ordained to transitional diaconate on June 16 Three seminarians will be ordained to the transitional diaconate by Bishop Richard Malone at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on 307 Congress St. at 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 16, according to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland.

The diaconate, priesthood and episcopacy comprise the three holy orders in the Catholic Church.

The designation of “transitional deacon” indicates that although the individual will always be a deacon by virtue of his ordination, the hope is that he will one day be ordained to the priesthood, a press release explained. All deacons, whether transitional or permanent, may celebrate the sacrament of baptism, witness marriages, preside at funeral rituals outside of Mass, proclaim the Gospel and preach homilies.

The seminarians include Edward Clifford; Kyle Doustou; and Brad Morin.

Clifford, 50, was born in Shawmut and attended Yarmouth High School. He graduated from high school in Milford, Ohio in 1981. He received a BA in political science from the University of Dayton (Ohio) and also earned his master’s in public administration at the University of Maine in Orono. Clifford, who is on course to complete his clerical studies at Blessed John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, Mass., in 2014, was a city manager in Biddeford and the director of Biddeford-Saco-Old Orchard Beach Transit before pursuing the priesthood. Clifford’s summer pastoral assignment is serving the Portland parishes of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, St. Peter, St. Louis, and Sacred HeartSt. Dominic, and St. Christopher, Peaks Island.

Doustou, 25, was born in Lewiston. After graduating from Saint Dominic Regional High School in 2005, Doustou received a full scholarship from and entered into the Basselin Scholars Program, a threeyear honors philosophy program at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Morin, 29, was born in Upper Frenchville. Upon graduating from Madawaska High School in 2002, he headed to Saint Joseph’s College in Standish, earning a BA in philosophy in 2006. His summer pastoral assignment is serving St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish, Scarborough; St. Bartholomew Parish, Cape Elizabeth; Holy Cross Parish, South Portland; and St. John the Evangelist Parish, South Portland.

All are welcome to attend the ordination.

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Wednesday, June 12 ‘Stormwater Management Strategies & Solutions’

7:30 a.m. “The Maine Drain: Stormwater Management Strategies & Solutions.” Maine Real Estate and Development Association and the Portland Community Chamber are teaming up with E2Tech on a stormwater forum featuring public works, engineering, regulatory and legal leaders engaged in planning for and funding stormwater plans and implementation. “Experts from Maine’s three largest cities – Portland, Lewiston and Bangor – will join the Department of Environmental Protection, Woodard & Curran, Pierce Atwood, and Perkins Thompson to discuss critical approaches, next steps and options for sound and effective stormwater management. The event will be on June 12 at 7:30 a.m. at the Clarion Hotel in Portland. Regisration is at http://portlandmecoc.weblinkconnect.com/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=556.” E2Tech — Environmental & Energy Technology Council of Maine, http://www.e2tech.org

Kathryn Miles at the Portland Public Library’

noon to 1 p.m. Kathryn Miles, “All Standing: The True Story of Hunger, Rebellion, and Survival Aboard the Jeanie Johnston.” Part of Portland Public Library’s Brown Bag Lectures.

Each lecture is held in the Rines Auditorium from noon to 1 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) with a book signing held afterward. Complimentary coffee is generously provided

by Coffee By Design and cookies are donated by Whole Foods Market. Longfellow Books provides books for sale to be signed by the author. “All Standing: The True Story of Hunger, Rebellion, and Survival Aboard the Jeanie Johnston recounts the journeys of this famous ship, her heroic crew, and the immigrants who were ferried between Ireland and North America.”

Spaghetti supper for Lewiston fire victims

4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Governor John Baldacci is hosting a spaghetti supper at the Lewiston High School, June 12 for the Lewiston Fire Relief Fund. “Devastating fires on April 29, May 3 and May 6 in downtown Lewiston displaced nearly 200 people and destroyed nine apartment buildings. ...

Donations of all sizes will be welcomed and all the money raised will go to the United Way of Androscoggin County Lewiston relief effort. ... The spaghetti supper will be held at 4:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, at Lewiston High School, 156 East Ave, Lewiston. The United Way of Androscoggin County is the organization that is coordinating the relief effort, and is also the sponsor of the dinner.”

LGBT Collection’s Annual Open House

5 p.m. to 7 p.m. “The University of Southern Maine LGBT Collection’s Annual Open House will be held from 5-7 p.m., Wednesday, June 12, in the elevator lobby of the sixth floor, Glickman Family Library, Portland campus. There will be food and a cash bar. The event is free and open to the public. The open house will celebrate voter approval of same-sex marriage in Maine by exhibiting material on the history of same-sex marriage in Maine from the LGBT Collection. The Glickman Family Library is located at 314 Forest Avenue in Portland. Free parking is available in the campus garage off Bedford St. For further information and to register to attend, contact Susie R. Bock at 780-4269 or by e-mail at bocks@usm.maine.edu.”

Entreverge awards party

5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. “PROPEL hosts the fifth annual entreverge awards party at Grace Restaurant. Join 350 plus startup enthusiasts to celebrate this year’s entreverge nominees — local entrepreneurs recognized for taking big risks, executing on a scalable vision and making a long-term commitment to the people and prosperity of Maine. It’s the startup party of the year. Not being there is like having an AOL email address.” Restaurant Grace, 15 Chestnut St., Portland. 772-2811, http://portlandmecoc.weblinkconnect. com/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=546

WPNA Neighborhood Presentation

7 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. Western Promenade Neighborhood Association. “Portland’s WPNA presents a lecture by Earle Shettleworth of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission on the history of the West End neighborhood. Location: Franklin Theater, contact: Anne Pringle.”

Bloomsday Portland 2013

7:30 p.m. “A walk through downtown Portland with actors in costume reading excerpts from Ulysses. A Joycean trivia contest. A rollicking performance piece telling the story of Ulysses in one hour. These are all part of Bloomsday Portland 2013, a week of fun festivities taking place June 10-15 to celebrate Bloomsday (June 16, the day James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses takes place). This is the fourth year that Portland joins cities in over 40 countries mounting special events to honor this important work of literature. It’s a celebration of Irish culture, it’s a literary holiday, and it’s a grand party! ‘This year, Bloomsday falls on Father’s Day,’ said Event Producer Susan Reilly of AIRE (American Irish Repertory Ensemble), ‘so we’re focusing many of our readings for

Historian Herb Adams prepares to place new American flags next to headstones for African-American veterans in Eastern Cemetery during a trip there in 2011. Adams will read the Declaration of Independence at noon on July 4 at the Maine Historical Society. And this year, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Gettysburg Address will also be read aloud by a surprise guest. For details, visit https://www.mainehistory.org/programs_events.shtml. At the base of Munjoy Hill, the Eastern Cemetery will begin hosting public tours in July. Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m., Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. and Sundays at 1:30 p.m., Spirits Alive, the advocacy group for the Eastern Cemetery, is conducting tours of this oldest historic landscape in Portland. Visit www.spiritsalive.org for more information.

(DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) the Bloomsday Walk on the relationships between fathers and their children that run through Ulysses.’The Bloomsday Walk is a journey through downtown Portland on Saturday, June 15, from noon to 4:30, with actors reading sections from Ulysses at various stops, including Irish pubs and the public library. Bloomsday Portland is pleased to welcome a new partner this year — Port Veritas, a community-based organization that focuses on encouraging the spoken word and performance art. Port Veritas will feature readings from Joyce’s poems and books at its weekly session at Bull Feeney’s Pub on Tuesday, June 11. (The Joyce readings begin at 9 p.m.) Other Bloomsday week events include a Joycean program at Seanachie Nights at Bull Feeney’s on Monday, June 10; a performance of AIRE’s Ulysses for Beginners at Bull Feeney’s on Wednesday, June 12; a film screening and talk at the Portland Public Library on Thursday, June 13; a question-and-answer discussion of Ulysses with USM Professor Francis McGrath at the Portland Public Library on Friday, June 14; and a Joycean trivia contest and reception at the Maine Irish Heritage Center before the Bloomsday Walk on June 15. Many events are free.” Tuesday, June 11, 7 p.m. Port Veritas, which celebrates the spoken word, presents poetry by and about James Joyce. Bull Feeney’s Pub, 375 Fore St. Wednesday, June 12, 7:30 p.m.

Ulysses for Beginners, AIRE’s original performance piece, uses scenes, songs, and humor to explain the story line of Ulysses in one hour. Bull Feeney’s Pub, 375 Fore St. Thursday, June 13, 6:30 p.m. Bloom, a 2003 Irish film based on Ulysses, will be screened and discussed. Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Rines Auditorium. Friday, June 14, noon. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ulysses but Were Afraid to Ask, USM Professor Francis McGrath takes questions as part of the Local Authors Series. Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Meeting Room No. 5. Saturday, June 15, Tea and Trivia kicks off the Bloomsday Walk with a Joycean trivia contest, music, and refreshments. 11 a.m., Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St. www.airetheater.com

Thursday, June 13 India Street conceptual plan

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. “In March, more than seventy-five people visited the Maine Jewish Museum on Congress Street to provide opinions on the future of India Street. The outcome of those opinions will be presented as a conceptual plan for the neighborhood June 13. India Street is the subject of an innovative planning project designed to make the 15-block neighborhood more prosperous and enjoyable for residents and customers of its businesses.” State of Maine room, City Hall, 389 Congress St. www.portlandmaine.gov

DEPA Business After Hours Event

5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. DownEast Pride Alliance Business After Hours Event at Buck’s Naked BBQ, 50 Wharf St., Portland. “Cash bar with free food and media table for sharing business cards. GLBT & gay-friendly business networking event. No fees. All are welcome!” www.depabusiness.com

Portland Adult Education graduation

6 p.m. Portland Adult Education (PAE) will host its graduation ceremony on June 13 at 6 p.m. in Merrill Auditorium for the 30 students who attained high school diplomas and the 153 students who passed the GED test. The King Middle School Chorus, led by Joseph Farrell, will perform. Four students — Jennifer Chason, Muna Disso, Zakia Momand and Thomas Wyman — will be featured or will speak at the graduation ceremony. http://www2.portlandschools.org

Bloomsday Portland 2013

6:30 p.m. “A walk through downtown Portland with actors in costume reading excerpts from Ulysses. A Joycean trivia contest. A rollicking performance piece telling the story of Ulysses in one hour. These are all part of Bloomsday Portland 2013, a week of fun festivities taking place June 10-15 to celebrate Bloomsday (June 16, the day James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses takes place). This is the fourth year that Portland joins cities in over 40 countries mounting special events to honor this important work of literature. It’s a celebration of Irish culture, it’s a literary holiday, and it’s a grand party! ‘This year, Bloomsday falls on Father’s Day,’ said Event Producer Susan Reilly of AIRE (American Irish Repertory Ensemble), ‘so we’re focusing many of our readings for the Bloomsday Walk on the relationships between fathers and their children that run through Ulysses.’The Bloomsday Walk is a journey through downtown Portland on Saturday, June 15, from noon to 4:30, with actors reading sections from Ulysses at various stops, including Irish pubs and the public library. Bloomsday Portland is pleased to welcome a new partner this year — Port Veritas, a community-based organization that focuses on encouraging the spoken word and performance art.” Thursday, June 13, 6:30 p.m. Bloom, a 2003 Irish film based on Ulysses, will be screened and discussed. Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Rines Auditorium. Friday, June 14, noon.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ulysses but Were Afraid to Ask, USM Professor Francis McGrath takes questions as part of the Local Authors Series. Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Meeting Room No. 5.

Saturday, June 15, Tea and Trivia kicks off the Bloomsday Walk with a Joycean trivia contest, music, and refreshments. 11 a.m., Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St. www.airetheater.com see next page

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Instruction: About Boating Safely Class

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursdays, June 11 to June 20; 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Maine Maritime Museum, Bath. Nonmembers — $80; members — $75. “Gain the basic knowledge to safely trailer, navigate and operate a small vessel, needed in some states to obtain a boat license or a safety certificate. Taught by members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Register by June 4.” For more info or to enroll visit www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org or call 443.1316, ext 0.

Sea State 8.0: Science and Scallops

7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Sea State 8.0: Science and Scallops. “How much do we really know about the work of fishermen and how their daily jobs have changed? Join us for our Sea State 8.0 lecture, ‘Science and Scallops: How Collaborative Research Rebuilt the Georges Bank Scallop Industry’ presented by research scientist Kevin Stokesbury and fisherman Danny Eilersten.Location: GMRI, 350 Commercial St., Portland. Admission: Free.”

‘Dreamgirls’ at Maine State Music Theatre

7:30 p.m. “Dreamgirls” at Maine State Music Theatre, June 5 through June 22. Tony Award winning musical, Maine State Music Theatre, Pickard Theater, Brunswick. TuesdaySunday through June 22. $52. to $59. msmt.org. 725-8769.

‘Titus Andronicus’ by Mad Horse

7:30 p.m. “Titus Andronicus” runs June 6 through June 23, in the Mad Horse Theater at the Hutchins School, 24 Mosher St., South Portland. “Mad Horse closes its 27th Season on a grand scale with one of Shakespeare’s most sweeping and controversial plays. In this depiction of an aging warrior’s return home, Titus Andronicus is a masterful examination of power, corruption, loyalty to family and to country, and the lengths to which one man will go to right a horrifying wrong. A legendary general, Titus Andronicus, returns in triumph to Rome. But the city is in chaos, its Emperor dead. The years of battle have taken their toll on Titus — the choices he makes from the moment he sets foot in the city lead to a spiral of betrayal, revenge and death.” Performance times are Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday Matinees at 2 p.m. There will be a special Talk Back with the director and the actors immediately following the matinee on Sunday, June 16. Tickets are $20 for adults; $15 for seniors/students. Reservations are recommended. Tickets can be purchased online at: www. madhorse.com/tickets.

Friday, June 14 Flag Retirement Ceremony in OOB

9 a.m. Flag Day. At Veteran’s Memorial Park in Old Orchard Beach, Flag Retirement Ceremony. “If you have flags that need to be retired (ripped, torn, old) — please bring them to Veteran’s Memorial Park on Friday, June 14 and participate in the ceremony.” V. Louise Reid, Assistant Town Manager, Town of Old Orchard Beach.

Flag Day at the Portland Observatory

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Presented by Greater Portland Landmarks in cooperation with the city of Portland. “Spend an hour or all day celebrating the opening of the1807 Portland Observatory Museum and the rich history of Munjoy Hill!”

Free admission. 138 Congress St. From noon to 5 p.m., sea songs and music by David Peloquin. Sea chanties, beautiful ballads and songs of the sea celebrate Maine’s maritime heritage. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Meet John McDonald, author of “A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar,” “The Maine Dictionary,” and more. John will be dressed as Lemuel Moody, builder of the Observatory. Bring your camera! 1:30 p.m.

Walking tour of Munjoy Hill; our departs from the Observatory. 3 p.m. Walking tour of Eastern Cemetery; tour departs from Observatory. The Portland Observatory Museum is open daily May 26 through Columbus Day, Oct. 14, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. http://portlandlandmarks.org/blog/ai1ec_ event/flag-day-at-the-observatory/?instance_id=124

Friends of Portland Public Library Annual Book Sale

10 a.m. to 7 p.m. “The Friends of Portland Public Library are back with an even larger selection of books, records, CDs and DVDs for the 2013 book sale! Offering tens of thousands of books and related items, the book sale will take place in the Catherine McAuley High School Gymnasium, located at 631 Stevens Avenue, from June 14 through June 17 — with a Sneak Preview Day for Friends only on June 13. Friends of the Portland Public Library was created to further the Mission of the Portland Public Library and promote community engagement among Library patrons.

Working in close partnership with the Library, the Friends are organizing this Annual Book Sale in which all proceeds benefit the Library. A special “Friends Only” preview will take place on Thursday, June 13. Join at the door or online at: http://friendsofppl.org/Join/BecomeaMember/tabid/69/

On Father’s Day, the Portland Sea Dogs and Slugger, their mascot, will stage the fifth annual Father’s Day 5K Road Race. Slugger and his dad will lead the way on a flat 5K course which begins in front of the Portland Expo building, travels down Congress Street, turning down Stevens Avenue, and making a right onto Brighton Avenue back down Deering Avenue into Fitzpatrick Stadium. The race culminates with a unique finish inside Hadlock Field in front of the third base dugout. Here, Slugger marches in Portland’s Memorial Day parade. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) Default.aspx. Book Sale Hours: Friday, June 14, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, June 15, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, June 16, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Don’t miss the chance to add to your collection of books, CDs and DVDs while supporting the Portland Public Library!” Catherine McAuley High School Gymnasium, 631 Stevens Ave.

Bloomsday Portland 2013

noon. “A walk through downtown Portland with actors in costume reading excerpts from Ulysses. A Joycean trivia contest. A rollicking performance piece telling the story of Ulysses in one hour. These are all part of Bloomsday Portland 2013, a week of fun festivities taking place June 10-15 to celebrate Bloomsday (June 16, the day James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses takes place). This is the fourth year that Portland joins cities in over 40 countries mounting special events to honor this important work of literature. It’s a celebration of Irish culture, it’s a literary holiday, and it’s a grand party!” Bloom, a 2003 Irish film based on Ulysses, will be screened and discussed. Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Rines Auditorium. Friday, June 14, noon. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ulysses but Were Afraid to Ask, USM Professor Francis McGrath takes questions as part of the Local Authors Series. Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Meeting Room No. 5. Saturday, June 15, Tea and Trivia kicks off the Bloomsday Walk with a Joycean trivia contest, music, and refreshments. 11 a.m., Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St. Poldy’s Perambulation is a Bloomsday Walk from the Maine Irish Heritage Center to various spots in downtown Portland, including pubs, bookstores, and the Portland Public Library, with excerpts from Ulysses read by AIRE actors at each location. Costumes encouraged! Noon4:30 pm., Downtown Portland. www.airetheater.com

UCC Clothing & Linen Sale

4 p.m. to 7 p.m. “First Parish Church, UCC Annual Clothing and Linen Sale this year on Friday, June 14 and Saturday June 15. (Fri. 4-7 pm and Sat. 9 - Noon) in Fellowship Hall of our Pilgrim House at 9 Cleaveland Street in Brunswick.

The goal is to reach out to others in the community through affordable prices. Most items are in wonderful, clean condition and are priced between $1 and $2. FMI: 729-7331.”

KAPOW at Spindleworks

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Whatnot Gallery, Spindleworks, 7 Lincoln St., Brunswick, June 7-July 3. Art Walk Reception: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., June 14. “How does an artist orient themselves in our increasingly media-saturated world? What new visual conversations can be created by sifting through and rearranging the everyday artifacts of popular culture?

Spindleworks artists take on these questions in KAPOW, a new show opening for June’s Second Friday Art Walk. Re-

interpreting images shared through the media landscape has been an artistic approach since the mid-20th century, and the artist of Spindleworks are no exception. From Kevin Babine’s large scale works on paper featuring an array of cinematic history, to Melissa Capuano’s portraits of television show characters and Kelly Weingart’s sculptural renditions of Pez characters, KAPOW explores new iterations of seemingly familiar icons. Join us for the reception in conjunction with the Second Friday Art Walk, June 14, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Spindleworks is a nonprofit art center in Brunswick.”

‘The Cybersecurity Challenge’ with Sen. Collins

5:30 p.m. “The World Affairs Council of Maine is pleased to announce that Senator Susan Collins will be the special guest at its Annual Meeting on Friday, June 14 at the Portland Country Club in Falmouth. Senator Collins will discuss cybersecurity and the challenges it represents for our national security. Senator Collins has represented Maine in the United States Senate since 1997. She serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Select Committee on Intelligence, and as Ranking Member of the Special Committee on Aging. She previously served as the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. She was a principal author of bipartisan legislation to protect the United States from a cyber attack. Last year the Senate failed to pass the legislation and the U.S. remains vulnerable to the ever-increasing threat of international cyber attacks on the computer systems that run financial networks, critical utility infrastructure and transportation systems.” Portland Country Club, 11 Foreside Road, Falmouth. WACM Annual Membership Meeting 4:45 p.m. Program and Dinner 5:30 p.m. $75 for members of the Council, $100 for non-members. Reservations are required and must be received by Monday, June 10. see next page

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Riverbank Shakespeare Festival

immediately following the matinee on Sunday, June 16. Tickets are $20 for adults; $15 for seniors/students. Reservations are recommended. Tickets can be purchased online at: www. madhorse.com/tickets.

5:30 p.m. “After a one-year absence, Acorn Productions once again offers area residents a chance to see live Maine LIFE Events AIDS benefit Shakespeare in downtown West8 p.m. Maine LIFE Events is promotbrook’s pastoral Riverbank Pank, ing an AIDS benefit in Ogunquit and located along the Presumpscot River Portland. The festivities start with a on Main Street. This year’s Riverdance party on Friday at 8 p.m. at bank Shakespeare Festival features Mainestreet Video Lounge & Nitetwo productions: ‘The War of the club, 195 Main St., Ogunquit, for LIFE Roses,’ directed by Michael Levine, Ogunquit. All proceeds benefit HIV/ and ‘The Tempest,’ directed by Karen AIDS research in Maine, organizers Ball and featuring the teen actors in said. Suggested donation is $10. The Acorn’s Young Actors Shakespeare night is highlighted by a superhero Conservatory. Due to their length and costume contest with cash prizes. inordinately large casting demands, The event continues Saturday night at Shakespeare’s three parts of Henry 8 p.m. at the State Theatre in Portland.

VI are rarely performed; thus Acorn’s Tickets for Portland’s event are $15 in production offers audiences a rare advance, $20 at the door. For details, opportunity to see several of Shakevisit http://mainelifeevents.org. speare’s earliest hits compiled into one ‘The Freaks Club’ at Snowlion full-length play full of political intrigue, 8 p.m. “A girl with fish-scale skin, a swordfights, backstabbing, and some boy who cannot touch, a friend who of England’s most exciting history. sees only shadows. ... The Freaks ‘The Tempest,’ often credited with Club is the funny, touching new musibeing Shakespeare’s last complete work solely authored by him, revolves Docent Bruce Brown takes pictures of the Portland Observatory during a Flag Day opening last year when over 450 cal where ‘fish’ turns to ‘dish,’ dreams around the deposed Duke of Milan’s people toured the historic marine observatory. Special events are planned at the historic landmark on Friday in honor become nightmares, and what is lost is the key to finding what really matefforts to regain his kingdom through of Flag Day. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) ters. Snowlion Repertory Company, his command of magical spirits who known for bringing new musicals to live on the enchanted island to which ‘The End of the American Century’ the Maine stage, announces the world premiere of The he was banished. Both productions, comprising the River6:30 p.m. Peace Action Maine presents: “The End of the Freaks Club by Thomas Adams (co-book, music) and bank Shakespeare Festival, are free; there is a $10 suggested American Century,” a talk by Andrew Bacevich. The WoodMK Wolfe (co-book, lyrics). ‘The Freaks Club’ has been donation. Audiences are welcome to set up picnic chairs and fords Club, 179 Woodford St., Portland. “Peace Action workshopped in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Stamford, enjoy the ambience a half-hour before the shows begin.” The Maine is delighted to announce that the speaker for our Conn., and now the world premiere production is being Riverbank Shakespeare Festival, Acorn Productions, Riverannual Peace Gathering will be Boston University Professtaged at the Studio Theater at Portland Stage opening bank Park, Main Street, Westbrook. Friday, June 14 at 5:30 sor Andrew Bacevich. An outspoken critic of U.S. foreign Friday, June 14. The Freaks Club tells the story of Anna, p.m. — “The War of the Roses”; Saturday, June 15 at 2 p.m. policy, Professor Bacevich served in Vietnam, lost a son — “The War of the Roses”; Saturday, June 15 at 5 p.m. — a girl with fish-scale skin who travels to a remote island to the war in Iraq, and has continually warned about the “The Tempest”; Sunday, June 16 at 2 p.m. — “The Tempest”; community in search of a cure, humorously bonding with misuse of military power. He is the author of ‘Washington Sunday, June 16 at 5 p.m. — “The War of the Roses.” Free other ‘freaks’ in the process — blind Cookie, emotionally Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War,’ ‘The Limits of ($10 suggested donation) FMI: 854-0065 or visit www.acorndamaged Jake, and incurable geek Skunk. After Anna’s Power,’ and other important books on American history and productions.org. For more information, contact Acorn Prosuccessful treatment (transforming her from ‘fish’ to foreign policy.” More info: peaceactionme.com. Cost: $10 ductions at 854-0065 or visit www.acorn-productions.org. ‘dish’!) her dream-come-true turns into a nightmare, and suggested donation. Peace Action Maine members and Anna must discover a way back to her own true face. The Cabaret Dinner/Dance & Auction volunteers free. Tickets: At the door. story touches on important issues such as school bul6:30 p.m. “PORTopera will hold its annual gala auction on lying and teenage angst while telling an almost fable-like ‘Dreamgirls’ at Maine State Music Theatre June 14 at 6:30 p.m. to benefit the 19th season production tale of loss and redemption. The script is funny, lively and 7:30 p.m. “Dreamgirls” at Maine State Music Theatre, June of Puccini’s ‘La Bohème.’ This year’s theme, inspired by the moving, and the score, played by a three-piece band, 5 through June 22. Tony Award winning musical, Maine mainstage production, is Paris, and the evening will take the artfully blends legit musical theater music with pop overState Music Theatre, Pickard Theater, Brunswick. Tuesdayform of a Parisian Cabaret. The gala will be held at Marriott tones. Performances of The Freaks Club begin Thursday, Sunday through June 22. $52. to $59. msmt.org. 725-8769.

Sable Oaks in South Portland and guests will be treated to June 13 with a special open dress preview. The show a night of entertainment and gourmet treats at the ‘Cafe ‘Titus Andronicus’ by Mad Horse opens Friday, June 14 and runs through Sunday, June 23.

Momus.’ Internationally recognized singers Suzanne Nance 7:30 p.m. “Titus Andronicus” runs June 6 through June Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., and John McVeigh will headline the entertainment portion 23, in the Mad Horse Theater at the Hutchins School, 24 with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m., for a total of the evening, which will also feature dancers from the Mosher St., South Portland. “Mad Horse closes its 27th of 10 performances, closing on June 23. Performances are Portland Ballet Company and other entertainers performing Season on a grand scale with one of Shakespeare’s most at the Studio Theater at Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave., in true cabaret style. Guests may join in the fun and dance sweeping and controversial plays. In this depiction of an Portland. Tickets are $22 and $20 available at www.snowlto the Bob Charest Band; Kaja Veilleux will act as auctionaging warrior’s return home, Titus Andronicus is a masterful ionrep.org or by calling 518-9305.” eer for the live auction. Highlights of the auction include examination of power, corruption, loyalty to family and to sold out premium seats to the opening night performance country, and the lengths to which one man will go to right ‘Tonight a Clown Will Travel Time’ of La Bohème, a weekend Metropolitan Opera getaway a horrifying wrong. A legendary general, Titus Andronicus, 8 p.m. “Followed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to see the Met’s presentation of Bellini’s Norma starring returns in triumph to Rome. But the city is in chaos, its haunted by a bloodthirsty execution of a lawbreaking pachyMaine’s own Kate Aldrich, and a week-long stay in a Paris Emperor dead. The years of battle have taken their toll on derm, and inspired by a mysterious woman from a century apartment complete with a tour of the Palais Garnier Opera Titus — the choices he makes from the moment he sets foot earlier, Albert Billows escapes to the past in order to change House and walk on roles in PORTopera’s La Bohème. Tickin the city lead to a spiral of betrayal, revenge and death.” the course of human history and finally do something useful ets for the gala are $125 per person and tables are available Performance times are Thursday, Friday and Saturday with his life. Miniature Curiosa presents this fast-paced mobile to seat parties of 10, 8, and 4. For further information or to nights at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday Matinees at 2 p.m. There spectacle in 15 North American cities this summer.” The Meg request an invitation, call (207) 879-7678.” will be a special Talk Back with the director and the actors Perry Center, $10. http://megperrycenter.org