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What is nostalgia good for?

SOUTHAMPTON, England (NY Times) — Not long after moving to the University of Southampton, Constantine Sedikides had lunch with a colleague in the psychology department and described some unusual symptoms he’d been feeling. A few times a week, he was suddenly hit with nostalgia for his previous home at the University of North Carolina. His colleague, a clinical psychologist, made an immediate diagnosis. He must be depressed. Why else live in the past? But Dr. Sedikides didn’t want to return to any home — not to Chapel Hill, not to his native Greece — and he insisted to his lunch companion that he wasn’t in pain. “I told him I did live my life forward, but sometimes I couldn’t help thinking about the past, and it was rewarding,” he said. “Nostalgia made me feel that my life had roots and continuity.” That lunch in 1999 inspired Dr. Sedikides to pioneer a field that today includes dozens of researchers around the world using tools developed at his social-psychology laboratory, After a decade of study, nostalgia isn’t what it used to be — it’s looking a lot better. Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, boredom and anxiety. It makes people more generous to strangers and more tolerant of outsiders. Couples feel closer and look happier when they’re sharing nostalgic memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nostalgia to literally feel warmer. Nostalgia does have its painful side — it’s a bittersweet emotion — but the net effect is to make life seem more meaningful and death less frightening. When people speak wistfully of the past, they typically become more optimistic and inspired about the future. “Nostalgia makes us a bit more human,” Dr. Sedikides says. He considers the first great nostalgist to be Odysseus, an itinerant who used memories of his family and home to get through hard times, but Dr. Sedikides emphasizes that nostalgia is not the same as homesickness. It’s not just for those away from home, and it’s not a sickness, despite its historical reputation.

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Democrats plan challenge Pennsylvania’s gay marriage to G.O.P.’s filibuster use ban faces court challenge WASHINGTON (NY Times) — In a move that could bring to a head six months of smoldering tensions over a Republican blockade of certain presidential nominees, Senate Democrats are preparing to force confirmation votes on a series of President Obama’s most contentious appointments as early as this week. If Republicans object, Democrats plan to threaten to use the impasse to change the Senate rules that allow the minority party wide latitude to stymie action. Through the filibuster and other delaying tactics, Republicans have slowed the confirmation process

as the president tries to install the team that will carry him through his second term. But Democrats and their majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, now say they have reached the point where they believe that the only way to break the logjam is to escalate the fight. Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, one of the most outspoken members of his party in calling for new limits on the filibuster, said, “They’ve essentially said they are going to disable the executive branch if a minority of the Senate disagrees with or dislikes the president the people elect.”

(NY Times) — The Supreme Court returned the battle over same-sex marriage to the states last month, and Deb and Susan Whitewood are among the first to pick up the fight. A couple for 22 years with two teenage daughters, the Whitewoods filed suit on Tuesday to overturn Pennsylvania’s ban on gay marriage, one of the first of an expected outpouring of cases around the country to cite the court’s majority opinion that same-sex couples are denied a “status of immense import” and their children deprived of “the integrity and closeness of their own family.” The suit, carefully assembled by the American Civil Liberties Union, was filed in Federal District Court in Harrisburg with the aim of adding Pennsylvania to the column of 13 other states permitting same-sex marriage, plus the District of Columbia. The 23 plaintiffs come from many walks of life, including a doctor, college professors, a truck driver, a Vietnam veteran and a widow who lost her partner of 29 years.

Egypt’s leaders select premier, plan for quick elections CAIRO (NY Times) — Egypt’s militaryled interim government laid out an accelerated six-month timetable on Tuesday for a return to civilian democracy, and chose a liberal economist as temporary prime minister, part of an intensified effort to assure Egyptians and the world about its intentions in the aftermath of the mass killing of more than 50 Islamist protesters. But the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies rejected the timetable, calling any effort by the interim government illegitimate because of the military’s ouster

last week of Mohamed Morsi, the Islamist president, who remains under arrest. A top Muslim Brotherhood official, Essam el-Erian, said such a timetable would take Egypt “back to zero.” The Brotherhood also denounced the appointment of a new prime minister, Hazem el-Beblawy, a prominent economic consultant who had supported the 2011 revolution that ousted the old authoritarian government of Hosni Mubarak. Gehad el-Haddad, a Brotherhood spokesman, said Beblawy was still the face of

Egypt’s traditional elite, and that his selection had revealed the interim government’s true purpose as an “anti-revolution enshrined by a military coup.” The announcement of the timetable came as Egypt’s judicial authorities began to interrogate nearly 650 suspects detained during the deadly mayhem in Cairo on Monday, the worst episode of violence since the revolution more than two years ago that toppled Mr. Mubarak, the predecessor to. Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president.

House G.O.P. pushes delay on individual mandate in health law WASHINGTON (NY Times) — House Republican leaders on Tuesday seized on the Obama administration’s one-year delay of a mandate for larger employers to offer health insurance or face penalties, demanding the same postponement for the mandate on individual insurance purchases and promising a series of showdowns aimed at dividing Democrats from the White House.

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PPD awarded grant for technology, training Federal funding will help police improve public’s access to online reports, in what police chief called customer service driven approach By Craig Lyons THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The Portland Police Department is getting $81,000 from the federal government for equipment, training and software. The department was recently awarded money from the Department of Justice’s Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant, according to a press release. Police Chief Michael The grant will be used Sauschuck said toward improving the department’s online grants, like the JAG crime reporting system, program, help keep training, a promotional agencies moving assessment center and an image server. forward with technolPolice Chief Michael ogy and training in Sauschuck said grants, lieu of putting the cost like the JAG program, help keep agencies on local taxpayers. moving forward with technology and training in lieu of putting the cost on local taxpayers. He said there aren’t many grant programs that have money for innovation. “This grant allows for that,” he said. One of the key investments being made with the JAG funding is in improving the accessibility of the department’s online crime reporting forms. The system that’s now in place, COP Logix, allows people to file reports for misdemeanors online. “It’s working out really well,” Sauschuck said. Everything is being driven by technology, Sauschuck said, and people are more likely to file a minor crime report on the computer than go into the station. “It’s a much more customer service driven sort of tool,” he said. Since the system is already in place, the money from the JAG grant will extend the maintenance and update program. He said it will allow the department to add more software and program updates

Portland Police Chief Mike Sauschuck said the Department of Justice’s Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant will help Portland police improve technology and training. (CRAIG LYONS FILE PHOTO)

geared toward making the reporting system more user friendly. On the training side, Sauschuck said it’s an important priority for the department to give its officers and supervisors the latest information on leadership and management. He said officers and supervisors should have the latest and greatest tools to help them deal with members of the department and the public. “That stuff is very, very important,” he said. Along with the training, the department aims to create an assessment center that will administer the testing needed for people to move up in the ranks rather than using a paper test, according to the chief, and create a more accurate way to assess a candidate. Getting an image server will allow the department to create a paperless archive of records that

must be kept in perpetuity, Sauschuck said, and make them more accessible to officers and staff. He said it makes more sense economically and ecologically to transition to a paperless system. “It’s really the wave of the future,” he said. Given the state of the economy and municipal budgets, Sauschuck said grant programs from the Department of Justice, Homeland Security or Port Security go a long way with helping local agencies with new training opportunities and technology. The allotments from the DOJ are based on the FBI’s uniform crime reporting data, according to Sauschuck, and the money is doled out to the states based on their crime statistics. In 2012, the department was awarded $94,000 from the JAG program. Last year’s funding went toward technology upgrades, access to training and Taser replacement.

Suspect escapes while still in handcuffs during incident at Tommy’s Park By David Carkhuff THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A chaotic scene of criminal mischief in which a suspect damaged several trees in Portland’s Tommy’s Park led to the arrest of one individual and the escape of another while still in handcuffs, the Portland Police Department reported. On Monday afternoon at 5:37 p.m., an officer observed someone breaking branches off one of the trees on the Market Street side of the park, reported Portland Police Department

Lt. James Sweatt. Neal Jalen, 21, of Portland was arrested and faces charges of criminal mischief, a misdemeanor-level crime, Sweatt said. A second individual tried to interfere with Jalen’s arrest and continued to interfere to the point that the officer, who was not identified, placed this individual in custody as well, Sweatt said. This individual was secured to the ground in a sitting position with his hands cuffed behind his back, he said.

People in the park, likely friends of Jalen, continued heckling the officer and creating chaos, Sweatt said. The officer also was busy securing Jalen in the cruiser. That’s when the individual seated on the ground took advantage of the situation and fled. “In the heat and conflict of the situation, the guy was able to get to his feet and flee,” Sweatt said. The officer couldn’t leave the subject in the car unattended as other units were responding, he explained. The fleeing youth, about 20 years

old, ran down Market Street. He was described as a male of medium build, wearing a black T-shirt and dark pants, with dark handcuffs binding his hands behind his back. This individual was under arrest for obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct and now will be charged with escape, Sweatt said. He remained at large Tuesday. Sweatt said police receive numerous complaints of criminal mischief in Tommy’s Park.

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Defining prosperity down Friday’s employment report wasn’t bad. But given how depressed our economy remains, we really should be adding more than 300,000 jobs a month, not fewer than 200,000. As the Economic Policy Institute points out, we would need more than five years of job growth at this rate to get back to the level of unemployment that prevailed before the Great Recession. Full recovery still looks a very long way off. And I’m beginning to worry that it may never happen. Ask yourself the hard question: What, exactly, will bring us back to full employment? We certainly can’t count on ––––– fiscal policy. The austerity gang The New York may have experienced a stunTimes ning defeat in the intellectual debate, but stimulus is still a dirty word, and no deliberate job-creation program is likely soon, or ever. Aggressive monetary action by the Federal Reserve, something like what the Bank of Japan is

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Credit check There’s been a lot of weirdness around credit cards as of late. I’ve found that out purely by coincidence, both personally and professionally. Take my TD Bank debit card (Go ahead! There’s not much in the account anyway). Not only do I never leave home without it, but I often find myself returning home without it as well. Rivaled only by my cellphone in the, “stuff that gets left behind no matter where I go” category, my name embossed plastic has taken its rightful place in several stacks of missing cards, well secured by rubber bands in safes, behind the bar, and in the offices of restaurants all over town. That is typically discovered while reaching for it the next day when my car is well below the empty mark at the automated gas station with no attendant taking cash (think BJ’s or Sam’s Club), or after I’ve shopped for two hours at Shaw’s. Luckily, the latter still takes paper checks and I still write them, but on a side note, Shaw’s is on to the pain and agony of the whole plastic card thing. They have recently done away with the Rewards Card program and my snazzy wallet looks drab without their bright orange card peeking out from behind the place where

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my debit card is supposed to be. Additionally, I am suspicious as to how certain items can still cost less than anywhere else. Like other Shaw’s faithful, I am trained and conditioned to religiously utilize the formerly well-promoted and seemingly necessary money saving tool. What’s next? My CVS key chaincard? Intellectually, I always knew it was a marketing ploy, but I still feel a little deceived and cheated. It will take a while for them to regain my trust. Shaw’s and CVS aside, if the night my debit card was “misplaced” was a straight line from point A to point B, retrieving it is nothing more than a mildly embarrassing moment where a quick phone call is in order. If the evening consisted of hopping about with another person or two and we took turns buying, it requires a bit more sleuthing to

locate it. There have even been moments when thinking the card was lost forever, I replaced it at my local branch, only to have a server say, “Hey! I think we have your card from the last time you were here in the register drawer.” The initial reaction is, “Why didn’t you guys call me, or email me or something and let me know it was here?” But let’s face it, leaving it behind was my oversight and restaurants have enough to do without managing the “Land of the Lost.” Professionally, credit card stuff can turn ugly when mistakes (by both the guest and the server/ bartender) are made. Here’s a list of some of the more common, yet serious offenses that occur in the hospitality industry: 1) Servers changing the charge tip that was written in because the sale amount, the tip and the bottom line addition doesn’t add up favorably. The bottom line is the bottom line, and that’s what the customer signed off on. One of my favorite servers was recently fired from his full time job for this very thing. 2) Guests changing the charge tip that was written in when an automatic gratuity for a large see LADD page 5

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Is the economy showing some signs of healing itself? KRUGMAN from page 4

now trying, might do the trick. But far from becoming more aggressive, the Fed is talking about “tapering” its efforts. This talk has already done real damage; more on that in a minute. Still, even if we don’t and won’t have a job-creation policy, can’t we count on the natural recuperative powers of the private sector? Maybe not. It’s true that after a protracted slump, the private sector usually does find reasons to start spending again. Investment in equipment and software is already well above pre-recession levels, basically because technology marches on, and businesses must spend to keep up. After six years during which hardly any new homes were built in America, housing is trying to stage a comeback. So yes, the economy is showing some signs of healing itself. But that healing process won’t go very far if policy makers stomp on it, in particular by raising interest rates. That’s not an idle worry. A Fed chairman famously declared that his job was to take away the punch bowl just as the party was really warming up; unfortunately, history offers many examples of central bankers pulling away the punch bowl before the party even starts. And financial markets are, in effect, betting that the Fed is going to offer another such example. Longterm interest rates, which mainly reflect expectations about future short-term rates, shot up after Friday’s job report — a report that, to repeat, was at best just O.K. Housing may be trying to bounce back, but that bounce now has to contend with sharply rising financing costs: 30-year mortgage rates have risen by a third since the Fed started talking about relaxing its efforts about two months ago. Why is this happening? Part of the reason is that the Fed is constantly under pressure from monetary hawks, who always want to see tighter money and higher interest rates. These hawks spent years warning that soaring inflation was just around the corner. They were wrong, of course, but rather than change their position they have simply invented new reasons — financial stability, whatever — to advocate higher rates. At this point it’s clear that monetary hawkery is mainly a form of Puritanism in H. L. Mencken’s sense — “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.” But it remains dangerously influential. Unfortunately, there’s also a technical issue that plays into the prejudices of the monetary hawks.

The statistical techniques policy makers often use to estimate the economy’s “potential” — the maximum level of output and employment it can achieve without inflationary overheating — turn out to be badly flawed: they interpret any sustained economic slump as a decline in potential, so that the hawks can point to charts and spreadsheets supposedly showing that there’s not much room for growth. In short, there’s a real risk that bad policy will choke off our already inadequate recovery. But won’t voters eventually demand more? Well, that’s where I get especially pessimistic. You might think that a persistently poor economy — an economy in which millions of people who could and should be productively employed are jobless, and in many cases have been without work for a

very long time — would eventually spark public outrage. But the political science evidence on economics and elections is unambiguous: what matters is the rate of change, not the level. Put it this way: If unemployment rises from 6 to 7 percent during an election year, the incumbent will probably lose. But if it stays flat at 8 percent through the incumbent’s whole term, he or she will probably be returned to power. And this means that there’s remarkably little political pressure to end our continuing, if low-grade, depression. Someday, I suppose, something will turn up that finally gets us back to full employment. But I can’t help recalling that the last time we were in this kind of situation, the thing that eventually turned up was World War II.

Credit and debit cards are a way of life, especially in the hospitality industry LADD from page 4

party was previously acknowledged and agreed upon. 3) Servers collecting two or more checks at once and processing the wrong credit card for the wrong check. Not only is that time consuming to correct, but banks don’t rush making those adjustments. It ends up holding up the customer’s cash and looks as if the establishment has erred again. 4) Clubs and bars charging a “Closing Out Fee” when a card is left behind by mistake (sound familiar?). Because tabs must be closed out to process (batch) the credit card sales for the day, college towns have been known to charge a fee of 10 to 20 percent to do so. That is obviously in lieu of the tip, and I doubt it’s legal without a signature. 5) Establishments taking credit card numbers to hold a reservation and threatening to charge a fee of some sort if the reservation is a no-show, or isn’t cancelled within an agreed upon time. Even Hotels.com and Priceline are backing away from that blackmail tactic and while I abhor people who stiff a reservation, we’ve all done it and 99 percent of the time, it was unintentional or unavoidable. Once again, I

doubt that is legal and is in bad taste. Restaurants with computers can keep track of that sort of thing and politely refuse a reservation next time. 6) Servers who lift credit card numbers and actually steal from guests via loosely secured Internet purchases. That happened a few years back at a great little place in Falmouth and while they bounced back from that nightmare, it’s the first thing that crosses my mind when I go there. That is indeed a rare event, and could have happened in any industry. 7) Equally as unthinkable is the person who writes “cash” in the tip line but doesn’t really leave any cash on the table. Yes, that really happens and while it may not be a credit card offense per se, it is an intentional act of seriously bad karma. Credit and debit cards are a way of life, especially in the hospitality industry and fortunately, I am more careful with other people’s plastic than my own. Like my cellphone, which now has an iPhone tracking app, I am considering putting velcro on my debit card and stashing a $20 bill in a secret place for those rare moment when I pull into the full service Big Apple. The Down Low: In our crazy business, despite

front-and-back-of-the-house employee squabbles and seniority/newbie backstabbing, we usually have a great deal of respect for each other. Many places wisely show the love by offering special late night (post shift) happy hour prices and food discounts for fellow hospitality workers. In addition to pumping up revenue for the house during slow periods, the staff is ecstatic because no one, and I mean no one, tips in cash more lavishly than a kindred spirit with sore feet. Every place that holds a hospitality night it is swell in my book, but few top Otto’s Pizza who has rack cards saying, “Please join us in good faith for a bona fide “Industry Night” for food and beverage service workers.” They host that to-do the Monday after each first Friday and not much makes me feel better about making $3.75 an hour than a free slice of Otto’s Pizza. (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-of-the-house management, hourly and under-the-table positions. She can be reached at natalie@portlanddailysun. me.)

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Death of musician leaves friends stunned, grieving By David Carkhuff THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

On Tuesday, the State Medical Examiner’s office positively identified a body recovered from the Presumpscot River as that of Michael G. Allen, 38 of Portland.

Friends of Allen, a popular musician and bartender, expressed grief and shock at his death. “My thoughts & respects to Mike Allen’s friends and family,” wrote Mark Curdo, 94.3 WCYY deejay. “ One thing I’ll remember about Mike

Rock musician Michael G. Allen, 38 of Portland is shown in a Facebook photo. Friends said they were stunned by news of his death. (COURTESY PHOTO)

was his intense passion & belief in the music he was a part of and that he loved. I always could relate to him in that area. I live the same way. It’s unfortunate, but amazing to see this city & music scene’s hearts go out like they do for Mike today. Quite a family we have here. Proud to be part of it ... especially in times like this.” The band Doubting Gravity, of which Allen was a member, issued a request for information on Monday, noting that he had last been seen the previous Friday. At about 3:45 p.m. on Monday, July 8 the Westbrook police and fire departments responded to the Presumpscot River near the Cumberland Street bridge and recovered the body of a deceased person from the water, Captain Michael Nugent of the Westbrook Police Department reported. Allen was reported missing to Portland Police on Monday, July 8, after having not been seen since Friday, June 5, Westbrook Police reported. (Portland Police referred inquiries to Westbrook.) Westbrook Police and Maine State Police investigated the scene and coordinated with Portland Police. The cause of death was not considered suspicious and the investigation was declared closed on Tuesday. Ian Farnsworth, owner of Slainte Wine Bar and Lounge on Preble Street, was stunned by the news of Allen’s death. “I knew him very well, he was a good friend of mine, he was an employee of mine for about a year and a half,” Farnsworth said. Allen bartended at Slainte for about a year and a half, during a period

“He was a great guitar player, he could also play drums. He was a great musician. He was one of the nicest people you could ever meet.” — Ian Farnsworth, owner of Slainte Wine Bar and Lounge roughly five years ago. “The first time I met him is when Slainte first opened up,” Farnsworth said. “He was working at Shay’s at the time, and he came in with a couple of people from Shay’s and started playing, and that’s how we started our open mic.” A well respected rock musician, Allen was “one of the better metal singers,: and during the Clash of the Titans cover band competition he frequently performed with metal bands and featured his vocals, Farnsworth recalled. “He was a great guitar player, he could also play drums. He was a great musician. He was one of the nicest people you could ever meet,” he said. The loss left friends reeling. “He did live a high-energy lifestyle. It hurts. It’s not easy to handle. He was a good friend and a good friend of the family. The last couple of months he kind of disappeared for a little while,” Farnsworth said. “I’m going to miss him greatly. He’s someone who left too soon, because he had a lot to offer, he had a lot to give back to the community,” Farnsworth said.

Legislators fall short in bid to order tar sands study By David Carkhuff THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Five votes prevented legislators from overriding a veto by Gov. Paul LePage that scuttled a study of the risks involved with transport of tar sands oil into Maine. The State House of Representatives on Tuesday failed by a vote of 91-52 to override LePage’s veto of LD 1362, a bill that sought to require the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to study issues associated with carrying tar sands through Maine, including the potential impacts of spills in Sebago Lake and Casco Bay, and how to best respond to such spills. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Ben Chipman, I-Portland, would have directed the Maine Department of Environmental ProtecChipman tion to study specific risks of transporting tar sands oil in Maine as part of an environmental study already under way and to provide a briefing of its findings. “It was an interesting debate, I think we actually debated this bill more than any other bill that we were hearing this morning,” said Chipman on Tuesday, as legislators prepared to wrap up the session. Environment Maine Director Emily Figdor referred to the fatal weekend train derailment in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, which claimed at least 13 lives, when decrying the vote. “I’m exasperated that we’ve just watched a Quebec town burn to the ground, but Gov. LePage and his

allies in the State House defeated a bill requiring Maine environmental officials to study the risks of sending tar sands through Maine communities via rail and pipeline,” Figdor said in a press release. “Tar sands presents even greater risks than conventional oil since the spills are nearly impossible to clean up.” The train derailment and fire resulted in an oil spill in the Chaudière River, which flows north approximately 115 miles to the St. Lawrence River. Maine officials said Maine waterways are not imperiled by the incident, which involved oil but not the so-called “tar sands” bitumen oil that has sparked concern in Maine. On Tuesday, Chipman said, “We had a good strong vote, 91-52, but we were five votes short.” Based on voting members present, 96 “yes” votes were needed to override and sustain the legislation, he explained. LePage, in a veto message, said he opposed the legislation because he considered it redundant and unnecessary, based on the ongoing study before the DEP. “I read the veto letter carefully, I spoke on the floor to address that,” Chipman said. He said the DEP study on oil is not duplicative “because this bill actually enhances and improves upon that study.” “Everybody on the committee felt we wanted the specific information,” Chipman said. “It was a missed opportunity to get useful information at no additional cost,” he added. Chipman said there may be avenues to heighten attention on tar sands oil. “At this point, I intend to follow up with DEP and talk with them ... and formally request that they

“This could have been our catastrophe to try and deal with.” — Rep. Ben Chipman, I-Portland incorporate what we asked for in their study,” he said. Chipman said he also could pursue an emergency bill. “At this point, I’m not giving up on the issue. It’s an important issue,” he said. Chipman said the fatal railcar explosion factored into Tuesday’s debate. “What happened up there with the railcar explosion, that was very close to the state,” he noted, saying the rail line runs through Maine. “This could have been our catastrophe to try and deal with,” Chipman said. “If we an explosion or a spill on a rail line, I’m not sure we’d be ready for it,” he said. LD 1362 would have required the DEP to evaluate tar sands oil spills that have occurred in other states, including the 2011 tar sands spill in Mayflower, Arkansas — a pipeline rupture that displaced over 20 residents, spilling over 200,000 gallons of tar sands into a neighborhood community and polluting the Yellowstone River, Chipman reported. The spill has yet to be cleaned up, and the state of Arkansas has sued Exxon-Mobil, the pipeline owners, he said. Tar sands has become a hot topic in Maine. Officials concede that there’s no standing proposal for the Portland Pipe Line Corporation to reverse the see TAR SANDS page 7

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flow of one of its pipelines and carry tar sands oil from Montreal to tankers in Casco Bay. Yet critics aren’t waiting for a specific plan to emerge. The issue has mobilized communities to pass resolutions opposing tar sands transport, and the Portland City Council recently voted to express concerns about tar sands, while groups and communities have wrestled with possible risks to Sebago Lake and other watersheds.

Concerned Citizens of South Portland have unveiled an ordinance initiative, a Waterfront Protection Ordinance, which, if passed by voters, would change the city’s zoning ordinance to block ExxonMobil, the majority owner of the Portland-Montreal pipeline, from building two 70-foot smokestacks next to Bug Light and other oil infrastructure needed to export tar sands out of Casco Bay. LD 1362 originally passed with strong support in the House with a vote of 97-50 and passed unanimously in the Senate, Chipman said.

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Bronx man arrested in Maine, sought for shooting nine people during June 30 N.Y. incident Daily Sun Staff Reports

Parris Peterson-Lloyd, 25, of the Bronx, N.Y., was arrested early Sunday morning along the Maine Turnpike by State Police Corporal Jason Madore, and arrangements are being made to return him to New York to face charges in connection with the shooting of nine people there in late June, the Maine Department of Public Safety reported Tuesday. State Police said the New York City man waived extradition Tuesday. Peterson-Lloyd is a suspect in the shooting that took place on June 30 in the Flatbush section of the city, which wounded nine people, the department reported in a press release. The car that Peterson-Lloyd was in was stopped for speeding by Madore on the turnpike in Litchfield. A second man was also taken into custody by Madore for refus-

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ing to give his name. He has now been identified as Tyrone Sanders, 24, also from the Bronx. Both men have been held at the Kennebec County Jail. Sanders is not wanted in connection with the shooting, police said. Detectives from the New York Police Department arrived in Maine Monday to begin processing the paperwork to return Peterson-Lloyd to New York following his appearance in an Augusta courtroom Tuesday morning. Both men and an unidentified woman, who was driving the car, were traveling to Augusta when their vehicle was stopped by the Trooper, just after midnight on Sunday morning, the Department of Public Safety reported.

Sheriff’s office reports safe return of Baldwin man who went missing The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office announced that a missing adult, David Buckley, 29, who was reported missing on July 1, has been located and returned to his residence in Baldwin. Buckley was located in Biddeford, the sheriff’s office reported Tuesday. Buckley was reported missing by his mother on Monday, July 1 at 5:30 p.m., and was last seen walking on Route 202 in Waterboro heading towards Hollis in York County, the sheriff’s office noted. The sheriff’s office expressed thanks for all of the tips that were received from the community and the media focus on the search.

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Opponents of Congress Square Park plan organize games at public space Daily Sun Staff Reports

On Thursday, July 11 and a week later on Thursday, July 18, it will be fun and games in Congress Square Park for members of the public who oppose a city proposal to dedicate part of the space to an events center for developers of a neighboring hotel. The public is invited to play dodgeball, kickball, pin artillery and capture the flag, according to a press release from organizers. The events will go from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and are open to all ages and skill levels. “Do you accept the challenge?” asked William Hessian on a poster while holding up a dodge ball. The games will be a jump in jump out casual format where everyone can play, organizers said. “Many of our favorite gym games we often do not have the chance to play as we grow older are being resurrected in one of Portland’s tiny parks,” the press release stated. “Right across from the Portland Museum of Art you will find a group of strangers tossing squishy balls at each other, running, sprinting and jumping all over the park.” The Congress Square Games begin only a few days after a giant dance party event which also aimed to “Save Congress Square.”

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Cell phone tracking, drone bills meet different fates in override votes A new law requiring warrants for cell phone tracking was enacted Tuesday after the Maine Legislature voted to override a governor’s veto of LD 415, “An Act to Require a Warrant to Obtain the Location Information of a Cell Phone or Other Electronic Device.” The bill was sponsored by Sen. Roger Katz, R-Augusta. “We are thrilled that the legislature recognized the importance of protecting Mainers’ privacy and stepped up to make sure this bill became law,” said Shenna Bellows, executive director of the ACLU of Maine, in a press release. “As technologies advance, it’s important that the law keeps up. With these warrant requirements in place, privacy protections in Maine are among the strongest in the nation.” Maine Rep. Diane Russell, D-Portland, announced the vote by stating, “Warrants win 125-17! Veto is overridden!” LD 415 requires a warrant to obtain the location information of a cell phone. The bill was one of several up for reconsideration in the final hours of the legislative session. The law is the third in a package of privacy protec-

tions enacted by the legislature this session, according to Bellows, and joins laws that require warrants before law enforcement can obtain an individual’s text message content and cell phone records or place a camera on private property. LD 1377, “An Act to Protect Cellular Telephone Privacy,” sponsored by Sen. Katz, became law Monday after Gov. LePage took no action on the bill, which easily passed in the Senate and the House, the ACLU of Maine reported. LD 1040, “An Act To Prohibit the Placement of Cameras and Electronic Surveillance Equipment on Private Property without the Written Permission of the Landowner,” sponsored by Sen. Doug Thomas, R-Ripley, became law without the governor’s signature on June 29, the group reported. A bill related to unmanned drones, LD 236, “An Act To Protect the Privacy of Citizens from Domestic Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Use,” passed the Senate and House before being vetoed by Gov. Paul LePage, the ACLU of Maine reported. The Maine Legislature failed to override the veto, the group reported. “We’re disappointed that the governor supported warrant requirements for some new technologies but not others,” said Bellows. “We can’t just pick and choose when the Constitution applies and when it doesn’t. The ACLU of Maine will continue pushing for privacy protections that ensure our police practices are in line with the Constitution.”

Vinland innovator anticipates new, improved Congress Square Plaza Eatery’s architect weathers rain in Cape Elizabeth, raises money for locally sourced restaurant By Timothy Gillis

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While the public debates uses of Congress Square Park, the architect of a new restaurant that plans to open in a space facing the intersection of High and Congress streets already is deep into the discussions

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of what to do with the park. Vinland, owned and operated by David Levi, will open at 593 Congress St. in early October, Levi said. A world-traveled restaurant innovator, Levi said he anticipates major improvements at the Congress Square Plaza spanning Congress Street in front of the Portland Museum of Art. “I definitely picked the space knowing full well what Rockbridge was doing next door,” Levi said, referring to the developers of the nearby Eastland Park Hotel. Levi said he was excited about the revitalization of the old Eastland Park Hotel, but said personally, he also has reservations about giving up public space. The city continues reviewing plans for the hotel developers and renovators to acquire part of the park for an events center. But at the same time Levi said he recognized the complexity of the planning effort and the potential of the plaza. “I think it’s a complex and nuanced issue, I think that we should really think twice and thrice before setting the precedent of selling park land for private use, but then again Congress Square has been a less than successful public space,” he said. “We do have a unique opportunity,” he said, and envisioned a broader redesign of Congress Square Plaza that could make the plaza a pedestrianfriendly space. Plans include a High Street redesign with a two-way configuration, something Levi endorsed, and a more level refurbished area for people to walk. Beyond discussion of Congress Square Park, Levi said he hopes to tap into the city’s appreciative food culture. Although it’s his first restaurant, Levi is no stranger to fine dining and world-famous cuisine. He grew up in New York and has spent a lot of time with family in Rome, Milan, Venice, and Tuscany, Italy, where he studied under two renowned butchers, including Dario Cecchini, considered by many to be the world’s best. “He is a real mentor and friend,” Levi said of Cecchini. “I learned a great deal while working with him.” Levi also worked with Cecchini’s own mentor, a man named Orlando whom everyone referred to as “The Maestro.” “He really worked with me the most in terms of how to break down the cows and the pigs,” Levi said. “Traditional butchers are very different from the modern industrial means. With them, I learned how to work with my hands to separate the animal vs. chopping it into blocks.” Levi formed his own food philosophy in Italy, praising Cecchini for being a spokesman for the eth-

Chef David Levi is shown collecting ingredients in a garden. “We do have a unique opportunity,” Levi said, envisioning a broader redesign of Congress Square Plaza that could make the plaza a pedestrian-friendly space. Levi plans to open his restaurant Vinland facing onto Congress Square Park this fall. (COURTESY PHOTO)

ical treatment of animals and small family farms. He also emphasized the role of the artist in the community, whether the artist is a butcher or anyone else, and is a defender of traditional Tuscan cooking techniques. “I worked in his restaurant for him,” Levi said. “Working with some of his recipes was very educational, and I’ll be using some of them in the Vinland menu.” He plans a raw meat dish called sushi del chianti, modeled after his mentor’s own creation. “This dish is quintessentially Tuscan. It’s loaded with rosemary, sage, really good extra virgin olive oil. Tuscan oil is peppery and works well with beef,” Levi explained. “The cuisine there is based on being really simple and fresh.” Levi then worked at Noma in Copenhagen, which is widely considered to be the world’s best restaurant. see next page

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Booze, brawling in Portland among history tidbits By Timothy Gillis

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After being hit by a car while riding his bicycle in Washington, D.C., Andrew Carroll had a scary thought. The historian was in town Tuesday to talk about his new book, “Here is Where: Discovering America’s Great Forgotten History” at the Portland Public Library. He said the accident gave him an eerie epiphany. He realized that all of his research, especially the work for Carroll his previous book of collected war letters, would be lost if something were to happen to him. It was a minor accident, but it led to a big revelation. He decided to hire Two Marines and a Van, a moving

company, to move the thousands of war letters people had been sending him to a secure location. “I thought ‘Who else to ensure that these letters make it safely across the country?’” he said. He is preserving the documents at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., a place he has come to trust because of the school’s support and understanding of his efforts. “Chapman is so forward thinking about all of this. The chancellor, Daniele Struppa — he’s the reason I decided on Chapman. He was pas- Historian Herb Adams introduces Andrew Carroll. (TIMOTHY GILLIS PHOTO) sionate about the project,” said Carroll, who wrote a play called “If All the Sky were Paper” after visiting 40 countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan, to visit with U.S. troops and collect their war letters. Chapman University produced

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“There you have a 12-course tasting menu that runs $300 to $500 a head. Dario’s restaurants are all communal seating — loud and boisterous. You eat well, but it’s not fine dining. Noma is the height of fine dining.” Vinland is aiming to be somewhere in between, he said. While he knows he cannot replicate the type of food that Noma produces, he will try to bring some of its approach. “We will have a tasting menu for a fraction of Noma’s price, as well as an a la carte menu,” Levi said. “The atmosphere will be elegant, but in a way that makes sense for Maine. People should feel comfortable coming by in their Bean boots.” An extra special aspect of Vinland will be that every ingredient will be sourced locally. “That’s not something done anywhere in the modern world,” Levi said. Asked if such a task is a tall one, Levi said, “Not really. I’ve gotten used to it because I’ve done these pop-up dinners for a year and a half, catering events and working within these self-imposed boundaries to support local farmers and fishermen. And to show what we can do here in Maine. It pushes me to innovate. If I can’t use lemon, I ask: ‘What can I use instead?’ At this point, it doesn’t actually seem that hard.” Levi was the guest chef recently at a Twilight Dinner, sponsored by Cultivating Community at their farm in Cape Elizabeth. The three-course meal was prepared by Levi to highlight local and seasonal food offerings. “They’ve been doing this for a few years,” Levi said. “I did it last year also. It’s a non-profit educational organization that trains recent immigrants in organic farming. It sets them up with some land and work as organic farmers. They’ve got quite a good-size demonstration farm. The executive director, Craig Lapine, approaches local chefs to see if they are interested

Turnip soup as prepared by chef David Levi. (COURTESY PHOTO)

in doing a dinner to showcase their offerings. The chefs are volunteering their time, working mostly with donated produce from local communities.” Levi said his meal this year was a waterlogged affair, but he battled the elements anyway. “It suddenly turned cold and started to rain very hard just as I was beginning service,” he said. “They had set it up to plate outside. I was in a difficult position of having to serve 55 people at once in the pouring rain. From a chef’s point-of-view, it was far from ideal, but everyone was there in the communal spirit. All things considered, it went very well.” Levi’s positive attitude despite occasional adversity should serve him well in his new venture. He is opening his restaurant on a shoestring budget, he says, but that’s doesn’t change his philosophy about having everything in the place come from right around town. He has started a Kickstarter campaign, hoping to raise $40,000. By July 9, he was reporting the campaign at nearly 50 percent of its goal. To learn more about the new restaurant, and to donate to the Kickstarter campaign, visit www.vinland.me. (Editor David Carkhuff contributed to this report.)

the play, and officials there are using the war letters as educational tools, digitizing them and putting them in exhibits. The National Endowment for the Arts just awarded Carroll a grant to take the play nationwide. It used to be called the Legacy Project, and is now known as the Center for American War Letters. It will officially open on Nov. 11, on Veterans Day. Carroll was in town to talk about the war letters work, as well as his new book, which features a chapter on see HISTORY page 13

Today’s Birthdays: Former boxer Jake LaMotta is 92. Writer-producer Earl Hamner Jr. is 90. Actor William Smithers is 86. Broadway composer Jerry Herman is 82. Director Ivan Passer is 80. Actor Lawrence Pressman is 74. Singer Mavis Staples is 74. Actor Mills Watson is 73. Actor Robert Pine is 72. Rock musician Jerry Miller (Moby Grape) is 70. Actor Ron Glass is 68. Actress Sue Lyon is 67. Folk singer Arlo Guthrie is 66. Rock musician Dave Smalley is 64. Country-folk singer-songwriter Cheryl Wheeler is 62. Banjo player Bela Fleck is 55. Country singer-songwriter Ken Mellons is 48. Actor Gale Harold is 44. Country singer Gary LeVox (Rascal Flatts) is 43. Actor Aaron D. Spears is 42. Actress Sofia Vergara is 41. Rockabilly singer Imelda May is 39. Actor Adrian Grenier is 37. Actress Gwendoline Yeo is 36. Actor Thomas Ian Nicholas is 33. Singeractress Jessica Simpson is 33. Rock musician John Spiker is 32.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Wednesday, July 10, the 191st day of 2013. There are 174 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 10, 1913, the highest recorded shade temperature was measured in Death Valley, Calif., at 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 degrees Celsius). On this date: In 1509, theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, was born in Noyon, Picardy, France. In 1890, Wyoming became the 44th state. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson personally delivered the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate, and urged its ratification. (The Senate rejected it.) In 1925, jury selection took place in Dayton, Tenn., in the trial of John T. Scopes, charged with violating the law by teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (Scopes was convicted and fined, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality.) In 1929, American paper currency was reduced in size as the government began issuing bills that were approximately 25 percent smaller. In 1940, during World War II, the Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces began attacking southern England by air. In 1951, armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War began at Kaesong. In 1962, AT&T’s Telstar 1 communications satellite, capable of relaying television signals and telephone calls, was launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral. In 1973, the Bahamas became fully independent after three centuries of British colonial rule. John Paul Getty III, the teenage grandson of the oil tycoon, was abducted in Rome by kidnappers who cut off his ear when his family was slow to meet their ransom demands; young Getty was finally released in December 1973 in exchange for nearly $3 million. In 1978, ABC-TV launched its reformatted evening newscast, “World News Tonight,” with anchors Frank Reynolds, Peter Jennings and Max Robinson. In 1985, the Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk with explosives in Auckland, New Zealand by French intelligence agents; one activist was killed. In 1991, Boris N. Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic. President George H.W. Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa. Ten years ago: During a visit to Botswana, President George W. Bush pledged to the nation with what was then the world’s highest AIDS infection rate that it would have a strong partner in his administration in fighting the disease. Five years ago: President George W. Bush signed a bill overhauling rules about government eavesdropping and granting immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the U.S. spy on Americans in suspected terrorism cases. One year ago: Clashing over the economy, President Barack Obama challenged Mitt Romney to join him in allowing tax hikes for rich Americans like them; Romney dismissed the idea and redirected charges that he had sent jobs overseas when he worked in private equity, calling Obama the real “outsourcer-in-chief.” The National League romped to an 8-0 victory over the American League in the All-Star game.

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Portland and the precursory days of Prohibition work by Neal Dow. Carroll had learned about this city’s Rum Riot while taking a walking tour of the city with local historian Herb Adams, who is mentioned in the book. “Here Is Where” chronicles Carroll’s eye-opening journey across America to find and explore unmarked historic sites where extraordinary moments occurred and remarkable individuals once lived. Sparking the idea for this book was Carroll’s visit to the spot where Abraham Lincoln’s son was saved by the brother of Lincoln’s assassin. Carroll wondered, “How many other unmarked places are there where intriguing events have unfolded and that we walk past every day, not realizing their significance?” He found one such significant spot here in Portland. Hearing the tale of booze and brawling caught his attention immediately, he said. He writes about the Rum Riot of 1855 at Market Square, now Monument Square. Carroll and Adams visited the Neal Dow house on Congress Street to learn more about the event. Rob Quatrano, who was then curator of the house, said they were averaging a couple dozen visitors a year, a disappointing statistic for such an historic landmark. They learned that the riot started when word got out that rum was being stored in the city hall basement, put there ironically enough by Dow, himself, a staunch opponent of alcohol except, it seems, for medicinal purposes. One person died in the riot, seven were wounded, and Dow was charged with the death. Ultimately exonerated, Dow’s influence on the later Prohibition-era laws was solidified. Carroll reveled in these hidden histories of major events. “When digging for one historic gem, you can catch the gleam of another nugget,” he said. “One of the ways I come across these stories is by sheer serendipity.” He highlighted a few other gems from his book: • A 14-year-old farm boy from Idaho who helped invent television. RCA claims they did, but in a later lawsuit, the patent office awarded it to the boy because his science teacher had kept his schematics. • Irene Morgan who caused an uproar on a segre-

“Here Is Where” chronicles Andrew Carroll’s eye-opening journey across America to find and explore unmarked historic sites. Here, Carroll discusses the book during a talk at the Portland Public Library on Tuesday. (TIMOTHY GILLIS PHOTO)

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Wednesday, July 10 Ron Currie Jr. at the Brown Bag Lecture Series

noon. “Portland Public Library will host Ron Currie Jr. at the Brown Bag Lecture Series at noon in the Rines Auditorium on July 10 to speak about his new book, ‘Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles.’ In this tour de force of imagination, Ron Currie asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths, creating yet again a genre-bending novel that will at once dazzle, move, and provoke. ... Currie’s 2009 novel, ‘Everything Matters!,’ was an Indie Next Pick and one of Amazon’s 100 top books of 2009, and was named by the Los Angeles Times as among the Best Fiction of 2009. He lives in Waterville.” http://www.portlandlibrary.com

ChIME Open House

6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Chaplaincy Institute of Maine: “Spirit at Play — Rediscovering Wonder and Joy” with the Rev. Patricia Ellen, ChIME Abbess. “A chance to connect with spirit through the eyes and action of the sacred clown honored in multiple traditions. Experience simple ways of ‘becoming a child’ and experiencing a God who laughs with us.” The Open House is free and open to the public. No registration necessary. 555 Forest Ave., Portland (Center For Grieving Children building).

Storyteller Susan Dries at the library

7 p.m. MOOSE (Maine Organization of Storytelling Enthusiasts) with storyteller Susan Dries, “Flight,” Rines Auditorium, Portland Public Library. “Maine Organization Of Storytelling Enthusiasts members have one thing in common. We are all Enthusiastic about Storytelling!” http://moosetellers.ning. com or http://www.portlandlibrary.com

‘Les Miserables’ at MSMT in Brunswick

7:30 p.m. “Les Miserables,” June 26 to July 13, Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables,” “Based on a novel by Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables’ tells the musical tale of redemption and revolution in early 19th-century France. Exconvict, Jean Valjean, becomes a force for good in the world, but cannot escape his dark past as he tries to save himself and those around him. The award-winning score composed by Claude-Michel Schonberg, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and a book by Alain Boublil, features such memorable musical numbers as ‘On My Own,’ ‘I Dreamed a Dream,’ ‘Do You Hear the People Sing’ and ‘Bring Him Home.’” Maine State Music Theatre, Pickard Theater, Brunswick. TuesdaySunday. msmt.org. 725-8769.

‘Young Frankenstein: The Musical’ in Ogunquit

8 p.m. Ogunquit Playhouse. “The hilarious musical comedy is a wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Frankenstein legend based on Mel Brooks’ film masterpiece. The story follows young Dr. Frankenstein (that’s Fronkensteen) as he attempts to bring a corpse to life, but not without scary and hilarious complications.” Through July 27. http://www. ogunquitplayhouse.org

Inanna: Sisters in Rhythm on Peaks Island

8 p.m. The Peaks Island Music Association has four summer concerts scheduled, each at 8 p.m., on alternating Wednesday nights, each at the same venue, the Fifth Maine Museum at 45 Seashore Avenue on Peaks Island. “July 10: Inanna: Sisters in Rhythm — World music by this wonderful women’s vocal and percussion group. July 24: The Annual Island Musicians Concert — Popular annual

Sassafras, an Eastern screech-owl, perches on the glove of Helen Frazier during an event at at Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park in Freeport. Thursday at 10:30 a.m., as part of Portland Public Library’s summer reading program for children, the Center of Wildlife will be visiting the Sam L. Cohen Children’s Library with Raptors, Reptiles and Mammals, Oh MY! (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) event featuring vocalists, instrumentalists, and ensembles of all ages and musical genres; from banjo to saxophone to cello to a cappella quartets — a broad range of music. Aug. 7: Violinist Ron Lantz and Pianist Laura Kargul: Grammy-nominated violinist and founding member of the Portland String Quartet joins recording artist and international performer Laura Kargul on the 1924 Steinert Grand in a diverse program. Aug. 21: The Peaks Island Chorale in: The Power of Place; 25-voice Community Chorus joined by guest instrumentalists sings a program from the Renaissance, classical, folk, and contemporary repertoire, including works by Palestrina, Handel, Mendelssohn, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Stroope, Paul McCartney, and Schooner Fare. Concerts are all first-come, first served; $5 donation at the door.” For more information, contact Faith York at 766-5763 or FYonPI@aol.com.

Thursday, July 11 MCMA quarterly meeting

9 a.m. The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association in Portland: “The MCMA quarterly meeting will be held on Thursday July 11 at 9 a.m. in the library, come meet the Government members, voice your questions, concerns and see what is going on in Mechanics’ Hall. Another reason would be to view Jonathan Eiten’s paintings on exhibit. Hope to see you there.” http://www.mainecharitablemechanicassociation.com

Raptors, Reptiles and Mammals at the PPL

10:30 a.m. “As part of Portland Public Library’s summer reading program for children, ‘Reading in Portland: I’m Your Neighbor,’ the Center of Wildlife will be visiting the Sam L Cohen Children’s Library on Thursday, July 11 at 10:30 a.m. for a program called Raptors, Reptiles and Mammals, Oh MY! This event is for kids aged 5 and older. Focusing on animals that live in Maine, educators from the Center for Wildlife will provide an in-depth introduction to the unique differences between raptors, reptiles, and mammals. Do snakes have fur? Do rabbits have scales? Are birds cold-blooded? Why do opossums have pouches? Hannah Duston, 10, of Portland appears as Wilbur; and Maya Turndorf, 11, of Falmouth appears How do each of these animal groups as Charlotte in the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine production of “Charlotte’s Web.” adapt to our changing seasons? “Charlotte’s Web” will be performed by actors ages 8 to 14 from Friday, July 19 through Using live animals and interactive displays, the answers to these and Sunday, July 28. See www.kitetails.org for details. (COURTESY PHOTO)

other questions will be revealed.”

Guardian Figures by Sukuma culture

11:30 a.m. “What Do You Think? at the Portland Museum of Art, select Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. Free with PMA admission. Visitors are invited to study and discuss one work of art on view in the galleries. Conversation continues over lunch in the PMA Café. July 11: Guardian Figures by Sukuma culture.” portlandmuseum.org.

‘Les Miserables’ at MSMT in Brunswick

2 p.m. “Les Miserables,” June 26 to July 13, Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables,” “Based on a novel by Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables’ tells the musical tale of redemption and revolution in early 19th-century France. Ex-convict, Jean Valjean, becomes a force for good in the world, but cannot escape his dark past as he tries to save himself and those around him. The award-winning score composed by Claude-Michel Schonberg, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and a book by Alain Boublil, features such memorable musical numbers as ‘On My Own,’ ‘I Dreamed a Dream,’ ‘Do You Hear the People Sing’ and ‘Bring Him Home.’” Maine State Music Theatre, Pickard Theater, Brunswick. Tuesday-Sunday. msmt.org. 725-8769.

‘Young Frankenstein: The Musical’ in Ogunquit

2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Ogunquit Playhouse. “The hilarious musical comedy is a wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Frankenstein legend based on Mel Brooks’ film masterpiece. The story follows young Dr. Frankenstein (that’s Fronkensteen) as he attempts to bring a corpse to life, but not without scary and hilarious complications.” Through July 27. http://www.ogunquitplayhouse.org

Meet the Mayor in Portland

5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. “Portland Mayor Michael Brennan will host his first Meet the Mayor, an opportunity for the public to discuss city priorities with the Mayor. The event is open to the public and is intended to be an informal discussion of city policies and issues. Mayor Brennan will briefly discuss his current initiatives including efforts to fully implement the city’s Economic Development Vision and Plan; the Mayor’s Initiative for Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems; Portland ConnectEd, the Mayor’s education initiative designed to support Portland youth from cradle to career; Growing Portland, a partnership between the city, the Portland Regional Chamber, local research institutes and universities and foundations to support the expansion of a skilled workforce; the Mayor’s Health Initiative, a coalition focused on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act; and efforts to advocate for the city in both Augusta and Washington DC. Following his brief presentation, the conversation will turn to the public with a discussion of their priorities for the city and thoughts of what issues and policies to focus on for the remainder of the year.” Portland City Hall, Room 209. see next page

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‘The Good Braider’ event at PPL

6 p.m. “When author Terry Farish was working at the Portland Public Library, she befriended a young man from the Sudan who told her ‘there is no word’ when asked about his favorite family meal. ‘My mother will cook it for you,’ he said. Terry Farish joined his family for a meal and from that day, began a journey of listening. Her new friends in Portland’s Sudanese community told of their tumultuous path from South Sudan to Portland, Maine. The cultural exploration that started as ‘there is no word’ became a braiding of stories, experiences, and words which culminated in the award-winning novel, ‘The Good Braider.’” The book will be celebrated at the Portland Public Library in Monument Square on Thursday, July 11, at 6 p.m. as part of city-wide read titled “I’m Your Neigbor, Portland.” “A young actress originally from East Africa and now a member of the theatre group, A Company of Girls will read aloud from ‘The Good Braider’, the author Terry Farish will talk about the development of the novel, and South Sudanese rapper OD Bonny will perform songs from his new CD, ‘Kwo I Lobo Tek.’ The event will include a book signing and the sharing of East African refreshments from Asmara Restaurant. The event is free of charge.” For more information, contact Curious City at 420-1126.

Forum on government surveillance

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. “A presentation arranged by Peace Action Maine, Thursday, July 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Talbot Hall, University of Southern Maine, Portland. Rachel Healy, Director of Communications and Public Education, ACLU of Maine, will explain the national ACLU lawsuit, filed June 11, 2013, challenging the constitutionality of the NSA phone tracking system. Professor Eric Hooglund, University of Lund, Sweden, expert on U.S. foreign policy, will discuss the NSA PRISM program. Paul McCarrier, Maine Tea Party, will describe his work against drone surveillance in Maine. Lisa Savage, Codepink Maine, will describe her work against drone surveillance in Maine. This is an opportunity for citizens to learn about the recent disclosures about government surveillance, and to consider whether or not such surveillance is constitutional. We are told, ‘It is necessary to give up some privacy in order to have safety.’ What does that mean? We are told, ‘Everything is legal.’ Is this true? We must consider this very carefully in deciding our opinion on these matters. Peace Action Maine has been raising important justice issues here for twenty-five years, carrying out actions, advocacy, and information events that engage people to understand and to act appropriately. Peace Action supports a Wednesday noon vigil every week at Monument Square. Recent talks were presented by Ray McGovern in May and Andrew Bacevich in June. There will be light refreshments and networking time from 6 to 6:30 at Talbot Hall, followed by the presentations and a question and answer session. Free parking is available in the USM parking garage on Bedford St.”

Cultivating Community Twilight Dinner

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Turkey Hill Farm, 120 Old Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth. “Cultivating Community is holding a series of Twilight Dinners at their farm in Cape Elizabeth. The three-course meals will be cooked by local chefs to highlight the local and seasonal. The cost is $40 per person (BYOB). You can buy tickets online at Brown Paper Tickets. July 11 — Chef Jonah Fertig, Local Sprouts. July 18 – Chef Mitch Gerow, East Ender. July 25 — Chefs Brad Messier and Erin Lynch, Rosemont Market & Bakery. Aug. 1 — Chef Josh Potocki, Bread and Butter Catering Co. Aug. 8 — Cultivating Community Youth Growers supported by John Peelen of Dutch Door Kitchen. Aug. 15 — Chef Leslie Oster, Aurora Provisions. Aug. 22 — TBD. Aug. 29 — Chef Chris McClay, Modern Vegan Cooking School. Sept. 5 — Chef Mitch Gerow, East Ender.”

‘Special Flight’ at the Portland Public Library

7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Portland Public Library POV Summer Documentary Film Series presents “Special Flight,” a film by Fernand Melgar in the Rines Auditorium. “‘Special Flight’ is a dramatic account of the plight of undocumented foreigners at the Frambois detention center in Geneva, Switzerland, and of the wardens who struggle to reconcile humane values with the harsh realities of a strict deportation system. The 25 male inmates at the center are among the thousands of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants imprisoned without charge or trial and facing deportation to their native countries, where they fear repression or even death. The Portland Public Library Summer Documentary Film Series is held on Thursdays throughout the summer starting at 7:30 p.m. in the Rines Auditorium. This series is made possible by a partnership between the Portland Public Library and POV (Point of View), Public Television’s premier documentary series.” For more information visit www.pbs.org/pov.

Inauguration of Poet Laureate of Portland

8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Maine Poetry Central and Mayo Street

Arts will celebrate the inauguration of Marcia F. Brown as Poet Laureate of Portland. Doors open at 7:45 p.m. at Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland. Light Refreshments — Music by Tom Wallace. Suggested donation of $5 at door. Proceeds to benefit Maine Poetry Central and Mayo Street Arts.

many other stamp projects, Koslow has produced the art for the entire Lighthouses series: the five lighthouses in the 1990 stamp booklet; the Great Lakes Lighthouses stamps issued in 1995; the Southeastern Lighthouses stamps in 2003; the Pacific Lighthouses stamps in 2007; and the Gulf Coast Lighthouses stamps in 2009.”

Friday, July 12

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “Learn how to grow, cultivate and use the flavored herb lavender at a workshop to be held Saturday, July 13 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village. Instructor Betsey-Ann Golon combines her experience as herbalist at Shaker Village along with her tenure at George Washington’s historic Mount Vernon estate. Fee $40. Shaker Village is located on Route 26, New Gloucester.” FMI: 926-4597 or usshakers@aol.com. Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, 707 Shaker Rd. Route 26 New Gloucester. 926-4597. www.shaker.lib.me.us

‘Touched by a Hummingbird’ author

noon. Portland Public Library event. “Norma K. Salway will speak about her book ‘Touched by a Hummingbird’ at the Friday Local Author Series on Friday, July 12 at noon in Meeting Room 5. Touched by a Hummingbird is a reminder to experience life as it appears — especially when we are lonely, grieving or sad. Norma Salway has experienced many losses. She hopes that others will be comforted by her story. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to cancer research. Norma Salway, retired teacher, parent and grandparent loves to write and craft. The author has spent most of her adult life in the family home overlooking Songo Pond, near Bethel in the western mountains of Maine. She lives with her Sheltie, Stormy and Maine Coon cat, Gusty.” http://www.portlandlibrary.com

Gonzofest: A Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson

8 p.m. “A night of mayhem brought to you by the hosts of our annual Dudefest. Co-host Curtis Robinson collaborated with Thompson for over 10 years. We’ll be screening the documentary ‘Breakfast with Hunter’ and film short, ‘Making of the Rum Diary.’ Curtis Robinson, founding editor, and Bob Higgins, columnist, from The Daily Sun are the driving force behind this night. Curtis collaborated with Thompson for over 10 years on several projects, including ‘The Rum Diaries.’” Benefit for One Longfellow Square. http://www.onelongfellowsquare.com/Details. asp?ProdID=1689&category=2

‘Young Frankenstein: The Musical’ in Ogunquit

Saturday, July 13 Maine YogaFest

8 a.m. to 7 p.m. “Maine YogaFest will be held at the East End Community School in Portland on July 13 and 14 and is a two-day celebration of Maine’s amazing local yoga talent. The festival allows participants to try a wide range of yoga styles including Acro, Slackline, Paddleboard, Hooping and much more. More than 30 local yoga teachers and 20 studios are participating. MYF also features local businesses, artists, food trucks and musicians throughout the weekend in the ‘Vendor Village.’ On Saturday evening, MYF will host a ‘Friends & Family Yoga Party’ with live local music, cool vendors, unique yoga demonstrations, kids activities, and prizes. MYF is committed to being a green festival with recycling, composting and water refill stations.” East End Community School, 195 North St., Portland. July 13 to 14, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday; $90 for a three-workshop pass or $125 for a five-workshop pass. www.maineyogafest.com, 232-0054

Kayak Adventure: Merrymeeting Bay Guided Paddle

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. “Enjoy a unique educational exploration of Merrymeeting Bay from Bowdoinham Cathance River to the Bay. Led by an expert guide and narrated by a member of a local environmental organization. Paddle solo or tandem. No experience necessary; disabilities accommodated. Reduced fees for those with personal equipment. “ Nonmembers $75; members $70; ages 12-16 $35. FMI visit www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org or call 443-1316, ext. 0.

Stamp dedication at Portland Head Light

10 a.m. “The U.S. Postal Service continues its popular stamp series with the 2013 issuance of New England Coastal Lighthouses. Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth will be the foremost ceremony featured among the five featured lighthouses, which also include Portsmouth Harbor, Boston Harbor, Point Judith and New London Harbor. A stamp dedication ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 13 at the lighthouse located at 1000 Shore Road, Cape Elizabeth. Local TV personality Bill Green will be the emcee of the event, which will feature regional and national postal officials and presentation of the colors by a special US Coast Guard Honor Guard. Each of the five new stamps, including the Portland Head Light stamp, features an original acrylic painting by Howard Koslow based on recent photographs of the lighthouses. The art directors were Howard E. Paine and Greg Breeding. In addition to

Workshop on flavored herb lavender

New Life Bikes autism research benefit

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Autism Aware Day with New Life Bikes, featuring local area businesses, Bicycle Coalition of Maine, others. Proceeds to benefit Spurwink. New Life Bikes, “ReCalibrated Bicycles for Regular People,” specializing in Vintage 10-12 Speeds, Custom Rat Rods, Classic Cruisers and an Occasional Cool Mountain Bike. Service Available for ALL makes and models. Spare parts and accessories available!” 11 Bishop St., Portland. 797-0711.

Trails End & Avian Taxidermy in Gray

11 a.m. “Trails End & Avian Taxidermy: Taxidermy is a method of reproducing a life-like, 3-dimensional rendition of a mammal, bird or fish for permanent display. Come & see a variety of examples of this delicate art with local taxidermists Dana Soucier & Tom Berube representing the Maine Association of Taxidermists. Dana will demonstrate the process of mounting a mammal & Tom will demonstrate how to mount waterfowl, both from start to finish. www.trailsendtaxidermystudio.com www.tomsavian.com.” Maine Wildlife Park, 56 Game Farm Road, Gray (off Route 26). See www.mainewildlifepark.com for details about these and all our other scheduled 2013 events.

Craft Beer comes to Maine State Pier

noon to 4 p.m. Craft Beer comes to Maine State Pier. This unique outdoor beer tasting festival offers attendees a chance to meet the owners and brewers from all over the state in the heart of Portland’s historic downtown waterfront district. Enjoy Maine’s award-winning beer with loyal local craft beer enthusiasts and tourists alike. Attendees will enjoy hand-crafted Maine beer and views of the Casco Bay on Portland’s Maine State Pier. The event will feature a special ‘from away’ guest, Victory Brewing Company of Pennsylvania. German-themed food will be prepared by Sebago Brewing Company and VIP ticket holders enjoy early access to mingle with brewers and taste exclusive specialty brews. One hundred percent of the proceeds from this event support the Maine Brewers’ Guild and its continuing mission to promote the growing craft brewed industry in Maine. ... This is the third annual fundraiser for the Maine Brewers’ Guild and 100 percent of the proceeds go to funding Guild initiatives to promote Maine’s brewing industry. There will also be a silent auction with prizes including private tours and tastings, “brewer-for-a-day” experiences, and much more! This is a 21 plus event. No pets. Rain or Shine.” http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/360745

‘Pea Soup Fog’ at the Portland Observatory.

1 p.m. Portland Observatory. “Connie Smith will read her book ‘Pea Soup Fog,’ a story about a small town on the coast of Maine. What happens when you go looking for the origins of the fog? Perhaps it is coming from grandma’s kitchen?” https://www.facebook.com/portlandobservatory

Willard Fest 2013

3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Willard Fest 2013 will take over Willard Square in South Portland. “WillardFest 2013 features a jampacked three hours of exceptional local food, unique crafts, local exhibits and community groups, activities fun for all ages, and three of the areas’ top musical acts with roots in South Portland. Serious Rooms, Welterweight, and The Substitutes all feature members who either grew up in, or currently reside in or near, Willard Square. Serious Rooms kicks off the music at 3:20 in the music tent. Welterweight follows at 4:20, and The Substitutes wrap things up at 5:20, providing the soundtrack for the now infamous WillardFest Parade. All three bands can be found online at their websites, or on Facebook.”

‘Young Frankenstein: The Musical’ in Ogunquit

3:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Ogunquit Playhouse. “The hilarious musical comedy is a wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Frankenstein legend based on Mel Brooks’ film masterpiece. The story follows young Dr. Frankenstein (that’s Fronkensteen) as he attempts to bring a corpse to life, but not without scary and hilarious complications.” Through July 27. http://www.ogunquitplayhouse.org see next page

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period in honor of the War’s Sesquicentennial, and the opening of MHS’s new museum exhibiton on the War. (Exhibit opens June 28.) Bandmaster Jon Hall will give a historical narrative between selections, talking about the role of music in that era, and during the Civil War in particular. Join us for a special treat along the walkway in front of the Brown Library. Light refreshments will be provided. In case of rain, the event moves to the lecture hall.” Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland. www.mainehistory.org

Public Bean Supper for veterans in OOB

4 p.m. to 7 p.m. “Public Bean Supper, beans and hot dogs, American chopped suey, the Old Orchard Beach Lions Club, 128 Saco Ave. All veterans are fed free. Public invited to support this event. Donations — $6 for adults, $4 for children. Donations appreciated.”

Monsignor Michael Henchal reception

6 p.m. “Monsignor Michael Henchal, pastor of St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish in Scarborough, St. Bartholomew Parish in Cape Elizabeth, and Holy Cross and St. John the Evangelist Parishes in South Portland, will celebrate his 40th anniversary of priestly ordination on July 14. In honor of this remarkable milestone in his life and ministry, parishioners will gather for a special Mass and reception to celebrate on Saturday, July 13, at 6 p.m. at St. Bartholomew Church on 8 Two Lights Road in Cape Elizabeth.” Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland.

‘How Money Walks’ event

5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Maine Heritage Policy Center book signing event with Travis Brown, “How Money Walks.” “Between 1995 and 2010, millions of Americans moved between the states, taking with them more than $2 trillion in adjusted gross incomes. Some states, like Florida, saw tremendous gains ($86.4 billion), while others, like An Evening of Belly Dance New York, experienced massive losses 8 p.m. Heather Powers presents Divinity ($58.6 billion). People moved, and they Dances an evening of belly dance. Belly danctook their working wealth with them. ers from all over New England will be performThe question is, why? Which states ing along with Deb Rubin, a renowned belly Jonathan Eiten’s paintings are on exhibit Thursday for the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association quar- benefitted and which states suffered? dancer from Portland, Ore. Show tickets are And why does it matter? ‘How Money terly meeting in the library at 519 Congress St. (COURTESY PHOTO) $10 in advance or $12 at the door. Tickets can Walks’ explores the power of states’ be purchased through www.mayostreetarts. tax policies to either attract or repel Monday, July 15 org. This show will take place at Mayo Streets Arts Center, economic growth. Wednesday, July 17, at noon at Samo10 Mayo Street, Portland. All ages are welcome. The show set Resort on the Ocean, 220 Warrenton S., Rockport; includes a variety of styles of belly dance ranging from tra‘Opera at the Mansion’ Thursday, July 18, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Portland Country ditional belly dance to modern American Tribal Style and 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “Portland’s spectacular Victoria Club, 11 Foreside Road, Falmouth. fusion belly dance. “Widely known Traditional belly dancer Mansion will be the setting for a benefit cocktail party feaAuthor Tess Gerritsen in Falmouth and studio owner based in Portland, Rosa Noreen. Male turing opera singers from the cast of PORTopera’s upcom6 p.m. “Falmouth Memorial Library is pleased to announce belly dancer Sasha from Boston, Mass. will be performing ing production of Puccini’s La Bohème. Alyson Cambridge author Tess Gerritsen will speak on Wednesday, July 17 at his elegant style of Tribal Fusion. Deb Rubin of Portland, (Musetta), Jeffrey Gwaltney (Rodolfo), Jose Adam Perez 6 p.m. Seating is limited. To reserve your free event ticket, Ore., internationally touring instructor/performer of Tribal (Colline), and Ben Wager (Schaunard) will perform a variety please contact Jeannie at 781-2351 or jmadden@falmouth. Fusion Belly dance visits Maine for the first time! Heather of operatic arias and Broadway show tunes in the Mansion’s lib.me.us. Location: Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Powers, the show’s creator and producer, a local up and acoustically superb stair hall. An Italian artist known for his Road, Falmouth.” FMI: 781-2351 or library@falmouth.lib. coming Fusion belly dancer. An exciting sword dance by decoration of opera houses painted the stunning interiors me.us. Baseema of Massachusetts. Local starlet, Cait Capaldi, of Victoria Mansion in 1860. This third annual ‘Opera at graces the stage with her captivating meld of flamenco and The Confederacy Strikes Portland Harbor the Mansion’ is a benefit for both PORTopera and Victoria belly dance Troupe, Sisters of the Sun represents American 7 p.m. Ilustrated lecture with Herb Adams, Maine histoMansion and will be held at the Mansion, 109 Danforth St., Tribal Style (ATS) Belly Dance, a colorful group improvisarian at the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Portland, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. $75/person includes tional form of belly dance. Duet from northern New HampAve., Peaks Island. $5 per person. “Please join local hisbeverages and hors d’oeuvres.” For information and resershire, Shazaraya Belly Dance uses a mix of Egyptian style torian and educator, Herb Adams, for a fascinating look vations call Victoria Mansion at 772-4841, ext. 104. belly dance and martial arts coining their style as BellyFu. at Confederate activities along the Maine coast during Aria Paradise Michaels of Boston, Mass., will be performthe civil War. He will discuss a Confederate raid on the Wednesday, July 17 ing a powerful theatrical belly dance piece. Details about cutter Caleb Cushing resulting in an explosive battle Divinity Dances can be found on the website http://www. in the waters of Casco Bay. The attack was led by Lt. mayostreetarts.org/ or by contacting the organizer via email Sam Halpern at the Portland Public Library Charles Read, CSN just six days before the battle of Getat hlpowers@yahoo.com.” noon. Portland Public Library: “Sam Halpern will appear tysburg. The Fifth Maine Regiment Museum is a nonat the Brown Bag Lecture Series on Wednesday, July 17 profit museum and cultural center housed in the 1888 at noon in the Rines Auditorium to speak about his book Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Hall. Its mission is the Sunday, July 14 ‘A Far Piece to Canaan.’ ‘A Far Piece to Canaan’ is a preservation of Civil War and local history. To that end warm and nostalgic novel from an unexpected source: It the museum offers a wide variety of lectures, concerts, Limington Extension Sunday Yard Sale is Sam Halpern’s salty paternal wisdom that made Justin tours, youth education programs, and community activi9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Rain date July 21, 476 Sand Pond Road, Halpern’s ‘S--t My Dad Says’ a phenomenal bestseller. ties. Membership is open to the public.” Limington. Baby clothes (Newborn 3T, 3/$1), $10 DVD playInspired by Sam Halpers and hundreds of new 25 cent items weekly, plus bathing ern’s childhood in rural suit separates $6 each, 2 for $10. Benefits BEHS scholarKentucky, ‘A Far Piece ships. FMI — 692-2989. to Canaan’ tells the story of Samuel ZelinMTG Foundation Face Off for a Cause sky, a celebrated but 12:30 p.m. Portland Ice Arena located at 225 Park Ave., troubled former proPortland. “The Michael T Goulet TBI & Epilepsy Foundation fessor who reluctantly presents its third annual Face off for a Cause Celebrity Charreturns after his wife’s ity Hockey Game and Auction. Skaters include NHL Bruin death to the Kentucky Hall of Famer Ray Bourque and his sons Chris and Ryan hills where he lived as a Bourque; Rick Middleton, and a college and Pro All-Star child to reconnect with lineup. Tickets include Game, Autograph session, Sports long-buried memories Memorabilia Auction, Silent Auction, Head Injury Prevention and make good on a Demo, & Multi-Sport Helmet Give-away. Tickets $25 adults, forgotten promise.” $15 children under 12.” http://www.michaelgouletfoundahttp://www.portlandlition.org/foundation.html brary.com

Library Sundae event in Falmouth

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. “The Friends of Falmouth Memorial Library will hold their annual Library Sundae event on Sunday, July 14 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Join us for antique car rides, valve cover races, face painting, ice cream sundaes and more. Location: Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth.FMI: library@falmouth.lib.me.us or 781-2351.”

‘Young Frankenstein: The Musical’ in Ogunquit

2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Ogunquit Playhouse. “The hilarious musical comedy is a wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Frankenstein legend based on Mel Brooks’ film masterpiece. The story follows young Dr. Frankenstein (that’s Fronkensteen) as he attempts to bring a corpse to life, but not without scary and hilarious complications.” Through July 27. http://www.ogunquitplayhouse.org

Centennial Serenade Band: Songs of the Civil War at MHS

5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. “The new Longfellow Garden Summer Series opens with a six-piece Serenade Band of Portland’s Centennial Brass Band, recreating a group of the 1850-1875 period. They will play a variety of Civil War era music on horns of the

Belly dancers from all over New England will be performing along with Deb Rubin, a renowned belly dancer from Portland, Ore., at an event at Mayo Street Arts at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 13. Here, belly dancers perform during the First Friday Art Walk last week. In the background is the Maine Marimba Ensemble. (TIMOTHY GILLIS PHOTO)