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Portland’s new technology park ready for tenants — ‘A very important part of our future.’ See page 8

Mayor Michael Brennan (with the scissors) was joined by (from left) Councilor Ed Suslovic; Gary Goodrich, of Bio Rad Labs and a member of the Bioscience Association of Maine’s board of directors; Alan Brigham, of the U.S. Economic Development Administration; City Manager Mark Rees; Greg Mitchell, director of the city’s Economic Development Department; and Nelle Hanig, the city’s business program manager, at a ribbon cutting Wednesday for the new Portland Technology Park. (CRAIG LYONS PHOTO)

Two arrested for ‘strong-arm’ robbery at Gray Circle K — See page 3

Riding around with a little help from their friends — See Karen Vachon, page 4

From comets to dinosaurs — See the new column from the Southworth Planetarium; page 7

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Firm that sent 42 million texts settles in spam case WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday that it had settled charges against a Florida company and its two top executives for sending more than 42 million unwanted and deceptive text messages to consumers. Messages sent by the company had promised free gift cards worth up to $1,000, the commission said, but when consumers tried to visit a Web site to collect the prize, they were instead connected to a site that asked for personal information, like Social Security numbers and credit card numbers. It also required them to pay for additional services to receive a gift card. The company, Rentbro, and its principals, Daniel Pessin and Jacob Engel, both of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., were required to turn over remaining assets and to repay up to $377,321, the amount the business had collected. The settlement came as part of a sweeping crackdown on text message fraud that the commission announced in March. The agency filed eight cases in February and March against 29 companies and individuals around the country, accusing them of sending text messages with fake offers. Those companies sent more than 180 million spam text messages, which typically offered gift cards to national chain stores like Best Buy and Walmart. C. Steven Baker, director of the commission’s Midwest region, said that since the agency had filed the cases, it had received many fewer complaints about such offers. The commission charged Rentbro and the two executives with unfair or deceptive acts, in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act. The parties agreed to the settlement but did not admit or deny wrongdoing. Gregg E. Pessin, a lawyer in Coral Gables, Fla., who is listed in Rentbro’s corporate filings as the company’s registered agent and who said he was the father of Mr. Pessin, said the company and the two men would not comment on the case. The Rentbro case was the second of the cases filed this year to be settled by the commission. In July, the agency assessed a penalty of $60,950 against Henry Nolan Kelly, who the commission said had sent more than 20 million unwanted text messages offering free iPads and iPhones to people who clicked on the Web link.

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WASHINGTON (NY Times) — The Federal Reserve postponed any retreat from its long-running stimulus campaign Wednesday, saying that it would continue to buy $85 billion a month in bonds to encourage job creation and economic growth. As Congressional Republicans and the White House hurtle toward another showdown over federal spending, the Fed said it was concerned that fiscal policy once again “is restraining economic growth,” threatening to undermine what the Fed had described just months ago as a recovery gaining strength. Stock markets jumped after the 2 p.m.

announcement, with the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index touching a record high and the Dow Jones industrial average ahead more than 150 points. The Fed’s decision also may reflect the consequences of yet another premature retreat from its own policies. Mortgage rates have climbed and other financial conditions have tightened since the Fed signaled in June that it intended to reduce its asset purchases by the end of the year, the Fed noted Wednesday. “The tightening of financial conditions observed in recent months, if sustained,

could slow the pace of improvement in the economy and the labor market,” it said in a statement released after a regular two-day meeting of its policy-making committee. The decision, an apparent victory for the Fed’s chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, and his allies who have argued for the benefits of asset purchases, was supported by all but one member of the Federal Open Market Committee. Esther George, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, dissented as she has at each previous meeting this year, citing concerns about inflation and financial stability.

House bill cuts health funds, Obama’s former defense chiefs fault strategy on Syria raising odds of U.S. shutdown (NY Times) — Obama’s first two defense secretaries criticized the administration’s handling of the Syrian crisis on Tuesday and were skeptical about the chances that Russia will broker a deal to remove Syria’s chemical weapons. Both former Pentagon chiefs, Robert M. Gates and Leon E. Panetta, said they would not have asked Congress to authorize the use of force. Gates said Obama’s proposal for a military strike against Syria in retaliation for its use of chemical weapons was a mistake, while Panetta said it was a mistake not to carry out an attack. “My bottom line is that I believe that to blow a bunch of stuff up over a couple days, to underscore or validate a point or a principle, is not a strategy,” Gates said during a forum

at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. “If we launch a military attack, in the eyes of a lot of people we become the villain instead of Assad,” he added, referring to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. Gates, the only cabinet member from the administration of George W. Bush whom Obama asked to stay on, said missile strikes on Syria “would be throwing gasoline on a very complex fire in the Middle East.” “Haven’t Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya taught us something about the unintended consequences of military action once it’s launched?” Gates said. Panetta, also speaking at the forum, said the president should have kept his word after he had pledged action if Syria used chemical weapons.

WASHINGTON (NY Times) — House Republican leaders — bowing to the demands of their conservative wing — will put to a vote on Friday a stopgap spending measure that would strip all funding from President Obama’s signature health care law, increasing the likelihood that the government will shut down in two weeks. House leaders are hoping the vote on the defunding measure will placate conservatives once the Democratically controlled Senate rejects it. The House, they are betting, would then pass a stopgap spending measure unencumbered by such policy baggage and shift the argument to the debt ceiling, which must be raised by mid-October if the government is to avoid an economically debilitating default. But publicly, Republican leaders say they are ready for a standoff with the Senate and will not easily give in. “The law’s a train wreck,” Speaker John A. Boehner said of the health care law, the Affordable Care Act, on Wednesday morning. “It’s time to protect American families from this unworkable law.” The decision to embrace a showdown on the health care law came after months of pushing by conservatives – and resistance by Republican leaders — to link it to the government financing measures that Congress must address this

$33 Million grant for effort to prevent late-onset Alzheimer’s (NY Times) — In a significant effort to discover a treatment to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, the federal government announced on Wednesday a $33.2 million grant for a project that will test a drug on people considered at greatest risk for developing the most common form of the disease. The grant, part of the government’s national Alzheimer’s plan, will help finance a large clinical trial to test a treatment on people 60 to 75 who do not have any symptoms of the disease, but do have two copies of a gene known to greatly increase the risk of getting it. It is the largest federal grant to date to test a drug specifically designed to prevent Alzheimer’s in people without symptoms, said Laurie Ryan, program director for Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials at the

National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health. In announcing the grant and other smaller awards Wednesday, Dr. Richard J. Hodes, director of the National Institute on Aging, said the government was “investing a great deal of hope” in prevention research, aiming to “intervene early in the course of Alzheimer’s disease, well before the onset of symptoms.” “We know that Alzheimer’s-related brain changes take place years, even decades, before symptoms appear,” Dr. Hodes said in a statement. “That really may be the optimal window for drugs that delay progression or prevent the disease altogether.” The $33.2 million grant for the drugtesting project went to Dr. Eric M. Reiman and Dr. Pierre N. Tariot. of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Phoenix. The

Banner trial, called the Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative, will focus on the lateonset form of Alzheimer’s, which is by far the most common form of the disease, affecting the vast majority of the 5 million Americans estimated to have it. A total of $45 million in grants for Alzheimer’s research were awarded. Though the cause of Alzheimer’s is still unknown, researchers have been able to establish certain risk factors. People with the most significant known risk so far, Dr. Reiman said, possess two copies of a gene called ApoE4, having inherited it from both parents. Studies have found that more than half of the people with two copies of the gene will develop Alzheimer’s, compared with about one-fourth of people with one copy and 10 percent of people with no copies.

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Two men arrested for stealing beer, threatening clerk in ‘strong-arm’ robbery at Gray Circle K Daily Sun Staff Reports Two men were arrested Tuesday for robbery after police say they stole beer and threatened a clerk at the Circle K Convenience Store on 255 Shaker Road, Gray. Christopher C. Chambers, 27, listed as a tranChambers sient with a last known address of Portland, and Nicholas E. Norton, 25, of Gray, both face robbery charges. Chambers also faces theft and probation violation charges. His bail for robbery and theft was set at $5,000, and no Norton bail was granted due to the probation violation charge, under a probation hold, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. Norton faces charges of robbery and disorderly conduct, with bail set at $2,500, the sheriff’s office reported. At 10:13 p.m. Tuesday, the sheriff ’s office received a 911 emergency call reporting a theft at the Circle K Convenience Store in Gray. The sheriff ’s office reported that a man later identified as Chambers had entered the store, walked out refusing to pay for some beer, and threatened the clerk with physical violence. While confronting Chambers outside of the

store another individual, later identified as Norton, also threatened the clerk with physical violence, the sheriff’s office reported. Both individuals fled the scene in a vehicle but were later located a short distance away in Gray, the sheriff’s office reported. With the assistance of the Maine State Police and other Cumberland County deputies, both individuals were placed under arrest without incident. No weapons were displayed, and no victims and witnesses were harmed or injured during this “strong-arm” robbery, the sheriff’s office reported.

Conn. man sentenced to six years in prison on cocaine charge A Connecticut man was sentenced to six years in prison for bringing cocaine into Maine with the plan to sell it in the Portland area, the U.S. Attorney’s office reported. Anthony Cardoza, 31, of Bridgeport, Conn., was sentenced in U. S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal, to six years imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine, U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced. The court also ordered the forfeiture of Cardoza’s Range Rover which he used to facilitate the crime. Cardoza pleaded guilty to the charge on June 13, Delahanty reported. According to court records, on March 2, a Maine state trooper patrolling the Maine Turnpike conducted a traffic stop of a Range Rover in which Cardoza was an occupant. After determining that Cardoza was on Maine state probation for a drug conviction, the trooper searched the interior of the vehicle and discovered about 300 grams of cocaine hidden in the center console of the vehicle. Cardoza admitted he had brought the cocaine from out of state and intended to sell it in the Portland area, Delahanty reported. The investigation was conducted by the Maine State Police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

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WASHINGTON — On the most deadly day here since Sept. 11, 2001, with the capital reeling over the sadly familiar scene of a mass shooting by a madman, the chief executive stepped to the microphones and captured the heartbreak. It wasn’t the chief executive of the nation. It was Dr. Janis Orlowski, the chief operating officer of MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where three of those injured were being treated. “There’s something evil in our society that we as Americans have to work to try and eradicate,” she said, her voice stoic but laced with emotion. On the day when she announced only hours earlier that she had submitted her resignation to take another job, she continued: “There’s something wrong here when we have these multiple shootings, these multiple injuThe New ries. There is something wrong, York Times and the only thing that I can say is we have to work together to get rid of it. I would like you to put my trauma center out of business. I really would. I would like to not be an expert on gunshots.”

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Riding around with a little help from their friends Life is a moving experience. The physical nature of life’s motion may well be something many of us take for granted. What happens when the chips are down? Can you pick yourself up and get moving again? Will you allow others to give you a little pick-me-up? When asked these questions, most people agree that it is easier to offer help, rather than ask for help. Mastering gracious acceptance provides Better with an opportunity for someone else to feel good; you feel loved Age cared for, and in a good place to give back. In receiving, you are giving. The giving can come in the form of a resilience that inspires and guides us all to a better place. From those low spots, you come to see a brighter day — you are changed and become better for it. This week I was an invited guest to PACES — a networking group that addresses the needs of seniors. Each month a different member of the group hosts the meeting. So it was, on this cool late summer day, that I would be brought to Gray, Maine, at 7:30 a.m., to learn about Ride-Away, a tour that would begin indoors, and eventually move outside. I looked down at my summer sandals, and wished I had put on panty hose. Welcome to fall! Ride-Away is a company that adapts and retrofits cars for the disabled so that they can get on with

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their life. In business just over 10 years in Gray, there are a total of 20 Ride-Away locations along the East Coast. General Manager Connie Adams and Barry Linder showed us various steering devises available for disabled drivers. With the simple motion of just one hand (adapted to whichever hand functions best), all of the primary controls of gas pedal, brake, and steering wheel can be done with one devise: Push/Rock — Push is to brake; rock is to accelerate. Another, more advanced devise operates by voice command, while yet another allows you to drive with a joy stick. Some in the group seemed uneasy. Barry explained the process. Rest assured – just like those early days of teenage drivers; for the disabled, there’s driving evaluations and mastery tests of 10 to 30 hours before anyone takes to the roads. Barry explained: Driver evaluators are like doctors who write the prescription. Drive-Away is like the pharmacy that fills the prescription. On average, the company outfits four to five cars per month with steering devices and lifts. They take their job seriously. It is one thing to rig out a car for the disabled; but still another, should it malfunction, it leaves a disabled person totally stranded. This company goes the extra mile; available 24/7 for any of their clients to call if there’s any problem. The garage door opened; I felt the rush of cold air — outside we went to look at vehicles and entry options. Pulling my sweater tight I shivered as we looked at rear ramps and lifts for mini vans — which, is the see VACHON page 5

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Obama still has a secret weapon: Congressional Republicans DOWD from page 4

Calling it “a challenge to all of us,” she concluded: “This is not America.” President Obama also gave a speech Monday, talking at the White House while the drama unfolded at the supposedly secure Navy Yard nearby. He could have posted his original remarks on the White House Web site and replaced them with a cri de coeur on gun control, or comfort for the shaken city. The 12 who died were, after all, under his aegis as workers in a federal building. But, jarringly, the president went ahead with his political attack, briefly addressing the slaughter before moving on to jab Republicans over the corporate tax rate and resistance to Obamacare. Just as with the address to the nation on Syria last week, the president went ahead with a speech overtaken by events. It was out of joint, given that the Senate was put into lockdown and the Washington Nationals delayed a night game against the Atlanta Braves, noting on its Web site, “Postponed: Tragedy.” The man who connected so electrically and facilely in 2008, causing Americans to overlook his thin résumé, cannot seem to connect anymore. With a shrinking circle of trust inside the White House, Obama is having trouble establishing trust outside with once reliable factions: grass-roots Democrats and liberals in Congress. As Peter Baker wrote in The Times, the president

is finding himself increasingly “frustrated” by the defiance of Democrats who are despairing of his passive, reactive leadership. Senator Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana on the banking committee, told Jonathan Martin for Politico in February, after he scraped through to a second term, that the president was not engaged with the Hill, that he had not met with Obama at the White House since 2010, and that he was sorely missing aides like Rahm Emanuel, who tirelessly worked and stroked Democrats in Congress. Tester was one of three Democrats who spurned the president on his favorite to run the Federal Reserve, Larry Summers. The White House didn’t call Tester until Friday, when it was too late; Summers was allowed to twist in the wind, like Susan Rice before him. Top Democrats who used to consider Obama one cool cat now muse that he’s “one weird cat,” as one big shot put it. Obama still has a secret weapon: Congressional Republicans, who might yet shut down the government or cause a cataclysmic default and make the president look good. But, for now, puzzlement grows over the contrast between Obama’s campaign leaps and his governing lassitude. Obama biographer Richard Wolffe notes that the 2012 campaign had some of the same problems with leadership and direction, but looked good compared with the mid-20th-century Romney crowd, “who couldn’t get an app to work.”

“I don’t know who they think they’re talking to or what they think they’re trying to say,” said Wolffe, whose new book is “The Message: The Reselling of President Obama.” “The president is a very muddled and entrenched figure who needs to get out of a defensive crouch and get some fresh ideas.” Unlike Bill Clinton, who excels at boiling down complex arguments to simple ones, Obama prefers to wallow in the weeds, reminding people that he’s the smartest man in the room and expecting their support because he feels he is only doing what’s complicated and right. But, funnily enough, as Wolffe points out, “he’s more like the Clintons than I ever thought this White House would be — with different factions and power bases and personal rivalries.” ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos asked the president about criticism of the administration’s serpentine Syria policy, citing a frustrated backer of the plan to strike Syria, Senator Bob Corker, a Republican of Tennessee. Corker said that the careering around left Obama diminished as president, and he observed that the president seemed caged in the role, like he wanted to “slip the noose.” “I think that folks here in Washington like to grade on style,” Obama said dismissively of his Syria critics. But why is it so often the president’s style to be unable to sell the substance — even on issues where most people agree with him?

Diane moved her automated wheelchair around with perfect precision VACHON from page 4

vehicle of choice to make easily handicapped accessible. I noted the sign on the side window: please allow 8 feet clearance; a new awareness and appreciation to the needs of the handicapped. I wondered: Have I ever short spaced a handicapped parking place? Something I’ll be more mindful in the future. About the time that I was allowing myself to wimp out with the cold, I looked up, and there she was: Diane Longley and her care companion, Arlene Whitney. The sun had come out, and Diane moved her automated wheelchair around with perfect precision. It was clear her disability wouldn’t stop her and shame on me for complaining about the cold. Barry moved on to the GMC pick-up truck. With this rig, the entire driver side electronically came out to the side — with seat and all, could be raised and lowered. Back your wheelchair in, push the lever, and into driver position you go. Barry explained

Ride-Away is a company that adapts and retrofits cars for the disabled. (KAREN VACHON PHOTO)

that today, the pick-up truck is the vehicle of choice for young disabled war vets. It’s one thing to return home disabled; but it’s a real blow for these vets to have to drive a mini-van. The good news is, they don’t have to. The tour ended. I had to meet Diane and Arlene.

Diane is a native Bath gal. The second I met her, I could see she was feisty and nothing would stop her. “My legs might not work so well, but my mouth sure does,” she said. Oh boy, I think: We’re in for a ride here! She was honorably discharged from the United States Air Force many years ago; eventually diagnosed with Polymyositis, she pursued a BS degree from UMaine and became a teacher. Three years into teaching, she collapsed one day putting an end to her classroom teaching. Disabled, she eventually became wheelchair bound. Thankful for longtime friend, Arlene Whitney and her three daughters, life progressed and Diane learned to live with her disability. She became Ride-Away’s first customer. “Who drove down here today?” I asked. “I did!” said Diane. “I drive all the time; I wouldn’t ride with her!” see RIDE-AWAY page 6

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Eveningstar Cinema in Brunswick seeks public support for updates Editor, The Saco Drive-In has reached their goal and was one of the five winners in the Honda contest for a digital projection systems, for drive-ins. Eveningstar Cinema is very happy for our drive-in cousin, as we wish all, locally owned movie theaters the same good fortune to be able to stay in business. Multiplexes are often foreign-owned (AMC Theaters were recently purchased by the Chinese company, Wanda). So now that Saco Drive-In will continue, I hope that you consider turning your attentions to Eveningstar Cinema in Brunswick. At this juncture, we have about two weeks left in our crowd funding campaign, and just under $21,000 needed to raise in order for us to reach our goal of $46,000, where all contributions will actually be released to the theater. So far, 147 people have contributed via the site itself and many more have donated

directly at the box office (which is then turned into the site). We need your help. If the digital projector crisis is solved, we can concentrate on our plans to expand to more screens, which will include creating an international film festival. Our crowd funding site is www.seedandspark. com/studio/eveningstar-cinema. For more information, contact: Barry Norman, webmaster@eveningstarcinema.com. Barry Norman Brunswick

Natalie Ladd’s columns are ‘always a delight,’ reader says Editor, I wanted you to know that I thoroughly enjoy reading the articles written by Natalie Ladd in your newspaper. Her articles have made me smile, laugh and sometimes make me stop and give more

thought to areas of concern she has written about. Her articles are always a delight and I look forward to them in each edition. Sincerely, Judi Austin Portland

Reader laughs out loud at Kunstler, enjoys Libby’s column in the Sun Editor, Hysterical! James Howard Kunstler’s opening to his column, today: Commotion! I seriously (and that’s an oxymoron) can’t stop laughing! And Robert Libby is just terrific! I’ve been meaning to drop a line just to say that, too! Happy Constitution Signing Day! Thank you, Audrey Spence Portland

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Diane is a native Bath gal. The second I met her, I could see she was feisty, nothing would stop her RIDE-AWAY from page 5

Arlene agreed: “She’s a great driver.” The two think of Ride-Away as their family. Diane sang praises to Barry. Diane keeps him on his toes; but this is what makes this company great. As Diane’s condition progresses Barry adapts to her changing needs. Arlene leads me through the list: a tilt bed in an electric car; a hydraulic lift for their motor home; a Ford Windstar; equipped with a lift in the rear it carried the chair inside the van; a big white Ford; later deemed too big with difficult steering. Each time, back to Barry they go, to the van she drives today. It has a ramp on the side with enhanced steering. Ride-Away has been with them all the way. “Connie and Barry are the kind of workers that you seldom find in this busy world of ours,” explained Diane, referring to 2002 when her Wind Star broke down in Woolwich. The car was towed to the garage, and there they were — stuck, with electric wheelchair inside — how to get home, and get the wheelchair back? Looking at a quote that neared $2,000; Diane and Arlene were beside themselves. Barry and Connie came to their rescue — to the tune of $180. “I was so delighted, I could only cry,” explained Diane. “Connie and Barry are people we can trust; they handled our crisis, which really was a great and wonderful thing. I think as we get older we may not think as fast as we did at 50, or act as quickly, but these folks really took care of us in our time of need.” Over the years, Ride-Away has been there, outfitting Diane’s car, giving her a pick-me-up: mechanically, physically and emotionally. Diane loves her native hometown of Bath where she’s out and about in her community; Ride-Away is an integral part of her life. In subtle ways Diane continues to educate. No doubt, her life experience has made Ride-Away a better company; thus, improving the lives for many disabled. While Diane doesn’t teach in the classroom anymore — she’s a witness to finding comfort and peace in her situation; she accepts help; and gives advice, and living proof: You can find a solution to your problem. As for my minor problem: It’s time to add pantyhose to the outfit.

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Care companion Arlene Whitney, customer Diane Longley and Ride-Away General Manager Connie Adams and mobility consultant Barry Linder. For more about the company, visit http://www. ride-away.com/stores/gray-maine. (KAREN VACHON PHOTO)

I reach out to shake her hand; and she tells me I need to work on my handicapped handshake — whoops! Reminder: Solid handshake doesn’t work here; when you park next to those handicapped parking spaces, make sure you leave plenty of room for ramps coming out the side door. They may sit low in that chair because the legs don’t work; but remember the voice does! (Karen Vachon is a Scarborough resident. She is a licensed health and life insurance agent and active community volunteer. To follow her on Facebook, go to: http://www.facebook.com/karenvachonhealth.)

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“The Portland Technology Park is open for business,” the city reported. “Phase 1 is complete, opening three sites for development.” The technology park is off Rand Road, just a short distance from I-95 Exit 47. For more information, http://www. portlandmaine. gov/citymanagers/portlandtechnologypark. asp. At left is a rendering of the Portland Technology Park prepared by Scott Simons Architects and Woodard & Curran. (GRAPHIC COURTESY OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND)

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City marks completion of first phase of technology park development By Craig Lyons THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Portland’s new technology park is being touted by city officials as an opportunity to create new jobs in the life sciences field. “This is a very important part of our future,” said Mayor Michael Brennan. The city marked the completion of the phase one development of the Portland Technology Park with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday. The early phase included the construction of a roadway and accessory infrastructure like utilities, for the first three available sites in the park, which could house up to four more. Brennan said people come up to him all the time and suggest a new venture that will put Portland on the map, and while they are often worthwhile ideas, no single thing can build the economy. The technology park creates a new opportunity for the city, Brennan said, and will create a cluster of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. Portland has an advantage in attracting these new industries after a recent ranking noted that 45 percent of the city’s population had either an undergraduate or graduate degree. He said the city’s workforce can tout a higher level of education but that same group faces the problem of under employment. Brennan said the city has to tap into a sector of the economy that creates well-paying jobs so people can buy houses, raise families and stay in Portland. “This business park allows us that opportunity,” he said, and help create jobs of the future. The technology park is off Rand Road, just a short distance from I-95 Exit 47. Half of the park’s first phase development was funded by a $660,000 grant from the Economic Development Administration and the other from the city’s capital improvement program. Nelle Hanig, the city’s business program manager, said the primary types of tenants being sought for the park are bioscience companies and high tech businesses. She said the development is basically an office park that can accommodate some light production and allow the tenants to share resources and ideas. The city is both trying to solicit tenants and wel-

Mayor Michael Brennan was joined by Councilor Ed Suslovic, Gary Goodrich, of Bio Rad Labs and a member of the Bioscience Association of Maine’s board of directors, Alan Brigham, of the U.S. Economic Development Administration, and City Manager Mark Rees at a ribbon cutting for the Portland Technology Park. (CRAIG LYONS PHOTO)

coming companies to approach city officials about tenancy in the park, according to Hanig, with the hope to have building construction start as soon as possible. “This technology park, I think, is just what our industry needs,” said Gary Goodrich, of Bio Rad Laboratories and a member of the Bioscience Association of Maine. Companies that locate in the park will support well-paying jobs, allow for the creation of spin-off industries and share resources to contribute to the local economy. The Greater Portland area already has the largest group of life science industries in the state, Goodrich said, which are major anchors for local communities. “It’s just a great thing for life science industries and high tech industries as well,” he said. City Manager Mark Rees said the city aimed to create a development that had a low impact on

the surrounding environment by siting buildings for maximum solar gain, reducing the amount of impervious surface and a storm water management system that works with the site features. District 3 Councilor Ed Suslovic said the development fits into the three pillars of sustainability — environment, economic and community — that is a priority for the Greater Portland Council of Governments. He said the technology park is environmentally friendly and built around the surrounding natural features; it will create jobs of the future; and it will help grow Portland and its surrounding communities. The second phase of the development will include extending the road and utilities another 525 feet to open up the remaining four lots, for a total area of 120,000 square feet in seven buildings, according to the city.

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Conley on writing: Shut off email, let topic reveal itself Author reveals approaches to writing, offers a glimpse into reading schedule By Timothy Gillis

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As part of a rigorous book-promotion tour, Susan Conley will read from her new novel, “Paris was the Place,” at Longfellow Books in Portland tonight. The acclaimed author and co-founder of the Telling Room, a writing center for area youth, has been traveling a lot lately to publicize the book, and always welcomes the comforting return home. She has been appearing at bookstores and libraries two or three times a week, and was recently in Manchester, Vt., where she talked with the crowd about “place,” and how it can become a character. Susan Conley, co-founder of the Telling Room, a writing center in Portland for area youth, is promoting “In my memoir, (‘The Foremost Good For- her book, “Paris was the Place.” (TIMOTHY GILLIS PHOTO) tune’) China was a charI do, I try to stay slightly suspended in the dream acter. For ‘Paris was the Place,’ I really spent a lot state,” she said. “I have to have a complete ban on of time mapping Paris, to make it come alive.” electronics. Email is the kiss of death. I’m a mornHer use of place began in her Telling Room days, ing writer. I like to write from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and when they would use Maine as a backdrop and often find out what I’m writing about way into the inspiration for the children’s writing. material. It reveals itself to me.” The Telling Room assembled a panel of Maine Conley doesn’t write new material while she is authors — Monica Wood, Betsy Sholl, Lewis Robon a reading tour, preferring to focus on one task at inson and Santiago — who spoke to several schools a time. When she writes, she secures herself away about the benefits this state could provide to their from outside interference, as much as she can. writing. “I have a little rabbit warren in our attic, on For her own works, Conley has focused more on the third floor in the West End. Often I do some life away from Maine. yoga before I write. I also have tons of books lying “Paris was the Place” tells the story of Willow around, have them open. Just seeing their titles Pears, a poetry teacher working with young girls will inspire me, and I take the plunge,” she said. seeking asylum in France. She helps them learn Her writing muses include Carolyn Forché, Joan how to tell their stories for a courtroom judge who Didion, Pablo Neruda and Rainer Maria Rilke. She will decide their fates. Willie also juggles the mysalso dives into Sharon Olds, Anne Sexton and Virterious sickness of her brother, Luke, and a blosginia Wolff. soming love affair with a lawyer named Macon When the reading tour winds down, she will set Ventri. to her writing again. Regarding the main character’s affair, Conley “My next book is set in Beijing and a village north says she was trying to throw Willie into a new of there where I spent some time,” she said. “I want experience. to look at the western man, an ex-patriot in China, “She really wanted an adventure, wanted to get and the stories he tells himself to allow himself to out of Paris and savor the joy of a good road trip. In work there. I’m interested in the whole notion of that moment, she just decided to have a fling.” the apologist ex-pat. A lot of people want to preLater in the novel, Willie’s return to the asylum tend there’s a democracy going on there. It’s a love center after a professional mistake is fraught with triangle with a Chinese man and woman and an uncertainty. American man. It’s the real, hard reality when that “The hope was that bond between Willie and totalitarian government presents itself like a wall.” Sophie (who works at the asylum center) would be strong enough that it withstand that transgression. I didn’t know Willie was going to go back there at all; I had written several different endings. I just felt like she missed Sophie We meet her at Readings by Susan Conley the beginning of the novel, and really needed to get Tonight at 7 p.m. Willie into Sophie’s arms. That embrace was the Longfellow Books, One Monument Way, beginning of the end of the grief.” Portland In order to get into the writing mode, Conley tries to get at it early in the morning. Wednesday, Oct. 2, at noon “A writing day ideally doesn’t have much interPortland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, ruption between the dream state in the morning Portland and getting to the page. So if you have a family, like

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, Sept. 19, the 262nd day of 2013. There are 103 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 19, 1982, the smiley emoticon was invented as Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman proposed punctuating humorously intended computer messages by employing a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a horizontal “smiley face.” :-) On this date: In 1777, the first Battle of Saratoga was fought during the Revolutionary War; although the British forces succeeded in driving out the American troops, the Americans prevailed in a second battle the following month. In 1796, President George Washington’s farewell address was published. In 1881, the 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, died 2 1/2 months after being shot by Charles Guiteau; Chester Alan Arthur became president. In 1934, Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. In 1945, Nazi radio propagandist William Joyce, known as “Lord Haw-Haw,” was convicted of treason and sentenced to death by a British court. In 1957, the United States conducted its first contained underground nuclear test, code-named Rainier, in the Nevada desert. In 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, visiting Los Angeles, reacted angrily upon being told that, for security reasons, he wouldn’t get to visit Disneyland. In 1960, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, angrily checked out of the Shelburne Hotel in a dispute with the management; Castro ended up staying at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem. In 1961, Barney and Betty Hill, a New Hampshire couple driving home from vacation, experienced what they later claimed under hypnosis was a short-term abduction by extraterrestrials. In 1962, the Western TV series “The Virginian” debuted on NBC. In 1970, the situation comedy “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” debuted on CBS-TV. In 1985, the Mexico City area was struck by a devastating earthquake that killed at least 9,500 people. Five years ago: Struggling to stave off financial catastrophe, the Bush administration laid out a radical bailout plan calling for a takeover of a half-trillion dollars or more in worthless mortgages and other bad debt held by tottering institutions. Relieved investors sent stocks soaring on Wall Street and around the globe. One year ago: Members of Congress presented the Congressional Gold Medal to Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (ahng sahn soo chee) in a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda. The Justice Department’s internal watchdog found fault with the agency’s handling of a gun-trafficking probe in Arizona that resulted in hundreds of weapons turning up at crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico. The inspector general’s report referred more than a dozen people for possible disciplinary action for their roles in Operation Fast and Furious.

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Dear Annie: I’m dating a divorced man with five children, two of whom still live with their parents in a shared-custody arrangement. The divorce was very bitter, and she put him into bankruptcy. She is a spendaholic and not a pleasant person to be around, always making herself the wronged party. We put up with her at all functions that include the kids -- school sports, birthdays and things like that. But now she insists on inviting herself to functions with my boyfriend’s extended family. When is it appropriate to tell her, “Stop inviting yourself. You are divorced from this family”? After all, my boyfriend is never invited to her family functions. Neither of us wants her at these events, but my boyfriend is afraid that if he says anything to her, it will hurt the kids. I am so tired of all her involvement. How can we bond with his family as a couple if she’s always there? I’m having a hard time with this. I think he needs to tell her to knock it off. They are divorced. That means they are no longer a couple. She has her own boyfriend, by the way, although she doesn’t do much with him. -- B.H. Dear B.H.: We caution you not to make demands on your boyfriend, because it puts you between him and his children, which is not a good place to be. Instead, discuss the situation calmly. If he is determined to allow his ex to attend family functions (and his family doesn’t throw her out), let it be. At some point, those children will be out of the house, and he will worry less about how this affects them. Your decision is how long you are willing to graciously tolerate this situation. Dear Annie: Please explain the difference between a woman who is the victim of verbal abuse and one whose behavior

is so annoying that her husband can’t help criticizing her. My husband has been yelling at me and putting me down for 50 years, but when he’s not angry, he can be quite loving. He says the proof that his bad moods are my fault is that he isn’t angry when I’m not around. I tell him that my friends and family never pick on me, and he says that’s because they’re as nutty as I am. I’ve always believed I could control the way my husband treats me if I just tried harder, but as soon as I open my mouth, he’s on my case. If I remain silent, he accuses me of pouting. I feel as if I can’t win, no matter what I do. I want to change, but don’t know how. -- Tired of Being the Whipping Girl Dear Tired: The signs of verbal abuse include: a spouse who calls you names; who is critical, sarcastic or mocking in an effort to humiliate or embarrass you; who yells or swears at you; who uses threats to intimidate you; who blames you for his behavior; who dismisses your feelings. From your letter, we easily see three or four of those signs. We don’t know what you want to do about this after 50 years, but we strongly recommend counseling -- for you, if not for both of you together. You’ve put up with this abuse much too long. Dear Annie: This is in response to “N.D. Rose,” the 73-yearold who thought learning new computer skills was too difficult. Next month, I will be 89 years old, and if I didn’t have my computer, I’d be lost. There is only so much knitting one can do. I use email, place online orders, do most of my banking and bill paying, watch some streaming programs, plus spend a few minutes a day on Facebook keeping in touch with friends from as far back as grade school. -- Never Too Old To Learn

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The Wings Of Freedom Tour in Portland

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. “The Wings Of Freedom Tour will arrive at Portland International Jetport at 2 p.m. on Sept. 18 and will be on display at North Ramp at Portland International Jetport until the aircraft departs Sept. 20 at noon. Hours of ground tours and display are: 2 p.m. through 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18; 9 a.m. through 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19; 9 a.m. through noon on Friday, Sept. 20. The 30-minute flight experiences are normally scheduled before and after the ground tour times. The Collings Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit educational foundation devoted to organizing “living history” events that allows people to learn more about their heritage and history through direct participation. The Nationwide Wings Of Freedom Tour is in its 24th year and visits an average of 110 cities in over 35 states annually. ... The Wings Of Freedom Tour travels the nation a flying tribute to the flight crews who flew them, the ground crews who maintained them, the workers who built them, the soldiers, sailors and airmen they helped protect; and the citizens and families that share the freedom that they helped preserve. ... Visitors can find out more by visiting our website at www.collingsfoundation.org.”

Hugh G.E. MacMahon lecture

noon. MCMA noon lecture in the library, at the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, Portland. Hugh G.E. MacMahon. MCMA library Thursday noon lecture by Hugh MacMahon, lawyer, teacher, author will discuss his book, ‘Progress, Stability, and the Struggle for Equality — A Ramble Through the Early Years of Maine Law 1820-1920.’ A review of Mr MacMahon book by Elly Burnett can be found at http://www.dwmlaw.com/pdfs/progress_Maine_ Bar_Journal_review.pdf. More info on Hugh MacMahon can be found at http://mainelaw.maine.edu/faculty/profiles/ adjunct/macmahon.html. Bring your lunch, refreshments and dessert provided. 519 Congress St., Portland, second floor library,elevator accessible. http://www.mainecharitablemechanicassociation.com

‘The Last of the Doughboys’ author at MHS

noon to 1 p.m. Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St. “Next year marks the beginning of the World War I Centennial. Join us for a special talk about this sometimes overlooked war and the men who served in it by Maine author Richard Rubin, author of the acclaimed ‘The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World.’ In addition to ‘The Last of the Doughboys,’ Rubin is the author of ‘Confederacy of Silence, a True Tale of the Old New South’ and ‘Everyday American History of the Twentieth Century.’ He has published numerous articles in national publications including Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine, as well as short stories in sev-

4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “Trinity Episcopal at 580 Forest Ave. (entrance in rear) is offering its indoor Chartre-style labyrinth for meditative walks on Thursday, Sept. 19 between 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Allow about 30 minutes. FMI 772-7421.”

‘Politics Then and Now’ at Muskie School

4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. “This fall, the Muskie School of Public Service and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine will host the series ‘Politics Then and Now, In Maine and the Nation’ to examine this evolution and the future of politics in the state and country. The eight-week series brings the state’s top political minds together to address the following questions: How was politics ‘played’ in earlier times, in Maine and the nation? How has that changed, and why? What will it take to get back on course? And what does Maine have to teach the nation in this regard? All events will be held on Thursday afternoons, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., in Lee Community Hall or Hannaford Lecture Hall on the USM Portland campus. The series is free and open to the public. Seating cannot be reserved. Speakers will include: Sept. 19: Former U.S. Congressman Tom Allen; Sept. 26: Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell; Oct. 3: Former Maine Governor Kenneth Curtis; Oct. 10: Former Maine Senate President and House Speaker Elizabeth Mitchell; Oct. 17: U.S. Senator Angus King; Oct. 24: Speaker to be announced; Oct. 31: Former U.S. Congressman Barney Frank; Nov. 7: Future Prospects: Panel discussion with former Maine State Senator Cynthia Dill; Maine House Republican Leader Ken Fredette; and University of Maine Professor of Political Science Amy Fried.” For series details and speaker locations, visit http://usm.maine.edu/muskie/ politics-then-and-now.

LGBT people in sports forum

5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. “The University of Southern Maine Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine is hosting ‘Changing the Game: A Panel Discussion on LGBT People in High School and College Athletics’ from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, September 19, in the University Events Room, seventh floor, Glickman Family Library, Portland. The event is free and open to the public. Panelists include: Moderator Pat Griffin, director of Changing the Game: The GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) Sports Project; Al Bean, director of USM Athletics; Gia Drew, Maine Transgender Network and GLSEN Southern Maine; and James Nutter and Madeline Hunsicker of GO! Athletes, the first national network dedicated to empowering LGBT athletes and allies. Audience questions and participation will be welcomed. This panel is sponsored by USM’s LGBT Collection of the Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine,

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‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in South Portland

5:45 p.m. “The Rotary Club of South Portland is hosting a special evening at the theater — Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ will be performed by the Portland Players on Wednesday, Sept. 12. There will be live musical entertainment in the lobby provided by Tom Snow and Tim Hill beginning at 5:45 p.m. (the curtain rises at 7:30). Appetizers, beer and wine will be available. Unique raffle items will be available as well. Tickets are $30 (please call Bill York at 415-8091 for tickets). Proceeds from this fun filled evening will benefit local scholarships and Community Theater support.”

George and Barbara Bush Distinguished Lecture

6:30 p.m. “Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of Qatar will be presented the George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service by the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation. The award will be presented at the fourth annual George and Barbara Bush Distinguished Lecture at the University of New England (UNE). George Bush, 41st President of the United States, and Barbara Bush will present the award to Sheikha Moza at the event, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Harold Alfond Forum on UNE’s Biddeford Campus. The lecture will be streamed live to audiences around the world at http://stream.une.edu/events. ... The George and Barbara Bush Distinguished Lecture is free and open to the public, and seating is on a first come, first served basis. For more information and directions, visit une.edu/bushlecture.”

POV screening of ‘Best Kept Secret’

7:30 p.m. A documentary film by Samantha Buck, at Portland Public Library for Summer POV Documentary Films series. A Newark, N.J. public high school teacher races against the clock to find a place in the world for her students with autism before they graduate and “age out” of a unique and caring support system. For more information visit www.pbs.org/pov. Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700, www.portlandlibrary.com

Friday, Sept. 20 Common Ground Fair

9 a.m. Common Ground Fair. September 20, 21 and 22, in Unity. Gates open at 9 a.m. each day. Vendors open until 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 5 p.m. on Sunday. Keynote speakers: Fermentation and Food Relocalization: Friday at 11 a.m., Sandor Katz, author of “The Art of Fermentation” and “Wild Fermentation.” Honoring Women Farmers and Gardeners, Locally and Globally: Saturday at 11 a.m., Deb Soule, Avena Botanicals, herbalist, gardener, teacher and author of “The Woman’s Handbook of Healing Herbs.” Cooperating with the Future: 11 a.m. on Sunday, George Siemon, CEIEIO and Co-Founder of CROPP Cooperative / Organic Valley, Organic Valley. Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, annual fair

The Wings Of Freedom Tour in Portland

9 a.m. to noon. “The Wings Of Freedom Tour will arrive at Portland International Jetport at 2 p.m. on Sept. 18 and will be on display at North Ramp at Portland International Jetport until the aircraft departs Sept. 20 at noon. Hours of ground tours and display are: 2 p.m. through 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18; 9 a.m. through 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19; 9 a.m. through noon on Friday, Sept. 20. The 30-minute flight experiences are normally scheduled before and after the ground tour times. The Collings Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit educational foundation devoted to organizing “living history” events that allows people to learn more about their heritage and history through direct participation. The Nationwide Wings Of Freedom Tour is in its 24th year and visits an average of 110 cities in over 35 states annually. ... The Wings Of Freedom Tour travels the nation a flying tribute to the flight crews who flew them, the ground crews who maintained them, the workers who built them, the soldiers, sailors and airmen they helped protect; and the citizens and families that share the freedom that they helped preserve. ... Visitors can find out more by visiting our website at www.collingsfoundation.org.”

Jail Task Force meeting

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jail Task Force meeting will be held on Sept. 20, at the Marquardt Building, third floor, 32 Blossom Lane, Augusta. The initial meeting of the Jail Task Force, as created through a Joint Order of the Maine State Legislature. For more information contact Bill Whitten at Whitten@ cumberlandcounty.org or 871-8380. see next page

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Margaret Cruikshank at PPL Local Author Series

noon to 1 p.m. Margaret Cruikshank, “Learning to be Old,” Portland Public Library Local Author Series. “What does it mean to grow old in America today? Is ‘successful aging’ our responsibility? What will happen if we fail to ‘grow old gracefully’? Especially for women, the onus on the aging population in the United States is growing rather than diminishing.” Free lecture. “Authors are scheduled on a weekly basis and are encouraged to invite their readers for a lecture and question and answer session. Books will be available for purchase and signing through the authors. Free and open to the public. Feel free to bring your lunch! The Friday Local Author Series is held from noon to 1 p.m. in the Main Library’s Meeting Room 5.”

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Local author Jennifer DeCristoforo will be hosting Chinese hands-on crafts and teaching children about the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival on Saturday, Sept. 21. “She has just published ‘Lucky Bamboo Book of Crafts: 100 Projects & Ideas Celebrating Chinese Culture.’ The book includes a collection of easy-to-make crafts, reproducible templates, and lots of fascinating information on Chinese history, culture and folk arts.” Portland Public Library, Sam L. Cohen Children’s Library. http://www.portlandlibrary.com

East-West Corridor discussion in Unity

1 p.m. “A statewide conversation/discussion hosted by the Concerned Citizens of Garland. What is the impact of the proposed E/W Corridor? At the Common Ground Fair, www.mofga.org/TheFair in Unity. Friday the 20th from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Saturday the 21st from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Sunday the 22nd from 3 pm.. to 4:30 p.m. All are welcome to participate!” http://www.mofga.org/TheFair/ ScheduleofEvents/tabid/106/Default.aspx

Dominican Cultural Festival and Benefit Concert

2 p.m. to 8 p.m. “The Rotary Clubs of Portland and South Portland Sunrise are partnering with Southern Maine Community College (SMCC) to host a special community event: ¡Hola República Dominicana!, a Dominican Cultural Festival and Benefit Concert. The event will run from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, at SMCC on the South Portland Campus. The event program includes: 2 p.m. Showing of the documentary “The Price of Sugar” at Jewett Hall; 4 p.m. Dominican Healthcare Initiatives talk by Moises Sifren Juan, Administrative Director, Hospital El Buen Samaritano at Jewett Hall; 6 p.m. Merengue concert by 24-piece Revelación Maranatha band in the HUB Gymnasium. The funds raised through the festival will provide scholarships for healthcare providers in the Dominican Republic and for international and multi-cultural students who attend SMCC. Tickets are $20 for the general public, $10 for students and free for children 12 and under. To purchase tickets and more information please visit www.breakwater-rotary.org.”

BBQ & Blues Portland

4 p.m. BBQ & Blues Portland, Sept. 20-22, at The Maine State Pier, Portland, BBQ & Blues Launching Sept. 20-22 at the Maine State Pier on Portland’s Waterfront. Proceeds to benefit Good Shepherd Food~Bank. “The first annual BBQ & Blues Festival Portland has arrived, modeled after its successful forerunner The Jensen Beach BBQ & Blues, March of 2013. The festival will come alive with incredible energy when the smooth sounds of blues and the sweet smell of barbecue, fill the air. BBQ & Blues Portland will feature two and a half days of mouth-watering barbecue, (traditional BBQ and BBQ ‘Maine-ed up!’), live entertainment and fun on Portland’s Waterfront. Attendees will eat, drink and shop in a festive atmosphere while enjoying the sounds of local and regional talent.” http://bbqbluesfestivals.com/newsroom

Blues Dance Workshops

6 p.m. Blues Dance Workshops & Dance Weekend. Friday, Sept. 20: Workshops 6 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. Blues Dance 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 21: Workshops 2 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. Blues Dance 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Location: The Woodfords Club, 179 Woodfords St., Portland. “Blues

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Benefit spaghetti supper in Saco

6 p.m. “Spaghetti Supper on Sept. 20 at 6 p.m. at the Elks Lodge in Saco. Tickets are $9.95/person and kids 12 and under are free. The funds are to benefit Team Ashley “AJ” Johnston for the 5k Walk/Run on Oct. 5 at Gowen Park in Sanford for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP.org). Tickets can be purchased ahead of time online at RememberAJ.com and can be picked up at the door the day of the supper.”

‘Arsenic & Old Lace’ in Standish

7 p.m. “Arsenic & Old Lace” at the Schoolhouse Arts Center. “Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by the American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939.” Running through Oct. 6. “A community arts organization located in the Old Standish High School in Sebago Lake Village, Schoolhouse Arts Center is a nonprofit, community driven organization dedicated to arts education and the presentation of the arts.” http://www.schoolhousearts.org/jnk/onstage.html

Port City Swing Dance

8 p.m. “Music by Maine Swingin’ DJ’s! Lessons 8 p.m.; dance 9 p.m. Woodford’s Club, No partner needed, beginners encouraged! 179 Woodford Street, Portland. $10. FMI — FB: Mainiac Swing Dance Society, portcityswing.com, 563-8632.”

Saturday, Sept. 21 Walk for Recovery

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Bald Eagles of Merrymeeting Bay

8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. “When Maine Audubon first began running this trip in 1969, sighting one or two eagles was all that could be expected. Since then, the bald eagle population has rebounded from the devastating effects of pesticide poisoning, and during last year’s trip we observed 38 eagles!” Boothbay Harbor, 1 Wharf St., Pier Seven, Cap’n Fish’s Whale Watch, Boothbay Harbor. Members: $50; nonmembers: $75. Visit bit.ly/18OOFG5

Stone Restoration Workshop at Evergreen

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. “The Friends of Evergreen in partnership with the Portland Department of Public Services will be hosting a Stone Restoration Workshop at Evergreen Cemetery on Sept. 21 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Each participant will learn how to document gravestones according to standards for historical and conservation purposes, including photography techniques for gravestones. Discussions will cover safety, conservation techniques according to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards, condition assessment of the gravestone, vegetation, landscaping, fencing, geology and history of cemeteries in America. All participants should dress for work, including work gloves, for the hands-on portion of the workshop. Learning through doing, the group of volunteers will become a well trained team by the end of the day and many stones will have been preserved. Pre-registration is required and the workshop fee is only $10 to be collected on the day of the workshop. For more information and to register online: http://www.friendsofevergreen.org/friends-of-evergreen/upcoming-events.” see next page

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The Opportunity Alliance Board of Directors’ meeting is scheduled for September 27, 2013, 8:00 a.m. at 50 Lydia Lane in South Portland. This meeting is open to the public.

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Conference at UMF for veterans, families, health industry

9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. “There will be a free conference for veterans, their families, and health professionals at the University of Maine Farmington Campus on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Hosted by Tri-County Mental Health Services with support from the United Way of the Tri-Valley Area, Americorps Vista, and many community volunteers, the conference will offer nine different workshops on topics ranging from legal issues and re-integrating into family and community life to traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, as well as a featured and a keynote speaker. For the past year, Tri-County Mental Health Services has expanded its efforts beyond simply providing treatment services to veterans by doing active outreach and building connections among veteran serving organizations. ... The agency is host to Jerry DeWitt, another Vietnam Era Veteran working as a Vista Volunteer, who is a driving force in the outreach and conference planning. ‘This conference will show the many paths each of us might take to find our way back home from service life to civilian life,’ he says. For more information and to register for this free conference, visit www. tcmhs.org or call Jerry DeWitt at 783-9141, x 228. Travel expense scholarships are available through Veterans For Peace. Contact Doug Rawlings at 778-7292 or rawlings@maine.edu. About the Speakers: Keynote Speaker Cindy Williams Licsw, Cdp — Visn 1 Lead Women’s Veterans And Operation Enduring Freedom/ Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn (Oef/Oif/Ond) Program Manager.”

‘Arsenic & Old Lace’ in Standish

7:30 p.m. “Arsenic & Old Lace” at the Schoolhouse Arts Center. “Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by the American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939.” Running through Oct. 6. “A community arts organization located in the Old Standish High School in Sebago Lake Village, Schoolhouse Arts Center is a nonprofit, community driven organization dedicated to arts education and the presentation of the arts.” http://www.schoolhousearts.org/ jnk/onstage.html

49th Parallel Dance Company performing in Bar Mills

7:30 p.m. Saco River Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Road, Bar Mills. www.sacorivergrangehall.org. “From Artistic Directors Ariana Champlin, a 11 a.m. BBQ & Blues Portland, Sept. 20-22, at Buxton Maine native, and Carolyn Schmidt of The Maine State Pier, Portland, BBQ & Blues British Columbia, 49th Parallel Dance CompaLaunching Sept. 20-22 at the Maine State Pier ny’s goal is to provide a union within the North on Portland’s Waterfront. Proceeds to benefit American dance world that connects the East Good Shepherd Food~Bank. “The first annual and West Coasts, and Canada and the United BBQ & Blues Festival Portland has arrived, modStates. Their dynamic work has been seen at eled after its successful forerunner The Jensen Beach BBQ & Blues, March of 2013. The festi- Yelena Fiske’s “Bird of Tomorrow’s Fortune 1,” Pen on Paper, part of an exhibit opening Sept. 27 at venues and festivals across the continent, including The Young Choreographer’s Festival val will come alive with incredible energy when Constellation Gallery, by the Maine Artist Collective. (COURTESY IMAGE) (NYC) and Feats Festival of Dance (Edmonthe smooth sounds of blues and the sweet tions, involved more than 8,400 walkers, and raised over ton, AB). Adm. $16 adults, $14 students and smell of barbecue, fill the air. BBQ & Blues Portland will fea$530,000.” seniors. reservations advised, 929-6472. ture two and a half days of mouth-watering barbecue, (traditional BBQ and BBQ ‘Maine-ed up!’), live entertainment Irish club’s 40th anniversary Dinner Celebration Bill Cosby at Merrill and fun on Portland’s Waterfront. Attendees will eat, drink 6 p.m. “Tickets are now on sale for the Irish American CIub’s 8 p.m. Presented by Kirschner Concerts. Tickets and shop in a festive atmosphere while enjoying the sounds 40th Anniversary Celebration to be held on Sept. 21 at the $101/$71/$61/$35.50 (includes $6 service fee). “Bill Cosby of local and regional talent.” http://bbqbluesfestivals.com/ Maine Irish Heritage Center. The tickets are $30 per person, has appeared at Merrill Auditorium many times (last in 2010) newsroom and include dinner by Personal Touch Catering. The music and commented on what a great venue it is. His shows is by Straight Lace, an exciting band from the Ogunquit have always sold out. Few entertainers have achieved Conquer Chiari Walk area who play for all musical tastes. Cocktail hour from 6 the legendary status of William H. Cosby Jr. In the 1960s, 2 p.m. Eastern Promenade. Registration is at 2 p.m. and to 7; Dinner from 7 p.m. with great fun and dancing until 11 his stand-up act was a coast to coast sensation, spawnwalk starts at 3 p.m. Erin Ruiz: Every year for the past pm. To order tickets, on a first come first served basis. Irish ing a string of hilarious, best selling comedy albums, which five years has hosted a walk in Portland, called Conquer American Club, http://www.irishofmaine.org went on to earn 8 Gold Records, 5 Platinum records and Chiari Walk across America. “What Is Chiari Malformation? 5 Grammy Awards. His role on TV’s ‘I Spy’ made him the A serious neurological disorder where the bottom part of Playing for Change — Playing for Maine Day first African-American to co-star in a dramatic series, winthe brain, the cerebellum, descends out of the skull and 7 p.m. “Music will ring throughout the city of Portland ning 3 Emmy Awards. In the 1980s, he again rocked the crowds the spinal cord, putting pressure on both the brain on Sept. 21 when The Maine Academy of Modern television world with ‘The Cosby Show,’ a gentle, whimsical and spine and causing many symptoms. Here is a link to Music (MAMM), http://www.maineacademyofmodernmuand hugely successful series. Bill Cosby is quite simply a my flyer https://www.conquerchiari.org/ccwaa/ccwaa13sic.org, partners with the Playing For Change Foundation National Treasure with the unique ability to touch people’s flyers/PORTLAND-ME%20FLYER.pdf. The Conquer Chiari (PFCF), http://www.playingforchangeday.org, for Playing hearts.” https://tickets.porttix.com/public/show.asp Walk Across America is an annual fundraising and awarefor Change — Playing for Maine Day. Local musicians and ness event comprised of a series of local walks held on the MAMM students will play live music at Asylum, Big Easy, see next page same day. In 2012, the event was held at 53 different locaEmpire Dine and Dance, Geno’s and One Longfellow Square

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Sunday, Sept. 22 14th annual Portland Trails ‘Trail to Ale’

9 a.m. The 14th annual Portland Trails “Trail to Ale” 10K Race/Walk. “Fund raiser for Portland Trails. Shipyard beer garden and snacks provided by Portland Pie, Whole Foods, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, and more. Music by DJ David Skye. Course: Eastern Promenade near Quebec Street to Fox Street to Anderson Street to Bayside Trail to Back Cove Trail to Eastern Prom Trail. End before East End Beach. After-party in Cutter Street lot until 12:30. Awards for age groups and 6-Pack teams. ... The Eastern Promenade will be closed and parking not allowed from the Cushing monument (at Congress Street) to Washington Avenue from 8-9:15 a.m., and Cutter Street will be closed from 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. except for volunteers and sponsors. The street will be passable for boaters coming and going from the boat launch. Visit www.trails.org for more information and to register. The cost for registration is $30 and includes two complimentary Shipyard beverages, pizza, and other refreshing snacks. Packet pick-up will be on Friday and Saturday at Maine Running Company, 309 Marginal Way, Portland. Those 21 and up who wish to enter the beer tent must present I.D. in person at time of packet pick-up or bring their I.D. to the race. All proceeds benefit Portland Trails, the nonprofit urban land trust of Greater Portland.”

142nd Cumberland Fair

8 a.m. “Welcome to the 142nd Cumberland Fair, Sept. 22 to 28. Children 12 and under, free; adults (13 and over) $9 daily; seniors $3 Tuesday and Thursday only. The Cumberland Farmer’s Club is pleased to announce we will be featuring the Rawhide Rodeo this year –with daily exhibitions to include two full Professional Rodeo events, Professional Bull Riding and a Children’s rodeo daily! We are pleased to be able to provide another quality week of Agricultural exhibits, entertainment for the ages, food and merchandise vendors, demonstrations in the Exhibition Hall, Museum and Sugar House, Livestock displays and shows, Horticulture exhibits, Daily Harness Racing, and so much more! The Demolition Derby (Sponsored by Cumberland Salvage and Lakeside Garage) will hit the track on Sunday evening, the Pulling Ring has some exciting events planned all week long, all the 4H kids are hard at work raising their animals for their projects and shows, as well as holding the 4H Auction on Wednesday, Harness Racing is biting at the bit to get running, Gillette Midways will provide a top-quality show, the Colby College Woodsman’s Team will be back to show us how it’s done, and the NPPA Truck Pulls will wrap the week with an exciting pull featuring the Pelletier Brothers!” 197 Blanchard Road in Cumberland. Sunday, Sept. 22 highlights include — 8 a.m. Cumberland Fair Pumpkin Contest, fruit accepted at Front Gate; 9 a.m. Maine Miniature Horse Show — Riding Ring; 10 a.m. Cumberland Fair Pumpkin Contest — Weigh-in/Judging — Front of Dairy Barn; 11 a.m. Mid-Way Opens (weather permitting); noon, Don Campbell — Main Stage in Front of Exhibition; 12:15 p.m. Pig Races — Show Arena; 1:30 p.m. Harness Racing — Race Track; 2 p.m. Professional Bull Riding — Museum Area; 6:30 p.m. Demolition Derby — in front of GrandStands. Monday, Sept. 23, Maine Agriculture Day • Special Ride Promotion Pay $15 Ride All Rides • Bob Charest Band. 2 p.m. Tricky Britches — Main Stage in Front of Exhibition Hall; 4 p.m. Children’s Rodeo — Museum Area; 6 p.m. Bob Charest Band — Main Stage in Front of Exhibition; 7 p.m. Harness Racing Night Race — Race Track. Tuesday, Sept. 24, Senior Citizens Day • St. Saviours and Friends • Tony Boffa • Children’s Rodeo. 4 p.m. St. Saviours and Friends (Southern Gospel) — Main Stage; 4 p.m. Children’s Rodeo — Museum Area. 6:30 p.m. Lawnmower Races — Infield of Race Track; 7 p.m. Tony Boffa Show - Main Stage in Front of Exhibition Hall; Wednesday, Sept. 25, Don Campbell Band • Special Ride Promotion • Pay $15 Ride all Rides • Children’s Rodeo. 1 p.m. Harness Racing — Race Track/ Grandstands; 1:30 p.m. Draft Horse Log Twitching Contest — Pulling Arena; 2:30 p.m. Draft Horse Log Scooting Contest — Pulling Arena; 3 p.m. Draft horse Farmer’s Pull 1.5 Lb Rock Distance — No Touch — Pulling Arena; 4 p.m. 4-H Auction Baby Beef, Market Lambs, Market Hogs — Show Arena; 4 p.m. Children’s Rodeo — Museum Area; 4 p.m. Maine Country Band — Main Stage in Front of Exhibition; 7:30 p.m. Don Campbell Band — Main Stage in Front of Exhibition Hall. Thursday, Sept. 26, Senior Citizens Day • Downeast Brass • Bobby Reed • Fifth Annual Classic Car Show • Hyssongs Gospel Group • Special Ride Promotion Pay $15 Ride All Rides. 3 p.m. Hyssongs — Main Stage in front of Exhibition Hall; 6 p.m. Annual Classic Car Show — fourth turn of the race track; 6:30 p.m. Pig Races — Show Arena; 6:30 p.m. Debbie Morin — Main Stage in front of Exhibition Hall; 7 p.m. Hyssongs Gospel Group — Entertainment Building. Friday, Sept. 27, Cumberland Fair Maine

Students attending college and graduate school in Southern Maine are invited to celebrate Sukkot with Southern Maine Hillel and installation artist, Asherah Cinnamon, this Sunday, Sept. 22 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Maine Jewish Museum (Etz Chaim Synagogue), at 267 Congress Street, Portland. (COURTESY IMAGE) Maple Day • Full Professional Rodeo • Antique Tractor Pull • Debbie Meyers. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Exhibition Hall, Greenhouse, Sugar House and Museum Open; 9 a.m. to noon, Pancakes & Maple Syrup Samples — Sugar House; 1 p.m. Maine Squeeze — Main Stage in front of Exhibition Hall; 1 p.m. Maple Cream Demonstration — Sugar House; 2 p.m. Maple Candy Demonstration — Sugar House; 3 p.m. Maple Coated Nuts Demonstration — Sugar House; 3:30 p.m. Loring Norton Memorial Pull — 3 Horse 2 lb Rock Distance — Pulling Arena; 4 p.m. 4-H Sheep Blocking Contest followed by 4H Sheep Judging Contest — Show Arena; 4 p.m. Maple Sugar on Snow Demonstration — Sugar House; 4 p.m. 4H Dog Show Demo; 5 p.m. Debbie Meyers — Main Stage in Front of Exhibition Hall; 6:30 p.m. Antique Tractor Pull — in front of Grandstands; 7:00 p.m. 4-H Dairy Clipping Contest — Show Arena; 6:30 p.m. Full Professional Rodeo — Rawhide Rodeo — Museum Area; 7 p.m. Stanley Hall Memorial Pull — Free For All Horse 12 ft — Pulling Arena; Saturday, Sept. 28, Rawhide Professional Rodeo • World of Horses Show • NPPA Truck Pull • Northern Groove Band. 8 a.m. Antique Automobiles Arrive for Parade; 9 a.m. Pig Scramble; 9 a.m. 4H Horse Show — Riding Arena; 10 a.m. Cumberland Fair Grand Parade — “Parade Fun” — Race Track; 10 a.m. Gillette Mid-Way Open; 10 a.m. Daily Cooking Demonstrations — Exhibition Hall; 10:30 a.m. Farmer’s Steer & Ox Distance Pull — Pulling Arena; 11 a.m. Bean Hole Bake Beans - No. Yarmouth Fire Dept – Under Granstands; noon, Money Scramble — 12 year old and under — Show Arena; 12:30 p.m. Antique Tractor Show; 12:30 p.m. 4-H Working Steers Show and Pulling — Pulling Arena; 12:30 p.m. Pig Races — Show Arena; 1 p.m. Brian Wardwell — Main Stage in Front of Exhibition; 1 p.m. 4-H Dairy Show — Show Arena; 1:30 p.m. Harness Racing — Race Track; 2 p.m. Full Professional Rodeo — Rawhide Rodeo — Museum Area; 3:30 p.m. Northern Groove Band — Main Stage in front of Exhibition Hall; 5 p.m. Large 4-H livestock Sheep, Dairy, Beef, Swine — begin departure; 6:30 p.m. NPPA Truck Pull — Front of Grandstand; 7 p.m. World of Horses — Pulling Arena. Sunday, Sept. 29, Appreciation Day • Free Admission • Racing Only — Post Time 1:30 p.m. http://www.cumberlandfair.com

Third Step Up! For Autism Walk

10 a.m. Join Us! For this fun, community event! Face Painting, Fun table and BBQ lunch provided. This Walk will fund vital programming to help Maine children and adults with autism and their families. The Alliance provides education to Maine’s autism community and is dedicating to raising acceptance for all people with varying abilities. Autism is the fastest-growing serious developmental disorder in the U.S. – we need more volunteers to join the cause! Please be an ally take the first step and register today.” Back Bay, Preble St., 15 Pleasant Hill Rd. No. 104. http://www.maineautism.org

Almost Home Rescue reunion

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eighth anniversary reunion, Rotary Park, Biddeford. “Almost Home Rescue is an all-breed canine rescue group that is committed to rescuing stray and homeless dogs in danger of euthanasia.” http://almosthomerescue.net

BBQ & Blues Portland

11 a.m. BBQ & Blues Portland, Sept. 20-22, at The Maine State Pier, Portland, BBQ & Blues Launching Sept. 20-22

at the Maine State Pier on Portland’s Waterfront. Proceeds to benefit Good Shepherd Food~Bank. “The first annual BBQ & Blues Festival Portland has arrived, modeled after its successful forerunner The Jensen Beach BBQ & Blues, March of 2013. The festival will come alive with incredible energy when the smooth sounds of blues and the sweet smell of barbecue, fill the air. BBQ & Blues Portland will feature two and a half days of mouth-watering barbecue, (traditional BBQ and BBQ ‘Maine-ed up!’), live entertainment and fun on Portland’s Waterfront. Attendees will eat, drink and shop in a festive atmosphere while enjoying the sounds of local and regional talent.” http://bbqbluesfestivals.com/ newsroom

Susan Dench guest speaker in Yarmouth

2 p.m. “Susan Dench of Falmouth, who is the founder and director of the Informed Women’s Network, will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Cumberland County Tea Party Patriots on Sunday afternoon, September 22, at 2 p.m. in the Log Cabin on Main Street in Yarmouth. The mission — in part — of the Informed Women’s Network is ‘to engage, educate and empower all fiscally responsible and concerned women to participate and make an impact in the process of public policy making on a local, state and national level for the benefit of present and future generations.’ This network has proved to be very attractive to many women in Maine communities. The general public is cordially invited to this event. Admission is free, and refreshments will be served. The doors will be opened by 1:30 p.m.” 657-7737, jwibby@maine.rr.com

Southern Maine Hillel’s Sukkot celebration

5 p.m. to 7 p.m. “Students attending college and graduate school in Southern Maine are invited to celebrate Sukkot with Southern Maine Hillel and installation artist, Asherah Cinnamon this Sunday, Sept. 22 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Maine Jewish Museum (Etz Chaim Synagogue), at 267 Congress St., Portland. We will also welcome our new director, Rebecca Wohl-Pollack, who is a recent graduate of Clark University, a Portland native, and a member of Congregation Bet Ha’am in South Portland. The Jewish Festival Of Sukkot celebrates the fall harvest and commemorates wandering in the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights by sharing food in a traditional temporary shelter called a sukkah. Maine contemporary artist Asherah Cinnamon (MECA BFA ‘08) designed and built a sukkah, which is currently in the garden of the Maine Jewish Museum, at the base of Munjoy Hill. It is one of two of her large outdoor, community interactive installations on exhibition there through September. Refreshments will be served! Southern Maine Hillel serves students attending college and graduate school at the: University of Southern Maine; University of New England; Southern Maine Community College; Maine College of Art; Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. For more information or help with transportation please contact: Southern Maine Hillel /Rebecca Wohl-Pollack at so.me.hillel@gmail.com. Or visit: https://www.facebook. com/groups/10857946065.”

Casco Bay Tummlers Klezmer Band

7 p.m. Casco Bay Tummlers Klezmer Band at Etz Chaim Synagogue, 267 Congress St., Portland. $12 suggested donation. For more information: www.mainejewishmuseum.org, call 329-9854.