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Stench forces closure of Hall classroom

BY BOB HIGGINS THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

An “unknown permeable odor” inside a Hall School special education classroom has forced relocation of several students while officials search for the odor, tearing out walls, carpeting and ceilings but failing to locate the source.

School officials say nobody was made sick in the

incident, but at least one parent disputes that statement and some tests results are said to be pending.

“We pulled out the interior and exterior walls, ceilings, shelves, roof, pulled the carpet,” said Bob Lehman, Public Buildings Director for the city. “Initially, the smell had started to dissipate when we started working on the room. We did do some testing with Bio-Safe in Westbrook, but they didn’t find

anything there.”

The mystery began just before February vacation week and the Portland School Department sent letters home to the parents of several students at the Hall School notifying them of the issue.

According to a parent, the letter said there was an “unknown permeable odor” in the classroom that see STENCH page 3

Authorities break up drug smuggling at county jail

Taking down the Christmas decorations

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Jesse LaCasse, nephew to artist Pandora LaCasse, helps remove his aunt’s light sculptures at Longfellow Square Tuesday. The project for Portland Downtown District marks one of the city’s visible transitions from winter. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Four people have been charged in connection with an organized drugsmuggling operation uncovered inside the Cumberland County Jail, authorities said yesterday.

Police have charged two jail inmates, Michael Harmon, 27, of Naples, and Daniel Bokuniewicz, 24, of Casco, with criminal conspiracy to traffic Suboxone — a prescription drug used to treat opiate addiction.

Bokuniewicz’ sister, Stephanie Bokuniewicz, 27, of Brownfield, and his girlfriend, Morgan Miller, 20, of Casco, are accused of sending Suboxone to the two inmates housed at the Portland jail. Both were charged with furnishing Suboxone and trafficking in prison contraband.

Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) and Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office issued summons for the alleged smuggling operation last see SMUGGLING page 3

City hostel decision delayed again

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

At the rate the housing committee is dealing with a proposed text amendment to allow hostels in Portland, Seren Huus might want to consider opening up an old

folks home instead.

Huus, an aspiring hostel operator, was in attendance yet again yesterday as the housing committee finally voted to allow hostels as an approved use in B-1 and B-6 zones in the city, but then tabled the overall “text

amendment” that will be sent to the city council until an April 5 meeting. see HOSTEL page 7 RIGHT: “The bureaucracy is overwhelming,” Seren Huus says, as she tries to open a hostel. (FILE POHTO)

Hard lessons in the restaurant industry

Sorry, marriage just isn’t much like dating

Bar (code) hopping in downtown Portland as district taps an app

See Natalie Ladd on page 4

See Maggie Knowles’ column on page 5

See the story in Business, page 8

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Famous, with foot in mouth (NY Times) — Charlie Sheen has an addiction.

Mr. Sheen took a drug test on Saturday and allowed the results — negative — to be revealed on Monday on “Good Morning America” on ABC. He also assured the “Today” show on NBC that he had cured himself of substance abuse. “I closed my eyes and made it so with the power of my mind,” is how he put it.

But a urine sample and a blood test can’t trace what troubles Mr. Sheen at the moment: he is addicted to explaining himself on the air.

His dependence is not unique. Troubled politicians and celebrities often turn to television and radio to retune their images radically — it’s a One Step program to persuade themselves of their own powers of persuasion.

And self-delusion has no borders.

Mr. Sheen’s grandiose rants on the nation’s two leading morning talk shows — and via live stream on the gossip Web site TMZ — were more unmoored than most, but he showed all the usual symptoms of an insulated star with an unreasoned belief in his own invulnerability. Asked if he was bipolar, Mr. Sheen said he was “bi-winning.”

Like a lot of bad habits, Mr. Sheen’s addiction started out small, with a few rambling calls to radio shows, then escalated into full-blown interviews on network television and TMZ. The camera was even more damaging than his words, and those were downright nutty.

“I am on a drug — it’s called Charlie Sheen,” he told ABC. “It’s not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off, and your children will weep over your exploded body,” he said, adding, “Too much?”

When the ABC reporter told him he seemed “erratic,” Mr. Sheen tried to explain.

“You borrow my brain for five seconds, you’d be like, ‘Dude, can’t handle it, unplug this bastard,’ ” he said, adding that his brain “fires in a way that is — I don’t know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.”

Mr. Sheen denied charges of violence against women (“Consider the source”) and he railed against Alcoholics Anonymous, CBS and most of all his show’s executive producer, Chuck Lorre, though this time he refrained from referring to Mr. Lorre as “Chaim,” as he did on a radio show and which was interpreted by many as an anti-Semitic slur. (It was after that last straw that CBS suspended the show.) Mr. Sheen didn’t exactly apologize for his remarks; he told ABC that he was sorry that Mr. Lorre couldn’t take a joke.

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New volunteer fighters loyal to the opposition movement attended their first day of training at a base in Benghazi, in eastern Libya, on Tuesday. (Lynsey Addario for The New York Times)

Libyan rebels, under banner of United Nations, may ask West for airstrikes AND

BY KAREEM FAHIM DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK THE NEW YORK TIMES

BENGHAZI, Libya — In a sign of mounting frustration among rebel leaders at Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s diminished but unyielding grip on power, the revolutionary council here is debating whether to ask for Western airstrikes on some of the regime’s most important military assets under a United Nations banner, according to four people with knowledge of the council’s deliberations.

By invoking the United Nations, the council, made up lawyers, academics, judges and other prominent figures, is seeking to draw a distinction between the airstrikes and foreign intervention, which the rebels say they emphatically oppose.

“He destroyed the army. We have two or three planes,” said Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga, the council’s spokesman, speaking of the rebels’ military disadvantage. He refused to comment on the council’s deliberations or any imminent announcement, but said: “If it is with the United Nations, it is not a foreign intervention.”

But that distinction is lost on many people, and any call for foreign military help carries great risks. The anti-government protesters in Libya, like their counterparts in Tunisia and Egypt, have drawn broad popular support — and great pride

— from their status as homegrown movements that toppled autocrats without outside help. An intervention, even one with the imprimatur of the United Nations, could play into the hands of Colonel Qaddafi, who has called the uprising a foreign plot by Western powers seeking to occupy Libya.

“If he falls with no intervention, I’d be happy,” said one senior council official.

“But if he’s going to commit a massacre, my priority is to save my people.”

There was no indication that the United Nations Security Council members would approve such a request, or that Libyans seeking to topple Colonel Qaddafi would welcome it. Russia has dismissed talk of a no-fly zone to curb Colonel Qaddafi’s still-active air force, and China has traditionally voted against foreign intervention.

Even so, the discussions signaled a rebel movement both impatient with a military stalemate that has crippled the country, and out of good options. Those who support the airstrikes hope they might dislodge Colonel Qaddafi from crucial strongholds, including a fortified compound in the capital, Tripoli. The council is only considering strikes against the compound, Bab al-Aziziya and assets like radar stations, according to the people briefed on the discussions, who requested anonym-

ity because no formal decision on the announcement has been made.

On Tuesday, Colonel Qaddafi’s forces appeared to make little headway in a concerted assault on rebels in several cities around the country and in a sustained attack early Tuesday morning in the western city of Zawiyah.

With escalating hostilities bringing Libya closer to civil war, rebels appeared to hold the city after a night of fighting, fending off tanks and artillery, special forces and regular army troops and, rebels said, fighter jets.

Rebel leaders in Libya said the latest attacks by Colonel Qaddafi’s supporters smacked of desperation, and that the failed assault on Zawiyah, a city with important oil resources just 30 miles from the capital, raised questions about the ability of the government to muster a serious challenge to the rebels’ growing power.

At the same time, Colonel Qaddafi faced a growing international campaign to force him from power, as the United Nations General Assembly voted on Tuesday to suspend Libya’s membership on the Human Rights Council, following its bloody attacks on protesters. On Monday the Obama administration announced that it had seized $30 billion in Libyan assets and the European Union adopted an arms embargo and other sanctions.

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Thomas Henry Ranaghan Sr., 91 Thomas H. Ranaghan Sr., 91, a life long resident of Portland, died February 28, 2011 peacefully at home after a long illness.

Tom was born in Portland on October 18, 1919, the son of Charles and Margaret (Costello) Ranaghan.

Tom attended Cathedral Grammer School and graduated from Cheverus High School in the 1938.

Tom was predeceased by his wife Margaret (McVicar) Ranaghan. He is survived by two sons Thomas H. Jr. and Dennis Ranaghan, a daughter Barbara and her husband Skip Norton. He is also survived by his brothers Richard and Edward Ranaghan, a sister Katherine Munn, two grandchildren Samantha Ranaghan and Mindy Syphers, two great grandchildren Lauren and Madison Syphers.

Tom grew up on Munjoy Hill and

his youth was filled with warm memories and life time friendships. He was an altar boy, newspaper delivery boy and an usher at the State Theatre.

After graduation from Cheverus High School, Tom joined the Naval Reserve and was called to active duty in 1940. His first duty came aboard the USS West Point (AP23), a troop carrier. When the U.S. entered the war the West Point assisted in the evacuation of Singapore.

Tom was then transferred to the USS Saginaw Bay (CVE-82), an escort carrier that was engaged in the Pacific.

While on the Saginaw Bay, Tom was in charge of a gun crew and participated in the invasions of Palau, Leyte Gulf, Lingyem Gulf, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The Saginaw Bay earned five Battle Stars. Tom left the Navy after the war as a Boatswain’s Mate

First Class.

After the war Tom returned to Portland and began work at Swift Company on Commercial Street unloading beef from box cars. He later became a route salesman for Swift calling on accounts until his retirement. Tom always had a part-time job, and two he especially enjoyed were Diamonds Meat Market on Congress Street and Nat’s Variety in the West End. Tom loved visits and spending time with his family. In the 1980s, Tom and son, Dennis, traveled to Ireland to visit relatives and the home of his mother in Galway and father in Belfast. He visited his son, Tom, in Hawaii three times, and with his daughter, Barbara, attended two Saginaw Bay Naval Reunions in St. Louis and South Carolina.

He was an avid sports fan and especially enjoyed watching the Red Sox, Patriots and Irish Golfers on the PGA Tour. He religiously followed Cheverus sports, but his favorite was McAuley basketball.

Despite his illness, Tom kept in touch

with family, friends, neighbors and shipmates. He displayed a tremendous amount of courage and humor. There is a 19th century naval saying that best describes Tom, “He comes from a tradition of wood ships and iron men.”

The family would like to thank the many dedicated doctors and special thanks to the nurses at Mercy Hospital.

Visiting hours will be held on Friday, March 4, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Conroy-Tully Crawford Funeral Home, 172 State St., Portland. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, March 5, at 9 a.m. at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 673 Stevens Ave., Portland.

Prayers will be recited at the funeral home at 8:15 a.m. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery, South Portland.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.ctcrawford.com.

Those who wish may make memorial contributions in Tom’s memory to: DAV, Dirigo Unit, Chapter 3, c/o Edward Tyler, 413 Broadway, South Portland, ME 04106.

Principal says kindergarteners moved to another room STENCH from page one

forced moving several students to another school.

Portland has had air quality issues in the school system before, most notably one that closed the Jack Elementary School in 2001. At that time, the mold known as stachybotrys chartarum had run rampant through Jack Elementary, finally requiring that the building be torn down.

Portland schools Superintendent James Morse said this week that the Hall School problem is not the same as the one that forced the closure of the Jack School. At Hall School, he explained, “... we tore out the walls, both interior and exterior, and didn’t find any mold.

The smell, described as a musty aroma similar to one found in books stored in a basement for a long time, has apparently been difficult to track down.

Repeated calls to Bio-Safe, the company testing classroom materials, were not returned.

Lehman said that the classroom continues to be monitored.

“We’re waiting to see if the smell comes back,” he

said. “Initially, when we emptied the room we put everything in a sealed box truck, to see if the smell was something that was moved. It has diminished in the classroom, and there was no smell of anything in the material in the box truck” Kelly Hasson, Hall School principal, said that the room “had not been used in almost two weeks.

Kindergarten students were moved, but they were moved to another room in that wing. We do not plan to use the room in question until we get the results back of the testing that was done, until we locate the source.”

The school, built in 1958 as a temporary school, was upgraded in 1965. It is the second largest school in the city, and according to Morse and Hasson, the only “wooden, stick built” school in Portland’s inventory. It currently houses grades K-5, with approximately 450 students in the school.

Superintendent Morse confirmed that one staff member had raised concerns, but that “nobody had gotten sick.”

But a parent with a child attending Hall, speaking on condition of not being identified by name, contra-

dicted the superintendent’s claim and said that both her child and at least one staff member had reported “flu-like” symptoms.

Initially, school officials said, the students that were moved out last week were slated to be moved next September anyway, but the odor forced an earlier move.

Special Education students were moved to the newer Ocean Avenue School, or at least taken there on a “field trip” the Friday before the district sent students home on February vacation.

Both school principal Hasson and building director Lehman denied that the kindergarten students were put at risk by putting them in an adjoining classroom. Though separated by a doorway between the two rooms, Lehman cited airflow pattern.

“There is positive air flow in that room, not coming from the room next door,” he said.

Lehman and Morse said they are still waiting on results of testing from Bio-Safe to determine what the cause was of the unknown aroma.

“We didn’t find anything, and the smell seems to have dissipated,” said Lehman.

Portland Shellfish cleared to resume partial production DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT The Obama Administration has given approval for Portland Shellfish to resume partial production, allowing approximately 50 employees to go back to work, according to a press release from U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine.

The seafood processor, with two locations in Portland, has been partially closed since early January while awaiting approval from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration of health and safety improvements that Portland Shellfish had made to their facilities last year, Pingree reported.

The company contacted Pingree to ask for help speeding up the FDA approval process and Pingree contacted Health and Human Services Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius urging her to make sure the review was conducted as quickly as possible.

“I really appreciate what Congresswoman Pingree and her office did to help get us back up and running. When we asked for help she was there and without that help it would have been pretty difficult to get through this process,” said Jeff Holden, owner of Portland Shellfish.

“Portland Shellfish is a big employer and an important part of the community and we are fight-

ing to make sure they stay that way,” Pingree said.

“Our message to the FDA has been clear: food safety requirements have to be met but don’t place an unreasonable burden on this company.”

With FDA approval late last week, about 50 employees are back on the job and another 50 are expected to be brought back to work when the crab processing facility opens next week.

In her Jan. 28 letter to Sebelius, Pingree asked that Portland Shellfish “receive prompt, cooperative and reasonable treatment.” Pingree also explained the severe economic impact the closure of the company would have, according to the press release.

Paper-thin strips of the drug recovered at the jail, officials say SMUGGLING from page one

week, shortly after jail officials discovered Suboxone inside envelopes mailed to the two prisoners.

“This is a case where jail staff encountered (the drug) and notified the (MDEA) Cumberland County investigator and we put together a case on it,” said MDEA supervisor Kevin Cashman yesterday in a

phone interview.

Suboxone is similar to Methadone, another controlled substance that is prescribed to ween people from addictions to heroin or oxycodone. “It’s used as part of a treatment method, but unfortunately it’s abused as well,” Cashman said.

Suboxone, which until recently was available in pill or caplet form, is now available in paper-thin

strips that dissolve under the tongue. It was this form of the drug that was found at the jail.

Drug agents and law enforcement officials have started seeing the Suboxone strips on the street.

Cashman said Portland Police have charged several people for possession of the drug in recent weeks.

Authorities say more arrests and are possible in the case.

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Historian thanks those who helped with War of 1812 headstone project Editor, Thanks to the Portland Daily Sun for the thoughtful article (“Dignity to a vet — 150 years later,” Saturday, Feb. 26) memorializing the story of Richard Hill, the Portland African-American serviceman whose grave in the Eastern Cemetery has been forgotten for so long.

Two other names deserve mention to make the story complete. The pioneering work of Prof. William B. Jordan Jr., of Westbrook College, revealed the records that obtained headstones for the Portland African-American Revolutionary War veterans (also mentioned in your article) back in 1986.

Prof. Jordan’s longtime advocacy for the preservation and appreciation of our city cemeteries paved the way for volunteer groups like Portland’s Spirits Alive! who continue that good work to this day.

Likewise, historian Larry Glatz of Harrison and his hard work in dusty archives has brought to light the stories of many Maine men and women, including Richard Hill, who served their country in many ways in that long-ago war. His pioneering work should see print in time for the bicentennial of the War of 1812 in 2012.

Such contributions enrich our understanding of Maine’s history and heritage, and remind us all of the role we each play, every day, in the story of our state. Honor to them.

Herb Adams Former legislator, USM lecturer Portland

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Restaurant experience teaches hard lessons Like most restaurant folks who are still seeing active duty at least 15 years after getting out of college on the five-year-plus plan, I have gone down to a part-time schedule requiring me to get a “real job.”

I refer to it as a real job rather than my “day gig” because working full-time days in the right restaurant at the right time can be a very lucrative and interesting way to make a living. But these days, in addition to my restaurant job, I do the nine-to-happy hour thing and feel pretty damn lucky about it.

Up until this past Monday, my physical office situation has been an urban employment dream come true. The mother ship was the historic Staple School House Building located at the intersection of Spring and Center Street, kitty corner from Brian Boru, and within walking distance of almost everything.

We had the whole floor of the lower-level penthouse (aka day-lit basement) which boasted exposed brick, nooks and crannies for display areas, and most importantly a reserved parking space. Prior to this most recent and very cool job opportunity, I worked two blocks away on Monument Square and before that, across from the post

Natalie Ladd ––––– What It’s Like office on Portland Street.

This city has been my work and play ground since I had the good sense to move to Maine before Carly Ladd turned one.

Now, under the guise of a smart business decision, we have joined forces with our sister company and moved to an industrial park in Scarborough.

Times being what they are, I am incredibly grateful to still have a job. Sure, the commute stinks, but the Maine turnpike is no Boston route 128 demolition derby and I am working with a few colorful characters whereas before, I mostly flew solo. The old space was too expansive, expensive, and opulent for just the Big Guy and myself and I was professionally, personally, and philosophically at peace with the decision to move ... that is until it lunch time rolled around.

I am completely sure the limited, chain-heavy restaurant

choices are adequate for the area.

I should hit up Chicago Dogs, see what’s available at Lois’ Natural Foods, check out the Cheese Iron, and generally be more open minded. The cold reality is I knew I was in trouble when I saw the little honor system snack box in the kitchen area.

Gone is my mid-morning stroll to Arabica or the Public Market House. There will be no more two-for-one burger lunches on Wednesday at RiRa. The underten dollar (including tip) two-roll combo on the patio at Yosaku is mournfully a thing of the past.

Wednesday summer lunches consisting of fresh fruit while drinking in the colors, smells, and sights of the Farmer’s Market are a fleeting memory (even with the Wednesday two-for-one deal, burgers at RiRa are always a special occasion due to considerable objection from my thighs). I will miss my bff texting for a last minute lunch date when she is miraculously kid free. We always did the, “Where do you want to go?” thing back and forth, marveling at how many seriously excellent choices we have, regardless of our limited budgets. And yes, there’s a Hannaford in Scarborough with a nice prepared food selection, see LADD page 8

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Sorry, marriage just isn’t much like dating When I was a teenager, my friend and I would sneak into hotels to use the pool. Rather observant at that age, I would stare in shock at the couples that lay around, in dead silence, reading books (gasp!).

“How can they not even be talking to each other?” my romantic mind would ask. I swore I would never be half of a couple like that. (I’m not.)

Then we would get kicked out by some over-eager pool manager and I am sure those silent couples were annoyed that we broke their fleeting and (now I know) valuable moments of peace.

I bet most people when walking down the aisle never imagine they will be at dinner with absolutely nothing to say to their spouse. Or dreading 5 p.m. when they get home from the office. Or fantasizing about being married to someone else. But that is more common that people like to admit.

A friend’s therapist told her, “In order to be clinically labeled a happy couple,’ you need be happy only 70 percent of the time.” Granted, 70 percent is a good push over half, but would you buy a car that left you stuck in the driveway 30 percent of the time?

The minister doesn’t slip a memo that reads, “BTW, marriage isn’t dating” once “I do’s” are said. Maybe they should. It seems couples get frustrated and depressed and even divorced over that decline of spar-

Maggie Knowles ––––– Use Your Outdoor Voice kle that defined the reason for getting married in the first place. They assume to be immune to the stress of work and kids and cleaning and all the stuff that piles up in lieu of flowers and love letters.

Yet people still aspire to be married, even though they are quite aware of the 50 percent divorce rate. So, there must be some secret that couples have that keeps them in love for the long haul.

It all boils down to (drum roll) The. Little. Things.

Move over weekend in Paris. Forget passionate kisses up against the dryer. Stop listening for serenades out the window. Couples that make it go the distance don’t need gaudy signs of love.

“One of the things my best fella does for me is mop the floor and helps me make the bed everyday,” says Mo T. “It’s not much, but it’s a couple of the little things he does to make my everyday nice.”

Susan D. agrees. “We have been married for seventeen years and it is the little things that we do for each

other. Food is really important to my husband, so I will wake up twenty minutes early to make his lunch.

When he knows I have something big at work, he will send an encouraging text and come home with an iced tea.”

Amy E. and her hubby, married for 16 and a half years vowed when the kids were born that they would share in the exhaustion by getting up early together. “He starts my car in the morning and I make his coffee,” she says. “We are also very aware of each other’s hearts. We fight at times, but we never do or say anything that hurts the other. We are very conscious of each other’s hearts. I tell him if he leaves me I am going with him.”

Communication is always a vital aspect of making any relationship work. Matt H. sums it up, “Talking good. Not talking bad.”

And that includes little notes of appreciation, too. “It doesn’t happen often,” says Meg F. “But sometimes I will see a note on the fridge thanking me for being a great mom or making a yummy dinner. That makes me happy for a week.”

It is all so economically friendly!

That kind of stuff is FREE. Listen up: I know you think we women expect diamonds at breakfast but seriously, leave a VM saying you miss us, take the kids for a long walk so we can take a bath, put your dishes in the sink.

And ladies, wash your man’s car, make him a steak on a Tuesday, let him go

skiing with his buddies.

Alisa Bowman’s new book, “Project Happily Every After,” chronicles her last-ditch effort to save her marriage.

She had started daydreaming about her very healthy husband’s funeral and figured she probably wasn’t the only one secretly choosing a slimming black dress and writing a hopefully sad-sounding eulogy.

One healing exercise she offers is to write down all the reasons you love your mate. Once you see the black and white proof of what a great person you married (remember them?) then perhaps their habit of leaving the toothpaste open and oozing down the cabinets won’t seem so awful.

You can fall in love with your spouse again, even if it is for whole new reasons than you did the first time. It comes down to remembering you are half of a whole and being thoughtful of your mate’s likes, wishes and behavior. It is a little output for a whole lot in return.

If you focus on the little things, you too can get your (70 percent) Happily Every After.

(This is dedicated to STB III who proved that just because one doesn’t share the same blood doesn’t make them any less family.)

(Maggie Knowles is a columnist for The Portland Daily Sun. Her column appears Wednesdays.)

Unintended, but sound advice on labor In Lewis Powell’s nowor health and retirement benfamous memo to Ameriefits or paid vacations or sick ca’s business community, leave. They cannot negotiate which felt beleaguered shorter hours or better workin the political environing conditions. It’s the boss’s ment of 1971, the future way or the highway.

Supreme Court justice It’s not just pocketbook stressed the importance of issues but the dignity of Amerorganizing. ican workers that is at stake in “Strength lies in orgathe confrontations in Wisconnization,” he wrote, “in sin, Ohio and elsewhere. These ––––– careful long-range planThe New York confrontations are about so ning and implementation, much more than the right of Times in consistency of action public employees to bargain over an indefinite period of collectively, as important as years, in the scale of financing availthat is. This most recent assault on able only through joint effort, and labor is part of an anti-worker movein the political power available only ment that has been on the march for through united action and national decades. Jobs have been shipped overorganizations.” seas. Workers have been denied their Powell’s memo points to the reason rightful share of productivity gains. why there is such an effort now not Wages have been depressed and benjust to extract concessions from public efits in many, many instances have employee unions to help balance state disappeared. budgets, but to actually crush those It’s true that states are facing seriunions, to deprive them once and for ous fiscal problems, crises in some all of the crucial and fundamental cases, but a much bigger threat to right to bargain collectively.

America as we’ve known it is the When you talk to the workers who increasing inability of hard-working are hurting most in this epic downmen and women to earn enough to turn, they are overwhelmingly out maintain a middle class standard of there on their own. No one has their living, even as the corporate sector back. The corporate community and is thriving. The economic lives of the the politicians who do their bidding poor and an ever-widening portion of know better than anyone else that the middle class have become madworkers who are not organized are deningly insecure as the wealth most often helpless. They have no of the society has been funneled, leverage. They cannot demand raises increasingly and unconscionably,

Bob Herbert

to those at the top.

There was no net job creation during the first 10 years of the 21st century, and median incomes fell during that period, an abysmal record unmatched by any similar period in the modern post-World War II era.

I have long believed that virtually all workers should be organized, whether they were actually in a union or not.

The man or woman who goes home after a long shift with barely enough to pay bills and nothing put away for an emergency, and who knows that he or she could be terminated at any moment for any reason, is subject to a permanent state of anxiety. There should be someone, some group or organization, to turn to for advice and support.

Unemployed workers who show up fully qualified to apply for a job only to be told that the prospective employer will not even consider someone who is already out of work should not have to feel that there is absolutely no alternative, that it is impossible to fight back. American workers should not be treated as if they don’t matter.

Working America is a pro-worker advocacy organization affiliated with the A.F.L.-C.I.O. that has signed up millions of nonunion members in an effort to increase the organized reach of workers. Much more organizing, on myriad fronts, is desperately needed.

Millions of Americans throughout the country are facing extreme

economic hardship. The Community Service Society in New York City does an annual survey of low-income residents. Twenty-seven percent of respondents to its most recent survey said they had lost a job; 26 percent had had their hours, wages or tips reduced; 23 percent said they had often skipped meals because they did not have enough money to buy food; and 26 percent said they had been unable to fill a needed prescription because of a lack of money or insurance.

One of the saddest things I’ve read in The New York Times recently was a comment by Richard Freeman, a Harvard economist, who said that he views the current hostility toward unions by members of the general public as a sign of the erosion of the aspirational nature that has for so long characterized Americans. “It shows a hopelessness,” he said. “It used to be, ‘You have something I don’t have; I’ll go to my employer to get it, too. Now I don’t see any chance of getting it. I don’t want to be the lowest one on the totem pole, so I don’t want you to have it either.’ ” Lewis Powell’s advice to the corporate community in 1971 is — though he certainly never intended it to be — the best advice I can think of for workers today who are fighting to hold off the tide of lower living standards. It is not a struggle that can possibly be won alone.

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Born of 9/11, an effort to rebuild shattered Haiti

BY JULIE SATOW THE NEW YORK TIMES

Just four days after 9/11, James P. Stuckey, then a vice president of Forest City Ratner Companies, met with executives of Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield at Forest City’s headquarters in Brooklyn. Empire had been the fourth-largest tenant at the World Trade Center, and the shell-shocked executives were already thinking about new offices.

Mr. Stuckey promised them a building in 18 months, even though, he said, “they didn’t have any floor plans, they didn’t know who had sat next to who, or even where much of their staff was.”

“Based on a handshake, we started to pour the foundation,” at the MetroTech office plaza in downtown Brooklyn, said Mr. Stuckey, who in 2009 was appointed a dean of the Schack Institute of Real Estate at New York University. Soon after he assumed the position, he said, he started to think how he could teach students the lessons he learned after 9/11.

The result was a course on postcatastrophe reconstruction, now in its second semester, where students devise building plans, work on environmental and social issues, and create financing models for real-world projects.

The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, provided an opportunity to put Mr. Stuckey’s theory into practice. Starting last fall, students at the Schack Institute began assisting on three development projects there.

“The magnitude of the catastrophe in Haiti is unimaginable,” Mr. Stuckey said. “In that one 30-second earthquake, more people died than in the whole area impacted by the tsunami in Southeast Asia. Its grinding poverty, its proximity to the United States and the ability to get our feet on the ground quickly made it a perfect location for us to put our efforts to work.”

Postcatastrophe reconstruction — which Mr. Stuckey defines as the period following a disaster from Week 2 to Year 5 — is an emerging field in development circles, and it gained momentum after the tsunami that shook Indonesia in 2004. While many organizations focus on disaster preparedness and the emergency humanitarian efforts that crop up immediately after the event, “there is a void that occurs in the interim period,” Mr. Stuckey said.

“After the humanitarian aid ends, how do you transition to the rebuilding stage?”

The first project in Haiti is in Delmas 32, a neighborhood of one square kilometer in the country’s capital of Port-au-Prince where 120,000 people lived before the earthquake. In comparison, New York City has 27,000 people per square kilometer, said T. Luke Young, an urban planner and a consultant who is working on the project. Approximately 1,500 of 5,000 buildings collapsed in Delmas 32, which lacks plumbing and electricity, and an additional 2,000 were structurally damaged.

With the help of a $30 million grant from the World Bank, a redevelopment plan is under way, and New York University students have been helping analyze the infrastructure, transportation needs, housing and social patterns, and are thinking of ways to determine land ownership.

“N.Y.U. has been remarkably helpful,” Mr. Young said. One student, for example, has studied water management and treatment at Delmas 32 and is testing a model unit for capturing and treating rainwater, he said.

A second project is the Rebuilding Center in Portau-Prince. Under the direction of Architecture for Humanity, the center provides work force training, education and other services, and connects Haitian professionals with nongovernmental organizations.

People seek safety in the aftermath of the severe earthquake on rue Capois in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010. (Tequila Minsky for The New York Times)

The New York University students are working on bolstering the Rebuilding Center’s services by devising financing structures, equity models and other ways to finance businesses in hopes the center “will become the Haitian economic development center in Port-au-Prince,” said Mr. Stuckey, who was the director of the New York City Public Development Corporation, now called the New York City Economic Development Corporation, under former Mayor Edward I. Koch.

The third project is a joint effort of the Schack Institute, Architecture for Humanity and Habitat for Humanity. Called the North Pole, it is the redevelopment of roughly 16,000 acres just north of the capital.

Before the earthquake struck, some 10,000 to 12,000 squatters were on the land, but after the catastrophe and the announcement that the government was redeveloping the area, people flocked to the site. There are now 50,000 squatters, said Elizabeth K. Blake, the senior vice president for government affairs, advocacy and general counsel at Habitat for Humanity International.

“If we don’t do something, don’t get some commercial developers involved, get infrastructure up and running, and have the land rights sorted out, there is going to be a slum there no matter what,” she said.

As an example of the practical effects of development and planning, a few weeks after the Haiti catastrophe, an earthquake of 8.8 magnitude hit Chile, lasting three minutes. Though it was much more severe and lasted far longer than the one in Haiti, the Chilean earthquake killed some 500 people compared with 316,000 in Haiti. Experts have attributed that difference in part to the superior quality of construction in Chile.

A central issue at the North Pole, as well as in Delmas 32 and other redevelopment projects in the country, is land ownership. Only 5 percent of the land in Haiti has documentation proving proprietorship, Mr. Stuckey said. It has long been a pattern that when the government in Haiti changes hands — which has been often, given the country’s history

of political unrest — land is often forcibly redistributed.

“We don’t want to build a shelter that will cost $5,000 for a family that doesn’t own the land,” Ms. Blake said. “We learned the hard way that after the shelter is built, someone else will say the land is theirs and throw the family off, and so the donor money will be spent on some other family and the family in need remains homeless.” About 40 percent of the world’s population is subject to forcible eviction from their homes because of a lack of documentation proving ownership, Ms. Blake said. In Haiti, that number is closer to 70 percent.

The work Mr. Stuckey and his students are undertaking is significant, Ms. Blake said. “They have a very long résumé and enormous experience dealing with commercial developers and the private sector, and that is critical to get these projects moving,” she said.

To document the work in Haiti, Mr. Stuckey brought on board a filmmaker, Frederic King, who has made four trips to Haiti and is producing a onehour educational documentary. Mr. Stuckey is also laying the groundwork for what he hopes will be a center for postcatastrophe reconstruction at Schack, joining two other centers at the institute, one that studies real estate investment trusts and one that looks at environmental issues. He said he was completing a business plan for the center and had begun informal discussions with possible benefactors.

Mr. Stuckey said an ultimate goal was to create a reconstruction model that could be scaled up or down as needed, perhaps in the form of a field manual “that would allow us to look at what is happening from region to region throughout the world and create best practices so that next time there is a catastrophe, we can rebuild without having to start from scratch,” he said.

“When I first came to Schack,” Mr. Stuckey said.

“I could have taught my students how to build condominiums in New York City, but being a person in my industry means building for all of society, and crisis situations are where we can have the biggest sociological impact.”

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The group cited a need for further discussion on whether to limit hostel capacity by numbers of rooms, or square footage of a building.

Huus, a well-traveled 20-something who has stayed in many hostels and similar accommodations across the country, approached city councilor Dave Marshall about sponsoring such a text amendment over six months ago and has yet to receive a decision from the city.

“The bureaucracy is overwhelming.

I’m just waiting for zoning because my next move largely depends on where I can build,” Huus said after February’s housing committee meeting, which was cancelled due to a snowstorm.

On Tuesday, the list of zones where Huus might locate a hostel grew by two and staved off another restriction as the housing committee voted not to remove the R-6 zone from the list of hostel-approved zones.

Capacity in the R-6 zone would be limited to 10 overnight guests, 20 if the owner received conditional permission.

Proposed by city councilor Kevin Donoghue, the removal of the R-6 zone from the list of zones in which as hostel could operate reflects a basic expectation of those living in residential neighborhoods.

Donoghue “It’s not the most compatible use for a residential neighborhood,” said Donoghue. “I feel like there is the potential for conflict, [because] I think it would come as a surprise that the place next door is allowed to sleep 20 people who will be different every night,” he said.

In lieu of including the R-6 zone, Donoghue suggested that aspiring hostel operators might look for properties in the R-6 zone which could be converted to B-1 through a map amendment. “B-1s in the sea of R-6 where we’ve got established businesses make good neighbor to residential neighborhoods,” said Donoghue, who cited Munjoy Hill’s B-1 zone as an example.

The committee also voted to include

the city’s lone B-6 zone to the list of zones approved for hostel use. The small zone east of India Street, is “not qualitatively different in anyway way,” from all the of “B” zones in which hostel would be allowed, in DonoMarshall ghue’s assessment.

“There nothing inappropriate about that area, and I don’t think there is any reason for prohibition,” he said.

Now the committee must decide by what metric to restrict occupancy in any future Portland hostel. At Tuesday’s meeting, the committee decided do further research into measuring capacity by square footage or number of rooms in a residence.

“We thought it would be more precise to measure hostels by the number of overnight guests,” as it’s “much less variable than the number of beds per room you might see,” said city planning division director Alex Jaegerman.

“In every other example we count by rooms, but in this case we’re counting by guests?” asked Marshall.

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Bar (code) hopping in downtown Portland Application gives access to Portland Downtown directory on cell phones

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Audai Naser (left) and Hamzah Jasim stand near the ovens at Tandoor Bakery on Forest Avenue. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Tandoor Bakery HOURS; 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

LOCATION: 845 R Forest Ave. CONTACT: 409-6776

A tandoor is a cylindrical clay oven used in cooking and baking, particularly used in India and the Middle East. Tandoor Bakery, appropriately, specializes in baking Iraqi breads. The business came to Portland via Iraq and Syria, according to Abbas Abbas, son of the bakery’s owner, Audai Naser.

Abbas said the family immigrated to the United States from their homeland of Iraq. They lived in

Karbala but managed to immigrate, traveling through Syria, he said. Naser offered some other details. The family moved originally to Atlanta before finding a home in Maine on Nov. 18, 2008.

The bakery operated out of the Public Market House at Monument Square. Then, in September, Naser opened Tandoor Bakery at its current location on Forest Avenue. The traditional breads are festooned with meat or made plain so they can be turned into pizza. Samoon, a pocket bread, is made daily. Sweet breads are another specialty.

Out-of-town commute great, until lunchtime LADD from page 4

but it’s no antipasto bar at Whole Foods, and fails in comparison to the offerings of the Salad Nazi at One City Center. Regardless of where I go from my new office, I now have to drive instead of walking the cobblestone and seeing the ocean literally seconds before heading back inside to work.

And what about all my sandwich and coffee cards that are a punch away from a freebie? I’m so close to a grilled veggie wrap at Federal Spice and a PMT (prosciutto, fresh mozzarella and tomato) on a perfectly baked baguette at West End Deli. I’m even sitting on a stack of hold-over gift cards from the holidays to great places in town, and sadly realize they will soon become the property of my two daughters to enjoy on spring days when they will skip school with no chance of being bagged in town by their mother.

Adding insult to injury, Restaurant Week is underway and it’s a

delight to see lunch deals added to the festivities. In strategically pouring over the all menus of the participating restaurants (both lunch and dinner); and plotting my dining-to-budgetary ratio, I had go-to check marks next to District and Sonny’s for lunch, and unless I can finagle meetings in town, this just isn’t going to happen either.

The reality is what I’ve known all along, regardless of where I am based, I need to brown bag it more than three times a week and eat at my desk. I need to shut the door to my office and hook up Wii fit to my computer, or stroll the industrial park and see who else is in my new neighborhood beside a window warehouse and Maine Indoor Karting. It’ll be way different than brown bagging it to people watch in Tommy’s Park or hoofing down to the ferry terminal to eat my homemade Mexican chicken and avocado wrap, but it’ll be OK. Change is healthy and a move

which will force me to explore new dining options, no matter how remote or seemingly uninteresting is a good thing. I already have Jess, my new barista and I’ll talk to enough Scarborough weekday warriors to get the scoop on where to go and when. There’s a Federal Spice Bistro on Route 1 which might just take my Swiss cheese punch card for that free wrap and maybe, just maybe, simulcast horse racing at Scarborough Downs could be a fun happy hour option.

On the bright side, I’ll quickly learn who my true friends are now that my parking spot in town is history and I only wish I could say I’ll no longer take Monday through Friday lunch time in Portland, and all it has to offer (from either side of the bar) for granted. I honestly never did.

(Natalie Ladd and her “What’s It Like” column take a weekly look at the culinary business in and around Portland.)

Browsing downtown Portland shops? Well, there's an app for that.

The Portland Downtown District announced Monday – via its Facebook page, naturally – that a new, mobile version of the district's 522-member directory is now available to smartphone users through an application that puts the directory on your phone, using a technology familiar to checkout lines.

"We created a mobile version of the directory itself," said Sayre English, special events and PR This QR Code translates into a copy of the Portland Downtown District direcmanager for the tory for smartphone users. (COURTESY Portland Down- IMAGE) town District.

"With a smart phone, you can “We have galleries and musedownload an ums in our directory, once we application that get that functionality of: ‘I’m allows you to snap looking for a museum that’s in the QR code ... it's kind of like a open on Friday,’ that informabar code at the tion will pop up.” — Sayre grocery store."

The applicaEnglish, special events and tion translates PR manager for the Portland the QR code into Downtown District the actual district directory "and puts it right into the phone" for a shopper to access.

Sound complicated? Just think of scanning groceries at a grocery store, only the code doesn't translate a price of a can of green beans. Instead, the QR code conveys the full content of the downtown district's directory, available at a click.

"Portland's Downtown Directory is going mobile!" the district's Facebook page announced. "You can now take the directory with you while you walk around town looking to find the best burger, a jewelry sale, wings and beer or that little black dress all on your cell! Scan the QR code and discover everything downtown Portland has to offer!" see CODE page 9

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Going-away party for band bound for SXSW Dead Man’s Clothes, Marie Stella The Apohadion, 107 Hanover St. 8 p.m. tonight, all ages, $2 suggested donation

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Tonight local indie act Dead Man’s Clothes will host a going-away party at The Apohadion before setting out on tour though Boston, New York and Philadelphia with plans to hit up Austin, Texas in time for mid-March music festival South by Southwest (SXSW).

Joined by locals Marie Stella and Boston acts Grass is Green and Dirty Dishes (distinct from the scantily-clad local ladies burlesque troupe), Dead Man’s Clothes, voted best new act of 2010 by the Portland Phoenix, promises to put on a show that will keep Portland talking until band returns from the great, warm yonder.

Dead Man’s Clothes and Marie Stella celebrate the release of their new singles, “From the Water” and “En Fluxx” respectively, while Dirty Dishes and Grass is Green will offer a taste of the Boston music scene at the Bayside D.I.Y. venue.

“It’s exciting because we just put out a single last Thursday, so we’ll be giving away a bunch of CD-Rs and screenprinting a bunch of stickers,” said Dead Man’s Clothes frontman Don Dumont, taking a break from his inky screenprinting endeavors to talk with The Daily Sun on Tuesday afternoon.

“Most of my time this week has been spent trying to make presents for people, we built a screenprinting apparatus in our apartment,” said Dumont.

The Texas trip will be the first time at SXSW for all the members of Dead Man’s Clothes. The annual event is a sort of decentralized music festival with official sponsored parties and shows run by websites, blogs and record labels and unofficial showcases turning the city of Austin into a hotbed of emerging artists.

But it can be a tough festival to break into according to Dumont. As of Tuesday, the band had yet to officially book any shows and said they are largely

counting on networking their way onto stage.

“As of right now, we don't have anything lined up,” said Dumont. “I’ve been talking to people who throw unofficial parties since December, and there has really been this back and forth game of whether or not they can confirm,” he said.

After talking with SXSW old-salt Bryan Bruchman (Marie Stella) and other muscians living in or around Austin, Dumont said he’s got high hopes

that Dead Man’s Clothes will get a chance to make their SXSX debut during the trip.

“They said despite not having anything booked, you show up, talk to everyone you can, and there’s good chance you can find [a place to play],” said Dumont. “We’re kind of going out on a limb, but it will be fun.”

Dumont understands the realities of a farflung traveling band hoping to make waves in the heart of Texas, but said the networking opportunities afforded by the critical mass of musicians attending the festival is undeniable.

“The amount of exposure you’ll get is probably going to be pretty limited when it’s your first time down there, you’re from far away and your promotion is limited,” said Dumont.

“But the big benefit is meeting other bands going on tours, doing festivals and things like that. That’s what made us able to do this tour,” saying such connections with other bands, “helped us to set up shows in cities where venues don't want to talk to us.”

In anticipation of Wednesday’s show, Bruchman reports that Marie Stella is “still working out kinks in a couple newer jams,” and “in the middle of working on recordings for the next digital single,” which he said the band hopes to release in time for Record Store Day on April 16.

A new full-length is still a ways-off for Marie Stella, who released “Trust” last spring.

“It'll be at least another six months before we really get down to the nitty gritty with it,” said Bruchman, “we’re still working up more songs, so maybe a Spring 2012 release, but [it’s] all very uncertain,” he said.

The band will make tracks for Bruchman’s old haunt of Brooklyn, N.Y. this weekend, playing a session on Internet radio show/video podcast Serious Business on BreakThruRadio and a Mardi Gras party.

Bruchman will also travel to SXSW this month, covering the music festival for Space Gallery and his local music blog, Hillytown.com. Check Hillytown and follow Bruchman at @hillytown for updates from the Texas nexus of music festivals.

Mobile directory activated by downtown district CODE from page 8

The code will be printed on the print directories for people to scan and on window clings at businesses, the Facebook page post reported.

"This is the first step then we can add in more functionalities ... if you are walking down the street looking for something specific like ... 50-cent wings, it will tell you the closest locations from where you are that serve 50-cent wings. Stay tuned!"

English explained that this technology has the potential to make shopping easier through more than listings.

"We have galleries and museums in our directory, once we get that functionality of: 'I'm looking for a museum that's open on Friday,' that information will pop up," she said.

The mobile directory is free for members and free to download and use, English said. Since it's a webbased program, it's easy to update, so vendors can post notices about sales or other information. The print directory only gets published once a year, so the application also allows businesses to add their names to the directory midyear before a new print version hits the streets, she said.

"All of our members can either just have their information listed or they can put in coupons and deals and things like that," English said.

Members can pay an introductory monthly fee of $79 per month to post "mini-websites" or pages

called showcase elements, she said.

"We wanted to get with the trends and become more tech-savvy in general, and this is one of the trends that's up and coming," English said, explaining the move.

The district is making other upgrades, part of a "new technology avenue we're going down," she said.

For details about the application or the district, visit http://directory.portlandmaine.com.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’ll be able to feel the force of goodness at work in your life. It’s comforting to realize that this is something that’s bigger than you -- bigger than any individual on the planet.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You’re headed for an awe-inspiring encounter. You don’t have to go out of your way to find it, either. All you have to do is shift your perspective. Everything around you is miraculous if you choose to see it that way.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

Your experiences will shape you. Whoever you are at the start of the day, you’ll be someone different at the end of the day. The changes will be subtle yet undeniable.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

You’ll be offered a gift that will test your grace. You can resist the gift because it makes you feel flustered and unworthy.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There is much to appreciate around you.

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 2).

Your talents will be recognized and celebrated. The next 10 weeks will boost your social status -- one relationship will be particularly fulfilling. You’ll travel in style in May. You’ll be in a position to help loved ones in June. July features increased self-discipline. Wedding bells ring in September. You share a special connection with Gemini and Libra people. Your lucky numbers are: 16, 33, 2, 15 and 46.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You really don’t feel that you have to beat anyone else in order to win at life. Since you don’t have any worries about being inferior or superior to anyone, you treat everyone as an equal and are accepted by all you meet.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll observe others without feeling the need to judge them. It’s not because you’re trying to be a saint, but because you realize that non-judgment allows you to see and know more about the way things really are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It will feel as though you can communicate with the elements. The ancient Egyptians believed everything was alive, including the rocks and the rivers. You’ll relate to the world as though this is true today.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll meet a potential friend. This one is a true kindred spirit and requires you to be nothing other than who you are. You won’t need to promote yourself or put on any kind of affectation. You’re perfect “as-is.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There is little room for compromise in some of your relationships, and this causes stress for you today. Luckily, you have a heavenly place in your own mind where you can go when you need relief and relaxation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Changes are on the way. Go with what feels right.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You have an eye for the immaterial. You see beyond the solid form of things and people you encounter. You experience

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Wednesday, March 2, the 61st day of 2011. There are 304 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlights in History: On March 2, 1861, the state of Texas, having seceded from the Union, was admitted to the Confederacy. The Territory of Nevada came into existence under an act signed by President James Buchanan.

On this date: In 1793, the first president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, was born near Lexington, Va. In 1836, the Republic of Texas formally declared its independence from Mexico.

In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.

In 1899, Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state was established.

In 1917, Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship as President Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act. In 1943, the World War II Battle of the Bismarck Sea began; U.S. and Australian warplanes were able to inflict heavy damage on a Japanese convoy.

In 1977, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted a strict code of ethics.

In 1989, representatives from the 12 European Community nations agreed to ban all production of CFC’s (chlorofluorocarbons) by the end of the 20th century.

In 1990, more than 6,000 drivers went on strike against Greyhound Lines Inc. (The company, later declaring an impasse in negotiations, fired the strikers.)

One year ago: Authorities in San Diego County found the body of 17-year-old Chelsea King, who’d been missing since Feb. 25, 2010. (John Albert Gardner III later pleaded guilty to raping and murdering King and another victim, 14-year-old Amber Dubois; he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.)

Today’s Birthdays: Actor John Cullum is 81. Author Tom Wolfe is 81. Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is 80. Actress Barbara Luna is 72. Actor Jon Finch is 70. Author John Irving is 69. Singer Lou Reed is 69. Actress Cassie Yates is 60.

Actress Laraine Newman is 59. Former Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., is 58. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is 56. Singer Jay Osmond is 56. Pop musician John Cowsill (The Cowsills) is 55. Tennis player Kevin Curren is 53. Country singer Larry Stewart (Restless Heart) is 52. Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi is 49. Blues singer-musician Alvin Youngblood Hart is 48. Actor Daniel Craig is 43. Rock musician Casey (Jimmie’s Chicken Shack) is 35. Rock singer Chris Martin (Coldplay) is 34. Actress Heather McComb is 34. Actress Bryce Dallas Howard is 30. NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is 29.

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The problem is, she will pop in several times a day for half an hour or more. She doesn’t seem to realize that her intrusions are interrupting our valuable family time. We have tried not answering the door, but she will then phone us or return and knock again. She can see our cars in the driveway, so she knows when we’re in.

We have tried telling her that family time is important to us, but instead of getting the hint, she compliments us on our family dynamic. We don’t want to hurt her feelings, but I’m freaking out about what will happen when summer comes and we are both home all day with our kids. Please give me a polite way to get her to back off without ruining any future relationship. -- Had Enough Dear Had: Some people need explicit boundaries. When your neighbor knocks during family time, go to the door, tell her this is “not a good time” and suggest a better one, even if it’s the next day. Smile and close the door. Repeat as needed.

Dear Annie: The letter from “No More Frustrations, Please” hit me hard. It has been a little over a year since my wife walked out on me, saying I never did anything but sit in front of the TV. She refused to go for counseling, saying I was not going to change and she was done.

A month later, I was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea. I started using a CPAP machine and now have energy again. I finished all of the projects around the house. I bike 20 miles.

My weight is down, and I feel so much better.

It saddens me how close we could have grown had we gone through this together. You are right. He should do everything possible to save his marriage. I am in counseling, trying to forgive her for giving up without a fi ght. -- Sleeping in California

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When I had my first child, my husband and I moved away.

We have maintained limited contact with my parents, although they can visit as often as they like. I prefer not to go to their home, where my stepfather is in charge.

Recently, I explained to my mother that our children could not visit her without additional adult supervision. She became angry, saying it’s time I put the past behind me. She says I should remember the good things. She insists her husband would never hurt my children. But she also denies that he was abusive, saying he “lost control” only once.

While I am upset with my mother for not protecting us, I feel guilty for denying her the pleasure of being the grandmother she wants to be. Without him, she would be a good one. How can I be a responsible mother and stop feeling like a bad daughter? -- Unsettled in the West Dear Unsettled: Many abusers can be charming and loving when they are so inclined. Your mother, like many women in these situations, is in denial about the way her husband treated his family. Reasoning with her apparently has no effect. Being a good daughter does not mean subjecting your children to potential abuse, physical or emotional. You see your parents regularly, and they are welcome to visit whenever they wish. There is no reason to feel guilty.

Dear Annie: Our new neighbor is a young professional with a boy the same age as mine. We like her and look forward to our sons growing up together.

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Wednesday, March 2 Read Across America Day 9 a.m. City and school officials, professional athletes, reporters, business people and other guests will read children’s books aloud to students in the Portland Public Schools in honor of Read Across America Day. East End Community School, Howard C. Reiche Community School and Fred P. Hall Elementary School are among those participating. Organized by the National Education Association, this annual celebration of reading takes place on the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Nine members of the Portland Pirates professional hockey team will visit Reiche School, 166 Brackett Street, at 1 p.m. The players are: Tim Conboy, Mark Parrish, Colin Stuart, Igor Gongalsky, Derek Whitmore, Luke Adam, Brian Roloff, David Leggio and Jacob Lagace. For more information, please contact Principal Paul Yarnevich at 874-8175. Six Pirates will visit East End Community School, 195 North Street, at 1:15 p.m. The players are: Matt Ellis, Jhonas Enroth, Travis Turnbull, T.J. Brennan, Corey Tropp and Dennis McCauley. For more information, please contact Principal Marcia Gendron at 874-8228. Guest readers at Hall Elementary School, 23 Orono Road, include: 9 a.m. — Kelley Bouchard, Portland Press Herald; Crusher. 9:10 a.m. — Tricia Duchesneau, Bangor Savings Bank (Hall School’s business partner).

9:15 a.m. — Sarah Long, WGME 13; Portland Fire Chief Fred Lamontagne; Lee Goldberg, WCSH6 9:30 a.m. — Portland Superintendent James C. Morse Sr. 10 a.m. — Portland Mayor Nick Mavadones; Erin Ovalle, WMTW 1 p.m.

— Anne McNamara, Channel 13. For more information and a complete list of readers at Hall, please contact Tina Mikkelsen, community coordinator, at 874-8205.

ing and training, presenting: “The Lowdown On Living Well.” For more information and to register, go to www.dressforsuccess.org/southernmaine or call 780-1686.

Discussion of painting ‘Untitled’

by Bernard Langlais at the PMA 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. A group meets monthly to study and discuss one piece in the Portland Museum of Art’s collection. “Say what you think, and learn from new friends-it may change the way you see. This month the group will focus on the painting ‘Untitled’ by Bernard Langlais. Conversation is led by a member of the Museum’s Education staff and continues over lunch in the Café (bring your own or purchase in the Café).” www.portlandmuseum.org/

Crook, Hennesy, Rounds, Lehmann in concert 12:15 p.m. Quartet for flute, guitar, viola and cello by Franz Schubert. Keith Crook has taught classical guitar at the University of Maine and/or the University of Southern Maine for the past 25 years. Lisa Hennessy is principal flutist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra. Kimberly Lehmann,, received her Bachelor of Music in violin performance from the University of Minnesota and her Master of Music in violin performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music. William Rounds has been a member of the Portland Symphony Orchestra since 1988, as well as being an active soloist and chamber musician in the Boston area.

First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 425 Congress St. Concerts are free and open to the public. For information call the Portland Conservatory of Music at 775-3356.

‘Knit Or Not Nights’ at Spindleworks

5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. Spindleworks Art Center and musician Hope Hoffman will be hosting monthly “Knit Or Not Nights” at Spindleworks Art Center in Brunswick. The public is invited to attend the next free evening event at Spindleworks, 7 Lincoln St. in Brunswick. Live traditional music will be performed by Hope Hoffman and Jeff Trippe, playing Irish tunes on fiddle and guitar. Guests are invited to listen “William S. Burroughs: A Man Within” — a film about the iconic author — will be screened at along, bring knitting projects for a knitting Money Management 101 SPACE Gallery at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 9. (COURTESY IMAGE) circle, and see new work created by artists in 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. “The Institute for Finanthe Spindleworks studios and store. Parking is Violins” promises to be interesting and entertaining whether cial Literacy has launched a new interactive personal available on Lincoln Street and in the lot located behind the you’re a musician, music fan or simply appreciate artisanfinance seminar series. Taught by certified educators and Spindleworks building. For more information, contact Alyce ship in all its forms. One of the great performers of our time, open to the general public, the seminars are designed to Ornella at 725-8820 and see listings on www.spindleworks.

O’Connor has his own method for teaching the instrument improve financial literacy in Maine. In this session, you will org and www.hopehoffman.org. and Cooper is the man he trusts to make his instrument. learn everything you always wanted to know about sucUMF gallery features artist Jean M. Sanders cessful money management and more including: budMayor Nicholas Mavodones for Teen After Hours 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The University of Maine at Farmington Art geting, net worth, financial planning and goal setting. All 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Portland Mayor Nicholas Mavodones will Gallery is pleased to present a unique collection of phoseminars are being held at the Institute’s new campus meet with teenagers at the Portland Public Library’s Teen togravure and carbon prints by artist Jean M. Sanders conveniently located near the Maine Mall at 260 WestLibrary at their Teen After Hours. This is a chance for teens as its next exhibit. Free and open to the public, the show ern Avenue in South Portland.” Cost is $50 per adult/$75 to talk to the mayor about what’s happening in the city, learn runs from March 3-27, with a gala opening reception. This couple. Attendance is limited and advance registration is about the process of city government and talk to the city’s installation is largely based on Sanders’ new photographic required. To register, please call 221-3601 or email help@ leader candidly about what’s important to them. There are suite “Ivan the Boneless,” richly detailed images documentfinanciallit.org. www.financiallit.org no adults or children at the Teen After Hours, which means ing the life of her dog, Ivan. These works employ antique teens lead the discussion and get to ask all the questions. To Brain science author at the library photographic techniques that impart a strange, dream-like commemorate the event the mayor will proclaim Wednesnoon to 1 p.m. Hannah Holmes, author of “Quirk: Brain Sciquality to the images. Movement and energy seem to be day, March 2, 2011 as Portland Teen Library Day. Teen After ence Makes Sense Of Your Peculiar Personality,”will give a frozen in time while the animals appear to be suspended in Hours is a collaborative program between the Portland Police lecture at thePortland Public Library, Rines Auditorium. Free a glowing atmosphere that shifts from beauty to menace— Department and the Portland Public Library.

On the fi rst lecture and book signing for her new book, as part of the from the familiar to the uncanny—in the blink of an eye.

Wednesday of each month from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. the library is library’s ongoing Brown Bag Lecture Series. “Have you ever Sanders’ images revel in the mystery and strangeness of open late for teens only where they are welcome to hang out, wondered why a cloudy day affects you so deeply, but the animals, while simultaneously embracing the emotional play video games, watch a movie, use the computers, and person in the next office over doesn’t seem to notice? Why depth of their daily experience. For more information, or to peruse the stacks of teen oriented books in the Teen Section. you love nothing more than a big, crowded party, but your make special arrangements, please call 778-7002, or email For more information about Teen After Hours contact Justin husband prefers to stand in the corner checking his watch?

Elizabeth Olbert, director of the UMF Art Gallery, at elizaHoenke,Teen Librarian at 871-1700, ext. 772.

Or why you wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the beth.olbert@maine.edu. night, wondering if you remembered to unplug the toaster?

An Evening at Osher Map Library postponed The answers lay, of course, in your personality. But what Thursday, March 3 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Maine Historical Society and Osher exactly is a personality? What purpose does it serve? And Map Library present: An Evening at Osher Map Library: how did we each end up with a different one?” In her new Dress for Success Southern Maine Celebrating Printed Maps of Maine. This event has been book, “Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Pecu7:30 a.m. to noon. Dress for Success Southern Maine is postponed. Check www.mainehistory.org for updates. liar Personality” (Random House), Holmes turns to modern hosting its fourth annual Professional Development “Sucbrain science for answers.

‘The Shadow Box’ pay what you can preview cess Starts With You” seminar at Hannaford Hall, Abromson 6:30 p.m. “The Shadow Box,” a Pulitzer Prize- and Tony ‘Making Music & Making Violins’ Community Education Center at the University of Southern Award-winning play that is a “must experience” event! Pay 7 p.m. The Portland Music Foundation and Portland OvaMaine in Portland. The theme of the conference is: “Less what you can preview at 7 p.m. Starring 10 of Portland’s tions continue their partnership with a co-presentation is More: Let Go, Cut Back, and Slow Down To Accomplish finest actors and directed by Vincent Knue, this production of renowned fiddler and violinist Mark O’Connor and Your Goals More Quickly” and proceeds will benefit Dress will have you talking long after the final bow. Now Playing renowned fiddle-maker Jonathan Cooper. Both artists will for Success Southern Maine. Featured speakers include at the Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple Street in Portland be speaking about and demonstrating what makes a beauAnn Marie Connor, Assistant Vice President of Client Serthrough March 20. Doors open tonight at 6:30 p.m. “first tiful-sounding violin and why it matters. The event will be vices, UNUM, presenting: “Shortcuts to Success at Work”; come, first seated.” For more information call the box office held at Rines Auditorium in the Portland Public Library. The Kristin Guibord, MBA, financial professional from BDMP at 773-0333. event is free and open to the public. An extension of the Wealth Management, presenting: “Reduce Money Stress PMF’s “Music as a Profession” series and Portland Ovaand feel More Prosperous”; and Amy Wood, Psy.D., psysee next page tions’ “Ovations Offstage” series, “Making Music & Making chologist specializing in personal and professional coach-

Portland Police Year-End Crime Report

10 a.m. to noon. The Portland Police Department will give a presentation of the department’s Year-End Crime Report and fiveyear strategic plan to the public. Wishcamper Center, Room 33; University of Southern Maine, 34 Bedford St. For more information or to RSVP to the presentation, call 874-8601.

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Rabelais and Grace Present: Dinner, book signing 7 p.m. Gabrielle Hamilton, award-winning chef/owner of Prune restaurant in NYC and renowned chef’s chef, is coming to Portland to celebrate the launch of her first book “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef.” “Rabelais and Grace restaurant are pleased to present this evening of great food and fantastic writing. The evening will include a roast lamb dinner inspired by ‘Blood, Bones & Butter,’ with wine. Hamilton will give a short reading and sign copies of her book, which will be included in the price of the dinner.” At Grace Restaurant. www.mainerestaurantweek.com

Friday, March 4 The Incredible Breakfast Cook-off 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Twelve of Maine’s “Champions of Breakfast” are invited to the Sea Dog Brew Pub to compete. They line up side-by-side and serve small plates. Guests of the event choose whose breakfast reigns supreme. Last year Good Table restaurant from Cape Elizabeth won top honors — their Creme Brulee French Toast lived up to its “Bring you to your knees delicious” description. They’ll be back to defend their title and so will a large group of competitors, each vying for the top prize. As a special treat for guest of the event Captain & Celeste — the WBLM morning show — will broadcast live from the Sea Dog Brew Pub. This Maine Restaurant Week event benefits Preble Street Resource Center. General admission is $15 per person or $27 per pair. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/153215

First Friday Art Walk: Cannonball Press at SPACE 5 p.m. Cannonball Press presents Burn the Lot: Splinter Heads, Nut Mobs & Ballyhoo, featuring a huge new pile of limited-edition $20 prints by the likes of Dusty Herbig, Angela Earley, Drew Iwaniw, Sarah Nicholls, Tyler Krasowski, and Donna Diamond. Also, Martin Mazorra and Mike Houston will premiere their new supersized woodcuts depicting the capitalist wasteland, as seen through the lens of a carnival for the ages. Mega carny prints on canvas; free, all ages.

‘Hardware’ photo display at The Green Hand 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. This month the Green Hand is continuing to showcase photography with a series of black and white photos by Wayne Frederick. “Hardware” is a collection of humorous, serious, and mysterious prints of “guy stuff” that includes abstracts, still life, action shots, and plain old pictures.

Suitable for viewing by all age groups. First Friday Art Walk opening at The Green Hand Bookshop, 661 Congress St. On display through the month of March. FMI: Contact Michelle Souliere at 450-6695 or michelle.souliere@gmail.com.

Arts, Artists, and Personalities in 1930s Maine 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Maine Historical Society presents a new exhibit, Arts, Artists, and Personalities in 1930s Maine.

Original photographs on display March 4 through May 3.

The opening reception is free and open to the public and will be held on March 4 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Lecture Hall. This exhibit will be open to the public at no charge during the April First Friday Art Walk. While stories of hardship and suffering are not hard to find in Depression-era Maine, a series of photographs taken to accompany newspaper articles during that era offer another view: the strength and vitality of the arts and artists and of other personalities in 1930s Maine. G. Herbert Whitney, an accomplished amateur photographer, captured these people and scenes while his wife, Emmie Bailey Whitney, interviewed the personalities for the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine. A number of the dozen people featured in this display are well-known artists or writers. The MHS Museum and Lecture Hall gallery are open Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free for MHS members, $8 for adults, $7 for seniors, students, and AAA members, and $2 for children, free for children under 6.

Freeze Out Hunger 2011 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Freeze Out Hunger 2011 at the Ocean Gateway Terminal Building. “Enjoy bidding on live and silent auction Items; enjoy delicious appetizers prepared by Kitchen Chicks of Kennebunk; cash bar with spirits donated by Whiterock Distilleries, Inc. and Gritty’s; meet the Portland Pirates as they join the fight to Freeze Out Hunger; dance the night away with the nine piece band Retrospecticus. Tickets are $45 until March 3. Then they will be $55. Junior League of Maine, “a nonprofit organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.” www.jlpmaine.org

‘Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune’ 6:30 p.m. Film screenings. Friday, March 4, 6:30 p.m.;

At 8 p.m. Friday, March 4, the Class B State Boys’ Basketball Championships are scheduled at the Cumberland County Civic Center. Cape Elizabeth and Camden Hills are slated to face off. (COURTESY IMAGE) Saturday, March 5, 2 p.m.; Sunday, March 6, 2 p.m. NR. “There’s no place in this world where I’ll belong, when I’m gone, And I won’t know the right from the wrong, when I’m gone, And you won’t find me singin’ on this song, when I’m gone. So I guess I’ll have to do it while I’m here.” — “As our country continues to embroil itself in foreign wars and once again pins its hopes on a new leader’s promise for change, this feature-length documentary is a timely tribute to an unlikely American hero.

Phil Ochs, a folk singing legend, who many called “the emotional heart of his generation,” loved his country and he pursued its honor, in song and action, with a ferocity that had no regard for consequences. Wielding only a battered guitar, a clear voice, and a quiver of razor sharp songs, he tirelessly fought the ‘good fight’ for peace and justice throughout his short life. He took his own life in 1976 at the age of 35.” Movies at the Museum, Portland Museum of Art. http://portlandmuseum.org

Casco Bay Lines fourth annual Inter-Island Cruise 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Departs Portland at 6 p.m. and returns to Portland at 10 p.m. Heavy appetizers provided by the Inn on Peaks Island; music provided by 43N -70W. Cash bar on board. Tickets $25 per person, available at the CBL ticket window. For more information call Caity at 774-7871, x105.

Irish Night with the Maine Red Claws 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Portland Expo. Second annual Irish Night and help support the Maine Irish Heritage Center.

“Wear green to show your Irish Pride as we celebrate Maine’s Irish community. A portion of the special fundraising tickets will go to support the Irish American Club of Maine and the Maine Irish Heritage Center. Festivities include: Halftime performance by the Stillson School of Irish Dance. Pre-Game Parade of Flags from Ireland and Bagpipes from Claddagh Mhor Pipe Band. Special fundraiser tickets will be $10 and $15. Please help support the MIHC!” For more information contact Kay Martin at 878-3724 or Pat McBride at irishhc@maine.rr.com

‘Exhibit This’ at Deering High 7 p.m. Deering High School Drama presents “Exhibit This,” a one-act comedy by Luigi Jannuzzi about the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on March 4 and 5 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 in advance or $7 at the door. Call 874-8260 during school hours for reservations. Visit www.deeringdrama.org.

‘The Cleansed: Season One’ 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. As part of First Friday Art Walk, Coffee by Design will be hosting Audio Producer Fred Greenhalgh at their India Street Cofeehouse, 67 India St., Portland.

Greenhalgh, who was the recipient of a 2010 CBD Rebel Blend arts grant, will be sharing audio samples and talking about his new work, “The Cleansed: Season One.” The pilot of “The Cleansed,” which aired on Halloween, 2010 on both WKIT in Bangor and WMPG in Portland,

follows the stories of a group of civilians and soldiers who are caught in the middle of civil upheaval caused by a disastrous shortage of fossil fuels. The show has been called a “huge achievement” by BBC Radio 4 producer John Dryden. Irish playwright Roger Gregg says the work is at “the forefront of the contemporary American [radio drama] scene.” More information and free downloads of the pilot episode of “The Cleansed” are available at: http://thecleansed.com. The Cleansed is a co-production of FinalRune Productions and WMPG, community radio of from the University of Southern Maine.

‘In the Shelter of Each Other:A Social Action Shabbat’ 7:30 p.m. The Social Action Committee of Congregation Bet Ha’am presents “In the Shelter of Each Other,” a special Social Action Shabbat service focusing on the needs of Maine families who are struggling financially, on March 4 at the synagogue, located at 81 Westbrook St., South Portland. The service is open to the community. It will include special prayers, songs and a brief talk by Christine Hastedt, co-founder and public policy director of Maine Equal Justice. After the service, representatives from several nonprofit programs serving low-income Mainers will provide information about how volunteers can get involved. Everyone attending the March 4 service is requested to bring canned goods to donate to a local food pantry. A list of needed items is posted on the Social Action Committee’s blog: http://www.bhsocialaction.blogspot.com/

Master Hypnotist at Fryeburg Academy 7:30 p.m. Dan Candell, Master Hypnotist and mind reader is appearing at Fryeburg Academy’s Laura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center to hypnotize and read the minds of any volunteer brave enough to participate. All tickets are $10 per person. Proceeds will go to the graduating class of 2013. 935.9232

‘The Shadow Box’ 8 p.m. “The Shadow Box,” a Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Awardwinning play that is a “must experience” event! Starring 10 of Portland’s finest actors and directed by Vincent Knue, this production will have you talking long after the final bow.

Now playing at the Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. in Portland through March 20 with shows on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. All seats are $15. For reservations and more information call the box office at 773-0333.

George Hamm at the Comedy Connection 8:30 p.m. Portland’s own George Hamm with Tony Moschetto. Tickets $16. Portland Comedy Connection, 16 Custom House Wharf. Also Saturday. Reservations: 7745554. $7.50. Schedule and information: www.mainecomedy.com. Box office open Thurs.-Sat., noon to 10 p.m. see next page

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Saturday, March 5 Riverton Trolley Park walk 8:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. Portland Trails is excited to announce a 2011 Winter Walk series. This free series, made possible by a grant from Healthy Portland, is for adults and families with children who are making an effort to get more exercise, but are stymied when it comes to winter recreation.

Participants are reminded to wear warm clothing, hats and gloves and bring snowshoes if there is adequate snow on the ground. Portland Trails has snow shoes available (free for members, $5/non-members) which can be reserved ahead of time.

Please register for any walk by emailing info@trails.org or calling 775-2411. For more information or to check cancellations due to the weather go to www.trails.org. Michelle Cheverus High will appear in the Class A Boys State Championship Game at the Augusta Civic Center Saturday, March 5 at 7 p.m. (COURTESY IMAGE) Boisvert, Portland Trails GIS as Kenya; Tanzania; Mexico to see the wintering monarch Chef Marc Bell will create a multi-course meal with authenintern and volunteer will lead a walk through the site of this butterflies; Italy to learn about culture, food and natural tic Louisiana cuisine, and each partygoer will receive Mardi former park which once welcomed throngs of people from places; Newfoundland to see colonies of Atlantic puffins; Gras beads, throws, and a chance to win several valuable the city who paid five cents to take the trolley from Portland. and Churchhill, Manitoba, Canada, to watch polar bears. door prizes. Dessert will be provided with dinner, so a King Few remnants of this historic site remain, but it makes for a Bob and Margi are both graduates of The National Outdoor Cake will be presented to a lucky guest to keep their party beautiful winter walk. Meet at Corsetti’s (just over the town Leadership School (NOLS). For many years Margi planned going till Fat Tuesday! Master of Ceremonies for this year’s line in Westbrook), 125 Bridgton Road. trips for Maine Audubon. Bob is the assistant property mangala is Jeff Peterson, WGME 13 and FOX 23 anchor, PortNew Gloucester History Barn ager for Maine Audubon, based in Falmouth at the Gilsland land Daily Sun sports writer and former New Orleans resi9 a.m. to noon. The next New Gloucester History Barn Farm Sanctuary where he is involved in a major invasive dent. Peterson’s personal knowledge and experience on Open House will be held. In addition to the permanent displant removal program. As the boat cruises around Casco the parade floats is sure to add some unexpected Bourbon play of antique vehicles and historic town photos, the speBay, hot soup and snacks will be served. Bob and Margi Street flair and surprises to the night. “With Maine’s rich cial Open House feature this month will be a display of old will point out the preserved lands of the islands and disFrench heritage having many of the original families from town reports. The barn is located behind the Town Hall on cuss the natural and cultural history of the islands and their the area leaving Acadia to create Acadiana in Louisiana, Route 231. The barn is owned and operated by the New inhabitants. Participants will learn about the individual birds it’s time for Portland to join our New Orleans cousins in Gloucester Historical Society — the Open House is free and and general bird identification practices. The tickets are $15 welcoming everyone to winter’s most boisterous celebraopen to the public. for members of OCT and $20 for non-members. To register tion, and bring the French Quarter home!” Floor seating for the event, please call 699-2989 or email portlandnorth@ is $40, select balcony seating is offered for $50. Tickets ‘Civil War Heroes and Heroines’ gmail.com. are available at all Bull Moose Music locations, and online 10 a.m. “Civil War Heroes and Heroines Buried in Evergreen through MardiGrasPortland.com. Proceeds support PortCemetery,” at Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St. Portland Public Library partners with Portland land’s Cathedral School, a nonprofit helping support the Spirits Alive, the advocacy group for Portland’s Eastern Ovations to present a Knuffl e Bunny family event education of underprivileged children and their families in Cemetery, will offer a three-lecture series of presentations 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The Portland Public Library in the community. around the theme, “Death and Survival in the Civil War.” conjunction with Portland Ovations will be offering a family Supported in part with funding from the Maine Humanities Cheverus High championship boys’ event based on the upcoming performance of “Knuffle Council, admission is free, but donations are suggested.

Bunny: A Cautionary Musical” at Merrill Auditorium.

This basketball game at the Augusta Civic Center The theme of the lecture series was chosen in support of event is at the Portland Public Library. The event, for chil7 p.m. Cheverus High will compete in the Class A Boys the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War (2011dren and families, will include a story time, art project and State Championship Game at the Augusta Civic Center.

2015). These lectures will offer insight into this country’s a chance to win tickets to see a performance of “Knuffle Tickets will be on sale at Cheverus, sold in the Loyola Hall greatest national crisis in relation to death and dying. It is Bunny” at Merrill Auditorium. Children are encouraged to Switchboard and Cheverus’ Main Office on Thursday from estimated that up to 700,000 people, or 2 percent of the bring their own Knuffle Bunny to the story time. “Knuffle 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. All population died in the War Between the States. One of the Bunny: A Cautionary Tale,” is performed by the Kennedy tickets are general admission for the Augusta Civic Center. first Maine regiments to be mustered in, The Forest City Center Theater and is based on the award-winning chilAdults tickets are $7 and student tickets are $4. Ticket sales Regiment included 1,046 men from southern and central dren’s story by Mo Willems. Following the storyline about are cash only (no checks or credit cards ) and all sales are Maine, and left Portland in July 1861. After three years, things going terribly wrong at a Laundromat, the perforfinal. There is a 10-ticket limit. Tickets will also be on sale this fighting regiment mustered out only 193 — the rest mance features dancing laundry, songs and an adventurat the Augusta Civic Center one hour prior to each of the were killed in action, died from disease, were wounded, ous plot.

The musical is geared for ages 4 and up.

For more Championship Games. The boys and girls state championdeserted, or transferred to other regiments. Visit the Fifth information about this special event at the Portland Public ship games are separate admissions.

Maine Regiment’s website for more: http://www.fifthmaineLibrary, call 871-1700, ext. 707.

‘Acappellooza 11’ benefit for museum.org. Free, donations suggested.

Money Management 101 10 a.m. to noon. “The Institute for Financial Literacy has launched a new interactive personal finance seminar series.

Taught by certified educators and open to the general public, the seminars are designed to improve financial literacy in Maine. In this session, you will learn everything you always wanted to know about successful money management and more including: budgeting, net worth, financial planning and goal setting. All seminars are being held at the Institute’s new campus conveniently located near the Maine Mall at 260 Western Avenue in South Portland.” Cost is $50 per adult/$75 couple. Attendance is limited and advance registration is required. To register, please call 221-3601 or email help@financiallit.org. www.financiallit.org

Winter birding on Casco Bay 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. On the Mail Boat Cruise with Casco Bay Lines at 10 a.m. sharp. The Casco Bay Lines Mail Boat Cruise will leave Portland carrying avid bird watchers and their guides. Bob Bittenbender, a board member of Oceanside Conservation Trust and his wife Margi Huber will lead their group in a scavenger hunt of sorts to find and identify the intrepid birds wintering in Casco Bay. Bittenbender and Huber are a husband and wife team who have led birding and nature trips to such diverse places

‘The Shadow Box’

2 p.m. and 8 p.m. “The Shadow Box,” a Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play that is a “must experience” event!

Starring 10 of Portland’s finest actors and directed by Vincent Knue, this production will have you talking long after the final bow. Now playing at the Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. in Portland through March 20 with shows on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. All seats are $15. For reservations and more information call the box office at 773-0333.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine

7:30 p.m. Village Coffee House, New Gloucester Congregational Church. Tickets at the door. Directions: 19 Gloucester Hill Road, at the intersection of Church and Gloucester Hill Roads in Lower Village of New Gloucester. For more information, contact Julie Fralich 926-3161 or the church office 926-3260. See also www.villagecoffeehouse.org; or www. creativenewgloucester.org

6 p.m. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine will host its fourth one-of-a-kind multigenerational a cappella musical concert at University of Southern Maine’s Hannaford Hall (in the Abromson Center on the Portland Campus).

“Acappellooza 11” is an annual event, created by the late Terri Hatt, who was a Big Sister with the organization. The 2011 program will feature seven singing groups from Maine and New Hampshire who have again volunteered to help the local nonprofit organization raise funds to support kids needing mentors in Southern Maine. The concert is sponsored by Winxnet, UBS, and Mainebiz. It features a cappella groups volunteering from USM, Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Colleges, the University of New Hampshire, and the Portland area women’s quartet known as “Rally.” Tickets can be purchased by calling 773-KIDS, or at the door, or at Bull Moose Music locations, or at the door. The general admission price is $12.

Annual Mardi Gras Ball

A Tribute to Do-Wop at Anthony’s

6 p.m. to midnight. The sights and sounds, tastes and fun of New Orleans will be experienced at the Annual Mardi Gras Ball, a true Big Easy-style fête that will have revelers dancing to live music of Robert Sylvain & the Cajun Aces, in Portland’s only Grand Ballroom at the Eastland Park Hotel.

7 p.m. Back by popular demand, A Tribute to Do-Wop, starring the Juke Box Boys, at Anthony’s Dinner Theater. Cost of $39.95 includes live show and five-course dinner. Beer and wine available. Free parking. Also March 13 and 26.

Anthony’s at www.anthonysdinnertheater.com.

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renowned. Recorded in Omaha, Neb. at the band’s own ARC Studios, The People’s Key was produced by Mike Mogis and engineered by Mogis and Andy LeMaster. $25, all ages.

Thursday, March 3 Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk at Port City 8 p.m. Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk is a group of musicologists that transcend age and styles in a free-flowing approach to their art. The band features an unusual line-up that includes two bassists. Dumpstaphunk weaves a vocal and musical tapestry from key members of Dave Matthews & Friends, Trey Anastasio, Jewel and the Neville Brothers’ musical families. The band’s music incorporates drops of Sly and the Family Stone and Meters-esque jams as well as other diverse influences into a spicy musical gumbo.

Ivan first joined his father (Aaron Neville) and uncles in the legendary New Orleans band, the Neville Brothers, in his mid-teens, then moved on to become a pivotal member of Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos, The Spin Doctors, and Bonnie Raitt’s band. Port City Music Hall. $12 advance, $15 day of show, $25 VIP, 21 plus.

Astronautilus with Sims, Sandbag 8:30 p.m. Once described as what Tom Waits joining the MC battle circuit would sound like, Astronautalis is back to sweat, shout and freestyle all over our stage, all the while seducing the crowd with his unique brand of southernindie-artsy-electro-historical-fiction-folk-crunk. Astronautalis is taking a live band on tour this round. The band features Portland’s own Oscar Romero (Gully) and Derek Gierhan (Haru Bangs) thanks to their meeting for the first time playing at the SPACE Halloween Party last year. SPACE Gallery. $10, 18 plus. http://www.space538.org/events.php

Friday, March 4 Mark O’Connor Quartet: An Evening of Strings 8 p.m. Mark O’Connor Quartet at Merrill Auditorium.

“Fierce fiddler. Virtuosic violinist. Masterful composer. Fearless improviser. Generous collaborator. From bluegrass to country to jazz to Americana inflected classical, O’Connor’s playing and compositions defy categorization. O’Connor is known for his work with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, Matt Haimovitz and Rosanne Cash to name a few.

His Fanfare for the Volunteer was recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra; he’s been commissioned by Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.” http://portlandovations.org

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Tuesday, March 15 The Saw Doctors with AM Taxi 7 p.m. The Saw Doctors are a folk-rock band from Tuam, County Galway in Ireland. Members of the group include Leo Moran (guitar), Davy Carton (vocals), Derek Murray (keyboards), former Waterboy Anthony Thistlethwaite (saxophone and bass), and Fran Breen (drums). The band’s first big break came when they were asked to play the opening act for The Waterboys UK tour in 1988. Soon after, their second single titled “I Useta Lover” became the biggest selling single in Irish history, spending nine weeks at the top of that country’s charts and prompting a scolding from the Catholic Church because of a lyric in the song that describes a boy as being more interested in his beloved’s backside than the mass he is attending. $22 advance, $25 day-of show, $40 VIP, 21 plus. Port City Music Hall.

Saturday, March 19 Soulive with Karl Denson at the State 8 p.m. Soulive with special guest Karl Denson at the State Theatre. “Not many bands can say they’ve recorded with Chaka Khan, Dave Matthews, Talib Kweli and John Scofield.

Nor can many bands open for The Rolling Stones on one tour and have Stevie Wonder sit in with them on the next tour. The musical relationships Soulive has developed, from the aforementioned artists to Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Robert Randolph, Joshua Redman, Kenny Garrett, Fred Wesley, The Roots, Ivan Neville and so many others, speak volumes about both how versatile these talented musicians are.” http://www.statetheatreportland.com

Thursday, April 7 Kenny Chesney show sells out 7:30 p.m. With Special Guest Uncle Kracker. All tickets for the Kenny Chesney show at the Cumberland County Civic Center have sold-out, the Civic Center board reported. It will be the third sell-out appearance at the Civic Center by one of country music’s biggest stars and the first appearance since 2004.

Bright Eyes and The Mynabirds at The State Theatre 8 p.m. Since 2006 the once revolving cast of Bright Eyes players has settled around permanent members Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, with additional musicians joining them in the studio and on tour. Fully realized and bursting with charisma, The People’s Key is an assured and accomplished album, artfully arranged and filled with the engaging and mesmeric songwriting for which Oberst is

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Long considered a “songwriter’s songwriter,” John Prine is a rare talent who writes the songs other songwriters would sell their souls for. Evidence of this is the long list of songwriters who have recorded gems from his extensive catalog, including Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, the Everly Brothers, John Denver, Kris Kristofferson, Carly Simon, Ben Harper, Joan Baez, and many others. Tickets available in person at the PortTix Box Office at Merrill Auditorium, charge by phone at 842-0800 and online at www.porttix.com

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7 p.m. Avenged Sevenfold with Three Days Grace and Sevendust at the Cumberland County Civic Center. Avenged Sevenfold’s “Welcome To The Family” Tour is on sale today.

“The Nightmare After Christmas” Tour sold out and left many fans wanting more. Tickets: $39.75.