The Portland Daily Sun, Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Time for torches and pitchforks?

Fantasy gaffe league for our new governor?

See Bob Higgins on page 4

See Curtis Robinson’s column on page 5

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011 VOL. 2 NO. 247

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During an unusual and issue-packed Wednesday night session, the Portland City Council will talk trash, discuss student housing, debate the proposed JFK aircraft carrier museum and, once again, consider if the Cactus Club bar in Old Port should be

licensed. The council usually meets on the fi rst and third Monday of the month. This week’s meeting was pushed back from Monday to Wednesday due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day. While the agenda lists several high-profi le issues, the council may decide to table or reschedule decisions.

• TRASH The city is poised to create steep fi nes and designate a “discarded goods czar” to combat the problem of abandoned personal property and impromptu dumps, which municipal workers say have become “acute” problems on the peninsula, especially in see CITY page 3

LePage remarks fuel backlash at MLK events

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

“Equality isn’t a ‘special interest,’” read one placard. “Enraged by LePage: Shame, shame, shame,” offered another.

Marchers on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Portland fl ourished pointed rebukes on the way to City Hall, as resentment toward Gov. Paul LePage and his rebuff of the Maine NAACP resonated throughout the weekend.

LePage set off a political fi restorm Friday when he declined invitations from the Maine NAACP to attend Martin Luther King Jr. Staley-Mays Day events, calling the civil rights organization a “special interest” group and stating to a TV reporter, “Tell ‘em to kiss my butt.”

Reaction was swift. Fueled by sudden interest, a Martin Luther King Day Dinner in Portland Sunday sold out, according to organizers.

“We had not sold out for the dinner until his remarks, then we were over the top,” said Wells Staley-Mays, who works closely with the Portland Branch of the NAACP and is a community organizer with Peace Action Maine. “I know they turned people away, they had to, they were out of food.”

A March for Justice embarks from Preble Street Resource Center on the way to City Hall Monday afternoon. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

see BACKLASH page 9

Local boxer is a rising star for Los Angeles team

BY MATT DODGE

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Last Thursday, as Evander Holyfield sat ringside, local boxer Russell Lamour Jr. defeated a Olympic bronze

medalist to become the third-ranked amateur middleweight boxer in the world.

Lamour’s coach Bob Russo has no problem applying Holyfi eld’s famous

Jets’ confidence grows with win over Patriots See the story in sports, page 15

moniker to the 29 year-old Lamour.

“He’s the real deal,” said Russo. “I’ve worked with many many fighters — a few kids have made it to the Olympic trails — but talent-wise, Russell is

one of the most talented athletes I’ve worked with,” he said of the boxer, who also played basketball and football at Deering High School before stepping see BOXER page 14

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Smarter than the average dog (NY TIMES) — Chaser, a border collie who lives in Spartanburg, S.C., has the largest vocabulary of any known dog. She knows 1,022 proper nouns, a record that displays unexpected depths of the canine mind and may help explain how children acquire language.

Chaser belongs to John W. Pilley, a psychologist who taught for 30 years at Wofford College, a liberal arts institution in Spartanburg. In 2004, after he had retired, he read a report in Science about Rico, a border collie whose German owners had taught him to recognize 200 items, mostly toys and balls. Dr. Pilley decided to repeat the experiment using a technique he had developed for teaching dogs, and he describes his fi ndings in the current issue of the journal Behavioural Processes.

He bought Chaser as a puppy in 2004 from a local breeder and started to train her for four to fi ve hours a day. He would show her an object, say its name up to 40 times, then hide it and ask her to fi nd it, while repeating the name all the time. She was taught one or two new names a day, with monthly revisions and reinforcement for any names she had forgotten.

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For each of the last nine days, Ms. Giffords has made what doctors call remarkable progress, opening her eyes voluntarily, breathing on her own and moving her hands and legs. But doctors have repeatedly said that it is too early to know what her long-term prognosis might be.

After surgery Saturday to repair her right eye, Ms. Giffords again began to open her eyes

and “came back to that same baseline, that same level of interaction she has been having with us,” said Dr. G Michael Lemole, Jr. “At this time we are trying to tie up loose ends to get her prepared for that very fi rst stage of rehabilitation.”

“The day she leaves this hospital, that’s her graduation,” he added.

Ms. Giffords has now made it through the most dangerous period with potential for swelling, doctors said, but she still faces risks of infection or other serious complications. It will be months before doctors try to repair her skull.

Conspiracies don’t kill birds, but people do (NY TIMES) —At the beginning of this month when about 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky in one night in Arkansas, biologists were called on to put a damper on public speculation about pesticides and secret military tests by reminding everyone how many birds there are and how many die. They often do so as a result of human activity, but in far more mundane and dispiriting ways than conspiracy buffs might imagine.

“Five billion birds die in the U.S. every year,” said Melanie Driscoll,

a biologist and director of bird conservation for the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi Flyway for the National Audubon Society.

That means that on average, 13.7 million birds die in this country every day. This number, while large, needs to be put into context. The federal Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that a minimum of 10 billion birds breed in the United States every year and that as many as 20 billion may be in the country during the fall migratory season.

Even without humans, tens

of millions of birds would be lost each year to natural predators and natural accidents — millions of fl edglings die during their fi rst attempts at fl ight.

But according to the Fish and Wildlife Service, people have severely complicated the task of survival. Although mortality rates are diffi cult to calculate for certain, using modeling and other methods like extrapolation from local research fi ndings, the government has come up with estimates of how many birds die from various causes in the United States.

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The country’s Ministry of Finance says its efforts to change that have run into robust resistance from the very people lecturing them about the rule of law: American and European allies who do not want to see their own contractors taxed.

Those contractors respond that taxing them is an absurdity, because foreign companies are here spending military and other foreign aid money that, by United States law and plain commonsense, ought to be tax-exempt.

“The international community should be happy we are implementing the rule of law,” said Said Mubin Shah, deputy minister of fi nance for customs and revenue. “We should work together to solve this problem and impose the rule of law, because a lot of foreign contractors are evading their taxes.”

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New definition of ‘discarded goods’ in city proposal CITY from page one

relation to tenement housing areas.

In its report to councilors, city staff contends that “... in general the current ordinances related to trash, garbage, and other types of waste violations on private property are reasonably clear and effi cient in terms of allowing the City to enforce those ordinances. In relation to abandoned property left on City sidewalks and esplanades, however, the ordinance needs to be fi xed on an interim basis immediately.”

That fi x includes creation of a new definition of “discarded goods” as part of waste that’s prohibited for city streets and approval of “an assigned employee who will be responsible for responding to complaints about abandoned property.”

And instead of the current requirement of three notices to a landlord or person responsible for a property, the new rules would only require “one notice which can be given either by posting the property or by some other form of notifi cation including oral notification or electronic notification.”

But instead of the current four-hour period to remove offending goods, the responsible party would have 24 hours. After that time, the city can remove the waste and bill the responsible party. If the charges go unpaid, the city will “lien the property” much as it does when residents violate the sidewalk snow removal ordinance.

The new rules allow a fee of $100 per cubic yard of material, plus the cost of disposing of the material.

The staff tells councilors that “the fees and costs have been proposed at a relatively high rate in order to encourage responsible property owners to have the violations taken care of without involving the City.”

In addition, the new rules make it clear that the waste will be a police issue, not a public works issue. The summary notes that “... the ordinance amendments make a clear distinction between the City Departments responsible for addressing and removing abandoned property on City sidewalks and esplanades from the Department responsible for addressing the violations that occur on private property. The Chief of Police and the Public Works Authority will be responsible for addressing abandoned property on City streets, sidewalks,

and esplanades. The Chief of Police and the Building Authority will retain their current enforcement role for being responsible for waste violations on private property.”

Another sign that abandoned property is moving from public works to police is that the short-term waste committee will be dissolved and future issues will be handled by the public safety committee.

• STUDENT HOUSING The company that purchased the Bayside Village Student Housing Project on Marginal Way from the bank last year is asking the city to pay “upwards of $120,000 annually” under a 2003 Tax Increment Financing (TIF) provision.

Federated Companies, city staff explains, acquired the Bayside Village Student Housing Project in December 2010 from Key Bank. Now, the Federated Companies and their local financial institution, Androscoggin Savings Bank are requesting assignment of the existing Student Housing Tax Increment Financing Credit Enhancement Agreement .

The agreement is permitted to be given to “successors in interest in title” under the TIF agreement, but that required city council approval.

To qualify for the assignment, according to the city’s staff materials, The Federated Companies must “... maintain Bayside Village as a student housing facility consistent with the current project defi nition until such time as they apply for and secure its regulatory and development approval for changes to the project.”

• CACTUS CLUB City councilors seem ready to once again debate a liquor license for The Cactus Club, a Fore Street bar.

The Portland Police Department is recommending denial of the liquor license and the city had postponed debate to give the Club time to prepare a response.

Previous discussions have focused on the number of police calls to both the club and the area around the bar.

But the club and its backers say it gets a bad rap, often being blamed for problems that begin elsewhere and end up in their vicinity.

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F. Kennedy aircraft carrier to Portland for use as a museum are asking the city to continue voicing its support.

Under the Phase II process, the U.S. Navy requires formal expression of support to keep the local effort in the running for getting the ship. It also requires a specifi c site be approved should the ship come to town.

The JFK group, stressing that the project will be private and not at taxpayer expense, has identifi ed an area north of Pier 2B at Ocean Gateway as the designated site, should the carrier be awarded.

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Here’s a word to the governor: ‘Show a bit more civility’ Editor, Dear Governor LePage, Good Morning, Guv! How do you like the view from the mansion in Augusta? Has the Mrs. Redecorated and replace the drapes and rugs yet? A belated congratulation!

Don’t want to appear critical at this early juncture (people might assume that it was because I don’t completely share your views on selling off the State to the highest business bidder), but I do have a slight bone to pick.

You must really do something about your speech writers. There are better ways to say “No” to invitations by say the local NAACP, than by telling them to “Kiss my butt”… Sure, it is a memorable phrase and gets lots of ink, but you run the risk of coming off like a bad imitation of Bart Simpson…

Suggest that next time, you show a bit more civility, and employ a little less colorful language to say what you have to say. How about issuing a public statement instead that the colored folks just assume their rightful place and get at the back of the line?

Or that they perform the anatomically impossible to themselves? That way, you can make your point diplomatically and without ruffl ing so many feathers, as demonstrated by the shellacking you’re taking in the obviously liberal leaning mainstream press. Or you could simply say “No thanks). Only a suggestion…

Sincerely yours, David Wade Portland

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Torches and pitchforks Wednesday?

The city of Portland has an ambitious agenda for Wednesday night’s council meeting.

Council meetings are where city theory meets the often-cold face of reality. Folks show up to meetings, and are usually quite irritated over something the city has done, or is about to do, or didn’t do, or is about to stop doing.

First up, the city plans to fi nally confront the issue of whether or not to re-license the “Cactus Club.” Last year, the city ended up losing a prolonged legal battle with the club, and was forced to license the club for the remainder of 2010.

That license was due to expire in December, but due to advancement in the fi ne art of fi ddling about combined with a swiftly exiting city manager and city clerk, the decision of whether to re-license the club has been kicked to this Wednesday, Jan 19.

Portland Police have submitted several examples of over-serving, but since none of those have gone to court yet, I can see the club’s lawyer getting indignant about admitting evidence that hasn’t gone to court yet. Look not to the council for a fi nal decision, but to kick the issue down the road another month or two until they manage to fi gure out just what

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Additionally, the council will be taking on what I’m calling the “Landlord Wallet Hoovering Act,” a series of changes to the municipal trash code. As covered a few weeks ago in this column, landlords in the city will now be responsible for anything a tenant puts out as trash. They were before, but new changes in to city code cut the requirement of notification to a single one, and after that the city can pick up abandoned couches and the like, but bill the landlord $100 per cubic yard for the pickup.

Your standard issue, fair-sized dump-truck, for illustration, is 14 cubic yards, or $1,400 worth of space under the new rules.

Plus disposal costs. One black trash-bag, left out by a tenant who didn’t want to buy “blue” city bags could cost a landlord more than $100.

At some point, I expect a crowd

of landlords to show up at City Hall with torches and pitchforks, other than a few notorious landlords that have been trash scofflaws for years. I can’t imagine these folks agreeing to be on the hook for those costs, plus disposal costs, plus attorney’s fees. Not without a fight.

Another whopper on the agenda is the “JFK for ME” project. Last year, a local group learned that the US Navy planned to donate the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier to a suitable group or organization that agreed to turn it into a floating museum.

In the first phase of the long process, the group had the city council vote on support for the project.

Now, moving on to the second phase, the city has to designate a specific location where the group could put the ship. Since the ship is over 1,000 feet long, that is kind of a problem. The city has designated an area east of the Oceangate Terminal. Funny, now that the Maine Two-Foot railroad is talking about leaving town, the city manages to find something to dump right on top of it. I’m wondering what all the folks on the East End think. see HIGGINS page 5

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How can the governor sustain gaffe momentum?

It’s not too early to wonder about inclusion in the Dan Quayle Hall Of Fame For a governor in only his fi rst month, you have to admit that Paul LePage is setting a pretty tough pace in the gaffe department.

But then, seldom has any newcomer brought such high expectations to the office. In the campaign, of course, he electrified gaffe collectors across New England by telling a group of fi shermen in Brooksville that he wouldn’t be afraid to tell President Barack Obama to “go to hell.”

The Associated Press quoted that gaffe this way: “As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’”

Applause was reported. The thencandidate was also quoted as regretting the words he’d chosen but was in no way “backing down” from his criticism.

Now, by effectively dismissing the NAACP as just another special interest and suggesting critics of that opinion can smooch his posterior, the governor really is setting a breathtaking pace. And he’s not only a man of words – he also found time to hire his daughter for a plum state job.

And of course, he’s really underscored the classic rural-urban Maine

rift and left fathers of 6-year-olds explaining why “a bad word” is on the front pages.

But how can can one man be expected to keep this up?

Granted, like any gifted orator, LePage can always create his own material. He came into his own with fresh, original narrative that had the tea party crowd yelling for more. Now he’s moved into rare form – it’s not too early to wonder about inclusion in the Dan Quayle Hall Of Fame – but you have to worry about sustaining this level of gaffe-ness while running a state.

You have to wonder what the next talking points, gaffe-wise, might be?

“Celtics suck,” is a good one.

“The Jets earned it,” would be up there, at least until the NBA playoffs.

For me, the over/under on total gaffes this year is 15, fi guring about one per month with some bonus

boners once bills start getting voted out of the legislature.

“Cold builds character” is often mentioned as a likely gaffe when certain social service agencies get the eventual budget ax. Political insiders are, I think hopelessly, placing side bets on “actually, Diane, heat is a luxury item if you think about it.”

(That last one is a really, really inside joke because state Rep. Diane Russell’s email has the signature line, “Heat should not be a luxury item.”)

Of course, a rousing Fantasy Gaffe League is sure to form.

One Mainer is offering 5-to-1 that the governor manages to somehow incorrectly uses the phrase “Pardon my French” in an offensive way before St. Patrick’s Day. Another is betting even money that the governor, in public, discusses changing the state motto to “The Way Life Should Be If We Can Reduce Government.”

Others are more subjective, like a 3-to-1 suggestion that the governor insists that French fries in public schools be served with gravy and cheese curds, and he’ll insist it be called “Poutine Routine.” This would, of course, send our nutrition-minded citizens into a frenzy, but if you think

about it, it’s not so much a gaffe as just sound policy.

Another whole subset of gaffe-ness focuses on who is, and is not, a “special interest” for the new governor. A short list to get you started: NAACP: special interest.

Gun Right Groups: not special interest.

Business organizations: not special interests.

Environmental groups: special interest.

Right-to-life groups: not special interest.

City of Portland: not-as-special-asit-thinks interest.

Cities in general: special interests.

Tea Party: very special, but not a special interest.

It’s fun and you can, of course, make your own list. The trick, of course, is to fi gure out just when and how he’ll package the raw material into a true gaffe.

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on a host of issues vital to the planet’s future, including restoring global economic growth, combating the spread of weapons of mass destruction, and avoiding calamitous climate change.

It’s been 40 years since Henry Kissinger shook hands with Zhou Enlai. U.S. engagement with China helped bring the Cold War to a favorable conclusion and made possible three decades of explosive Chinese economic growth. Yet despite the mutual gains from cooperation on issues of shared concern, many in both capitals today see the United States and China on a collision course.

Some Americans interpret Beijing’s refusal to condemn North Korea’s recent aggression, the vehemence with which China has pressed disputed territorial and maritime claims, and sustained double-digit increases in defense spending as evidence of China’s hegemonic ambitions and desire to overturn the global order.

For their part, some Chinese analysts see U.S. efforts to enhance alliance

relationships with Japan and South Korea, grow security ties with India, Vietnam and Mongolia, support Taiwan’s defense, restrict high technology exports with military uses, and even encourage reductions in China’s carbon emissions, as proof of Washington’s desire to encircle China and thwart its economic rise.

It’s critical that leaders in both countries do not allow such suspicions, heightened by media and public opinion in both countries, to degenerate into mutual fear-mongering and demagoguery. China is not a revolutionary power, and the United States is not trying to contain it. And the simple fact is that we need China, and China needs us.

Let me be clear: getting this relationship right doesn’t mean papering over significant differences on thorny issues like human rights, but it does require not allowing disagreements to obscure positive developments. In fact, we need to consolidate and build upon existing areas of cooperation.

The recent resumption of militaryto-military dialogue is an absolutely critical step in building strategic trust.

I hope that Presidents Hu and Obama will pledge to insulate these conversations from disruption. It’s precisely in times of tension, whether over Taiwan arms sales or an incident at sea, that our military officers need to be talking.

The coming Obama-Hu summit will not produce a diplomatic breakthrough on par with President Nixon’s entente with Mao Zedong. But reinforcing the consensus in both countries in favor of a candid and affirmative partnership is a worthy and attainable goal that over time will prove to be vitally important in its own right. If the two leaders seize this opportunity, the story of the next 40 years of U.S.-China relations can be one of genuine cooperation, robust competition, and spectacular accomplishment.

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President Obama has a chance to bridge the trust deficit with China

BY SEN. JOHN KERRY MCCLATCHY

China’s President Hu Jintao will make a historic trip to Washington next week, appearing alongside President Obama on a stage likely to be dominated by two issues: righting the vast U.S.-China trade defi cit and avoiding a catastrophic war on the Korean Peninsula. Both subjects matter. Both are manageable, if we work together.

But lurking in the wings is an issue of even greater long-term importance: reducing the growing trust defi cit with China.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ recent trip to Beijing is a welcome development, but China’s decision to showcase its latest stealth fi ghter technology on the eve of his visit underscores the extent to which China is building capabilities designed to counter U.S. power. If left unaddressed, widening mistrust will imperil the ability of the world’s only superpower and most rapidly rising great power to cooperate

(Sen. John. F. Kerry, D-Mass, is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations.)

Cost of accommodating a new aircraft carrier are prohibitive HIGGINS from page 4

Steven Scharf, president of the Portland Taxpayers Association, was marshaling his forces over the weekend. In an e-mail to locals, he pointed out that “..the council promised a review of the pros and cons of the project before proceeding to the next step of the commitment. To date that review has been to host a workshop for only the committee to present its proposal and no opportunity for those opposed to this project to provide formal feedback.”

Them is fightin’ words, they is.

Essentially, this project is DOA and everyone involved knows it. Estimates of the harbor dredging

alone range from $1.5 million to $35 million, and not a cent of that can be government funded.

There might be a lot of former Navy and aircraft carrier enthusiasts out there, but I seriously doubt they have that kind of scratch kicking around amongst the lint and pocket change. Certainly, the city is going to ask those questions and dodge any financial obligation.

Then, the “JFK For ME” group has some interesting challenges. If they were picked, in addition to dredging costs, they project that they would have to raise a comparable amount to the other group in Rhode Island ($8 millon to $10 million) to make the museum happen, with potential of needing upwards

of $60 million over a 10-year period.

If the group wins the boat, but fails to raise the money, I’ll give you three guesses where the rest is going to come from, and the fi rst two guesses don’t count.

All this, and more in one council meeting. I didn’t see a mention of the unified field theory or revealing all the secrets of the universe in there, but the meeting backup material runs 199 pages.

There are days when brevity is the soul of wit.

Wednesday will not be one of them.

(Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

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The ‘Little White Truck’ of locally sourced foodstuffs

Dinner toasts Bangor chamber’s 100th year

The pork-belly that Masa Miyake uses in his restaurants is locally sourced. So are the tomatoes used at El Rayo. And the potatoes at Local 188 are Maine all the way.

Yet there are no pig farms, potato fields or commercial hothouses in Portland — so how do the piggies, taters and maters make their way to Portland kitchens?

Martha brings them in her little white truck.

Martha Putnam has been running Farm Fresh Connection, wholesaling agricultural products since 2001. She doesn’t have Maine in her name but she carries exclusively Maine products in her trucks. For years she warehoused the produce she distributed for 80-some farmers in rented refrigerator space in Scarborough. Since 2009 her distribution center has been in a beautifully crafted barn on Wealden Farm in Freeport, where her husband John Schwenk grew up.

To the average eye, the barn at Wealden Farm just 2 miles off the main drag, simply houses a conve-

The Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce will kick off the celebration of its 100th anniversary by hosting the state’s largest Chamber awards dinner on Wednesday, Jan. 19, at the Bangor Auditorium and Civic Center, organizers reported.

The event will welcome 1,000 dinner guests and will include a reception, “Hall of History” display and a multi-media program to honor community leaders and mark the Chamber’s centennial.

“This is the largest event we’ve ever hosted, and I’m excited about the program we’ve put together,” said Karen Cole, executive vice president of the Chamber and its marketing and events coordinator.

This year’s awards dinner will take on a more festive atmosphere with a Champagne toast to mark the 100th anniversary of the organization.

Picking up on that theme will be the Hall of History, which will feature specially made graphic

Margo Mallar –––––

Daily Sun Columnist nience store sized farm stand. Chicken sausage, pork, 8 varieties of garlic, a half-dozen varieties of potato, numerous squashes and a selection of Maine cheeses are among the things that Martha can offer, even in the depths of winter.

There’s a dedicated cooler to helping people rediscover some of their long lost white roots: parsnips, white carrots, turnips and celeriac. She’s got fi ddleheads and ramps when they’re in season, oats and fl our from Aurora Mills and a year-round supply of tomatoes from the greenhouses of Backyard Farms in Madison, Maine.

Five acres of Wealden Farm are in production. Most of the carrots, turnips and onions are sold directly see MALLAR page 8

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displays depicting major events in history and landmarks for the Chamber. The display was sponsored and created by the Bangor Daily News.

Maine Restaurant Week planners note participants PORTLAND — Organizers of the third annual Maine Restaurant Week unveiled participating restaurants Monday.

The event provides special setprice, three-course menus as a way to encourage dining during a traditionally slow time of year for the industry.

Maine Restaurant Week participating restaurants serve threecourse dinners priced at $20, $30 or $40. In addition, some restaurants will serve three-course lunches for $15. Beverages, gratuities and taxes are not included and not all restaurants will be offering lunches. Last winter over 100 Maine restaurants participated, and organizers anticipated topping that number this March, according to a press release. see BRIEFS page 8

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Tuesday, January 18, 2011— Page 7

Bangor teen charged with bringing gun into Denny’s

BY NOK-NOI RICKER THE BANGOR DAILY NEWS

BANGOR — A local man who allegedly carried a 9 mm handgun on his belt into Denny’s restaurant early Sunday scared those inside so much that they called police, Sgt. Paul Edwards said Monday. The man was arrested.

“People were dismayed over this,” Edwards said.

“That is why they called. They were scared about it.”

Alex Clendenning, 19, of Bangor was sitting at a corner table in the Haskell Road restaurant with

two other men when Officers Dick Polk, Mike Brennan and Gary Decker arrived at around 2 a.m.

The men “were all ordered to put their hands on the table,” Edwards said. “Two of the men complied, while the third, with his back turned towards the officers, lifted his shirt revealing a gun on his hip.”

On the table where the men sat “were bullets in a magazine” for the handgun and a single bullet, he said.

Polk took the handgun off Clendenning, who does not have a criminal record with Bangor police, and

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After police interviewed him and others at the restaurant, Clendenning was arrested on charges of carrying a concealed weapon and terrorizing. He was taken to the Penobscot County Jail and later released, a jail official said.

If convicted of either charge, Clendenning could face up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $2,000.

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“Hybrids have uniformity, but you sacrifi ce fl avor for that uniformity,” he says. Last year he experimented with sweet potatoes and was surprised by how easy it was.

“It’s not traditional to Maine but we get a lot of call for it so I’m thinking of doing more,” he says.

In addition to a Who’s Who list of Portland restaurants, Martha also supplies school cafeterias at Bowdoin, Colby and Bates as well as the students in the Portland School System, who get locally grown apples, carrots, potatoes, beans and maple syrup alongside whatever USDA surplus ends up on their lunch trays. The fresh tomatoes at Micucci’s?

Martha drops off 50 pounds every Friday. She delivers the cheeses from the cheesemakers up north to The Cheese Iron in Scarborough.

Martha’s enthusiasm is for the crops themselves, not whatever can be done to them. Ask her how to prepare the Chantenay Carrots- “Eat em raw.”

The Hakurai turnip? “Eat it raw too, it’s kind of radish-like.”

Celeriac? Mash it with potato, heavy cream and horseradish. Cippolini onions? “Roast them with a little wine, olive oil and salt and pepper.”

Her prescription for how to support Maine agriculture is simple and sage: “Buy food from Maine farmers.”

To talk to Martha, try her cell at 939-4748, email Martha@ farmfreshconnection.org or drop by the farmstand at 19 Pleasant Road in Freeport.

(Margo Mallar’s Locavore column appears each Tuesday in the Portland Daily Sun.)

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He called LePage’s comment “a throwback to decades ago, to one of the worst times of America’s racial divide. We all had hoped that those attitudes by public officials were behind us.”

“What you say belongs to the world,” City Councilor Dory Waxman quoted to a crowd gathered at the steps of City Hall Monday following a March for Justice from Preble Street Resource Center.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, Jan. 18, the 18th day of 2011. There are 347 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 18, 1911, the first landing of an aircraft on a ship took place as pilot Eugene B. Ely brought his Curtiss biplane in for a safe landing on the deck of the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Harbor.

On this date: In 1778, English navigator Captain James Cook reached the Hawaiian Islands, which he dubbed the “Sandwich Islands.”

In 1862, the tenth president of the United States, John Tyler, died in Richmond, Va. at age 71.

In 1919, the Paris Peace Conference, held to negotiate peace treaties ending World War I, opened in Versailles (vehrSY’), France.

In 1943, during World War II, the Soviets announced they’d broken through the long Nazi siege of Leningrad (it was another year before the siege was fully lifted). A wartime ban on the sale of pre-sliced bread in the U.S. — aimed at reducing bakeries’ demand for metal replacement parts — went into effect.

In 1949, Charles Ponzi, engineer of one of the most spectacular swindles in history, died destitute at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at age 66.

In 1957, a trio of B-52’s completed the first non-stop, round-the-world flight by jet planes, landing at March Air Force Base in California after more than 45 hours aloft.

In 1967, Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the “Boston Strangler,” was convicted in Cambridge, Mass., of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. (Sentenced to life, DeSalvo was killed in prison in 1973.)

In 1970, David Oman McKay, the ninth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at the age of 96.

In 1991, financially strapped Eastern Airlines shut down after more than six decades in business. Former New York Rep. Hamilton Fish died in Cold Spring, N.Y., at age 102.

One year ago: Taliban militants wearing explosive vests launched a brazen daylight assault on the center of Kabul with suicide bombings and gunbattles that paralyzed the Afghan capital for hours.

Today’s Birthdays: Movie director John Boorman is 78. Singer-songwriter Bobby Goldsboro is 70. Comedian-singer-musician Brett Hudson is 58. Actor-director Kevin Costner is 56. Country singer Mark Collie is 55. Actress Jane Horrocks is 47. Comedian Dave Attell is 46. Actor Jesse L. Martin is 42.

Rapper DJ Quik is 41. Rock singer Jonathan Davis is 40. Singer Christian Burns is 38.

NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous is 38. Actor Derek Richardson is 35.

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37 Ukrainian violinist Mischa 39 Cash machine 40 Sound of pain 43 Chess horses 47 RBI or ERA 48 Irish and Spanish growths 50 Kentucky race 52 Horn for reveille

53 Something else 54 Rams 55 City on the Irtysh River 56 Pull the trigger 57 Roof piece 59 Deadlocked 62 Region on the SW coast of India 63 Bread choice

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Executive order a topic of community conversation MARCH from page 9

In a press release, LePage said, “Dr. King is someone who spent and ultimately gave his life making sure that people got a fair shake regardless of race.

We have come far through the years, but the journey continues to make Dr. King’s dreams a reality. I urge all Mainers to work as one for a better life for all.”

Many supporters of LePage cheered his earlier outspokenness. Tea party followers called the NAACP a “racist” organization. Nationally, the NAACP had condemned the conservative tea party movement, a key backer of LePage in his race for governor, as “racist” in a resolution passed last July.

LePage took aim at the Maine NAACP on Friday on the eve of a busy weekend of MLK Holiday events

in Portland.

“I am the governor for 1.3 million people. I am not governor for a special interest, for a small group,” LePage told Maine Public Broadcasting Network (www.mpbn.net) Friday. “They are part of Maine. If they want to come talk to me about being a Maine resident, a Maine citizen, they’re invited. If they want to come talk to me about race cards they’re not invited.”

Already, a rift had formed. LePage’s fi rst signifi cant act as governor was issuing an order aimed at discouraging state services to illegal immigrants. He ended a Gov. John Baldacci-instituted state policy of not asking people about their immigration status when they apply for state benefits.

Rep. Ben Chipman, I-Portland, said he opposed

the lifting of the executive order prohibiting state officials from asking for the legal status of applicants for social services.

“I don’t really think there are very many immigrants who are not here legally getting benefi ts in Maine, and I don’t think people should be questioned on their status anytime they interact with a state agency. I think there are real problems that need to be addressed right now, and I don’t think that’s one of them,” Chipman said Monday following a group discussion at Preble Street.

“We were talking about different stereotypes,” Chipman said of the group discussion, one of almost a dozen similar sit-downs organized at Preble Street, a social services agency that serves the homeless. see next page

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: My father has a habit of touching me when he talks. He’ll tap my hand or leg, and he often touches my arm when it’s unnecessary. I’ve told him many times that I don’t like it, but he gets quite unhappy if I ask him to stop. He’s done this since I was a kid, and I’m 33 now.

Once, when I was 13, he kept tapping his leg against mine under the table at an outdoor restaurant. I couldn’t tolerate it and moved my leg away. My father fl ew into a rage, snarling and gritting his teeth and telling me I had a “disgusting habit.”

I am going to my parents’ house tomorrow and am not looking forward to it. I have to remember not to sit near Dad and to stand at least two feet away when he speaks to me. The problem is that while he’s talking, he moves closer and then starts tapping me. It infuriates me that he won’t stop no matter how many times I’ve asked him to.

Here’s what I suspect: My father considers me his property.

He wants to be able to put his hands on me the way one does with a pet. When I ask him to stop, he is insulted as if his property is being taken from him. I also suspect he taps me because he thinks I’m not listening and needs to keep my attention.

I avoid my parents as much as possible and don’t speak to my father unless it is absolutely necessary. Do other readers have this problem? -- Son who is Wondering Dear Son: It is common for parents to touch their children when speaking to them. In most instances, it is a sign of affection. We can understand, however, how constant tapping could be annoying, although your reaction seems out of proportion. If Dad is tapping your arm to keep your attention from drifting, you can work on getting him to stop, but it requires that you put a lid on your level of hostility. Try talking to him, saying that you love him but it makes you extremely

uncomfortable to be touched constantly. Remind him gently when he starts up.

Dear Annie: What are your views on older women dating younger men? I am 56, and he is 36. He first asked me to marry him 10 years ago, but I broke it off, thinking I was doing him a favor. I then married someone else, hoping he would find someone his age. He did, but that marriage didn’t last.

Neither did mine.

Am I being selfi sh? Is there any possibility that we could be happy together? My family has given us their blessing, but his is another story. I love him enough to let him go if you think I should. -- Happy but Older Dear Happy: The only question is whether or not he wants biological children. No marriage is a sure thing. Yours doesn’t come with fewer guarantees than any other. Our best wishes and congratulations.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Gagging in California,” who can’t stand being around people who smoke. She should be honest and forthright.

When our daughter was pregnant with her fi rst child, she and her husband told us we’d be babysitting every other weekend. It never happened. I found out by chance that my son-in-law didn’t want their child around us because we smoke.

Our son-in-law avoids our home whenever possible. I love my grandson, but we are closer to our other grandchild because we get to see him more often. Then my daughter complains that we are showing favoritism.

Had they spoken with us about this in the beginning, it still would have hurt, but at least we could have had an honest discussion. My husband and I thought we raised our children to behave like adults. Obviously not. -- San Bernardino, Calif.

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Tuesday, Jan. 18 Succession Planning for Businesses

4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Peter Plumb, co-founder and senior director of Murray, Plumb & Murray, will host a free seminar, “Succession Planning for Businesses and Family Real Estate” at the fi rm’s offi ce at 75 Pearl St. in Portland. This seminar will lead attendees through the often confusing and diffi cult questions of succession planning for businesses and family real estate. Owners of small businesses nearing retirement frequently struggle with decisions about whether to sell their business and on what terms. Families that own property together face diffi cult questions of how to use, maintain, govern and ultimately transfer ownership. This presentation will provide attendees with principles that will guide them through this process and increase the chances of a favorable outcome. The seminar is free but registration is required. To reserve a seat, contact Kathy Willette at 523-8243 or at kwillette@mpmlaw. com. Refreshments will be provided.

Supplements in Integrative Cancer Care

6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Nutritional & Herbal Supplements in Integrative Cancer Care with Colleen Tetzlaff. “Integrative cancer care and the role of nutritional supplements, including immunonutrition and herbal medicine, which can extend the quantity and quality of life for cancer patients. A personalized, systemic and targeted approach to treating the patient.” Free; pre-registration required. Phone: 774-2200; Email: info@CancerCommunityCenter.org; Web: www.cancercommunitycenter.org/calendar. Visit 778 Main St. (Rte 1), South Portland.

Wednesday, Jan. 19 Film on Creativity with Filmmakers

6 p.m. The fi lm “M.C. Richards: The Fire Within” will be screened at the Maine College of Art, Osher Hall, 522 Congress St. The movie “is a love poet’s journey into discovering the delicate links between creativity and the imagination.

In rare documentary footage about this pivotal fi gure in the New York avant garde, we witness Mary Caroline Richards (1916-1999) engage in contemplative questioning regarding the nature of art, imagination, wholeness, and community.

Known for her infl uential book ‘CENTERING,’ M.C. was head of faculty at the experimental Black Mountain College (19 49 -51) serving with Robert Rauschenberg, Willem deKooning, Arthur Penn, Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage among others. This fi lm has been selected for nine international fi lm festivals and won Best Film in the 2010 Image Gazer Film Festival. Filmmakers Richard Kane and Melody Lewis-Kane will present the film at MECA’s Osher Hall, 522 Congress St., Portland.

Admission free.” Sponsored by Maine College of Art. www. kanelewis.com

Capoeira: From Africa to Brazil to Maine

6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Merrill Auditorium Rehearsal Hall. Portland’s capoeira Mestre Joao Bordallo lectures on the religious, historical, and contemporary vitality of capoeira, a martial art form created by African slaves in Brazil over 400 years ago. http://portlandovations.org

Balé Folclórico da Bahia brings thrilling choreography, joyous rhythms, and a feisty, sensual exuberance to every performance.

The troupe will perform at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium on Wednesday, Jan. 19. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Exhibit of Antonio Guerrero

7 p.m. Glickman Library (seventh fl oor) at University of Southern Maine, 314 Forest Ave., Portland. Reception marking the exhibition (on fi fth fl oor) of prison paintings by Antonio Guerrero. “Vinie Burrows will speak, dedicating the evening to the late Rev. Lucius Walker. She calls for Antonio’s freedom and that of four other Cuban men serving unjust sentences in U.S. prisons.” http://usm.maine.edu/ gallery/cal.html or www.peaceactionme.org

versary of the company, and seen in the U.S. for the fi rst time on this tour. $44; $38; $32. Members: $40; $34; $29.

Students: $15. Merrill Auditorium.

48th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival

7:30 p.m. Balé Folclórico da Bahia brings thrilling choreography, joyous rhythms, and a feisty, sensual exuberance to every performance. The 38-member troupe of dancers, instrumentalists, and singers performs a repertory based on Bahian folkloric dances of African origin including slave dances; capoeira, a form of martial arts; samba de roda and the lively traditions celebrating Carnival. The centerpiece of the evening, Sacred Heritage, is a work rooted in the AfroBrazilian religion of Candomblé, created for the 20th anni-

7:30 p.m. Film event: Traveling tour of the 48th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival; Program 1: Wednesday, Jan. 19; Program 2: Wednesday, Jan. 26. SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. Doors open at 7 p.m. Film begins at 7:30 p.m.

Admission $7, $5 for SPACE members and MECA students.

Co-presented by the ICA at The Maine College of Art. The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, established in 19 63. Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent fi lmmakers and artists, each year’s festival engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences. The AAFF is a pioneer of the traveling fi lm festival tour and each year presents short fi lms programs at more than 30 theaters, universities, museums and art house cinemas throughout the world.

issued a statement, noting, “There has been a lot of discussion about the tone of our political debate lately and we would do well to look to the words and wisdom of Dr. King at times like this. At a time when heated political debate sometimes erupted into violence, Dr. King preached peace, tolerance and respect. He set an example for dignity and decency that we could all learn from.”

LePage’s official media release on the NAACP controversy Friday stated, “This is not about race — Paul has a black son. This is about a special interest group taking issue with the Governor for not making time for them and the Governor dismissing their complaints in the direct manner people have come to expect from Paul LePage.

The Portland Daily Sun issued requests for comment via Facebook from people on both sides of the debate. On Monday, responses continued to trickle in.

Staley-Mays wrote, “Governor LePage’s comments regarding the NAACP demonstrate a total disregard for the nation’s oldest human rights organization.

His comments about his Black son coverup the racist nature of his politics. His choice of words ‘kiss my butt’ were crude and set a poor example to all of us who try to have a civil and respectful conversation.”

Bennett Stanford wrote, “Simply would you rather have an honest gov or a politically correct one ... we’ve

had that as well as other states for years and it doesn’t work ... naacp is a textbook special interest group and by definition a ‘racist’ one at that.”

Richard Pierce, a timber worker from Bangor, wrote, “I fully support the Governor in his decision to honor previous engagements. He is a very busy man, and has a lot to do fi xing the mess we are in here in Maine.

He could try to be a little more political at times, but totally agree with his agenda.”

Christopher Bowker, who lives in Windham, wrote that Gerald E. Talbot, fi rst president of the Portland branch NAACP, and LePage could fi nd common ground.

“I actually have met both Mr Talbot and Mr LePage this past year. I like them both very much. Mr Talbot is very personable, and he should give our Governor a call, and ask to pay him a visit privately. I’m sure they’d get along quite nicely. I think both men should get to know each other. Hopefully a few pleasant visits would engenders good will. As for the the rest, well I’d keep the comments to the press down to a minimum!”

In an interview Monday, Staley-Mays said LePage’s remarks helped fuel a backlash.

“LePage has done the left a great service, and progressives and humanity, and humanity and Maine.

It’s so much easier to unite people when there’s a common threat,” he said.

Balé Folclórico da Bahia

Writer: ‘Simply would you rather have an honest gov or a politically correct one’ from preceding page

“When I went door to door, I heard a lot of different comments from some people about immigrants receiving benefits, they think people are coming to this country and coming to Maine just to get welfare benefi ts.

In fact I know that not to be the case because a lot of immigrants I met have come here from other countries because they’re war-torn countries and they had to get out of the country and didn’t really come here by choice but happy they had a safe place to come to. They want to work and they want to start businesses and they don’t want to be on welfare.”

As for LePage’s comments, Chipman said they were “inappropriate.”

“I don’t agree with what he said, I think it kind of stirred people up and people didn’t really need to be stirred up, everybody’s trying to come together and work together on issues of racism,” he said.

Brad Emerson, another participant in one of the group discussions Monday, said, “It shouldn’t be an embarrassment, every state has to deal with what he did. To have this happen on the holiday, he should be at this forum at Preble Street.”

Some officials sidestepped direct reference to LePage but urged civility.

U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, a speaker at Sunday’s Martin Luther King Day Dinner in Portland,

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Snowfall expected to boost Bethel WinterFest

BY TERRY KARKOS

THE SUN JOURNAL, LEWISTON

BETHEL — Thanks to the expected timely arrival today of more than a foot of powdery snow, the stage is set for Bethel WinterFest 2011.

The nine-day event will be held from Saturday, Jan. 22, through Sunday, Jan. 30.

Featured activities and events include ice skating, a Tubb’s snowshoe demonstration and scavenger hunt, snow groomer rides, alpine and Nordic events, a Main Street Rail Jam, scenic helicopter rides, Robin Zinchuk, executive director of the Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce, said in an e-mail.

Inside events include performances, exhibits at the Bethel Historical Society, music, food and special lodging deals.

Additionally, the Main Street Rail Jam returns Thursday, Jan. 27, for its second straight year.

“We had more than 1,000 people show up last year amidst a blinding snowstorm,” Zinchuk said of the snowboard and skiing competition.

“This is being built and run by volunteers, who approached the chamber to include the event in our festival.”

A video of last year’s Jam is on the chamber’s WinterFest website at www.bethelwinterfest.com. A complete schedule of this month’s events can also be found there.

Zinchuk also said that Owens Corning, one of WinterFest 2011’s event sponsors, will be present for the duration of the festival. The company will showcase

Portland plans third WinteRush Festival The third annual WinteRush Festival: Maine’s Coolest Outdoor Festival will be held at Deering Oaks Park on Saturday, Feb. 12, according to a consent agenda order before the Portland City Council at its Wednesday meeting (the meeting was rescheduled from Monday due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday).

The Downtown Showdown will be held in Monument Square and will kick off the third annual WinteRush Festival, according to the city order. Events at the Downtown Showdown will include a snowboard and ski rail championship, sponsored by Sunday River and Sugarloaf ski areas.

The WinteRush Festival will include a snow carving contest, snowman contest, snow painting, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, snowboarding, sliding down “Deering Hill” (a Public Services made mountain of snow on the hillside near the Oaks tennis courts), skating, outdoor games, storytelling and talks on winter habitat, according to the order. The Portland School PTO’s will be selling refreshments and winter clothing at the festival.

Last year, in its second year, most of the festival was cancelled for lack of snow.

— David Carkhuff

its replacement windows and insulated panel systems in a self-contained trailer at Festival Plaza.

“All are encouraged to come and sign up to win one of two grand prizes: a house full of replacement windows and a finished basement or garage system

installed and fully furnished,” Zinchuk said.

Bethel’s winter festivals date back from the L.L. Bean Cross Country Ski Festival through the mid1990s, she said.

“As you may know, we never missed a beat when L.L. Bean decided to discontinue the festival and we built the World’s Tallest Snowman — Angus King of the Mountain in 1999,” Zinchuk said.

“We had a variety of winter festival events through the early 2000s, such as an attempt to build 2,000 snowmen in the winter of 2000, a year we had a snow drought!” she said.

Other events included antique snowmobile shows, hot air balloon events, ice carving demonstrations and polar plunges.

“You name it, we have done it,” she said. “In 2008, we created Olympia SnowWoman. She was fabulous! In 2009, we hired a company to build us some enormous snow sculptures, and had a sculpting team from Alaska ‘wow’ us with their skills.”

Last year, the WinterFest volunteers created a huge snow maze.

This winter, they’re attempting to create a 120to 140-foot-tall mountain of ice, which currently resembles an ice tower.

“Enveloped in white and red lights, the tower is a sight to behold and worth the trip to check out,” Zinchuk said.

Copyright (c) 2011, Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

WSB allows fighters to compete in a modified pro setup “Promoters at the National BOXER from page one Championships see these into Russo’s Portland Boxing [boxers] and scoop them up, Club during his junior year. thus we send a team to the “He’s got great fundamenOlympics that aren’t pulling tals, great speed, great size a lot of medals,” he said. for his weight division and a In contrast, the WSB great attitude, he’s a fun guy allows fighters to compete in to work with,” said Russo. a modifi ed pro setup while Lamour beat John Joe maintaining their Olympic Joyce of Kildare, Ireland, eligibility and making some improving to 3-0 on the cash. Lamour was drafted season and helping the Los for the fl edgling WSB after Angeles Matadors cruise to being ranked the third best a 4-1 victory over the Miami amateur middleweight in Gallos. the country.

If the team names, or even WSB boxers earn bonuses the very concept of team for fi ghts won, rounds won boxing seems unfamiliar, and other factors, and can you’re not that far behind the make between $25,000 and times. The league, organized $300,000 per year according as the World Series of Boxing to ESPN. “They box like pros (WSB), only began in Novem— no headgear, gloves, no ber and features four teams shirts and fi ve three-minute each from the Americas, rounds,” said Russo.

Europe and Asia, from TurAfter the WSB’s 12-match key’s Istanbulls to Kazakhregular season, the top stan’s Astana Arlans and U.S. two boxers in each division teams in Miami, Memphis compete in a playoff, with and L.A. the winning boxer earning Initiated by the Internaa spot in the U.S. Olympic tional Boxing Association boxing trials.

(AIBA), the team-oriented “I’m loving it,” said competition featuring fi ve Lamour. “I’m fi ghting top weight divisions and is very guys and beating them and much a reaction to the United everyone out here is able to State’s poor showing in past see what I can do,” he said.

Olympic boxing events, For Lamour, the WSB and Local boxer Russell Lamour became the third best middleweight amateur according to Russo. boxer in the world last week after defeating a former Olympic bronze medal- his team’s homebase of Los Boxing promoters will often ist as part of the Los Angeles Matador. The team, part of the newly-formed Angeles have been helpful World Series of Boxing, allows boxers to earn money and gain experience convince talented young in developing his skill and while retaining their amateur status so they may qualify for the Olympics. boxers to turn pro, opening prepare him for his Olympic (COURTESY PHOTO / LOS ANGELES MATADORS) up the possibility for a big and professional careers. payday but closing the door “[L.A.] has tons of boxers, matches and six Northeast Chamto Olympic eligibility, said Russo, who even world champions, and it’s a big pionships titles before he joined the coached Lamour through 90 amateur boxing state. I get to spar with a lot of WSB.

really good guys,” he said.

The WSB gives boxers a chance to get a taste of the level of competition that lay ahead if they choose to pursue careers in boxing. “They can do this for a couple years and see how they like it — turning pro isn’t for everybody,” Russell said.

“He was going to turn pro anyway, but this way all expenses are paid, there’s a training camp environment the whole time and an awesome semipro kind of situation to groom him for the pros,” said Russo.

Lamour said the league is great not only for individual experience, but U.S. boxing on the whole. “A lot of good amateurs turn pro real quick and they don’t get to represent their country in the Olympics, that’s always been huge to me,” said Lamour, who missed a shot at the Olympic trials by one point last time around.

“This way, I feel like I can win this,” he said.

“The first thing is for him to do well with the [WSB] and get an Olympic trial spot; he’s an Olympic-style fighter, he scores a lot of points, has fast hands and is a good, good boxer.

It’s what the Olympic style is all about,” said Russo.

For the time being, Rusell will finish out the season with the Matadors, retruning to Portland in April or May to resume training with Russo. “When he comes back, I’ll keep him busy,” said Russo.

Lamour said the return to his chilly east coast home will be a little sunnier if he returns with a Olympic trial berth in tow.

“I hope to come back to Maine and know that I’m going to the Olympics.

That’s what we’re pushing for, hopefully we get there,” he said.

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Jets’ confidence grows with win over Patriots

BY GERRY FRALEY

THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. _ To grasp what the Dallas Cowboys could gain by adding Rob Ryan as defensive coordinator, take a look at what his twin brother accomplished Sunday.

Rex Ryan played the role of head coach to the hilt. He pumped the New York Jets full of bravado and laid the plan that enabled them to accomplish the unthinkable.

In the high pressure of an AFC divisional-round playoff game, the Jets beat a club that spanked them by 42 points just five weeks ago.

The Jets, as cocksure as their coach, strutted into Gillette Stadium and did what few teams have done during Bill Belichick’s reign with New England.

The Jets made the Patriots look bad and confused iconic quarterback Tom Brady in a 28-21 victory.

After a week of yapping, the Jets roared. They backed up the Ryan-led talk.

“We talk because we believe in ourselves,” Ryan said. “That’s what the talk was coming from. Maybe people take it the wrong way. But we respect every opponent, but we’re not fearing anybody.

“Maybe I’m not always wrong on everything I say.”

He is often correct. When Rex Ryan says something seemingly outrageous, there is a good reason for it.

When Ryan started stirring the emotional pot by calling out Belichick, he was trying to tell the Jets how much he believed in them. If any player missed the message, Ryan repeated it during a midweek team meeting. According to cornerback Darrelle Revis, Ryan told the club that he wanted to “embarrass” the Patriots.

As Revis said, who could not play when a coach speaks with so much emotion?

In this area, the Brothers Ryan are one and the same. Put aside their strategic expertise for a moment and consider their ability to motivate players.

They recognize football must be

played at a high emotional level and understand how to tap into that part of a player’s makeup. The Brothers Ryan do it their way. If it rubs the other side the wrong way, so be it.

It’s not all bluster. It’s motivation without the frills.

“They’re similar,” said Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards, who played at Cleveland when Rob Ryan ran the defense. “Rex is a little more vocal.

Rob curses more. Rob has that same cool attitude. Players love playing for him. He puts guys in the right situation. His defenses are really good.”

The Brothers Ryan are good at the X’s and O’s aspect of the game, too.

Rex Ryan and his defensive coordinator, Mike Pettine, put together a game plan that thoroughly stymied Brady.

The rap against the Brothers Ryan is they play caveman defense: blitz, blitz and blitz some more. Their father, longtime NFL assistant and head coach Buddy Ryan, might have played it that way, but his sons are more refined. They will blitz, and they will plot and scheme, too.

The Jets used only a few blitzes.

They forced Brady into a sub-par showing _ 29-of-45 for 299 yards with two touchdowns and one interception _ by getting pressure from threeand four-man fronts and throwing in enough zones with fi ve defensive backs to keep him off-balance. Brady took fi ve sacks and padded his stats late in the fourth quarter.

“When you see a Hall of Fame quarterback get confused, you know you’ve got a good game plan,” defensive lineman Trevor Pryce said. “Tom Brady literally had no answer for it.”

One play said it all. Trailing 21-11 in the fourth quarter, the Patriots had a third-and-13 from the Jets’ 34.

Brady had seven seconds but could not decide where to throw. He fi nally made a no-chance heave to running back Danny Woodhead.

“Keeping (Brady) confused, that was our game plan,” Jets linebacker Bart Scott said. “We didn’t execute last time. We’re able to play disci-

New York’s Santonio Holmes does a back fl ip after scoring a fourth-quarter touchdown during the Jets’ 28-21 win in the AFC divisional playoffs against the New England Patriots in Foxborough, Mass., Sunday. (Tyson Trish/The Record/MCT)

plined football. We’re not a bunch of reckless, undisciplined players.”

They are Ryan players. The Jets have them. The Cowboys must get them for

Rob Ryan to have the same impact. (c) 2011, The Dallas Morning News.

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him a chance to catch Wolfgram’s sharp eye.

Gwilym gradually made the decision look like a stroke of genius. He accumulated 22 touchdowns as a runner and thrower in spearheading Cheverus’ undefeated championship season.

“We won six games in an extremely tough SMAA conference in the fourth quarter this year, and Peter was the reason,” Wolfgram said. “We won those games on the strength of his feet, his arm and mostly his head.”

The coach’s vision also turned Gwilym into one of the most dangerous defensive players in the state.

“He brought a linebacker’s mentality to free safety,” Wolfgram said. “He probably would have been better as a linebacker, but we couldn’t afford that. He loves to hit.”

Gwilym delivered just as many big plays when opponents had the ball. He

made 94 tackles, forced three fumbles and recovered another.

The most spectacular of his five interceptions turned into a 109-yard return for a touchdown, one of many key plays in a 35-34 victory over Ross and Deering in the Western Class A championship.

Max Cloutier of Leavitt, a center, defensive tackle and kicker, was honored at the banquet along with eight other semifinalists.

Joining him were Kyle Bishop of Waterville, Michael Cyr of Scarborough, Ethan Drigotas of Kennebunk, Luke Duncklee of Cony, Nick Gagne of Biddeford, Caleb Kenney of Portland, Nick Proscia of Yarmouth and Josh Woodward of Thornton.

Copyright (c) 2011, Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

Cheverus High QB wins Fitzpatrick Trophy

BY KALLE OAKES

THE SUN JOURNAL, LEWISTON

PORTLAND — Given his choice, Peter Gwilym probably never would have played quarterback at Cheverus High School.

Wide receiver and running back were Gwilym’s natural positions, or so he thought.

Then John Wolfgram, Cheverus’ coach and long one of the state’s most respected evaluators of talent, called Gwilym into his offi ce midway through the student’s freshman year and dropped a bombshell.

“He told me I was going to be the starting quarterback the next year. That was pretty shocking news. I remember at the fi rst mini-camp, I couldn’t even hold onto a snap. We worked on passing plays and I couldn’t complete a pass, either.”

Gwilym more than grew into the posi-

tion. He evolved into the best football player on the best team in the state.

Two months after leading his school to its fi rst state championship in 25 years, Gwilym received the 40th annual Fitzpatrick Trophy on Sunday.

Cam Kaubris of Mountain Valley and Jamie Ross of Deering also were fi nalists for the award, presented each year to the outstanding senior football player in the state at Holiday Inn By the Bay. Academics and citizenship also are strongly considered as criteria for the award, voted upon by coaches and media.

“Growing up in Freeport, we didn’t have organized football when I was younger. I didn’t really know what the Fitzpatrick Trophy was,” Gwilym said.

“Eventually we did get a program, and I was fortunate to play three years.”

That earned him a place on the Cheverus roster as a freshman, giving

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