The Portland Daily Sun, Thursday, December 2, 2010

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2010

Dude ... where’s my clinic?

See Bob Higgins’ column on page 4

Word of mouth: A nod to vocabulary

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Sizing up the creative economy Creative Portland to tackle an extensive, year-long Arts & Economic Prosperity Survey

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Portland’s creative economy may be a highly visible part of what makes Portland the city it is — from the holiday light sculptures of Pandora LaCasse to the hotly contested and recently exiled “Tracing The Fore” sculpture — but what does it all amount to in dollars and cents?

Hutchins

A 2007 study set that value at $28.64 million, but those numbers are getting old.

The city-backed arts group Creative Portland’s newly hired director Jennifer Hutchins announced on Wednesday the organization’s plan to once again undertake

an extensive, year-long survey to determine the economic impact of the creative and nonprofit sector of Portland’s creative economy.

The Arts & Economic Prosperity Survey IV, conducted by Americans for the Arts, is aimed at gauging the economic impact of the countless concerts, gallery shows, plays see CREATIVE page 6

City at the intersection of crossing technology

Community celebrates start of Hanukkah

See Barry Smith’s column on page 5

Portland tapped for demo project to ease pedestrian crossings

Pats gel for Jets See Sports, page 7

BY MATT DODGE

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Rabbi Moshe Wilansky, director of Portland-based Chabad Lubavitch of Maine, lights a menorah at City Hall Wednesday night for the start of Hanukkah, Dec. 1-9. About 50 people attended the ceremony, including Mayor Nicholas Mavodones and representatives for U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe and Gov.-elect Paul LePage. The rabbi climbed into a “snorkel,” the basket operated by Ladder Truck 1, of the Portland Fire Department. A blustery wind created problems with the annual menorah lighting, prompting the rabbi to delay lighting the other lamps. For more about Hanukkah, see page 8.

(DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Pedestrians will soon have an easier time crossing two of Portland’s busier intersections thanks to a new technology originally developed to help the vision impaired.

This week the city’s Public Services Department Traffic Section began installing the new system at the intersections of Park Avenue/Deering Avenue and Franklin Street/Commercial Street.

Developed by Massachusettsbased Migma Systems and funded

by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) demonstration grants see CROSSINGS page 3

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Portland City Clerk Linda Cohen is leaving her position effective Jan. 7, saying she plans to work in real estate.

“I am looking forward to selling real estate full time with my daughter and son-in-law

Cohen

and being open to other opportunities that might present themselves,” Cohen wrote in an email message to The Daily Sun. Cohen began

her service with the city in 2001 and has been credited with restructuring the clerk’s department and greatly improving the administration of elections, city officials said.

“For nearly a decade, Linda has been the person behind the curtain making sure that the

clerk’s office was an open and welcoming place for the public,” said Mayor Nicholas Mavodones. “Her tireless commitment to her responsibility as City Clerk helped restore the public’s trust in our elections and without question, her efforts see COHEN page 3

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Star count may triple WASHINGTON (AP) — The universe may glitter with far more stars than even Carl Sagan imagined when he rhapsodized about billions upon billions.

A new study suggests there are a mind-blowing 300 sextillion of them, or three times as many as scientists previously calculated. That is a 3 followed by 23 zeros. Or 3 trillion times 100 billion.

The estimate, contained in a study published online Wednesday in the journal Nature, is based on findings that there are many more red dwarf stars — the most common star in the universe — than once thought.

But the research goes deeper than that. The study by Yale University astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and Harvard astrophysicist Charlie Conroy questions a key assumption that astronomers often use: that most galaxies have the same properties as our Milky Way. And that conclusion is deeply unsettling to astronomers who want a more orderly cosmos.

When scientists previously estimated the total number of stars, they assumed that all galaxies had the same ratio of dwarf stars as the Milky Way, which is spiral-shaped.

Much of our understanding of the universe is based on observations made inside our own galaxy and then extrapolated to other galaxies But about one-third of the galaxies in the universe are elliptical, not spiral, and van Dokkum found they aren’t really made up the same way as ours.

Using the Keck telescope in Hawaii, van Dokkum and a colleague gazed into eight distant, elliptical galaxies and looked at their hard-to-differentiate light signatures.

The scientists calculated that elliptical galaxies have more red dwarf stars than predicted. A lot more.

“We’re seeing 10 or 20 times more stars than we expected,” van Dokkum said.

Generally scientists believe there are 100 billion to a trillion galaxies in the universe. And each galaxy — the Milky Way included — was thought to have 100 billion to a trillion stars. Sagan, the Cornell University scientist and best-selling author who was often impersonated by comedians as saying “billions and billions,” usually said there were 100 billion galaxies, each with 100 billion stars.

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Winds lash the East, knock out power NEW YORK (AP) — Windwhipped rain knocked out power Wednesday to thousands along the East Coast, closed the Statue of Liberty and delayed flights at three major airports. At least three people were killed.

Tornado watches were issued for parts of the Virginias, and sandbags were handed out in Washington, D.C., to protect homes from flooding. Thousands were without electricity in the mid-Atlantic region and New York, and some schools delayed openings.

Suspected tornadoes have touched down from Louisiana to South Carolina since Monday as part of the storm system, which reached the Northeast late Wednesday, with colder air turning the rain into snow.

In New York, gusts of winds that snapped a huge, lighted Christmas tree at the South Street Seaport also prompted the closure of the Statue of Liberty. Flight delays of up to five hours were reported at LaGuardia Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

The National Weather Service issued thunderstorm warnings for parts of New Jersey, New York City and suburban Long Island. High winds led authorities to briefly ban all trucks from using the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Commuter rail service between Newark, N.J., and New York City was briefly suspended on Wednesday due to overhead wire damage, New Jersey Transit said. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the storm was responsible for the damage.

Peggy Gaines looks at what is left of an awning and fence at her home in Prattville, Ala. following a severe storm on Tuesday that swept over the East Coast and parts of the South. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, Mickey Welsh)

The rain was causing some discomfort in the city, where broken umbrellas peeked out from trash cans and many pedestrians were soaked.

“I’m about 45 percent drenched,” said Charles Hendricks, 33, passing out fliers in front of a Manhattan store. “My arms, my legs, my hat. But I still prefer a wet day over a cold day, especially in December.”

In New Jersey, a man was killed and his wife injured when a tree toppled and struck their car, West Milford police said. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, and the woman was taken to a hospital with head injuries. Thousands in the state were without power.

In upstate New York, blowing snow caused treacherous driving conditions, and high winds were blamed for knocking out power to more than 31,000 utility customers.

Hundreds of miles to the

south, residents in Buford, Ga., were cleaning up after a tornado with winds as high as 130 mph whipped through, damaging more than 50 homes, the National Weather Service said.

No injuries were reported there.

Tami O’Connor’s house suffered considerable damage and a home across the street was destroyed. She was home with her two children when the storm hit.

“It didn’t take any more than two minutes. As I walked into the living room to tell my kids to get into the basement, my living room imploded,” she said. “Half of my living room was sucked into my backyard, but nobody was hurt. It was a miracle. The baby Jesus is still on the mantel.”

Insured losses were estimated at $5 million, said state Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, who surveyed the neighborhood from the air Wednesday.

In an unincorporated area of suburban Atlanta about 30 miles away, 54-year-old Matthew Mitchell died after a tree fell on the car he was driving Tuesday in a storm. Police believe strong wind gusts blew the tree over.

In Tennessee, a rock slide followed 2 inches of rain, blocking part of a highway between Knoxville and the airport. Flooding closed roads in the Carolinas, which saw up to 6 inches of rain in some areas. In Greenville County, S.C., 50-year-old Rita Hunter of Travelers Rest was killed Tuesday when she lost control of her car on a wet roadway, struck a tree and overturned.

Wet, wintry weather in Pennsylvania caused flooding and delayed school openings. More than 3 inches of rain had fallen in Pittsburgh since Tuesday morning, National Weather Service officials said, and the drenching forced the evacuation of dorms at the University of Pittsburgh satellite campus in Bradford near the New York state line. Classes were canceled.

Earlier, the storm brought suspected tornadoes to Louisiana and Mississippi, where more than a dozen people were injured. In Yazoo City, Miss., which was hit months ago by a severe tornado, 63-year-old Clarence Taylor said the town again looked like a war zone.

The winds blew off a tarp he had put on his roof to cover damage from the April storm.

“This is the second time it dropped down on this street in just six months,” Taylor said.

“I’ve been through it, man.”

Father of three missing boys fights return to Mich.

MORENCI, Mich. (AP) — A couple whose three sons have been missing since Thanksgiving had bickered over custody as they negotiated their divorce, but they still did things together as a family.

On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, John and Tanya Skelton took their boys — Andrew, 9, Alexander, 7, and Tanner, 5 — to help decorate the United Methodist Church in Morenci and a nearby park for the Christmas season.

“Andrew said to me, ‘With the park all lit up and church all lit up, we’re going to light up the town,’” the Rev. Donna Galloway, who also serves as the chaplain for the Morenci Fire Department, said

Wednesday.

“It was a good day, it was a family day, for all of us at the church. That light — and the season of light — is what we’re holding on to,” Galloway said.

That was the last time Galloway saw the whole family together.

The following Friday, Tanya Skelton reported the boys missing when their father didn’t return them to her. Police say he tried to hang himself, and that he lied to investigators when he said he first gave the boys to a female acquaintance to hand over to their mother.

The disappearance of the boys, who were last seen on Thanksgiving playing in their

father’s yard, has gripped those living in and around Morenci, a community of about 2,000 residents 75 miles southwest of Detroit.

A small army of volunteers fanned out for a fifth day Wednesday to search the countryside around Morenci and across the border in Ohio.

Meanwhile, the children’s father was in a Toledo, Ohio, courtroom, fighting extradition back to Michigan to face three charges of parental kidnapping.

John Skelton, a 39-year-old unemployed long-haul truck driver, sat throughout the hearing in a wheelchair covered by a green blanket, answering the judge’s yes-or-no questions in a whisper.

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Thursday, December 2, 2010— Page 3

City clerk stepping down from post COHEN from page one

enhanced the voting experience for Portland residents. On a personal level, she was a tremendous asset to the City Council as she was able to keep us focused and on task. I am sorry to see her go as she will be sorely missed, and I wish her the best in her future endeavors.”

Among her accomplishments, Cohen worked with the Maine Animal Welfare Program to develop legislation that improved the licensure of service animals, trained election workers to ensure that voters with disabilities are treated with respect and their voting experience goes smoothly, and implemented a job share program among her staff to make certain that the public’s needs came first. In 2006, Cohen became the second city clerk in Maine to attain her Master Municipal Clerk status

from the International Institute of Municipal Clerks. In 1995, Cohen won the Lorraine M. Fleury Award from the Maine Secretary of State, which is presented to recognize and honor Cohen an individual who has made a significant contribution to the election process and who exemplifies the qualities of fairness, experience, knowledge and service.

She also was named Maine Clerk of the Year by the Maine Town and City Clerk’s Association in 1999.

She was the point person for elections.

“Few people realize what a major undertaking a citywide election can be,” said City Man-

ager Joseph Gray. “Linda dealt with what were often impossible demands as the consummate professional. She made sure that the city’s polling places were well staffed and organized and on more than one occasion, kept a precinct open long after it could close to make sure that every voter that wanted to, could cast their ballot.”

“It has been an honor for me to serve the great city of Portland, its residents and its visitors,” Cohen said in the city’s announcement.

“I have always strived for excellence in all of our responsibilities, because the public deserves nothing less. I have been blessed with incredibly talented and dedicated staff and election workers, and I am grateful for their support.”

Details related to the search process for the new City Clerk as well as the selection of an Interim Clerk will be announced later this month, the city reported.

Journal selling its Augusta building Newspaper is moving to smaller quarters after consolidation in SoPo AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Today Media’s newspaper in Augusta is selling its building to a counseling agency that’s been looking for new quarters in the capital city.

The Kennebec Journal reports Wednesday its building near Interstate 95 is being sold to Crisis & Counseling, a mental-health and substance-abuse agency. The Kennebec Journal is looking for a new home and is to vacate its current building by mid-March. A sale price was not disclosed.

Editor and publisher Anthony Ronzio says the newspaper is moving to smaller quarters because printing operations have been consolidated at the MTM plant in South Portland.

The newspaper building sale is expected to pave the way for expansion of Kennebec County courts after Crisis & Counseling leaves its present quarters.

Portland selected for demonstration project to make pedestrian crossings easier

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The Park Avenue/Deering Avenue intersection is an especially fitting site for the system given its proximity to The Iris Network, a center that helps people who are visually impaired or blind attain independence and community integration. “Our intention was to place them where they would best serve people who need them,” said Clegg.

“Use of this technology will further our pedestrian focus as it provides improvements for pedestrians and in particular sight impaired pedestrians at busy intersections with intelligent technology and will help us collect data that can be used to improve other intersections,” said Bobinsky.

Portland was selected as one of six demonstration cities in the nation where the pedestrian detection system will be tested for the next 18 months.

Ling said that the winter snowbanks will be no problem for the Migma system, which he said has

been used at an intersection in Andover, Mass. since last August.

For the first six months, the system will not directly interact with the APS as data will be collected and analyzed to ensure system accuracy. Once this test is complete, the technology will interact directly with the APS either through automatic activation or use of tones.

At the end of the demonstration period, the city will be able to keep the equipment at no cost. The two test intersections were selected to due high pedestrian traffic, proximity to service centers for the vision impaired and feedback from the Department of Public Services.

And if the twin lens camera reminds you of a certain Disney sweetheart (or Steve Guttenberg-sidekick “Number Five” for an older set) Ling would have to agree with you.

“People always say it looks like a robot, like WALL-E with eyes and a nose,” he said.

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The Migma system does not permanently store any images taken by the stereo cameras, and costs roughly $2,000 per intersection to install.

The Park Avenue system was completed on Tuesday, and the Commercial Street system will be fully operational by noon today according to Ling, who was in town with his team installing the systems this week.

By enhancing the responsiveness of the APS, the city hopes that these two crossings will become safer and easier to cross, especially for the sight impaired.

“Portland has long been a leader in advancing pedestrian safety and accessibility and it was great news that the city was chosen by FHWA and the Maine Department of Transportation for the installation of this cutting edge technology as it will help us continue our efforts to make this city a safe place to get around, whether on foot, bike or car,” remarked Director of Public Services Michael Bobinsky.

“We have high pedestrian traffic at both those sites,” said Nicole Clegg, city communications director.

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for the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative Program, the system uses stereo cameras at the curb of intersections to detect when a pedestrian is present.

When pedestrian are recognized by the cameras, the system either activates the pedestrian signal automatically or sounds a tone to help pedestrians locate the intersections’ Accessible Pedestrian Signal (APS), the traffic light-mounted button which tells the crossing system there is a pedestrian waiting to cross.

Currently, some Portland intersections sound a tone at all times to help pedestrians locate the APS, but the Migma system will cut down on noise pollution by only sounding the tone when pedestrians are detected.

“It could be troublesome because if an intersection is close to a house the locator tone could be very noisy,” said Migma President and C.E.O Bo Ling.

“The tone sounds when we detect someone within a 12-to-6 foot radius of the intersection, otherwise, the locater is not on at all,” he said.

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The nuclear threat is not a partisan issue The recently leaked diplomatic cables reveal both Arab and Israeli horror at a nuclear Iran. Last year, Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, evidently told the American ambassador that the world had 18 months or less to keep Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, warning “any military solution would result in unacceptable collateral damage.” Bahrain’s King Hamad sent a cable saying, “That program must be stopped,” and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed said, “Ahmadinejad is Hitler.”

With Russia key to slowing Iran’s nuclear program, U.S. leaders want the Senate to pass the new arms control treaty without haste. But Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl and several fellow Republicans have appar––––– ently decided there’s never a Creators reason, including national secuSyndicate rity, to not humiliate President Obama. And so they’ve chosen to hold up the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

The treaty aims to cut U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons by 30 percent. Importantly, it would give us the ability to verify Russia’s strategic nuclear arms, something we haven’t been able to do for a year. And very importantly, it would advance international efforts to bar the terrifying prospect of Iran and North Korea becoming significant nuclear powers.

Froma Harrop

see HARROP page 5

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Dude ... where’s my clinic?

Sometimes, what seems quick and easy is anything but.

I’ve written about Maine and the medical marijuana issue many times. It’s a personal issue for me, as it is for many others, because a member of my extended family needs the services of the clinic, right now. Waiting isn’t an option when the diagnosis is terminal.

While down at the proposed site of the clinic for Cumberland County, located at 959 Congress St., I saw something a bit troubling: A “For Lease” sign on the building.

Wait. Wasn’t this property leased already by Northeast Patients Group, the state-designated provider for Cumberland County?

A quick call to the Dunham Group only raised more questions. Frank O’Connor, the agent for the owner of the building, told me “Well... NEPG still hasn’t signed a lease yet. I’m a little bothered by this, since I could have rented out the property a couple of times already. I still don’t know what the issue is.”

I was beginning to get the nagging feeling that the entire issue of medical marijuana has been handled by the same “experts” that negotiated the changeover

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist to Fairpoint Telephone. Come to think of that, it was stateapproved as well.

Can patients truly wait for someone who promises to be there sometime between 9 and 6, provided the day doesn’t have a “Y” anywhere in it?

And many of us thought the clinic was naturally supposed to open to coincide with the changes in the law, which go into effect January 1st. That is a short deadline to get into a building, make the changes that need to be made for security reasons, and get your location open to patients.

I had heard some mumbling about potential problem issues that had arisen since the footdraggers at Maine DHHS got ahold of the permitting and licensing process, but that wasn’t the reason for the delay. Looking at NEPG’s own timetable, product was supposed to be dried, packed, and shipped to the distribution network by November 1st.

It’s December 2nd, and my relative is still puking his guts up, getting skinnier by the day. What might happen if I resort to “other methods” to help him stay alive?

Didn’t we vote on this?

Becky DeKeuster, CEO of Northeast Patients Group gave me a rundown on what the organization is working on. “We are on track to have all four of our facilities in the state open in spring of 2011. Portland will probably be one of the first to open.” Though she did admit that they have not signed a lease yet, “We are in the process of negotiating that right now. There were some issues regarding the Deliverance Center next door, but we are still talking with them.”

The Deliverance Center, a local religious organization, opposed the location of the clinic because they operate a school in the center. State education officials looked at the law regarding the placement of medical marijuana clinics within a given radius of a school, and found that the facility operated by the Deliverance Center was not, under the rules, a “school.”

According to DeKeuster, “That doesn’t change the fact that we have to get along with our neighbors. We see HIGGINS page 5

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Indeed, clearly henceforth less vocabulary is a good thing It’s time to reduce my vocabulary.

I know that increasing one’s vocabulary is what you’re supposed to strive for, but I’ve recently realized that for much of my adult life I’ve been using the same handful of words over and over again, so it’s time to clean out the vocabulary closet and make room for some fresh, new words to use over and over again until I die.

But, before I do, I need to use them just one more time.

SQUID — Everything about this word is perfect for my needs, which is probably why I’m so obsessed with it.

It’s a funny sounding word, a funny looking word, and it represents a very funny creature. I’ve written poems about squid, used squid as a punch line in daily life, said squid at random times just for the hell of it.

I kept a rubber cuttlefish on my desk for years. When people asked about this strange rubber thing I was quick to explain that the cuttlefish is a cousin of the squid. This didn’t answer their question, but it gave me a chance to say “squid.” If I would have been

Barry Smith ––––– Irrelativity able to find a rubber squid for my desk, then who knows how my life would have turned out?

It’s not that I care that much about actual squid, it’s really just the word that hooked me. If those one-eyed, 10-tentacled undersea creatures were known as “beets” then I probably would never have given them a second thought. Time to move on.

Potential replacement: Lungfish.

HENCEFORTH — Why would I ever use “henceforth” in the first place? I’m chugging along saying things like, “Yeah, dude, wow, uh huh, no way, cool, yeah,” and then suddenly out comes a “henceforth” and everybody quickly looks at the floor, embarrassed for me.

Potential replacement: So.

CLEARLY — I may have to let this one go slowly, as it is clearly a very useful word. But I think it’s probably unnecessary. It’s clearly unnecessary.

Still, I seem to use it all the time. It makes me feel like I’m really summing things up, really driving my point home. Also, it is a fine launching point for extreme sarcasm, as in, “Clearly, you have the situation under control.”

Potential replacement: Indubitably.

KUMQUAT — Well, this one’s pretty obvious. I’m not even sure I could pick a kumquat out of a lineup, and I’m only sorta guessing that it’s a fruit, though if it turned out to be a vegetable I wouldn’t be shocked. It’s just a chance to say a dirty-sounding word to semi-humorous effect, so say it I do. Or did. Often. But no more.

Adios, cumquat.

Potential replacement: Rutabaga.

PERHAPS — True story: One day, while in high school, my father asked me if I was the one who had neglected to flush the toilet in the hall bathroom.

I stroked my chin for a moment, then

replied, “Perhaps.”

We’d all relocated to California from the Deep South, and my word choice was an obvious indication that I was gettin’ all uppity. In fact, in the lecture that followed, I was accused of “philosophizin’,” an activity which was frowned upon in our household, especially when practiced in lieu of toilet flushing.

So I adopted that word as my rebel yell. For the past twenty years it’s been “perhaps this” and “perhaps that.” Just yesterday I said to someone, “I’ll see you there, perhaps,” when what I was actually thinking was, “I’ll see ya’ll there, then, huh?” Enough, already.

Potential replacement: Maybe.

INDEED — See “Henceforth.”

Unless I am channeling Sir John Gielgud, I can think of no reason why this word ever needs to come from my mouth again.

Potential replacement: Indeedy.

(Next time: Barry decides to give up outdated facial expressions.)

Patients waiting over a year, and clinic still needs a building HIGGINS from page 4

are still in discussions with them at this point.”

According to City Communications Director Nicole Clegg, “The group (NEPG) still hasn’t filed the permits with the city yet. That will be one of the requirements for them to open.”

DeKeuster did admit that there were some other zoning issues for the grow facility in Hermon, but that they had been worked out. “There are a lot of administrative hoops that we have to jump through to open, but we are still on track. There is just a lot of stuff to do.”

Charles Whynot of ASAMAINE.ORG, a Westbrook patients rights advisory group concurred with that statement. “We’ve been around for a long time, advising patients on access to medical marijauna and other issues. We’re even doing an expo in February to advise people on growing issues, and other medicinal marijauna issues. The state seems to have gotten the ID card process in order, as over a hundred of them have been issued so far, with a couple of hundred left to be issued.”

Added all up, where does that leave Portland?

Well, assurances aside ... it’s still a clinic building with no lease, a neighbor who still has apparent

issues, an ID card process that has issued a whopping 100 cards while two times that many await issue, a clinic that hasn’t yet applied for its permits, and patients that have been waiting for over a year.

Same as it ever was.

That is why we voted to change the law in the first place. Now, all that is left is the politics of filling out forms, standing in line, and waiting.

A year is a long wait. Get to it. There are folks standing in the doorway of the point of no return.

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

This is no time to sap the president’s prestige on the world stage HARROP from page 4

So quick approval of this treaty goes beyond questions of national security.

It’s about national survival. The terrorist attacks nine years ago were unspeakable, but America could withstand more Sept. 11’s. It can’t survive one major nuclear attack.

Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, all but blew up at this jaw-dropping act of political opportunism. So high are the stakes that he went public, putting video of his shocked response on his official YouTube page: www.youtube.com/senatorlugar.

“There are 13,300 nuclear weapons aimed at us,” Lugar says in a rattled voice, “our cities, our military installations everything we have — 13,300.” He goes on to note that “any one of those warheads could obliterate the city of Indianapolis.”

Only the most pathological partisanship would turn rapid passage of New START into an unacceptable victory for a president from an opposing party.

The treaty’s backers include three former secretaries of state under four Republican presidents.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who took up his post under George W. Bush, joined four former secretaries of defense, three former national security

advisers, seven former commanders of the U.S. Strategic Command and the entire U.S. military leadership in supporting the treaty as it was meticulously negotiated.

But as Kyl put it, “given the combination of other work the Senate must do” and the “unresolved issues” of modernizing America’s nuclear forces, he

didn’t think the treaty could be passed in the lame-duck session of Congress.

You wonder what work is more pressing than protecting the United States from nuclear holocaust. You ask why neo-conservatives are hailing Obama’s commitment to spend nearly $10 billion in fiscal 2011 alone on improving America’s nuclear defenses if modernization is a concern.

As Kyl and others treated this arms control treaty as a political toy — a ball of yarn to be kicked into the next Congress for the kittens to play with — the former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory said he was “stunned” by the sophistication of a North Korean nuclear plant he had just visited. And the maniacal North Korean government attacked a South Korean island, creating a monstrous diplomatic crisis for the United States. This is no time to sap the president’s prestige on the world stage.

A harsh question: Is it a betrayal of one’s country to jeopardize its security — not because you intend to do it harm, but to weaken a president you don’t like? On matters of national security, for certain, the answer is yes.

(To find out more about Froma Harrop, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.)

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Police: No suspects in Jazz owner’s in-law slaying SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) — A day after the slaying of Utah Jazz executive Greg Miller’s mother-in-law, detectives were collecting evidence Wednesday at the South Salt Lake book shop where she was found stabbed to death.

Police had no immediate suspects in the slaying of Sherry Black, 64, who was found by her husband

Tuesday afternoon at their store, B&W Collector Books and Billiards Supply, said police Officer Gary Keller.

Miller and other family members huddled Wednesday with detectives, and they planned to discuss a possible reward for help solving the case, Jazz spokeswoman Linda Luchetti said.

Mary Wade, who lives near B & W Billiards and Books, reacts to news of a stabbing at the small shop in South Salt Lake, Utah, on Tuesday, Nov. 30. Police say they have no immediate suspects in the slaying of the mother-in-law of Utah Jazz executive Greg Miller. Detectives were collecting evidence Wednesday at the South Salt Lake book shop where 64-year-old Sherry Black was found stabbed to death Tuesday afternoon. Police Officer Gary Keller says Black was found by her husband at B&W Collector Books and Billiards Supply. Keller says the husband, Earl Black, isn’t a suspect. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Trent Nelson)

The husband, Earl Black, isn’t a suspect, Keller said.

Family members know of no reason anyone would want to hurt Sherry Black, said her brother, Jim Waycasy of Provo.

“She was just a great person, and her husband is in a state of shock,” Waycasy, 68, told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “She built up that business over 40 years by herself, put herself through college while working.”

Customers ring a bell at the book store, which calls Black from her house next door, Waycasy said.

He said she was working alone when she was killed and it’s possible an assailant planned a robbery. But “we don’t know of anything that’s missing,” he said.

The Jazz will hold a moment of silence before Wednesday night’s game against the Indiana Pacers, said coach Jerry Sloan. The families do not plan to attend the game, Luchetti said. No funeral arrangements have been made.

“It’s a terrible thing to have to deal with,” Sloan said Wednesday. “Our hearts go out to the Miller family.”

Miller is chief executive of the Larry H. Miller Group of Companies. He issued a statement calling the death of his mother-in-law “a senseless act of violence.”

One of his team’s stars, Deron Williams, had a similar reaction at a practice session Wednesday.

“This world we live in is messed up,” Williams said. “Things like this shouldn’t happen, but they do.

Everybody should be with their family.”

Detectives were collecting forensic evidence at the Black’s shop on a busy South Salt Lake street.

Sherry Black collected used books for sale, mostly Mormon texts and children’s books. Earl Black sold billiard tables at the same shop, said a longtime friend of the couple, Steve Wagner.

Wagner said he was at a loss for a motive in the slaying.

2007 study said SPACE generated $1 million in economic activity CREATIVE from page one

and arts events that Portland hosts each year.

Data collection for the survey will begin in 2011 and be analyzed in early 2012. The city will receive its individual results in spring of 2012.

The survey will cost CPC $4,500 which can be paid in installments over three years.

The city last participated in the study in 2007 along with 156 other communities around the country. Commissioned by the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance (PACA), the last study valued the creative economy’s impact at $28.64 million annually, based on the expenditures and revenues generated by nonprofit arts and culture organizations, both directly and indirectly.

“It generates a calculator for the community so any organization can plug in what their annual budget is and determine what their economic impact would

be on the city,” explained Nat May, executive director of SPACE Gallery.

For example, in the 2007 study it was determined that SPACE, a nonprofit arts venue with a $300,000 budget, generated $1 million in economic activity within the community. The figure includes more than just Space’s ticket sales, and include the parking and food expenditures of those patrons who attend a show at the venue. “They are looking at things like, when you go to an event, what else are you spending money on?” said May. That report, called the “Arts & Economic Prosperity III: The Economic Impact of Nonprofit Arts and Culture Organizations and Their Audiences” determined that nationwide, the creative economic of 156 participating communities generated $166.2 billion in total economic activity, and generated $104.2 billion in household income, 5.7 million full-time equivalent jobs, and $7.9 in local government tax revenue.

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In Portland, the creative economy generated $28,643,867 in revenue for both organizations and their audiences, creating 877 full-time equivalent jobs, and $1,636,000 in local government revenue.

Andy Graham, CPC board member, said that participation in this incarnation of the survey is important for the organization because it will generate a concrete figure of the creative economy’s impact on Portland.

“One of things we heard when visiting Providence is that [their creative economy] generates $219 mill, that number comes directly from the survey,” said Graham. “It becomes a significant thing to talk about that you can hang your hat on.”

The survey will also help to determine how Portland’s creative economy has fared since the last study over a span of four years. “We’ll be able to determine growth as result of this work,” Graham said.

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Patriots offensive line trying to gel in time for Jets FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady found himself in a strange position — on the ground after being sacked.

It took an unusual defensive alignment to do it.

On the first series of the New England Patriots’ game on Thanksgiving, Detroit Lions defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh raced in from the middle linebacker position and pulled down the star quarterback who rarely has been tackled, hurried or knocked down in the past month.

“If we give him time,” Pro Bowl guard Logan Mankins said, “there’s nothing he can’t do.”

In the last five games, Brady has been sacked just three times while throwing 12 touchdown passes and no interceptions. That’s a drastic turnaround from a three-game stretch in which he was sacked 10 times.

On Monday night, the Patriots veteran offensive line must face a New York Jets defense that is showing improvement in pressuring the quarterback.

With three sacks in Thursday’s 26-10 win over Cincinnati, they have nine in four games and at least one in each game this season. Led by Jason Taylor’s four sacks, New York has 11 players with at least one.

So trouble could come from anywhere when the teams who share the AFC East lead with an NFLbest 9-2 record renew their rivalry.

But the Patriots front five, plus blocking tight end Alge Crumpler, have spent the season improving in the face of personnel changes.

Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh (90) sacks New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) during the first quarter at Ford Field in Detroit, Thursday, Nov. 25. (AP Photo)

Mankins missed all of training camp and the first seven games in a contract dispute. Nick Kaczur, set to take his place at left guard, didn’t play at all before going on season-ending injured reserve with a back injury on Oct. 12. Right guard Stephen Neal has missed the last three games with a shoulder injury. Dan Connolly, who had started in place of Mankins, shifted sides to take Neal’s spot.

“Everybody’s excited for Logan to be back,” Crumpler said. “He’s a good piece of our offense. He’s come in and played extremely well in the time that he’s

been back.”

Brady has been sacked just 16 times in 11 games, a pace of 23.3 for the season. That follows an outstanding 2009 season in which he was sacked a career-low 16 times. That protection has allowed Brady to stay healthy. Keep in mind, he missed all of the 2008 season after being hit by Kansas City’s Bernard Pollard in the opener.

But it takes more than just five 300-pounders holding off strong defenders to keep the franchise quarterback upright.

“As usual, it comes down to the entire team,” coach Bill Belichick said. “The passing game — part of it is protection, part of it is getting open, part of it is the quarterback seeing the ball and seeing the coverage and seeing the matchups and all those. It all has to fit together.”

Even running back Danny Woodhead, a shade under 5-foot-8, has kept pass rushers off Brady.

“You’ve got to take the advice of your coaches and go out there and do the best you can,” Woodhead said, “whatever it may be.”

The line also has helped the running game with BenJarvus Green-Ellis and Woodhead hitting holes then shifting to avoid pursuing linebackers and defensive backs.

“We run the ball well when we have to, especially late in the ballgames,” Crumpler said, “and that’s been really critical for us in terms of our second-half play.”

Local boxers shine in NE Championships, new boxing league DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT Local boxer Liz Leddy from the Portland Boxing Club defeated Roberta Pappas of Haverhill, Mass.

Saturday night with a 5-0 unanimous decision to earn her fifth New England Boxing Championship in the open class featherweight division, the Portland Boxing Club reported.

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Portland Boxing Club’s middleweight, Russell Lamour, won a unanimous decision over Armando Espenoza of Mexico City on Sunday night in his first bout as a team member of the Los Angeles Matadors, a team in the World Series of Boxing.

In Sunday’s bout, an overhand right by Lamour opened up a gushing cut behind Espinosa’s left ear. “I knew that he wasn’t going to give up so I kept trying to outbox him,” Lamour said. “I kept trying to stick and move and knew I could get the decision.”

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Lamour was drafted by the Los Angeles team, where he is paid a base salary, bonuses per bout and living expenses while keeping their amateur status, as approved by AIBA (Amateur International Boxing Association) and by USA Boxing to ensure he can qualify for the Olympics.

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Charity boxes coming into their own for Hanukkah

BY LEANNE ITALIE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Invited to a Hanukkah party? Consider a charity box as a worthy gift that goes straight to the core of Jewish life.

Giving charity, called tzedakah in Hebrew, is a righteous obligation popularized in less ancient times by the Jewish National Fund’s “blue box” drive in support of Israel.

The organization has been doling out its charity boxes for 109 years, but more ornate containers are out there as sweet, meaningful gifts that would be especially nice for families trying to drive home the importance of giving to children who may not be exposed to the practice of dropping a few coins in a box at synagogue or religious school.

Gifting a tzedakah box in fun or fancy form is more closely associated with weddings, awards and Bar Mitzvahs than the eight-day festival of lighting candles, spinning dreidels and eating fried foods.

That doesn’t mean a charity box wouldn’t make a positive reminder come Hanukkah time, said purveyors and creators of Jewish gifts and ritual items.

“Tzedakah boxes are absolutely a good Hanukkah gift,” said Rabbi Abigail Treu, director of donor relations and development for the Jewish Theological Seminary, a worldwide force in Conservative Judaism. “It’s another way of thinking about what we have and can help us refocus.”

The Torah promises that by giving tzedakah, “a person’s mind and heart become refined one thousand times.” Beautifying the performance of the fundamental command through a keepsake tzedakah box can help revive the practice of charity collection in Jewish homes, said Gary Rosenthal, an artist who has been creating pieces of Judaica since the 1970s.

Menorahs, dreidels, cups for Sabbath wine and seder plates for Passover have been popular gifts for decades, he said. Tzedakah boxes for home use are a relatively new addition.

“Twenty years ago I tried to make a tzedakah box and nobody would buy it,” said Rosenthal, in Kensington, Md. “Everybody did it at synagogue but it wasn’t something for the home. More Orthodox and traditional Jews had them but there was this lost generation after World War II when tzedakah boxes

This product image courtesy of The Jewish Museum Shops shows a wooden tzedakah box by KidKraft. This wood tzedakah box in a natural finish is adorned with different images on each side, including a Star of David, a menorah, a torah, and the Israeli flag.

The Hebrew word “Tzedakah” is on the top. (AP Photo/The Jewish Museum Shops)

just fell off the radar.”

Rosenthal often works in copper, brass and steel adorned with glass to create ritual items and Jewish gifts. He expects to sell nearly 6,000 tzedakah boxes worldwide by year’s end, including a limited-edition streetcar with a portion of proceeds going to the Jewish community in New Orleans. He also has a line decorated with pink glass mosaics designed by people touched by breast cancer to support their cause.

“I like to combine art with doing good, when the purchase is actually an act of tzedakah,” Rosenthal said.

More contemporary designers like Rosenthal have delved into Jewish life in recent decades, said Stacey Zaleski, director of merchandising for The Jewish Museum in New York City.

Designs include baseballs for children and globes to symbolize the importance of giving back to the world.

They come in bright floral patterns on wood from India. A top seller by New Mexico artist Alice Warder Seely, called “Joy,” is black wood and pewter and evokes the history and landscapes of the Southwest.

“The idea is to be appealing so it’s kind of fun to collect charity, something you enjoy doing,” Zaleski said.

Annie Matza runs the small gift shop at Congregation Ner Tamid in Henderson, Nev., outside Las Vegas. The Reform congregation’s 720 families have plenty of menorahs and dreidels. More popular as Hanukkah gifts are sets of braided candles, wine cups and boxes of fragrant spices to mark the end of the Sabbath, and Mezuzah parchments with Torah portions handwritten by special scribes in cases that hang on doorposts.

She sees tzedakah boxes coming into their own in glass, wood, metal and plastic. “No matter what your taste there’s a tzedakah box for everyone,” she said.

Risa Borsykowsky, who sells Jewish gifts online, said stepping outside the usual traditions of Hanukkah to emphasize tzedakah through a gifted box couldn’t come at a better time.

“It helps people who think Hanukkah is the Jewish Christmas realize that it really isn’t,” she said. “It needs to transcend from Hebrew school to the home and be encouraged by the parents. If parents don’t encourage tzedakah then it’s just a pretty box.”

Traditional lighting of the menorah

Rabbi Moshe Wilansky, director of the Chabad Lubavitch of Maine, pours oil in a menorah in front of City Hall Wednesday night for the start of Hanukkah. Speakers at the ceremony noted that Hanukkah celebrates religious freedom and the courage of the Jewish people. Chanukah, or Hanukkah, is the eight-day festival of light that honors the Jewish triumph when the Holy Land was ruled by the Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks), who sought to forcefully Hellenize the people of Israel. A small band of faithful Jews defeated one of the mightiest armies on earth, drove the Greeks from the land and reclaimed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, according to a history at www.chabad.org. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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Biker gang racketeering trial begins in Va. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Spotsylvania County man testified Wednesday that a member of the Outlaws motorcycle gang punched him without provocation at an area bar in 2008.

Clifford Diggs was the first witness at the trial of five current or former motorcycle gang members, including the national president of the Outlaws. His first racketeering trial ended with a deadlocked jury last month.

One other man was convicted and two were acquitted at the first trial in U.S. District Court. This time, Outlaws president Jack Rosga of Milwaukee is being tried with four other co-defendants including Christopher Timbers, the man Diggs says punched him without provocation.

Federal prosecutors say the Outlaws committed a series of violent crimes, largely in an attempt to gain a

foothold in Virginia and an advantage over the rival Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang.

“This case is about fear, intimidation, expanding your turf — it’s about racketeering activity,” federal prosecutor Dennis Fitzpatrick said in opening statements. “...This is a violent enterprise that lives, breathes and celebrates that violence.”

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You will go for the high stakes again. This is a tough game, and there will be many innings. Each time, hope for the best and then resolve to stay calm and play as well as you can whatever happens.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2010; with 29 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 2, 1970, the newly created Environmental Protection Agency opened its doors. (Its first director was William D. Ruckelshaus.)

On this date: In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French.

In 1823, President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.

In 1859, militant abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry the previous October. Artist Georges-Pierre Seurat was born in Paris.

In 1927, Ford Motor Co. formally unveiled its second Model A automobile, the successor to its Model T. In 1939, New York Municipal AirportLaGuardia Field (later LaGuardia Airport) went into operation as an airliner from Chicago landed at one minute past midnight.

In 1954, the Senate voted to condemn Wisconsin Republican Joseph R. McCarthy for conduct that “tends to bring the Senate into disrepute.”

In 1980, four American churchwomen were raped and murdered outside San Salvador. (Five El Salvador national guardsmen were later convicted of murdering nuns Ita Ford, Maura Clarke and Dorothy Kazel, and lay worker Jean Donovan.)

In 1990, composer Aaron Copland died in North Tarrytown, New York, at age 90.

One year ago: A day after President Barack Obama announced plans to deploy 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan, leading congressional Democrats said they had serious misgivings but would not try to stop the deployments while Republicans said they supported the force increase even as they questioned Obama’s July 2011 deadline to start bringing troops home. Tiger Woods issued a statement saying he’d let his family down with “transgressions” that he regretted “with all of my heart,” and that he would deal with his personal life behind closed doors.

Today’s Birthdays: Character actor Bill Erwin is 96. Actress Julie Harris is 85.

Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III is 79. Actress Cathy Lee Crosby is 66. Actor Ron Raines is 61. Country singer John Wesley Ryles is 60. Actor Keith Szarabajka is 58. Actor Dan Butler is 56. Broadcast journalist Stone Phillips is 56. Actor Dennis Christopher is 55. Actor Steven Bauer is 54.

Country singer Joe Henry is 50. Rock musician Rick Savage is 50. Rock musician Nate Mendel is 42. Actress Rena Sofer is 42.

Rock singer Jimi (cq) HaHa is 42. Actress Lucy Liu is 42. Tennis player Monica Seles is 37. Singer Nelly Furtado is 32. Pop singer Britney Spears is 29. Actress Daniela Ruah is 27. Actor Alfie Enoch is 22. Actresses Deanna and Daniella Canterman are 18.

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End of Maine’s Dirigo will mean change for small business insurance DAILY SUN STAFF REPORTS The promised end of the state’s Dirigo Health program may lead some small businesses to drop health insurance plans as the system is supplanted by the insurance exchanges outlined in the federal health reform law, according to a top Baldacci administration official.

Insurance exchanges would provide subsidies only to individuals, not employers as under the current Dirigo system, according to Trish Riley, director of the Governor’s Office of Health Policy and Finance.

Currently, about 500 small companies in Maine offer health care coverage through the Dirigo program.

Due to the federal health reform law signed by

President Obama in March, employers may discontinue their company’s health plans and increase worker wages, encouraging them to use the money to buy their own insurance.

Federal subsidies could be used by workers to purchase insurance through their employer’s plans.

Workers could also buy their own policy through an exchange, a sort of collective insurance pool.

The end of company contributions toward worker’s health insurance coverage would likely increase the demand for such subsidies, according to Riley, who led the effort to create Dirigo seven years ago, and will leave her post when Gov.-elect Paul LePage’s term begins in January. The LePage team has made it clear they intend to terminate Dirigio.

Dirigo provides insurance to 15,000 people in Maine, and is funded by a 2.14 percent assessment on claims paid by insurance companies.

Riley said the federal reform will serve to boost access to health care, especially amongst the half-

million Maine residents under the age of 65 who will potentially become eligible for insurance.

State trooper faces felony charges A 24-year veteran of the Maine State Police is facing felony charges of tampering with a witness and unlawful sexual contact with a child, officials report.

Gregory Vrooman, 45, of Nobleboro was arrested at his home Wednesday by officers from the state Attorney General’s Office, according to Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety.

Vrooman was taken to the Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset, and released later that night on bail.

District Attorney Geoffrey Rushlau did not comment on the nature of the charges against Vrooman. Both charges against Vrooman are felonies carrying a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

Vrooman is on administrative leave pending the outcome of his case, according to McCausland.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: For my entire life, my parents have favored my younger sister, “Erin,” their only biological child. (My older brother and I are adopted.)

When I turned 16, my parents told me to get a job. When Erin turned 16, they paid for everything. Erin is now in college and engaged to a guy my parents adore. I dropped out of college, have a job and am engaged to a guy my parents hate. When I first started dating “Dwayne,” he had a conflict with my parents, and I took his side. They kicked me out, so I moved in with him. The conflict has been resolved, but my parents won’t forgive me for living “in sin.”

Dwayne recently lost his job. His parents are helping us with rent, but my parents refuse any assistance, saying they do not support our living together. But apparently it’s OK for Erin and her fiancee to live with my parents. I am told they have separate bedrooms, but my parents spend a lot of time out of town, so who are they fooling?

I am devastated that my parents only care about a piece of paper. They would rather I live on the street than with Dwayne. My fiance says I should cut off contact because it’s obvious they don’t care about me. Should I? Should I invite them to the wedding? -- Devastated and Hurt in Idaho Dear Devastated: We worry about a fiance who gets into a major conflict with your parents and encourages you to cut off contact with your family. He may think he is being supportive, but he will not help you reconcile. Please invite your parents to the wedding. They are entitled to their views on cohabitation and may relax once things are legal. As for their favoritism, this is something you should discuss with them, preferably with a neutral third party who can make them understand how unfair and hurtful it is.

Dear Annie: My husband and I have been together for 18 years. He has two married children and four grandchildren. I

have one married daughter and two grandchildren.

My husband is planning to take his children and grandkids to Disney World next year and wants me to come, but refuses to include my daughter and her family. He says he can’t take everyone. I told him to go without me.

I cannot tell my daughter and grandkids that we are taking his family and not mine. She would be so hurt. What do you think? -- Beside Myself Dear Beside: Is this about the money or the crowd? Your husband cannot be expected to pay for more people than he can afford. If you have money of your own, contribute toward your daughter’s share. If it’s the size of the crowd, perhaps your husband would be willing to do a second trip another time. Although, frankly, it’s less expensive to do it all at once.

And you can all wear matching T-shirts so you are easier to spot.

Dear Annie: Your reply to “Mike in Alabama” was lame.

He was the 26-year-old who woke up while being pawed at by his 45-year-old neighbor on a fishing trip. He asked how to handle it due to his wife’s friendship with the neighbor’s wife, “Sophie.” You said to pretend it never happened and gradually pull away.

Why in the world should Mike ever be subjected to the lecherous creep next door? He should avoid him like the plague and, if Sophie questions it, tell her to ask her husband.

-- Indiana Common Sense Dear Indiana: We treated this as we would a man who made a pass at his neighbor’s wife: Politely keep your distance, and let him know that if it happens again, you’ll inform his spouse. We weren’t suggesting that Mike continue to socialize with the neighbors, only that he not make it more difficult for his wife, who wishes to maintain a friendship with Sophie.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

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Thursday, Dec. 2 Meet the Jewelry Designer: Patricia Daunis 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Portland Museum of Art features “Meet the Jewelry Designer.” “Well known for the inspired, dazzling jewelry she creates, Patricia Daunis of Daunis Jewelers, Portland will share her insights into jewelry design and discuss how the love of the sea has influenced her work. She will feature a special selection of her jewelry for purchase.”

All sales support the exhibitions and programs of the Portland Museum of Art. www.portlandmuseum.org

Chamber Legislative Reception 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Portland Regional Chamber, 60 Pearl St., presents a Legislative Reception at The Eastland Park Hotel. In keeping with the chamber’s tradition of relationship building, and networking, this year, the chamber’s Legislative Reception will recognize freshmen legislators and to wish them well as they begin another challenging legislative session and with a new governor. This event offers an opportunity for camber members to establish or continue the relationship building between business leaders and area legislators.

Victoria Mansion Holiday Gala 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Don’t miss the Mansion’s most elegant and spectacular event of the year. Get an early look at two floors of period rooms transformed by local designers with dazzling decorations inspired by this year’s theme: The Twelve Days of Christmas. Fabulous food and drink provided. Tickets are $50/person, all proceeds to benefit the restoration and operation of Victoria Mansion.” Call 7724841, ext. 10 for reservations. www.victoriamansion.org/ mansion.html

Middle school students, parents invited to an information night about high school choices 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Middle school students and their parents are invited to an information night about high school choices in the Portland Public Schools at Lyman Moore Middle School, 171 Auburn St. Portland Superintendent James C. Morse, Sr. will welcome families and provide an overview of the district’s high school program. The principals of Casco Bay High School, Deering High School, Portland High School and Portland Arts and Technology High School (PATHS) will describe their schools’ academic and extracurricular offerings, schedules and other unique characteristics. The principals also will answer questions from parents and students. Students in the Portland Public Schools are allowed to choose between Casco Bay, Deering and Portland High, space permitting. All high school students in the district may take courses at PATHS. Eighth graders may arrange to visit each of the high schools and to shadow a student. The deadline for choosing a high school is Jan. 31, 2011.

‘The World of Sholom Aleichem’ 7:30 p.m. Acorn Productions, a nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing and developing the performing arts in Southern Maine, begins a new holiday tradition for the Jewish community in Southern Maine with a production of “The World of Sholom Aleichem,” by Arnold Perl, which performs from Dec. 2 to 19. The play is directed by veteran actor Harlan Baker, and features a cast of local actors, including members of the Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble, students from the Acorn Acting Academy, and several guest artists. The play is a collection of three short plays depicting life in Eastern Europe Jewish communities in the early part of the twentieth century.

Mendele the bookseller is the narrator who links the three one-act plays together. Performances take place Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m. in the Acorn Studio Theater, a small, black-box theater in the Dana Warp Mill, 90 Bridge St. in Westbrook. Note that in observance of the Jewish Sabbath, there are no performances on Friday night. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 students and seniors, and may be purchased by calling 854-0065 or visiting www. acorn-productions.org.

‘It’s A Wonderful Life’at Old Port Playhouse 7 p.m. Pay what you can preview. “It’s A Wonderful Life,” the beloved American holiday classic comes to life as a live 1940s-era radio broadcast, directed by Whitney Smith, at Old Port Playhouse. The production runs Dec. 3-19. Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. $15-$22. Box Office, 773-0333, http://oldportplayhouse.com

‘Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields’ screening at SPACE 7:30 p.m. “With his unique gift for memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings that blend classic Tin Pan Alley with modern sounds, Stephin Merritt has distinguished himself as one of contemporary pop’s most beloved and influential artists. Both a prolific recording artist and composer of theater and film scores, he performs most famously as the Magnetic Fields, whose 1999 three-disc opus 69 Love Songs is widely considered a mas-

From noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 9, The Sudanese Community Association of Maine will hold another rally for peace in Sudan in support of a referendum for independence for South Sudan. The rally will be in Monument Square, Portland. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) terpiece of traditional songcraft and irresistible synthpop.

Ten years in the making, ‘Strange Powers’ explores Merritt’s songwriting and recording process, and focuses on his relationships with his bandmates and longtime manager Claudia Gonson, revealing an artist who has produced one of the most engaging and confounding bodies of work in the contemporary American songbook.” $7/$5 for SPACE members, all ages. www.space538.org

Friday, Dec. 3 China, Japan and Korea: Perspectives on East Asia 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. China, Japan and Korea: Perspectives on East Asia, a one-day conference presented by the Maine Humanities Council, will take place at Thornton Academy in Saco. Primary presenters will include Brad Babson, former World Bank employee and expert on contemporary issues in North and South Korea; Tom Conlan, Asian Studies professor at Bowdoin College and Japanese historian; Brad Dearden, Geography professor at UMF and Jai Zhao, History professor at USM and specialist in Chinese history and culture. The day will also include several break-out sessions to enable deeper conversation about specific topics.

“This is very timely and important, especially in Maine,” noted Martina Duncan, assistant director of the Maine Humanities Council. “Programs such as these give us a deeper understanding of ourselves, our communities and our global cultures.” The Maine Humanities Council offers several public programs throughout the year. To register for this, or any of the other programs the Maine Humanities Council offers, please visit www.mainehumanities.org or call 773.5051.

Firearms training simulator dedication at Kaplan University’s South Portland campus 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Kaplan University’s South Portland campus is hosting a ceremony to introduce a new firearms training simulator (FATS) and dedicate it to the more than 80 officers in Maine that have fallen in the line of duty. The FATS is designed to train criminal justice students in decision making when using a fire arm, the simulator walks students through various scenarios a law enforcement official could encounter while on the job. The FATS will help students develop their critical thinking, tactical and problem solving skills. Following the dedication, the campus will demonstrate the capabilities of the new FATS. Campus faculty and staff will also be available to answer any questions regarding the new simulator and Kaplan University’s criminal justice program. Kaplan University’s South Portland Campus is located at 265 Western Ave. Kaplan University is part of Kaplan Higher Education, which includes more than 70 campus-based schools, as well as online programs through Kaplan University and Concord Law School.

Kaplan is a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company.

For more information, please see thewebsite: www.portal. kaplan.edu.

Photos with Santa at the Children’s Museum 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. “Santa wants to know your holiday wishes! Meet Santa, sit on his lap, and have your photo taken with him.

Afterwards, Santa will make a guest appearance in the play Santa’s Reindeer Revue. Cost is $7/photo for members and $8/photo plus admission for non-members. Sign up at the front desk upon arrival.” http://www.kitetails.org

Rudolph’s Workshops TBA. Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine presents Rudolph’s Workshops throughout the month. Creative holiday gift-making workshops throughout the month of December. Visit www.kitetails.org for times and registration. $8/child for museum members; $9/child plus admission for non-members.

First Friday Art Walk 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Art galleries and stores in downtown Portland will be open. Enter free and enjoy refreshments at participating businesses. Visit www.portlandarts.org

Local Sprouts Holiday Art and Craft Show 5 p.m. Local Sprouts Cafe, 649 Congress St. features a Holiday Art and Craft Show with Music by the Vauhti Band, Papadello and others. Art starts at 5 p.m., music starts at 7 p.m. Local Sprouts staff will be covering the walls with their beautiful art. There will be tables with holiday craft creations as well. All ages, free, donations encouraged.

The Artist Studio marks First Friday 5 p.m. The Artist Studio at 536 Congress St. opens its doors for First Friday. Free. Over 30 local artists open their studio doors to share recent works for the annual December First Friday. “Don’t miss amazing art, a live performance by South China, the internationally acclaimed experimental-folk ensemble and a chance to meet your favorite local artists. For 20 years, The Artist Studio at 536 Congress St. has been providing work space for 35 professional Portland-based artists whose artwork has been featured regularly in prestigious exhibitions like the Portland Museum’s Biennial as well as in galleries locally and throughout the country. Coming together to create a vibrate work community, these artists display a range of approaches to their practice and work in media including painting, printmaking, photography and illustration.

Pickwick Independent Press, a membership based print collective of Steamroller Print-Off fame, housed in The Artist Studio, will also be open to the public with works available for sale.

Maine Charitable Mechanic Association Art Walk 5 p.m. Artists Reggie Osborn and Christina Siravo will be exhibiting “Mixed Media” at the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, 519 Congress St. Authors Dr. Laura Trice, ”The Wholesome Junk Food Cookbook” and Author Dianne LeCoste, “A Girl of the Past,” are featured. http://mcma-art. blogspot.com/2010/11/mcma-december-events.html see next page

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Lighting of the Copper Beech Tree at the PMA 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Portland Museum of Art presents a night of winter activities. “Come to our wintery First Friday family night at the museum. Art activities, family-friendly performers, and holiday lights get everyone in the spirit at this annual museum tradition. Join us for special performances in our auditorium, milk and cookies in our Café. Performances by Deering High School Handbell Choir, Cool Yule Swing Music with Lex and Joe, and Longfellow School Choral Group will fill the Great Hall with lovely sounds. The finale: a candlelit walk to a spectacular Copper Beech Tree lighting ceremony.” 5 p.m. to 5:20 p.m.: Deering High School Handbell Choir; Café, 5 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.: Artmaking, Cookies, and milk; Great Hall Performances, 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.: Cool Yule Swing Music with Lex and Joe; 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.: Longfellow School Choral Group; 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.: Cool Yule Swing Music with Lex and Joe; auditorium, 5:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.: Deering High School Handbell Choir; outside under The Copper Beech Tree, 6:45 p.m.: Maine Gay Men’s Chorus; 7 p.m.: the lighting ceremony: countdown to tree lighting sing-a-long. All children must be accompanied by an adult. www.portlandmuseum.org

‘A Christmas Carol’ 7 p.m. “A Christmas Carol” at Portland Stage.

“Portland’s favorite holiday event! Full of music, spirits, special effects, and all your favorite characters, Portland Stage brings to life the magical and poignant transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge as he rediscovers the true meaning of giving ... perfect for ages 5 to 95!” Times vary.

Dec. 3 through Dec. 24. Portland Stage, 25A Forest Ave. www.portlandstage.org. 774-0465

Toys for Tots fundraiser concert in Biddeford 7 p.m. Toys for Tots fundraiser, Friday and Saturday, Alumni Band Concert, Biddeford Middle School, Hill Street Extension, Biddeford. Christmas concert; $10 donation plus toy donation/ per person. Visit www.toysfortots.org for more about Toys for Tots.

Portland Playback Theater holiday theme

7:30 p.m. First Friday, Dec. 3: Holidays from Heaven and Hell. “Join Portland Playback 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Art Walk and Art Auc- Portland Pirates forward Igor Gongalsky (left), Briana White (middle) and Pirates captain Matt for its popular annual improv performance of tion at Lucid Stage on Baxter Boulevard. Art Walk fea- Ellis (right) spent Tuesday afternoon decorating Gary’s House for the holidays. The Pirates joined your best and worst holiday moments. With turing Arthur Fink’s “Lucid Stage Renovations” and members of the Portland Pirates Booster Club and Gary’s House staff, volunteers and residents how rich and emotionally complex the holiday silent bidding auction. The art auction is a fundraiser in getting the Mercy supported residence in the holiday spirit. Pirates fan can get into the holiday season is, this is always a theme that draws for Lucid Stage. All of the donated pieces will be spirit. The next night for the Pirates Holiday Toy and Donation Drive will take place on Saturday, up a memorable range of stories. Share your available for silent bidding in the theater from 10 a.m. Dec. 4, when the Pirates play the Norfolk Admirals at 7 p.m. (COURTESY PHOTO) story from holidays past — from Thanksgiving to 6 p.m. on Dec. 1, 2 and 3. On Friday, Dec. 3, Lucid turkeys gone terribly wrong to the most meanalso opens the doors of the department studios to allow will be open from 5-8 p.m. for First Friday Art Walk. Live ingful gifts you found under the tree — and watch our shoppers to meet local artists, get a behind-the-scenes bidding will start at 8 p.m. at the highest recorded bid from actors bring them back to life on the spot. What better look at the art-making process, take tours and watch the silent auction. This enables folks to participate whether way to get ready for the holiday season! Every month, demonstrations.” Admission is free. FMI: www.meca. or not they can attend the live auction.

Portland Playback Theater puts five talented improvisors edu/holidaysale Artwork in the auction will include pieces from: Jobani at your disposal to put stories of your life on stage. Tell 1930s Night at the State Theatre Cohen; Creative Trails; Kathleen Daughan; Neill Ewingyour story and see what happens. Find out more at www.

5 p.m. The State Theatre presents a screening of “The Wegmann; Arthur Fink; Elizabeth Fraser; Ed King; Carol portlandplayback.com.” At the First Parish church at the Wizard of Oz” at 7 p.m. Over A Cardboard Sea, Portland’s McMahon; David Marshall; Margery Niblock; Julie Vohs; intersection of Congress and Temple streets in Portland premiere nostalgia act, will set the mood with a pre-show and Gail Wartell. (just up from the Nickolodean.) $5-$10 donation. performance of classic vaudeville tunes. An old-timey

Lucid Stage Art Walk and Art Auction

Flights of Fantasy at The Green Hand

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Art Walk opening of Flights of Fantasy, whimsical artwork by David Stoddard, at The Green Hand Bookshop, 661 Congress St. This exhibit will be on display through the month of December, until Jan. 5. The whimsical artwork of Portland artist Stoddard features wizards, faeries and dragons, as well as robots, vampires and mad scientists. Throw in a healthy dose of steampunk and there’s something for everyone.

Stoddard works in a variety of mediums, including watercolor, acrylic and colored pencil. Additional super-fun December First Friday Bonus: “Those of you who had the chance to swing through November’s First Friday may remember hearing the mysterious surf stylings of The Watchers. Rumor is, they will be setting up and swinging again during part of the evening!!! Santa hats and some sort of Christmas madness may be involved. ... PLUS: KittyWitch Perfumery will be on hand with their delicious handcrafted essential oil scents in case you are looking for an irresistible stocking stuffer for yourself or someone special!.” Contact Michelle Souliere at450-6695 or michelle.souliere@gmail.com

Goodwill’s Art for Everyone: Collection of donated art 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Join Goodwill for its fifth bi-annual art sale featuring drawings, oils, pastels, posters, prints and watercolors donated to Goodwill stores. “All artwork will be affordably priced just in time for the holidays. Come see the incredible pieces of art community members donate on a regular basis and learn about Goodwill’s job training and support services in the Portland community.” Part of First Friday Art Walk. 353 Cumberland Ave. Free. 774-6323. www.goodwillnne.org

Shop-A-Do Craftastic Art Sale at SPACE 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. SPACE Gallery art sale. Also Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. “Come revel in handmade bliss with one of our most popular events: Shop-A-Do! Browse through an inspiring collection of local crafters’ goods including prints, handmade clothing, original artwork, books, t-shirts, cards and more! Grab a hot beverage, don a cozy sweater and come on down for some good old fashioned holiday cheer.

The gallery is no longer accepting vendor applications for this year’s sale. www.space538.org

Maine College of Art holiday sale 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. MECA will once again hold its annual holiday sale in the Porteous Building at 522 Congress S. in the heart of the Arts District. “The much anticipated holiday sale provides an opportunity for MECA students, alumni, faculty and staff to sell affordable handmade arts, crafts and gifts for the holiday season. The college

photo booth, Shirley Temples at the bar, and Depressionlevel ticket prices complete the transformation. $5. “The State Theater revisits its glorious beginnings as it transforms itself back into a 1930s Movie House with a screening of The Wizard of Oz. Forget 3-D ... Bring the family to the Ultimate Technicolor Triumph!” www.statetheatreportland.com

USM School of Music Scholarship Gala marks 20th anniversary this year 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. This year marks the 20th anniversary celebration of the University of Southern Maine School of Music’s Scholarship Gala at the Abromson Education Center, USM Portland. The evening highlights the talent of USM School of Music students, entertains hundreds of guests and raises more than $60,000 for USM music scholarships. This year’s theme, “The Stars Are Brightly Shining,” a line from a beloved carol, also reflects on the talent that is found in the student body at the USM School of Music. Gala attendees will enjoy music throughout the evening’s festivities, which include hors d’oeuvres during cocktails with a backdrop of holiday music performed

by USM student music ensembles; reserved seating at a festive dinner banquet with complimentary dinner wine and tableside serenading; a welcoming champagne toast in Hannaford Hall by University President, Selma Botman, followed by a spectacular live auction, leading to the grand centerpiece concert performed by talented USM School of Music students. The evening concludes with desert and coffee in the grand lobby accompanied by more seasonal music. This year’s banquet will feature a traditional holiday menu. The gala is sponsored by Portland Volvo and Portland Saab. Cash Bar — black tie optional. Reservations are required. Tickets cost $90 per person ($40 deductible per person) or $900 for reserved Table for 10 ($400 deductible per table). Purchase tickets by calling 780-5003, or emailing brackett@usm.maine. edu. Additional gala information can be found at www. usm.maine.edu/music/holiday10/Gala_Home.html.

Society for East End Arts Holiday Art Sale 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Also Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. East End Community School Center, 195 North Street, Portland. Free admission; light food available in PTO Café. www.SEAportland.org

Season of Light at the Planetarium 7 p.m. Season of Light: Southworth Planetarium’s annual holiday show that explores the astronomy and history of the holiday season: from Christmas to Hannukah to the Solstice. We also examine the “Star of

‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ at Old Port Playhouse

8 p.m. “It’s A Wonderful Life,” the beloved American holiday classic comes to life as a live 1940s-era radio broadcast, directed by Whitney Smith, at Old Port Playhouse. “The saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty, whose guardian angel has to descent on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him—by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born—that his has been, after all, a wonderful life!” It runs Dec. 3-19. Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. $15-$22. Box Office, 773-0333, http://oldportplayhouse.com

Dark Side Of The Rainbow 10 p.m. Dark Side Of The Rainbow has been announced at the State Theatre. A mash-up of the movie the “Wizard Of Oz” and Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon.” Tickets are $5 and on sale at any Bull Moose store. Movie is at 10 p.m. (after the 7 p.m. showing of “The Wizard of Oz” for 1930s night).

Saturday, Dec. 4 New Gloucester History Barn open house 9 a.m. to noon. The New Gloucester History Barn and the studios of the New Gloucester Cable TV Channel 3 will be open to the public for an open house. The History Barn is directly behind the New Gloucester Town Hall on Route 231 and the Cable TV Studios are located in the New Gloucester Meetinghouse next to the Town Hall and also in the Community Room of the former fire barn behind the Town Hall.

Holiday Fair — A Winter Wonderland at UU Church 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hand-made crafts, white elephant, ecofriendly gift items, theme-basket raffle, children’s activities while you shop, baked goods, breakfast and lunch cafe, holiday wreaths and so much more at Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland.

Thirty Kitty Christmas Fair 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hosted by Friends of Feral Felines, Thirty Kitty Christmas Fair features seasonal items, local artwork, thrift store items, books, and much, much more. Donations are also welcome. Friends of Feral Felines, 651 Forest Ave. (corner of Woodfords Street and Forest Avenue). For more information, contact Friends of Feral Felines at info@.feralfelines.net/ or call 797-3014 or visit their website at www. feralfelines.net. see next page

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United Maine Craftsmen’s Holiday Arts & Crafts Show at the USM Sullivan Gym 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Craft fair at 66 Falmouth St. featuring 95 Maine artisans.

All Maine crafts. Find that special gift that will be cherished long after the holiday is over. Free gift-wrapping and hourly door prize. University of Southern Maine Sullivan Gym. Admission $2. FMI: 621-2818 or www.unitedmainecraftsmen.com. Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; $2 admission at the door, children under 12 free. www.unitedmainecraftsmen.com/

‘Welcoming the Dark’ workshop

maid of Mrs. Beba and has worked and lived with her for 35 years. Beba used to be a well-to-do socialite but successive economic and personal crises have worn her out, reducing her to a purveyor of decadence.

Nowadays she finds herself forced to sell door-to-door beauty products. Her thick gold earrings, and her maid, Dora, are the last bastions of a lifestyle of which she refuses to let go. At 17, Dora came from the Chaco province to work as a full-time maid at Beba’s apartment. Since then, she has managed to start building a house in one of the shantytowns outside Buenos Aires. However, she is unable to complete the construction of her own house because Beba owes Dora six months salary. Dora, tired of listening to Beba’s promises of payment, is now determined to resign. Beba asks her for more time to get the money together. Dora accepts. During this period Beba tries to mine the confidence of Dora, discouraging her not to venture into a new phase of her life.” In Spanish with English subtitles. www.portlandmuseum.org/events/movies.php

9 a.m. to 2 p.m. “Welcoming the Dark” workshop with Deena Prestegaard and Tom Cannon. $25. Sadhana, the Meditation Center, 100 Brickhill Ave., South Portland. FMI www.Sadha“Live-in Maid” will be screened at the PortnaMe.com.

Museum of Art on Dec. 4 and 5. It’s part Christmas Tree and Wreath Sale land of Movies at the Museum, which aims to showat Cheverus High case the best in foreign, classical, and art films.

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Cheverus Haiti (COURTESY IMAGE) Solidarity Club will hold its annual ‘The Little Lady Bug’ debuts Christmas Tree and Wreath Sale at Cheverus High School 3 p.m. Miss Periwinkle and the Giggle Gang’s debut of “The on Dec. 4 and 5. The sale is a fundraiser for the Cheverus Little Lady Bug” takes place at GreenLight Studio. Free Haiti Solidarity Club. Proceeds from the sale will go to supperformance for children ages 4-9 at Greenlight Studio, port Cheverus’ sister school in Bassin Bleu, Haiti. Their 49 Danforth St. in Portland. “Experience singing, dancing sister school is a small Catholic school in desperate need and laughter with the giggle gang! Children of all ages will of help. Proceeds from the sale will also help defray the enjoy sneezing along with the teen theater troupe! ‘The cost of a spring Cheverus student immersion service trip Little Ladybug’ is an original, heartfelt musical story of the to the Dominican Republic. Trees are available in all sizes. little ladybug, Lucy, and her search for unconditional friendAll trees and wreaths are from a local Maine Christmas ship–in spite of her incessant sneezing!” Miss Periwinkle is tree farm. The Cheverus Haiti Solidarity Club began in the an animated storyteller and the Giggle Gang is a teen thespring of 2005 and has now grown to over 70 active student ater troupe that combines music, dance, masks, storytelling members. The Club’s primary goals are to raise awareness and interactive theater to entertain and amuse children of all about global poverty and to live out the gospel message ages Miss Periwinkle and the Giggle Gang original stories to help the poor. To this end, the Club has organized sevare developed by singer/songwriter Sara Therrien of Porteral fundraisers and awareness-building events surroundland, who has studied acting and storytelling. Sara is also ing issues of global poverty. Members of the Club sell fair the mother of a teenage daughter. For more information trade chocolate bars in the fall; this sale is accompanied by about Miss Periwinkle, go to www.missperiwinkle.net. a campaign to teach students and other sale patrons about First Saturday New Gloucester Arts Alive fair trade and the unfair trade practices which often inhibit 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Artisan Showcase: Local artisan and painter, small farmers and businesses in developing countries from Jacinda Cotton-Castro will showcase her work at an art openbeing profitable and sustainable. The fundraising efforts ing in the Community Room. 7:30 p.m. Village Coffeehouse of the Club also help to support a small Catholic School in featuring: Maine singer-songwriter Lynn Deeves. Deeves Bassin Bleu, Haiti. This “twinning” relationship is new and we honed her musical and stage skills as a lead singer in high continue to find ways to be in solidarity with the school and energy rock bands in her earlier years, where she once earned its students who are in great need of financial support. The the title “Maine Female Vocalist of the Year.” She has since Club also provides Cheverus students an opportunity to take released four independent CD’s of original songs, which meld a service immersion trip to a developing country. The trip is to folk, rock, blues and gospel influences, with an apt description the Dominican Republic; the Dominican shares the island of of “equal parts power and peace.” Community Room of the Hispaniola with Haiti. While in the Dominican, students work First Congregational Church, 19 Gloucester Hill Road, New primarily in an orphanage for children with disabilities.

Gloucester. For more information see also: www.lynndeeves.

St. Paul’s Anglican Church Christmas Fair com. To find out more about the Village Coffeehouse go http:// 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. St. Paul’s Anglican Church, 279 Congress www.villagecoffeehouse.org.

St., Portland will hold its annual Christmas Fair. The fair will Portland Pirates Holiday Toy and Donation Drive feature Christmas goodies, crafts and a host of other holiday 7 p.m. The next night for the Portland Pirates Holiday Toy items. For further information contact 828-2012. and Donation Drive will take place when the Pirates play 2010 Shaker Christmas Fair the Norfolk Admirals at 7 p.m. Make a cash donation of 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The 2010 Shaker Christmas Fair will be at least $5 or donate an unopened toy or book to Operaheld at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Route 26, New tion Tribute and receive a pair of tickets to a future Portland Gloucester. Gifts for all ages including Shaker home baked Pirates game. All cash and toy donations will go to Operaholiday goodies —nine rooms of holiday cheer — “come tion Tribute to help provide gifts to the children of active one, come all.” military families. It’s also the third annual State Farm Teddy Photos of pets with Santa Bear Toss. Bring a teddy bear to the game, and throw it on 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. PetSmart in Biddeford will host the Animal the ice when the Pirates score their first goal of the night. All Welfare Society for photos of your pet with Santa; $5 from teddy bears will be donated to local charities. the sale of each photo goes directly to the Animal Welfare Genuine Old Time Square Dance at Mayo Street Society. Also Sunday.

7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Live music and calling by The Dolly Wag-

Cookie Walk at Ogunquit

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Ogunquit, Christmas by the Sea hosts a “Cookie Walk” upstairs at the Dunaway Center at 23 School St. The Village Food Market, 230 Main St., will supply cookies for the Animal Welfare Society table.

glers and Friends. “The second of monthly Square Dances at Mayo Street Arts, this is a great way to get those feet moving and blood pumping on a cold winter’s night. Fun for all ages.” Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St. Admission: $5. http://mayostreetarts.org

Debating Modern Photography gallery talk

The Rat Pack Christmas Show

1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Imogen Cunningham: A Change of Focus by Mickey Friedman at the Portland Museum of Art. Free with museum admission. “Join us for a gallery talk in the exhibition Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64 with Museum Docent Mickey Friedman.” www.portlandmuseum.org/Content/5373.shtml

7 p.m. The Rat Pack Christmas Show with a surprise ending. Anthony’s Dinner Theater and Cabaret. Special sixcourse Christmas dinner, $39.95. www.anthonysdinnertheater.com/shows.html

‘Live-in Maid’ screened at PMA 2 p.m. Movies at the Museum, “Live-in Maid.” Saturday, Dec. 4, 2 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 5, 2 p.m.; NR. “Dora is the

Kirtan with Muraladhir Pai 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Kirtan with Muraladhir Pai, born in India, son of two Sat Gurus. He is an accomplished classical musician who will share original bhagans including ones written by his parents. Sadhana, the Meditation Center, 100

Brickhill Ave., South Portland. FMI: www.SadhanaMe.com.

‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ at Old Port Playhouse 8 p.m. “It’s A Wonderful Life,” the beloved American holiday classic comes to life as a live 1940s-era radio broadcast, directed by Whitney Smith, at Old Port Playhouse. “The saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty, whose guardian angel has to descent on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him—by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born—that his has been, after all, a wonderful life!” It runs Dec. 3-19. Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. $15-$22. Box Office, 773-0333, http://oldportplayhouse.com

Viva Lebowski benefit at Bayside Bowl 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Bayside Bowl will host Viva Lebowski, a tribute to the Coen Brothers’ cult classic, “The Big Lebowski.” The event will feature an evening of bowling, trivia and costume contests, and will also include a screening of the Coen Brothers’ film. Part of the event’s proceeds will go to benefit local business owner Nicholas Stevens, a Portland resident who has been struggling with the cost of treatment for Multiple Sclerosis since opening his bakery, 13th Cookie. “This is going to be a really fun event, and we’re so pleased at the number of businesses which have offered sponsorships,” said event coordinator Dave Cousins. “The interest is there, because of the vast appeal of the film. College students, older folks, there’s so many people who love The Big Lebowski. We’re glad to use this as vehicle for a good cause, too.” Bayside Bowl is located at 58 Alder St. For information and directions to find Bayside Bowl, visit their website at http://baysidebowl.com/. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 the evening of the event. Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.vivalebowski.com or at Bayside Bowl. For further information, go to vivalebowski. com or email the event at vivalebowski@gmail.com.

Sunday, Dec. 5 ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ at Old Port Playhouse 2 p.m. “It’s A Wonderful Life,” the beloved American holiday classic comes to life as a live 1940s-era radio broadcast, directed by Whitney Smith, at Old Port Playhouse. “The saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty, whose guardian angel has to descent on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him—by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born—that his has been, after all, a wonderful life!” It runs Dec. 3-19. Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. $15-$22. Box Office, 773-0333, http://oldportplayhouse.com

Levey Day School Hanukkah Party 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Levey Day School, 400 Deering Ave., Portland. Hanukkah Party. RSVP: 774-7676 or leveyday@ maine.rr.com. Suggested Donation: $3/child over 2 years.

Latkes, Donuts, Games, Crafts and Entertainment.

Wreaths Across America Project 4:30 p.m. The annual Wreaths Across America Project convoy will make a stop at Cheverus High School on its way to Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. The public is invited to attend. The convoy will consist of as many as 12 tractor trailer trucks and their escorts en route with handmade Maine wreaths to lay on the graves of veterans at Arlington. The ceremony at Cheverus will take place in the school’s gymnasium beginning at 4:30 p.m. and will last approximately an hour. The event will consist of a roll call of all branches of the military; a speech by Karen and Morrill Worcester of Worcester Wreath Company; Fr. William R. Campbell, S.J., President of Cheverus High School, will deliver a blessing the wreaths, including wreaths to be given to local area high schools, and one which will be hung on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. Shannon Moss of Channel 8 News will be the ceremony’s emcee.

“Cheverus High School is proud to be a part of the Project.

Stopping the convoy at Cheverus was the idea of long-time Cheverus swimming coach, Kevin Haley. Haley, also a Portland Police officer, felt it was important to involve ‘our kids and all high school kids in the area. I have been here for over 21 years and thought the Cheverus community would benefit and learn from their mission, ‘To honor, To Teach, To Remember.’”

The Project means a great deal to Haley as his brother, William Haley, Cheverus class of 1970, is buried at Arlington. “I started five years ago going down to Arlington and volunteering. I want other Cheverians, staff and families to experience what the Worcesters do for our nation and honor our fallen heroes that gave the ultimate sacrifice.” The Arlington Wreath Project and the wreath convoy was the brainchild of Morrill Worcester, President of Worcester Wreath Company of Harrison, Maine.

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Wednesday, Dec. 8

Lady Lamb The Beekeeper / Samuel James / Sontiago at Geno’s

Spose / Sontiago / Lady Zen / Saiyid Brent

9 p.m. No-longer-local indie sweetheart Lady Lamb The Beekeeper brings out her banjo and harmonica one more time (or a lot more time, who knows) for a benefit show for Nick Stevens of the 13th Cookie.

Samuel James and Sontiago join. 21 plus.

5:30 p.m. Hip-hop and soul artists Spose, Sontiago, Lady Zen and Saiyid Brent will perform with 12 Portland High School ELL students at the St. Lawrence Arts Center from 5:30-6:30 p.m. The performance is the culmination of a six-week songwriting program led by Sontiago. The event is free to the public.The students are participants in a year-long Young Writers and Leaders program run by The Telling Room.

The program offers academic, college, and job writing help as well as participation in songwriting and filmmaking workshops, meetings with local businessmen and women in creative economy fields, and beginning advocacy work for people who work in creative fields in their own communities. Free, all ages.

Pete Miller at One Longfellow 8 p.m. Pete Miller’s honest songwriting and musical stylings stem from an intimate upbringing in Southern Maine, an intuitive awareness of the aesthetic world, and a passion for spending time among waves and snowy peaks. A blend of indie and folk, his songs explore the unmasking of human tendencies. Miller’s lyrically clever offerings delve into the raw nature of humans—exposing, proposing, desiring, and accepting. $8 adv/ $10 day of show. All ages

Thursday, Dec. 9

Friday, Dec. 3 HillyTown Presents: Acoustic night at Mayo Street Arts

1930s night at the State Theatre with Over A Cardboard Sea and ‘The Wizard of Oz’

8 p.m. Local music blog Hillytown hosts a night of acoustic music at Mayo Street Arts in East Bayside.

The all ages, $5 show will feature all acoustic performers, including Jacob Augustine, Denise Dill, D. Gross, and Nate Martinez (of the Brooklyn-based band Thieving Irons). $5, all ages.

5 p.m. (Movie starts at 7 p.m.) The State Theatre revisits its glorious beginnings as it transforms itself back into a 1930s Movie House with a screening of The Wizard of Oz. Forget 3-D… Bring the family to the Ultimate Technicolor Triumph! Over A Cardboard Sea, Portland’s premiere nostalgia act, will set the mood with a pre-show performance of classic vaudeville tunes. An old-timey photo booth, Shirley Temples at the bar, and Depression-level ticket prices complete the transformation.

Matisyahu’s Festival of Lights at The State Theatre 7:30 p.m. A Hasidic Jewish musician from New York City singing reggae songs about his religious devotion, fans responded to this one-of-a-kind voice, driving Youth, Matisyahu’s Grammy-nominated 2006 studio disc, to the top spot on Billboard’s reggae albums chart.

That album, as well as Matisahu’s previous recording “Live at Stubb’s,” went Gold. His new album, “Light,” which debuted in the top 20 on the Billboard charts, is out now on Epic Records. Produced by David Kahne (Paul McCartney, Regina Spektor, Sublime), Matis recorded the album in Brooklyn, NY and Jamaica and got an assist from several guests Stephen McGregor, Sly & Robbie, members of Fyre Dept. and Fishbone, and others. The result is a bold new direction for an artist who has transcended cultures and genres. $26 in advance/$28 day of show, all ages. State Theatre.

The Momentum Band / Papadelo at Local Sprouts

7 p.m. The Momentum Band is a musically talented individuals with intellectual disabilities, organized by a staff member working at Momentum’s communitybased day program in Windham. The band will be followed by acoustic due Papadelo at 8 p.m. and staff Pete Miller’s honest songwriting and musical stylings stem from an intimate performers at 9 p.m. upbringing in Southern Maine, an intuitive awareness of the aesthetic world, John McCutcheon at One Longfellow and a passion for spending time among waves and snowy peaks. A blend of 8 p.m. John McCutcheon is America’s balladeer. His indie and folk, his songs explore the unmasking of human tendencies. Miller’s songs sing of the nation’s heritage. His words channel lyrically clever offerings delve into the raw nature of humans—exposing, prothe conscience of our people into streams of poetry and posing, desiring, and accepting. $8 adv/ $10 day of show. All ages. One Longfelmelody. Think of McCutcheon as an incarnation of Pete low Square. (COURTESY PHOTO) Irish Christmas in America Seeger and Mr. Rogers, Will Rogers and Bruce Spring7:30 p.m. Irish Christmas in America tours throughtion and prostitution. “This benefit in Maine will insure that steen. The most versatile and compelling performer you will out the USA with some of Ireland’s top traditional artists. the children can continue participating in these programs”, see this year. $20 advance, $23 at the door, all ages.

Now in its sixth year, Irish Christmas in America features says Portland resident Maria Sanchez. Sanchez grew up in State Theatre presents: Dark Side of the Rainbow members of leading Irish traditional band Téada, vocalist San Martin and is passionate about supporting the good 10 p.m. Dark Side of the Rainbow (also known as Dark Side Séamus Begley, and other top traditional artists performworks of Nuestras Raices in her old neighborhood in Peru. of Oz or The Wizard of Floyd) refers to the pairing of the 1973 ing Irish ballads and holiday carols, lively fiddle tunes and Sanchez, “Through our desire to send support to Peru, we Pink Floyd music album The Dark Side of the Moon with old-style Irish dancing. Narration brings to life ancient cusare also creating cross-cultural community here in Maine.”. the visual portion of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. This toms and stories, while photos provide a backdrop of rich Traditional Peruvian and Mexican food including tamales, produces moments where the film and the album appear historical context. It’s a family friendly show steeped in traempanadas and flan will be for sale, as well as the creations to correspond with each other. The title of the music videoditional music and perfect for getting into the spirit of the of local artists and a silent auction. The concert is co-sponlike experience comes from a combination of the album title holiday season. At One Longfellow Square, Also Dec. 7 at sored by Peace Action Maine, Tengo Voz, El Centro Latino, and the film’s song “Over the Rainbow.” $5, all ages.

Unity Center for the Performing Arts.

Art Exchange for Just Peace, Pacha Works and Tu Casa Salvadorean Restaurant.

Saturday, Dec. 4

Casco Bay Concert Band in Gorham 3 p.m. Casco Bay Concert Band, consisting of musicians from 29 surrounding communities, will present “The Many Moods of Christmas” at the McCormack Performing Ars Center, Gorham High School. CBCB is under the direction of Dr. Peter Martin and is welcoming New Associate Conductor Will Wohler. $7 Adults, $6 Seniors, free for children/students. Wheelchair accessible. www.cascobayconcertband. org (501(3c)). The program will feature Russian Christmas Music, Sleigh Ride, a musical reading of The Night Before Christmas, works by local arranger Terry White with guest solists Nicole Rawding, mezzo-soprano and David Delano, Bass-Baritone, a traditional sing-along and much more.

George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic 7 p.m. George Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American musician and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and is a solo funk artist as of 1981. He has been called one of the most important innovators of funk music, next to James Brown and Sly Stone.

Clinton is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of ParliamentFunkadelic. $30 adv / $35 DOS, all ages. State Theatre.

Old Time Square Dance at Mayo Street Arts 7 p.m. Live music and calling by The Dolly Wagglers and Friends. The second of monthly Square Dances at Mayo Streets Arts, this is a great way to get those feet moving and blood pumping on a cold winter’s night. Fun for all ages. $5

Benefit Concert for Nuestras Raices

Howard Fishman album release

6 p.m. A benefit concert featuring the music of two wellknown local musicians will take place at Sacred Heart/St. Dominic’s Church, 80 Sherman Street, promoting Friends of Nuestras Raices (Our Roots). Peruvian artist Sergio Espinoza of the group Inkas Wasi and the Afro-Cuban ensemble Grupo Esperanza will entertain with a medley of Cuban salsa and traditional Peruvian music. Nuestras Raices is a group that empowers neighborhood youth through dance, art, and music programs in San Martin de Porres, one of the many poor barrios in Lima, Peru. These activities engage children in celebrating their indigenous culture, with the goals of preventing alcohol use, gang participa-

8 p.m. Howard Fishman, composer, guitarist and bandleader, has come to be recognized as one of today’s most agile interpreters of the American songbook. Whether he is performing his own compositions or drawing on a seemingly endless repertoire of American popular music, it is all filtered through a sensibility and aesthetic entirely his own. Fishman’s performances combine the exuberance and spontaneity of jazz with a storyteller’s sense of drama, emotional depth and play. The All-Music Guide has called him “an important force in creative music,” and The New York Times has written that his work “transcends time and idiom.” $17 advance, $20 day of sale. One Longfellow Square.

Saturday, Dec. 11

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals at the State 8 p.m. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are like a modern-day version of Tina Turner stroking the microphone in a spangled mini-dress while fronting the Rolling Stones circa Sticky Fingers. The proof is there for all to hear on the band’s third album for Hollywood Records, hitting this spring, and marks an artistic breakthrough for a vital young band caught in the act of fulfilling its immense promise.

Little wonder that Grace and her cohorts have chosen to title it, directly and emphatically, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. All ages, $18 advance, $20 at the door.

White Light / Arborea / Jakob Battick & Friends/ Patrick Cunningham at Mayo Street 7 p.m. In the gorgeous main hall of Mayo Street Arts, complete with delicious natural reverb, there will be free performances from Pat Cunningham, Jakob Battick & Friends, Arborea, and White Light. Also present will be a special L’Animaux Tryst merch table with tapes and rec... ords and knick-knacks, and a special selection of Arborea-curated merch from their friends and family. A deluxe, hand-sewn, hand-printed CD of unreleased tracks from all four artists will be given free of charge to the first 20 attendees in the door that evening, featuring a total of eight exclusive recordings (two each from all four artists.)

This is going to be a collector’s item for all you geeks out there. Free. All ages.