The Portland Daily Sun, Saturday, December 4, 2010

Blowing smoke: Toking in public

Wikileaks: You wanted citizen journalism; well, here it is

Rude hosts? Portland Pirates tough to beat at home

See Bob Higgins on page 4

See Curtis Robinson’s column on page 5

See the story in Sports, page 15

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Merchants back homeless outreach teams Today’s event aids program

BY CURTIS ROBINSON THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

With floor-to-ceiling windows circling her O2 hair salon at the corner of Congress and High streets, Jenn Leigh gets a pretty good view of Portland’s

Rep drafts pot legalization bill

street life.

Like the night when the next-door State Theatre re-opened with a sold-out My Morning Jacket concert. The long line of lucky ticket-holders was a stationary audience for the Congress Square panhandlers and conversation seekers, and conflict began to escalate.

But Leigh didn’t call the cops.

She called the new “street team.”

“They came pretty quickly,” recalls Leigh, adding that they also diffused the situation fairly quickly.

That was one of about 3,000 contacts so far by a program where trained two-person pedestrian teams interact with the homeless and other denizens of the street. The teams connect people with a see TEAMS page 3

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BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Citing economic benefits though increased tax revenue, one local state representative has submitted a bill to the Maine state legislature that would legalize marijuana.

“It really comes down to economics, we have a state budget that won’t be able to be “I think this is an replaced with stimulus funds, we should opportunity to bring a be finding new ways black-market operato raise revenue,” tion onto the books said District 120 Rep. and channel those Diane Russell.

“I think this is resources to law an opportunity to enforcement to battle bring a black-market drugs that are actually operation onto the books and channel hurting our commuthose resources to nity.” — Maine Rep. law enforcement to Diane Russell battle drugs that are actually hurting our community,” said Russell, who notes that the effort is “more economic than libertarian.”

A recently re-elected Democrat representing Portland’s Munjoy Hill and Bayside neighborhoods, Russell said while the bill title is on

Maine College of Art student and illustrator Christina Siravo talks with customers at her table during the MECA holiday sale Friday evening during First Friday Art Walk. For more MECA and First Friday Art Walk photos, see page 11. (MATT DODGE PHOTO)

see LEGALIZATION page 6

Longfellow Books marks 10 years

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

It was on 9/11 that Longfellow Books became more than a bookstore.

The shop on Monument Square had been open less than a year, and when the terrorist attacks stunned and terrified Americans, Longfellow Books decided to stay open.

LEFT: At Longfellow Books Friday, staff and friends (from left) Chris Bowe, Imogen Park (back), Kristin Diehl, Stuart Gersen and Roseanne Urbano enjoy a computer program during the shop’s 10th anniversary celebration. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

“The city was shutting down, and we felt like, wow, we need to stay and figure this out together as a community. I’ll never forget the feeling,” recalled Chris Bowe, one of the owners of Longfellow Books. The independent bookstore celebrated 10 years in business on Friday.

“The day of 9/11 we didn’t close, we stayed open late, because we didn’t want to go home. We felt like it was a community service to stay here,” Bowe said.

“We didn’t understand what was happening to our world, but we were here together trying to figure it out,” he said. see BOOKS page 10

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But after he flew in secrecy for 14 hours to get here, foul weather kept him from nearby Kabul and a meeting to address frayed relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Obama’s surprise visit to the war zone, his second as president, came 10 days before he is to address the nation about a new review of U.S. strategy to defeat the

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Marines, Army ask Congress not to lift gay ban now, saying it’s too risky during war WASHINGTON (AP) — Bucking the Pentagon’s top leaders, the chiefs of the Army and Marines urged Congress on Friday not to allow openly gay people to serve in the military, at least not while troops are at war in Afghanistan.

The generals publicly rebutted their own bosses and the White House, arguing that it is too risky to change the policy now. That gave political ammunition to congressional Republicans trying to retain the ban known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

“It’s important that we’re clear

about the military risks,” said Gen. George Casey, the Army’s top officer.

“Repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ would be a major cultural and policy change in the middle of a war.”

President Barack Obama has promised to jettison a policy he says is discriminatory, and asked Congress to repeal the 17-year-old law this year.

Chances of that were slim to begin with, and they sank lower after Friday’s blunt assessment that lifting the ban would tear the close bonds of the foxhole. Democrats have promised a vote this month.

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Obama stayed on this U.S. military base, the headquarters of the 101st Airborne Division, the entire time he was here, just under four hours. He huddled with U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan and U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry. And he visited wounded soldiers at a base hospital, personally dispensing five Purple Hearts to wounded service members.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Talk about a close shave. An SUV crashed into an Anchorage barber shop, narrowly missing shop owner Heng Song and his two customers.

But Song wasn’t about to let the horrifying moment get in the way of a good haircut.

He was momentarily stunned, yes, when the vehicle burst through a door and window Wednesday afternoon as he was clipping a customer’s hair.

The drama was caught by a security camera, and footage shows the SUV land fully inside the shop, where Song stood behind a man in the barber’s chair and another customer sat waiting on a sofa in the corner. No one was seriously hurt, although the driver got a bruised knee in the collision.

Song laughed Thursday as the footage showed him soon return to the chair and continue the haircut, while in the background bystanders began to gather. There’s no way he would let a loyal customer go home with a botched job, Song said.

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Merchants use day to help support street teams TEAMS from page one

variety of resources — from directions to a shelter to rehab centers.

So far, the teams have been funded by a $100,000 city-awarded federal grant and $35,000 from the Portland Downtown District, along with a spate of in-kind services donated by the Milestone Foundation, the city’s Health and Human Services Department, Preble Street homeless program, Mercy Hospital and others.

But today, more than 40 downtown merchants are stepping to the plate in Portland Downtown District’s annual “Shop for A Cause Day,” donating a portion of their proceeds to the program. Last year, the “Day” raised nearly $5,000 for a homeless women’s shelter.

The fund-raising comes as HOME supporters are seeking another city grant and releasing statistics from the effort. For example, in the HOMEteam primary area that includes the Congress Street corridor downtown and the Bayside neighborhood, city police are reporting a 23 percent drop in calls involving people who are intoxicated.

Police also report a 55 percent drop in “layouts,” meaning people too drunk to stand, in the HOME area, and a 14 percent citywide drop in calls involving intoxicated people; Since one idea fueling the program was to reduce the number of people being taken to emergency rooms, an important statistic is that 787 HOME clients were transported to the Milestone detox center. Organizers feel many, if not most, of those people would have been emergency room patients without the HOME effort.

The Milestone Foundation, which operates both an emergency shelter and detoxification program on India Street, is the lead agency. The group also operates a van that can provide transportation instead of using an ambulance.

Doug Gardner, director of the city’s Health and Human Services Department, explains that the HOME program is actually result of several groups: The local social service agencies wanted a van that could transport homeless people, not just to shelters but to programs or detox centers;

Shop for a Cause Day participants

Jenn Leigh, a High Street salon owner, says she calls the homeless outreach teams “about once a month.” Today, more than 40 downtown merchants are stepping to the plate in Portland Downtown District’s annual “Shop for A Cause Day,” donating a portion of their proceeds to the program. Last year, the “Day” raised nearly $5,000 for a homeless women’s shelter. (CURTIS ROBINSON PHOTO)

Mercy Hospital wanted to address the high cost of homeless visits to the emergency room and downtown merchants wanted relief from people, often intoxicated, who were yelling at people, urinating in public, aggressively panhandling and sometimes fighting.

“It seems to be working,” says Jenn Leigh, the salon owner who says she calls the teams “about once a month.”

“There’s always been a lot of panhandling here,” she says, but adds that there don’t seem to be as many apparently homeless – and she doubts all the apparent homeless are actually homeless – people hanging out in Congress Square park.

Russ Sargent, who owns Yes Books used bookstore just off the park, says he’s not had to call the police as much this year and figures at least part of that is due to the new street teams. He said he has called the HOME team, once, right after they began patrols.

Sargent explained that he generally doesn’t call the police unless there’s violence going on, and he says maybe things are getting better but “... maybe I’m just getting used to it.”

Maine’s Collins supports repeal of ‘don’t ask’ policy for military PORTLAND (AP) — Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is reiterating her support for allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military.

The Republican senator released a statement in support of repealing the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy following Friday’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the matter.

Collins Collins said after reviewing the Pentagon report on the policy and hearing testimony from Sec-

retary of State Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Allen, she remains convinced that the law should be repealed. The policy prohibits service members from revealing if they’re gay and recruiters from asking about people’s sexual orientation. Collins said she also thinks the issue should be decided by Congress, not in the courts.

Maine’s other U.S. senator, Olympia Snowe, is still evaluating the Pentagon report and testimony.

Bucking the Pentagon’s top leaders, the chiefs of the Army and Marines urged Congress on Friday not to allow openly gay people to serve in the military, at least not while troops are at war in Afghanistan.

He explains the position of merchants who feel that “... having a bunch of homeless guys hanging around your store doesn’t invite customers; I don’t have anything at all against those guys other than that.”

At his new Urban General Store on Congress Street, Norm Jabar explains that he doesn’t really have to call the HOME teams because they seem to always be around. He’s among those who think the effort may be working.

He also says, from watching the teams work, they “really have the patience of Job.” Jabar says part of the problem with the city’s homeless is that a relative few cause problems, creating “a one bad apple” situation. He recalls have a run-in with an apparently homeless man some time ago only to later see the same guy recently ringing a Salvation Army bell soliciting donations.

“He actually felt bad about [the incident],” said Jabar.

As for the street teams, Jabar said it likely works because of the considerable contact between teams and the homeless.

“It’s all about relationships,” he said.

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The 9/11 of American diplomacy Not since Leon Trotsky began publishing the secrets of the Romanov archives in 1918 has there been a more devastating leak of diplomatic documents than this week’s WikiLeaks dump.

The Romanov files contained the secret treaties the imperial Allies had signed to carve up the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Ottoman empires after a war fought “to make the world safe for democracy.”

It was to counter cynicism after revelation of these “secret treaties” that Woodrow Wilson called for “open covenants, openly arrived at.”

In 1898, a leaked document inflamed America and infuriated President McKinley, who had not wanted to go to war with Spain.

The Spanish minister in ––––– Washington, Enrique Dupuy Creators De Lome, had written an indisSyndicate creet letter that was stolen by a sympathizer of the Cuban revolution and leaked to William Randolph Hearst’s warmongering New York Journal. In the De Lome letter, the minister had said of McKinley that he is “weak, and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd, besides being a ... politician who tries to leave a door open behind himself while keeping on good terms with the jingoes of his party.”

Six days later, the battleship Maine blew up in Havana harbor. Hearst’s Journal screamed Spanish “treachery.” And the war was on.

On Jan. 16, 1917, the German Foreign Secretary Zimmermann had cabled his envoy in Mexico City to convey an offer. If Mexico would join Germany in a war against the United States, Mexico’s reward would be Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

Written in code, the Zimmermann telegram was intercepted and deciphered by the British, who happily turned it over to the Americans.

The U.S. reaction was even more explosive than it had been to news that Germany had declared open season for U-boats on all ships carrying cargo to Allied ports, including American ships.

Within weeks, America was at war with Germany.

The WikiLeaks dump comes in an age where diplomatic insults are common. Hence, nothing so dramatic as war is likely to result.

Still, this is a diplomatic disaster of the first order.

For what it reveals is that the world’s last

Pat Buchanan

see BUCHANAN page 5

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Blowing smoke: Toking in public Welcome to December, when the mind wanders to certain close-of-year ritual behaviors.

You know, promises of going back to the gym, banking more of the old paycheck, cutting way back on the imbibing to something closer to a human level, and the biggest one of all.

This will be the year I quit smoking.

Perhaps that is an exaggeration. This is the year I want to cut back from the daily pack to about half that level. The things have gotten a bit more expensive, and less socially acceptable. Not that those things bother me, in general I’m about as socially acceptable as a baboon with a beer.

I’m serious. Last weekend, I went out and bought one of the fancy new “electronic cigarettes.”

At a cost of about $20, I put off the purchase for a week to think it over. Was the cost of half a week’s worth of smokes worth a fancy electronic device for delivering nicotine? How much does lung cancer treatment cost, anyway?

Easy call.

It looks like a cigarette, lights up at the tip, and you exhale water vapor. It delivers nicotine to keep the cravings away, but somehow a battery operated device that has to be charged once a day with a USB cable just looks a bit funny.

But there is the annoyance

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist factor to consider. You can allegedly smoke these devices anywhere. That alone was the kicker for me.

You might ask “Hey, Bob, is it really worth $20 to buy something just to irritate people?”

I submit to you that you’d be asking the question of someone who owns both a clown and a gorilla suit. ‘Nuff Said.

The first weekend, I tried it out at the bar.

Portland’s notorious bar and restaurant smoking ordinances were passed a few years back, and later echoed at the state level.

Somewhere about the third beer, I reached in my pocket and pulled a few puffs. Most of the folks in the bar had heard of them, but didn’t seem to mind.

It wasn’t until the later hours, when the throngs of drunken revellers show up in the Old Port that the final verdict was issued.

Jarod, one of the doormen at Amigo’s, told me “Nope. Outside.”

I tried to engage him in reason, but his response was an unyielding “No. I don’t want to deal with

some other drunk seeing it, and thinking they can smoke in here.

Plus, I don’t feel like trying to explain why we shouldn’t get a fine for it. Take it outside.”

“Other” drunk? Ouch.

Later in the week, I had been walking down the street, and popped into the Rite-Aid on Congress to grab something for supper. I was smoking it when I came around the corner, and the dude running the register gave me the best version of the stink-eye that I have ever witnessed in my life. I explained, and he gave me the official okey-dokey-smokey.

Out on a date with a new friend, I was down at Bayside Bowl, and didn’t feel like going outside for a quick puff. The cloud of smoke leaving my lungs immediately brought someone down from the upper bar area. “Hey! You can’t do that here!” Explanations, a quick examination, and I got the nod.

“For a second there, I thought to myself that you had some serious balls to be lighting up in here.” It being a bowling alley, I assumed he was going for the triple wordscore pun.

Day Job? No problem, they would just as soon keep me in my work area anyway. Other venues have had mixed reactions, but on the whole this method seems to be a bit more acceptable indoors than the old pack of Pall Mall. see HIGGINS page 5

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Wikileaks: You wanted citizen journalism; here it is Okay, you wanted your citizen journalism all over the Internet, and you ended up with Wikileaks — essentially, blogging on steroids or maybe even human growth hormone.

Since the Wikileaks site has been posting hundreds of thousands of secret documents, many embarrassing to governments various and sundry, we’ve been spiraling into one of those “woe is journalism” cultural conversations. Those of us who toil in the trade, when we speak among ourselves after exchanging the secret handshake, are all over the board.

Here are some of our “frequently asked questions.” (And the handshake is the normal kind but with the middle finger slightly elevated.)

FAQ: Is it journalism?

Well, yeah.

It’s just bad journalism.

The argument against it being “journalism” is that it’s just raw data, devoid of context. But isn’t that supposed to be the saving grace of citizen journalism? Cut out that biased middle-man? Just the facts, right? No-spin zone!

The no-creativity argument against the leaks rising to journalism is similar to the copyright argument about phone listings. To over-simplify, the law says you can’t copyright simple information, and since lists of names are not a creative product you can’t copyright them.

And then you see the New York Times place the Wikileaks information into context and realize what good journalism can do. Plus: we’ve asked

Curtis Robinson ––––– Usually Reserved that question before, haven’t we? Tom Wolfe sent the J-school crowd into a tizzy with his first-person accounts, our friend Hunter S. Thompson is required reading at many colleges, but seldom in the journalism department.

This J-thing evolves. ...

As for news value ... look, we know that governments lie. But they’re supposed to be good enough at it to keep us in the dark — it’s what we pay them for. Remember the words of the poet: We can’t handle the truth.

As a culture, Americans have embraced a stunning loss of private life. People take photos in private space and post them for the world to see. We sign up for bells-and-whistles websites that track us around like the consumer meat-with-eyes (thank you, Lewis Black) that we’ve become.

Some of the wise guys at Google have suggested that privacy is, as a concept, dead. This sort of wisdom is common among people making obscene money from the very ideal they support, and Google embraces online tracking the way your gym embraces auto-pay.

So, yeah, it’s journalism.

FAQ: Is it treason?

Well, not against America. Assange is an Aussie and the site is based, I believe, in Sweden, so it’s certainly not treason against America — you have to be a citizen for that, right? More to the point, were they American, it’s no more treason than the Pentagon Papers were treason or that Rolling Stone story that got the general fired a while back was treason.

But to address the underlying point: My grandfather could not see how anybody could publish the Pentagon Papers. His WWII mentality was very much “us” vs. “them” and, of course, governments lie during wars.

I, however, thought the Papers going public was vital to the Republic.

I would argue that his mentality was created before wars of choice were quite so common.

FAQ: Why do you call it “citizen journalism.”

Well, spite, mostly.

Because I’ve made money as a reporter for a couple of decades and it’s irritating that everyone with a laptop and decent Internet thinks they can do my job better than me can.

It’s even more irritating when they pull it off. (And yes, to avoid the calls, I did the “better than me” as a joke ...

I don’t want to ever again deal with that reader who thought the “Housing Woahs” headline, on a story about housing problems, was not a pun.)

FAQ: What do you think the longterm effects will be?

Well, a return to those large black land-line encrypted phones. It’s easy

to notice that people are getting savvy to the whole email-is-forever situation. It’s like in the post-Monica world of Washington, D.C. when you could always tell the Clinton Admin alumni because they never, ever took notes.

“You have your personal diary subpoenaed and dissected by lawyers, it changes you,” said one alum. Same with emails.

So to review: The government that has failed to protect our privacy is finding out that its own secrets are not safe? Okay. I hope none of our guys gets hurt, but I do love some irony here and there.

The worst long-term effect was noted by Richard Clarke, the former anti-terrorism czar and one of the few adults on the national stage. He says that diplomats will simply never write candidly again, turning to phone calls for such analysis. That will limit the number of people who hear those candid assessments.

Now, we have a government that will never really know that somebody is not listening in or intercepting their email or about to make their behindthe-curtain life public online. Exactly the way I feel about Facebook and the way climate scientists have felt since climategate (note to conservatives — if you loved those emails, then no fair complaining now).

In other words: Hey, Uncle Sam, welcome to our world.

(Curtis Robinson is editor of The Portland Daily Sun. Contact him at curtis@portlanddailysun.me.)

Many U.S. diplomats will see their usefulness reduced or destroyed BUCHANAN from page 4

superpower cannot be trusted with diplomatic confidences or secrets. Try to help the Americans, and what you tell them may wind up on page one of their tabloid press.

From what has spilled out already, the Iranians know exactly who in the Arab world is goading us to attack their country.

That list includes Persian Gulf sheiks, the king of Saudi Arabia and young Prime Minister Saad Hariri of Lebanon, whose father, former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, was assassinated five years ago, allegedly by Hezobollah, Iran’s ally.

All these Arab friends of America, especially Hariri, have now been put at risk of reprisal and possible assassination. Our diplomats in whom those rulers put their trust have been compromised.

The press has not yet revealed our confidential sources, but foreign intelligence agencies by now have the unedited documents and can figure out who is talking to the Americans and who is not a friend.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a prickly ally, but one on whom we have to depend in a war that has cost 1,400 American lives, now has confirmation of what we think of him. If he is thinking of cutting a deal at America’s expense, who can blame him?

Secretary of State Clinton, who has made a favorable impression on foreign leaders, comes off as mildly paranoid with her instructions to have U.S. diplomats spy on and steal credit card numbers of allied diplomats at the United Nations.

Because of these leaks, many U.S. diplomats, who were candid about leaders in the capitals where they represent our country, will see their usefulness diminished or destroyed.

As these documents have apparently come out of Pentagon files, what does that tell us about the U.S. military’s ability to keep a secret? Are U.S. battle and war plans also unprotected?

How is it that, thus far, only PFC Bradley Manning has been apprehended?

Who vetted Manning? Is it possible one 22-yearold with a computer and disks can get access to, download and transfer to anti-Americans the entire

correspondence of the Department of State with U.S. embassies?

Some 250,000 documents — thousands classified as confidential, secret and “no foreign” distribution — were thieved.

Who was in charge of securing those secrets? Why have heads not rolled? What has happened to the idea of accountability?

A few years ago, a leak of the name of a single CIA analyst, Valerie Plame, had the national press in an uproar, with a grand jury impaneled and a special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, named to investigate the leak right up to and into the Oval Office, if necessary.

Vice President Cheney’s aide, Scooter Libby, was prosecuted for lying about the leak. Karl Rove was hauled repeatedly before a grand jury.

Why is the Obama White House getting a pass when this national humiliation and diplomatic Pearl Harbor occurred on its watch?

(To find out more about Patrick Buchanan, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.)

This smoker never had discipline to save cash; it went up in smoke HIGGINS from page 4

In totaling up what I’ve spent over the years on smoke, I got looking around to what I could have bought with the money. Let’s see: 26 years of smoking, roughly a pack a day, adjusted for inflation and such came to a staggering total of roughly $51,000.

A quick check of housing showed me not one, but TWO houses I could have bought in Rumford for that amount of money, right now. Paid cash, no banks, or

credit checks, or any Fannie Mae foolishness. There is a 4 Bedroom 2 Bath place in Tampa, Florida selling for the same amount, and another house in Lebanon, Maine, right on the New Hampshire border.

I never had the discipline to save that cash. I smoked it up. Now, looking back and realizing that I smoked an entire house is a daunting realization.

I haven’t even begun to calculate what the value of quitting drinking would be.

Overall, the experiment has worked, somewhat.

Over the last week, I’ve managed to cut back on my smoking by a little over a third. Now, I’m just waiting for the inevitable rules of society to catch up with these new devices, and how the public should be protected from me and my exhaling of water vapor.

It will happen. But if it helps cut back on smoking, should it?

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

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Maine Rep. Diane Russell: ‘The war on drugs has failed’ LEGALIZATION from page one

file with the Office of the Revisor of Statutes, it is still being modified and has yet to be published for public viewing.

Russell said the bill would allow citizens of a certain age to legally possess up to six plants, but keep the sale of the plant for personal use exclusive to dispensaries.

Some key details are still missing from the draft, including a minimum age to purchase the herb, and what sort of taxes would be levied on its sale.

With a new Republican majority in the House and Senate, the bill might not stand much of a chance this time around, said Charles Wynott, founder of Russell the Maine Medical Marijuana Resource Center (MRC), and advocacy group which trains medical marijuana caregivers to provide for it’s network of patients.

“Every time it gets brought up is good for us, whether it goes anywhere is another issue. We had a hard enough time getting medical mari-

juana passed, I can’t imagine it will go anywhere with this legislature especially,” said Wynott.

But Russell said it’s important to keep the conversation ongoing and in the forefront of voter’s minds as a possible solution to the state’s consistent budget shortfalls.

“I think this tax revenue should be going to community policing specifically. Because budget cuts have been handed down to municipalities, as direct result we’ve seen a loss in law enforcement folks,” said Russell.

Russell said that in taxing one drug to fight against others, one must consider the social impact of marijuana compared to that of drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and prescription drugs.

“Marijuana is not causing domestic violence to escalate, people don’t smoke and then beat someone up or go to a bar and start screaming at people,” said Russell. “We need to be focused on what drugs are impacting in our communities, those being cocaine and meth.”

“The war on drugs has failed; if we don’t have a pragmatic, realistic approach to how we deal with our drug problem, we’re going to continue to fight a losing battle,” said Russell.

Russell said it is difficult to estimate the economic impact of legalization. “I wish I could put together economic analysis of it, but it’s almost impossible because we’re talking about trying to quantify a metric that isn’t available,” she said.

For some, the question of legalization so soon after the passage of a law established a dispensary system in the state is just the sort of slippery slope that moderates on the issue had voiced concern over during the campaign last spring.

“When I was collecting signatures for the medical marijuana bill, that was an issue, and a number of people brought up that this going to be opening up the doors to legalization across the board,” said Wynott.

But Wynott said that any discussion on a more progressive marijuana policy is a good in his book.

“It’s good and it’s bad, but at least it’s being brought to the forefront,” he said.

Whatever the future of Russell’s bill, Wynott is confident that we’ll soon see a major shift in attitudes towards legalization. “I foresee legalization in Maine and many other states to progress, and I think that progression is going to be fast and furious — every year there will be something in the legislature in regard to it,” he said.

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Maine murder defendant testifies in superior court PORTLAND (AP) — A 52-year-old Maine man on trial for murder for fatally stabbing his girlfriend is telling a jury he woke up in his truck in a grocery store parking lot after the stabbing not knowing exactly what happened.

William Hanaman testified Friday in Cumberland County Superior

Court, where he is on trial for the November 2009 death of 47-year-old Marion Shea.

According to the Portland Press Herald, Hanaman said when he woke up in the parking lot, his hands were shaking and his clothes were covered in blood and he remembered some sort of frightening confrontation with Shea.

Hanaman claims he acted in selfdefense. The state’s medical exam-

iner testified this week that most of her eight stab wounds were defensive wounds, meaning she was trying to shield herself.

Sanford man sentenced for bank robbery PORTLAND (AP) — A 22-year-old Maine man is going to prison for 32 months for robbing a bank in Sanford.

Federal prosecutors said Dane

Bosley, of Sanford, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Portland.

Bosley pleaded guilty in August to robbing a Maine Bank and Trust branch in Sanford of $3,600 in cash in February.

According to court documents, Bosley displayed what appeared to be a gun and demanded that he be given $25,000 within 45 seconds or he would begin shooting.

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Dorothy Bakiewicz Dyro CAPE ELIZABETH — Dorothy Bakiewicz Dyro, 86, a resident of Cape Elizabeth, formerly of South Portland, died peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House with her loving family by her side.

Dorothy was born in Portland, Maine on Feb. 6, 1924, the fourth child of Ignacy S. and Margaret M. Dobrowolski Bakiewicz. She spent her youth in the Polish Community on Portland’s West End and was a parishioner of Saint Louis Church. She attended local schools and graduated from Portland High School in the class of 1941.

On June 23, 1945, she married Frederick E. Dyro at St. Louis Catholic Church in Portland.

They moved to South Portland, became parishioners of Holy Cross Church, and together raised nine children.

Dorothy was a person who loved doing crafts and working with her hands, quilting, gardening, collecting and making dolls.

Her greatest love, however, was time spent surrounded by her family. Her children commented that family was everything to Dorothy.

An avid seamstress, she made costumes for her chil-

dren’s yearly Spring Festivals.

She spent hours at her sewing machine, decorating her home, and making clothes for her family. She loved to quilt and took much joy in creating beautiful costumes for the dolls that she collected.

At the end of each busy day she loved to wind down, watching her favorite old movies on television.

Once her children were grown, she was employed by Pratt Abbott Cleaners and later at Southern Maine Area on Aging, retiring in 1986. An amazing woman, her love of family was her greatest strength, always thinking of others before herself. Her unshakable faith was foremost throughout her life and helped to carry her through her recent journey to a peaceful conclusion. The family wishes to thank the staff and volunteers at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House for their loving and caring support.

Dorothy was predeceased by her husband of 55 years on Oct. 11, 2000, a son Frederick E. Dyro Jr. in 1964; a sister, Mary Dickson; two brothers, Edward and Michael Bakiewicz; and a grandson, David E. Dyro in 1996. She is survived by four daughters Donna M. and her husband Jef-

frey Wilkinson of Little Sebago Lake, Janice E. and her husband Gary Stockson of Cape Elizabeth, Anne M. and her husband Robert Simpson of Auburn, Lisa M. and her husband Stephen Simpson of Buxton, four sons Robert N. Dyro of Boston, Thomas P. Dyro of Portland, Dennis I. and his wife Bonnie Dyro of Lisbon, David S. Dyro and his companion Sandy Guistat of South Portland, a sister Nellie Glidden of South Portland, twelve grandchildren and six great grandchildren along with several nieces and nephews.

Visiting hours will be held on Monday, Dec. 6, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Conroy-Tully Crawford Funeral Home, 172 State St., Portland. Prayers will be recited at the funeral home at 9:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 7, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. at St. Louis Catholic Church, 279 Danforth St., Portland. Burial will follow at Calvary Cemetery in South Portland. Online condolences may be expressed at www. ctcrawford.com Those who wish may make memorial contributions in Dorothy’s memory to Gosnell Memorial Hospice House, Hospice of Southern Maine, 180 US Route 1 STE 1, Scarborough, ME 04074 or www.hospiceofsouthernmaine.org/donate.

New Englander gets Grammy nomination for best song LEWISTON (AP) — One of the Grammy nominees for song of the year is a New Hampshire native and former shoe-worker from Lewiston, Maine.

Ray LaMontagne’s latest album, August’s “God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise,” received two other nominations including best contemporary folk album.

RCA Records says it debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s Top 200 and No. 1 on the digital album chart.

The Sun Journal says the family of the 37-year-old LaMontagne moved a lot, and he ended up in Lewiston, where he worked in a shoe factory. He later quit to begin his music career. He signed with RCA Records in 2004. He now lives in western Massachusetts on a farm that once belonged to Norman Mailer, which is where he recorded his newest album, the Pariah Dogs.

Maine fire marshal may acquire $150,000 mobile command center AUGUSTA (AP) — An Ohio businessman hopes to donate a $150,000 mobile command center to the Maine fire marshal’s office.

Maine native Gil Blais runs a business, La Boit Inc., outside Columbus, Ohio, that builds mobile dental clinics, and spay and neuter clinics for veterinarians.

After the 9/11 attacks, the company branched out into specialized mobile command posts for law enforcement agencies, as well.

Koni (COHN’-ee) Wade, La Boit’s national sales manager, says Blais is excited to be giving back to his home state. She says the donation is in honor of the parents of Blais and his wife.

The 33-foot vehicle includes four work stations, a conference room, bathroom, galley and space for storing weapons and evidence. Blais hopes to give the keys to the fire marshal early next year.

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The HOME – or Homeless Outreach and Mobile Emergency – teams, are putting up impressive numbers (as reported in The Daily Sun): In the HOME team area – mostly downtown and in the Bayside neighborhood – the Portland Police Department reports a 23 percent drop in calls involving people who are intoxicated; • Police report a 55 percent drop, in that same area, in what are called “layouts,” meaning people too drunk to stand; • About 3,000 contacts with homeless or other street people, with 68 percent of those contacts involving people who were thought to be intoxicated.

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Invasive sea species may bring pros with its cons

Mark-a-thon raises $33,621 for center WCYY’s Mark Curdo concludes Mark-athon, a weeklong benefit for the Center for Grieving Children, at Binga’s in Portland Friday night. The on-air fundraiser garnered $33,621 for the center, which aims to provide support to grieving children, teens, families and the community through peer support, outreach and education. Last year, Mark-a-thon rasied about $25,000 for the center. Again this year, Curdo, disc jockey for 94.3 WCYY, stayed on the air for over 100 hours with minimal sleep. He took requests for songs from listeners, who could ask for any tune as long as they donated to the center. Don’t distress, fans. Curdo’s usual Saturday column for The Portland Daily Sun will run later this week. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

Some bemoan proposed design of NH-Maine bridge PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Maine and New Hampshire officials have come to terms with repairing or replacing a pair of bridges between Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine.

Now they’re getting down to design. And some people say they don’t like a proposed design for the Memorial Bridge replacement, criticizing it as looking too much like the old bridge.

New Hampshire Department of Transportation project manager Robert Landry said he thought that was what the public wanted for a proposed replacement to the aging bridge across the Piscataqua River.

Landry tells the Portsmouth Herald his designers are now coming up with a “more modern” lift span.

“I’ve heard loud and clear that people

“I’ve heard loud and clear that people want to look at an alternative, and we’re developing a new rendering.” — New Hampshire Department of Transportation project manager Robert Landry want to look at an alternative, and we’re developing a new rendering,” he said.

Maine and New Hampshire officials have agreed to replace the Memorial Bridge. Demolition begins in 18 months.

Last week, Maine and New Hampshire officials also agreed to rehabilitate the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, which includes a rail line serving Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. That’ll happen after

Memorial Bridge is replaced.

All told, there are three bridges between Kittery and Portsmouth, including the Interstate-95 bridge, which also is due for costly maintenance in the next few years.

Maine previously entertained the possibility of eliminating one of the three bridges, but that option is no longer on the table.

In addition to coming up with a design, Maine and New Hampshire must come up with funding for replacing Memorial Bridge, rehabilitating the Sara Mildred Long and maintaining the I-95 bridge.

A task force that’s looking at the three bridges says the long-term costs of construction, rehabilitation and maintenance could reach $620 million over three decades. The panel has until mid-December to come up with a final report.

BOSTON (AP) — An invasive sea squirt is increasingly being found spread like batter on the ocean floor off New England, but new research shows that’s not all bad news, despite fears about damage the animal could cause.

The sea squirt rapidly expands on hard ocean bottom in ropelike chains or mats, and scientists worry it could crowd out valuable species that live on or near the sea floor, such as scallops.

But new evidence shows some sea life and the fish that eats it actually thrive in regions where the sea squirt has taken hold. It’s an unexpectedly positive spin to the intrusion of a species scientists acknowledge they don’t fully understand.

“This seems to be like the ecosystem is just sort of (saying): ‘OK, if you’re able to withstand that and survive here, then you might actually find it favorable and benefit to some degree,’” said Brian Smith, a federal food web ecologist who’s studying how the sea squirts are affecting groundfish diets.

“Sea squirt” is the common name for various species, including the invasive Didemnum vexillum. Found worldwide, this species likely made its way to New England in the 1970s or 1980s in shipments of shellfish from Japan, said Judith Pederson, a scientist with the MIT Sea Grant program.

The animal, since found south to Long Island Sound, looks like a tiny tadpole in its youngest stages, but is similar to a sponge as an adult, with a firm, flexible outer covering.

The animal reproduces after fragments break off and attach to hard surfaces, forming colonies said to look like pancake batter.

The sea squirts didn’t get much local attention until they were discovered in 2002 in a sevensquare-mile patch of northern Georges Bank, the rich fishing grounds about 60 miles east of Cape Cod.

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NYC house used in ‘The Godfather’ for sale for $2.9M NEW YORK (AP) — The eight-bedroom New York City mansion used in the 1972 mobster epic, “The Godfather,” is for sale.

The owners of the Staten Island home are asking $2.9 million — or an offer they can’t refuse.

The movie was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It starred Marlon Brando as the fictitious mobster Vito Corleone and actors Al Pacino and Robert Duvall.

Scenes were filmed inside and outside the 4-acre estate.

Owner James Norton says his mother kept many artifacts from the movie, including Brando’s cue cards.

The house features two fireplaces, a basement pub, a four-car garage and an in-ground pool.

Realtor Connie Profaci says it needs some work, but the family is betting on the house’s history as a selling point.

This Nov. 2010 photo provided by Connie Profaci Realty shows an eight-bedroom mansion in New York’s Staten Island used in the 1972 mobster epic, “The Godfather.” The 4-acre estate is for sale, with an asking price of $2.9 million. (AP Photo/Connie Profaci Realty)

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ABOVE: Dahana Lake of Portland browses books at Longfellow Books Friday.

“They order obscure books and help you look for things and it’s real personal service,” she said of the independent bookstore.

LEFT: Chris Bowe talks to employees behind a display of books during the bookstore’s 10th anniversary celebration Friday night.

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Owners of Longfellow Books thank customers for a decade of support BOOKS from page one

Customers and followers say that’s vintage Longfellow Books. They credit the independent store with staying close to the community.

“The bookstore was one of the founding members of the Portland Buy Local organization and regularly promotes Maine writers and authors by hosting free book signings after hours in their main store space,” wrote Jeff Mateja, writer of the I Love Portland blog (http://www.iloveportlandmaine. com).

Dahana Lake, a customer at Longfellow Books, said, “I love that it’s a local store and not a chain store ... which is great. Chris and the gang here are great, they order obscure books and help you look for things and it’s real personal service.”

Lake said she enjoys researching at the bookstore.

“The big stores are usually too busy to help you get that done,” she said.

Lake also said the store reaches out and helps the larger community.

“I work with veterans, and they’ve been great about helping us get books to veterans through the Books Instead of Bombs program,” she said.

Stuart Gersen, owner with Bowe of Longfellow Books, said he was a general manager for Bookland in 2000 when a bankruptcy proceeding forced

the closure of that business.

“We had to decide what to do with our lives, so while we were closing up the stores, we purchased this store and rechristened it Longfellow Books,” he said.

Gersen credited an intelligent customer base interested in personal service.

“Portland has great readers. ... We love doing this, and I think that combination made it work,” he said.

Chains meet a need, Gersen said, noting, “I can’t carry everything that Borders carries, nor can Borders provide the kind of relationships with customers that I can. We have birthed a number of local authors here, they know that they have friends here and that we care about their work.”

Bowe said, “In the 10 years we’ve been here, we’ve given over $31,000 to the public library, gift certificates, we never say no. It’s a blessing to be here after 10 years. Independents are disappearing, but we’ve never been stronger. We give health insurance to our booksellers, and Walmart claims they can’t, and it’s a struggle, but we do, because it’s the right thing to do.

That’s where I feel proud about this store, we’ve tried to do things the right way.”

Last word from Gersen to the store’s customers: “Thank you, a thousand times, thank you.”

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Liz McGhee staffs a booth for Spindleworks in SPACE Gallery Friday night during Art Walk. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Scenes from First Friday Art Walk Maine College of Art began their annual holiday sale yesterday in the Porteous Building at 522 Congress Street. The holiday sale is produced

by Maine College of Art to benefit MECA’s education, outreach, and student programs, and provide an opportunity for MECA students, alumni, faculty and staff to sell affordable handmade arts, crafts and gifts for the holiday season. The sale continues today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. admission is free.

LEFT: Genevieve Levin works behind the scens at her booth during the MECA holiday sale.

Specializing in body art, Levin was also selling Henna-painted candles and fabrics. (MATT DODGE PHOTO)

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

There’s something you know would enrich your life. Perhaps it’s reading a book, volunteering a service or having children. Do not put this off until you have the time. You may never have the time. Do it now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You can do something truly spectacular with an upcoming presentation or event. This happens only through a lot of unglamorous labor. The time you spend in preparation will make all the difference.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You will get input you were not expecting, and this may catch you off guard. You’ll handle your surprise with grace and will be able to make the most of the opinions you gather.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). As ridiculous as some people may seem about keeping silly little personal policies and rules, you have to recognize that a boundary is a boundary. Cross at your peril.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 4).

You have luck in attracting sponsors and teachers. Tell everyone what you want to do. Family bonds together to make something wonderful happen in December. January brings romantic professions. In February, a mentor or coach will inspire you and keep you on track. Upgrade your education, skills or style in May. Gemini and Libra people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 2, 11, 29 and 19.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You emulate a well-respected leader. You strive to acquire this one’s stellar listening skills and ability to reply honestly to others in a way that makes them feel satisfied and maybe even important.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). If you want to keep a secret, don’t tell it to a known blabbermouth. Right about now, you have something to publicize. You can be sure everyone will hear it if you call it a “secret” and tell it to said blabbermouth.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There’s something you would love to do if you only had the money. Pretend you do have the money, and keep dreaming about this. It is possible. You just have to believe.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). When you’re not getting through to someone, the usual reaction is to raise the volume.

Try another approach today. Back off.

Walk away. You’ll be most effective in making your point.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Remember, you’re going after a certain goal. Don’t stubbornly stick to your path to such a degree that you won’t get off of it when you see that there’s a better, quicker way to get to your goal.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll receive valuable input from others, though it comes in a rough form. If only people could communicate more directly and give you only what you need. Since they can’t, you’ll have to sort through the muck to find the gems.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Humility is the best antidote to the kinds of problems you encounter today. When you consider a situation without pride or prejudice, you see a smart, quick way to get what you want.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, Dec. 4, the 338th day of 2010. There are 27 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 4, 1783, Gen. George Washington bade farewell to his Continental Army officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York, telling them, “With a heart full of love and gratitude I now take leave of you.”

On this date: In 1619, settlers from Bristol, England, arrived at Berkeley Hundred in present-day Charles City County, Va. In 1816, James Monroe of Virginia was elected the fifth president of the United States.

In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson left Washington on a trip to France to attend the Versailles (vehr-SY’) Peace Conference.

In 1942, U.S. bombers struck the Italian mainland for the first time in World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration, which had been created to provide jobs during the Depression.

In 1965, the United States launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Cmdr. James A. Lovell aboard.

In 1978, San Francisco got its first female mayor as City Supervisor Dianne Feinstein (FYN’-styn) was named to replace the assassinated George Moscone (mahsKOH’-nee).

In 1984, a five-day hijack drama began as four armed men seized a Kuwaiti airliner en route to Pakistan and forced it to land in Tehran, where the hijackers killed American passenger Charles Hegna.

In 1996, the Mars Pathfinder lifted off from Cape Canaveral and began speeding toward Mars on a 310 million-mile odyssey.

One year ago: President Barack Obama began putting the finishing touches on a fresh job creation proposal, telling a community college crowd in Allentown, Pa., “I still consider one job lost one job too many.”

Today’s Birthdays: Actress-singer Deanna Durbin is 89. Game show host Wink Martindale is 77. Pop singer Freddy Cannon is 74. Actor-producer Max Baer Jr. is 73.

Actress Gemma Jones is 68. Rock musician Bob Mosley is 68. Singer-musician Chris Hillman is 66. Musician Terry Woods is 63.

Rock singer Southside Johnny Lyon is 62.

Actor Jeff Bridges is 61. Rock musician Gary Rossington (Lynyrd Skynyrd; the Rossington Collins Band) is 59. Actress Patricia Wettig is 59. Actor Tony Todd is 56. Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson is 55. Country musician Brian Prout is 55. Rock musician Bob Griffin is 51.

Rock singer Vinnie Dombroski is 48. Actress Marisa Tomei is 46. Actress Chelsea Noble is 46. Actor-comedian Fred Armisen is 44.

Rapper Jay-Z is 41. Actor Kevin Sussman is 40. Actress-model Tyra Banks is 37. Country singer Lila McCann is 29. Actress Lindsay Felton is 26. Actor Orlando Brown is 23.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: My mother-in-law is coming to stay with us for a weeklong visit. We get along OK for the most part. The problem is that she packs all of her belongings in mothballs -every last item. She keeps mothballs in her closets, her dresser drawers, her bathrooms and bedrooms. She even keeps a big box of them in the hallway of her home.

When Mom comes to visit, the stench of the mothballs gives me such a bad headache that I often have to make excuses to leave the house. The mothballs also have caused my daughters to have bad allergic reactions when their grandmother is around. The last time she was here, my baby got an eye infection from rubbing her eyes so much while Grandma was carrying her.

After her last visit, the linens, the bed and my sofa reeked for months, even after being cleaned. My husband will not say anything to her about this for fear of insulting her. His answer is to book her a room at a nearby hotel and ignore the issue. The smell doesn’t bother him as much because he grew up with it. But I worry about my children’s health. What should I do? -- Daughter-in-Law in Hawaii Dear Hawaii: No one should be overly exposed to the chemicals in mothballs, including Mom. Because she uses them so much, she has probably desensitized herself to the smell. It would be best to explain, lovingly and diplomatically, that a strong scent of mothballs clings to her clothing and is unhealthy not only for your children, but for her.

Dear Annie: My brother and his two sons live 100 miles away. When visiting me, they will knock on the door while they are actually entering the house. Sometimes I’m not appropriately dressed, or I’m eating or on the phone.

My nephews are adults, and they don’t visit often, but I’d like to know the correct etiquette. Should they knock and wait until told to come in? Should I tell my brother and his sons

how I feel about their manners?

I think they are being disrespectful, but I’m sure it is not intentional. I want to be able to tell them to stop without hurting their feelings. They are from a small town and may not know any better. -- Raised Differently Dear Raised: Yes, anyone who visits should knock or ring the bell and wait for the door to be opened. But this is why people have locks on their doors. That, of course, would be the simplest solution to your problem. However, if you insist on leaving your door open and prefer to say something to your nephews, try this: “I am so happy that you are visiting, but I would truly appreciate it if you could wait until I open the door. Sometimes I’m not dressed.”

Dear Annie: I don’t agree with your advice to “California,” whose grown son acquired a car from his grandfather and didn’t tell Mom. You said he doesn’t need to tell her these things.

No matter if the son is in his 20s or 30s or more, he certainly should have shared his joy with his mother at receiving a vehicle (big-ticket item) from his grandfather -- or at the very least mentioned the gift. She said they are in constant contact, and after all, the person who gave him the car is her father. I think the son’s oversight was extremely thoughtless.

Of course her feelings were hurt. A close relationship means respect and courtesy, and it should go both ways. The son should understand that his lack of communication was rude.

-- Mother of Two Grown Sons Dear Mom: Respect is indeed a two-way street. Sonny Boy is an independent adult who is not obligated to tell his mother everything. He did not intend to hurt her feelings, nor was he rude. He was exercising his right to privacy. Our advice stands.

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Mark Mancari competes with the Portland Pirates. Mancari had a three-goal night against Providence, helping the Pirates dominate. (Derek Philippon photo)

Pirates tough at home

BY JEFF PETERSON THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

It has been home sweet home for the Pirates so far this season. It seems if they’re playing at the Cumberland County Civic Center, it is about as close as you can get to a sure win.

Going into today’s (Saturday’s) 7 p.m. game against the Norfolk Admirals in Portland, the Pirates are 10-1-1 when they are the hosts.

“It is really important to play at home,” said Pirates head coach Kevin Dineen. “We want to create a buzz in town that helps fans get excited about the team. We have a lot of rookies on this team and to play at home is very comportable. It is your rink. You sleep in your own bed and play games on the ice you practice on. It means a lot.”

Before the loss to Springfield on Nov. 26, the Pirates had tied a franchise record for consecutive home games without a loss in regulation with nine wins and one overtime loss.

The last Pirate team to have that kind of streak, went on to win the Calder Cup during the 1993-94 season. “It is something to be really proud of,” said Dineen. “The players take a lot of pride knowing they had a start just like the team that had the likes of Kevin Kaminski and Olaf Kolzig on it and ended up winning it all.”

They aren’t just skating and shooting well at home either. The Pirates are currently 14-6-1 on the season.

With 29 points, that’s good enough

for second place behind Manchester in the Atlantic Division and the third best record in the Eastern Conference.

“It is a great start,” said Dineen. “It is very importand. I kind of compare it to going to school. You want to start with a high G.P.A. It makes it tough to drop a lot during the year when you have a fast start.”

The Pirates are hoping to get another streak going. They beat Providence 5-1 last Sunday, ending a three game losing streak that saw the Pirates outscored 11-5.

If the Pirates are going to get back on the winning track, they are going to need a team effort, but also more performances like the three-goal night Mark Mancari had against Providence.

Not only did Mancari end up with a hat trick, but an assist as well. Mancari enters the weekend tied for sixth in the A.H.L. in scoring with 11 goals and 14 assists.

Every game is huge for the Pirates in an 80-game season, but to say this next stretch is important would be an understatement. Not only do the Pirates play three games in four days, but even more challenging, six games in nine days.

To top it all off, only two of those six games are at home. “It is a tough schedule,” said Dineen. “We have been trying to prepare for it. It is part of being a pro though, playing hockey really day in and day out no matter if it’s on the road or at home.”

Patriots hope to continue December success FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — December is winning time for the New England Patriots.

Season after season, coach Bill Belichick stresses the importance of the final month of the year. Starting in 2002, the Patriots have the league’s best record in December, 29-5. Their opponent on Monday night, the New York Jets, are just 18-18 in that month over that stretch but have perhaps their best team over more than a

decade this year.

New England rookie cornerback Devin McCourty said it’s important to be playing well around this time.

The Patriots are doing it this year, finishing November with three straight wins and going into December tied for the AFC East lead with the Jets with a 9-2 record. In their last 16 December games, the Patriots are 15-1.

Monday’s game is at 8:30 p.m.

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Saturday, Dec. 4 12th Annual Coats & Toys For Kids Day 8 a.m. Come and celebrate the 12th Annual Coats & Toys For Kids Day. Drop off a new or gently-used children’s coat, or a new, unwrapped toy, and meet NEWS CENTER personalities at Shaw’s at Bangor and North Windham; Hannaford Supermarkets at Augusta and Sanford; and Pratt-Abbott on Forest Avenue in Portland. Don Carrigan and his loveable cat Togus will ride the Maine Eastern Railroad with stops at the train stations in Brunswick (8-9 a.m.), Bath (9:30-10:30 a.m.) and Rockland noon-1 p.m). Coats can be dropped off at any Hannaford Supermarkets or Shaw’s Supermarkets statewide from now until Dec. 31, 2010. Toys must be dropped off at the Supermarkets no later than Dec. 17 so they can be picked up by The Salvation Army and shared with families in time for the holidays. If you have any other questions about the Coats for Kids/Toys for Kids campaigns or Coats &Toys for Kids Day, please contact Debbie Sample at 1-800-464-1213, or email at communityrelations@wcsh6.com.

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a small Catholic School in Bassin Bleu, Haiti. This “twinning” relationship is new and we continue to find ways to be in solidarity with the school and its students who are in great need of financial support. The Club also provides Cheverus students an opportunity to take a service immersion trip to a developing country.

The trip is to the Dominican Republic; the Dominican shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. While in the Dominican, students work primarily in an orphanage for children with disabilities.

St. Paul’s Anglican Church Christmas Fair 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. St. Paul’s Anglican Church, 279 Congress St., Portland will hold its annual Christmas Fair. The fair will feature Christmas goodies, crafts and a host of other holiday items. For further information contact 828-2012.

2010 Shaker Christmas Fair 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The 2010 Shaker Christmas Fair will be held at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Route 26, New Gloucester. Gifts for all ages including Shaker home baked holiday goodies —nine rooms of holiday cheer — “come one, come all.”

9 a.m. Portland SCORE begins December with a full-day Small Business Tax Workshop in the SCORE offices at 100 Middle St. Led by Photos of pets with Santa an experienced tax practitioner, this workshop 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. PetSmart in Biddeford will be of major assistance to all small business will host the Animal Welfare Society for operators and even those about to open a small photos of your pet with Santa; $5 from business. Portland SCORE’s parent agency is the sale of each photo goes directly to the a nonprofit organization dedicated to entrepreAnimal Welfare Society. Also Sunday. neur education and the formation, growth and Cookie Walk at Ogunquit success of small business nationwide. SCORE Portland photographer Lauren Chase Sheffield will be featured in a community open house from 5 p.m. to 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Ogunquit, has 389 chapters throughout the United States 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 9. Here, the Williamsburg Bridge from the photographer’s eighth-floor apartment in Christmas by the Sea hosts a “Cookie and its territories, with over 11,000 volunteers Williamsburg, Brooklyn, N.Y., in August 2007. (Image courtesy of Lauren Chase Sheffield) Walk” upstairs at the Dunaway Center at nationwide. SCORE is a resource partner of the 23 School St. The Village Food Market, special gift that will be cherished long after the holiday is U.S. Small Business Administration. On Dec. 8, Portland 230 Main St., will supply cookies for the Animal Welfare over. Free gift-wrapping and hourly door prize. UniverSCORE will hold its annual holiday luncheon at noon at the Society table. sity of Southern Maine Sullivan Gym. Admission $2. FMI: Woodlands Club in Falmouth. The featured speaker will be 621-2818 or www.unitedmainecraftsmen.com. Saturday, Debating Modern Photography gallery talk member Steve Edmondson, describing his 2010 solo sail 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; $2 admission 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Imogen Cunningham: A Change of across the Atlantic Ocean. The Starting Your Own Business at the door, children under 12 free. www.unitedmaineFocus by Mickey Friedman at the Portland Museum of Art. Workshop will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 14, beginning at 6 craftsmen.com/ Free with museum admission. “Join us for a gallery talk in p.m., followed by the Writing a Business Plan Workshop on the exhibition Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph ‘Welcoming the Dark’ workshop Tuesday, Dec. 21, beginning at 2 p.m. Get more informaof Group f/64 with Museum Docent Mickey Friedman.”

9 a.m. to 2 p.m. “Welcoming the Dark” workshop with Deena tion about all of these events and register to attend one of www.portlandmuseum.org/Content/5373.shtml Prestegaard and Tom Cannon. $25. Sadhana, the Meditation the workshops by visiting SCORE’s website at www.scoreCenter, 100 Brickhill Ave., South Portland.

FMI www.Sadhamaine.com or telephoning 772-1147.

‘Live-in Maid’ screened at PMA naMe.com.

2 p.m. Movies at the Museum, “Live-in Maid.” Saturday, New Gloucester History Barn open house Dec. 4, 2 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 5, 2 p.m.; NR. “Dora is the Haiti Solidarity Club Christmas Tree 9 a.m. to noon. The New Gloucester History Barn and the maid of Mrs. Beba and has worked and lived with her for studios of the New Gloucester Cable TV Channel 3 will be and Wreath Sale at Cheverus High 35 years. Beba used to be a well-to-do socialite but sucopen to the public for an open house. The History Barn is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Cheverus Haiti Solidarity Club will hold cessive economic and personal crises have worn her out, directly behind the New Gloucester Town Hall on Route 231 its annual Christmas Tree and Wreath Sale at Cheverus reducing her to a purveyor of decadence. Nowadays she and the Cable TV Studios are located in the New Gloucester High School on Dec. 4 and 5. The sale is a fundraiser for finds herself forced to sell door-to-door beauty products.

Meetinghouse next to the Town Hall and also in the Comthe Cheverus Haiti Solidarity Club. Proceeds from the sale Her thick gold earrings, and her maid, Dora, are the last munity Room of the former fire barn behind the Town Hall. will go to support Cheverus’ sister school in Bassin Bleu, bastions of a lifestyle of which she refuses to let go. At 17, Haiti. Their sister school is a Holiday Fair — A Winter Dora came from the Chaco province to work as a full-time small Catholic school in desperWonderland at UU Church maid at Beba’s apartment. Since then, she has managed ate need of help. Proceeds from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hand-made to start building a house in one of the shantytowns outside the sale will also help defray the crafts, white elephant, eco-friendly Buenos Aires. However, she is unable to complete the concost of a spring Cheverus stugift items, theme-basket raffle, struction of her own house because Beba owes Dora six dent immersion service trip to children’s activities while you months salary. Dora, tired of listening to Beba’s promises the Dominican Republic. Trees shop, baked goods, breakfast and of payment, is now determined to resign. Beba asks her for are available in all sizes. All trees lunch cafe, holiday wreaths and so more time to get the money together. Dora accepts. During and wreaths are from a local much more at Allen Avenue Unitarthis period Beba tries to mine the confidence of Dora, disMaine Christmas tree farm. The ian Universalist Church, 524 Allen couraging her not to venture into a new phase of her life.” In Cheverus Haiti Solidarity Club Ave., Portland.

Spanish with English subtitles. www.portlandmuseum.org/ began in the spring of 2005 and events/movies.php Thirty Kitty Christmas Fair has now grown to over 70 active 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hosted by Friends ‘The Little Lady Bug’ debuts student members. The club’s of Feral Felines, Thirty Kitty Christ3 p.m. Miss Periwinkle and the Giggle Gang’s debut of “The primary goals are to raise awaremas Fair features seasonal items, Little Lady Bug” takes place at GreenLight Studio. Free ness about global poverty and local artwork, thrift store items, performance for children ages 4-9 at Greenlight Studio, 49 to live out the gospel message books, and much, much more.

Danforth St. in Portland. “Experience singing, dancing and to help the poor. To this end, the Donations are also welcome. laughter with the giggle gang! Children of all ages will enjoy Club has organized several fundFriends of Feral Felines, 651 Forest sneezing along with the teen theater troupe! ‘The Little raisers and awareness-building Ave. (corner of Woodfords Street Ladybug’ is an original, heartfelt musical story of the little events surrounding issues of and Forest Avenue). For more ladybug, Lucy, and her search for unconditional friendship– global poverty.

Members of information, contact Friends of in spite of her incessant sneezing!” Miss Periwinkle is an the Club sell fair trade chocoFeral Felines at info@.feralfelines. animated storyteller and the Giggle Gang is a teen theater late bars in the fall; this sale is net/ or call 797-3014 or visit their troupe that combines music, dance, masks, storytelling accompanied by a campaign to website at www.feralfelines.net. and interactive theater to entertain and amuse children of teach students and other sale all ages Miss Periwinkle and the Giggle Gang original stopatrons about fair trade and the United Maine Craftsmen’s ries are developed by singer/songwriter Sara Therrien of unfair trade practices which often Holiday Arts & Crafts Show at Portland, who has studied acting and storytelling. Sara is inhibit small farmers and busialso the mother of a teenage daughter. For more informathe USM Sullivan Gym nesses in developing countries tion about Miss Periwinkle, go to www.missperiwinkle.net.

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Craft fair at 66 On Saturday, Bayside Bowl will host Viva Lebowski, a trib- from being profitable and susFalmouth St. featuring 95 Maine ute to the Coen Brothers’ cult classic, “The Big Lebowski,” tainable. The fundraising efforts see next page artisans. All Maine crafts. Find that and a benefit for 13th Cookie. (COURTESY PHOTO) of the Club also help to support

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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.

5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Artisan Showcase: Local artisan and painter, Jacinda ‘The World of Sholom Aleichem’ Cotton-Castro will showcase 7:30 p.m. Acorn Productions, a nonher work at an art opening in the profit organization dedicated to nurCommunity Room. 7:30 p.m. Vilturing and developing the performing lage Coffeehouse featuring: Maine arts in Southern Maine, begins a new singer-songwriter Lynn Deeves. holiday tradition for the Jewish comDeeves honed her musical and munity in Southern Maine with a stage skills as a lead singer in production of “The World of Sholom high energy rock bands in her earAleichem,” by Arnold Perl, which lier years, where she once earned performs from Dec. 2 to 19. The play the title “Maine Female Vocalist of is directed by veteran actor Harlan the Year.” She has since released Baker, and features a cast of local four independent CD’s of origiactors, including members of the nal songs, which meld folk, rock, Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble, stublues and gospel influences, with Tonight, Anthony’s Dinner Theater features The Rat Pack dents from the Acorn Acting Acadan apt description of “equal parts Christmas show. (FILE PHOTO) emy, and several guest artists. The power and peace.” Community play is a collection of three short Room of the First Congregational Church, 19 Gloucester plays depicting life in Eastern Europe Jewish communities in Hill Road, New Gloucester. For more information see also: the early part of the twentieth century. Mendele the bookseller www.lynndeeves.com. To find out more about the Village is the narrator who links the three one-act plays together.

Coffeehouse go http://www.villagecoffeehouse.org.

Performances take place Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:30 Portland Pirates Holiday Toy and Donation Drive p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m. in the Acorn Studio Theater, a 7 p.m. The next night for the Portland Pirates Holiday Toy small, black-box theater in the Dana Warp Mill, 90 Bridge St. and Donation Drive will take place when the Pirates play the in Westbrook. Note that in observance of the Jewish Sabbath, Norfolk Admirals at 7 p.m. Make a cash donation of at least there are no performances on Friday night. Tickets are $10 $5 or donate an unopened toy or book to Operation Tribfor adults, $8 students and seniors, and may be purchased ute and receive a pair of tickets to a future Portland Pirates by calling 854-0065 or visiting www.acorn-productions.org. game. All cash and toy donations will go to Operation ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ at Old Port Playhouse Tribute to help provide gifts to the children of active mili8 p.m. “It’s A Wonderful Life” at Old Port Playhouse. Startary families. It’s also the third annual State Farm Teddy ring local heart throb Jody McColman as “George Bailey” Bear Toss. Bring a teddy bear to the game, and throw it and Cheryl Reynolds as “Mary Hatch” with a cast of local on the ice when the Pirates score their first goal of the professionals, this holiday classic is staged as a 1940s live night. All teddy bears will be donated to local charities. radio show — fun for the whole family. It runs Dec. 3-19.

Genuine Old Time Square Dance at Mayo Street Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Live music and calling by The Dolly Wagat 2 p.m. $15-$22. Box Office, 773-0333, http://oldportglers and Friends. “The second of monthly Square Dances playhouse.com at Mayo Street Arts, this is a great way to get those feet Viva Lebowski benefit at Bayside Bowl moving and blood pumping on a cold winter’s night. Fun 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Bayside Bowl will host Viva Lebowski, a for all ages.” Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St. Admission: $5. tribute to the Coen Brothers’ cult classic, “The Big Lebhttp://mayostreetarts.org owski.” The event will feature an evening of bowling, trivia Season of Light at the Planetarium and costume contests, and will also include a screening of 7 p.m. Season of Light: Southworth Planetarium’s the Coen Brothers’ film. Part of the event’s proceeds will go annual holiday show that explores the astronomy and to benefit local business owner Nicholas Stevens, a Porthistory of the holiday season: from Christmas to Hanland resident who has been struggling with the cost of treatnukah to the Solstice. We also examine the “Star of ment for Multiple Sclerosis since opening his bakery, 13th Bethlehem.” Assuming it was a natural event, what might Cookie. “This is going to be a really fun event, and we’re so it have been? A supernova; a planetary conjunction or pleased at the number of businesses which have offered some other celestial event. Southworth Planetarium, 96 sponsorships,” said event coordinator Dave Cousins. “The Falmouth St., Portland. Also Dec. 4-5. Check times at interest is there, because of the vast appeal of the film. Col780-4249. www.usm.maine.edu/planet lege students, older folks, there’s so many people who love The Big Lebowski. We’re glad to use this as vehicle for a ‘A Christmas Carol’ good cause, too.” Bayside Bowl is located at 58 Alder St. 7 p.m. “A Christmas Carol” at Portland Stage. “Portland’s For information and directions to find Bayside Bowl, visit favorite holiday event! Full of music, spirits, special effects, their website at http://baysidebowl.com/. Tickets are $20 and all your favorite characters, Portland Stage brings to in advance or $25 the evening of the event. Tickets can life the magical and poignant transformation of Ebenezer be purchased online at http://www.vivalebowski.com or at Scrooge as he rediscovers the true meaning of giving ...

Bayside Bowl. For further information, go to vivalebowski. perfect for ages 5 to 95!” Times vary. Dec. 3 through Dec. com or email the event at vivalebowski@gmail.com.

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.

The Rat Pack Christmas Show 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

Kimmy’s first annual Odd Ball and FUNdraiser to benefit the Open Sky Fund 7 p.m. Kimmy’s first annual Odd Ball and FUNdraiser for The Open Sky Fund at Port City Music Hall. Performers include A Band Beyond Description, Elderberry Jam, Gypsy Tailwind, Oogie James and the Satin Kings, The Beat Horizon. Advance: $20. Door: $20. VIP: $75. Ken Grimsley & Ladies, Zig Zag, and Jordan Kaulbach and many other special guests. Freaks! Food! Craft Vendors! Creative attire and attitude encouraged for this FUNdraiser. The Open Sky Fund provides musical instruments and opportunities to children in Maine. www.openskyfund.org/

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

Sunday, Dec. 5 Old Orchard Beach Celebration By The Sea 1 p.m. Old Orchard Beach announces its Chamber Of Commerce Celebration By The Sea. Parade at 1 p.m. Season by the Sea holiday parade includes Jameson Singers, OOB Loranger Middle School Band, Pets on Parade, the Red Hat Society, local Cub Scout Pacts, floats, Rudolph and Frosty and the grand arrival of Santa and mars. Claus. 1:30 p.m.– 1:45 p.m., performances by the Jameson Singers and the OOB Loranger Middle School Band; 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m., free horse drawn hay wagon rides. Holiday trolley rides after the parade. Enjoy hot dogs and hamburgers (for sale), free popcorn, cookies, coffee, cocoa and cider at the Chamber of Commerce. Free holiday tattoos and face painting at the Chamber as well as free balloons. Enjoy the bonfire on the beach. Pictures with Santa and Mrs. Claus. 3:30 p.m., tree lighting. “Please come and enjoy the music of The Salvation Army Band and the singing of Christmas carols during the period of the Lighting of the Tree. Drop something in that little red kettle to assist those in our community needing help.

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Meet the Jewelry Designer Jen Swarts at PMA ‘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!” Dec. 3-19. Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. $15$22. 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 two 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.

The Latke on Trial 6 p.m. Shaarey Tphiloh is hosting a Hanukkah event on Sunday night, Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. “Please join us in a Hanukkah celebration, with a night of fun and music and delicious food prepared by Jackie Soley of Jacqueline’s Tea Room.

The Latke on Trial. For the first time in history, the latke is put on trial for fraud. A federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals, and a Justice of the Maine Supreme Court, together with an important community member will sit as judges to determine the fate of the Potato Latke. Attorneys David Soley and Steve Schwartz will duel it out. Star expert witnesses Merle Nelson and Natan Kahn will be present to testify.” Cost: $18 adults, $9 children. RSVP. Cong. Shaarey Tphiloh, 76 Noyes St., 773 0693. www.mainesynagogue.org

Monday, Dec. 6 Mayoral inauguration at City Hall noon. Mayoral inauguration in the City Council Chambers, City Hall. City Councilor and current Mayor Nicholas M. Mavodones Jr. will be inaugurated as the last councilselected mayor for the city of Portland serving December 2010 to December 2011. At-large City Councilors John Anton and Jill Duson as well as District 3 Councilor Ed Suslovic will also be sworn in during the ceremony. An at-large City Councilor since 1997, Councilor Mavodones served as mayor previously during the 1999-2000, 20062007 and 2009-2010 terms and has spent six years on the city’s Finance Committee. Mavodones began his civic career on the Portland School Committee where he led the group as chair for four years. Having started with Casco Bay Lines as a captain in 1981, Mavodones is director of operations for the ferry company. In his capacity as City Councilor, Mavodones has served as President of Maine Municipal Association and board members for the Portland Fish Pier Authority and EcoMaine. He lives with his wife, Kelly Hasson, Hall Elementary School principal. City Councilor John Anton will be returning for his second term and Jill Duson will be serving her fourth term. Ed Suslovic will be returning to the City Council representing District 3. He

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Portland Museum of Art features “Meet the Jewelry Designer.” “Portland jewelry maker Jen Swarts from By the Bay Design will share information about her design ideas and the materials she uses. Jen will showcase a special selection of jewelry available for purchase.” All sales support the exhibitions and programs of the Portland Museum of Art. www.portlandmuseum.org

Portland School Board inauguration 4 p.m. The Portland School Board will hold an inauguration ceremony in the Portland City Council chambers at Portland City Hall. The School Board will inaugurate Kate Snyder and Jaimey Caron, who both won reelection to At-Large seats, and Laurie Davis, the newly elected District 3 representative. The School Board also will inaugurate three student representatives: Natalie Anderson of Portland High School, Ari Hymoff of Deering High School and Emma Maasch of Casco Bay High School.

Maine Charitable Mechanic Association in Africa 7:30 p.m. Catherine McAuley High School, 631 Stevens Ave. (opposite Evergreen Cemetery). John Wilson lecture.

The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association presents a lecture on Africa at “Go wild and explore the world in one country! South Africa — from deserts to jungles and everything in between, its biodiversity is truly amazing for a nation its size, It is not surprising that nine out of ten tourists come to experience the country’s incredible wildlife and spectacular scenery. We will see some of the loveliest and most unique resorts in the country and tour some of the gracious estates. Africa! Just the word stirs the soul and excites the imagination.” Free to members and open to the public, a $2 donation suggested for non-members or guests.Dvd’s of the travel lecture are also usually available to buy from the presenter. For information on the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, visit the website or call 773-8396 or e-mail questions at artgaff@gmail.com. Fee for admission is $25. Membership in the association is limited to 600 active and life members.

an individual’s personal development, self-expression, social growth and increased cultural awareness through baking, creativity and the arts, introducing a healthy ‘green’ lifestyle through gardening and agricultural experience, exposure to and participation in live performance as well as through daily community interaction.” Tickets for the event are available through www.stlawrentarts.org.

For more information on Bomb Diggity visit their website at: www.momentumme.com/bomb_diggity.htm. For more information on Bomb Diggity’s TV Show please visit their blog site at: http://portlandtvshow.blogspot.com.

Wednesday, Dec. 8 Eggs & Issues with Roxanne Quimby 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Eggs & Issues by the Portland Regional Chamber at Holiday Inn By the Bay. “Creative, As Usual: Roxanne Quimby, former CEO of Burt’s Bees has created The Quimby Colony, a nonprofit urban artist-in-residence program specializing in both fashion/costume/textile design and the culinary arts located in the former Roma Restaurant building at 769 Congress St. Roxanne will describe how this venture can help Portland fulfill a vision of itself as a creative, artistic community and a destination for artists and their patrons. She will also discuss the creative economy and its role in our community and the need for jobs to help the economy make a turn for the better.” This was rescheduled from September.

Portland SCORE annual holiday luncheon noon. Portland SCORE will hold its annual holiday luncheon at the Woodlands Club in Falmouth. The featured speaker will be member Steve Edmondson, describing his 2010 solo sail across the Atlantic Ocean. Portland SCORE’s parent agency is a nonprofit organization dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide. SCORE has 389 chapters throughout the United States and its territories, with over 11,000 volunteers nationwide. SCORE is a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Snow Train at SPACE Tuesday, Dec. 7 Laughter Yoga 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Laughter Yoga with Arline Saturdayborn, Dec. 7 and 14. “We will play with different kinds of laughter without jokes and mindful movement ending with relaxation.” By donation. Sadhana, the Meditation Center, 100 Brickhill Ave., South Portland. www.SadhanaMe.com.

Portland Music Foundation presents ‘Defining a Social Strategy for Musicians’ 6:30 p.m. Building and Managing Street Teams. “It seems like the Holy Grail: Getting people to work for you on promoting your shows and albums. But there’s a science to it, and there are good ways and bad ways to get your fans invested in your band or career. We’ll talk about the best way to develop a street team, how best to use them, and talk to bands who have established street teams.”

Moderator is Mark Curdo, WCYY/Labor Day Records.

This event is free to PMF members. SPACE Gallery. Sign up at SPACE or at www.portlandmusicfoundation.org

Lecture by Jenny Holzer on light projections at the Portland Museum of Art 6 p.m. Jenny Holzer has used light projections, paintings, and text to question contemporary culture for more than 30 years. Join us for a very special lecture and a one-time-only site-specific projection created by this world-renowned artist for the Portland Museum of Art. Free admission.

Doors at 5:30 p.m. Holiday Inn By the Bay; Light Projection For Portland, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., on the front of the museum. www.portlandmuseum.org

‘The Gift Of The Magi’ 7 p.m. “The Gift Of The Magi” an original musical set in 1940s Maine. Dec 7-23, Tues. and Wed. at 7 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. Added shows, Thursday, Dec. 23 at 2 and 7 p.m. $15-$22. Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St., Portland. 7730333. oldportplayhouse.com

Bomb Diggity Baking and Arts Program ‘TV Show’ at the St. Lawrence Arts Center 7:30 p.m. Bomb Diggity Bakery, based at Local Sprouts on Congress Street, will present their recently crafted first episode of “TV Show.” Come see a surfing monkey, a dancing pineapple, Yoda bake a delicious chocolate cake, a music video, a documentary show and so very much more. The 30-minute screening with be followed by a brief performance by the artists involved. At the St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center. Tickets are $10. “Bomb Diggity Baking and Arts Program provides a stepping-stone for individuals with intellectual disabilities who are ready to grow. The organization supports

5 p.m. Join SPACE Gallery for Snow Train, a reprise of holiday shopping and cheer presented in conjunction with Portland’s Downtown District and Buy Local’s neighborhood shopping night, Think Outside the Box. Browse a selection of vintage threads, handmade wear-ables and the finest salvaged and sewn goods that will definitely inspire warmth and nostalgia in your soul. Snag something for that special someone that will surely be cherished for decades.

“DJ Sandmand (of Sounds Absurd) will provide us with a rare mix of Soul Train and old Pop/Surf with secret nostalgic and wacky holiday surprises! We’ll be sipping some winter cocktails and hopping on the snow train, so come on out!” www.space538.org

Audition workshop 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine audition workshop. “Are you planning to audition for a performance? Our audition workshop is back by popular demand! Come to this friendly, free workshop to learn more about choosing a monologue and developing the confidence it takes to have a really great audition.” The workshop is free; pre-registration is required, and space is limited. To register call 828-1234 x247 or email reba@kitetails.org.

RBPA hosts ‘Luau Time’ at holiday dinner, auction 5:30 p.m. It’s the holidays with a tropical theme at Portland’s Holiday Inn By the Bay, 88 Spring Street, for the Rainbow Business & Professional Association’s 14th annual scholarship auction. RBPA, Maine’s gay and lesbian business and professional networking group, plans an evening that supports scholarships given each spring to students who have promoted diversity in their schools and communities.

“Informal networking, a silent auction and cocktails/appetizers will begin at 5:30 p.m. A buffet dinner and live auction get underway at 7. RBPA president Susan Eldridge calls the auction the organization’s premier event of the year. “This is the time of the year when members of our community really show their generosity. Not to mention our ability to party.”

Items on the auction block include weekend getaways, gift baskets, artwork, tickets for concerts and sporting events, professional services, restaurant gift certificates and even a sightseeing plane ride. “This is the time of the year when members of our community really show their generosity,” she says. “Not to mention our ability to party.” Reservations can be made by calling 775-0077 or e-mailing rsvp@ rbpa.org. Cost is $25 (members and non-members) with advanced reservations; $35 at the door. Tropical attire (Hawaiian shirts and flipflops?) is encouraged.”

‘The Gift Of The Magi’ 7 p.m. “The Gift Of The Magi” an original musical set in 1940s Maine. Dec 7-23, Tues. and Wed. at 7 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. Added shows, Thursday, Dec. 23 at 2 and 7 p.m. $15-$22. Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St., Portland. 7730333. oldportplayhouse.com

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Saturday, Dec. 4

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. www. statetheatreportland.com/

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.

Benefit Concert for Nuestras Raices

6 p.m. A benefit concert featuring the music of two well-known local musicians on Saturday, Irish Christmas in America December 4 at 6:00 p.m. at Sacred Heart/St. 7:30 p.m. Irish Christmas in America tours Dominic’s Church, 80 Sherman St., promotthroughout the USA with some of Ireland’s ing Friends of Nuestras Raices (Our Roots). top traditional artists. Now in its sixth year, Peruvian artist Sergio Espinoza of the group Irish Christmas in America features memInkas Wasi and the Afro-Cuban ensemble bers of leading Irish traditional band Téada, Grupo Esperanza will entertain with a medley vocalist Séamus Begley, and other top traof Cuban salsa and traditional Peruvian music. ditional artists performing Irish ballads and Nuestras Raices is a group that empowers Irish Christmas in America comes to One Longfellow Square on Thursday, Dec. 9. (COURTESY PHOTO) holiday carols, lively fiddle tunes and oldneighborhood youth through dance, art, and style Irish dancing. Narration brings to life seemingly endless repertoire of American popular music, music programs in San Martin de Porres, one ancient customs and stories, while photos provide a backit is all filtered through a sensibility and aesthetic entirely of the many poor barrios in Lima, Peru. These activities drop of rich historical context. It’s a family friendly show his own. Fishman’s performances combine the exuberance engage children in celebrating their indigenous culture, with steeped in traditional music and perfect for getting into the and spontaneity of jazz with a storyteller’s sense of drama, the goals of preventing alcohol use, gang participation and spirit of the holiday season. At One Longfellow Square, emotional depth and play. The All-Music Guide has called prostitution. “This benefit in Maine will insure that the chilAlso Dec. 7 at Unity Center for the Performing Arts. him “an important force in creative music,” and The New dren can continue participating in these programs,” said York Times has written that his work “transcends time and Portland resident Maria Sanchez. Sanchez grew up in San Saturday, Dec. 11 idiom.” $17 advance, $20 day of sale.

Martin and is passionate about supporting the good works of Nuestras Raices in her old neighborhood in Peru. SanGrace Potter and the Nocturnals at the State chez said, “Through our desire to send support to Peru, we Wednesday, Dec. 8 8 p.m. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are like a modare also creating cross-cultural community here in Maine.” ern-day version of Tina Turner stroking the microphone in Traditional Peruvian and Mexican food including tamales, a spangled mini-dress while fronting the Rolling Stones Spose / Sontiago / Lady Zen / Saiyid Brent empanadas and flan will be for sale, as well as the creations circa Sticky Fingers. The proof is there for all to hear on 5:30 p.m. Hip-hop and soul artists Spose, Sontiago, Lady of local artists and a silent auction. The concert is co-sponthe band’s third album for Hollywood Records, hitting this Zen and Saiyid Brent will perform with twelve Portland sored by Peace Action Maine, Tengo Voz, El Centro Latino, spring, and marks an artistic breakthrough for a vital young High School ELL students at the St. Lawrence Arts Center Art Exchange for Just Peace, Pacha Works and Tu Casa band caught in the act of fulfilling its immense promise. from 5:30-6:30 p.m. The performance is the culmination Salvadorean Restaurant.

Little wonder that Grace and her cohorts have chosen to of a six-week songwriting program led by Sontiago. The George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic title it, directly and emphatically, Grace Potter and the Nocevent is free to the public. The students are participants 7 p.m. George Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American turnals. All ages, $18 advance, $20 dat the door. in a year-long Young Writers and Leaders program run by musician and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the The Telling Room.

The program offers academic, college, White Light / Arborea / Jakob Battick & mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during and job writing help as well as participation in songwriting the 1970s and early 1980s, and is a solo funk artist as of Friends/ Patrick Cunningham at Mayo Street and film-making workshops, meetings with local business1981. He has been called one of the most important inno7 p.m. In the gorgeous main hall of Mayo St. (Complete with men and women in creative economy fields, and beginning vators of funk music, next to James Brown and Sly Stone. delicious natural reverb) there will be free performances advocacy work for people who work in creative fi elds in Clinton is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, their own communities.

Free, all ages. inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of ParliamentWednesday, Dec. 15 Funkadelic. $30 adv / $35 dos, all ages. State Theatre.

Thursday, Dec. 9

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

Howard Fishman album release 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

HillyTown Presents: Acoustic night at Mayo Street Arts 8 p.m. Local music blog Hillytown hosts a night of acoustic music at Mayo Street Arts in East Bayside. The all ages, 8pm, $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.

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A Celtic Christmas with AIRE and Castlebay 7:30 p.m. This holiday season, families will have a new entertainment choice as AIRE joins with noted Celtic music duo Castlebay to present an evening of performance and song featuring A Child’s Christmas in Wales and a Christmas Revels musical program. AIRE is Maine’s Irish Theater Company. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd,, Portland. Dec. 15-19. Tickets: $22 general admission; $20 seniors/students; $12 children under 12 $18 Wednesday/Thursday. www.airetheater.com

HOLIDAY WREATHS AT EVERGREEN & FOREST CITY CEMETERIES We are now taking orders for live Holiday wreaths made by local craftsmen, which we will place at graveside for you.

PLAIN- $30 DELUXE- $45 Orders must be placed by December 17th

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