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Group to explore arts use for state pier

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Haiti cholera likely from UN troops, expert says

More than two years after a high-profile development deal died, the Maine State Pier is once again being studied for a “long-shot visionary use” — this time for a mixed arts use for the property.

The city-backed Creative Portland Corporation discussed forming a formal waterfront

“This is a sort of long-shot, visionary thing, it’s going to take passion and commitment to see if it has legs.” — Patrick Costin, task force leader project task force during their monthly meeting last Wednesday.

The task force, led by Patrick Costin, a principal at architecture and planning firm

Harriman Associates, would explore the possibility of using the pier as a cultural center and tourist attraction with an arts focus, see PIER page 6

Warm enough for ya?

Making a Christmas memory

See a story, page 2

When you have to consider playing the ‘Santa card’

Temps remain above average for 13 months

See Maggie Knowles’ column on page 5

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Hilary Sinauer of Portland takes a picture of 3-year-old Griffin Rideout during a family outing to buy a Christmas tree. Not pictured is Griffin’s father, Glenn. They were at Southern Maine Wholesale’s tree stand at the corner of Brighton Avenue and St. John’s Street Monday. Rick McQueeney, one of the stand’s owners, said sales began Thanksgiving but last weekend was the first big rush. “It’s been busy so far,” he said. “We’ve moved a lot of trees.” (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

It may be hard to believe during this week’s burst of winter weather, but Portland’s 13-month streak of consecutive months with above-normal temperatures remains intact and unbroken.

So far, every month of 2010 has been warmer than normal, and one would have to go back to October of 2009 to find a month that was colder than normal, according to the National Weather Service. see WEATHER page 8

Peaks leader backs off straw poll ‘sponsorship’

BY CURTIS ROBINSON THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Peaks Island leaders are backing off sponsorship of a Saturday straw-poll vote on leaving the city of Portland after some

residents felt the balloting “was rushed,” the island council chairman said.

Instead, he says, the council will only “facilitate.”

“I wish I hadn’t posted that,” said Peaks

Hotel restaurants overcome image See Natalie Ladd, page 7

Island Council Chairman Eric Eaton of the sponsorship announcement on Facebook Monday. He said that some council members felt left out of the decision and that see PEAKS page 5

Art flick at SPACE See the Events Calendar, page 13

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‘Birds of America’ fetches $10m LONDON (AP) — It’s quite a nest egg. John James Audubon’s “Birds of America,” a rare blend of art, natural history and craftsmanship, fetched more than $10 million at auction on Tuesday, making it the world’s most expensive published book.

With its 435 hand-colored illustrations of birds drawn to size, the volume is one of the best preserved editions of Audubon’s 19th-century masterpiece. The sale at Sotheby’s auction house had been anticipated for months by wealthy collectors.

The book sold for $10,270,000 (6.5 million pounds) to an anonymous collector bidding by telephone, the auction house said.

Because each picture is so valuable, there have been fears the volume will be broken up and sold as separate works of art. However, experts believe that’s unlikely. The tome is probably more valuable intact.

And collectors hold Audubon in such reverence that the notion of ripping apart a perfect copy would be akin to sacrilege.

“Audubon’s ‘Birds’ holds a special place in the rare book market,” said Heather O’Donnell, a specialist with Bauman Rare Books in New York. “The book is a major original contribution to the study of natural history in the New World.”

“It’s also one of the most visually stunning books in the history of print: The scale of the images, the originality of each composition, the brilliance of the hand coloring.”

Then there’s the wow factor.

“No one can rival John James Audubon for frontier glamour,” O’Donnell said.

“The story of his lonely journey through the American wilderness and his struggle to record what he saw there gives the ‘Birds’ a resonance that no other book can match.”

Part naturalist and part artist, Audubon possessed an unequaled ability to observe, catalog and paint the birds he observed in the wild. Experts say his book, originally published in 1827, is unmatched in its beauty and is also of considerable scientific value, justifying its stratospheric price tag.

Pom Harrington, owner of the Peter Harrington rare book firm in London, said it has been 10 years since the last complete edition of “Birds of America” was auctioned, going for a thenrecord $8.8 million.

He said it is unusual to find a copy not in a museum or academic institution.

“If you want to buy an example of a rare work of art, this is one of the best,” he said. “It is valuable in its artistic nature because it is so well drawn.”

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Elizabeth Edwards dies at 61 WASHINGTON (AP) — Elizabeth Edwards, who closely advised her husband in two bids for the presidency and advocated for health care even as her marriage publicly crumbled, died Tuesday after a sixyear struggle with cancer.

She was 61.

She died at her North Carolina home surrounded by her three children, siblings, friends and her estranged husband, John, the family said.

“Today we have lost the comfort of Elizabeth’s presence but, she remains the heart of this family,” the family said in a statement.

“We love her and will never know anyone more inspiring or full of life. On behalf of Elizabeth we want to

express our gratitude to the thousands of kindred spirits who moved and inspired her along the way. Your support and prayers touched our entire family.”

She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, in the final days of her husband’s vice presidential campaign. The Democratic John Kerry-John Edwards ticket lost to incumbent President George W. Bush.

John Edwards launched a second bid for the White House in 2007, and the Edwardses decided to continue even after doctors told Elizabeth that her cancer had spread. He lost the nomination to Barack Obama.

The couple separated in January after he admitted fathering a child with a cam-

paign videographer.

Elizabeth Edwards has focused in recent years on advocating health care reform, often wondering aloud about the plight of those who faced the same of kind of physical struggles she has, but without her personal wealth.

She has also shared with the public the most intimate struggles of her bouts with cancer, writing and speaking about the pain of losing her hair, the efforts to assure her children about their mother’s future and the questions that lingered about how many days she had left to live.

Elizabeth Edwards and her family had informed the public that she had weeks, if not days, left

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when they announced on Monday that doctors had told her that further treatment will do no good. Ever the public figure, Edwards thanked supporters on her Facebook page.

Haiti cholera likely from UN troops, expert says PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A contingent of U.N. peacekeepers is the likely source of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed at least 2,000 people, a French scientist said in a report obtained Tuesday

by The Associated Press.

Epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux concluded that the cholera originated in a tributary of Haiti’s Artibonite river, next to a U.N. base outside the town of Mirebalais.

He was sent by the French government to assist Haitian health officials in determining the source of the outbreak, a French Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday.

“No other hypothesis could be found to explain the outbreak of a cholera epidemic in this village ... not affected by the earthquake earlier this year and located dozens of kilometers from the coast and (tent) camps,” he wrote in a report that has not been publicly released.

The report also calls for a further investigation of the outbreak, improved medical surveillance and sanitation procedures for U.N. peacekeeping troops and better support for Haitian health authorities.

The AP obtained a copy of the report from an official who released it on condition of anonymity. Piarroux confirmed he had authored the report but declined in an e-mail interview to discuss his findings.

Copies were sent to U.N. and Haitian officials, the foreign ministry confirmed.

U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters in New York that there is still no conclusive evidence that its base was the source of the outbreak. He said the organization “remains very receptive to any scientific debate or investigation on this.”

The report’s revelation comes on a day of high tensions in Haiti, as people anxiously await the results of the disputed Nov. 28

In this Oct. 27 file photo, a tanker truck deposits excrement from a UN base.

A French disease expert said Tuesday there is strong evidence linking U.N. peacekeepers to a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 2,000 people. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, file)

presidential election and potential resulting violence.

Piarroux could not prove there was cholera inside the base or among the soldiers, a point the U.N. has repeatedly used to deny its soldiers brought the disease to Haiti or that its sanitation procedures were responsible for releasing it into the environment. He writes that military doctors said there were no instances of cholera within the unit.

But he also hinted strongly at a cover-up.

“It can not be ruled out that steps have been taken to remove the suspected fecal matter and to erase the traces of an epidemic of cholera among the soldiers,” he wrote.

The report also notes that septic tanks and pipes that would have helped to confirm sanitation problems and the presence of the bacteria were no longer at the base

when he visited.

Nepalese troops earlier confirmed they had replaced a leaking pipe, which contained a foul-smelling runoff that the U.N. denies was human waste, between two visits by an AP reporter in October. The AP also found the local contractor dumped waste into overflowing pools dangerously close to a hillside that drains into the river.

Piarroux’s is the first scientific report linking the base to the epidemic, though many other epidemiologists and public health experts have said for weeks that the soldiers are the most likely source of the infection.

Other scientists and experts say it is possible that ocean currents or other climaterelated events carried the bacteria to Haiti.

Further studies on bacterial samples that could address those questions are ongoing.

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Wednesday, December 8, 2010— Page 3

Missing ballots located in casino recount effort AUGUSTA (AP) — About 550 ballots from Bangor that had been reported as missing were located and delivered to Augusta as the recount of Maine’s vote on an Oxford County casino continued into its fourth day.

On Tuesday, the recount focused on the ballots from Bangor and other ballots from small towns in southern Maine and Hancock County. Casino supporters have picked up a small number of votes as the recount progresses.

The recount was requested by casino foes after voters on Nov. 2 approved a statewide referendum by 4,601 votes allowing for Maine’s first casino with both table games and slot machines.

Unofficial tallies put the margin at less than 1 percent of more than 564,000 votes cast statewide.

The recount is scheduled to resume on Friday.

Counters and staffers from Maine’s Secretary of State’s office work on a rare statewide recount to recheck the outcome of Maine’s referendum on whether to allow a casino in Oxford County on Thursday in Augusta. The recount was requested by casino foes after voters on Nov. 2 approved the statewide ballot question by 4,601 votes.

Unofficial tallies put the margin at less than 1 percent of more than 564,000 votes cast statewide. (AP Photo/ The Kennebec Journal, Joe Phelan)

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine State Police say tear gas was used to end a 10-hour standoff with an Augusta man charged with killing a man whose body was found on the outskirts of Hallowell.

Maine Public Safety Department spokesman Steve McCausland says 30-year-old Peter Bathgate refused to leave an apartment when state and local police arrived early Tuesday to arrest him. He surrendered at 11:30 a.m., after a state police tactical squad fired tear gas into the apartment.

McCausland says Bathgate was charged with murder in the death of 47-year-old Paul Allen of Augusta, whose body was found on Sunday alongside a road.

The State Medical Examiner’s Office declared Allen’s death a homicide on Monday. The cause of death has not been released.

PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine jury will continue deliberating another day after failing to reach a verdict in the trial of a 52-year-old Portland man charged with stabbing his girlfriend to death.

The Cumberland County Superior Court jury didn’t reach a verdict Tuesday after deliberating all day in the trial of William Hanaman, who is charged with killing 47-year-old Marion Shea in his apartment in November 2009.

During Tuesday’s deliberations, jurors asked that Hanaman’s testimony from Friday be read back to them.

Hanaman is charged with murder, but jurors have the option of finding him guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter. Hanaman’s attorney says Hanaman killed Shea in self-defense after she came at him with a knife.

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Sheriff calls for drug agency chief’s ouster MACHIAS (AP) — The sheriff in Maine’s easternmost county is once again crossing swords with Maine Drug Enforcement Agency’s director, dubbing it a “rogue agency” and calling for the director’s ouster by the incoming administration in Augusta.

Washington County Sheriff Donnie Smith cited several incidents including an agent’s misuse of a stun gun while transporting a prisoner, $3,000 in missing drug buy money that was later repaid, and a video showed an agent flash his badge, drink some beer and then drive away.

MDEA Director Roy McKinney didn’t immediately return a message left by The Associated Press.

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News. “The way I feel is that I hold my own inmates to a higher standard than Roy McKinney holds his agents.”

Two years ago, Smith threatened to stop cooperating with the drug agency after the video surfaced showing a drug agent driving after swilling some beer. Smith later backed down.

Maine Public Safety Commissioner Anne Jordan said some of the incidents mentioned by Smith are up to four years old. She said they’ve been dealt with, and she considered them to be closed. She describes McKinney as “an incredibly well-respected and highly qualified MDEA director.”

The MDEA director is appointed by the public safety commissioner.

Gov.-elect Paul LePage plans to announce his nominee for public safety commissioner tosday.

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Obama in the wilderness It was nice of Barack Obama to visit the troops in Afghanistan last week. Commanders in chief should do such things. It no doubt boosted the morale of our people in uniform and also assured that thieving wretch Hamid Karzai that even though WikiLeaks recently revealed to the world that he is a thieving wretch, at least he is our thieving wretch.

There was also another reason for President Obama to make the visit. He needed to get out of town. Again.

He needed to do something to nudge the news cycle out of its downward spiral, even just for a day or two.

In October, the always perceptive Mark Halperin had begun a column in Politico.com: “Barack Obama is being politically crushed in a vise. From above, by elite opinion about ––––– his competence. From below, by Creators mass anger and anxiety over Syndicate unemployment.”

Which probably ended any possibility that the president would attend a holiday performance of “The Nutcracker.”

On Dec. 2, the estimable New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote, “Whatever is going on inside the White House, from the outside it looks like moral collapse — a complete failure of purpose and loss of direction.”

So it seemed like a good time for the president to direct himself to Afghanistan where he was guaranteed at least a few supportive “hooahs” from the troops when he spoke at Bagram Air Base.

My favorite was this one from the official White House transcript: “Now, I’m not here to give a long speech. I want to shake as many hands as I can.

(Hooah!)”

Presidents must return home, however, and after Obama did so, he was faced this Sunday with the inestimable (which, curiously, means the same thing as estimable) Frank Rich of The New York Times, who wrote that “Obama has seemingly surrendered his once-considerable abilities to act, decide or think.”

Which leaves one hard-pressed to see what ability this leaves Obama with except the ability to sit on a couch and watch “The View.”

The good news was that Rich rejected the leftist

Roger Simon

see SIMON page 5

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When you have to consider playing the ‘Santa card’ When I was a babysitting teen and had no idea how to get children to go to sleep on time, I enacted the Fear of Santa Act. Didn’t matter if it was July and 85 degrees out.

“You know little Bridget, Santa doesn’t care what time of the year it is. He is always watching you and if you don’t go to bed he will never bring you that pony.” That worked for a few months until the wee one looked right in my eyes and said, “You know we are Jewish, right?”

The Fear of Santa can certainly be lost in translation as in: Mom says, “Santa is watching you and he won’t bring you presents if you aren’t a good boy, OK?” Child hears: “Santa blah blah bring you blah blah presents blah blah good boy, blah.”

It is hard for kids to grasp that the fat guy at the mall is peeking through the windows to make sure they are brushing their teeth.

At any other time of the year that would warrant Dad chasing him with a baseball bat.

Yet, Christmas needs to hold that mystique for kids; you can’t pull back the curtain of contrived magic too soon, just like you never let your boyfriend see you walking around

Maggie Knowles ––––– Use Your Outdoor Voice in nothing but Spanx. And if part of that mystique forces our kids to be on their best behavior and get the “I” out of Chrstmas (even if the bribe is plastic, potentially lead-ridden, made in China crapola) then it is worth it.

When asked why she thought parents use Santa as a weapon for good behavior, Diana Pointer said, “Because handcuffs and duct tape seem to be looked down upon.”

The most brilliant way to get your kids to imitate golden angels is to invest in the Elf on the Shelf. Tanya Townsend Lippke swears by this little guy to be the proverbial eyes in the back of her head.

Introduced as Santa’s spy, the elf watches all day long then flies to the North Pole at night to fill in the big guy on naughty or nice behavior.

“On the outside he is this cute little

helper of Santa that the kids love,” Tanya says. “but to me he is a heavy duty, manner-enforcing, fight stopping, pick up all your toys machine. He works so well. I guarantee they will never go into my makeup and gouge out all my expensive eye shadow kits again.”

I even know of some teachers who enlist parent volunteers to sneak down the halls with jingle bells on in order to prove that even school is not a safe-haven from St. Nick’s watchful eye.

My mom attempted a version of this, but we didn’t have an actual elf or bells. We just had her word that we were being watched At. All. Times.

Once, when my brother and I were particularly rotten, we got letters from Santa the next day. Man, was he so disappointed and saddened at our behavior. How dare we treat our mother that way when she makes our lunches and do we even know how much laundry she does?

As “Santa’s” scribbles got angrier, his penmanship morphed into an exact replica of my mother’s.

When confronted with this evidence, she informed us Santa also doesn’t appreciate wise-asses.

My BFF has a fabulous (kinder) way to get kids to behave (at least once a day), but it doesn’t involve miniature spies, so if that holds a particular joy for you, then stick to the elf.

She modified the advent calendar to a Kindness Calendar. Instead of placing chocolate in the doors (I don’t want my kids getting candy everyday via a calendar, anyway — it makes the stocking anticlimactic), she inserts a slip of paper with an activity that the kids do together, such as draw a holiday card for Nana or rub Auntie Maggie’s feet.

As we approach the 25th, let’s make sure we acknowledge the nice behavior more than we condemn the naughty.

Our kiddos do work hard to be sweet and make us happy, even if they break the heels off our favorite shoes.

This is a non sequitur, but cute nonetheless. My friend Sabrina just told me that she took her brood to sit on Santa’s lap at the mall.

“Gracen asked Santa what HE wanted for Christmas. Santa was thoroughly stumped by that one.”

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

It isn’t about decisions; it’s about tactics in this instance SIMON from page 4

view that Obama is a “naive centrist” and the rightist view “that he is a socialist.”

The real problem, Rich concluded, “is that he’s so indistinct no one across the entire political spectrum knows who he is.”

Which might allow the president, “Prince and the Pauper” like, to wander from the White House, belly up to a bar and talk basketball unrecognized.

Instead, however, people, even in bars, might have been talking about the in- and estimable Dan Balz of The Washington Post, who wrote: “Obama now has to fend off suggestions that, like Carter, he is in danger of being a one-term president. ... Right now there is little goodwill on the left toward the president. ... They see Obama today as weak, vacillating and lacking either convictions or the gumption to fight for the principles they believe got him elected.”

Which could be a problem.

If the liberals feel the president is weak, vacillating, and lacking in gumption and convictions, then imagine how independents and Republicans feel about him.

Hillary Clinton had warned him this day would

come. Quoting Mario Cuomo, she said in a speech a few days before the New Hampshire primary in January 2008, “You campaign in poetry, but you govern in prose.”

“I applaud his incredible ability to make a speech that really leaves people inspired,” Clinton said of Obama. “My point is that when the cameras disappear and you’re there in the Oval Office having to make tough decisions, I believe I am better prepared and ready to lead our country.”

The Democrats disagreed, and the people of America then decided Obama would be a better president than John McCain (perhaps not the most difficult call in the world), and now Obama sits in the Oval Office having to make the tough decisions.

But it really isn’t about the decisions. It is about the tactics: the log-rolling, the game-playing, the eternal dancing with a House of Representatives that is endlessly irascible and a Senate that is hopelessly paralytic.

Obama told us, time and time again, things were not going to be easy. On Dec. 7, 2008, on “Meet the Press,” Obama put it bluntly. “Things are going to get worse,” he said, “before they get better.”

And in his inaugural address, he talked about “a sapping of confidence across our land — a nagging

fear that America’s decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.”

He said that he would not let this happen. “On this day,” he said, “we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.”

But did we? It all seems so long ago. It is hard to remember, regardless of the president’s warnings, how optimistic we felt, how much we believed that people of different ideologies and backgrounds and political stripes would come together simply because it was the right thing to do.

Has the president failed in his ability to play the political game, to satisfy every liberal and win over every conservative? Has he failed to deliver on every promise? Has he failed to bring us together and restore not only our hope but also our jobs?

Yes. So far. But I, for one, believe that after the wilderness comes the Promised Land and that Obama still has the time, the gumption and the ability to get us there.

(To find out more about Roger Simon, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.)

Peaks Island Council plans to ‘facilitate’ secession discussion PEAKS from page one

some residents had complained that the process was rushed.

He said the straw poll vote was considered in part because new council member Sid Gerard, a vocal advocate of Peaks separating from the city, pushed the issue and in part because a group of islanders intended to ask the new Republican state legislature to re-consider independence.

It just seemed a good idea, he added, to find out what residents thought.

The straw poll balloting is still on, said Eaton, but the council’s role will be discussed during a Friday forum on public safety. That forum is expected to include Portland Police Department officials who

will address how community policing works on the island.

Public safety has been a high-profile issue since the city cut staffing for the island earlier this year.

As for formal participation in the Saturday vote, Eaton said he doubted the council would go along.

In fact, he said, if the council had its way, nothing as potentially divisive as secession would come up until after the holidays. The timing, he repeated, was driven by a group that was going to seek legislative review with or without council participation.

The sponsorship-vs.-facilitation decision was also announced via Facebook.

“Just to be clear,” the Peaks Island Council member of the site stated, “the Island Council is NOT sponsoring the Straw Poll. We are ‘facilitating’ it. There’s

a difference. When you facilitate, you get to stand near the fire exit if a quick escape is required. Who ever said we were ‘sponsoring’ this thing anyway?

Oh, we did. Well, don’t believe everything you read!”

As for Saturday, Eaton said that it might offer a good feeling for what island residents think about secession, but that taking it to the state legislature might require “an overwhelmingly supportive vote.”

The straw poll is scheduled for Saturday from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. It will include a “moderated public discussion,” according to the Facebook announcement, from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. and voting will be from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Residents can “stop in” to vote.

The public safety forum for Friday is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in the event room at The Inn on Peaks Island.

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Pearl Harbor survivors gather 69 years later PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Aging Pearl Harbor survivors on Tuesday heard reassurances their sacrifice would be remembered and passed on to future generations as they gathered to mark the 69th anniversary of the attack.

“Long after the last veteran of the war in the Pacific is gone, we will still be here telling their story and honoring their dedication and sacrifice,” National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis told about 120 survivors who traveled to Hawaii from around the country for the event.

Merl Resler, 88, of Newcastle, Calif., was among those who returned. He remembered firing shots at Japanese planes from the USS Maryland and standing in the blood of a shipmate hit by shrapnel during the attack.

“My teeth was chattering like I was freezing to death, and it was 84 degrees temperature. It was awful frightful,” said Resler.

On Tuesday, fighter jets from the Montana Air National Guard flew above Pearl Harbor in missing man formation to honor those killed in the attack, which sunk the USS Arizona and with it, nearly 1,000 sailors and Marines. In all,

Pearl Harbor survivor Nelson Mitchell, 90, of Phoenix, walks with a wreath to the USS Arizona Anchor Memorial Tuesday in Phoenix, to remember those killed sixty-nine years ago when the Japanese attacked the Hawaii military base, and other military installations on the island.

(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

about 2,400 service members died.

Sailors lined the deck of the USS Chafee and saluted as the guided missile destroyer passed between the sunken hull of the USS Arizona and the grassy landing where the remembrance

ceremony was held.

After the ceremony, the survivors, some in wheelchairs, passed through a “Walk of Honor” lined by saluting sailors, Marines, airmen and soldiers to enter a new $56 million visitor center that was dedicated at the ceremony.

“This facility is the fulfillment of a promise that we will honor the past,” Jarvis said.

The Park Service built the new center because the old one, which was built on reclaimed land in 1980, was sinking into the ground. The old facility was also overwhelmed by its popularity: it received about 1.6 million visitors each year, about twice as many as it was designed for.

People often had to squeeze by one another to view the photos and maps in its small exhibit hall. In comparison, the new center has two spacious exhibition halls with room for more people, as well as large maps and artifacts such as anti-aircraft guns.

U.S. Pacific Fleet commander Adm. Patrick Walsh said the new center, which has twice the exhibition space as the old one, would tell the story of those who fought and won the peace.

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one that would attract those who arrive by cruise ship and visit the Old Port area.

“This is a sort of long-shot, visionary thing, it’s going to take passion and commitment to see if it has legs,” said Costin.

Long mired in a debate over its proper use and seen by some as an ideal site for a hotel or conference center, Costin knows his proposal is something of an underdog amidst larger commercial interests, but wants to give it a try.

“We’re going to take a run at this to see if there is there an alternative that would allow the Maine State Pier to be a place where art is produced, displayed and exhibited,” Costin said. “In terms of its status within the CPC, there is no proposal for the CPC to respond to right now, so it’s a very exploratory idea,” he said.

The idea for a mixed use arts space at the pier was first explored when an ad-hoc committee was formed to propose a project for an National Endowment for the Arts grant.

“There was an idea that emerged that the pier might offer an opportunity for something other then a hotel or office building or ship docking,” said Costin.

“The city sees [the pier] as a very valuable piece of real estate that could potentially add to the tax base. The model the city has pursued so far is to try and leverage private investment as a means of rehabilitating and redeveloping the pier,” said Costin.

“But that model places private development interest at the center

of the redevelopment process. My thought is, is there an alternative where it could be more for the public? Or still a public/private collaboration not focused commercial development but more of a creative economy model?” said Costin.

Enter Laura Burden, a urban planner who during the NEA grant process called the committee’s attention to the Jam Factory, a mixed use art space located in Adelaide, South Australia, which converted a former factory into a contemporary craft and design facility for the design, production, exhibition and sale of work by leading and emerging Australian designers and craftspeople.

Operating for the last 37 years, the facility has four studios work in the areas of ceramics, furniture, metal and glass work, as well as a retail space where artists can market their wares. “They had a similar concept that was very successful,” said Costin.

The committee eventually decided to put their support for the $250,000 NEA grant behind a proposal for an outdoor video screen for the Portland Public Library.

Costin said the CPC board had reservations about supporting a proposal that would directly oppose plans put forth by the city for the state pier.

“The notion was that the grant would fund the development of a feasibility study for this idea, and one of the concerns was there had already been enormous investment of time and effort by the city pursuing a particular pathway,” said Costin.

Following the grant process, “Laura [Burden] disappeared,”

according to Costin, but she didn’t stay away for long. “Now she has come back with some energy around this idea and an interest in pursing it,” he said.

“The broad notion is that the pier is a public asset and offers a great opportunity as a cultural center,” Costin said.

Asked by the CPC’s Valerie Lamont if he would consider any other location for such a project, Costin said he is “open minded,” but “the pier latched onto my imagination because I’m interested in not having it be like everywhere else.”

CPC board member Andy Graham said the decision to revisit ideas for the pier is part of a new, more proactive CPC. “We’re tying to change the paradigm a little bit and look at it as being more action oriented,” said Graham.

In that vein, the CPC proposed creating 10 task forces at Wednesday’s meeting, focusing on everything from their LiveWork Portland website to uses for empty storefronts.

Established in 2008, CPC’s specific mission is to promote jobs in the creative sectors, attracting creative business to city in the form of artisans, writers, designers and manufacturers.

The group shares jurisdiction and a executive director with the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance, a fellow arts organization who will also contribute members to some of the task forces.

Costin said he will be meeting with Burden on Friday to once again explore the idea of integrating the waterfront into Portland’s creative economy.

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Hotel restaurants improve beyond their image Hotel restaurants have long been plagued with negative connotations and a mental image of bland, severely over-priced food in a setting of vinyl sided booths, dated carpet and perhaps even indifferent service.

Weary single business travelers, an occasional first date, and families with over-tired children make up the demographic in these peg-holed venues and it’s one of the reasons city hotels like to align themselves with, and become home to, an in-house chain restaurant as a familiar, comfort-drawing feature.

In-town Portland has a small mix of hotel dining with the emphasis correctly placed on the bar and lounge areas, and coinciding menus that make these places destination spots for locals based upon the occasion. However, most hotel guests know that Portland is the place to Go Out to eat and the opportunity to do so lurks around every corner, making it difficult for full-service hotel restaurants to thrive.

The challenge becomes even more stereotypically intense for airport hotel restaurants, and here in Portland we have two that are within legit airport proximity. Several hotels use the, “So and So at the airport” tag line, but are located near the mall or in Scarborough.

James Hackett, the GM of the Hilton Garden Inn at the Jetport (he’s quick to point out it’s the “Jetport”) is proud to offer full American breakfast to his guests and very recently went from a limited menu to a full dinner menu. Graciously enough, James highly recommends the other neighboring Jetport restaurant for lunch and dinner and sends people to Cafe Stroudwater at the Embassy Suites Hotel. He can do so with a clear conscious as things next door have come a long way.

Cafe Stroudwater has undergone many renovations both in

Natalie Ladd ––––– What It’s Like staffing and physical appearance over the past several years, and is now at a place General Manager, Stacy O’Rielly says she is proud of. “Location is everything in dining choices and we know we have a captive audience, but we’ve had to earn a good reputation from a wide variety of people.

We’ve had to start from scratch a few times, and aren’t trying to compete with in-town. We know we need to offer a good fresh, local alternative choice. Most of our business is repeat travelers and we all know them by name.

This is a great opportunity for our restaurant.”

According to Stacy, “Café Stroudwater is comfortable and not stuffy. Seating approximately 70 people, it’s spacious and clean and decorated with taste. It doesn’t feel like a typical hotel restaurant.” The room is essentially an open space abutting the bar and looking out into the hotel atrium. TV’s are subtly present for the business traveler and sports fan. You know you’re in a hotel restaurant, but it doesn’t feel like a lounge lizard setting, or anything sad or isolated.

After going through almost 10 chefs in twelve years, the restaurant is finally running under the vitally enthusiastic eye of Executive Chef Samuel Burgeron. At 23 years old, Sam has worked his way up the hotel food chain in three short years from line cook, to Sous Chef, to Executive Chef, proving that in America, anything is possible.

But the truth of the matter is, Sam is intensely serious about his passion and was educated at Atlantic Culinary Academy in

Dover, New Hampshire, which has since become Le Cordon Bleu in Boston. After working in the business full time since age 14, he’s mature, passionate (ask to see the chef’s knife tattoo that runs down the side of his calf), and realistic about his situation. “I know I’m lucky, but I should really still be working under someone else who’s great. I can do this job well, but still have a lot to learn.”

Few Chef’s as successful as Sam are as modest as well.

Running a hotel restaurant holds additional challenges not found in most places. A new menu design has to get past the Food and Beverage Manager, the GM, and in most cases, a corporate management company located in another region. Ordering and vendor choices are pre-mandated (often to the restaurants’ advantage as there is cost-saving strength in numbers), and bonus structures are tied into the overall success of the hotel operation.

Sam may hit his food cost and show impressive savings, as well as an increase in sales over last year, but won’t see a dime if house keeping gives away too many little soaps. There are many evenings Sam cooks alone to stay within budget and control costs.

He marvels at how this changed on Thanksgiving when the hotel offered four seatings and served 230 people a full dinner. The only mishaps were a pan of haddock that was dropped out back and a pie that slid off the counter. No one out front was aware and Sam shakes his head at how smoothly things went.

Stacy was pleased to see the majority were local residents who come often for “staycations” to enjoy the Embassy Suites’ signature Managers Cocktail reception seven nights a week and to take advantage of park-and-fly programs (also offered by the Hilton Garden Inn). see LADD page 8

TD Bank names Small vice president in lending DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT TD Bank has named Robert A. Small as vice president, commercial loan officer in commercial lending in Portland, the bank announced. He is responsible for managing a portfolio of commercial loans as well as administrative lending matters, credit administration and risk manage-

ment, serving clients throughout Southern Maine.

Small has 14 years of experience in lending, finance and credit analysis. Prior to joining TD Bank, he served for more than eight years as a commercial loan officer with the Finance Authority of Maine in Augusta, TD Bank reported.

Small served as a member of

the Advisory Board for Coastal Ventures, CEI Community Ventures and the Maine Investment Exchange.

A resident of South Portland, Small is a 1994 graduate of Bentley University in Waltham, Mass., and a 1989 graduate of South Portland High School.

For more information about TD Bank, visit www.tdbank.com.

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UN’s Ban at climate talks: ‘We need results now’ CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, trying to revive long-stalled climate talks, told world environment ministers on Tuesday he is “deeply concerned” that many years of negotiation have proven largely fruitless.

“The pace of human-induced climate change is accelerating. We need results now, results that curb global greenhouse emissions,” Ban declared at the opening of high-level talks at the annual U.N. climate conference.

In the two-week session’s final days, environment ministers will seek agreement on knotty side issues in coping with global warming, but once more the U.N. climate treaty’s 193 parties will fail at Cancun to produce a sweeping deal to slash greenhouse gas emissions and control climate change.

“I am deeply concerned that our efforts so far have been insufficient,” the U.N. chief said.

“Nature will not wait while we negotiate,” he said. “Science warns that the window of opportunity to prevent uncontrolled climate change will soon close.”

Earlier Tuesday, the U.N. environment chief, Achim Steiner, reminded the conference that countries’ current, voluntary pledges to reduce emissions would, at best, offer the world limited protection against serious damage from shifts in climate.

Another reminder came from the mountains of south Asia: In a new report, experts said people’s lives and livelihoods are at “high risk” as warming melts Himalayan glaciers, sending floods crashing down from overloaded mountain lakes and depriving farmers of steady water sources.

Low-lying Pacific island states, in particular, are losing shoreline to rising seas, expanding from heat and the runoff of melting land ice. Following Ban to the podium, President Marcus Stephen of Nauru, one of those states, said the reality of climate change has been lost in scientific, economic and technical jargon.

“Without bold action, it will be left to our children to come up with the words to convey the tragedy of losing our homelands when it didn’t have to be this way,” he said.

Despite such evidence of growing impacts, and scientists’ warnings that temperatures will rise sharply in this century, nations have made little progress over the past decade toward a new global pact on emissions cuts to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The Republican rebound in Washington promises to delay action even further.

Instead, environment ministers will focus on secondary tools for confronting global warming, laying the groundwork, for example, for a “green fund” of $100 billion a year by 2020.

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For anyone who walked outside yesterday, it might be tough to imagine a December that is tracking warmer than normal, but that’s because the month started warm.

Wednesday, Dec. 1 came in 14 degrees above normal with a high of 50 and a low of 43 degrees.

Since then, temperatures have crept downward. Still, yesterday’s low of 25 degrees wasn’t enough to pull December below its average temperature of 31.8 degrees. The monthly average to date stands at 35 degrees, and the forecast calls for a return to mild conditions like those that started the month. A below-average month for temperatures, needed to end the 13-month streak, is unlikely at this point, weather watchers said.

“We’re still above normal, it will take a few more cold days to really impact it,” said Eric Schwibs, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray.

An overnight low going into Tues-

day was 25 degrees, and today and Thursday could bring lows in the 20s, Schwibs said. But Saturday should be warmer, with highs near 40, and Sunday, rain is likely, again with highs again near 40, he said.

“It looks like more wet than white,” Schwibs said.

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WikiLeaks founder arrested, jailed in Britain in sex case LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested and jailed without bail Tuesday in a sex-crimes investigation, but his organization scarcely missed a beat, releasing a new batch of the secret cables that U.S. officials say are damaging America’s security and relations worldwide.

A month after dropping out of public view, the 39-year-old Australian surrendered to Scotland Yard to answer a warrant issued for his arrest by Sweden. He is wanted for questioning after two women accused him of having sex with them without

a condom and without their consent.

Assange said he would fight extradition to Sweden, setting the stage for what could be a pitched legal battle. And as if to prove that it can’t be intimidated, WikiLeaks promptly released a dozen new cables, including details of a NATO defense plan for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that made Russia bristle.

The Pentagon welcomed Assange’s arrest.

“That sounds like good news to me,” U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on a visit to Afghanistan.

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Chef Sam is “feeling really good” and credits his team as supportive and enthusiastic. Stacy is quick to give him as much creative freedom as she can, within the confines of the Mothership management structure.

Lobsters are bought locally off a boat in Falmouth manned by one of Sam’s friends, and as a result Cafe Stroudwater is able to offer a full lobster dinner with fixings for $18.99. Sam would like to see everything fresh and local, but “picks his battles carefully.”

The menu itself isn’t earth shattering with safe offerings of fresh seafood, pasta and steaks, and is competitively priced with in-town restaurants. The food has been receiving excellent feedback via comment cards and phone calls, and the far-away Hilton suits are starting to take notice. Perhaps it’s time the rest of us do as well.

The Low Down: Café Stroudwater is open seven days a week for all meal periods and takes reservations. Check out the website for special overnight packages including dinner, Chef’s Table offerings, and be sure to ask to meet Chef Sam. Formerly a server, he enjoys greeting guests and welcomes feedback.

Want to stay in-town instead? Start out at the romantic, yet unassuming Armory in the Regency on Milk Street for quiet conversation and bone chilling martinis, or hit up Eve’s at The Garden in the Portland Harbor Hotel for a see-and-be-seen glass of wine and light dinner before a show; and finally wind up at the Top of The East in the Eastland Park for a splendid view of our holiday lights and fine selection of single malt scotches.

(Natalie Ladd is a Daily Sun contributor. Her column appears on Wednesday.)

Erika Hannon (left) and Courtney Tait welcome customers to Twist, a store for “tweens” in the Old Port. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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Toys for Tots in demand

Renee Wright, owner of Steve & Renee’s Diner on Washington Ave in East Deering stands in front of the Toys for Tots toys donated by her customers Tuesday. The diner has been collecting donations for the organization for 26 years, and accepts donated toys for children in need starting the day after Thanksgiving until Dec. 20. Wright has noticed that donations are down slightly this year and added that the need is especially great for toys geared towards older (11 and up) children. The restaurant is open seven days a week; donations to Toys for Tots can be dropped off at Steve & Renee’s Diner at 500 Washington Ave. at any time. (JEFF SPOFFORD PHOTO)

catch people’s attention,” said general manager Erika Hannon. The clothing and accessories store opened Aug. 28. The store includes clothing size 7 and 8 and 14 to 16, all for girls and women. “It’s brand new,” Tait said. Tait said she graduated college and worked for her parents in a steel fabrication company, but she decided to pursue her dream of running a retail store. Now she and her friend, Hannon, help dress a young clientele from their Old Port shop.

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By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You just know you were meant to thrive like this -- to feel good about yourself, your health and your talents. When you’re not feeling this way, it’s only because you are cutting yourself off from the well-being that is your birthright.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You are deliberate. Everyone around you can feel the intensity. Your energy is no longer bouncing off the walls around you like it was yesterday. Now you are strongly focused.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You’ve heard that it’s lonely at the top, but that doesn’t stop you from wanting to get there. The kindness you show your friends this week will likely make the top a little less lonely than it would have been.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You like people individually. But when you get out in the crowds and the traffic, sometimes you become disheartened by the state of mankind. It makes you have to work harder to see the good in others.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There are more commitments on the schedule than you can keep. Your social values will affect how this day plays out. You’ll weigh your private interests against your public duty.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 8).

Building a mutual support system will be an important focus for you this year.

The encouraging people you surround yourself with will push you toward a goal. Take a victory lap in February. Your strong commitment to home and family will bring honor in 2011.

Finances improve with the job you do in March. Virgo and Pisces people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 20, 14, 39 and 16.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You can’t judge how your work will be received, but you can try. Play devil’s advocate. If someone were to criticize, what would they say? And what can you do to preempt that opinion?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Great minds like Einstein and Goethe have agreed on this one thing: The poets go first, and the scientists catch up later.

Do not discount your imaginings. They become your future.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You won’t be able to control your thoughts.

They are like birds that fly from your grasping hands. But if you relax, those birds may perch on your shoulder, and then you can walk, taking them where you want them to go.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You do what you do because you want to feel better. So it’s always a surprise when an action you take has the opposite effect. Try to go about it another way: Find a way to feel better before you take action.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You will learn the information you need to know in order to weigh and consider your options. And you will also learn what you don’t need to know. Luckily, you’re able to discern the difference between the two.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You can work through the strangest circumstances, as long as you don’t lose hope. If you do lose hope, keep working until you find your faith once more.

It will return.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your loved ones rely on you, and who could blame them? You are, after all, very reliable. You’ll be needed even more than usual. Give your heart, but don’t give your soul.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Wednesday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2010; 23 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

On this date: In 1776, during the Revolutionary War, Gen. George Washington’s retreating army crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey into Pennsylvania.

In 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment of her own conception.

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan for the Reconstruction of the South.

In 1886, the American Federation of Labor was founded in Columbus, Ohio.

In 1949, the Chinese Nationalist government moved from the Chinese mainland to Formosa as the Communists pressed their attacks.

In 1960, NBC broadcast a new, color videotape version of the TV special “Peter Pan” starring Mary Martin.

In 1980, rock star John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by an apparently deranged fan.

In 1982, a man demanding an end to nuclear weapons held the Washington Monument hostage, threatening to blow it up with explosives he claimed were inside a van. (After a 10-hour standoff, Norman D. Mayer was shot dead by police; it turned out there were no explosives.)

In 1987, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a treaty at the White House calling for destruction of intermediate-range nuclear missiles.

One year ago: Ohio executed murderer Kenneth Biros by performing the nation’s first lethal injection using a single drug, a supposedly less painful method than previous executions that required three drugs.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor-director Maximilian Schell is 80. Flutist James Galway is 71. Singer Jerry Butler is 71. Pop musician Bobby Elliott is 69. Actress Mary Woronov is 67. Actor John Rubinstein is 64. Rock singer-musician Gregg Allman is 63. Actress Kim Basinger is 57. Rock musician Warren Cuccurullo is 54. Rock musician Phil Collen is 53. Country singer Marty Raybon is 51.

Rock musician Marty Friedman is 48. Actor Wendell Pierce is 47. Actress Teri Hatcher is 46. Singer Sinead O’Connor is 44. Actor Matthew Laborteaux is 44. Rock musician Ryan Newell (Sister Hazel) is 38. Actor Dominic Monaghan is 34. Actor Ian Somerhalder is 32. Rock singer Ingrid Michaelson is 31. R&B singer Chrisette Michele is 28.

Rock singer-actress Kate Voegele (VOH’gehl) is 24. Actress AnnaSophia Robb is 17.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: Last year, my 16-year-old daughter had a bout of depression and anxiety and didn’t handle herself well. As a result, she has been shunned by the friends she’s had since 7th grade.

“Lauren” has tried to make amends by apologizing, but these girls want nothing to do with her. Through therapy, Lauren realizes she is reaping what she has sown, but several of the girls are just plain mean. With my encouragement, Lauren asked for a mediation session to try to get one of the girls to back down from the nasty comments. Unfortunately, the rest of the girls thought Lauren chose to bring one of them down, so now it’s payback time.

The bullying is exhausting for Lauren to endure, and she no longer wants to go to school. I spoke with the principal, a social worker and the teacher whose class is the worst. They all agree it is a difficult problem because it’s quite likely that if the girls are admonished, the bullying will increase. And they are probably right.

Lauren is a beautiful, smart girl. What am I supposed to do? We are told to speak up if a child is being bullied, but what about the backlash? The school feels its hands are tied.

Lauren is back in therapy so she can learn how to cope with these mean girls. Any thoughts? -- Frustrated Mom Dear Mom: Even if Lauren deserved her classmates’ scorn, she does not deserve to be bullied. The school is abdicating its responsibility by shrugging its shoulders and doing nothing.

Encourage Lauren to find other friends who will value the person she is now, and look into extracurricular activities that will allow her to meet kids outside of school. The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services has an anti-bullying website (stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov) that offers suggestions. If your daughter continues to struggle, however, and the school refuses to help, it might be time to switch schools so she can

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The problem is, he always has to contradict what I say and makes it seem like I’m never right. He also doesn’t like my dog. He says if it starts yapping at him, he’s going to kick it across the room.

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Wednesday, Dec. 8 Chamber 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.

of tribes continues. Millions of Sudanese are now refugees in Chad, other neighboring countries, and the United States. Southern Maine boasts the largest organized Sudanese refugee community in the United States. On Jan. 9, 2011, the people of South Sudan will vote on a referendum for independence. This will separate the southern part of Sudan from AlBashir and the North, creating a new, independent country in the South.

This is a first step to end the genocide of the people of Darfur, the people of Nuba mountain, and the people of the Blue Nile.” For further information, contact Mariano at 239-6772, Ben at 210-2819, or El-Fadel at 221-5197.

Glenna Johnson Smith: ‘Old Maine Woman’

4 p.m. to 6 p.m. “Old Maine Woman: Stories from the Coast to the County”

by Glenna Johnson Smith features Maine resident and writer, Glenna Johnson Smith, author of the new Payson Hill skiing and book, “Old Maine Woman.” “Smith, a Presque Isle resident and longsnowboarding event time columnist for Echoes magazine, 9:30 a.m. Portland Recreation and writes with eloquence and humor Ski Maine will unveil improvements about the complexities, absurdities made to Payson Hill for skiing and and pleasures of everyday modern snowboarding and announce a new life, her childhood on the coast in the Wednesdays in the Park program start1920s and 1930s, and the joys that ing January. Wednesdays in the Park is designed to encourage participa- Herb Vogel looks at a Chamberlain Sculpture in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. viewing room. After 30 old age brings. ‘Old Maine Woman’ tion and access to winter sports for years of meticulous collecting and buying, the Vogels managed to accumulate over 2,000 pieces of art, filling every corner includes some of the best of Smith’s Portland youth. Coinciding with early of their tiny one bedroom apartment. Their story is chronicled in “Herb & Dorothy,” a film screening on Thursday, Dec. 9 Echoes columns, as well as new material.” ... Born and raised in the release from public schools and Learn at SPACE Gallery. (COURTESY IMAGE) Hancock County town of Ashville, to Ski and Snowboard Month, Portland the time of the year when members of our community really Smith, 90, has since lived in Aroostook County for more youth will be able to get tips from ski and snowboard proshow their generosity.

Not to mention our ability to party.” than six decades. A former high school English teacher who fessionals from Maine ski areas Wednesday afternoons (1 Items on the auction block include weekend getaways, gift retired in 1990, she has written and directed award-winning p.m. to 3:30 p.m.) for seven weeks starting Jan. 5. Reprebaskets, artwork, tickets for concerts and sporting events, plays, led elder hostels and classes for senior citizens and sentatives from Maine ski areas will be on hand to demonprofessional services, restaurant gift certificates and even conducted writing workshops. In addition to her work for strate and provide guidance and Ski Maine Association will a sightseeing plane ride.

“This is the time of the year when Echoes, she also has been published in Yankee Magazine; sponsor weekly give-a-ways for the young sport enthusimembers of our community really show their generosity,” Maine Speaks: An Anthology of Maine Writers; Old Womasts. Payson Hill Terrain Park, Payson Park. she says. “Not to mention our ability to party.” Reservaen’s Wisdom; and a number of other anthologies. She has Portland SCORE annual holiday luncheon tions can be made by calling 775-0077 or e-mailing rsvp@ won numerous awards for her work and civic contributions, noon. Portland SCORE will hold its annual holiday lunrbpa.org. Cost is $25 (members and non-members) with including Presque Isle Citizen of the Year and an honorcheon at the Woodlands Club in Falmouth. The featured advanced reservations; $35 at the door. Tropical attire ary doctorate from the University of Maine at Presque Isle. speaker will be member Steve Edmondson, describing his (Hawaiian shirts and flipflops?) is encouraged.”

Longfellow Books, One Monument Way. 2010 solo sail across the Atlantic Ocean. Portland SCORE’s ‘The Gift Of The Magi’ Portland photographer Lauren Chase Sheffield parent agency is a nonprofit organization dedicated to 7 p.m.

“The Gift Of The Magi” an original musical set in entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and sucfeatured in open house in Cape Elizabeth 1940s Maine.

Dec 7-23, Tues. and Wed. at 7 p.m., Saturday cess of small business nationwide. SCORE has 389 chap5 p.m. to 7 p.m. A community open house, featuring the at 2 p.m. Added shows, Thursday, Dec. 23 at 2 and 7 p.m. ters throughout the United States and its territories, with works of Portland photographer Lauren Chase Sheffield, $15-$22. Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St., Portland. 773over 11,000 volunteers nationwide. SCORE is a resource will be held at Paula Banks Consulting and Two Lights 0333. oldportplayhouse.com partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Home Care in the Pond Cove Shopping Center in Cape Elizabeth. Sheffield, who owns Lola Studios in Portland, is Snow Train at SPACE Thursday, Dec. 9 displaying a variety of photos, including prints and photos 5 p.m. Join SPACE Gallery for Snow Train, a reprise of on canvas, covering a variety of subjects — from pets to holiday shopping and cheer presented in conjunction with people to images of Brooklyn, where she lived for a while.

Toys for Tots fundraiser in Biddeford Portland’s Downtown District and Buy Local’s neighborSheffield also is an activities director at Village Crossings 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Biddeford/Saco Chambe and Smith Elliott hood shopping night, Think Outside the Box. Browse a assisted living residence in Cape Elizabeth, and includes present a Toys for Tots fundraiser. Christmas party, 5 p.m. selection of vintage threads, handmade wear-ables and the some photos of senior residents in the exhibit. Her photos to 8 p.m.; price of admission is a toy. finest salvaged and sewn goods that will definitely inspire will be on display at the geriatric care management firm warmth and nostalgia in your soul. Snag something for that Sesame Street Live and home care business office through February. Please special someone that will surely be cherished for decades.

7 p.m. Sesame Street Live “1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo and see www.lola-studios.com for more information.

“DJ Sandmand (of Sounds Absurd) will provide us with a Friends” Dec. 9 to Dec. 12, in the Cumberland County Civic rare mix of Soul Train and old Pop/Surf with secret nostalgic Art At Work performances about police, youth Center. Thursday, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. (Opening Night Tickets and wacky holiday surprises! We’ll be sipping some winter 6.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Art At Work productions at Portland $10 excludes Sunny and Gold Circle Seats); Friday, Dec. 10 cocktails and hopping on the snow train, so come on out!”

Public Library, Rines Auditorium. Art At Work will present at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 11 at 10:30 a.m. www.space538.org an evening of two original performances — “Radio Calls” and 2 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 12 at 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Tickwith Portland police officers and “The Weeping City” with ets: $50 (Sunny Seats — front row and includes a meet and Audition workshop students from Portland High School. A facilitated diagreet with two Sesame Friends), $20 (Gold Circle), $15, $12 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine logue with officers, students and audience will follow the and $10. Special Kids Show — $7 for Day Care and School audition workshop. “Are you planning to audition for a performances. Forest City Times opens with “The WeepGroups of 10 plus (excludes Sunny and Gold Circle seats). performance? Our audition workshop is back by popuing City,” a production by Maine Inside Out with Portland lar demand! Come to this friendly, free workshop to learn Independence for South Sudan rally High School students, exploring their relationship with more about choosing a monologue and developing the noon to 2 p.m. The Sudanese Community Association of the police. Forest City Times continues with Art At Work’s confidence it takes to have a really great audition.” The Maine announces a rally for peace in Sudan in support of “Radio Calls,” a performance by Portland police officers workshop is free; pre-registration is required, and space is the referendum for independence for South Sudan. The rally about their lives, work and interactions with Portland’s limited. To register call 828-1234 x247 or email reba@kiteis in Monument Square, Portland. The Sudanese Commuyouth. The evening concludes with a facilitated dialogue tails.org. nity Association of Maine, in association with Fur Cultural with performers and audience that looks at where we Revival (a Darfur community organization) will present a rally RBPA hosts ‘Luau Time’ at holiday dinner, auction are, where we want to be and how, together, we might for peace in Sudan in support of the January referendum for 5:30 p.m. It’s the holidays with a tropical theme at Portland’s head in that direction. Inspired by a performance of “The independence for South Sudan. If the weather is bad, the rain Holiday Inn By the Bay, 88 Spring Street, for the Rainbow Weeping City” and Art At Work’s poetry and photogradate will be Friday, Dec. 10, also from noon until 2 p.m. SupBusiness & Professional Association’s 14th annual scholphy projects with the police, Police Chief Craig asked Art porters of this referendum are encouraged to meet in Monuarship auction. RBPA, Maine’s gay and lesbian business At Work’s Director Marty Pottenger to write and direct ment Square to show their support. Sudanese community and professional networking group, plans an evening that a performance that communicated the police officers’ leaders will be among the guest speakers. “For decades, the supports scholarships given each spring to students who perspective for local high schools. Radio Calls, written people from southern and central Sudan have been victimhave promoted diversity in their schools and communities. from interviews and workshops with police officers is the ized by the criminal government of President Al-Bashir, who “Informal networking, a silent auction and cocktails/apperesult. For reservations, which are advised, call 874-8681. has used the Sudanese military and the Janjaweed militia tizers will begin at 5:30 p.m. A buffet dinner and live auction www.artatworkproject.us to attack these innocent people. Although Al-Bashir is now get underway at 7. RBPA president Susan Eldridge calls the wanted for war crimes, the genocide, rape, and dislocation auction the organization’s premier event of the year. “This is see next page

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Walker Memorial Library Holiday Open House 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The Friends of the Walker Memorial Library in Westbrook are hosting their annual Holiday Open House. The public is cordially invited to the Walker Memorial Library for refreshments and festive holiday cheer in celebration of the season. Musical entertainment will be provided by the Chopin Club. There will be a raffle drawing for three baskets filled with a variety of books and other items, ideal for gifts. The baskets are on display at the library; proceeds in support of the Library.

Sesame Street Live 7 p.m. Sesame Street Live “1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo and Friends” comes to the Cumberland County Civic Center. Dec. 9 to Dec. 12.

Opening night tickets $10 excludes Sunny and Gold Circle seats); Friday at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.; and Sunday at 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Tickets: $50 (Sunny Seats — front row and includes a meet and greet with two Sesame Friends), $20 (Gold Circle), $15, $12 & $10. www.theciviccenter.

With assistance by Professor Art, the Sesame Street Live friends prepare for a colorful adventure in “Elmo’s com/events Coloring Book.” Sesame Street Live “1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo and Friends” comes to the Cumberland County Awesome Town presents: Coats Civic Center. Dec. 9 to Dec. 12. (Photo courtesy Sesame Workshop)

and Cans For The Community 7 p.m. A one-night only extravaganza to gather food, coats and funds for Portland’s Salvation Army. For $5 (only $3 if you bring a gently used coat or a can of food) you can enjoy The Hot Tarts, Sun Gods in Exile, the premiere of Spiderhearts featuring the legendary Boo and Vik44, DJ King Alberto and a performance by the ever sexy, one of a kind, Atomic Trash. MC’d by Boo and The Fuge! Geno’s Rock Club.

Guests will have the opportunity to bid on all kinds of iitems in a silent auction. There will be everything from one of a kind local art to a motorcycle seat to WWE garb! A raffle will feature anything from a gift certificate to a local restaurant to a gift certificate for an hourlong tattoo session from Hollowed Ground and everything in between! With drawings every hour, there will be tons of chances to win. Appearances by the tough beauties of Maine Roller Derby! www.myspace.com/genosrockclub/ shows or go to the Facebook page.

Screening of ‘Herb & Dorothy’ 7:30 p.m. Part of SCOPE: SPACE’s Visual Arts Film Series, SPACE Gallery at 538 Congress St. will screen “Herb & Dorothy.” Doors open at 7 p.m.; film at 7:30 p.m. “‘Herb & Dorothy’ tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, Herb and Dorothy Vogel quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists. Devoting all of Herb’s salary to purchase art they liked, and living on Dorothy’s paycheck alone, they continued collecting artworks guided by two rules: the piece had to be affordable, and it had to be small enough to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment. Within these limitations, they proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of those they supported and befriended went on to become worldrenowned artists. Their circle includes: Sol LeWitt, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Lynda Benglis, Pat Steir, Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi, and Lawrence Weiner.” www.herbanddorothy.com or www.space538.org

‘Good Medicine’ at UMF 7:30 p.m. University of Maine at Farmington will present “Good Medicine,” a new play chronicling the experiences of a midwife at the turn of the century, written and directed by Jayne Decker, UMF instructor and artistic director for the Sandy River Players. Performances in UMF’s Alumni Theater are at 7:30 p.m., on Dec. 9, 10 and 11; and at 2 p.m., on Dec. 12. Admission is free and open to the public, with donations to benefit Casa Materna — a Women’s Cooperative in Mulukuku, Nicaragua — gratefully accepted at the door. For more information on Casa Materna, visit http://www.casamaterna.org/.

Keystone Reading Series at Local Sprouts 8 p.m. Keystone Reading Series at Local Sprouts Cafe on Congress Street. A new monthly series, poets: Nylah Lyman, Shanna Miller McNair and Megan Grumbling. Any questions can be directed to Kevin at kstjarre@hotmail.com

Friday, Dec. 10 Alternative Gift Market and Fair-Trade Craft Fair 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Center for Student Involvement and Leadership at Southern Maine Community College hosts

the Alternative Gift Market and Fair-Trade Craft Fair on Dec. 10 and 11. “Every holiday season, the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership at Southern Maine Community College (SMCC) hosts the Alternative Gift Market and Fair-Trade Craft Fair. The Alternative Gift Market provides holiday shoppers the chance to exemplify the true meaning of giving by purchasing life sustaining gifts, like food, medicine, education, in honor of friends, relatives and associates. The market will also include a Fair Trade Craft Sale with hand-made crafts from all over the world (proceeds of which benefit craft-makers from developing nations), baked goods, and displays representing the projects sponsored through the Alternative Gift Market.” The event will be held in the Campus Center at SMCC (2 Fort Road in South Portland) on Friday, Dec. 10, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 11, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information contact Ryan Bouchard at 741-5663 or rbouchard@smccme.edu.

Global Block Party at USM 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. University of Southern Maine’s Multicultural Student Association presents the third annual Global Block Party, Woodbury Campus Center, Portland campus.

Free and open to the public, includes global entertainment, African drumming, Sudanese and Rwandan dancers, belly dancers, Indian dancers, USM’s salsa dancers, 50/50 raffle and food from Passage to India. For more information, or if you would like to be a performer or participate in the Global Fashions, please email Ben at benjamin.skillings@maine.edu.

‘Vision’ at Movies at the Museum “Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen” at Portland Museum of Art as part of the Movies at the Museum series.

Friday, Dec. 10, at 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 11, at 2 p.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 12, at 2 p.m. “Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist, and ecological activist. This film brings the story of this extraordinary woman to life. In Vision, New German Cinema auteur Margarethe von Trotta (Marianne and Juliane, Rosa Luxemburg, Rosenstrasse) reunites with recurrent star Barbara Sukowa (Zentropa, Berlin Alexanderplatz) to bring the story of this extraordinary woman to life.”

Season of Light at the Planetarium 7 p.m. Season of Light: Southworth Planetarium’s annual holiday show that explores the astronomy and history of the holiday season: from Christmas to Hannukah to the Solstice. We also examine the “Star of Bethlehem.” Assuming it was a natural event, what might it have been? A supernova; a planetary conjunction or some other celestial event.

Southworth Planetarium, 96 Falmouth St., Portland. Also Dec. 11-12. Check times at 780-4249. www.usm.maine. edu/planet

‘Listening In, Looking Out’ at Bates 7:30 p.m. Music improvised by schoolchildren from Japan and Lewiston forms the basis of a collaborative sound and image project to be performed at Bates College in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. “Listening In, Looking Out” is a project undertaken by Hiroya Miura, a composer who directs the Bates College Orchestra, in collaboration with Bates students (including one from Maine), intermedia artist Peter Bussigel and percussionist Masaki Endo, as well as the children, whose recorded musical efforts

form part of the soundscape. Endo will perform during the presentation of the piece.

For more information, please contact 7866135 or olinarts@bates.edu. The composition of the piece is based on a game, often associated with the Dadaist art movement of the early 20th century, in which each member of a team adds a piece, in turn, to the creation of a work. For “Listening In, Looking Out,” Miura, Mussigel and the Bates students conducted improvisation workshops this year with children in Sendai, Japan (where an earlier edition of the piece was premiered in 2009), and at Lewiston’s Farwell Elementary School. The workshops are designed to get children to improvise simple musical instruments from everyday objects. Recordings from the workshops were edited by the Bates students to create a sound and image composition. The Bates students taking part are two juniors, Abigael Merson of Falmouth and Jack Schneider of Tacoma Park, Md.; and Alex Koster, a senior from Pound Ridge, N.Y.

Magic of Christmas

7:30 p.m. Magic of Christmas concert. Friday, Dec. 10, at 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, Dec. 11, at 2 p.m. at Merrill Auditorium. “Join Robert Moody and special guests for what critics and audiences are calling Maine’s finest holiday extravaganza. Celebrate the traditions, story and spirit of the season — experience the Magic for yourself!” Portland Symphony Orchestra. Through Dec. 19. www.portlandsymphony.org/content/?performance=magic-of-christmas

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

Saturday, Dec. 11 Designing Women show 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Designing Women, a nonprofit volunteer corporation that works directly with organizations that benefit women and girls in local communities, will hold their last of only two Portland shows this year at Woodford’s Church, located at 202 Woodford St., Portland. “Over 20 female artists and craftwomen will be on hand to display their high quality and beautifully handcrafted pottery, handbags, glasswork, handwoven clothing and accessories, home accents, stained glass, and sculptural ceramic art. Items will range in size and price. The suggested $2 door donation and all lunch/refreshment proceeds will be donated to Partners for Rural Health in the Dominican Republic.

Attending this show is a great way to complete your Holiday shopping list, support local artisans and benefit a wonderful community cause!” http://designingwomen.org

Holiday Arts & Crafts Show 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Join Lucid Stage this weekend for lastminute gift buying. There will be 50 vendors selling handmade arts and crafts and jewelry, dolls, pottery, photography, painting, knitwear, cards and more. Get your caricature done by Ed King. Free entry to win one of many raffle prizes. 29 Baxter Blvd. Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. www.lucidstage.com

Eyes on Owls at Gilsland Farm 9:30 a.m. Join naturalist Marcia Wilson, photographer Mark Wilson, and six live owls for an event devoted to owls. The program includes a slideshow introduction to owls of New England and beyond, a hooting lesson, tips on finding owls without disturbing them, and an opportunity to see seven live owls. We will have intimate looks at those species native to the region and beyond — everything from the diminutive saw-whet owl to the giant eagle-owl. The two abbreviated morning sessions are focused for young children (ages 2 and up). 9:30-10:15 a.m., 11-11:45 a.m., 1:30-2:45 p.m., or 4-5:15 p.m. Gilsland Farm, Falmouth, members: $10/adult, $5/child; nonmembers: $15/adult, $10/child. Advance registration necessary. http://habitat.maineaudubon.org/articles/Eyes-on-Owls/576/ see next page

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‘Stuff the Trolley’ for Toys for Tots 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Most Holy Trinity Parish Hall, Saco, Rotary Brunch Buffet, $10 donation or toy donation/per person.

Haitian Art Show to aid Konbit Sonte 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Haitian Art Show to benefit Konbit Sonte at St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. “Konbit Sonte is a a Maine nonprofit that provides medical assistance to Haiti. There will be snacks, a photo display, and an assortment of art that is reasonably priced for holiday giving or personal enjoyment. Volunteers and staff from Konbit Sante have been working to strengthen the health system in the north of Haiti for nearly a decade. Since the earthquake in January, their work has become more familiar to many of us as it has taken on increased urgency and gained greater recognition here in Maine. The fact is, teams from Konbit Sante have been in Haiti nearly non-stop since January. Currently Konbit Sante is engaged in managing the devastating impact of a cholera outbreak.

From public education to water chlorination resources, from rehydration salts to hospital intervention, Haitian and Maine staff and volunteers are on the ground supporting the stretched and under-resourced health system. For some time, Konbit Sante has been purchasing Haitian metal art from artists with few opportunities to sell their wares within their own country. The recycled-oil-drum wall art is purchased at fair prices and sold here to help fund needed health services back in Haiti. The benefits are three fold — an income for artists, expanded awareness of Haitian culture and crafts, and necessary funds for urgent health needs.” Sponsored by Friends of Konbit Sante, Coffee By Design, The St. Lawrence Arts Center and others.

Planet Dog’s ‘Sit With Santa’ 10 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The Planet Dog Company Store is hosting its sixth annual “Sit With Santa” event. The popular annual fundraiser helps the Planet Dog Foundation support canine service organizations. Kids and dogs are invited to have their photos taken with Santa. All proceeds will be donated to the Planet Dog Foundation which supports canine service programs in Maine and across the nation.

A photographer will be taking the photos and a box of “costumes” will be provided for interested dogs (antlers, etc.). Free refreshments for the kids and dogs will also be provided (cider, cookies, dog treats and water). Planet Dog Company Store, 211

Marginal Way, Portland. The cost is $10 for a sitting with Santa. One image will be provided at the event and others will be available to download later. www.planetdogfoundation.org

‘James & the Giant Peach’ auditions 10 a.m. to noon. Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine is looking for actors between the ages of 8 and 17 to be part of a winter production of “James & the Giant Peach.”

If you’d like to be part of the production, prepare a short monologue to perform for the audition. Be ready to do some improvisation and stay for the entire audition time.

For more information, call 828-1234 x247 or email reba@kitetails.org.

Rep. Jane Eberle coffee hour 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Rep. Jane Eberle, D-South Portland, invites South Portland and Cape Elizabeth residents to her monthly coffee hour at Ocean House Market. The coffee hour will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Come have coffee with Eberle, discuss your concerns and have your questions answered. Ocean House Market is located at 512 Ocean St. in South Portland. For more information, call Eberle at 776-3783.

Animal Welfare Society open house 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Christmas Open House at the Animal Welfare Society on Holland Road in West Kennebunk. Have your pet’s photo taken with Santa, light refreshments, raffles, crafts and AWS Gift Certificates for sale. Children’s Program from 10 a.m. to noon. AWS alumni receive a gift.

Event at the Kennel Shop in Sanford 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Join the Animal Welfare Society adoptable canines and their Holiday Elves as they celebrate the season at The Kennel Shop in Sanford. The Kennel Shop provides this donation drive to benefit local shelters.

Peaks Island book signings 11 a.m. Two book signings, two books, on Peaks Island: “For the Love of Peaks — Island Portraits & Stories: A Collection” by Fran Houston and “A Glimpse of Old Peaks Island: Through Rose-Colored Glasses” by Alice Boyce, Eunice Curran, Ellin Gallant, Reta Morrill and Joyce O’Brien. Peaks Café will host the first on Dec. 11 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. The Gem Gallery will host the second on Dec. 18 from 2.30 p.m. until 5 p.m., featuring music by Ronda Dale and Kevin Attra. A check will be presented to Peaks Island Tax Assistance for 10 percent of the gross sales this year for “For the Love of Peaks.” FMI contact fran_houston@hotmail.com see next page

(From left) Margaux DePue, as Cilla, is comforted by Mandi Favreau, as Liz-Bet, in a scene from “Good Medicine,” Jayne Decker’s original play presented at University of Maine at Farmington, Dec. 9-12.

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Falmouth mom crowned Mrs. Maine DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino, 41, Falmouth, Maine has been crowned Mrs Maine International 2011 and will represent Maine in the Mrs. International Pageant in July 2011 in Chicago.

Hamilton-Guarino has been the spokesperson for MedicAlert Foundation since 2006 and will continue on as their spokesperson through her reign by promoting the use of MedicAlert to those will all medical conditions, but with emphasis on heart and stroke victims and allergy awareness.

Hamilton-Guarino has been a member of MedicAlert since April 1998, when she was resuscitated during an allergic reaction. She developed anaphylaxis to all nuts and shellfish after having her second child. Since, MedicAlert has helped save her life during numerous life or death reactions, most recently in 2009, Hamilton-Guarino reported in a press release.

Hamilton-Guarino was showcased in the book “Just One of the Gang” by Gina Clowes with Hamilton-Guarino, sports star Jerome Bettis and others. After battling life-threatening nut allergies for many years, she is an advocate for nut-free environments. In 2002, she founded the Maine Cookie Company to sponsor story hours and encourage children’s literacy and provide nut-free chocolate chip cookies to kids.

MedicAlert Foundation was founded over 50 years ago and is the only nonprofit emergency medical information service. “With over 4 million members, MedicAlert Foundation is trusted by emergency responders to relay critical lifesaving information when needed,” Hamilton-Guarino noted.

Hamilton-Guarino is a children’s book author

Mayo Street Arts funded to start puppet workshop DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT

Hamilton-Guarino

of the Maine-based book “Blueberry” and the founder and CEO of Best Ever You and Host of “The Best Ever You Show” on Blog Talk Radio. She is a mom of four boys ages 9, 11, 13 and 15. She and her husband Peter, have been married for 12 years.

Her husband is the president of IM Compliance.

Hamilton-Guarino was Mrs. Maine United States in 2006 and Miss Iowa National TeenAger in 1988. She is signed with Portland Models and Talent.

Mayo Street Arts recently received a $1,000 grant from the Community Arts and Humanities fund of the Maine Arts Commission, a $1,000 grant from the Rines/Thompson Fund of the Maine Community Foundation, and a $1,500 advised grant through a component fund of the Maine Community Foundation at the recommendation of Jean and Elliot Barker to launch the Children’s Puppet Workshop, a world arts program for East Bayside youths, the center announced.

The East Bayside neighborhood is an incredibly diverse corner of the world,” said Blainor McGough, director of Mayo Street Arts. “This workshop will allow neighborhood kids from a variety of cultures to explore world folklore through reading, writing and puppetry.”

The Children’s Puppet Workshop will be free for attending youths. The kids will learn to make and operate a variety of puppets including shadow puppets and marionettes. The 10-week workshop begins in January 2011 and will culminate in a community performance and art exhibit.

Additional funding for the program is from Portland Police Department. Community partners East Bayside Community Police Services, the Kennedy Park Tenant Council, and East Bayside Neighborhood Organization will refer youths to participate in the workshop.

Mayo Street Arts was founded in February 2010.

Its mission is to serve artists and patrons of the arts, and to engage neighborhood youths in the arts. MSA holds weekly music and dance events and monthly art exhibits and literary gatherings. For more information, visit www.mayostreetarts.org.

–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– EVENTS CALENDAR ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– rock camps, a concert series and providing after school programming in partnership with a number of organizations such as the Boys & Girls Club, Breakwater School, Learning Works and most recently, River Tree Arts. ‘River Tree Arts will still continue to offer the traditional music lessons which have made them a cornerstone of the community for the last 28 years. MAMM will be augmenting their music school by bringing in Rock Camps well as a number of new, fun after school programs including Rock Ensembles and a Pop Chorus. In addition, MAMM will be making use of RTA’s new MAC lab by offering Garageband home-recording workshops to area teens and adults,’” says MAMM executive director and founder Jeff Shaw. For more details, visit www.rivertreearts.org, www.maineacademyofmodernmusic.org.

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Picnic Holiday Sale noon to 8 p.m. (Saturday, Dec. 11 continued) The second annual Picnic Holiday Sale is Saturday from noon to 8 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. This juried indie craft fair will be held indoors at the Maine Irish Heritage Center at 34 Gray St. (along State Street). Admission is free. “Shoppers and their little ones can get their photo taken with the Yeti, and enjoy delicious food and beverages. Musical entertainment for the day will include DJs and live original music!” http://www.picnicportland.com/

Michalak book signing in Augusta 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Barnes and Noble, 9 Market Place Dr., Augusta, will feature Julie Michalak, a resident of Lexington, N.C., who will be available to sign copies of her Christian romance and suspense novel, “Two For Charlie.” For more information, contact Jim Miller at 888-361-9473 or jim@ tatepublishing.com

Home for Christmas at Anthony’s 7 p.m. Many of Anthony’s Alumni singing a wide selection of Christmas songs and standards. Special six-course Christmas dinner, $39.95 and 1/2 price for children under 10. www.anthonysdinnertheater.com

Open Mic and Poetry Slam in Auburn

False Documents & Other Illusions

7:15 p.m. The Pleasant Note Coffeehouse presents the Open Mic and Poetry Slam. This unique event has been held monthly at 7:15 p.m. at the First Universalist Church of Auburn for almost five year running at 169 Pleasant Str. Admission is free: parking, refreshments and children’s room are available. Accessible. FMI 783-0461.

1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Gallery talk at the Portland Museum of Art. Join Museum Docent Judy Cutler for a gallery talk about the exhibition False Documents & Other Illusions.

Free with museum admission. www.portlandmuseum.org

‘The Gift Of The Magi’ 2 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. 773-0333. oldportplayhouse.com

Church potluck aupper 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Washington Gardens Community Hall.

A potluck supper is put on by the Church of All God’s Children, 66 Churchill St, Portland. Cost $4.

Maine Academy of Modern Music Launch Party at Kennebunk 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. River Tree Arts will present the Maine Academy of Modern Music Launch Party at the Kennebunk Town Hal. In collaboration with River Tree Arts, MAMM will begin introducing after-school music education programs to the Kennebunk communities in January 2011. The two nonprofit organizations will be celebrat-

‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ at Old Port Playhouse Paula Poundstone poses for photographer Michael Schwartz in an exclusive portrait session at the Ice House on May 22, 2008 in Pasadena, Calif. On Saturday, Dec. 11, One Longfellow Square in Portland presents Poundstone. (Photo by Michael Schwartz/ WireImage) ing their new programs by hosting this free all-ages rock show which will feature performances by MAMM bands and Maine’s own Paranoid Social Club, founded by Dave Gutter, front man of the Portland based band, The Rustic Overtones. “MAMM is a nonprofit organization devoted to creating positive life experiences for youth through innovative and inclusive music education programs that promote resiliency, self-expression, creativity and selfdetermination. MAMM is Maine’s own little ‘school of rock’ offering private lessons, rock ensembles, vacation

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

Paula Poundstone at One Longfellow 10 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents comedian Paula Poundstone. Armed with nothing but a stool, a microphone and a can of Diet Pepsi, Paula’s ability to create humor on the spot has become the stuff of legend. Little wonder people leave Paula’s shows debating whether the random people she talked to were “plants” — which, of course they never are, and complaining that their cheeks hurt from laughter. Tickets: $40. Call: 761-1757 visit: www.onelongfellowsquare.com