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Gulf of Maine clean-up: $3 billion

Old Port Restoration plan Playhouse offers price tag 773-0333

for ﬁve-year push BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

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A $3 billion price tag to clean up and restore the Gulf of Maine could be sold as a “jobs program” to a reluctant Congress, proponents of a sweeping new environmental assessment said Wednesday during a news conference in Portland. “Yes, it’s going to be expensive, we’re already doing a lot, but we’re going to need to do a lot more to really meet the needs,” said Ted Diers, chair of the Northeast Regional Ocean Council, during a press conference at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. “What we’ve identified through going through this process is we’ve come up with a need of about $3 billion, it’s a lot of money. But it starts to get our heads around what’s the order of magnitude.” see GULF PLAN page 9

Peter Alexander speaks about the challenges of Gulf of Maine environmental restoration during a press conference Wednesday at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. Joining him are (from left) Joe Payne, Casco Baykeeper; Curtis Fisher, regional executive director of the National Wildlife Federation; Ted Diers, chair of the Northeast Regional Ocean Council; and Don Perkins, executive director of the institute. Alexander, who advocated for restoration of the Great Lakes, recalled that an executive order from President George W. Bush instructed agencies to work together on a restoration plan for the Great Lakes. It was ﬁve years before funding became available. The U.S. Gulf of Maine Habitat Restoration and Conservation Plan may require similar perseverance, he said. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Maine-built Raw Faith sinks off Nantucket

App means less walk, more art

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

BY MATT DODGE

A Maine-built ship that spent last summer anchored in Portland Harbor sunk Wednesday morning off Nantucket, Mass. The three-masted, 118-foot Raw Faith went down at about 7:30 a.m. after taking on water amid heavy seas. The ship was unable to move under its own power. The ship’s captain, George McKay and an unidentified male crew member were forced to jump ship Tuesday night and were retrieved by a Coast Guard rescue swimmer.

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If you were among the crowds shuffling through the city’s first snow during last Friday’s Art Walk, a few questions might have occurred to you: “Where is the free booze?”, “what are the signs of frostbite?” and for the smart phone set, “is there an app for this?” The answers: “look harder,” “toughen up” and “yes, almost.” A group of MECA students has started to develop a mobile application designed to guide Art Walkers through

see RAW FAITH page 6 RIGHT: The Raw Faith is shown moored in Portland Harbor last year. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

see ART WALK page 7

Santas hit the slopes See story, page 8

Ida in the Old Port See the Events Calendar, page 13

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Spacecraft Evidence for ET splashes is mounting daily, into Paciﬁ scientists sayc on demo WA S H I N G T O N ight (AP) ﬂ — Lately, a handful of new dis-

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. coveries make it (AP) — A private company seem amore likely launched spacecraft into orbit and we then, inare a historic that not first, guided back tothere Earth alone —it that on Wednesday in a bold is life somewhere test for NASA that could elsetointhe thefirst universe. lead commerthestation past supply sevcial In space run nextdays, year and eventual eral scientists astronaut rides. have reported there The capsule named are three as Dragon, built times by Space many stars as they Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX,thought. splashed previously down into the Pacifi c Ocean Another group of three hours after launchresearchers dising from Cape Canaveral. covered a microbe NASA immediately offered can live on arsecongratulations. “Splashdown on target. nic, expanding our Mission is a success!” the understanding of company announced via how life can thrive Twitter. under theonly harshest Until now, governments had accomplished environments. And re-entries orbit. year, earlier fromthis The Dragon rode into orbit astronomers for the aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 first time said rocket. It circled thethey’d world found potentially twice, thenaparachuted into the Pacific. It was aiming for habitable planet. a spot roughly 500 miles off “The evidence is the Mexican coast. Recovjust getting ery crews were stronger quickly on and stronger,” said the scene, putting floats on the spacecraft. Carl Pilcher, direcSpaceX’s chief executive tor of NASA’s Astroofficer, Elon Musk, raised biology Institute, his arms in victory when which studies the the three main parachutes origins, a evolution deployed, company spokeswoman said. and possibilities of

life in the universe. “I think anybody looking at this evidence is going to say, ‘There’s got to be life out there.’” A caveat: Since much of this research is new, scientists are still debating how solid the conclusions are. Some scientists this week have publicly criticized how NASA’s arsenicusing microbe study was conducted, questioning its validity. Another reason not to get too excited is that the search for life starts small — microscopically small — and then looks to evolution for more. The first signs of life elsewhere are more likely to be closer to slime mold than to ET. It can evolve from there.

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Officials: Man who spoke of jihad arrested Authorities say he tried to detonate what he thought was a bomb at military recruitment center BALTIMORE (AP) — A 21-year-old construction worker who had recently converted to Islam and told an FBI informant he thought about nothing but jihad was arrested Wednesday when he tried to detonate what he thought was a bomb at a military recruitment center, authorities said. Antonio Martinez, a naturalized U.S. citizen also known as Muhammad Hussain, faces charges of attempted murder of federal officers and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, according to court documents filed Wednesday. The bomb he is accused of trying to detonate was fake and had been provided by an undercover FBI agent. It was loaded into an SUV that Martinez parked in front of the recruiting center, authorities said, and an FBI informant picked him up and drove him to a nearby vantage point where he tried to set it off. It was the second time in less than two weeks that a young man was arrested trying to detonate what he thought was a bomb during a sting operation. “There was never any actual danger to the public during this operation this morning,” U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said Wednesday after a hearing in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. “That’s because the FBI was controlling the situation.” Martinez appeared in court Wednesday afternoon and was ordered held until a hearing Monday. According to court documents, he has been on the FBI’s radar screen since Octo-

“I’m not falling for no b.s.,” court documents quote him as saying. But he ultimately decided to continue with the plot. On Wednesday he drove an SUV with the dummy bomb to the recruiting center and parked outside the building, authorities said. When he attempted to detonate the device, he was arrested. A federal law enforcement vehicle sits in front of the United State Courthouse, During WednesWednesday in Baltimore while a hearing for Antonio Martinez, also known as day’s hearing, MarMuhammad Hussain, made a court appearance inside. (AP Photo/Rob Carr) tinez told the judge he could not afford ber, when he told a confidential FBI source an attorney. He said he wanted to attack and kill military perhe works in construction, is married and sonnel. Investigators believed Martinez understood the charges against him. posed a genuine threat and that he came Asked to identify himself, he said he was up with the plan by himself. Muhammad Hussain but confirmed Anto“The investigation was undertaken only nio Martinez is still his legal name. because experts had made the determinaAfterward, Joseph Balter, the public tion that there was a real risk,” Rosenstein defender assigned to represent him, causaid. tioned against a rush to judgment. The case is similar to one in Portland, “It’s very, very early in this case,” he Ore., where authorities said they arrested said. a Somali-born teenager the day after Authorities did not say where Martinez Thanksgiving when he used a cell phone was born or what prompted his conversion to try to detonate what he thought were to Islam. According to court documents, explosives in a van. He intended to bomb he explained to the FBI informant that a crowded downtown Christmas tree-lighthis mother did not approve of how he had ing ceremony, but the people he had been chosen to live. His wife, he said, accepted communicating with about the plot were in his lifestyle. fact FBI agents. “I told her I want to fight jihad ... and After Martinez found out about that she said she doesn’t want to stop me,” he case, he called the FBI informant he had said, adding that he was glad he was not been plotting with and expressed reservalike other people his age, going out or going tions about their plan, according to court to school. “That’s not me ... that not what documents. Allah has in mind for me.”

Police: Ex-con acted alone in publicist slaying BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Investigators said Wednesday that they believe a Hollywood publicist was killed by the career criminal who committed suicide last week in a seedy apartment lobby as police closed in on him. The announcement by Beverly Hills police marks a major break in an investigation that has baffled detectives for nearly a month and stunned Hollywood ever since Ronni Chasen was gunned down while driving home from a movie premiere in her Mercedes in November. Sgt. Mike Publicker said it was a “robbery gone bad” committed by Harold Martin Smith, who has a rap sheet dating back at least 25 years. Police Chief David Snowden also said the gun used by Smith to commit suicide appears to have been used to kill Chasen. “We believe that Mr. Smith acted alone. We don’t believe it was a professional hit,”

he said. Chasen was shot multiple times in the chest Nov. 20 as she drove through Beverly Hills after returning home from a premiere of the movie “Burlesque.” Publicker said investigators believe Smith, riding a bicycle, tried to rob Chasen as she waited to turn left off of Sunset Boulevard. “This was a random act of violence, with Mr. Smith’s background, we believe that it was most likely a robbery gone bad at this time,” he said. “Through the interviews and the information we received, that leads us to believe that he was at a desperate point in his life, and was reaching out and doing desperate measures,” Publicker said. Chasen, 64, was an influential behindthe-scenes player in Hollywood with her long track record in promoting films and their stars for the Oscars. The movies

included “Driving Miss Daisy,” the sequel to “Wall Street” and “On Golden Pond.” Police said the information leading detectives to Smith was an anonymous tip to “America’s Most Wanted” and that person may be eligible for a $125,000 reward. Police confirmed that no shell casings were found at the scene. They did not reveal whether there was any video evidence. Smith, 43, had been described by police as a “person of interest” after bragging to acquaintances that he killed Chasen. Documents obtained by The Associated Press revealed Smith was a two-strike felon with a criminal history that dates back at least 25 years. He had been convicted twice of burglary and most recently had been released from prison in 2007 after serving time for robbery. Police stressed that their investigation is ongoing.

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Andrew Wyeth portrait nets $2.4M for museum

This photograph provided by Farnsworth Art Museum shows the 1969 painting “Portrait of Andrew Wyeth,” by his son Jamie Wyeth. The oil painting has sold for $2.4 million at an auction to beneﬁt the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. It was a record amount for a Jamie Wyeth painting. (AP Photo/Farnsworth Art Museum, HO)

PORTLAND (AP) — A Jamie Wyeth portrait of his late father has sold for $2.4 million at an auction to benefit a museum that is devoted to the Mainerelated artworks of three generations of Wyeths. The 1969 oil painting, “Portrait of Andrew Wyeth,” was among 12 pieces that sold Nov. 29 at the Adelson Galleries in New York City as part of the Farnsworth Art Museum’s endowment campaign to sustain the artistic legacy of Andrew Wyeth, David Troup, spokesman for the Rockland museum, said Tuesday. It was a record amount for a Jamie Wyeth painting. The auction raised about $4 million for the campaign. In

all, $9 million has been raised toward the $12 million goal. The sale began online Nov. 8, and final bids were made in person and by phone at the Adelson Galleries. The auctioned pieces were donated by artists, collectors and philanthropists with an interest in sustaining the museum’s mission. The Andrew Wyeth portrait was donated for the auction by Jamie Wyeth and was purchased by a buyer who wished to remain anonymous. Other auctioned works included Andy Warhol’s “SelfPortrait With Skull,” which sold for $650,000; Andrew Wyeth’s “From the Back,” which drew $230,000; Jamie Wyeth’s “Asleep and Awake, Monhegan,” which

sold for $220,000; and Fernand Leger’s “Circus Performers,” which went for $110,000. The auction gave a big boost to the campaign, which kicked off in September 2009 and is ongoing, Troup said. “Certainly $9 million is a place we were hoping to be at, but we never expected to be there this soon,” Troup said. The endowment will be used to support the operation of the Farnsworth facilities devoted to the Maine-related work of Andrew Wyeth, as well as that of his father, N.C., and son Jamie. Andrew Wyeth, whose work focused on coastal Maine and Pennsylvania’s Brandywine Valley, died in January 2009 at age 91.

Florida is getting some Moxie Maine, Vermont, N.H. big benefits. New Englanders took a taste to the quirky bittersweet soda, and there’s an annual Moxie festival held in Lisbon. Cornucopia Beverages of Bedford, N.H., owns the rights to this nostalgic brand and has granted distribution in Florida to Florida Micro Beverage Distributors.

Pair of Cabinet nominees named AUGUSTA (AP) — Gov.-elect Paul LePage on Wednesday announced his choices to head the two state departments that ensure public safety and security, the first of 15 Cabinet appointments he will make in the weeks ahead. The Republican said Maj. Gen. John Libby has agreed to stay on as commissioner of the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management. John Morris, the former Waterville

police chief who was LePage’s gubernatorial campaign chief of staff, is the Republican’s choice for commissioner of the Department of Public Safety. Public Safety oversees state police, fire marshals and other law enforcement functions. The Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management oversees the Maine National Guard, veterans affairs and disaster response functions.

LePage collecting transition donations the maximum the effort is accepting, $9,500. Non-tax deductible donations from individuals, businesses and associations help fund the professional staff and overhead required to manage the transfer of power, as well as LePage’s Jan. 5 inauguration. The transition team says all contributions will be publicly disclosed.

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Geological Survey study: Arsenic found in private wells across Maine PORTLAND (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey says it has mapped potentially harmful levels of arsenic in drinking water in more Maine locations than previously suspected. Robert M. Lent of the USGE Maine Water Science Center in Augusta says the arsenic levels in the latest study “are some of the highest we have seen in private wells.” Martha Nielsen, a USGS scientist,

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Naked men in national museums What in the name of Gilbert Stuart is going on at the National Portrait Gallery? A week ago, CNSNews’ Penny Starr reignited the culture war with an arresting story about the staid old museum that began thus: “The federally funded National Portrait Gallery, one of the museums of the Smithsonian Institution, is currently showing an exhibition that features images of an ant-covered Jesus, male genitalia, naked brothers kissing, men in chains, Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts and a painting the Smithsonian itself describes in the show’s catalog as ‘homoerotic.’” Film of the crucifix with ants crawling on Jesus is from “A Fire in My Belly,” a ––––– video by David Wojnarowicz, Creators who died of AIDS in 1992, Syndicate that expressed his rage and anguish at the death of a lover who also died of AIDS. As this is a Christmas-season exhibit, it came to the attention of William Donahue of the Catholic League. He called the ants-on-Jesus image “hate speech” and demanded its removal.

Pat Buchanan

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Portland writes off the write-in vote On the trip back from the Peaks Island Council swearing in ceremony last week, I chatted a bit with City Clerk Linda Cohen. The very next day, she announced her resignation to take effect at the end of the month. I swear to God, I had nothing to do with it, though a little heads up would have been nice. Amongst other tidbits of discussion on the ferry ride back was a chat about write-in candidacy voting. The Island Council was elected entirely by writeins on the ballot, and I joked with her a bit about my hastily cancelled write-in campaign for Sheriff. I should have known better than to joke about elections with folks that count the ballot. She told me, “Actually, under the new charter for the city, write-in candidacy is pretty much gone.” Say what? Sure enough, a quick check of the changes voted in when Portland voters went to the polls a month ago was hidden in the finicky details. Write-ins can still be write-ins, but the process for getting the vote to count has gotten a heck of a lot more difficult.

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist Before, there was the interesting process of getting elected via a write-in. You had to convince folks to write in your full legal name, full address, check the box, and circle it. Now, if they go through that entire process (no stickers allowed,) the vote for you still won’t count, unless you have taken a few others steps first. Forty-five days BEFORE the election, you have to file paperwork with the city clerk’s office, declaring yourself a writein candidate. The paperwork requires that you sign a form declaring yourself a candidate, have it notarized, and only then does any vote made for you actually “count.” This was one of the “surprise” bits of the elected mayor/ranked choice voting issue that was lost in the shuffle. City code was changed to bring it into compli-

ance with Maine election code, amended in 2009. What is wrong with write-ins? Are they the voter equivalent of shut-ins? From time to time in this city, there are jobs no sane person would have any interest in, unless they are planning on using them as a stepping stone for higher political office. School Committee and Charter Commission come to mind quickly. They involve months of meetings that usually involve getting the stinkeye a lot, quickly followed up by a mocking in the local press from the likes of myself, among others. They are thankless jobs. Occasionally, there are vacant seats on the odd board that don’t generate enough interest in finding a candidate or even two. I’ve seen past elections for the “Water Board”, an oversight of the Portland water district, with a “choose two” under the candidates, but not a single candidate listed. We are supposed to write in a name here, under the circumstances. Have Portland voters robbed themselves in passing the changes to the charter? Last see HIGGINS page 5

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Exhibit spurs backlash against museum BUCHANAN from page 4

The rest of the four-minute video of “A Fire in the Belly,” writes Starr, portrays “the bloody mouth of a man being sewn shut ... a man undressing a man’s genitals, a bowl of blood and mummified humans.” One wonders: Why has this exhibit not received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts? With all deliberate speed, the portrait gallery pulled the video. Too late. By now the exhibit, “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in America,” had come to the attention of House Republicans who may have just struck the mother lode of that “waste, fraud and abuse” that the Gipper was always talking about. Other features in the exhibit include that painting of the naked men kissing with one holding a gun to the chest of the other and a 1954 painting of an aroused naked man, “O’Hara Nude With Boots,” by Larry Rivers. “O’Hara” is poet Frank O’Hara, Rivers’ lover. How did The Washington Post react to Donahue’s protest? “The Censors Arrive,” said the Post. Yet the ants-on-Jesus image, 11 seconds long, is no big deal said the Post, which chastised Reps. John Boehner and Eric Cantor for suggesting the exhibit could imperil Smithsonian funding. The Post added, “We hope Mr. Cantor’s threats prompt many additional Washingtonians to visit and judge for themselves.” But if the Post is interested in having Washingtonians “judge for themselves” this “art,” why does the paper not publish photos of “O’Hara Nude With Boots”? If this is art the gallery should be showing high school kids who come to Washington each spring, why not let the Post’s readers see what the controversy is all about? To Post art critic Blake Gopnik, the “show about gay sex” at the gallery is “courageous” and “full of wonderful art. My review of it was a rave.”

A man watches the video, “A Fire in My Belly,” outside the Transformer Gallery in Washington, on Thursday, Dec. 2. The video was removed from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and is now showing at the art gallery. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

What Gopnik raved about are the kind of pictures that used to be on French postcards, the possession of which in the 1950s could get you kicked out of high school. As for the gallery’s pulling of “A Fire in My Belly,” Gopnik wrote that the NPG curators “come off as cowards.” Down the hall from the “Hide/ Seek” homoerotic art and gay sex show is the Steven Spielberg-George Lucas collection of paintings by Norman Rockwell, which they loaned to the gallery. While Gopnik raved about the former, the Rockwell paintings, so beloved of flyover country, are just the kind of bourgeois schlock art that truly repulses him. Writes Gopnik: “Norman Rockwell would get the boot (from the National Portrait Gallery) if I believed in pulling everything that I’m offended by. I can’t stand the view of America that (Rockwell) represents, which I believe insults a huge number of the non-mainstream folks.” The reason I don’t demand that Rockwell’s trash be pulled, says Gopnik, is “because his (Rockwell’s) detractors, including me, got to rant about how much they hated his art.” Cantor “has said that taxpayer-funded museums should

uphold ‘common standards of decency,’” says Gopnik. “But such ‘standards’ don’t exist and shouldn’t in a pluralist society.” Interesting. But if there are no common standards of decency, there is no moral community, and where there is no moral community, there is no country. If we cannot agree on what is beautiful, moral and decent, are we really “one nation, under God, indivisible” anymore? Gopnik and the Post have put critics of the gallery’s sex show on notice that their protests are to be restricted to the verbal. Neither they nor Congress have a right to tell curators what to exhibit and not exhibit. “(T)he use of public dollars does not give lawmakers the right to micromanage or censor public displays,” says the Post. The gauntlet has been thrown down to the new GOP majority: Keep your puritanical hands off our museums. The Smithsonian needs a haircut next year to remind these folks who’s boss and that with public funding comes public responsibility. (To find out more about Patrick Buchanan, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.)

So much for the write-in vote for Daffy Duck HIGGINS from page 4

minute announcements of writein campaigns are the stuff of legend, not to mention pretty good column fodder. Remember, we live in a state where the mayor of Auburn was elected on a write-in vote. What about last minute declarations of candidacy from certain established newspaper columnists? Forbidden, and the votes won’t count. You might as well write in Daffy Duck.

I’m still whacking myself on the head on this one. I missed it, we missed it, and the entire Maine press corps missed it. Focusing on the elected mayor/ ranked choice voting issues, we missed that Maine’s largest city was taking a sacred part of the voting act, the ability to self nominate, and tossing it into the voting dustbin of history. Somehow, campaigns will be less fun, now that they have to be “planned” at least 45 days out. Perhaps that is the kick in

the backside potential candidates need to get their name out there sooner, or at least get the required signatures to get on the ballot in the first place. But I think in the long run, we HAVE robbed ourselves of something, however slight. The chance that, at the last minute, seeing the candidates running for an office, one vote could make a difference. (Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

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Coast Guard officials say the incident will remain under investigation and McKay could face fines. Both men were taken by helicopter to the Coast Guard station on Cape Cod where they were evaluated for injuries and released, according to a Coast Guard spokesperson. The Coast Guard Cutter Reliance remained on the scene through the night and left the area after Raw Faith sank. The ship was a 300-ton replica galleon, launched by George McKay of Addison in 2003, who had never built or sailed a boat prior to beginning construction in 1999. Inspired by his daughter who is confined to a wheelchair due to Marfan syndrome, McKay had planned to use the ship to provide free sailing

adventures for children who use wheelchairs and their families. The ship arrived in Portland Harbor in the fall of 2009 when Phineas Sprague, owner of Portland Yacht Services, offered the ship a berth while repairs were being done on its rudder. The sinking was not the ship’s first malfunction in its seven years on the sea. On Nov. 21, 2004, McKay and his crew were sailing from Rockland to New Jersey when a storm damaged the ship’s rudder and sails, forcing the Coast Guard to tow Raw Faith back to Rockland. The ship’s mast were also brought down in a May 2006 storm after the ship left Jonesport on another attempt to reach Jersey, with the Coast Guard once again towing the ship back to Rockland.

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Maine man found guilty of fatally stabbing girlfriend PORTLAND (AP) — A 52-yearold Maine man has been found guilty of murder for fatally stabbing his girlfriend. A Cumberland County Superior Court jury on Wednesday found William Hanaman guilty of killing 47-year-old Marion Shea in his Portland apartment in November 2009. Hanaman admitted to the stabbing, but claimed he acted in selfdefense when she came at him with a knife after they argued about her use of prescription drugs. Prosecutors said Shea was stabbed eight times, and that Hanaman’s claim of self-defense was absurd.

Jurors began deliberating Monday afternoon, but were unable to reach a verdict until two days later. Hanaman faces a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.

Maine Toys for Tots volunteer faces charges BANGOR (AP) — Bangor police say charges are pending against a “Toys for Tots” volunteer after police seized thousands of dollars worth of new toys from his home. Police said Wednesday they have identified at least one male suspect but would not release his name until the investigation is complete. Authorities say they went to the man’s home on Wednesday after receiving a tip and found several boxes of new toys that were supposed to be distributed to children and families in need.

Suspect in Maine killing ordered held AUGUSTA (AP) — A man charged in the stabbing death of an Augusta resident whose body was found during the weekend is being held pending a bail hearing. At his initial court appearance Wednesday, 30-year-old Peter Bathgate was not asked to enter a plea during the hearing before Kennebec County Superior Court Justice Michaela (mick-KAY-lah) Murphy. Bathgate is charged in the death of 47-year-old Paul Allen of Augusta, whose body was found on Sunday alongside a road in Hallowell after he had been reported missing. A state police affidavit says Allen had been stabbed and a broken cane was found near his body.

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the monthly, three-hour event and be a directory of local arts information. The art students, pursuing degrees in new media and graphic design, recently completed a class taught by local mobile app developers and MECA alums Michael DeSouza and Justin Velgos of Tap Tapas LLC. Called “Designing Mobile Experiences,” the MECA course tasked students with developing a concept and proposal for a mobile application. “Most people don’t venture real far off from Congress Street and most are a little more nervous going places they haven’t been before,” said Velgos. “[Art Walk] is only a couple hours long and there is lots of good stuff to see, so it’s helpful to have some idea what you want to do before you go out there,” he said. Velgos led the students in developing an app that would act as a clearinghouse for everything going on in a local arts scene. “It will include a map where you could see various galleries and studios and what works are currently at them. On Art Walk you can create a route for yourself of places to go to and share it with other people,” he said. Students spent the first twothirds of the semester developing a concept for the app — including specific functions — and the last third putting together a promotional video that will be posted along with a call for funding on crowd-sourced capital site Kickstarter.com. Velgos said the video will include footage from on-thestreet interview conducting with Art Walkers testifying to the need for such an app. “A lot of people did seem to think it would be helpful,” he said. “We definitely see a need,” said Thressa Willett, a new media major at MECA. “We find that most people just walk up and down the same three blocks of Congress, but the reality is there are a lot more galleries over the area that I think would get a lot more traffic with an app like

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this,” she said. When the project reaches its asof-yet unspecified funding goal, the app might come in both free (ad-supported) and paid (ad-free) versions, according to Willett. With the average cost of development for an app at $15,000 to $20,000 according to Velgos, the MECA/Tap Tapas team will set a modest funding goal, and add to the app’s functionality if they exceed their mark. “We’ve come up with minimum functional that would make app useful. If it’s over-funded, we’ll add in additional functionality,” Velgos said. If funded, the application will be Portland-centric, but the students hope it could eventually be expanded into other cities facing such a need. “We are using Portland as the pilot city, but we were always thinking about something that could be conformed to any city,” Willett said. Having done their research, the students and developers could hardly ignore the app’s most practical use, especially over the winter. “I kept saying, although I was

joking, that it would tell you where the free wine and food is,” said Willett. “I’m not sure it’s as important, but I think people would care about it, though it might not be popular with the galleries,” she said. For Willett, the collaboration between MECA and Tap Tapas was a hands-on way to learn about an emerging field for art school grads. “Especially since the whole app thing is so new, it’s been a great opportunity to learn about something that’s pretty cutting edge and still taking off.” “It’s a great experience for students to work as a team every class, brainstorming and talking through ideas,” she said. With a couple years in the business under his belt, Velgos would have to agree. “I think it’s a great way to apply an art degree. It’s still rapidly expanding, a there is a lot that hasn’t been done yet, there is lots of room for new creative ideas, and that’s kind of the focus of an art school,” he said. Interested in helping to fund the project? Check out artapp. taptapas.com to sign up for the app’s mailing list.

Jets coach buries game ball from loss to Pats FLORHAM PARK, the team didn’t know what Ryan N.J. (AP) — Rex Ryan buried the New York was going to do. Revis also said he’s Jets’ embarrassing loss to the New Engnever seen anyland Patriots. thing like that. Literally. Patriots coach Cornerback DarBill Belichick also did something relle Revis said the coach led the team out similar after a loss to the practice field to the Dolphins in Ryan 2001. New Engbefore its morning meeting Wednesday, land went on to win took a game ball from the 45-3 its first Super Bowl against St. rout Monday night and placed it Louis that season. Ryan didn’t mention the ball in a freshly dug hole. “He said we’re burying the burial in his news conference, but said he told the team it game,” Revis said, adding that

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Cleaning coastal waters top cost at $2.689 billion cost estimate and gathering partners. “It’s one thing to talk about an idea like this, it’s another to muster the cooperation of institutions across the region, both on the Canadian side and here on the U.S. side, to get the support of government to really deal with the kinds of problems and challenges and opportunities we have here in the state of Maine,” he said. Alexander said a broader Northeast Great Waters Coalition will be able to flex some political muscle, and there’s a national coalition called America’s Great Waters dedicated nine environmentally challenged waterways. Maine Sens. Susan ABOVE: Joe Payne, Casco Baykeeper, speaks about Gulf of Maine envi- Collins and Olympia ronmental restoration during a press conference Wednesday at the Snowe will be key as Gulf of Maine Research Institute. Behind him are (left) Ted Diers, chair well, he said. of the Northeast Regional Ocean Council, and Don Perkins, executive “We have here two director of the institute. very important senaLEFT: Perkins said the U.S. Gulf of Maine Habitat Restoration and Contors in the state of servation Plan would feature more than just funding. “There’s a major investment in terms of pooling the science that’s available, identifying Maine; in the Gulf of Maine we have six key areas of science that are missing, communicating that science to decision makers and the public in a form that decision makers can senators, but as a regional coalition, the use and respond to,” he said. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS) Northeast regional coalition, with seven can throw other things overboard,” states, we have 14. With the Great Payne said. Waters Coalition we have something Don Perkins, executive director of like 70 senators who have an interest the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, in the outcome of great waters approsaid the coalition already has cleared priations,” Alexander said. a major hurdle by compiling a hard

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Peter Alexander, who five years ago advocated for restoration of the Great Lakes and is spearheading the new Gulf of Maine restoration initiative, cited his experience with the Great Lakes clean-up effort as a model for implementing the U.S. Gulf of Maine Habitat Restoration and Conservation Plan. “It’s going to take a long, hard effort especially in this Congress because the political climate right now is very anti-spending, anti-investment, but we have a very strong sales pitch on this thing, it is a jobs program, it’s economic development as well as environmental investment,” Alexander said. Joe Payne, Casco Baykeeper with Friends of Casco Bay, said environmental restoration does equate to jobs. A study on closed clam flats in the Gulf of Maine found over 100 jobs that were lost amounted to about $4 million in lost revenue, with a local economic multiplier of $16 million in an economic ripple effect on the community, he noted. The U.S. Gulf of Maine Habitat Restoration and Conservation Plan identifies five major environmental goals in the gulf — protecting fish and wildlife habitat; cleaning up pollution; conducting science for regional management; promoting resilience to climate change; and confronting the spread of invasive species. The biggest cost over five years is $2.689 billion for cleaning up the water. Habitat restoration comes in second at $267 million. “I think the first step is to get a federal program authorized, even if it doesn’t get funded, we can get it authorized to direct the federal agencies to work collaboratively to get this plan implemented,” Alexander said. Don’t expect results overnight, Alexander cautioned. The Great Lakes advocacy effort started in late 2004 and took five years before Congress created a program and allocated funding, Alexander pointed out. “Last year the Congress authorized the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and threw $475 million at the program to jumpstart it, that’s the kind of scale we’re talking about needing to get the programs really rolling here and to solve the problems we’re facing here in the Gulf of Maine,” he said. Curtis Fisher, regional executive director of the National Wildlife Federation, said the $3 billion figure is a lowball number. “This is a conservative estimate of the actual costs that are right in our future that we need to tackle,” he said. A handout about the plan cites costs of over $20 billion in restoration and conservation work over 20 years in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Existing plans can be incorporated, Diers said, but there’s no denying the costs are hefty. “Just in New Hampshire alone we’ve recently done a needs assessment on our water infrastructure, and just in little, old New Hampshire the need over the next 10 years is well

over $1 billion in improving our water infrastructure,” he said. Payne said sewage treatment plants face $1 million to $35 million in unmeant needs, and other pollution sources are more problematic. The city of Portland is working to fix a combined sewer overflow problem, where rain causes raw sewage to flow into the bay. “If we were looking back at this waterfront we could see the pipes that when it rains deliver raw sewage into the bay. That’s one of the issues this plan (addresses),” Payne said. The biggest threat is called nonpoint source pollution, such as runoff from rain and snow melt, he said. Then, there are offshore issues. “There are things going on off our shores. Once you go past three miles, ships, for instance, can discharge raw sewage, they can discharge oily water; once you get beyond 25 miles, and that’s still in the Gulf of Maine, they

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2010; 22 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 9, 1854, Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s famous poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” was published in England. On this date: In 1608, English poet John Milton was born in London. In 1940, British troops opened their first major offensive in North Africa during World War II. In 1941, China declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy. In 1960, the Domino’s Pizza chain had its beginnings as brothers Tom and James Monaghan started operating a pizzeria in Ypsilanti, Mich. In 1984, the five-day-old hijacking of a Kuwaiti jetliner that claimed the lives of two Americans ended as Iranian security men seized control of the plane, which was parked at Tehran airport. In 1987, the first Palestinian intefadeh, or uprising, began as riots broke out in Gaza and spread to the West Bank, triggering a strong Israeli response. In 1990, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa won Poland’s presidential runoff by a landslide. One year ago: Five young American Muslims were arrested in Pakistan over possible links to terrorism. Iran claimed that a newly-built U.N. station to detect nuclear explosions was built near its border to give the West a post to spy on the country. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Kirk Douglas is 94. Actor Dick Van Patten is 82. Actorwriter Buck Henry is 80. Actress Dame Judi Dench is 76. Actor Beau Bridges is 69. Jazz singer-musician Dan Hicks is 69. Football Hall-of-Famer Dick Butkus is 68. Author Joe McGinniss is 68. Actor Michael Nouri is 65. Former Sen. Thomas Daschle (D-S.D.) is 63. World Golf Hall of Famer Tom Kite is 61. Singer Joan Armatrading is 60. Actor Michael Dorn is 58. Actor John Malkovich is 57. Country singer Sylvia is 54. Singer Donny Osmond is 53. Rock musician Nick Seymour is 52. Comedian Mario Cantone is 51. Actor David Anthony Higgins is 49. Actor Joe Lando is 49. Actress Felicity Huffman is 48. Crown Princess Masako of Japan is 47. Country musician Jerry Hughes is 45. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is 44. Rock singermusician Thomas Flowers is 43. Rock musician Brian Bell is 42. Rock singer-musician Jakob Dylan is 41. Country musician Brian Hayes (Cole Deggs and the Lonesome) is 41. Actress Allison Smith is 41. Songwriter and former “American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi is 40. Country singer David Kersh is 40. Rock musician Tre Cool (Green Day) is 38. Rapper Canibus is 36. Rock musician Eric Zamora (Save Ferris) is 34. Rock singer Imogen Heap is 33. Actor Jesse Metcalfe is 32. Actor Simon Helberg is 30.

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Company is ﬁrst to return spacecraft from orbit CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA took a giant leap away from the spaceflight business Wednesday as a private company launched a spacecraft into orbit and for the first time guided it safely back to Earth, a feat previously achieved only by large national governments. The capsule built by Space Exploration Technologies Inc. splashed down into the Pacific Ocean, right on target, following a three-hour mission that should pave the way for an actual flight to the International Space Station next summer. NASA wants to enlist private companies to handle space station supply runs as well as astronaut rides after the shuttles stop flying next year. Until then, the space agency will have to continue paying tens of millions of dollars to the Russians for every American astronaut ferried back and forth.

Prior to Wednesday’s test flight, recovering a spacecraft re-entering from orbit was something achieved by only five independent nations: the United States, Russia, China, Japan and India, plus the European Space Agency, a consortium of countries. NASA immediately offered up congratulations, as did astronauts, lawmakers, and aerospace organizations and companies. “I’m sort of in semi-shock,” said the company’s CEO, Elon Musk. “It’s just mind-blowingly awesome. I apologize, and I wish I was more articulate, but it’s hard to be articulate when your mind’s blown — but in a very good way.” Speaking from the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., Musk said his Falcon 9 rocket and the capsule named Dragon operated better than expected.

If astronauts had been on board, “they would have had a very nice ride,” Musk told reporters. “The vehicle that you saw today can easily transport people,” with the addition of escape and lifesupport systems. The Dragon flown Wednesday — nearly 17 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter — was reminiscent of the NASA capsules of old, which ended their missions with ocean splashdowns. Designers of most next-generation spacecraft have abandoned the shuttle system, which proved extremely complicated, expensive and vulnerable to damage. Many engineers believe Apollo-style capsules will be cheaper, safer and capable of a wider variety of missions. Wednesday’s flight was only the second for this type of rocket.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I have been married for 16 years. I was recently diagnosed with trichomoniasis, a sexually transmitted infection. My doctor explained that if I have been faithful to my husband, then he must have cheated on me. When I confronted my husband, he denied it. I had symptoms, but some women can have trichomoniasis for decades and not know it. My husband’s business has been struggling ﬁnancially, and this has taken a toll on our relationship. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he might have cheated on me. But he continues to deny it, even after I told him that although I believe he did cheat, I still am committed to our marriage. Annie, do most doctors believe their patients with this STD have cheating spouses? Is it possible I carried this infection for 21 years, since my previous marriage, and am only now showing symptoms? Can you help me make sense of this? -- Confused and Hurting in Florida Dear Confused: Trichomoniasis is a sexually transmitted parasitic infection, and symptoms typically show up four to 28 days after exposure, usually in women. Men often have no symptoms, so urge your husband to be tested. It is highly unlikely that one could acquire the infection through any means other than sex. The trich protozoa can live outside the body only for a very brief time. However, during that brief time, it is possible (though exceedingly rare) to contract trichomoniasis if the genital area comes into direct contact with infected damp or moist objects such as towels, clothing, bedding or bathing suits. You can get more details through the CDC (cdc. gov/std) at 1-888-232-6348 or ASHA (www.ashastd.org). Dear Annie: My husband goes on out-of-state bicycle trips with his friends, only one of whom I have ever met. These trips involve 100-mile journeys through different towns over several days. “Jon” doesn’t think he needs to give me any details of where he will be on any given night, what the sleeping

arrangements are or who else is on the trip. It’s not as if he doesn’t know these things in advance. These trips are well planned. Jon says if I need to reach him, I can call his cell phone. But I feel ridiculous having to ask him what town he is in, and he rarely offers the information. This seems disrespectful and makes me feel left out and unimportant. Whenever I go somewhere, I make sure he knows the name of the hotel. Jon knows how I feel, and although it would be simple to ﬁx, he refuses. Am I making a mountain out of a mountain bike? -- In the Dark in Albuquerque Dear In the Dark: Jon is being extremely inconsiderate. When someone you love is worried, you should do your best to allay those fears. And you should know where he is in case of emergency. If you trust him, make your own plans while he is away so you will be less focused on his whereabouts. But we worry about a married man who won’t tell his wife where he’s sleeping, or with whom. Dear Annie: The letter from “Confused” really hit home. She said her husband never gives her a compliment and pouts when he doesn’t get his way and their sex life doesn’t exist because he can’t bear to be touched. When couples date, they often show only their best side. Unfortunately, that lavish attention is washed away with everyday life once they marry. And some men only like the hunt. Once the catch is caught, they lose interest. I think “Confused’s” husband married her because he loved what they had while they were dating. He simply doesn’t know how to live as a married man and how to be loving and attentive to his wife. -- In the Same Boat, Bailing Water Dear Boat: We agree -- except for the fact that her husband hates to be touched. That puts him in an entirely different category.

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

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Thursday, Dec. 9 Toys for Tots fundraiser in Biddeford 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Biddeford/Saco Chambe and Smith Elliott present a Toys for Tots fundraiser. Christmas party, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.; price of admission is a toy.

Sesame Street Live 7 p.m. Sesame Street Live “1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo and Friends” Dec. 9 to Dec. 12, in the Cumberland County Civic Center. Thursday, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. (Opening Night Tickets $10 excludes Sunny and Gold Circle Seats); Friday, Dec. 10 at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 11 at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 12 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 and $10. Special Kids Show — $7 for Day Care and School Groups of 10 plus (excludes Sunny and Gold Circle seats).

Independence for South Sudan rally

There will be an opportunity for small group discussion.

‘A Christmas Carol’ 7 p.m. Running Dec. 3 through Dec. 24, Portland Stage presents Dickens’ classic. “Travel back in time to Victorian England where ghosts, time travel, and memories help a cold and lonely old miser regain his heart. Our adaptation remains remarkably true to Dickens’ original book. Dickens’ story seems best told in his words, allowing audiences to hear the richness of his language, and to experience the story of Scrooge’s encounters with the spirits of past, present, and yet-to-come in the way that the author intended.” www.portlandstage.org/ Event-37.html

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. com/events

noon to 2 p.m. The Sudanese Community Association of Maine announces a rally for peace in Sudan in support of the referendum for independence for South Sudan. The rally is in Monument Square, Portland. The Sudanese Community Association of Maine, in association with Fur Cultural Revival (a Darfur community organization) will present a rally for peace in Sudan in support of the January refAwesome Town presents: Coats erendum for independence for South Sudan. If the weather is bad, the rain date will be Friday, Dec. 10, and Cans For The Community also from noon until 2 p.m. Supporters of this refer7 p.m. A one-night only extravaganza to gather endum are encouraged to meet in Monument Square food, coats and funds for Portland’s Salvation to show their support. Sudanese community leaders Army. For $5 (only $3 if you bring a gently used will be among the guest speakers. “For decades, coat or a can of food) you can enjoy The Hot the people from southern and central Sudan have Tarts, Sun Gods in Exile, the premiere of Spibeen victimized by the criminal government of Presiderhearts featuring the legendary Boo and dent Al-Bashir, who has used the Sudanese military Vik44, DJ King Alberto and a performance by and the Janjaweed militia to attack these innocent the ever sexy, one of a kind, Atomic Trash. MC’d people. Although Al-Bashir is now wanted for war by Boo and The Fuge! Geno’s Rock Club. Guests crimes, the genocide, rape, and dislocation of tribes will have the opportunity to bid on all kinds of continues. Millions of Sudanese are now refugees in iitems in a silent auction. There will be everything Chad, other neighboring countries, and the United from one of a kind local art to a motorcycle seat States. Southern Maine boasts the largest organized to WWE garb! A raffle will feature anything from Sudanese refugee community in the United States. a gift certificate to a local restaurant to a gift On Jan. 9, 2011, the people of South Sudan will vote certificate for an hourlong tattoo session from on a referendum for independence. This will sepa- “A Very Ida Christmas” starring Maine’s funniest lady, Susan Poulin plays for one show only, Hollowed Ground and everything in between! rate the southern part of Sudan from Al-Bashir and Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. in Portland. (COURTESY IMAGE) With drawings every hour, there will be tons the North, creating a new, independent country in the of chances to win. Appearances by the tough South. This is a first step to end the genocide of the beauties of Maine Roller Derby! www.myspace. Art At Work performances about police, youth people of Darfur, the people of Nuba mountain, and the people com/genosrockclub/shows or go to the Facebook page. 6.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Art At Work productions at Portland of the Blue Nile.” For further information, contact Mariano at Screening of ‘Herb & Dorothy’ Public Library, Rines Auditorium. Art At Work will present 239-6772, Ben at 210-2819, or El-Fadel at 221-5197. 7:30 p.m. Part of SCOPE: SPACE’s Visual Arts Film Series, an evening of two original performances — “Radio Calls” Glenna Johnson Smith: ‘Old Maine Woman’ SPACE Gallery at 538 Congress St. will screen “Herb & with Portland police officers and “The Weeping City” with 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. “Old Maine Woman: Stories from the Coast Dorothy.” Doors open at 7 p.m.; film at 7:30 p.m. “‘Herb students from Portland High School. A facilitated diato the County” by Glenna Johnson Smith features Maine & Dorothy’ tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, logue with officers, students and audience will follow the resident and writer, Glenna Johnson Smith, author of the a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who manperformances. Forest City Times opens with “The Weepnew book, “Old Maine Woman.” “Smith, a Presque Isle resiaged to build one of the most important contemporary art ing City,” a production by Maine Inside Out with Portland dent and longtime columnist for Echoes magazine, writes collections in history with very modest means. In the early High School students, exploring their relationship with with eloquence and humor about the complexities, absurdi1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalthe police. Forest City Times continues with Art At Work’s ties and pleasures of everyday modern life, her childhood ist and Conceptual Art, Herb and Dorothy Vogel quietly “Radio Calls,” a performance by Portland police officers on the coast in the 1920s and 1930s, and the joys that old began purchasing the works of unknown artists. Devoting about their lives, work and interactions with Portland’s age brings. ‘Old Maine Woman’ includes some of the best all of Herb’s salary to purchase art they liked, and living youth. The evening concludes with a facilitated dialogue of Smith’s Echoes columns, as well as new material.” ... on Dorothy’s paycheck alone, they continued collecting with performers and audience that looks at where we Born and raised in the Hancock County town of Ashville, artworks guided by two rules: the piece had to be affordare, where we want to be and how, together, we might Smith, 90, has since lived in Aroostook County for more able, and it had to be small enough to fit in their one-bedhead in that direction. Inspired by a performance of “The than six decades. A former high school English teacher who room Manhattan apartment. Within these limitations, they Weeping City” and Art At Work’s poetry and photograretired in 1990, she has written and directed award-winning proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of those phy projects with the police, Police Chief Craig asked Art plays, led elder hostels and classes for senior citizens and they supported and befriended went on to become worldAt Work’s Director Marty Pottenger to write and direct conducted writing workshops. In addition to her work for renowned artists. Their circle includes: Sol LeWitt, Christo a performance that communicated the police officers’ Echoes, she also has been published in Yankee Magazine; and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert perspective for local high schools. Radio Calls, written Maine Speaks: An Anthology of Maine Writers; Old WomMangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Lynda Benglis, Pat from interviews and workshops with police officers is the en’s Wisdom; and a number of other anthologies. She has Steir, Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi, and Lawrence Weiner.” result. For reservations, which are advised, call 874-8681. won numerous awards for her work and civic contributions, www.herbanddorothy.com or www.space538.org www.artatworkproject.us including Presque Isle Citizen of the Year and an honor‘Good Medicine’ at UMF Walker Memorial Library ary doctorate from the University of Maine at Presque Isle. 7:30 p.m. University of Maine at Farmington will presLongfellow Books, One Monument Way. Holiday Open House ent “Good Medicine,” a new play chronicling the expe3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The Friends of the Walker MemoPortland photographer Lauren Chase Sheffield riences of a midwife at the turn of the century, written rial Library in Westbrook are hosting their annual Holiday and directed by Jayne Decker, UMF instructor and artisfeatured in open house in Cape Elizabeth Open House. The public is cordially invited to the Walker tic director for the Sandy River Players. Performances in 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. A community open house, featuring the Memorial Library for refreshments and festive holiday UMF’s Alumni Theater are at 7:30 p.m., on Dec. 9, 10 and works of Portland photographer Lauren Chase Sheffield, cheer in celebration of the season. Musical entertainment 11; and at 2 p.m., on Dec. 12. Admission is free and open will be held at Paula Banks Consulting and Two Lights will be provided by the Chopin Club. There will be a raffle to the public, with donations to benefit Casa Materna — a Home Care in the Pond Cove Shopping Center in Cape drawing for three baskets filled with a variety of books Women’s Cooperative in Mulukuku, Nicaragua — grateElizabeth. Sheffield, who owns Lola Studios in Portland, is and other items, ideal for gifts. The baskets are on display fully accepted at the door. For more information on Casa displaying a variety of photos, including prints and photos at the library; proceeds in support of the Library. Materna, visit http://www.casamaterna.org/. on canvas, covering a variety of subjects — from pets to Technology in the Portland Schools people to images of Brooklyn, where she lived for a while. Keystone Reading Series at Local Sprouts 6 p.m. The Portland Public Schools will hold a Teacher Sheffield also is an activities director at Village Crossings 8 p.m. Keystone Reading Series at Local Sprouts Cafe on Topic Night focusing on technology, in the Deering High assisted living residence in Cape Elizabeth, and includes Congress Street. A new monthly series, poets: Nylah Lyman, School cafeteria. Teachers, parents and other interested some photos of senior residents in the exhibit. Her photos Shanna Miller McNair and Megan Grumbling. Any questions community members are invited to attend. Teachers will be on display at the geriatric care management firm can be directed to Kevin at kstjarre@hotmail.com will share how they use technology with their students. and home care business office through February. Please Participants are encouraged to bring laptop computers. see next page see www.lola-studios.com for more information.

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Saco Spirit ‘Stuff the Trolley’ for Toys for Tots

Friday, Dec. 10

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Most Holy Trinity Parish Hall, Saco, Rotary Brunch Buffet, $10 donation or toy donation/per person.

Alternative Gift Market and Fair-Trade Craft Fair

Haitian Art Show to beneﬁt Konbit Sonte

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.

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 recycledoil-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.

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 6:30 p.m. “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 786-6135 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

Old Port Playhouse presents Portland Improv Experience at 7 p.m. Monday. (COURTESY IMAGE) 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/

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

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Picnic Holiday Sale noon to 8 p.m. The second annual Picnic Holiday Sale is Saturday, Dec. 11, from noon to 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 12, 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/

Julie 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

False Documents & Other Illusions by Judy Cutler 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 with River Tree Arts in 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 celebrating 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 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.

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 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.

‘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. 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

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as well as the creations of local artists and a silent auction. The concert is co-sponsored by Peace Action Maine, Tengo Voz, El Centro Latino, Art Exchange for Just Peace, Pacha Works and Tu Casa Salvadorean Restaurant.

‘A Very Ida Christmas’ 7 p.m. “A Very Ida Christmas” starring Maine’s funniest lady, Susan Poulin plays for one show only, Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. in Portland. All seats are $20. Box Ofﬁce, 773-0333. oldportplayhouse.com

‘Immigration Today: Myths Vs. Reality’ 1 p.m. Beth Stickney, co-founder and executive director of the Immigration Legal Aid Project, will speak on “Immigration Today: Myths Vs. Reality.” Her talk will be held at Allen Ave. Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland. Admission is free and all are welcome.

Reading of Whittier’s ‘Snow-Bound’ 3 p.m. “Snow-Bound” read by Michael Maglaras $15 A 100 percent beneﬁt for the St. Lawrence Arts Center, “SnowBound” captures a sense of a special time and place. It recounts a New England blizzard, from John Greenleaf Whittier’s childhood, that isolated the young poet and his family in their Haverhill home for nearlya week before a team of oxen could free them. As the fury of the blizzard rages outside, the family and their guests huddle before the great ﬁreplace knowing they will soon be cut off from the outside world. Inspired in this intimate setting, they begin, one by one, to open their hearts. Each person tells a story from his or her life, revealing a depth of experience and spirit, all seen through the eyes of Whittier as a 10-year-old boy, and remembered by him as a mature man, in this masterpiece of American literature. St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St.

84rd Annual Pageant of the Nativity 4:45 p.m. The First Parish in Portland, Unitarian Universalist, will present the 84rd Annual Pageant of the Nativity in the historic Meeting House at 425 Congress St., just off Monument Square in downtown Portland. “First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church has been staging its Pageant of the Nativity for 84 years now. The Pageant sports a cast of nearly 80 people, most of whom are adults, and many of whom have been in this pageant, in one role or another, for nearly all of their lives. There are no words spoken by the actors in this pageant. Indeed, the actors are never named. Rather the story of the Nativity is told in music and scripture while the actors, one by one, create a tableau in the candlelit sanctuary that is sculpted to replicate a Fra Angelico painting. Light bulbs in the 30 odd sconces in the church are replaced by candles and the scriptural ‘story’ of the birth of Jesus is read by the minister who is hidden off to the side and unseen by most of the audience. In addition, history is honored by the fact that some of the costumes have been created from fabrics brought back from Palestine by nieces of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Non-denominational in nature, this event makes no political or religious statement. Rather it uses a combination of music, historic text, and tradition to honor the birth of one of history’s great prophets.” For more information: 773-5747.

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Monday, Dec. 13 Thrifty Kitty Thrift and Book Store sale 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thrifty Kitty Thrift and Book Store is holding a Holiday Sale Monday through Saturday until Christmas. Thrifty Kitty is located on the second ﬂoor at 651 Forest Ave., the corner of Woodfords Street and Forest Avenue. All proceeds will help Friends of Feral Felines reduce the number of feral cats in southern Maine communities. www. feralfelines.net.

Portland Improv Experience 7 p.m. Portland Improv Experience presents four vividly improvised comedies provided by you! With special guests Cloud Morris, Stephanie Doyle and Brian Brinegar. Portland Improv Experience (PIE) is a comedic theatre group with a focus in long form improv, PIE performs 30-45 minute plays based upon one word suggestions generated by the audience. Imagine your favorite sitcom being created and performed right before your eyes! All seats $7. Tickets available at the door. Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St., Portland. Box Ofﬁce 773-0333.

Maine Medical Center support group for survivors of suicide loss 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. A support group for Survivors of Suicide Loss will be held on the second and fourth Mondays of each month from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Maine Medical Center’s Dana Center in Portland, Classroom #1. “This valuable community resource, which has been provided by Maine Medical Center for the past 24 years, will be co-facilitated by Sandra Horne, LCSW and Robert Myers, LCPC. The support group openly receives members of the community who have suffered the loss of a loved one to the tragedy of suicide. The principal function of the group is to bring comfort to those who suffer by offering a forum to those who share this tragedy in their lives. Topics of grief, remembrance, and prevention are often additionally embraced.” For more information, call Sandra Horne at 662-7323 or Robert Myers at 409-6226.

Downeasters Barbershop Chorus beneﬁt 7 p.m. Maine’s own Downeasters Barbershop Chorus, winner of the 2009 Northeastern District Chorus Championships, combines the joy of the season and the spirit of giving in a holiday concert at Mahoney Middle School. With singers from Saco to Lewiston/Auburn, the Downeasters will perform holiday favorites with proceeds beneﬁting the Cancer Community Center. Mahoney Middle School, 240 Ocean St. in South Portland. Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased at the door, online at www.CancerCommunityCenter.org, by calling the Center at 774-2200, or in person at 778 Main St. (Route 1), South Portland.

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Blazing protests demand carnival singer lead Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Protesters enraged by the results of Haiti’s troubled presidential election set barricades and political offices ablaze, traded blows with U.N. peacekeepers and shut down the country’s lone international airport Wednesday, creating the social upheaval many have feared since the Jan. 12 earthquake. The fallout from the Nov. 28 election, riddled by fraud, is violently shutting down cities across the impoverished country with gunfire and barricades at a moment when medical aid workers need to tackle a surging cholera epidemic that has claimed more than 2,000 lives. Haiti’s Radio Metropole reported that at least one demonstrator was killed in Les Cayes, about 120 miles west of Port-au-Prince in the country’s southern peninsula. The protesters back a popular carnival singer who narrowly lost a spot in a runoff election to Jude Celestin, a political unknown viewed by supporters and detractors alike as a continuation of unpopular President Rene Preval’s administration. The U.S. Embassy criticized the preliminary results Tuesday, saying Haitian, U.S. and other international monitors had predicted that Celestin was likely to be eliminated in the first round. On Wednesday, demonstrators carried pink signs with the smiling face and bald head of their candidate, Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly. They decorated barricades with empty

ballot boxes, used government campaign posters to start fires and challenged heavily armored foreign soldiers to near-theatrical confrontations. Outside the provisional electoral council headquarters, a former gym in the suburb of Petionville, young men wearing their shirts as masks threw rocks at U.N. troops. The soldiers — Indians and Pakistanis working as a single unit — responded with exploding canisters of tear gas that washed over a nearby earthquake-refugee camp, sending mothers running from their tarps with their crying, coughing children in tow. Protesters set fire A supporter of presidential candidate Michel Martelly covers his mouth from tear gas thrown by the U.N. peacekeepto the headquarters of ers during protests in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday. Supporters of eliminated candidates protested after ofﬁcials Preval and Celestin’s announced that government protege Jude Celestin and former ﬁrst lady Mirlande Manigat would advance to a presidential Unity party. Multiple election runoff. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias) fire trucks responded to the election results, saying that while row we bring weapons.” the scene as flames licked the roof — he was open to discussing electoral Other protesters said they would an unusual scene in a country with few problems with anyone, “the American continue to mobilize but do so nonpublic services — but in late afternoon Embassy is not (the electoral council).” violently, as Martelly urged in a radio piles of charred campaign posters conState Department spokesman P.J. address Wednesday afternoon. He also tinued to smolder. Crowley said the U.S. is not fomenting told supporters to watch out for “infil“We want Martelly. The whole world the unrest. trators” who might try to incite viowants Martelly,” said James Becimus, “The United States is in no way lence. a 32-year-old protester near the U.S. responsible for the actions of any indi“Demonstrating without violence is Embassy. “Today we set fires, tomorvidual. What we are determined to the right of the people,” he said. “I will

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be with you until the bald-head victory.” Preval had earlier urged the candidates to call off the protests. “This is not how the country is supposed to work,” he said in a live radio speech. “People are suffering because of all this damage.” Preval’s administration has been condemned by many Haitians for failing to spearhead reconstruction of the country after the earthquake. More than an estimated 1 million people still live under tarps and tents and little of the promised international aid from the United States and other countries has arrived. Preliminary election results put Celestin ahead of Martelly by just 6,845 votes for second place. Former first lady and law professor Mirlande Manigat took first place with 31.4 percent of the vote, while Celestin had 22.5 percent and Martelly 21.8 percent. The top two candidates advance to the Jan. 16 second round. Thousands were disenfranchised by confusion on the rolls, which were overstuffed with earthquake dead but lacked many living voters. There were reported incidents of ballot-stuffing, violence and intimidation confirmed by international observers, but U.N. peacekeepers and the joint Organization of American States-Caribbean Community observer mission said the problems did not invalidate the vote. Turnout was low. Just over 1 million people cast accepted ballots out of some 4.7 million registered voters. It is not known how many ballots were thrown out for fraud. In a televised address, Preval took a swipe at Washington’s criticism of

help Haiti achieve is a credible election and a result — not one that the United States will impose — but one that the people of Haiti can participate in fully,” he told reporters in Washington. Martelly had joined with 11 other candidates, including Manigat, to accuse Preval of trying to steal the election while polls were still open. An appeals period is open for the next three days, and election observers said a third candidate might be included in the runoff if the electoral council decides the first-round vote was close enough — though the constitutionality of such a move would be debatable. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon expressed concern “about allegations of fraud” and “the acts of violence that have taken place in the aftermath of the announcement,” U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said at U.N. headquarters in New York. He said all candidates have a responsibility to encourage their supporters to refrain from violence. Vehicles were damaged by rocks and items were reportedly stolen from stores. Foreign aid workers complained that Haitian national police were slow to respond and that many officers refused to report to duty. American Airlines canceled all flights in and out of the Haitian capital because airport employees were unable to get to work Wednesday because of demonstrations, spokeswoman Martha Pantin said. Flights will also be canceled on Thursday. The U.S. Embassy reported that the smaller regional airport at CapHaitien was also closed due to demonstrations and barricaded roads.