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BELL, Calif. (NY Times) — When thieves broke into the high school music room here this week, they cut through the bolts on all the storage lockers and ripped two doors off their frames.

But they didn’t touch the computer or the projector or even the trumpets.

“It was strictly a tuba raid,” said Rolph Janssen, an assistant principal.

Bell High School is only the most recent victim in a string of tuba thefts from music departments. In the last few months, dozens of brass sousaphones — tubas often used in marching bands — were taken from schools in Southern California.

Though the police have not made any arrests, music teachers say the thefts are motivated by the growing popularity of banda, a traditional Mexican music form in which tubas play a dominant role.

Teachers point to the targeted pattern of the burglaries: the expensive brass tubas and sousaphones, which cost $2,000 to $7,000, are pilfered, while electronics, cheaper fiberglass tubas and other brass instruments are usually left behind.

“Frankly, I don’t think somebody would go through all that trouble just to take some brass to go to the salvage lot,” said Ligia ChavesRasas, the music teacher at Bell High School. “Banda is very popular in this area of Southern California, and people will pay top dollar for a banda with a sousaphone player. Now, I have kids coming up to me saying they want to learn the tuba so they can be in a banda.”

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Casting himself as both “a citizen and a Christian” trying to balance individual liberty versus public health, Obama announced what administration officials called an “accommodation” that they said sought to demonstrate respect for religious beliefs.

It will be similar to the path taken in several other states — particularly Hawaii — that have similar rules, but would require that insurance companies, and not religious insti-

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Government sites hit, Syria says BEIRUT, Lebanon (NY Times) — Explosions in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo struck two targets associated with the military and police early on Friday, Syrian state television reported, as the central city of Homs was reported to still be under siege with sporadic tank fire ripping into contested neighborhoods, pinning down residents in their homes.

State television said 28 people were killed and 235 injured in Aleppo in what seemed to be two car bombings. One explosion erupted near a military intelligence directorate in Aleppo and the second at a police headquarters, state media reported, saying the blasts were the work of “terrorists.”

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Following a wave of defections from his cabinet, and as protests turned violent in Athens amid a general strike, Papademos told lawmakers that they must approve the measures — including a 22 percent cut in the minimum wage — or the country would suffer a disorderly default with social dislocation and an eventual exit from the single currency. In a speech to his cabinet, Papademos threatened to eject from his fragile interim coalition government any ministers who objected to the deal. Rejecting the measures “is not an option that we can allow as the country will pay a high price for the consequences,” he said.

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So old it’s new, mead enjoys a nationwide Renaissance

BY MICHAEL SANDERS THE NEW YORK TIMES

Put a glass of white wine to your nose, and, with the right winemaker and the right grapes, floral notes rise up. With a glass of mead, it is as if you were holding the flowers themselves.

“One bottle of mead is made from a half-pound of honey,” said Mark Beran of Medovina Meadery in Niwot, Colo.

“That’s the nectar of one million flowers.”

Mr. Beran, who started as a beekeeper, makes 250 cases of mead each year from the honey of his own hives.

“The honeybee is the mother of the fermented beverage industry,” he insisted.

For centuries, people around the world have taken this most convenient and natural sweetener, added water and let yeast from the open air change sugar to alcohol and, presto, booze.

But with the proliferation of other things to drink, mead, once a staple of so many cultures, faded into such ignominy that most of us know it as only something poured by a guy in a funny hat at a Renaissance Faire.

Now, from Portland, Me., to Portland, Ore., and from Alaska to Hawaii, mead’s reputation is being restored.

This may be partly due to the explosion in styles of mead as its makers move past the sweet, slightly caramelized, honey-forward traditional mead of that Renaissance Faire. Today, you can find local meads dry-hopped and as flinty and sere as the bleakest unoaked Chablis; light summer quaffers with the freshness and subtle bubbles of a good prosecco; complex, multilayered dessert meads perfect with chocolate; even seasonal meads flavored with saffron, sage, fruits or juniper berries.

“Mead is a wine and a wine made with honey instead of grapes,” said Vicky Rowe, a director of the annual Mazer Cup International Mead Competition, whose entrants have doubled to 218, from 100, in just the last three years. “People are realizing that’s what it is and treating it as such.”

As a wine’s character can be determined by its fruit and provenance, mead’s flavors can be attributed to the honey that’s used. Terroir is captured in a way winemakers only dream of, from the flowers whose pollen bees collect in a particular area at a particular time.

Mr. Beran said, “First, there are dandelions and maple trees blooming, clover and apple blossoms, so it’s very light spring honey.” The bees deposit that honey into the first of a set of boxes which are stacked on top of each other in hives. “By the end of the season you might have five or eight or even more boxes of honey, and you can see the progression of the floral diversity through the summer in the transition

from the first box to the last box,” he said. “Summer is medium honey from alfalfa, then in the fall you get darker, richer, flavorful wildflower honey. So when I’m making a delicate mead, I’ll use the early clover apple blossom from the bottom frames. When we’re going for a traditional mead, we use a darker honey that tends to give the mead more character and structure.”

If this sounds like a Napa winemaker talking about parcel selection or a brewmaster discussing hops, that’s not an accident, for modern mead makers bring all of the refinements of both worlds to their craft.

“We’re kind of like the Joe Lieberman of beverages,” said David Myers, owner of Redstone Meadery in Boulder, Colo.

“We’re an independent in the alcohol industry, but we caucus with the craftbeer guys.” Redstone, with about 4,000 cases a year in sales, is one of the country’s larger craft-mead makers. Mr. Myers is an innovator known for developing quaffable, lower-alcohol carbonated meads and mead cocktails, and for using craft-beer marketing techniques, like selling in kegs and developing seasonal meads to widen his market.

Across the country, Ben Alexander is introducing three reserve meads to add to five other new styles he has been making at Maine Mead Works in Portland since 2008. Take two steps into the conspicuously clean fermenting room, and your eye is drawn to four glass columns rising eight feet against one wall, filled with honey-colored liquid.

“This is our continuous fermentation line,” Mr. Alexander said proudly. It was developed in South Africa, based on traditional Xhosa meadmaking techniques. “Honey and water,” Mr. Alexander said, “go in one end and move slowly through the system, the yeast converts the natural sugars to alcohol.

It comes out on the other end at about 10 percent alcohol.”

After the liquid ferments in steel tanks for a few months, the alcohol rises to about 12 percent before bottling. Some of the reserves age up to a year in old bourbon barrels.

“Our process helps produce a dry, light mead, which retains more of the subtle flavors of the honey,” Mr. Alexander said. “It has to be light but also complex enough to drink with food, too.”

While traditional meads can have more than 10 percent residual sugar, Mr. Alexander’s come in under 2 percent. Combined with a rock-bottom acidity, the result in nose and palate can be remarkably like drinking dry white wine, with a delicate overlay of fruit and floral aromas, depending on the mead.

Across town, Josh Caron, the bar manager at 555 Restaurant, has concocted a bracing, warming Apple Hot

Carly Cope, with son Laughlin, on the bottle-labeling line at Maine Mead Works, which she and her husband, Ben Alexander, own (CRAIG DILGER/NEW YORK TIMES PHOTO)

Toddy with Maine Mead Works Cyser — a hybrid mead fermented from apple cider to which honey has been added — together with apple-infused brandy, and gin and cranberry bitters both locally distilled at Sweetgrass Winery.

At the Spints Ale House in Portland, Ore., the owner Alyssa Gregg uses Chaucer’s Mead from Soquel, Calif., in a variety of seasonal cocktails.

“Mead has an earthiness to it,” she said. “It can add a mild sweetness and dryness at the same time.” She’ll use it in a drink with mezcal, where the mead, she said, “tames the alcohol and answers the heat, so you end up with a mellow, balanced cocktail.”

New York State’s largest meadmaker is Earle Estates Meadery in the Finger Lakes region. It makes about 10,000 cases a year. The owner, John Earle, attributes his business’ growth to the use of ultrafiltration.

“The machine strips out the protein that the bees put into honey in the process of making it,” Mr. Earle said. “That protein has been tied to the harshness of mead, so, take out the protein, and it’s smoother.”

One of the problems with much mead made in the past was in what people did to the honey to sterilize it. “They made mead by boiling the honey, and in doing that they caramelized and oxi-

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dized it,” he said.

But filtering is one of a panoply of issues being debated in mead circles.

Producers argue that filtering damages the flavor profile, that not filtering leads to sediment and off flavors. They debate if, how, when and how much to heat: boil it? Heat to 160 degrees?

They dispute when during fermentation various flavoring agents like fruits and berries should be added. And, yes, they are deep into the oak argument: whether barrel, chip or cube is best or whether all are anathema.

Sam Calagione, the founder of Dogfish Head brewery in Milton, Del., has no use for oenophilic pretensions.

His Midas Touch, the most popular honey-based fermented beverage in the United States, is made with barley, honey, white muscat grapes and saffron. Beer? Wine? Mead? “We have no interest in marketing it as anything other than MidasTouch, a beer-meadwine, take your pick,” Mr. Calagione said. “We sold 45,000 cases of it last year.”

New and innovative? Midas Touch is based on the ingredients found in 2,700-year-old drinking vessels supposedly from the tomb of King Midas.

As Mr. Myers of Redstone likes to joke, “Mead is a beverage whose popularity comes around like clockwork — every two or three thousand years.”

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Good news, bad news about welfare and deficits The bad news is that last year state and local debt reached an all-time peak of 22 percent of the United States Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The good news is that the states are making serious efforts to reduce this burden, while in Washington the big “achievement” last year was a reduction in the payroll tax. It’s doubtful whether this will stimulate the economy, but certain that it will increase the deficit in the Social Security “trust fund.”

The debt crisis has become world-wide. The bursting of the real estate bubble precipitated it, but the root cause has been foreseeable and foreseen for some time. The welfare state requires a growing population of taxpayers, a stable population of tax-receivers, and a vigorous economy. Europe has been experiencing a steep decline in ––––– births and a stagnant economy.

It has had to run deficits to pay Guest for its welfare entitlements.

Columnist This is no longer sustainable.

The post-war economic expansion allowed the political leadership in Europe and the United States to distribute more and more benefits without eversteeper tax increases. Now they have to move from giving away to taking away. This is no more enjoyable for politicians than it is for moms and dads.

They enjoy gratitude. They don’t enjoy resentment.

How is that different from the rest of us?

All the same the politicians at the state level seem more willing to grasp the nettle than those in Washington. Illinois Democrats alone have chosen to raise taxes (a 67 percent rate increase for personal income

John Frary

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About those butts Monday, the Portland City Council passed a new fine. You drop a cigarette butt, and it could cost you $100.

Volumes of ink have been spilled writing about it over the last few days, pro and con, and the arguments about whether this is something the Portland PD has time to enforce have raged among my peer group.

But here’s the thing. I’m a pretty heavy smoker, and kicking the habit of flicking the butt is an easy one to get past. For me, it took an hour in the sun.

No, I’m not suddenly one o those reformed smokers. It was years back, down in South Carolina while in the Army. Post basic training, a drill sergeant saw me drop a butt. Those that have been in the army now are smiling a knowing smile. It took about 20 minutes of locked up at attention screaming, coupled with intermediate spasms of push-ups.

The earth did truly move that day, and I’m fairly sure I managed to pack that one spot of South Carolina dirt down about a good two inches. Occasionally I catch myself flicking the butt, but more often than not, it goes right back in the pack.

Sometimes the furtive flick happens, but I still glance around

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist to see if there is one of those damnable smokey hats.

Unlike some others, I’m not sure that this would be a “profit center” for the Portland municipal coffers, fining all those coughers. The tax on a pack of butts is already two bucks, and with state revenue shortfalls coupled with the Governor raiding the Tobacco Settlement funds for the general budget, further sin taxes can’t be far behind.

Being one of those doublesided sinners (both smokes and the demon rum) the thought of further taxes on my two favorite diversions is maddening. The prospect of it makes me want to list the Governor and the entirety of the Maine Legislature as taxably deductible dependents.

Just like the guys who started hitting up businesses in the district for window squeegee gigs, and turned it into a successful gig in the summer months, I see an opportunity for some quick hus-

A $50 ticket for wearing your pants below your backside could do wonders, a fine for “plumber’s crack.” tler to set up a “Butt-Patrol” on a paying basis.

Not that municipal fines are a bad thing, they just rarely get enforced. When was the last time someone in this city was issued a ticket for jaywalking? Loitering usually gets you not a ticket, but a quick verbal push on down the road. Subtle, but it works. At the Jordan’s Meats fire, I happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, pointed something out to one of the locals, and got quickly advised to move along, before he had to get his book out and ask for my I.D. Municipal fines could change the face of the city, if ever enforced.

A $50 ticket for wearing your pants below your backside could do wonders, a fine for “plumber’s crack.” A friend suggested a tax on snow-white Yankees hats and see HIGGINS page 5

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GOP caucus emulates founders’ voter distrust Well, the big weekend for Maine’s Republican caucus has finally arrived to reinforce one of our founding father’s most ardent beliefs: Never trust the voters.

That distrust was evident in our nation’s earliest days with elaborate checks and balances to offset any hint of direct democracy. Ours is a representative government, and most famously this gave us not a direct vote for the president, but only a chance to elect a “college” of wise folks to make that choice for us.

Granted, now the Electoral College is considered a somewhat quaint formality (but not so much back in 2000, let’s remember). Yet, it still allows for somebody to lose the vote and win the White House.

But that bit of high school civics trivia (what do you mean we’re not a democracy!) pales in comparison to the Republican party treating its members with the dignity and respect usually reserved for the unpopular table at a high school cafeteria.

All that momentum from former Senator Rick Santorum’s big Missouri primary win? No delegates at all. Likewise, this weekend’s Maine caucus doesn’t award delegates but only expresses a “preference.”

So, it turns out that many of the actual delegates will be chose much later by people who are, presumably,

Curtis Robinson ––––– Usually Reserved unswayed by the rabble of these “elections.” They will no doubt give full consideration to those who bothered to actually participate, and isn’t that just awfully darn super-kind of them?

For what it’s worth, a Thursday happy hour gathering of Portland’s GOP faithful at DiMillo’s On The Water offered some buzz that Ron Paul would win Maine’s beauty contest, which is an odd sentence to write in several ways. That would follow the national narrative, and I noticed that last Tuesday’s CNN election coverage included John King placing Maine as the first win for Congressman Paul.

The happy hour’s pro-Paul buzz basically confirms quiet rumors that the congressman’s oft-noted advocates have been working the caucus rooms statewide over the past week.

In a way, Maine is made for this sort of “ground game” because the GOP caucus is actually hundreds of sites and voting in held in person over a full week.

I asked one state-level operative

A bit of high school civics trivia (what do you mean we’re not a democracy!) pales in comparison to the Republican party treating its members with the dignity and respect usually reserved for the unpopular table at a high school cafeteria. at DiMillo’s if he thought the winner might be former Mass. Governor Mitt Romney, given that he ran a neighboring state. At least one person, to some amusement, suggested that my presumption of a longstanding love between Mainers and our neighboring state might be ill advised.

I’m sure it was just good-natured joking.

But, dark motives and automotive driving habits aside, if Romney falls to Paul here it will no doubt continue a “What’s The Future” narrative, or WTF in Internet parlance, for Romney’s onceclear path to the nomination.

My question about chances for a brokered convention (the case where nobody has a majority and delegate become to chose anyone they want, even people who didn’t participate in the primary) brought an immediate offer to wager on that outcome.

Out of sheer habit, I, of course, took the bet that it would happen — not for $10,000 as Gov. Romney offered during a debate, but steak at Fore

Street is not chump change.

That’s when I finally understood.

This could be a political Three-card Monte.

Why are the GOP elite, at all levels, so confident that there will be no brokered convention? Perhaps because so many of them can count? And perhaps “they” have a working knowledge of how this actually plays out – all these meaningless caucus votes and nonbinding primaries are just so much static.

Eventually, the party leadership can get together and decide this thing with all those “later” delegates in play.

It is a plan that the founding fathers would have loved — mostly rich, mostly wise people from the various states deciding who they think should be president ... or at least, who should run.

Not exactly a beauty contest, but certainly a beaut of a system.

(Curtis Robinson is the founding editor of The Portland Daily Sun.)

Medicaid spending has increased by $1 billion over the last decade FRARY from page 4

taxes, 46 percent for corporate income) without cutting anything. The result have not been satisfactory.

Illinois credit rating is now the lowest among all the states, its budget is still $507 million in the red, and a poll of CEO’s places it near the bottom as an attractive place to do business.

In New York Gov. Cuomo opposed tax increases on the rich during his campaign on the grounds that the rich would migrate. This remains as true now as it was during the campaign, but to get the cuts he desired he has had to agree on a surtax on the rich.

Gov. Brown in California is cutting and proposes to raise taxes as well. It remains to be seen how this will work out.

Republican governors in Virginia, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Indiana, New Jersey and elsewhere are cutting expenditures and taxes, or at least resisting

tax increases. This is the course chosen by Governor LePage. In many ways Maine has come to typify the welfare state dilemma. We are the oldest state in the union, so our tax base of earners has shrunk while the number of dependents, like myself, has grown.

The Department of Health and Human Services consumes 45 percent of the state’s budget. Medicaid spending has increased by $1 billion over the last decade. Enrollment in Maine’s Medicaid program has risen 78 percent since 2002 while Maine’s population has risen 7 percent between the 2000 and 2010 census.

The incomes of Maine’s population is 82 percent of the national average while we provide more expensive benefits than some states with incomes above the national average. The governor believes that tax reduction, along with reduced energy costs and regulatory reform, will bring the state’s income up to the average while our welfare costs must be reduced to

Butt tossers hit up for $100? Municipal fines could change the face of the city, if ever enforced HIGGINS from page 4

Axe body spray could balance the budget, at least in the Old Port in the summer.

A fee on hipsters riding “fixies,” fixed gear bikes with no brakes.

Okay, maybe not a tax on that one, as going down Munjoy Hill or Deering Ave without brakes surely deserves a date with destiny, and Darwin.

Perhaps enforcement of all the “A-Frame” sidewalk signs might

be in order. In a conversation with the city spokeswoman Nicole Clegg a year or so back, I got her to look up the actual number of sign owners that had paid the fee of $25. It was microscopic, around 30 city wide. You walk past more than that on Congress Street on a First Friday Art Walk.

Enforcement of the snow on the sidewalks thing would have been a bust this winter.

All these things add up. Yeah, I still toss the occasional butt.

The ordinance as passed will be a pain, specifically for those that toss the namesake. A few fines will get written, and written about. In the end, the reality is we all have to live here, and trudge through the trash.

It all goes back to the old saying. If you throw something away, where precisely is “away?”

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

the national average. He argues that we simply can’t afford to be among the seven states that provides health care for parents with no dependent children.

The governor is threatening to veto any budget that includes tax increases and does not include comprehensive welfare reform, but it isn’t clear whether enough Republican legislators will vote against an override. Many believe that some kind of compromise is necessary. The governor seems to believe that the state and nation have found themselves in an unsustainable financial mess just because of years of consensus and compromise.

(Professor John Frary of Farmington is a former congressional candidate and retired history professor, a board member of Maine Taxpayers United and an associate editor of the International Military Encyclopedia, and can be reached at: jfrary8070@ aol.com.)

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Romney invokes conservative ideals in Portland

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

In a campaign speech in Portland Friday laced with conservative themes, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney blasted President Obama on spending and the administration's recent plan to require religious institutions to offer contraceptive coverage.

Obama softened his stance Friday, saying he would require insurance companies, not religious institutions, to provide the coverage, but Romney roused a crowd at the Portland Company complex by taking aim at what he called interference in the First Amendment religious rights of Americans.

"Conservatism in my view is the conviction that the principles and values in our founding documents, our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, that those principles are enduring and defining and powerful," Romney said.

In the wake of primary campaign defeats to Rick Santorum in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, Romney had addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington earlier Friday, emphasizing his conservative credentials.

At the Portland campaign stop Friday evening, Romney echoed those themes, although his first salvo of the town hall meeting was about the economy.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks to a crowd of supporters at the Portland Company complex Friday. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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"I heard the president the other day saying he was looking forward to a second term, thinks he deserves one, I disagree," Romney said. "I look back and I remember when he said, he was a newly elected president, he went on 'The Today Show' and said, 'Look, if I can't turn the economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition,' and we're here to collect."

Romney criticized the federal stimulus bill of $787 billion where the nation borrowed in an attempt to hold unemployment below 8 percent, he said.

"It has not been below 8 percent since, 35 straight months above 8 percent, and that's not just a number, that's millions of families," Romney said.

The forecast that unemployment would not exceed 8 percent — a common theme in the campaign — stems from a sentence in an Obama administration report, "The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan," which stated that the "unemployment rate in 2010Q4 is predicted to be approximately 7.0%, which is well below the approximately 8.8% that would result in the absence of a plan."

Romney said, "These are tough times for America, this president has failed us."

The former governor of Massachusetts referred to his background as a New Englander, when he talked about living on New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee.

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Forsley demands city, Suslovic apologize for sewer comments

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Shipyard Brewing co-owner Fred Forsley is demanding that the city and Councilor Ed Suslovic apologize for comments Suslovic made this week about the brewery and possible unpaid sewer fees that occurred there Suslovic because of a billing error.

Suslovic declined to apologize and stood by his comments.

In an email he sent to city councilors, top city staff and Portland Water District officials, Forsley calls Suslovic’s remarks “inflammatory” and “irresponsible.”

Forsley goes on to say that he is “deeply offended” and believes Suslovic’s remarks were personal in nature.

“We believe it is irresponsible, unprofessional and inflammatory for any city official or councilor to comment on this issue until the city’s investigation is complete,” Forsley writes in the email,

which was obtained by The Portland Daily Sun. Forsley added that he had committed "not to comment on the back billing until the city investigation was over and I believe the city had indicated to me they would take a similar position.”

The Portland Press Herald Forsley reported last week that Shipyard has been paying less than it should have for sewer fees between 1996 and 2011, most likely because of a billing error.

At this point, it’s not clear how much, if any, money the company owes in back sewer fees, city officials say.

The error was corrected

by March 2011, and the city launched an investigation into the issue five months later, when City Manager Mark Rees was hired.

The Press Herald indicated in a subsequent story that the city potentially lost hundreds of thou-

sands of dollars per year because of the error.

The billing issue is associated with a water line that was installed during a 1996 expansion at the brewery, city officials say.

“The issue is that there was some kind of billing or accounting error for the new water line and an assumption was made that all the water from that line was going into the bottles and not being discharged into the sewer system,” city spokesperson Nicole Clegg said Thursday.

Portland Water District handles billing of sewer fees for the city, but that revenue goes to a special city sewer fund.

At issue are comments Suslovic made to The Portland Daily Sun on Thursday. Suslovic, who chairs the city’s Public Safety, Health and Human Services committee, said Shipyard should “absolutely” be responsible for any sewer fees that should have accrued during that 16-year period.

“Otherwise, it amounts to a direct subsidy to that business of approximately $1.5 million over that period, which is not chump change,” Suslovic said Thursday. see APOLOGY page 8

Councilor suggests outside firm handle sewer investigation

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Councilor Ed Suslovic wants the city to hire an outside firm to complete an investigation into a possible billing error that resulted in under-billing for sewer fees at Shipyard Brewery.

“If this was a $500 overcharge, we would not spend $10,000 to get to the bottom of it,” he said. “But at this scale, I think in order to restore everyone's trust in the system, I think an independent entity may be the best thing (to investigate the discrepancy).”

For now, it’s not clear how much, if any, Shipyard owes the city in connection with a billing error that reportedly occurred between 1996 and 2011 at the Portland brewery. However, it appears the company was under-billed during that time for water that was discharged into city sewers.

The city found out about the problem last March and commenced an investigation into the issue five months later. That investigation is nearly complete and should be finished next week, a city spokesperson said.

Suslovic says an outside firm is necessary to prevent “the ball being passed around to those three entities” — the city, Shipyard and the Portland Water District — surrounding questions about “who did what, when, and what went wrong.” see INVESTIGATION page 8

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Forsley said he has been working with city for 10 months on billing APOLOGY from page 7

It's not clear where that figure came from.

Suslovic also noted that other ratepayers, including other large users of the sewer system, have ostensibly been paying their fare share over the same period.

Forsley took issue with Suslovic’s comments, and other aspects of the article, which ran Friday in the Portland Daily Sun. Forsley was not quoted in that article because an attempt to reach him Thursday night was not successful. A call made by a reporter Thursday night to Forsley’s number listed on the company website went to an assistant’s voicemail.

Reached yesterday, Suslovic said he stood by his remarks. “I’m not sure I have anything to apologize for,” he said.

“If information is brought forward that proves me wrong I will accept responsibility for providing mistaken information,” he continued. “But to date, nobody has brought anything forward that has contradicted anything I have said.”

In a phone interview Friday, Forsley said he has been working with the city for 10 months to clear up the billing issue. He also disputed Suslovic’s $1.5 million figure that appeared in Friday’s article.

“I don’t owe the city ($1.5) million,” he said, adding, “I didn’t cost the taxpayers or the ratepayers any money. For him to say what he said ... he is negligent for not finding out the facts.”

Forsley ended the interview shortly afterward.

Questions sent to Forsley’s assistant seeking additional information on the matter were not answered by press time.

But in his email to the city, Forsley makes his feel-

ings clear.

“The majority of his statements are false,” he says, referring to Suslovic. “I am deeply offended by his personal attacks against both me and my company,” he wrote.

“I respectfully demand a printed apology from Councilor Suslovic and the City of Portland in (today)’s Portland Daily Sun for the false and inflammatory statements printed (yesterday),” Forsley said.

Clegg said the investigation into the sewer matter is nearly complete, and should be finished sometime next week.

"We are going to continue in the same vein we have, which is to maintain open lines of communications and keep Fred Forsley informed of the developments in our investigation and go from there," she said.

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Portland Water District handles sewer billing for the city, but that money goes back to the city into a special sewer account.

“The city has a good reason to bring in an (outside) entity to find out exactly what went wrong,” Suslovic said.

The outcome of that investigation, Suslovic added, would likely be above reproach from the public, as well as city officials and Shipyard.

“There is an old rule, you don’t investigate yourself,” Suslovic said.

technologies and produces a million Back in 1998, a branch of the gallons a day.

National Academy of Sciences, the But the plant’s very existence is a National Research Council, issued triumph over one of the most stuba study finding that supplementing born problems facing the nation’s stream flows or reservoirs with this water managers: if they make clean water, a process called indirect potadrinking water from wastewater, ble reuse, was acceptable, although will the yuck factor keep people only as a last resort. Now, acceptance from accepting it? of reclaimed water for drinking is With climate change threaten- Purified water flowed from the tap at a treatment facility in San Diego. spreading, if slowly.

The city, which once rejected the approach in the face of public oppoing to diminish water supplies in sition, is now using some treated wastewater. (Donald Miralle for The Funneling reclaimed water into the fast-growing Southwest, more New York Times) water supplies is being considered in cities are considering the potential a variety of communities like Miami tap concept, offers a blueprint for other of reclaimed water. A new report and Denver (which has experidistricts considering wastewater reuse. from the National Academy of Sciences mented with the technology), as well as For most of the four decades beginning said that if coastal communities used in drought-ravaged municipalities in in 1970, the arid West was the fastestadvanced treatment procedures on the Texas like Big Spring. The tiny mountain growing region in the country; the populaeffluent that is now sent out to sea, it resort town of Cloudcroft, N.M., mingles tion of Nevada quintupled in that period could increase the amount of municipal reclaimed water with local well water. In while Arizona’s nearly quadrupled. Conwater available by as much as 27 percent.

Northern Virginia, reclaimed water has tinued population growth, unmatched by San Diego’s success, 12 years after its flowed into the Occoquan Reservoir for growth in water storage capacity, makes City Council recoiled from the toilet-tothree decades.

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Bath man accused of sexually assaulting minors last summer DAILY SUN STAFF REPORTS BATH — A 21-year-old Bath man is accused of sexually assaulting two people under the ages of 15 during the summer of 2011, police said.

Andrew Mank was arrested by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office following an investigation that was opened in January, officials said. Police say he was being investigated for allegedly abusing minors in the Bath and Brunswick area.

He had previously been charged by the Sagadahoc Mank County Sheriff's Office with sex crimes and was subsequently charged with four counts of sexual abuse of minors, police said.

The two victims were both known to Mank, police said.

Child dies in camper fire CORINTH — Fire investigators said Friday they were trying to pinpoint the cause of a camper trailer fire that claimed the life of a 7-year-old boy, officials said.

Christian Rand's body was found inside the burned out camper shortly after the fire was reported at about 9:30 a.m., said Steve McCausland, a Department of Public Safety spokesman.

Rand had stayed home from school Friday because of an illness, McCausland said.

The camper was located on property owned by a relative in Corinth near the Kenduskeag town line.

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Maine Army National Guard given sendoff ceremony at UMaine Maine Gov. Paul LePage on Friday expressed his appreciation to members of the C/1-126th Air

MEDEVAC Company, Maine Army National Guard, at a sendoff ceremony at the Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine, Orono. Soldiers were joined by their families and friends, as well as LePage, Major General John “Bill” Libby, and representatives from Maine’s Congressional Delegation, the governor’s office reported.

The unit is set to deploy the second week of March in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Kuwait and will provide medical evacuation to injured patients and military personnel to medical facilities using medically equipped UH-60 aircraft (air ambulances). This permits the rapid transport of seriously injured persons, particularly trauma patients, from the scene of an accident or battlefield.

This will be the third deployment for the C/1-126th Air MEDEVAC Company, Maine Army National Guard to the Middle East. In 2003 and 2008, the unit served in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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OccupyMaine evicted from Lincoln Park

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Police and city maintenance crews converged in Lincoln Park Friday afternoon, as the city made good on its warnings that the OccupyMaine protest group had to vacate the city park

by Friday or be evicted.

Portland Public Services workers threw the few remaining tents in a giant dumpster and cleaned up the areas where campers had been, all under the watchful eye of a small contingent of Portland police. No resistance was evident.

At 1:30 p.m. Friday, one member of the Occupy movement posted on Occupy's Twitter feed, "Eviction now."

The clean-up crews bustled around the park while a handful of onlookers watched.

"I think we're pleased at the outcome that members of OccupyMaine chose to disband from their encampment voluntarily," said Nicole Clegg, city spokeswoman.

City councilors voted in December to deny OccupyMaine protesters a permit to continue camping overnight in Lincoln Park. The group, which began its protest Oct. 3, 2011, sued to contest that decision, but Cumberland County Superior Court Judge Warren Thomas Warren ruled last week that the city had authority to deny the permit. A city order and notice to remove structures and belongings from Lincoln Park and to abide by the park's daytime hours was posted out-

Police were on hand Friday as Portland Public Services crews dismantled what was left of the OccupyMaine encampment. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

side the encampment. Originally, the protesters were to be out on Monday, Feb. 6 at 8 a.m., but the city granted an extension until 8 a.m. Friday, Feb. 10 for protesters to comply.

While the deadline for removal of tents and other structures had been set at 8 a.m. Friday, Clegg said the city wanted to give campers time to tackle the final clean-up themselves. Also, heeding an earlier concern of protesters, Clegg said city officials wanted to wait until the warmest part of the day to start pulling out tents.

"We wanted to allow for the temperature to rise enough so there were things frozen to the ground, it would

be easier to get those things out," she said.

The clean-up was done with existing resources, meaning it didn't cost the city extra, Clegg said.

OccupyMaine members said they will continue their protest, making a case against the deregulation of financial institutions, corporate personhood, "war profiteering," "austerity measures" and the "gross lobbying of our elected officials," among other issues that emerged with the Occupy Wall Street protest and spread across the nation in separate Occupy movements.

Today, OccupyMaine plans a noon

rally in Monument Square, when members will talk about "movement building" and will then engage in a general assembly, an official consensus meeting.

"This is movement building time.

Get your OWS on! Camp or no camp, we occupy. Onward!" OccupyMaine wrote on its Facebook page Friday.

Palma Ryan, a protester who answered the telephone at an OccupyMaine media center in Portland's Meg Perry Center Friday, said the camp doesn't define the OccupyMaine movement.

"We've been moving on for quite some time. We've had this office at Meg Perry Center since last November. We're organizing in lots of different ways," she said.

Prior to the group's latest general assembly, however, Ryan said she spoke only for herself, not for the movement.

On its official website, Occupy Maine.org, supporters wrote, "The OM encampment has been a rare and rich opportunity to meet others across class lines and to stand together in solidarity against a powerful and elite ruling class that continues to undermine the functioning of our society. As you can imagine, leaving the park is not easy. But it is part of the work."

Now, Lincoln Park will revert to its daytime hours, with no overnight camping allowed, Clegg said. From 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., the park is open to the public, she said.

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Sussman invests in Press Herald’s parent company

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

MaineToday Media announced yesterday that it had reached a tentative deal to sell a stake in the company to billionaire hedge fund manager Donald Sussman.

Exact terms of the infusion from Maine Values, LLC, which Sussman owns, were not disclosed, although the Press Herald indicated it was somewhere between $3 million and $4 million.

A company press release issued late Friday afternoon values the stake at 5 percent of the entire company, which includes the Portland Press Herald, the Morning Sentinel and the Kennebec Journal, as well as affiliated websites.

Sussman is married to Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, who is seeking re-election this fall.

“I believe a community’s newspaper says a lot about the importance it places on education, democracy, and working together to get things done,” Sussman said in a statement.

“I am investing in and loaning working capital to MaineToday Media because I believe the communities it serves deserve healthy, financially stable daily newspapers that can help foster these values we all share,” he continued.

Sussman will also join MaineToday Media’s board of directors, the release said.

Tom Bell, president of the Portland

Newspaper Guild, said the union supports the deal.

“Our members are partial owners of MaineToday Media through our employee stock ownership program,” Bell said in a statement. “We have worked hard in partnership with management Sussman and the Board of Directors to help shape a plan to modernize our technology and strengthen this business. We are encouraged that Maine Values, LLC supports that plan and is providing the resources to fund it.”

Chairman of the MaineToday Board of Directors Peter Brodsky suggests the investment will not lead to wholesale changes in the newsroom, or undue influence from Sussman or other owners.

“We have tremendous faith in the editors and newsroom staff who have been hired by previous owners. They are dedicated journalists who have and will always to do their jobs professionally and independently,” Brodsky said.

Over the past year, the paper has lost several key executives, including former Editor and Publisher Richard Connor, who left late last year. Dozens of newsroom positions also were elim-

The Portland Press Herald and MaineToday Media signs adorn the company’s new offices at One City Center in Portland. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

inated last fall due to what the company said was declining revenues.

In the wake of layoffs, members of the Portland Newspaper Guild approved contracts in Portland and Waterville, as Maine Today Media restructured “in the face of a severe financial crisis,” the Newspaper Guild reported in December.

Even so, the Press Herald, the largest paper in Maine, has seen its circulation stabilize over the past six months following years of declines, according to the latest circulation

reports. Average weekday circulation for the Press Herald, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation reports, is 52,323 while Sunday circulation during that same period was 82,300.

By comparison, the Bangor Daily News sells an average of 47,474 papers during the week and 56,065 on Saturdays.

A company press release indicates that the investment is not final, but that it should close “as quickly as possible.”

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Being unrelentingly mature is a killjoy.

Even though you’ve progressed through the advanced stages of a certain topic, something will bring you back to the whippy emotions of youth and inexperience.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

When you believe in a cause, you are eagerly disposed to act or be of service.

Still, you’ll want to know that your efforts made a difference. Be sure to make others accountable for their end.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You easily abide by the rules that guide your endeavor, but you could feel overwhelmed or defeated by your own standards of excellence. Try not to demand a herculean effort when a lighter exertion will suffice.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Keeping the peace depends on being in tune enough with the other parties to know what is likely to cause agitation. You’ll make a conscious effort to steer clear of the words and actions that are likely to set people off.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 11). You go into your new year on a lucky streak.

Save the extra money and resources you’ll win for a stellar investment opportunity in August. March represents a professional high. April brings the fulfillment of a childhood fantasy. You’ll love what happens when you concentrate on nurturing others in June. Cancer and Scorpio people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 25, 39, 18 and 20.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). As you near the completion of a project, it will be important for you to thoroughly wrap up the details, clean up and clear out. Stay energetic and engaged until the very end.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There’s a fine line between industriousness and a compulsion to distract yourself. Look into your heart and investigate your true motivation. Better to do nothing at all than to be busy for the sake of busyness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your friends and family love you, and that colors the way they see you. That’s why you appreciate it when someone completely new gives you a glimpse into the impression you make. You’ll learn from the insights of a stranger.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your happiness will depend on choosing well for yourself. You can’t choose well if you don’t know yourself. Your time will be wisely spent examining your preferences and feelings.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, Feb. 11, the 42nd day of 2012. There are 324 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 11, 1812, Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed a re-districting law favoring his Democratic-Republican Party — giving rise to the term “gerrymandering.”

On this date: In 1858, a French girl, Bernadette Soubirous (soo-bee-ROO’), reported the first of 18 visions of a lady dressed in white in a grotto near Lourdes.

(The Catholic Church later accepted that the visions were of the Virgin Mary.)

In 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln bade farewell to his adopted hometown of Springfield, Ill., as he headed to Washington for his inauguration.

In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson began in Tennessee. (Union forces led by Brig.

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant captured the fort five days later.)

In 1929, the Lateran Treaty was signed, with Italy recognizing the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.

In 1937, a six-week-old sit-down strike against General Motors ended, with the company agreeing to recognize the United Automobile Workers Union.

In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement during World War II. In 1960, “Tonight Show” host Jack Paar stunned his audience by walking off the program in a censorship dispute with NBC. (Despite his very public resignation, Paar returned to the Tonight Show less than a month later.)

In 1972, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. and Life magazine canceled plans to publish what had turned out to be a fake autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.

In 1975, Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of Britain’s opposition Conservative Party.

In 1979, followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (hoh-MAY’-nee) seized power in Iran.

In 1982, actress-dancer Eleanor Powell, 69, died in Beverly Hills, Calif.

In 1990, South African black activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity.

One year ago: Egypt exploded with joy after pro-democracy protesters brought down President Hosni Mubarak, whose resignation ended three decades of authoritarian rule.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Conrad Janis is 84.

Actress Tina Louise is 78. Actor Burt Reynolds is 76. Songwriter Gerry Goffin is 73. Actor Sonny Landham is 71. Bandleader Sergio Mendes is 71.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Otis Clay is 70. Actor Philip Anglim is 60. Actress Catherine Hickland is 56. Rock musician David Uosikkinen (awSIK’-ken-ihn) (The Hooters) is 56. Actress Carey Lowell is 51. Singer Sheryl Crow is 50. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is 48. Actress Jennifer Aniston is 43. Actor Damian Lewis is 41. Actress Marisa Petroro is 40. Singer D’Angelo is 38. Actor Brice Beckham is 36. Rock M-C/vocalist Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) is 35. Singer-actress Brandy is 33. Actor Matthew Lawrence is 32. Rhythm-andblues singer Kelly Rowland is 31. Singer Aubrey O’Day is 28. Actress Q’orianka (kohr-ee-AHN’kuh) Kilcher is 22. Actor Taylor Lautner is 20.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I am 90 years old and am concerned that after I die my kids will squabble over my things. So I would like to work it out before that happens.

I have a daughter who lives in another state and two wonderful daughters-in-law who live nearby. “Dora” and my oldest son have helped me the most. When my husband was still living, they arranged a reverse mortgage on our house by making us a loan from their personal funds.

When my husband became feeble, Dora began doing my grocery shopping. Every Sunday, she brings a nice dinner, and my son does any needed repairs around the house.

She always brings me a gift on Mother’s Day and on my birthday.

I already have given Dora two nice heirlooms, and I know she would like to have my mother’s sterling silver.

My daughter will get the antique wall clock, and my other daughter-in-law gets the china closet. How do I divide the rest of the stuff? Should I give Dora the sterling now? -Old in Indiana Dear Indiana: Please speak to an estate planner or, at the very least, a lawyer who can handle your will. As tempting as it is to give more to Dora than the others, it could create all sorts of resentments later. The division of your estate should be relatively equal, but you can make special gifts of pieces of jewelry or sentimental items. If you think your children will behave themselves, it can help to discuss this with all of them in advance, asking each child to select one item that they would like to have. And yes, you can give it to them while you are around to see them enjoy it.

Dear Annie: Am I the only person who is disappointed by generic email Christmas and birthday cards? They seem so impersonal, and I do not appreciate receiving such cold greetings.

One longtime friend has resorted to this, in spite of the fact that I always mail her an old-fashioned, hand-signed card. How can I get her to stop sending me email cards without hurting her feelings? Would it be rude to return the greeting to her?

I’m an old-fashioned person who was raised during the age of smoke signals and find that life used to be much simpler and warmer. -- Over-Seventy Attitude Dear Attitude: We agree that email cards are less personal than handwritten notes, but it does take a certain amount of effort to select the right one from hundreds of possibilities, so try to give your friend credit for that.

And many people have stopped sending cards altogether, which is a shame. Please accept these cards in the spirit in which they were sent -- that is, to convey good wishes to you. (But do please continue to send handwritten notes of your own. They are much more charming.)

Dear Annie: “Iowa” doesn’t like that her husband still goes to bars, but when he asks whether it’s OK for him to go alone, she always says “yes.”

She should tell her husband that her interests have changed and then work on a compromise. Why not tell him directly that she really wants to be with him on those precious weekends when he opts to go out with friends?

She could propose specific activities she would like instead. She could even suck it up and agree to accompany him once a month. And if the point of going to bars is being with friends, perhaps she could host an event for them at her home. -- Fred Dear Fred: You are correct that if she doesn’t express herself, the situation isn’t likely to change. We like your suggestions and hope she will consider them.

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, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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by Scott Stantis

BY LAURIE GOODSTEIN THE NEW YORK TIMES

When after much internal debate the Obama administration finally announced its decision to require religiously affiliated hospitals and universities to cover birth control in their insurance plans, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops were fully prepared for battle.

Seven months earlier, they had started laying the groundwork for a major new campaign to combat what they saw as the growing threat to religious liberty, including the legalization of same-sex marriage.

But the birth control mandate, issued on Jan. 20, was their Pearl Harbor.

Hours after President Obama phoned to share his decision with Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, who is president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the bishops’ headquarters in Washington posted on its Web site a video of Archbishop Dolan, which had been recorded the day before.

“Never before,” Archbishop Dolan said, setting the tone, “has the federal government forced individuals and organizations to go out into the marketplace and buy a product that violates their conscience. This shouldn’t happen in a land where free exercise of religion ranks first in the Bill of Rights.”

The speed and passion behind the bishops’ response reflects their growing sense of siege, and their belief that the space the Catholic church once occupied in American society and the deference it was given are gradually being curtailed by an increasingly secular culture.

The conflict puts not just the White House, but also the bishops to the test. Will their flock follow their lead? And are they sufficiently powerful, now that they have joined forces with evangelicals and other religious conservatives, to outmuscle the women’s groups, public health advocates and liberal religious leaders who argue that the real issue is contraceptive coverage for all women, and that the Obama administration was right?

On the day of the decision, bishops across the country posted similarly dire statements on their Web sites, and at Mass on the following Sundays, priests read the bishops’ letters from their pulpits and wove the religious freedom theme into their homilies. By the bishops’ own count, 147 bishops in the nation’s 195 dioceses have now issued personal letters on religious freedom, which are trickling down to Catholics through their local parish bulletins and diocesan newspapers.

Some bishops called on Catholics to lobby their legislators to overturn the mandate, while a few have called for resistance. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees Catholic military chaplains, instructed them to read a pastoral letter at Mass that said, “We cannot — and will not — comply with this unjust law.”

Army officials ordered him to strike that line because it could be interpreted as a call for civil disobedience.

“I have never seen the bishops mobilize so quickly,” said Stephen S. Schneck, director of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America, in Washington. “I remember Roe v. Wade, and it took years for them to respond to that, in terms of an organized response.”

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Saturday, Feb. 11 National Adoption Weekend in Biddeford 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. PetSmart Charities will sponsor a National Adoption Event at the PetSmart store, 208 Mariner Way in Biddeford Crossing. The Mobile Adoption Team will visit with adoptable dogs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday.

Adoptable cats will also be at the store. Adoption counselors will be available in the store Friday: 9 a.m. to noon, Saturdays: noon to 5 p.m., and Sundays: noon to 5 p.m.). For more information, call Animal Welfare Society (www.animalwelfaresociety.org) at 985-3244 or PetSmart at 283-6546.

Fourth annual Hannaford Ice Fishing Derby 6:50 a.m. Proceeds to benefit United Way (90 percent) and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (10 percent), at Long Lake, Naples. When: Feb. 11 — Sunrise to 3:30 p.m. (weigh in). Highlights: Cash prizes for the adult division of $500, $300, $200 for the largest brown trout or salmon; $100 and $50 for top finishers in the adult pickerel division. Cash prizes offered for the kids division of $100, $50, $25 for the largest brown trout or salmon; $50 and $25 in children’s pickerel division. Winners in each division will also receive gift certificates to Kittery Trading Post. The winner of the children’s salmon/brown trout division will be presented a Wheaties box bearing his or her picture.

Assorted raffle prizes and door prizes, including $1,000 for an adult registrant sponsored by Pillsbury, will also be presented throughout the day.

South Portland Republican Presidential Caucus 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. South Portland Republican Presidential Caucus, at the South Portland Recreation Center. All South Portland Republicans are invited to attend. Registration at the door. All registered attendees will be able to vote. www. sprmc.org

Portland Republicans biennial caucus 9:30 a.m. Portland Republicans will hold their biennial caucus. The meeting will be held at the Riverton Elementary School at 1600 Forest Ave. in Portland. It’s the municipal party’s biennial meeting to elect delegates to the county committee, state convention, ratify the membership and bylaws of the group. It is also the rank and file’s opportunity to provide feedback on the party’s nominees for President and Congress. “All registered Portland Republicans are welcome to participate. Others wishing to participate may register a half hour before the meeting as a Republican at the meeting, if they are not already enrolled in another party.

All Republican candidates for President have been invited to send representatives to speak along with any other legislative candidates running in Portland. The purpose of the caucus is to elect delegates and alternates to the state convention which will be held on Saturday, May 5 and Sunday, May 6 at the Augusta Civic Center, to elect members of the Cumberland County Republican Committee, and to organize the municipal committee for the upcoming elections. The Portland Republican City Committee’s mission is to recruit and promote candidates for municipal, county and state offices.” For more information contact Committee Chair, Patrick Calder at 232-0944; PatrickCalder@Hotmail. com or Secretary, Steven Scharf at 400-9176; SCSMedia@ aol.com.

Portland Polar Dip to benefit Camp Sunshine 11 a.m. “The beach can beckon, even in February — and especially for a good cause. On Saturday, the fifth annual Portland Polar Dip to benefit Camp Sunshine will take place at noon at East End Beach in Portland, Maine. Hardy fundraisers will plunge into the chilly waters of Casco Bay to raise money to help send more families to Camp Sunshine (www.campsunshine.org), a one-of-a-kind national retreat in Casco, Maine for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. New this year, participants are encouraged to create a plunge team of four or more people, consisting of co-workers and classmates and from civic groups or places of worship. Each individual participant is encouraged to raise a minimum of $100 in pledges for Camp Sunshine and those who do will receive an ‘I DID IT!’ T-shirt. All proceeds will benefit Camp Sunshine. To pledge online and for more information on the event, visit www.freezinforareason.com.

East End beach is located at the base of Portland’s Eastern Promenade. Registration begins at 11 a.m. with the plunge set for noon. The goal is to raise $25,000 — enough to fund more than a dozen additional families at Camp Sunshine. ... Since Camp Sunshine opened in 1984, it has provided a haven for more than 32,000 family members from 48 states and 22 countries.” To support Camp Sunshine, please call 655-3800 or visit www.campsunshine.org.

Disney On Ice 11 a.m. Disney On Ice presents “Treasure Trove” at the Cumberland County Citic Center from Feb. 9-12. Thursday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m.; Friday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 11 at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 12 at 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Tickets: $60 (Front Row), $50 (VIP), $25 and $15 - All seats reserved.

An Eastern Chipmunk pokes its head out of a burrow at Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park. Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park will offer nature programs at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 3, and Sundays through March 25, weather permitting. For more information or to arrange for group visits, call 865-4465. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

‘Puss ‘n Boots’

Cumberland County Lincoln Dinner

11 a.m. This winter, Acorn Productions’ “Fairy Tale Players,” an ensemble of children, teens and adults who have studied at the Acorn Acting Academy, continues its third season of productions with Producing Director Michael Levine’s adaptation of “Puss ‘n Boots.” “The production is suitable for audiences of all ages, and centers around the story of a clever cat who helps her mistress win the love of a prince by pretending to be the Marquis de Carrabas.

Along the way, we meet a crazy cast of characters including spoiled sisters, a foolish hare, and a lonely ogre. Acorn’s comedic version of the well-known fairy tale is directed by Karen Ball, and the script includes references to King Lear and the Occupy Wall Street Movement for the more sophisticated audience members. There are eight actors ranging in age from 9 to 17 in the show, which runs from Jan. 28 to Feb. 12 in the Acorn Studio Theater in Westbrook.” Saturday, Feb. 11 at 11 a.m.; Sunday, Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. Acorn Studio Theater, Dana Warp Mill, 90 Bridge St., Westbrook.

Admission: $8 adults; $6 kids 12 and under. FMI: www. acorn-productions.org or 854-0065.

6 p.m. The Cumberland County Lincoln Club will hold its annual Lincoln Dinner. “These dinners are held every year, around the country, in honor of our 16th President and one of the Republican Party’s great heroes, Abraham Lincoln. Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, as well as Governor Paul LePage, Secretary of State Charlie Summers, Attorney General Bill Schneider and State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin have been invited. Local historian Lynda Sudlow will be the featured speaker. Ms. Sudlow is a resident of North Yarmouth, and recently retired from the Directorship of the Falmouth Memorial Library. She is a Civil War historian, and the author of ‘A Vast Army of Women,’ about women from Maine who volunteered in support of the Union Army.

Ms. Sudlow’s topic will be the changing role of women during the Civil War and President Lincoln’s changing perception of that role. The dinner will be held at the Italian Heritage Center located on Outer Congress Street behind the Westgate Shopping Center in Portland. There will be a cocktail hour with music by jazz pianist Tate Gale beginning at 6 p.m. Dinner starts at 7. Tickets are $30 per person and can be purchased by contacting any of the members of the committee or there will be a limited amount of tickets at the door. (Halsey Frank 712-5336, Phyllis Bailey 854-2469, Gloria Brewster 773-6587, Glenna Carter 883-2826, Carolyn Gilman 894-5063, Barbara Harvey 837-2400, or Jim Nicholas 767-3030). When ordering tickets, please specify your preference for dinner, either prime rib or baked haddock.”

Maine Roller Derby season opener 5 p.m. Maine Roller Derby announced the start of the 2012 season. On Saturday Feb. 11, Maine Roller Derby will roll into Happy Wheels Skate Center in Portland to kick off their 2012 Spring Season. “The season begins with a rematch of the 2011 opener as the Port Authorities, MRD’s all-star team, take on the Lake Effect Furies, the all-star team for the Queen City Roller Girls from Buffalo, N.Y. When they met last February, the Port Authorities tempered the Furies with a big thaw and took the win with a score of 189 to 54. (Check out the video and bout recap.)” MRD’s Port Authorities are currently ranked No. 10 of the 32 teams in the WFTDA East Region. Following the bout is the fifth annual Hate the Love After-Party at Flask Lounge. This antiValentine’s day event is held to hate on love, lovers, dating, and all things gushy with our hate cards, hate poems, hate stories, and so on. DJ Cougar will be in the house, so warm up those vocal cords and be ready to belt it karaoke-style.

Get your hate on, get decked out in red, and join us!

Maine Republican kickoff in Portland 5:30 p.m. Maine Republicans announce Presidential Straw poll results: “Please join us as we kick off the 2012 Republican Campaign Season. Start now and join friends as we celebrate a successful caucus week. Sign up for campaigns, meet candidates, join the grass roots team in your town!”

Portland Regency, 20 Milk St., Portland. 5:30 p.m. Cash bar and Hors d’ oeuvres. 6:30 p.m. Guest Speakers. 7:30 p.m.

Announcement of Presidential Straw poll results. RSVP to Michelle michelle@mainegop.com or call 622-6247.

Substance abuse prevention launch event 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. “SHIFT GNG, a community coalition working to prevent youth substance use, invites all members of the Gray and New Gloucester communities to its launch event at Cole Farms.” Tickets are available for $10 online at www.shiftGNG.org or in person at Cole Farms, and include a buffet dinner and the chance to win nearly $1,000 in door prizes. Tickets must be purchased in advance by Monday, Feb. 6. “The event will provide a forum for discussion of both community strengths and areas that need more attention, as well as an opportunity for the coalition to outline some of its strategies for preventing youth substance use.

The five-year plan calls for strengthening communication networks among parents; enhancing parents’ skills for talking to their kids about substance use and monitoring to prevent it; increasing law enforcements’ response to underage drinking; dispelling myths and raising awareness of risks; and highlighting ways that all adults can send a positive, consistent message about youth substance use.” For more information, call 773-7737 or email shiftGNG@mcd.org. see next page

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MSMT Valentine’s Benefit Concert 7:30 p.m. Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick is hosting a Valentine’s Benefit Concert which will begin with desserts and cocktails served at Bowdoin College’s Moulton Union and includes a concert and auction held at Studzinski Hall. “The concert features MSMT veteran actor, Gregg Goodbrod, and a professional actress from the thriving Philadelphia theatre scene, Denise Whelan. Whelan and Goodbrod will star together in a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning musical ‘Sunset Boulevard’ this summer at MSMT. The concert features music from the acclaimed score, as well as other Broadway love songs. Tickets are $100 per person and can be purchased by calling 725-8760, ext.

15. All proceeds from the concert and auction support MSMT’s extensive summer internship program that for several decades has provided unparalleled training to up and coming theatre professionals from across the country.”

members and friends of Allen Avenue in continuing the conversation about the origin, meaning, importance, and future of the Occupy Maine movement. He will speak about the connection between campaign contributions and politics and how that skews public policy. Bossie is former executive director of the Maine AIDS Alliance and is a graduate of USM. All are welcome, whether you attended the first conversation or not. Free admission.

Bluegrass Jam in Buxton 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Bluegrass Jam at The Roost in Buxton. “Unplugged instruments only, please.

Admission is $5 for members/$7 for non-members. Refreshments available.” FMI 232-1528.

Kids, Kartoons, and Kotzschmar

1:15 p.m. Celebrate the Kotzschmar Organ’s 100th and the Girl Scouts 100th at Kids, Kartoons, and Kotzschmar. Pre-show Activities: 1:15 p.m. Show time: 2 p.m. The Girl Scouts of Maine will join Rob Richards Disney’s house organist at the famed El Capitan Theatre, for a salute to Girl Scouts across the USA! Everybody will join in singing some very familiar songs and pay tribute to the Girl Scouts! After the show, ‘The Glass Menagerie’ in Freeport take a walk through the Kotzschmar Organ and 7:30 p.m. Freeport Factory Stage opens its join the Girl Scouts in the lobby for celebratory 2012 Season with Tennessee Williams’ drama, refreshments. This year’s Kids, Kartoons and “The Glass Menagerie.” “Set in pre-World War Kotzschmar concert will be more fun-filled than II, when Americans were just beginning to get ever before. The fun begins at 1:15 with a host back to work after a long depression, this is a of pre-concert activities. Costume Contest — memory play that is as relevant today as it was Dress as your favorite cartoon character for a when first produced in New York in 1945.” “The chance to win a prize! Draw your favorite characGlass Menagerie” runs through Saturday, Feb. ter guided by the young and talented illustrator, 25. Performances are Thursday, Friday and Christina Siravo. She’ll be drawing live onstage Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays with Rob Richard’s great music! Meet the Pipes at 2 p.m. All Thursday performances are “pay — A visit with Kotzschmar Jr. (the portable, what you want.” Tickets for all other perfordemonstration organ that FOKO had designed mances are $19 general admission and $15 for specifically for educational purposes), our Breakstudents and seniors 65 and over. The Factory water School Ambassadors and Kotzschmar Stage offers subscription tickets and discounts Docents will help you understand the pipes! for groups of 10 or more. Tickets are available Moving to the Music — Kendra Madore, Kaylyn online at www.freeportfactory.com or by calling Madore, Isis Schwellenbach, and Samantha Seithe box office at 865-5505. wertsen, a group of dancers from Drouin Dance ‘Next Fall’ by Good Theater Center in Westbrook, will be working with attend7:30 p.m. “Next Fall” by Geoffrey Nauffts, ees around how one might move differently to Jan. 25 to Feb. 19. “Good Theater presents match the different tones, pitches, and tempos the Maine premiere of this recent Best Play the organ creates. All four girls are a part of the Tony Award nominee. A charming, funny and DDC dance company, a competitive team that touching play about life and love from one Today, Maine Roller Derby will roll into Happy Wheels Skate Center in Portland to kick off their competes throughout Maine and New England. of the writers of the hit TV series, Brothers & 2012 Spring Season. (Photo by Scott Lovejoy) Kendra and Kaylyn both qualified for the Turn It Sisters.” Directed by Brian P. Allen and starUp National event in 2011, and Kendra was part Theatre Company members. According to Herrera, the ring Joe Bearor, Rob Cameron, Matt Delamater, of the group from Drouin Dance Center selected to dance in cast made his transition from actor to director easier than Moira Driscoll Abbie Killeen and Tony Reilly. St Lawrence Arts the 2011 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Tickets on sale it could have been. Through Feb. 12. Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Center, 76 Congress St. Wednesdays 7 p.m. ($15), Thursdays now through Porttix, 842.0800. www.porttix.com Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. Lucid Stage.

7 p.m. ($20), Fridays 7:30 p.m. ($20), Saturday 7:30 p.m. ($25), Families & Friends of Burundi http://madhorse.com/gallery/show/becky_shaw.php Sundays 2 p.m. ($25) with a special added matinee on Sat3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Families & Friends of Burundi, a newly urday, Feb. 11, 3 p.m. ($20). Reservations and information formed Portland-based group, will host an educational and call 885-5883. Presented by Good Theater, a professional cultural event to introduce the public to the current genotheater; the theater is in residence at the St. Lawrence Arts Sunday, Feb. 12 cidal situation in Burundi. In addition to an overview of the Center. www.goodtheater.com current situation, members of Families & Friends of Burundi An Evening With Mary Johnson Disney On Ice will offer personal stories, share music and cultural items, 7:30 p.m. “An Evening With Mary Johnson, author of ‘An 11:30 a.m. Disney On Ice presents “Treasure Trove” at the and provide delicious food prepared by a Burundi chef.

Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of Cumberland County Citic Center from Feb. 9-12. Thursday, Donations will be gratefully received. The event will be held Love, Service and an Authentic Life’ will be presented in Feb. 9 at 7 p.m.; Friday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 11 at Hope. Gate. Way United Methodist Community, located Portland on Friday, Feb. 17. All proceeds from the event at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 12 at 11:30 on the ground floor of the Gateway parking garage adjacent will support Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine. a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Tickets: $60 (Front Row), $50 (VIP), $25 to the Eastland Hotel, at 185 High St., Portland. More inforThe author will be the featured guest at a special Book and $15 - All seats reserved. mation is available at www.hopegateway.com, or by calling Club Dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. at a private Portland home.

899-2435.

Lincoln’s Birthday event The dinner is limited to 10 people and tickets are $100 per noon.

Lincoln’s Birthday Community Re-Dedication of St. Augustine of Canterbury healing service person. Dinner attendees are encouraged to read the book Lincoln Park, at the park, recent site of the OccupyMaine 4 p.m. St. Augustine of Canterbury Church will hold a healin advance. At 7:30 p.m., a public Reading and Discusencampment. “Of the People, By the People, For the ing service in accordance with the Rites of the Church. The sion will take place at The Portland Club, at 156 State St. People, we shall assemble, freely, for readings from the service will be followed by the Mass which includes the Holy Tickets are $15 per person, when purchased in advance. original 1909 dedication of Lincoln Park, as well as preEucharist. The healing service includes anointing with oil Guests can also pay at the door for just $20. For tickets and sentations by noted historian Herb Adams, members of and the laying on of hands as contained in Holy Scripture. more information about either the dinner or the public book Occupy Maine, and surprise guests! At 3 p.m., a General Persons are welcome to attending both the healing service signing, call Big Brothers Big Sisters at 773-5437 or email: Assembly will be held.” and the Mass that follows. St. Augustine’s is a Traditional info@somebigs.org. and Orthodox Anglican Catholic Community, part of the 18th Annual Great Chili and Chowder Challenge Mad Horse Theatre Company’s ‘Becky Shaw’ worldwide Traditional Anglican Communion, with members 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Holiday Inn By The Bay, 88 Spring 8 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre Company presents “Becky in 44 countries. “The Church seeks to uphold the Catholic St., Portland. The Portland Altrusa is sponsoring : The Great Shaw,” “the Pulitzer Prize finalist and smash hit by Obie Faith, Apostolic Order, Orthodox Worship and EvangeliChili Chowder Challenge, Holiday Inn By the Bay. Tickets Award winning playwright Gina Gionfriddo. In what The New cal Witness of the Anglican tradition within the One, Holy, also available at all locations of Big Sky Bread Co. & Skillins York Times calls ‘a comedy of bad manners,’ a woman fixes Catholic and Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ. The ComGreenhouses.

Tickets are $20 ($10 for children) at the door up her romantically challenged best friend with her husmunion holds Holy Scripture and the ancient Creeds of the or purchase before the event for $17.50. “Sample over 30 band’s mysterious co-worker. The date goes horribly awry, Undivided Church as authentic and authoritative, and worscrumptious chilis and chowders from Southern Maine’s forcing the matchmakers to examine their own relationship ships according to the traditional Liturgies of the Church.” favorite chefs then vote for the best! Musical Entertainment and leading the daters to an emotional detente.” Written by St. Augustine of Canterbury Church worships at 10 a.m. on

by Dick Clark & Curtis (Motown) Haines.”

Gina Gionfriddo, directed by James Herrera. Tickets are $22 Sunday, and Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Cathedral Pines student/senior $20. The Maine Premiere of “Becky Shaw” Occupy Maine, ‘Money And Politics’ Chapel at 156 Saco Ave. in Old Orchard Beach. Father Jefmarks the first time Mad Horse Theatre Company has pro1 p.m. Continuing The Conversation: Occupy Maine, frey W. Monroe is Vicar and Fr. Kevin Lamarre is Assisting duced a work by Gionfriddo. It also marks the directorial “Money And Politics” at Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Vicar. For additional information contact 799-5141. debut of company member James Herrera, who jumped at Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland. Andrew Bossie, executhe chance to helm a cast made up entirely of Mad Horse see next page tive director of Maine Citizens for Clean Elections, will join

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100th Anniversary of Girl Scouting 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Girl Scouts of Maine’s Machigonne Service Unit is making plans to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Girl Scouting with a celebratory tea scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 12, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., at the Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray Street, Portland. Girl Scouts past and present are invited to attend this special centennial event!

Attendees will share their experiences, favorite memories, and celebrate the accomplishments of Girl Scouting through the ages. The cost of the tea is $5 per person and the event is handicap accessible. To register for the Tea and for more information, please contact Cheryl Denis (Cheryl@fishnwater. com or 899-2779). Deadline for registration is Feb. 1. “Girl Scouts of Maine provides services and support to over 16,000 girl and adult members statewide and builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.” For information on Girl Scouts, call 1-888-922-4763 or visit www.girlscoutsofmaine.org.

BBBS Poker Tournament 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. A Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament, to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine, will be held at noon at the Portland Club at 156 State St. The entry fee is $100, and seating is limited to 100 players. During the event, a trip for two, including air and lodging, to Atlantic City will be raffled. The trip, only for participants in the event, has been donated by Megatours. For more information or to sign up for the event, call 773-5437 or visit www. somebigs.org.

Monday, Feb. 13 Friends of Walker Memorial Library tea 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. “You are cordially invited to attend the Friends of Walker Memorial Library’s annual We-Love-OurLibrary tea.” 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friends will serve refreshments. In addition, they will share information about the work of the Walker Friends. FMI 854-0630. Everyone is welcome. Walker is handicapped accessible. Walker Memorial Library is located at 800 Main St., Westbrook.

The Trek Across Maine event 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Join the American Lung Association at Community Bike Center, 284 Hill St., Biddeford. “Meet new people while American Lung Association staff members discuss the Trek Across Maine cycling event, the organization’s largest fundraiser nationwide, scheduled for the weekend of June 15 across the beautiful state of Maine.

The Trek Across Maine is a three-day, 180-mile adventure, from the mountains to the sea, providing breathtaking views, adventure and an unmatched sense of camaraderie.

Proceeds from the bike trek benefit lung disease research, advocacy, and programs as well as the Fight for Air. The evening provides a perfect opportunity for those who have not yet registered for the Trek. Admission to the Trek Information Night is free, but registration is encouraged.” Please RSVP to ksoule@lungne.org or (888) 241-6566, ext. 0306.

More information on the Trek Across Maine is available at biketreknewengland.org.

Tuesday, Feb. 14 ‘The Fine Art of Working Smart’ noon to 1 p.m. “Wisdom at Work” weekly professional development series held in February at the Portland Public Library on Tuesdays through Feb. 28. Sponsored by the Portland Public Library, and Portland career counselor Barbara Babkirk and psychologist Amy Wood, Wisdom at Work is a free series of lunchtime professional development workshops designed to help people be happier and more productive in the world of work. Facilitated by local experts ranging from human resource specialists to peak performance coaches, Wisdom at Work workshops attract professionals from every field, job seekers, students, and entrepreneurs. Sessions include: Feb. 14: The Fine Art of Working Smart: Discover strategies for doing more in less time — without sacrificing quality, with Amy Wood, a Portland and Kennebunk-based psychologist in private practice. Feb. 21: How To Make a Successful Career Transition, learn the “magic” equation to determining a new career direction and effective strategies to land the job you’re aiming for, with Barbara Babkirk, a Master Career Counselor. Her business, Heart At Work, is based in Portland and offers career counseling and second half of life career transitions as well as customized outplacement services.

Feb. 28: Mastering the Beliefs That Drive Your Financial Life: Uncover the counterproductive money beliefs — we all have them — creating stress in your work life, and learn more productive and prosperous ways of thinking about money, with Amy Wood, a Portland and Kennebunk-based psychologist in private practice.

Portland Schools Superintendant James Morse (at left) is shown with school board chair Kathleen Snyder during the announcement last year that he would retire in June when his three-year contract expired. The school district is hosting public forums to discuss what would be desirable in a successor. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

Longfellow and Bull: The Virtuoso and the Poet 2 p.m. OceanView Community Room, 18 Blueberry Lane, Falmouth. “Ole Bull and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were 19th century superstars influencing the culture of the Western World — Ole Bull as violin virtuoso and Longfellow as poet. Join us for this exciting presentation by Charles Kaufmann, artistic director of The Longfellow Chorus, as he explores their lasting friendship in this special lecture and concert. And hear about FHS future events while you enjoy the refreshments.” Limited seating. Please RSVP to 7814727. Parking on Blueberry Lane.

Portland Public Schools superintendent forum 4 p.m. The Portland Board of Education will hold three forums to solicit input from the community about the hiring of the next Portland Public Schools superintendent. The first meeting is Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 4 p.m. in the library of Ocean Avenue Elementary School, 150 Ocean Ave. Other meetings are Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. in the gymnasium of Lyman Moore Middle School, 171 Auburn St.; and Thursday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. in the cafeteria of Riverton Elementary School, 1600 Forest Ave. Each forum will last an hour and a half. The forums will focus on three questions: What are the district’s greatest strengths? What are the most prominent issues or concerns that the district must face? What are the most desirable characteristics in a new superintendent? An electronic survey is being developed. It will be posted soon on the Portland Public Schools website (www.portlandschools.org), giving community members the opportunity to submit feedback directly to PROACT at their convenience. For updated information about the superintendent search, visit www2.portlandschools.org/ superintendent-search.

‘Romeo and Juliet’ 7:30 p.m. Portland Symphony Orchestra presents its “Romeo and Juliet” concert at Merrill Auditorium. “The ultimate Valentine’s Day extravaganza! Enjoy some of the most evocative, romantic music ever written, highlighted by readings from the Shakespeare play that has inspired artists and audiences for centuries.”

Film screening: ‘Fake It So Real’ 7:30 p.m. SPACE Gallery presents, “Fake It So Real,” which dives head-first into the world of independent pro wrestling.

“Filmed over a single week leading up to a big show, the film follows a ragtag group of wrestlers in North Carolina, exploring what happens when the over-the-top theatrics of the wrestling ring collide with the realities of the workingclass South.” www.space538.org/events.php

Great Backyard Bird Count 8 a.m. People across Maine and the entire country are asked to take a break this winter and look out their windows during the Great Backyard Bird Count, taking place Feb. 17-20. “The annual Great Backyard Bird Count is the perfect opportunity for participants to relax and enjoy nature wherever they are while being part of a very important study that helps better define bird ranges, populations, migration pathways, and habitat needs. The Count provides a simultaneous snapshot of the whereabouts of more than 600 species across the nation and in Canada. ‘Although rare bird sightings are noted, the Count is to study larger population trends,’ says Laura Turner, one of the GBBC Ambassadors and owner of the Wild Birds Unlimited Nature Shop in South Portland. ‘And, of course, the more check-

lists submitted, the more accurate a picture we get.’ Maine participants submitted a total of 861 checklists reporting 99 different species. Maine has the second highest birding participation rate by residents in the nation* (followed by Montana). ‘We want to encourage both residents and visitors to participate in the count, especially because many residents have been experiencing decreased bird activity for the past few months’ (a trend happening down the east coast as well). One bird that Turner is looking forward to seeing results for is the Red-Bellied Woodpecker, still a fairly rare bird in Maine. ‘Sightings of this bird have increased this year, and I can’t wait to see what towns they are reported in,’ Turner says. For more information about the Great Backyard Bird Count, visit www. birdcount.org. Participants are also welcome to pick up bird count worksheets, ask questions, and submit their checklists to Wild Birds Unlimited Nature Shop in South Portland, 771-2473. Wild Birds Unlimited is also a major sponsor of the Great Backyard Bird Count.

Wednesday, Feb. 15 ‘Forum on Poverty’ 1:15 p.m. The realities, politics, and myths associated with poverty are discussed by Chris Hastedt (Maine Equal Justice Partners), Jon Bradley (Associate Director of Preble Street Resource Center), Katherine Hulit (Occupy Maine), and Pamela Porensky (Woodrow Wilson Fellow) at Wishcamper Center, room 102, Portland Campus. Free. Cosponsored by: USM Departments of Teacher Education, Sociology, and Geography-Anthropology; SEHD Multicultural Learning Collaborative; Gender Studies Student Organization; School of Social Work; and Women and Gender Studies.

Fort Allen Park Rehabilitation 5 p.m. Fort Allen Park Rehabilitation is under discussion.

The final design must be approved by the Historic Preservation Board as well as the Planning Department. Current details on the project, including the evolution of the plan, can be found at easternpromenade.org. Review includes the Feb. 15 Historic Preservation Board, Room 209, Portland City Hall. For details, contact Diane Davison, president, Friends of the Eastern Promenade; info@friendsofeasternpromenade.org; 831-4888.

‘Soulful, Joyful, and Spiritual Voices’ 6 p.m. In celebration of Black History Month, the University of Southern Maine Office of Multicultural Affairs presents “Soulful, Joyful, and Spiritual Voices,” a musical performance by Lorraine Bohland accompanied by pianist Terry Foster, in the Wishcamper Center, USM, Portland. There will be a 5 p.m. reception preceding the performance.

This event is free and open to the public. “Lorraine Bohland, originally from Wellesley, Mass., is a jazz and blues singer. She has performed in several towns and venues around southern Maine, g Biddeford City Theater, Bates College, Kennebunk, Portland Museum of Art and Augusta.

This event was made possible with a grant from Prudential Financial of South Portland. Sponsors include the USM Women and Gender Studies Program and the USM Multicultural Student Association.” For more information, contact Office of Multicultural Student Affairs Coordinator Reza Jalali at 780-5798 or 780-4006.

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Portland Public Schools superintendent forum 7 p.m. The Portland Board of Education will hold three forums to solicit input from the community about the hiring of the next Portland Public Schools superintendent. The next meeting is Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. in the gymnasium of Lyman Moore Middle School, 171 Auburn St.; and Thursday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. in the cafeteria of Riverton Elementary School, 1600 Forest Ave. Each forum will last an hour and a half. The forums will focus on three questions: What are the district’s greatest strengths? What are the most prominent issues or concerns that the district must face? What are the most desirable characteristics in a new superintendent? An electronic survey is being developed. It will be posted soon on the Portland Public Schools website (www.portlandschools.org), giving community members the opportunity to submit feedback directly to PROACT at their convenience. For updated information about the superintendent search, visit www2.portlandschools.org/ superintendent-search.

‘Fishing the Snake and Missouri Rivers’ 7 p.m. At the monthly meeting of the Saco River Salmon Club, member David Fenderson will present photographs of his memorable fall 2011 fishing trip to the Snake and Missouri Rivers in Idaho and Montana. Prior to the presentation, at 6:30 p.m., there will be a business meeting for the club. The meeting is free, open to the public and will take place at the conference center inside Cabela’s retail store at the corner of Haigis Parkway and Payne Road in Scarborough. “In the summer of 2009, Dave Fenderson answered a frantic call from his best friend’s wife; the diagnosis for his friend was bad — cancer. Dave promised him the fishing trip of a lifetime, when, not if, he beat the disease. The result was the subject of this month’s presentation, a trip to the Snake and Missouri rivers where they fished nymphs, streamers and dry flies to catch a lifetime’s worth of trout.”

The Saco River Salmon Club is a nonprofit organization of fishermen and conservationists dedicated to restoration of Atlantic Salmon to the Saco River. The club has been raising salmon fry from eggs and stocking the fry in the Saco since 1983. The club currently operates a state-of-the-art hatchery in Biddeford, advocates for salmon restoration and assists with fish surveys and habitat improvement.

New members are welcome. For more information visit www.sacosalmon.com.

Thursday, Feb. 16 Energy myth-busting seminar 7:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. “In the environmental and energy technology sector, we often run up against common myths which belie hard science: Making your house too airtight is dangerous — houses have to breathe. Industrial chemicals can never be eco-friendly. Why recycle? There’s no market for it. We’ve all heard them and many of us believe them because we’ve had no other reason not to. It’s time to set the record straight. Myths are costly to business and consumers while facts inform good decision-making and enable a wise use of time, energy and other resources. Join E2Tech on Feb. 16 to get your questions answered by myth busting experts from the environmental and energy technology sector.” Wishcamper Center, University of Southern Maine, Portland. http://e2tech.org/

Väsen at Bull Moose in Portland 12:30 p.m. Väsen, a Swedish folk group known well beyond the borders of Scandinavia, will be at the Portland Bull Moose, 151 Middle St., for a free acoustic performance and CD signing at 12:30 p.m. They will perform that evening as part of Portland Ovations’ season at Hannaford Hall at 7:30 p.m. “Väsen treads an enchanted territory between classical, folk, and pop” wrote the Utne Reader, and Wired said, “The sound may be traditional, but the attitude is completely modern, mixing up the ideas of folk, the virtuosity of prog, and the humor of the insane asylum into a cuisinart of acoustic bliss. Visualize whirled music.” Their music has been called brooding, hypnotic, dramatic and enchanting.

The trio is Olov Johansson, nyckelharpa (a keyed fiddle unique to Sweden), Mikael Marin, viola, and Roger Tallroth, 12-string guitar. Their most recent release, “Vasen Street” will be available at Bull Moose during their visit for $6.97.

Portland Public Library basic computer training 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 16 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Registration is required. The Portland Public Library will host two identical workshops for computer beginners who would like to learn computer basics. The Workshop will be led by Raminta Moore, Library Technical Aid at the Portland Public Library and will cover topics such as the components of a computer, mousing exercises, how to scroll, and how to navigate the web. This class is made possible because of a Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) grant awarded to the Maine State Library in July 2010.

There is limited space available for each of these trainings and participants must register in advance at the Library’s Public Computing desk or by calling 871-1700, ext. 708.

Portland Fiber Gallery & Weaving Studio Grand Opening at our New Location!

Slam poet Wil Gibson at Etz Chaim 7 p.m. Join storyteller Deena R. Weinstein with champion slam poet Wil Gibson at Etz Chaim/Maine Jewish Museum.

“Presenting in his unique ‘rap style,’ Wil shares his personal story of ‘growing up’ and discovering his Jewish roots.

Arrive at 6:30 to schmooze (socialize) and nosh (snack).

Between 7 and 8 you will be entertained by Wil and Deena, and have the opportunity to share your own stories of ten minutes or less about finding your roots, or any story you’ve been wanting to tell. This night is appropriate for adults only.” 267 Congress St. (at the head of India Street). http:// treeoflifemuseum.org

Portland Public Schools superintendent forum 7 p.m. The Portland Board of Education will hold three forums to solicit input from the community about the hiring of the next Portland Public Schools superintendent. The next meeting is Thursday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. in the cafeteria of Riverton Elementary School, 1600 Forest Ave. Each forum will last an hour and a half. The forums will focus on three questions: What are the district’s greatest strengths?

What are the most prominent issues or concerns that the district must face? What are the most desirable characteristics in a new superintendent? An electronic survey is being developed. It will be posted soon on the Portland Public Schools website (www.portlandschools.org), giving community members the opportunity to submit feedback directly to PROACT at their convenience. For updated information about the superintendent search, visit www2.portlandschools.org/superintendent-search.

New Gloucester Historical Society 7 p.m. The next meeting of the New Gloucester Historical Society will be at the New Gloucester Meetinghouse, 389 Intervale Road, (Route 231), New Gloucester. The meeting will be a business meeting for members only. There will be no program until the March 15 meeting.

Friday, Feb. 17 Somalis in Maine talk at COA 4:10 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. “The city of Lewiston has been transformed by immigrants in the last dozen years. Today, nearly 10 percent of its population is composed of refugees from Somalia.” Members of the Somali community and editors of a 2011 book about the Somali experience, Somalis in Maine, will be talking about the experience at College of the Atlantic’s McCormick Lecture Hall. “Somalis in Maine,” a talk with two editors of a recent book of that title and two members of the Somali community in Lewiston. Free and open to the public. McCormick Lecture Hall at College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor, ME 04609. 2885015, or Muscat at amuscat@coa.edu.

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The Fifth Annual Flavors of Freeport 6 p.m. “The weekend is a whirlwind of culinary, art and fashion celebrations. It all kicks off on Feb. 17 at 6 p.m. with an outdoor ice bar, and the Chef’s Signature Series and Art Show at the Hilton Garden Inn. The fun keeps going all weekend with wine & beer tastings, a Freeport foodie tour, a Dress for Success fundraising and fashion event, ice skating at the new rink on Depot St., and so much more! This event is a celebration of the many local artisans in Freeport, from chef’s and brewers to artists and fashionistas. The Hilton Garden Inn, 5 Park St., Freeport. 6 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, all day on Saturday. www.freeportusa.com

‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’ 6:30 p.m. Movies at the Museum, Portland Museum of Art. “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” Friday, Feb. 17, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 18, 2 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 19, 2 p.m. NR. ‘‘‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams,’ a breathtaking new documentary from the incomparable Werner Herzog (‘Encounters at the End of the World,’ ‘Grizzly Man’) follows an exclusive expedition into the nearly inaccessible Chauvet Cave in France, home to the most ancient visual art known to have been created by man. A hit at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, Cave of Forgotten Dreams is an unforgettable cinematic experience that provides a unique glimpse of pristine artwork dating back to human hands more than 30,000 years ago-almost twice as old as any previous discovery.”

Free Portrait Photography Demonstration 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Constellation Gallery will be providing a free interactive demonstration by Robin Farrin of Farrin Photography on how to create a professional photographic portrait. Robin has been specializing in photographing life’s celebrations for the past 20 years. During the month of February, she is sharing a collection of her portraits titled ‘Who Do You Love, What Do You Love?’

All are welcome! Light refreshments served.” Constellation Gallery, 511 Congress St.

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–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– MUSIC CALENDAR ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Port Pub. “An amazing combination of enthusiastic performance and superbly crafted songs, the brilliant interaction between Adela & Jude make for a truly enjoyable show. Performing with a fever pitch of old-time revivalist preachers — Adela & Jude exude a chemistry that shines through in their vocal and stage performance. The duo stomps, hollers and brings to life the familiar and forgotten musical giants that cast long shadows over American music.” www. adelaandjude.com

Saturday, Feb. 11 MAMM JAMMS 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Maine Academy of Modern Music MAMM JAMMS Concert Series rocks Yankee Lanes in Portland. Since 2007, the Maine Academy of Modern Music has been providing music lessons, venues and networks to help musicians navigate the world of rock. Students of all ages and abilities are introduced to innovative and inclusive music programs that promote resiliency, self-expression, creativity and determination. All ages welcome — admission: $5.

Friday, Feb. 17

The ’90s at Bubba’s Sulky Lounge

Beam & Fink at Andy’s

9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The ’90s at Bubba’s Sulky Lounge, 92 Portland St., Portland. “Dust off your finest duds from the 1990s, gel your hair high, vamp on your lipstick, clip your pagers to your pants, strap on your combat boots or chunky mary janes, and Get Ready To Rumble on your favorite light-up dance floor: Bubba’s Sulky Lounge. DJ Jon plays the hottest JAMZ from the ’90s all night long. Special Grotesque Burlesque performance by ’90s Nite’s favorite dirty dancer, Miss Madison West (https:// www.facebook.com/missmadison.west).

Prom Photo Booth by the fabulous Justin Lumiere Photography (https://www.facebook.com/filmaperture).

21 plus w/ proper ID, $5 cover.

8 p.m. Beam & Fink is a down-home mix of country blues and roots music. Drawing from traditional blues, folk, and bluegrass styles, from Mississippi John Hurt to Bob Dylan, the music provides a timeless mix of mellow but engaging tunes. At Andy’s Old Port Pub, “a waterfront watering hole frequented by islanders, fishermen, music lovers and locals.” www.andysoldportpub.com/about.html

Jonny Lang at the State 8 p.m. WCLZ Presents Grammy Award winner Jonny Lang. State Theatre. In more than ten years on the road, Lang has toured with the Rolling Stones, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, B.B. King, Blues Traveler, Jeff Beck and Sting. In 1999, he was invited to play for a White House audience including President and Mrs. Clinton.

Monday, Feb. 12 Ronda and Kevin at Andy’s

Comanchero releases ‘The Undeserved’

8 p.m. Ronda Dale, Kevin Attra of Peaks Island playing at Andy’s Old Port Pub. Americana/indie/ Roots Music. “Andy’s Old Port Pub is a waterfront watering hole frequented by islanders, fishermen, music lovers and locals.” www.andysoldportpub. com/about.html

9:30 p.m. Comanchero is releasing their latest CD, “The Undeserved,” at The Big Easy with some special guests! The Big Easy, 55 Market St., Portland. “Comanchero’s country-funk thunder melds a rambling jam sensibility with genuine boot-stomping twang. Shades of Widespread Panic, Cake, and Wilco in these feverish Cactus Rock rhythms.” — Relix Magazine www.bigeasyportland.com

Tuesday, Feb. 14 Tuesday Classical for Valentine’s Day 7:30 p.m. The Portland Symphony Orchestra’s Tuesday Classical concert is the ultimate Valentine’s Day extravaganza. Under the direction of Music Director Robert Moody, the PSO will perform some of the most evocative, romantic music ever written for orchestra. The concert features guest pianist and Maine native Henry Kramer, and guest artists from Portland Stage. The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium. portlandsymphony.org

Saturday, Feb. 18 48 Hour Music Festival

Wednesday, Feb. 15 Freya and Letter To The Exiles at Port City 8 p.m. Freya (featuring vocalist Karl Beuchner of Earth Crisis, New York Metal/Hardcore band). “The Winter Blues Tour” with Freya and Letter To The Exiles. Letter To The Exiles is a Long Island, New York Hardcore/Metal band with Chris King, Mark Randazzo, James Appleton and Andy Amato. Port City Music Hall. www.portcitymusichall.com

day Concert Series. Stover is a native of Latrobe, Penn., and a graduate of The Juilliard School in New York. He serves as Organist and Director of Music of Woodfords Congregational Church in Portland, as Director of the Portland-based chamber chorus Renaissance Voices, and is a charter member of the faculty of the Portland Conservatory of Music. For information call the Portland Conservatory of Music at 775-3356.

Väsen at Bull Moose

Harold Stover at First Parish

12:30 p.m. Väsen, a Swedish folk group known well beyond the borders of Scandinavia, will be at the Portland Bull Moose, 151 Middle Street, for a free acoustic performance and CD signing. They will perform that evening as part of Portland Ovations’ season at Hannaford Hall at 7:30 p.m. www.bullmoose.com

noon. Harold Stover at First Parish Church, Portland, as part of the Portland Conservatory of Music’s 2012 Noon-

5 p.m. Adela & Jude will be playing a show at Andy’s Old

Thursday, Feb. 16

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9 p.m. This year’s annual 48 Hour Music Festival at SPACE Gallery is Feb. 18. “Born right here in Portland, Maine, the 48 Hour Music Festival has become a highly anticipated local tradition here in the local music scene. For those unfamiliar with the 48HRMF, SPACE Gallery gives an accurate description here: ‘30 artists from different Portland bands of all genres will be randomly shuffled into six supergroups, announced on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 16.

(I might add that no two members of the groups is allowed to have previous musical history, as a method to create new chemistry, and new bonds in the scene.) From there, each band has exactly 48 hours to construct and practice a 25-minute set of material, culminating in this 9 p.m. Saturday performance. This entirely new pool of local talent, featuring members of Isobell, Marie Stella, The Coalsack In Crux, The Heebee-Jeebees, Heavy Breathing and Waranimal — as well as Sean Morin, Sam James and Kate Cox — will be tested by a need for teamwork and a couple of sleepless nights. Each year, the 48 Hour Music Fest has proven to be one of the most exciting and creative nights of the year and a sold-out show.” Doors at 8:30 p.m., starts at 9 p.m., $10, 18-plus.

Dada Life comes to the State Theatre Saturday, Feb. 25. The group writes: “We are Dada Life.

Destroy dance music and have fun. Don’t look back in the past. Always go forward. Don’t think too much. Always follow the money. Do the Dada. The result? Big tunes, no frills.”

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The Maine Chapter of the Project Management Institute presents:

“Reinventing Maine Government” Thursday, February 16 from 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. at the Portland Country Club, 11 Foreside Road, Falmouth Guest Speaker: Alan Caron, President of Envision Maine, describes his techniques for developing and managing change and that the real solution is a full resturcturing of government at all levels.

Visit www.pmimaine.org to register.

Non-members welcome.