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City council to vote on allowing sale of raw milk, alcohol at farmer’s market As the New England Patriots got ready to face the New York Giants in the Super Bowl, “Go Pats,” was the signboard message atop the Time and Temperature Building in Portland Friday. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

New police chief on agenda — See page 3

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Eastern Excavation of Westbrook tackles site work Friday at Elm Terrace, an affordable housing complex under construction along High Street. Officials questioned the price per unit for financing the complex. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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Deal may yield world’s richest shipwreck trove (NYTIMES) — A deal was struck on Wednesday to save what could prove to be one of the richest treasure wrecks of all time.

Four years ago, in the depths of the English Channel, explorers found the remains of a legendary British warship that sank in 1744 and lost more than 1,000 men. But intruders disturbed the site, dragging and damaging some of the 44 bronze cannons visible on the sandy bottom and hauling one of them away.

The wreck’s fate became a topic of public debate in Britain, and not just because of the nation’s efforts to preserve its maritime heritage: documents suggested that the warship, the H.M.S. Victory, had carried a secret cargo of gold coins weighing about four tons. If melted down, the gold might be worth $160 million. But if sold for their historic value, the coins might fetch $1 billion.

On Wednesday, the discoverers of the wreck said they had signed an agreement in which they would document and recover the artifacts, ending a long period of uncertainty. They praised the accord as an innovative new way for nations to save historic wrecks.

“We’ve come up with the model that everybody’s been looking for,” said Gregory P. Stemm, head of the discovery team and chief executive of Odyssey Marine Exploration of Tampa, Fla., a publicly traded company that specializes in deepsea exploration and recovery. Odyssey will recover the warship’s remains for the Maritime Heritage Foundation, a British charity that received the title to the wreck from British authorities. Its chairman, Lord Lingfield, said teaming up with Odyssey was aimed at preserving an important aspect of British history.

“Therefore, we have planned an archaeological survey that will record the site before it deteriorates further,” he

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Cancer group backs down on cutting off Planned Parenthood

A job applicant received assistance at an employment fair in Modesto, Calif., this week.

U.S. jobless rate falls to 8.3 percent, a 3-year low (NY TIMES) — The United States economy gained momentum in January, as employers added 243,000 jobs, the second straight month of better-than-expected gains.

And in a separate measure, the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent, giving a cause for optimism as the economy shapes up as the central issue in the presidential election.

Measured by both the unemployment rate and the number of jobless — which fell to 12.8 million — it was the strongest signal yet that an economic recovery was spreading to the jobs market. The last time the figures were as good was February 2009, President Obama’s first full month in office.

The report sent stocks up by over 1 percent in

trading on Wall Street.

The White House used the new numbers as a platform to appeal for an extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. President Obama, speaking at a Washington-area firehouse to promote a jobs initiatives for veterans, and warned that more help was needed and called on Congress to aid with the economic recovery.

“These numbers will go up and down in the coming months, and there’s still far too many Americans who need a job or a job that pays better than the one they have now,” he said. “But the economy is growing stronger, the recovery is speeding up, and we have got to do everything in our power to keep it going.”

Putin aide says that foreign hands are behind protests MOSCOW (NY TIMES) — On the eve of a third major antigovernment demonstration, a trusted aide to Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin said that Russian intelligence services “two or three years ago” reported that there were plans for the outbreak of street protests in Moscow, implying that a blueprint for political unrest was drawn up in Washington.

The aide, Dmitri S. Peskov, Mr. Putin’s spokesman, said in an interview on Thursday that the authorities saw the protests as evidence

of growing demands for political participation, especially among the urban middle class, and would introduce “significant changes in terms of liberalizing and modernizing our political system.”

But he also reiterated Mr. Putin’s earlier claim that the United States has played an important role by sending money “to provoke the situation.”

He said that Russian intelligence services had long warned that protests were planned, using information gathered from various countries.

(NY TIMES) — The nation’s pre-eminent breast cancer advocacy group, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, apologized on Friday for its decision to cut most of its financing to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening and said it would again make Planned Parenthood eligible for those grants.

“We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives,” Nancy G. Brinker, Komen’s chief executive, said in a statement posted on the organization’s website. The statement added, “We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants.”

The reversal comes in the face of an enormous furor over the decision and widespread complaints that the Komen foundation was tying breast cancer to the abortion issue. Comments on social networks like Twitter raged about the move, and donations, including a $250,000 matching grant from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City, poured into Planned Parenthood, allowing it to compensate for the $700,000 in Komen money that would have been cut.

Some Komen officials had said that the decision to halt financing, which was made in December and became public knowledge on Tuesday, was made because of an inquiry by a Republican congressman, Cliff Stearns of Florida, who is looking into whether Planned Parenthood has spent public money for abortions. A new rule was created by the foundation to bar grants to organizations under federal, state or local investigation, but a Komen board member said the only current grantee the rule would apply to was Planned Parenthood. Critics also objected to the fact that the foundation seemed to be giving an inquiry by a Republican congressman, which appeared to be prompted in part by opponents of abortion rights, as muchcredibility as a criminal or civil investigation by a government agency.

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Council to vote on raw milk, alcohol at farmer’s market Council also poised to approve Sauschuck as new police chief

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Measures that would allow alcohol and unpasteurized milk to be sold at the Portland Farmer's Market are expected to come up for a vote at Monday’s city council meeting.

Councilors are also expected to consider changes to the city’s green building code and formally approve Michael Sauschuck as Portland Police Chief, among other things.

Currently, the farmer's market ordinance includes a specific listing of items that are allowed to be sold there, but this proposal would expand that list to include raw milk and various types of alcohol, including beer, wine, hard cider and mead.

Under existing farmer’s market rules, farmers must grow at least 75 percent of the products they sell at the farmer’s market. These products must also be local, meaning they must be grown in Maine.

Those same rules would apply for alcohol and raw milk sales — and then some. For example, vendors looking to sell alcoholic beverages would need to carry a state of Maine farmhouse winery license, which comes with several regulations. Raw milk vendors would need to display a placard explaining purported risks associated with consuming raw milk.

Councilor John Anton is expected to introduce an amend-

ment Monday that eliminates the placard requirement.

“My feeling about it is, state law allows for sale of unpasteurized milk, provided it’s acknowledged as such,” Anton said yesterday. “I’m not entirely convinced we need to exceed state law” by requiring the placard at the farmer's market but not at places like Rosemont Market, which carries raw milk.

Raw milk is considered by some to be healthier than traditional pasteurized milk, while others worry that the lack of pasteurization allows some foodborne pathogens to be passed to humans. The Centers for Disease Control, for instance, has an entire section of its website devoted to “Real Dangers of Raw Milk” featuring videos of people who apparently got sick after drinking raw milk.

Warnings on the placard, which would be drafted by the city’s Public Health Department, outline potential effects of drinking raw milk and data from the CDC suggesting raw milk consumption increases the risk of certain illnesses.

Also on the agenda are a series of proposals to amend the city’s green building requirements for any projects that receive direct or indirect city financing.

The proposal would: change the standard from Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification to the requirement that they

must exceed American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers, of ASHRAE. It would also clarify a waiver system that allows developers to become exempt from the rules and changes, among other things.

According to city documents, the changes would reduce staff time verifying compliance and determining whether projects qualify for a waiver. There is also a cost associated with applying for LEED certifications.

The council is expected to vote on a change to the city’s litter ordinance to include cigarette butts. If approved, cigarette butts would be treated like litter, and anyone caught tossing them onto streets or sidewalks could face fines of up to $100.

Councilors will hear a presentation from Public Services Director Mike Bobinsky on the city’s sidewalk snow removal ordinance and consider whether to formally accept control of Nathan Clifford School from the school department. The school was closed shortly after construction of Ocean Avenue Elementary School.

The council is also expected to formally approve Sauschuck as Portland’s 19th police chief. Sauschuck, who has served as acting chief since last August, is a 15-year veteran of the police department.

The council meets at 7 p.m.

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Further pressure on Holder over failed gun operation

BY CHARLIE SAVAGE THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats in Congress on Thursday traded barbs again over the yearlong probe into Operation Fast and Furious, as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. testified for the sixth time about the disputed investigation into a gun trafficking network based out of Arizona.

During a hearing of more than four hours before the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee, Republicans ripped into Mr. Holder, accusing the Justice Department of a “cover-up” and declaring that senior officials either knew or should have known about the use of “gunwalking” — the tactic of failing to seize illegal weapons in order to build a bigger case.

Representative Dan Burton, Republican of Indiana, urged the chairman of the committee, Representative Darrell Issa of California, to follow through on his recent threat to cite Mr. Holder for contempt of Congress in a dispute over Congressional access to Jus-

tice Department documents showing internal deliberations.

“Why don’t you give us those documents?” Mr. Burton asked him. “The conclusion that I come to is that there are some things in there that’s being hidden that you don’t want us to see.”

The ranking Democrat, Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, credited Mr. Issa with leading an investigation that had uncovered a pattern of problems at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Agents in Arizona had used similar tactics in four cases dating back to 2006, apparently in part because of frustration over difficulties with charging gun cases.

But it was hard to focus on such problems because, Mr. Cummings contended, Republicans kept making statements blaming senior Obama administration officials over the gun investigation in an effort to inflict political damage, notwithstanding the facts the inquiry had uncovered.

“You now appear intent on escalating controversy and promoting

unsubstantiated allegations in a campaign that looks more like an election-year witch hunt than an even-handed investigation,” Mr. Cummings told Mr. Issa.

Fast and Furious was an investigation from late 2009 to early 2011 into a gun trafficking network that was using “straw” buyers to purchase weapons from American gun dealers and smuggling them to a Mexican drug gang.

A.T.F. agents lost track of about 2,000 guns, some of which have turned up at crime scenes on both sides of the border. Two that had been purchased by a suspected straw buyer in January 2010 were found after a Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, was killed in a shootout in December 2010.

This week, the parents of Mr. Terry filed a $25 million wrongfuldeath claim against the United States government, a potential precursor to a lawsuit. Their claim asserts that if not for the A.T.F.’s negligence in Operation Fast and Furious, “Brian’s murderers would never have had the weapons they used against him.”

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Romney isn’t concerned If you’re an American down on your luck, Mitt Romney has a message for you: He doesn’t feel your pain. Earlier this week, Mr. Romney told a startled CNN interviewer, “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.”

Faced with criticism, the candidate has claimed that he didn’t mean what he seemed to mean, and that his words were taken out of context. But he quite clearly did mean what he said. And the more context you give to his statement, the worse it gets.

First of all, just a few days ago, Mr. Romney was denying that the very programs he now says take care of the poor actually provide any significant help. On Jan. 22, he asserted ––––– that safety-net programs — The New York yes, he specifically used that Times term — have “massive overhead,” and that because of the cost of a huge bureaucracy “very little of the money that’s actually needed by those that really need help, those that can’t care for themselves, actually reaches them.”

This claim, like much of what Mr. Romney says, was completely false: U.S. poverty programs have nothing like as much bureaucracy and overhead

Paul Krugman

see KRUGMAN page 5

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Americans Elect, the party?

For a while now, I’ve been following the whole “Americans Elect” debacle, doing a column now and then on their attempts to start a new national party.

Last Friday, they got on the Maine Ballot for the presidential election of 2012.

I was caught by surprise on the whole “Americans Elect” getting on the Maine ballot. Well, truth be told, I thought the Secretary of States would toss the whole petition. Instead, they carefully went through all of the 60 thousand signatures submitted (60,041) and found 30,908 valid signatures, just 2270 more than they needed.

I got the initial tip on Wednesday from ballot-access.org, an online site dedicated to keeping up on these sorts off things.

A few calls to the Secretary of States office for confirmation went unanswered till the following day. Eventually, they did put out a press release last Friday.

So now there are four parties in Maine. Democratic, Republican, Green Independent, and Americans Elect.

Except, is it REALLY a party?

Actually it’s specific form of corporation, known under the IRS code as a “501(c)4.”

Pulling up the wiki data, it

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist gets more interesting from here.

“501(c)(4) organizations may lobby for legislation, and unlike 501(c)(3) organizations they may also participate in political campaigns and elections, as long as campaigning is not the organization’s primary purpose.”

But campaigning for a specific candidate or slate of candidates IS the purpose of a party.

The citizens of this state signed an approved a petition to put s “Super PAC” on the ballot as a party.

Comedian Steven Colbert is probably laughing now. His whole fake campaign is a super-PAC. Then, there is the whole “disclosure thing” we have to worry about. Maine made some national news last week when the decision came down from The ruling by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston that the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) had to turn over a list of who donated to the 2008 effort to stop same

sex marriage in Maine.

NOM is a 501(c)4. So is Americans Elect. So is No Labels, a group that tried a similar pitch here last April. So is the latest project from former Gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler, named “OneMaine.”

Checking with “The Irregular Times”, an online publication keeping a jaundiced eye on politics, “Former candidate for Governor in Maine Eliot Cutler is referred to as a “National Political Thought Leader” and “Citizen Leader” of No Labels and has been featured on a No Labels conference call.

The same Eliot Cutler has been added to the roster of Americans Elect Leadership during the month of October 2011.”

Three organizations devoted to changing how politics is practiced. all overlapping a few central characters, and our own Eliot Cutler is one of the players in the game.

So before we get kicking this can of election year politics too far down the road, and counting what effect the three organizations might have, I’ll toss out a few questions.

Are these three chimeras planning on complying with Maine see HIGGINS page 5

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For NFL and GOP, new rules favor offense As we move into this last weekend of football-politics nirvana — the Maine Republicans beginning their weeklong caucus season and the Super Bowl, of course, on Sunday — it’s a good time to realize how much both endeavors have used rule changes to dramatically favor the offense.

I think the poet Dave Merritt, moonlighting as the N.Y. Giants secondary coach, said it best in published stories: “All the rules are for the offense and I’m not afraid to say it. You can’t even touch a guy anymore If you let these behemoth guys run off the line that are athletic, it’s tough. With these guys coming in that are 6-5, 6-6, it’s tough to cover them.”

Wow. Just when you wondered if the politics-as-sports analogy had been exhausted as a literary genre, Coach Merritt perfectly explains the advent of the political action committees called “Super PACs.” Certainly the new PACs hands-off, with no real reporting requirements since the U.S. Supreme Court changed the rules a couple of years back. And it’s designed to favor the offense, so we have behemoth guys writing behemoth checks to groups where professionals have honed their dark arts for years, awaiting just such a windfall.

How hands off?

The New York Times, pretty much

Curtis Robinson ––––– Usually Reserved throwing up its journalistic hands and admitting that we’ll never be able to even count the money, let alone follow it, reported that “... some checks came from sources obscured from public view, like a $250,000 contribution to a super PAC backing Mr. Romney from a company with a post office box for a headquarters and no known employees.”

Like any great whine, this analogy gets better with age.

Consider this: the over-under for the Super Bowl is hovering around 55 points at this writing, meaning that the pros in Las Vegas thing there will be many touchdowns or some mindnumbing march of field goals. (Note to non-gamblers — the over-under is a bet on how many total points will be scored in the game, you can bet either side and it’s a good way to keep even a blowout interesting if you’ve wagered, say, your spouse’s car.)

The over-under for our eventual presidential race is equally offensive, with President Obama expected to

With all due respect to Newt Gingrich, the man we’ve come to call “the Speaker Badger,” he’s not as tough on Republicans as the Democrats will be. raise a billion dollars, a number that does not include all that eventual Super PAC money.

If current trends continue, and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney secures the nomination, this is going to get expensive. Early elections show that Gov. Romney needs to outspend former House Speaker Newt Gingrich about four-to-one in order to win. With all due respect to the man we’ve come to call “the Speaker Badger,” he’s not as tough on Republicans as the Democrats will be.

But even figuring at Speaker Badger combat budgets, Gov. Romney will apparently need something like $4 billion to continue his spending advantages through the general election.

And we can expect all that money, and who knows how much more via the Super PACs, to come at the voter like 6-foot-6, 265-pound Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski bearing down on some wild-eyed free safety, stuck in the open field with few options and the whole world watching (you know,

I could actually feel eyes rolling there) Okay, for the record: My guess is that the Pats will surprise many by keeping the Giants out of the end zone from time to time, no small task in a game where holding the other guys to a field goal is a victory. The muchbashed New England defense is actually only kinda horrible in midfield, but relatively stingy once they defend a shorter field.

As for the political game, there is nothing stingy anywhere on the horizon. Let’s face it we’ve finally just put our government on eBay and the only consolation is that, if the presidency was always up for sale anyway, there’s something American about at least bidding the price up.

My guess for Super Bowl Sunday: Patriots 27, Giants 23.

My guess for total GOP primary spending by Super Tuesday March 6: some say $100 million? Easy call — take the over.

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

The more context you give to his statement, the worse it gets KRUGMAN from page 4

as, say, private health insurance companies. As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has documented, between 90 percent and 99 percent of the dollars allocated to safety-net programs do, in fact, reach the beneficiaries. But the dishonesty of his initial claim aside, how could a candidate declare that safety-net programs do no good and declare only 10 days later that those programs take such good care of the poor that he feels no concern for their welfare?

Also, given this whopper about how safety-net programs actually work, how credible was Mr. Romney’s assertion, after expressing his lack of concern about the poor, that if the safety net needs a repair, “I’ll fix it”?

Now, the truth is that the safety net does need repair. It provides a lot of help to the poor, but not enough. Medicaid, for example, provides essential health care to millions of unlucky citizens, children especially, but many people still fall through the cracks: among Americans with annual incomes under $25,000, more than a quarter — 28.7 percent — don’t have any kind of health insurance. And, no, they can’t make up for that lack of coverage by going to emergency rooms.

Similarly, food aid programs help a lot, but one

in six Americans living below the poverty line suffers from “low food security.” This is officially defined as involving situations in which “food intake was reduced at times during the year because [households] had insufficient money or other resources for food” — in other words, hunger.

So we do need to strengthen our safety net. Mr. Romney, however, wants to make the safety net weaker instead.

Specifically, the candidate has endorsed Representative Paul Ryan’s plan for drastic cuts in federal spending — with almost two-thirds of the proposed spending cuts coming at the expense of low-income Americans. To the extent that Mr. Romney has differentiated his position from the Ryan plan, it is in the direction of even harsher cuts for the poor; his Medicaid proposal appears to involve a 40 percent reduction in financing compared with current law.

So Mr. Romney’s position seems to be that we need not worry about the poor thanks to programs that he insists, falsely, don’t actually help the needy, and which he intends, in any case, to destroy.

Still, I believe Mr. Romney when he says he isn’t concerned about the poor. What I don’t believe is his assertion that he’s equally unconcerned about the rich, who are “doing fine.” After all, if that’s what he really feels, why does he propose showering them

with money?

And we’re talking about a lot of money. According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, Mr. Romney’s tax plan would actually raise taxes on many lowerincome Americans, while sharply cutting taxes at the top end. More than 80 percent of the tax cuts would go to people making more than $200,000 a year, almost half to those making more than $1 million a year, with the average member of the millionplus club getting a $145,000 tax break.

And these big tax breaks would create a big budget hole, increasing the deficit by $180 billion a year — and making those draconian cuts in safety-net programs necessary.

Which brings us back to Mr. Romney’s lack of concern. You can say this for the former Massachusetts governor and Bain Capital executive: He is opening up new frontiers in American politics. Even conservative politicians used to find it necessary to pretend that they cared about the poor. Remember “compassionate conservatism”? Mr. Romney has, however, done away with that pretense.

At this rate, we may soon have politicians who admit what has been obvious all along: that they don’t care about the middle class either, that they aren’t concerned about the lives of ordinary Americans, and never were.

You have all the ingredients for a soup that splits the vote three ways HIGGINS from page 4

Election Law, or not? Are they going to disclose the names of who donates to their organization, just like the other three parties have to, or are they going to claim some inscrutable exemption under the law?

Further complicating the matter, it’s a Federal Election, so FEC laws apply. Under those, they don’t HAVE to disclose. Just because of the specific form of corporate structure they have chosen.

You can begin to see the beginnings of the triangulation strategy, obviously worked out more than a year ago. Take grumpy Republicans from one side of the table, a few disaffected Democrats from the other side, mix in some independents, and you have all the ingredients for a soup that splits the vote three ways, makes the race chaos, and is accountable to no one.

Basic fairness demands accountability. I’m sure some of the supporters of No Labels, OneMaine, an

Americans Elect (read that “Friends of EC”) will send in countless letters to the editor crying foul.

The real foul is not my column, that is just “ damage after the play” (GO PATS!) The real foul was perpetrated on the voters of this state. The right to know who is influencing an election has been stolen.

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

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A Patriots running back, dependable in all cases

BY BEN SHPIGEL THE NEW YORK TIMES

INDIANAPOLIS — BenJarvus Green-Ellis’s nickname is The Law Firm. If his mother had her way, he would have joined one.

LaTonia Green said every career assessment her son took in high school established his suitability as a lawyer.

When he was forced to sit out a year after transferring to Ole Miss from Indiana, they discussed law school as a postgraduate option.

“He was supposed to go on and get that law degree, but that didn’t happen,” Green said. “He went to the N.F.L.” Instead of writing briefs and filing motions, Green-Ellis joined the New England Patriots. He stayed late at the office. He worked on his off days. His bosses noticed and began to trust him more, increasing his responsibilities.

They valued his consistency and reliability.

Across 56 career games, including the postseason, Green-Ellis has carried the ball 547 times. He has never fumbled.

“We don’t like to fumble things, either, believe me,” said Fredric Ellis, the founder of Ellis & Rapacki, a litigation firm in Boston.

Since signing with New England in 2008 as an undrafted free agent, GreenEllis, 26, has become a favorite among

Patriots fans, who appreciate his persistence and steadiness as much as they adore his delightfully rhythmic name.

Say it out loud: BenJarvus Green-Ellis.

The mellifluous sequence of syllables could be mistaken for a blue-blooded law firm — hence the moniker — with a tradition of Patriot partners, like Ty Law and Lawyer Milloy.

For his part, Green-Ellis has embraced the nickname, even naming his Twitter handle @TheLawFirmBJGE. Teammates called it clever and creative, and Kevin Faulk, another Louisiana-born running back, said it fit Green-Ellis: “It’s how he runs — strong and dependable.”

The reaction in actual Boston-area firms, from lawyers who share one of his surnames, is just as favorable. F. Henry Ellis, a Patriots fan for more than 40 years who owns F. H. Ellis and Associates in Dedham, Mass., said he appreciated Green-Ellis’s decisiveness as a runner and understated persona.

Fredric Ellis praised Green-Ellis for being “trustworthy in crucial situations” and characterized the nickname as “slightly amusing,” if something of a misnomer.

The first time Green-Ellis heard himself called The Law Firm, he said he was watching ESPN. Soon it overtook another thematic nickname,

Green-Ellis

Boston Legal, and now LaTonia Green often attends Patriots games wearing a sweatshirt that reads “The Law Firm” on the front and “Green-Ellis 42” on the back.

Green, who moved to Minnesota when Green-Ellis was in elementary school (preferring to stay in New Orleans, Green-Ellis lived with his grandparents), works as a budget manager for the city of Minneapolis. But she long dreamed of becoming a lawyer, and while studying for her accounting degree at Southern University at New Orleans she would bring home her business law textbooks. For reasons neither could say, Green-Ellis would gravitate toward them. He did not read the material, but he does remember flipping through the pages.

“He has a very inquisitive mind, always asking, ‘Why? Why? Why?’ about everything,” Green said.

That is one reason why she thought he would make a good lawyer. Another was his exacting personality. No one at St. Augustine, the all-boys high school in New Orleans that stopped using cor-

poral punishment only last year, can remember him fumbling even then.

“He’s a bulldog,” said Clifford Barthe, the athletic director at St. Augustine.

“He had a remarkable ability to concentrate and keep his mind focused on what was important.”

Just as the 2005 season began, Green-Ellis’s first at Ole Miss, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, demolishing his relatives’ homes. They scattered around the country. Several personal items — his birth certificate, his Social Security card, his trophies and photographs — were destroyed.

Whenever he could, Green-Ellis would drive there from Oxford, a 700-mile round trip. He made sure he graduated, with a degree in business management, but held fast to pursuing an N.F.L. career.

“His heart wasn’t in it,” said Green of Green-Ellis attending law school, and her son agreed. He was waived toward the end of his first training camp, only to sign on to the Patriots’ practice squad two days later. Six weeks after that, he was promoted to the active roster, where he has remained ever since.

“If I had to give the ball to anyone in an important situation,” the New England running backs coach Ivan Fears said, “I’d give it to Benny.”

That is what Green-Ellis’s teammates call him. But not the people who spot him at restaurants. Recognized by the flowing dreadlocks that often cover the name on his jersey, Green-Ellis is often approached by lawyers. They slide over their business card. They ask him to join their firm. They also ask to join his.

“I just laugh it off,” Green-Ellis said, “but I might have to start one.”

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Charting the Celtics’ season to date is like looking at a mountain range from afar. There were three straight losses, all without Paul Pierce, to begin the season. Then came four straight wins, all with Pierce, to briefly get the team over .500 at 4-3.

That was followed by five straight defeats, the most in the era of the Big Three — Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen. But soon came the latest uptick, a stretch of six wins in seven games. It would have been seven straight wins had the team not blown an 11-point lead to Cleveland in the final four minutes last Sunday night.

After Wednesday night’s 100-64 dismantling of the Toronto Raptors, the Celtics again climbed above .500 at 11-10, prompting Coach Doc Rivers to say: “It’s about time. We’ve been through a lot.”

The recent Celtics run has been triggered by the return of two previously missing components of the game plan: a healthy Pierce and a stingy defense. Those were two givens for the Celtics over the last several years. But only recently have they re-emerged.

Pierce clearly struggled after missing most of training camp and the first three games with a bruised right heel. One of the missed games was the season opener against the Knicks in Madison Square Garden. Even when he did return, he was very un-Pierce-like, averaging just 14.6 points and 38 percent shooting in his first 11 games. But in his last seven games, Pierce is averaging 22.9 points, shooting 49.5 percent, while also collecting 7.7 assists and 6.4 rebounds a game.

“Things are starting to come around,” Pierce said after scoring a game-high 17 points in only 26 minutes against Toronto. “We really gained some confidence over the last few weeks. Hopefully, that continues.”

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Early in the season, with seven new players to integrate, the Celtics ranked among the league’s worst defensive teams. They allowed 100 or more points in their first two games and 95 or more three additional times.

Things took a turn against Orlando on Jan. 23. With three starters out, the Celtics suffocated the Magic, holding Orlando to franchise lows in points (56), field goals (16) and shooting percentage (24.6). Much of the credit went to the second-year guard Avery Bradley, substituting for the injured Rajon Rondo. Bradley was instrumental in setting the defensive tempo for the night, harassing Jameer Nelson full-court.

Starting with that game and continuing through Wednesday night’s rout of the Raptors, the Celtics’ defense allowed an average of 78 points a game while holding opponents to 36.7 percent shooting. The Celtics, through Wednesday’s games, ranked No. 2 in the N.B.A. in points allowed (86.9) and No. 4 in defensive field-goal percentage (41.9). They also ranked second in defensive 3-point field-goal percentage at 29.9. Those are numbers Rivers can live with.

This recent run has come without Rondo, an All-Star and one of the team’s most valuable players.

He injured his right wrist against Toronto on Jan. 18 and has not played since. The Celtics are 6-2 in the games he has missed. Rivers said Rondo might return against the Knicks.

Bradley has supplied the defense in Rondo’s absence, while Pierce has become the de facto playmaker. The bench is also starting to come around, led by Brandon Bass and Mickael Pietrus.

Knicks fans saw Bass play one of his best games in his Celtics debut on Christmas, when he scored 20 points and collected 11 rebounds in a Boston loss. They did not see Pietrus, who had been signed as a free agent the night before. Pietrus made his Celtics debut on Jan. 11 and has averaged 8.3 points while playing nearly 23 minutes a game over 12 games. Rivers loves Pietrus’s 3-point shooting, but he is even more enamored with his defense.

“Just his defensive presence on our team has been phenomenal,” Rivers said. “It’s amazing. He’s like Kevin is for our starters. He’s becoming that for our second unit.

He holds everybody accountable.”

The Celtics, like every team, have had their share of injuries.

Garnett is the only Celtics starter and Bass the only reserve to have appeared in all 21 games.

When these two teams met to inaugurate the season, the widespread belief at the time was that they would be the top two teams in the Atlantic Division, with the Knicks posing a real threat to end the Celtics’ four-year reign as division champions.

Almost six weeks later, both teams are well behind Philadelphia, with the Celtics trying to close the gap and the Knicks much closer to the division’s basement than the lead.

N.F.L. plans more Thursday night games INDIANAPOLIS — The N.F.L. will play more Thursday night games next season, with every team playing at least one Thursday game following a Sunday game and each team having at least one prime-time game, either on Thursday, Sunday or Monday.

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Coaches and players are likely to have mixed emotions about the schedule switch. Playing Thursday after a Sunday gives coaches less time to prepare and players less time to heal, but players

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"In the long run, we're allowing people to live right near where they work and right near where they need to access goods and services," Ryan said.

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"I'm very aware of the process that goes on and the difficulty of doing housing in Portland, especially in the historic district," he said.

Ryan said work began in the first week of January, when crews launched interior abatement of toxic materials such as asbestos and paint, but this week was the start of exterior site work. The 53-week construction schedule means Elm Terrace should be finished by the second week of January 2013.

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Elm Terrace also qualified for state and federal historic tax credits, because the project involves historic rehabilitation of the neighboring building owned by the University of Southern Maine, which is a "building of historic significance," Ryan noted.

The city invested funds for abatement of toxic materials as well, he said.

"In the end, for fixing up this older building and revitalizing that whole area in a historic district, you have the added benefit of having much-needed affordable housing," Ryan said.

"Portland has a great need for affordable housing, and it costs some money to create affordable housing, and Portland has some beautiful buildings that are landmark buildings, and this is a gateway location, and it makes sense in my mind to preserve our

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Authority called the developers on projected costs, so the plans were adjusted to reduce the per-unit cost to $265,000 per unit, he said.

In a MaineHousing Q&A, the financing agency wrote: "Why did MaineHousing approve $314,000 for 1,100 square foot apartments?" The response: "MaineHousing has not approved the Elm Terrace project. The State Treasurer has been provided this information on numerous occasions. MaineHousing has demanded that the developer reduce the cost to $265,000 per unit."

When The Daily Sun contacted Poliquin's office seeking comment on the issue of affordable housing, the treasurer's office deferred questions to Peter Anastos, chair of the board at MaineHousing. Efforts to reach Anastos were unsuccessful.

Cullen Ryan, executive director of Community Housing of Maine, the project's developer, said, "This building is right at the average cost on a per-squarefoot basis. ... It never really was $314,000, the percentage was approaching that."

But when costs were rising, MaineHousing allowed an increase in units and the developer divided three units into several smaller units to bring down the per-unit cost, Ryan explained. Where three-bedroom apartments were planned, now instead a mix of onebedroom and efficiencies will be built, he said.

"The politics changed who was going to be able to get housing," Ryan said.

"In terms of cost, what made this cost somewhat significant more than it possibly could have been is we had to build parking underneath the building, and it's expensive to build a parking garage underneath the building, but that's a result of (Portland's) parking ordinance," Ryan added.

MaineHousing is the housing finance organization that distributes tax credits.

"This is a housing tax credit project, so basically there are funds that come through the Maine State

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Still, earmarks contributed significantly to state and local government coffers, said Karen Kunz, an assistant professor of public administration at the University of West Virginia. Over the past decade, state-specific earmarks added, on average, $8.6 billion annually to state coffers, or $172 million per state per year, she said.

“You hear a lot about things like worm research or tea museums, but most earmark funding was for local infrastructure or social services,” said Dr. Kunz, who has studied the impact of federal earmarks on state budgets.

In Pueblo, Mr. Pacheco said earmarks had played a major role in helping the city with several infrastructure projects, like $300,000 to fix an aging sewer system that John Salazar, a Democrat, procured when he represented the state in Congress.

From 2005 to 2010, the city received $14 million in earmarks.

Mr. Pacheco said that the city was hoping to get money to repair an older section of an interstate highway that runs through the city, but that it was unclear if there would be financing for it.

In the absence of Congressional earmarks, Mr. Pacheco said the city was increasing its lobbying to persuade federal officials to contribute government money. The city spent $60,000 lobbying the federal government last year, up from $40,000 the year before.

“It makes it difficult for a place like Pueblo, which has a shrinking budget, but we can’t forgo the effort,” he said.

In Alabama, Chris Newlin, executive director of the National Children’s Advocacy Center in Huntsville, is also dealing with the loss of earmarked federal dollars.

The center provides free medical exams and therapy for abused children and training for thousands of child care professionals from across the United States and 20 other countries.

But since the Congressional earmarks ban, Mr. Newlin said the center had lost about $350,000 a year that it had gotten through Representative Robert E. Cramer, Democrat of Alabama, who left Congress in 2009. Mr. Cramer was a co-founder of the center in 1985 while he was a local district attorney. The center has an annual budget of $5 million.

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More than a year after Congress forswore earmarks, the oft-criticized legislative gimmick that financed pet projects, communities that relied on federal money for legitimate needs say they are facing a harsh budget reality.

Across the country, dozens of small local governments say they are using the few dollars they have to increase their Washington lobbying efforts to try to compete against bigger and better financed localities for federal grants.

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Joe Bearor (left) and Rob Cameron star in “Next Fall” at Good Theater (Photo by Craig Robinson)

‘Next Fall’ a stage experience that shouldn’t be missed is a solid acting foundation for the cast to build and play upon. Cameron’s performance is flawless and worth the price of admisEvery so often, if you’re sion. Rather he’s being the lucky, you get to experience very funny hypochondriacal, the perfect play. Good Thefatalistic or the emotional ater, of Portland, opened the loving partner, Cameron “is” new year with the dramAdam and takes the audiedy, “Next Fall,” by Geoffrey ence on a painfully beautiful Nauffts and brought to the journey of life and love. Joe stage one of the best plays ––––– Bearor (Luke) is Cameron’s I have seen in a very long Theatre equal in every way and gives time. Start to finish, this Talk a strong performance that is an experience not to be will rip you apart emotionmissed. ally as he struggles with the This play is about two men challenges of faith and relationships. in a committed relationship with a For this play to work, you must believe twist: Luke is devoutly religious and that despite their essential dissimiAdam is an atheist. The play revolves larities, Adam and Luke are meant to around their five-year relationship be together. The chemistry between and how they make it work despite Cameron and Bearor is without questheir differences. However, when an tion and incredibly natural. accident changes everything, Adam And the same is true of everyone must look within himself and those else: Tony Reilly (Butch) and Moira around him for support and answers.

Driscoll (Arlene) are Luke’s divorced Although “Next Fall” involves two parents. Reilly’s born-again fundamen, its theme is universal and mentalist is disturbingly real. Reilly’s paints a beautiful and funny portrait performance is layered heavily on of modern romance, asking hard questhe anti-gay, but his final moments tions about commitment, love and break barriers with emotional force. faith that anyone can relate to.

Driscoll’s performance as the reformed Directed by Brian P. Allen, “Next wild woman of Southern-fried eccenFall” is full of sharp humor and tricities makes her one of the funniunflinching honesty with a Broadest actresses in Maine. Abigail Killeen way caliber cast of six. Allen moves (Holly) plays Adam’s longtime confithe play effortlessly from present day dante with humor and a heart-warmto flashbacks, each scene packed full ing glue that tries to keep everyone of emotional and physical moments together. Matt Delamater (Brandon) that are as comfortable as if you were plays an old friend of Luke’s who watching your favorite long-running won’t accept his friend’s relationship sitcom. Regardless if you’re straight, with Adam. Delamater’s character is gay or questioning, Allen lets the perhaps the hardest one to act in the audience take their own journey with show, due to its underlying secrets. unobtrusive and skillful direction.

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Oscar picks: Travel Channel host Anthony Bourdain

BY RACHEL LEE HARRIS THE NEW YORK TIMES

When it comes to opinions, Anthony Bourdain, the chef, Travel Channel host (“No Reservations” and “The Layover”) and author, does not beat around the bush. “I loathed ‘Midnight in Paris,’ he said by phone as he drove home from a television shoot in Manhattan. “I beyond loathed ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Twee,’ I mean, ‘Incredibly Close.’ I just hated those films so deeply.”

And don’t even think about suggesting Meryl Streep for best actress. But his admiration for “The Tree of Life,” was equally as strong. “It was just head and shoulders more ambitious than anything else on Bourdain the list,” he said.

Mr. Bourdain comes from a family of “huge, huge, huge film nerds,” he said. “I grew up in a house with lush picture books about films; my parents were both very serious about them. Foreign, art, everything.” Full disclosure: Mr. Bourdain’s mother was a staff editor at The New York Times for many years.

His father worked early on at Willoughby’s Camera Emporium and “was able to rent a 16-millimeter projector and show us 16-millimeter classic films,” Mr. Bourdain recalled. “I’d seen the entire Janus Film collection by the time I was 10 or 11. François Truffaut was a hero in my house.”

He will put that knowledge to good use on April 10 as a guest programmer for Turner Classic Movies, discussing “The Searchers,” “Eyes Without a Face” and other films with Robert Osborne.

As for more modern fare, like this year’s Oscar contenders, check out Mr. Bourdain’s ballot, then read more about his preferences below in excerpts from the conversation.

Q. Why such animosity for “Midnight in Paris”?

A. I just think if you’re into Djuna Barnes jokes, then this is the film for you. It’s everything bad about Woody Allen. It panders to a tiny, tiny minority. It is characters that don’t exist in real life, speaking dialogue like no one has ever spoken except in a Woody Allen film. It looked good and I guess the little History, Literature and Art 101 was impressive to somebody. If the word “elitist” didn’t exist before, now it would. I hated everything about it.

Q. Do you tend to like more realistic stories?

A. Generally. “Tree of Life” is in no way what I usually like to see in films, which is what really impressed the hell out of me. It’s just this gorgeously hand-crafted piece of art.

Q. You chose it for best picture.

A. I am seriously rooting for it. I just think it’s such a technical and ambitious film. It sends a message.

Attempting something like this should be rewarded. It’s such a beautiful film by a guy who’s got it coming. It’s a transcendent film even if it’s a difficult one.

Q. And so you picked Terrence Malick for best director.

A. Please, Terrence Malick. He deserves it. He should be encouraged.

And I hope that if he does win, it will drive fear, terror and be an inspiration to less ambitious directors.

Q. No Brad or George, or even Jean, for best actor? You went with a dark horse on this one.

A. I’d like to see Gary Oldman take this one. He’s had it coming for past great works and talk about a big job, following the footsteps of Alec Guinness.

Q. You picked Nick Nolte, another dark horse in this race, for best supporting actor.

A. I’m really rooting for Nick Nolte.

I thought “Warrior” was a criminally overlooked, under-attended film. I thought that there were some terrific performances in there and I thought he did really great work. The British guy, Tom Hardy, was frighteningly good. He totally transformed himself, his body.

You don’t believe for one second that he’s British. He inhabits the character.

You absolutely believe him.

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In act two, Delamater’s acting cork finally gets unplugged as he reveals a very disturbing yet very moving revelation.

Set design by Craig Robinson is perfect. Robinson creates a roomy playground of suggested locations for the actors to play on, making transitions between scenes smooth and quick. Iain Odlin (Lighting Designer) and Stephen Underwood (Sound Designer) compliment Allen’s direction and vision with perfect color, focus and music. Justin Cote (Costume Designer) dresses everyone appropriately, matching styles, colors and accessories to their characters.

At the show’s end, patron tears flowed like the big and uneasy ques-

tions this play asks. Don’t expect them to go away when the play is over. This is one journey that will stay with you long after you leave the theater.

Good Theater will present “Next Fall” through Feb. 19 at St. Lawrence Arts, 76 Congress St., Portland. For information and tickets call 885-5883 or go to goodtheater.com.

(Michael J. Tobin has been a professional actor, director, theatre administrator and educator for 30 years in theaters throughout New England and around the country. Mr. Tobin has performed and directed in 350-plus shows Off-Broadway, National Tours, Regional Theatre, Summer Stock, Children’s Theatre and Community Theatre. Mr. Tobin lives in South Portland.)

Q. You picked Viola Davis for best actress and Octavia Spencer for supporting actress. Are you impressed by the substantial roles for women this year?

A. I haven’t noticed any appreciable improvement in the general attitude. I think we had a film with a lot of great women in it but unfortunately that’s still an anomaly. I mean, look who’s nominated again: its Meryl Streep; Glenn Close. Gee, great leap forward there.

Q. What did you think about the cooking in “The Help”?

A. It was good stuff. It wasn’t professional cooking. It didn’t make that much of an impression on me, honestly.

I was caught up in the story.

Q. Does watching people make food in films distract you?

A. I have two reactions. I’m either nodding appreciatively, as with “Eat Drink Man Woman,” where its just dead-on, beautifully staged, paced, timed preparation of meals; or move to spluttering outrage when its false or fake, like with “Frankie and Johnny.”

Q. What’s your favorite movie snack?

A. I’m one of these guys that’s like, don’t eat anywhere near me during a film. Do not miss the coming attractions. God, please don’t talk. But if anything, I’m a traditionalist: popcorn.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

There’s much to do, and you’re in the mood to get straight to the point. You have a way of stating things that makes your listener understand immediately what you want and they’ll feel inclined to deliver.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

A friendly mood prevails, though you may have to be the one to break the ice. You’re brave that way. Once you reach out, you find that you have more in common with people than you would have guessed.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

Make a list, and put it in order of importance. The second part will be your key to happiness. When you make sure to do what means the most to you, it won’t matter if you don’t get to everything else or not.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your goals are best kept to yourself and the people who are directly involved in their completion. If you tell everyone else, you risk being encouraged ad nauseam.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 4).

Your birthday starts a trend of financial improvement. You may be tender with those you love, but they still know that you’re a powerful force in the world.

The theme permeates your year. The kindness you show working with others will attract new friends and business opportunities in March. April and July bring travel. Leo and Gemini adore you.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Find your people and act in concert. What happens when your values are aligned with the values of a larger group will be so impressive you might even call it magical.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Take extreme caution when communicating on the Internet. You’ll notice how the rants of your friends and family seem a tad crazy from the objective light of an online message board. Resolve not to make the same mistake.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Your career goals, while not entirely realistic by most standards, are still in the realm of possibility, as evidenced by the many others who have reached similar goals.

Keep going!

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You are committed to pursuing your interests now, especially the more entrepreneurial ones. Every task you are assigned will lead to deeper understanding of your purpose.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The demands of tomorrow seem to be tapping at your window begging to be addressed, while the pleasures of today move you to draw the curtains.

All things will be handled in due time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Embrace the intangible. Moments cannot be accurately measured in increments of time anymore than dreams can be measured in increments of weight. Both happen out of time and stretch through other dimensions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You cannot spend your time defending your choices and answering every bit of negativity you see and still be productive. In order to finish your work, you’ll have to master the fine art of ignoring people.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, Feb. 4, the 35th day of 2012. There are 331 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 4, 1962, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was founded in Memphis, Tenn., by entertainer Danny Thomas.

On this date: In 1783, Britain’s King George III proclaimed a formal cessation of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War. In 1789, electors chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.

In 1861, delegates from six southern states that had recently seceded from the Union met in Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.

In 1932, New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid.

In 1941, the United Service Organizations (USO) came into existence.

In 1962, a rare conjunction of the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn occurred.

In 1972, Mariner 9, orbiting Mars, transmitted images of the red planet.

In 1974, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

In 1976, more than 23,000 people died when a severe earthquake struck Guatemala with a magnitude of 7.5, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

In 1982, President Ronald Reagan announced a plan to eliminate all medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe.

In 1983, pop singer-musician Karen Carpenter died in Downey, Calif., at age 32.

In 1987, pianist Liberace died at his Palm Springs, Calif., home at age 67.

One year ago: President Barack Obama appealed to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to focus on his legacy and begin an orderly process to relinquish the power he’d held for 30 years; however, Obama stopped short of calling for Mubarak’s immediate resignation. Iraq’s prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, said he would return half of his annual salary to the public treasury in a symbolic gesture that appeared calculated to insulate him against anti-government unrest spreading across the Middle East.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor William Phipps is 90. Actor Conrad Bain is 89. Former Argentinian President Isabel Peron is 81. Comedian David Brenner is 76. Actor Gary Conway is 76. Movie director George A. Romero is 72. Rock musician John Steel (The Animals) is 71. Singer Florence LaRue (The Fifth Dimension) is 68. Former Vice President Dan Quayle is 65. Rock singer Alice Cooper is 64. Actor Michael Beck is 63. Actress Lisa Eichhorn is 60. Football Hall-of-Famer Lawrence Taylor is 53. Rock singer Tim Booth is 52.

Rock musician Henry Bogdan is 51. Country singer Clint Black is 50. Rock musician Noodles is 49. Country musician Dave Buchanan is 46.

Actress Gabrielle Anwar is 42. Actor Rob Corddry is 41. Singer David Garza is 41. Actor Michael Goorjian is 41. Boxer Oscar De La Hoya is 39.

Singer Natalie Imbruglia is 37. Rock singer Gavin DeGraw is 35. Olympic gold medal gymnastturned-singer Carly Patterson is 24.

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He says he has a good job, but our family strongly suspects he is dealing drugs again. He has two children with an exgirlfriend who is bipolar and not taking her medication.

The children had a weeklong break from school, and my brother left them with the ex-girlfriend’s sister. She is a single mother with eight children of her own. She is also lazy and nasty. When I visited the kids, all the children came outside.

One teenage child smelled strongly of marijuana. Another had crusting body sores all over. My niece told me there was dog poop on the boys’ bedroom floor, and I could see clothes piled up to the windows.

My brother left his children in this same home a year ago, and when my family found out, we threatened to call Child Protective Services. He promised to get them out of that horrid environment and begged us to give him time. When I saw that the kids were back in that house and that nothing had changed, I called the police.

Afterward, my brother phoned, angry that I’d called the authorities before speaking to him. He said he’d inspected the house prior to sending the kids there and was assured it was being cleaned up. Annie, I don’t believe him. He has a history of dealing and using drugs. He’s a liar and a manipulator. Meanwhile, the police did nothing, and now my brother won’t speak to me. Even my niece is angry.

I’m beginning to feel I did the wrong thing. How do I fix this? -- Hurt in California Dear Hurt: You did nothing wrong. Your brother cannot be trusted, and the mother of these children is not capable of caring for them. Everyone may be doing the best they can, but it is simply not adequate. Could you or someone in your family take these children into your home? Your brother might be relieved to know they are with a responsible care-

giver. Or, if you still feel the children are in danger, report the conditions anonymously to Child Protective Services and ask them to investigate. If the situation warrants the children’s removal from the home, they will handle it.

Dear Annie: Two years ago, some dear friends got married. We threw them an engagement party at our home and purchased a lovely gift for their wedding. We also offered the use of our home as a “staging area” for the wedding and reception. Due to a family emergency at the last minute, we were unable to attend the wedding.

We never received a thank-you note for our gift, not to mention our support. There wasn’t even a verbal acknowledgement of our help. I’m offended, but I know there’s no comfortable way to broach the subject. Any advice? -- Ohio Dear Ohio: Is it possible your friends sent you a thank-you note that was lost? Could the gift or card have been misplaced? Otherwise, we despair of such poor manners and lack of appreciation. Since this still bothers you, it may help repair the friendship if you speak up. Here are the words: “Did you ever receive the crystal bowl we sent for your wedding? We never heard from you and worry that it was lost in transit.” We hope they use the opportunity to thank you profusely.

Dear Annie: “Road Worrier” should check to see whether her state has a Drivers Safety Division. Some have forms online to recommend that a particular driver be tested. Of course, valid reasons have to be stated. The driver in question is then summoned to take a driving test. I had to do this for my father. -- Been Down hat Road Dear Been: Concerned friends and relatives can look online or check their state DMV, local police or department of transportation to see whether such forms are available.

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.

Prickly City

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Spike in reported rabid animals prompts alert AUGUSTA — State health officials are asking Mainers to be cautious around wild animals and to vaccinate pets amid a spike in confirmed cases of rabies infected wildlife.

The state’s Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed 11 cases of wild animals testing positive for rabies in the first month of 2012.

In all of 2011, only a single case of rabies was found, officials said.

Rapid animals have been reported in seven Maine counties, including Cumberland County. The virus is spread when an infected animal scratches or bites another animal and is most common among raccoons, skunks, bats foxes and coyotes, officials said.

“The uncharacteristically warm weather that we’ve been experiencing and the lack of significant snowfall may be contributing to the increase by enabling wild animals to roam more freely,” said Dr. Von Hoening, state veterinarian with the Maine Department of Agriculture.

Officials say people should avoid contact with wild animals and keep pets close to home, as well as ensure pets are up to date on rabies vaccinations.

For more information, residents are ask to contact their local animal control office or the Maine Centers for Disease Control at 1-800-821-5821.

AG warns of rental scam AUGUSTA — The Maine Attorney General’s Office is warning churches and other nonprofits to be on the lookout for people seeking help paying their rent, according to published reports.

Attorney General William Schneider announced there have been several reports from church officials who say they have received calls from renters asking for help paying their landlords.

Schneider explained the calls appear to have been scams and warns other agencies and churches to scrutinize people seeking rental assistance.

The callers requested payments be sent to the “land lady” whose address is a postoffice box in Washington D.C., according to the Associated Press.

State committee rejects voter ID AUGUSTA — The state’s Legal and Veterans Affairs Committee voted down a proposal Friday that would require voters to present a photo ID before casting a ballot in an election, officials said.

Good government groups hailed the decision by lawmakers to reject the proposal, saying the rule would be “an unacceptable burden for thousands of eligible Maine voters,” according to American Civil Liberties Union of Maine.

“By rejecting photo ID, the committee has stood up for everyone’s fundamental right to vote and have their voices heard,” stated Shenna Bellows, executive director of the ACLU of Maine.

‘Cops with Cakes’ recognized PORTLAND — Members of the public and the Portland Police Department are being recognized today for their contributions in helping make Portland a safer community, officials said.

The Officer of the Year and other commendations will be presented today during the Portland Police Annual Award Breakfast.

One of the programs slated to receive recognition is Cops with Cakes, which was designed to “help bridge the gap between local youth and police officers,” according to officials.

Cops with Cakes volunteer officers attend birthday parties with cakes in hand for children who stay with their families at the city’s family shelter.

Many of the cakes are baked by members of the department, officials said.

The ceremony will be held at Holiday Inn by the Bay, 88 Spring St., at 9 a.m.

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Saturday, Feb. 4 Race Up Boston Place 8 a.m. On-site registration at One Boston Place begins for the Race Up Boston Place. Registration fee is $50 in addition to the $100 fundraising minimum. “In 2009 and 2010, the Local 740 Portland Fire Department returned to Maine with the Race Up Boston Place firefighter trophy in tow. In 2011, the guys were defeated by the Needham Fire Department, by a mere 18 seconds.” Next year, the Portland team will be back. “The race to the top this coming February is sure to be exciting. The 2012 Race Up Boston Place stairclimb will be held on Feb. 4 at One Boston Place in the Mellon Financial Building. Sponsors for the event include: CB Richard Ellis, Aeropoint Security Enterprises, WZLX 100.7, Mix 104.1, Captivate Network, Boston Magazine, and Whole Foods Market. All participants are responsible for a $35 registration fee as well as a $100 fundraising minimum. All proceeds benefit lung disease research, advocacy and programs as well as anti-tobacco and clean air initiatives in Massachusetts. Visit www.climbofyourlife.org for more information.

Year of the Dragon 10:30 a.m. The Chinese and American Friendship Association of Maine will ring in the Year of the Dragon at its new venue, the Westbrook Performing Arts Center, 471 Stroudwater Street, Westbrook, starting at 10:30 a.m. The new venue has a huge auditorium and plenty of parking.

As usual, at 11 a.m., the CAFAM Chinese School students’ Chinese dance program will highlight the festivities. The Riverview Foundation will present lively martial arts demonstrations. There will be lots of children’s activities including several tables with fun arts and crafts as well as face painting. Adults can enjoy a panel discussion, featuring Eliot Cutler, on the mutual importance of China and America today. Maine author Susan Conley will read from her new book Foremost Good Fortune and will do a book signing. You can learn to play Mah Jong and attend Chinese cooking demonstrations, Yummy Chinese food provided

by BubbleMainea and dumplings by the Chinese School.

Vendors will be selling craft items from China and books related to China. Admission: Adults $6, Children under 12 $4, Children 2 and under free. CAFAM members: Adults $4, Children $3. Family: $20. Go to www.cafammaine.org.

Adoptable dogs in Scarborough 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Join the Animal Welfare Society Mobile Adoption Team and visit with some adoptable canines at the Pet Quarters, 486 Payne Road, Scarborough. For more information, call Animal Welfare Society at 985-3244 (www. animalwelfaresociety.org) or Pet Quarters at 885-5005.

‘Puss ‘n Boots’ 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. 4 at 11 a.m.; Sunday, Feb. 5 at 2 p.m.; 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.

13th Annual Sleigh Day in N. Yarmouth noon to 3 p.m. Skyline Farm hosts its 13th Annual Sleigh Day, in conjunction with its new exhibit, “Winter Transportation: From Horse to Horseless.” The cost is $8, or $30/ family. The sleigh museum features a new exhibit ‘Winter Transportation: From Horse to Horseless’ which depicts the evolution of horse-drawn transportation, beginning with a Travois, once used by Native Americans to carry cargo, and ending with a rare 1906 ‘Black Motor Buggy’ on loan from Owls Head Transportation Museum. The ‘Black’ vehicle and other motorized vehicles of its time were the beginning of the end of the horse-drawn era.” The museum exhibit is also open on Sundays from 1-4 p.m., Feb. 5 through March 25. Storm date is Sunday, Feb. 5. For more information, call Lynn at 8995837 or Pam at 829-5708. Skyline Farm, a nonprofit organization, is located at 95 The Lane, North Yarmouth.

Dan Zanes and Friends 1 p.m. Dan Zanes and Friends Family Series presented by Portland Ovations at Hannaford Hall, University of Southern Maine. This show is sold out. “Dan Zanes & Friends create

Supporters of OccupyMaine gather in Monument Square a day after police crackdowns in other cities’ Occupy encampments stirred up anger. OccupyMaine has lost a court case and faces a deadline of 8 a.m. Monday to vacate Portland’s Lincoln Park. But some say the movement is not over. On Sunday, Feb. 12, at 1 p.m., Andrew Bossie, executive director of Maine Citizens for Clean Elections, will join members and friends of Allen Avenue will present Occupy Maine, “Money And Politics,” a talk at Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland. The conversation is about the origin, meaning, importance, and future of the OccupyMaine movement.

(DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) fun-filled, rockin’ interactive dance parties wherever they go, performing exuberant, handmade 21st-century music that transcends language, genre, and age.”

Valentine’s Day with the Rat Pack 7 p.m. Anthony’s Dinner Theater and Cabaret presents a Valentine’s Day show, “A Tribute to the Rat Pack.” $39.95 per person includes free rose for every lady plus five-course dinner. Show starts at 7 p.m. Call 221-2267 for reservations.

Free parking, handicap accessible. www.anthonysdinnertheater.com

‘Next Fall’ by Good Theater 7:30 p.m. “Next Fall” by Geoffrey Nauffts, Jan. 25 to Feb. 19. “Good Theater presents the Maine premiere of this recent Best Play Tony Award nominee. A charming, funny and touching play about life and love from one of the writers of the hit TV series, Brothers & Sisters.” Directed by Brian P. Allen and starring Joe Bearor, Rob Cameron, Matt Delamater, Moira Driscoll Abbie Killeen and Tony Reilly. St Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. Wednesdays 7 p.m. ($15), Thursdays 7 p.m. ($20), Fridays 7:30 p.m. ($20), Saturday 7:30 p.m. ($25), Sundays 2 p.m. ($25) with a special added matinee on Saturday, Feb. 11, 3 p.m. ($20). Reservations and information call 885-5883. Presented by Good Theater, a professional theater; the theater is in residence at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. www.goodtheater.com

Mad Horse Theatre Company’s ‘Becky Shaw’ 8 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre Company presents “Becky Shaw,” “the Pulitzer Prize finalist and smash hit by Obie Award winning playwright Gina Gionfriddo. In what The New York Times calls ‘a comedy of bad manners,’ a woman fixes up her romantically challenged best friend with her husband’s mysterious co-worker. The date goes horribly awry, forcing the matchmakers to examine their own relationship and leading the daters to an emotional detente.”

Written by Gina Gionfriddo, directed by James Herrera.

Tickets are $22 student/senior $20. The Maine Premiere of “Becky Shaw” marks the first time Mad Horse Theatre Company has produced a work by Gionfriddo. It also marks the directorial debut of company member James Herrera, who jumped at the chance to helm a cast made up entirely of Mad Horse Theatre Company members. According to Herrera, the cast made his transition from actor to director easier than it could have been. Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. Lucid Stage. http:// madhorse.com/gallery/show/becky_shaw.php call Occupy Maine at 221-5899.

Sunday, Feb. 5 Handmade Puppet Dreams 6 p.m. Handmade Puppet Dreams Volume 4 and Live Puppetry Performance of Solomon and Ashmedai. From

IBEX Puppetry. Handmade Puppet Dreams. “A selection of puppet film shorts by independent artists exploring their handmade craft specifically for the camera. Showcasing a new generation of puppeteers embracing film as their medium for their individual expressions, this collection features films that focus primarily on real-time performed puppetry. Stylistically, the films run the gamut from marionettes to finger puppets to paper cutouts; each artist articulating their own unique approach to animation and film. Handmade Puppet Dreams is a compilation of contemporary artisans who carefully weave their craft of film-making and puppetry into their work, building their visions, and breathing life into their dreams.” www.handmadepuppetdreams.com

Monday, Feb. 6 Cumberland County Civic Center Board 8 a.m. There will be a special meeting of the Cumberland County Civic Center Board of Trustees in the main lobby meeting room. The agenda includes review of the candidates for construction manager on the $33 million renovation of the Civic Center; submissions will be reviewed, and the board will work on a short list on finalists. www.theciviccenter.com

‘Will You Be Mine?’

8 p.m. Acorn Productions’ Shakespeare Ensemble, a group dedicated to encouraging audiences to re-experience Shakespeare’s language and imagery, continues its Naked Shakespeare performances with “Will You Be Mine?” part of the monthly “Sonnet and Soliloquies” series. These performances will feature eight to ten company members performing short selections from Shakespeare’s text at the Wine Bar at 38 Wharf St. in Portland’s Old Port. Each selection is presented by the actors in a contemporary scenario that highlights the universal nature of Shakespeare’s language. Actors will be mingled in and around the audience, delivering sonnets and soliloquies conversationally to one another and the audience in unexpected ways that will allow listeners to find new meaning in the text. The performance of “Will You Be Mine?” “is free with an $8 suggested donation.” “Will You Be Mine?” features selections from some of Shakespeare’s most beloved works, including the following plays: “All’s Well That Ends Well,” “As You Like It,” “Julius Caesar,” “A Midsummer’s Night Dream,” “Romeo and Juliet,” and “The Merchant of Venice.” The text will be brought to life by the 9 actors from the Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble: Karen Ball, Laura Graham, Michael Levine, Stephanie Ross, April Singley, Johnny Speckman, Nate Speckman. The evening is directed by Acorn’s Producing Director Michael Levine. see next page

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Tuesday, Feb. 7 Judy Prescott at Longfellow Books noon. Judy Prescott, California-based actress (“True Blood,” “Cold Case,” “ER,” etc.) and Alzheimer’s advocate, will discuss and sign copies of “Searching for Cecy” at Longfellow Books. “The book is a tribute to her mother, a Maine resident, who suffers from the disease.”

Mechanics’ library book club noon. Maine Charitable Mechanic Association. The Mechanics’ library book club meets for a discussion of “Suite Francaise” by Irene Nemirovsky. Please bring a lunch; drinks and dessert are provided.

For more info you can call Pat at the library at 773-8396. www.mainecharitablemechanicassociation.com

‘The Psychology of the Sale’

we want presentations?

Or do we want to be apart of the conversations and decisions that impact our neighborhoods? Meeting structure? Request city resources for neighborhood leadership training; attend national neighborhood conferences, minigrants for neighborhood projects, celebrations, etc.

UNO mission is to provide forums that assist and unify Portland’s historic and diverse Neighborhood Associations. We are important to our city and its important that your ideas help shape future meetings. We plan to present meeting outcomes during the March Neighborhood Advisory Committee Meeting. We welcome your input, feedback and participation. We encourage you to share this information with your membership.

If you cannot attend but want to participate please send your comments and or ideas to schiller.carol@ yahoo.com.”

noon to 1 p.m. “Wisdom at Work” weekly professional development series held in February at the Portland Public Library on Tuesdays, Feb. 7 through Feb. 28. The Psychology of the Sale: Learn the latest strategies for selling your ideas, your products, and yourself — no matter what obstacles stand in your way. Sponsored by the Portland Public Library, and Portland career counselor Barbara Babkirk and psychologist Amy Wood, Wisdom at Greendrinks at Work is a free series of lunchtime profesMariner’s Church sional development workshops designed p.m.

Mariner’s to help people be happier and more pro- Acorn Productions’ “Fairy Tale Players,” an ensemble of children, teens and adults who have studied at the Acorn Acting Academy, 5:30 ductive in the world of work. Facilitated continues its third season of productions with Producing Director Michael Levine’s adaptation of “Puss ‘n Boots.” The show is 11 Church, 11 Moulton St. Local farmers showcasing by local experts ranging from human a.m. today in Westbrook. (COURTESY PHOTO) Community Supported resource specialists to peak performance Agriculture options, Portto 3 p.m. Registration is required. The Portland Public coaches, Wisdom at Work workshops land Food Co-op of Maine, South Portland Community Library will host two identical workshops for computer attract professionals from every field, job seekers, stuGarden Collective. http://portlandgreendrinks.com beginners who would like to learn computer basics. The dents, and entrepreneurs. Other sessions include: Feb. Workshop will be led by Raminta Moore, Library Technical 14: The Fine Art of Working Smart: Discover strategies for Greendrinks event at Salt Exchange Aid at the Portland Public Library and will cover topics such doing more in less time — without sacrificing quality, with 7 p.m. Monthly Greendrinks event. “In February, our netas the components of a computer, mousing exercises, how Amy Wood, a Portland and Kennebunk-based psycholoworking event will feature local farmers who will be on hand to scroll, and how to navigate the web. This class is made gist in private practice. Feb. 21: How To Make a Successful to talk about their farms, CSA Share options, and of course, possible because of a Broadband Technology Opportunity Career Transition, learn the “magic” equation to determinfood. So what is a GreenDinner you ask? The concept is Program (BTOP) grant awarded to the Maine State Library ing a new career direction and effective strategies to land simple: create a new opportunity to connect you to local in July 2010. There is limited space available for each of the job you’re aiming for, with Barbara Babkirk, a Master food, farms, businesses and each other. You buy tickets up these trainings and participants must register in advance Career Counselor. Her business, Heart At Work, is based front and get a delicious, local meal at the Salt Exchange, at the Library’s Public Computing desk or by calling 871in Portland and offers career counseling and second half four courses for only $35.” The Salt Exchange, 245 Com1700, ext. 708. of life career transitions as well as customized outplacemercial St., Portland. http://portlandgreendrinks.com ment services. Feb. 28: Mastering the Beliefs That Drive Maine Successful Thinkers event Citizens Police Academy in Westbrook Your Financial Life: Uncover the counterproductive money 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Home Again by Hancock Lumber, 140 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The Westbrook Police Department beliefs — we all have them — creating stress in your work Maine Mall Road, South Portland. “Networking, food, announced the start date of the department’s first Citizens life, and learn more productive and prosperous ways of vendors, cash bar, music by EMB Productions with spePolice Academy. The purpose of the Academy is to prothinking about money, with Amy Wood, a Portland and cial guitar guest Jim Pryor, inspiration, and this night some vide Westbrook citizens with an increased understanding Kennebunk-based psychologist in private practice. awesome education by an outstanding panel of business of the daily operation of the Police Department. Course coaches. The panel of business coaches will be moderated Fat Tuesday Cajun Cooking Challenge work will include both classroom and “hands-on” trainby Jim Bouchard http://jimbouchard.org Some of the panel noon to 3 p.m. WMPG, Southern Maine’s communty radio ing. Classes will begin Wednesday, Feb. 8, and will be held members: Dante Vespignani, David Lee, ‘Coach’ John station at the University of Southern Maine, is hosting its every Wednesday evening from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. for 10 Brubaker, and Arthur Fink. Each month Maine Successful 17th annual Fat Tuesday Cajun Cooking Challenge featurweeks. During the training participants will learn about, and Thinkers highlights a nonprofit. This night: Open Sky Fund, ing local restaurants in USM’s Woodbury Campus Center, be exposed to, many different areas of law enforcement to http://openskyfund.org. Maine Successful Thinkers is an Portland. At the event, WMPG will broadcast Mardi Gras include: Ride with an on-duty patrol officer; observe how organization open to all, dedicated to helping small busiand Carnival music from all over the world. Local restauemergency calls are received and dispatched; experience nesses grow through effective networking and relationship rants prepare their best Cajun fare for this event and attendhow detectives investigate crimes; and observe how Crime building, while supporting local non-profit organizations.” ees will be asked to vote for their favorite dish. There will Scene Technicians collect and analyze evidence. ApplicaRSVP at www.MaineSuccessfulThinkers.org or $5 at door. be raffles and giveaways throughout the day, and plenty tions are available at the Westbrook Police Department, FMI: 450-8270 or JeffBall@MaineSuccessfulThinkers.org of WMPG on-air personalities on hand. While the event is 570 Main St., Westbrook. Please contact Sergeant Timothy free and open to the public, a suggested donation of $3-$5 Morrell at 854-0644, ext. 526 for further information.

University Neighborhood Organization meeting is requested to cover the cost of hosting the annual Fat 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Portland Neighborhood Associations/ Tuesday Celebration. Last year, over 500 people attended.

Organizations Meeting at Portland City Hall, RM 124 BaseWednesday, Feb. 8 This year’s restaurants include: Silly’s Restaurant http:// ment Level. “For decades Portland’s diverse neighborhood www.sillys.com/ (2009-2011 winners); Hot Suppa www. organizations have met, contributed, advised and worked hotsuppa.com; Po’ Boys & Pickles http://www.poboysandAmerican Red Cross blood drive closely with Portland City Managers. Today, 2012 we are pickles.com; Gritty’s http://www.grittys.com; Great Lost 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. American Red Cross blood drive at MAS at a new crossroads. The City of Portland has a new city Bear http://www.greatlostbear.com; Izzy’s Cheesecake Home Care of Maine. “The last one was such a success — manager and a newly elected mayor. Mike Brennan, Portwww.izzyscheesecake.com; USM Dining/Aramark http:// MAS Home Care of Maine is teaming up with the American land Mayor shared during the city’s December Neighborwww.campusdish.com/en-us/CSNE/SouthernMaine; The Red Cross for another blood drive!” Location: MAS Home hood Advisory Committee meeting that we are important Frog & Turtle http://thefrogandturtle.com; Pepperclub Care of Maine, 21 Saco St., Westbrook. 591-4457. to Portland. Many of us were disappointed that the next www.pepperclubrestaurant.com; Empire Dine & Dance two meetings both January and February were canceled.

Brock Clarke speaks about his new book, ‘Exley’ www.portlandempire.com. Any restaurant, individual, or We see this as an opportunity to meet, talk, network, brainnoon to 1 p.m. Portland Public Library. “Brock Clark organization is welcome to enter the Cajun Cooking Chalstorm, discuss and identify the best ways to work with our speaks about his new book, ‘Exley,’ at the Brown Bag Leclenge. All entries must be pre-cooked and set up on the city officials. The University Neighborhood Organization ture Series.” “‘Exley’ is the story of young Miller Le Ray, for table by 11:30 a.m. and staffed until 3 p.m. Winners will be will host and invites you to attend Tuesday, Feb. 7 meeting. whom life has become a search. A search for his dad, who announced on-air after 4 p.m. Woodbury Campus Center, To do this we should develop our goals and discuss how to may or may not have joined the army and gone to Iraq. A University of Southern Maine, Portland Campus (Bedford best implement them in city processes. Mark Rees kindly search for a semifamous but notoriously obnoxious (and, Street). Dale Robin Goodman, 780-4151, development@ waived the meeting room fee making it possible for us to unfortunately, deceased) writer, Frederick Exley, author of the wmpg.org meet at City Hall. Come to the Feb. 7 meeting prepared ‘fictional memoir’ ‘A Fan’s Notes,’ who may hold the key to to share your thoughts. What do we want from the city’s Portland Public Library basic computer training bringing Miller’s father back. But most of all, his is a search monthly Neighborhood Advisory Committee Meetings? Do 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2 and Feb. 16 from 1 p.m. for truth.”

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Saturday, Feb. 4 ‘Dos Canosos, Un Joven’ 7:30 p.m. The trio “Dos Canosos, Un Joven” (translated: “Two Gray Haired Guys and One Young Guy”) will perform original and traditional Latin music at the New Gloucester Village Coffee House. Trio members are Raul Freyre (lead vocals, percussion), Gary Wittner (seven-string guitar, vocals) and Rafael Freyre (bass, vocals). The concert starts at 7:30, admission is $10, $5 for seniors. For more information please call 926-326 or visit http://garywittner.com.

El Grande at Empire 9 p.m. Februreggae! with El Grande and Roots, Rhythm & Dub at Empire Dine and Dance. El Grande is a groove-rock supergroup from Portland, Maine. Their unique sound has been accredited to their diverse musical inspirations ranging from 311 and the Police to Bob Marley and Miles Davis.

Their grooves vary between laid back reggae to upbeat ska and punk. El Grande’s rhythm section consists of frontman Chris Gironda on guitar and vocals, Tom Bailey on the kit and Shane Fenton laying down the bass line. Empire Dine and Dance. www.facebook.com/portlandempire

Tuesday, Feb. 7 Evening With Peter Frampton 7:30 p.m. Frampton Comes Alive! 35 Tour at the State Theatre. $70/$55/$45 Reserved Seating. The show will feature the Grammy-award Frampton performing his multi-platinum selling live album Frampton Comes Alive! in its entirety, plus highlights from throughout his career. The three-hour show features a complete performance of Frampton Comes Alive!, along with other highlights from his catalog, including his Grammy Award-winning instrumental album, 2006’s Fingerprints. http://www.statetheatreportland.com

Brass Night at St. Lawrence Arts Center 7:30 p.m. Mark Tipton featured. The Instrument Series at the St. Lawrence Arts Center is designed to expose the public to the unique sound and technical abilities of the major instruments of the orchestra. Mark has gathered a top-notch Brass Quintet together, in order to showcase each of the individual instruments, (trumpet, french horn, trombone, and tuba), followed by a thrilling ensemble performance of Standard Brass Quintet Repertoire. An engaging and educational performance for all ages, this is part of an on-going series at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. St. Lawrence Arts Center, Portland.

Thursday, Feb. 9 Michael Albert at First Parish noon. At First Parish Church, Portland, Michael Albert as part of the Portland Conservatory of Music’s 2012 Noonday Concert Series. Albert has performed as a soloist for many

Waylon Speed plays “Filthy Rotten Underground Outlaw Dirt Rock.” Waylon Speed will appear with Hobson’s Choice and Whale Oil at Empire Dine and Dance on Thursday, Feb. 9. (COURTESY PHOTO) orchestras and chamber ensembles as an oboist, vocalist and violinist throughout the U.S. and Canada. For information call the Portland Conservatory of Music at 775-3356.

Waylon Speed, Hobson’s Choice, Whale Oil 9:30 p.m. Waylon Speed, Hobson’s Choice, Whale Oil at Empire Dine and Dance. Waylon Speed is the convergence of four musicians from Burlington, Vermont, bringing their unstoppable no frills country-metal blend of rock to a rapidly growing horde of devoted fans nationwide.

The formation of this band could not have come at a better time. Seemingly overnight, they have become a staple in the music community, equipped with a full pallet of all original music. Since their formation in April 2009, Waylon Speed has been touring extensively and picking up new fans like truck tires pick up mud. In support of their debut release, Georgia Overdrive, Waylon Speed toured the east coast of the US two times over. Hobson’s Choice is a project of Thomas Bryan Eaton — Vocals/ Guitar/Pedal Steel/Keys/Bass/Drums/Mandolin/etc, with his friends. Whale Oil features Bill Scanlan, Brian “Junior” Saxton and McCrae Hathaway, three humble musicians from Portland.

Friday, Feb. 10 James Montgomery and Barrence Whitfield 7 p.m. James Montgomery Blues Band, Barrence Whitfield, and David Hull at Port City Music Hall. Two music legends and longtime friends, James Montgomery and Barrence Whitfield, join forces for a show featuring James’ hot band including bassist David Hull who has played with Aerosmith and the Joe Perry Project. Whitfield is an international singing phenomenon who continues to wow audiences worldwide with his uniquely powerful voice. James Montgomery and his band have never been hotter, coming off jams with Steven Tyler, Huey Lewis, and the Blues Brothers among others and having opened shows for Aerosmith and B.B. King. Bassist David Hull has played bass for many of the greats including Aerosmith, Joe Perry, Buddy Miles, and Joe Cocker. Guitarist George McCann has played in Steven Tyler’s solo band as well as the Blues Brothers with Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi. Drummer Seth Pappas one of the best in the business was once part of Whitfield’s band The Savages. Advance: $15; door: $20; VIP: $30. http://portcitymusichall.com/events