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Streamlined recycling gets early buyout

Tuning up the pipes

Board at ecomaine votes to pay off debt

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Single-sort recycling has paid off for Southern Maine, based on rising rates of recycling, officials say, and now the $3.7 million investment in streamlined collection has been paid off by the region’s waste handler.

“That saved us a fairly healthy chunk of change,” said Art Birt, finance director for ecomaine, the recycling and waste disposal organization run by 21 municipalities in Southern Maine, speaking yesterday about the early buyout. see RECYCLING page 6

A ‘homebrew’ of music comes to Local Sprouts

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Tom O’Mara (left) and Tom Ryan, members of the Claddagh Mhor Pipe Band, tune up their bagpipes outside the old St. Dominic’s Roman Catholic Church, home to the Maine Irish Heritage Center, Thursday in preparation for the West End St. Patrick’s Day parade. This neighborhood event came on the heels of last Sunday’s larger parade, organized by the Irish American Club, which marched down Commercial Street. The West End parade followed Danforth and Tate streets from the heritage center to Harbor View Memorial Park, where participants paused for a flag raising and a bagpipe rendering of “Amazing Grace.” For more photos, see pages 8 and 16. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

As one of the owners of Local Sprouts Cooperative, Jonah Fertig knows that a little Dill can really accentuate a dish. A big fan of local ingredients, Fertig had to look no further than Lewiston to find a Dill that would work nicely with the night of local music he was cooking Featured Show: up.

That would be Denise Dill, formerly of Tin Tree Factory Old Man Forest, a “co-op livin’, garden and Denise Dill diggin’, homegrown cookin’ fool who creat Local Spouts ates soups of song out of local ingredients,” according to the artist’s bio.

Tonight “If his music smelled like somethin’ it 7:30 p.m. would be sourdough bread. If it tasted Local Sprouts like somethin’ it would be homebrew, if it Cooperative personified something it would be gender (649 Congress St.) queer, and if it looked like somethin’ it Free (donations would be a collage. A collage of landscapes, encouraged), people, and metaphors that resonate as all ages earthy folk with a queer twist,” reads the description for Dill’s show tonight with Seattle/Olympia, Washington band Tin Tree Factory.

“Both Denise and Tin Tree Factory are socially-politically focused and there is an environmental focus that comes through in her music as well, so when Tin Tree Forest contacted us about see SHOW page 15

Golf, cocaine and budget talk: California’s quandary

Peter Mills tapped to lead Turnpike

Terry McAuliffe to speak at Bates College tonight

See Debra Saunders’ column on page 4

See News Briefs on page 6

See the Events Calendar on page 13

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SAT’s reality TV essay stirs frustrations (NY Times) — Every year, the SAT reduces more than a few teenage test-takers to tears. But few questions on the so-called Big Test appear to have provoked more anxious chatter — at least in this era of texting and online comment streams and discussion threads — than an essay prompt in some versions of the SAT administered last Saturday in which students were asked to opine on reality television.

“This is one of those moments when I wish I actually watched TV,” one testtaker wrote on Saturday on the Web site College Confidential, under the user name “littlepenguin.”

“I ended up talking about Jacob Riis and how any form of media cannot capture reality objectively,” he wrote, invoking the 19th-century social reformer. “I kinda want to cry right now.”

Less than a minute later, a fellow test-taker identified as “krndandaman” responded: “I don’t watch tv at all so it was hard for me. I have no interest in reality tv shows...”

Angela Garcia, executive director of the SAT program, said she did not think it was unfair to ask that question.

“The primary goal of the essay prompt is to give students an opportunity to demonstrate their writing skills,” she said.

This particular prompt, Ms. Garcia said, was intended to be relevant and to engage students, and had gone through extensive pre-testing with students and teachers. “It’s really about pop culture as a reference point that they would certainly have an opinion on,” she added.

Peter Kauffmann, vice president of communications for the College Board, said that “everything you need to write the essay is in the essay prompt.”

For example, the questions are preceded by an explanatory statement — “These shows depict ordinary people competing in everything from singing and dancing to losing weight, or just living their everyday lives” — as well as an assertion: “Most people believe that the reality these shows portray is authentic, but they are being misled.”

For some test-takers, including those who shared their thoughts on College Confidential and other forums, the prompt provided a welcome respite.

“I talked about American Idol (how it can push people to strive towards better singing skills) and The Biggest Loser (how it influences people to become healthier,)” one commenter, “bandgeek156,” wrote on College Confidential.

“Wasn’t that hard from what I thought.”

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U.N. clears airstrikes to halt attacks by Qaddafi forces

BY DAN BILEFSKY AND KAREEM FAHIM THE NEW YORK TIMES

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council approved a measure on Thursday authorizing “all necessary measures” to protect Libyan civilians from harm at the hands of forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

The measure allows not only a no-fly zone but effectively any measures short of a ground invasion to halt attacks that might result in civilian fatalities. It comes as Colonel Qaddafi warned residents of Benghazi, Libya, the rebel capital, that an attack was imminent and promised lenient treatment for those who offered no resistance.

“We are coming tonight,” Colonel Qaddafi said. “You will come out from inside. Prepare yourselves from tonight. We will find you in your closets.”

Speaking on a call-in radio show, he promised amnesty for those “who throw their weapons away” but “no mercy or compassion” for those who fight. Explosions were

heard in Benghazi early on Friday, unnerving residents there, Agence-France Presse reported.

The United States, originally leery of any military involvement in Libya, became a strong proponent of the resolution, particularly after the Arab League approved a no-fly zone, something that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called a “game changer” With the recent advances made by proQaddafi forces in the east, there was a growing consensus in the Obama administration that imposing a no-fly zone by itself would no longer make much of a difference and that there was a need for more aggressive airstrikes that would make targets of Colonel Qaddafi’s tanks and heavy artillery — an option sometimes referred to as a no-drive zone. The United States or its allies might also send military personnel to advise and train the rebels, an official said.

In the most strident verbal attack on Colonel Qaddafi to date by an American official,

Mrs. Clinton said Thursday that the Western powers had little choice but to provide critical military backing for the rebels. “We want to support the opposition who are standing against the dictator,” she told an applauding audience in Tunisia on Thursday. “This is a man who has no conscience and will threaten anyone in his way.”

She added that Colonel Qaddafi would do “terrible things” to Libya and its neighbors.

“It’s just in his nature. There are some creatures that are like that.”

The Qaddafi government responded to the potential United Nations action with threats.

“Any foreign military act against Libya will expose all air and maritime traffic in the Mediterranean Sea to danger and civilian and military facilities will become targets of Libya’s counterattack,” it said in a statement carried on Libyan television and the official news agency, JANA, Reuters reported. “The Mediterranean basin will face danger not just in the short term, but also in the long term.”

Report finds wide abuses by police in New Orleans

BY CAMPBELL ROBERTSON THE NEW YORK TIMES

NEW ORLEANS — Justice Department officials on Thursday released the findings of a 10-month investigation into this city’s Police Department, revealing a force that is profoundly and alarmingly troubled and setting in motion a process for its wholesale reform.

The report describes in chilling detail a department that is severely dysfunctional on every level: one that regularly uses excessive force on civilians, frequently fails to investigate serious crimes and has a deeply inadequate, in many cases nonexistent, system of accountability.

Using the report as a guideline, federal and local officials will now enter into negotiations leading to a consent decree, a blueprint for systemic reform that will be enforced by a federal judge.

“There is nobody in this room that is surprised by the general tenor and the tone of what this report has to say,” said Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of New Orleans, at a news conference attended by city and federal officials.

But, added Mr. Landrieu, who publicly invited federal intervention in the Police Department just days after his inauguration in May, “I look forward to a very spirited partnership and one that actually transforms this Police Department into one of the best in the country.”

The city’s police chief, Ronal Serpas, said he fully embraced the report and would be

going over its findings with senior leadership later in the day.

While the report describes an appalling array of abuses and bad practices, it does not address in detail any of the nine or more federal criminal investigations into the department. These inquiries have already led to the convictions of three police officers, one for fatally shooting an unarmed civilian and another for burning the body.

Justice Department officials chose to exclude the information gleaned in the criminal inquiries to keep a wall between those investigations and the larger civil investigation into the practices of the department. But there were more than enough problems left to uncover.

While other departments generally have problems in specific areas, like the use of excessive force, “New Orleans has every issue that has existed in our practice to date, and a few that we hadn’t encountered,” said Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s civil rights division.

The report reveals that the department has not found a policy violation in any officer-involved shooting for the last six years, though federal officials who reviewed the records found that violations had clearly occurred. The department’s canine unit was so badly mismanaged — the dogs were so aggressive they frequently attacked their handlers — that federal officials encouraged the department to suspend it

last year even though the investigation was still under way.

The report details a record of discriminatory policing, with a ratio of arrests of blacks to whites standing at nearly 16 to 1.

Calls for police assistance by non-English speakers often went unanswered.

The report also found that the police “systemically misclassified possible sexual assaults, resulting in a sweeping failure to properly investigate many potential cases of rape, attempted rape and other sex crimes.”

The problems described in the report go beyond policy failings, depicting a culture of dysfunction that reaches all facets of the department. The recruitment program is described as anemic, training as “severely deficient in nearly every respect,” and supervision as poor or in some cases nonexistent.

The department has attracted this level of scrutiny before. As bad as it appears now, the police force was far more troubled in the mid-1990s. Two officers from that era are now on death row, and the number of murders in the city at the time soared above 400.

Federal agents conducted a similar investigation of the department, but there was less cooperation by local officials and, crucially, there was no consent decree.

While the department improved for a time, the structural problems remained and festered, as Thursday’s report makes clear.

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Friday, March 18, 2011— Page 3

Quest to cool fuel rods stumbling; ‘weeks’ of struggle

BY NORIMITSU ONISHI, DAVID E. SANGER AND MATTHEW L. WALD THE NEW YORK TIMES

TOKYO — Amid widening alarm in the United States and elsewhere about Japan’s nuclear crisis, military fire trucks began spraying cooling water on spent fuel rods at the country’s stricken nuclear power station late Thursday after earlier efforts to cool the rods failed, Japanese officials said.

The United States’ top nuclear official followed up his bleak appraisal of the grave situation at the plant the day before with a caution that it would “take some time, possibly weeks,” to resolve.

The developments came as the authorities reached for ever more desperate and unconventional methods to cool damaged reactors, deploying helicopters and water cannons in a race to prevent perilous overheating in the spent rods of the No. 3 reactor.

Moments before the military trucks began spraying, police officers in water cannon trucks were forced back by high levels of radiation in the same area. The police had been trying to get within 50 yards of the reactor, one of six at the plant.

The five specially fitted military trucks sprayed water for about an hour, but the full impact of the tactic was not immediately clear.

The Japanese efforts focused on a different part of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 140 miles northeast of here, from the reactor — No. 4 — depicted in Washington on Wednesday as presenting a far bleaker threat than the Japanese government had offered.

The decision to focus on the No. 3 reactor appeared to suggest that Japanese officials believe it is a greater threat, since it is the only one at the site loaded with a mixed fuel known as mox, for mixed oxide, which includes reclaimed plutonium.

Western nuclear engineers have said that the release of mox into the atmosphere would produce a more dangerous radioactive plume than the dispersal of uranium fuel rods at the site. The Japanese authorities also expressed concern on Wednesday that the pressure in the No. 3 reactor had plunged and that either gauges

Evacuees receiving radiation scans in Nihonmatsu, Japan. Americans were advised by their embassy to evacuate a radius of 50 miles from the Fukushima plant. (Go Takayama/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images/New York Times)

were malfunctioning or a rupture had already occurred.

After the military’s effort to cool the spent fuel atop the reactor with fire trucks, Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director-general of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, said it was too early to assess the success of the attempt.

Mr. Nishiyama also said that radiation of about 250 millisievert an hour had been detected 100 feet above the plant. In the United States the limit for police officers, firefighters and other emergency workers engaged in life-saving activity as a once-in-alifetime exposure is equal to being exposed to 250 millisieverts for a full hour. The radiation figures provided by the Japanese Self-Defense Force may provide an indication of why a helicopter turned back on Wednesday from an attempt to dump cold water on a storage pool at the plant.

A White House statement late Wednesday said that President Obama had “briefed Prime Minister Kan on the additional support being provided by the U.S., including spe-

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On Thursday a Pentagon spokesman, Col. David Lapan, said the military expertise made available to the Japanese included a nine-person assessment team that has or will shortly arrive there to work with the Japanese military and government.

The team members, Colonel Lapan said, will then recommend whether additional American military forces are needed to assist in the effort.

The American military is also gathering information on the damaged nuclear power plant. Officials said that a Global Hawk drone was flying missions over the reactor. In addition, U-2 spy planes were providing images

to help the Japanese government map out its response to the quake and tsunami.

Earlier Thursday Japanese military forces tried to dump seawater from a helicopter on Reactor No. 3, making four passes and dropping a total of about 8,000 gallons as a plume of white smoke billowed. The Japanese government said that the reactor typically needs 50 tons of water, or about 12,000 gallons, a day to keep from overheating.

Video of the effort appeared to show most of the water missing the reactor and the Japanese military later said the measure had little effect on reducing the temperature in the pool where the spent rods are stored.

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Golf, cocaine and budget talk Grover Norquist, the affable head of the Washington-based Americans for Tax Reform, doesn’t want Republicans to negotiate with Democrats to solve Washington’s deficit problems or to cut a deal to solve California’s budget shortfall.

“I think golf and cocaine would (be) more constructive ways to spend one’s free time than negotiating with Democrats on spending restraint,” Norquist recently told The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein.

While many voters have never heard of Norquist, he is a major player in Washington. Most Republicans have signed his organization’s nonew-taxes pledge. Ditto most GOP California lawmakers.

Norquist considers a vote to put a measure that includes a ––––– $14 billion tax-increase extenCreators sion on the ballot to be a vioSyndicate lation of his no-new-taxes pledge. Thus from Washington, Norquist has a big foot on California budget talks.

Norquist is not the reason why there has been no budget deal in Sacramento. (As of my deadline, the Legislature had voted on spending cuts, but without a budget deal, the vote was arguably symbolic.) A group of five hardy GOP state senators

Debra J. Saunders

see SAUNDERS page 5

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Japan’s drama plays out on the small screen I watch the catastrophe play out on television. In Japan, a baby is lifted from the rubble and swathed in a blanket. A young woman is bleeding. An unconscious man is strapped to a stretcher.

The streamer at the bottom of the screen says: “Victoria Beckham expecting a girl ... Aerosmith, J-Lo both slated to appear on ‘Idol’ ... Tiger Woods to appear on ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.’”

There is footage of the tsunami ravaging the shoreline. Though it is traveling at enormous speed, it is so vast it appears to be oozing.

It looks alive, like an enormous gray slug consuming a car here, a ship there, a house on that street, an apartment building on another.

Nothing is spared. Not schools, or hospitals, or places of worship. The monster wave seems the embodiment of evil, though rationally we know that nature is neither good nor bad. It is indifferent.

The stories from Japan all say the same thing about the Japanese people in the face of

Roger Simon ––––– Creators Syndicate calamity: They are stoic, they are orderly, they are polite.

It is only in America where disorder is erupting.

I read on FishbowlDC that Greta Van Susteren of Fox News is furious at CNN for pushing the story that CNN’s ratings have taken a significant jump during the crisis in Japan.

“There are times when it is indecent and tasteless to brag,” Van Susteren sniffs. “This is one of them.”

Van Susteren is also offended

by CNN’s promotion of its coverage on its own airwaves. “I was told that the other day CNN promoted a show about Japan calling it ‘Countdown to Meltdown,’ as if it were a sporting event,” Van Susteren blogs. “If true, I just don’t get it.”

I do. Van Susteren may not

have noticed, but all tragedy is promoted on television as if it were entertainment: the trial of O.J. Simpson for a grisly murder, the car-crash death of Princess Diana, Chilean miners trapped below ground and, yes, even the combination earthquake-tsunami-nuclear calamity in Japan.

It is the nature of TV that everything is promoted the same way, no matter how ghastly the event.

There are rewards for doing so.

According to FishbowlDC, “The Japan tragedy sets a new record for CNN.com with more than 60 million viewers watching.”

Sixty million viewers is just shy of one out of every five Americans.

If one out of every five Americans read my column, I think I’d brag, too.

Glenn Beck said of the earthquake that perhaps it was a message from God. “There’s a message being sent,” Beck said on his radio show. “And that is: ‘Hey, you know that stuff we’re doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it.’ I’m just saying.” see SIMON page 5

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In politics, when you have leverage, you should use it SAUNDERS from page 4

had been negotiating with Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democrats. But unless the Dems give them something in return — say, a spending cap and pension reform — they have little reason to back the governor’s proposal.

Brown spokesman Gil Duran responded to that sentiment by noting: “What do they have to have in order to let the people vote?”

The answer, as GOP strategist Rob Stutzman put it, is “leverage.” In politics, when you have it, you should use it. Here is an opportunity to win pension reform.

There may not be another opportunity for years.

As far as Norquist is concerned, the anti-tax side already has won. Brown said he’ll cut spending, he argued.

“Why would we say, ‘No, no, no, don’t cut spending’”?

But as Brown rightly argues, his proposal would include spending cuts, but also would allow voters to decide if they want to balance the budget with spending cuts alone.

Voters well may reject the Brown budget package. In 2009, voters rejected a prequel tax-extension measure by a 2-1 vote. And if Californians do reject the Brown proposal to cut spending and extend taxes, everyone will know that deeper public school and safety cuts were the people’s choice — not the result of a Republican purposeful decision to be irrelevant.

If, on the other hand, Californians approve Brown’s measure, at least Californians will have shown themselves to be willing to pay for the government they have elected. I’d call that progress.

In the run up to a June election, meanwhile, Sacto Dems would have to give up blaming Republicans for all the state’s woes. It’s time for them to

start working on an even bigger state problem — California’s obscenely high unemployment rate of 12.4 percent.

Back to the budget. For too long, Californians have been sending mixed messages.

“That’s the argument that tolerates date rape,” Norquist responded.

Clever. Too bad the Norquistas didn’t go after both Democrats and Republicans who busted the budget with spending increases and gimmicks that helped dig California’s $26 billion budget hole. No, they only get tough when a Republican is willing to deal.

(E-mail Debra J. Saunders at dsaunders@ sfchronicle.com. To find out more about Saunders, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.)

No honking reported on Japan’s streets, despite huge backups SIMON from page 4

He may be just saying, but I am not just understanding. What have the Japanese done to receive such a drubbing from God? Make really good cars?

Introduce us to sushi?

In Japan, with cities and towns shattered, with houses reduced to the proverbial “matchsticks,” and everyone waiting for the next radioactive cloud to pass by, Japanese citizens still dutifully put out their garbage in different bins for recycling.

According to The Washington Post, which has put together a terrific package of stories on Japan, “There has been virtually no evidence of looting or rising crime levels, and the Japanese have been

showing stoicism while waiting in long lines.”

Traffic is a nightmare, with huge backups, but “with no honking.”

No honking? In many American cities, people honk as soon as the light changes. In New York, people honk before the light changes.

At a Japanese convenience store that was open only because the manager had a private generator, people lined up at the cash register with their food items. But when the power went out and the register stopped working, “customers in line returned items to the shelves.”

My father was a combat veteran of World War II, fought in the Pacific and came home with a strong dislike of the Japanese. He eventually overcame

this prejudice (just as many Japanese people overcame their prejudice against Americans for bombing them not just relentlessly but atomically), and he would teach his children it was wrong to hate in the plural.

I realize that being stoic and well-mannered in times of crisis may not paint a complete picture of the Japanese mindset and culture, but I cannot help but be impressed.

I think if my house were reduced to rubble and I were struggling to find food and water each day, I might not bother separating paper from plastic.

(To find out more about Roger Simon, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.)

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

• A 14 percent citywide drop in calls involving intoxicated people; • And, perhaps most importantly, 787 HOME clients were transported to the Milestone detox center. That number will likely be considered a direct diversion from ambulance service, at about $450 per transport, and overnight stays at the Mercy Hospital emergency room at a cost of $1,500 per night.

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Mills named interim Maine Turnpike director Former state Sen. Peter Mills will serve as the interim executive director of the Maine Turnpike Authority after the former director resigned last week amid concerns about the MTA’s spending practices.

“I appreciate the board of the Maine Turnpike Authority working with me and other elected leaders as part of their search to find an interim executive director to lead the agency through Mills its recent troubles,” Governor Paul LePage said Thursday.

The board’s unanimous endorsement of Senator Peter Mills signifies a commitment to move forward. We all know Senator Mills has the integrity, experience and commitment to public service needed to restore trust and confidence in the turnpike authority,” said LePage.

Former MTA director Paul Violette resigned last week after questions arose about the MTA’s recent spending practices.

“Peter Mills is respected on both sides of the aisle. He is known for his candor — which is what the Maine Turnpike Authority needs these days. Peter has an analytical mind and will, I am confident, analyze the MTA from top to bottom,” said Kevin L. Raye, Maine Senate President.

Maine Senators react to seatbelt enforcement vote The Maine Senate voted 21-14 Thursday to reduced the violation of not wearing a seatbelt from a primary offense to a secondary offense — meaning a police officer can no longer pull over a driver for not wearing a seatbelt.

A driver must now be pulled over for another violation in order to be cited for not wearing a seatbelt.

Senator Bill Diamond of Windham and Senator Justin Alfond of Portland released the following statements in reaction to the Maine State Senate’s

vote in support of LD 64, “An Act To Make a Violation of the Laws Governing Seat Belts a Secondary Offense” “We know there are more injuries when people don’t wear seat belts,” said Diamond, Democratic Lead on the Department of Transportation Committee, former Secretary of State and an ardent supporter of keeping the seatbelt violation as a primary offense. “This is about public safety and sending the right message of safety and care to our young people.”

In response to the Republican sponsored bill, Alfond said, “It’s remarkable to me that given the state’s fiscal environment that we just opened up a $1.3 million hole in our budget.

Taking away money from our general fund for a law that’s working does not make sense. ”

State leaders offer list of agencies helping Japan Maine Governor Paul LePage and the Maine Emergency Management Agency are urging concerned citizens to be certain their donations are made

to trusted relief agencies.

“Cash, donated to a known relief organization, is always the best way to help after a disaster,” said Rob McAleer, director of Maine Emergency Management Agency. “This allows the organization to support their trained disaster volunteers and staff on the ground, and to quickly obtain the relief supplies that are needed. “ “In a disaster the needs change by the hour,” McAleer continued in a press release. “When a relief organization receives cash donations, they can obtain whatever is needed, when it is needed.”

A list of agencies working in Japan is maintained by the organization InterAction at http://www. interaction.org.

InterAction is an alliance of U.S. -based nongovernmental organizations which operate internationally.

Many of these agencies have a Maine connection, so there may be also local opportunities to donate, state officials said. For example, the Roman Catholic Diocese in Portland has announced a special collection this weekend to support the recovery effort. Visit www.portlanddiocese.net.

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“We’re eight years early,” Birt said. “What that did for ecomaine and its owners was to reduce our interest costs.”

Lease payments included an interest rate around 6.5 percent, Birt said. The board opted for an early payoff of $1.48 million instead of an annual lease payment of $210,000 under terms of the original lease. The board tapped an operations budget to arrange the early buyout, he said.

“We’ve had a reasonably good year in terms of our recycling, and we’ve been working very hard to keep our costs as low as we can,” Birt said.

“We looked at what we were earning on cash today, and we decided that was probably a better use of our cash,” he said.

Single-sort recycling is an innovation in recycling that has been credited for greening Southern Maine’s waste management by making it easier to deposit recyclables. Called state-of-the-art technology, this system eliminates the need to separate recyclables by category. This in turn increases the ratio of recyclables to waste, managers say.

In February, based on newly released figures, Portland’s portion of ecomaine recycling climbed to 37 percent, a chunk of the waste stream that won’t cost the city $33,176 in monthly disposal costs, ecomaine reported. Since last July, that amount of recycling

“We looked at what we were earning on cash today, and we decided that was probably a better use of our cash.” — Art Birt, finance director for ecomaine, on paying off a $3.7 million single-sort recycling system eight years early equals $305,712 in avoided disposal costs, according to ecomaine figures released yesterday.

In ecomaine’s first monthly report to be issued to the general public, the waste manager reported that Cape Elizabeth ended February with a rate of recycling to waste of 35 percent, for $6,864 in avoided disposal costs and $76,120 in avoided disposal costs fiscal year to date. For Scarborough, the ration was 36 percent, with $16,632 in avoided disposal costs, $162,800 in avoided disposal costs year to date; South Portland, 27 percent, with $13,816 in avoided disposal costs, and $144,672 in avoided disposal costs fiscal year to date.

“It’s been steadily growing, every year our recycling tonnage has increased,” Shelley Dunn, ecomaine spokesperson.

“This past year we had broken every month’s records for 12 months in a row,” Dunn said.

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LEFT: St. Patrick’s Day West End parade organizer Robert O’Brien stands amid a host of flags at Harbor View Park Thursday.

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Among the 21 participating communities, single-sort recycling is an innovation credited with helping spur 12 consecutive months of record-breaking recycling, from December 2009 through November 2010, when ecomaine’s recycling facility averaged 5,404,660 pounds per month.

“Single-sort recycling is easier, people don’t have to decide where recyclables should go,” Dunn explained. “They can just put everything that is recyclable into one bin and that’s it. All they have to do is separate trash from recycling.”

This year is the fifth anniversary of the board at ecomaine deciding to bring single-sort recycling to Southern Maine. On May 18, 2006 the board voted to approve the system, and by May 2007 it was operational, said Dunn.

“It’s a very productive investment all the way around,” she said.

Portland’s recycling is depicted in these graphs from ecomaine, a municipally-owned and operated recycling and waste disposal organization that serves 39 communities and has an annual budget of $25 million.

Missing on the graph at left is February’s percentage of recycled material, which climbed back to 37 percent after a dip in January. February’s recycling totals were released yesterday. (COURTESY IMAGE)

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You will free-associate yourself into a poetic state of mind. Your creativity is a delight to all around you. There is no greater thrill for you today than to put something in the world that wasn’t there before.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 18).

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’re a little like a homing pigeon who will enjoy flight and exploration as long as you can return to roost. You need your freedom, but at the end of this day, you won’t mind being contained in a safe and cozy environment.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Part of you really wants to be included in a situation you don’t easily fit into. You don’t know why -- that is a mystery and probably not worth getting into. You will eventually make your way in, though.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). People study to learn what you already know instinctively. You will influence others without thinking, persuade them without talking, comfort them without putting yourself out in the least.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Whatever you want to do, it will be accomplished today through your network. You’ll see where you could add a few people, as well -- people who have different skills and extensive reach in a world of which you know little.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You value family to such an extent that you feel the impetus to raise and teach relatives who aren’t your children. Perhaps this has to do with taking care of your parents or another extension of your clan.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You like people who explore and experiment, especially if they come back to you with the highlights of their discoveries. You would do the same if you had the time, but lately your schedule won’t allow for it.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Friday, March 18, the 77th day of 2011. There are 288 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlights in History: On March 18, 1911, Irving Berlin’s first major hit song, “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” was first published by Ted Snyder & Co. of New York. The Theodore Roosevelt Dam in Arizona was dedicated by its namesake, the former president.

On this date: In 1766, Britain repealed the Stamp Act of 1765.

In 1837, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was born in Caldwell, N.J. In 1861, Sam Houston stepped down as governor of Texas after refusing to accept the state’s decision to secede from the Union.

In 1910, the first filmed adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein,” produced by Thomas Edison’s New York movie studio, was released.

In 1931, Schick Inc. marketed the first electric razor.

In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agreed to join Germany’s war against France and Britain.

In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill. (Hawaii became a state on August 21, 1959.)

In 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov went outside his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether.

In 1974, most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their embargo against the United States.

In 2009, Tony-winning actress Natasha Richardson, 45, died at a New York hospital two days after suffering a head injury while skiing in Canada.

One year ago: President Barack Obama signed into law a $38 billion jobs bill containing a modest mix of tax breaks and spending designed to encourage the private sector to start hiring again.

Today’s Birthdays: Composer John Kander (“Chicago”) is 84. Nobel peace laureate and former South African president F.W. de Klerk is 75. Country singer Charley Pride is 73. Actor Kevin Dobson is 68. Actor Brad Dourif is 61. Jazz musician Bill Frisell is 60.

Singer Irene Cara is 52. Movie writer-director Luc Besson is 52. Actor Thomas Ian Griffith is 49. Singer-songwriter James McMurtry is 49. Singer-actress Vanessa L. Williams is 48. Olympic gold medal speedskater Bonnie Blair is 47. Country musician Scott Saunders (Sons of the Desert) is 47. Rock musician Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains) is 45. Rock singer-musician Miki Berenyi is 44. Rapperactress-talk show host Queen Latifah is 41.

Actor-comedian Dane Cook is 39. Rock musician Stuart Zender is 37. Singers Evan and Jaron Lowenstein are 37. Singer Devin Lima (LFO) is 34. Actor Adam Pally is 29.

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This multi year project is part of an ongoing transformation of a prominent slope side condominium community into a first class updated resort community. All interested bidders must be proficient in all phases of Steel roofing installations and large project management.

All bids must be received no later than June 01, 2011 for consideration of work to commence in spring of 2012.

All interested parties should contact White Mountain Management Company at 603-356-5935 for an information and specification package.

Please indicate, via e-mail to wmm@roadrunner.com your company’s intention to bid by Friday, April 08, 2011, at which point a bidders conference will be scheduled.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: My neighbor “Linda” has been single and lonely for years. A few months ago, she told me that she was communicating with a man she met on a personals website.

I was initially happy to hear this, but quickly changed my mind.

Over the past few weeks, Linda has told me they have lengthy phone conversations every day, although they haven’t met. He originally told her he lived nearby but travels a lot on business. Now she says they will meet as soon as he gets home, but that keeps getting delayed.

I am positive this guy is a con man, but nothing I say convinces her. I don’t know if Linda has already given him money, because every time I bring it up, she gets angry. Will you please share with your readers the dangers of these romance scams? -- Concerned Friend Dear Concerned: We don’t know if this guy is taking money from Linda or if he’s simply a married man, but we agree that something doesn’t seem right. A legit romance allows you not only to meet each other in a public place, but to be introduced to family and friends. A man who finds excuses to avoid meeting you is hiding something. One who never lets you meet his friends or relatives is probably married. And asking for a loan is completely off limits until a genuine commitment is in place.

You cannot protect Linda from her own risky impulses, but you can warn her that not all such relationships are honest and tell her you hope she will be careful.

Dear Annie: Two of my daughter’s friends are joining us in planning a party for her 30th birthday. The invitation they printed states: “Please bring $37 cash per person for the meal.

Alcoholic beverages will be an additional cost. Following dinner there will be a party at one of the local bars which will require more money for drinks.”

I have always been under the impression that the hosts pay for the party. I told the other two hosts that if I ever received an invitation like that, I would not attend. Am I just oldfashioned? Is this the way things are done now? -- Confused Mother Dear Confused: The hosts should pay for the party. Otherwise, they are setting a price for the others without consulting them, which is both rude and inconsiderate. Unfortunately, many young people are unaware of this custom and see no reason to follow it. We recommend you bow out of this particular responsibility and let your daughter’s friends throw whatever party they choose. You can attend and be billed like all the others.

Dear Annie: I strongly disagree with your response to “Thrown for a Loop,” whose husband is meeting “Mary,” a former co-worker, for occasional lunches. Now the wife is moving out. You said she is overreacting.

I think that devalues her fears. Possibly, he does miss his job and wants to keep up with office gossip. But if it’s so innocent, why did he keep it a secret from his wife? How humiliating to have found out about the lunches from friends.

He doesn’t have to be having sex with this woman for it to be hurtful and devastating to his marriage. And, if Mary is signing her e-mails, “Love, Mary,” it’s obvious she is hoping for more than lunch. I think Bill enjoys the attention from his former co-worker and the thrill of meeting her without his wife’s knowledge. -- Hope You Rethink Your Answer Dear Hope: You are right that the husband should not be hiding these lunches from his wife, and we said so. But it seems an overreaction for the wife to simply walk out on her marriage instead of seeking counseling or working on other ways to remedy the situation. And we will stand by that.

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

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Friday, March 18

Fairy Tale Players 7 p.m. In March, Acorn Productions presents the second production of the season by the “Fairy Tale Players,” an ensemble of kids, teens and adults who have studied at the Acorn Acting Academy. The troupe’s new production is JoJo Dubois Meets His Match, an adaptation by local writer DeLorme Taylor of Seven at One Blow, the Grimm Brothers story featured in the Disney cartoon The Brave Little Tailor. Acorn’s Producing Director Michael Levine directs the story of a tailor who uses his wit to parlay a relatively minor feat into a kingdom, though Acorn’s “fractured fairy tale” version is set in 1940’s Louisiana, where the king becomes a mafia don, and his enemies corrupt government officials. Against this backdrop, JoJo Dubois Meets His Match tells the story of a professor with a knack for knots who finds his heart tied up over a gang boss’ daughter. The production runs from March 11 to 27 in the Acorn Studio Theater in Westbrook, with tickets $7 for adults and $5 for kids 12 and under. Unlike previous productions by the fledging group, “JoJo” will feature several teenage actors and is best suited for audiences 8 and up due to the piece’s more mature themes. Friday, March 18 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, March 19 at 2 p.m.; Sunday, March 20 at 2 p.m.; Friday, March 25 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, March 26 at 3 p.m. (note change in time); Sunday, March 27 at 2 p.m. Acorn Studio Theater, Dana Warp Mill, 90 Bridge St., Westbrook. Cost is $7 adults; $5 kids 12 and under. FMI: www.acorn-productions.org or 854-0065.

Maine Boat Builders show 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The show times for the Maine Boat Builders are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sunday, at the Portland Company Complex.

“A gathering of the finest fiberglass and wooden custom boat builders on the East Coast. Also exhibiting numerous manufacturers of boating equipment. Sailboats, powerboats, canoes, kayaks, and rowing boats with the builders there to discuss and sell their work.” http://portlandcompany.com/ boatShow. For further information contact Portland Yacht Services at 774.1067.

L.L.Bean’s Spring Fishing Weekend 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Some of the biggest names in fishing will be at L.L.Bean on March 18-20 for L.L.Bean’s annual Spring Fishing Weekend. Lefty Kreh, Dave Whitlock, Emily Whitlock, Tim Rajeff, Dave Klausmeyer and others will be available at the store from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday to visit with customers, share stories, sign autographs, books and more.

And new this year, L.L.Bean will be showing the best short fly-fishing films from The Drake Magazine’s renowned Fly-Fishing Film Awards, which are shown to audiences exclusively at the International Fly Tackle Dealer Show each year in Denver. Featured celebrity fly tyers include David Klausmeyer, Don Bastian and Sam Kenney, who at only 12 years old has already become a renowned tyer. Other weekend highlights include free fly-casting lessons, kids’ activities, and a variety of demonstrations, clinics and seminars including presentations by the Maine Professional Guide Association, as well as several L.L.Bean experts. Biologists from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife will also be conducting a special presentation on a very unique brook trout project they have been working on. All event activities are free. For more Lisa Lampanelli is Comedy’s Lovable Queen of Mean. She will bring her hard-hitting information, visit www.llbean.com/freeport, Merrill Auditorium today. (COURTESY PHOTO) or call 800-559-0747, ext. 37222. the Thornton Academy Theatre. Commissioners Bernhardt, The 40th Annual Maine Boat Show Bowen, Brown, Congdon and Mayhew will join the Governor 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Also Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and and answer questions from audience members until 7:30 Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cumberland County Civic p.m. This will be the governor’s second Capitol for a Day Center. Tickets: $8 adult, $7 senior, $4 youth (7-14), and event. The first was held on Feb. 18 in Cumberland County. children under 7 free. Ken & Mike of the WGAN Morning Capitol for Day is a monthly event that will be held in each of Show will be broadcasting Live Saturday. More than 100 Maine’s 16 counties. boating and boating-related exhibitors. Sportsfishing seminars with Capt. Ben Conway of Reel Action Charters & Dave Barnes of Clark Marine. Pre-season boat pricing. Hosted by: Berlin City Auto Group, Shipyard Brewing, WGME 13, 560 WGAN, 107.5 Frank FM, 94.9 WHOM. Outside exhibits (large boats) free street curb boarding. Check America’s Best Shows, Inc. out on Facebook or on our website www.

AmericasBestShows.com.

Capitol for a Day in Saco with Gov. Paul LePage 6 p.m. Governor Paul LePage will hold the second Capitol for a Day event visiting several businesses during the day and attending a town hall style meeting in the evening on Friday, March 18. The governor will tour four businesses located in York County and the town hall meeting will be held at Thornton Academy in Saco where attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions to the governor and his Cabinet. “On Friday morning Governor LePage will kick off the day by opening Maine for business. A sign, that reads ‘Open for Business,’ that was given to Governor LePage by supporters on inauguration evening will be unveiled on Interstate 95 on the northbound side in Kittery. For safety reasons, Maine State Police are asking the public and media to refrain from stopping on the Interstate during the unveiling of the sign. At 11:30 a.m. there will be media availability with the Governor at the Eliot Commons Shopping Center off exit 3 on Route 236 in Eliot. During the afternoon, once again, business owners will meet with Governor LePage to talk about their ideas on how to move Maine’s economy forward.

The governor will visit Shipyard Brewery, Stonewall Kitchen, Arundel Machine and Sweetser. The governor’s goal is to hear from leaders within the business community to find out what’s currently working for them and what can be improved to encourage job growth in our State. According to Forbes Magazine, Maine ranks 50th on The Best States for Business and Careers list. The list has Maine at 47th place for business costs and 48th in regulatory environment.” The day will conclude with a town hall style meeting at Thornton Academy in Saco at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held at

Legislators from Falmouth and Cumberland

7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Connect Learn Contribute Series, Come and connect with your local legislators. Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth. Join the Falmouth/Cumberland Community Chamber for an open forum with your state legislators representing the Falmouth and Cumberland communities. Attending will be Sen. Dick Woodbury, Rep. Meredith N. Strang Burgess, Rep. Mary Pennell Nelson and Rep. Mark N. Dion. Bring your questions and concerns. Please register by March 17. Register online, www.portlandregion.com.

‘On the Bowery,’‘The PerfectTeam’ 6:30 p.m. Film screenings at the Portland Museum of Art. Friday, March 18, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 19, 2 p.m.; Sunday, March 20, 2 p.m. NR “Lionel Rogosin (1924–2000) taught himself filmmaking in order to investigate such issues as poverty, racism, and the threat of nuclear war. Shooting ‘On the Bowery,’ his first film, was his way of preparing for a future project on apartheid in South Africa. Using a hidden camera and creatively staged scenes, he created a harsh documentary/fiction hybrid about the lives of the downand-out in Manhattan’s Bowery, the skid row of the 1950s.

The film follows three days in the life of Ray Salyer, a freshfrom-the-road arrival in the Bowery, as he passes from the street to flophouses and back, interacting with human ruins who seem to exist only to find their next drink. ‘On the Bowery’ was the first U.S. film to win the award for best documentary at the Venice Film Festival. ... Stay on for ‘The Perfect Team,’ a new documentary on the making of ‘On the Bowery’ by Rogosin’s son, Michael. Using archival and recent footage, he provides context for his father’s film by delving into the history of the Bowery neighborhood and following up on the film’s crew and ‘star,’ Ray Salyer.

‘The Perfect Team’ features two of the few filmed interviews ever recorded with Lionel Rogosin, one of them a 1956 interview on ‘The Today Show’ that also featured Ray Salyer.” http://portlandmuseum.org

‘Bedroom Farce’ by Good Theater at the St. Lawrence Arts Center 7:30 p.m. A Good Theater Production. “Enter the suburban bedrooms of four married couples in this comedy about the trials and tribulations of relationships. Be on the lookout for a stolen kiss (or two).” “Hilarious…The stuff of gleeful recognition.” — London Evening Standard March 10 through April 3. Tickets at www. stlawrencearts.org. St Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Portland. Cost: $15-$25. comedy to

‘Elephant’s Graveyard’ at UMF

7:30 p.m. University of Maine at Farmington presents George Brant’s award winning drama “Elephant’s Graveyard,” as the spring 2011 Theatre UMF production. Based on the true story of a traveling circus and its cultural collision with a small southern town, the play will be presented at 7:30 p.m., March 19; and 2 p.m., March 20, at the UMF Alumni Theater. “Elephant’s Graveyard” explores the public’s craving for spectacle and violence as it takes the audience on a journey to the world of the circus at the turn of the century. Building on both historical fact and legend, Brant’s drama tells the story of how a small, struggling circus is confronted by a Tennessee community when an accident occurs and how misunderstanding leads to tragedy. Critically acclaimed by Columbia City Paper as “a theatrical masterpiece,” Brant’s play is the Winner of the 2008 Keene Prize for Literature and 2008 David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award.

Terry McAuliffe to speak at Bates College 7:30 p.m. The Maine College Democrats in collaboration with the Bates College Democrats are having their 2011 Maine College Democrats Convention at Bates College. Terry McAuliffe, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will deliver the keynote speech in the Muskie Archives at Bates College, 70 Campus Ave. Dinner will follow McAuliffe’s remarks. The next day local activists will hold discussions on political activism and how students can make a difference. Jeanna Vendil of Planned Parenthood, Ben Chin of the Maine People’s Alliance and Nicola Wells of the League of Young Voters will lead workshops on strategies for political activism. The workshops McAuliffe will go from 10 a.m. to noon in Pettengill Hall on the Bates campus. At noon, political specialist David Karol, an assistant professor at American University, will give a lecture on the future role of parties in American elections. All events are free and open to the public. No RSVP is required. For more information contact Afroz Baig at abaig@ bates.edu see next page

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‘Triumph of Love’ at USM 7:30 p.m. The University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre and USM School of Music present “Triumph of Love,” a witty musical romance — in disguise, directed

by Assunta Kent, musical direction by Edward Reichert.

“Razzle-dazzle Broadway music energizes Marivaux’s classic 18th century play and will leave audiences laughing, sighing and humming the catchy tunes!” Performances in the Russell Hall auditorium on the Gorham campus are March 17, 18, 19 at 7:30 p.m., March 20 at 5 p.m. $10 students, $15 seniors/faculty/staff/alumni, $21 general public. $10 at five show on March 16 at 5 p.m., all seats $10. High school matinee March 15 at 10 a.m. To make reservations please call the USM Theatre Box Office at 780.5151 or purchase tickets online via the USM Theatre Department: www.usm.maine.edu/theatre. For more information on show times and tickets call the USM Theatre Box Office at 780.5151 or visit www.usm.maine.edu/theatre to purchase tickets online.

‘The Late Henry Moss’ at Lucid Stage 8 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre Company presents “The Late Henry Moss,” by Sam Shepard, March 10-27. Performances Thursday through Saturday evenings. Sunday matinees. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard, Portland. Playing times are Thursday: 7:30 p.m.; Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 8 p.m.; and Sunday 2 p.m. For ticket information, visit www.lucidstage.com or call 899-3993

Empire Burlesque Revue 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Pulse Ballroom, Westbrook.

“From two of the world’s most accomplished burlesque producers, comes a new show that promises to live up to its name, Empire Burlesque Revue. This show will feature a steady cast of the worlds finest performers of burlesque and variety in an intimate and classy ballroom environment at the newly renovated Pulse Ballroom. Producers Angie Pontani and Jen Gapay of Thirsty Girl Productions have teamed up again to bring you this new show that will have an emphasis of production numbers and high end performances, setting it apart from a typical variety show, it will draw influences from vintage Broadway, MGM Technicolor Musicals and the golden era of burlesque. The inaugural cast for the premiere will include burlesque royalty, Pontani, the dynamic voice of Broadway Brassy, the tappin’ tornado Helen Pontani, the Maine Attraction, the dance illusionist, Kenichi Ebina, NY’s choreographed cuties, The World Famous Pontani Sisters and your evenings master of ceremonies, Albert Cadabra of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.” $20 Advance General Admission, $25 at the door. www. actionpackedevents.com

Comedian Lisa Lampanelli at Merrill 8 p.m. Lisa Lampanelli is Comedy’s Lovable Queen of Mean. Heralded as “more than a standup — a standout,” by comedy legend Jim Carrey, Lampanelli is a cross between Don Rickles, Archie Bunker, and a vial of estrogen. She even won accolades from The King of All Media Howard Stern, who called her “a true original and a brilliant comedy mind who’ll steal the show every time.” Merrill Auditorium. www.portland-calendar.com

Saturday, March 19

Big Sisters of Southern Maine. This unique fundraising event will be held on Saturday, March 19, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, March 20, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Woodfords Club, 159 Woodford St., Portland. There is ample parking and the event is handicap accessible. The books, donated by several benefactors around southern Maine including a huge collection that took more than 30 years to amass, are in good, fresh condition and are new to the market. The sale includes books, ephemera and sheet music. For more information or to ask specific questions, email books@somebigs.org or call 773.5437 and ask for extension 50.

AWS at Portland Children’s Museum 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Join the Animal Welfare Society of West Kennebunk Humane Educator and a shelter pet at the Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine on Free Street in Portland for a hands-on program about pets and pet care.

Meet some great animals and learn about Pet Care and Handling. The Children’s Museum is at 142 Free St., Portland, Maine (828-1234). For more information, call Animal Welfare Society (www.animalwelfaresociety.org) at 985-3244.

National Surveyors Week 1 p.m. The Narragansett Chapter of the Maine Society of Land Surveyors will be commemorating National Surveyors Week with an exhibition on Portland’s Western Promenade (Bramhall Hill) at the old surveyors’ calibration monument closest to the Maine Medical Center. The public is welcome to drop by and learn more about the surveying profession and meet local surveyors. The project is part of a nation wide effort sponsored by the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS). Land Surveyors throughout the United States will simultaneously establish new Geodetic Control Points by the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) equipment. The new points, with their coordinates, will then be published with the office of the National Geodetic Survey and will be available to professionals that use the information for survey or engineering projects. The Narragansett Chapter of Maine Society of Land Surveyors is a local group of professionals that meet monthly to engage in topics and events of interest and to promote the importance of using professional licensed land surveyors to the public. Members will be available during the event on Portland’s Western Promenade to answer questions and to discuss the role of land surveyors in the community. For more information about the Narragansett Chapter and the Maine Society of Land Surveyors please visit MSLS.org or narragansettsurveyors.org.

Greenlight Studio fundraiser 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Greenlight Studio fundraiser, a free event with food,drink, music and a free day pass, raffles and many great auction items to benefit a scholarship and visiting artists fund. www.greenlight-studio.com

‘Zimbabwe Today’ 6:30 p.m. Round Table discussion on Zimbabwe and its current political, economic situation and prospects for the country’s future under the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) sponsored Global Political Agreement (GPA). Guest speaker: Tom Morgan, who has 10 years experience working in Africa with the Peace Corps in Nigeria, Malawi and Nigeria, with Africare in Ghana and, most recently, with the Catholic Relief Services in Zimbabwe. $5.

The Museum of African Culture, 13 Brown St., 871-7188.

Third Annual Etz Chaim Purim Party Presumpscot River Trail, West 8:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. Portland Trails is excited to announce a 2011 Winter Walk series. This free series, made possible by a grant from Healthy Portland, is for adults and families with children who are making an effort to get more exercise, but are stymied when it comes to winter recreation. Participants are reminded to wear warm clothing, hats and gloves and bring snowshoes if there is adequate snow on the ground. Portland Trails has snow shoes available (free for members, $5/non-members) which can be reserved ahead of time. Please register for any walk by emailing info@trails. org or calling 775-2411. For more information or to check cancellations due to the weather go to www.trails.org.

Charlie Baldwin, Trail Foreman, will lead a walk on our most westerly of the Presumpscot River Trail network. Enjoy this calm part of the river and the new bridge installed by Portland Trails’ board and staff this summer. Meet at Corsetti’s (just over the town line in Westbrook), 125 Bridgton Rd.

Cat show in Portland 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 155 Riverside Street, behind the Howard Johnson’s Hotel. Cat show with 10 rings of competition.

Many different breeds and household pet competition.

Admission: Adults $50; seniors $4/students $3. Children under 12 free and active military free. Nauticats.com. 4330155.

Big Brothers Big Sisters used book sale 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. More than 15,000 used books will be part of the Big BIG Book Sale to benefit Big Brothers

7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The public is welcome to the third annual Pruim Party at Etz Chaim Synagogue, 267 Congress St., Portland. This event features: Belly Dancing demonstration and lessons with Rosa Noreen from 7:45 to 8:30 p.m. on the second floor; wine tasting in the upstairs foyer beginning at 7 p.m.; Purim Spiel for two in the small chapel featuring puppet Show directed by Julie Goell, with Bess Welden and David Handwerker — performances are at 7:15 and 8:45 p.m.; Klezmer Music performed by Steve Gruveman and friends; Great Middle Eastern appetizers, desserts and hamentashen direct from Boston; costumes are encouraged and prizes will be awarded for Best Male and Female costumes as well as best Children’s costume. Admission is free but donations are welcome. For more information please contact Steve Brinn at 712-8237.

Bates orchestra fundraiser for earthquake victims 7:30 p.m. Hiroya Miura, conductor of the Bates College Orchestra and a native of Japan, has announced that the orchestra’s March 19 concert will serve as a fundraiser for a town where 1,000 people are thought to have died during the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

The orchestra performs music by Beethoven and Richard Strauss in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Donations to a relief fund for the coastal town of Yamamoto-cho, 24 miles south of Sendai, will be gratefully accepted. Miura was born and raised in Sendai, near the epicenter of the earthquake, and his parents currently reside in Yamamoto-cho. The orchestra will dedicate the concert to the memory of those lost in the disaster, and Miura will

personally see that audience donations are delivered to the mayor of Yamamoto-cho. Donations can also be made online at www.batestickets.com or mailed to: Support for Japan, Bates College, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St., Lewiston, ME 04240. For more information or to reserve seats, please contact 786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

Sunday, March 20 Free Device Workshop for smartphone owners 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. A device workshop is scheduled at the U.S. Cellular Mallside retail store located at 198 Maine Mall Road in South Portland. “U.S. Cellular, which was recently recognized in a survey by Consumer Reports as the best wireless carrier in the country, is hosting a free workshop at its Mallside retail store in South Portland on March 20 to guide customers through all of the functions and features of their Android-powered, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile smartphones. All questions are welcome from current and potential smartphone users, and the workshop will cover both basic and advanced uses.

The Device Workshop is being offered at U.S. Cellular retail stores across Maine. All smartphone accessories will be 25 percent off.”

Summer Children’s Camp Fair 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. East End School Gymnasium, 195 North St., Portland. Free admission. Come meet camp staff and explore summer experiences for your child, ages tots to teens. This is the only camp fair in Southern Maine this year. For information, see www.mainecamps.org. Or call 518-9557.

South Portland High School Fashion Show 2 p.m. South Portland High School Project Graduation proudly presents its annual Fashion Show as well as an afternoon with Maine’s premier funnyman, Bob Marley, live at South Portland High School Auditorium. The class of 2011 will model the latest formal and casual wear fashions from area clothing outlets. Then at 4 p.m., Bob Marley will take the stage for an afternoon of humor and laughter.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students, available at Willow’s, Broadway Variety and South Portland House of Pizza, all in South Portland. Net proceeds will benefit Project Graduation, the chem-free organized graduation celebration to help keep the newest high school graduates safe.

Three B’s: Brahms, Britten, and the Beatles 2:30 p.m. A fresh new take on “three Bs,” this concert pays tribute to composers who have had as much impact on their eras as Bach, Beethoven and Brahms (the original “three Bs”) had on theirs. Portland Symphony Orchestra, featuring Johannes Brahms, Variations on a Theme

by Haydn, Op. 56a; Benjamin Britten, Nocturne for tenor, seven instruments, and strings, Op. 60; Peter Schickele, Beatleset; Benjamin Britten, The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. Merrill Auditorium.

‘Triumph of Love’ at USM 5 p.m. The University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre and USM School of Music present “Triumph of Love,” a witty musical romance — in disguise, directed

by Assunta Kent, musical direction by Edward Reichert.

“Razzle-dazzle Broadway music energizes Marivaux’s classic 18th century play and will leave audiences laughing, sighing and humming the catchy tunes!” Performances in the Russell Hall auditorium on the Gorham campus are March 17, 18, 19 at 7:30 p.m., March 20 at 5 p.m. $10 students, $15 seniors/faculty/staff/alumni, $21 general public. $10 at five show on March 16 at 5 p.m., all seats $10. High school matinee March 15 at 10 a.m. To make reservations please call the USM Theatre Box Office at 780.5151 or purchase tickets online via the USM Theatre Department: www.usm.maine.edu/theatre. For more information on show times and tickets call the USM Theatre Box Office at 780.5151 or visit www.usm.maine.edu/theatre to purchase tickets online.

‘Gong Meditation’ 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The planetary Spring Equinox comes on Sunday evening, March 20. The Full “Crow” Moon comes just before that on Saturday afternoon. “To better attune to these solar and lunar energies, Dragonfly Taijiquan will be hosting a ‘Gong Meditation’ the evening of the Equinox, March 20 at its studio in Portland, at 222 St. John Street, Suite 240. Gongs are ancient instruments used for thousands of years to promote healing, balance and intuition.

Come, relax, and experience the sounds of gongs, singing bowls and other sound meditation instruments in a musical improvisation by Todd Glacy of Saco River Yoga. On this day of the Spring Equinox and (day after the) Full Moon, be immersed in the primordial, resonant, healing, sacred, vibratory sounds of the gong. Bring a pillow, mat or blanket to lie on, or a meditation cushion. There is a suggested donation of $12 to $18.” Advance registration is encouraged. FMI or to register contact: 761-2142 or dragonflytaiji@roadrunner.com

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Fans can expect politically, socially conscious music cal folk-punk to living SHOW from page one rooms, parks, backyards, and tonight, playing here, we thought [Dill] would be a Local Sprouts. great local opener,” said Fertig.

The band began as Dill has been producing his own brand of a solo acoustic project homespun folk goodness on the guitar, uke, of Johnny D in 2004, banjo, sax, and piano for 15 years, touring the graduating to fullcountry and Canada for the past 13 and playfledged band in 2007. ing with contemporaries such as Arborea, They have since put Lady Lamb the Beekeeper and Big Blood. out three albums: a Margaret Belton, a San Francisco artist split CD called Dream and friend of Dill’s, said the folksinger’s songWarriors with Brenna writing is “[...] so strong you can taste it. It is Sahatjian of the Riot sweet, spicy, savory, organic, homegrown, lots Fertig Folk Collective (2007), of twists, sometimes complex, sometimes so Admire the Mess (2009) simple, and oh so very delicious!” and a collection of cover songs prepared for Dill’s lastest album, “City Cemeteries” is two friends’ wedding ceremony (2009). his eighth full-length release, all of which Local Sprouts’ reputation apparently have been self-recorded. preceded the cafe — Fertig says Tin Tree For Fertig, tonight’s line-up reflects the Forest skipped over a much larger city to underlying ethos of Local Sprouts as a whole. Seattle band Tin Tree Factory will perform tonight at Local Sprouts Cooperative (649 Con- play in Portland tonight. “Tin Tree Forest “We have a range of different music here at gress Street) along with Lewiston folksinger Denise Dill. (COURTESY PHOTO) just played Brooklyn and Washington, D.C. Looal Sprouts, but we love to host for politibut skipped over Boston to come up to Porttice in our community,” he said. cally/socially conscious performance because land for Local Sprouts,” said Fertig. “They contacted Tin Tree Factory (Johnny D, Stefanie B, Opalito, & it ties in with our mission to provide local food and us and said, ‘We like to place at a spaces like Local Marc Bookworm) bring their mix of radically politibuild a cooperative economy and work for social jusSprouts,’” he said.

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Friday, March 18 Tin Tree Factory / Denise Dill at Local Sprouts 7:30 p.m. Tin Tree Factory (Johnny D, Stefanie B, Opalito, & Marc Bookworm) brings their mix of radically political folkpunk to living rooms, parks, backyards, and all manner of homey spaces. They will make you think, laugh, and crysmile. Started as a solo acoustic project by Johnny D in 2004, Tin Tree Factory became a full-fledged band in 2007.

They have since put out three albums: a split CD called Dream Warriors with Brenna Sahatjian of the Riot Folk Collective (2007), Admire the Mess (2009), and a collection of cover songs prepared for two friends’ wedding ceremony.

Kris Rodgers (full band debut) / Will Gattis / Ross Livermore at the Big Easy 10 p.m. A trio of local acts take to the Big Easy for a night of original music. 21 plus.

Spring Equinox party with the Whitehaus Family Record, Planets Around the Sun at the Apohadion 8 p.m. Supersonic Boston arts-collective known as the Whitehaus Family Record will be throwing down an ultimate showcase of their raw talent to celebrate the Spring Equinox. We’re talking about homemade sets, dramatic lighting, long-haired goats and special effects. This wild bunch of weirdos started ...churning out recordings and underground happenings over four years ago right out of their 5 story ‘haus’ in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Portland is ready to greet great Whitehaus entertainers such as: Gracious Calamity; Morgan Shaker; Peace, Loving; Casey Rocheteau; Brian S. Ellis; Jimmy Ambulance; Manners; Welcome Home; Chris North; and special guests, Portland’s own seasonal party purveyors Planets Around The Sun, and Matt Ferrel (yes Theodore Treehouse fans, the skillz run in the family). Come from 8pm-10pm for the live music and then stay for table-slayer Dj Ponyfarm’s dance party with the best mixes and mashes of the last three decades of vinyl. Happy Spring! $5, all ages.

Big Country and Bluegrass show at Mayo Street Art 8 p.m. Mayo Street Arts presents Big Country and Bluegrass Show with The Grassholes, the Potato Pickers, and Dark Hollow Bottling Company. The show features three Portland area country and bluegrass bands ranging from old time country to slam-grass. The Big Country and Bluegrass Show is part of the ongoing Performing Arts and Culture Series (PACS) at Mayo Street Arts. The series highlights cultural diversity of Maine musicians, typically with an emphasis on world music. “Country and Bluegrass is the music a lot of us grew up with”, says MSA director Blainor McGough, “This show is chance for us to highlight local talent. Besides, we’re all sick of winter so we reckon these boys and girls are gonna melt the ice and snow right off the roof with plenty of hot leads and smokin’ tunes.”

Soul Night with Adam and the Waxmen 8 p.m. One day a man described my music as “Buttery blue-eyed soul”. I don’t know if it’s because I had blue eyes and I kind of sounded like a black man singing some soul-

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ful music; but whatever it was, it sure released my soulful being and I took it as a compliment. I’ve been listening to soul, folk, blues, rock, jazz and many other genres of music my whole life but never really played in my early years. Playing music wasn’t a big part of my life until my early twenties when I returned to my hometown of Portland, Maine.

Slowly, my experiences and thoughts began translating into songs. I was brought up to love and respect the soul and the heart. My dreams have changed over the years. With that, I have found something through music. As I developed my musical skills and began writing songs, I began playing gigs with my dad who has been a musician off and on throughout his life. $10

Saturday, March 19 King of the Hill Presents: Pass the Mic II 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. King of the Hill Presents: Pass The Mic II. With MC Leslie Downes, Atomic Trash, Dirty Dishes, Lord Byron and Lady Zen. $12 adv/$15 door

The Bayside Hellride: Pete Witham and the Cozmik Zombies / Willam Moretti 8 p.m. Pete Witham and the Cozmik Zombies w/ Opener Willam Moretti (Denver Boot, Fury III). Raging Rockabilly...

Twisted Americana... and Fire and Brimstone. Bayside Bowl.

Bates College Orchestra with Hiroya Miura 7:30 p.m. Conducted by Hiroya Miura, the Bates College Orchestra performs Beethoven’s landmark Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) and Richard Strauss’ Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. The concert is open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required and can be reserved by contacting 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu. The concert, incidentally, comes just days before Miura premieres two of his own compositions at the JapanNYC Festival organized by Carnegie Hall, with Seiji Ozawa as artistic director, in March and April. Miura’s piece “Mitate” will be performed by the Juilliard Percussion Ensemble at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday, March 29. Line C3, also a percussion ensemble, will debut his “Blowout” at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center on Saturday, April 2. Both concerts begin at 8 p.m.

Soulive with Karl Denson at the State 8 p.m. Soulive with special guest Karl Denson at the State Theatre. “Not many bands can say they’ve recorded with Chaka Khan, Dave Matthews, Talib Kweli and John Scofield.

Nor can many bands open for The Rolling Stones on one tour and have Stevie Wonder sit in with them on the next tour. The musical relationships Soulive has developed, from the aforementioned artists to Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Robert Randolph, Joshua Redman, Kenny Garrett, Fred Wesley, The Roots, Ivan Neville and so many others, speak volumes about both how versatile these talented musicians are. Jazz, hiphop, rock, soul, funk, R & B, Blues – musically, there is not much the band hasn’t done. ... Karl Denson has led a storied career as a multi-faceted recording and performing artist who first came to prominence as a member of Lenny Kravitz’ band

debuting on his first release, Let Love Rule, and staying on for the next five years.” http://www.statetheatreportland.com/ event/26983/

St. Paddy’s Weekend Rock-n-Roll Punkfest 4 p.m. Bands from Maine and all over New England explode onto the stage for this 21-and-older show; however, anyone age 16 and older can attend if accompanied by a parent or guardian. Bands include Sex Tax, Jodi Explodi, Dept. of Offense, The New 45, The Burls, The Tin Thistles, Rio Bravo, Connelly, The Skummy Men, Better Than and Death Buy Radio. Racks Sports Bar And Grille, 272 Saint John St.

Thursday, March 24 Unleashed: A Documentary Film and Concert from Marion Grace 8 p.m. A showing of the documentary film created at Marion Grace’s sold out CD Release concert at Port City Music Hall one year ago in Portland. The documentary was filmed by Acadia Studios and this night will feature the premiere screening of this film as well as live music performances by the band and special guests. Marion Grace was conceived years ago by namesake lead singer and songwriter Ralph Marion Graceffa and the current members have been together since 2008. The name Marion Grace is anchored to a childhood memory of a woman met through pictures and stories only, but is a person they will all carry in remembrance through the spirit and Grace of the music. The band is a family of musicians with a core group of players that write and shape the material. The idea behind Marion Grace is to be real, be steady, be human. “we are who we are”. They have been quoted many times saying, “it’s an amazing feeling to share music with the world, whether it be in a small cafe in Portland, Maine or on a large New York City stage. $8, all ages. One Longfellow Square.

Saturday, March 26 Bad Seeds: Dead Man’s Clothes, Panda Bandits, and the Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue 7:30 p.m. For this show, the Panda Bandits will be releasing their debut cassette EP, titled REVOLVER. The seductive and subversive Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue offer an inspired feast. And Dead Man’s Clothes return home from their SXSW tour. Has there ever been a better reason to venture down the back alleys of Biddeford? Email your mailing address to theottersden@gmail.com to request a hand printed show invitation designed Kris Johnsen’s Emblem Studios.TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE NOW via BROWN PAPER TICKETS. $10 if you are a Good Seed. $6 if you are Bad Seed. Good Seeds will receive a flower at the door. All advance ticket holders will receive $1 off the purchase of the Panda Bandit’s REVOLVER EP. Get your tickets. Bad Seeds: $6 / Good Seeds $10. The Oak and The Ax. https://www.facebook.com/TheOakAndTheAx/ posts/196235590396991

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Maine Irish Heritage Center hosts open house for St. Patrick’s Day

ABOVE: Matthew Barker, genealogist at the Maine Irish Heritage Center, discusses church history inside the center Thursday during an open house. The center is located in the St. Dominic’s Roman Catholic Church, which was built in 1888.

LEFT: The church sanctuary dwarfs a group of visitors. BELOW: Brendan McVeigh of the Irish American Club of Maine (right) holds a four-region Irish flag while St. Patrick’s Day West End parade organizer Robert O’Brien (middle) and bagpiper Tom Ryan wait for the St. Patrick’s Day parade to start at the Maine Irish Heritage Center. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

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