The Portland Daily Sun, Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Seen the match before

Amid tragedy, governor wriggling off the hook

Mascot musings: Insight on food from cooking chicken

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See Curtis Robinson’s column on page 5

See the Locavore column, page 8

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Police: Man shot by officer used car as ‘deadly weapon’

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A 29-year-old Bangor-area man who was shot twice by Portland police officers Sunday used his car as a "deadly weapon," police said Monday.

LEFT: Portland Police Chief James Craig addresses reporters during a press conference Monday morning after an officer shot a suspect twice early Sunday morning when the suspect tried to use his car as a weapon against two police officers, police reported.

Jonathan Mitchell of the Bangor area is listed in “critical condition” at Maine Medical Center after sustaining shots to the neck and shoulder. (MATT DODGE PHOTO)

A Portland officer shot Jonathan Mitchell in the neck and shoulder early Sunday morning after the suspect used his vehicle as a weapon against two officers in an attempt to evade arrest, police say.

The suspect was taken to Maine Medical Center following his arrest.

Mitchell is listed in critical condition, according to an MMC spokesperson, although Portland Police Chief Craig said the suspect was in stable condition and “expected to survive.”

Mitchell, who according to PPD has “a extensive criminal history” and is on probation for aggravated assault, remains under police cus-

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

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Marketing consultant running for mayor

Gogi latest late-night offering for fusion fans Late-night diners can find a new fusion fix at Gogi, a Korean-Mexican fusion restaurant holding its grand opening today at 653 Congress St. For owner Ian Farnsworth, who also owns Slainte Wine Bar and Lounge on Preble Street, the later the hours, the better for the Arts District's newest entry in a varied dining experience.

The late-night crowd can gather at Nosh Kitchen Bar at 551 Congress St., which is open until 1 a.m. most nights, and then trek down to Gogi, Farnsworth noted.

"We're open until 2, so for all the restaurant workers and bar workers, they don't have anywhere to go because they don't get out of work until 1:30, 1:45, so then they can head up here," he said.

Gogi had its soft opening last Thursday, and already the kimchee fried rice, marinated Shitake mushroom quesadilla and pulled pork tacos are early

tody at the hospital.

Police say the incident began about 4:40 a.m. on Sunday morning when officers responded to reports of a residential burglary in progress at 94 Allen Ave. A Mitchell woman reported her estranged husband had unlawfully entered her apartment while she was sleeping and would not leave.

Ian Farnsworth welcomes the public today to a grand opening for Gogi, 653 Congress St., where Mexican meets Korean. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Jodie Lapchick, a Portlandbased marketing consultant whose firm created the “ L o v e. Po r t l a n d .

More” campaign, announced yesterday she was running for mayor.

A political newcomer, Lapchick says she plans to focus on economic development issues, including the need to foster Portland’s Lapchick creative economy and tourism-based businesses.

“The creative economy is the best long-term way to really allow us to have the money we need to spend on social services and the infrastructure and everything else we as a city need to take care of,” Lapchick, 48, said in a telephone interview. see MAYOR page 16

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Study: HIV patients can accept infected organs (NY Times) — David Aldridge of Los Angeles had a kidney transplant in 2006, but he will soon need another.

Like many people living with HIV, he suffers from kidney damage, either from the virus or from the life-saving medications that keep it at bay.

Until recently, such patients did not receive transplants at all because doctors worried that their health was too compromised. Now they can get transplants, but organdonor waiting lists are long.

And for Mr. Aldridge, 45, and other HIV patients, a potential source of kidneys and livers is off limits, because it is illegal to transplant organs from donors who test positive for the virus — even to others who test positive. But federal health officials and other experts are calling for repeal of the provision that bans such transplants, a 23-year-old amendment to the National Organ Transplant Act. “The clock is ticking more quickly for those who are HIV-positive,” said Dr. Dorry Segev, transplant surgery director of clinical research at Johns Hopkins and a co-author of a new study indicating that 500 to 600 HIV-infected livers and kidneys would become available each year if the law were changed.

The ban on transplanting organs from people with the virus that causes AIDS was passed at the height of the AIDS scare in 1988, when infection with the virus was considered a death sentence. But now many people with H.I.V. are living long enough to suffer kidney and liver problems, adding to the demand for organs.

This has led some health authorities to say that HIVinfected organs should be available for transplant, primarily for patients infected with the virus but also potentially for some who are not.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health agencies are about to issue new guidelines that will encourage a first step: research involving transplanting HIVpositive organs into HIVpositive people. That would require the transplant ban to be lifted.

“We would like to see as many safe transplants occurring as possible, and there’s no reason why HIV-positive recipients shouldn’t get transplants and that HIV-positive donors can’t be used,” said Dr. Matthew Kuehnert, who directs the C.D.C.’s Office of Blood, Organ and Other Tissue Safety.

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Former Ivory Coast leader is captured, ending siege

BY ADAM NOSSITER THE NEW YORK TIMES

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — The strongman of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, was captured on Monday after a week-long siege of his residence and placed under the control of his rival claimant to power, according to French and United Nations officials.

Troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognized winner of Ivory Coast’s presidential election last year, had pressed toward the residence where Mr. Gbagbo had been holed up for days. According to French officials, Mr. Gbagbo surrendered at the entrance to the residence, while four French Gazelle helicopters swirled around the area.

“It is my pleasure to announce officially that the former president of Cote d’Ivoire, Laurent

Gbagbo, has been arrested,” said Youssoufou Bamba, Mr. Ouattara’s representative to the United Nations. “He is alive and he will be brought to justice to respond to the crimes he committed. In this way, the Cote d’Ivoire reaches the end of its tragedy, of its nightmare.

“His era is over,” Mr. Bamba added, saying Mr. Gbagbo was now “under our custody.”

Cmdr. Frederic Daguillon, a French military spokesman in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s main city, said Mr. Gbagbo had been taken by forces loyal to Mr. Ouattara, a statement that French and United Nations officials in Ivory Coast, Paris and New York reiterated.

“I can affirm that categorically,” Commander Daguillon said. “There was not one single French soldier in the residence.”

The capture of Mr. Gbagbo brought a dramatic climax to

Laurent Gbagbo and his wife, Simone, in Abidjan after his arrest on Monday )Agence France-Presse — Getty Images/New York Times).

a four-month standoff that has crippled the nation’s economy and plunged it back into civil war. Mr. Gbagbo steadfastly refused to accept Mr. Ouattara’s victory in the elections last year, insisting that he was still the legitimate president of this West African nation, maintaining firm control over the population by conducting

attacks on civilians and rejecting international demands to step down.

Now, he is being held at Mr. Ouattara’s headquarters at the Hôtel du Golf in Abidjan, the same place Mr. Gbagbo had cordoned off since the elections, essentially making Mr. Ouattara and his government prisoners there.

Pakistan tells U.S. it must sharply reduce C.I.A. presence

BY JANE PERLEZ AND ISMAIL KHAN THE NEW YORK TIMES

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan has demanded that the United States steeply reduce the number of Central Intelligence Agency operatives and Special Operations forces working in Pakistan, and that it put on hold C.I.A. drone strikes aimed at militants in northwest Pakistan, a sign of the near collapse of cooperation between the two testy allies.

The demand that the United States scale back its presence is the immediate fallout of the arrest in Pakistan of Raymond A. Davis, a C.I.A. security officer who killed two men in broad

daylight during a mugging in January, Pakistani and American officials said in interviews.

In all, about 335 American personnel — C.I.A. officers and contractors and Special Operations forces — were being asked to leave the country, said a Pakistani official closely involved in the decision.

The cuts threatened to badly hamper American efforts — either through drone strikes or Pakistani military training — to combat militants who use Pakistan as a base to fight American forces in Afghanistan and plot terrorist attacks abroad.

The reductions were personally demanded by the chief of the Pakistan army, Gen. Ashfaq

Parvez Kayani, said Pakistani and American officials, who requested anonymity while discussing the sensitive issue.

The scale of the Pakistani demands emerged as Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the head of Pakistan’s chief spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence, or ISI, met in Washington on Monday with the director of the C.I.A., Leon Panetta.

Afterward, a C.I.A. spokesman, George Little, said that the two spy chiefs had held “productive” meetings and that the relationship between the two services “remains on solid footing.”

The Pakistani army firmly believes that Washington’s real aim in Pakistan is to neutralize

the nation’s prized nuclear arsenal, which is now on a path to becoming the world’s fifth largest, said the Pakistani official closely involved in the decision on reducing the American presence.

On the American side, frustration has built over the Pakistani army’s seeming inability to defeat a host of militant groups, including the Taliban and Al Qaeda, which have thrived in Pakistan’s tribal areas despite more than $1 billion in American assistance a year to the Pakistani military.

In a rare public rebuke, a White House report to Congress last week described the Pakistani efforts against the militants as disappointing.

Federal appeals court rules against Arizona immigration law

BY MARC LACEY THE NEW YORK TIMES

PHOENIX — The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the state of Arizona on Monday and let stand a lower court decision blocking the most contentious parts of the state’s immigration law from going into effect.

The decision calling the provisions unconstitutional was a victory for the Obama administration, which sued to challenge the law, known as Senate Bill 1070, because it interfered with the federal government’s

authority over immigration.

The law would have required police to question people about their immigration status if stopped for other matters and if the officers found reasonable suspicion they were undocumented. Critics said that was an open invitation to racial profiling.

Last July, just days before the law was set to take effect, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton issued an injunction blocking parts of it. Gov. Jan Brewer, a supporter of the crackdown, had filed an appeal

seeking to have the injunction lifted.

After the appeals court rejected the state’s request on Monday and issued a lengthy decision indicating it believed the state had overstepped its authority, State Senator Russell Pearce, the principal sponsor of the law, remained defiant, saying the issue would ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court.

“This battle is a battle of epic proportions,” he said in a statement. “It is about a state’s right to enforce the laws of this land

and protect its citizens from those who break our laws.”

Critics of the law, who have held street protests and filed lawsuits to strike it down, were thrilled with the ruling.

It was not immediately clear how the state will proceed. It could appeal the decision to the full Court of Appeals or it could immediately appeal to the Supreme Court.

The decision will be closely watched in several states that are considering Arizona-style laws of their own, including Alabama and Georgia.

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Arson fire damages building owned by LePage aide RANDOLPH — An apartment building owned by Dan Demeritt, a spokesman for Gov. Paul LePage, was damaged in a fire Saturday evening.

Bangor Daily News reports that three people were forced to flee the building, while a fourth person was injured after jumping from a second story building.

Andrew St. Amand, 33, was treated at a hospital in Lewiston. While at the hospital, he was charged with domestic violence against his girlfriend, who also lived in the building, BDN reported.

The paper said authorities haven’t released details on how the fire started, but said more charges are possible against St. Amand.

Snowe campaign has $2M cash on hand Facing likely primary challenges from the Tea Party, U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe has amassed a $2 million war chest in support of a fourth term, according to the Portland Press Herald. Snowe, a Republican, raised $877,019 in the first quarter of 2011, the paper said, but spent only $62,000.

Potential GOP challengers to Snowe include Andrew Ian Dodge, a freelance

writer from Harpswell, and Scott D’Amboise, a business owner from Livermore Falls, the Press Herald is reporting.

Snowe, considered by many to be a moderate, is considered fairly safe by political analysts, and a recent poll showed a majority of Mainers approved of her job performance.

Gas prices up nine cents for the week Fuel prices in Maine rose another 9 cents last week to an average $3.78 per gallon statewide, but temporary relief could be in sight as oil prices tumbled more than 3 percent yesterday in futures trading.

As in recent surveys from price tracking website Mainefuelprices. com, the cheapest gallon of regular unleaded can still be found in Southern Maine, while customers in Somerset and Aroostook counties continued to see the highest prices statewide.

As of Monday afternoon, the cheapest gas in Portland could be found at Big Apple, at Washington and Cumberland streets, at $3.65 per gallon for regular unleaded. Gas stations in Jackman, Van Buren and Presque Isle were selling gas for $3.99 a gallon.

Oil prices, which had been at a 30-month high as of last week, fell Monday on the New York Mercantile Exchange. At close of day yesterday, oil prices reached $109.16 per barrel, down 3.2 percent on the day.

Mo. Democrat opposes health law

BY A. G. SULZBERGER AND KEVIN SACK THE NEW YORK TIMES

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s Democratic attorney general broke with his party on Monday and urged a federal judge to invalidate the central provision of the new health care law.

The filing of the brief by Attorney General Chris Koster, a onetime Republican state legislator who switched to the Democratic Party in 2007, underscores the act’s political tenuousness in a critical Midwestern swing state.

Mr. Koster’s action followed months of pressure from state Republicans that he join attorneys general from other states who are challenging the constitutionality of the law.

Rather than join the litigation, however, Mr. Koster chose to file a “friend of the court” brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, which is reviewing one of five challenges to the act that have moved into the midlevel appellate courts.

Three lower court judges have upheld the law, while two have ruled that its central provision — the requirement that most Americans obtain health insurance — is unconstitutional.

The 11th Circuit is hearing a case filed in Pensacola, Fla., by Republican governors and attorneys general from 26 states. The federal district judge in that case, Roger Vinson, decreed that the entire health care act should be invalidated, but stayed his ruling until the Supreme Court settled the matter.

In Missouri, a ballot referendum aimed at nullifying the law was approved by nearly three to one last year, and the legislature recently passed

resolutions urging Mr. Koster to join the legal challenges. The state’s lieutenant governor, a Republican, filed a lawsuit last year seeking to block the law.

In a letter to the Republican leaders of the legislature announcing his decision to oppose the law, Mr. Koster acknowledged that the legislative resolutions, though nonbinding, were “impactful, as they give voice to the political will of Missourians.”

Although he supports an expansion of health coverage, he wrote, his duty is “to the law, and not to a political outcome.”

Though Mr. Koster has been slow to weigh in, he did not mince words, arguing in the court brief that Congress had overstepped its authority by mandating that individuals buy health insurance, which he called “a substantial blow to federalism and personal freedom.”

“If Congress can force activity under the Commerce Clause, then it could force individuals to receive vaccinations or annual checkups, undergo mammogram or prostate exams or maintain a specific body mass,” he wrote.

He asked that the mandate be stripped from the law, and that the rest of it be allowed to remain in effect.

Mr. Koster, who is up for re-election next year along with the state’s two top Democrats, Gov. Jay Nixon and Senator Claire McCaskill, has already faced questions about his political loyalties.

Known as a Republican moderate, he became a Democrat just months before announcing his candidacy for attorney general, succeeding despite criticism of the move from both parties, including being pinned with the nickname Koster the Imposter.

Romney quietly announces second bid for White House and watched as Senator John McCain of Arizona recovered from early stumbles to capture the nomination.

Mr. Romney, a top contender in the This time, Mr. Romney has barely 2008 presidential campaign, has so been visible. He has not run any telefar been content to remain largely vision commercials in the early states. quiet while other Republicans seek And his entry into the race was done the media spotlight. At this stage, Mr. with almost no fanfare — an e-mail Romney tops most polls as the Republimessage to supporters in the early can front-runner and his advisers saw afternoon. little need to compete for the boost in In the video, Mr. Romney uses a name recognition that comes with an baseball diamond as the backdrop early declaration. after meeting with students at the But the pressures of fund-raising University of New Hampshire. The are likely to be even greater this video stands in sharp contrast to Tim time around, with President Obama Pawlenty, the former governor of Minexpected to raise as much as $1 billion nesota, who launched his bid with a for his reelection campaign. Every snazzy, fast-paced video with thunderday that Mr. ous music and Romney waited plenty of Amerto declare his ican flags. intentions was Mr. Romney, a day that he by contrast, could not raise speaks directly any money for to the camera, his bid. spending most That ends of his time now.

With focused on a new Web the economic site — www. challenges the m i t t r o m n e y. country faces. com — and an “How has official registhis happened tration with in the nation the Federal Romney is hoping to do in the 2012 race what he was that leads the Election Com- unable to do in 2008: Win the Republican nomination for world in innoPresident (Julie Jacobson/Associated Press/New York mission, Mr. Times). vation and Romney will productivity?” now be able to tap his donors for Mr. Romney asks. “The answer is money that he can use to once again that President Obama’s policies have seek the Republican nomination. failed. He and virtually all the people “From my vantage point in business around him have never worked in the and in government, I have become conreal economy. They just don’t know vinced that America has been put on a how jobs are created in the private dangerous course by Washington polisector.” ticians, and it has become even worse The former Massachusetts governor during the last two years,” Mr. Romney does not mention health care — persaid in the video. “But I am also conhaps his biggest political vulnerabilvinced that with able leadership, Amerity as a Republican candidate — in ica’s best days are still ahead.” the video, which appears a day before With his official entry into the race, the fifth anniversary of Mr. Romney Mr. Romney is hoping to do in the signed into law a health care overhaul 2012 race what he was unable to do in in his state that many view as the pre2008. And he appears to be embarking cursor to Mr. Obama’s own controveron a very different strategy. sial legislation.

In 2007, Mr. Romney used his own Mr. Romney’s Republican rivals personal wealth and millions from have criticized his health care legishis donors to blanket Iowa and New lation and Democrats have pounced, Hampshire with television ads in the too, heaping praise on the Romney hopes of establishing himself in both of legislation because they know it the states with early presidential conwon’t help him in the Republican test. In the end, he won neither state primary.

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The president is missing What have they done with President Obama?

What happened to the inspirational figure his supporters thought they elected? Who is this bland, timid guy who doesn’t seem to stand for anything in particular?

I realize that with hostile Republicans controlling the House, there’s not much Mr. Obama can get done in the way of concrete policy. Arguably, all he has left is the bully pulpit. But he isn’t even using that — or, rather, he’s using it to reinforce his enemies’ narrative.

His remarks after last week’s budget deal were a case in point.

Maybe that terrible deal, in which Republicans ended up getting more than their opening bid, was the best he could achieve — although it looks from here as if the president’s idea of how to bargain is to start by negotiating with himself, making pre-emptive con––––– cessions, then pursue a second The New York round of negotiation with the Times G.O.P., leading to further concessions.

And bear in mind that this was just the first of several chances for Republicans to hold the budget hostage and threaten a government shutdown; by caving in so completely on the first round, Mr. Obama set a baseline for even bigger concessions over the next few months.

But let’s give the president the benefit of the doubt, and suppose that $38 billion in spending cuts — and a much larger cut relative to his own budget proposals — was the best deal available. Even so, did Mr. Obama have to celebrate his defeat? Did he have to praise Congress for enacting “the largest annual spending cut in our history,” as if shortsighted budget cuts in the face of high unemployment — cuts that will slow growth and increase unemployment — are actually a good idea?

Among other things, the latest budget deal more than wipes out any positive economic effects of the big prize Mr. Obama supposedly won from last December’s deal, a temporary extension of his 2009 tax cuts for working Americans. And the price of that deal, let’s remember, was a two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts, at an immediate cost of $363 billion, and a potential cost that’s much larger — because it’s now looking increasingly likely that those irresponsible tax cuts will be made permanent.

More broadly, Mr. Obama is conspicuously failing to mount any kind of challenge to the philosophy

Paul Krugman

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Seen the match before Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been asked at least a halfdozen times why I haven’t jumped in with hobnail boots on the issue of the governor and the much-ballyhooed Labor Department mural.

I’ve held back for a while, seeing the ebb and flow of the story and how it all played out.

After the first few days, I started to see the trend, so sat back with a big bag of popcorn and an icecold beer to watch the show.

People lost their minds.

They came completely unglued, detached from all rationality.

Each and every time there was a protest of some announcement from an interested party, the governor’s office would release some other little tidbit, pouring gasoline on the fire.

“Get Him!” screamed several of my regular readers. I was most often asked what I was waiting for, get in there and deliver that famous boot to the backside that puts a politician’s buttocks somewhere around the shoulderblades.

Last month, after a particularly vicious diatribe against the governor and his attacks on the Freedom of Access Act, one loyal reader actually made a point of telling me that it was a good

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist thing I hadn’t yet discovered the fine art of clubbing baby seals.

I’ve held back, watching the show, and here is the reason.

I’m not the boxer George Foreman. I know a “rope-a-dope” when I see one.

Some folks out there are not privy to the sweet science, the actual art involved in professional boxing. They might not know the term. Here is the background, for the uninitiated.

Back in 1974, after a few years enforced hiatus from the world of professional boxing, Muhammad Ali went up against George Foreman, long before he started hawking grills. Ali hadn’t had a good fight in years, fighting a series of malcontents on his way back to regain the title. He was outmatched. Foreman had higher punching power.

Ali needed an edge. Thus, began the “rope-a-dope.” It was a fighting style that martial arts experts and late night Old Port

amateur pugilists might recognize as “drunken-fu.” You get in the ring, start the bout, and before you know it, you are leaning way into the ropes, forcing your opponent to expend every bit of his energy just to land a punch.

They tire themselves out, and fast. I submit to you, fair reader, that every single thing that has happened thus far has been the Paul LePage version of the ropea-dope.

His goal, get the opposition so tuckered out in the first six months, he can land whatever punches he wants later with impunity.

Over last week, there were multiple social media petitions making the rounds. One set was to give a snarky “welcome back” to the governor after his Jamaica vacation. The other was a collection of folks who signed a petition last week about the mural.

Suddenly, that petition has come out of the closet and morphed into an “anti-LePage Budget” petition, sponsored by MoveOn.org.

I wonder how many people that signed the petition on Facebook last week knew that when they signed it?

Group after group rises to oppose the latest position of the see HIGGINS page 5

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Amid tragedy, governor wriggling off the hook While we focus on the symbolic removal of a labor mural and play cultural defense as Gov. LePage takes on many state social programs, it was sobering on Sunday morning to see page-one New York Times treatment of an ongoing Maine challenge.

The NYT introduced us to a “... mother [who had] had abused prescription painkillers like OxyContin for the first 12 weeks of her pregnancy, buying them on the street in rural northern Maine, and then tried to quit cold turkey — a dangerous course, doctors say, that could have ended in miscarriage. The baby had seizures in utero as a result, and his mother, Tonya, turned to methadone treatment, with daily doses to keep her cravings and withdrawal symptoms at bay.”

According to the report, “... as prescription drug abuse ravages communities across the country, doctors are confronting an emerging challenge: newborns dependent on painkillers.

While methadone may have saved Tonya’s pregnancy, her son, Matthew, needed to be painstakingly weaned

Curtis Robinson ––––– Usually Reserved from it … infants like him may cry excessively and have stiff limbs, tremors, diarrhea and other problems that make their first days of life excruciating.”

The point here is not that saving the lives of drug-addicted babies is more or less important than an art mural and what that represents. It is, but that’s not the point – the point is that we’re very likely letting the governor off the hook, to some degree, by reacting to his latest foot-in-mouth policy move. He ran to be leader of the state, and has managed to drive even members of his own party to oppose his governing style, which has the tact and sensitivity usually reserved for a junior high school playground bully.

In the meantime, as LePage runs

around with his big Tea Party program-cutting plans, others in this state face the daunting task of dealing with a culture dangerously close to a sort of breakdown. LePage may have good points in some of his ideas – who knows? – but the fact is that his sledge-hammer approach is bound to conceal anything that might build consensus.

In the meantime, we have to realize that very real lives are at stake. And not only does the governor have to address his latest wild-eyed provocations, but he must at least find people who can address these problems.

It doesn’t get much worse than the state’s painkiller addiction problem.

Maine has always led the way in this particular national tragedy — urban legend has it that the great oxy epidemic actually began here. Certainly it has found fertile ground. Any plans on that front, governor?

The NYT story offers this reminder: “In the neonatal intensive care unit at Eastern Maine, Kendra, 3 days old, was sleeping in a dark, silent room one morning, away from the bustle and

bright lights that can be especially irritating to babies going through withdrawal. Nurses frequently crept in to observe her, though, and by the afternoon her limbs had stiffened and she was crying excessively and having tremors; it was enough to begin treatment.”

Meanwhile, hospitals worry that if they even let the expectant mothers into the system they will end up taking care of very expensive sick babies. Doctors have to negotiate to get treatment for their patients. This is not the way life should be.

It is unfortunate but likely that the ongoing debate over the labor mural — now the AG says removing it is protected “speech” — is exactly what we can expect from the governor in the near-term. Much in-your-face symbolism, but what about facing challenges like the ones in that NYT report?

In other words, yes, it’s even worse than we thought.

(Curtis Robinson is editor of The Portland Daily Sun. Contact him at curtis@portlanddailysun.me.)

Where’s the shared sacrifice? Nation needs a unifying philosophy KRUGMAN rom page 4

now dominating Washington discussion — a philosophy that says the poor must accept big cuts in Medicaid and food stamps; the middle class must accept big cuts in Medicare (actually a dismantling of the whole program); and corporations and the rich must accept big cuts in the taxes they have to pay. Shared sacrifice!

I’m not exaggerating. The House budget proposal that was unveiled last week — and was praised as “bold” and “serious” by all of Washington’s Very Serious People — includes savage cuts in Medicaid and other programs that help the neediest, which would among other things deprive 34 million Americans of health insurance. It includes a plan to privatize and defund Medicare that would leave many if not most seniors unable to afford health care. And it includes

a plan to sharply cut taxes on corporations and to bring the tax rate on high earners down to its lowest level since 1931.

The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center puts the revenue loss from these tax cuts at $2.9 trillion over the next decade. House Republicans claim that the tax cuts can be made “revenue neutral” by “broadening the tax base” — that is, by closing loopholes and ending exemptions. But you’d need to close a lot of loopholes to close a $3 trillion gap; for example, even completely eliminating one of the biggest exemptions, the mortgage interest deduction, wouldn’t come close. And G.O.P. leaders have not, of course, called for anything that drastic. I haven’t seen them name any significant exemptions they would end.

You might have expected the president’s team not just to reject this proposal, but to see it as a big fat

political target. But while the G.O.P. proposal has drawn fire from a number of Democrats — including a harsh condemnation from Senator Max Baucus, a centrist who has often worked with Republicans — the White House response was a statement from the press secretary expressing mild disapproval.

What’s going on here? Despite the ferocious opposition he has faced since the day he took office, Mr. Obama is clearly still clinging to his vision of himself as a figure who can transcend America’s partisan differences. And his political strategists seem to believe that he can win re-election by positioning himself as being conciliatory and reasonable, by always being willing to compromise.

But if you ask me, I’d say that the nation wants — and more important, the nation needs — a president who believes in something, and is willing to take a stand. And that’s not what we’re seeing.

Governor resembles Muhammad Ali wearing out his opponents HIGGINS from page 4

Gov, and what does he do? Does he ignore it and act like his usual self? Nope, he sends the Attorney General of the state out to argue, stating that the removal was “government speech,” and citing that it has the same free speech protections as any other citizen.

I’m telling you, it’s a rope-a-dope.

In the end, the match didn’t work out so well for Foreman. He got his tired butt handed to him in the eighth round of that fight. It was like fighting a weeble-wobble. No matter how many times he hit Ali, he just wouldn’t go down.

If you’ve seen the technique before, you can understand my decision to sit back and watch the show. Inevitably, all the huffing and puffing leads

nowhere, right before the biggest fights involving the budget get started.

Take this time between rounds to realize that you’ve been played like a set of cheap bagpipes.

Then, find a way to fight that strategy.

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

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Neighborhood group needs to take firm stand with Preble Street center Editor, I was very dismayed to hear that the Portland Police Department’s concerns about Preble Street Resource Center’s operational style and low barrier philosophy was squashed by City Council. And that the Portland Public Safety Committee’s request for more dialogue between the PPD, PSRC, and the Bayside Neighborhood Association was ordered ended before even getting underway.

It seems that PSRC was able to once again use their “get out of jail free card” and avoid having to

actually work with the community to make Bayside a safer place to live and work. I was at the Public Safety meeting where PPD Commander Vern Malloch addressed the committee with his concerns about the dangerous environment in and around the PSRC. What he was asking for from PSRC was nothing more that the BNA has been asking them for years.

The residents, workers, and visitors of the Bayside neighborhood want to feel safe in their homes and on the streets. For many years working with the BNA I watched PSRC give us nothing but lip service when asked by the BNA to make changes to help conditions in our neighborhood. Mark Swan and Jon Bradley always found reason why they could not

do what was asked of PSRC. And the BNA, always acquiescent, would continue trying to be fair with an organization they viewed as both problem and partner in the neighborhood. Now it looks like our City Council is showing their true colors by dismissing the PPD’s concerns and ordering them to back off PSRC. In doing so you are telling the Bayside neighborhood that our safety is not your concern. Maybe it’s time for new leadership in the Bayside Neighborhood Association and a “no more mister nice guy” approach to problems caused by the Preble Street Resource Center.

Jay York Portland

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Ronald H. Brown, 71 SOUTH PORTLAND — Ronald H. Brown, 71, of Elm Street, South Portland, Maine died on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at a Portland Hospital after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.

He was born in Belfast, Maine, a son of Harold Keene and Francis M. Beckwith Brown. He was educated in the Belfast schools and graduated from Crosby High School in the Class of 1958. He later attended Casco Bay College in Portland, Maine.

Mr. Brown served in the U.S. Coast Guard in the early 1960s and was very proud to have been in the Inaugural Parade for President John F. Kennedy.

He was a past member of the Grace Baptist Church.

For over twenty years he was a route delivery man for H.P. Hood and Sons Milk Company. He later was a customer sales representative for L.L. Bean at the North Port Plaza and was awarded the “Bean’s Best Award”.

He was very close to his family and especially enjoyed playing cribbage with them.

He was predeceased by a daughter, Deborah Jean Brown in 1962.

Surviving are three sons, Ronald S. Brown of Cumberland, Maine, Eric W. Brown and his wife Adele of Scarborough and Matthew A. Brown of South Portland. A sister, Diane DiCicco of Glen Falls, New

York, two granddaughters, Amanda Porter and her husband Joshua of Chesnee, S.C., Natasha Brown of Scarborough, two great-grandchildren, Jacob and Skylar Porter of Chesnee, S.C. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Elm Street United Methodist Church, 168 Elm Street, South Portland, ME 04106 or the Maine Parkinson Society, P.O. Box 2382, South Portland, ME 04106.

There will be no visiting hours. A celebration of his life will be held 4 P.M., Thursday, April 14, 2011 at the Elm Street Methodist Church. Interment will be at Forest City Cemetery.

Arrangements are by the Hobbs Funeral Home, South Portland.

Author, swordfishing captain Greenlaw Beans and Poe; Mad to speak at May 14 USM commencement Horse hosts second DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT Isle au Haut resident, bestselling author and swordfishing captain Linda Greenlaw will be the speaker for the University of Southern Maine’s 131st Commencement, the university announced Monday. The ceremony will take place beginning at 9 a.m., Saturday, May 14 at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland. Greenlaw will be awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters at the ceremony.

Greenlaw’s honorary degree is in recognition for her contribution to the cultural heritage of the coast of Maine, the university reported. Born in Connecticut, she grew up in Topsham while her father worked at Bath Iron Works. She received her bachelor’s degree in English and gov-

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ernment from Colby College.

Greenlaw first came to public attention in 1997 when she was one of the swordfish captains profiled in Sebastian Junger’s bestseller, “The Perfect Storm.”

America’s only female swordfishing captain, she is the author of four books about life as a commercial fisherman, “The Hungry

Ocean” (1999 New York Times best-seller), “The Lobster Chronicles” (2002 New York Times best-seller), “All Fishermen are Liars” (2004 New York Times best-seller) and “Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to Sea.” Time magazine called her 2005 “Recipes from a Very Small Island,” co-authored with her mother Martha Greenlaw, a “musthave cookbook.” She also wrote two mysteries set in Maine, “Slipknot” and “Fisherman’s Bend,” and is featured in the Discovery Channel series “Swords: Life on the Line.”

She is the recipient of the Maine Women’s Fund 2007 Sarah Orne Jewett Award, was presented the New England Book Award for nonfiction in 2004 and the U.S. Maritime Literature Award in 2003.

annual bean supper DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT

Mad Horse Theatre Company will present its second annual live audio drama and bean supper Saturday, April 16, at the Hutchins School in South Portland.

The evening will start with an old-fashioned New England Bean Supper, complete with all the traditional favorites.

The theater company, which stages productions at Lucid Stage on Baxter Boulevard, will be celebrating the great old radio dramas of the past by teaming up with Final Rune Productions to present two live audio dramas. The after-dinner festivities will begin with a dramatic reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Casque of Amontillado,” followed by dessert, coffee and a reading of “Sunrise Boulevard” by radio drama author Roger Gregg.

The event will run from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., with a $15 suggested donation for admission.

The Hutchins School is located at 24 Mosher St., South Portland. Reservations are strongly suggested, organizers said. Call 730-2389, or visit www. madhorse.com.

Unum gives LearningWorks $25,000 for extended-day learning programs DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT LearningWorks is the recipient of a $25,000 grant from Unum directed toward the organization’s extendedday learning programs, including LearningWorks Afterschool and the evening Community Study Center, the local nonprofit organization reported.

“We are supportive of LearningWorks Afterschool’s efforts to work with school chilStrimling dren and extend learning beyond the school day — building a foundation for them to be successful students,” said Cary Olson Cartwright, Unum director of corporate social responsibility.

LearningWorks’ AfterSchool Program provides school-year tuition-free academic support and cultural enrichment for low-performing third, fourth and fifth graders at the Reiche Community School, the East End Community School and for any interested student in first through fifth grade at the Riverton Elementary School.

The program serves 250 students this academic year. The Community Study Center is an evening resource center in Portland’s West End which is staffed with experienced professionals and qualified, trained volunteers who assist middle and high school students with homework and provide English conversation opportunities to English Language Learners.

“We are extremely grateful to Unum for their support,” said LearningWorks CEO Ethan Strimling.

“Additional learning time is critical to the success of students who are struggling in school. We are so pleased that Unum has chosen to be a partner in this effort.”

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Tuesday, April 12, 2011— Page 7

Case submitted to District Attorney’s office for review SHOOTING from page one

Mitchell, police say, fled the scene while his estranged wife was on the phone with 911. She described the vehicle he left in as a black VW Jetta, which was soon located by Officer Robert Miller in the area of Washington Avenue and Inverness Street.

Police say that Miller activated his cruiser’s emergency lights and sirens, and after Mitchell refused to stop, the officer called for additional officers and a patrol supervisor began to monitor the situation via radio.

Police report that Miller and officer David Schertz continued the pursuit onto Presumpscot, Sherwood and Veranda Street before Mitchell turned right onto Fairfield, a short dead end street in the East Deering neighborhood.

The two officers said they approached Mitchell’s vehicle on foot, but the suspect would not exit his vehicle.

“Officers were hoping that would have occurred,” said Craig. There was “some contact” and “some verbal contact” between police and Mitchell, but

“Officers Miller and Schertz approached the vehicle in an attempt to take Mitchell into custody.

After refusing — based on our preliminary investigation — we believe Mitchell used his vehicle as a dangerous weapon in an attempt to escape.” — Portland Police Chief James Craig the chief refused to provide any additional details, saying the investigation is still very much in its preliminary stages.

“Officers Miller and Schertz approached the vehicle in an attempt to take Mitchell into custody,” Craig said. “After refusing — based on our preliminary investigation — we believe Mitchell used his vehicle as a dangerous weapon in an attempt to escape,” said Craig, although the chief would not specify how exactly the car was used. No police officers were injured during the incident and Mitchell’s car did not strike either police vehicle, according to Craig.

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Schertz did not fire his weapon during the incident, according to police.

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Mitchell case has been submitted to the Cumberland County District Attorney’s office for review.

The incident remains under investigation by the Portland Police Department Criminal Investigation Division, Internal Affairs Unit and the state’s Attorney General’s Office.

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She also had a brief stint as a condom during an AIDS awareness initiative.

“Being a mascot is extremely physical and show-timey but because you don’t talk, it’s like you’ve got a secret identity,” she explains. “I’d love to be Slugger (the Portland Seadogs mascot).

He doesn’t just wave; he gets to do a lot of stuff. He’s a superstar in Southern Maine but I have yet to break that glass ceiling.”

Born in the Lone Star State then raised in upstate New York, Katie followed her friend Sara Cox to Portland after they graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1989. It was the post-Reagan bust, when college grads were having a difficult time finding jobs that made full use of their educations, so Katie took a job at Raffles, the Cafe and Bookstore that once resided at 555 Congress. She has worked a variety of jobs since, par for someone with a decidedly artistic temperament.

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Margo Mallar ––––– Daily Sun Columnist daily constitutionals. Recently, she’s joined Portland Trails’ development team.

So what dish and drink define her?

Well, the two hours that it takes to make a variation on Chicken Marbella gives great insight into Katie’s preferred mode.

“I throw chicken pieces in a pan then add a can of white beans, artichoke hearts. I pour in a can of beer or half a bottle of wine, tons of garlic, onions, capers, and some really good green olives. You bake it until the chicken falls right off the bone then pour it over rice or potatoes. It’s so savory and the juice from the vegetables and the alcohol is fantastic. It’s something I like to do on a Sunday afternoon.

You could whip it together real fast but I usually take a couple of hours.

“This dish is so ‘me’ because it allows me time to spend at a store picking out the ingredients, so it’s a very social thing and speaks to the part of me that likes to plan.

But since I don’t go by a recipe it’s also the part of me that likes to fly by the seat of my pants, using my imagination and the freedom of no restrictions but it all ends up being very well-balanced. This dish is also me because of what I do during the time it takes to bake. I can go off and forget about it for awhile but then I smell it and remember so that the anticipation starts to build. I can read something, catch

up on correspondence or listen to the radio. Maybe I’ll even take a brief nap on the couch then wake up to this wonderful meal.”

Her beverage? Anywhere from cheap wine to a well-crafted beer or an aged rum from St. Croix where her sister lives and works as a marine biologist. It could as easily be Oakhurst low-fat chocolate milk; there are certain perks to working as a mascot.

She’s a polygamous shopper, visiting all of the big name supermarkets like Hannaford, Trader Joe’s, and Whole Foods as well as Rosemont.

She has an especial fondness for the Asian markets, having lived for a year with a Japanese family in the Kyoto-Osaka region. “The mother was constantly feeding me Kobe beef because I’m American.

I finally said to her, I want to eat what you eat,” she recalls. “I love instant ramen. It reminds me of that time.”

And she notes that one of the highlights of working as a mascot is the annual kickball game played at Hadlock Field.

“Some of the mascots can’t see, some have feet so big they can barely walk. Others have arms too short to do anything. It’s freakin’ hysterical,” she says.

What Portland restaurant would be the best location for the postgame meal? “It would have to be Becky’s Diner. The waitstaff themselves are like mascots. They’re energetic and entertaining and lots of fun. It would be like mingling with the professionals.”

(Margo Mallar chops, stirs, bakes and writes in the East End. Her Locavore column appears each Tuesday in the Portland Daily Sun.)

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favorites, Farnsworth noted on the restaurant's Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ GOGIME).

"It's fast food, you come in and get your food within like two or three minutes, you sit down at your table and you're out," Farnsworth said in an interview Monday.

It's Farnsworth's second foray into opening a dining venue in Portland, and again he is using a foreign word or expression as a name — "Slainte" (pronounced slawn-cha) means "to good health" in Gaelic. "Gogi" is the Korean word for "meat," he noted.

Slainte Wine Bar and Lounge at 24 Preble St. has been operating for almost five years, and Farnsworth, who is half Irish and half Scottish, said he has spent some time considering a Mexican-Korean fusion restaurant as his second culinary adventure.

"You don't want to stop at one, and my girlfriend is Korean, too, and I want her to get involved with what I'm doing, so she's my partner in this operation," he said.

Gogi will be serving lunch and dinner seven days a week, Wednesday through Saturday nights.

Farnsworth said that the Korean-Mexican fusion is already popular on the West Coast and the Southwest, and the trend is starting starting to head east.

Three or four similar Korean and Mexican fusion restaurants have opened up in Philadelphia and two are about to open in Boston, he said. Fusion cuisine, which combines elements of various culinary traditions, has its fans in Portland, where The Green Elephant and Yordprom's are among examples of fusion eateries.

At Gogi, diners can expect Korean barbecue and tacos available on tortillas, nori (seaweed) or lettuce wraps; also look for vegetarian options. Instead of ground beef, Gogi will use Korean beef that's marinated, Farnsworth said.

"People love it. It's a gourmet fast food," he said.

Unlike Slainte, which identifies itself as a bar, Gogi will be first and foremost a restaurant, he said. Farnsworth expected to have a liquor license by today so he could serve bottled beers, but the calling card will be local, fresh ingredients, he said.

"I kind of anticipate doing another one ... honestly, it's hard to make it with just one in this town because all the places are small

and you're not dealing with hundreds and hundreds of people so you have to expand a little bit if you want to reach your goals," Farnsworth said.

In the early 1990s, the Gogi space was a diner. During renovation recently, the Neon Diner sign was visible briefly while Farnsworth updated the front panel sign. The site also was home to an Italian restaurant, a Mexican burrito outlet and at least two Somalian eateries, he

estimated.

"We totally renovated it, everything is all new. We gave it some life. We like this part of town, we love this part of town. I think it's a great location, this part of town is really starting to develop. A lot more people coming up here," Farnsworth said.

Tuesday hours are 11 a.m to 11 p.m.; hours Wednesday through Saturday are 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.; and Sundays and Monday hours are 11 a.m to 11 p.m.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Sometimes you need feedback. This is not one of those times, though. You could do without other people’s observations on your life. You know better anyway.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2011. There are 263 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On April 12, 1861, the American Civil War began as Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

On this date: In 1606, England’s King James I decreed the design of the original Union Flag, which combined the flags of England and Scotland.

In 1811, fur traders employed by John Jacob Astor began building Fort Astoria in present-day Oregon.

In 1877, the catcher’s mask was first used in a baseball game, by James Tyng of Harvard in a game against the Lynn Live Oaks.

In 1934, “Tender Is the Night,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published in book form after being serialized in Scribner’s Magazine.

In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., at age 63; he was succeeded

by Vice President Harry S. Truman.

In 1955, the Salk vaccine against polio was declared safe and effective.

In 1960, Candlestick Park in San Francisco first opened, with Vice President Richard Nixon throwing the ceremonial first pitch.

In 1981, the space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral on its first test flight.

One year ago: President Barack Obama opened a 47-nation nuclear summit in Washington, boosted by Ukraine’s announcement that it will give up its weapons-grade uranium.

Today’s Birthdays: Country singer Ned Miller is 86. Actress Jane Withers is 85. Opera singer Montserrat Caballe is 78.

Actor Charles Napier is 75. Playwright Alan Ayckbourn is 72. Jazz musician Herbie Hancock is 71. Actor Frank Bank is 69. Rock singer John Kay is 67. Actor Ed O’Neill is 65.

Author Tom Clancy is 64. Actor Dan Lauria is 64. Talk show host David Letterman is 64. Author Scott Turow is 62. Singer David Cassidy is 61. Actor-playwright Tom Noonan is 60. Rhythm-and-blues singer JD Nicholas is 59. Singer Pat Travers is 57. Actor Andy Garcia is 55. Movie director Walter Salles (SAL’-ihs) is 55. Country singer Vince Gill is 54. Actress Suzzanne (cq) Douglas is 54.

Rock musician Will Sergeant (Echo & the Bunnymen) is 53. Rock singer Art Alexakis is 49. Folk-pop singer Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) is 47. Actress Alicia Coppola is 43. Actor Nicholas Brendon is 40. Actress Shannen Doherty is 40. Actress Marley Shelton is 37.

Actress Jordana Spiro is 34. Rock musician Guy Berryman is 33. Actress Claire Danes is 32. Actress Jennifer Morrison is 32. Contemporary Christian musician Joe Rickard (Red) is 24.

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Tuesday, April 12 Poetry Month event in Falmouth noon. April is Poetry Month. Falmouth Poet Eleanor Steele will be the guest speaker at the Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth for the monthly LunchBox Friends meeting. She will be sharing some of her own poetry and encouraging others to create poetry of their own. http:// marcopolomusic.biz/stevens%20ave%20armony%20 march%201969%20photo.jpg Free and open to the public.

Bring a sandwich. Friends will supply beverages and desserts. 781-2351.

‘Your Way and How to Find It’ noon to 1 p.m. “Your Way and How to Find It,” Quarterly Workshop Series at the Kennebunk Free Library continues. This is a quarterly workshop series facilitated by Success Strategist Amy Wood at the Kennebunk Free Library from noon until 1 p.m. This series will help you to get out from under the overwhelm of our fast-paced culture and live your life at a rhythm that feels right.

This month’s topic is “Maximize Your Personal Power.”

No reservations are needed and there is no charge for this series. “Amy is a psychologist with practices in Portland and Kennebunk, and has worked with clients ranging from seriously disturbed psychiatric patients and incarcerated criminals to community leaders and corporate executives — no matter how complex the challenge, Amy has helped someone through it!

Whether you attend all four workshops or just one or two, you’ll learn proven strategies for making your life less stressful and more satisfying.” Upcoming program dates and topics are: Tuesday, July 19: Clear your path to what you really want. Tuesday, Oct. 18: Keep yourself on course. For additional information about the series please call 985-2173.

Classes offered by the Alzheimer’s Association 12:15 p.m. Family caregivers and members of the general public are invited to participate in free bi-monthly classes offered by the Alzheimer’s Association. Comfort Keepers, local provider of in-home care for seniors, sponsors the training. The meeting room at The Scarborough Public Library, 48 Gorham Road, is the site of the bi-monthly Tuesday classes. The next two classes are scheduled for April 12 and June 7, from 12:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Call the Comfort Keepers office at 885-9600 for questions regarding classes. Comfort Keepers provides in-home care for seniors in Cumberland and Northern York counties. For information about all dementias, contact The Alzheimer’s Association, Maine Chapter at 772-0115.

Public hearings on Portland budgets 5:30 p.m. The public will have one of several opportunities to voice their opinion on the Portland Public School system and the City of Portland’s municipal budget. On Monday, the Portland School Committee will present its recommended budget to the City Council. The City Council will refer the school budget to the Finance Committee for review the following day (no public comment will be taken at the City Council meeting). On Tuesday, the Finance Committee will continue its review and receive public comment on city department budgets including a discussion of the Police and Fire Departments as well as the school budget.

Monday, May 2, the City Council will hold a public hearing for the municipal budget only and will vote on the school budget. The school budget will then be sent to the voters for a citywide vote Tuesday, May 10. The City Council will vote on the municipal budget May 16. Opportunities for Public Comment: Tuesday, April 12, 5:30 p.m., Room 209: Finance Committee budget review, public comment taken on the following city departments, Police Department, Fire Department, and the proposed school budget. Thursday, April 14, 5:30 p.m., Room 209: Finance Committee Public Hearing, public comment taken on both city and school budgets.

Monday, April 25, 7:30 p.m., City Council Chambers: City Council Public Hearing for school budget only. Thursday, April 28, 5:30 p.m., Room 209: Finance Committee Public Hearing, public comment taken on city budget. Monday, May 2, 7 p.m., City Council Chambers: City Council Public Hearing for city budget only. Tuesday, May 10: Citywide vote on school budget. Visit the city’s website for the latest information on the budget process, www.portlandmaine. gov/financialreports.htm#FY12_Budget_Process.

Julia Spencer-Fleming at Longfellow Books 7 p.m. Julia Spencer-Fleming will celebrate the debut of the latest addition to her bestselling mystery series at Longfellow Books. “Winner of the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, Dilys, Barry, Nero Wolfe, and Gumshoe Awards, and a finalist for the Edgar and Romantic Times RC Award, Maine author Julia Spencer-Fleming has become one of the major names in the world of mystery writers with her Clare Fergusson/ Russ Van Alstyne series. Now, the long awaited seventh book in the series that burst onto the mystery scene like wild fire, is finally here!” One Monument Way.

Fairy Tale Players presents “JoJo Dubois Meets His Match” as an Acorn Production. This month, Acorn is staging readings of full-length plays as part of the 10th annual Maine PlaywrightsFestival at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. Productions resume Thursday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m. and continue through the end of the month. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Bowdoin College Asian Week benefit for Japan 7:30 p.m. “The destruction in Japan wrought by the triplecrisis of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident in Sendai, Japan, in February, has left more than 12,000 people dead and another 15,000 still missing, while the emotional and physical suffering of hundreds of thousands of survivors continues, exacerbated by the recent aftershock. In a show of support and solidarity, Bowdoin College’s Asian Student Association is dedicating this year’s Asian Week events to help inform the campus and the greater community about the crisis.” Scheduled Asian Week events include: Tuesday, April 12, 7:30-9 p.m., Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union, “Perspectives on the Earthquake in Japan,” a faculty panel discussion. Thursday, April 14, 8 p.m., Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall. Stand-up comedian Hari Kondabolu ’04 returns to Bowdoin, fresh from his appearance on Comedy Central.

Tickets available at Smith Union information desk. $2 donation encouraged. Friday, April 15, 7:30 p.m., Searles 315, “Memories of Murder” (2003), a South Korean film directed

by Bong Joon-ho, based on the true story of the country’s first-known serial murders, which took place between 1986 and 1991. Saturday, April 16, 9-10 p.m., Sargent Gym, ASA Fashion Show for Japan, featuring Elemental, Obvious, Bowdoin Cheerleading, Anokha and Intersection. Walk the runway or sponsor a friend to tread the catwalk as a guest model, with proceeds going to earthquake relief. Sign up at the Smith Union information desk. Money raised from Asia Week events will be directed to the Japanese Red Cross.

Donations can be made online via PayPal. http://www.jrc. or.jp/english/

Wednesday, April 13 Neighborhood Byway in Deering Center 6 p.m. The city of Portland and the Deering Center Neighborhood Association will host a neighborhood meeting to discuss the creation of a Neighborhood Byway in the Deering Center neighborhood. A Neighborhood Byway uses local, residential streets to create a comfortable environment for bicyclists and pedestrians of all ages. Byways are designed to encourage use by beginner or less experienced cyclists, kids and families traveling to and from local schools, and residents walking or riding to various neighborhood destinations. The Deering Center area was selected for the pilot project as a Neighborhood Byway would be able to connect a large number of locations and address long-standing neighborhood concerns regarding traffic and pedestrian safety. The pilot project will promote safer connections between four neighborhood centers, five schools and numerous trails and parks (for a map of the proposed byway, visit the city’s website at www.portland-

maine.gov.). The Neighborhood Byway initiative is funded in part by a $1.8 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant to the City of Portland’s Healthy Portland to prevent obesity by increasing physical activity and improving nutrition within the community. Funded through Communities Putting Preventing to Work (CCPW), the city’s obesity prevention program seeks to provide quality ways for Portland residents to lead active, healthy lives, including creating safe places to walk and bike. Meeting at Hall School, 23 Orono Road, ends at 8 p.m.

St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church Holy Week services at Old Orchard Beach 6 p.m. St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church, located at Cathedral Pines Chapel, 156 Saco Ave., Old Orchard Beach, has announced its Holy Week Schedule.

Every Wednesday until April 20, there will be at 6 p.m.

Stations of the Cross. On April 10, Passion Sunday at 4 p.m., there is the Veiling of Crosses and the Great Litany.

On April 17, Palm Sunday at 4 p.m., the parish will have the Blessing and Distribution of Palms and Mass followed by the Service of Tenebrae. During Holy Week, on April 21, Maundy Thursday at 7 p.m., there will be Holy Communion and Stripping of the Altar. On April 22, Good Friday, from noon until 3 p.m., there is the remembrance of the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross called Tres Ores. It begins at noon with the Stations of the Cross and Meditations on the Last Words of Christ in the Cross. Holy Week wraps up on Sunday April 24, with the Great Celebration of Easter and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ at 4 p.m. The Rev. Jeffrey Monroe MM is Rector.

Thursday, April 14 Eggs and Issues: ‘Maine’s Finances at the Crossroads’ 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Eggs and Issues, “Maine’s Finances at the Crossroads, Reform or Bust,” at Holiday Inn By the Bay, 88 Spring St., Portland, by Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce. Networking, breakfast, program at 8 a.m.

“State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin will discuss Maine’s debt problems and what Governor LePage is doing to fix it. Find out what every Maine taxpayer needs to know about reforming the state’s spending and pension liabilities and what it means for jobs and opportunity.” see next page

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‘The Great Tax Divide’ noon to 1:30 p.m. The Great Tax Divide: Maine’s Retail Desert vs. New Hampshire’s Retail Oasis” presented byScott Moody, chief economist, The Maine Heritage Policy Center. “Learn about our latest research and indepth analysis of cross-border shopping along the Maine — New Hampshire border which represents one of, if not the, largest tax differentials in the country. Scott Moody has analyzed decades of data and the effects of sales tax on Maine retailers with the goal of building a greater understanding of the Maine versus New Hampshire’s retail sector and what it means for Maine businesses as well as enable The Maine Heritage Policy Center to work with policy makers and business leaders to implement meaningful tax reform.” Portland, DiMillo’s On the Water, 25 Long Wharf, Portland. (Also in Bangor Wednesday, April 13, at Sea Dog Brewing Company Banquet Center.) MHPC Member: $17 per person, inclusive of tax and gratuity. Non-member: $22.

For more information, contact Amanda Clark at 321-2550 or by e-mailing aclark@mainepolicy.org.

Scarborough Chamber Meet Your Legislators 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Scarborough Community Chamber and its Public Policy and Legislative Affairs representatives will sponsor a Meet Your Legislators special event at Maine Indoor Karting in Scarborough. “This will be a great opportunity for Scarborough Community Chamber members and guests to meet and talk informally with our legislators, Senator Phil Bartlett and Rep. Amy Fern Volk.” www.portlandregion.com

Deering Players talent show 7 p.m. The Deering Players will host a talent show in the auditorium at Deering High School, 370 Stevens Ave., Portland. Tickets are $5. For more information, please contact Kathleen Harris at 874-8260.

Youth Ensembles Spring Instrumental Concert 7 p.m. University of Southerm Maine Youth Ensembles Spring Instrumental Concert. Merrill Auditorium, Myrtle Street, Portland. Sponsored by Macy’s, with support from the Sam L. Cohen Foundation.

Portland Pirates in playoffs 7 p.m. The Portland Pirates shootout win over the Albany Devils combined with a Connecticut Whale 4-3 loss to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers Saturday night means the Pirates will face the Whale in the opening round of the 2011 Calder Cup Playoffs beginning with Game 1 to be played Thursday, April 14 at 7 p.m. at the Cumberland County Civic Center.

Game 2 of the best-of-seven series will be played Saturday, April 16 at 7 p.m. at the Civic Center with the series shifting to Connecticut for Games 3 and 4. Tickets for the first round of Portland Pirates Playoff Hockey MISSION: 16W, powered by Time Warner Cable are on sale at the Cumberland County Civic Center Box Office, by calling 775-3458, visiting the Cumberland County Civic Center Box Office or on-line at ticketmaster.com.

FOOD + FARM 2011 7:30 p.m. April 14 to April 17, FOOD + FARM 2011. A food and film festival at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. in Portland. “This is the fourth year of Food+Farm, SPACE Gallery’s annual look at issues challenging our access to safe, sustainable food. This year’s program features our first foray into farm theater with a reading of the work-in-progress Of Farms and Fables, a visit from the young farmer’s advocacy group The Greenhorns who will be conducting a young farmers’ mixer and screening their new film The Greenhorns, a talk by sustainable food author and educator Anna Lappé on the connections between diet and climate change and hands-on learning opportunities with a work/ learn party at Cultivating Community’s Turkey Hill Farm and intensive growing workshops at The Urban Farm Fermentory. Co-presented by SPACE Gallery, MOFGA, Cultivating Community, The Urban Farm Fermentory, and Flatbread Co. In-kind and underwriting support is provided by Local Sprouts, The Portland Phoenix, Aurora Provisions, Caiola’s Restaurant, Maine Root, Rosemont Market and Bakery, Grandy Oats and the WIld Iris Inn.” http://www.space538. org/events.php

Author Rosemary Mahoney at UMF 7:30 p.m. The University of Maine at Farmington’s notable Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program presents award-winning author Rosemary Mahoney as the next reader in its 2010-11 Visiting Writers Series. Mahoney will read from her work in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a signing by the author. Mahoney is the author of “The Early Arrival of Dreams”; “A Year in China,” a New York Times Notable Book; “Whoredom in Kimmage”; “The World of Irish Women,” a new York Times Notable Book and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; “A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman”; “The Singular Pilgrim”; “Travels on Sacred Ground”; and “Down the

Nile; Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff,” chosen as a best book of the year by both Publisher’s Weekly and The Christian Science Monitor.

Friday, April 15 Flaws for a Cause Benefit Sale 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Second annual Flaws for a Cause Benefit Sale, April 15 to April 30, at Maine Potters Market, 376 Fore St., 774-1633. Buy perfectly usable, but less than perfect pots, to benefit Cultivating Community. The Maine Potters Market, 376 Fore Street in Portland’s Old Port, announces its second annual Flaws for a Cause Sale from April 15 to April 30. This is a unique opportunity to buy perfectly usable, but less than perfect pots. Last year’s sale was a big success, raising money for Cultivating Community, a Portland non-profit that grows food for the hungry and uses their work in gardens and farms for community development and empowering youth.

“Massai Tribe, Kenya, Africa,” a signed and framed photograph by the Maine Photography Show judge, Jay Stock. This photograph will be raffled off at the end of the show on May 7. Tickets available during the exhibition, April 16-May 7 at the Boothbay Region Art Foundation Gallery, One Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor. (COURTESY IMAGE)

‘Saving the Union’ Civil War remembrance 1 p.m. The Maine State Archives will present “Saving the Union: The Call for Volunteers,” at the Augusta Civic Center to commemorate Maine’s entry into the Civil War. The event is free and open to the public. “It was on April 15, 1861 that President Abraham Lincoln asked states such as Maine to raise 75,000 volunteer soldiers to defend the Union against southern states that were seceding, primarily over the issue of slavery,” said State Archivist David Cheever.

“Maine answered Lincoln’s call with vigor and this event is representative of Maine’s key role in the Civil War.” Maine’s Secretary of State, Charles E. Summers, Jr., Maine’s Adjutant General John “Bill” Libby, and Maine Governor Paul LePage will speak about how Maine rose to President Lincoln’s challenge to defend the country and the Constitution.

Members of The Maine Legislature will also participate in the ceremony. “Saving the Union” will include readings of Civil War-era letters from Maine citizens; music by the 195th Maine National Guard Band and Civil War re-enactors; choral music by the Bowdoin and Colby College chorus’; and color guards from the Maine National Guard and Civil War re-enactment groups. For more information about this event, contact State Archivist David Cheever, or visit the Maine State Archives website at www.maine.gov/sos/arc/.

‘Bill Cunningham New York’ 6:30 p.m. “Bill Cunningham New York” screens at Movies at the Museum at the Portland Museum of Art. Friday, April 15, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 16, 2 p.m.; Sunday, April 17, 2 p.m. NR “‘We all get dressed for Bill,’ says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The ‘Bill’ in question is 80 plus New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place, and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny, and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.” http:// www.portlandmuseum.org/events/movies.php

‘The Greenhorns’ screening at COA 7 p.m. America’s young farming community will be celebrated at a showing of “The Greenhorns,” a movie about the current numbers of young people who have taken up farming. The screening will be in the college’s Gates Community Center, Bar Harbor. The film will be introduced by Severine von Tscharner Fleming of the Smithereen Farm in New York. Following the film will be a panel of young farmers including the manager of COA’s Beech Hill Farm, Alisha Strater, von Tscharner Fleming and others. In addition to the screening, there will be a Wild Herbs Walk and Workshop with COA alumna Rachel Randall from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The workshop is limited to 25 people on a first comefirst served basis. To pre-register, or for more information on

the 7 p.m. showing of “The Greenhorns,” contact Matthew Doyle Olson at 801-5688 or mdoyleolson@coa.edu. www. coa.edu

Food+Farm: Anna Lappé 7:30 p.m. April 14 to April 17, FOOD + FARM 2011. A food and film festival at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. in Portland. “This is the fourth year of Food+Farm, SPACE Gallery’s annual look at issues challenging our access to safe, sustainable food. ... Anna Lappé is a widely respected author and educator, renowned for her work as a sustainable food advocate. The co-author or author of three books and the contributing author to nine others, Anna’s work has been widely translated internationally and featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, Oprah Magazine, among many other outlets. Named one of Time’s ‘eco’ Who’s-Who, Anna is a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund and has for more than a decade been a key force in the growing international movement for sustainability and justice in the food chain.” http://www.space538. org/events.php

‘Unaccustomed Earth’ concert at USM 8 p.m. Spotlight Concert Series: “Unaccustomed Earth.”

Two Sides Sounding & South Oxford Six. Corthell Concert Hall, University of Southern Maine, Gorham. A part of Innovation Celebration, a partnership with the Portland Conservatory of Music, and USM’s New Music Weekend.

‘Blood Brothers’ at CLT in Auburn 8 p.m. Mark Brann of Portland, as the “Narrator” in Community Little Theatre’s “Blood Brothers,” tells the story of “Mrs. Johnstone, deserted by her husband and unable to cope with her oversized brood of children.” Played by Stefanie Lynn of Auburn, she reluctantly gives one of her twin boys to the wife of her wealthy employer. The adoptive mother, Mrs. Lyons is played by CLT veteran Cheryl Reynolds, also of Portland. Years later, the brothers meet and become inseparable friends, but their relationship is doomed. Whether it is a child’s inherent nature or the way he is nurtured that determines his fate is at the crux of the storyline. “A total of 12 talented singers and actors make up the cast of this hit musical by Willy Russell, which has accumulated a host of awards and has become one of the longest standing works of musical theater in history. The cast also includes, Adam Morris of Westbrook, Paige Berube of Gray, Andreas Wyder of New Vineyard, and LewistonAuburn residents, Chris L’Hommedieu, Sydney Browne, Guy Pilote, Andrew Leeman, Brandon Chaloux and Mary Turcotte. The show is directed by Celeste Philippon.” Ron Bouffard is the assistant director, Paul G. Caron is musical director, and Eileen Messina is the choreographer. “Blood Brothers” opens at Great Fall Performing Arts Center (Academy Street, Auburn) on April 8 and runs for two full weekends. Performances are at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Sundays and 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 15. Tickets are $16 in advance and can be purchased online at www.LACLT.com , at the Box Office (30 Academy Street, Auburn) or by calling 783-0958. see next page

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Saturday, April 16 Dress for Success spring sale 8 a.m. Filene’s Basement may be gone, but great bargains on new or nearly-new women’s clothing may be found at Dress for Success Southern Maine’s annual spring sale!

The sale will take place on Saturday, April 16, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Catherine McAuley H.S., 631 Stevens Ave. in Portland. The event is open to the public and features new and nearly-new women’s clothing in all sizes, shoes, jewelry and accessories — casual, formal, and everything in between.

Proceeds go towards Dress for Success Southern Maine’s annual operating budget. Donations of new or nearly-new (less than 2 years old), clean, ready-to-wear women’s clothing (from casual to dressy) for the Spring sale, are welcome.

The dropoff site and times are: 51 Baxter Boulevard (in the Hannaford Shopping Center parking lot location) on March 19, April 2, and April 9 from 9 a.m. to noon, plus April 15, 5-9:00 p.m. at Catherine McAuley High School. Volunteers of all ages are also always welcome – whether at the sale or at the Congress Street, Portland boutique during regular hours. To volunteer, or for more information, please email southernmaine@dressforsuccess.org or call 780-1686.

Biddeford Winter Farmer’s Market 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Biddeford Winter Farmer’s Market is held every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. At the former West Pepperril Mill on Main Street in Biddeford. Roy Guzman, 210-0123

Art Supplies Yard Sale 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. “Are you looking for that perfect picture frame? Do you want to try something new as an artist?

You will find all sorts of art making materials at the Art Supplies Yard Sale at Barn Gallery and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Look for frames, paper for drawing and painting, canvas and mat board, easels and drawing tables, art books and videos and other art supplies. All proceeds go to support Barn Gallery and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art.” Barn Gallery, corner of Shore Road & Bourne Lane, Ogunquit and Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 543 Shore Road, Ogunquit. Contact Roz Fedeli 207351- 3262 or rivercurrentart@myfairpoint.com. Ogunquit Museum of American Art 207-646-4909

Portland Trails 10K ‘Trail to Ale’ registration 9 a.m. Online registration for the Portland Trails 10K “Trail to Ale” will open. “Because of the popularity of this race, registration will be limited to 2000 participants.

Portland Trails will accept online registrations on a first come first serve basis, with spaces reserved for Portland Trails members. Runners register on the Portland Trails website, www.trails.org. Before online registration opens, runners will get a chance to register early at the Shipyard Summer Ale Party, held at Portland Pie Company at their Portland, Scarborough and Westbrook locations on April 14 from 5-8 p.m. For each pint of Shipyard Summer Ale sold that night, Portland Pie Company will donate $1 to Portland Trails. Runners who register for the 10K at the party get their first pint for free and will be guaranteed a spot in the ‘Trail to Ale.’ The Portland Trails 10K ‘Trail to Ale’ will take place on Sunday, Sept. 18 in Portland.

The race starts on the Eastern Promenade Trail, loops Back Cove, and finishes at East End Beach. The course is exclusively off-road and offers beautiful views of Portland harbor and Back Cove. The first 400 registrants to the race will receive a complimentary running jersey.

Registration for the ‘Trail to Ale’ is $20.”

Earth Day volunteer work party at MOFGA center 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) will host an Earth Day volunteer work party at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center in Unity. Volunteers are needed for the following projects on April 16: Spring garden clean-up; raking and mulching; orchard weeding; and light carpentry projects. The workday will take place rain or shine, so participants are asked to dress appropriately. Volunteers should bring work gloves and favorite garden tools. MOFGA will provide a hearty, organic lunch and volunteer t-shirt for each participant.

“MOFGA has many engaging, year-round volunteer opportunities. For more information or to register for the Earth Day Work Day please contact MOFGA’s Landscape Coordinator Joe Dupere in the MOFGA office by phone at 5684142, or by email at jdupere@mofga.org.”

Healthy Kids Day at the Y 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Cumberland County YMCA invites kids and parents to come play at Healthy Kids Day at its Greater Portland branch and Casco Bay branch in Freeport.

Activities are free and open to all. “At Healthy Kids Day, the nation’s largest health day for kids, families will enjoy family group exercise classes, lacrosse clinics free healthy snacks, a climbing wall, an inflatable obstacle course, out-

door games, basketball, seed planting, fly fishing, a puppet show, and much more. There will also be raffle items and giveaways. Slugger will be at the Portland branch to give away gift bags. As the leading nonprofit for strengthening community, the Y holds Healthy Kids Day to bring families together to engage in fun, active play and learn healthier habits that help them grow and thrive. Kids Day takes place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Greater Portland YMCA and from 10 a.m. to noon in Freeport. Casco Bay YMCA, 4 Old South Freeport Road Freeport, 25 Campus Dr., Ste 100, New Gloucester. For more information on the Portland branch activities, call 874-1111, and for Casco Bay in Freeport 865-9600, or visit cumberlandcountyymca.org

Food+Farm: Wake Up the Farm 9 a.m. Food+Farm: Wake Up the Farm with Cultivating Community. “Come out to Cultivating Community’s Turkey Hill Farm in Cape Elizabeth and help them get ready for the 2011 growing season. You’ll help CC wake up the farm and you’ll get hands-on experience and an opportunity to ask the CC staff about your farming/gardening questions.

Activities for all ages and skill levels and we’ll end the morning with a soup and bread lunch to thank you for your hard work. Cultivating Community’s mission is to strengthen communities by growing food, preparing youth leaders and new farmers, and promoting social and environmental justice. We use our community food work as an engine for high-impact youth and community development programs that reconnect people to the natural and social systems that sustain us all.”

Maine Photography Show opens 10 a.m. An exhibition of over 100 photographs by many of Maine’s best photographers will be open for public viewing April 16 through May 7 in Boothbay Harbor. New this year is the chance to win a framed and signed photograph by the show judge, Jay Stock. There will be a BRAF benefit raffle for the Jay Stock photograph titled “Massai Tribe, Kenya, Africa.” which will also be on view with three other photographs by Stock throughout the exhibition. Chances will be available until the ticket drawing on the last day of the show Saturday, May 7. The Maine photography Show is produced and presented by the Boothbay Region Art Foundation and is held at their gallery: One Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor in the center of town. The show’s hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. The show is produced and presented by the MPS Committee of the Boothbay Region Art Foundation, a charitable, nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization. Free admission. School groups and buses welcome. Call 6332703 for Maine Photography Show bus parking directions.

The Big Thaw Arts, Crafts and Vintage Sale 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland.

“The Big Thaw is an arts, crafts and vintage sale meant to celebrate the coming Spring and a wide array of talented and innovative vendors. Kick off those winter boots and join us to find about a thousand things to brighten your closet, home, toy chest, kitchen and more in 2011. ... The Big Thaw is the brainchild of Portland artist Audrey Hotchkiss of Little Eye Designs. She has had the valuable support of Malaika Picard of Hand-Me-Down Designs and Shanna Tice of The Makings of Shanna Tice in making this a reality.” Website: http://thebigthawportland.wordpress.com

The Wabanaki Arts Festival 10 a.m. The Wabanaki Arts Festival continues to build the strong relationship between the Midcoast community and the four Native American Tribes in Maine (Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot). The festival brings together artisans, basketmakers, and traditional music as a celebration of Wabanaki culture. The music will be ongoing throughout the day and includes the Alamoosic Lake Singers, flute and storytelling by Hawk Henries, and hand drumming and song by Watie Akins. Thirty artisans and crafters will offer their unique items for sale and will provide demonstrations of their crafts. The Wabanaki Arts Festival is hosted by Bowdoin’s Native American Students Association (NASA), and is partially funded by the Blythe Bickel Edwards Fund. For further information please call the Bowdoin information desk at 725-3375 or contact Leslie Shaw at lshaw@bowdoin.edu. Location: Smith Union, Sills Drive, Brunswick. 725-3815 www.bowdoin.edu

MPBN to air Spindleworks documentary 11:30 a.m. “Everything in Sight”, a 2007 documentary about Spindleworks Art Center in Brunswick, will be broadcast on Maine Public Broadcasting Network on April 16 at 11:30 a.m. and April 21 at 10:30 p.m. Directed by Nikolai Fox, the film explores the history of the center and showcases video art currently produced by Spindleworks artists.

A program of Independence Association, Spindleworks was founded in 1978 by local artist Nan Ross. Ross’ vision was to teach weaving and fiber arts skills to clients of the Independence Association, which they could use to create items to sell for income. Many of the original artists in the program were transitioning from living in Pineland, the state institution for persons with developmental disabilities. Over

the years, the program has grown to include a variety of art forms and has represented several well-known artists in the state of Maine, including Betty Pinette and Rita Langlois.

Today, artists working in media arts — video, photography, music, and sound — are also included in the Spindleworks program.

Meet the Artist: 2011 Biennial Talks begin 11 a.m. to noon. Colleen Kinsella, Philip Brou, Robert Monroe and Carly Glovinski at the Portland Museum of Art. This is a series of informal artist talks to learn more about the process and inspiration of these artists and their work on view in the 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial. 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Deborah Wing-Sproul, Marissa Girard and Lauren O’Neal; 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., Ellen Wieske, Alicia Eggert, Tyson Jacques and Andrew Thompson. The Portland Museum of Art Biennial showcases the best in today’s art world by artists associated with Maine, from digital video to painting, installation to photography, sculpture to prints, and more. This exhibition will feature 65 works by 47 artists.

As a series, the Biennial exhibitions create a visual record of Maine’s evolving contemporary art scene and testify to the profound influence that the landscape, traditions, and people of Maine continue to have on living artists. http:// portlandmuseum.org/Content/5614.shtml

Lost in Lexicon: A Fantasy Book Event for Families 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Kids ages 8-14 and their families are invited to visit the nine villages of the Land of Lexicon, based on the fantasy adventure by Pendred Noyce. Families will untangle tangrams, anagrams, wordplay, and other puzzles to save the villagers of Lexicon. The event is a fundraiser for Maine’s literacy organization, Raising Readers. Open House, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland. Free with a Suggested Donation. Details, call Curious City, 420-1126.

Record Store Day at Bull Moose 1 p.m. Originally conceived by Bull Moose staff, Record Store Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in April by more than 1,500 independent music stores worldwide. Prominent indie rockers The Decemberists, while on tour, will be releasing a CD titled “Live at Bull Moose” from their January performance at the Scarborough Bull Moose. All performances are Saturday, April 16. All performances are acoustic, free and open to the public. In Maine, The Lucid will be performing in the Bangor store at 2 p.m. They released a self-titled CD on Feb. 1. 683 Hogan Road, Bangor. At the Brunswick store, Marie Stella will be performing at 2 p.m. They are a Portland-based band, and are contributing a cover of “little lines” to the CD “Sing For Your Meat,” a Guided by Voices tribute album being released nationally for RSD 2011. They are a member of Portland’s Dooryard Collective and perform throughout Maine and New England. Bath band Yellow Roman Candles will be appearing at 3 p.m. 151 Maine St., Brunswick. At home in Central Maine, Uncle Jack will be performing at the Lewiston Bull Moose at 2 p.m. Lewiston Mall, 20 East Ave., Lewiston. The Portland store will host Sophomore Beat at 1 p.m. These Portland rockers are releasing an EP entitled “Party Like A Lobster” this day, which will only be available at Bull Moose. The Kenya Hall Band will be performing at 4 p.m. They are a Portland band with an intriguing, soulful, jazzy R&B sound with powerful female vocals. They released “Learning For Miles Vol. 1” in November 2010. 151 Middle St., Portland. Scarborough 456 Payne Road. Zach Jones will perform at the Scarborough Bull Moose at 3 p.m. on April 16. Of As Fast As and Rocktopus fame, Zach Jones’ quintessential, neo-classic pop is characterized by powerful melodics, catchy lyrics, and foot-tapping rhythms, drawing influence from seminal artists such as Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, and the Beach Boys. He will be joined in Scarborough by other to-be-determined local artists. Educated Advocates will perform at 2 p.m. at the Waterville store. Educated Advocates are an innovative hip-hop trio drawing on the sounds of classic hip-hop through their DIY style, which has been described as “new vintage.” They will be releasing a new CD in May, and are signed to Spose’s Preposterously Dank record label. At 6 p.m., Cabaret Rock/Avant Americana band Bass Box will perform. They released their CD Mother Box this past fall.

80 Elm Plaza, Waterville. Portland- and Toronto-based selfdescribed indie-pop collective In The Audience will be performing at the North Windham store location at 3 p.m. The collective is releasing a new CD in May. They will give a free personalized CD single to customers who attend their performance. Spearheading the music of the born-in-the-90s generation of local music, SPACE gallery has called them “one of Maine’s most promising bands.” 771 Roosevelt Trail, Windham. In New Hampshire, the Portsmouth store, 82-86 Congress, is hosting the young Skyler, a York, Maine native and a favorite among teenage girls both for his looks and his catchy, pop-rock sound. Skyler is onstage at 3 p.m.

82-86 Congress St., Portsmouth, N.H. For updates, visit the Bull Moose site at http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home. see next page

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Food+Farm: The Greenhorns’ Young Farmers’ Mixer 3 p.m. April 14 to April 17, FOOD + FARM 2011. A food and film festival at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. in Portland. “This is the fourth year of Food+Farm, SPACE Gallery’s annual look at issues challenging our access to safe, sustainable food. ... This afternoon mixer is an opportunity for young farmers to come and meet their peers and enjoy a little nosh. We’ll be providing good eats and beverages from Local Sprouts, Flatbread Co. and Maine Root in addition to volunteer massage therapists to ease sore farm muscles.

Representatives from The Greenhorns and MOFGA will be on hand to discuss their work with the young farming community. The Greenhorns is an organization focused on recruiting, promoting and supporting young farmers in America — ‘young’ being loosely defined as farmers under the national average age of 57. If you’re a farmer or intern currently working in agriculture, please come down and socialize with us from 3-5 p.m. If you’re interested in supporting or are considering becoming a young farmer, please consider coming to our Greenhorns evening event later with The Greenhorns at 7:30 p.m.” www.space538.org

Miss Maine Scholarship Program gala 5:30 p.m. The Miss Maine Scholarship Program proudly announces the 10 finalists for the third annual Maine’s Got Talent honors. They will compete at the Springtime Gala at the Hilton Garden Inn in Freeport. They are Roy Beck of Topsham (vocalist), Elexa DuBoise of Cherryfield (vocal and guitar), Fusion-dance team from the Biddeford area (dance group), Hannah Graham of Skowhegan (vocalist), Smokey Hicks of Bath (vocalist), Matt Houde and Julia Nadeau of Topsham (vocal duet), Adrianna Leonard of Pittsfield (ballet dancer), Drew Masse of Lewiston (vocalist), Hannah Rowell of South Portland (vocalist), and Nicolette Smith of Lincoln (vocalist). To obtain tickets to see the competition live, contact Patricia Crooker Mulligan by calling (207) 725-6009 or toll free 1-877-872-4321. Tickets are $40 in advance (April 11) or $50 at the door. Tickets can also be obtained via mail Miss Maine Springtime Gala, 23 Meadow Road, Brunswick, ME 04011. For more information visit www.missmaine.org.

Maine Gay Men’s Chorus ensemble 7 p.m. The seven-voice Touring Ensemble of the Maine Gay Men’s Chorus (MGMC) will sing at the First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St. Their show, “As Long As You Love Me,” features a new line-up of songs including an a cappella arrangement of Toto’s “Africa,” the brand-new “My House,” and Mozart’s “Ave Verum” — one of the most beautiful pieces of choral music ever written. New arrangements of several songs make use of guitar, bass, keyboard, violin, and even a bright blue glockenspiel, all played by members of the ensemble. “The Touring Ensemble sings to

On Saturday, April 16, an ensemble of the Maine Gay Mens’ Chorus will perform its “As Long As You Love Me” concert at 7 p.m. at the First Universalist Church of Auburn. (COURTESY PHOTO) fulfill the chorus mission of spreading the message of social acceptance and diversity.” Tix are $10 (suggested donation). FMI 783-0461 or www.auburnuu.org.

Sunday, April 17 Food+Farm: Urban Farm Fermentory Workshops 9 a.m. “We’ve asked our friends at the Urban Farm Fermentory to put together a couple of intensive learning workshops for this year’s Food+Farm. Please feel free to bring snacks to share and vessel for hot or cold beverages.

Each session $15. Class size limited to 15 participants. All experience levels welcome. All workshops are at the UFF — 200 Anderson St., Bay 4, Portland. Morning workshop, 9 a.m.-noon. Introduction to Urban Gardening. Afternoon workshop, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Season Extension Techniques and Sheetmulching. $15/each session., All Ages. www. space538.org/events.php

Clothing Swap benefit for St. Lawrence Arts Center 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “Clean out your closets, collect all those old sweaters you haven’t worn in years, load up those Goodwill bags you’ve been meaning to donate and bring them here. We will be accepting men’s, women’s and children’s clothing as well as accessories (no non-wearable items please). Anyone who arrives with items to swap is able to take home whatever they wish. The event does have a suggested donation of $5-10 at door.” To schedule a time

for clothing donations prior to the event, call 347-3075.

Sacred Living Gatherings 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Unity Center for Sacred Living, an open, interfaith, Oneness oriented Spiritual Community, is “here to evolve consciousness through what we call The New Spirituality.” Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Williston-West Church, Memorial Hall), 32 Thomas St., Portland.

221-0727 or email centerforsacredliving@gmail.com.

Ebune Spring Festival & Parade noon to 3 p.m. Celebrate Ebune Spring Festival & Parade and the procession of the Ram! The Ebune parade in Portland is noon. Meet at MECA, end at Eastern Prom. http:// www.museumafricanculture.org

Visiting monks to construct sand mandala 2 p.m. Sand Mandala for Compassion and Peace, April 11-17. The Mandala will be created by Geshe Gendun Gyatso, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, and Sonam Dhargyal a trained Mandala master. The mandala creation will be ongoing daily 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in The Maine College of Art Library on Congress Street, Portland.

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but candidates who register with the city can raise money and form committees.

Other candidates include City Councilor Dave Marshall, Jed Rathband, Erick Bennett, Charles Bragdon, Christopher Vail and Zouhair Bouzrara.

Lapchick said a city economic development document mentions the word "marketing" 16 times, which she believes plays to her strengths and will help her stand out. “I am the only candidate with ... marketing experience and creative expertise," she says.

Lapchick said she has lived in Maine for 20 years, and currently lives in the West End.

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space from the Portland Daily Sun. In a news release announcing her candidacy, she said “the new mayor should also be a full-time champion focused on promoting the city’s assets to tourists and businesses while instilling pride and increasing involvement in our community.”

“This is a marketing job,” Lapchick adds, “It should go to someone with professional experience promoting the city.”

With her announcement, Lapchick joins a growing field for Portland’s mayor, which in November will be popularly elected for the first time in more than 80 years. Petitions aren’t available until July,

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In the shorter term, Lapchick says she’d focus on marketing the city as a tourism destination.

Lapchick for 10 years was head of Lapchick Creative, an Old Port marketing firm that worked with high profile clients like Maine & Company, Amtrak Downeaster and Portland Downtown District.

Lapchick Creative shut down in 2009, but a year later she launched Lapchick and Co., with several former colleagues, including Michelle Morel, who is engaged to Portland Daily Sun editor Curtis Robinson. Lapchick’s firm currently sub-leases office