The Portland Daily Sun, Saturday, April 9, 2011 by Daily Sun

Budgets and saber rattling

For Peaks, Monday hearing revives nuanced debate

‘It’s not brain surgery, it’s more like a colonoscopy’

See Bob Higgins on page 4

See Curtis Robinson’s column on page 4

See Heidi Wendel’s serial novel on page 5

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Mural spawns public art debate Radio host: LePage won’t return mural BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A conservative radio personality became a de facto spokesperson for Gov. Paul LePage Friday, announcing that the governor has told him that a controversial labor mural would not be returned unless a court orders it returned. Ray Richardson, the right-leaning WLOB news radio morning host, made his comments during a public forum at the Portland Museum of Art that focused on ownership and control of public art. Richardson stated that Gov. Paul LePge would not return to mural to the Department of Labor, “unless he is ordered by the court to do so.” When asked is he was simply stating his opinion of the governor’s intention, Richardson said, “Well, I heard it from him.” Dan Demeritt, communications director for LePage, said that he see MURAL page 11

Artist Judy Taylor, conservative talk radio host Ray Richardson, Colby College museum director Sharon Corwin, Maine College of Art professor Christina Bechstein and Portland Museum of Art director Mark Bessire participated in a panel discussion yesterday at the PMA to debate the role and appropriateness of public art in the wake of Gov. Paul LePage’s decision to remove Taylor’s controversial labor mural from the state’s Department of Labor building in Augusta. (MATT DODGE PHOTO)

Ski areas slalom into late April BY MARTY BASCH SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Skiing in Maine in May? That’s the way it’s looking with Sugarloaf looking to go mid-way into that month, and Saddleback gunning for May as well. “We’re going for May 1 and then planning to go weekends through May 15 as the snow allows,” said Sugarloaf communications director Ethan Austin. Traditionally, Sugarloaf drops its rates after the reggae weekend, scheduled for April 14-17 with eight bands and thousands of party-goers. Austin said the base depth continues to be good and there have been only a few minor warm-ups that haven’t had much impact on the snow depth. “But you never know,” he said. “You get a week of 65 or 70 degrees and the snow

can go pretty quick. We’ve got a good base to make it into May.” The season pass holder barbecue is scheduled for April 24. It should be interesting at the Loaf May 15 with skiing and the 29th annual Sugarloaf Marathon and 15K. Rangeley’s Saddleback is open weekends into May. The season pass holder barbecue is set for April 17. “We are planning on a very exciting and snow covered spring,” said Saddleback’s JoAnne Taylor. If they sell 500 tickets on April 23, each ticket purchaser gets a ski free voucher valid through Jan. 13, 2012, excluding holiday periods. There’s a planned Easter egg hunt on April 23 while April 30 is the Hawaiian see SKIING page 10

A skate skier tackles the slopes at Sunday River in Newry, which announced that it’s closing for the winter season following the last day of skiing and riding scheduled for Sunday, April 24, weather permitting. (Photo courtesy of Sunday River)

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Moving to the city, but clinging to old ways Anchorage, ALASKA (NY Times) — Karen Cooke Phillip keeps the basement freezer of her new Anchorage house stocked with food to ward off homesickness. There is a whole king eider sea duck, including feathers and head. And she has three plastic bottles filled with seal oil: liquid gold to a Yupik Eskimo like Mrs. Cooke Phillip. But the real prize is the spotted seal meat. “We call it the prime rib of the sea,” she said. Last year, Mrs. Cooke Phillip, 40, and her family left Kongiganak (population 439), their hometown near the Bering Sea, for a three-bedroom home in Alaska’s largest city. They are among thousands of rural Alaskans who have moved to urban areas in the last decade, having decided their old life was too hard and too expensive. “I was just sick of village survival,” she said. They ultimately decided to forgo some family ties and join the exodus to Anchorage, a city that has grown by 12 percent, to 291,825, in the last decade. They have relatives, including her father, in town to help. And they appreciate being able to easily buy whatever one might need for a household. Still, getting used to city traffic will take time. “Anchorage is great,” said Mrs. Cooke Phillip, “as long as you don’t have to drive.”

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— as the rebels’ commander, Gen. Abdul Fattah Younes, contended on Thursday — that the rebels were using tanks at the time the attack took place. The military movements in the area where the attack took place were also “very fluid” at the time, he said, according to news reports, with vehicles going backward and forward. “I am not apologizing,” he said of the incident, the second case of friendly-fire deaths

in a week. “The situation on the ground was extremely fluid and remains extremely fluid, and until yesterday we did not have information” that the rebels planned to deploy tanks. But later the secretary general of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, expressed his remorse over the mix-up. “This is a very unfortunate incident,” he said at NATO headquarters in Brussels. “And I strongly regret the loss of life.”

Shutdown near, no Hero of Egypt’s revolution, sign of compromise military now faces critics WASHINGTON (NY Times) — Negotiations to avert a federal government shutdown went down to the wire Friday, as a sense of crisis engulfed Capitol Hill and leaders of the House and Senate traded accusations about what was holding up a budget deal to keep federal agencies open after financing expires at midnight. Yet even as Republicans and Democrats went before banks of television cameras to blame one another for the first lapse in government services brought on by Congress in 15 years, senior aides continued to negotiate over the sticking points. Despite the disagreement over what still divided the two parties, it was clear that the dollar difference had shrunk to only about $1 billion or $2 billion, and that lawmakers would have a difficult time explaining to voters how most of the federal government could come to be closed over such a relatively small sum.

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Two injured in fall from 800-foot Camden cliff CAMDEN — Maine State Police and local authorities are trying to find out what caused a local couple to fall off Maiden Cliff, on Mt. Megunticook, on Thursday afternoon. The location of the fall was near the Camden-Lincolnville town line, along Route 52. Charles “Reed” Black, 68, and his wife, Lisa Black, 52, were being treated at Eastern Maine Medical Center after being seriously injured in the fall. State police spokesman Steve McCausland said the Blacks are originally from Missouri, but moved to Camden within the past year. The Blacks were rescued after Lisa staggered to a nearby road and flagged down a passerby. “Rescuers found Black several hundred feet down the sheer cliff late yesterday afternoon after a Maine warden service dog located him,” McCausland said in a news release. “Black was brought out by stretcher. Both husband and wife suffered head injuries, but his injuries are more severe.” Maiden Cliff is an 800 foot shear drop off. The area has a large cross erected at the top, and is a popular hiking spot. McCausland said the cross was erected in memory of a young girl who fell to her death in the 1800s.

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Buyer walks; and paper mill may not re-open Workers at an East Millinocket paper mill are preparing for the worst after a California investment firm announced it was no longer pursuing plans to buy that facility and another shuttered plant in nearby Millinocket, according to published reports. Meanwhile, Bangor Daily News is reporting that the mill, which had been temporarily closed since April 1, would probably not re-start on Tuesday. The potential buyer, Meriturn Partners, LLC., confirmed in an email to the Bangor Daily News that negotiations to buy the Katahdin Paper mills had broken down, MPBN reported. Some 450 jobs would be lost if the East Millinocket mill closes as planned on April 22. The mill in Millinocket has been shut down since 2008. MPBN reports that Meriturn was seeking $48 million in tax breaks over the next decade, a request that local officials said would have devastating effects on public services and local police departments. The town made a counteroffer, although particulars of that measure weren’t made public MPBN said. Gov. Paul LePage, who was directly involved in the negotiations, said in a statement he was “disappointed” by Meriturn’s decision to pull out. Duane Lugdon, lead United Steel Workers negotiator at both mills, told MPBN it didn’t appear another buyer would emerge. “I’ve not been advised that there’s something else in the wind,” he said.

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For Peaks, hearing revives nuanced debate Sometime Monday, we should come a step closer to knowing if there will be a Peaks Island secession election anytime soon. The issue has been hotly debated for months but now faces a hearing by the state legislature’s Committee on State and Local Government – the same committee that killed the measure a couple of years ago; but maybe “killed” is too strong. Actually, that’s part of the issue. Portland Mayor Nick Mavadones says he will be among those testifying, but he doesn’t expect to actually speak on the merits of secession itself. Instead, he will report the city’s much more subtle position advocating that the state “follow the laws” on secession. A key issue is if the pro-secession advocates “get credit” for ––––– the work that led to an island Usually election in 2006. Reserved Here’s my version of their argument: “Look, we already did all the petition and outreach anyone requires — and we even held an island election where about 58 percent of voters supported continuing the process. We would have gone ahead

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Budgets and saber rattling This is the silly-season, the time of the year when budgets are drawn up on both the local and national level. This weekend, we are all facing a federal government shutdown. From the amount of screeching over the airwaves and the bottomless barrels of ink that have been spilled on the subject, I thought this might be a good time to let folks in on some of the highlights of local budget stuff. The proposed city budget from the acting city manager’s office has a few surprises. If you thought that one anonymous fax to the governor’s office, igniting the mural shenanigans of the last few weeks, was an eye opener, then here is the surprise. The budget looks like the city is trying to bribe Peaks Island not to secede. Currently, there is a bill up before the legislature, where the islanders have asked once again to have the right to have a vote on their status as a Portland neighborhood. For years, some islanders have been complaining about the relative lack of services in comparison to other Portland “neighborhoods.” The property tax re-evaluation a few years didn’t help matters. Islanders saw the assessed value of their property double and in some cases triple, right before the crash of the real estate market.

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist Then, adding insult to injury, the city increased the tax “mil rate” for those same properties, in effect doubling the tax. If there is more than one way to encourage saber-rattling, taxes are at the top of the list. But the city of Portland doesn’t see it that way. They prefer to think of Peaks as another neighborhood, and be damned if your kids have to take the ferry in every day to go to school. Asking for some kind of “kid rebate” or subsidy on the ferry? Ridiculous. Back to your island homes, and no more of this nonsense. The Peaks Island Council, hoping to defray some of the issues, spoke with Mayor Nick Mavodones, who also is the operations manager for Casco Bay Lines. They asked if there was some sort of possibility of getting discounted summer passes for public school students. A quick shake of the municipal magic 8-ball gave the response, “all signs point to no.” A secondary shaking gave, “ask again later.” One might think that this

would inspire islanders to full rebellion. Those were the sticks, and here is the carrot. In the municipal budget, the fire department is getting a 27.4 percent increase, just for Peaks. Were that not particularly orange enough of a carrot, there was the additional funding for “public services,” part of the public works budget for Peaks. The increase came in at a stunning 10.8 percent. Are we bribing them to love us, buying dollar kisses for their continued affections? Island residents might comment that these increases bring them up to a level on what is spent in the rest of the city. They might have a point. In two solid summers spent down on the pier, I never saw a single “sweeper truck” go on the car ferry. Might have happened, I just never saw it. Most of the islanders have not seen the budget proposals yet, as they are still in the working stages. Their saber rattling about independence finally woke up city hall. So what to do next? Scream louder. If you have the enemy on the run, chase after him. Never give him the opportunity to regroup, and pick up another stick to beat you with. (Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

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‘It’s not brain surgery, it’s more like a colonoscopy’ Last week in the eighth episode of Season 2 of the Sun’s serial novel, The Port City Chronicle, Gretchen Reingren, a 44-year-old, divorced, criminal defense attorney, watched her brother Ethan and her friend Tim drink beer and fight over her friend Nicole. “I like her, she likes me,” Tim said. “Why can’t this go the extra six inches?” Gretchen looked away, under strict orders not to tell him Ethan and Nicole had started dating. But Ethan took a more proactive approach. “What’d you like so much about her anyway?” he asked. “When she was over the other day you and I drank five beers and she barely drank one. How you going to talk to somebody?” Gretchen sensed he was trying to talk himself out of her as much as Tim. But Tim wasn’t that easy. “Actually, I’ve started cutting back myself. You’ve probably noticed I’m not as much fun this week as usual.” Gretchen tried to be encouraging. “Even if you’re not as much fun now, you’ll adjust and be back to your old self soon.” Of course, she was really talking to Ethan, since she’s convinced it’s beer that’s come between him and his wife Angela, aside from irresponsibility, immaturity, and selfishness. Anyway, Tim wasn’t too concerned. “I know, believe me, I’m not going to become an accountant by tomorrow afternoon.” Now this week Gretchen and her sidekick Kevin, a young lawyer she works with, have to deal with a client who’s also behaving poorly over alcohol. The Port City Chronicle is the continuing story of a woman and her family seeking love and happiness in Portland in the midst of the Great Recession. You can buy Season 1 in book form, Getting Off the Earth, from GettingOfftheEarth.com. And now for this week’s episode of Season 2:

A Negligible Homicide “I take the Fifth on that,” my client said, glaring at the prosecutor. “And I’ll take the First and Second too.” Granted Wyeth wasn’t a constitutional scholar, but he’d learned somewhere that the First Amendment lets you say what you want and the Second lets you carry a gun. I didn’t rein him in because I still wasn’t too clear on the accusations against him. “He was drinking an alcohol product,” the cop who’d arrested him said. “At first I thought this individual was trying to secrete a weapon but he was actually trying to secrete an alcohol product.” So for a moment I thought the cop had arrested Wyeth in the bathroom, but it turned out all he meant was he’d seen him hiding a bottle of whiskey in his pocket. Not to mention the cop had such a thick accent I could barely understand him, though eventually I got used to piecing it together. It was like listening to short wave radio: you realize you’ll never have good reception so you just make out whatever you can. “This is not the particular time for that,” the cop said, when I asked him what Wyeth had done. “There is going to be another particular time for that.” “I know one thing,” Kevin said. “My client was not at the location where the alleged theft occurred.” “Really?” the prosecutor said. “But your client took the Fifth on that.” So I made a note to remind Kevin he should be seen but not heard. Part of the problem was he would have preferred to be a prosecutor himself, mostly so he could have a badge.

Heidi Wendel

“To call him mysterious is like looking in a mirror and saying you don’t see anything.”

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“Here,” I told him a week earlier, handing him the folded wrapper from my sandwich. “I fashioned one out of tin-

foil to put in your wallet.” But he didn’t get the point. “You poor innocent lamb, whatever will become of you?” I said, watching him rummaging through Wyeth’s file. “I’ll probably wander off into traffic and be killed,” he said, turning the pages. It was the first time I’d been impressed by anything he said. But he snapped back to his usual self quickly. “I can’t understand what our client is doing,” he said, closing the file. “He’s very mysterious.” I shook my head. “To call him mysterious is like looking in a mirror and saying you don’t see anything.” “But why won’t he tell us what he was really doing?” he asked. “How are we supposed to put together a defense?” “You have to figure it out yourself, from what he says and what he doesn’t say. That’s how it works,” I said. He looked confused. “Look, it’s not brain surgery,” I said. “It’s more like a colonoscopy.” At our meeting with the prosecution a week later he was still lost. But at least he wasn’t the only one. “The get-away car hit and killed your client’s buddy while they were running from the scene of the burglary together,” the prosecutor said. “He was supposed to pick them up but he got confused in the dark.” The cop nodded. “Which still makes your client liable for a negligible homicide since it happened in the course of the crime.” He looked solemnly at Kevin. “One of our guys saw it. We have an omnipresence of officers in that area at night, basically to cover our more violent times.” “It’s near the truck stop where prostitutes hang out,” the prosecutor explained to me. “Not anymore,” the cop said. “There is engagement for those individuals in gainful employment at this time.” Meanwhile, Kevin was taking notes, trying to keep up with the program even if our client was uninterested. The problem was, the prosecution was coming at a bad time for Wyeth, who seemed to be in the midst of several other crimes. He didn’t have a lot of time for us at the moment. Not surprisingly, that didn’t go over well with the cop’s supervisor. He swept in, yelled at everybody, and stomped out. Even our friendly cop on the beat looked anxious. “The deputy chief loves playing bad cop to Officer Manning’s good cop,” Kevin said to me later. It was one more instance of Kevin’s naivete. “He’s not playing,” I said. “He is bad cop.” But Officer Manning tried to make up for it. “This gentleman has a pretty clean record,” he said encouragingly. “He has some priors but in the last 12 months he was only ticketed once – for being in the park after dusk, which it says on the sign is illegal but most people don’t even know what dusk’ means.” Granted Wyeth probably fell in that category, but he would never admit it. He took the Fifth like other people took aspirin.

So Officer Manning got a little tougher with him. “You got to understand we have you and your friends cold. We lined up the ducks and now we have to shoot them.” But Wyeth was unmoved. His approach to the Constitution rivaled Justice Antonin Scalia’s in its literalism except he was less mired in the language. Anyway, at this stage it was just as well he remained silent, as long as he applied it across the board. “The worst thing is a client who can’t shut up,” I’d advised Kevin after a meeting with another client. “Who else have you told?” I’d asked, after that client recounted the car thefts he’d just committed in detail. “Anyone who didn’t get away fast enough,” he said. So Wyeth was a step up from that guy. Anyway, it was his perfect right to put the government to its proof as long as he was willing to take the consequences. Among which was the cop’s annoyance at his stubborn silence. “I shouldn’t have to lead a horse to water,” Officer Manning said. “He knows when he’s thirsty.” Wyeth shrugged. “I need some time alone.” That was a little too much for Manning. “You want some alone time? Go to the bathroom.” But he eventually gave up and Wyeth went out to have a cigarette. I hoped a contemplative moment might cause him to reconsider his position but he returned even more self-confident than before. “You can see I kicked butt,” he said, tapping the sole of his sneaker against the table to dislodge the end of a cigarette. “I’m not so sure,” I said. “What about your friend who got run over? How do you feel about that?” He chuckled. Apparently he valued the First through Fifth a lot more than the Sixth, considering he paid no attention when I explained he could be charged with the vehicular homicide because he was involved in the burglary. “I’m feeling okay, considering I almost got hit by a car.” “Or maybe he did hit you and you’re just not feeling it yet,” I said. But he didn’t get the hint. (Heidi Wendel is a former editor of the Columbia Law Review and has written for The New York Times, among others.)

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Casco Bay Lines ferry passengers chat while departing from Portland for Peaks Island. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

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and had an election and settled this, but this very committee punted the issue. “Instead of that vote, this committee strongly suggested we try to work it out. “So the city of Portland created the Peaks Island Council, an advisory board that was pretty much ignored. Eventually, everyone on the PIC either quit or let their term run out, and the only reason we have anyone on the Council now is that some people did a write-in vote — so we have a majority of that group elected with fewer than a couple dozen votes. “So we tried to work it out and tried to work it out. And that didn’t work, so we’re back. A bill has been proposed and that’s what is before you today, and we should not be penalized because we tried to work things out.” But opponents would counter that the previous secession effort was just that, “previous” and that this “new effort” is just too fast and lacks enough process. They would argue a vote in 2006 was ages ago, and that the committee action in 2007 was the final step for that effort. Now, they would say, the appropriate move is back to the launching pad. That’s what “follow the law” means in that context. Secession opponents have even called the new effort a “coup.” No doubt the pro-secession argument will note that a straw poll early this year, with hundreds casting a ballot, indicated a majority of islanders still want to move forward with an election. Both sides are fairly nuanced in their arguments. The city has not

taken a formal position against secession this time around. The last time, city council voted unanimously to oppose the measure. And the “Independent Peaks” activists note that this is not asking the legislature for secession, only to allow a vote for secession. But the real political context of this is the difference between a Republican legislature and a Democratic legislature. With the city’s clout among Dems, it was always unlikely that a D-controlled legislature would agree to a secession vote — or that a Democratic governor would sign it into law. In fact, the vote against the measure in 2007 followed party lines. Now the GOP controls both houses of the legislature and the gov’s office. If nothing else, the issue illustrates just how different the state’s political dynamic has become. The Republicans will struggle with dueling values: On the one hand, this is clearly creating more government — a whole new town. On the other hand, the Peaks Island secession movement is, at its core, a tax revolt that began with a 2004 revaluation. Darn — move government vs. supporting tax revolt. Monday’s committee meeting is, of course, unlikely to settle the issue. Both sides will have options, legal and otherwise, if the committee goes against their argument. But the committee is the next real step toward deciding if this current push continues, or if once again the secession movement hits a reset button in Augusta. (Curtis Robinson is editor of The Portland Daily Sun. Contact him at curtis@portlanddailysun.me.)

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Music to move (apartments) by me and so is this. So, I picked out some music to paint the picture of the man. I wanted to show that I’m a real dude, meat & potatoes and an everyday guy too from time to time. So, I first put on I moved this past week. Moving just Led Zeppelin II and then amped it up really sucks and that’s all there is to it. a wee bit with AC/DC’s Let There Be It’s funny how many times I said that Rock. There’s some good rock and bite and heard it from people over the past to those albums, but it’s month. Of course moving also saying “I’m just like sucks. Why would it be you!” Cause we all can awesome?! agree on Led Zep and It’s a month-plus of AC/DC, right? Of course. headaches and undeI then wanted to show sirable afternoons of that I have a weird side packing and paying for too with music. So I put cardboard boxes that on Mr. Bungle’s Disco are basically temporary Volante record and then transporters of your really geeked it up a stuff. Having to clean notch with actor Crispin baseboards and windows Glover’s 1989 album frames? Getting the word (yes, he made an album out about your address and yes that is the real change so the bills don’t title). get bunched up. Finding ––––– So now, the neighbors those dusty lip balms and The Circle Push must think “OK, he’s a pens and back scratchreal dude, but he’s not ers and receipts that straight forward all the fell behind couches and time. He has an art appreciation side desks and refrigerators during your to him too.” I’m molding the man now residency. people! Alas, arriving to the new place and Now it’s time to let them know there totally being out of the old one brings a could be a slight touch of danger here brief sense of relief. Brief because after too. Cue Slayer’s Reign in Blood album. you sack out for a bit, you then wake Some brutal thrash metal on a decent up to see a month of weekends unpackvolume level will make a point that this ing and re-doing stuff and you’re back ain’t no push over we got here. He’s got in the dumps again. I think the most some grit going on. OK, now it’s time miserable sight is looking at my music to reel it in a bit and show a nicer, “he collection all boxed up and realizing could be good Christmas party comthe additional four months of unpackpany” side of me. ing and organizing that stuff that lay Al Green is just a winner with everyahead. one. I’ve been a fan of Al Green for a Yet, I think with each CD and record while. So I slip on Still In Love With pulled out of those pricey cardboard You. This shows a soul side, a warmer boxes, a bit of me starts to gel with side, a romantic side, a rhythmic side. the new place. When my music is good Fellas, it also says to the ladies, “hey, to go, I will be as well. Music is major hanging out with me is cool because part of moving in, you know. It’s actuwe can ease back with some Al Green ally a major important part ... strike if you want.” I followed up Al with that, it’s the most important part of Aretha Franklin to show my love and moving into a new place. Your tunes, respect for the queen of soul. Plus set the tone. again, who doesn’t like Aretha? I actuAfter two days of looking at my boxes ally think it’s illegal in most states not and thinking, “Eh, no interest at all to like Aretha Franklin. right now,” I eventually started to crack Rockin’ Aretha also shows that a few open. I took about an hour to set you have heart. Not a bad move if basics in place. Boxer shorts, socks and you’re trying to let the local ladies in a towel for the shower is kind of essenthe building know you’re a good guy tial in even rock bottom, start-up living fellas. Slayer? Yes. Sensitivity too? in a new place. After that first hour I You betcha! was now focused on the real business; Aretha rolled nicely into John cracking open my music collection. Coltranes’s Blue Train album. Jazz Let me say that I’m not just excited to is tricky. It can continue to show a get the music out so that I can be whole deep, thoughtful and artful side – but again, but I need to make a statement beware it could also spell out bore and and announce myself in these new kook. Be careful with the jazz you living quarters. Last place I lived in choose. Don’t throw on any later era was a house with one person above me. Coltrane when he was way whacked This time, I have a few people around out on a combo of drugs and spiritume and they need to know I’m in town ality. That’s sending a “this person now. So is everything that’s about me. might not be all there” vibe. Avant Music included. They got me? They’ve Garde jazz stuff is something you got my music. So they need to hear it. either keep to yourself or slowly introI’m not some keep it on ten all the duce to someone after you’ve known time type of music person at home, them for at least four years. but I keep the music on a lot. So I I stayed away from all hip hop. don’t need to mark my turf to my new Only reason is that most of the bass neighbors so much with volume as I in rap records is really you shoving at do with various sounds and steady someone. I don’t want to push anyone play. around yet. If I do get a neighbor who The key to marking your territory turns out to be a clunker, then some with music when moving into a new Ice Cube or NWA could surely get place is variety. You want to not only see CURDO page 8 state that, “I’m here” – but hey this is

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County judge, said Mr. Bramblett was joking; Mr. Nelson could dispense with the matter by mail. Misdemeanor possession cases from the Sierra Blanca checkpoint are typically settled with a plea, a $100 fine and $278 in court costs. We’ve heard this song before. In the wee hours of May 10, 1994, two highway patrolmen found Mr. Nelson sleeping in the back seat of his Mercedes, parked on the southbound frontage road of Interstate 35 south of Waco, near the town of Hewitt. He had been involved in a late-night poker game in nearby Hillsboro and got tired driving back to Austin, so he pulled over to take a nap. After he admitted to the highway patrolmen that the hand-rolled cigarette in the ashtray contained marijuana and belonged to him, as did a Baggie stashed under the driver’s seat, he was arrested. He lawyered up and canceled an appearance at the Grammys so he could be in court. Before his trial, one of the patrolmen who arrested him was fired on an unrelated charge of sexual harassment and left town. Mr. Nelson was found not guilty by a McLennan County judge. On Sept. 18, 2006, Mr. Nelson, his bus drivers, his road manager and his older sister Bobbi were arrested at a commercial vehicle inspection station on westbound Interstate 10 in St. Martin Parish, La., while traveling from Alabama to Austin to attend the funeral of Ann Richards, the former Texas governor. Authorities found one and a half pounds of marijuana and one-eighth of a pound of hallucinogenic mushrooms. Mr. Nelson said the dope belonged to him and was for his personal use. Seven months later, he canceled concert dates and had his bus drivers take him from California back to Louisiana for his court date. He was fined $1,024 and given six months’ probation. By making a joke of possession and enforcement laws, Mr. Nelson has done more to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of marijuana prohibition than a hundred lobbyists or a thousand politicians could ever do. Is he bulletproof? Above the law? Too hot to handle or incarcerate? No. But he is Willie Nelson. If you’re a law enforcement person, it pays to know that before you start investigating that funny smell emanating from Honeysuckle Rose.

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turned up. Gotta wait for the very last straw though before you pull out anything from Compton like that. De La Soul’s first record is the only thing I’ll give approval to when moving in. It’s playful and not very harsh. Its backpack hip hop. Other than that, don’t rock any bass this early in the game. Time to show the fun side. Time to show that you’re a good one and you are someone that your neighbors should always feel good about saying hi to when your paths cross. Time to put on some tunes that says, “Any given Friday night could be a great time hanging out with me at your place or mine.” Time for some Hall & Oates! Daryl and John are a musical thumbs up in almost any situation and let’s be honest here, “Private Eyes” has never seen a stink eye or sour face. I know metal heads who love Hall & Oates. They’re artists that really can open the door to any neighbor and say, “yes heres the sugar you wanted to borrow.” After a few hours I stopped the tunes while I had lunch. I thought I’d give them a break. About an hour after I ate it was time to get back to work. So I fired up the Black Keys Magic Potion and then Help! By the Beatles to just basically seal the deal. The Beatles just puts it all back in place and says, “yeah, he’s OK at the end of the day.” I felt good about my, “I’m Mark, Your New Neighbor” soundtrack that day. Music was on all day. They must have heard it and now have a little bit of a better understanding of who I am. Just a little bit. I might have even let out a little, “uh-huh” out as I grabbed my keys and walked out the front door. As I left my apartment, I noticed my next door neighbor walking into her apartment with a travel bag. As I walked a little further down the stairs I came across my neighbor who lives directly across

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the hall from me. He was returning with groceries and some stuff from Target. As I got to my car I realized none of my neighbors were around for my introduction. This musical “how do you do?” was all for nothing. No one heard it. The next day I woke up about 9:30 a.m. and immediately put on Jay-Z then Public Enemy, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Kanye West, Notorious B.I.G, Tribe Called Quest, EPMD, Mos Def, Wu Tang Clan.... (Mark Curdo is a DJ on 94.3 WCYY and the owner of a record label, Labor Day Records, based in Portland. Mark is not only a board member of the Portland Music Foundation, but he loves the Boston Celtics, Ginger Ale and Jack Lemmon movies. He is a weekly Daily Sun music columnist.)

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Sunday River diehards might want to be taken back to the days when the mega-resort offered free skiing on May 1. Could that happen this season? “If the weather, conditions and demand is there, we would have to take a look at that,” said the resort’s communications director, Darcy Morse. (Photo courtesy of Sunday River)

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Island Party with a canoe race and mud run ski race. Though Sunday River was the first resort in the country to open back on Oct. 24, it won’t be the last to close. The River has April 24 as its last day, weather permitting. “The season has been really good,” said communications director Darcy Morse. “We had a phenomenal start back in October which allowed us to make a ton of snow. We were also fortunate with the number of snowstorms. Both helped us to get where we are today.” Sunday River diehards might want to be taken back to the days when the mega-resort offered free skiing on May 1. Could that happen this season? “If the weather, conditions and demand is there, we would have to take a look at that,” said Morse. There’s a new event that takes you back to the 1980s, the Totally Tubular Hot Tub Party today with slopeside bubbles, bands and more. The River ‘s last scheduled ski event is April 17 with the annual Season Pass barbecue outside South Ridge. Free-heelers have some choices. Maine Huts and Trails in Carrabassett Valley still has snow at its three huts: Poplar Stream, Flagstaff Lake and Grand Falls. Sunday (April 3) was the last

day of grooming the backcountry network for the season but snow lovers are welcome to use the trails as long as there is snow cover, according to Maine Huts spokesman Conrad Klefos. “We had an amazing season as we more than doubled the volume from last winter,” he said. “The trails are still in amazing shape.” Sunday was also the last day of full-service at the huts in terms of meals until May 13 for Grand Falls and June 17 at Poplar and Flagstaff. During the organization’s “caretaker season,” guest bring their own food, cook in the kitchen, clean-up and can spend the night, all at a deeply discounted price. “A caretaker is at the huts to welcome guests, show them to their rooms and orient them to the facilities,” said Klefos. Members pay $30 a night during this time, while non-members are $35. Reservations are required at www.mainehuts.org. Mother Nature delivered a snowy winter, according to Ski Maine executive director Greg Sweetser with well-placed snow during Christmas vacation week and a Wednesday pattern in January. “People were done shoveling their walkways in time to go skiing on the weekend,” he said. Martin Luther King. Jr. holiday had big crowds with sunshine and throngs of skiers and riders for February vacation, he

observed. The weather pattern changed in March with a Friday/Saturday storm track instead of Wednesday, interfering with travel and keeping attendance down during the first half of the month. “The weather turned colder and snowier for the last half of March, but with bare ground showing along the coast, people were beginning to lose that passion for snow,” he said. “The good news is that snow depths in the mountains are as deep as they ever get for April and the spring events will take place with great conditions.” The April 1 snow helped, too. Sweetser also figures more people are turning to skiing and snowboarding due in part to introductory ski and snowboard programs which had a big push in January. “Lessons increased at several areas, another indication that new people are trying the sport,” he said. “I think that the emphasis on getting outside and being active is resonating with more people. Skiing and snowboarding are accessible in all parts of the state.” And in Maine, goes from October into May. (Marty Basch can be reached through www.onetankaway.com. This is his final ski column of the season for The Portland Daily Sun.)

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could not confirm the governor’s comments to Richardson as the governor is out of town until Monday. Demeritt added that the administration is currently reviewing letters from the U.S. Department of Labor and a federal lawsuit filed demanding the return of the mural before taking any action. Richardson’s comments came as members of Maine’s art community, as well as a representatives from the Portland Community Chamber and the mural’s creator were all on hand for the free panel discussion organized by the PMA. Called “Whose Art Is It?” the discussion ranged from politics in art to creative tension and from the artistic process to a history of the labor movement in Maine. It brought a capacity crowd to the museum’s auditorium. “The museum felt that a lot of people were talking at each other, but not getting together for a discussion,” said PMA director Mark Bessire. After an introduction by Bessire, artist Judy Taylor, the Tremont-based painter who created the labor mural, spoke about the process of creating the mural from inception to installation, and gave some facts on each of the 11 panels. Richardson, who along with Chris O’Neil of the Portland Community Chamber represented the only non-artists on the panel, said that his issues with the labor mural came down to questions of appropriateness and balance. “If this were a more universal look, it would be appropriate, but

“Public art is multi-dimensional, multi-modal and meant to do many things — provoke us, please us.” — Chris O’Neil of the Portland Community Chamber given the fact that its in a government building, I find it inappropriate,” he said. “Hanging it in a government building is making a political statement. to the people who work in that department.” “It was also a political statement to remove it,” said Sharon Corwin, director and chief curator of the Colby College Museum of Art. Bessire said it’s almost impossible not to brush against the political in art. “To a certain extent, all art is political” and public art is often more so, he said. “When you enter the public realm, you enter the political realm.” O’Neil said that, while it’s important to consider the appropriateness of a piece of public art, he understands that any art is bound to elicit a range of responses from the viewer. “Public art is multi-dimensional, multi-modal and meant to do many things — provoke us, please us,” he said. While conceding that the Department of Labor could be seen as a controversial site for such a work, Bessire said that individual reactions to a work’s location is largely subjective. “Every site has baggage that goes with them and each of us bring something different to that site,” he said. “That’s why public art is often such a flash point, because the place means so much to so many people so differently.” Christina Bechstein, a Maine

College of Art sculpture professor who teaches a course on public art, introduced the term “creative tension” into the panel discussion, arguing that the goal of art is not simply to please the eye. “It’s a work of art that holds historical facts that makes us feel uncomfortable,” she said. Process is an important part of any artist’s work, according to Bechnstein, who lamented the fact that the LePage administration did not honor the legally prescribed process for removing the piece. “Why do I have to teach students over and over to honor process? Because process is the only way we can make sure we’re making appropriate decisions,” she said. Bechstein said she was perturbed upon finding that, “a work of public art could be taken away like that, in such a unilateral move with no process.” “This is part of our cultural legacy, we need to understand that was context for that moment in time,” she said, suggesting, “maybe art needs better signage saying ‘this a moment in time, this is what we were thinking about,’” she said. Bessire pointed to the recent example of the city’s own struggle with the Tracing the Fore sculpture as an example of the diligent process that should be followed in removing a piece of commissioned artwork. see next page

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“They went through a process to engage the community that lived and work in that area,” Bessire said of the Portland Public Arts Commission’s process of removing the Shauna Gillies-Smith landscape sculpture from the city’s collection. Taylor’s mural was a different story, Bessire said. “The process was not followed. It’s a stated process, and in many way, if we had followed it correctly, the governor could have walked us through the process and we could have had a constructive discussion.” Corwin said it seemed to her that “the controversy isn’t over [the mural] as a piece of public art, but as a piece of labor history.” But Richardson said that the mural skews history toward the side of labor, ignoring the management side of the workforce equation. Richardson also described the figures in the mural as “very downtrodden, faces looking down, there is not hopefulness here. It looks like a bunch of oppressed people,” to which a scattered chorus of those gathered echoed “they were!”

Colby College museum director Sharon Corwin discusses public art while (from far left) artist Judy Taylor and conservative talk radio host Ray Richardson listen Friday during a forum at the Portland Museum of Art. (MATT DODGE PHOTO)

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Red Sox hit Hughes hard, beat Yankees (New York Times) The Red Sox avoided their worst start since 1945, when they began 0-8, as Hughes sank deeper into his malaise. Through two games, he has yet to generate a swingand-miss on his fastball. The Red Sox (1-6) began the day hitting .181, but they mashed 12 hits Friday, seven off Hughes, who retired 5 of the 14 batters he faced. Hughes has promised that he is healthy and physically strong, but the possibility exists that there is a residual effect of the 1912/3 innings he threw last season. It is unlikely that the Yankees (4-3) will look to make a change now, but a rotation that seemed thin going into spring training has an option in Bartolo Colon, who pitched four and a third innings in relief of Hughes. Colon was saddled with the loss after allowing the go-ahead run in the fifth, on a twoout double by Jarrod Saltalamacchia, but his fastball was sharp and he disrupted the Red Sox hitters’ timing far better than Hughes did. With a 93- or 94-m.p.h. fastball, Hughes can pitch aggressively, but he cannot when it barely scrapes 90. With diminished velocity, precise command is paramount. Without that, Hughes searched vainly for a way to avoid disaster. He turned to his cutter, his third best offering, on 30 of 47 pitches. That did not work. Neither did mixing in his curve, which was smoked by Dustin Pedroia for a firstinning homer.

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Pitchers often strive for noticeable separation between the speed of their fastball and their off-speed pitches, and a small gap often spells doom. Hughes could not get by Friday throwing 89-m.p.h. fastballs and 83-m.p.h. changeups, as J. D. Drew saw on consecutive pitches to begin the second. Drew lashed a single up the middle, and so began a nightmare of an inning that could be abridged like this: single, single, single, fielder’s choice, groundout, single, single, walk, single. The first three singles, all hit hard, came on three different pitches — changeup, curve, cutter — and that was as fair an indication as any of Hughes’s struggles. The barrage resulted in five Boston runs, and it could have been worse had Kevin Youkilis not run himself into the third out of the inning, after David Ortiz’s run-scoring single. Hughes’s earned run average soared to 16.50, or just a shade worse than his counterpart from Boston, John Lackey, who allowed six runs over five innings. The crowd, expectant and hopeful, held back from booing Lackey when he walked two of his first four hitters, but unleashed when Robinson Cano drilled a two-run double to the center-field fence. The jeers grew louder after the Red Sox pummeled Hughes, as Lackey slowly but surely returned the lead. The Yankees scored single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings, tying the score at 6-6 on a homer by Alex Rodriguez.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, April 9, the 99th day of 2011. There are 266 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 9, 1939, singer Marian Anderson performed a concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington after being denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution. On this date: In 1511, St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge was established by charter. In 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. In 1940, during World War II, Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. In 1942, American and Philippine defenders on Bataan capitulated to Japanese forces; the surrender was followed by the notorious Bataan Death March which claimed thousands of lives. In 1947, a series of tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas claimed 181 lives. In 1959, NASA presented its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 91, died in Phoenix, Ariz. In 1965, the newly built Astrodome in Houston featured its first baseball game, an exhibition between the Astros and the New York Yankees. In 1983, the space shuttle Challenger ended its first mission with a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. In 1996, in a dramatic shift of purse-string power, President Bill Clinton signed a lineitem veto bill into law. One year ago: Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement. (His vacancy was filled by Elena Kagan.) Today’s Birthdays: Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner is 85. Naturalist Jim Fowler is 79. Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is 78. Actress Michael Learned is 72. Country singer Margo Smith is 69. Country singer Hal Ketchum is 58. Actor Dennis Quaid is 57. Humorist Jimmy Tingle is 56. World Golf Hall of Famer Severiano Ballesteros is 54. Country musician Dave Innis is 52. Actress-sports reporter Lisa Guerrero is 47. Actor Mark Pellegrino is 46. Actress-model Paulina Porizkova is 46. Actress Cynthia Nixon is 45. Rock singer Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) is 34. Actress Keshia Knight Pulliam is 32. Actor Charlie Hunnam is 31. Actor Ryan Northcott is 31. Actor Jay Baruchel is 29. Actress Leighton Meester is 25. Actor-singer Jesse McCartney is 24. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jazmine Sullivan is 24. Actress Kristen Stewart is 21. Classical crossover singer Jackie Evancho (TV: “America’s Got Talent”) is 11.

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Saturday, April 9 Limington Extension’s ‘Cheep’-‘Cheep’ Easter Sale 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Limington Extension’s “Cheep””Cheep” Easter Sale will be held at the Limington Town Hall, Route 11, Limington. Hundreds of 25-cent items like Easter plush and packages of paper plates, envelopes, toys; $1 hair products & ﬁshing items; $2 clothing and shoes. Fundraiser for BEHS scholarships. FMI, call Karen 692-2989.

Auditions for singers by Portland Sea Dogs 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. The Portland Sea Dogs, Double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, will host auditions for both National Anthem and God Bless America performers for the 2011 season. The auditions will be held at Hadlock Field. Pre-registration is required. The Sea Dogs have a limited amount of dates available for National Anthem performers in 2011 and are looking to fill those dates with talented individuals from around the area. Additionally, the Sea Dogs are looking for performers to sing God Bless America for the seventh inning stretch, which has become a tradition at Hadlock Field on Sunday afternoon games. The Sea Dogs encourage all performers to audition. The team will accept individuals, small groups, and instrumentalists. All singing auditions must be performed a capella with a live stadium microphone and without the aid of any lyric sheets. Performances should be kept to less than one minute and thirty seconds. All auditions must be done in person. The Sea Dogs do not accept CD’s, cassettes, videos, etc. All interested performers must pre-register by completing the registration form found at www.seadogs.com. Only those who have pre-registered will be able to audition on April 9. As a result of the limited performance dates available, the auditions will be limited to the first 50 people to register.

April Stool’s Day on West End 8:30 a.m. West End Neighborhood Association April Stool’s Day. WENA’s Spring Clean-up. “Meet at Reiche to pick up bags, gloves, rakes, etc. Then head out to Taylor Street, Clark Street and Harbor View Parks and points in between to spiff up the neighborhood for spring. We’ll also be participating in the 19th Annual April Stool’s Day. Register at Reiche the day of the clean-up and have a chance to win a gift certiﬁcate from Fetch. See you there! Clean-up continues until noon, so come any time you can.” www. wenamaine.org

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

Awaken to Action on climate change 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Awaken to Action: A Summit to Explore Faith & Sustainability in an Age of Climate Change, cosponsored by Maine Audubon and Maine Interfaith Power & Light, Maple Hill Farm, Hallowell. Scholarships available; register at www.meipl.org. 721-0444

April Stool’s Day on East End 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. “It’s time to report for doo-ty for the 19th Annual April Stool’s Day! Dog owners will unite Saturday, April 9 from 9-11 a.m. to help clean up a winter’s worth of un-scooped poop and prepare the Prom for spring. East End locations include: top of Cutter Street along the Prom; entrance to East End Beach; the Eastern Prom Trail; and Fort Sumner Park on North Street. Additional Portland locations include Evergreen Cemetery and Reiche School on the West End. If you’re in Belfast, check in with Friends of Belfast Parks. The lucky registered scooper who ﬁnds the Golden Turd at each location will win a special prize! Tidying the Trails: For those who’d prefer to help us clean a Winter’s Worth of leftover litter (not poop), join us at either the Loring Memorial Trail and/or the Fort Allen Trail. Volunteer to help keep our parks, neighborhoods and open spaces clean — and help us spread the word! April Stools Day is sponsored by Fetch Pet Supply Store and Friends of the Eastern Promenade.” For more information, contact info@friendsofeasternpromenade.org.

Friends of Casco Bay’s ﬁve-hour Water Quality Monitoring training 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. A ﬁve-hour training session for Friends of Casco Bay’s Water Quality Monitoring Program will be held at Southern Maine Community College’s Marine Science Center. Peter Milholland, Citizen Stewards Coordinator, said, “These citizen scientists are a critical part of our research staff. Without our volunteers we could never have achieved the level of knowledge about Casco Bay that we have today.” Volunteers must be 16 or older, although parents and children may work together as a team. Anyone interested in volunteering should visit the Friends of Casco Bay website at www.cascobay.org or contact Peter Milholland, Citizen Stewards Coordinator, at pmilholland@casco-

Oscar Mokeme, director of the Museum of African Culture, displays a ram mask that is used in the annual Ebune Parade. This year’s parade is at noon on Sunday, April 27. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) bay.org or 799-8574.

characters and the author. 772-4045

Portland Home Show

Old Orchard Beach public bean supper

10 a.m. 42nd annual Portland Home Show, Portland Expo & Portland Ice Arena, April 8-10. Show hours are 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $7. Children 12 and under are admitted free with an adult. Boasting over 300 booths and attedance that exceeds over 12,000 annually, the Portland Home Show is in its 42nd year. www.homeshows.com/ portland_home_show.htm.

4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The Masons of Orchard Lodge No. 215 in Old Orchard Beach will host a public bean supper at the Masonic Hall, 130 W Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach. The supper will feature all your favorites; baked beans, hot dogs, chopsuey, coleslaw, and a variety of desserts. The cost is $7 for adults and $3 for children under 12. For more information contact: Seth Dube (937-2062).

‘Le Comte Ory’ at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center in Fryeburg

7 p.m. St. Augustine of Canterbury Church will hold a commemorative service to mark the 99th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. The service will follow the Order of Evening Prayer used aboard the ship in 1912 according to the Rite of the Church of England. April 9th marks the day the ship sailed on its ﬁnal voyage from Queenstown in Ireland. The service will be followed by a presentation by David Brennan, Police Chaplain, whose grandmother and great uncle were on the ship on its last voyage. The service will be led by one of the Port of Portland’s Chaplains, the Rev. Capt. Jeffrey Monroe, USMM, parish Vicar. St. Augustine’s is a Traditional Anglican Community, part of the worldwide Traditional Anglican Communion, with members in 44 countries. The Church seeks to uphold the Catholic Faith, Apostolic Order, Orthodox Worship and Evangelical Witness of the Anglican tradition within the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ. The Communion holds Holy Scripture and the ancient Creeds of the Undivided Church as authentic and authoritative, and worships according to the traditional Liturgies of the Church. St. Augustine of Canterbury Church worships at 4 p.m. on Sunday at the Cathedral Pines Chapel at 156 Saco Ave. in Old Orchard Beach. Father Jeffrey W. Monroe is Vicar. For additional information contact 799-5141.

1 p.m. The Metropolitan Opera will present its first-ever performances of Rossini’s final comic opera, “Le Comte Ory,” in a production by Bartlett Sher. Maurizio Benini conducts an exceptional cast of stars, led by Juan Diego Flórez in the title role, Diana Damrau as Countess Adèle, and Joyce DiDonato as Isolier. The rarely heard opera, in which a lovestruck count resorts to trickery to seduce a lonely countess, will be broadcast live at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center. Tickets may be ordered through the Box Office by calling: 935-9232 or online at www.fryeburgacademy. org. All three stars have appeared in Sher’s acclaimed Met production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Damrau and Flórez sang in the 2006 new production premiere and DiDonato and Flórez starred in a 2007 Live in HD transmission of the opera. Le Comte Ory’s hero is Flórez’s seventh bel canto role at the Met. www.fryeburgacademy.org

Gustafer Yellowgold 2 p.m. “Groovy Gustafer Yellowgold is a small, yellow, coneheaded fellow, who came to Earth from the Sun and has a knack for finding himself neck-deep in absurd situations as he explores his new life in the Minnesota woods. Illustrator/ songwriter/musician Morgan Taylor developed the ‘musical moving book’ Gustafer Yellowgold experience as equal parts pop rock concert and animated storybook. The latest chapter, Gustafer Yellowgold’s Infinity Sock, follows our hero as he embarks upon a hilarious, mind-bending musical journey in search of the toe-end of the longest sock in the universe. The New York Times calls the Gustafer show and accompanying live music ‘a cross between ‘Yellow Submarine’ and Dr. Seuss, filtered through the lens of the Lower East Side.’” SPACE Gallery. $8, all ages.

Lisa Jahn-Clough at Longfellow Books 3 p.m. Maine author and illustrator, Lisa Jahn-Clough, welcomes families to help celebrate the release her latest picture book, “Felicity & Cordelia: A Tale of Two Bunnies” with a free reading and book signing. Join her at Longfellow Books to hear her story and learn a little more about the

Service in memory of RMS Titanic

PSO POPS! Elvis Lives at Merrill 7:30 p.m. “There’ll be a whole lotta shakin’ going on at this tribute to The King of Rock and Roll. Nashville’s Elvis Wade is not just another impersonator, he’s as close to the real thing as it gets!” “Known as Elvis Wade ... Wade Cummins is a talented and gifted entertainer. He was born in the Watts Hill area of rural Tennessee, near the town of Mt. Pleasant. His father was a former moonshiner...and they didn’t have much money, although they were richly blessed with a musical form of folk art familiar in the South ... the family circle ... singing and playing music together.” Saturday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 10, at 2:30 p.m. see next page

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‘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. “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.

The Magnificent Liars present ‘Lady’ 8 p.m. The Magnificent Liars will present “Lady,” a play by Craig Wright directed by Martha Getchell, at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard in Portland on Friday and Saturday, April 9 at 8 p.m. Actors are Lou Esposito, Michael Moody and Brian Schuth. Tickets are $18 for adults and at the door and $15 for advanced purchase, students and seniors. For more information, visit the Magnificent Liars’ website: www.magnificentliars.com or call 899-3993.

Sunday, April 10 Portland High School Baseball Pancake Breakfast 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. A Pancake Breakfast will be held at the Outback Steakhouse, 147 Western Ave. in South Portland to beneﬁt the Portland High School Baseball team. The breakfast will be served by the players. Tickets will be available at the door for $5 per person. Children under 5 will be admitted for free. “Please help support Portland High Baseball. For more information contact Steven Berg 883-5505 or steve@alphamaine.com.”

St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church Holy Week services at Old Orchard Beach 9:30 a.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.

Portland Home Show 10 a.m. 42nd annual Portland Home Show, Portland Expo & Portland Ice Arena, April 8-10. Show hours are 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $7. Children 12 and under are admitted free with an adult. Boasting over 300 booths and attedance that exceeds over 12,000 annually, the Portland Home Show is in its 42nd year. www.homeshows.com/ portland_home_show.htm.

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. We know that the essence of Spirit is within each and every one of us, and our aim is to create a safe and sacred space for each person to explore their own perception of Spirituality. UCSL offers weekly gatherings that are informative, creative, interactive, and sometimes ceremonial followed by fellowship.” Sacred Living Gatherings on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Williston-West Church, Memorial Hall (2nd ﬂ), 32 Thomas St. Portland. For more information call 221-0727 or email centerforsacredliving@gmail.com.

Great Maine Bike Swap in Portland 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Drop bikes off between 8 and 9:30 a.m.) University of Southern Maine’s Sullivan Gymnasium. Also at UMaine Student Recreation and Fitness Center in Orono. In what is becoming the unofﬁcial start of the Maine cycling season each April, the Great Maine Bike Swaps will return

again this spring to the campuses of the University of Maine in Orono and the University of Southern Maine in Portland. Cyclists of all ages and ability levels will have the chance to buy and sell bicycles – or do both – with a percentage of the sales going to support the programming and educational efforts of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine. In addition to the hundreds of buyers and sellers, dozens of Bicycle Coalition volunteers will be on hand at each swap event to offer advice on all bike-related subjects. Whether it’s ﬁguring out how to price that seldom-used but outdated bike from your garage so it will sell, what type of bike will best suit your new riding plan, or what might be the best starter bike for your daughter; knowledgeable volunteers can help you to make the most of the swap experience. Taking advantage of a snack or beverage while shopping also assists the wellness and sustainability-oriented student organizations at the universities that oversee the concessions as a fund-raising opportunity. ....” For more information, call the Bicycle Coalition of Maine at 623-4511 or email cecelia@ BikeMaine.org.

Civil War Sesquicentennial Open House 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. April 12 marks the 150th anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter by Confederate troops. The Fifth Maine begins the four-year Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the Civil War with an afternoon of Civil War related activities for the entire family. Historian Herb Adams will discuss his new project, The Civil War Day By Day, as presented in Portland’s newspapers; the a capella group, the Uncalled Four, will sing 1860s music; a children’s scavenger hunt will take place all afternoon; and yummy refreshments will be served. The Fifth Maine Regiment Museum is a nonprofit museum and cultural center housed in the 1888 Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Hall. Its mission is the preservation of Civil War and local history. To that end the museum offers a wide variety of lectures, concerts, tours, youth education programs, and community activities. Membership is open to the public. Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island, Maine. No charge but donations gratefully accepted. For more information call 766-5514 or email fifthmaine@juno.com.

Gilbert & Sullivan’s ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’ 2 p.m. Love, elopement, and overthrowing the social order — it’s everything you want in an operetta and it’s at the University of Southern Maine School of Music’s performance of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore.” Laugh along with the merriment and infectious tunes aboard the British ship with the USM Opera Workshop and Chorale students on Friday, April 8, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 10, at 2 p.m. at Corthell Concert Hall, 37 College Ave., University of Southern Maine - Gorham. Directors and USM School of Music faculty members Ellen Chickering and Robert Russell selected Pinafore to provide their students with the experience of performing in a complete opera role, and because the show has such a fun reputation. “Pinafore has a clever plot and beautiful melodies,” says Russell. “The USM Chorale has never done anything quite like this, at least in recent memory.” He looks forward to engaging the Chorale theatrically. Chickering is equally pleased to offer the opportunity to her opera students who, she says, “are particularly suited for the performance.” Students playing leading roles include Joshua Miller (Southwest Harbor) playing Sir Joseph Porter, Shannon Connell (Haverill, Mass.) singing the part of Josephine, Earl C. Vogel (Portland) playing Captain Corcoran, Jesse Wakeman (Belfast) playing Ralph Rackstraw, and Sarah Flagg (Hampden) playing Little Buttercup. Tickets cost $10 general public; $5 students/seniors/children/ USM employees. Reserve yours through the USM Music Box Ofﬁce at 780-5555. For more information on the USM School of Music’s spring concert season and programs of study, visit www.usm.maine.edu/music.

Get ready for Ebune 2 p.m. Mask Making at the Maine Children’s Museum, 142 Free St., Portland. Ebune Dancer. “Join Chief Oscar Mokeme for a fun afternoon. Get into Spring! Get ready to celebrate Ebune and the procession of the Ram!” Can’t join Chief Mokeme on Sunday, join him Thursday, April 14 at 11 a.m. at the Museum of African Culture. The Ebune parade in Portland is noon on Sunday, April 17. http://www.museumafricanculture.org

Living Legends 6 2 p.m. Local entertainer Louis Phillippe and PROP’s Foster Grandparent and Senior Companion Program will present Living Legends 6, a musical variety show at Catherine McAuley High School’s Performing Arts Center in Portland. Living Legends star line-up includes Kathy Ball, Ellen Tucker, Father Frenchie, future legends Emily Bashier Davis, Casey Hutchinson and Molly Olsen and a guest appearance by Birdie Googins, also known as The Marden’s Lady. Fabulously popular, superbly glamorous, always making a cutting edge fashion statement that only a super model can make, Birdie is also a well known stand up comedian who has received rave reviews from all over the State for her one woman comedy show: Birdie Googins: “Accidentally Maine’s Only Supermodel.” Tickets are $15 for reserved

seating, $10 general admission, and can be purchased by calling PROP at 773-0202. Remaining tickets will be available at the door the day of the event.

Making blueberry jam with MOFGA 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Make Some Wild Blueberry Jam With MOFGA In Cumberland County. Jam making workshop at Local Sprouts Cafe in Portland. The workshop is being organized by the Cumberland County Chapter of MOFGA and will be led by Abby Huckel, Cooperative Extension Master Preserver. All supplies will be provided including delicious wild Maine blueberries. Space in the kitchen is limited so please send an email to mofgacc@gmail.com if you want to register. Please bring $5 in cash to the workshop to cover the cost of the supplies. Everyone will go home with a 4 oz. jar of blueberry jam.

SOUP public dinner event at SPACE 7 p.m. SPACE Gallery presents SOUP, “a collaborative public dinner event and democratic experiment in micro-funding for creative projects in Portland. The event, modeled after Detroit SOUP, is designed to create an open environment for the intertwining of diverse creative communities coming together to choose a project that will positively impact Portland’s art community. It works like this: attendees bring a bowl, a spoon, and $5 to the event, and are then eligible to enter a rafﬂe. Ten names will be drawn, and those selected will be given ﬁve minutes to present a creative, powerpointless proposal to all dinner guests. At the end of the evening, attendees take a vote, and the winner is granted the proceeds of the event to fund their idea. Tasty local soups and bread are donated by Scratch Bakery, 50 Local, home, Aurora Provisions and Local Sprouts. Music provided by Soldat, featuring Leander Johnson, Justin Taylor, and Ian Paige.” $5, all ages.

Monday, April 11 Public hearing on Peaks Island secession bill by Committee on State and Local Government 10 a.m. Public hearing on LD 1079, the Peaks Island secession bill, in Room 214, Cross Building, State Capitol, Augusta. Committee on State and Local Government. “This bill authorizes the incorporation of Peaks Island, House Island, Pumpkin Knob and Catnip Island into the Town of Peaks Island if the legal residents of those territories approve, by referendum, separation from the City of Portland and incorporation as a separate town. Part B clariﬁes the binding arbitration process. Part C speciﬁes the liability and rights of the City of Portland and the Town of Peaks Island.” www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_125th/ billtexts/HP081401.asp

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. Opening Ceremony, April 11 at 2 p.m. Morning prayers at 8:30 a.m. daily. Evening prayers at 4 p.m. daily. Dharma talks, also at Maine College of Art, 7 p.m. evenings. Closing ceremony April 17 at 2 p.m. Sponsored by The Healing Dharma Center, a Tibetan Buddhist Center in Newburyport and South Portland. (www. healingdharma.squarespace.com ). Other sponsors include The Chaplaincy Institute of Maine (an interfaith wisom school), and Maine College of Art. All events are free and open to all.

Maine’s new State Poet Laureate honored by University of Maine at Farmington reception 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Theodora J. Kalikow, president of University of Maine at Farmington, invites the public to a gala celebration to honor Wes McNair, Maine’s new State Poet Laureate. The reception will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Richard T. and Judith F. Bjorn Lobby of the UMF Education Center, on High Street, in Farmington.

Additional public comment session regarding rate ﬁlings for Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield 4 p.m. Insurance Superintendent Mila Kofman has announced that the Bureau of Insurance will hold a public comment session in Gardiner at the Bureau ofﬁces regarding proposed rate increases from Antham Blue Cross Blue Shield. Public comment will be accepted for the proposed rate increases at the following date, time and location: April 11, 4–6 p.m., Androscoggin Room, Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Gardiner Annex, 76 Northern Ave., Gardiner. Members of the public are also invited to attend a public hearing and provide comments if unable to attend the public comment sessions. The hearing will begin at 9 a.m. on April 12 and, if necessary, continue on April 13, in the Kennebec Room, Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Gardiner. Written comments can be submitted for consideration by the Superintendent of Insurance via e-mail: sarah. hewett@maine.gov.

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Meeting planned for proposed Deering Center byway DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT This Wednesday, the City of Portland and the Deering Center Neighborhood Association will host a neighborhood meeting to discuss the creation of a “Neighborhood Byway.” According to the city, neighborhood byways use 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, city spokesperson Nicole Clegg said in a press release. 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, Clegg said. The pilot project aims to 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.portlandmaine.gov.) Neighborhood byways are created combines techniques such as landscaping and street trees, signs and banners, pavement markings and street crossing treatments to create connections between places residents are likely to walk or bike. Byways typically run parallel to and between busier streets while still allowing local vehicular traffic. Following the neighborhood meeting, city staff with a project working group

I-295 work closes Exit 5B off-ramp, affects lanes Starting at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 10, crews will close the Exit 5B off-ramp on Interstate 295 southbound, the state reported. This ramp will remain closed while work is completed on three nearby bridges. Motorists who use Exit 5B should continue on I-295 southbound, take Exit 5A and follow the marked detour. The southbound on-ramp from Park Avenue will remain open until mid-May. Crews will also establish a long-term lane closure on the St. John Street

will develop an improvement plan that will incorporate the input provided by neighborhood residents at Wednesday’s meeting. Funding is available to construct the plan this summer and fall.

Bridge and St. James Street Bridge on I-295 southbound and begin repairs. While two lanes will remain open southbound during the day, southbound trafﬁc will be reduced to one lane from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. For those traveling on I-295 northbound from Portland into Falmouth over the next two weeks, construction crews will be installing guardrail between the hours of 8 p.m. and 7 a.m. www. mainedot.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.

Laughs at sea: USM students perform ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’ DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT The University of Southern Maine School of Music’s final performance of Gilbert & Sullivan’s "H.M.S. Pinafore" is Sunday, April 10, at 2 p.m. at Corthell Concert Hall, University of Southern Maine, Gorham. "Laugh along with the merriment and infectious tunes aboard the British ship with the USM Opera Workshop and Chorale students," reads a press release about the performance. The comic operetta also was staged Friday. Directors and USM School of Music faculty members Ellen Chickering and Robert Russell selected 'Pinafore' to provide their students with the experience of performing in a complete opera role, and because the show has such a fun reputation. “'Pinafore' has a clever plot and beautiful melodies,” said Russell. “The USM Chorale has never done anything quite like this, at least in recent memory.” He looks forward to engaging the Chorale theatrically. Chickering, according to the USM press release, is equally pleased to offer the opportunity to her opera students who, she says, “are particularly suited for the performance.” Students playing leading roles include Joshua Miller (Southwest Harbor) playing Sir Joseph Porter, Shannon Connell (Haverill, Mass.) singing the part of Josephine, Earl C. Vogel (Portland) playing Captain Corcoran, Jesse Wakeman (Belfast) playing Ralph Rackstraw, and Sarah Flagg (Hampden) playing Little Buttercup. Additional cast members include

The audience can laugh along with the merriment and infectious tunes from Gilbert & Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore,” as the University of Southern Maine Opera Workshop and Chorale students present the ﬁnale on Sunday, April 10, at 2 p.m. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Molly Massa (Scarborough) as Cousin Hebe, Kyle Skillin (Standish) as Dick Deadeye, Christopher Climo (Fryeburg) as Bill Bobstay, and Joshua Wolfe (Saco) as Bob Beckett. Singing the part of sisters are Karissa Nelsen (Sanford), Jane Clukey (Portland), Alexandra Bacon (Falmouth, Mass.), Amber Miles (Burlington, Vt.),

Michaele Black (Littleton, Mass.), Eileen Hanley (Peaks Island), Sable Strout (Richmond), and Rebecca Carreiro (Dayton). Singing the part of seamen are Aaren Rivard (South China), Nick Burich (Topsham), and Zane Peterson (South Berwick). Tickets cost $10 general public; $5 students/seniors/children/USM

employees. Reserve yours through the USM Music Box Office at 7805555. For more information on the USM School of Music’s spring concert season and programs of study, visit www.usm.maine.edu/music. Sign up for e-notices, or find us on Facebook as USM School of Music, www.facebook. com/Music.USM.

Liszt concert in honor of 200th birthday rescheduled for May DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT The University of Southern Maine School of Music announces a new date for its Spotlight Series concert, “A Celebration of the Music of Liszt 200 Years After His Birth.” The concert, which was canceled due to snow in April, will now take place Friday, May 6, at 8 p.m. in Corthell Concert Hall, College Avenue, USM Gorham. Pianist Anastasia Antonacos will perform a wide

variety of Liszt originals as well as a selection of his transcriptions. “Antonacos has a special affinity for the music of Liszt, a composer who is often misunderstood, both by performers and listeners,” USM reported in a press release. “Antonacos believes the prevalent opinion among students and audience members still seems to be that Liszt was a substandard composer who wrote one virtuoso passage after another with no musical integrity.”

“Interpreting Liszt comes easily to me,” she says, “and I have had much success communicating my understanding of his music in concerts.” Audiences have been moved by Antonacos’ Liszt performances both in Europe and the United States, USM reported in a press release. Antonacos says, as a teacher, she is inspired by Liszt’s dedication to pedagogy. “Many pianists today can trace their ‘pedagogical’ lineage back to him. For these reasons, I feel a strong connection to Liszt.”

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