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BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Members of a Portland-based nonprofit Atlantic Global Aid flew to Kenya yesterday with suitcases full of medical supplies destined for a regional hospital that’s chronically short on gauze, diapers and sterile needles.

Christina Feller, a director of the one-yearold nonprofit, said the trip is the first of several planned in the next year to re-supply the Ijara District Hospital, which is located near the border with Somalia.

While there, she said doctors and medical professionals from Atlantic Global Aid are hoping to develop a better understanding of how rural Africans feel about health care.

“Our goal is to understand the limits of medical help in this part of the world, and lend our resources to fill this gap,” Feller said.

During the three week trip, Atlantic Global Aid is planning to formalize a partnership with the hospital that could have long-term ramifications in northeast Kenya

as well as Portland and Lewiston.

The goal is to start a regular dialogue between health workers in the U.S. and Kenya to share treatment tips that elevate the level of care available to Africans, regardless of where they live.

There are at least 15,000 African immigrants living in Maine, and while many have been here for a decade or longer, many still harbor strong suspicious about Western medicine, said Dr. Abdifatah Ahmed, a pharmacist from Topsham who is executive director of Atlantic Global Aid. Ahmed was born in Somalia but brought up in Cambridge, Mass. Since most immigrants began arriving in Lewiston and Portland just 10 or 15 years ago, he said there is still a lot of misunderstanding from both sides.

He said African immigrants are often reluctant to take prescription drugs, preferring traditional herbal treatments that Atlantic Global Aid (AGA) is a Maine-based nonprofit corporation established in October, 2010 for the express purpose of bringing medicines, supplies, and medical personnel to have been used for centuries.

“I think doctors do not understand their Africa. The agency’s goal is to restore and raise the level of confidence in the people of see KENYA page 8

Africa through education and better health care so they can have a better prospect of succeeding and thriving in their own homelands. (COURTESY PHOTO)

MPBN director reacts to proposed $1.9 mill cut Weekend Interview: Portland Police Chief James Craig

BY MATT DODGE

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Maine Public Broadcasting Network is scrambling to demonstrate the value and popular support of its programming in response to a proposal by Gov. Paul LePage to eliminate state funding for the organization.

MPBN president and CEO Jim Dowe called the proposed cuts “frankly shocking.” And with the two-year budget cycle beginning July 1, he said the late notice leaves the network with little time to replace funds that would be lost if LePage’s plan is approved.

“I have no plan b, plan a is to get the appropriation fully restored and I won’t stop or sleep until we’ve done that,” said Dowe.

The state appropriation to

MPBN totals $1,954,235 for the next two years. That represents about 19 percent of the station’s total operating budget.

“MPBN only learned of this last minute development after placing a courtesy call to the Governors office to inform him that the MPBN Board of Trustees would be discussing the role of government funding for MPBN at its Tuesday, May 10 board meeting,” said Dowe in open letter on the station’s website.

LePage spokesperson Adrienne Bennett confirmed the timing of MPBN’s call to the governor’s office.

Bennett said that the governor’s $6.1 billion two-year budget includes cuts to essential services, and eliminating MPBN’s allocation prevents deeper reductions elsewhere.

“The governor feels that

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

MPBN president and CEO Jim Dowe said he found proposed cuts “frankly shocking”. (COURTESY PHOTO)

using taxpayer dollars to subsidize public television and radio is something to be quesitoned,” she said. ‘It’s an area where we can find see MPBN page 6

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It’s been two years since James Craig took over as Portland Police Chief.

Craig, left his job captain in the Los Angeles Police Department, quickly made his presence felt in Portland.

In the first year, he restructured the chain of command, promoted several longtime officers and won city approval to outfit officers with Taser stun guns. He also updated the department’s uniforms and the schedule for beat cops and got rid of unpopular policies implemented by previous administrations.

For much of his two years, Craig focused on building

the department’s community policing model. To that end, he created the senior lead officer program, which assigns a community police officer to eight neighborhood districts across the city. He also reached out to the immigrant communities through direct dialogue and new programs for urban youths.

The changes were more than just cosmetic. Last year, crime was down 3 percent overall, and for the first half of 2011 it’s down 11 percent.

Craig, 54, sat down for an interview with the Portland Daily Sun earlier this month. Craig discussed Portland’s fight against see CRAIG page 7

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Prom for adults

GREEN BAY, Wis. (NY Times) — The last time Ashley Moeller shimmied into a satin dress and glittering high heels for the prom, her father issued a stern warning: be home by 11 p.m. sharp. He waited at the door, careful to smell her breath for even the slightest trace of alcohol.

This time, she simply dropped the children off at her mother-in-law’s house.

Nobody would be waiting up for Ms. Moeller, and her husband, Kurt, both 25, to come home from the adult prom.

“Prom the way you always wanted it,” the advertisement in Green Bay called out, an attempt to attract would-be revelers whose high school days have come and long gone. This is prime prom season, the time when teenage girls spend hundreds of dollars for what they hope will be the perfect night. But in an increasing number of cities those teenagers searching for their prom gowns are brushing elbows with grown women, some at least double their age. Adult proms have already taken place in Fort Wayne, Ind., and Beverly, Mass., this year. Others are planned in Decatur, Ga., and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

These are not reunions of former high school classmates eager to relive the prom night they had together.

A vast majority of revelers are in their 20s and 30s, although a few are in their early 60s and are simply excited at the prospect of getting decked out and dancing — and voting for the night’s king and queen.

But the adult version, as evidenced here in Green Bay, featured much of the same awkwardness as the high school prom, made only more tolerable with the addition of alcohol. Inside a ballroom, there was the woman wondering aloud all night about where her date had disappeared to. At another table sat the cluster who came for a fun girls’ night out but looked rather forlorn. In a corner of the dance floor, a woman had her arms draped around her date’s neck, while his hands wandered down her waist in a way that would surely make a chaperone blush.

Really, nobody seemed to mind. This was their do-over, another shot at perfection.

Or perhaps for some the first chance at an American rite of passage. And for a precious few, a night to re-create one of the best times of their lives.

“I’ve been thinking about it for weeks,” Ms. Genke said.

“I could hardly sleep last night I was so excited.”

Indeed, much of the pleasure came simply in the anticipation. Beckie and Brent Sinkula forked over the money to stay at the nearby AmericInn Hotel, giving them a chance for their own private pre- and after party.

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TRIPOLI, Libya — Two days after an underground command center in his central Tripoli compound was blasted by a barrage of bunker-busting bombs, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi issued a defiant message to NATO on Friday, saying that he had survived and was now “in a place where you can’t get me.”

Libyan state television broadcast a brief recorded audio message from the Libyan leader at mid-evening, in which he said he wanted to reassure Libyans concerned about the airstrikes on his Bab al-Aziziya compound early Thursday. At least three huge bombs struck at separate parts of the subterranean network of passageways and bunkers.

“I tell the coward crusaders, I live in a place where you can’t get me,” Colonel Qaddafi said.

“I live in the hearts of millions.”

The message was broadcast as Libyan officials asserted that another NATO airstrike, on the oil city of Brega, 500 miles from Tripoli, had struck a guesthouse late Thursday or early Friday and killed 11

Muslim clerics and injured 45 other clerics and officials who were gathered in the city on what the government officials described as a peace mission.

Moussa Ibrahim, the chief spokesman for the Qaddafi government, said the victims were asleep when the bomb struck. He showed a video of a large group of men whom he described as members of the peace group assembled beside the harbor in Brega at sunset on Thursday, and a separate video showing what he described as the bodies of some of the bombing victims arrayed on blankets on a floor.

Mr. Ibrahim’s account could not be independently verified.

If confirmed, it would amount to the heaviest civilian toll from a NATO airstrike since the bombing campaign began on March 19. A NATO spokeswoman in Brussels, Carmen Romero, confirmed that an attack had been conducted overnight at Brega, striking what she described as a command-and-control center for the Qaddafi forces.

“Our targets are solely military,” she said.

The propaganda value that the Qaddafi government saw

in the Brega attack was underscored by its decision to hold a news conference about the air strike at one of the principal mosques in central Tripoli, with rows of Muslim and Orthodox Christian clerics seated under a canopy in the courtyard.

One of the Muslim clerics, Nouri Adin al-Mejrab, called on Muslims around the world to avenge the deaths of the 11 clerics with attacks that would kill 1,000 people for each of those killed in Brega. He said the attacks should take place in the countries that have joined in the NATO air campaign, including the United States, Britain, France, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

After other senior clerics warned that the NATO strikes were sowing hatred against the West in Libya and generating a yearning for revenge among a Muslim population that they said had previously been moderate, Mr. Mejrab issued what appeared to be a call for terrorist attacks on civilian targets in the West.

He described the NATO attacks as worse than those of Nazi Germany, which he said had “respected” mosques

and churches. And then he added: “We will call on Muslims around the world to take revenge for all the victims of the NATO attacks. For every one of our martyrs, we will call on them to take down 1,000 people.”

For weeks, rabid anti-Western rhetoric has been intensifying among Libyan officials and finding a voice among the small crowds of pro-Qaddafi demonstrators who turn up wherever foreign reporters are taken by a government corps of minders and guides. While staged for television cameras, the threats seem likely to prompt heightened vigilance among Western counterterrorism officials, who are already on high alert in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Libya’s secret intelligence apparatus, massively developed under Colonel Qaddafi’s 40-year rule, has shown on many occasions that it can strike back at Libya’s Western foes. The worst of these attacks came in December 1988, when a bomb planted

by Libyan agents exploded aboard Pan-Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland, killing 270 people.

to meet next week with King Abdullah II of Jordan, a neighbor of Israel and one of only two Arab neighbors — the other is Egypt — that have diplomatic relations with Israel.

Officials did not indicate whether Mr. Obama would name a replacement for Mr. Mitchell, 77, a former Democratic majority leader of the Senate who subsequently won international acclaim for helping to broker peace in Northern Ireland. That reputation raised hopes that he could do the same in the Middle East, but instead he often met frustration; talks with the two sides have been dormant since last September.

There was no immediate comment from the offices of Mr. Netanyahu in Jerusalem or President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

Lower-level Palestinian and Israeli officials each blamed the other for Mr. Mitchell’s failed mission, although they praised him and his work.

“What needs to change is Israeli behavior,” said Nabil Shaath, who heads the foreign affairs department of Fatah, the main party of the Palestinian Authority, in seeking to explain the stalled peace endeavor. “The man was not given any support and he failed,” he added of Mr. Mitchell, speaking by telephone. “I don’t really blame him. He found himself without any initiative or ability to move ahead. He found himself doing a futile job. I liked the man. He is honest and hard-working, with lots of experience.”

Zalman Shoval, a special envoy of Mr. Netanyahu, who focuses on relations with the United States, said Mr. Mitchell “made a major effort to try to move peace between Israel and the Palestinians forward but, at the end of the day, his efforts were undermined by the Palestinians’ refusal to engage in meaningful negotiations. But he deserves the gratitude of Israel and the Palestinians for his efforts.”

George Mitchell resigns as U.S. Middle East envoy

BY JACKIE CALMES THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s chief envoy to the Middle East, former Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Jr., is leaving that post after two mostly futile years pressing Israelis and Palestinians to make peace, administration officials said on Friday.

Mr. Obama was expected to issue a statement later in the day. The news comes ahead of a critical week in which the president is to deliver a much-anticipated speech on policy toward the Middle East in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden and revolutions in the Arab world, and then to meet with the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom the White House has had fraught relations.

The White House press secretary, Jay Carney, was asked repeatedly at his daily briefing with reporters about the awkward timing of Mr. Mitchell’s departure, and whether it sym-

Mitchell, a former U.S. Senator from Maine, is seen here in September 2010 (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/The New York Times).

bolizes a sense of defeat over prospects for negotiating a twostate solution between Israel and Palestinian officials.

“This president’s commitment remains as firm as it was when he took office,” Mr. Carney said.

He noted that the Middle East had always been an “extraordinarily hard issue.” He added, “But the fact is that it’s important and the president is committed to working on it and the fact he’s having these meetings is proof of that.”

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Portland men face charges in Rumford

BY MARGE NIBLOCK

Two men involved in violent street crime in Portland’s peninsula over the past several years were arrested in Rumford on May 7. Both now face felony charges, according to Rumford police.

Abdi Awad, 25, was charged with felony violation of bail, reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, and refusal to submit to arrest.

Francis Mezan, 21, was arrested on charges of felony violation of bail and trafficking in crack cocaine.

Awad’s arrest occurred after a foot chase with police when a handgun he tried to get rid of discharged, Det. James Bernard said.

Awad fled when police tried to speak to him. Bernard said police were aware that he was free on bail after being arrested in Rumford during a traffic stop in mid-April, when he was charged with violating bail conditions.

Awad is currently serving a 60-day sentence in the Androscoggin Jail, after which he will be sent to Portland to deal with unresolved issues pending

here, police said.

Police had gone to a house where Awad was staying and asked people come outside. Mezan was one of those in the house and police did a bail check on Mezan, knowing he’d been with Awad during the April arrest, Bernard said.

When police searched him they found him in possession of crack cocaine.

Mezan is being held at the Oxford County Jail on $5,000 cash bail.

Both men have extensive criminal backgrounds.

Previous charges incurred by Awad in Portland include: robbery; terrorizing; refusing to submit to arrest; violation of conditional release; violation of bail; aggravated assault; unlawful possession of scheduled drugs; and assault.

Mezan’s list of offenses include: criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon; criminal mischief; a couple of charges of violation of conditional release; assault; carrying a concealed weapon; and terrorizing. He was involved in an Old Port incident July 4, 2009, where he and three other men were arrested for attacking a couple and trying to rip off the woman’s blouse.

The Maine Red Claws, confirmed yesterday that head coasch Austin Ainge will rejoin the Boston Celtics as Director of Player Personnel. The Red Claws will immediately open a search for the second head coach in team history.

“I truly appreciate the opportunity that the Red Claws gave me and have enjoyed my time in Maine tremendously,” said Ainge. “The fans in Maine are incredible, and I wish the organization nothing but the best going forward.”

“I am sorry to see Austin go but happy for him in his new position with

the Celtics” said Maine Red Claws President and General Manager Jon Jennings. “All of us with the Red Claws enjoyed working with Austin. No one worked harder and was more committed to making our players better. He will be missed. We wish Austin, Crystal and his boys the best going forward.”

Ainge, 29, joined the Red Claws following stints as a scout with the Boston Celtics and as an assistant coach at Southern Utah University and led the Red Claws to a 45-55 record in two seasons.

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Huckabee expected to decide on 2012 presidential run today

BY MICHAEL D. SHEAR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, will announce on Saturday whether he will run for president, the producer of his show on the Fox News Channel said Friday.

“Governor Huckabee will announce tomorrow night on his program whether or not he intends to explore a presidential bid,” Woody Fraser, the executive producer of “Huckabee” said in a statement. “He has not told anyone at FOX News Channel his decision.”

Senior political aides to Mr. Huckabee also said Friday they do not know what he will decide, raising suspicions that Mr. Huckabee will take a pass on another campaign.

Mr. Huckabee has been saying for months that he is seriously considering a run. But to do so, he would have to abandon his media empire, which includes his syndicated radio program and his television show, “Huckabee,” that airs on Fox News each weekend night at 8 p.m.

Last week, several news organizations reported that Fox News executives were pressuring Mr. Huckabee to make a decision, one way or another. Mr. Huckabee denied those reports.

Fox News has been concerned about the legal complications of having presidential candidates working on their payroll. Earlier, the network suspended the contracts of

Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, and Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania.

Both are now running for president.

It is unclear whether any federal rules would prohibit Mr. Huckabee from making a campaign-related announcement from the perch of his show. But if the decision is that he’s running, he could announce that Saturday is his last show on Fox. Ed Rollins, a veteran Republican strategist who has served as Mr. Huckabee’s top political adviser, said in an interview Friday that he does not believe Mr. Huckabee will run again.

“I have no idea,” Mr. Rollins said.

But he added that the fact that Mr. Huckabee’s top people don’t know what announcement he will make is “pretty indicative that he’s not going to run.”

Over the last several months, Mr. Rollins has been helping Mr. Huckabee to put in place the pieces of a campaign to be ready if he decided to run, Mr. Rollins said.

“There was a tremendous opportunity for him to be a viable, credible candidate,” Mr. Rollins said. “I think Mike has got unique talents but he just didn’t have the fire in the belly. I can’t want it more than the candidate does.”

Mr. Rollins said that “there is a campaign that can be put together in a week. All of the pieces are there.” But he said that in the last two weeks Mr. Huckabee’s family expressed doubts about a run.

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Seniors, Guns and Money This has to be one of the funniest political stories of recent weeks: On Tuesday, 42 freshmen Republican members of Congress sent a letter urging President Obama to stop Democrats from engaging in “Mediscare” tactics — that is, to stop saying that the Republican budget plan released early last month, which would end Medicare as we know it, is a plan to end Medicare as we know it.

Now, you may recall that the people who signed that letter got their current jobs largely by engaging in “Mediscare” tactics of their own. And bear in mind that what Democrats are saying now is entirely true, while what Republicans were saying last year was completely false. Death panels!

––––– Well, it’s time, said the signatories, to “wipe the slate clean.”

The New York How very convenient — and how Times very pathetic.

Anyway, the truth is that older Americans really should fear Republican budget ideas — and not just because of that plan to dismantle Medicare. Given the realities of the federal budget, a party insisting that tax increases of any kind are off the table — as John Boehner, the speaker of the House, says they are — is, necessarily, a party demanding savage cuts in programs that serve older Americans.

To explain why, let me answer a rhetorical question

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Democrats embrace ‘LePage Referendum’ election It would be easy to oversimplify the meaning of last Tuesday’s lopsided Democratic victory in the special election for state senate District 7 – so let’s get at it.

Some background: In the blue Democratic corner was state Rep. Cynthia Dill, maybe the most vocal opponent of Gov. Paul LePage, including launching that online “recall petition” that has no legal weight but is still a way to vent some anger. In civilian life, she’s a civil rights lawyer.

In the red Republican corner was Louis Maietta Jr., a former SoPo councilman and former state rep himself. His day job is his family’s construction business.

The race was seen as some – okay, especially in the media – as a referendum on the governor in the wake of his several gaffes, like the mural controversy or the kiss-my-butt controversy or the women and little beards controversy or whatever the heck he did this week controversy.

That idea made some sense because the last race was recallclose. It turned out that state Sen. Larry Bliss, the SoPo Demo-

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Usually Reserved crat won the squeaker over Joe Palmieri, who was well known as a local radio host, former TV journalist and small business owner (he has the wildly good Chicago Dogs franchise in Scarborough).

Bliss got 9,163 votes, Palmieri’s 9,097.

But Bliss moved to a new job out of state, thus the special election.

So Tuesday, when Dill won, the victory was widely reported as a 2-to-1 trouncing. She notched 5,056 votes in the district, which includes South Portland, Cape Elizabeth and a part of Scarborough. Maietta had 2,405 votes.

No less than Bill Nemitz, the Portland Press-Herald columnist and a leading LePage critic, surmised that “officially, the good citizens of Cape Elizabeth, South Portland and a slice of Scarborough elected themselves

a new state senator this week...

Unofficially, they also sent a message.”

Well ... maybe.

Certainly the election got biggame hot toward the end, with Republicans portraying Dill as a liberal establishment figure and Democrats firing back with attacks on Maietta’s family business. So one message, since the Republican campaign was seen as more brutal, is that attackdog politics work less and less in smaller and smaller communities.

Or, the message might be that in state senate races which often come down to “how many hands did you shake,” taking time off in the home stretch is risky. Because Maietta went to his daughter’s “destination wedding” in the critical weeks before the election.

In a way, that did fit his theme of “family first” but did cut into hand-shaking efforts.

But I think the real message from Tuesday’s vote is echoed in comments like those by Ralph Carmona, who leads the state’s chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens of see ROBINSON page 5

Democrats are just telling the truth KRUGMAN from page 4

posed by Professor John Taylor of Stanford University in a recent op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal. He asked, “If government agencies and programs functioned with 19% to 20% of G.D.P. in 2007” — that is, just before the Great Recession — “why is it so hard for them to function with that percentage in 2021?”

Mr. Taylor thought he was making the case for not increasing spending.

But if you know anything about the federal budget, you know that there’s a very good answer to his question — an answer that clearly demonstrates just how extremist that no-tax-increase pledge really is. For here’s the quickand-dirty summary of what the federal government does: It’s a giant insurance company, mainly serving older people, that also has an army.

The great bulk of federal spending that isn’t either defense-related or interest on the debt goes to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The first two programs specifically serve seniors.

And while Medicaid is often thought of as a poverty program, these days it’s largely about providing nursing care, with about two-thirds of its spending now going to the elderly and/or disabled. By my rough count, in 2007, seniors accounted, one way or another, for about half of federal spending.

And in case you hadn’t noticed, there will soon be a lot more seniors around because the baby boomers have started reaching retirement age.

Here are the numbers: In 2007, there were 20.9 Americans 65 and older for every 100 Americans between the ages of 20 and 64 — that is, the people of normal working age who essentially provide the tax base that supports federal spending. The Social Security Administration expects that number to rise to 27.5 by 2020, and 31.7 by 2025.

That’s a lot more people relying on federal social insurance programs.

Nor is demography the whole story.

Over the long term, health care spending has consistently grown faster than the economy, raising the costs of Medicare and Medicaid as a share of G.D.P. Cost-control measures — the very kind of measures Republicans demonized last year, with their cries of death panels — can help slow the rise, but few experts believe that we can avoid some “excess cost growth” over the next decade.

Between an aging population and rising health costs, then, preserving anything like the programs for seniors we now have will require a significant increase in spending on these programs as a percentage of G.D.P. And unless we offset that rise with drastic cuts in defense spending — which Republicans, needless to say, oppose — this means a substantial rise in overall spending, which we can afford only if taxes rise.

So when people like Mr. Boehner reject out of hand any increase in taxes, they are, in effect, declaring that they won’t preserve programs benefiting older Americans in anything like their current form. It’s just a matter of arithmetic.

Which brings me back to those Republican freshmen. Last year, older voters, who split their vote almost evenly between the parties in 2008, swung overwhelmingly to the G.O.P., as Republicans posed successfully as defenders of Medicare. Now Democrats are pointing out that the G.O.P., far from defending Medicare, is actually trying to dismantle the program.

So you can see why those Republican freshmen are nervous.

But the Democrats aren’t engaging in scare tactics, they’re simply telling the truth. Policy details aside, the G.O.P.’s rigid anti-tax position also makes it, necessarily, the enemy of the senior-oriented programs that account for much of federal spending. And that’s something voters ought to know.

LePage critic gets bigger megaphone ROBINSON from page 4

Maine known as LULAC. He’s also vice-chair of the Portland Democrats and one of the few on the left who have had personal meetings with the governor (they largely “agreed to disagree” he says).

Asked about the Tuesday win, Carmona said it illustrates that “... there’s clearly a sense of energy among Democrats” and predicted it was “a real harbinger of things to come.”

But he also said that “... there’s no social institution” that can respond to the “extremism in the state... other than the Democratic Party.”

Quick translation: Stand down, Green Party.

And that remains the Big Question of 2012. Sure, the governor has united the progressive left in a way usually reserved for presidential visits or First Friday’s free-wine art openings.

But remember your history: Paul LePage was elected with 38 percent of the vote; Eliot Cutler was just under 10,000 short with around 37 percent, and Democrat Libby Mitch-

ell had 19 percent.

Does anyone think the sound and fury from Augusta has seriously eaten into the governor’s 38 percent?

How would Tuesday’s race have turned out with a left-leaning third candidate, Green Party or not? Who knows?

But it will be a long, long time before the Cutler and Mitchell voters forget the split-vote election of 2010. Many in each camp called for the other to step aside in the final weeks as Cutler surged. And if it seems like a majority of Mainers are against the Gov, well remember that a majority of Mainers voted for somebody else.

So until the Next Time, the real impact from Tuesday’s special election is that Ms. Dill, one of the more assertive critics of the governor, just doubled her credibility and upgraded her megaphone.

Another lesson of recent history: she will have plenty of opportunity to use it.

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

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A Portland woman is celebrating her birthday Saturday resting from the trip of a lifetime. Zoe Ramano turned 24 a week after finishing a cross country journey. She ran from one side of the U.S. to the other.

Ramano started in Huntington Beach, California back on January 8th and finished in Charleston, South Carolina on May 7th. The nearly 3,000 miles of running was all to benefit an organization dear to her heart.

“Donations are still coming in,” stated Ramano.

“But I have now raised over $13,000 for the Boys and Girls Club. I would visit as a kid and I really liked the positive impact they had on kids. It is also a well respected organization in Maine.”

Ramano ran an average of thirty to thirty five miles a day and would rest every ninth day. She ran with a stroller to hold all of her belongings and spent nights with host families along the way or in

different hotels that donated rooms.

During her four month journey, Ramano ran through nine different states and experienced all kinds of weather, landscapes and people. “I did have my favorites,” she admitted. “I really loved the people who live in Texas. They were so friendly.

Some people would just drive up and offer me water or Gatorade. I also loved Alabama. I thought the landscape was beautiful. Just about every place I ran though, people would donate money.”

Running thirty to thirty five miles a day was far from easy for this Portland High School graduate.

Early on during her run, she did experience a few aches and pains.

“During the first three weeks I had to ice many of my muscles,” said Ramano. “There was nothing serious, but my achilles tendon was sore for a while.

After that, I really didn’t have too many problems.”

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Dowe: ‘my total focus is to do everything I can to demonstrate the value of MPBN to the people of Maine’ guard.

“This year, like other years, we believed up until late Tuesday morning that our budget request was intact,” he said. “This caught us by surprise, it has been vetted through the normal budgetary process.

We’re going to fight this frankly shocking news that we got at this late hour in our fiscal year with every fact we can find to support our case,” said Dowe.

In his open letter, Dowe outlines the possible effect elimination of State funding would have on the organization. “Our current ability to distribute radio and television programming statewide would be severely affected. The MPBN that we know today could simply not continue to exist in its current form.”

Dowe said the governor’s decision could be “disastrous for the people of Maine,” and while there are those at MPBN working to develop a budget contingency plan, Dowe himself is not close to giving up.

“Others are working on what we would do if these 11th hour, last minute cuts were forced down our throat, but my total focus is to do everything I can to demonstrate the value of MPBN to the people of Maine and restoring the appropriate appropriation,” he said.

But the director said he doesn’t believe there to be a political motivation behind the fiscal move.

“Apparently it’s a financial budget decision that has been made, that’s how I’m taking it,” said Dowe.

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ing facilities of the corporation must be made in amounts sufficient to ensure delivery of broadcast sources throughout the State,” according to Dowe’s letter on mpbn.net. The Governor has proposed that this provision of the statute be eliminated as well, according to Dowe.

“As far back as I can see the state has been unable to fully fund that but there has always been an effort to provide funding that was material enough to allow us to distribute our programming,” he said.

MPBN will testify before the Maine Legislature’s Appropriations & Financial Affairs Committee on Monday. The hearing is currently scheduled for 2 p.m.

Dowe encourages all Mainers, fans of MPBN or not, to weigh on the proposed budget elimination.

“No matter how people feel about public broadcasting, I would encourage them to express that view via social media channels or with their legislators or with me directly,” he said.

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Craig outlines successes, challenges and appeal of Cincinnati job CRAIG from page one

crack, why he’s seeking the vacant police chief job in Cincinnati, and why he thinks Maine’s drug laws should be changed. (The interview has been edited and condensed).

The Portland Daily Sun: It’s been two years since you took over as Portland Police Chief. What are some of your proudest achievements in that time.

James Craig: I am most proud of our work in community policing.

The other thing I am proud of is the youth initiatives we have launched.

Certainly, I am proud of our crime abatement efforts.

PDS: Can you talk about relations between the police department and the the city’s immigrant communities?

JC: I am proud to report we have ongoing relations with both groups.

In fact, I meet with them on a regular basis to talk about different issues. In 2009, you may recall there were regular attacks against police officers when the went on calls in certain communities, and last year, because of our efforts to work closely with these communities, we haven’t had one (similar) incident.

PDS: How is your relationship with the Portland City Council?

JC: I think it’s good. Certainly, I talk with some more than others, and I think they have good relations with our senior lead officers.

PDS: But didn’t some councilors react with skepticism recently when the police department requested changes at Preble Street Resource Center?

a very public stand on cocaine, and the fact that currently, 14 grams or less is considered a misdemeanor, my feeling is any amount of this dangerous drug should be a felony.

(That) would give prosecutors more leverage to direct intervention strategies, such as treatment, and it also gives police and prosecutors more flexibility in getting information as to where the drugs are coming from.

PDS: Where do drugs come from?

JC: Right now, the trend we see, they are coming in from the bigger cities. We have drug dealers that find this as a land of opportunity.

It’s real simple. Like any business, it’s about supply and demand, and there is a high demand from drugs here.

PDS: How do you go about combating the demand for drugs?

JC: The challenge is that when you have people that are addicted to drug, they have to get into treatment programs. You have to find a way to reduce demand by making sure the addicts are treated. But you also have to have deterrent in place, but certainly there is no deterrent if 14 grams is a misdemeanor. Maine is one of the few places, if not the only place, that 14 grams of power cocaine is a misdemeanor.

JC: I’d like to end my career as a major city chief. And that’s why the Cincinnati opportunity is so compelling.

PDS: What is one of the more memorable moments you have from your first two years in Portland?

JC: I saw a moose for the first time.

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PDS: Is rock cocaine the same thing as crack?

PDS: Is the Police Department still looking for a change in the lowbarrier system at Preble Street.

JC: If the law says that medical marijuana can be used, then I support that. I think we need to make sure we have sufficient controls in place to make sure it’s regulated and managed, and I don’t know if we have gotten there yet.

JC: The biggest challenge right now, that dissects across the various crimes that are committed, is the illegal use of drugs. I have taken

PDS: Where would you like to end your career?

JC: I would say, right now in Southern Maine and primarily in Portand, rock cocaine is the drug causing us the most concern.

JC: It’s crack, or its cocaine base.

It’s cheap and highly addictive.

That’s what makes it such a problem for us.

PDS: What are the city’s biggest crime challenges right now?

JC: I mean, I could. I am certainly not trying to run from Portland. But like anybody in a profession, if the right opportunity presents itself, what would you do? The ultimate goal, especially as a police chief, is to be a police chief of a major city.

PDS: Has cocaine taken over as the most highly-abused drug in Portland?

JC: What was not reported is that a couple of the councilors raised the issue with us. The concern was brought to the police department.

It wasn’t like the police department pulled it out the sky, it was brought to us.

JC: We are, but not to the degree that, (was initially requested). The changes we are asking for is in no way meant to impede Preble Street from doing the great work they do.

Our concern is safety. In terms of low barrier, that’s a philosophy, and certainly we can’t direct what they do or don’t want to do, but we can provide helpful suggestions.

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(patients’) background, and the medications they used to take, all of the herbal stuff they used to use,” he said. “They go in, and the doctors give them pills, but they don’t want to take pills.”

At the same time, many immigrants are too trusting of doctors, and do not question their advice, says Feller.

“They have different cultural beliefs about health care in general, about how you take care of yourself, and even whether you take care of yourself, or if that is the job of the doctor,” she said.

Confusion and misunderstandings also happen for doctors trying to treat many of these people. On some occasions, immigrants arrive with illnesses like malaria that Maine doctors haven’t seen in decades, if ever.

Feller and Ahmed are hoping that the dialogues will influence treatment techniques on both continents.

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“The people who live in Portland and the people who live in Lewiston and Auburn, they come from this area of Kenya, up near the northeast border with Somalia, where these people have lived for many centuries,” Ahmed said.

Atlantic Global Aid has a nineperson board of directors comprised of people of many backgrounds and nationalities. It formed in conjunction with Living with Peace, a Portland nonprofit, and Womankind Kenya, an organization that focuses on women’s issues.

Feller says this initial trip is intended to be “evaluative” in nature. She said future aid trips will occur at least twice a year once the partnership is formalized.

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Governor LePage selects new Labor Commissioner

DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT Augusta, Maine – Governor Paul LePage announced today his nomination of Lt. General Robert J. Winglass (Ret.) of Bath for appointment as the Commissioner of the Maine Department of Labor.

“Lt. General Winglass has devoted most of his career to public service with the Marine Corps and as a State Representative,” said Governor LePage. “I am looking forward to collaborating with him to increase economic stability for both LePage job creators and workers in our State.”

Lt. General Winglass graduated from Springfield College, where he earned a B.S. degree in Education; and holds an M.S. degree in International Affairs from George Washington University. Lt. General Winglass joined the Marine Corps upon graduating college and eventually became Chief of Staff for Installations and Logistics, Headquarters Marine Corps Washington, D.C. His decoration and awards are extensive which include the Distinguished Service Medal and Meritorious Service Medal.

Lt. General Winglass retired in 1992 and was elected to the Maine House of Representatives where he served for four years as a member of the transportation committee and health and human services committee. He subsequently was employed by the IBM Corporation as the Director of the Strategic Business Relationships Team in the Software Division.

An appointment review will be scheduled by the Joint Standing Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development. If approved Lt. General Winglass would then need confirmation from the Maine Senate.

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‘Remember when I went away on vacation and you broke the cat’ This is a partly a story of break ups.

First Gretchen, a 44-year-old divorced, criminal defense lawyer, and her longtime boyfriend, John. Then her brother Ethan and his wife Angela. Not to mention Gretchen’s ex-husband Paul and his girlfriend Mora.

There’s been some pain and suffering in these pages.

But eventually everyone seemed to recover and be doing well. Gretchen’s got Adam, Ethan’s got his new girlfriend Nicole, and, at least as of a month ago, Angela was pretty cozy with Paul. Plus Gretchen’s nephews Marcus and Henry seem to have adjusted well to their new life with two households. Even the cats, Chicken and Barbados, have finally gotten used to it.

So are we done with the break ups? Not really, because there are so many kinds of break ups and not all of them involve a romantic relationship . . .

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.

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And now for this week’s episode of Season 2:

Why Sauropods Are Nothing Like iPods “Dad, are you happy?” Henry asked, as we sat on the deck behind The Porthole having lunch on a Sunday afternoon.

Ethan looked at him skeptically over a plate of fish and chips.

“Why do you ask? Are you breaking up with me?

You can’t break up with me, you know.”

But Henry didn’t understand that answer, having expected something more monosyllabic. He stopped shoving fries in his mouth and looked anxiously at Ethan.

I made a last ditch effort to avert a meltdown.

“Isn’t the scenery here beautiful?” I said hopefully.

There was an off-chance we could all be happy just sitting on a deck outside in the sun under a blue sky, smelling the salt water and listening to the boats creaking against the dock.

But Henry looked at me suspiciously.

“What’s scenery?”

I motioned with my fork.

“That means how it looks – the water, the boats, the gulls, the old buildings, stuff like that.”

He shrugged.

“I don’t know. It is what it is.”

But there was no way we were going to be enjoying the scenery anyway because things only got worse.

“The reason he’s asking you that is because you’re never around anymore,” Tm said to Ethan. “You’re gone so much the cats have turned feral in their own home.”

Ethan rolled his eyes.

“So why don’t you pet them once in a while.”

“It doesn’t matter if I pet them,” Tim said, “because I’m a low second in importance to you.”

He obviously wasn’t just talking about the cats.

“Or actually more like 20th,” Tim said, “but there’s nobody between 1 and 20.”

This is what happens when three men are living together perfectly happily -- drinking beer, listening to music and watching tv -- and then one of them breaks up with the other two by getting a girlfriend.

“Not to mention you never help out with dinner or laundry anymore,” Charles said. “No one ever cleans up except me.”

But Ethan doesn’t like feeling guilty.

“Why don’t you ask Barbados to help?”

“He said he would if he had opposable thumbs,” Charles said.

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“There was an off-chance we could all be happy just sitting on a deck outside in the sun under a blue sky, smelling the salt water and listening to the boats creaking against the dock.”

It was getting pretty uncomfortable for everyone except Marcus, who was happy with the simple pleasure of throwing fries off the deck into the water.

“You want some fries?” he asked Tim, stopping for a moment.

Tim shook his head.

“Not right now. I can imagine in eight minutes I might want some fries.”

It was the sort of thing Tim said that got on Ethan’s nerves when he was already annoyed.

“You wouldn’t notice I’m out so much if you had more to do yourself,” he said. “That’s the real problem.”

Tim ran his hand through his hair.

“But what should I do? It’s not like I’m handy and could do projects around the house.”

Ethan glared at him.

“Right, not only are you not handy, it’s almost like you don’t have arms.”

“Why don’t you just work more?” Charles asked.

After all, work had always helped keep him from realizing he was unhappy. Why shouldn’t it work for Tim? Tim shrugged.

“For starters I don’t currently have a computer.”

“You can use mine while I’m at work,” Charles said.

“You’re not going to break it though, are you?”

“Why would I?” Tim asked.

Ethan took a bite of Marcus’ burger.

“Remember when I went away on vacation and you broke the cat?” he said between mouthfuls.

While he was away fishing with the boys, Chicken had to go to the hospital for ear mites.

“The fact is you spend way too much time in bed,” Ethan said.

“So does Charles,” Tim said defensively.

Charles shook his head.

“That’s totally different.

You’re lying around on a fold-out couch in the living room. Whereas I’ve got an actual bedroom and my bed is so big I sometimes park my car on it.”

He hesitated, seeing Tim’s anxious expression.

“Anyway, the point is you’d be happier if you made more money.”

“I’m not so sure,” Tim said. “It doesn’t seem to be working for other people.”

“Just try it,” Charles said.

“Anyway, you should contribute more to the economy. Productivity means profits and profits mean economic growth.”

Tim shrugged. “‘Profit is perpetual, even if it’s not my own.’ I believe Jesus said that.”

Charles sighed.

“What are you even talking about?”

Tim hesitated. ” “I’m not sure, I lost my train of thought.”

He bit his nail.

“Actually I wasn’t even a passenger on that train. It pulled into the station and I was running for it but it took off without me. Anyway, it was an express and I need a local.”

Ethan finished Marcus’ burger.

“Look, it’s just obviously bad for you to sit around all the time doing nothing. You could at least watch movies. You probably haven’t seen a movie in years.”

He thought a moment. “‘The Kids Are All Right” was a big hit and we totally missed it.”

“I thought we only partially missed it,” Tim said.

Ethan ordered another round of beers but Tim didn’t want one.

“Are you mad at me for some reason?” Ethan asked him.

Tim didn’t answer.

“You shouldn’t hold grudges against your friends,” Ethan said. “I never hold grudges against you, even on the many occasions when you screw up.”

Tim looked at him intently.

“It has to do with Nicole.”

Ethan bit his lip.

“I don’t want to talk about that.”

“What do you want to talk about?” Tim asked. see WENDEL page 13

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By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your public reputation gets a boost. It’s about time you were recognized for all you do. If you can find a way to subtly broadcast your newfound fame to your private sector, you’ll be boosted on many levels.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

A match of strengths will be played out in today’s drama. It’s you against someone with powers very different from yours. Here’s what determines the winner: Physical assets will be neutralized by mental prowess.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

Whom you like and who likes you will drive the main action of the day. Your loving feelings, mostly platonic, cause you to do something you wouldn’t do if you didn’t care.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The one you admire takes a surprising turn.

You enjoy the adventure of following someone so unpredictable. In a strange way, it makes you feel grounded.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You like to learn that a change is coming.

You just don’t want anyone to spring the change on you at the last second.

The one who gives you fair warning will win your loyalty.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 14). You empty your mind of all fantasies about what this year will be like, and in floods a year so ecstatically unpredictable that you couldn’t have imagined it. You’ll open a grand present. Your ancestors will join the next generation to praise you in June. Technology changes life for the better in July. September brings remarkable kisses. Leo and Virgo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 9, 47, 33 and 1.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Continue your work on a project, finding ways to get around financial barriers.

It’s not the money but the effort you put in that will earn you a certain standing and reputation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Study and cultural exploration will bring you good fortune. You will feel determined to do your own unbiased research, and you will refrain from forming an opinion until you have all the facts.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Pursue what’s dear to your heart, even if it doesn’t happen to be realistic. Happily, your standard for realism is stricter than that of those who are in a position to grant your wild wishes.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ve said the wrong thing at the wrong moment before and learned from the experience. Now someone else is saying the wrong thing, and you’ll have the kind of compassion that could only come from one who’s been there.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Ask questions. You’ll be surprised what information others are willing to give you.

You flatter them with the attention. You may very well be the only one who is asking.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You possess style and flair that don’t cost extra dollars, though they do take a great deal of time -- time that you’re willing to put in because you love the reaction you get when you walk into a room.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your gracious style of communicating is almost never loud and sassy. However, you’ll be near someone who triggers rather unusual behavior from you. You feel so unlike yourself!

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, May 14, the 134th day of 2011. There are 231 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On May 14, 1811, Paraguay achieved independence from Spain with the bloodless overthrow of the country’s royal governor.

On this date: In 1643, Louis XIV became King of France at age four upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter.

In 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest left camp near presentday Hartford, Ill. In 1860, the first Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States arrived in Washington.

In 1900, the Olympic games opened in Paris, held as part of the 1900 World’s Fair.

In 1940, the Netherlands surrendered to invading German forces during World War II. In 1948, according to the current-era calendar, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv.

In 1961, Freedom Riders were attacked by violent mobs in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala. In 1973, the United States launched Skylab 1, its first manned space station.

In 1998, singer-actor Frank Sinatra died at a Los Angeles hospital at age 82. The hit sitcom “Seinfeld” aired its final episode after nine years on NBC. One year ago: President Barack Obama heatedly condemned what he called a “ridiculous spectacle” of oil executives shifting blame for the BP oil spill in congressional hearings and denounced a “cozy relationship” between their companies and the federal government. NBC canceled the long-running crime/courtroom drama “Law & Order” after 20 seasons on the air.

Today’s Birthdays: Opera singer Patrice Munsel is 86. Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., is 69. Rock singer-musician Jack Bruce (Cream) is 68. Movie producer George Lucas is 67. Actress Meg Foster is 63.

Movie director Robert Zemeckis is 60. Rock singer David Byrne is 59. Actor Tim Roth is 50. Rock singer Ian Astbury (The Cult) is 49. Rock musician C.C. DeVille is 49. Actor Danny Huston is 49. Rock musician Mike Inez (Alice In Chains) is 45. Rhythm-andblues singer Raphael Saadiq is 45. Actress Cate Blanchett is 42. Singer Danny Wood (New Kids on the Block) is 42. Movie writerdirector Sofia Coppola is 40. Singer Natalie Appleton (All Saints) is 38. Singer Shanice is 38. Rock musician Henry Garza (Los Lonely Boys) is 33. Rock musician Mike Retondo (Plain White T’s) is 30. Actress Amber Tamblyn is 28. Actress Miranda Cosgrove is 18.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: Two years ago, my wife and our 25-year-old daughter had a falling out right after our son’s wedding. They talk during family get-togethers, but otherwise haven’t spoken in the past six months. Meanwhile, my newly married son moved to his wife’s hometown five hours away.

My wife is now convinced that our daughter-in-law is scheming to create a family rift and is manipulating the fights with our daughter. I don’t agree, but my wife says I must take her side and have nothing to do with our kids until they apologize to her. This has caused tremendous friction in our marriage. I want my kids in my life.

We have tried couples counseling with little success. Short of walking away after 32 years, I don’t know what to do. Is it wrong for me to give up? -- Caught in the Middle Dear Caught: Your wife could be right about the daughter-in-law, but even so, it serves no purpose to demand an apology from someone who isn’t likely to give one. Your wife also sounds like a difficult person. Has she always been like this? Some women have extreme mood swings during menopause. Please ask your wife to see her gynecologist about this possibility. We also recommend informing her that you will absolutely not take sides. If she doesn’t wish to speak to her children, that’s her choice, not yours. And it might help to point out that a future reconciliation is more likely if one of you remains in touch.

Dear Annie: My husband and I regularly send checks or gift cards to our grandchildren on their birthdays and at Christmas. The older the children become the less often we receive any acknowledgment.

With communication today being so quick and easy, I find it extremely disappointing that a simple e-mail cannot be sent with the words, “Thank you for the gift.” It doesn’t require a card, a stamp or a walk to the mailbox. Should I say anything

to my children and grandchildren? -- Disappointed Grandmother Dear Grandmother: Of course. Children need to be taught the importance of acknowledging a gift. If their parents have not done so, it is perfectly OK for you to call, text or e-mail your grandchild and say, “Did you receive the gift I sent for your birthday? Did you like it? Please let me know.” Once they get a bit older, if they continue to ignore this obligation, feel free to tell them you will stop sending gifts since they apparently don’t appreciate receiving them.

Dear Annie: I am a retired probation officer and would like to offer some suggestions to “Marriage on the Rocks,” whose 51-year-old stepson lives rent-free in their trailer and may be using drugs.

1. Call the police and have their drug team search your property, house and trailer for drugs or paraphernalia. If the stepson has any illegal substances, he goes to jail. Police don’t need a warrant if you invite them to search your property.

2. Sell or put the trailer in storage.

3. Set conditions for the stepson to live at home, and enforce them. If he doesn’t abide by the terms, enroll him at a local homeless shelter.

4. Get a blood test to check for drugs, and make the tests sporadic and unannounced. If he tests positive for an illegal substance, kick him out. Peace of mind is better than secondguessing at a funeral. I know from personal experience.

5. When you put him out of the house, do it with a crisis intervention team, and let him leave for treatment with the crisis intervention counselor. This way you don’t come off looking like a jerk. -- Shaggy Dear Shaggy: Your suggestions are strict but reasonable.

And if the stepson is not, in fact, using drugs, points 2 and 3 still apply. But we doubt Mom will go along.

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

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Yard Sale AUBURN, Lewiston Coin/ Marble Show- 5/14/11, American Legion Post 31, 426 Washington St, 8-2pm. (802)266-8179. Free admission.

MASSIVE record art and tshirt sale- May 14 and 15 from 7-3pm, inside sale 198 Sherwood St Apt 3, Portland, 04103.

Bring cash!

PLANT & Book Sale- Sat. May 14th, 9-1pm. Allen Ave Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Ave, Portland. Perennials, annuals, houseplants, herbs, gently used garden equipment and more, plus books of all types!

~ Portland Yard Sale ~ 38 Torrey St 10-2pm, Sunday 5/15 Kids toys, housewares, etc.

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SOUTH Paris Coin/ Marble Show- 5/21/11, American Legion Post 72, 12 Church St, 8-2pm.

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Join our team and see what a difference you can make!

In addition to competitive salaries, we offer an excellent benefits package that includes health/dental, generous paid time off, matching savings plan, educational assistance and employee fitness program. We have the following openings:

• RN Care/Case Manager- Full Time. BSN preferred. Strong interpersonal skills, critical thinking capabilities and outstanding internal and external customer relations skills. Previous case management experience desired. Clinical experience with ability to proactively interact with physicians on current and proposed care within an acute care environment required. Knowledge of insurance plans, including Medicare reimbursement helpful. Position involves discharge planning and assisting patients with care transitions.

• Night Clerk/Clinical Support- Full-time and Per Diem. Night shifts. Must hold current EMT or LNA Certification. Perform duties based in the ED area, Switchboard/Registration and support.

• Medical Records Clerk- F/T Temp. Min two yrs ofc exp. Familiarity with healthcare billing and diagnostic coding preferred. Computer literate.

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• LPN/RN- Per Diem. Rotating 12 hour shifts • Manager of Environmental Services- Full-time. Directs, coordinates, and supervises the employees of the Environmental Services (EVS) department to maintain a clean facility environment based on best practices established by professional organizations and regulatory agencies. Lead by example with a personal commitment to excellence in practice and leadership.

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• Medical Assistant- .7 FTE and Per Diem. Certification as a Medical Assistant is required. Applicant must be computer literate and have strong reading, writing, communication and analytical skills. Every other wknd coverage.

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Phone: (603)356-5461 • Fax: (603)356-9121

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Ethan rolled his eyes.

“I don’t know. What do you have to talk about?”

“Let’s see,” Tim said. “The NFL draft of 1986, and I would focus on the third round.”

“That’s not interesting,” Henry said.

Marcus stopped pitching fries over the fence and looked at Tim. “Have you ever heard of the Philippines?” he asked.

“If you haven’t, don’t feel bad. It’s on the other side of the world so most people don’t know about it.”

Tim smiled.

“Don’t worry, I’ve heard of it.”

“What about this,” Ethan said. “Guess how many genera of sauropods there are? It was in the paper this week.”

Henry raised his eyebrows.

“What are those? Are they like ipods?”

“No,” Ethan said, “they’re vegetarian dinosaurs.”

“That’s what I’d be if I were a dinosaur,” Henry said, “especially since I don’t like raw meat.”

That softened Ethan up.

“Look, I know what you’re thinking,” he said to Tim, “but a lot of the time I’m out I really am just working.

Granted, given the money I make I shouldn’t bother, but for some reason I do it anyway.”

Tim patted his arm.

“Look, it’s not that unusual. Why do some grown men spend half their life in the basement trying to get a ship into a bottle?”

“And I’m sorry I don’t help more around the house,” Ethan said.

Tim nodded.

“Yeah, I’m sorry it’s so messy.”

Charles shrugged.

“It’s okay. I don’t care that much about it. And it’s not the reason I drink so heavily.”

(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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Saturday, May 14 Genealogy research trip to Boston

7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. “Join Maine Historical Society for a day of genealogical research at the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) and Massachusetts State Archives at Columbia Point. NEHGS, which was established in 1845, boasts a collection of more than 200,000 genealogical and historical volumes, over one million manuscripts, as well as census records, vital records, deeds, probates, military records, plus the latest resources in print, microtext, and CD-Rom. The Massachusetts State Archives includes Massachusetts vital records (1841-1910), 19th century passenger lists for the port of Boston, census records, state military and judicial records, Plymouth Colony records and papers pertaining to the early settlement of Maine. Individuals who would like to take the MHS bus to Boston for a day of sightseeing but who do not plan to do research are welcome.” Registration required. Fee: $35 for MHS members; $45 for non-members. *Does not include admission to NEHGS Library (NEHGS Admission: NEHGS Members: Free; non-NEHGS members: $15). To register, please call 774-1822.

Clean Sweep Downtown in Brunswick

8 a.m. to noon. Brunswick Downtown Association’s annual Clean Sweep Downtown. Volunteers are needed to assist in sweeping, weeding, and mulching. Tools are provided; please bring your own gloves. Register in advance by email to director@brunswickdownton.org or sign up on the 14th in front of Senter Place and Cool as a Moose on Maine Street. Rain date, Sunday, May 15.

Spring Plant and Pie Sale

8 a.m. to noon. Spring Plant and Pie Sale by the Longfellow Garden Club at North Deering Congregational Church, 1364 Washington Ave., Portland. Perennials from members’ gardens; baked goods; geraniums.

Plant & Book Sale at Allen Ave. Unitarian Universalist Church in Portland

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Allen Ave. Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland. Perennials, annuals, houseplants, herbs, gently used garden equipment, plus books of all types!

Greenlaw to speak at USM commencement

9 a.m. Isle au Haut resident, best-selling author and swordfishing captain Linda Greenlaw will be the speaker for the University of Southern Maine’s 131st Commencement. The ceremony will take place at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland. Greenlaw will be awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters at the ceremony. Serena Dawn Gosbee of Sebago will be the student commencement speaker at the University of Southern Maine’s 131st Commencement. She will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in communications. It is expected that nearly 900 graduates will march at the ceremony. For more news, visit USM Today at www.usm.maine.edu/news.

Howie Carr Hit Man

10 a.m. South Portland Nonesuch Books and Cards. “Join popular WGAN talk show host, and author, Howie Carr for a signing of his new book, Rat Bastard. Howie will be signing in our South Portland store starting at 10 a.m. and signing at our Biddeford store starting at 2. Come early for a good place in line as we expect these events to be well attended.

This will be Howie’s only to Maine for this book tour, Don’t miss out!” http://site.booksite.com/6033

Live raptors at Gilsland Farm

10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Live raptors presentation at Gilsland Farm, Falmouth. Come to Maine Audubon for International Migratory Bird Day. The Center for Wildlife will bring a long-eared owl, a merlin, an American kestrel and a broadwinged hawk. $15/$10 for adults; $10/$5 for children. www. maineaudubon.org.

University of Maine at Farmington commencement

10:30 a.m. University of Maine at Farmington will celebrate its 2011 commencement at an outdoor ceremony behind the UMF Olsen Student Center on the UMF campus.

Theodora J. Kalikow, UMF president, and Allen Berger, vice president for academic affairs, will confer degrees to this year’s graduates, including the first graduates of UMF’s Master of Science in Education — Educational Leadership degree program. “Bill McKibben, an American environmentalist, author, and educator will deliver the UMF Commencement address. McKibben ... has written extensively about climate change and founded 350.org, a grassroots movement dedicated to help people across the globe become aware of the severe consequences of global warming to all of Earth’s inhabitants.” Jeffrey Lees, graduating senior with a double major in psychology and political science, from Vassalboro, will give the student address. Lees is an honors scholar and was inducted into Alpha Lambda Delta and Psi Chi, two academic honor societies.

West Kennebunk Kitten Shower

11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Join Animal Welfare Society of West Kennebunk for the Kitten Shower. Animal Welfare Society, West Holland Road, West Kennebunk. Hosted by WMTW’s Shannon Moss, the event will include a Cat Photo Contest.

Collect Kitten Shower Wish List items and on the day of the event all qualifying donations will be weighed. The winning individual/group will receive a tour of the Shelter and a Pizza Party. www.animalwelfaresociety.org

Eastern Promenade’s Pink Tulip Party

noon to 3 p.m. Celebrate spring in a beautiful garden and help fight cancer at Friends of the Eastern Promenade’s Pink Tulip Party at 23 St. Lawrence St. in Portland’s Munjoy Hill. “Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, drinks and music while you admire vibrant tulips and other blooming flowers in Rob and Robin Whitten’s Munjoy Hill retreat. A minimum donation of $10 is suggested. All donations benefit the Pink Tulip Project, which raises funds for the Women’s Cancer Fund at the Maine Cancer Foundation. Founded in 2006 by Robin Whitten, a breast cancer survivor, the Pink Tulip Project has raised more than $200,000 for the fund.” Please RSVP for the Pink Tulip Party by sending an email to info@friendsofeasternpromenade.org.

Peace Corps 50th Anniversary Around the World Expo Celebration at Bowdoin College

1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Bowdoin College Career Planning and the Maine Peace Corps Association are working in tandem with the National Peace Corps Association and the Peace Corps Regional Recruitment Office in Boston to bring the Peace Corps 50th Anniversary Around the World Expo Celebration to the Bowdoin College Campus. The Expo is one of a series of nine 50th anniversary expos held around the country in 2011. The Expo will highlight the work of the Peace Corps over the past 50 years, while seeking to engage RPCVs and inspire the next generation of volunteers. Expo tables will feature exhibits from Returned Peace Corps Volunteers work from around the world, RPCV involvement in the Maine community as a group and information on the Peace Corps as a whole. The event is free and open to the community.

‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ preview

2 p.m. The Scarborough Bull Moose (456 Payne Road) will present a preview of the cult glam-rock musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” “Gene Dante and Maine native Lisa Van Oosterum, stars of the critically acclaimed 2002-2003 Boston production of Hedwig, will perform several strippeddown songs from the over-the-top musical at this free instore event. Hedwig and the Angry Inch tells the story of a fictional rock band fronted by ‘internationally ignored song stylist’ Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing, transgendered, East German rock goddess who escaped Communist East Berlin only to land in a mid-western trailer park. In

the show, Hedwig is on tour in the U.S. with her band, trailing a successful rock star who stole her songs and ditched her. Many of her songs are about her life, her loves and her botched sex change operation. Since its 1998 premiere, ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ has been performed throughout the world and has developed a cult following similar to ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show.’” Van Oosterum and Dante present the rock musical Hedwig at SPACE Gallery from May 13-May 21. The 2011 tour also includes stops in Boston and Provincetown, Mass. More information on the production can be found at www.angryinch.com.

‘Nostalgia for the Light’ at the PMA

2 p.m. “Nostalgia for the Light” screening at the Portland Museum of Art. Saturday, May 14, 2 p.m.; Sunday, May 15, 2 p.m. NR. “For his new film, master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his political documentaries (The Battle of Chile, The Pinochet Case), travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert in Chile, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe.”

Riverbank Shakespeare Festival

2 p.m. The Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble, presenters of the “Naked Shakespeare” series, once again offers local audiences the treat of Shakespeare in the park with the second annual Riverbank Shakespeare Festival at Riverbank Park on Main Street in Westbrook. The centerpieces of the festival are two late-period romances that contain some of the richest and most complex language in the entire canon: Antony and Cleopatra and Cymbeline. Additionally, the Young Actors Shakespeare Conservatory will present as their final showcase The Comedy of Errors. All 3 shows have been abridged to various extents and will be offered free of charge with a suggested donation of $10. Performances take place May 6 to 22 on Friday evenings, Saturday afternoons and evenings, and Sunday afternoons and evenings.

The complete performance calendar appears below. Audience members are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and/ or blankets and picnic during the performances. No reservations are necessary, and in case of inclement weather, audiences are encouraged to check Acorn’s website at www.acorn-productions.org or call the business office at 854-0065. May 14 at 2 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 15 at 2 p.m., Comedy of Errors; May 15 at 6 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 20 at 6 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 21 at 2 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 22 at 2 p.m., Cymbeline; May 22 at 6 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra. Free, suggested donation $10. FMI: www.nakedshakespeare.org or 854-0065

Deering High School Players with the Bard

2 p.m. The Deering High School Players present “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” on May 13 at 7 p.m. and on May 14 at 2 and 7 p.m. in the Deering auditorium. Tickets may be purchased in advance at the Deering attendance office during school hours (7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) for $7 (adults) and $5 (students). Tickets at the door on the night of each performance are $10 for adults and $5 for students. For more information, contact Kathleen Harris at 874-8260 or at harrik@portlandschools.org

Public bean supper in Old Orchard

4:30 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)

Rock N Bowl benefit concert

5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Maine Academy of Modern Music will see next page

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Calamity Janes Roller Derby

6 p.m. Maine Roller Derby at the Portland Expo, Calamity Janes vs. Providence Killah Bees. Tickets $10 advance, $13 doors, $5 Kids 6-12, free for kids 5 and under. After-party at Empire Dine & Dance. The Janes are scheduled to take on the Queen City Cherry Bombs (June 4 at the Expo), Long Island Roller Rebels (June 19 at Happy Wheels) and Conn. Yankee Brutals (November in Waterbury). http://www.mainerollerderby.com/news/

Women in Harmony concert

7 p.m. Women in Harmony, Portland’s 60-voice women’s chorus, presents its spring concert, “Moving On: Immigration in Song” on May 14 and 15 in Portland. “Moving On” will feature the premiere of (F)light: a borderlands song cycle

by Aroostook County choral composer Erica Quin-Easter.

The nine-song cycle explores the theme of immigration in the international border regions of Maine and Arizona. QuinEaster, who lives in Caribou, collaborated with two awardwinning Arizona poets, Wendy Burk and Eric Magrane, setting to music their poetry. As foundation for their work, the three artists met with naturalists, farmers, cultural workers, and community advocates in the two border regions.

Now in its 18th year, Women in Harmony espouses a musical mission for social justice. “In keeping with the theme of immigration, Moving On will feature a guest performance

by Pihcintu, a local chorus of first-generation immigrant girls. In a workshop at The Telling Room, Portland’s nonprofit writing center for children and young adults, members of Pihcintu wrote a hip-hop song, We Sing, which they will perform with Women in Harmony in the concert. Portland’s nonprofit Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP) will have an information table at the concert. ILAP provides information, advocacy, and help with immigration law to 2,000 low-income Maine residents each year. Moving On is supported by an Artists in Maine Communities grant from the Maine Arts Commission and an Alfred Nash Patterson grant from Choral Arts New England. Composer Erica QuinEaster also received an Innovative Production grant from the Maine Arts Commission for the creation of (F)light: a borderlands song cycle. Tickets can be found at Longfellow Books, Starbird Music (Portland); Nonesuch Books (So. Portland). For more information about Women in Harmony, visit www.wihmaine.org.

Greater Freeport Community Chorus

7:30 p.m. Consisting of over 60 members from 22 Maine communities, the Greater Freeport Community Chorus will be performing a varied program in Spanish, Hebrew, Latin, English and Portugese, including Scottish airs, jazz, gospel, a whimsical song about two philosophical crows, and music by Mozart, Rutter, Dello Joio, and Lauridsen. The Saturday, May 14 performance will be at 7:30 p.m. at the Freeport Performing Arts Center at Freeport High School, and the 2:30 Sunday performance will be at the Sacred Heart Church at 326 Main Street, Yarmouth. Adult tickets are $10, seniors $5, and children under 12 free. Tickets may be purchased at the Freeport Community Center, Music and Moore in Topsham, or at the door. For more information about the chorus, go to www.gfccweb.org

‘Gershwin Girls!’ revue in Freeport

7:30 p.m. “Gershwin Girls!” is a Cabaret style musical revue featuring the songs of George and Ira Gershwin. The allfemale cast will sing many of the Gershwins’ most popular tunes, with narration about their lives in between songs.

Conceived, written, and directed by Jon Wojciechowski Jr., and with musical direction by Charles Grindle. Performances are May 12 through May 29, Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $22.50 with discounts for seniors and students, and are available through Brown Paper Tickets. See www.freeportfactory.com. The Freeport Factory Theater is located at 5 Depot Street in downtown Freeport. 865-5505

Mad Horse Theater presents ‘Spring Awakening’

8 p.m. Mad Horse Theater presents “Spring Awakening,”

by Frank Wedekind, translated by Jonathan Franzen.

The play runs Thursday through Sunday, May 5-22 at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 899-3993. “First performed amid scandal in 1906, the play explores the dawning sexual and intellectual awareness of young, German teenagers. Banned in its 1917 New York run after one night, the play is comic, unsentimental, and brutally authentic. An ensemble of 20 actors, ranging in age from 14 to 70, perform the original 1906 script that was the basis for the 2007 Tony Winning Musical sensation.

Wedekind’s unsentimental and brutally authentic, comedic treatment of such radical content as teenage sex, and suicide created public outrage and charges of obscenity. Best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen’s exquisite translation captures all of the drama and sarcasm of the original script.” Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets

In Maine Roller Derby action, the Port Authorities battle the Boston Derby Dames on April 23. The Calamity Janes will compete today at the Portland Expo. (Photo by Johanna Bobrow) are $18 and $20. Thursdays are pay-what-you-can. For reservations please call 899-3993. More information is available at www.madhorse.com.

Sunday, May 15 Southern Maine Heart Walk

8:30 a.m. Teams of families, friends and co-workers will take part in the American Heart Association’s Southern Maine Heart Walk. “The event’s goal is to raise $335,000 to support the AHA’s lifesaving research, education and advocacy efforts. Health screenings, guest survivor speakers, heart-healthy food, children’s activities (including a bounce house and rock wall), Hands-Only CPR demonstrations, and other educational exhibits aim to inspire people to learn more about their risk for cardiovascular diseases and to improve their health.” Rain or shine at Payson Park, Ocean Avenue, Portland. 8:30 a.m. for Registration/Breakfast/Guest Speakers/9:30 a.m. for Walk around Back Cove. http://www.facebook.com/americanheartmaine

Big Garden Day at Congregation Bet Ha’am

9 a.m. Congregation Bet Ha’am, 81 Westbrook St., South Portland. “All are invited to our plant sale fundraiser, and to observe and help with the planting of the wheat and building of garden beds by our Congregation’s students. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Annual Plant Sale. A great selection of locally dug perennials, vegetable seedlings and shrubs all at great prices. 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. — Wheat Planting. The wheat planting will take place adjacent to the plant sale.

Observe or help our students plant our very first wheat crop. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. — Build Raised Bed Gardens.

Come join us for hands-on learning under the direction of the Cultivating Community. ... Last month’s Mystery of Matzah event explored the origins of wheat and the possibilities of growing it in our own back yards. We’ll be putting our new skills into practice by planting our very first crop of wheat. Also, our annual plant sale will help raise money for our student-driven vegetable garden project in partnership with Cultivating Community. Plant sale items are cash or check only, please.”

Curtis Willey Memorial 5K — Run for the Future

10 a.m. Finley Recreation Center, Portland Campus of University of New England. “On Sunday, May 15, 2011, the University of New England’s Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Student Council will host the first, of what we hope to be an annual event, the Curtis Willey Memorial 5K — Run for the Future. This run/walk event is open to all and will begin and end at the Finley Recreation Center on the Portland Campus.

All proceeds from the event will benefit the Willey Children’s Education Fund. Curtis passed away unexpectedly on March 15, 2011, leaving behind his loving wife and three children.

He was completing his first year of the DPT program at UNE. Curtis was a man who touched many lives with his outgoing personality, energy for life, and unfailing kindness towards others. He was exceptionally devoted to his family, and

spoke of them often with pride in his voice and a contagious smile on his face. He was also committed to his dream of becoming a physical therapist, and exemplified all of the qualities that would have made him great at it. Curtis valued his opportunities to attain a higher education, and hoped to one day help his children do the same. The Wiley Memorial 5K event is intended to celebrate the life of an outstanding man, and to help continue Curtis’ dreams of higher education for his children.” http://www.une.edu

Vivid Motion, Inc. dance auditions

10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Vivid Motion, Inc., Portland’s “innovative and kinda quirky” dance company, is holding dance auditions for its upcoming summer show, “Sleeping Beauty,” at Warren Memorial Library, 479 Main St., Westbrook. No formal preparation needed; audition will be conducted in class style format. Many styles of dance will be included in this show, and dancers of all skill levels are welcome. This is a unique, updated all ages version of the classic fairy tale, and will be performed July 15-17 at Lucid Stage in Portland.

FMI please visit www.vividmotion.org

Julia Spencer-Fleming book signing

11:15 a.m. Book signing with Julia Spencer-Fleming, author of “One Was a Soldier,” the latest in the Clare Fergusson/ Russ Van Alstyne mystery series, at the Cathedral Shop, Cathedral Church of St. Luke, Portland, 772-5434.

PHS baseball boosters pasta dinner

1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Portland High School Baseball Boosters Pasta Dinner. A meatball and pasta fundraising dinner which includes bread, salad and dessert will be held at GR DiMillo’s Bayside, 118 Preble St. in Portland on Sunday, May 15 to benefit the Portland High School Baseball team.

There will be two seatings — 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Tickets will be available in advance and at the door for $10 per person. Children under 5 will be admitted for free with a paying adult. Please help support Portland High Baseball.

For more information contact Tracey Scala at 232-0140 or scalatracey@aol.com.

Doll tea party

1 p.m. Join Victoria Mansion for an elegant doll tea party at the Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St. in Portland.

Guests are invited to bring their dolls and enjoy a selection of fruit, tea sandwiches, and lemonade and participate in making crafts with designer Sandy Riley. There will be a selection of teas and scones provided by Nellie’s Tea of South Portland. Tea princesses will be crowned. There will be live music with classical guitarist, Brian Callaghan; doll display by Marion Bunton of N. Anson, Maine; party favors; door prizes and hand-crafted doll pillows and doll hats for each child. A self-guided tour of the historic Victoria Mansion at 109 Danforth Street follows the event.

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Maine College of Art commencement

1 p.m. Maine College of Art will hold its 100th commencement exercises at on Sunday, May 15, 2011 at the State Theatre in Portland. The commencement marks the completion of the curriculum for 74 students in the undergraduate program who will receive Bachelor of Fine Art degrees and 11 students in the graduate program who will receive Master of Fine Art in Studio Art degrees. The commencement speaker is William Pope.L, a multi-disciplinary artist and educator. In 2002, Pope.L mounted eRacism, a solo exhibition in the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art. The show was accompanied by a catalog, William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America published by MIT Press. After providing early support, the National Endowment for the Arts denied funding for the exhibition. Additional funders stepped forward to support the traveling retrospective. As part of the exhibition, Pope.L worked with undergraduate students at MECA and the local community, conducting a public crawl that tested physical endurance and examined issues of power. He returned to the ICA at MECA in 2004 with his Black Factory, an art installation on wheels that invited the public to bring objects that represented blackness to be transformed into objects for sale. For more information, see www.meca.edu.

‘Horse-Drawn Summer Delivery Vehicles’

1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Skyline Farm Carriage Museum, 95 The Lane, North Yarmouth, is hosting its new exhibit, “HorseDrawn Summer Delivery Vehicles,’ from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. every Sunday from May 15 through Aug. 21, where the public can explore horse-drawn delivery vehicles commonly seen on Maine roads in the late 1800s through the early 1900s. Examples of what you’ll see are a Hay Wagon, Oil Delivery Wagon, Postal Buggy, Peddler’s Wagon, Grain Wagon, Hearse, and Pall Bearers’ Wagon. The exhibit also examines the inventions of Thomas Goodall and family who ran innovative factories that produced fitted horse blankets and plush lap robes sold under the Chase label and employed thousands of Maine workers at Sanford Mills into the 1950’s. More than a dozen unusual hitching posts and small weights round out the display. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted. For more information, please call Gregory Cuffey, 239-5782, or visit www.skylinefarm.org.

Monday, May 16 Naked Shakespeare in Freeport

7 p.m. The “Naked Shakespeare” series showcases the Bard’s text through performances presented without sets and costumes, allowing the audience’s imagination to take center stage. Performances are May 16 at 7 p.m. and the third Monday of each month through September. Tickets are $10; pay at the door. The Freeport Factory Stage is located at 5 Depot St., downtown Freeport, just one block east of L.L. Bean. 865-5505. www.freeportfactory.com

Film: ‘My Heart Is An Idiot’

7 p.m. East Coast Premiere at The Nickelodeon, co-sponsored by SPACE Gallery. “My Heart Is An Idiot” is a romantic documentary that spans two years and over a hundred cities. “The film captures the road-tripping lifestyle of Davy Rothbart (This American Life, FOUND Magazine) who looks for love in all the right places, and in all the wrong ways. The first feature-length film project from Portland, Maine filmmaker David Meiklejohn, ‘My Heart is an Idiot’ is a hot mess disguised as a love poem, weaving together multiple stories to illustrate the joys and dangers of romantic pursuit.” $8, tickets to be purchased at The Nickelodeon, all ages.

‘Shameless! The Musical’ at Lucid Stage

7:30 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre presents, as part of its 25th anniversary season, the world premiere of “Shameless! The Musical,” running through May 18. Performances are May 16-18 at 7:30 p.m. at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard in Portland. All shows will be pay-what-you-can. “Shameless!” was written by Portland writer and musician Jason Wilkins, whose last musical (Naked In Portland) enjoyed a successful run at the PSC Studio Theater. “Shameless!” is directed by Mad Horse Theatre Associate Artistic Director Peter Brown. The show features a cast of six, including Cathy Counts (Good Theater), Michael Tobin (Old Port Playhouse), Jonathan Carr (Lyric Theater), Benjamin Row (Legacy Theater), Bartley Mullin (Seacoast Repertory Theater) and Megan Jackson (USM Theater Department).

Shane Van Vliet (Portland Stage Company) is the music director. “‘Shameless!’ is the story of what happens when gay rights and the religious right collide within the confines of a single family. It combines wild comedy, heartbreaking drama, and catchy folky pop tunes; it blends real heart, real family values, and (possibly) a bit of controversy.” Ticketing

information can be found on the web at www.lucidstage. com or by calling 899-3993.

Cheverus High School student art show

7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cheverus High School will host it’s annual Student Art Show May 16-20, 2011. This year’s show will involve more students than ever and present a large range of styles, techniques and types of art. The work to be presented is impressive in its scope and demonstrates the wide variety of art interests and talents of Cheverus students. The show will feature art in glorious colors and multiple textures, and will showcase a wide variety of mediums: watercolor, oil, three-dimensional work, wood prints, stained glass, calligraphy and pen and ink. The Art Department, through teacher John Frisoli, challenges students to use their creative abilities to express their thoughts and inspirations through art. Visitors will enjoy viewing these inspired works. The show will be judged by a local artist.

Top three winners will be selected and other students will receive honorable mention awards. The public is welcome to visit and view the show at Loyola Hall on the Cheverus High School Campus, 267 Ocean Ave., Portland, from May 16-20, 2011 from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.

Tuesday, May 17

KinderKonzerts

9:30 a.m. From honks and beeps, to sirens and squeaks, the Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) Percussion Trio will “transport” audiences in Maine through a musical exploration of the sounds of inventions that move people and things. Fifteen KinderKonzerts in six Maine communities will introduce children ages four to seven to the percussion instruments in a fun, interactive program. “Sounds All Around” will be presented May 17 through May 27 and marks the conclusion of the 2010-2011 series of KinderKonzerts.

These 35-minute concerts encourage active participation from the audience of kids encouraging them to sing, dance, wiggle, clap, and most of all, have fun listening and learning with PSO musicians. Teacher’s Materials are available for download PortlandSymphony.org. KinderKonzerts are sponsored by Time Warner Cable, with additional support provided by Acadia Insurance, Target and Macy’s. Tickets for the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s KinderKonzerts are $4. For additional information and reservations visit www. portlandsymphony.org or call 773-6128.

Embroiderers’ Guild of America

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. SOME Chapter of The Embroiderers’ Guild of America will hold their annual meeting/luncheon at the Portland Country Club. There will be a smocking lecture and class in addition to the luncheon. FMI: 829-6111.

Portland’s Public Schools spring concerts begin

7 p.m. Family members, friends and other area residents are invited to attend the following concerts in Portland’s public schools: Portland High School: May 17, 7 p.m., Portland High auditorium. Deering High School: May 25, 7 p.m., Deering auditorium. Lyman Moore Middle School: June 1, 7 p.m., Moore cafeteria. King Middle School: June 2, 7 p.m., King cafetorium. King Bridge Festival: June 6, 12 to 8 p.m., Deering Oaks bandstand. (Rain location is King Middle School cafetorium.) See details at www.bridgemusicfestival.org. Fifth grade after-school orchestra concert: June 6, 6:30 p.m., Lincoln gym. Lincoln Middle School: June 7, 7 p.m., Lincoln gym. Elementary band and strings concert: June 8, 6:30 p.m., Lincoln gym.

Wednesday, May 18 ‘Growing Up in Brooklyn’ author in Biddeford

1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Book signing and reading, McArthur Library, Biddeford. ‘Growing Up in Brooklyn’ with local Maine author, artist and musician Barbara Duke. Free.

ReEmergence CommUNITY Party

6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Community Art Show, followed by Dance Party from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.: Dance Party featuring Hoboe (rock) and Mystic Vibes (reggae). The League of Young Voters Education Fund will be hosting its sixth annual ReEmergence CommUNITY Party! “Each spring, over 300 young people join us for this exciting event to celebrate local arts and music, and to educate and engage our peers on local issues. This year’s theme is ‘CommUNITY: Embracing Portland’s Cultural Diversity.’ We will highlight Portland artists, cultural dancers, and cultural organizations that work together to preserve the cultural diversity for which Portland is so well known. The evening will feature writers, painters, a wide variety of dancing entertainment including African dancers, break dancers, belly dancers, and fire dancers, as well as local music and entertainment. You will also get a chance to vote for your favorite cupcake in our Cupcake Mayor contest.” SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St.

Crash Barry and John McDonald reading

7 p.m. “Two Maines,” a reading by local authors Crash Barry and John McDonald. Local Portland authors Crash

Barry and John McDonald will present an evening of their “blunt, charming and ever so comical local tales from their most recent publications.” John McDonald has been telling stories around the state for years, and his weekly column is published in many Maine newspapers. John is also the founder of the Maine Storyteller Festival and his talk show can be heard each weekend on WGAN in Portland. John will read excerpts from his book “A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a bar.” Crash Barry worked for a decade as a print and radio reporter in Portland, specializing in his own style of undercover journalism. He stayed in homeless shelters and flophouses, cleaned nasty apartments and restaurants, infiltrated religious cults and hate groups, to provide detailed reports from a unique perspective. A former media critic, talk show producer and guidebook author, Crash Barry also labored as a janitor, bartender and bouncer.

Crash will be reading from his freshly published novel “Sex, Drugs and Blueberries.” For more on this reading and these two Islandport Press authors please visit www.twomaines. com. General seating $10. (Not suited for children.) St. Lawrence Arts Center. Tickets at: www.stlawrencearts.org.

Thursday, May 19

AARP Driver Safety Class for seniors

9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. An AARP Driver Safety Class for drivers age 50 and older will be presented at the AARP Maine State Office, 1685 Congress St., Portland. The registration fee is $12 for AARP members, $14 for others. To register, phone Phil Chin, AARP volunteer instructor, at 846-0858. Because class size is limited, early registration no later than May 12 is advised.

Police forum with the city’s deaf population

6 p.m. The Portland Police Department with assistance from the Maine Center on Deafness will host a second forum with the city’s deaf population to discuss safety concerns and ways the department can improve its relationship with the community. Deering Masonic Lodge, 102 Bishop St. “The forum will provide an opportunity for members of the deaf community and those connected to them, including family members, employers and neighbors, to share their thoughts openly and hear from the department about efforts to ensure that Portland is an inclusive and safe community for all.” ASL interpreters will be available at the forum. For more information about the forum, call 874-8927 or email jrob@portlandmaine.gov.

The Longfellow Gardens discussed at MHS event

7 p.m. The Annual Olmsted Lecture with Maine Historical Society. “The Longfellow Gardens: The Evolution of Two Landmarks” by Lauren Meier, Pressley Associates, Cambridge, Mass. “This gala evening will celebrate the rich history and recent rehabilitation of the Longfellow Garden at Maine Historical Society in Portland and the garden at the Longfellow National Historic Site in Cambridge, Massachusetts.”

Back Cove Neighborhood Association

7 p.m. The Back Cove Neighborhood Association (BCNA) is holding its annual meeting at 7 p.m. in the new Ocean Avenue School, 150 Ocean Avenue in Portland. Anyone who lives or works in the Back Cove area, or has a child attending Ocean Avenue School, is invited to attend. On the agenda are elections for 2011-2012 officers, discussion of the mayoral race, and plans for a summertime event. FMI, contact John Spritz, 773-0872, jspritz@maine.rr.com.

Southern Maine Sea Kayaking Network Meeting

7 p.m. At the Falmouth Memorial Library, located at 5 Lunt Road in Falmouth. This meeting is geared towards newcomers to kayaking and anyone who wants to connect with other kayakers. Come enjoy a slide show of sea kayaking in Maine, good company and delicious refreshments.

Experienced paddlers will discuss kayaking safety, necessary equipment, cool gear, how to choose a boat and ideas for trips. Make some new friends and plan summer adventures. No charge, no registration, all are welcome. For more information visit SMSKN.org.

John Manderino at Longfellow Books

7 p.m. John Manderino will read from his latest novel, “The H-Bomb and the Jesus Rock,” at Longfellow Books.

Longfellow Books events are free to attend and open to the community. Manderino’s fourth novel, “The H-Bomb and the Jesus Rock” takes place against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis. “Two children, brother and sister who, while searching for empty bottles in a vacant lot, discover a rock which looks like Jesus, immediately declaring it a Possible Holy Object. Then enters an older boy who tries to steal the rock intending to use it as a lucrative sideshow exhibit, complete with fliers: Is it Jesus? Or just a rock? You decide! Approaching the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, ‘The H-Bomb and the Jesus Rock’ provides a unique, children’s-eye view of that near-Armageddon.” see next page

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Ramano turned 24 a week after finishing a cross country running journey RUNNER from page 6

What would make it more enjoyable for Ramano is if she makes even more money for the Boys and Girls Club and get more people to get active.

“The club is not justkeeping kids off the street. It is also about keeping them from going home and being on Facebook for five hours. I hope when people hear about me running 3,000 miles that they are inspired to help donate.”

To pass the time, she had a song she would think about. “As I ran my way from state to state the song “Wagon Wheel” by Old Crow Medicine became my travelling song,” said Ramano. ‘I actually made up my own lyrics.”

Here are the lyrics Ramano made up and posted on her blog.

Headed back east to the land of the pine Running my way into South Caroline Staring at the road, pray to God I see shoulders I made it ‘cross the country in 4 short months Picking me a bouquet of dogwood flowers And I’m hoping in Charleston I can see my family tonight Running in the snow, up in New England I was born to be a runner with a wanderer’s soul My feet pound the pavement, and my heart feels heavy now Running back east, south of Roanoke I met a biker outta ‘Bama, had a nice long talk But he’s a headed north towards Tennessee and River City, Old Virginny I got to get a move on, before the sun I hear the road a-callin’ my name and I know that she’s the only one And if I die running, at least I will die free Portland High School graduate Zoe Ramano recently completed a cross-country run/ Ramano started in Hunnington Beach, California

To donate and learn more about Ramano’s story, back on January 8th and finished in Charleston, South Carolina on May 7th. The nearly 3,000 miles of running was all to benefit. (COURTESY PHOTO) visit her blog at zoegoesrunning.wordpress.com