The Portland Daily Sun, Thursday, May 19, 2011

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2011

Bag’s open, felines everywhere See Bob Higgins’ column on page 4

Powerful and primitive See Maureen Dowd’s column on page 4

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Woman held in connection with child found dead in S. Berwick

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The boy who was found dead near a dirt road in South Berwick on Saturday has been tentatively identified by a Boston TV station as 6-year-old Camden Pierce Hughes.

WBZ-TV reports that the boy's mother, Juli McCrery, of Irving, Texas,was taken into police custody yesterday at a rest stop on Interstate 495.

The station reports that McCrery told Massachusetts McCrery police she gave

her son an overdose of cough syrup that caused his death.

Those details and the identities could not be independently confirmed yesterday. Authorities haven't released the results of an autopsy conducted Sunday. see HELD page 3 RIGHT: Jill McCrery’s Facebook page includes this photo of 6-year-old Camden Pierce Hughes of Texas, the boy, according to reports, whose body was found in South Berwick last Saturday. The photo is captioned, “Wearing a napkin at Babe’s in Granbury.” It was taken in January. A friend of McCrery’s on Facebook wrote one word Wednesday to sum up her feelings: “NUMB.” (Photo from Facebook)

Ranked choice vote expert here today for a clerk’s clinic

Weathering a damp May at the Portland farmer’s market

Hillytown.com music Q&A with Sunset Hearts See Arts, page 8

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Bark at the Park See Calendar, page 13

Chas Gill with Kennebec Flower Farm of Bowdoinham passes the time on a misty day at the Portland Farmer’s Market Wednesday in Monument Square. Weathering slow sales, vendors anticipate a burst of enthusiasm from customers when the sun finally comes out and patrons can shop the market under clear skies. According to Accuweather.com, that may not happen until June. Clouds and some rain are expected through next Wednesday and possibly into the month’s final weekend, although temperatures should climb into the 70s, according to the site’s long-term forecast. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Today at 5 p.m., the city clerk's office will receive a tutorial on how to count ballots in the new ranked choice voting system, a method that will be deployed in the Nov. 8 mayoral election.

Portland this year embarks on an elected-mayor campaign that replaces a council-appointed mayor with one elected to an atlarge seat. Through a city charter change, voters also will choose their next mayor through ranked choice voting, where if any candidate falls short of a majority, then the “second choice” votes come into see CLINIC page 7

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Holdouts wait out flood at bar EAGLE LAKE, Miss. (NY Times) — If you need to get ahold of somebody here, this is how.

Go to the end of town and take a right. Then take another right. There on the lakefront sits a low metal building, as impressive as a storage shed.

This is Strick’s, as the hand-drawn sign above the front door will tell you. It is the only business still open in Eagle Lake. And starting at 2 o’clock every afternoon and running into the evening, every person in town can be found here. All 15 of them.

While the population of Eagle Lake normally numbers in the hundreds, these few, these happy few, are all that remain. They are the holdouts after a townwide exodus, prompted by concerns over the fat and ferocious Mississippi River, which runs just on the other side of the lake.

Every night they sit in this mostly empty bar, throwing back some beers and eating a communal dinner of hamburgers or crawfish or whatever was brought in by the last person to visit a grocery store.

They tell stories, watch television and talk about any number of things, but usually about the latest measurements of the river, the state of the levees on which they depend for survival and their disappointment in the less hardy souls who took off at the first hint of danger.

“A bunch of people are real sorry they left,” said Tim Stennett, 52, a building contractor who took over the bar when Strick himself — Mike Strickland, formally — handed off the keys.

Mr. Stennett’s wife, Sheryl, became the bartender, though the Stennetts leave the keys with anyone who wants to drink late. Drinks are paid for on the honor system. In keeping with the handwritten admonitions posted throughout the bar, overnight tabs are frowned upon.

The Eagle Lake community, which sits between an expanse of cornfields and picturesque Eagle Lake itself, is a popular spot for fish camps and weekend homes. But most of the residents live here full time, making the 35-mile commute into Vicksburg for work.

With floodwaters closing roads and highways, that trip has now stretched to 140 miles.

To get there from Vicksburg, residents now take a circuitous tour of the Mississippi Delta, driving past sprawling cotton fields and through tiny hamlets like Midnight and Onward, past sparkling lakes that did not exist a week ago and isolated farmer’s cottages that may not exist next week if something goes wrong at the levee.

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Lawyers move to get Strauss-Kahn out of jail

BY WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM THE NEW YORK TIMES

A lawyer for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, filed papers late Wednesday for a new bail application to get him out of Rikers Island, where he has been in protective custody and under a suicide watch.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers indicated he would be willing to be confined to a location in Manhattan and wear an electronic ankle bracelet to monitor his movements, and was prepared to post $1 million cash bail on charges he sexually assaulted a housekeeper at a Manhattan hotel.

“We believe this is a very, very defensible case,” Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer representing Mr. Strauss-Kahn, along with William W. Taylor of Washington, said at the arraignment on Monday. (Mr. Brafman was out of the country on Wednesday.) The papers were filed with Justice Michael J. Obus, the chief administrative judge for the criminal division of State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

Lawyers for Mr. Strauss-Kahn said Monday that they believed the forensic evidence would be inconsistent with a “forcible encounter.”

On Tuesday, a person briefed on the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s legal strategy, said the defense believed that any sex act might have been consensual.

The housekeeper, 32, whose name has not been publicly released by the authorities in New York, testified before the grand jury Wednesday, people briefed on the case said. The panel is expected to vote on whether to indict Mr. StraussKahn, 62, a prominent French Socialist, by Friday, when he is due back in court.

The woman’s lawyer, Jeffrey J. Shapiro, said that she had been interviewed by the police and prosecutors on a number

of occasions and that her account of being attacked when she went to clean Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s suite at the Sofitel New York on Saturday had been unwavering.

“She is testifying before the grand jury today,” Mr. Shapiro said Wednesday morning.

Several other people, including hotel staff members, were also expected to testify.

The defense team is likely to be back in Criminal Court on Friday, when a grand jury is expected to hand up an indictment against Mr. Strauss-Kahn. If an indictment is not issued this week, he would be eligible for immediate release.

Since Tuesday, Mr. Strauss-Kahn has been at Rikers under a suicide watch, which was put in place not because of any action or gesture on his part but because it was based on an evaluation performed when he arrived.

Mr. Taylor, the lawyer, met with Mr. Strauss-Kahn on Wednesday at Rikers, where he is being held in the West Facility, one of nine jails on the 400-acre island operated by the New York City Department of Correction.

The jail, which was built in 1991, was designed to house inmates with tuberculosis and other communicable diseases.

It is largely empty, and Mr. Strauss Kahn was placed there because it would be easy to isolate him. He is housed in his own wing, an official said.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn has a television in his room, and has access to an adjacent day room with a television. He is entitled to an hour of exercise outside, but it was unclear if he took advantage of it on Wednesday, when a driving rain fell in New York for much of the morning and afternoon.

It was also unclear if inmates in the other parts of the jail were aware of Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s identity, but given the availability of newspaper and television news, it seems most likely.

John Eligon and Joseph Goldstein contributed reporting.

U.S. imposes sanctions on Syrian leader and 6 aides

BY STEVEN LEE MYERS AND ANTHONY SHADID THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — President Obama imposed sanctions on Syria’s leader, President Bashar al-Assad, and six other senior Syrian officials on Wednesday, ratcheting up American pressure in the wake of a bloody crackdown on political protests in the country.

Mr. Obama’s executive order — along with additional sanctions imposed by the Treasury Department against Syrian and Iranian intelligence services and commanders — reflected the growing American frustration that Mr. Assad’s government was not heeding international condemnation and seeking a peaceful resolution to the popular uprising in the country.

Until now, Mr. Obama had adopted a much more measured and cautious approach than he did in Libya in hopes, officials said, that Mr. Assad would respond to international pressure.

The administration clearly concluded that approach was not working.

Though the move may prove largely symbolic, it represents a significant step in isolating a government that has long sought to entrench itself during its worst crises, then rehabilitate itself when danger passes.

The sanctions may make that more difficult.

“The actions the administration has taken today send an unequivocal message to President Assad, the Syrian leadership, and regime insiders that they will be held accountable for the ongoing violence and repression in Syria,” David S. Cohen, acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement.

The sanctions freeze any assets that Mr. Assad and the others have in American financial institutions, and prohibit trade with them. Similar sanctions against Libya’s leader,

Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, led to the seizure of more than $30 billion in assets, though it is believed that Mr. Assad has far fewer vulnerable assets. In addition to him, the sanctions affect the vice president, the prime minister, the interior and defense ministers, and the directors of military intelligence and political security.

The sanctions come amid growing signs that the government feels emboldened after staggering in the face of an unprecedented challenge to 40 years of rule by the Assad family. Officials have said they believe they have the upper hand and talk in weeks, not months, about putting an end to protests that erupted across the breadth of the country, from the southern steppe and Mediterranean coast to the outskirts of Damascus.

In an interview published Wednesday with a privately owned Syrian newspaper, aligned with the government, Mr. Assad declared that the tumult was coming to a close and acknowledged that his security forces had made mistakes in a crackdown so broad that hundreds of detainees were being held in schools and soccer fields.

Human rights activists have said at least 700 people were killed and 10,000 people arrested, as the military laid siege to at least four towns and cities.

“President Assad gave assurances that Syria had overcome the crisis it went through and that events were coming to an end,” the daily quoted him as saying.

The president also told the delegation that 4,000 police officers were undergoing what it called training to “prevent these excesses,” without giving further details.

Steven Lee Myers reported from Washington and Anthony Shadid from Beirut, Lebanon. Hwaida Saad and a New York Times employee in Beirut contributed reporting.

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Report: Texas woman confessed to police in death of 6-year-old son created image of the child HELD from page one and a photo of his shoes in an The case has been turned attempt to identify him. Police over to the New Hampshire in Maine reported receivAttorney General's office, which ing more than 200 leads in was not expected to issue a the case from across the U.S., statement on the case until this though none that led to his morning at the earliest. identity.

Massachusetts state police Maine state police told spokesman David Procopio conreporters on Wednesday that firmed yesterday in a press conany further questions on the ference that a woman with ties case should be addressed to to the dead child was in custody, the Maine Attorney General's but declined to identify her or office. William Stokes, deputy the child. The woman is considattorney general, declined to ered a person of interest in the comment on the case yestercase, but no charges have been day. filed against her.

In a statement, Maine "She is in custody of law state police spokesman Steve enforcement authorities during McCausland said officials the pendency of an investiga"believe they know the idention," Procopio said during a tity of the young boy found press conference in Concord, in South Berwick Saturday Mass., that was carried on the afternoon" but were waiting to websites of several local media release his name until family outlets. "She is not charged could be notified. with a crime at this point."

"At this stage, Maine Massachusetts state troopState Police will continue to ers took the woman believed work closely with our counto be McCrery into custody terparts in New Hampshire Wednesday morning at a rest and Massachusetts as this stop along I-495 in Chelmsinvestigation moves forward," ford. Procopio said police were McCausland said. tipped off by another motorist The female driver of the who saw a blue Toyota Tacoma Toyota truck was taken into that a South Berwick resident custody Wednesday morning Jill McCrery’s Facebook page includes another photo of 6-year-old described seeing on Saturday Camden Pierce Hughes of Texas, here playing in the snow. A total of and spent several hours at a morning near where the boy's 13,592 people liked a Facebook page, “Camden’s Offical Memorial Page,” state police barracks in Conbody was found. cord under protective custody. devoted to Hughes’ memory. (Photo from Facebook) "At 10:20 a.m. Wednesday Procopio said she had been we received a call from citizen the vehicle, and she is in custody now." interviewed and that "the who had seen prior coverage of this According to published reports, interview continues." investigation and provided informathe truck is registered to Julianne However, the woman was transtion that the vehicle of interest was McCrery, 42, of Irving, Texas. ported from the barracks to a local at the Chelmsford rest stop, on the Police found the boy's body under a south side of highway," Procopio said. blanket in woods near Dennett Road "Several troopers were sent there, and at around 5 p.m. Saturday. Since then, they engaged the female operator of authorities have sent out a computer-

hospital at about 4:45 p.m. yesterday for a medical examination, Procopio said.

It's not immediately clear what caused the case to swing to the jurisdiction of New Hampshire authorities.

Procopio said only that "a development has occurred that put the case under the direction of the New Hampshire attorney general."

Much is still unknown about McCrery.

According to a biography found on Amazon.com, she wrote a book in 2009 called "Good Night Sleep Tight: How to fall back asleep and go back to sleep when you wake up."

In her author biography on that site, McCrery is said to have been born in San Jose, Calif., in 1969, but moved to the Dallas area in the early 1990s. She has two sons, one of whom serves in the U.S. Navy, while the other is "much younger, aged three and a half."

A report by WBZ that McCrery has a criminal record that includes prostitution and drug charges could not be confirmed.

On her Facebook page, which includes similar details, McCrery has photos of a blond child that looks similar to a computer image of the child found in South Berwick. In one photo, the child is playing outside after a snowstorm.

McCrery wrote, "Finally allowed to play in a bit of real snow! Yee-Haw." In another photo, her other son, Ian "Mac J" McCrery wrote a comment that he wished he was there.

A vigil was scheduled to take place last night in South Berwick in the child's memory.

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Powerful and primitive WASHINGTON — Oh, she wanted it.

She wanted it bad.

That’s what every hard-working, God-fearing, young widow who breaks her back doing menial labor at a Times Square hotel to support her teenage daughter, justify her immigration status and take advantage of the opportunities in America wants — a crazed, rutting, wrinkly old satyr charging naked out of a bathroom, lunging at her and dragging her around the room, caveman-style.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s reputation as a thrice-married French seducer loses something in the translation.

According to the claims of ––––– the 32-year-old West African The New York maid, what took place in the Times $3,000-a-day Sofitel suite had nothing to do with seduction.

If the allegation is true, Strauss-Kahn’s behavior, boorish and primitive, is rape.

Was the chief of the International Monetary Fund telling other countries to tighten their belts while he was dropping his trousers? Lawyers for the 62-year-old Frenchman, who had been a leading Socialist prospect to run against Nicolas Sarkozy next year, seem ready to rebut any DNA evidence by arguing that sex with the maid who came in to clean his room was consensual.

Will they argue that she wilted with desire once she realized Strauss-Kahn had been at Davos?

Jeffrey Shapiro, the maid’s lawyer, angrily rebutted that there was “nothing, nothing” consensual about the droit du monsieur. (It was not a

Maureen Dowd

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Bag open, cats everywhere It was a posting on the Facebook page for The Portland Daily Sun that finally pushed me over the edge.

I was for the whole “elected mayor” thing, but had reservations way back in the process about the “Ranked Choice Voting” aspect of the equation. The goal was to get more people involved in politics. It has certainly done that, with the current number of people running for mayor standing at 10, plus a few folks that “everybody knows” plan to run, but just haven’t announced.

So I’m unveiling my entire criminally brilliant plan and reasoning for running for the job of mayor here in the pages of the Daily Sun. Heck, I’m not even asking the paper for an endorsement, and would rather that readers were advised to vote for anyone EXCEPT me.

Portland has a lot of troubles. One of the things that I’ve ranted on endlessly about is the speed with which things tend to happen in this city. I know they do a wonderful job down there at city hall corralling every hairbrained scheme that comes along by using the zoning process and multi-month yammer-fests as part of the brakes. How about this as an initial proposal? No

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist zoning changes for at least two years. Stop screwing around with what is on the books every five minutes.

Jobs. We don’t even make hot dogs in this city any more. Small manufacturing takes a lot of hits in the approval process, due to nimbyism. Knock it off, Portland. Think for a second before you jump to stop something from going in down the street. Isn’t that preferable to the wandering crowds of jobless?

Being a natural born contrarian, who studied the fine art of annoying folks who like me to do things “for my own good,” I was against the changes in state law about changing the way “writein” campaigns work. Naturally, my campaign has to be a writein type, as I seriously doubt I could find 300 registered voters in Portland in varying states of sobriety that would actually sign a campaign petition with me as the candidate, so write-in is the

way to go.

If elected, I swear I would sign my own recall petition. Top that, any of the other candidates.

If Chief Craig decides to take a job elsewhere, I’d be more than happy to take over his Dodge Charger.

I might as well chuck this in, too, as I know it will be a crowd pleaser here in Portland. You need a big fat guy as mayor, for one simple reason. Portland is described as an “economic engine” of this state.

You need somebody big enough to go up to Augusta and physically pick up the Baboon in the Blaine House and shake him down for all the money we can get. Preferably, someone who looks like they’ve been punched in the head a few times, with marginal effect.

Then, there is the whole ranked choice voting fiasco that was passed as part of the charter change last November. This is messing with elections on a grand scale, not seen since certain electoral practices in Chicago. But it is the law, so that is how we have to do it.

If you hated it, here is your chance for revenge. With 10 candidates in the field with more on the way, getting 50 percent of the vote see HIGGINS page 5

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Sorry, it’s the West that’s guilty of recklessness in its conduct DOWD from page 4

“come in and see my monetary fund” kind of thing.)

“She is a simple housekeeper who was going into a room to clean a room,” Shapiro told The Times. He called the devout Muslim woman from the Bronx “a very proper, dignified young woman” and said “she did not even know who this guy was” until she saw the news accounts.

Strauss-Kahn’s French defenders are throwing around nutty conspiracy theories, sounding like the Pakistanis about Osama. Some have suggested that he was the victim of a honey-pot arranged by the Sarkozy forces.

Bernard-Henri Lévy, a friend of the accused, says he is outraged at the portrayal of Strauss-Kahn as an “insatiable and malevolent beast.”

He wrote on The Daily Beast: “It would be nice to know — and without delay — how a chambermaid could have walked in alone, contrary to the habitual practice of most of New York’s grand hotels of sending a ‘cleaning brigade’ of two people, into the room of one of the most closely watched figures on the planet.”

At least he didn’t mention Dreyfus.

For years, I’ve stayed at the Sofitel and other hotels in New York City, and I’ve never seen a “brigade,” simply single maids coming in to clean.

In Washington, they have now nicknamed the street that separates the I.M.F. and the World Bank, where Paul Wolfowitz lost his job over financial hanky-panky with his girlfriend, the Boulevard of Bad Behavior.

These are the two institutions that are globally renowned for lecturing the rest of the world on discipline and freedom, when it’s the West that’s guilty of recklessness and improvident behavior. First in finance, then in sex.

People who can’t keep their flies zipped lecturing other people.

While the French excoriated the

American system of justice — discouraging pictures of Strauss-Kahn handcuffed, which are illegal in France — Americans could pride themselves on the sound of the “bum-bum” “Law & Order: SVU” gong sounding, the noise that heralds that justice will be done without regard to wealth, class or privilege.

It’s an inspiring story about America, where even a maid can have dignity and be listened to when she accuses one of the most powerful men in the world of being a predator. (A charge that has been made against him before, with a similar pattern of brutal behavior.)

The young woman escaped horrors in her native Guinea, a patriarchal society where rape is widespread and used as a device of war, a place where she would have been kicked to the curb if she tried to take on a powerful man. When she faced the horror here, she had a recourse.

Another famous European with a disturbing pattern of sexual aggression got in trouble over the help this week: The ex-governor of California, who got elected after his wife, Maria Shriver, defended him so eloquently against groping charges.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was also guilty of the raw assertion of male power. More than mere infidelity, The Sperminator was caught on lying and piggishness, having a son with a staffer around the same time Maria had their youngest son, who is now 13. He kept the staffer on the payroll and even may have brought the son Maria didn’t know about into the house. No wonder Maria fled to a Beverly Hills hotel.

We’re always fascinated with the contradiction that cosmopolitan, high-powered, multilingual people can behave in such primitive ways.

But civilization and morality have nothing to do with sophistication and social status.

The lesson of these two fallen grandees, as Bill Maher told Chris Matthews, is: “If you’re going to go after the household help, get a ‘Yes,’ first.”

How about a pledge that I’d sign my own recall petition?

HIGGINS from page 4

is going to be tricky. I calculate that at least five rounds will be necessary to get someone past that mark. Sold to voters as a way to prevent marginal candidates from taking office, what happens if a marginal candidate like me got enough votes to make it past the first few rounds, but got a HUGE turnout on the “Number TWO” vote.

I can hear the wheels clicking over in your mind from here. Such a happy sound!

If I won, you would be saddled with me for four years, unless otherwise indicted for grift, graft, or other munic-

ipal malfeasance. I know it is a huge risk to take, but electing someone like me would give residents of this city a bit more appreciation for some of the professionals that have been kicking around the city for a while.

The process of electing our mayor now is what it is. But just like in baseball, sometimes, you can’t be afraid to put a little spit on the ball before you toss that heater across the plate.

So, where do I send the “Bob For #2!” buttons ... ?

(Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun. Contact him at typingmonkey1@gmail.com)

prevent more damage to the Gulf.”

Nobody in the White House Press Corps was seen even smiling at this “these are not the droids you’re looking for” moment. Does anyone ever listen?

If I told my five-year-old that he had to spend his piggy bank money on toys, but as father I’d spare no resource to get that toy, he’d promptly put Miss Piggy back on the shelf.

Certainly nobody asked the president about a couple of interesting reports in the New York Times.

Deep in the NYT we discover that BP, under a law passed after Exxon’s little spill up in Alaska, is liable for about $75 million. Instead, a special trust fund was created that might pay a billion or so toward the cleanup. It was not written by the White House Press Corps.

Initially, it was also the Times that reported that this was paid by the companies but that story has evolved to say it was paid for by a tax on oil.

That’s right — not only will the spill cleanup be paid for by consumers, but we’ve already kicked in about $1.6 billion. And here’s the kicker: It won’t be enough, and if this Trust Fund is set up like the black lung and other industry “solutions,” the taxpayer will end up with the tab.

What will it really mean? On Monday, one of the world’s leading trial attorneys said it might be “tricky” to get BP to pay beyond the legal limit.

This is, of course, more than just another outrage here where more than 200 tanker visits annually make

South Portland the largest oil import port on the East Coast.

We’ll learn more as the press handlers position the information, but Trust Funds like the one set up for oil spills actually have strong arguments in their favor. Proponents rightly say such funds can speed money to those impacted by industry mistakes where lawsuits can take a half-decade to settle.

They also rightly point out that much of the money goes to those pesky greedhead trial lawyers, the ones who have to invest millions of dollars over those five years to battle the company legal teams.

What you won’t see much of, my friends tell me, is local fishermen blasting the oil industry. Instead, the consensus was, they feel the media has blown their plight out of proportion, especially those who would normally be making a living from the charter fishing industry.

The impression is that there’s nowhere to fish, but there are plenty of spots. On Monday, groups were asking the media to stress that fact.

Besides, people in places like the bayou or in Kentucky coal fields are a bit wary when out-of-towners become willing to give up the local economy for some Greater Good.

Usually, they will point out, along about beer three, that those folks have jobs to get back to.

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

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Wild Burritos eatery plans cross-street expansion

BY MATT DODGE

rings and chicken fingers as well as our quesadillas,” said Collins. “We’ll also have more seating, where here we only have 12 seats that are actually more like stools, there we’ll have [space] where a whole family can come in.”

The expansion is part of Collins' goal of providing more affordable dining options in the Arts District. “[In] Portland it’s so expensive to go out to eat. Wild burrito offers you something for $5 or less. Everything we have is affordable, everything is under $6 and made with all natural ingredients,” he said.

“There are other things in this area, but everywhere else is like $11 for burgers and fries,” said Collins.

The new location will also eventually add pizza to the menu, offering an alternative to the specialty pies of neighboring Otto Pizza. “We’re not going to charge $17 for a large pizza. We’re going to offer $8 pizzas — the economy is bad, and we all need to save every dime,” he said.

Collins said Wild Burritos is able to keep prices low by relying on a skeleton staff of three and eschewing the trend of staying open late to cater to a bar crowd.

“The problem with the bar crowd is that you get all the after-hours people, than you have so much dead time from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m., it’s not cost effective and that’s why we’ve never done it,” he said.

Eventually, the entire “Wild” empire will be housed at the new location, according to Collins.

But having signed a multi-year lease on the current location, the owner plans on retaining the space at 574 Congress with talk of it becoming a hair salon for a Wild Burritos prides itself on affordability. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO) friend of Collins’ down the line.

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A Congress Street restaurant known for its low prices will expand into a larger space across the street within a month, according to the owner.

Wild Burritos, an Arts District restaurant specializing in Mexican food, will move into the former site of Chinese restaurant Stir Crazy at 581 Congress St. while keeping their current location at 574 Congress open through the summer, said owner Miguel Collins.

“We’ll probably be over there full-time within a year,” he said.

Tentatively named “Wild Burgers,” the new location will give Collins and company a chance to expand their menu and act as a “one stop shop in the arts district,” said Collins.

“It’s a much larger space and we’re going to offer a lot more on our menu,” said Collins. As the name would imply, the new shop will be decidedly burgercentric, a menu item already present on the Wild Burritos menu that Collins hopes to expand on.

“We’ll have homemade hamburgers, fries, onion

Wild Burritos, currently located at 574 Congress, will expand into the former site of Stir Crazy, a Chinese restaurant at 581 Congress St. The new shop will expand on the menu of the notoriously affordable restaurant, with the entire operation making the move across the street by the end of the summer, according to owner Miguel Collins. (MATT DODGE PHOTO)

United Way volunteers hit the ground at Portland schools Volunteers will help on schoolyard projects at Presumpscot Elementary School and Lincoln Middle School in Portland today as part of United Way’s Day of Caring. The volunteers will be working from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 2 p.m., rain or shine, the organization reported.

At Lincoln, 20 volunteers from IBM will work beside seventh-graders to clean up and beautify the school grounds.

“This yearly project is well-loved here at Lincoln

and always gives us a lift as we head full-tilt through these last weeks of school,” said Phyllis Hey, Lincoln’s community coordinator. “We also benefit from the amazing help of our long-time partner, Portland Public Services, who provides us with a crew for the day to facilitate our several deliveries of mulch and to help clean up and cart away debris.”

Fifteen volunteers from Hannaford and UNUM will spend the day working on a trails project at Presumpscot. They will lay superhumus donated

by New England Organics on the trail behind the school.

Presumpscot third-graders who are in the middle of a learning expedition involving the trail and outdoor learning park will assist on the project. Parent volunteers, neighbors from the East Deering Neighborhood Association and staff from Portland Trails' Schoolyard Greening Coalition also will participate.

— Staff Report

Southern Maine Pride event to mark 25 years; new site at Deering Oaks on tap The 25th annual Southern Maine Pride event will take place the week of June 12-19, with the Parade & Festival happening on Saturday, June 18, organizers announced. The theme is “Alive with Pride at 25” in celebration of its 25th year. The parade will start at 12:30 p.m. at Monument Square in Portland and kick off a host of pride events that will be happening around the city.

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Comedian Khris Francis will again act as Master of Ceremonies. The parade will progress west on Congress Street, turn north on High Street and arrive at Deering Oaks Park at approximately 12:45 p.m.

Sponsors to date for this year’s event include: TD Bank, Prime Auto Group, Home Depot, DownEast Pride Alliance, Proactive Resources, LIFE Ogunquit & LIFE Portland, Maine AIDS Alliance and West End Legal, LLC. The festival in Deering Oaks is scheduled for 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. It’s “a family-friendly event that includes live music, dance entertainment, comedians, arts and crafts vendors, food vendors and more.” Live entertainment will include music by Gypsy Tailwind, Vanessa Torres, Kristen Ford Band, MeCa, and performances by Atomic Trash! burlesque, 5G drag kings, Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue and comedian Erin Cyr. The list of venders for the festival includes TD Bank, Proactive Resources, Maine AIDS Alliance, DownEast Pride Alliance, Healthy Maine Partnerships, Boston Spirit Maga-

zine, AARP-Maine, Maine Department of Health & Human Services, Human Rights Campaign and the Frannie Peabody Center.

Organizers and city officials have determined the festival has outgrown its current area at the bandstand in Deering Oaks Park and will move the festivities to a new stage located by the duck pond, allowing more opportunity for people to sit and relax in the sun or shade, or get up and dance, organizers stated in a press release. This expansion will allow the festival to grow and continue to make Deering Oaks Park its home for another 25 years.

In conjunction with Southern Maine Pride, The Maine AIDS Alliance will produce two nightlife events. Both dubbed “Life,” the first event will be held at MaineStreet bar in Ogunquit on Friday, June 17 from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. featuring DJ Randy Bettis, with the second event scheduled for Saturday, June 18 at Port City Music Hall in Portland from 8 p.m. to 1am, where DJ Rich Ladue will join local DJs, drag performers and dancers.

— Staff Report

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LearningWorks receives $1 million federal grant The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded the Portland nonprofit LearningWorks a $1 million grant to continue its Youth Building Alternatives program, which serves at-risk young people between the 16 and 24 years old.

During the two years covered by the grant, YBA will serve more than 65 at-risk students from Southern Maine, according to a press release. The program accepts students on a rolling basis. A class of 20 current students will graduate in June.

“This is a great day for LearningWorks and the people we serve,” said LearningWorks chief executive officer Ethan Strimling.

The funding will be used to fund the operations of Youth Building Alternatives, a nationally accredited

educational program that works with young men and women who have dropped out of high school.

YBA provides classroom instruction toward a GED, leadership training, and job-site skill training. The program has a graduation rate of 85 percent, and 94 percent of students who graduate from YBA go on to jobs, job training or college, according to a press release.

“Congratulations to LearningWorks on receiving this grant,” said Portland Mayor Nick Mavodones. “I’ve known about the great work of LearningWorks and Youth Building Alternatives for years, and the graduation rate of 85 percent is very impressive.”

LearningWorks is one of just 74 sites across the country to receive a portion of the $76 million federal grant, and the only site in Maine, the release said.

Once enrolled and committed to YBA, students spend half of their time in the classroom with academics and GED preparation and the other half in vocational education that puts them on job sites. As they learn construction, renovation and green building techniques, they maintain and construct affordable housing for low-income families. Students will renovate a vacant three-bedroom units in Portland’s low income Bayside neighborhood in partnership with the Portland Housing Authority.

LearningWorks, formerly Portland West, offers a host of programs for low-income, at-risk and immigrant populations from its main location on Brackett Street.

— Staff Report

Ranked choice voting the focus of workshop at City Hall CLINIC from page one

play in the tabulation.

"We're just coming to demonstrate what our company can do," said Caleb Kleppner, a vice president with TrueBallot Inc. of New Haven, Conn., the company coming today to host the workshop in the State of Maine Room at City Hall.

The workshop will be a demonstration of how the clerk's office would scan ranked choice ballots.

"If the city hires us, we're eager to help with the public education about how you fill out your ballot and how it's going to be counted," Kleppner said.

"The purpose of the presentation tomorrow is to get all of our questions answered," said city spokesperson Nicole Clegg. "We're excited about meeting with them."

Clerk Kathy Jones called today's workshop "step one" in a process that likely will include hiring a contractor to help the city count ballots this fall.

"Nothing has been set in stone," she cautioned.

“If the city hires us, we’re eager to help with the public education about how you fill out your ballot and how it’s going to be counted.” — Caleb Kleppner, a vice president with TrueBallot Inc. of New Haven, Conn.

"This is the first step we're taking toward making sure that we implement and execute ranked choice voting successfully this November," Clegg said.

Kleppner said the process of counting ranked choice ballots has been tested over the years.

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In 2005, the city of Burlington, Vt. hired Kleppner and a colleague to design the voter education campaign for the March 2006 rankedchoice voting election for mayor in that city; the consultants also developed a ranked choice voting training module for election workers, oversaw the testing of voting equipment and conducted technical training for city staff on the system, Kleppner's letter noted.

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Sunset Hearts talk Heads, drippy jungle sounds

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Together as a band since last September, Sunset Hearts have grown into something noticeably different on the Portland music scene. An eightmember act with a range of musical talents, the band plays music decidedly more lively and danceable than the track names (“Curse Roulette,” “Butterfly Blood”) would suggest.

With a solid pop sensibility and a driving desire to become nothing less than an infectiously exciting act to see live, songwriter and Sunset Hearts frontman Casey McCurry has recruited some of Portland’s best rock musicians to the band, which includes members of Marie Stella, Huak, The Rattlesnakes, An Evening With and Elf Princess Gets A Harley.

Sunset Hearts will play a Hillytown Presents show tonight at Empire Dine & Dance along with Project Jenny, Project Jan and Murder Mystery.

Hosted by local music blog Hillytown.com, the event starts at 9 p.m.

with a $7 cover; 21 plus.

With their debut studio album set to release at any moment, we sat down with McCurry to talk Heads, drippy jungle sounds and offending priests.

This Q&A is the first in a series of interviews with local musicians, and is organized with the help of Hillytown.com’s Bryan Bruchman.

PDS: How did Sunset Hearts first get together?

Casey McCurry: It started with the Talking Heads versus Modest Mouse Clash [of the Titans cover music battle] we did at Empire about a year ago. I always wanted to see a Talking Heads Clash. In my last band Satellite Lot we did a Talking Heads cover at five or six shows and it was always so fun to do, it’s such spastic dance music. I was asked if there were any Clashes I wanted to do, and The Smiths and Talking Heads were the only two I really, really wanted to do.

So I put together kind of a “dirty dozen” style team to do a bunch of the covers of mid-era Talking Heads

Sunset Heart’s frontman Casey McCurry sings during a performance last November. The eight-member band, made up of a number of notable Portland rock musicians, skews toward a decidedly dancecentric, pop end of the musical spectrum. (BRYAN BRUCHMAN PHOTO COURTESY OF HILLYTOWN.COM)

albums like Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light. Talking Heads is kind of in my top three bands, especially of that era. Those two albums are kind of like my favorite music. It really fell into place, having a drummer plus backup singers, crazy synths, dueling guitars, it was too much fun.

That was so fun that there was kind of this sense that we should be a real band.

PDS: What is your background in music?

CM: I play keys, guitar and saxophone all to varying degrees of success. I played guitar and synths a lot in Satellite Lot. In Sunset Hearts I don’t play any instruments. I just sing and it’s kind of liberating, I don't have to stand behind a keyboard.

PDS: How does one man go about writing songs for an band the size of Sunset Hearts?

CM: Sometimes it’s really difficult. I spent the summer writing songs that would be conducive to having that many people. With big pop numbers like “Moments In Motion” I focused on big pop production, and big, baroque interactions between instruments, but then once I let that go, it came so easily.

When I decided I wanted to form a band in July of last year I wrote one song and it took forever. It took three weeks to write “Moments In Motion” and then two to three months passed and I realized I was going to have to go back to school. In the last week in August I wrote and recorded seven songs in seven days, working 14 hours day and banged out seven songs real fast. I think it was one of those weird moments where I knew once I went back to school I wasn't going to be able

to put out a whole new set of music.

But I write lyrics visually, and I write music really visually too. I’ll think, “I want a part that feels like flying in a helicopter really low over a rain forest — a drippy, jungle type sound.” I don’t really like weepy lyrics.

I really love dream-like and really subversive lyrics. We pissed off a priest at our Belfast [Free Range Festival] show, because the lyrics of one song are relatively disturbing to a priest. I looked right at the guy when I said the lyrics, but the opportunity was there.

PDS: With a catalogue of largely dance-able, synth heavy music, do you find yourself pigeonholed as some sort of '80s revival band?

CM: I don’t think of it as retro band.

When people hear the recordings it might strike them as a retro thing, but when you see us live, is a bit more modern. It’s something like Broken Social Scene, although I don’t listen to Broken Social Scene, but we are able to achieve that vibe when we are playing really well.

I generally don't listen to much modern music so I’m always kind of doomed to be compared to the '80s or whatever. I don’t necessarily think the songs themselves are very '80s-ish, but there is always going to be a layer of '80-ish synths in my band because I really love to write for synths.

PDS: So how would you describe Sunset Heart’s sound?

CM: It’s bit of Talking Heads, a bit of New Order. We’re a really, really big sound live, so we probably have more to do with Springsteen than New Order. I also listen to a lot of dance music — a lot of bad dance music — see next page

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but I like the way dance music makes people feel.

PDS: Does it take a certain type of musician to work well in such a large band?

CM: This might sound weird to people who haven't been in band, but I recruited specifically for people who will get along with each other. At a show out of state, we’re like a moving party — eight people that really, truly get along. We have just enough people in the band that no one wants to look like an ass**** and there are no personality conflicts in the band.

It’s really bizarre, we couldn’t be luckier.

I also think it works really well because [the band] are all interested in pop music quite a bit, but don’t get to really express that in their own bands. Marie Stella does, but bands like the Rattlesnakes and Huak are relatively punky. It’s like how Mexican gang members get Morrissey tattoos — it’s their only feminine release maybe.

PDS: Currently you take on most of the songwriting duties in the band. Given the extensive musical background of the members of Sunset Hearts, are there plans to delegate some more of the work?

CM: There will be for the next set of songs, but for this set, it’s mostly an iron fist kind of situation.

The problem is, right now I’m producing a finished demo with most if not all of the parts written before the band even hears it. That said, people do have a wide latitude to change their parts and change song forms. I believe I am always going to be writing the songs themselves, but the parts will be written more and more by the band.

PDS: Any favorite local acts to play with? Or act you dream of sharing a stage with?

CM: Hi Tiger, we love those guys. Our personalities mesh well and I love their lyrics. They have a very visual style, and also write from dreams very often. I’m a lyrics guy above all else and Max, our

“I also listen to a lot of dance music — a lot of bad dance music — but I like the way dance music makes people feel.” — Casey McCurry of Sunset Hearts drummer, is playing with them now. But there are three bands I kind of obsess about that are active these days — Twin Shadow, Warpaint and Jens Lekman. If any of those people came to town I would be severely offended if I didn't get to open for them.”

PDS: Your debut album is in the works right now, what’s the status?

CM: It’s basically done, we’re just waiting for the right CD release show and the right climate to put it out. That will definitely happen by the end of the summer. I think people will be really surprised when they hear our album. We recorded the album with Ron Harrity at Forest City Studios and it sounds great, I’m really psyched about it because unlike the Satellite Lot album, I didn’t need to slave over it for three years.

If you’ve been listening to the demos online, [you’ll find] the album is more representative of what we sound like live — I think it’s a lot better than the demos. But I don’t even really care about the album, what I really want to do in this band is be great live, it’s something I've never, never had before in a band.

PDS: Any big plans on the horizon for Sunset Hearts?

CM: I’ve never been able to get shows so easily so it’s a really exciting. We’re going to buy a tour van, we’re just looking for the right one to show up on Craigslist. Hopefully we’re going to hit [Texas music festival] SXSW next year — maybe it’ll happen, maybe it won't, but we’re definitely going to be playing a lot of shows.

In celebration of Arbor Week, Portland Public Services crews on Wednesday planted this white oak tree, donated by Friends of Deering Oaks President Anne Pringle and her husband in memory of Stanley Bennett, the late CEO of Oakhurst Dairy. A plaque at the site commemorates Bennett’s devotion to keeping the Forest City green. “In 1992, Bennett conceived the Oakhurst Millennium Tree Challenge, a fundraising effort to raise money for the planting of 1,000 trees in the city by the year 2000,” the city reports. “At the turn of the century, trees had been planted in every Portland neighborhood, park, school, and playground as well as on Peaks Island, Little Diamond Island and Cliff Island.” (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You will get some practice in the art of wasting time. Have fun with this and be guilt-free. Without all the messing and joking around, nothing intelligent will be accomplished.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You perceive and understand what another person is going through, even though this one is trying very hard to “act normal.” Maybe you’re able to do this because you’ve been there yourself.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Mistakes were made -- that much is clear.

You will see the brighter side of the situation because you believe life gets better as we learn from our past follies and grow beyond them.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your soul needs expression. You’re still looking into the ways and methods available to you to do this. Investigate your creative and musical talent. You will experience, listen and appreciate art on a new level.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 19).

You’ll enjoy friends and new experiences in the next five weeks. June features an emotional commitment and, at month’s end, a windfall. Bond with family in July -- you succeed through united efforts.

In September, you will benefit from a scientific advance. A stroke of luck will transform your home environment in November. Leo and Sagittarius people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 7, 9, 2, 26 and 44.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). A secret communication may bring a thrill. It will be exciting to know something that others do not. You’ll likely sit with the information a long time as you mull over what to do with it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The network you have built around you makes you stronger. You’ll exercise the full potential of your material and nonmaterial resources. You’ll use your connections and put your talents to work.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Over time, you will make a substantial contribution to the world community. This happens in small daily increments. You have special luck in foreign trade or in working through legal matters.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Extremes of thinking will bring you to the most interesting ideas. This can also break you free of futile thought patterns. Dare to be an intellectual outsider.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You and a loved one may have different ambitions, but you are equally passionate about them. It is this high level of drive that brings you together in mutual support and admiration.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll have luck in matters of publicity, publishing and politics. People see the best in you and also attribute glowing qualities to you that you have yet to develop.

You’ll be idolized.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Those who always feel the need to talk are the worst listeners. Your ego isn’t as big as some of those around you, and therefore, you will be the best listener.

You will understand the circumstances completely.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Emo-

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, May 19, the 139th day of 2011. There are 226 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On May 19, 1967, the Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain banning nuclear and other weapons from outer space as well as celestial bodies such as the moon. (The treaty entered into force in Oct. 1967.)

On this date: In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery.

In 1780, a mysterious darkness enveloped much of New England and part of Canada in the early afternoon.

In 1909, the Ballets Russes (Russian Ballets), under the direction of Sergei Diaghilev, debuted in Paris.

In 1921, Congress passed, and President Warren G. Harding signed, the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.

In 1935, T.E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” died in Dorset, England six days after being injured in a motorcycle crash.

In 1943, in an address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country’s full support in the fight against Japan.

In 1962, during a Democratic fundraiser at New York’s Madison Square Garden, actress Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday to You” to guest-of-honor President John F. Kennedy.

In 1964, the State Department disclosed that 40 hidden microphones had been found in the U.S. embassy in Moscow.

In 1971, poet Ogden Nash, known for his humorous light verses, died in Baltimore at age 68.

In 1994, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York at age 64.

One year ago: President Barack Obama condemned Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigration and pushed instead for a federal fix he said the nation could embrace, showing solidarity with his guest of honor, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who called Arizona’s law discriminatory.

Today’s Birthdays: PBS newscaster Jim Lehrer is 77. TV personality David Hartman is 76. Actor James Fox is 72. Actress Nancy Kwan is 72. Author-director Nora Ephron is 70. Actor Peter Mayhew is 67. Rock singercomposer Pete Townshend (The Who) is 66. Concert pianist David Helfgott is 64.

Rock singer-musician Dusty Hill (ZZ Top) is 62. Singer-actress Grace Jones is 59.

Rock musician Phil Rudd (AC-DC) is 57.

Actor Steven Ford is 55. Rock musician Iain Harvie (Del Amitri) is 49. Actor Jason GrayStanford is 41. Rock singer Jenny Berggren (Ace of Base) is 39. Actor Drew Fuller is 31.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I have been trying to teach my 20-year-old daughter the value of saving money and staying within a budget. Meanwhile, my parents give her money every time she asks.

I am newly divorced and feel it is important for my daughter to learn to live within her means. I have had several conversations with my parents about this, but it hasn’t made any difference. I am concerned that if they do not stop enabling my daughter’s profligacy, her future will be ruined and she will be dependent on others for the rest of her life.

I want her to be able to support herself. My parents taught me this when I was small, and I can stretch the almighty dollar very far. I wouldn’t be where I am now if I hadn’t learned this, and I want the same for my child.

At the moment, I am not speaking to my parents. I don’t know how else to make them see how much they are hurting their granddaughter. Maybe if they see this in print, it will sink in. -- Undermined in Lewiston, N.Y. Dear Lewiston: Probably not. Grandparents have been known to indulge their grandchildren, but overdoing it is a form of selfishness. It makes the givers feel good, so they continue, even if the consequences are damaging.

How much bailing out is going on? If your daughter is behind with her bills and your parents are helping to support her, they are enabling. This largesse won’t last forever. However, if your parents give her money because she occasionally wants something special that she can’t afford, we’d leave it alone. Your daughter recognizes those purchases as gifts and doesn’t count on them to pay the rent.

Dear Annie: My daughter recently passed away after a lengthy illness. We are blessed to have had lots of support from friends and family, but I am bothered by the lack of response from her doctor.

We have had the same physician for 17 years. I understand that he and his colleagues and office staff might not have been able to come to the funeral, but is it too much to ask for a condolence card? Is there some medical ethic that prohibits this?

It will be difficult to go into his office for my next visit. I don’t want to stop seeing a competent doctor, but this situation has me very upset. -- Crying in California Dear Crying: It used to be a fairly common practice for doctors to send a condolence card when a patient died, but this is no longer the case, and we don’t know exactly why.

Unfortunately, the lack of a personal touch can give the impression that the patient was unimportant, and this is quite hurtful to the family. It might help you be more forgiving if you clear the air and tell the doctor how you feel. It might help him, too.

Dear Annie: Although I agree with your answer to “Worried Stepmom” regarding the equal distribution of the annual cash gifts, there is a channel Dad can take to help 33-year-old “Clark” from simply waiting for the money. For a minimal fee, an attorney can draw up stipulations for how and when the money can be used.

I have three sons. Two are driven, motivated and have direction in their lives. Our third has always fought depression and, like Clark, would rather watch TV and surf the Internet all day, with no care about his future.

Our directives indicate that the receivers of any inheritance continue their education to at least a four-year degree in any field and be employed. (An exception is made if he loses his job.) It could also stipulate mental health assistance, because a 33-year-old does not hang around his parents’ home with no direction unless he is depressed or mentally incapable. -Living It in Louisville

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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.

One Tree Wholistic Learning Center open house in South Portland 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. One Tree Wholistic Learning Center is hosting a community open house and grand opening celebrating its move from Portland to South Portland’s Redbank Village neighborhood. Open House with various performances, including Middle Eastern Dance and Drumming, Storytelling, Zumba, and Musical Performance. One Tree Wholistic Learning Center is a multi-faceted community resource center aimed at bringing all members of the community together to come up with innovative solutions for community issues. One Tree Wholistic learning Center offers programming in three areas: Roots & Fruits PreSchool is a peace centered school cultivating communication and problem solving skills, as well as compassion and understanding towards themselves and others; Seeds Institute offers training and workshops for diverse audiences to create positive social change through the promotion of peace and transformation; Community Branches Project includes outreach and integration among neighborhoods, individuals and organizations for the purpose of sharing services and promoting sustainability. 72 MacArthur Circle East, Redbank Village, South Portland. For more information about One Tree Wholistic Learning Center, please visit onetreecenter.org.

Burdock Benefit Bash 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Burdock Benefit Bash at Local Sprouts Cafe, featuring local artists, Peter Hazen, Chris Pulsoni, Tina Smith and the Rhythmic Cypher crew and the Tricky Britches.

Portions of the night’s proceeds from dinner and drinks sold will go to the Burdock Gathering 10-year anniversary, Aug. 2-9 in Starks. For more information on the Burdock Gathering please visit, http://sites.google.com/site/burdockgatheringmaine/ or visit us on Facebook @ 2011 Burdock Gathering.

Portland Police Department forum with the city’s deaf population

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 nearArmageddon.”

‘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 8993993.

Friday, May 20 Maine Treasurer Bruce Poliquin with MHPC at Dimillo’s in Portland noon to 1:30 p.m. The Maine Heritage Policy Center presents “Fiscal Prudence: The Foundation of a Healthy Private Sector Economy and Job Creation” by Bruce Poliquin, Treasurer of Maine. DiMillo’s On the Water, 25 Long Wharf, Portland. MHPC Member: $17 per person, inclusive of tax and gratuity.

Non-Member: $22 For additional information, please contact Amanda Clark at 321-2550 or aclark@mainepolicy.org.

Born in St. Louis, Dick Gregory began performing comedy in the 1950s while serving in the Army.

His show-business breakthrough came in 1961 with a successful stint, playing to primarily white 6 p.m. The Portland Police Department with audiences, at Chicago’s Playboy Club. That led to a three-year Playboy contract that brought Gregory assistance from the Maine Center on Deafness national recognition. A social and political activist, Gregory will perform at Bates College at 7 p.m. will host a second forum with the city’s deaf Monday, May 23, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. (COURTESY PHOTO) population to discuss safety concerns and ways Portland Public Schools graduations in Falmouth. This meeting is geared towards newcomthe department can improve its relationship with 8:30 a.m. It’s graduation season in Portland. Portland Arts ers to kayaking and anyone who wants to connect with the community. Deering Masonic Lodge, 102 Bishop St. and Technology High School (PATHS) kicks off graduation other kayakers. Come enjoy a slide show of sea kayak“The forum will provide an opportunity for members of the ceremonies on Friday. The Portland Public Schools will ing in Maine, good company and delicious refreshments. deaf community and those connected to them, including hold the following graduation ceremonies: May 20, 8:30 Experienced paddlers will discuss kayaking safety, necfamily members, employers and neighbors, to share their a.m., Building B, Portland Arts and Technology High School essary equipment, cool gear, how to choose a boat and thoughts openly and hear from the department about efforts graduation for the morning session; May 20, 11:30 a.m., ideas for trips. Make some new friends and plan summer to ensure that Portland is an inclusive and safe community Building B, Portland Arts and Technology High School adventures. No charge, no registration, all are welcome. for all.” ASL interpreters will be available at the forum. For graduation for the afternoon session; June 1, 10:30 a.m., For more information visit SMSKN.org. more information about the forum, call 874-8927 or email Portland Expo, Deering High School graduation; June jrob@portlandmaine.gov.

A Dash of Diva presents The Relish Magazine 2, 10:30 a.m., Merrill Auditorium, Portland High School The Longfellow Gardens discussed at MHS event graduation; June 2, 6 p.m., Merrill Auditorium, Casco Bay Cooking Show at the Portland Expo 7 p.m. The Annual Olmsted Lecture with Maine Historical High School graduation; June 9, 6 p.m., Merrill Auditorium, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Portland Expo, 239 Park Ave. Dash Society. “The Longfellow Gardens: The Evolution of Two Portland Adult Education graduation. of Diva. Tickets: $20 for general admission, $30 for VIDs Landmarks” by Lauren Meier, Pressley Associates, Cam(Very Important Divas). VIDs get access to the Expo starting Meet Portland’s city manager finalists bridge, Mass. “This gala evening will celebrate the rich hisat 4:30, plus they will have a catered backstage party with 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Portland’s City Manager Search tory and recent rehabilitation of the Longfellow Garden at Chef Jon from Relish. Every Diva will receive an apron and a Committee, comprised of City Councilors Cheryl Leeman Maine Historical Society in Portland and the garden at the gift bag filled with great items from: Relish, Calendar Islands (chair), John Anton and Jill Duson, announced the selecLongfellow National Historic Site in Cambridge, MassachuMaine Lobster, Cabot House Furniture, Broadway Gardens, tion of three finalists from 65 applicants for the city’s top setts.” www.mainehistory.org Massage Envy, Lia Sophia, Silpada, Selby Shoes, Cabot administrative position, city manager. The finalists include Cheese, Lindt Chocolate, The Maine Mall and Hammond Back Cove Neighborhood Association City of Portland Acting City Manager Patricia Finnigan, Lumber Company. Door prizes include: Tickets to the Sea7 p.m. The Back Cove Neighborhood Association (BCNA) Framingham, Mass. Town Manager Julian Suso, and North coast Country Music Festival featuring Brad Paisley (along is holding its annual meeting at 7 p.m. in the new Ocean Andover, Mass. Town Manager Mark Rees. As a part of the with Blake Shelton and Jarrod Niemann), Cabot House FurAvenue School, 150 Ocean Avenue in Portland. Anyone selection process, the public is invited to a reception to niture, $150 to Kerrygold, and more!

Tickets are available who lives or works in the Back Cove area, or has a child meet the finalists at the State of Maine Room in City Hall through www.portTIX.com attending Ocean Avenue School, is invited to attend. On the Friday between the hours of 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The City agenda are elections for 2011-2012 officers, discussion of Council will begin interviews this weekend and will make John Manderino at Longfellow Books the mayoral race, and plans for a summertime event. FMI, a final recommendation for city manager next month. The 7 p.m. John Manderino will read from his latest novel, “The contact John Spritz, 773-0872, jspritz@maine.rr.com.

City Council commenced their search for a new City ManH-Bomb and the Jesus Rock,” at Longfellow Books. Longager in February following the retirement of City Manager fellow Books events are free to attend and open to the Southern Maine Sea Kayaking Network Meeting Joseph E. Gray. community. Manderino’s fourth novel, “The H-Bomb and 7 p.m. Southern Maine Sea Kayaking Network Meeting at the Jesus Rock” takes place against the backdrop of the the Falmouth Memorial Library, located at 5 Lunt Road see next page

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Economist Stewart Wallis at Hour Exchange event

Commencement in Merrill Auditorium, Portland. Hornby joined the court in 1990 after his nomination by President George H.W. Bush and was chief judge from 1996 to 2003.

In 2009, he received the prestigious Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award, an annual honor given to a federal judge of national stature and exemplary contribution to justice. Hornby assumed senior status on the court in May 2010. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1969, Hornby clerked for Hon. John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Following his clerkship, he served as an associate professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, then moved to Maine and engaged in private legal practice. In 1982, Hornby became a federal magistrate judge for the District of Maine, a position he held until his appointment as an associate justice for the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in 1988. Ninety students will be awarded degrees at Saturday’s ceremony. http:// mainelaw.maine.edu/

5:30 p.m. World renowned economist Stewart Wallis of the New Economics Foundation in the United Kingdom is coming to the Maine Irish Heritage Center to speak on “The Great Transition.” “The Great Transition is about retooling local and global economies toward an economy that produces good jobs for everyone, improves human wellbeing, and decreases social inequality — and does this all within planetary limits.” The event is being presented by Hour Exchange Portland and is free and open to the public, doors open at 5:00 and there will be an open Q and A session to discuss local solutions.

All donations collected will go towards sustaining Hour Exchange Portland’s operations. “Hour Exchange Portland creates an alternative local economy of neighbors helping neighbors.

Neigh- A native of Montana, Bill Bowers grew up under the expansive Big Sky of the American Northwest. A small-town boy with big dreams bors exchange service cash- — and an even bigger imagination — he graduated from Montana’s Rocky Mountain College with the Dean’s Cup, President’s Award, free and tax-free based on and was Valedictorian. His extensive training and heartfelt personal style of acting and pantomime have led him on a incredible jourthe currency of time, where ney from regional stage to tours, television, film, and even Broadway. Bowers will perform at Lucid Stage in Portland on Friday and everyone’s time is equal no Saturday, May 27 and 28. (COURTESY PHOTO) Tour of Calvary Cemetery matter what the service being 10 a.m. The Maine Irish Heriety is having their annual plant sale May 21 from 8 a.m. provided.

Over the years tage Center plans a tour of Calvary Cemetery on Main to noon. It is held in the Horticulture Building at Southern Hour Exchange Portland members have exchanged over Street, South Portland, by Matthew Jude Barker. 780-0118 Maine Community College on Slocum Drive in South Port140,000 hours of community service and provided over National Public Works Week event in Portland land. Look for Plant Sale signs on campus. There will be 22,000 hours of free health care. Just last year members 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend daylilies, Hostas and other perennials for sale. of Hour Exchange Portland were able to winterize nearly regional events in the southern part of the state to celebrate 100 homes and the Exchange helped approx. 140 seniors, Friends of Feral Felines 12th annual Plant Sale National Public Works Week, May 15-21. With the theme 50 people with disabilities, 40 single parent families, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Rain or shine at 102 Saco St., Westbrook of, Public Works: Serving You and Your Communities, 400 lower income neighbors in the greater Portland area (corner of Saco Street and West Valentine Street). All prothe Maine Chapter of the APWA is proud to host several get services they needed while they contributed back to the ceeds benefit Friends of Feral Felines and helping feral cats regional events where the public can view various equipcommunity, utilizing their skills to help others. Anyone interin southern Maine. ment used everyday to keep roads and public infrastructure ested in finding out more or joining Hour Exchange Portland Deering Yard Sale working properly. Portland Public Services will be hosting can visit their website www.HourExchangePortland.org.”

9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Deering High School Yard Sale, costumes, an Open House at their Central Maintenance Facility on ‘Into Eternity’ properties, books and more. On the lawn, in front of the Hanover Street in Portland. Equipment will be on display 6:30 p.m. “Into Eternity” screening at the Portland Museum auditorium. For more information, please contact Kathleen and refreshments will be available. of Art. Friday, May 20, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 21, 2 p.m.; Harris at 874-8260.

Second annual WestFest Sunday, May 22, 2 p.m. NR. A film being screened at the Foreside Garden Club plant sale 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The West End Neighborhood Association Portland Museum of Art explores an effort to encapsulate 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

The Foreside Garden Club is having its will host the second annual WestFest event to be held rain radioactive waste underground. “While gigantic monster annual plant and bake sale the Falmouth Shopping Center or shine at the Reiche Community Center. “Our first event machines dig deeper and deeper into the dark, experts on Rte. 1 in Falmouth. We will be selling perennials dug from in 2010 was a huge success and we are looking forward above ground strive to find solutions to the radioactive our gardens, annuals and hanging baskets, herbs, and garden to gathering the community once again for a day of food, waste issue, solutions that can secure mankind now and related items as well as homemade baked goods.Thank you. fun, music, arts and crafts, animal, kid activities and MORE. in the future. A documentary timecapsule, it is a wondrous For more info call Mimi Hinkel at 829-3578.

WestFest 2010 brought 700 people out to enjoy the day at and frightening journey into the underworld and into the Reiche Community Center and we expect an even bigger future.” In English, Finnish, and Swedish with English subNational Public Works Week event in Westbrook crowd this year.” www.wenamaine.org/events.htm titles.

9 a.m. to noon. The public is encouraged to attend regional events in the southern part of the state to celebrate National Meet three authors in Portland Spring for 317!

Public Works Week, May 15-21. With the theme of, Public 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Meet and greet three Maine authors at 7 p.m. The stage at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 ConWorks: Serving You and Your Communities, the Maine ChapArby’s on Forest Ave., Portland on May 21 and 22, from 11 gress Street, Portland, will come alive with the sounds of ter of the APWA is proud to host several regional events where a.m. to 3 p.m. on both days. Eugene Elcik, the 78-year-old Bluegrass, Celtic, Folk, Country and more at Spring for the public can view various equipment used everyday to keep author of ‘desperation of souls’ and the soon to be released 317!, the annual concert to benefit the 317 Main Street roads and public infrastructure working properly.

The town of ‘The Lobsterman of Deep Cove, Maine’ will be available to Community Music Center scholarship fund. The multi-talWestbrook will be hosting an Open House and Reception at answer questions and sign books. The audacious crazy ented teaching staff at 317 Main Street will present a vigtheir facility on Saco Street in Westbrook This event will include Dane author who made Maine his home will have both orous selection of the wide variety of music styles taught tours of the facility, refreshments, and equipment will be on books; ‘Jerry the Joyful Jet’ and ‘The Almost Always Audaat the music school. Some of Maine’s best-known acousdisplay. This event will also give the resident of Westbrook a cious Adventures of Larry and Wuppy ... The Easter Puppy’ tic musicians will mix it up in many different arrangements chance to speak to management and staff of the Westbrook available for sale and autographs. Lars will also have sevand configurations in what promises to be night of great Department of Public Services and to learn more about a poseral pieces of his art on sale at prices the State of Maine can cameraderie and boundary-pushing musicianship. Performsible new Public Services facility. afford to replace the mural! Clay Hurtubise, owner of Raven ers will include Melissa Bragdon, Erica Brown, Diana Hansen, House Publishing, and author of ‘Drug Trip’ and “Shaman: Robin Jellis, Danielle Langord, Carter Logan, Andrew MarUNE Commencement Devil’s Deal’ will also be at the event. telle, Jason Phelps, Nicole Rabata, Steve Roy, Matt Shipman, 10 a.m. The University of New England will award assoKathy Slack, Joe Walsh, Jed Wilson, Tom Whitehead, and stuciate’s, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees — in Multicultural Exercise for Health and Love dent guests. The Portland-based bands (made up largely of osteopathic medicine, health sciences, natural sciences, noon to 6 p.m. Portland will hold its sixth annual Multicul317 staff) The Jerks of Grass, The Stowaways, and Niaia will social sciences, human services, education, management tural Exercise for Health and Love: a health fair that focuses perform as well. All tickets are $20. All proceeds go directly to and the liberal arts during a commencement ceremony at on health screenings and referrals for racial and ethnic the scholarship fund. Children are welcome. St. Lawrence Arts the Cumberland County Civic Center. Graduates will need minority communities in the Greater Portland area. The Center is handicapped accessible. Tickets are available online to arrive for the line up at 9 a.m. Doors will open for general event will celebrate the health and well being of Portland’s at BrownPaperTickets.com (http://www.brownpapertickets. seating at 9 a.m. U.S. Representative Michael H. Michaud, vibrant ethnic communities with multicultural food, dance com/event/172289) and in person at the Front Desk at 317 who represents Maine’s 2nd congressional district, will be and festivities. All attendees will be encouraged to take Main Street in Yarmouth during regular business hours. the guest speaker at the 2011 University of New England advantage of the culturally sensitive diabetes and heart Commencement exercises. Michaud will be awarded an health screenings, risk assessments and counseling. For Honorary Doctor of Laws degree. http://www.une.edu more information, contact Dr. Bankole, A. K. at 207-874Saturday, May 21 8773, or via email bak@portlandmaine.gov. Admission is Maine Law’s Commencement free. Portland Exposition Building, 239 Park Ave. 10 a.m. The Honorable David Brock Hornby, U.S. district Daylily and Hosta Society plant sale court judge for the District of Maine, will be the keynote see next page 8 a.m. to noon. Southern Maine Daylily and Hosta Socispeaker at the University of Maine School of Law’s 2011

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MPA Rising Tide Awards Dinner 6 p.m. Maine People’s Alliance Rising Tide Awards Dinner, Woodford’s Congregational Church, UCC, 202 Woodford’s Street, Portland. Doors open at 6 p.m. “As always, our annual dinner will be a chance to celebrate the progressive leaders whose commitment to social change has made a real difference for Maine families and communities. Award winners include MPA member Shanna Rogers from Lewiston, Kit St. John of the Maine Center for Economic Policy and Representative Diane Russell of Portland. This year’s dinner will also be a chance for hundreds of us to recommit ourselves to the fight for justice. We know that Governor LePage’s vision for Maine is not shared by the majority of Mainers. We can stop him and his corporate backers, but we’ll have to work hard — door-knocking, phone-banking, writing letters — especially between now and 2012.” Keynote speaker Jesselyn Radack, Homeland Security Director of the national Government Accountability Project (the nation’s leading whistle-blower group), will share her experience holding government accountable to our vision of a just and free society. Tickets are $20 or $150 for a table of eight. Discounted tickets are available for a limited time by emailing charlene@ mainepeoplesalliance.org. 797-0967 to order by phone.

‘Seven Shades of Green’ screened

Portland Youth Dance Company 7 p.m. The Portland Youth Dance Company will highlight unique choreography and dancers at Portland High School.

The show, “A Year in the Making,” will feature choreography developed by local artists and Broadway choreographers.

The evening’s performance will also feature the dancers from the Outreach program. “Since 2002, over $15,000 dollars have been awarded to 21 underprivileged dancers to take dance classes through the scholarship program.

This year’s show is sponsored by The Thomas Agency and Canney Communications.” The Outreach program has been running since 2006 and has reached over 700 students in the greater Portland area. Students have been given an opportunity to learn from Company members and members have been given a chance to teach and give back to their community. Portland Youth Dance is committed to promoting leadership, character and services through dance performance, educational and dance outreach. Call Portland Youth Dance at 712-4308 or purchase tickets at CascoBay Movers on Forest Avenue in Portland.

Will Juggle for Water! benefit 7:30 p.m. Will Juggle for Water! A Benefit live action and comedy showcase by famed juggling act “TWO” at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. This performance is a benefit for Engineers Without Borders (EWB). For more information on the act please visit www.twoshow.com. Tickets are $15 and available by placing advanced order at 347-3075 or by purchasing at our box office the evening of the show. www. stlawrencearts.org

Sunday, May 22 Unity Center for Sacred Living 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Unity Center for Sacred Living, “an open, interfaith, Oneness oriented Spiritual Community ... here to evolve consciousness through what we call The New Spirituality,” is holding services. “We know that the essence of Spirit is within each and every one of us, and our aim is to create a safe and sacred space for each person to explore their own perception of Spirituality. UCSL offers weekly gatherings that are informative, creative, interactive, and sometimes ceremonial followed by fellowship. We hope you will come join us for our alternative services known as Sacred Living Gatherings.” Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Williston-West Church, Memorial Hall (2nd floor), 32 Thomas St. Portland. For more information call 221-0727 or email centerforsacredliving@gmail.com.

Maine Comics Arts Festival 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Maine Comics Arts Festival returns to Portland this May to celebrate the comic book art form. Over 100 comic writers, artists, publishers and cartoonists are expected to attend and exhibit at the third annual event on May 22 at Ocean Gateway on Portland’s waterfront.

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Animal Refuge League Spring Fling Open House 10 a.m. The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland will be holding a Spring Fling Open House at its facility, 449 Stroudwater St., Westbrook. The event features the ARL’s annual kitten shower, where guests are invited to fill the “Kitty Care-A-Van” with necessary supplies for the kittens expected to arrive in the next few weeks. The popular annual plant sale will kick off the event at 10 a.m. with all other festivities beginning at 11 a.m. “This year some very exciting features have been added to make it a memorable event for the whole family. Kid’s activities (such as face painting and crafts), fun family photos, and exciting new animal demonstrations. Miss Teen Maine USA 2011, Alexis McIwain will start the festivities by introducing the ARL’s new mascot, Miss Kitty and guests are invited to enjoy bake sale items (for humans and pets!) animal supplies, food and much, much more!”

Herb Adams lecture on the Civil War 2 p.m. Lecture by local historian Herb Adams on the Civil War, the first of many at the Maine Irish Heritage Center to commemorate the 150th anniversary. 780-0118

SMCC commencement 2 p.m. Southern Maine Community College will celebrate its sixty-fourth commencement at the Cumberland County Civic Center. Tickets are not required, and there is no limit to the number of guests that can attend. For anyone requiring special accommodations or seating, please contact the Student Life Office at 741-5967. Event parking for students and guests is available at the municipal garage adjacent to the Civic Center.

‘The Thinking Heart’ in Portland 3 p.m. Four performances of “The Thinking Heart: the Life and Loves of Etty Hillesum,” will be presented in the Portland area during April, May and June. Conversation concerning the work will follow performances. Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland, on May 22, at 3 p.m. Contact: Caroline Loupe, cmloupe@ maine.rr.com, 926-5983. Admission: Donation requested.

Glickman Family Library at the University of Southern Maine, 314 Forest Ave., seventh floor, Portland, on June 2, at 7 p.m. This performance is sponsored by Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. Contact: Joshua Bodwell, Executive Director, director@mainewriters.org, 228-8263.

‘Jekyll & Hyde’ auditions in Auburn 6 p.m. Lewiston-Auburn Community Little Theatre is announcing auditions for “Jekyll & Hyde,” the musical, calling for a huge cast, adults only please, on Sunday, May 22, and Monday, May 23, both days at 6 p.m. at Great Falls Performing Art Center, 30 Academy St., Auburn.

Performance dates are August 5-14. FMI, please access www.laclt.com.

Monday, May 23 Rally for Peace in Darfur noon to 1:15 p.m. Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) presents a Rally for Peace in Darfur/A New Southern Sudan at Monument Square (if it rains, the event will be in The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St.) This event is free and open to the public.

College scholarships for Riverton students 1:30 p.m. C Port Credit Union will give 15 college scholarships of $100 each to third, fourth and fifth graders at Portland’s Riverton Elementary School at an awards ceremony on May 23 at in the Riverton cafeteria. The credit union began partnering with the school on the “Riverton and Beyond” program four years ago. “The program aims to raise students’ aspirations and to get them thinking early about postsecondary education. Students work with a college advisor to identify what they love to do now and how that might carry into future college studies. They also learn about writing college scholarship essays. The credit union chooses scholarship recipients based on their essays.” see next page

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7 p.m. A screening of the documentary, “Seven Shades of Green” at the Maine Irish Heritage Center (Includes conversation afterward with writer/director Justin Bell.) Watch the trailer at: www.sevenshadesofgreen.net. “Seven Shades of Green” is a feature length documentary showing the journey of a partial Irish-American narrator from home in Boston up to Maine and over to Nova Scotia, to Scotland, then to Ireland. Themes explored include: Irish identity, immigration to the US and Ireland, history, the economy, faith, and storytelling itself. Suggested donation $7. Call 780-0118 or 232-2001.

Public Library to offer programming on Saturday, May 21. Workshops and discussions include workshops on graphic novels, drawing workshops for kids, and many other events. All of Saturday’s events are in the library located at 5 Monument Square in Portland and are free and open to the public. The main festival exhibit runs on Sunday, May 22 at the Ocean Gateway facility located on Thames Street on Portland’s waterfront. Admission is $5, with kids 12 and under admitted free. For additional information visit the official festival website at http:// mainecomicsfestival.com or call Casablanca Comics at 780-1676. The Maine Comics Arts Festival is a production of Casablanca Comics of Portland. “Casablanca Comics is an award winning comic book retail store with two locations in southern Maine. Store owners Rick Lowell and Laura O’Meara have been sharing their love of comics with the public since 1987.”

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Dick Gregory at Bates College 7 p.m. Dick Gregory, the African American comedian who transcended show-business success to become a prominent activist for social justice and civil rights, performs at Bates College in Lewiston, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Sponsored by the Bates Program in African American Studies and the Multifaith Chaplaincy, the event is open to the public at no cost, but reservations are required. Please contact 786-8272. “Gregory was one of a handful of black comedians who broke from the minstrelsy tradition to redefine the role of African American comedy.

Throughout his career, he has used satire to comment on current political and race issues, turning his incisive humor and fame to good advantage in the civic arena. Today, the 78-year-old Gregory is also recognized as an entrepreneur with expertise in nutrition, but his focus remains on social and racial justice.”

The Singing Men of Maryland 7:30 p.m. The Peaks Island Music Association presents The Singing Men of Maryland. The Singing Men of Maryland will perform at the Fifth Maine; 10 fabulous male voices, alumni of the Maryland State Boychoir, will sing a diversity of songs; free admission; a free-will offering will be taken to help defer their expense.

Tuesday, May 24 The Tuesday Group artists 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Tuesday Group, a group of local artists, will be exhibiting at the Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, continuing through the end of June.

The exhibit is free and open to the public during library hours. (Monday, Friday, Saturday: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.). For more information visit the library’s website: www.falmouth. lib.me.us or call 781-2351.

family. The Sea Dogs will open a special section located along the left-field line in the ballpark for fans to be able to attend a Sea Dogs game with their beloved dogs. Tickets for the special dog section of the ballpark are $9 and include access to the park for both yourself and your dog. Only 300 tickets are available. Tickets for you and your dog are available for $9 by calling the Sea Dogs’ Box Office at 879-9500 or online at www.seadogs.com by clicking on the “Bark in the Park” icon.” Gates open for the Bark in the Park at 4:30 p.m., and there will be a special entrance for the dogs and their owners. There will be a doggie parade at 5:15 in which fans may parade around the warning track with their dogs, lead by Slugger the Sea Dog. After the parade, those who have tickets to the Bark in the Park section of the park are welcome to enjoy the canine relief area, wading pool, watering station, and dog treats. Doggie Valets will be on hand to care for pets while people visit the Hadlock Field Concourse. The event is B.Y.O.B (Bring your own bag).

DEPA ‘Business After Hours’ 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The DownEast Pride Alliance “Business After Hours” Networking Event will take place at District, 45 Danforth St., Portland.

“Delicious appetizers, cash bar & media table will be provided. District is an American neighborhood restaurant & raw bar.” FMI: www.depabusiness. com. “The DownEast Pride Alliance s a GLBTQ business networking group in Southern Maine meeting monthly at local establishments for ‘Business After Hours’ events that provide a safe forum for, and help strengthen, the local gay & gay-friendly business community.”

Wednesday, May 25

Slugger the Sea Dog visits with fans during a game last summer at Hadlock Field. The Portland Sea Dogs, Double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, will host the annual “Bark in the Park” next Tuesday. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

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4:30 p.m. The Portland Sea Dogs, Double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, will host the annual “Bark in the Park” event when the Sea Dogs take on the New Hampshire Fisher Cats at 6 p.m. at Hadlock Field. “Take your dog out to the ballgame and enjoy a baseball game with the entire

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