The Portland Daily Sun, Friday, May 6, 2011

FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2011

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Campaign mailings cause stir in SoPo-area senate race

Dead snake found at area recycling plant See story on page 3

City’s budget forecast ‘mostly sunny’ See Jeff Spofford’s column on page 4

Candidate says GOP mailings distort record

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

SOUTH PORTLAND — The race to fill a state senate seat that includes South Portland, Cape Elizabeth and parts of Scarborough is getting ugly, as both sides seek to gain the upper hand in the final days before the May 10 special election.

Three-term state Rep. Cynthia Dill, D-Cape Elizabeth, is running against former state Rep. Louie Maietta, a South Portland Republican, for the District 7 seat that was vacated earlier this year see CAMPAIGN page 15

Deputies Taser, subdue suspect in Sebago call; guns recovered

Longfellow Garden ready for close-up See the story on page 6

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Back in black?

A note about The Daily Sun’s recent look: Due to a press breakdown, we were unable to run color Thursday or today. Repairs are underway to rectify the problem.

Deputies may have averted a standoff and shootout with a suspect Wednesday in Sebago after they Tasered and subdued a man during a domestic violence

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Sylvia Kania Gallery artist Seth Mullendore speaks with a patron Thursday afternoon. The gallery will be open for First Friday Art Walk tonight and celebrating the close of their Cheap Art Show, featuring a range of works from local artists all priced under $50. (MATT DODGE PHOTO)

Walk on: $12,000 donation makes bank city’s lead Art Walk sponsor Survey: Creative economy generates $28,643,867 in Portland

BY MATT DODGE the local economy, espeTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN cially on Congress Street,” A $12,000 donation to said Sterling Kozlowski, support Portland’s monthly president of Key Bank for First Friday Art Walk will the Maine district.

See the story on page 8 make Key Bank the lead Kozlowski said that the sponsor of the monthly Art Walk is a valuable arts event and hopefully “You go to other cities and walk around on a asset to the local arts have a halo effect on community and does other downtown busi- Friday night and then you come to Portland and a lot to set Portland ness, the bank’s presi- walk around on a Friday night, you’re going to apart. “I think that if dent said. notice a big difference.” — Sterling Kozlowski, you look at any vibrant “It helps the local art president of Key Bank for the Maine district city, it’s going to have organizations and local great arts institutions,” business. There are over he said.

10,000 visitors that go through Art Walk annu“You go to other cities and walk around ally, and it has a fairly substantial impact on see WALK page 9

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Body kept under wraps BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.

(NY Times) — Yvette Vickers’s first appearance on a big screen was a fleeting part in “Sunset Boulevard,” the 1950 classic about a former Hollywood star turned recluse living in a crumbling mansion with her butler.

Eventually, the film’s story came to parallel Ms. Vickers’s own. What is presumed to be her body, mummified and severely decomposed, was found inside the Beverly Hills home where she had lived alone for years. Friends and neighbors, who had not heard from her since last summer, suspect she may have been dead almost a year.

“The body had been there for a while, that’s all I can say,” said the Los Angeles County assistant chief coroner, Ed Winter.

Although the body was found on April 27, the coroner’s office has yet to positively identify it, a task made difficult by the decomposition. By this week, neighbors had begun to talk publicly about Vickers’s death.

“Everyone around here knew who she was,” said Susan Savage, the neighbor who found the body. “When I first moved here 20 years ago, she was much more active. She was one of the first Playboy Playmates. She was proud to be known for her beauty.”

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Obama honors victims of bin Laden at Ground Zero

Pakistani army chief warns U.S. on another raid

(NY Times) — President Obama laid a wreath of red, white, and blue flowers at ground zero on Thursday, honoring the nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 2001 terrorist attacks and marking the death of its perpetrator, Osama bin Laden.

A tourist took a photograph of the World Trade Center site before President Obama’s visit on Thursday. The hushed ceremony on a sunny, breezy day was a somber coda to a triumphal

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (NY Times) — The head of Pakistan’s army, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, said Thursday that he would not tolerate a repeat of the American covert operation that killed Osama bin Laden, warning that any similar action would lead to a reconsideration of the relationship with the United States.

In his first public reaction to the American raid early Monday that left many Pakistanis questioning the capacities of the nation’s army, General Kayani did not appear in person, choosing instead to convey his angry message through a statement by his press office and in a closed meeting with selected Pakistani reporters.

The statement by the army’s press office said, “Any similar action violating the sovereignty of Pakistan will warrant a review on the level of military/intelligence cooperation with the United States.”

General Kayani had decided that the number of American military personnel in Pakistan were to be reduced “to the minimum essential,” the statement said.

week that began with Mr. Obama’s announcement that commandos had killed Bin Laden in his fortified compound in Pakistan.

Now, in the wreath ceremony and in a series of meeting across Manhattan on Thursday, the president had a chance to meet one-to-one with the people whose lives were changed most deeply by Bin Laden — relatives of the victims, as well as firefighters and other rescue workers who lost comrades that morning.

Republicans in House signal retreat on Medicare plan WASHINGTON (NY Times) — House Republicans signaled on Thursday that they were backing away for now from the centerpiece of their budget plan — a proposal to overhaul Medicare — underscoring the political risks of addressing the nation’s long-term fiscal problems.

Republican leaders insisted

that they remained committed to the Medicare proposal, put forward by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, which has drawn intense attacks from Democrats and liberal groups in recent weeks. But they chose not to proceed with legislation this year, effectively putting the issue off until after the next election.

The development came as Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. held a first negotiating session with members of both parties seeking a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling. Republicans are demanding spending cuts and other measures to restrain the budget deficit as the price of a deal.

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Another snake found in regional recycling center A second snake in two years turned up in the recycling materials at ecomaine, the nonprofit municipally owned recycler “No one would announced. ever think a Staff found a dead snake amid snake is recyclathe recyclables ble, so, whoever delivered to the is responsible facility. “This is probably misthe second snake in two years and took a recycling we really don’t container for a want another one,” said Kevin waste container.”

Roche, general — John Morin, manager. ecomaine’s The single-sort recycling facility recycling facility “becomes less effimanager cient for our communities when people add food items, animals, and other non-recyclable items,” Roche said in a press release.

John Morin, ecomaine’s recycling facility manager, said, “No one would ever think a snake is recyclable, so, whoever is responsible probably mistook a recycling container for a waste container.”

Harrison woman sentenced for theft from MaineCare Dawn L. Solomon, 43, of Harrison, was sentenced Thursday in Oxford County Superior Court for stealing more than $4 million from the MaineCare Program, Attorney General William J. Schneider and Maine Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew announced in a press release.

Solomon, a former MaineCare day habilitation service provider, pleaded guilty on Dec. 17, 2010 on one count of felony theft by deception. Oxford County Superior Court Justice Robert W. Clifford sentenced Solomon to eight years imprisonment with all but 42 months suspended and three years of probation, the press release stated.

Solomon was also ordered to pay full restitution.

Hollywood Slots applauds vote for Bangor arena Hollywood Slots Hotel & Raceway praised a vote in Bangor for a new arena and convention center.

Bangor voters approved construction of a new $65 million facility by

Recycling operator Goran Dobric displays a dead snake found at an ecomaine facility. (COURTESY PHOTO)

a 3-to-1 margin on Wednesday, the Bangor Daily News confirmed, and the result was praised by Hollywood Slots Hotel & Raceway.

In a press release, John Osborne, general manager of Hollywood Slots Hotel & Raceway, applauded the decision of Bangor voters to uphold the decision of the Bangor City Council to build a new arena in place of the Bangor Auditorium.

“This is a proud day for Bangor and all of Eastern Maine,” said Osborne.

“It appears as though Bangor voters have agreed with the City Council by deciding that we must continue to invest in our future. The new arena will bring new opportunities for entertainment, for business, and for attracting visitors to the region.”

Osborne is also chairman to the Board of the Greater Bangor Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Portland has seen its own spurt of convention center news, with recently announced private development of a hotel and tourist destination on Thompson’s Point and Shipyard Brewing Co.’s announced plans to build an events facility on the city’s East End.

Bangor man sentenced for home invasions A 46-year-old Bangor man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for two home invasions in Maine, The Associated Press reported.

Dennis Wood was sentenced Thursday in the Penobsot County Judicial

Center for attempting to break into a Bangor home in December when he and another man knocked on a door and asked for help, telling the homeowner their car had broken down. He pleaded guilty to robbery and aggravated assault charges in December.

House OKs contentious health care overhaul The Maine House has approved a health care overhaul bill that seeks to ease state regulations and open the health insurance market to more competition.

The bill, which opponents claim was rushed out of committee and will not deliver on promises to lower insurance rates, was approved by a 76-72 vote, The Associated Press is reporting.

Republican supporters say it would make insurance available to more Mainers by allowing purchases across state lines. The bill faces further House and Senate votes.

On Facebook, Rep. Ben Chipman, I-Portland, wrote, “L.D. 1333 is being rushed through with a last minute 48 page amendment that nobody has had any time to read.” Rep. Diane Russell, D-Portland, wrote, “This is a sad day for Maine people. Our health insurance laws have been re-written by the health insurance industry with no transparency, public input or even an ability to read the amendment until late last night.”

The Maine Heritage Policy Center, a conservative think tank, wrote, “LD 1333 makes much-needed changes to current health care regulations that have driven up the costs of health coverage, and driven out private insurance companies.”

King school to host Celebration of Learning Students from King Middle School in Portland will exhibit their work at the school’s annual Celebration of Learning on Thursday, May 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Portland Expo.

Hundreds of student products will be displayed, and students will be on hand to talk about their work, the school reported. The Celebration of Learning is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact King teacher David Grant at grantd@portlandsdchools.org or call 874-8140.

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Where is the death certificate, Mr. President?

Osama bin Laden is dead. Of that, I have no doubt.

To question this statement one would have to question the skill and bravery of the Navy SEALS and believe that the master terrorist who occasionally appears in propaganda videos and audio recordings is capable of perpetually eluding all human and technological intelligence.

The unparalleled success of Sunday’s mission makes President Obama’s decision to not release the bin Laden “death photographs” especially confounding. When an event organizer cut off the sound to candidate Ronald Reagan during a debate with George H.W. Bush, Reagan famously said, “I paid for this microphone!”

Well, Mr. President, the American people paid for those photographs. More than a trillion dollars, in fact, if you factor in the cost of the Department of Home––––– land Security, two wars, and the Guest Opinion care for more than 40,000 veterans who have been wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq.

President Obama said that “given the graphic nature of these photos it would create a national security risk.” I respectfully disagree.

Radical Islam creates the national security risk.

There were no photographs that prompted the attacks on 9/11, the missile strike on the USS Cole or the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon.

Does anyone seriously believe that the terrorists will hate us less if the photos are not released than they

Jimmie L. Foster

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Portland budget forecast: Mostly sunny The city’s Finance Committee last week gave us their two cents, or rather, two tenths of a percent when they trimmed the budget to lower the proposed 2.2 percent tax increase city manager Pat Finnigan submitted to a much more palatable 2.0 percent. The cut was heralded by all involved in the process as a victory, as not only would the tax increase be lower, but that no city services would be cut and for the first time in three years, there would be no layoffs of city employees.

Good so far.

It is really quite amazing that with a large unionized staff, the rising cost of healthcare and the skyrocketing price of fuel, the finance folks were able to keep the tax rate lower than one might expect during the inflationary times in which we live. The most amazing part is how they did it.

In case you didn’t get the memo, the good times are just ahead. The real story here isn’t the budget and the resultant low-to-thembut-not-to-us tax increase. The real story is the Picassos behind the curtain that forecast revenue.

In good times, forecasting reve-

Jeffrey S. Spofford ––––– Ayuh! nue is an easy task. One only has to take a look at year-over-year, month-over-month or even weekover-week trends, find an appropriate percentage, plug that into an Excel workbook and watch the numbers increase in each column.

In good times, some forecasters will even knowingly nudge down the percentage, to make things look really great when a month comes and goes, and turns out better than expected. That’s when governments have surpluses and businesses have profits.

In bad times, forecasting is an art. It’s the art of pleasing your boss. A person in charge of making forecasts always has a boss. The boss of the forecaster has the ability to do the forecast and, in many cases, has a better understanding of what the forecasted numbers should be. But

because the boss needs plausible deniability when explaining any shortfall to the ownership, or in this case, the taxpayers, the stopgap forecasting position lives on.

I was in just such a position. I used to forecast circulation revenue at a certain 75 cent newspaper here in town. Times were (and are) tough for the paid newspaper business. All trends were pointing down – way down. I knew it, my boss knew it. But it didn’t matter. The expectation was that my forecasts were to be flat, or show modest growth. The decline became so rapid, and the meetings so vicious when my forecasts were inevitably off, that I would produce two forecasts – one that reflected the true trend and a second oil-on-canvas masterpiece that made everyone rejoice. The first month the true forecast came out dead-on, I was relieved of my forecasting duties.

See, as a forecasting artist, I wasn’t paid to be right. I was paid to be wildly optimistic. It looks to me that the revenue forecast we got from the city must have come from just such an artist. see SPOFFORD page 5

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Friday, May 6, 2011— Page 5

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Does Osama death make Obama unbeatable?

It’s the oldest truism in politics: You can’t beat something with nothing. For 2012, the Democrats have something: Barack Obama. The Republicans, so far, have nothing.

This could change. But who is going to change it? And when? It may seem like the Republicans have lots of time until the 2012 campaign, but they do not. Obama is already running for reelection and already raising money.

Lots of money.

For the GOP, the sands are rushing through the hourglass.

Item: The Quinnipiac poll finds “Still No Clear Leader in GOP Field.” Pollster Peter Brown says: “It is difficult to get a handle on the 2012 Republican race. Many contenders are not well known, and many who are known are not liked, making their candidacies problematic.”

The killing of Osama bin Laden by the Obama administration shows what a difference a death can make.

Not to world security — that is still dicey. But the Republican field has been fried like an egg.

Item: “The day after a one-day Washington Post poll found Obama getting a nine-point bounce in his approval rating, a new two-day New York Times/CBS survey shows the president’s numbers increasing 11 points, from 46 percent last month to 57 percent now,” says First Read. “The increase in Mr. Obama’s ratings came largely from Republicans and independents.”

Item: Bruce Keough, the 2008 director of Mitt Romney’s New Hampshire campaign, says he won’t rejoin in 2012 because, according to a Mother Jones interview, “he’s no longer sure what Romney stands for.” Keough says: “I

Roger Simon ––––– Creators Syndicate don’t think the voters are looking for somebody who’s going to be recasting himself. They want somebody who’s been true to a certain set of political ideals for a while.”

No matter how well Republicans did as a party in the last congressional elections, their presidential field was shallow in 2008 — and it is shallow today.

In 2008, the Republican order of finish based upon delegates to the nominating convention was: John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter. Rudy Giuliani ran in the primaries but ended up with no delegates. The rest of the field of Alan Keyes, Sam Brownback, Tom Tancredo, etc., withdrew before the primaries.

Take a gander at those names, and tell me how many you can actually see in the Oval Office running the country today? Two? One? None?

Here is the Republican field for 2012 based on the highly useful Real Clear Politics average of leading polls.

The potential candidates are, in order: Huckabee, Romney, Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Paul, Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels and Rick Santorum.

Jon Huntsman is said to be preparing to run but is not yet being included in national polls. Others may

also enter.

Huckabee is polling at 16.6 percent, Romney at 16.5, Trump at 16.3, and Palin at 10.1. All the rest are in single digits.

Again, take a look at the entire field.

How many would make you comfortable if they were sitting in the Oval Office, making decisions about the economy, health care, education, the environment, and war and peace?

If you came up with any names at all, how confident are you that any one of them could defeat Barack Obama in November 2012?

And now you see the problem for the Republicans. It’s not the billion dollars Obama is expected to raise, it’s not that he has gone through a presidential general election campaign while none of the Republicans have (except Sarah Palin as the vice presidential nominee in 2008), it’s not his oratorical skills and mastery of the issues — he has not spent the last 28 months just golfing (although he has spent a lot of the last 28 months just golfing) — it’s the image he has created based upon his record of a competent, cool, skilled, experienced, capable leader of this country.

Has he done things that have disappointed Democrats and enraged Republicans? Of course. I have written about many of them week after week, especially his perilous policy of continuing the war in Afghanistan and his launching of a confused and confusing war in Libya.

But Obama also rescued the economy, saved the auto industry, expanded health care to millions of children, passed health care reform for everybody, repealed the ban on gay men and women serving openly in the

military, and eased the restrictions on stem cell research.

And oh, yeah, he found and killed Osama bin Laden.

Presidential campaigns can be marked by high velocity changes. The media are much too driven by polls (I try to resist this, but often fail), and as a White House operative reminded me recently, the two leaders at the beginning of the last campaign were Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani. (Both made grievous mistakes: Hillary underestimated Obama, and Giuliani underestimated the ability of Americans to dislike New Yorkers.)

The media and public have been mesmerized by Trump in recent weeks. He led the polls by 9 percentage points a month ago. But a presidential campaign is a meat grinder, and Trump has now been minced. Today, he is largely seen as just another buffoon with delusions of adequacy. He is not now and will not ever be a credible challenger to Obama.

Does this mean we don’t need an election campaign in 2012 and that Obama has already won?

Nope. He has vulnerabilities. He is going to have to defend a four-year record. And the economy could tank.

Even further. The Republicans could beat this guy. All they have to do is find someone to do it.

They have to find a candidate who is smart, gutsy, nimble, creative, credible, determined and capable of raising vast sums of money.

Give me a minute, and I’ll try to come up with a name.

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

Americans spent nearly $1 trillion to kill Osama bin Laden FOSTER from page 4

already do now? Will the “death to America “chants that have existed since the Iranian hostage crisis suddenly morph into love sonnets?

The American people are tired of walking on eggshells to placate a violent ideology that respects neither innocent civilians nor the amazing humanitarian work performed by our soldiers every day.

The problem is not blasphemous cartoons or even misguided pastors burning Korans. It’s the people who react with barbarous acts of violence usually inflicted on innocents who had nothing to do with the original “offense.” Where does the First Amendment include exception clauses for cases that might incite radical Islamists? Mr. President, they hate us anyway.

My organization, The American Legion, does not rejoice at any death. But let us remember what bin

Laden has wrought. He is the reason more than 6,000 U.S. military families have buried loved ones lost in combat since 9/11. He is the reason our children are now groped in airports by security officials.

He is the reason that the level of mistrust between the overwhelming majority of peaceful Muslims and those of other faiths exists.

It is not about gathering trophies or “spiking the football,” as the president mischaracterized it. It’s about showing a replay to season ticket holders who were barred from entering the stadium.

The photos are no doubt bloody and graphic. But do you know what else is painful to see? The burns on the faces of patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Or the eyes of Michael Nordmeyer, the father of 21-year-old Zach Nordmeyer, a soldier and member of The American Legion who was killed in Iraq two years ago. It still pains most of us to look at images of firefighters running into the World Trade

Center for the very last time.

There will be some who doubt the official version of bin Laden’s death whether the photographs are released or not. But not releasing this evidence would surely be adding steroids to these nonsensical conspiracy theories.

Some say the photographs will bring closure.

Others see it as a need to satisfy a thirst for vengeance. I prefer to think of them as symbols of justice.

The raid on bin Laden’s hide-out is a truly great moment in American history.

Mr. President, release the photographs. We paid an enormous price for them.

(Jimmie L. Foster of Anchorage, Alaska, is national commander of The American Legion, the nation’s largest wartime veterans organization with 2.4 million members.)

City expects ‘clear skies’ despite ominous forecasts to the contrary SPOFFORD from page 4

The city’s revenue forecast is based on the assumption that the good times are literally just around the corner. It’s based on more people paying taxes on new cars, paying more for services, real estate values going up and etcetera.

Basically, the optimism we are only going to have to contribute an additional 2.0% to, is based on the concept of continuous, sustained growth.

But wouldn’t it be the fiscally responsible thing to cut services, eliminate positions, consolidate offices and perform other cost cutting measures until such a time that there is some evidence of it?

No need, says the city, the 365-day forecast reads “clear skies.”

So here we are. Citizens of Portland in the know standing open-jawed in awe as the city heralds the fact that they “only” had to increase taxes by 2 percent and “expects” an increase in revenue when in

reality, based on flat, or more than likely, lower revenue, the increase in taxes should probably be in the “mostly cloudy” 4-5 percent range.

Meteorologists rejoice! The weather forecast never looked so accurate.

(Jeffrey S. Spofford, the circulation manager for The Portland Daily Sun, lives in the Oakdale neighborhood and can be reached at jspofford@maine. rr.com.)

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Over 200 years, after some fits and starts, Longfellow Garden coming back to life When famed poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow returned to Portland to visit family at his childhood home, he likely was greeted by the sight of vine-covered brick walls and assailed by the aroma of verdant lilac bushes.

Today from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Longfellow House at 489 Congress St., the public can stroll through an exhibit of images from the 1786 home’s historic garden, and those seeking time for reflection can sample the garden itself, or at least a recreation of the family's "oasis of green" which became an unexpected green space in downtown Portland.

In a First Friday Art Walk event, the local art community will celebrate the opening of Maine Historical's new exhibit, "Images of the Longellow Garden," an exhibit running through June 30 in the Shettleworth Gallery at Maine Historical's headquarters at 489 Congress St. Ensconced in gallery space abutting the Longfellow House, the exhibit is a collection of historical images that document the evolution of the Longfellow Garden in its 200year off-and-on life.

Don't expect a literal replica of family members planting herbs or sampling flowers, however; this isn't a garden like you might see in other museums, cautioned John Mayer, Maine Historical Society museum curator.

"It's really not trying to recreate a historic space as much as continuing the tradition of commemorating the work of Henry Longfellow and his family," Mayer said.

"We don't have the information that we need to recreate the landscape that was there when the Longfellow family was in the house," Mayer explained. "There were some lilacs that we know were part of the site, so we continued that."

In 1784, Adjutant General Peleg Wadsworth, maternal grandfather of the poet, bought the lot where three generations of the family lived in the house and kept a garden. "In 1901, Henry’s sister, Anne Longfellow Pierce, bequeathed the house and grounds to Maine Historical Society, with the stipulation that a library be built as a permanent home for MHS," the society's website says (www.hwlongfellow. org/house_garden.shtml).

"The garden as a whole was rehabilitated following preservation standards, and retains the character and replicates many of the plantings found in Lamb’s original sketches," the website explains, drawing the distinction between a plant-by-plant recre-

Nicholas Noyes, head of library services at the Maine Historical Society’s Alida Carroll and John Marshall Brown Library at 485 Congress St., shows off the restored Longfellow Garden in spring 2009. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

Today from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Longfellow House at 489 Congress St., the local art community will celebrate an opening of Maine Historical Society’s new exhibit, “Images of the Longfellow Garden,” running through June 30 in the Shettleworth Gallery. ation and a more abstract replication.

Not everything in the garden is strictly representative. One plant with historical pedigree is a lilac dating to Anne Pierce’s time, which was removed and cared for at O’Donal’s Nursery Garden Center during a 2007 building renovation. That lilac has now been replanted.

Other plants hearken to the early days of the Longfellow Garden Club, a group which created the formal garden plot in 1926.

"By 1924, when Pearl Wing started the Longfellow Garden Club, the garden had grown neglected, and had been surrounded by tenements, a theatre, and other new buildings," the MHS website explains. "The club hired landscape architect Myron Lamb, who created a Colonial Revival style garden. The club started a fund for the garden’s upkeep and has been tending it since its creation. In 1980, club members convinced MHS to open the garden to the public, instead of reserving access for those taking a tour of the Longfellow House."

In June 2009, the Maine Historical Society reopened the Longfellow Garden following a two-year closure and dismantling of its contents to accommodate a renovation and expansion of the adjacent MHS Library.

"We have been fortunate enough that we can manage the site that includes the space behind the house," Mayer said.

"It is pretty surprising that a garden space has survived this many years."

"The house was given to us in 1901," Mayer noted, "and when it came to the historical society for the first time, we had enough land that we could build a permanent home, and the garden was the open space that was retained."

But the garden by then "had morphed into an anomaly, certainly on the urban landscape of Portland," Mayer said.

Longfellow wasn't born in the Congress Street house (his childhood home actually was located where a Residence Inn by Marriott is today on Fore Street), but he grew up there, and "he was close enough that he came back and he maintained a close tie with the family," Mayer noted.

Writings chronicle "his reminiscences with his family about the things he enjoyed seeing when he came here, for the longest time there was a rainy day room ... and the vine-covered brick walls that were part of the house when he was here," Mayer said.

Dismantling the garden in 2007 and restoring it in 2009 meant another start for a green space that's seen its share of changes.

"What I think ultimately will make that garden the popular spot that it had been ... is this feeling of a very lush green space.

Right now we're two years into the garden so it's just starting to take hold," Mayer said.

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Victor Berge, 48, was charged with reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, domestic violence terrorizing and refusing to submit to arrest and detention after an incident Wednesday in which officers Tasered and arrested him following a brief struggle, a sheriff's office press release stated.

Following the arrest, upon entering the suspect's residence, deputies found that Berge had placed several firearms at various locations throughout the residence "in anticipation of what appeared to be evidence of a possible standoff and shootout with the deputies," the sheriff's office reported.

The episode began on Wednesday at approximately 9:30 p.m., when sheriff's deputies responded to a home in Sebago on an initial report of a “911 hang-up.”

"As deputies were en-route to the call they received information from a female resident who stated that her husband was intoxicated and was threatening suicide," the press release stated.

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Berge refused the deputies' commands to submit to arrest and his aggressive behavior continued to escalate.

Sergeant Josh Potvin fired his Taser at Berge, striking him in the chest, but Berge yelled at Sgt. Potvin and then pulled the Taser probes from his chest, continuing to challenge the deputies, the sheriff's office reported. At this point Sgts. David Hall and Potvin grabbed hold of Berge and after a brief struggle, placed him under arrest, the sheriff's office reported. Bail has been set at $2,500 cash, according to the county.

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ON THE TOWN Cheap Art Show speaks to gallery’s mission

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Sylvia Kania Gallery concludes its Cheap Art Show this weekend, featuring a range of works from local artists, all priced under $50.

“It’s an opportunity for artists to get their stuff out there that they have sitting around, things that are cheaper items that they wouldn’t be able to get into galleries normally,” said artist Seth Mullendore. The show was open to any local artist, and also featured work from students of the Artvan, a mobile arts therapy program which uses the arts as a healing agent for safe, creative expression and self discovery in children and teens.

“The artist of Sylvia Kania Gallery are all represented here and then a number of different artists who are guests for this show,” he said. “It’s been great so far, we’ve had a good response from the public and a lot of stuff has been selling.”

Mullendore said the Cheap Art Sale fits in with the underlying mission of the gallery, which normally houses the work of four artists.

“The mission is to break down the walls between people who enjoy art and galleries themselves. People who don’t know as much about art are afraid to go in and ask a lot of questions, and they don’t think they can afford it,” he said.

“Shows like this kind of break down that wall. They are affordable and accessible,” he said.

Sylvia Kania Gallery is located at 566 Congress St. The gallery is open from noon to 8 p.m. today for First Friday Art Walk.

Anne Strout, a West Falmouth mixed media artist, surveys the work in Sylvia Kania Gallery’s Cheap Art Show, running now through the weekend. (MATT DODGE PHOTO)

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on a Friday night and then you come to Portland and walk around on a Friday night, you’re going to notice a big difference,” said Kozlowski. “The streets are full of people, the restaurants are vibrant, there is life.”

As the administrative organization behind the Art Walk, The Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance (PACA) will be the official recipient of the $12,000 donation, which will to go toward the “general support” of the city-wide event. Art Walk includes a free trolley during the summer months to shuttle patrons through the Congress Street corridor.

“I always think of Congress as a non-tourist area generally, kind of where Portland people hang out and shop and congregate. To see it full of people on a Friday night is a very exciting display. We’re happy to support that,” said Kozlowski.

Economic survey results revealed At Wednesday’s meeting of city arts group Creative Portland, CP/PACA joint executive director Jennifer Hutchins also reported on the status of The Arts & Economic Prosperity Survey IV. Conducted

by Americans for the Arts, the year-long survey is aimed at gauging the economic impact of the many concerts, gallery shows, plays and arts events hosted in Portland each year.

This survey was able to involve a longer roster of local arts organizations than when it was last conducted in 2007.

“I’m grateful that last time we had 53 [organizations] and this time there are 76. I’m hoping that will provide us with some even more robust data,” said Hutchins. The number of audience survey is also expected to double, rising from 450 to 900, according to Hutchins.

“I always think of Congress as a non-tourist area generally, kind of where Portland people hang out and shop and congregate. To see it full of people on a Friday night is a very exciting display. We’re happy to support that.” — Sterling Kozlowski, president of Key Bank for the Maine district Data collection for the survey began in early 2011, and will be analyzed in early 2012, with results coming in the spring of that year. The survey will cost CPC $4,500 which can be paid in installments over three years. “I’m optimistic about getting great data for next spring,” said Hutchins.

The city last participated in the survey in 2007. At that time, the creative economy’s impact on Portland was estimated at $28.64 million annually, based on the expenditures and revenues generated by nonprofit arts and culture organizations both directly and indirectly.

“It generates a calculator for the community so any organization can plug in what their annual budget is and determine what their economic impact would be on the city,” said Nat May, executive director of Space Gallery.

Space Gallery, a nonprofits arts venue with a $300,000 budget, generated $1 million in economic activity within the community according to the 2007 survey.

The figure included not just ticket sales, but parking, food and drink expenditures of those patrons who attend a show at the venue.

In Portland, the creative economy generated $28,643,867 in revenue from both organizations and their audiences, creating 877 full-time equivalent jobs, and $1,636,000 in local government revenue, according to the survey.

The work of Russel Whitten is on display as part of Sylvia Kania Gallery’s Cheap Art Show. (MATT DODGE PHOTO)

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Others seek your opinion, not because they will allow themselves to be influenced by it, but because it will show them who you are. They will decide whether or not to trust you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Your ancestors had to struggle for freedom, and sometimes you feel that the fight continues in you. It’s a different battlefield, but the battle is the same. This is your chance to be valiant.

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Carve out some time for taking care of yourself. Believe it or not, this is your main responsibility in life -- not one you should avoid for too long.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 6).

You’re not averse to competition. You realize that the big rewards go to those willing to take a risk. Your calm and confident ways will give you the edge.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll be in a daring mood, leaning into a positive view of the future. Your plans will shape you. However, the present moment is all you’ll ever really have or need.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your choices won’t please everyone, no matter what they are. Defending them may be a waste of time. Avoid the argument, and just know that as long as you do right by your own code, good will come of it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll be united in a common purpose, or at least in the general sense that such a thing does exist. There’s an energetic bond between you and the group. And though it’s invisible, you can feel it.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Friday, May 6, the 126th day of 2011. There are 239 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On May 6, 1861, Confederate President Jefferson Davis approved an act passed by the Confederate Congress recognizing that a state of war existed with the United States of America. Arkansas and Tennessee passed Ordinances of Secession from the Union. (Arkansas’ secession took effect immediately; Tennessee’s was ratified in a popular vote the following month.)

On this date: In 1889, the Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.

In 1910, Britain’s Edwardian era came to an end upon the death of King Edward VII; he was succeeded by George V. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration.

In 1937, the hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.

In 1941, Josef Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership, replacing Vyacheslav M. Molotov.

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In 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960. Britain’s Princess Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey. (They divorced in 1978.)

In 1981, Yale architecture student Maya Ying Lin was named winner of a competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

One year ago: A computerized sell order triggered a “flash crash” on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones industrials to a loss of nearly 1,000 points in less than half an hour.

Today’s Birthdays: Baseball Hall-ofFamer Willie Mays is 80. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., is 77. Rock singer Bob Seger is 66. Singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore is 66. Gospel singer-comedian Lulu Roman is 65. Actor Alan Dale is 64. Actor Ben Masters is 64. Actor Gregg Henry is 59. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is 58. TV personality Tom Bergeron is 56. Actress Roma Downey is 51. Rock singer John Flansburgh (They Might Be Giants) is 51. Actor George Clooney is 50. Actor Clay O’Brien is 50.

Rock singer-musician Tony Scalzo (Fastball) is 47. Actress Leslie Hope is 46. Rock musician Mark Bryan (Hootie and the Blowfish) is 44. Rock musician Chris Shiflett (Foo Fighters) is 40. Actress Adrianne Palicki is 28. Actress Gabourey Sidibe is 28.

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Friday, May 6 Owls of Maine 10 a.m. to noon. “Owls have unique characteristics that set them apart from other birds. The Owls of Maine program introduces the audience to the habits and adaptations of Maine’s native owls. The special features of these nocturnal birds will be demonstrated through displays and live owls.”

Jeff P. Nixon Development Center, 225 Douglass St., Portland.

Recent work by Kyle Bryant at Edward T. Pollack 5 p.m. May 5 through June 25, Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts presents The Things We Carry: Recent Work by Kyle Bryant. Opening reception, Thursday May 5, 5-8 p.m. There will be a gallery talk by the artist in June. Please contact the gallery for further information. Also July 1 through Aug. 31, At The Shore, a celebration of activities performed on or near lakes, ponds and oceans. Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts Rare Books & Fine Prints, 29 Forest Ave. 699-2919, www. edpollackfinearts.com.

Images of the Longfellow Garden 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Art Walk with Maine Historical Society. Opening Reception: Images of the Longfellow Garden. “Join the local art community in celebrating the opening of our new exhibit (May 6-June 30) in the Shettleworth Gallery, Images of the Longellow Garden. This exhibit is a showcase of historical images that document the evolution of the garden through the years. The exhibit celebrates spring and the wonder that is shared by all who enjoy the garden. Mingle with friends, enjoy refreshments and music, and visit our ongoing exhibit, Zoom In: New Approaches to Maine History which closes at the end of May.”

The Telling Room’s annual writing and storytelling project on display at Portland Public Library 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. As part of the First Friday Art Walk, three separate shows including highlights from The Telling Room’s annual writing and storytelling project, Dunia Moja/One World: A Peregrine Press and Zanzibar Print Exchange, and social justice and memoir comics created by local middle school students will all be open to visitors to the Portland Public Library from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. In the Lewis Gallery is an exhibition of collaborative prints created jointly by the artists of Portland’s Peregrine Press and the artists of Women Networking in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The two resulting matched sets of collaborative prints are unique, showcasing the deep similarities — and mysterious differences — between kindred spirits working “together” across a distance of 6,000 miles. Dunja Moja/One World is open through May 28. Next to the Lewis Gallery on the lower level are highlights from PLAY, The Telling Room’s 2010-11 community writing and storytelling project. Culled from work with nearly 2,000 students from Wells to Calais this year, the stories, poems, photographs and videos featured accompany the release of The Telling Room’s fifth anthology, “How To Climb Trees: 40 Poems and Stories About Play.” Among the highlights of the show are works by 12 immigrant and refugee high school students in the Young Writers & Leaders Program and winners of a statewide writing contest. Following the Art Walk, much of this work will be on display on the lower level through the end of June.

In the Rines Auditorium, social justice and memoir comics created by King Middle School students will be on display as part of the national Memento Nora Project.

First Friday Art Walk: Slack Water 5 p.m. SPACE Gallery presents work of photographer Mark Marchesi, who spent the summer of 1999 at a shellfish wholesaler on Portland’s waterfront. “He began taking pictures of this unique remnant of Maine’s industrial heritage, and in 2008 began a concerted series documenting the rough beauty of Portland’s wharves, facilities and their workers. Special zoning and respect for marinederived economy have helped preserve the character of this part of the city, keeping development in check.

Yet change is inevitable, and how the Portland community chooses to manage the relationship between the old and the new will be an ongoing conversation for years to come. Marchesi’s crisp photographs find color, beauty and vibrancy that’s still very much alive in this important area that goes unseen by so many of us.” http://www. space538.org/events.php

‘The Town that YES Made’ 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Lalo Boutique at 142 High Street in Portland hosts the artists of YES Art Works with “The Town that YES Made,” “a whimsical collection of buildings and vehicles designed and created with wood, cardboard, papiermâché and paint. The miniature village reflects the creative perception and joyful interpretation of the world around us by a group of artists with disabilities. LaLo will also premiere hand-screened t-shirts and aprons as well as showcase a selection of paintings, wall quilts, and hand-woven scarves from YES Artists.” Work will be on display from May 5 to 31 with an opening reception during Portland’s First Friday Art Walk on Friday, May 6 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Global Fight League announced it’s bringing its brand of Mixed Martial Arts to Maine for one of the first MMA events ever held in the state.

Today, May 6 is the official sanctioned date by the Mixed Martial Arts Authority of Maine to hold the Global Fight League’s 11th installment; 6 p.m. at the Portland Expo. (COURTESY IMAGE)

Artist Natalia Martinez reception 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. A reception for artist Natalia Martinez at the Museum of African Culture, 13 Brown St., Portland.

“Come visit the museum. Enjoy a discussion with the artist about her photo exhibit ‘Strangers’ now showing in our Contemporary Gallery.” www.museumafricanculture.org/ events/current

Not Just Dance — A First Friday Event 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Arthur Fink is best known in Portland as a dance photographer, and that is, indeed, a passion of his.

But for this First Friday, on May 6, he’s assembling a show of other work — streetscapes, scenic images, signage, and portraits from Monhegan, Cape May, Holland, Scandinavia, and other places. Look for an eclectic and colorful mix, including many early works shot with — film!” Fink’s studio is located at 145 Newbury St. (just off India Street, close to Coffee by Design). It will be open from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for this event, and is also available for visits at most other times (contact Arthur Fink at af@ArthurFinkPhoto.com or 615.5722 to confirm that he’s there).

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

No reservations are necessary, and in case of inclement weather, audiences are encouraged to check Acorn’s website at www.acorn-productions.org or call the business office at 854-0065. May 6 at 6 p.m., Cymbeline; May 7 at 2 p.m., Comedy of Errors; May 7 at 6 p.m., Cymbeline; May 8 at 2 p.m., Comedy of Errors; May 8 at 6 p.m., Cymbeline; May 13 at 6 p.m., Cymbeline; May 14 at 2 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 15 at 2 p.m., Comedy of Errors; May 15 at 6 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 20 at 6 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 21 at 2 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 22 at 2 p.m., Cymbeline; May 22 at 6 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra. Free, suggested donation $10. FMI: www. nakedshakespeare.org or 854-0065

‘Queen to Play’ film screened at PMA 6:30 p.m. “Queen to Play” screens at Movies at the Museum at the Portland Museum of Art. Friday, May 6, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 7, 2 p.m.; Sunday, May 8, 2 p.m. NR. “Oscar winner Kevin Kline (‘A Fish Called Wanda’) and the

luminous Sandrine Bonnaire (‘Vagabond’) square off in this stylish and sophisticated dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the postcard-perfect isle of Corsica. Lovely, repressed, and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène (Bonnaire) discovers she has a knack for chess. This obsession-much to the chagrin of her husband and teenaged daughter-leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor (Kline, in his first French-speaking role)-a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives. In French with English subtitles.”

Couples Connecting: A Friday Night Date 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Aliveness, Connection, Understanding. An evening workshop with Nancy Hathaway. Simple Playful Mindfulness Exercises for Couples. Using Skillful Techniques from many traditions-Zen, Tibetan Buddhism, Vipassana, Non-violent Communication. All exercises done in pairs with your partner. Center for Studying Mindfulness, @Living Well, 836 Main St., Westbrook. To Register: Hathaway.N@gmail.com

Global Fight League in Portland 7 p.m. “Bellum Combat Association is proud to announce a dual partnership with Global Fight League to bring New England’s premier MMA Promotion to Maine. Global Fight League is excited to bring their brand of Mixed Martial Arts to Maine for one of the first MMA events ever held in the state. May 6 is the official sanctioned date by the Mixed Martial Arts Authority of Maine to hold the Global Fight League’s 11th installment. Doors at 6 p.m. Fights begin at 7 p.m.” Portland Expo. http://www.bellumca.com/contact.htm

Portland Playback Theater First Friday 7:30 p.m. This month’s theme for Portland Playback Theater is “Growing Up.” “Our memories of childhood range from the sublime to the ridiculous. When did you realize you’d turned the corner from childhood to being a ‘grown up’? Or what times have challenged you to think if you’d grown up at all? Grow up all over again with Portland Playback. Every month Portland Playback Theater puts five talented actors at your disposal to play back the moments of your life, unrehearsed and on the spot. Now in our sixth year, we have brought hundreds of audience stories back to life.” First Parish Church, at the intersection of Congress and Temple (just up from the Nickelodeon). $7 suggested donation. Find out more at www.portlandplayback.com.

Pianist plays ‘hits’ of Bach, Liszt and Beethoven 7:30 p.m. Frank Glazer, one of Maine’s most eminent pianists, performs popular selections by Bach, Beethoven and Liszt at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates College, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. On the program: Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor, Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B minor and Beethoven’s 33 Variations on Waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, Op. 120. The performance is open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required. For more information, contact 786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu. see next page

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Mad Horse Theater presents ‘Spring Awakening’ 8 p.m. Mad Horse Theater presents “Spring Awakening,” by Frank Wedekind, translated by Jonathan Franzen. The play runs Thursday through Sunday, May 5-22 at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 899-3993. “First performed amid scandal in 1906, the play explores the dawning sexual and intellectual awareness of young, German teenagers.

Banned in its 1917 New York run after one night, the play is comic, unsentimental, and brutally authentic.An ensemble of 20 actors, ranging in age from 14 to 70, perform the original 1906 script that was the basis for the 2007 Tony Winning Musical sensation. Wedekind’s unsentimental and brutally authentic, comedic treatment of such radical content as teenage sex, and suicide created public outrage and charges of obscenity. Best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen’s exquisite translation captures all of the drama and sarcasm of the original script.” Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18 and $20. Thursdays are pay-what-you-can. For reservations please call 899-3993. More information is available at www.madhorse.com.

Saturday, May 7 Brewing For A Cause 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sebago Brewing Company is pleased to announce they will be holding the second annual Brewing For A Cause. This event was conceived to raise funds for the Trek Across Maine, a three-day, 180-mile bike ride in support of the mission of the American Lung Association. This is the third year that Sebago has had an employee cycling team participating in the event. Sebago brewers and will be brewing “Trekker Pale Ale” and attendees will be able to participate in the brewing process as well as take a case of this special Single Batch Series home! It will be a full day of brewing (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and lunch will be provided for all attendees. Tickets are $125 and are now available to the general public on the Sebago Brewing Company website. This unique fundraiser sold out very quickly last year, so Sebago is encouraging people to purchase tickets early if they’d like to attend! For more information visit sebagobrewing.com, call 207-856-2537, or email jon@sebagobrewing.com.

Absentee voting, voter registration at City Hall 8 a.m. to noon. The City Clerk’s office will be open for absentee voting and voter registration for Tuesday’s School Budget Validation Election. For the May 10 election, Portland voters will be asked: “Do you favor approving the Portland School Budget for the upcoming school year that was adopted at the latest City Council budget meeting?”

Maine’s School Administrative Reorganization Law requires all school districts to hold elections for approval of their budgets. The budget must be approved by a majority of voters. Detailed information about the school budget may be found on the Portland Public Schools Web site at www. portlandschools.org. Absentee ballots are available upon request and can be returned to the City Clerk’s office in City Hall now between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Residents can register to vote in person at the City Clerk’s office. On Election Day, residents must register at their polling place. All local polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 10. Absentee ballots must be returned to the City Clerk’s office by 8 p.m. on May 10. For more detailed information about where or how to vote, contact the City Clerk’s office at 874-8677. Voters can also check online to locate their polling place online, http://www.portlandmaine.gov/voter/pollplace.asp.

Workshop on solar shower building 9 a.m. On May 7-8, Mike Beaudry, a timber framer, timber hewer and log builder from Montville, will lead a two-day workshop at Newforest Institute in Brooks. The main project during this workshop will be the construction of a roof frame for a solar shower building. Starting with logs, participants will hew out dimensional timbers, cut joinery, make trunnels, and raise and trunnel the frame. Workshop fees are a sliding scale from $90 to $180 depending upon ability to pay for two days including lunch and snacks. Attendees have the option to register for breakfasts and dinners and overnight accommodations or tenting space for a modest fee. For more information and to register, please contact Newforest at info@newforestinstitute.org or 722-3625.

Falmouth Rotary Club electronics recycling day 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Rotary Club of Falmouth will host an electronics recycling day at the Falmouth Shopping Center parking lot on U.S. Route 1 in Falmouth. Town residency is not required. Items accepted include household electronics such as TV’s, computers , monitors (keyboard, mouse), printers, scanners, DVD players, VCR’s, radios, stereos, microwaves ovens, cell phones, game consoles, cords, circuit boards, and digital picture frames. Falmouth Rotary is

a volunteer service organization that supports a variety of community and international causes, including the Rotary Youth Exchange Program, polio eradication, Safe Passage, the Falmouth Food Pantry, Maine Childrens Cancer Center, and girls literacy in Afghanistan.

Falmouth Rotary Club electronics recycling day 9 a.m. The Rotary Club of Falmouth will host an electronics recycling day on Saturday, May 7 from 9-2 at the Falmouth Shopping Center parking lot on U.S. Route 1 in Falmouth.

Items accepted include household electronics such as TV’s, computers, monitors (keyboard, mouse), printers, scanners, DVD players, VCR’s, radios, stereos, microwaves ovens, cell phones, game consoles, cords, circuit boards, and digital picture frames. “This event allows people to drop off their electronics so they can be recycled or disposed of in an environmentally friendly way”, says Anne Payson of the Falmouth Rotary Club. “We simply ask that people make a donation to Rotary at the time they drop their items off. Donations will go primarily to the our Rotary Youth Exchange Program.” Falmouth Rotary is a volunteer service organization that supports a variety of community and international causes, including the Rotary Youth Exchange Program, polio eradication, Safe Passage, the Falmouth Food Pantry, Maine Childrens Cancer Center, and girls literacy in Afghanistan. Items that will be NOT be accepted include appliances and white goods (ovens, washer/dryers, stoves), items with freon such as refrigerators and air conditioners, fluorescent bulbs, and mercury-bearing items (thermo, thermostat).

New Gloucester quilt show 9 a.m. to noon. A quilt show is to be held at the New Gloucester History Barn, Route 231, behind the Town Hall, New Gloucester. Local quilters working in a variety of styles will be featured. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the New Gloucester Historical Society.

Resisting Racism workshop 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Resisting Racism workshop with Ewuare X. Osayande of POWER (People Organized Working to Eradicate Racism). Also Sunday, May 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., University of Southern Maine Wishcamper Center, Room 102 (Building directly behind the Main Library); $20-100 sliding scale. “Please be as generous as you can. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Registration is encouraged and appreciated!” For more info, contact RousePortland@gmail.com or 949-6668

Symposium on artist studios 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Art On-Site: Studio Practice in 21st-Century Art,” hosted by Portland Museum of Art. Price: $35; members: $25. Auditorium and Portland Studios. “What role does an artist’s studio play in the creative process?

From the 19th-century studios of Winslow Homer and Frederic Church to contemporary artists working on Congress Street, Maine has been a magnet for artists. This day-long symposium begins with artist and author Joe Fig, whose decade of interviews with artists resulted in his book Inside the Painter’s Studio as well as pushing him in a new direction for his own work. Fig’s doll-housed sized recreations of artists at work in their studios ask us to think about studio, place, and practice. David Row, painter and 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial juror will discuss how place relates to practice with illustrations of his New York and Maine studios. We will then break for lunch in the Museum Café before going on our tour of Portland studios in the afternoon. Studio visits will include: Joe Kievitt, Lauren Fensterstock and Aaron Stephan, Charlie Hewitt, as well as The Artist Studio Building where many artists will be in their studios for questions.

The day concludes at SPACE Gallery with all the participating artists. Lunch at the Museum and a concluding reception at SPACE Gallery with participating artists is included in the registration fee. This symposium is the second of a series of three to celebrate the opening of the Winslow Homer Studio in September 2012.” http://portlandmuseum.org

Protest of Aegis destroyer at Bath Iron Works 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The Navy will “christen” another Aegis destroyer on Saturday, May 7 at Bath Iron Works.

Peace groups in Maine plan to hold a protest at the event from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Following the protest people are invited to come to the Addams-Melman House (212 Centre St) in Bath for a pot luck lunch at noon. The protest is being sponsored by the Smiling Trees Disarmament Farm, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Maine Veterans for Peace and CodePink Maine. For more information please contact 763-4062 or 443-9502.

Kid Open Studios: Tunnel Books! noon. SPACE Gallery will host a lesson in tunnel bookmaking led by Ashley Shoukimas. “These books are a set of pages bound with two folded strips on each side, viewed through a hole in the cover. Making tunnel books is a really fun and easy way to explore landscape and achieve depth of field with simple materials.” Drop by anytime from noon to 3:30 p.m. Suggested age is 5 and up.

Peace Action Maine 2011 Peace Supper 4 p.m. This year’s Keynote Speaker for the Peace Action Maine Peace Supper will be Medea Benjamin. Supper at 5 p.m. Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland, $20. “Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of both CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. She has been a tireless advocate for social justice for more than 20 years. Described as ‘one of America’s most committed — and most effective — fighters for human rights’ by New York Newsday, and called ‘one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement’ by the Los Angeles Times, Medea has distinguished herself as an eloquent and energetic figure in the progressive movement. In June of 2005, she was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize collectively, on behalf of the millions of anonymous women who do the essential work of peace worldwide. Since the September 11, 2001 tragedy, Medea has been working to promote a U.S. foreign policy that would respect human rights and gain us allies instead of contributing to violence and undermining our international reputation. In 2000, she was a Green Party candidate for the California Senate.

During the 1990s, Medea focused her efforts on tackling the problem of unfair trade as promoted by the World Trade Organization. Widely credited as the woman who brought Nike to its knees and helped place the issue of sweatshops on the national agenda, Medea was a key player in the campaign that won a $20 million settlement from 27 US clothing retailers for the use of sweatshop labor in Saipan.

She also pushed Starbucks and other companies to start carrying fair trade coffee. A former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization, Benjamin is the author/editor of eight books, and she currently lives in Washington, D.C. Her speaking topic at the Peace Action Maine Peace Supper will be ‘From Egypt to Washington D.C.: How to Build a Peoples’ Movement for Peace.’” Call Peace Action Maine at 772-0680.

The Mad Hatter Affair by MHS 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. The Mad Hatter Affair at the Woodlands Club in Falmouth. “Consider this an official invitation to the Mad Hatter Affair, MHS’s gala fundraiser. Now in its 15th year, the Mad Hatter is a festive Kentucky Derby party, a spirited way to welcome spring, and great opportunity to support MHS. The Mad Hatter offers a chance for friends of MHS and guests to gather, dress up in derby attire (outlandish hats encouraged!), sip mint juleps, watch the race live from Churchill Downs, and to dine and dance the night away. Activities include a hat parade and contest, and live and silent auctions. For more on this wonderful evening, including photos from last year’s event, visit the MHS blog. Tickets: $100/person.” FMI and to buy tickets, contact Elizabeth Nash at 774-1822, ext. 206 or enash@mainehistory.org.

‘Seascapes’ art reception in Cape Elizabeth 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Cape Elizabeth painter Etsuko Leeaphon will present. “Seascapes from Japan, Thailand and Maine” at Thomas Memorial Library May 2-31. An opening reception will be held at the library on Friday, May 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The event is open to the public.

Thomas Memorial Library, 6 Scott Dyer Road, Cape Elizabeth. 799-1720.

Reindeer Records’ Off-Ramp: Exit 26 7 p.m. The accomplishments and performances of nine high school rock bands from across the state who, for the past six months, have been participating in Reindeer Records’ Off-Ramp: Exit 26 competition will be showcased and saluted in a red-carpet finale at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center. Each band will perform a final brief set which will include their original composition entitled “I Scream At Walls” they each created for the competition, and the audience will also be treated to the band’s music video of the same song, projected on the WPAC’s huge hi-definition screen. After the final set, an Awards Presentation will highlight the top achievers in some of the many tasks and categories that the bands were evaluated on during their Off-Ramp journey, and will include some special guest presentations. One band will walk away with Reindeer’s title of “Best Young Band in the State of Maine” plus $1,000 for each musician. The nine bands include: Beware Of Pedestrians — Gorham HS, Scarborough HS; Crossed Out — Gorham HS; Midnite Haze — Telstar Middle/HS; Phantom Companion — Falmouth HS, Waynflete; Stuck In Neutral — Boothbay Region HS; The Modest Proposal — Freeport HS; The Resistance — Erskine Academy, Maine Central Institute, Warsaw Middle School; The Study of Wumbo — Scarborough HS, Kennebunk HS; and Where’s Robert? — Mt. Ararat HS, Morse HS, Brunswick HS. The finale is open to all ages. Tix are $10/adv, $12/door. FMI, contact Reindeer at 857-9002 or reindeergroup.org. For complete info on the bands and the competition, visit keepmecurrent.com and click on the Off-Ramp: Exit 26 icon. see EVENTS page 16

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Friday, May 6, 2011— Page 15

Dill said her children opened mailbox to find ‘smear’ literature CAMPAIGN from page one

by Democrat Larry Bliss. Bliss moved to California for a new job.

Dill says conservative groups have tried smearing her reputation in several candidate mailings sent out over the past few weeks. The state Republican chairman, who stood behind the mailings, accuses Dill of being an out-of-touch liberal.

In an interview this week, Dill said groups supporting Maietta have “deluged” the district with “really offensive and hateful pieces of mail.”

“I am running on my record of being an effective and responsible representative for my community, and I am running on my vision for where I want Maine in the future,” she said.

“Unfortunately, the Republican Party and some of the Tea Party groups have polluted our community with a lot of hate, and it looks completely similar to the tone set by the LePage administration,” Dill added.

Dill, 46, said her children recently opened the mailbox to find a “glossy” mailer accusing her of being reckless about handgun violence. Other mailings have described her as a radical liberal and as being a rubber-stamp for the Democratic Party.

“This election is about the Republican Party basically trying to distort my record, smear my reputation, and make me look like some kind of crazy person, when in fact, I am mother of two, I drive a station wagon, and I have a yellow lab.”

“I have a legislative record I am proud of. I have a moderate pro-business voting record and I am a staunch defender of civil rights,” she continued, adding that she stood up to the Baldacci administration on school consolidation.

Maietta, 54, is out of the country attending his daughter’s wedding. He did not return multiple voicemails seeking comment on the race.

Maine GOP chairman Charlie Webster, who is helping run Maietta’s campaign, said this week that “all

the mailers that have gone out, that I have seen, have been factual.”

“The problem with some politicians, on both sides, is they don’t want anyone to know about (where they stand on) the issues,” he said, adding that the state Republican Party has paid for some, but not all, of the mailers.

He noted that left-leaning groups have paid for mailers on Dill’s behalf.

Webster says Maietta was a “true moderate” when he served in the state legislature in the last decade. “He’s a lot like that in his personality: calm and deliberative.

He likes to work both sides of the aisle, whereas she is very outspoken and extremely liberal and very partisan. We think it’s a clear choice,” Webster said.

Webster described the District 7 contest as a “classic race” between a “blue collar worker and a liberal Democrat; the working class versus an elite Democrat.” see MAILING page 16

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Analysts predict close race; vacancy a ‘must-win’ for Democrats MAILING from page 15

Dill works as a civil rights attorney. According to Webster, Maietta has been working most recently in real estate, rather than in any manual trade.

Earlier this week, Maine Public Broadcasting Network reported that Maietta has tax liens for more than $14,000 on three properties he owns in South Portland. The station also reported that the Maietta family construction firm is bankrupt, and that a judge has ordered Maietta to pay more than $770,000 to a 96-year-old woman who he once had power of attorney over.

Political analysts are predicting a low-turnout race that will hinge, largely, on what politically-involved voters from both parties think of the two candidates.

“It will probably be reasonably close because this is a district where I think party affiliation is fairly

close and elections have been contested,” said Oliver Woshinsky, Professor Emeritus of political science at University of Southern Maine.

He described both candidates as within the mainstream of their respective political party in a district that’s pretty evenly split. Still, he gives Dill the advantage.

“I’d say ... that you would bet on the incumbent member of the House because she has won an election to legislature more recently,” he said. “But they are .. both well known. I think it will be reasonably close, and will depend on legwork and getting people to the polls.”

Ethan Strimling, a former state senator from Portland who served with Maietta in Augusta, and local political analyst for Channel 6, downplayed the impact of outside forces like the Tea Party and Gov.

Paul LePage.

“There are not a lot of coattails in Maine either way,” he said. “I think for the most part this is a race on the two of them. If one candidate wins big, it will be because people wanted that candidate to win” rather than how they feel about LePage.

There are 20 Republicans in the state senate, 13 Democrats and 1 Independent in the 35-seat chamber. Before Bliss vacated his seat, Democrats had 14 members.

Given those numbers, Strimling says this race is a “must win” for Democrats if they want any shot at retaking the majority in the state senate in 2012 or 2014.

If Republicans can win in District 7, he said it would mean they could “see themselves in the majority in the state senate as far as the eye can see.”

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‘Piano Men: The Music of Elton and Billy’ 7:30 p.m. The Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra will perform the world premiere of “Piano Men: the Music of Elton and Billy,” dedicated to the array of hits created by the two pop music icons Elton John and Billy Joel, on Saturday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland. “Elton John and Billy Joel have sold more than 350 million records combined. This tribute performance mixes a four-piece pop group with a full orchestra in song arrangements rarely heard before. Performers include longtime

Billy Joel drummer Liberty DeVitto and Joseph Boucher on piano and vocals. Arrangements by Christopher Eastburn.

For song selections and information on performers, visit www.pianomenmusic.com.” Tickets cost $16.50 and are available through the State Theatre: www.statetheatreportland.com, by phone at 1-800-745-3000, or in person at the Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland.

Asbury Shorts exhibition in Fryeburg 7:30 p.m. Asbury Shorts, New York City’s longest running short film exhibition, will present its acclaimed program known as “The Short Film Concert” at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center. The theater is located at 18

Bradley Street in Fryeburg on the campus of Fryeburg Academy. Tickets cost $10 general admission/ $7 for students. Call 935-9232 for all show information and directions or email: boxoffice@fryeburgacademy.org. The presentation is recommended for ages 16 and above.

Mad Horse Theater presents ‘Spring Awakening’ 8 p.m. Mad Horse Theater presents “Spring Awakening,” by Frank Wedekind, translated by Jonathan Franzen. The play runs Thursday through Sunday, May 5-22 at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 899-3993. Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18 and $20. Thursdays are pay-what-you-can.

Fourth of July bash to return The July 4th Portland Foundation has announced that the second annual Stars and Stripes Spectacular will be held on Portland’s Eastern Promenade on Monday, July 4.

Maine’s largest annual Independence Day Celebration, the inaugural event last year drew an estimated 60,000 spectators, with tens of thousands more watching the fireworks display from the shores of nearby towns and from boats on Casco Bay, organizers noted.

“There is no more spectacular sight than fireworks over Casco Bay,” said Jon Jennings, one of four founders of the Stars and Stripes Spectacular and July 4th Portland Foundation, a nonprofit created to privately fund the celebration. “The inaugural event last summer was everything we imagined it could be and more.”

The Portland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Moody, will again headline a free “Patriotic Pops” concert as part of the Stars and Stripes Spectacular. The concert is scheduled to begin at approximately 7:40 p.m. and will continue through the fireworks display overhead.

— Staff Report