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City to add half mile of bike lanes Officials poised to extend network

Anti-obesity effort looking for local produce See the story on page 8.

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

New bike lanes will be constructed on portions of Marginal Way, High and State streets later this year, a project that will add roughly a

half mile to the city’s existing 14-mile network.

Bruce Hyman, the city’s bicycle and pedestrian program coordinator, says the new lanes are intended to connect exist-

ing bike lane infrastructure along some of the busiest city streets.

“It would kind of connect two pieces of the bike-way network that we have; there is kind of a

gap there,” he said of the project, which will be completed this summer sometime after July 1.

For now, the city is planning to add one-way bike lanes on sections of State and High streets that run through Deering Oaks Park, and along both sides of Marginal Way from Preble Street to Forest Avenue. see LANES page 6

PeaksFest fast food Leslie Davis serves up a lobster roll Saturday during PeaksFest, a weekend island festival on Peaks Island.

“It was very busy today,” Davis said. “It was an excellent day.”

Davis runs the Lobster on the Roll stand from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The 10th annual PeaksFest 2011 featured an “Anything Goes” Parade, complete with a kazoo contingent, hula hoopers, human tree, and Civil War marching brass band.

The weekend festival also included a community “schmoozefest” and Bingo at the Trefethen Evergreen Improvement Association clubhouse, a Scottish dance and concert at the Eighth Maine Regiment Memorial and a bean supper at the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum. For more photos, see page 9.

(DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Patriot Flag coming to Portland Thursday See Calendar, page 14

Bayside Trail bench designers narrowed to three

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Members of the Portland Public Art Committee have narrowed down the pool of candidates vying to design benches for the Bayside Trail to three.

The three finalists will be given six weeks to design conceptual proposals for benches, at which time the committee will

decide how to divide the funds and available space.

The finalists for the seating project are local artist Aaron T. Stephan, Gary Haven Smith of New Hampshire and Washington, D.C. design firm Skye Design Studio, Ltd. The entire commission could be given to one artist who would design a suite a benches for three sites along the trail, or the

committee could choose to divide resources between multiple candidates.

Benches will be located at the plazas along the trail adjoining Elm Street and Planet Dog pet store and at the base of the Loring Trail on the Eastern Prom.

“We’ve asked all three of them to look at all three sites. I think one finalist is see BENCHES page 6

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War evolves with drones WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (NY Times) — Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and birds.

The base’s indoor flight lab is called the “microaviary,” and for good reason.

The drones in development here are designed to replicate the flight mechanics of moths, hawks and other inhabitants of the natural world. “We’re looking at how you hide in plain sight,” said Greg Parker, an aerospace engineer, as he held up a prototype of a mechanical hawk that in the future might carry out espionage or kill.

Half a world away in Afghanistan, Marines marvel at one of the new blimplike spy balloons that float from a tether 15,000 feet above one of the bloodiest outposts of the war, Sangin in Helmand Province. The balloon, called an aerostat, can transmit live video — from as far as 20 miles away — of insurgents planting homemade bombs.

The Pentagon now has some 7,000 aerial drones, compared with fewer than 50 a decade ago. Within the next decade the Air Force anticipates a decrease in manned aircraft but expects its number of “multirole” aerial drones to nearly quadruple, to 536. Already the Air Force is training more remote pilots, 350 this year alone, than fighter and bomber pilots combined.

“It’s a growth market,” said Ashton B. Carter, the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer.

The Pentagon has asked Congress for nearly $5 billion for drones next year, and by 2030 envisions ever more stuff of science fiction: “spy flies” equipped with sensors and microcameras to detect enemies, nuclear weapons or victims in rubble. Peter W. Singer, a scholar at the Brookings Institution and the author of “Wired for War,” a book about military robotics, calls them “bugs with bugs.”

In recent months drones have been more crucial than ever in fighting wars and terrorism. The Central Intelligence Agency spied on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan by video transmitted from a new bat-winged stealth drone, the RQ-170 Sentinel, otherwise known as the “Beast of Kandahar,” named after it was first spotted on a runway in Afghanistan.

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BY ADAM LIPTAK THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday threw out the largest employment discrimination case in the nation’s history. The suit, against Wal-Mart Stores, had sought to consolidate the claims of as many as 1.5 million women on the theory that the company had discriminated against them in pay and promotion decisions.

The lawsuit sought back pay that could have amounted to billions of dollars. But the Supreme Court, in a decision that was unanimous on this point, said the plaintiffs’ lawyers had improperly sued under a part of the class action rules that was not primarily concerned with monetary claims.

The court did not decide whether Wal-Mart had in fact discriminated against the women, only that they could not proceed as a class.

The court’s decision on that issue will almost certainly affect all sorts of other class-action suits, including ones asserting antitrust, securities and product liability violations.

In a broader question in the Wal-Mart case, the court divided 5-to-4 along ideological lines on whether the suit satisfied a requirement of the class-action rules that “there are questions of law or fact common to the class.”

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, said the plaintiffs could not show that they would receive “a common answer to the crucial question why was I disfavored.” He noted that Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, operated some 3,400 stores, had an express policy forbidding discrimination and granted local managers substantial discretion.

“On its face, of course, that is just the opposite of a uniform employment practice that would provide the commonality needed for a class action,” Justice Scalia wrote. “It is a policy against having uniform employment practices.”

The case involved “literally millions of employment decisions,” Justice Scalia wrote, and the plaintiffs were required to point to “some glue holding all those decisions together.”

The plaintiffs sought to make that showing with testimony from William T. Bielby, a sociologist specializing in “social framework analysis.”

Professor Bielby told the trial court that he had collected general “scientific evidence about gender bias, stereotypes and the structure and dynamics of gender inequality in organizations.” He said he also reviewed extensive litigation materials gathered by the lawyers in the case.

He concluded that two aspects of Wal-Mart’s corporate culture might be to blame for pay and other disparities. One was a centralized personnel policy. The other was allowing subjective decisions by managers in the field. Together, he said, those factors allowed stereotypes to infect personnel choices, making “decisions about compensation and promotion vulnerable to gender bias.”

Justice Scalia rejected the testimony, which he called crucial to the plaintiffs’ case.

“It is worlds away,” he wrote, “from ‘significant proof’ that Wal-Mart ‘operated under a general policy of discrimination.’ ” Nor was Justice Scalia impressed with the anecdotal and statistical evidence offered by the plaintiffs.

One of the plaintiffs named in the suit, Christine Kwapnoski, had testified, for instance, that a male manager yelled at female employees but not male ones and had instructed her to “doll up.” Justice Scalia said that scattered anecdotes — “about 1 for every 12,500 class members,” he wrote — were insignificant.

He added that statistics showing pay and promotion gaps were insufficient to show common issues among the plaintiffs, as discrimination is not the only possible explanation. “Some managers will claim that the availability of women, or qualified women, or interested women, in their stores’ area does not mirror the national or regional statistics,” Justice Scalia wrote. “And almost all of them will claim to have been applying some sex-neutral, performance-based criteria — whose nature and effects will differ from store to store.” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. joined Justice Scalia’s majority opinion on that broader point. But the court unanimously rejected the plaintiffs’ effort to proceed under a part of the class action rules concerned mainly with court declarations and orders as opposed to money, one that does not require notice to the class or provide the ability to opt out of it.

Pressure rises for Greece ahead of confidence vote

BY RACHEL DONADIO AND NIKI KITSANTONIS THE NEW YORK TIMES

ATHENS — Pressure rose on Greece on Monday after a surprise decision by euro zone finance ministers to delay a loan payment until the troubled Greek government secures a confidence vote from Parliament.

The Socialist prime minister, George Papandreou, requested the confidence vote last week after a cabinet shuffle aimed at shoring up internal support as he works to push through measures demanded by foreign lenders before they release the next aid package. The confidence vote is scheduled for Tuesday evening and is to be followed by a vote on the new measures in Parliament next Tuesday.

Those measures — which include tax increases, wage cuts and the privatization of about $70 billion in state assets — have met with howling popular resistance. Power company workers started rolling blackouts on Monday and unions called a 48-hour general strike for next week after protests last week, some of them violent.

In Brussels on Monday, Mr. Papandreou said that Greece would do whatever it took to pass the austerity measures, and he asked for patience from the country’s European partners.

“We do hope that the European Union will also have the similar will, a unity of purpose to not only support what Greece is doing, but also show the necessary strength for a crisis which has obviously not only reached Greek dimensions but a wider European dimension,” he said.

Analysts and Socialist Party insiders said that Mr. Papandreou seemed likely to succeed in passing the austerity package, having secured more support within the party. But economists were nearly unanimous in predicting the loans would only buy time, doing nothing to pull the country out of its economic morass and potential default.

Nevertheless, the loans are essential to avoid an immediate default.

“When you’re on the respirator, every minute is precious,” said Nikos Kostandaras, the editor of Kathimerini, a center-right daily.

Fearing that Greece does not have the political will to impose and enforce a raft of austerity measures, European leaders have been pressing Mr. Papandreou to broaden his consensus in order to strengthen Greece’s political stability.

Last week, the prime minister tried unsuccessfully to forge a government of national unity with New Democracy, the center-right opposition party that was in power when Greece went off the deficit cliff. New Democracy is opposed to many of the terms of the austerity pact sealed between Greece and its foreign lenders last year and has called for tax cuts in addition to spending cuts.

After that gambit failed, Mr. Papandreou shuffled his cabinet on Friday, bringing in as finance minister Evangelos Venizelos, a Socialist Party veteran who lacks experience in international financial circles but is seen as wielding the clout to get the fractious party in line behind the measures.

He replaces George Papaconstantinou, an economist who has been the face of Greece’s international negotiations since the government came to power in 2009, and becomes environment and energy minister, with responsibility for privatizing the state electric utility in the face of its recalcitrant union.

In his first appearance as finance minister on Monday, Mr. Venizelos said that it was critically important for Greece’s Parliament to approve the austerity measures and secure a fifth installment of the $155 billion rescue program pledged to the debt-ridden country last year.

“There is an immediate and urgent need to restore the country’s credibility, as far as the implementation of the program is concerned,” Mr. Venizelos said in a statement after talks with his euro zone peers in Luxembourg.

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Officials discuss policy for allowing K-9 drug dogs in schools

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A “preliminary conversation” is underway by police and school officials about allowing drug-sniffing K-9 units in Portland schools.

A Portland high school principal and police commander confirmed Monday that these discussions have taken place around the concept, framed as a “preliminary conversation” by Portland High School principal Mike Johnson.

“It’s always been the advice of the attorney of the district that if you do decide to go down that road you have a school committee policy,” said Johnson, who will leave his post at PHS to become the principal of Portland Arts and Technology High School in the fall.

“The Portland Police Department has met with schools, and I believe the superintendent, just to start the conversation on whether it’s anything we would be interested in developing a policy around,” he said. “I have no idea if it has any steam.”

Portland Police Commander Vern Malloch confirmed that discussions have taken place between

“We would only come if we were invited by the school department.” — Portland Police Commander Vern Malloch the department and Portland Public Schools about the possibility of developing such a policy. “I think this is the school department's effort to decide if they want that service provided,” Malloch said.

The practice of enacting K-9 searches for drugs at high schools is “something that other communities do on a pretty regular basis,” Malloch said, but he added that the department has never before used K-9 units in that specific capacity.

“We would only come if we were invited by the school department,” Malloch said.

Portland Public Schools Superintendent Dr. James C. Morse Sr. could not be reached for comment on Monday.

Johnson said that with the conversation in such preliminary stages, he hasn’t had a chance to see any empirical data on the possible effects of such a

LePage signs $6 billion budget DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT Governor Paul LePage signed the two-year budget Monday, changing taxes for Mainers and businesses, reforming the state pension system and making sweeping changes to welfare programs.

“The budget I signed today reflects a step toward fiscal responsibility and a change in the way we must operate as a state,” LePage said in a press release.

After more than four months of negotiations and compromise on the $6 billion spending proposal, members of both parties worked in a bipartisan fashion to temper the original proposal by rejecting many of the most destructive cuts, the Senate Democratic Office stated in its own release.

The two-year budget includes $150 million in tax relief — including a reduction that is expected to eliminate tax payments for 70,000 low-income Mainers, the governor’s office reported. The budget represents the largest tax cut in

Maine history, the governor’s press release stated.

Welfare reform is also a part of the 2012-2013 budget “which emphasizes Maine will no longer be considered a welfare destination state,” the governor’s office reported. A new five-year limit on welfare benefits, “which aligns Maine with other states, and conforms to federal law,’ will go into effect. The limit does allow for certain exemptions for hardship cases — including those involving the elderly and disabled. Drug testing will also be implemented for welfare recipients convicted of drug crimes, and those who violate welfare rules will face stricter sanctions. A first offense will result in the loss of adult benefits and a second offense may lead to termination of full family benefits, the press release stated.

In addition, Dirigo Health will be phased out with an end date of Jan. 1, 2014 and legal noncitizens will no longer be eligible for MaineCare benefits as of July 1, 2011.

policy.

“If I am shown research-based materials that show that it’s a deterrent and if it’s done in a noninvasive way to make sure we pay attention to student’s constitutional rights, then it’s something,” he said. “I’m always looking for ways to keep kids safe.”

Johnson said that Portland High School is “no different than any other American high school” if not slightly below the average in terms of drug offenses among students. Economically, students at PHS may not have the disposable income to spend on illegal drugs, he speculated.

Johnson would not share which drugs have made up a majority of student offenses, but said he would point to alcohol as the most commonly used drug among high school students.

Johnson said that the urban location of Portland High School, as compared to Portland’s other two public high schools, does not necessarily reflect on the prevalence or accessibility of drugs.

“It doesn't matter where you go to high school, if you want to get your hands on drugs, you're going to find [them],” he said.

Slugger in the stands

Slugger the Sea Dog greets fans at Hadlock Field last summer. Colin L’Heureux, 17, of Sanford will throw out a ceremonial first pitch tonight for the Portland Sea Dogs at Hadlock. Through the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Maine, L’Heureux was included in the baseball game’s ceremonial activities. L’Heureux has battled several types of cancer throughout his life. See details in the Events Calendar on page 7. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Local downtown groups win award for Outstanding Special or Retail Event Portland’s Downtown District (PDD) and Portland Buy Local were recognized for the unique downtown cultural and retail events during a Downtown Worker Appreciation Day event held recently in Skowhegan.

The two local organizations shared the award for Outstanding Special or Retail Event, presented by the Maine Development Foundation’s Downtown Center. PDD Executive Director Jan Beitzer accepted the award on behalf of both organizations.

"We are thrilled that the Maine Downtown Center

recognized our collaborative work to thank all the employees and their employers who are so critical to the economic revitalization of downtowns,” said Beitzer.

"Downtown Worker Appreciation Day is at once a celebration of those who choose to work every day in downtown Portland and a valuable promotional opportunity for Portland’s local businesses who are seeking to connect with those workers. It s really a win-win scenario for everyone involved, and we are very happy to help coordinate it," says Susan Tran,

President of Portland Buy Local.

The Maine Development Foundation’s Downtown Center serves as the state coordinator for the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Main Street program. Established in 1999, the Center’s mission is to advance preservation-based economic development in Maine downtowns. A member of the Maine Downtown Coalition, the organization works with nine Main Street Maine and 18 Maine Downtown Network communities representing every county in Maine.

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The dumbing-down of America “Is our children learning?” as George W. Bush so famously asked.

Well, no, they is not learning, especially the history of their country, the school subject at which America’s young perform at their worst.

On history tests given to 31,000 pupils by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the “Nation’s Report Card,” most fourth-graders could not identify a picture of Abraham Lincoln or a reason why he was important.

Most eighth-graders could not identify an advantage American forces had in the Revolutionary War. Twelfthgraders did not know why America entered World War II or that China was North Korea’s ally in the Korean ––––– War. Creators Only 20 percent of fourthgraders attained even a “proSyndicate ficient” score in the test. By eighth grade, only 17 percent were judged proficient. By 12th grade, 12 percent. Only a tiny fraction was graded “advanced,” indicating a superior knowledge of American history.

Given an excerpt from the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision Brown v. Board of Education — “We conclude that in the field of pubic education, separate but equal has no place, separate education facilities are inherently unequal” — and asked what social problem the court was seeking to correct, 2 percent of high school seniors answered “segregation.”

As these were multiple-choice questions, notes Diane Ravitch, the education historian, the answer “was right in front of them.”

A poster put out by the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, circa 1940, was shown and the question asked, “The poster above seeks to protect America and aid Britain in the struggle against ...” Four countries were listed as possible answers.

A majority did not identify Germany, though the poster contained a clue. The boot about to trample the Statue of Liberty had a huge swastika on the sole.

“We’re raising young people who are, by and large, historically illiterate,” historian David McCullough told The Wall Street Journal.

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Rand and Rubio On domestic policy, the Republican candidates in last week’s primary debate seemed to speak with one voice: Cut taxes, cut spending, repeal Obamacare, declare victory.

On foreign policy, though, they sounded a more uncertain trumpet. There were flashes of the old post-9/11 confidence — as in Tim Pawlenty’s declaration that post-Saddam Iraq represents a “shining example” to the Middle East. But there was also pessimism about Afghanistan, skepticism about the Libyan intervention, and a general sense that the United States is bearing too many burdens overseas, and paying too high a price.

For the first time in a decade, it seems, the Republican Party doesn’t know where it stands on foreign policy. Instead of being united around George W. Bush’s vision of democratic revolution, conservatives are increasingly divided over what lessons to draw from America’s post-9/11 interventions.

But while this division shows up in the current presidential field, it’s distilled to its essence in two high-profile Republicans who aren’t running (not in 2012, at least): Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.

Ross Douthat ––––– The New York Times As The American Spectator’s Jim Antle pointed out last month, Rubio and Paul have followed similar paths to prominence.

Both were discouraged from running for the Senate by party leaders. Both rode Tea Party support to unexpected primary victories.

In Washington, both have defined themselves as stringent government-cutters.

But on foreign policy, the similarities disappear. Rubio is the great neoconservative hope, the champion of a foreign policy that boldly goes abroad in search of monsters to destroy. In the Senate, he’s constantly pressed for a more hawkish line against the Mideast’s bad actors. His maiden Senate speech was a paean to national greatness, whose peroration invoked John F. Kennedy and insisted that America remain the “watchman on the wall of world freedom.”

Paul, on the other hand, has smoothed the crankish edges off his famous father’s antiwar

conservatism, reframing it in the language of constitutionalism, the national interest and the budget deficit. (As Matt Continetti noted in The Weekly Standard, “Whereas Ron Paul criticizes U.S. interventionism in tropes familiar to the left — anti-imperial blowback, manipulation by neocons, moral equivalence — Rand Paul merely says America doesn’t have the money.”)

In a recent address at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Paul presented himself as the real foreignpolicy “moderate” — neither an isolationist nor a Wilsonian idealist, but someone who believes we should be “somewhere some of the time” without trying to be “everything to everyone.”

But even this measured critique of interventionism makes a striking contrast with Marco Rubio’s worldview. Where Rubio talks sweepingly about America’s mission in the world, Paul expresses skepticism about nation-building and democracy promotion.

Where Rubio invokes World War II and the cold war, Paul invokes the founding fathers’ fears about executive power and overseas entanglements. Where Rubio borrows Ronald Reagan’s expansive rhetoric, Paul praises Reagan’s see DOUTHAT page 5

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Implications of New York test results are alarming BUCHANAN from page 4

“History textbooks,” added McCullough, “are “badly written.” Many texts have been made “so politically correct as to be comic. Very minor characters that are currently fashionable are given considerable space, whereas people of major consequence” — such as inventor Thomas Edison — “are given very little space or none at all.”

Trendies and minorities have their sensibilities massaged in the new history, which is, says McCullough, “often taught in categories — women’s history, African American history, environmental history — so that many students have no sense of chronology ... no idea of what followed what.”

But if the generations coming out of our schools do not know our past, do not who we are or what we have done as a people, how will they come to love America, refute her enemies or lead her confidently?

This appalling ignorance among American young must be laid at the feet of an education industry that has consumed trillions of tax dollars in recent decades.

Comes the retort: History was neglected because

Bush, with No Child Left Behind, overemphasized reading and math.

Yet the same day the NAEP history scores were reported, The New York Times reported on the academic performance of New York state high school students in math and English. The results were stunning.

Of state students who entered ninth grade in 2006, only 37 percent were ready for college by June 2010. In New York City, the figure was 21 percent, one in five, ready for college.

In Yonkers, 14.5 percent of the students who entered high school in 2006 were ready for college in June 2010. In Rochester County, the figure was 6 percent.

And the racial gap, 45 years after the federal and state governments undertook heroic exertions to close it, is wide open across the Empire State.

While 51 percent of white freshman in 2006 and 56 percent of Asian students were ready for college in June 2010, only 13 percent of New York state’s black students and 15 percent of Hispanics were deemed ready.

The implications of these tests are alarming, not only for New York but for the country we shall become in this century.

In 1960, there were 18 million black Americans and few Hispanics in a total population of 160 million. By 2050, African Americans and Hispanics combined will, at 200 million, roughly equal white Americans in number.

If the racial gap in academic achievement persists for the next 40 years, as it has for the last 40, virtually all of the superior positions in the New Economy and knowledge-based professions will be held by Asians and whites, with blacks and Hispanics largely relegated to the service sector.

America will then face both a racial and class crisis.

The only way to achieve equality of rewards and results then will be via relentless use of the redistributive power of government — steep tax rates on the successful, and annual wealth transfers to the less successful. It will be affirmative action, race preferences, ethnic quotas and contract setasides, ad infinitum — not a prescription for racial peace or social tranquility.

(To find out more about Patrick Buchanan, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.)

Right’s two rising stars would take Republican Party in very different directions DOUTHAT from page 4

caution in committing American troops to foreign wars.

They do share some common ground. Both emphasize peace through strength. Both are skeptical of

international institutions. And Paul has been at pains to express support for operations like the one that killed Osama bin Laden.

But the right’s two rising stars would ultimately take the Republican Party in very different directions. This has been apparent in the debate over the Libyan quasi war. Both senators have criticized President Obama’s handling of the intervention. But Rubio has argued that we should be striking harder against Qaddafi, while Paul has dismissed the war as both unwise and unconstitutional.

Among conservatism’s foreign policy elite, Rubio’s worldview commands more support. But in the grass roots, it’s a different story. A recent Pew poll found that the share of conservative Republicans agreeing that the U.S. should “pay less attention to problems overseas” has risen from 36 percent in 2004 to 55

percent today. In the debate over Libya, Tea Party icons like Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin have sounded more like Paul than Rubio, and a large group of House Republican backbenchers recently voted for a resolution that would have brought the intervention screeching to a halt.

This doesn’t mean that Paul’s vision is destined to win out. The country is weary of war, but the story Rubio tells, with eloquence and passion, is still tremendously appealing — the story of a great republic armed and righteous, with no limits on what it can accomplish in the world.

This is a story that many conservatives — and many Americans — want to believe. Once, I believed it myself.

But that was many years and many wars ago, and now I think Rand Paul is right.

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Proposals due in five weeks for Bayside Trail benches BENCHES from page one

more interested in one site, and one is interested in doing all three sites,” said Alice Spencer, chair of the PPAC’s Bayside Seating Committee, which met last week.

The PPAC reopened the search for artist-designed public benches after an underwhelming response to the 17 designs submitted in an initial round.

Round two of the search saw the committee embrace a pared-back approach to soliciting candidates, with the group sending out a request for qualifications (RFQ) instead of a request for proposals (RFP). An RFQ asks designers and artists only to submit their professional qualifications instead of a fully-rendered bench design.

The revamped process drew 107 submissions, including a strong showing of local artists. However, in trying to solicit the best possible designs to ensure

future public and private funding for the project, the committee decided not to give preference to Maine artists.

“My feeling is this first person has to hit a huge home run,” said Peggy Greenhut Golden during May’s committee meeting.

“I’ll feel badly if it’s not a Maine artist, but I think this has legs and it’s our job to make this first one absolutely fabulous,” said Greenhut Golden.

Washington, D.C. firm Skye Design Studio, Ltd. took a quick lead in the competition when the committee reviewed its RFQ during the May meeting.

Of particular interest to the group was the firm’s “zipper bench,” an undulating metal bench that carries a modern design aesthetic.

“Skye does very contemporary, high tech work,” said Spencer. “It would sort of be fun to push the envelope [in Bayside] a little bit and sort of connect it to the 21st century, that’s why they are in the

Governor honors area students in writing contest

mix,” she said.

The work of finalist Aarron Stephens is not tough to find in the Greater Portland area. Stephens earned his MFA from the Maine College of Art in 2002, and his background in site-specific work includes sculptures in Westbrook High School and the University of Southern Maine.

“He’s done a lot of public art in Maine, he’s from Maine, and he always does interesting work that’s always inventive and interesting and rich. He’s such a known quantity here that everyone has a lot of respect,” said Spencer.

New Hampshire’s Gary Haven Smith has a strong background in stone sculptures, and, according to Spencer, has his sights on the location at the base of the Loring Trail on the Eastern Prom. “It’s an intimate area that already has a lot of stone references, so we think he is particularly interested in that site,” she said.

Pullen Fountain gets a protective barrier Pullen Fountain, the 18th century watering trough located on Federal Street, recently was the focus of renovations to protect the landmark from vehicular damage. “It wasn’t protected at all and there is parking right there, so it would get banged into by cars and snowplows,” said Alice Spencer of Portland’s Public Art Committee, which counts the historic fountain as one of the pieces in its collection. The revamped fountain features metal bollards which encircle the fountain, protecting it from bumps and nicks from passing vehicles. “We have a landscape architect on the committee, and he developed a beautiful surround for the fountain. Horses can still come in and drink at the trough but cars can’t hit it and snow plows can’t get near it,” she said. Named for Stanley Thomas Pullen, a former president of the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals, the fountain is often used by horses that pull carriages through the Old Port during the summer. “It has become its own mini park,” said Spencer. (Information

by Matt Dodge/Photo by David Carkhuff)

Three high school juniors have been chosen as the winners of the Maine Community College System’s A Journey Into Writing contest and named 2011 Governor’s Young Writers of the Year. They are Charles Baker of Freeport High School, Julia Maine of Chebeague Island, and Sarah Mulcahy of Cumberland Center. Both Maine and Mulcahy are students at Greely High School.

The three students were each presented with an award and a $2,500 check by Gov. Paul LePage in a ceremony at the State House this month. MCCS President John Fitzsimmons joined the governor in presenting the awards.

— The Daily Sun

Transportation Committee to review bike lane proposal tonight would add roughly a mile to the existing bike lane network, which already includes sections of Forest, Deering, Park and Ocean avenues, among other major routes.

Nancy Grant, executive director of the advocacy group Bicycle Coalition of Maine, applauded the city’s efforts to expand access for cyclists in the city.

“Portland may have gotten off to a slightly slower start compared with some of the other cities that are out there ... but I think we are doing really well compared to other small cities of our size,” she said.

The city council’s Transportation Committee will hear a presentation of this bike lane proposal tonight at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall.

Discussions on the Congress Street bus corridor study, proposals to improve Forest Avenue from Woodford’s Corner to Park Ave., and Neighborhood Byways project in Deering Center neighborhood are also planned at tonight’s meeting.

Corey Lang of Keene, N.H., takes a spin around a lot near Congress Street. A project tentatively scheduled for this summer would add bike lanes to Preble Street Extension from Baxter Boulevard to Forest Avenue.

City documents show that constructing bike lanes on that stretch could result in the loss of 12 onstreet parking spaces.

(DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

LANES from page one

Bike lanes are already in place along Marginal Way east of Preble. The new lanes would run from that intersection west toward Deering Oaks Park. From there, riders could continue in a bike lane on State Street until the intersection with Park Avenue, which has “sharrows,” or share-theroad insignias, painted along bicycle travel ways.

These new lanes would be paid for with funds from a federal anti-obesity grant the city received last year. Cost estimates for the project weren’t immediately available.

Another project tentatively scheduled for this summer would add lanes to Preble Street Extension from Baxter Boulevard to Forest Avenue. City documents show that constructing bike lanes on that stretch could result in the loss of 12 on-street parking spaces.

“Keeping the parking would require modifying the traffic signal with considerable lane re-configurations recommended at and in advance of Baxter Boulevard on Preble St. Extension,” Hyman wrote in a memo to the Transportation Committee.

Hyman said that particular project is “in flux” because the city must still determine how it would configure the roadway and intersections along

the route. Several different options for the route are being considered by city staff.

If both projects are fully built out this summer, it

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Tuesday, June 21 Summer Chowdering Parties noon. Maine Charitable Mechanic Association will host a Tea and Talk by historian Dr. C.P. Outwin, on the first day of summer. He will speak on the “Summer Chowdering Parties” held in Colonial Falmouth and Casco Bay. He is a lively and knowledgeable speaker that all will enjoy. Tea and dessert will be provided. The public is encouraged to attend.

FMI, call 773-8396.

Bicycle Coalition of Maine pizza party 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Bicycle Coalition of Maine’s annual pizza party and fundraiser will take place at Flatbread Pizza Co., 72 Commercial St., Portland. Flatbread will donate a portion of the proceeds from every pizza sold during the evening (including takeout orders) to the coalition, and Shipyard Brewing Co. will donate $1 for every beer sold.

Proceeds will support the coalition’s work to improve bicycling in Maine. For more information, please visit www.

BikeMaine.org or call 623-4511.

Jimmy Buffett Night at Hadlock 7 p.m. The Portland Sea Dogs, Double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, will welcome summer by hosting Jimmy Buffett Night at Hadlock Field when the Sea Dogs take on the Trenton Thunder (Yankees). Presented by Big Hits Y100.9 FM, National Distributors and Margaritaville Tea and Lemonade. Fans who purchase tickets either online at www.seadogs.com or by phone at 879-9500 for the June 21 Jimmy Buffett Night game between May 19 and June 10 will be automatically entered into a drawing for a pair of tickets to see Jimmy Buffett in concert on June 18 when he performs at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Mass. The winner will be notified by phone on June 11. Tom Watt, “The Buffettman,” will be performing a selection of Jimmy Buffett songs throughout the June 21 game. Tickets are available for all 2011 Sea Dogs’ home games. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Sea Dogs Ticket Office at 879-9500 or online at www.seadogs.com.

Special Red Sox fan throws out first pitch for Portland Sea Dogs, thanks to Make A Wish 7 p.m. Colin L’Heureux, 17, of Sanford will be attending Tuesday’s Portland Sea Dogs game with his family and his volunteer Wish Granters, Kevin and Barbara McDonald. L’Heureux’s first surgery took place when he was 18 months old and several others have occurred since. He has had cancerous tumors in his brain, his brain stem and, most recently, his wrist and forearm, according to Make a Wish News. “Through it all, Colin has kept a positive attitude and has enjoyed the recent opportunity to meet with the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Maine to ask for his greatest wish to be granted: sit in Green Monster seats at a Red Sox game. ‘He’s a huge baseball fan,’ said his mom, Karla.

‘He loves to read the sports page in the newspaper and keep stats the way his grandfather taught him when he was younger. Through all of his treatments, sports have been his saving grace.’ Colin has had 30 treatments of radiation and four courses of chemotherapy, including one starting this Wednesday. Each time he has his treatments at Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital, he always hopes that his room will be one of the rooms that overlooks Hadlock Field, where the Sea Dogs play. ‘Colin’s excited that this week will be the first time his room will have a view of Hadlock while the players have home games,’ said Karla.” To see photos of Colin’s wish and those of other local Maine children, visit www.maine.wish.org or on Facebook.

East Bayside Neighborhood Organization meeting 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Every month on the third Tuesday, the East Bayside Neighborhood Organization meets. The Root Cellar, 94 Washington Ave. “Come to EBNO’s monthly meeting to find out what’s going on in the neighborhood, offer input, air concerns, address issues, and meet your neighbors. Everyone is welcome!”

Wednesday, June 22 U.S. Cellular smartphone workshop 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. With a recent study showing a nearly 80 percent increase in smartphone shipments from a year ago, there are plenty of first-time smartphone users who may want a little help figuring out everything their advanced phones have to offer. U.S. Cellular is hosting a free workshop at 494 Congress St. in Portland to guide attendees through all of the functions and features of Android-powered devices, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile smartphones. 772-7740

‘Transforming Forest Avenue’ meeting 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. The second public meeting of the “Transforming Forest Avenue” study will be on June 22, in the Merrill Auditorium Rehearsal Hall (20 Myrtle St., around the corner from City Hall). City planner Molly Casto writes

Colin L’Heureux, 17, of Sanford stands with volunteer Wish Granter Kevin McDonald during his first visit from the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Maine where Colin stated that his wish is to sit in Fenway’s Green Monster seats at a Red Sox game. Colin has battled several types of cancer throughout his life. Tonight he will throw out a ceremonial first pitch of the night for the Portland Sea Dogs. (COURTESY PHOTO) that “the purpose of this meeting, open to the public, is to present a series of alternative design concepts for the study area, which extends from the intersection of Park Ave and Forest Ave, along the Forest Avenue Corridor, and through Woodfords Corner to the railroad crossing.” Funded by a $100,000 Federal Highway Administration grant administered by the Portland Area Transportation System (PACTS), the city, along with partners, a consulting team and the committee are studying and will develop a design for this roadway that provides functional and safe pedestrian, bicycle, bus and motorist access that promotes business and residential activity, the city reported. For more information about the committee and the study, or to submit ideas and feedback online, visit the city’s website at www.portlandmaine.gov/forestave.htm.

Buy Local mixer at Lucid Stage 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Mark your calendars for the June Buy Local Member Mixer taking place Wednesday, June 22 at Lucid Stage, a nonprofit arts organization. Lucid Stage provides performance and rehearsal space for artists of various genres, as well as space for classes and community events, educational programs, and visual art.” Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard.

Friends of Evergreen 2011 Annual Meeting 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. “The public is invite to join us for our 2011 Annual Meeting where we will welcome Tom Desjardins, Chief Historian for the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands. Mr. Desjardins will speak on, ‘Civil War Heros and Heroines Buried in Evergreen Cemetery.’ Light refreshments, a discussion and a brief annual business meeting will follow the lecture. This event will take place at Wilde Memorial Chapel in Evergreen Cemetery, 672 Stevens Avenue, Portland. Parking is available on Stevens Avenue.”

‘Ida’s Having a Yard Sale’ 7:30 p.m. Ida Leclair, “the funniest woman in Maine,” is having a yard sale. From crocheted toilet paper covers to the complete Box Car Willy record collection and plenty of gossip going around Mahoosuc Mills. Performances are June 22 through July 2, Wednesday through Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sundays at 5 p.m. Tickets are $22.50/ $17.50 for seniors and students, and are available through Brown Paper Tickets, www.freeportfactory.com 865-5505. The Freeport Factory Stage is located at 5 Depot St., downtown Freeport, one block east of L.L. Bean.

‘Summer of Love’ at Ogunquit Playhouse 8 p.m. The Ogunquit Playhouse, Route 1, Ogunquit. Box Office 1-800-982-2787 or go online ogunquitplayhouse.org for online ticketing and more information. June 22 through July 16, “Summer of Love.” With a 2:30 p.m. preview. “Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair for the east coast premier of ‘Summer of Love,’ a groovy new musical by Roger Bean, the creator of The Marvelous Wonderettes and The Andrews Brothers, with choreography by Lee Martino.

When a runaway bride discovers the countercultural revolu-

tion of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, with a little help from the hippies and dropouts of Golden Gate Park, she comes to realize she has to make her own kind of music! This hippie, trippy musical features the powerful music of the late 1960s, by some of the most influential artists of the love generation: The Mamas and the Papas, Donovan, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane and many more.” Next on stage: “The Music Man,” July 20-Aug. 20; “Legally Blonde” starring Sally Struthers, Aug.24-Sept. 17; and “Miss Saigon,” Sept. 21-Oct. 23.

Thursday, June 23 Gov. Paul LePage at Brunswick Downtown Assoc. breakfast 7 a.m. Thorne Hall at Bowdoin College, Brunswick. The Brunswick Downtown Association is hosting a breakfast with Gov. Paul LePage as guest speaker. The breakfast will be held at Bowdoin College’s Thorne Hall, starting at 7:15 a.m. and will include an update on the current focus of the BDA. The ticket price for this event is $20. 729-4439 or www.brunswickdowntown.org

Pinta and the Nina replicas on display in Portland

LePage 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. “On Thursday, June 23, the ‘Pinta and the ‘Nina,’ replicas of Columbus ships, will open in South Portland.

The ships will be docked at the South Port Marina, 14 Ocean St., until their departure early Tuesday morning June 28. The ‘Nina’ was built completely by hand and without the use of power tools. Archaeology magazine called the ship ‘the most historically correct Columbus replica ever built.’

The ‘Pinta’ was recently built in Brazil to accompany the Nina on all of her travels. She is a larger version of the archetypal caravel. Historians consider the caravel the Space Shuttle of the fifteenth century. Both ships tour together as a new and enhanced ‘sailing museum’ for the purpose of educating the public and school children on the ‘caravel,’ a Portuguese ship used by Columbus and many early explorers used to discover the world. While in port, the general public are invited to visit the ships for a walk-aboard, self-guided tour.” Admission charges are $8 for adults, $ 7 for seniors, and $6 for students 5-16. Children 4 and under are free. The ships are open every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. No reservations necessary. Teachers or organizations wishing to schedule a 30-minute guided tour with a crew member should call (787) 672-2152. Minimum of 15. $4 per person. No maximum. www.thenina.com see EVENTS page 14

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Schools’ anti-obesity effort seeks local produce

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

she said.

"We do have some leverage there because of the amount of buying power that we have," Thoma said.

Fruit and vegetable bars and salad bars have been introduced as a way to give students healthy eating choices. Salad bars were installed through the late winter and the spring. The school district shipped its last salad bar over to Peaks Island elementary school earlier this month, Thoma said.

"Right now we've implemented salad bars in every school in the Portland Public School system," Thoma said.

Arriving at that point required "an incredible amount" of behind-the-scenes policy and infrastructure work, Thoma said. Among the steps for launching salad bars were installation of hand-washing sinks and refrigeration equipment and enactment of standards for maintaining the quality of the food, she noted.

Now, "kids have choices about what they can put on their plate, and it's also part of the reimbursable school meal," Thoma said.

Thoma was hired in October in one of several positions that the federal stimulus grant funded in the schools.

The city received $1.8 million in stimulus funding, and $500,000 went to the schools, according to Nicole Clegg, city spokesperson.

Obesity prevention is being tackled under the banner of a "communities putting prevention to work" grant, which also helps pay for a bicyclepedestrian coordinator for the city in Bruce Hyman.

The grant also allowed the city to buy new bike racks; funded a voluntary menu-labeling initiative with restaurants; and launched a neighborhood byway initiative which includes a safe routes to school component.

"A lot of it has been focused on building infrastructure that makes it easier for people when they're eating out to make the healthy choice, or to encourage folks to bike and walk," Clegg said.

"We're still in the midst of the grant, because a lot of this is about building infrastructure that can be accessed for years to come, we can't really track it at this time. Our hope right now is there's a greater awareness," she added.

“There are a lot of really wonderful school gardens. ... We’d like to set up systems where lettuce is grown and sent to our kitchen for processing.” — Mary Ellen Thoma, obesity grant coordinator with Portland Public Schools

For next school year, Portland Public Schools officials are hoping to include more local produce in the school district's new array of salad bars, tapping local farmers and community gardens.

It's all part of an anti-obesity effort that is funded through federal stimulus money and approaching its first full school year of implementation in 2011-2012.

"We're very excited to be able to incorporate more local foods into the salad bars, so that's another initiative we're working on," said Mary Ellen Thoma, obesity grant coordinator with Portland Public Schools.

On the job since last October, Thoma came on board to tackle the problem of obesity in children, an issue that has garnered national attention through First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" initiative. Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, according to the "Let's Move" campaign, and today, nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese.

Thoma said she met last week with a group of teachers and volunteer parents who work in school gardens. The goal was to discuss best practices as a prelude to possibly tapping these gardens for the school district's lunch program.

"There are a lot of really wonderful school gardens. ... We'd like to set up systems where lettuce is grown and sent to our kitchen for processing," Thoma said in an interview last Thursday.

Thoma said she also is working with local farmers to expand the menu of choices and as a way of purchasing shares from local farmers to allow the school district to secure better pricing on locally grown food. U.S. Department of Agriculture allows some preferential purchasing toward local produce,

Habon Khalid, 11 (left) and Leticia Iteka, 11, cultivate raised beds at Reiche Community School in May as part of an effort to develop gardens. Portland Public Schools officials hope to use school and community gardens — as well as local farms — to supply produce for school lunches. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

The grant, which was acquired last year, runs through 2012, Clegg said.

"Certainly, if you look, 58 percent of the adult population of Cumberland County is identified as obese or overweight, so part is working with children, but we're also working with adults," Clegg said.

"It's a comprehensive approach so by folks at whatever age getting the messages and developing better understanding of how to make better choices, that will translate to making healthier families," she said.

With school lunches, informal indicators — namely what is ending up in the trash — suggest that the changes are taking hold, Thoma said.

"By all reports, it's well received. I think if kids are allowed to choose what they want to put on their plates, they're inclined to eat it," she said.

In Portland Public Schools, the food service department is on board, based on a recent update.

The department noted that grant funding "will enable Portland Public School Department to install nine refrigerated food bars and back-up refrigeration at schools that now lack any food service equipment aside from a milk cooler. It will also fund a Local Foods Specialist to assist in expanding our Farm2School Program and an assistant to review our nutrition software and implement the new fruit and vegetable bars. There are also activities around classroom celebrations and vending included in the grant."

The food service department also noted a USDA Sustainable Agricultural Research Education grant garnered in collaboration with Cultivating Communities and the Co-operative Extension Service to promote local foods. The department noted that more than $28,000 worth of local products were used in 2010, as compared with none in 2009.

The school initiatives are intended to dovetail with projects implemented by grant partners, including Healthy Portland, the city of Portland’s public services and minority health departments, Portland see GRANT page 13

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PeaksFest 2011

ABOVE: A rainbow arcs over Casco Bay and the Enchantment of the Seas cruise ship in Portland Harbor Saturday. The Enchantment of the Seas was the first large ship call of the season, carrying approximately 2,250 passengers. The Royal Caribbean International ship now travels north for Bar Harbor and will conclude her nine-day itinerary in Baltimore. The rainbow appeared in late afternoon after a brief rain storm on Peaks Island during the PeaksFest festival. LEFT: Visitors disembark from a Casco Bay Lines ferry Saturday to enjoy PeaksFest and the island amenities. MIDDLE LEFT: Ken Mehler, president of the board for the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum on Peaks Island, stands inside the Civil War section of the museum Saturday. He said the stained-glass windows bearing donors’ names are unique, imported from Germany. The museum participated in the weekend festival, serving up a bean supper. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

Bud Harmon, member of the board for the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, sets tables for a bean supper Saturday during PeaksFest. Guests at a band concert trooped over to enjoy Stan’s famous beans.

(DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

DAILY CROSSWORD TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES

by Lynn Johnston

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Distractions, be gone! Otherwise, a key piece of information could elude you.

You have to watch and listen from beginning to end to get the full story. The prize goes to the one who does this the best.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

All it takes is one suggestion that makes perfect sense, and you turn it into a project. You create momentum. You do a beautiful job of escalating the action and achieving progress by the end of the day.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

Just as you can ruin a car’s transmission by staying in the same gear for too long, you can wear a relationship in the wrong way by staying in the same mode for too long. Mix it up. Show all of your colors.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You may not mean to do this consciously, but you set someone up to contribute to your cause. You make it known that you’re going to make your move later, and when you do, the other person is ready.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Better to be exciting, direct and even a bit overbearing than to be boring and predictable. So stop worrying that you might offend someone, and say what’s on your mind.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 21).

There’s a lovely simplicity to the way you tackle personal and professional goals this year. You always do your best.

When the outcome doesn’t please you, you’ll objectively look at what happened and try it a different way. When you are happy with the results, you will celebrate briefly and move on to the next challenge. Capricorn and Virgo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 43, 9, 26, 31 and 2.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Getting the most of today’s opportunities requires some prep time. Check your notes. Reload your memory before you meet with tough clients, customers, bosses, colleagues or the most critical members of your family.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You walk the line between appropriate and inappropriate. You gravitate toward the outsiders. You dare to be more edgy, real and exciting than anything else going on around you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Intellect and intelligence are not the same things.

You will experience an illustration of this today. Someone who is highly educated displays a lack of common sense, and you will be just the one to help this person out.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Make your move. It shows you’re not afraid.

If you wait around, the other person involved will think you’re not that interested, and the excitement of the whole deal diminishes. So be a bit impulsive.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll be informally appointed to a position because of your outgoing personality. You’ll show that you’re the kind of person who can make connections happen without something awkward taking place.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll be around a person who can help you attain one of your goals. You may not consciously intend to tell this person what you want, but you telegraph your needs anyway. Your subconscious messaging system is going strong.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Just because you are positive and upbeat doesn’t mean you aren’t also mischievous and playful. You gently tease your loved ones, and they crave the specific kind of attention that comes from only

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Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 thru 9.

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ACROSS 1 Lions’ dens 6 Empty spaces 10 Disorderly state 14 Tiny map in a larger map 15 Unlock 16 Member of an old Montreal baseball team 17 Back tooth 18 __ out; allot 19 Gang’s territory 20 Unilateral 22 Flower variety 24 Aroma 25 Helter-__; haphazardly 26 Expresses one’s views 29 __ flush; best poker hand 30 Wynken, Blynken and __ 31 Capital of South Korea

33 Written slander 37 Fishes that resemble snakes 39 Evans and Robertson 41 Relinquish 42 Water vapor 44 Adjust again 46 Grow old 47 Naming __; accusing 49 Walk unsteadily 51 __ spirit; soul mate 54 Grow dim 55 Came together 56 Individually crafted 60 Bambi, for one 61 Botch 63 Sane 64 Killer whale 65 Lounge about 66 Miscalculated 67 “__ on it!”; “Hurry up!”

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DOWN Star’s car Shortly __ of Wight Motive Long steps Jim Nabors’ TV role Ridiculed Gerbil or greyhound Underhanded Made of steel, copper, tin, etc.

Rejoice Wild activity Up to now Gave medicine to Passion Shoe bottoms Dollar bills Robert Frost or Joyce Kilmer Not working Regulations Rowed

34 Pearl necklace piece 35 Rim 36 Malicious look 38 Golfing hazard 40 Jetta or Sonata 43 Female horse 45 Little child 48 Flying, cropdestroying bug

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2011. There are 193 days left in the year. Day. Summer arrives at 1:16 p.m.

EDT. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 21, 1788, the United States Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.

On this date: In 1834, Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.

In 1932, heavyweight Max Schmeling lost a title fight rematch in New York by decision to Jack Sharkey, prompting Schmeling’s manager, Joe Jacobs, to exclaim: “We was robbed!”

In 1963, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope took the name Paul VI. In 1964, civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney were murdered in Philadelphia, Miss.; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.

In 1981, five members of a climbing party fell to their deaths while scaling Mount Hood in Oregon.

In 1982, a jury in Washington D.C. found John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three other men.

In 1989, a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment.

In 2005, 41 years to the day after three civil rights workers were beaten and shot to death, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter in a Mississippi court.

One year ago: Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to charges of plotting a failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Bernie Kopell is 78. Actor Monte Markham is 76. Songwriter Don Black is 73. Actress Mariette Hartley is 71. Comedian Joe Flaherty is 70. Rock singer-musician Ray Davies (The Kinks) is 67. Actress Meredith Baxter is 64.

Actor Michael Gross is 64. Rock musician Joe Molland (Badfinger) is 64. Rock musician Don Airey (Deep Purple) is 63. Country singer Leon Everette is 63. Rock musician Joey Kramer (Aerosmith) is 61. Actress Robyn Douglass is 58. Actor Leigh McCloskey is 56. Actor Marc Copage is 49. Actress Sammi Davis is 47. Actor Doug Savant is 47. Country musician Porter Howell is 47.

Actor Michael Dolan is 46. Actress Paula Irvine is 43. Country singer Allison Moorer is 39. Actress Juliette Lewis is 38. Musician Justin Cary is 36. Rock musician Mike Einziger (Incubus) is 35. Actor Chris Pratt is 32.

Rock singer Brandon Flowers is 30. Britain’s Prince William is 29.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I have been in a relationship with “Derek” for two years. I love him dearly and know we will marry someday. The problem is, my sister and her husband will not accept Derek because we started dating when he was still going through a divorce.

Annie, I know we should have waited until the divorce was final, but my sister can’t seem to move past it. She refuses to meet Derek and has told me that neither she nor her husband will come to our wedding.

My sister has made mistakes in her marriage, and I was always very accepting and forgiving. Leaving Derek is not an option, but I hate that I don’t see my nieces anymore because of this tiff.

How can I convince her Derek is a good guy if she won’t make an effort to meet him? -- Miss My Sis Dear Miss: All choices have consequences, and it helps to be prepared to deal with them. Yes, your sister seems unforgiving and harsh, but you cannot fix that.

She also may believe that her intransigent position will force you to give Derek up. If you plan to stay with this man, you should conduct your lives with dignity and integrity and hope that your sister will someday accept the two of you as a couple.

Dear Annie: I have a friend who has the “call waiting” feature on his phone. If I am talking to him and a second call comes in, he will say, “Oh, I have another call,” and either hang up on me, or leave me waiting interminably while he chats with the second caller. Once he kept me holding so long, I finally hung up.

However, if I am the second caller, he will say, “I’m on the other line. Can I call you back?” This seems to indicate that other callers are always more important to him than I am. Unless it is a dire emergency, I feel the first call should take prior-

ity. I also think his treatment of me is disrespectful.

My friend also has “Caller ID,” so he knows who the second call is from and doesn’t need to answer it unless he believes it’s urgent. Is there an etiquette rule for this? Am I wrong to feel rudely treated? -- Unimportant Caller Dear Caller: Etiquette says the person with whom you are already on the phone takes precedence over an incoming call.

Your friend should put you on hold just long enough to inform the second caller that he will call back. However, if your conversation has already gone on for quite a while, it makes sense for you to say, “Go ahead and get that. I’ll talk to you later.” Courtesy works both ways.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Scared Sister,” who is worried about her younger sister’s night vision and her ability to drive. The sister, “Louise,” is a full-time operating-room nurse who is required to rotate being on call at night. You recommended she speak to her supervisor along with several other alternatives. Here’s one more: Louise may be able to apply for a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act. She should speak to her HR department or contact the Americans with Disabilities website to start the process.

This is federal law, and if Louise has a legitimate disability, her employer needs to make a reasonable accommodation for her. If they simply took her off the night shift, the employer would not have to bear any financial burden. -- Ron in Connecticut Dear Ron: Several readers suggested that Louise find out if she is eligible for accommodation through the Americans with Disabilities Act. For more information, readers can contact the ADA information line at 1-800-514-0301 or check their website at www.ada.gov. Our thanks to all who wrote.

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

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by Scott Stantis

A bill that would enable school districts to explore options to reduce their health insurance costs earned final approval last week from the state legislature.

LD 1326 was passed the House on a bipartisan 83-60 vote on June 15 and passed through the Senate the next day on a 18-15 vote. Gov. LePage’s signature is the last step to the bill becoming a state law.

Titled “An Act To Allow School Administrative Units the Option To Seek Less Expensive Health Insurance Alternatives,” the bill would allow school districts to obtain claims data from the Maine Education Association Benefits Trust (MEA Trust) — the entity that handles health insurance for all but a handful of school districts in Maine, according to a press release.

“Schools will have the option to obtain less costly health insurance policies during this time of financial pressure,” said State Rep. Ralph Sarty, R-Denmark, the sponsor of the legislation.

“The bill does not mandate anything. School districts can stay with the coverage they have, or they can look around for a better deal,” he said.

The bill was strongly opposed by the MEA, according to Sarty, who said the group has refused to release claims data and other insurance experience information in the past.

The bill was supported by the Maine School Superintendents Association, The Maine School Management Association and Maine School Boards Association (SBA), who said that health insurance consumes up to 14 percent of school district budgets.

Sarty said he was contacted by 27 school superintendents regarding the bill. “They are not satisfied with the current one-contract arrangement through the Maine Education Association and Anthem,” he said.

— The Daily Sun

Thoma: Parents buy into anti-obesity push GRANT from page 8

Trails, WinterKids, Let’s Go! and the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the school district reported in a press release last spring.

Nine months into the job, Thoma stressed teamwork, saying it's not just other organizations and agencies but parents that are buying into the antiobesity push.

"I can only speak to what we're trying to do in schools, but I can say a lot of parents are engaged in this issue," she said.

Partnering with the city is key, Thoma said. Over the winter, officials were busy mapping and identifying safe walking and biking routes to school, and that campaign will be launched in September, she said. Each elementary and middle school will have a route that has been walked and assessed as a good alternative for young kids, Thoma explained.

The goal is to "build a critical mass of parents and kids that might be interested" in maintaining those routes.

Thoma, who has a master's degree in public policy and an undergraduate degree in health administration, has seen the alternative. She said she worked at Maine Medical Center for two years in an obesity treatment program.

"I know it makes a difference, I spent the last two years working at a clinic where there were kids with obesity, and it's very hard to undo behaviors that have been developed over the years," Thoma said.

Estimates indicate $7.50 in medical costs can be saved for every $1 spent on prevention, she said; when there are $350 million in direct medical costs each year due to obesity-related health issues, those numbers add up.

"The idea is you change the environment in a way that there's greater access to healthier choices, and the healthier choice becomes the easier choice," Thoma said.

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Annual Greek Food Festival 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday, June 23 through Saturday, June 25. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church Grounds, Portland.

“Join us in a celebration of Greek culture at the Annual Greek Food Festival on Thursday, June 23 thru Saturday, June 25, 2011, at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Portland, Maine (located on the corner of Pleasant and Park Street). This spectacular three-day Greek Festival is a wonderful family event that each year draws more than 10,000 visitors from around the greater Portland area. Along with the exquisite Greek cuisine, there will be live music and traditional dancing. ... A Greek band will provide live entertainment nightly so visitors can try out their fancy footwork on the dance floor. The Festival also will feature performances by an exciting dance group wearing authentic Greek costumes.”

For more information, call 774-0281.

Rally for Peace in Sudan noon to 1 p.m. Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) presents a Rally for Peace in Sudan at Monument Square on Congress Street in Portland. This event is free, and the public is encouraged to attend. Speakers will include El-Fadel Arbab, as well as local activists and members of the Sudanese refugee communities, including speakers from Abyei, Nuba Mountains, and Darfur.

If it rains, the rally will be held at The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St. in Portland, at 7 p.m. “Since 2003, more than 400,000 people have been killed in Darfur, Sudan.

More than 2.7 million people have been displaced. Currently, there is an ongoing crisis in the Abyei region of Sudan. Thousands of citizens have been displaced in the South Kurdofan and Nuba Mountain regions.

Southern Maine now boasts the largest organized Sudanese refugee community in the United States. Although Sudanese President Al-Bashir is now wanted by The International Criminal Court for war crimes in Darfur, the genocide continues.”

Film: ‘13 Assassins’ at SPACE 7:30 p.m. “13 Assassins” at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Admission $7/$5 for SPACE members. “Cult director Takeshi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer, Visitor Q) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan’s feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future. The film is a remake of Eichi Kudo’s 1963 black-and-white movie of the same name, Jûsan-nin no shikaku.” www.13assassins. com

Friday, June 24 Hands-On Historic Gardening 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Hands-On Historic Gardening: A Workshop. Maine Historical Society.

Presenter: Jeff O’Donal, Owner, O’Donal’s Nursery. “Join us for a hands-on exploration of the issues and opportunities in maintaining or recreating an historic garden. Using the Longfellow Garden as a laboratory, participants will be introduced to a variety of locally-available plantings, consider which plant varieties are appropriate in a variety of settings, and identify specific plant varieties to introduce at home. This program is free but registration is required. This event is held in partnership with the Longfellow Garden Club.”

The Awake Collective grand opening

4 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Awake Collective, a co-working collective, will be hosting its grand opening event at 509 Forest Ave. The Awake Collective is a new multi-use space providing massage and a variety of alternative healing arts services; yoga, dance, meditation, classes, and workshops in support of awakening. “I’m so excited to get the word out about this new space that is open to the greater Portland community,” said Becca Demers, founder and director of the Awake Collective. “What has been missing in Portland is an accessible, affordable, all-ages space for healing arts and movement that makes it possible for people to receive services on a regular basis, experiencing the highest benefit of healing arts.” The Awake Collective was founded in 2009 and operated in the East End in Portland. This new location is a major expansion Patriot Flag at Preble Street Extension 2 p.m. The Portland Fire and Police depart- The Patriot Flag is touring the United Sates in honor of the fallen on 9/11/01. The flag will be displayed of space and services, with over 3,500 square feet for healing arts, movement, and dance, as ments will raise the Patriot Flag at Preble at Preble Street Extension parking lot in Portland at 2 p.m. Thursday. (COURTESY PHOTO) well as offices and workspace that is available Street Extension Parking Lot, in honor of for use by the hour, or on a regular basis. For companions 5:30-6 p.m., mingle, grab some snacks, treats, the fallen on 9/11/01. Throughout the year, more information, visit www.theawakecollective.com and a drink; 6-6:45 p.m., presentation; 6:45 p.m., Q&A disthe flag will be raised in all 50 states prior to the 10th annicussion. versary of September 11th, during which it will be flown in Allagash Victoria Ale Premiere New York City, Washington D.C. and Shanksville, Penn.

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Victoria Mansion, in partnership with A Light on the Point Sponsored by the nonprofit World Memorial and conceived Allagash Brewing, announced the sixth annual Allagash 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. A seaside celebration of leadership, by a California firefighter, the flag will be displayed in PortVictoria Ale Premiere, which will take place at Victoria Manentrepreneurship and partnership in support of higher eduland and then head south to New Hampshire. Members of sion, 109 Danforth St., Portland. The event celebrates the cation; the event is in honor of retiring Southern Maine the public are encouraged to view the flag, and are welcome release of Allagash Brewing’s 2011 Victoria Ale. The first Community College President Jim Ortiz and his 10 years of to sign the logbook at the Back Cove. Local firefighters and ale in Allagash’s popular Tribute Series, Victoria Ale is a leadership at SMCC. On the SMCC campus. To RSVP or for police officers will raise and lower the flag, which will be unique beer brewed with Vidal Blanc grapes. The beer will more information, call Joyce Schmitt at 741-5559 or email flown by Portland fire trucks, Ladders 4 and 6. Firefighter be available in stores in early May, with one dollar from each jschmitt@smccME.edu. and bagpiper Paul Halverson will play “Amazing Grace” bottle brewed benefitting Victoria Mansion’s historic preser‘Killer Stuff and Tons of Money’ during the raising and lowering ceremony with public safety vation and education programs. The Allagash Victoria Ale 7 p.m. Part-time Maine resident, Maureen Stanton will read color guards in attendance. Falg on display from 3 p.m. to Premiere will feature a live outdoor performance by the from her first book, “Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seek6 p.m.; lowering at 6 p.m. For more information about the Pete Kilpatrick Band, recent winners of the 2011 USAA ing History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America,” at flag, visit http://www.thepatriotflag.us/.

Garageband Music Competition, as well as self-guided Longfellow Books. Longfellow Books events are open to tours of Victoria Mansion, tastings of Victoria Ale, sam‘Adornment & Identity in Maine’ preview the public and always free to attend. “In ‘Killer Stuff and ples of Maine Mead Works’ Honeymaker Mead, and light 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Dressing Up, Fitting In, Standing Out: Tons of Money,’ Maureen Stanton delves into the increassupper generously catered by Blue Elephant Catering.

Adornment & Identity in Maine. Opening Party: Thursday, ingly popular sub-culture of antiques and collectibles. StanAdvance tickets are $15 for Victoria Mansion members June 23. The exhibit runs June 24 through May 27, 2012, ton reconnects with old college friend and real life master or $20 for non-members. All tickets are $25 at the door. at Maine Historical Society. “MHS members are invited to dealer, Curt Avery and decides to follow him on the road, preview and celebrate the opening of our new museum Strawberry Festival in Cape Elizabeth giving readers an inside look at this complex world. The life exhibit this Thursday evening, June 23, from 5-7 p.m. The 6 p.m. Third annual Strawberry Festival in Cape Elizabeth is exhausting, manipulative, and takes an incredible knowlexhibit opens to the public on Friday. Dressing Up offers kicks off Friday evening, June 24 with a Lobsterbake & Pig edge of our country’s past. Maureen Stanton writes that a fascinating look at how Mainers have ‘dressed up’ for Roast at Andy & Kelly Strout’s Shady Oak Farm on Fowler ‘the greatest reward of trailing Avery has been to rekindle a variety of occasions over nearly 300 years. The exhibit Road. There will be feasting (only the best local foods of my fascination with history. ‘Killer Stuff and Tons of Money’ features a broad selection of adornments from the MHS course), music and a silent auction. Tickets will be availis an insider’s look at a subculture filled with tradition and collection, many never before displayed, including hats, able soon at Jordan’s Farm Market and Alewives’ Brook drama and an inspiring account of a self-made man making jewelry, shoes, hair combs, walking sticks, and several Farm. Saturday, June 25 the fun moves to Maxwell’s Strawhis way in a cutthroat field.” complete costumes. Objects are accompanied and illumiberry Fields on Two Lights Road. Come and enjoy lusNew Gloucester Strawberry Festival nated by photographs, paintings, journal entries, and more. cious strawberry treats, great music, fun and crafts for kids 6 p.m. The 2011 Annual New Gloucester Strawberry FestiAccording to exhibit curator Candace Kanes, Dressing Up including tractor rides, and a wide range of artisans and val will be held at the Congo Vestry, 19 Gloucester Hill Road, explores the choices we make to look our best. vendors. It’s a full day of fun from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., New Gloucester (just off Route 231). The festival features and there’s no admission charge! For information on being Yappy Hour & Lyme Disease Seminar native New Gloucester berries with homemade biscuits and a sponsor, a vendor or a volunteer, please contact Suzanne 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Yappy Hour & Lyme Disease SemiHodgman’s Frozen Custard. “The Berry, Berry Good Band Martin-Pillsbury. nar with Joyce Belcher from Herbs For Life at The Planet will play musical favorites. There will be a Bake Sale and a Dog Company Store located at 211 Marginal Way in PortHistory Table selling memorabilia. Join your friends, neighsee next page land. This is a free event for dog lovers and their canine bors and family-it doesn’t get any better than this!”

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MECA Master of Fine Arts lectures 6:30 p.m. Each summer, the Master of Fine Arts program at Maine College of Art invites guest artists, curators and scholars to participate in the curriculum. All visiting artists deliver a free public lecture in Osher Hall at 6:30 p.m. June 24: Allan McCollum; McCollum’s work focuses on the relationship between labor and art, with an emphasis on mass production. June 27: Elllie Ga; Ga’s projects explore the limits of photographic documentation and span a variety of media, often incorporating her exploratory writing and culminating in performative lectures, videos and installations.

July 5: Juan Logan; Logan’s paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and videos address the interconnections of race, place and power. July 11: Sina Najafi; Najafi is the Editor of Cabinet Magazine. July 18: Anne West; West is a writer, theorist, and independent curator. She teaches in the graduate program at RISD. July 25: Lee Boroson; Boroson’s airy sculptures give viewers the chance to experience the ineffable impossibilities of the world. Aug. 1: Hamish Fulton; Since the early 1970s, Fulton has been labeled as a sculptor, photographer, conceptual artist andland artist. Fulton, however, characterises himself as a “walking artist.” Aug. 8: Lisi Raskin; Raskin handcrafts whimsical recreations of military command centers. This summer the MFA’s Moth Press is also releasing Mapping the Intelligence of Artistic Work; An Explorative Guide to Making, Thinking, and Writing by Anne West. Her lecture on July 18 will be followed by a book signing. West is an educator, writer, and independent curator. She teaches in the Division of Graduate Studies at Rhode Island School of Design, where she supports students across disciplines in conceptualizing and writing their master’s thesis. http://www.meca.edu/mfa

Bill Gray appears with Portland Improv Experience (PIE). The troupe will perform at Lucid Stage in Portland on Thursday, June 30. Cost is $10. Lucid Stage is located at 29 Baxter Boulevard, Portland. Call 899-3993 or visit www.LucidStage.com. (COURTESY PHOTO)

‘Beautiful Darling’ 6:30 p.m. Portland Museum of Art presents “Beautiful Darling” as part of its Movies at the Museum series. Friday, June 24, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, June 25, 2 p.m.; Sunday, June 26, 2 p.m. NR. “‘Beautiful Darling’ chronicles the short but influential life of Candy Darling who was a major part of Andy Warhol’s entourage and was one of the inspirations for the Lou Reed song ‘Walk on the Wild Side.’ Born James Slattery in a Long Island suburb in 1944, he transformed himself into a gorgeous, blonde actress and well-known downtown New York figure. Candy’s career took her through the raucous and revolutionary off-off-Broadway theater scene and into Andy Warhol’s legendary Factory. ... She dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star, but tragically died of lymphoma in the early ’70s, at only age 29. The film uses both current and vintage interviews, excerpts from Candy’s own diaries and letters, as well as vintage footage of Candy and friends. Chloë Sevigny appears as the voice of Candy Darling. Beautiful Darling also features appearances by Paul Morrissey, Micheal J. Pollard, and John Waters.”

‘Seated By The Sea’ at Irish center 7 p.m. Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St. “Seated By The Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, And Its Irish Longshoremen” by Michael C. Connolly, Professor of History, Saint Joseph’s College.

“Join us at the Maine Irish Heritage Center for a book launch and signing by Michael Connolly (Dept. of History, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine) for the newly released paperback edition of ‘Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen’ (University Press of Florida, 2011).” A power point presentation and lecture on the Portland waterfront and its connection to the Irish community of Portland will be held in the upstairs hall followed by the sale and signing of books downstairs together with musical entertainment. The cost of the paperback book is $30 (less than half that of the hard cover edition) and proceeds from the sales go entirely to benefit the MIHC. It should be a great night for remembering and honoring this important group of mainly Irish laborers.”

‘E.B. White’s Eccentric Life in Nature’ 7 p.m. Michael Sims will read from “The Story of Charlotte’s Web: E.B. White’s Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic” at Longfellow Books. Longfellow Books events are open to the public and always free to attend.

“Fusing information from White’s correspondence with the likes of Ursula Nordstrom, James Thurber, and Harold Ross, the E. B. White papers at Cornell, and the archives of HarperCollins and the New Yorker with his own elegant narrative, Sims brings to life the shy boy whose animal stories, both real and imaginary, won him a permanent spot in the hearts of families around the world.”

Saturday, June 25 Limington Extension Yard Sales 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 11 and every dry Saturday in June, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., 476 Sand Pond Road, Limington.

Used and new items. Bug sprays, yard foggers and ant products for $2. New gallons of paint, shoes and jeans $2. Napkins, paper plates & envelopes 25 cents. Hundreds of 25 cent items. Benefits BEHS scholarships. FMI — 6922989.

Trot for Tots 5K Run/Walk 8:30 a.m. Youth and Family Outreach (YFO) is having its first Trot for Tots 5K Run/Walk at Back Cove in Portland.

“All proceeds will benefit YFO which has been providing quality early care and education for low-income families in the Portland area for 25 years.” 874-1073. Registrations and donations accepted at active.com.

Calling All Cars: Giant Car Show 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Portland Police Department and the Portland Motor Club will present Calling All Cars: Giant Car Show to benefit the Portland Police Youth Activities League (PAL), at Portland Motor Club. 275 Presumpscot St. The classic and newer vehicle show is a fun free event for all ages with fifteen prize categories for registrants. The show will feature a special Police Tactical Vehicles demonstration, police cars, new and classic muscle cars, green hybrid cars, indoor carting vehicles, and a vintage HO scale race track. Activities will include tire-changing races, detailing demonstrations and youth-oriented car safety and care lessons. Raffle prizes and refreshments from area restaurants including Bingas Wingas, Siano’s Brick Oven Pizza and Cap’n Eli’s Soda, will be available to attendees. Live music to be performed local teen musicians. For more information about the event or to register a vehicle (including trucks and motorcycles) for the car show, visit www.PortlandMotorClub.com. All categories of vehicles are welcome, especially teen vehicle owners and classic police cars (categories exempt from registration costs). Registration fee is $15, includes a car show t-shirt.

Strawberry Festival in Cape Elizabeth 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Third annual Strawberry Festival in Cape Elizabeth kicks off Friday evening, June 24 with a Lobsterbake & Pig Roast at Andy & Kelly Strout’s Shady Oak Farm on Fowler Road. There will be feasting (only the best local foods of course), music and a silent auction.

Tickets will be available soon at Jordan’s Farm Market and Alewives’ Brook Farm. Saturday, June 25 the fun moves to Maxwell’s Strawberry Fields on Two Lights Road. Come and enjoy luscious strawberry treats, great music, fun and crafts for kids including tractor rides, and a wide range of artisans and vendors. It’s a full day of fun from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and there’s no admission charge! For information on being a sponsor, a vendor or a volunteer, please contact Suzanne Martin-Pillsbury.

Vegetarian Food Festival 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Maine Animal Coalition’s seventh annual

Vegetarian Food Festival at East End Community School, 195 North St., Portland. Music provided by Thom and Stacie Hanes with Mike Brown and Anne McKee, violin with Christine deCosta, piano accompanist. Presenters in the large classroom: 11:15 a.m., Jasmin Singer of Our Hen House, “Let the Doughnut Do The Talking: Food as Activism”; 12:15 p.m., Mariann Sullivan,Our Hen House “Writing for Animal Rights”; 1:15 p.m., Meg Wolff, “Kicking The Sugar Habit”; 2 p.m. Elizabeth Fraser of Girl Gone Raw, “Unleash a Vibrant NEW You with Raw & Living Foods.” In the Band Room: noon, Dr. Reuben Bell of Healthy Doctors, LLC, will share his decades of medical experience in his talk “Living in the Food/Pharma Matrix”; 1:30 p.m., Susan Rooker, Author/Illustrator, will read from her new children’s book, “Lucky Pigs.” www. maineanimalcoalition.org

Public Supper at United Methodist Church 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Elm Street United Methodist Church, 168 Elm St., South Portland, public supper. Casseroles, pies. Call 799-0407 FMI. Suggested donation: Adults $8, Under 12: $4, Family: $20.

Sunday, June 26 Temple Beth El’s Open House & Family Fun Day 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. “Please join Temple Beth El for a funfilled Open House & Family Fun Day with kosher hot dogs on the BBQ, refreshments, music, kids activities including a bounce house and crafts, and more. Free, and all are welcome!” Temple Beth El, 400 Deering Avenue, Portland.

774-2649, office@tbemaine.org, www.tbemaine.org

Friendsand family potluck picnic noon to 4 p.m. Summer event at UU Church of Saco and Biddeford. Part of 25th Annual Southern Maine Pride. Bring food to share. Hot dogs and hamburgers provided. RSVP on www.gosaco.ning.com

Sixth annual Taste of the Nation 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wine & Spirit Tasting Reception, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.; General Admission, 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Southern Maine Community College, Leavitt and Parris Tent Pavilion, 2 Fort Road (Middle Campus), South Portland. “The sixth annual Taste of the Nation Portland will include over 20 chefs from Maine’s finest restaurants paired with an open bar serving premium wines and spirits, and local craft beers.

Dance under the stars along Maine’s spectacular waterfront to Portland’s ‘DJ Jon’ and one of Maine’s hottest live bands ‘Now is Now’!” A 21-plus event, and valid ID will be required at check-in. This event is a benefit to raise money to feed the hungry. The menu is being prepared by many of the top restaurants in the state. VIP tickets are $200 and entitle the holder to arrive at 3 p.m. for a food preview and a chance to meet the chefs and ‘a gift bag packed with fantastic goodies from companies like Stonewall Kitchen.’ General admission starts at 4:30 p.m.; tickets are $125. For more information or to buy tickets visit the Share Our Strength website, http://strength.org.

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Tuesday, June 21 Alina Simone Reading and Music 7 p.m. Alina Simone, at SPACE Gallery, reading from her new book of essays, “You Must Go And Win,” and performing songs from her new album, “Make Your Own Danger.” “Alina Simone — a critically acclaimed singer who was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, and now lives in Brooklyn — returns to SPACE, where she previously played songs from her last record, a tribute to Russian post-punk cult icon Yanka Dyagileva. This month she celebrates the release of her first collection of essays, ‘You Must Go And Win,’ described by best-selling author Neil Gaiman as ‘music, religion, Russia and family conjured and dissected with warm humor and sharp eyes’ as well as a new full-length record, ‘Make Your Own Danger.’” Longfellow Books will be on hand to sell copies of the book. www.space538.org

Friday, June 24 Jabon and Dada Trash Collage

7 p.m. Jabon and Dada Trash Collage, East Coast Summer Tour, The Apohadian Theater, Portland. “Jabon is the solo music project of Scott Colburn. While Colburn is not well known for playing music, his production skills for recording music are, with albums from artists such as Sun City Girls, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire and more to his credit, including his tour mates Dada Trash Collage. Jabon is an attempt to present musical ideas, sounds, image and performance that is designed to entertain. Jabon is dark ambient avant garde disco comedy. Jabon is most like The Residents. Dada Trash Collage is a duo from Minneapolis, Minn., consisting of Billy Freed and Richard Bell. Their relentless output in just a few short years shows that there is much music in the duo. Their fascinating blend of drums, keyboards, samples and vocals create a sound nearly 10 times and big as the two members. Dada Trash Collage is most Anni Clark & Rachel Griffin: Dada Trash Collage and Jabon announced June/July tour dates, including a June 24 stop at Portland’s like Animal Collective.”

Apohadion Theater.

(Photo by Erik Hess/Dada Trash Collage) Sweet Sounds of Summer Jeff Beam withThe Lucid,Laminated Cat 7:30 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents.

9 p.m. Returning to Maine after a brief stint in Soul Clap Dance Party at SPACE Gallery “Anni Clark was recently nominated for “Female Vocalist of New York, Jeff Beam returns to Portland with their ‘60s 9 p.m. New York maximum rock and roll party machine DJ the Year” in the Texas Music Awards, based on her newest psych and British invasion-inspired experimental rock.

CD Anni Clark LIVE. Recorded at the rustic and intimate Beam combines catchy, oddball melodies with obscure Jonathan Toubin returns to SPACE after repeatedly bringDeertrees Theatre in Harrison ME one hot summer’s eve, but cohesive chord changes, matched with existential and ing us the best dance parties we’ve ever had. Later in the the disc showcases 15 of Anni’s most requested songs. surrealistic lyrical content. Woah, sounds trippy. The Lucid evening, the bravest, boldest, and baddest can choose to With over two decades of full time touring and seven sucreturn to SPACE with their epic pop-rock, evinced on this compete in the dance-off, grab a number, and compete cessful recordings under her belt, this Maine native’s pasyear’s self-titled album. Maine-to-Athens, Georgia transfor a $100 cash prize (and some serious clout). The comsion for communication through music continues to build a plants Laminated Cat open with a set of Elephant 6-style petition winner is determined by a panel of local judges, widespread and loyal audience. Anni supports her strong far-out pop. $8, 18 plus. a celebrity smorgasbord of some of your favorite faces in melodic vocals with both six and twelve string guitars to town. $5, 21 plus. create infectious performances that blend ‘folk, pop, & Saturday, June 25 blues with a dash of Maine hue-mah.’ Rachel Griffin has Thursday, June 23 composed, recorded, and released 43 songs in her brief Pianist Christian Saunders in Bar Mills two-year career as a singer/songwriter. There is no doubt 7:30 p.m. In the Old White Church, 15 Salmon Falls Road, The Deadly Gentlemen that she is exceptionally prolific, and her vocal abilities conBar Mills, next door to the Saco River Grange Hall. Christian 8 p.m. One Longfellow Square. The Deadly Gentlemen (l tinue to progress to the point where, on pure vocal talent Saunders. Old White Church (15 Salmon Falls Road in Bar to r): Mike Barnett, Dominick Leslie, Sam Grisman, Stash (range, delivery, projection) she’s likely among the top five Mills.) FMI and reservations please call 929-6472. Adults Wyslouch, and Greg Liszt. There are five band members: local female singers, with people like Carol Noonan and $14, students and seniors $12, or by affordable donation.

Greg Liszt, banjo and vocals; Stash Wyslouch, guitar and Sara Cox. If she were in the Red Sox farm system, she’d Children 12 and under are free. http://www.sacorivergrangvocals; Mike Barnett, fiddle and vocals; Dominick Leslie, be batting .350 in Pawtucket and banging on the door for a ehall.org/schedule.html mandolin and vocals; and Sam Grisman, double bass and September call up.” http://www.onelongfellowsquare.com vocals. http://www.onelongfellowsquare.com Yates, Panda Bandits, Jesse Pilgrim at Mayo Street 8 p.m. Meghan Yates & The Reverie Machine, The GalZeile August Dougher at Geno’s Wednesday, June 22 lerist, Panda Bandits, Jesse Pilgrim at Mayo Street Arts 9 p.m. Singer and songwriter Zeile August Dougher at Center. Panda Bandits call their music dark country magic.

Geno’s. Dougher released “Orion’s Belt,” recorded by JonJesse Pilgrim was born and raised in West Bath, Maine and The Johnny Childs Band athan Wyman and mastered by Adam Ayan in one week, wouldn’t have it any other way. He plays loud and proud 8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents: “What makes for a “10 songs made it on after four years of working in her folk music with his band The Bonfire. Meghan Yates is a great bluesman? What is that special formula; the blend of home studio while raising her baby daughter and two step native of Maine. Born to two musicians, she learned the factors that elevates the average blues player to above averchildren. The bulk of the songs are reflective of this part craft of music making rather early, taking a special interest age greatness? Is it talent? Is it soul? What about life expeof the journey. The vocals honeyed down and sparse. The in voice. Within the last five years she has picked up the rience, hunger and determination? The fact of the matter is arrangement salted and quiet.” Meghan Yates opens, $5. guitar and songwriting, and is now performing regularly. Her that a combination of any of these qualities has the ability to Yates is native to Maine. Born to two musicians and artists, second CD is now available. Contact Meghan for more info result in some fine blues music, but what about those rare she got her creative jump-start rather early writing her first either through this site or at whimsymim@gmail.com. www. occasions when all of these qualities come together in one song at age 12 about being wildly in love. The last couple of eternalotterrecords.com artist? Well, if you’re looking for a contemporary example, years she has found her match both musically and romantiyou need not look any further than Johnny Childs.” www. cally with her husband, Mordechai Rosenblatt, who plays Audrey Ryan album release at SPACE onelongfellowsquare.com bass with her in the Reverie Machine.

8 p.m. Mount Desert Island native Audrey Ryan is a multiinstrumentalist, one-manband act on most occasions, best known for her ability to play drums to her live guitar loops and accordion creating a full band sound from just one person onstage. However, her new record “Thick Skin” is a departure towards multitrack recording with as many as 20 instruments on some songs. The result is an orchestral sound that evokes the work of Sufjan Stevens and Bjork in its ambience and instrumentation.

Providence’s Brown Bird pulls from blues, outlaw country, roots rock, early American folk, Gypsy and Eastern European music to offer harmonized voices, haunting lyrics and diverse rhythm and instrumentation, often swelling into high-spirited, foot-stomping madness.

Portland’s favorite musical couple, South China opens. $8, 18 plus. SPACE Gallery. http://www.space538.org

A night of music with Zeile August and the Woodpile featuring Russ Lawton and Ray Pazcowski from TAB (the Trey Anastasio Band), Meghan Yates and the Reverie Machine, and The Launch Pad at Genos, Thursday, June 23rd at 9pm. Celebrating summer, and the soon to be released fourth studio album by Zeile and Jon Wyman: “Debutante Confessions”. An intimate peek at fine songwriting and musicianship. $5 at the door.