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Hello, Cincinnati!

Police Chief James Craig accepts Ohio job

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

James Craig, who came to Portland in May 2009 after more than two decades with the Los Angeles Police Department, was one of more than 40 applicants for the chief’s job in Cincinnati, Ohio. Yesterday, the chief and Cincinnai officials confirmed he had been selected.

Craig is expected to be sworn in to his new position on Aug. 2. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

After weeks of speculation, Police Chief James Craig announced yesterday that he was leaving Portland later this summer to become Cincinnati’s police chief.

Craig, who came to Portland in May 2009 after more than two decades with the Los Angeles Police Department, was one of more than 40 applicants and four finalists for the chief ’s job in Ohio’s thirdlargest city. He expected to be sworn in to his new position on Aug. 2.

Craig, 54, said he hadn't decided what his last day with the department would be.

Once Craig departs, Assistant Chief Mike Sauschuck will serve as acting chief until a permanent replacement is found. Sauschuck said yesterday that he intends to be a candidate for the position.

In an emotional press conference yesterday, Craig thanked members of the Portland police department and the community for embracing his communitybased policing model.

“The last several years have been both exciting and rewarding, and I attribute

Greenhouse gas compact embraced in Maine but challenged elsewhere

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Maine lawmakers have taken a "pragmatic" approach to the state's participation in a regional cap-and-trade emissions program that's being litigated in New York and that has lost New Jersey as a member, officials said Tuesday.

Legislators here recently passed LD 793, which mandates that the state "withdraw from

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the regional greenhouse gas initiative when a sufficient number of other independent system operator participating states have withdrawn."

"The legislature's approach was very prag-

matic in just saying if in fact that many states leave, we should leave," said Ken Fletcher, director of the Office of Energy Independence and Security, which coordinates energy policy for the state of Maine.

So far, only New Jersey has officially pulled out of the compact. But a lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York argues that that state’s participation in the see COMPACT page 7

“The last several years have been both exciting and rewarding, and I attribute our successes to the outstanding men and women both sworn and civilian who make up this great police department.” — James Craig our successes to the outstanding men and women both sworn and civilian who make up this great police department,” Craig said.

“I also attribute our successes to the community, which we embrace as our partner in having made Portland a safer city and improving the quality of life in many of our neighborhoods,” he continued.

Cincinnati officials announced Craig’s appointment in a Tuesday morning press conference.

“Chief Craig is a stand-out candidate,” Milton Dohoney, Cincinnati’s city manager, said in a statement. “When I looked see CRAIG page 3

With fitness in mind, city launches ‘Passport to Play’ park program

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

City officials yesterday unveiled a new “Passport to Play” program, an initiative designed to encourage physical activity and introduce residents to local parks and open spaces.

The program, which is funded with money from a federal tobacco settlement, is based around individual “passports,” which are available at Portland Public Library branches, City Hall and the see PASSPORT page 8

Senate to vote on free-trade pacts

Obama: The Convener in Chief

How to return a restaurant meal

See page 2

See David Brooks’ column on page 4

See Natalie Ladd’s column, page 6

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Pass or be fired WASHINGTON (NY Times) — Emily Strzelecki, a first-year science teacher, was about as eager for a classroom visit by one of the city’s roving teacher evaluators as she would be to get a tooth drilled. “It really stressed me out because, oh my gosh, I could lose my job,” Ms. Strzelecki said.

Her fears were not unfounded: 165 Washington teachers were fired last year based on a pioneering evaluation system that places significant emphasis on classroom observations. The evaluation system, known as Impact, is disliked by many unionized teachers but has become a model for many educators. Spurred by President Obama and his $5 billion Race to the Top grant competition, some 20 states, including New York, and thousands of school districts are overhauling the way they grade teachers, and many have sent people to study Impact.

Its admirers say the system has brought clear teaching standards to a district that lacked them and is setting a new standard by establishing dismissal as a consequence of ineffective teaching. But some educators say it is better at sorting and firing teachers than at helping struggling ones; they note that the system does not consider socioeconomic factors in most cases and that last year 35 percent of the teachers in the city’s wealthiest area, Ward 3, were rated highly effective, compared with 5 percent in Ward 8, the poorest.

“Teachers have to be parents, priests, lawyers, clothes washers, babysitters and a bunch of other things” if they work with low-income children, said Nathan Saunders, president of the Washington Teachers Union.

“Impact takes none of those roles into account, so it can penalize you just for teaching in a high-needs school.”

Jason Kamras, the architect of the system, said “it’s too early to answer” whether Impact makes it easier for teachers in well-off neighborhoods to do well, but pointed out that Washington’s compensation system offers bigger bonuses ($25,000 versus $12,500) and salary enhancements in high-poverty schools.

“We take very seriously the distribution of highquality teachers across the system,” he said.

The evaluation system leans heavily on student test scores to judge about 500 math and reading teachers in grades four to eight. Ratings for the rest of the city’s 3,600 teachers are determined mostly by five classroom observations annually, three by their principal and two by so-called master educators, most recruited from outside Washington.

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Group of attackers storms hotel in Afghan capital

BY ALISSA J. RUBIN THE NEW YORK TIMES

KABUL, Afghanistan — Several attackers stormed the Intercontinental Hotel in the Afghan capital, Kabul, Tuesday night, and witnesses said shooting and a loud explosion were heard as Afghan security forces rushed to the scene.

Afghan security forces were still struggling to bring the situation under control, and the number of casualties was not immediately clear. But a Western security official said that early reports indicated that there were as many as six attackers — armed and believed to be wearing suicide

vests — and that 10 people had been killed in the attack.

A police general, Mohammed Zahir, head of the Criminal Investigation Department, said at least three suicide bombers armed with light and heavy weapons had entered the Intercontinental Hotel. “All the Afghan forces are near and around the hotel and the fighting is still going on and we are trying to kill them,” he said.

The Taliban took responsibility for the attack saying they were targeting foreigners and Afghans, Zabiullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman for the north and east, said in a statement.

“Our muj entered the hotel,”

he said, referring to Taliban fighters, “and they’ve gone through several stories of the building and they are breaking into each room and they are targeting the 300 Afghans and foreigners who are staying.”

His claims could not be immediately confirmed.

The attack appeared to be in the style of previous assaults carried out by armed men in suicide vests in Afghanistan in recent years by the Taliban and its allies in the Haqqani network, a militant group based in Pakistan.

In October 2009 several suicide bombers and gunmen stormed a United Nations guest house in Kabul. By the

Greeks strike ahead of austerity vote

BY RACHEL DONADIO AND NIKI KITSANTONIS THE NEW YORK TIMES

ATHENS — Riot police clashed with protesters outside the Greek Parliament on Tuesday as the lawmakers inside appeared close to approving and carrying out a set of unpopular austerity measures in two intensely watched votes this week.

Parliament must pass the measures — which include wage cuts, tax increases and privatizations, in a recession-starved country — before Greece’s foreign lenders unlock the next installment of aid that the country needs to avoid default.

Prime Minister George A. Papandreou has a narrow fivevote parliamentary majority as he attempts to push through the austerity plan, which strikes at the heart of his Socialist Party base. The center-right New Democracy opposition party has struck a populist tone and opposes the measures, saying they offer too much stick and not enough carrot.

In the tense countdown ahead of the first vote, which is scheduled for Wednesday, at least one member of Parliament from the Socialist Party who had earlier opposed the bill said he was now on the fence.

The lawmaker, Thomas Robopoulos, said on Greek television he would decide “at the very last moment, after I have listened to all the speakers,” referring to the debate in Parliament, which was to continue Wednes-

Demonstrators and police clash in front of the Greek Parliament on Tuesday during a protest in Athens as part of a 48-hour general strike (Orestis Panagiotou/European Pressphoto Agency/The New York Times).

day morning. “This is a crucial moment; if the memorandum does not pass we shall go bankrupt,” Mr. Robopoulos spoke after talks with Greece’s new finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, a longtime Socialist and former Papandreou rival who is widely regarded as being able to rally the party behind the measures, however unpopular.

The nation’s unions complicated matters on Tuesday when they began a 48-hour general strike — the first time they had walked out for more than 24 hours since democracy was restored to Greece in 1974 after a seven-year military dictatorship.

The protests in Syntagma Square in front of Parliament began peacefully but turned violent in the early afternoon as groups of youths on the fringes began throwing rocks,

firebombs and firecrackers and smashing shop windows.

In Brussels, European Union officials said they were working on contingency plans, including an effort to persuade the Greek opposition leader Antonis Samaras of the New Democracy Party to support the measures, because the group could not afford to let Greece default.

On Wednesday, Parliament is expected to vote on a new round of austerity measures, and on Thursday its members are scheduled to consider a bill on how each of the measures will be carried out. Greek’s foreign lenders imposed a previous set of austerity measures after they provided a first round of aid last year.

Since then, Greece has cut the wages of its 800,000 public workers — a quarter of the work force — by more than 10 percent.

end of the siege, at least five United Nations employees, two Afghan security officials and the brother-in-law of a prominent Afghan politician were dead, along with three attackers.

Similarly, in the summer of 2010 in the northern city of Kunduz six suicide bombers entered a guest house used by Development Alternatives Inc., a global development company under contract to the United States Agency for International Development. Four people were killed in that attack.

In January 2008 a suicide bombing at the Serena Hotel in Kabul killed at least six people.

Senate to vote on free trade pacts WASHINGTON — The White House said Tuesday that it had finally reached a deal with Congress to allow free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama to move forward to a vote.

The deal includes financing through 2013 for a program that provides benefits, including cash payments, to workers whose jobs are shipped overseas. The administration had refused to submit the agreements to Congress until Republicans agreed to extend the program, known as trade adjustment assistance, or T.A.A. “Now it is time to move forward with T.A.A. and with the Korea, Colombia, and Panama trade agreements, which will support tens of thousands of jobs,” the White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said in a statement.

Senator Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who chairs the Finance Committee, said that he would hold a committee hearing Thursday to consider the agreements.

Republicans issued statements that applauded the White House for moving forward with the trade deals, but said that worker benefits should be considered as a separate piece of legislation. The agreement would grant Republicans a vote on that issue; in turn, Republicans would agree to let the legislation move toward a final vote even if they lose.

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Craig urges city to hire from within for his replacement CRAIG from page one

at his wide-ranging and successful experience as a front line commander, his executive management skills, and proven commitment to partnership and community building, I was confident choosing him as chief.”

In Cincinnati, a city with nearly 300,000 people, Craig will oversee a department with 1,057 sworn personnel compared with about 165 in Portland.

He will earn $135,000 per year in Cincinnati, up from the $92,000 he earned here.

According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, Craig will be that city's first African American police chief and also the first chief hired from outside the department.

Since being hired in Portland, Craig has overseen a major shift in Portland police department away from a targeted deployment model to a community policing model, which centers around forming partnerships with city residents.

To that end, Craig divided the city into separate districts and named a Senior Lead Officer in charge of building ties with those neighborhoods.

He also launched youth programs ment of the department and the like the Police Explorers and the development of his administraPolice Athletic League to connect tive career,” Donoghue said in an with the city’s young people. email.

Under Craig’s leadership, PortIn the press conference yesterland police also began using a day, Craig made it clear that he computer-driven crime reduction wants a replacement to come from program called CompStat, reorwithin the department. ganized the department’s chain “I’ve gotta tell you, there is a of command and won approval to deep talent pool within Portland outfit police with Taser stun guns Police Department,” Craig said, — which the department says has adding that either Commander helped defuse potentially dangerVern Malloch or Assistant Chief ous situations and reduced injuries Sauschuck were plenty qualified to officers. to take the department to the Based on feedback from officers, “next level.”

Craig also updated the uniforms “The way this department has and revised the schedule to give moved within two years, can beat cops a more predictable work someone from the outside come week. in and replicate that? Possibly.

Those changes have paid off: Assistant Police Chief Mike Sauschuck But (current command staff) overall crime is down 13 percent listens to James Craig give his fare- know it and they have their well press conference (below left) and in the first half of 2011, after a 3 answers media questions (above). hand on the pulse of this compercent decline last year. More (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS) munity,” Craig said, adding that importantly, Craig says, violence is he is “definitely suggesting” the down in the Old Port, and nascent gang activity city hire from within. has been snuffed out.

Sauschuck told reporters yesterday that he “James worked hard to build a strong foundawill serve as interim chief after Craig departs, tion of community involvement within the departand intends to seek the job permanently. Citing ment, and you can see the results of his work in his 14-year career with the department and his every neighborhood,” Mayor Nick Mavodones previous military background, Sauschuck said he said in a statement. “He worked to bring people is “absolutely” ready to lead the department pertogether and to create a better understanding of menantly. what we need to do to make Portland safe and Donoghue said he is generally wary of hiring inviting for all the people who live here. internally, but added that this may be the exception.

“I congratulate him on his new job and wish him “Chief Craig leaves us with an excellent comthe best in Cincinnati,” the mayor added. mand staff, and I have every confidence that the Councilor Kevin Donoghue, who worked closely department will run well after his departure,” he with Craig in recent years while sitting on the said. council’s Public Safety Committee, said Craig has In a news release, city spokesperson Nicole been a “change agent” in the department.

Clegg said incoming city manager Mark Rees “I believe his two years with the city have been would likely devise the process for finding Craig’s mutually beneficial, both in terms of the developreplacement. Rees is due to start July 20.

Sea Dogs to team up with Goodwill DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT The Portland Sea Dogs have partnered with Goodwill Industries of Northern New England to host a Goodwill Night/Donation Drive at Hadlock Field on Thursday, June 30 when the Sea Dogs take on the New Hampshire Fisher Cats at 7 p.m., the team announced.

Fans are encouraged to bring clothing, books and other household items to Hadlock Field to donate to Goodwill.

Goodwill will have a donation center at Hadlock Field to collect the items.

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America, Awaken NEW YORK — The philosopher Isaiah Berlin once remarked that the United States was “aesthetically inferior but morally superior” to Europe.

On the aesthetics, there’s not much doubt. Savoir vivre is a French expression that English finds it needs. Style is many things but one reason Italy elevates it is because it is a fine disguise for lost power.

When you’re running the world you don’t have much time for Windsor knots.

The aesthetics of European cities offer the consolation of the past’s grandeur but seldom the adrenalin of future possibility. It’s wonderful to be lost in Bruges or Amsterdam, Venice or Vienna. The palaces bear no relation to current obligations. They have become outsized repositories of beauty.

Sleepwalk through them and feel content. The only problem is awakening. One of the things you awaken to is that it’s now almost ––––– a century since Europe ripped The New York itself to shreds at Verdun. GeofTimes frey Wheatcroft recently calculated in The New York Review of Books that British losses on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916, given respective populations, were the equivalent of “280,000 GI’s killed between dawn and dusk.”

The Great War had its midcentury European sequel.

And so power passed to America. It was of a United States ascendant that Berlin wrote, a confident nation

Roger Cohen

see COHEN page 5

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Convener in Chief This is a column about management styles. What sort of leader can get things done in an age of austerity?

Our first case study is what you might call the Straight Up the Middle Approach. When Chris Christie ran for governor of New Jersey, he campaigned bluntly on the need to reduce the state’s debt. After he was elected, he held 30 contentious town meetings with charts to explain how the debt would crush homeowners in each municipality.

Christie makes himself the center of the action and is always in the room. He sat down with Democratic leaders at meeting after meeting and hammered out compromises, detail after detail. The bipartisan pension reform bill Christie signed this month is controversial, but it is a huge step toward avoiding fiscal catastrophe. Christie, needless to say, quotes Springsteen to describe his approach: “No retreat. No surrender.”

Our second case study exemplifies the Insurgent Approach.

While campaigning to be mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel also spoke bluntly about the tough steps he would take to reduce the city’s $650 million deficit.

But, in office, he hasn’t led a single frontal assault. Instead,

David Brooks ––––– The New York Times Emanuel has introduced a flurry of initiatives in all directions.

He took away credit cards from many city officials. He’s moved to lengthen the school day. He redeployed 650 cops from offices to the streets. He cut $75 million from the 2011 budget. He induced United Airlines to bring 1,300 jobs.

At any given moment there seems to be six Mayor Emanuels announcing six different initiatives. The measures to reduce spending are submerged in a frenetic reinvigoration agenda.

The key for Emanuel is to know which fights to pick (making it harder for teachers to strike, for example), and sequencing those fights within broader narratives about city growth.

It’s almost physical. Christie relies on power and mass.

Emanuel relies on dexterity and speed. Both have begun their administrations in spectacular fashion.

The third case study is the

most unexpected: President Obama’s Convening Approach.

First, some context: In 1961, John F. Kennedy gave an Inaugural Address that did enormous damage to the country. It defined the modern president as an elevated, heroic leader who issues clarion calls in the manner of Henry V at Agincourt. Ever since that speech, presidents have felt compelled to live up to that grandiose image, and they have done enormous damage to themselves and the nation. That speech gave a generation an unrealistic, immature vision of the power of the presidency.

President Obama has renounced that approach. Far from being a heroic quasi Napoleon who runs the country from the Oval Office, Obama has been a delegator and a convener. He sets the agenda, sketches broad policy outlines and then summons some Congressional chairmen to dominate the substance.

This has been the approach with the stimulus package, the health care law, the Waxman-Markey energy bill, the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill and, so far, the Biden commission on the budget.

As president, Obama has see BROOKS page 5

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Sitting at a MENSA table can’t compare I found Darling Husband’s name card right away. He was at the important table. I was not.

“We aren’t even in the same half of the room!” I screeched as he shook hands with his dining partners. I was not at all prepared to sit at a table of strangers for the evening. Plus, he had my lipstick and phone in his pocket.

When my unadorned lips and I sat down, everyone was playing the Ivy League riddle game.

“I did my undergrad work right outside of Boston.”

“I was in New Haven then at Wharton for my MBA.” “I popped across the pond for graduate work after studying at 37°25’21”N 122°9’55”W.” The least educated person (excluding me) at the table was a math professor who tutors the children of celebrities.

I stared at my calligraphy name wondering who had done the seating chart.

“Well, we have to put her somewhere. There is a spot at MENSA table number three or neurosurgeon table two.”

As I knocked over wine glasses and dragged my sleeve through the soup, the group bonded over the various collegiate a cappella groups they had sung in.

“You were in the Whiffenpoofs? Did you know Duffy Holmes Brinklestein the fifth?”

“The Duffs? Ohh yes … the stories I can tell you!”

All eyes turned to me then. “Margaret, were you in a club?”

I just finished the fascinating account of a German immigrant who duped high society into believing he was a member of America’s great family in “The Man

in the Rockefeller Suit.” Author Mark Seal tracks this serial impostor as he transforms himself into a charming Boston Brahmin with ––––– an art collection valued at a billion dollars. Even “Rockefeller’s” brilUse Your liant wife of 12 years had no idea Outdoor Voice she was being conned.

These people didn’t know me. I could easily say I, too, attended Southfield, summered on Nantucket and sang in the Chattertocks. (Though the moment they asked me to harmonize, the gig would be so up.) I doubted my resume of public high school musicals and eating fries at Old Orchard in July would be of much appeal.

Rockefeller’s hard downfall rang in my ears. Ah, might as well own it.

“No. But I watch ‘Glee.’”

At any given moment who are you? Can you so easily be defined as to your career, your partner, your children’s achievements or what your diploma reads?

Like the persona Rockefeller created, who are we but our own invention? (Hopefully with a far less conniving tone.)

America was founded on the premise that you can become whoever you want to be. For generations immigrants came here and chopped the telltale suffix off their surname, dropped their accents and became as American as John Wayne. We are the land of fake Gucci, Botox and spray tans. Welcome to the USA! Who do you want to be today?

But do we want our children to think it is easy to airbrush away the parts of themselves they don’t like or to realize their full character — the good, bad and fugly? Sadly, we have a habit of defining who we are

Maggie Knowles

by our “worst” selves: we are overweight or under-educated or insecure. What if we flipped that and started defining our nature by our best attributes: our wit, loyalty, compassion?

Your character is hardly two-dimensional. Rather, it is an ever-evolving and rotating orb. We are perceived to be the part of our sphere is facing outward at any given time. This morning you are Caleb’s mom; at lunch you are a powerhouse consultant; at dinner you are the Iron Chef (or microwave magician); and afterhours you are a sensual goddess (or zombie).

It is like at the end of “The Breakfast Club” when the students write their essay to Mr. Vernon. “You see us as you want to see us. ... In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, and a princess, and a criminal.”

No matter the revolving door of personas, the essence of our being is there for good. Who we are doesn’t change. Who we think we are does.

I was baffled reading “The Man in the Rockefeller Suit” that this man, who by all accounts was a genius and talented in several areas, didn’t think he could succeed without a powerful name. He thought that his entire world must be defined by one word — without that he was nothing.

And at the end of the day, do we really want people to judge or accept us for our name or what college we went to or what car we drive or how big our earrings are? Look at the hero rock star your kids think you are. Sorry, Harvard, but I would take my son’s approval over you any day.

(Maggie Knowles is a columnist for The Portland Daily Sun. Her column appears Wednesdays.)

Columnist: Unemployment problem in America is no temporary blip COHEN from page 4

assuming responsibility for the world.

He found it “morally superior” to Europe. I think he meant above all the can-do vigor of a young nation still able to dream big and gather its collective resources to realize great projects. Not for America the moral relativism of tired European powers that, ambition exhausted or crushed, settled for comfort and compromise.

I was talking about puritanism the other day with an American friend who observed: “Don’t knock it — that’s what got us this country in the first place!”

There’s something to that: America has been inseparable from a city-on-the-hill idealism but also from a strong work ethic. When I became an American citizen and had to do an English test the second sentence of my dictation was: “I plan to work very hard every day.”

But of course you can’t work if you don’t have a job and today that’s the situation of 9.1 percent of Americans and 24 percent of U.S. youth. These are shocking numbers that aren’t temporary blips. They reflect shifts in the global economy. Every year developing economies are producing tens of millions of middle class people who can do American jobs.

What’s most worrying is that the U.S. response to this crisis seems to be one of a country in middle age,

a nation that has lost its can-do moral edge, the ability to come together and overcome. In this critical regard President Obama has failed to deliver.

Berlin observed that Americans were a “2x2=4 sort of people who want yes or no for an answer.” They’ve gotten neither of late, only muddle.

Bill Clinton recently took Obama to task in Newsweek, proposing 14 measures to create employment.

Given that the Clinton presidency saw the creation of 23 million jobs his advice is probably worth a glance even if it grates. I was struck by two underlying themes: the need for an energy policy and for an industrial policy.

Here’s why: It’s absurd that “climate change” has become an unpronounceable phrase under Obama and that green technology initiatives have been stymied by sterile ideological dispute. Intelligent use of resources makes strategic sense for America whatever your hang-up on global warming. It’s equally absurd that private U.S. corporations, having made $1.68 trillion in profits in the last quarter of 2010 and sitting on piles of cash, are doing fine while job numbers languish and more Americans struggle.

None of this makes moral or any other sense. America needs an energy policy and an industrial policy. It has to lead in green technology and — purist capitalist reflexes notwithstanding — it must find ways to

get corporate America involved in a national revival.

In these regards it might look to Europe: Copenhagen now heats itself in winter by burning its own garbage; Germany has 6 percent unemployment in part because the government and corporations have cooperated to keep jobs.

One of Clinton’s energy ideas related to the cash incentive Obama had offered for start-up green companies. America moved in the past few years, the former president noted, from having less than 2 percent of the world market in manufacturing high-powered batteries for hybrid or all-electric cars to 20 percent, with 30 new battery plants built or under construction. Then — wait for it — Republicans in Congress wouldn’t extend the plan because they viewed it as a “spending program” rather than a tax cut.

This is madness, the ne plus ultra of American politicians betraying the American people. As Clinton noted, “We could get lots of manufacturing jobs in the same way” — that is, combining green energy and industrial policy.

It’s past time for Obama to lead in these areas.

Americans, Berlin also suggested, are the “largest assemblage of fundamentally benevolent human beings ever gathered together.” But their representatives have lost their moral compass. History tells us where that leads.

Obama’s governing style emphasizes delegation and occasional passivity BROOKS from page 4

proved to be a very good Senate majority leader — convening committees to do the work and intervening at the end.

All his life, Obama has worked in nonhierarchical institutions — community groups, universities, legislatures — so maybe it is natural that he has a nonhierarchical style. He tends to see issues from several vantage points at once, so maybe it is natural that he favors a process that involves negotiating and fudging between different points of view.

Still, I would never have predicted he would be this sort of leader. I thought he would get into

trouble via excessive self-confidence. Obama’s actual governing style emphasizes delegation and occasional passivity. Being led by Barack Obama is like being trumpeted into battle by Miles Davis.

He makes you want to sit down and discern.

But this is who Obama is, and he’s not going to change, no matter how many liberals plead for him to start acting like Howard Dean.

The Obama style has advantages, but it has served his party poorly in the current budget fight. He has not educated the country about the debt challenge. He has not laid out a plan, aside from one vague, hyperpoliticized speech. He has ceded the initiative to the Republicans, who have

dominated the debate by establishing facts on the ground.

Now Obama is compelled to engage. If ever there was an issue that called for his complex, balancing approach, this is it. But, to reach an agreement, he will have to resolve the contradiction in his management style. He values negotiation but radiates disdain for large swathes of official Washington.

If he can overcome his aloofness and work intimately with Republicans, he may be able to avert a catastrophe and establish a model for a more realistic, collegial presidency.

The former messiah will have to become a manager.

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The etiquette of sending back restaurant meals So many things surrounding dining out land somewhere in the muted-gray zones of utilizing one's better judgment and common sense. Even with years of hands-on experience, I still ask myself questions like, “Is it OK to inquire about a table far from the screaming kid? Do I order the special if I’m not sure I’ll like it? Do I really want to spend thirty-nine dollars on a stuffed veal chop? Do I even think it’s OK to eat a veal chop?”

While these questions are common place, nothing is more stressful to the overall experience than wondering if it’s kosher to send back a meal that is unsatisfactory for any reason. Those of you who have seen the movie, "Waiting" (a delightful, not always so far-off comedy about an imaginary restaurant chain called Shenanigans), will probably never send food back due to the horrifying fall-out scenarios depicted in the flick. In fact, if you can believe Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential (and in some cases, you should), sending a dish back can make the staff so mad, they’ll do something unprofessional, like hock a lougie onto your steak and send it back unaltered.

So gross ... but it has been known to happen and any kitchen person who says it isn’t so is lying.

However, these are extreme exceptions peppered with sensationalism, and all too often, food that should be sent back for a variety of reasons never makes it off the table. Some people are simply too intimidated by the process, some choose not to draw attention to themselves and others simply wish to avoid potential conflict. Whatever the motivation may be to miserably eat an unsatisfactory meal, I urge you to consider the following when determining if and how you should take action if the need be.

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Don’t Expect a Free Meal: Unless the restaurant made an egregious mistake and didn’t make every possible effort to fix it, you should be prepared to pay for what you ate.

Don’t Take It Out On Your Server: Your server didn’t cook the meal and if every avenue to please you was exhausted, he or she should be tipped accordingly, even if the meal was removed from the bill.

The Exception to Don’t Take It Out On Your Server: It’s a completely different story if the order got messed up while being placed. In this case, your server should apologize and will most likely offer to make it up to you in some way. Perhaps a free dessert or some such compensation.

The following is cause for great debate, but the truth is most dishes come out inedible for one of two reasons: Either the kitchen is slammed, or so incompetent that it can’t cook the dish consistently.

Your server is the middle-man and his or her life is significantly better when the kitchen and the diner are in sync.

My Take: If you are a guest at a business meeting, don’t send your food back unless it possesses a health risk. No matter what your philosophy is about sending food back, never hesitate if you truly believe you’ve discovered a threat to public health.

It’s your civic duty to alert the manager as discreetly as possible.

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Some people are simply too intimidated by the process, some choose not to draw attention to themselves and others simply wish to avoid potential conflict.

Evaluate the Error: Make sure the problem is on their end, not yours. Be sure to tell your server if you have a food allergy or aversion to an item listed in a dish. However, if your food is undercooked, overcooked, the wrong temperature, stale, has a foreign object in it, or is not what you ordered, send it back. If it doesn’t taste the way you thought it would, however, try to deal with your disappointment. It is my experience that most food is sent back by nitpickers who are disappointed with their own choice, or occasional scammers who hope to have their bill reduced by a preemptive complaint.

Notify your Server Immediately: Don’t eat half the meal and then complain. Your server has a sincere, strong vested interest in your satisfaction and wants you to be pleased, no matter how much of a pain you may, or may not be. If you feel the error may be your server's doing, ask to speak to a manager to avoid an uncomfortable rest of the evening.

Be Polite: Call over the server, or make a polite gesture to catch his or her attention and in a calm and friendly voice, tell them exactly what is wrong with your meal and (this next part is key) what you would like done about it. Do you want the meal to be fixed? Cooked from scratch? Replaced with something else?

Insist that Everyone Else Eat: Orders that are sent back to the kitchen usually take priority over everything else. Sauteed items take less time than those baked or finished in an oven, so unless you’re pressed for time, try to relax and enjoy the company.

Be Persistent: If your food comes back and it’s still legitimately not up to snuff, let the manager know.

(Natalie Ladd and her “What’s It Like” column take a weekly look at the culinary business in and around Portland.)

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Brunswick Landing, the college reported.

This program represents Maine’s first comprehensive and truly seamless education path, offering students associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in engineering in collaboration with the University of Maine, the college reported.

“Maine currently has the lowest number of engineering graduates in the country, and SMCC is doing its part to change that,” said James Ortiz, president of SMCC. “Our partnership with the University of Maine will provide students with the opportunity to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees after they receive their associate’s degree.”

Students interested in pursuing a career in engineering should have a strong background in math and science, be good problem solvers, critical thinkers and effective communicators, the college reported. The application process requires an application fee, proof of high school graduation, official college transcripts (if applicable) and AccuPlacer scores (if applicable, visit www.smccme.edu/tests for more information). SMCC will do an official transfer credit evaluation when students are accepted into the College. Only credits that are applicable to the program will be accepted. Visit http://www.smccme. edu/admissions/apply-to-smcc/ to begin the process.

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Salon Paragon avoids the drama

BY NATALIE LADD THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

LOCATION: 486 Congress St. CONTACT: 775-5050 HOURS: Vary according to stylist

The concept of booth rental in a hair salon is not a new one, but things are done very differently at Salon Paragon located on Congress Street. Instead of being independent contractors with a self-only focus, the stylists at this comfortable, yet chic salon uncharacteristically work together with no drama.

At 34 years old, Salon Paragon owner, and expert hair stylist and color consultant, Shawn Durost finally has the kind of hair salon he’s always wanted. “I’ve been at this for six year as an owner and almost gave up when the economy got really bad, but within a month of feeling that way, everything came together and these other great people came on board. This place is a hub of local talent and experience and there’s really nothing like it in the city. Four out of the five people who work here have been successful, heavy-hitting business owners and we’ve banded together to save on individual overhead and expenses. We’re all different personalities and have a really varied client base, but we work together like a family."

When asked what he meant by “the kind of salon he’s always wanted,” Durost smiled his boyish grin and said, “When I was growing up, I always went to a neighborhood barber shop where everybody knew everybody and talked and relaxed and

shared stuff. And while l have always loved fashion and style, I knew I wanted a relaxing place like the barber shop. I think we have that here ... no pretension or snootiness, but a very high level of expertise coming from five different points of view.

We all have our own client base, but we cover for each other and share ideas. It’s so much fun. Seriously, do you want to look like your favorite anime character? Need new color ideas? Wish you had a Lady Gaga-like style for prom? Need to get your grandmother a wash and set? There is someone here for every head of hair and type of person.”

When picking a name, Durost looked through phone books, hair and fashion magazines and brainstormed with friends. He says, “My friend named his salon, ‘Liquid’ and I didn’t know what that meant. I wanted to drink there! Then I narrowed it down to three choices, looked up the meanings in the dictionary, and decided on Paragon — which means a model of excellence or perfection of a kind. I love the name so much the definition is like a logo, painted on the wall.”

Obviously so do other people as Paragon Barber Shop and Paragon Salon opened in the Greater Portland area (causing confusion even with the Congress Street landlord) well after Durost set down roots.

Walk-ins are always welcome at this competitively priced salon. As Durost says, “We’re in Portland, not Boston!” Call for specific stylist hours or stop in, just to say hello.

Salon Paragon owner Shawn Durost and Tun pose before the namesake logo. (NATALIE LADD PHOTO)

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says cap-and-trade system is ineffective COMPACT from page one

initiative is illegal, since the legislature never approved the interstate agreement.

The plaintiffs in the case are Lisa Thrun, a self-described Buffalo-area activist and volunteer grassroots chair for Americans for Prosperity’s New York chapter; and Ava Ashendorff, a New York business women. The case is being handled by Mark W. Smith of New York-based Smith Valliere PLLC, and Sam Kazman, general counsel with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, "a nonprofit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government," according to a CEI press release about the lawsuit.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, uses a cap-andtrade system, where states set limits or caps on greenhouse gas emissions and then auction tradable allowances, each valued at a ton of carbon dioxide.

In Maine, six electricity-generating facilities are mandated to purchase carbon credits through RGGI to offset their emissions.

Earlier this month, Maine yielded $769,092 of $25.5 million in proceeds from the 10-state cap-and-trade collaborative’s 12th auction of carbon credits, the state announced.

Based on legislation passed in the most recent session of the Maine Legislature, Maine would be forced to withdraw from the compact once enough other participating states withdrew "so that the remaining states in the collaborative represent less than 35

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, uses a cap-and-trade system, where states set limits or caps on greenhouse gas emissions and then auction tradable allowances, each valued at a ton of carbon dioxide. In Maine, six electricity-generating facilities are mandated to purchase carbon credits through RGGI to offset their emissions. million tons of carbon dioxide emissions," according to Samantha DePoyWarren, spokesperson for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

Barring that kind of exodus from the program, however, Maine appears to be staying put. DePoy-Warren said Maine is invested in RGGI, which provides funding for Efficiency Maine programs to improve energy efficiency, boost renewable energy technologies and help energy consumers.

"Maine remains committed to investments in energy-efficiency infrastructure, the creation of green jobs and to making meaningful improvements in our air quality and will continue to support collaborative efforts that achieve all that while ensuring that the cost of electricity is kept low for Maine consumers," she said in a statement Tuesday.

David Littell of Portland, chair of the 10-state group implementing the cap-and-trade auction, said RGGI helps keep energy costs low.

"The view that the data supports is we're actually reducing the cost of energy," he said.

In May, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey ordered his state out of the agreement, effective Dec. 31, arguing

that the cap-and-trade system is ineffective.

"RGGI has not changed behavior and it does not reduce emissions," Christie said. "We’re looking for broader results that benefit all ratepayers and all citizens. ... RGGI does nothing more than tax electricity, tax our citizens, tax our businesses, with no discernable or measurable impact upon our environment. Because states such as Pennsylvania are not RGGI members it’s just possible that by making the cap too stringent, clean New Jersey plants would be forced to close only to be replaced by power from dirty Pennsylvania coal plants."

In New England, however, Fletcher said greenhouse gas emissions have

dropped, although it's unclear if RGGI or other factors such as the economy, emergence of natural gas-powered plants and more renewable energy options actually caused this reduction.

Littell said he wasn't aware of any efforts to dismantle RGGI in Maine.

"RGGI, up until now, has been synonymous with a successful program in the state of Maine on both sides of the aisle," he said.

Kazman said the Competitive Enterprise Institute hopes to help overturn New York's participation, based on the fact that the governor of New York entered into the compact "without any approval from his state legislature.”

In 2008, 10 states — Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont — launched the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which has been deemed the first market-based regulatory program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

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‘Passport to Play’ program launched Tuesday in Portland PASSPORT from page one

Cummings Center.

These passports include descriptions of 10 city parks, from well-known spots like the Western Promenade to parks less traveled, like Oat Nuts Park on Outer Washington Avenue.

A passport has two pages devoted to each park. Those pages contain park photos and fun facts, as well as space for participants to create "stamps" from special plaques located in each park.

Hints are given on where to find the plaques, but getting outside and finding the markings is supposed to be part of the fun.

“That was the original premise, getting kids and families and individuals in the city of Portland out and active this summer,” said Kristen Dow, who works as a community health promotion specialist in the city’s Health and Human Services Department.

The city’s passport program was created as an extension of the city’s “Places to Play” maps, which were introduced last year. The program is based off similar passport models associated with the Maine state park system and the U.S. National Park Service, which let users collect stamps for every park they visit.

“From well-trodden spots to offthe-beaten-path parks, this program gives you a good excuse to be active and enjoy the outdoors this summer,” Mayor Nick Mavodones said in a statement.

“Passport to Play helps the city meet its goals for healthy living and gives residents and visitors alike a good excuse to spend time with friends and families while getting to know Portland’s beautiful parks,” he continued.

The program was unveiled yesterday morning at Riverton Trolley Park, which is one of the parks included in the passport.

“From well-trodden spots to off-thebeaten-path parks, this program gives you a good excuse to be active and enjoy the outdoors this summer.” — Portland Mayor Nick Mavodones about “Passport to Play”

A new "Passport to Play" program allows the public to get out and smell the roses. Here, Leanna Rhode samples a rose in the Deering Oaks Rose Circle. She said she visits the park almost every day.

Deering Oaks Rose Circle was established by Karl Switzer, who served for 39 years as superintendent of parks and then director of parks and recreation in Portland. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

After a brief press briefing, dozens of kids enrolled in the Portland Rec program spread out through the park in search of their first stamp. It didn’t take long to find the plaque (hint: it's located near a concrete staircase).

Once it was discovered, kids lined up to get their passports stamped.

Under the watchful eye of Karen Seymour, a rec department supervisor, students lined up along the trail to make etchings in the shape of a pine tree.

The kids were a quick study: with blue crayon in hand, one after another placed their passports to the plaque and feverishly rubbed the page until

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Seymour said the rec program has plans to bring the kids to other parks later this summer in search of more “stamps.”

Rec counselor Walter McIlwain said his kids seemed to enjoy looking for the plaque.

“They definitely seemed pretty pumped,” said McIlwain, who noted that yesterday was the second day of the summer rec program. “They want to go to all of the (park) sites.”

Enclosed in each passport is a Places to Play map, which offers details on free or low-cost places to be physically active within the city,

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including basketball courts, tennis courts, swimming pools, off-leash dog parks and beaches that are open to the public.

Although the passport program is aimed at children and families, history buffs may also learn something from “fun facts” listed for each park.

For instance, Oat Nuts Park was formed after residents who won small plots of land from a cereal prize failed to pay property taxes on the plots.

Funding for the program comes from the Healthy Maine Partnerships, which was created after the 1998 federal tobacco settlement involving four U.S. tobacco companies. The city, Portland Rec and Healthy Portland are also sponsoring the effort.

Park travelers who collect all 10 stamps by Oct. 1 can turn their passport in at City Hall, the Cummings Center or any Portland Public Library branch to be entered in a raffle for swim passes at city pools or free skating at Portland Ice Arena.

Participants who return completed passports will also be entered to win a new bike.

For more information on the program, contact Healthy Portland at healthyportland@portlandmaine.gov or by calling 756-8021.

Gov. LePage slated to sign charter school bill today DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT The Maine Legislature Tuesday enacted LD 1553, “An Act to Create a Public Charter School Program in Maine,” sending the education legislation to Gov. Paul LePage, reports the Maine Association for Charter Schools.

Gov. LePage has indicated his strong support of the legislation, and a signing ceremony is scheduled for 11:15 a.m. today at the State House, the association reported.

Before its bipartisan enactment in the Maine House and Senate, the legislation earned bipartisan support from the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee and was unanimously endorsed by the State Board of Education, the association reported.

“We could not have reached this important point in education reform without the committed efforts of many people, including State Sen. Garrett Mason, who sponsored this year’s legislation,” said Roger Brainerd, executive director of the Maine Association for Charter Schools. “After many years of work and careful consideration, the Maine Legislature has opened the door for further innovation and creativity in public education.”

Public charter schools are voluntary public schools and cannot teach religious practices and cannot discriminate against students or teachers, the association reported.

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Wednesday, June 29 Portland Buy Local celebration 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. “The independent businesses and organizations of the Portland Buy Local campaign collectively employ approximately 4,000 people. As a group, Portland Buy Local members are one of the largest employers in the city, second only to Maine Medical Center, according to published information and jobs data compiled by the Portland Independent Business and Community Alliance, the nonprofit organization behind the campaign.” Portland Buy Local is celebrating this achievement during its fifth birthday party in Monument Square today. In addition to cake, bumper stickers, directories and custom-made tote bags, 500 “Buy Local Bucks” will be available at the event.

Designed by local artist Patrick Corrigan for a new Keep It In The Loop promotion, the “Bucks” are redeemable this summer at participating member businesses for $1. www. portlandbuylocal.org

‘Annie’ at MSMT 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. “Annie” springs to life on June 29, complete with The Orphans, Annie’s dog Sandy, Daddy Warbucks, and Miss Hannigan at Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick. Through July 16. http://msmt.org

Music on the Mall in Brunswick 6 p.m. Live music every Wednesday evening June 29 to Aug. 31 at 6 p.m. on the Town Mall. Grab a blanket, pick up a picnic and bring the kids for a great summer tradition in Brunswick! FMI, www.brunswickdowntown.org or 7294439.

Music rights workshop 6:30 p.m. A workshop, led by attorney Valerie Lovely of The Music Law Firm, “is designed to give performers, producers and dance instructors an overview of music rights as it pertains to performing and how to obtain permission to use a piece of music in a production or show.” Presented at SPACE Gallery by Maine Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and Dark Follies in collaboration with Portland Music Foundation and Lucid Stage. www.space538.org/events.php

Property Assessed Clean Energy loan program 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. How local homeowners can finance and move ahead on energy-saving projects for their homes, using Efficiency Maine’s new low-interest loan program, will be the focus of a community forum at Ocean Avenue Elementary School. The event is hosted by the Maine Chapter of Sierra Club, Efficiency Maine and Maine Partners for Cool Communities and its signature Green Sneakers Project. The program at Ocean Avenue Elementary School, 150 Ocean Ave., is open to the public. Homeowners and community leaders are encouraged to attend. Forum presenters include Efficiency Maine residential program specialist Dana Fischer, who will provide an overview of the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loan program, already adopted by more than 70 communities including Portland, South Portland, Falmouth, and other neighboring communities. Dave Marshall, City Councilor, and Chair of the Energy and Environmental Sustainability Committee will provide background on the city’s adoption of the PACE program and share success stories of various initiatives undertaken by the Energy and Environmental Sustainability Committee. For more information, please contact Green Sneakers-Portland Team at 774-7989 or Sierra Club at 761-5616 or visit the MPCC website at www.coolmaine.org.

Nicholas Noyes, head of library services at the Maine Historical Society’s Alida Carroll and John Marshall Brown Library at 485 Congress St., shows off the recently restored Longfellow Garden. “Images of the Longfellow Garden” is the theme of a First Friday Art Walk event at Maine Historical Society this Friday. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

‘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.” “When a runaway bride discovers the countercultural revolution 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 30 ‘Effective Networking’ seminar at library noon to 1 p.m. “What Everyone Does, But Few Do Well: Effective Networking,” part of the Wisdom at Work series at the Portland Public Library, Rines Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Featuring Barbara Babkirk of Heart At Work Career Counseling.

Maine Red Claws Summer Clinic Series noon to 2 p.m. The Maine Red Claws announced the return of their Summer Clinic Series which is once again sponsored by local Dunkin’ Donuts business owners.

Portland Buy Local is celebrating its fifth birthday in Monument Square today. Designed by local artist The series will be kicked off Patrick Corrigan for a new Keep It In The Loop promotion, these Buy Local “Bucks” are redeemable with a free clinic in Monument Square in Portland. The clinic this summer at participating member businesses for $1. (COURTESY PHOTO)

will be hosted by members of the Maine Red Claws staff and is open to kids of all ages. This event will mark the first stop on the Red Claws’ caravan to 13 select Dunkin’ Donuts locations across Maine. Throughout July and August, the Red Claws will travel as far south as Kittery and as far north as Presque Isle holding 90-minute clinics that will teach the fundamentals of basketball. Additional information can be found on the Red Claws website www.maineredclaws.com as well as information about upcoming clinics.

Build Your Network with the Sea Dogs 5:30 p.m. The Portland Sea Dogs, Double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, are offering a summer networking series titled “Build Your Network.” The series, which gets underway on June 30th, is designed to give professionals in the business community an opportunity for professional development, creating contacts and to network in a casual social setting at the ballpark. The summer networking series will consist of three events over the course of the summer. The first event is on June 30 with the remaining events taking place on July 14, and Aug. 23. Each event will include a featured local business leader speaking, networking opportunities in the Coca-Cola Picnic Grove at Hadlock Field, and a Portland Sea Dogs baseball game. The speaking portion of the series will take place at 5:45 p.m. in the Portland Room and will conclude at approximately at 6:15 p.m. Following the speaking portions, all attendees are welcome to continue networking in the Coca Cola picnic area, where you will be able to enjoy a ballpark style dinner consisting of hamburgers, hot dogs, BBQ chicken sandwiches, Sea Dog biscuits, and much more. After dinner enjoy watching the Sea Dogs in action, game time is set for 7 p.m. Tickets to each event cost $20, and include the speaking portion as well as your ticket to the game in the Coca Cola Picnic Area with food.

Tickets are limited and can be purchased by contacting Liz Riley at the Sea Dogs office at 874-9300 or email at lriley@ seadogs.com. The series will kick off on Thursday, June 30 at 5:30 p.m. and will feature Eastern League President Joe McEacharn as the speaker prior to that evenings’ 7 p.m. game against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Blue Jays).

Portland Improv Experience at Lucid Stage 7:30 p.m. “Since 2010, Portland Improv Experience (PIE) has brought long form improvisational theater to audiences across southern Maine. Each show features PIE’s ensemble cast working together to create uncommon stories driven by audience inspiration. ... Portland Improv Experience brings a different kind of improv to Maine’s theater scene. In addition to live performances, PIE is committed to expanding theater and arts education across Maine through classes and workshops.

Most recently PIE worked with Yarmouth High School to produce student programming for the state’s One Act Festival and was a featured company in the first annual Portland Improv Festival.” $10. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard, Portland. 899-3993. www.LucidStage.com see EVENTS page 14

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By Holiday Mathis and love you that it would be a shame for you to focus only on the one or two who don’t. Give your love where it’s sure to multiply and spread.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

No matter who you are or what your position, you will never be immune to rejection. If you are human, it is inevitable. But the more you accept yourself the less you worry about the occasional slights of the world.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

There is an illusion that is in need of demolition, and it’s best destroyed before Friday. Its absence will free you to embrace your life the way it is and yourself the way you are.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You have emotional flexibility now and will play with many different modalities and tones until you come up with a winning feeling. Your attitude is subject to change, and when it does, so will your outcome.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Just as tackling physical hurdles will help you gain strength, agility and confidence, overcoming mental obstacles will do the same for your way of thinking. So be thankful for the problems you encounter -- they make you better.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 29). You are a bold protector of loved ones and all you stand for. Professional needs and wants are satisfied in July. There will be fun in your private life when old friendships ignite anew. In September, you step up your self-care with exercise and health improvements. October is your chance to seal a deal. Capricorn and Sagittarius people are your supportive fans. Your lucky numbers are: 30, 1, 24, 38 and 26.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). As you interact with people, you put your attention on their most positive characteristics, and they feel safe in the approving and supportive energy coming from you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You may notice that you’re thinking of a certain someone more often and in a different way. Also, this person has a vivifying effect on your mood.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Someone believes you are made in the image of greatness, and this person can only see you as magnificent. You will work hard to live up to this person’s estimation of you.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). One of the most important ways you can let people know you care is also the easiest way: Tell them. You don’t have to be a poet, just speak simply from the heart.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your sign mate Mick Jagger famously sang that time was on his side. It’s on yours, too.

You befriend time as you use the passing moments to your highest advantage and hold firm to the belief that the best is yet to come.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Give credit where it’s due, especially if it’s due to you. This is no time to underplay your value as a human being. Celebrate yourself for what you do well, and the rest will improve.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You may have competitive knee jerk reactions or aggressive impulses -- certain people bring out the fierce spirit in you. Yet, you also have the self-control to soften and guide your feelings appropriately.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). There are so many people who appreciate

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Wednesday, June 29, the 180th day of 2011. There are 185 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On June 29, 1767, Britain approved the Townshend Revenue Act, which imposed import duties on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper and tea shipped to the American colonies.

(Colonists bitterly protested, prompting Parliament in 1770 to repeal the duties — except for tea.)

On this date: In 1861, William James Mayo, one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic, was born in Le Sueur, Minn. English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 55, died in Florence, Italy.

In 1911, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers had its beginnings as Pope Pius X gave his blessing for the formation of The Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America.

In 1941, Polish statesman, pianist and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski (pahdehr-EHF’-skee) died in New York at age 80.

In 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer’s access to classified information.

In 1966, the United States bombed fuel storage facilities near the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong (HY’-fahng).

In 1967, Jerusalem was re-unified as Israel removed barricades separating the Old City from the Israeli sector.

In 1970, the United States ended a twomonth military offensive into Cambodia.

In 1972, the Supreme Court, in Furman v. Georgia, struck down a trio of death sentences, saying they constituted cruel and unusual punishment.

In 1988, the Supreme Court upheld the independent counsel law.

In 2003, actress Katharine Hepburn died in Old Saybrook, Conn., at age 96.

One year ago: China and Taiwan signed a tariff-slashing trade pact that boosted economic ties and further eased political tensions six decades after the rivals split amid civil war. Talk show host Larry King announced he would step down from his CNN show in the autumn after 25 years on the air.

Today’s Birthdays: Movie producer Robert Evans is 81. Songwriter L. Russell Brown is 71. Actor Gary Busey is 67. Comedian Richard Lewis is 64. Actor-turned-politican-turned-radio personality Fred Grandy is 63. Rock musician Ian Paice is 63. Singer Don Dokken is 58. Rock singer Colin Hay is 58. Actress Maria Conchita Alonso is 54.

Actress Sharon Lawrence is 50. Actress Amanda Donohoe is 49. Actress Kathleen Wilhoite is 47. Producer-writer Matthew Weiner is 46. Musician Dale Baker is 45.

Actress Melora Hardin is 44. Rap DJ Shadow is 39. Country musician Todd Sansom is 33.

Singer Nicole Scherzinger is 33.

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Dear Annie: I want to respond to “Heartbroken in Canada,” whose children ignored her on Mother’s Day. That was my eighth Mother’s Day after the sudden, tragic death of my only child at age 14. Every breath I take is a struggle without her.

How does one celebrate Mother’s Day after the death of a child? Gratitude. I am grateful for having the opportunity to be a mom, even for only 14 years. I am grateful the last words I said to her were “I love you.” I am grateful she did not suffer. I am grateful to “The Compassionate Friends,” an organization that supports bereaved family members. I am grateful when a friend remembers to say “happy Mother’s Day” instead of nothing.

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I am not close to my ex-daughter-in-law, although I hold no animosity toward her. But, Annie, I’ve known her for 30 years, and she is the mother of my grandchildren. Shutting her out does not seem reasonable, nor is it a good example for my grandchildren. I see my son and his current wife very rarely.

They do not invite me to their home. They do not bother with my other children and have a limited interest in family gatherings. I am not part of their lives. They say it’s because I still see the ex, but even when I don’t include her, they still don’t come around. My son refuses to talk about any of this, and his wife seems only too happy to attack me. What is the best way to handle this situation? -- Danged if I Do and Danged if I Don’t Dear Danged: Of course it is wrong for your son and his wife to tell you who you can and cannot contact, but that won’t change their response. We don’t recommend inviting your ex-daughter-in-law to any function where your son or his wife might be present. That is simply asking for trouble and will be interpreted as a deliberate slap in the face. We suggest less blatant ways to stay in touch with your ex-daughterin-law, such as e-mail and phone calls. Visits should be saved for those occasions involving the grandchildren where your presence together would be expected.

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Friday, July 1 Peaks Island photographer Arthur Fink exhibit kicks off Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Bates Dance Festival based in Lewiston announces its 29th season of public events, taking place July 1 through Aug. 13 on the Bates College campus. The six-week festival showcases contemporary performance works by Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Nicholas Leichter Dance, Zoe | Juniper, The Equus Projects and Black Label Movement, and David Dorfman Dance. Performances, panel discussions and lectures by more than 40 internationally recognized dancers from across the United States and abroad. Performance times and locations appear on the festival website: www.batesdancefestival.org. Images from the Festival: Dance Photo Exhibit — “Peaks Island photographer, Arthur Fink, has a passion for dance. For the last four summers he has spent several weeks photographing dancers at the Festival. These stunning and provocative images capture the dancers at work — warming up, taking class and rehearsing. Included are images of the acclaimed artistsin-residence.” July 1 to Aug. 14, Chase Hall Gallery, Open daily 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Also featured: Monday, July 11, Schaeffer Theatre, 7:30 p.m., a sneak preview: Camille Brown and her dancers share snippets and talk about the stories behind the work. Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Friday and Saturday, July 15 and 16, Schaeffer Theatre, 8 p.m., the vivid and versatile Camille A. Brown is a pixy-ish performer who packs a punch. Festival Finale, Saturday, Aug. 13, Alumni Gym, 7:30 p.m., discover and celebrate the next generation of dance luminaries.

Scenes of Life in Portland, 1940s at MHS 2 p.m. “Innocent Interlude: Scenes of Life in Portland, Maine, 1940-41 (2004),” Daily Screenings: Monday-Friday in July and August at the Maine Historical Society.

“Take an amazing tour of Portland in the early 1940s. City officials made this remarkable series of color films that document life around Portland, capturing: longshoremen unloading ships on the waterfront; regattas; a soap box derby on Park Avenue; baseball, swan boats, and ice skating at Deering Oaks Park; aerial views of the city; snow plows; the removal of trolley tracks from Congress Street, and many other subjects. Film narrated by Historian Joel Eastman. (60 minutes).” www.mainehistory.org

Bath Heritage Days 5 p.m. Celebrate the Fourth of July during Bath Heritage Days. “Join us for a citywide festival featuring live music, a carnival on the waterfront, art and craft shows in Library Park, a fireman’s muster, and annual Heritage Days Parade.

There will be a fireworks finale on the 4th on the Kennebec River.” Events start with Smokey’s Greatest Show and Carnival, 5-11 p.m. at Waterfront Park. Downtown Bath/Waterfront/Library Park. July 1-July 4. www.visitbath.com

Images of the Longfellow Garden 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Images of the Longfellow Garden, First Friday Art Walk. “Enjoy Portland’s vibrant First Friday Art Walk and come see the current show in the Shettleworth Gallery, Images of the Longfellow Garden (May 6-Aug. 30).

The historical images in this exhibit trace the evolution of the garden — one of Maine Historical Society and Portland’s great treasures — through the years. The Longfellow Garden will be open late for art walk patrons.

First Friday Art Walk at Meg Perry 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Meg Perry Center at 644 Congress St. presents: The Refugee Women’s Craft Collective, featuring work from Columbia, Rwanda and Japan. “Imagine arriving in a country where everything, from language to social customs, is different from everything you have ever known.

To a refugee, our country is another world. Many refugee women arrive uneducated and illiterate and have difficulty in adjusting to their new lives in America. It is difficult to find work because they are unable to afford childcare for their children. ... A group of refugee women have come together to form the Refugee Women’s Craft Collective as a way to support their families, eliminating the language barrier that they all face. The women in the group originate from areas such as, Burma, Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan. Please help us support the women as they work to rebuild their lives.” Call 523-2737 or email abullard@ccmaine.org.

Sonia Anne-Cook Broen at the St. Lawrence 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Open Artist Reception: “Transitions” New Works by Sonia Anne-Cook Broen.

Free open-house reception. “‘Transitions’ is Sonia’s first solo-show here in Portland since moving to the city a year ago after the Deep Water Horizon oil spill forced her to consider a new place to live. Sonia moved to Portland to be closer to family and because the city embraces an environmental consciousness that she felt was lacking in

her southerly home.” For more information on this artist please visit her site at: http://soniacookbroen.com.

A portion of proceeds will benefit the St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center. For more information: www. stlawrencearts.org.

First Friday Art Walk at SPACE 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. New York based artists Elia Bettaglio, Selena Kimball and Tatiana Simonova present drawings in various media. This is SPACE Gallery’s first show in a new annex space. www. space538.org

Dressing Up: First Friday Art Walk 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Dressing Up: First Friday Art Walk at Maine Historical Society. “Spend a wonderful summer evening at MHS. See the amazing accessories, costumes, and other The Dave Astor Show Visits Jordan’s Meats is a TV program episode that will be screened accoutrement on display in Dressing at Maine Historical Society on Saturday. (FILE PHOTO) Up, Standing Out, Fitting In: Adornment & Identity in Maine, 1750-1950, Saturday, July 2 our brand new exhibit, and then take a stroll through the magnificent, serene Longfellow Garden. Visitors are invited Open Gates Equine Rescue yard sale to take and email us photographs of themselves in front the 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Open Gates Equine Rescue is sponsoring Dressing Up studio backdrop, and to contribute their own a multi-family yard sale at the First Congregational Church audio stories to our exhibit cell phone tour. Refreshments Parish House, 8 Brown Street, Gray (right behind McDonwill be served.” ald’s). If raining, yard sale will be held inside the Parish One Longfellow Square’s First Friday Free Concert House. Many household items, some estate items and 6 p.m. “Celebrate summer with some live outdoor music at some horse tack. FMI, please call 926-5570.

One Longfellow Square. This Friday, July 1, between 6-7:30, Bath Heritage Days continues the band Truth About Daisies, http://www.truthaboutdaisies.

8:30 a.m. Celebrate the Fourth of July during Bath Heritage com, will be playing in Longfellow Square. Truth About Daisies Days. “Join us for a citywide festival featuring live music, a is not some far flung zen meditation practice but rather is an carnival on the waterfront, art and craft shows in Library Park, original folk flower power trio of Portland musicians wielding a fireman’s muster, and annual Heritage Days Parade. There acoustic guitars, harps, mando, banjo, and bass. They even will be a fireworks finale on the Fourth on the Kennebec River.” fire up the electric guitar from time to time. The band is known Events continue with Farmer’s Market. Downtown Bath/ for their vocal harmonies and quirky introspective songs that Waterfront/Library Park. Bath Municipal Band Pre-fireworks range from ballads to blues, folk to reggae.”

Concert 8 p.m. Monday; fireworks over the Kennebec River 9 ‘Octubre’ at the PMA p.m. Monday. July 1-July 4. www.visitbath.com 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 1, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, July 2, 2 LucidFest at Lucid Stage p.m.; Sunday, July 3, 2 p.m. NR. Portland Museum of Art 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd, presents presents “Octubre” as part of its Movies at the Museum LucidFest. “Stop by Lucid Stage this weekend for an outseries. “October is the ‘purple month’ in Lima, when the door fair! We’ll have arts & crafts vendors, caricatures by grey city’s somber tones give way to processions celEd King, massage therapy, a yard sale, live music, perebrating the Lord of Miracles. Hope is reborn among the formances and children’s activities! If it rains, we’ll move throngs of devotees who light candles and follow the inside. Performers scheduled: The Humble Farmer, Herb processions, each in search of their own miracle. Tucked Adams, Chuck Muldoon, Harlan Baker, Daniel Noel and away in one of the Lima’s modest flats lives Clemente, a friends, Cliff Gallant, Peter Mezoian, Deena R. Weinstein, small time loan shark with a penchant for reckless hookBritta Pejic, The Magic of The Steelgraves, and many ers, grave solitude, money lending, and nothing else. more!” Also Sunday. 899-3993 Stuck in a shallow routine, Clemente lacks any real emotional connection to anyone. People, in turn, refer to him Herb Cooking Workshop not by name, but as ‘the pawnbroker’s son.’ Whether it’s 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A hands-on Herb Cooking Workshop will a slippery counterfeiter, an amiable thief or a desperate be held at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Route 26, neighbor, Clemente is sensitive only to what their busiNew Gloucester. Harvesting and drying of herbs, herb blend ness might bring him.” http://www.portlandmuseum.org/ recipes and prepared foods will be part of this workshop as events/movies.php well as attendees making their own herb blends. Fee: $40 (pre-registration required).

Comedian Bob Marley at The Landing 6:30 p.m. Comedian Bob Marley at The Landing at Pine New Gloucester History Barn Open House Point in Scarborough. “Bob Marley is back at it again at 10 a.m. The Declaration of Independence will be read aloud The Landing at Pine Point!!! We are really excited about the at the monthly New Gloucester History Barn Open House, funny man’s return. In fact, due to popular demand and the Route 231, behind the Town Hall. The complete History fact that he has sold out 4 consecutive times here, we are Barn open hours on that day are 9 a.m. to noon. The event excited to have him back in September also. Get your tickis sponsored by the New Gloucester Historical Society. ets now and don’t wait.” Doors at 6:30 p.m., dinner served Floorcloth Workshop until 9 p.m., curtain at 8 p.m. A 21-plus event. www.thel10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A Floorcloth Workshop will be held on, andingatpinepoint.com 2011 at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Route 26, Portland Playback Theater ‘Bloopers’ New Gloucester. Participants will make a 2-foot by 3-foot 7:30 p.m. “Join us this month as we visit those moments canvas floorcloth using traditional designs or designs of that didn’t go exactly as planned. In life, control and pretheir own making. Betsy Grecoe who sells her floorcloths at dictability are illusions, and every once in a while we are the Shaker Store will be the instructor. Fee: $55 (includes all reminded of that. Sometimes it’s for the better, and somematerials) (pre-registration required). times not, but as Lennon said, ‘Life is what happens to you The Dave Astor Show Visits Jordan’s Meats when you’re busy making other plans.’ Also for this month’s 2 p.m. The Dave Astor Show Visits Jordan’s Meats, at performance, Playback is moving to a new location, ComMaine Historical Society. Weekly Screenings: Saturdays munity Television at 516 Congress St. in Portland (the perat 2 p.m. in July and August. “Join us for a screening of formance will not be recorded). Show starts at 7:30 p.m. the only remaining episode of The Dave Astor Show, one sharp, $7 at the door. Every month, Portland Playback Theof Maine’s best-loved homegrown television shows. The ater Company puts five actors at your disposal to honor the program, which aired on Saturday afternoons from 1956stories of your life, unrehearsed and on the spot.” Learn 1971, featured students from area high schools performmore at www.portlandplayback.com. ing dance routines and other productions. The Dave Astor Follow the Cassini probe Show, Maine’s own American Bandstand, quickly became 8:30 p.m. “The Southworth Planetarium is the one place a teenage phenomenon, a fixture in numerous homes, and where you can go under the ground to discover the wonders provided invaluable training and experiences for the stuabove the sky.” The Southworth Planetarium is in the Scidents who participated. In this episode, recorded in 1962, ence Building on the University of Southern Maine’s Portland Dave and his students help celebrate the opening of the Campus. The building’s physical address is 70 Falmouth St. new Jordan’s Meats plant in Portland with song, dance, “Follow the Cassini probe as it travels to the Saturn system. and lots of fun. (60 minutes).” www.mainehistory.org See close-up views of this fantastic world.” Admission: $6, see next page adults; $5, children. www.usm.maine.edu/planet

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The Chebeague Chebang!

3 p.m. “A New Traditions Festival, it’s a summer jubilee, replete with Pig Roast, Live Music, Games and huge fireworks. Play some badminton, have a cocktail out on the porch or cut a rug out on the lawn. It’s going to be a splendid afternoon of activities for young and old.” Children’s Art Activities: Oak Street Studios, Yard Games: Port Sports.

Musical performances throughout the day: Jose Ayerve, Emilia Dahlin, Turn Pollock, South Bound & Grand Hotel.

Rain Date: Sunday, July 3. Departure: 3 pm Casco Bay Lines to Chebeague Island. www.chebeagueislandinn.com/

‘IndepenDance — Rage Against LePage’ 9 p.m. Club Evolution (Racks), 272 St John St. (downstairs below Maine Hardware) formerly The Station. A Raging Benefit Dance Party for the Portland Democratic City Committee, created by Greg Silverchild Gould, Jill Barkley, Bryan Bonesaw Kessler, Joel Turgo. “IndepenDance — Rage Against LePage raises funds and heart rate for Portland Dems.”

Monday, July 4 Blueberry Pancake & Sausage Breakfast 7 a.m. Twentieth annual breakfast will be celebrated by serving free meals to “active-duty military personnel.”

Local parade down Main Street follows at 10 a.m. St. Jude Church, 134 Main St., Freeport. 865-6624

Bath Heritage Days continues 7:45 a.m. Celebrate the Fourth of July during Bath Heritage Days. “Join us for a citywide festival featuring live music, a carnival on the waterfront, art and craft shows in Library Park, a fireman’s muster, and annual Heritage Days Parade.

There will be a fireworks finale on the Fourth on the Kennebec River.” Events continue with One-Mile Fun Run. Downtown Bath/Waterfront/Library Park. Bath Municipal Band Pre-fireworks Concert 8 p.m. Monday; fireworks over the Kennebec River 9 p.m. Monday. July 1-July 4. www.visitbath.com

Celebrate the Fourth of July with MHS noon. A Public Reading of the Declaration of Independence by former state representative Herb Adams. Join the Maine Historical Society to celebrate the Fourth of July with a public reading of the Declaration of Independence in front of the Longfellow House at 489 Congress St. MHS owns one of only 25 surviving copies of the rare 1776 Dunlap Broadside of the Declaration. http://www.mainehistory.org/ programs_events.shtml#event_206

Fourth of July celebration in Portland noon. Portland’s annual Fourth of July celebration, The Stars and Stripes Spectacular, will be held at the Eastern Promenade Park. Vendors will be open at noon. The celebration will feature a free Patriotic Pops concert by the Portland Symphony Orchestra with performances of Sousa, Copland, and Tchaikovsky. The concert is scheduled to begin at 7:40 p.m. and will run throughout the fireworks display, which will begin at 9:20 p.m. Prior to the pops concert, spectators can enjoy a special performance by “Maine’s funniest comedian,” Bob Marley, presented by the Bangor Savings Bank and starting at 6 p.m. A rain date for the Fourth of July event is scheduled for Tuesday, July 5. Call the city’s hotline at 756-8130 if a change seems likely. The Stars and Stripes Spectacular is entirely privately funded including support from Founding Partners of the

International Cryptozoology Musuem curator Loren Coleman pauses before leading a tour in the unique tourist destiination, located in the back of the Green Hand bookstore near Longfellow Square. Coleman will give a talk on trolls Wednesday, July 6, as part of a film screening at SPACE Gallery. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) July 4th Portland Foundation, The Portland Press Herald/ Maine Sunday Telegram, Quirk Chevrolet, Wright Express and the Maine Red Claws. Additional support for this year’s event was provided by Major Sponsor — Bath Savings Bank; Gold Sponsors — Time Warner Cable, Unum and Cross Insurance; Silver Sponsors — PowerPay, Woodard & Curran, Famous Dave’s BBQ, and Citadel Broadcasting; Contributing Sponsors — Proprietors of Union Wharf, MEMIC, Creative Office Pavilion, KeyBank and countless donations from area business and individuals. “It is estimated that 50,000 people will watch the program throughout the city and to accommodate spectators that want to ride their bikes to Munjoy Hill, the city’s first ever Valet Bicycle Parking area, located near the cannon at Fort Allen Park, will be open allowing cyclists to park their bicycle for free. Sponsored by the Bicycle Coalition of Maine and the Portland Bicycle Community Meetup, people will be able to leave their bike in a staffed parking area, no lock required.

Bicycle lights will be available for sale from Gorham Bike & Ski, to ensure that spectators can ride home legally after dark. Valet Bike Parking will be available from 6 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. Attendees are reminded to throw their trash away or take it with them when they leave the park. In an effort to make recycling easier for spectators, recycling bins will be widely available throughout the area for bottles, cans and other recyclables. Staff will be walking through the park to answer questions or direct the public to the nearest recycling bin or trash container. Public restrooms will be open at the East End Beach, Turner Street and the top of Cutter Street. Due to the crowds and loud noises, spectators are asked to leave their pets at home. A variety of vendors offering 4th of July souvenirs, food and drink will be located along the Eastern Promenade. Per the State Fire Marshal, the tennis courts, playground and ball fields on the Eastern Promenade, are within the fireworks shoot zone and will be closed as of 7 a.m. on July 4. The East End Boat launch as well as Cutter Street and all the parking lots at Cutter Street will be closed from 10 p.m. July 3 to 6:30 a.m. July 5.

Boaters can access alternate launches nearby including the Falmouth Town Landing on Route 88 ($10 for non-resident, 781-7371), Bug Light Boat Launch in South Portland ($5 for resident, $6 for non esident) and Portland Yacht Services ($50 includes parking, $35 no parking, 774-167). For information about the events scheduled for the day, visit www. july4thportland.org.

Simply Tsfat in Portland

Former state representative Herb Adams will give a public reading of the Declaration of Independence at the Maine Historical Society on July 4. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

4 p.m. On Independence Day, the Simply Tsfat are on tour in the U.S. and will be performing at Shaarey Tphiloh Synagogue, 76 Noyes St. in Portland. “This is a band of musicians from Tsfat, Israel, who perform Breslov Chassidic music, which is full of joy and mystical magic. This will be a great event, with music, singing, dancing, storytelling. Don’t

miss it! Free event, sponsored by Beth Israel of Old Orchard Beach, and generous donations of a number of individuals.” Call 934-2928 or visit www.simplytsfat.com

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. 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

Independence Day Fireworks Display in Ogunquit 7:30 p.m. Musical entertainment at 7:30 p.m. Fireworks display at 9:30 p.m. Ogunquit Beach. www.ogunquit.org

Wednesday, July 6 Lobsterman’s Park kids’ activities 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Free activities with the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine every week, Wednesdays, July 6, 13, 20, 27 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Lobsterman’s Park (corner of Union and Middle Streets). July 6 — Whale Wonders. Lean the difference between toothed and baleen whales, touch real whale baleen and make a whale tail craft.

July 13 — Beaver Business. Take a look at a beaver skull and fur, then take part in a craft to learn about beaver adaptations.

July 20 — Dino Discovery. Investigate a life size T-Rex jawbone and make a dough dino fossil to take home. July 27 — Understanding Owls. Lean about an owl’s silent flight and other hunting techniques by exploring artifacts and making a craft. www.portlandmaine.com or www.childrensmuseumofme.org see next page

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Saturday, July 9

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Free summer concerts in Portland

Skyline Farm’s ninth annual Summer Celebration

8 p.m. Bring a chair or blanket, sit back and enjoy the music throughout the summer months. Portland Recreation, Families of the Western Prom Neighborhood, West End Neighborhood Association, Maine Red Claws, Quirk Chevrolet, Friends of Eastern Promenade, Kemp Goldberg Partners, Betty Winterhalder Fund, Trevor & Joe, Coyne Piergrossi Associates, Keller Williams Realty, SMRT, the Italian Heritage Center Concert Band and the Willey Trust sponsor these free outdoor concerts. FMI: 756-8275; Information and cancellation hotline: 7568130.

Sunset Folk Series At The Western Prom Park: Sponsored by Families of the Western Prom Neighborhood and WENA. Concerts last approximately 40 minutes. (During inclement weather, concert canceled.) Held Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. (or as announced) at Western Prom Park.

July 6, 8 p.m. Rob Simpson http://www.myspace.com/ robysimpson; July 13, 7:45 p.m., Darien Brahms http:// www.myspace.com/darienbrahms; July 20, 7:45 p.m., Mark Farrington; Wednesday, July 27, 7:30 p.m., Sorcha http://www.myspace.com/sorchasongs; Aug. 3, 7:30 p.m., Phantom Buffalo http://www.myspace.com/phantombuffalo; Aug. 10, 7:30 p.m., Will Gattis http://www. myspace.com/gattistheband.

Crusher’s Kids Concerts in the Park: Concerts last approximately 40 minutes. Concerts held Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. at the Bandstand, Deering Oaks Park. (During inclement weather concert relocated to Reiche Community Center, 166 Brackett Street). July 7, Jon Call (Camp Songs); July 14, Delilah & Chandra (Singing Hands); July 21, Tangletoons (Maine Songs); July 28, Sparks Ark (Wild Animals); Aug. 4, Sammie Haynes (Singer Songstress).

Friends Of Eastern Promenade Concert Series: Sponsored by the Friends of the Eastern Promenade.

Concerts last approximately one hour. Concerts held Thursdays at 7 p.m. at Bandstand, Fort Allen Park. July 7, Delta Knights (Rock ‘n’ Roll) sponsored by SMRT; July 14, Don Roy Band (Fiddlers); sponsored by a Friend of the Eastern Prom; July 21, Chandler’s Band (Marches & Big Band Era) sponsored by the Willey Trust; July 28, Sean Mencher and his Rhythm Kings (Rockabilly) sponsorship in Memory of Betty Winterhalder; Aug. 4, Big Chief (Rhythm & Roots Music) sponsored by Trevor & Joe Coyne Piergrossi Associates and Keller Williams Realty; Aug. 11, The McCarthys (Country Rock) sponsored by Kemp Goldberg Partners; Aug. 18, Banda di Nepi (Community Band from Italy) sponsored by the Italian Heritage Center (rain date at center). www. portlandmaine.gov/rec/summer.htm

9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Pony rides, bargain hunting, lobster, dessert, live music and more are featured during Skyline Farm’s ninth annual Summer Celebration fundraiser. A Barn Sale under the tent will offer shoppers an assortment of items, including antiques, collectibles, and horse-drawn carriages. If you have items to sell, rent your own table for $20, or have Skyline sell your items for a commission.

Contact Greg at 239-5782 or Lisa at 829-6899. A silent auction of fascinating items will be held inside the Visitor Center from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5:30-8 p.m. Anyone willing to donate items worth $25 or more should call Diana at 252-9352. Pony rides ($5/child), face-painting, and oldfashioned children’s activities will run from 10 a.m. to noon.

From 5:30-7 p.m. enjoy an authentic Maine lobster bake catered by North Yarmouth’s Young’s Clambakes, while overlooking Skyline’s beautiful fields. By July 1 please reserve a lobster, steak or chicken dinner ($50 pp includes a tax deductible donation to Skyline) with Pam at 829-5708.

From 7-8 p.m. enjoy free admission to the museum featuring the ‘Summer Delivery Vehicles’ exhibit, a truly unique venue. Enjoy complimentary dessert while listening to live acoustic music from Yarmouth’s own Diana Hansen, Bill Hansen, and George Maxwell. See who takes home the hotly-contested silent auction items. All proceeds benefit Skyline Farm’s operational expenses. Skyline Farm, a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization, is located at 95 The Lane in North Yarmouth (near the junction of Routes 9 and 115).

See www.skylinefarm.org for more information and directions.

Maine Festival of American Music 7 p.m. The Sixth Annual Maine Festival of American Music: Its Roots and Traditions will be held from July 6-9 at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester. The festival’s free program flyer is now available by contacting 9264597 or usshakers@aol.com.

‘Trollhunter’ at SPACE Gallery 7:30 p.m. “The government says there’s nothing to worry about – it’s just a problem with bears making trouble in the mountains and forests of Norway. But local hunters don’t believe it — and neither do a trio of college students who want to find out the truth. Armed with a video camera, they trail a mysterious ‘poacher,’ who wants nothing to do with them. But their persistence lands them straight in the path of the objects of his pursuits: Trolls. They soon find themselves documenting every move of this grizzled, unlikely hero — The Troll Hunter — risking their lives to uncover the secrets of creatures only thought to exist in fairy tales.

Talk on trolls to follow with Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist, author and director of the International Cryptozoology Museum.”

Thursday, July 7 Opera at the Mansion 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. PORTopera and Victoria Mansion partner for the first time to present Opera at the Mansion. This benefit will be at the Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth St. in Portland. The Opera at the Mansion event will feature soloists Claire Coolen, soprano, and Robert E. Mellon, baritone, from PORTopera’s Young Artists program, and includes hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Tickets are $50 and can be reserved by calling Victoria Mansion at 7724841. The funds raised from this event will benefit PORTopera and the Victoria Mansion. PORTopera Young Artists are selected through national auditions. They are young singers on the cusps of major operatic careers.

The Young Artists Program was created to support PORTopera’s mission to bring opera to Maine’s communities and to foster operatic talent from Maine and elsewhere.

‘Knit A Bunny’ workshop 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Knitters from all skill levels are welcomed to enroll in a “Knit A Bunny” workshop that will create a crouching bunny with floppy ears at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Route 26, New Gloucester. Fee: $30. For details call 926-4597 or www.shaker.lib.me.us.

‘The Other Dickens’ at Boothbay Harlan Baker will appear as Jimmy Higgins in a one-man show he has written, “Jimmy Higgins: A Life in the Labor Movement,” at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard. Baker is the Vice President of Local No. 4593 American Federation of Teachers, which represents the part-time faculty in the University of Maine System. The show will be a fundraiser to restore Maine’s Labor Mural. (COURTESY PHOTO) PORTopera is Maine’s only opera company performing fully staged operas with nationally and internationally acclaimed artists. The company will present “The Daughter of the Regiment” on July 28 and 30 at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium. For more information, visit www.portopera.org.

Hypnotist Paul Ramsay at Lucid Stage 7:30 p.m. Lucid Stage presents hypnotist Paul Ramsay.

“The days of clucking like a chicken are over. Hypnotist Paul Ramsay’s ‘Mind Games’ show breaks the mold of stage hypnotism. Using interactive polling software and remote controls, audience members steer the course of the show by voting on what they want to see happen on stage.”

29 Baxter Boulevard. $12/$10 students and seniors, 8993993. www.lucidstage.com

Friday, July 8 East Bayside Neighborhood Organization talent show at Mayo Street Arts Center 7:30 p.m. Support the East Bayside Neighborhood Organization by coming out to a night of great local talent! MC ALex Endy! A Bake Sale too! Mayo Street Arts. Break dancing, Taiko drumming, bake sale and much more! Proceeds benefit East Bayside Neighborhood Organization and Mayo Street Arts. Contact Alex Endy to sign up for a performance slot! http://www.eastbayside.org/

Open Mic/Poetry Slam in Auburn 7:15 p.m. Open Mic/Poetry Slam. First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St. Free. FMI 783-0461 or www. auburnuu.org.

A Theater Tasting 8 p.m. A Theater Tasting is a twist on the traditional wine tasting, and a fundraiser for Lucid Stage (www.lucidstage. com). A roster of performers will present, and between the acts the audience will be invited into the lobby for a wine and appetizer pairing that is chosen to go with each performance. Performers will include: Carolyn Gage (excerpt from her play The Parmachene Belle); stand-up comedy from Mike Sylvester; Michael Lane Trautman; Dark Follies (burlesque); Jake Brooks (musician); Naya’s Trance (bellydancing); The Green Room musical, produced by New Edge. $25.

12:30 p.m. Lillian Nayder, a Bates College professor whose biography “The Other Dickens” is the first comprehensive portrait of the woman whom novelist Charles Dickens married and then repudiated, discusses the book at Books in Boothbay: Maine’s Summer Book Fair at Boothbay Railway Village, Route 27 South, Boothbay. Nayder is one of 40 Maine authors who will discuss and sign their books at the fair. A reception with the authors begins at 3:30. The event is open to the public at no cost. Learn more at http://booksinboothbay.blogspot.com/.

Nine Nation Animation 2 p.m. The World According to Shorts presents Nine Nation Animation, a selection of recent award-winning animated short films from the world’s most renowned festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand and others. Portland Museum of Art. Saturday, July 9, 2 p.m.; Sunday, July 10, 2 p.m. NR. http://www.portlandmuseum. org/events/movies.php

Truth About Daisies on Peaks 7:30 p.m. Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island. $8 adult; $5 seniors and students. “Popular trio, Truth About Daisies, features original songwriting and beautiful harmonies of Sheila McKinley, Doug Swift and Ronda Dale. Their music draws on many traditions including urban folk, country, and melodic pop.” The Fifth Maine Regiment Museum is a nonprofit museum and cultural center housed in the 1888 Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Hall. Its mission is the preservation of Civil War and local history. To that end the museum offers a wide variety of lectures, concerts, tours, youth education programs, and community activities. Membership is open to the public.

For more information call 766-3330 or email fifthmainemuseum@maine.rr.com.

Jimmy Higgins: A Life in the Labor Movement 8 p.m. “Harlan Baker will appear as Jimmy Higgins in a one-man show he has written, ‘Jimmy Higgins: A Life in the Labor Movement.’ The play is set on the eve of the 1960 presidential race. A rank and file union activist is being interviewed by a college student about his life. Higgins recounts his days as a newspaper boy in Sandusky Ohio during the First World War, his meeting with Eugene Debs and other radicals opposed to American participation in the First World War, his experiences in the Lafollette campaign for president in 1924 and his experience covering the union organizing drives of tenant farmers and auto workers in the 1930s. Harlan Baker is an adjunct professor in the Theatre department at the University of Southern Maine, an actor, a former member of the Maine legislature, a union activist, and democratic socialist. ‘Jimmy Higgins’ has long stood for the name of the rank-and-file union and socialist activist.” The July 9 show is a fundraiser to restore Maine’s Labor Mural. $15 at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard, Portland.

899-3993.