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FREE Sam Johnson, who works on a boat transporting lobster and bait, endures a constant drizzle in July 2009 during a rainy summer in the Old Port. The Old Port is subject to flooding during high tides and storms.

(DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

Youth Growers in action

Committee mulls plans to counter rising sea levels

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Waves over 10 feet high battered Portland during the Patriot's Day Storm in mid-April 2007, yielding the seventh highest tide since the early 1900s.

Today, a city committee is considering the impacts if storms like the Patriot's Day Storm strike in tandem with another feared event — projected rises in sea levels attributed to the effects of climate change.

"The Patriot’s Day Storm will long be remembered for its meteorological significance and devastating power," recalls the Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System. "Violent waves destroyed homes, businesses, coastal roads, and beaches, while forceful winds tore down power lines leaving many residents in the dark for days."

"We want to be able to start planning our investments to be able to see SEA LEVELS page 6

Nearly three years later, few leads in Angelo shooting Rahma Hussein (left), 18, and Mukhtar Muqtar, 15, hook up a garden hose at the East End Community School garden Wednesday, where participants in the Cultivating Community Youth Growers program tend to the beds. On Wednesdays, the program also sells vegetables at the Boyd Street Urban Farm at Kennedy Park, next to Franklin Street. Cultivating Community states that its mission “is to strengthen communities by growing food, preparing youth leaders and new farmers, and promoting social and environmental justice.” Cultivating Community Farm Stands opened this week: Mondays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Whole Foods Market (off Marginal Way); Wednesdays from noon to 3 p.m. at Boyd Street Urban Farm (off Cumberland Avenue at Franklin Street); Wednesdays from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at PROP (510 Cumberland Ave.); Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Local 188 (685 Congress St.); and Thursdays from 3 p.m . to 6 p.m. at Northgate Shaw’s, N. Deering (on Auburn at Washington and Allen).

For more photos, see page 9. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Police ID victim of July 4 hit-and-run

The last shuttle

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BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Portland police and two local hospitals yesterday announced a new $30,000 reward for information related to the September 2008 shooting death of James Angelo in the city’s West End. Assistant Police Chief Mike Sauschuck said in a press conference yesterday at police headquarters

that detectives are still working the case, but that new leads have been slow to materialize.

“We really want to get the word back out there again,” Sauschuck told reporters. “We firmly believe somebody in the community is aware of who ... committed this tragic offense, and we would like them to come forward and assist us see LEADS page 13

‘Annie’ excels in most ways Rescue dogs fit the bill See Michael Tobin’s review on page 7

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. (NY Times) — When NASA launches a space shuttle, there are either six or seven astronauts aboard. So why, on the 135th and final launching of the 30-year-old space shuttle program, will there be only four?

The answer, perhaps not surprisingly, has to do with the Atlantis being the last flight: With no spare shuttle available to go and rescue the astronauts in case something goes wrong, the Americans would have to turn to the Russians to retrieve their crew from the International Space Station.

And the Russian spacecraft — known as Soyuz capsules — hold only three astronauts, so two people would have to fly up and bring home the Americans one at a time.

“This is a very low likelihood case,” said Atlantis’ commander, Capt. Christopher J. Ferguson of the Navy, during a news conference last week. But the agency’s safety experts have “done an extraordinarily thorough job of making sure we have a good plan to get home,” he said.

The Atlantis is scheduled to leave from here at 11:26 a.m. on Friday, making its 33rd flight. But the forecast on Wednesday was for only a 30 percent chance of acceptable weather, so the launching could be delayed until Sunday or beyond.

Otherwise, the countdown was proceeding smoothly.

“There are no problems yet,” said Michael P. Moses, the launching integration manager, at a news conference on Wednesday. “There are just weather forecasts.”

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Restive city of Hama tests will of Syrian government BEIRUT, Lebanon (NY Times) — Fired up with zeal, activists say they have set up dozens of checkpoints in the Syrian city of Hama, alerting neighborhood groups with cries of “God is great” to the approach of feared security forces and throwing up barricades of burning tires and trash bins to block their path.

Hama, the scene of the largest protests yet and haunted by the memories of a ferocious crackdown a generation ago,

has emerged as a potent challenge to President Bashar alAssad. In just days, the protests and the government’s uncertain response have underlined the potential scale of dissent in Syria, the government’s lack of a strategy in ending it, and the difficulty Mr. Assad faces in dismissing the demonstrations as religiously inspired unrest with foreign support.

Hama is still a far cry from the liberated territory that the most fervent there have

declared, with perhaps more hope than evidence. But a government decision last month to withdraw its forces has ceded the streets to protesters, who have tried to create an alternative model to the heavy-handed repression that serves as a trademark of Baathist rule.

Residents interviewed by telephone said they had begun working collectively in acts as small as cleaning a downtown square and as large as organizing the defense of some neighborhoods.

L.A. prepares for worst in freeway shutdown LOS ANGELES (NY Times) — You would think that Los Angeles, of all places, would know how to handle a catastrophe. But in just over a week, 11 miles of Interstate 405 — the north-south spine of the West Side of Los Angeles, which carries 500,000 cars every weekend over the Sepulveda Pass into the San Fernando Valley — is going to shut down from late Friday night to early Monday morning.

No cars, trucks or motorcycles will be allowed, to make way for the latest phase in a $1 billion widening project for a highway that serves as an unhappy second home for commuters during rush hours. And they are calling it Carmageddon.

City officials are warning of a traffic nightmare, urging people to stay home or get out of town with pronouncements that have taken on an increasingly alarming tone. “EXPECT BIG DELAY” reads

the warning on electronic billboards on highways and streets from Bakersfield to San Diego. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has an official “Countdown to the Closure” clock on its Web site, ticking down to the weekend of July 16 and 17.

The Los Angeles Police Department, leaving no electronic stone unturned, asked Lady Gaga to post a warning on her Twitter feed, which has 11.4 million followers and is usually more concerned with promoting “Born This Way” than a highway. There is a Carmageddon Facebook page and an all-things Carmageddon Web site, with maps, videos, a Twitter feed and local businesses offering deals to people who stay home. (The tagline: “The Price You Pay to Live in L.A.”) And there is an ever-growing list of hashtags to help Twitter account users track the impending crisis.

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Libya rebels advance on two fronts QAWALISH, Libya (NY Times) — Rebels opposed to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi seized control of this village in the mountains on Wednesday, extending their hold in western Libya and inching toward a supply route to the capital that they hope to sever.

After a half-day gun battle, Colonel Qaddafi’s soldiers yielded the town in the early afternoon, firing rockets and mortars to cover their withdrawal. The ordnance exploded on the hillsides around the town with reverberating booms and plumes of dust and smoke that briefly kept the rebels away. But the rebels flowed in behind the fleeing troops, capturing more than a dozen of them and collecting the departed soldiers’ abandoned ammunition and equipment.

Qawalish changed hands while rebels elsewhere reported making progress outside of Misurata, east of the capital, Tripoli, They said they were advancing toward the city of Zlitan. Those reports could not be independently confirmed.

In the mountains, the rebels said they hoped their day signaled new momentum for a fight in western Libya that had been deadlocked for more than a week.

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–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– NEWS BRIEFS ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Makris remains at Maine Medical Center in serious condition, police said yesterday. The extend of his injuries were not immediately known.

Police are still trying to sort out all the details surrounding the incident, which occurred at the intersection of Congress and Munjoy streets at about 10:15 p.m. Monday, shortly after the July 4 fireworks show had ended.

Police say a Dodge Durango SUV driven by Jason Beaudoin, 34, of Portland, struck Makris and dragged him for some distance after an altercation. According to the Portland Press Herald, Makris confronted Beaudoin after he appeared to intentionally drive into a parked car.

Beaudoin fled the scene, although police caught up with him at about 6 a.m. the next morning. After an interview, officers decided to impound his vehicle.

No criminal charges been filed against Beaudoin, although police say its likely the Cumberland County District Attorney’s office will press charges.

Portland club boxer to compete for Olympic Trial berth Portland Boxing Club middleweight, Russell Lamour, lost a 12-10 computer scoring decision to Aaron Coley of Haywood, Calif., at the U.S. National Championships at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., the club announced in a press release. Lamour gets one more chance at an Olympic Trial berth in Cincinnati at the Last Chance Qualifier this week.

PBC teammate, featherweight Liz Leddy, lost a 21-12 computer scoring decision to Heather Hady of Brooklyn, N.Y., placing second and winning a silver medal, her sixth silver medal in national competition. Leddy gets another try at a national championship title in Port Charlotte, Fla., at the Women’s Nationals Golden Gloves later this week.

The Portland Boxing Club is an organization which “works with highrisk youngsters, under the direct supervision of our coaches who impart instruction and guidance not only in the sport of amateur boxing, but also cultivate our youth in the area of citizenship and developing a positive sense of self-esteem,” according to the club’s Facebook page.

Boy drowns in pool at Portland apartment complex A 15-year-old boy drowned in a pool at Princeton Pines apartment complex Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

According to the Associated Press, the boy was swimming alone at the Forest Avenue apartment complex before apparently losing consciousness. Firefighters and paramedics pulled the boy from the pool, but he was pronounced dead at Maine Medical Center, AP said.

Police ID victim in post-fireworks hit-and-run Portland Police have identified the man who was struck by a vehicle and dragged during an altercation following Monday’s fireworks show as 39-year-old Steven Makris, of Pelham, N.H.

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Officials tell AP that the boy lived in the apartment complex. His identity was not released.

LePage’s son OK after Freeport car accident FREEPORT — Paul LePage II, the oldest son of Paul LePage, totaled his 2009 Toyota in a crash late last month but was not hurt, according to Maine State Police.

The Associated Press reported yesterday that the June 30 accident occurred on uneven pavement on Interstate 295 near the Freeport Brunswick line. The front and rear of the car was damaged after striking a guardrail, AP said.

Adrienne Bennett, a spokesperson for LePage, told AP the governor’s son is in Maine visiting family.

Language finalized for People’s veto on same-day voting AUGUSTA — State officials have finalized language for a possible people’s veto of a law passed this term that ended same-day voter registration in Maine. The law was signed by Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, on June 21.

Already, several groups in Maine have geared up to fight the law with a people’s veto. But first, they must gather more than 57,000 signatures. .

The question will appear on the ballot as follows: “Do you want to reject the section of Chapter 399 of the Public Law of 2011 that requires new

voters to register to vote at least two business days prior to an election?” according to a release from Secretary of State Charlie Summers.

The law will take effect in late September, that is, unless enough signatures have been gathered by the people’s veto campaigners. If that should occur, the law will be stayed until it is settled at the polls.

In order for the people’s veto question to appear on the November 8 referendum ballot, the petition must be submitted to the Secretary of State by August, 8. and the Governor’s Proclamation must be issued by September 8, 2011. If the Governor’s Proclamation is not issued by this date, the question will appear on the ballot for the next statewide election on June 12, 2012.

LePage signs law targeting ‘bath salts’ drug The new designer drug “bath salts” that has plagued some Northern and Central Maine towns this year will be regulated under a new measure signed into law yesterday by Gov. Paul LePage.

According to AP, the law would allow for a $350 fine for possession of the drug, and also creates penalties for traffcking in the drug that could include jail time for repeat offenders.

Police in Bangor and several Maine towns have reported a surge in problems this spring associated with the synthetic drug, which can cause dangerous hallucinations.

Adrienne Bennett, spokewoman for the governor, tells AP the measure is a good first step.

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The Twitter Zone I knew I should have been out eating charred meat or watching a bad Michael Bay movie.

But I couldn’t help myself. Every July Fourth weekend, I get sucked into the spooky little dimension of “The Twilight Zone.” As the annual Syfy marathon proves, Rod Serling’s hypnotic show is as relevant as ever.

If Anthony Weiner had watched it, he might have been more aware of how swiftly, and chillingly, our technology can turn on us. Prosecutors and reporters, dumbfounded by dramatic reversals in the cases of tabloid villains D.S.K. and Casey Anthony, might do well to keep in mind Serling’s postmodern mantra: Nothing is what it seems.

Agnes Moorehead may seem to be a lonely farmwoman under attack by scary little robots, but after she kills them and takes an ax to their spaceship, it turns out that she’s the ––––– scary Amazon alien and the The New York little men were U.S. astronauts Times from Earth.

Ensorcelled once more by that inimitable, smoke-filled Serling voice, which is reassuring and unnerving at once, I wondered how the ingenious TV writer would have used social media and search engines in his plots. Given the way Serling treated time travel, space odysseys, robots and aliens, the 21st-century technology giants would probably have been ominous in one narrative and

Maureen Dowd

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The last shuttle Sometimes, you have to pause and give a moment of respect to the last of things.

The last “real” muscle car, the pre 1967 fuel emissions Pontiac GTO to roll off the assembly line in Detroit should be in a museum, or be driven by a hot rod enthusiast. Instead, it’s probably sitting in some backyard, rusting in pieces.

The last Saturn Booster rocket, part of the moon mission program, should have been launched. Instead, the program was cancelled, the booster tipped on its side and put out to pasture on the front lawn of the Kennedy Space Center.

Friday, the U.S. is launching the last shuttle. All are now destined for museums. When this last one returns, it, too, will be a museum piece.

Think back for a second over the lifetime of the shuttle program. I followed it since the beginning, saw the multiple redesigns. Cheered when John Young and Bob Crippen brought back the first one whole. (As added proof, I didn’t even have to check the names.

I still remember it, all those years later.)

I had a chance to see a launch, just once. Launches of the shuttle were a funny thing.

You might plan your entire

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist vacation around one, only to see it postponed months. You might get lucky and happen to hit Florida just in time. A tiny bit of planning on my brother’s part brought me, a 14-year-old kid, down to catch a launch.

Twenty-nine summers ago was a different time. A 14-yearold kid could get dropped off at the airport by his Dad, luggage in tow, and just get on a flight. I was never even asked if someone was going to meet me on the other end. No silliness about providing identification that matched my ticket.

No grope while waiting in line to board.

My brother’s plan was a simple one. He was done at a post college training school, and needed some help packing up the apartment. He bought the ticket, flew me down, and we both did all the traditional Florida tourist crap. The first night, he sprang it on me. “One of the shuttle launches got rescheduled. It kind of blows

some other plans out of the water, but are you up for heading to Cocoa Beach to catch a launch?”Like he had to ask. This is like asking a kid if he’d like to shoot a shotgun at a watermelon, or play with explosives. We did the beach thing, waited through numerous holds for the launch, and finally felt that rumbling pulse of the solid boosters that seems to feel as if it’s located an inch below your ribcage. We watched the shuttle slowly arc across the sky. It was a milestone of childhood for me.

January 28th, 1986. I was in Gym class, my senior year in high school. Just getting out of class, some knucklehead named Nick (whose last name I don’t remember to this day) told me the shuttle had blown up. I thought he was full of crap. A quick locker stop, and I passed the library. There were at least 50 people sitting there, silently watching the screen in mute horror that I have only seen one time since, on 9/11. I never want to hear that silent scream again.

Later, I was just starting a new job when the boss, Niels, picked me up for some Saturday work. The news had just come see HIGGINS page 5

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Banned from the Barn Iowa’s ag-gag law failed to pass before summer recess last week: a good thing. The ridiculous proposition, which died along with similar ones in Minnesota, Florida and New York, would have made it illegal to videotape or photograph in the agricultural facilities that house almost all of our chickens and pigs.

Sadly, a lack of idiocy is not the same thing as a presence of wisdom, and the demise of ag-gag won’t give us a clearer view of food production.

We need more visibility, not less. But when I visited Iowa in May, I appealed to producers of eggs, chickens, pork and even cooking oil to let me visit their facilities. In general, I was ignored, politely refused or told something like “it’s a bad week.” (I made standing offers to return at any time; no one has taken me up on that.)

When a journalist can’t see how the food we eat is produced, you don’t need ag-gag laws. The system’s already gagged.

The videographers that have made it into closed barns have revealed that eggs are laid and chickens are born and raised in closed barns containing (literally) hundreds of thousands of birds; an outsider wouldn’t even know what those barns were. Pigs are housed cheek-to-jowl, by the many thousands, in what are called concentrated animal feeding operations,

Mark Bittman ––––– The New York Times where feeding, watering and monitoring are largely mechanized. Pregnant sows are confined in small concrete cells. Iowa is industrial agriculture’s ground zero. But when it comes to producing animals, zero is pretty much what you’re going to see.

One medium-size pig-raising operation did offer me a tour, and we drove to a site where they ran four barns, each of which normally housed around 1,200 pigs. But the one we explored held only 200 pigs and reeked of deodorant. The animals had plenty of room, and they were calm and clean, as were the floors.

Not at all what I expected. Except I’d been expected, and a cleanup must have preceded me by, I’d guess, no more than two hours. (Either that or these were magic, non-defecating pigs.)

“Where are the other thousand pigs?” I asked.

“We’ve shipped a whole bunch recently.”

“How about the other three barns?

Are they full?”

“Nope. We don’t have many pigs here right now.”

Some tour. But I’d seen other pig barns during the course of the week because whenever I saw one that appeared unattended (it’s easy enough to tell; there’s no car), I checked it out as best I could. On some roads, there are almost as many pig barns as farmhouses, which may not be a coincidence: If you were an older farmer and your neighbor put 1,200 pigs in a barn, you’d probably move to Florida, too. The smell can be overwhelming.

Most have a small enclosure by the road, usually with a Dumpster. That’s where dead pigs are tossed until the next garbage collection. (Yes, I saw this, several times.) Many of the barns are open on the sides so you can see how crowded the pigs are. (Videos of gestation barns — virtually impossible for an outsider to see — show that the sows can’t even turn around.)

The pigs were visibly upset when I approached the outside of the barn.

That was the best I could do, and it wasn’t much. I could’ve been arrested for trespassing; extreme versions of ag-gag would make it illegal for me to write about it, or at least publish pictures.

Which would bring us a step closer to China, whose Health Ministry is trying to clamp down on news media

outlets that “mislead” the public about food safety issues. (It’s worth noting, on the other hand, that the Chinese Supreme Court has called for the death penalty in cases of fatal food poisoning.)

“Mislead” apparently means reporting about pork tainted with the banned drug clenbuterol, which sent a couple hundred wedding guests to the hospital; watermelons exploding from the overuse of chemicals; pork disguised as beef, or glowing blue; and — my favorite — cooking oil dredged from sewers.

(Check my blog for the details.)

Our watermelons don’t explode and, for now, I can write about it. Yet when a heroic videographer breaks a horror story about animal cruelty, as happens every month or so, the industry writes off the offense as an isolated incident, and the perpetrators — usually the workers, who are “just following orders” — are fired or given wrist slaps. Business continues as usual, and it will until the public better understands industrial animalrearing techniques.

“When I grew up here,” said an Iowan I spent some time with, “people were proud of their animals. They’d have signs with their breeds, or their names, and they’d offer to show you around.” That’s no longer the case with most animal operations in Iowa.

Next week I’ll write about some of those that give us reason to hope.

The Twilight Zone, Serling’s memorable show, is as relevant as ever DOWD from page 4

benign in another. (Just like in life.)

No doubt some characters would have been saved and others destroyed

by Twitter, Facebook and Google.

“When you look at ‘Twilight Zone’ episodes, everything is ambivalent,” said Serling’s friend Doug Brode, who, along with Serling’s widow, Carol, wrote “Rod Serling and ‘The Twilight Zone:’ The 50th Anniversary Tribute,” published in 2009. “Rod had an open mind to the good, the bad and the in-between of technology. He was a guarded optimist until the Kennedy assassination. After that, his work reflected his sense of hopelessness.”

He said that Serling’s father, a middle-class grocer, lost his business in the Depression, so Rod had an early lesson in reversals. Serling also had a devastating experience while serving in World War II. During a lull at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Pacific, he was standing with his arm around

a good friend and they were having their picture taken. At that moment, an Air Force plane dropped a box of extra ammunition that landed on Serling’s friend and flattened him so fatally that he couldn’t even be seen under the box.

“Many ‘Zone’ episodes are about that split-second of fate where somebody arbitrarily gets spared or, absurdly, does not,” Brode said.

Serling himself lived a reversal, going from a trailer park after the war and 40 rejection slips in a row to having a big Hollywood house and a pool. But he grew disdainful of Babylon’s corrupting materialism and moved back to a cottage on Cayuga Lake in upstate New York. Serling fought furiously against censorship and ads, asking how you could write meaningful drama when it was interrupted every 15 minutes by “12 dancing rabbits with toilet paper?”

In one “Twilight Zone,” an inept screenwriter conjures up Shakespeare

to help him. The Bard produces a dazzling screenplay but then storms out when the sponsor demands a lot of revisions.

Did Serling, who had a searing sense of social and racial justice, believe in God? “Not Charlton Heston sitting on a cloud with the Ten Commandments, but absolutely, as a force in the universe, he did,” Brode said. “Nearly 35 years ago, George Lucas told me that the whole concept of the Force comes from Rod Serling.”

It’s impossible not to watch a stretch of the endlessly inventive Serling and not notice how many of his plots have been ripped off for movies, and how ahead of his time he was. In a popular new Samsung ad, a young woman jumps up from the lunch table and begins screaming because the tarantula screensaver on her colleague’s 4G phone is so lifelike; another guy at the table takes off his shoe and smashes it.

There’s a “Twilight Zone” episode

where a Western gunfighter time travels forward and goes into a bar, where he sees a TV with a cowboy coming toward him. Thinking it’s real, he pulls out his pistol and shoots the screen.

Looking at this summer’s lame crop of movies and previews you can appreciate Serling’s upbraiding of the entertainment industry for “our mediocrity, our imitativeness, our commercialism and, all too frequently, our deadening and deadly lack of creativity and courage.”

“The Twilight Zone” was never gangbusters in the ratings, and Serling — who smoked on screen — died at 50 from the ravages of six packs a day. He felt like a sellout and failure.

He had sold syndication rights for his show to CBS for a few million, thinking he had not written anything of lasting value.

Sadly, he gave himself a trick ending. He died never realizing how influential he would be.

“Everything today is Rod Serling,” said Brode. “Everything.”

Closing of shuttle program is the end of an era and a turning point HIGGINS from page 4

over the radio about Columbia breaking up on approach. We both headed for the nearest TV to catch the details, again chilled.

I watched as Storey Musgrave did the final repair to the myopic Hubble Space Telescope. I watched astronauts on multiple missions

assemble the three times redesigned International Space Station.

We all watched missions succeed and fail.

After Friday, assuming the launch goes off without a hitch, there will be nothing left to watch.

Sure, we can all go outside on a warm summer night and watch the ISS float by, but it just won’t be the same.

In closing the shuttle program without designating a replacement, we’ve not just coming to the end of an era. We’ve now come to a turning point as a country.

Floor needs to be swept, let the robot do it. Cars need to be assembled, the robots can do it cheaper and faster. Data needs to be entered, the computer can just scan the form and do the job itself.

The great unknown needs to be explored, screw it; let the robot do that too.

If we give up the last thing weas a country are good at, designing new technology to exploit the rest of the world, then what was the point?

(Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

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BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Olympia, Wash. is one of the model cities for Portland's efforts to brace itself against rising sea levels, and for Andy Haub, Olympia's planning and engineering manager, "there's no real mystery to it."

"If the water in the ocean increases 6 inches during the extreme high tide, this is the comparison" that the city must consider when planning for flood damage, Haub said.

Washington's capital city of 46,478 on the West Coast's verdant Puget Sound is "actively managing" sea level increases as part of an ongoing planning effort, Haub said.

Olympia is undertaking "a progression of actions that the city could take in response to predicted or observed sea rise of up to 50 inches," Haub said. "We're taking little pieces of the puzzle."

Several years ago, when the city was considering various sites for a new city hall, the issue of sea level rise in downtown Olympia "became a

prominent community dialogue," the city's website explains. "This local concern, along with greater overall public awareness as a result Al Gore’s 'Inconvenient Truth,' reinvigorated discussions on sea level rise.

The city hosted a community forum on sea level rise and climate change at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts as a community 'call to action' and published an update on climate change planning. Soon thereafter, city staff prepared one of the first municipal evaluations on climate change and sea level rise in the United States. ..."

Olympia's report contemplated "a potential sea rise scenario encompassing a 45 inches of tidal rise in Olympia over a 100-year time period. The report presented sea rise as a 'twin dilemma' involving high levels of both uncertainty and risk," the city's website explains.

For Haub, the issue of flooding from 50 inches of sea rise is less theoretical than practical.

"I've never professed myself to be

an expert on climate change or sea rise, I'm a storm and surface water manager for the city, our downtown is prone to flooding," Haub explained.

"I don't ever really get into the realm of climate change. ... I never debate climate change, it's a big deal if our city is going to flood," he said.

Using cutting-edge mapping technology, Olympia mapped its terrain, particularly its stormwater systems.

Elevations of the downtown area were recorded.

Changes to Olympia's stormwater systems and shoreline development in the short term could lead to "a physical barrier or 'living shoreline' at the water’s edge," the city's website notes.

"Increasing our understanding of potential future needs will increase our ability to adapt. ... The City will seek to understand the implications of and planning for a potential 100-year sea rise of 50-inches. ... With respect to managing sea rise and potential flooding, our urban shoreline is a highly valuable resource. The city should maintain and potentially increase

public control over waterfront property, consider shoreline flood control buffer zones, setbacks and easements."

This summer, Olympia is modeling marine water inlets. The goal, Haub said, is to understand the dynamic between upland hydrology and the marine hydrology."

The community there has accepted this process, Haub said. "We're very vulnerable, that's why we've put so much energy into it," he said.

"It's worked well for us. We've tried to take little bite-size pieces that could be evaluated in a year or two and bring those back to elected officials and the community," Haub said.

Asked if he had any advice for Portland, Haub said, "I think I'd start by understanding the elevations of areas you're concerned about and compare those elevations to your high tides and start adding sea level rises by increments of 6 inches or so.

If nothing floods that you value, then you're fine. If part of your historic district is underwater, then you have a problem."

Marshall: ‘It’s really an immediate issue, and it’s not something that we should put off’ SEA LEVELS from page one

avoid those kinds of capital costs in the future," said City Councilor Dave Marshall, chair of Portland's Energy and Environmental Sustainability Committee. The committee is mulling a planning effort that would help the city cope with rising sea levels, as part of its meeting today at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall.

"Tide gauge measurements and satellite altimetry suggest that sea level has risen worldwide approximately 4.8-8.8 inches (12-22 cm) during the last century," according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Many scientists say manmade global warming contributes to these changes in sea levels. The EPA states that "the addition of greenhouse gases and aerosols has changed the composition of the atmosphere. The changes in the atmosphere have likely influenced temperature, precipitation, storms and

sea level." Not everyone agrees, and skeptics point to a lull in global warming between 1998 and 2008 as one counterargument to the theory that people are affecting the planet's climate. (And on Tuesday, Washington Post blogger Andrew Freedman even cited a new study that blames the 10-year lull in global warming on China's coal use and air pollution, arguing that coal smoke actually screens the Earth from the sun's heat.)

As the issue of climate change is debated, Portland is looking to position itself to mitigate the impacts of storm surges and sea level rises.

"We're trying to get the city administration to start going through a planning process to plan our capital investments around the impact of sea level rise," Marshall said.

The Patriots Day storm cost a huge amount in infrastructure damage, Marshall recalled. The city had to rebuild the East End Trail, Back Cove and

portions of Bayside.

"When that storm came in, Bayside was substantially flooded, Commercial Street was flooded," Marshall said. "Even without a storm when you go out to Marginal Way during the spring high tide you can have standing high water on the street."

Commercial Street and Bayside are among the "areas we claimed from the ocean a while ago," Marshall said, and as sea levels have risen, those areas could face damage. The ideal long-term vision would avoid putting money into areas that aren't adequately protected, he noted.

"It's really an immediate issue, and it's not something that we should put off," Marshall said.

The meeting agenda suggests a city council resolution asking city staff to launch the process.

"We haven't discussed hiring a consultant," Marshall added, but if staff came back and asked for help, the city council could consider it, he said.

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‘Annie’ hits most of the right notes in Brunswick ‘Annie’ Maine State Music Theatre In 1977, the Broadway stage turned the comic strip inspired "Little Orphan Annie" into the Tony Award-winning megahit "Annie." Now Maine State Music Theatre and the charming Steven C. Peterson (MSMT Executive Director) gives us their rendition of this timeless classic, bringing the audience to their feet opening night, as a cast of nine little girls, 15 multi-talented adults and two dogs remind us that "you're never fully dressed without a smile" — and everyone, includ-

ing this reviewer, was smiling when the curtain came down.

An amazing scenic design by Robert A. Kovach was beautifully executed — flawlessly changed throughout the show ––––– in seconds. Mr. Kovach and Theatre Talk crew brought a 1933 Depression-era feel to every location they created, from the dark shadows under the bridge in Hooverville to the grand richness of Daddy Warbuck's mansion — all bigger than life. The only thing I missed was the grand staircase, especially for Annie's signature "red dress" reveal in Act Two. Lighting design by Jeffrey S. Koger complimented every scene. Costume design by Irene Kay Peter-

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son was period perfect and great fun — her creative staff top notch in execution.

Director/Choreographer Marc Robin did a good job but I had hoped for more originality, especially in the choreography — which was, again, good, but uninspired. The only real standout choreography was the show stopping "Easy Street" deliciously performed by Hannigan, Rooster and Lily. Musical Director Edward Reichert proves why he's a Maine favorite, giving the musical score and his performers star quality sound and professionalism from overture to curtain call. The band of nine are fantastic — trumpeter Richard Given note perfect.

Handsome (and signature bald) David Girolmo (Daddy Warbucks) delivers the best performance of see ANNIE page 8

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Thursday, July 7 Jolie Holland with Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside 8 p.m. SPACE Gallery. Texas-born Jolie Holland fuses folk, traditional country and blues into songs that are, as the old book says, “as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves.” Loosely inspired by Neil Young’s Zuma, Holland’s fourth album, “Pint of Blood,” is out on ANTI-records. Sallie Ford pulled up her Carolina roots and moved across the country to Portland, Ore., where she met her band, the Sound Outside. Channeling the vocal stylings of Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith and Etta James, the group is doing for roots music what Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings have done for the contemporary soul music revival. $15 advance, $18 day of show, 18 plus. http:// www.space538.org/events.php

Callers with Nat Baldwin (of Dirty Projectors) 8 p.m. One Longfellow Square. With a raw and spartan style, propelled by Sara Luca’s sensually tough vocals, and Ryan

and Don’s Southern-honed chops as multi-instrumentalists, Callers craft songs that embed themselves deep within the listener. Each track delivers an immediate and tangible humanity, colored by the ages, anchored by the group’s strong musical roots. Much more than the sum of their parts, the trio’s live performances conjure a soulful magic not too be missed. www. onelongfellowsquare.com

Suzy Bogguss at Jonathan’s 8 p.m. Suzy Bogguss at Jonathan’s Ogunquit. “Bogguss was ‘discovered’ by talent scouts from Capitol Nashville while singing at Dollywood, Dolly Parton’s theme park in East Tennessee’s Smokey Mountains. A tape of her music that she sold at the park got into the hands of a label executive and three weeks later she was signed. Suzy has collaborated with some of Nashville’s most influential songwriters — Chet Atkins, Steve Dorff, Matraca Berg, Pat Bunch ... however, it should come as no surprise that her favorite cowriter is husband, Doug Crider. In ‘93, the two penned her top-five single, ‘Just Like the Weather.’” www.jonathansrestaurant. com/concerts.cfm

Friday, July 8 Erica Brown CD Release

Erica Brown will perform at One Longfellow Square Friday. (COURTESY PHOTO)

8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents Erica Brown and The Bluegrass Connection, The Stowaways and other special guests! Erica Brown started playing the fiddle at the age of six and has been performing since the age of nine, traveling throughout New England, Canada and Louisiana. She has won numerous fiddle contests in New England as well as Canada. Already considered a Master of Traditional Fiddling by the Maine Arts Commission, Erica brings a special energy and style to the Maine music scene. Performance highlights include opening for Grammy Award winning country music superstar, Dwight Yoakam, as well as Grammy Award winning bluegrass performer, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. Erica is celebrating the release of her 5th CD, “From Now On.” She will be joined by her band, The Bluegrass Connection, as well as The Stowaways and other special guests. www. onelongfellowsquare.com

Saturday, July 9 The Steve Grover Quintet presents: The Beatles Project Volume One 8 p.m. The Steve Grover Quintet will reprise The Beatles Project, a jazz interpretation of

The Beatles songbook, at One Longfellow Square. www.onelongfellowsquare.com

Paula Cole in concert 9 p.m. Paula Cole will perform at Jonathan’s Ogunquit. “Come listen to the ever so popular, ‘Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?’” www.jonathansrestaurant.com

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ARTS Theater productions feature rescue dogs ration and conversation starter for those considDAILY SUN STAFF REPORT ering a rescued pet as well as a tool to educate Maine State Music Theatre welcomes the current pet owners about the amazing potential Coastal Humane Society during the matinee of any animal given the right love and attenperformances of "Annie" on Thursday, July 7 and tion," the press release noted.

Tuesday, July 12 outside the Pickard Theater in The Coastal Humane Society is a nonprofit Brunswick, the theater announced. CHS will be charitable organization, animal shelter, and on hand with information about animal rescue companion animal adoption agency founded in and pet care, as well as with a visiting adoptable 1950 by Bowdoin College Professor of English, pet, to educate MSMT patrons who may be interStanley Chase. The organization is over 60 years ested in a new friend, the theater announced in old. CHS is one of the largest animal shelters in a press release.

Maine. CHS holds contracts with over 12 towns.

Mikey, the terrier mix portraying Sandy in The Coastal Humane Society cares for over MSMT’s "Annie," is a rescue dog and has gained 3,000 animals annually. In addition to provida lot of attention for his performance on stage ing a shelter for animals in need, CHS offers a (see Michael Tobin's review of "Annie" and the number of programs committed to the compascanine actors in today's Sun). Mikey was trained sionate care and excellent animal replacements.

ABOVE LEFT: “Mikey,” a rescue dog, plays “Sandy” in Maine State Music Theby Tony Award-winning animal trainer William CHS returns lost animals to their families, proBerloni who believes in rescuing dogs and saving atre’s production of “Annie,” now playing in Brunswick. Mikey was abused and vides support and resources for pet owners, and them from a worse life, or no life at all. Berloni neglected before he found a life as a star of the big stage. ABOVE RIGHT: “Snick- educates the community about adoption and ers” plays Toto in MSMT’s upcoming production of “The Wiz.” Snickers is also a and his handlers have provided animals of all rescued animal. (COURTESY PHOTOS) animal treatment. species and sizes, found in shelters, humane "Annie" is playing now through July 16. Intersocieties or rescue leagues, for Broadway, offcomeback and has starred in many productions of ested parties can contact the MSMT box office Broadway, national tours, regional theatres, televi"Annie," the press release noted. at 725-8769, visit the box office window in person sion and movies. Since being chained up, neglected "Maine State Music Theatre and The Costal at The Pickard Theater or purchase online at www. and malnourished, Mikey has made an astonishing Humane Society see Mikey’s story as a great inspimsmt.org.

Stage crew brought a 1933 Depression-era feel to every location moment and Mikey (Sandy) was pull-at-your-heart brilliant! Kudos to trainer William Berloni and handler Brian Hoffman!

Regardless of the choices that I felt didn't work in this production, the audience loved it and there is more than enough to put MSMT's “Annie” at the top of your "To Do" list. I guarantee you will smile from ear to ear and sing every song long after the curtain comes down. Don't wait until "Tomorrow" to get your tickets, do it today! "Annie" plays through July 16.

MSMT's 2011 summer season continues July 20 with the hilarious roller-disco send-up of the 1980's Olivia Newton John film, "Xanadu," and closing out the season will be a dazzling mix of rock, soul and gospel as Dorothy eases on down the road in "The Wiz." Maine State Music Theatre is located at the air conditioned Pickard Theatre located at 1 Bath Road in Brunswick on the campus of Bowdoin College. For tickets and more information, please call 725-8769 or go to www.msmt.org.

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the night, giving us a grounded, multi-layered character with heart. Mr. Girolmo sings and sells every song with emotional power that takes command of the stage — "Something Was Missing" was beautiful. Charis Leos is brilliant as orphanage matron, Miss Hannigan. Ms. Leos's physical comedy and hilarious delivery of lines was a scene stealer. Great vocals, especially in "Little Girls." Lara Seibert (Grace Farrell) was perfect, every detail of the faithful secretary worked. Chuck Ragsdale (Rooster) and Morgan Smith (Lily) were tons of fun and a rush of welcomed energy in every scene. Ms. Smith's physicality was appropriately titillating. Other standout performances were MSMT favorite Glenn Anderson as FDR, vocal powerhouse Danielle Erin Rhodes as the Star To Be, a very funny Ed Romanoff as the delightful dancing Drake and the multi-talented Brian Michael Hoffman in his many roles. The ensemble, in their many roles, were collectively and individually superb with a fantastic vocal sound that filled the theater.

Lauren Weintraub was fine as "Annie" but lacked command of her role, the stage and a sincere warmth that should have made us melt. Yes, Ms. Weintraub can sing well but "something was missing" in her performance. The Orphans did a great job and the audience loved them. Portland favorite, Gina Pardi (Kate), along with Rachel Friedman (Tessie) and

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Katherine S. Boston (Molly) needs to focus her forced cuteness on the show and not on the audience — distracting. And yes, the dogs were showstealing adorable. Broadway's Snickers (soon to be Toto in “The Wiz”) gave us an all too short "aaawww"

MCU Portland Phoenix and SZ Phoenix is holding free tryouts for its 2011/2012 premier soccer and junior academy programs. Tryout dates run from July 6th to the 15th. For specific dates and times by age and gender, and to register, please visit www.mainepremiersoccer.com.

For more information, email tryouts@mainepremiersoccer.com

(Michael J. Tobin has been a professional actor, director, theatre administrator and educator for 30 years in theaters throughout New England and around the Country. Mr. Tobin has performed and directed in 350-plus shows Off-Broadway, National Tours, Regional Theatre, Summer Stock, Children’s Theatre and Community Theatre. Mr. Tobin lives in South Portland.)

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Young gardeners keep beds green ABOVE: With an urban panorama behind him, Saad Zackariah, 15, waters the East End Community School garden on Munjoy Hill Wednesday. This is a garden where the Cultivating Community Youth Growers program tends to the beds. BELOW: Zackariah and Mukhtar Muqtar, 15, prepare to water the school garden Wednesday. The Cultivating Community Youth Growers program works in Portland, growing produce. On Wednesdays from noon to 3 p.m., the program participants also sell vegetables at the Boyd Street Urban Farm at Kennedy Park, next to Franklin Street. Youth Growers, according to Cultivating Community, “is a hands-on program” connecting young people to themselves and peers, to the community, and to the food system. “Workshops and exercises to foster leadership and knowledge include diversity trainings, food system workshops, community organizing, and public speaking exercises. Youth Growers support one another throughout the experience and are one group.” For days and hours of the public markets for Cultivating Community participants, see the caption on page 1. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

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By Holiday Mathis hard to keep yourself from going for it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). A good lawyer does not present all of the information he has about his client during the opening statement. Likewise, you have the rapt attention of your “jury” as you take your time in revealing the truth.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

There are too many people influencing you now. It will do you no good to want something just because others do.

If you still don’t know what your true wants are, ask them to speak to you a little louder.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It has been said that any item of clothing can be attractive with a confident, passionate person inside it. However, it’s difficult to feel either confident or passionate if you hate what you’re wearing.

Another reason to shop...

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You are in a competitive mood. The best competitor now is not a person, but the general idea that is the status quo.

Go for mastery and excellence in all things.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your deepest craving is to be accepted and adored. Realizing that this is something you have in common with most humans, you lavish others with praise and they do the same for you.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (July 7). You’ll love the interaction this month as lively characters enter your world. Fun and unexpected travel precedes hard work during the highly productive month of September. You’ll express yourself in a safe environment and develop your gifts through October. November brings the payoff of a long-term investment. Libra and Aries people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 6, 25, 43 and 23.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll get a sign that things are about to change for the better in a relationship.

Perhaps this won’t come as a source of elation, but you will likely feel cheerful and optimistic about your future with the other person.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You often avoid strong emotions, but such intense feelings can be helpful at times.

For instance, your anger can make you more powerful than a wild beast. Use your strong feelings judiciously.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). People will do annoying things that have nothing to do with you, so be sure not to take any of it personally. You may find their behavior irritating, but you’ll blow it off much quicker when you know it’s not really about you.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You want a change, and your desire for it is the ingredient that will make it happen.

As you let your desire move you, it strengthens. The stronger your desire the faster the change will come about.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The more you expose people to your ideas the more they will like them. So keep making your pitch, telling your story and winning supporters one by one. You will soon go from being “an acquired taste” to having mainstream appeal.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). What appears to be an everyday encounter may seem stressful to you. Because of your particular sensitivities, you realize there is much more going on than most people would see. Try to relax and take it all in stride.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’ll persuade someone subtly and without being detected. Perhaps even you don’t realize that you are doing this. But when you want something so much, it’s

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, July 7, the 188th day of 2011. There are 177 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On July 7, 1981, President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

On this date: In 1846, U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey (mahn-tuh-RAY’) after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.

In 1860, composer-conductor Gustav Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (in the present-day Czech Republic).

In 1865, four people were hanged in Washington, D.C., for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.

In 1898, the United States annexed Hawaii.

In 1911, composer Gian Carlo Menotti was born in Cadegliano, Italy.

In 1919, the first Transcontinental Motor Convoy, in which a U.S. Army convoy of motorized vehicles crossed the United States, departed Washington, D.C. (The trip ended in San Francisco on Sept. 6, 1919.)

In 1930, construction began on Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam).

In 1941, U.S. forces took up positions in Iceland, Trinidad and British Guiana to forestall any Nazi invasion, even though the United States had not yet entered the Second World War. In 1969, Canada’s House of Commons gave final approval to the Official Languages Act, making French equal to English throughout the national government.

One year ago: President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick to run Medicare and Medicaid. In Philadelphia, a disabled sightseeing “duck boat” adrift in the Delaware River was struck by a barge and capsized; two Hungarian tourists died.

Today’s Birthdays: Musician-conductor Doc Severinsen is 84. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough is 78. Rock star Ringo Starr is 71. Singer-musician Warren Entner (The Grass Roots) is 68. Rock musician Jim Rodford is 66. Actor Joe Spano is 65. Pop singer David Hodo (The Village People) is 64. Country singer Linda Williams is 64. Actress Shelley Duvall is 62. Actress Roz Ryan is 60 Actor Billy Campbell is 52.

Rock musician Mark White (Spin Doctors) is 49. Singer-songwriter Vonda Shepard is 48. Actor-comedian Jim Gaffigan is 45.

Rhythm-and-blues musician Ricky Kinchen (Mint Condition) is 45. Actress Amy Carlson is 43. Actress Jorja Fox is 43. Actress Cree Summer is 42. Actress Kirsten Vangsness is 39. Actor Troy Garity is 38. Actor Hamish Linklater is 35. Olympic silver and bronze medal figure skater Michelle Kwan is 31.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I work in a family business along with my parents, my brother and my sister. Two years ago, my brother’s wife and my sister’s husband also worked there, but they had an affair and moved away together. Three months later, they both returned to their spouses. Their marriages are reconciled, but they are not allowed back in the family business.

I refuse to attend any event that includes the two of them. I am so upset about what they did to my family that I will not speak to either of them. The problem is, my sister is constantly telling me that I have to accept her husband and stop being so stubborn. I keep telling her what they did is not acceptable and I do not have to be around either one of them.

What do you suggest? Am I wrong to feel this way? -- Confused Dear Confused: You are not wrong. Their behavior was reprehensible. However, avoiding family events where these in-laws will be present mostly hurts your sister and brother.

They are having a hard enough time with their marriages. It surely is additional punishment to know the affair has also caused an estrangement with their sibling. Etiquette quite helpfully provides a solution. It’s called “snubbing.” Attend these family events, and be loving toward your sister and brother and aloof toward the miscreants. Your behavior will make your disapproval abundantly clear.

Dear Annie: You advocate meeting people through volunteer organizations, local theater productions, choirs, political groups, book clubs, etc. Doing that can certainly keep a person busy, but it doesn’t always lead to meeting a potential romantic interest.

I was widowed 20 years ago at the age of 49. I continue to be active in various civic organizations, political groups (I even ran for local office a couple of times.), my church, a weekly exercise group and the local senior center. Have I met anyone?

No, and I’ve just about given up and decided to adopt a cat to keep me company. -- S. Dear S.: While joining organizations can lead to romance, that should not be your main focus. The point is to be involved in activities that you enjoy and where you can meet others who share your interests. It’s a way to make friends and lead a full life. Romance would be a bonus. We don’t know why you haven’t been able to find what you are searching for, but if you have been helping your community and staying active, you haven’t been wasting your time.

Dear Annie: I’m writing in response to the letter from “Trying To Keep the Peace,” who was criticized for posting information about her grandfather’s death on Facebook. She doesn’t mention how long she waited before putting that online.

We recently had a similar situation. A relative passed away late in the evening, and due to the hour, the decision was made to wait until morning to notify family members. But one relative posted the information on their Facebook page that same evening, and several close family members were upset when they saw the posting before we had a chance to call.

“Trying” defends the posting by saying that obituaries are published in the local newspaper, but this is done after those closest to the deceased have already been notified. Perhaps a good policy would be to delay posting a death notice on any website for, say, 12 to 24 hours out of respect for the family, allowing them to come to grips with their loss and gently inform their loved ones personally.

It was heartbreaking enough to deal with our loss without also having to deal with the fallout from family members finding out about it online. -- Also Trying To Keep the Peace

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

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with this investigation.”

Angelo, 27, was a Mercy Hospital security guard conducting routine rounds in a Winter Street parking lot when he was shot once in the back at about 4 a.m. on Sept. 7, 2008. He later died at Maine Medical Center.

Angelo immigrated to the U.S. from Sudan nearly 13 years before the shooting. He left behind a wife and a daughter who is now 5 years old.

Police have several theories about what happened before and during the shooting but still haven't uncovered a motive or any suspects. Investigators say it’s possible Angelo was struck by a stray bullet or that he inadvertently wandered into a drug transaction or an altercation that began elsewhere.

Although Angelo has no known ties to drug activity, authorities believe drug trafficking in the area might have been a factor in the shooting.

“As tragic as it sounds, (we really believe) that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Sauschuck said.

Police said “multiple” shots Sauschuck were fired on that night, but otherwise haven’t released many details on the incident.

Surveillance tapes taken from a “local business” show two “shadowy” men in the vicinity of the parking lot before the shooting. Another video shows Angelo walking in the lot and then falling down as he was shot. The videos do not show the shooting or who pulled the trigger.

After the shooting, a hospital employee saw a black male run down Winter Street and turn right onto Brackett Street.

These details, while not previously unreported, will hopefully jog people’s memories about the incident, Sauschuck said.

The case has been closely watched by the city's Sudanese community, and the seeming lack of progress has frustrated some. Sauschuck said the department continues to meet regularly with local Sudanese leaders and is in close contact with Angelo's family.

The $30,000 reward was funded with donations by Mercy and Maine Med. It will be disbursed if information leads to the arrest and indictment of persons involved in the Angelo shooting. The reward expires at the end of 2011.

Similar rewards have been offered in the past, only to expire without achieving the desired result.

Rewards of $41,000 were offered immediately after the incident and again in June 2009.

“There is just a piece of closure that we would like to bring to this, a piece of justice we would like to bring to the community,” said Eileen Skinner, president and CEO of Mercy.

Although nobody has come forward with information on the shooter, Sauschuck says a lot can happen in three years.

“When it comes to crime in general, relationships change over time, and that may be something that we would ultimately solve this case with,” he said, adding that a falling out or disagreement could convince someone to report the shooter to police.

Past press conferences on the unsolved shooting have yielded a host of new leads and information, he said.

Anyone with information on the Angelo killing is asked to contact Portland police department’s detective division at 874.8524.

To "Text a Tip" mobile phone users should text the keyword “GOTCHA” plus their message to 274637 (CRIMES), submitting an anonymous tip through the department’s website or by calling the tip line at 874.8584.

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Thursday, July 7 Portland Carbon Challenge noon. The Portland Public Library will be hosting an interactive event to kick off the Portland Carbon Challenge with the film “The Truth About Climate Change” and a discussion to follow. In meeting room 5 at the library’s central location in Monument Square. “The New England Carbon Challenge (NECC), a joint initiative of the University of New Hampshire and Clean Air-Cool Planet, is committed to providing New England residents and communities with the tools to reduce household energy use while saving money. Energysaving and dollar-saving tools on the website myenergyplan.net provide homeowners and renters access to simple ideas for reducing energy use. The average household taking the Carbon Challenge has reduced its energy consumption by an average of 16 percent and saved over $700 each year.” For more information on the Portland Carbon Challenge contact jsturner@bowdoin.edu. To see the map of other participating towns and organizations, visit www. necarbonchallenge.org/maps. To join the growing number of New Englanders creating an energy plan, visit www. myenergyplan.net.

Free summer concerts in Portland 12:30 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: 756-8130.

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 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

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 772-4841. 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. 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 traditional countdown to the TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race got underway Wednesday — exactly one month to day of the race — with the placement of the Mile Markers along the coastal course in Cape Elizabeth. Cape Elizabeth Public Works employees Jason Emery and Darren Brown installed the markers along the route. This is the 14th year for the popular race, set for Saturday, Aug. 6.

The race, which will include some of the world’s top road racers as well as recreational runners from throughout the area, begins near Crescent Beach and ends at the Portland Head light at Fort Williams Park. The event’s lead sponsor is TD Bank. The 2011 race beneficiary is Day One. (Photography by Ann Kaplan) “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, 899-3993.

Maine State Music Theatre’s ‘Annie’ 7:30 p.m. Maine State Music Theatre’s “Annie” plays through July 16. MSMT’s 2011 summer season continues July 20 with “Xanadu,” and closes out the season with “The Wiz.” Maine State Music Theatre is located at the air conditioned Pickard Theatre located at 1 Bath Road in Brunswick on the campus of Bowdoin College. For tickets and more information, please call 725-8769 or go to msmt.org.

Friday, July 8

this year. Folks training for the run are encouraged to come.

Bring running shoes. Meet at Ocean Gateway Terminal on the Eastern Prom Trail just after the intersection of India and Commercial streets. Free for Portland Trails members, $5 suggested donation for non-members ($5 can go toward new or renewed membership.) Reservations suggested.

Call Portland Trails: 775-2411. For a full schedule of Portland Trails Discovery Treks, visit http://trails.org/events.html

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/

Boat Building Festival by Compass Project

Open Mic/Poetry Slam in Auburn

3 p.m. to 6 p.m. This July 8 through July 10, Compass Project will present its eighth annual Boat Building Festival at Back Cove Park on Preble Street Extension (accross from Hannaford). Compass Project is a Portland-based youth development organization that engages at-risk youth through experiential boat building programs. These handson programs help youth find new directions for the future by combining life-skills, academic challenges and job-skills training. “Join us July 8th, 9th and 10th at our new Location, Back Cove Park on Preble Street Extention in Portland. Twelve boat building teams will be arriving Friday afternoon to begin the intensive three-day task of building their very own 12-foot Skiff and helping to raise funds for our Youth Boat Building Program. Along with our new location, we have new activities!

We are very excited to announce the First Ever Mascot Rowdown to be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 9 at the Festival.

The Portland Sea Dogs mascot, Slugger, has issued a rowing challenge to Salty Pete of the Pirates and Crusher of the Red Claws. Come find out who has the best rowing skills in town!”

Friday, July 8, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, July 9, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, July 10, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Parade from Back Cove to East End Beach; launch at East End Beach. http:// www.compassproject.org/bbfest.htm

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

Portland Trails 10K: Trail to Ale Preview 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Portland Trails 10K: Trail to Ale Preview. Mark Goettel and Andy Abrams, Portland Trails Board Members and experienced runners, will be offering a preview of the Portland Trails 10K: Trail to Ale as part of the Portland Trails Discovery Trek Series. Runners of all abilities are invited to meet at Ocean Gateway and run the 10K course. The 10 kilometer (6.2 mile) race course is run exclusively off-road and allows beautiful views of the Casco Bay as runners enjoy the Eastern Prom and Back Cove Trails.

This will give runners an idea of what to expect the day of the Trail to Ale 10K race which will be held on Sept. 18

Maine State Music Theatre’s ‘Annie’ 7:30 p.m. Maine State Music Theatre’s “Annie” plays through July 16. MSMT’s 2011 summer season continues July 20 with “Xanadu,” and closes out the season with “The Wiz.” Maine State Music Theatre is located at the air conditioned Pickard Theatre located at 1 Bath Road in Brunswick on the campus of Bowdoin College. For tickets and more information, please call 725-8769 or go to msmt.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.

Tom Clark at Freeport Factory Stage 8 p.m. Freeport Factory Stage features Tom Clark. “Tom Clark has been called the ‘Mel Tillis of stand-up comedy,’ his slight stutter disappears when his comedic voices hit the stage. He has appeared on A&E’s “An Evening at the Improv.”

Performances are Friday, July 8 and Saturday, July 9 at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $15/$12 seniors and students, and are available through Brown Paper Tickets; www.freeportfactory.com or 865-5505. Freeport Factory Stage is located at 5 Depot St., downtown Freeport, one block east of L.L. Bean. see next page

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‘Summer of Love’ continues 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.

Saturday, July 9 Kids First Program in Topsham 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Woodside Elementary School, 42 Barrows Drive, Topsham. “This four-hour co-parenting education workshop for parents is designed to help address problems and reduce the negative effects of separation and divorce. ... Participants are encouraged to attend the program as early in the separation and divorce as possible.

But it’s never too late to break old bad habits and learn healthy new ones!” Fee: $60 per person.

Raising the flag in Southern Sudan 9 a.m. The Sudanese Community Association of Maine presents the Celebration of Independence for South Sudan Festivities start at 9 a.m. in Monument Square in downtown Portland — the flag of the United States of America will be raised, along with the new flag of South Sudan. At noon everyone will march to the Portland Expo where there will be celebration including continuous music, dancing and food. This event is free and open to the public. Supporters of independence for South Sudan are encouraged to attend. The Independence Celebration will feature Sudanese music, food, dancing, and speeches by local activists, elected officials, and Sudanese community leaders. “On January 9, 2011, the people of South Sudan voted to separate themselves from the government of Sudan. This vote followed 22 years of civil war in Sudan. In accordance with the Peace Agreement made between the government of Sudan and the people of South Sudan in 2005, the people of South Sudan were offered an opportunity for separation from the government in the North in a vote on January 9, 2011. This referendum resulted in 98% of the vote favoring independence. On July 9, 2011, South Sudan will officially become a new nation.” For further information about this event, please contact Mariano at 239-6772 or email him at menonata@hotmail. com, Abaker at 272-3177, or ElFadel at 221-5197.

Boat Building Festival 9 a.m. This July 8 through July 10, Compass Project will present its eighth annual Boat Building Festival at Back Cove Park on Preble Street Extension (accross from Hannaford). Compass Project is a Portland-based youth development organization that engages at-risk youth through experiential boat building programs. These hands-on programs help youth find new directions for the future by combining life-skills, academic challenges and job-skills training.

“Join us July 8th, 9th and 10th at our new Location, Back Cove Park on Preble Street Extention in Portland. Twelve boat building teams will be arriving Friday afternoon to begin the intensive three-day task of building their very own 12-foot Skiff and helping to raise funds for our Youth Boat Building Program. Along with our new location, we have new activities! We are very excited to announce the First Ever Mascot Row-down to be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 9 at the Festival. The Portland Sea Dogs mascot, Slugger, has issued a rowing challenge to Salty Pete of the Pirates and Crusher of the Red Claws. Come find out who has the

Protesters of human rights abuses in Darfur, Sudan, rally on Exchange Street in April 2009, including (from left) El-Fadel Arbab, Mansour Ahmed, Salih Arbab, Mahmoud Abdallah and Wells Staley-Mays. About 21 people joined the rally to draw attention to the execution of students in Darfur. Almost 100 Darfuris live in Portland, organizers estimated. On Saturday, the Sudanese community will celebrate a vote for independence for South Sudan. Events begin at 9 a.m. in Monument Square. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) best rowing skills in town!” Friday, July 8, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, July 9, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, July 10, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Parade from Back Cove to East End Beach; launch at East End Beach. http://www.compassproject.org/bbfest.htm

Skyline Farm’s ninth annual Summer Celebration

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 8296899. 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 old-fashioned 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.

Portland psychologist Dr. Amy Wood offers one word to clients and non-clients alike about ‘Knit A Bunny’ workshop summer: Enjoy! “You look forward to the warmer 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Knitters from all skill weather all winter long, so make sure you enjoy levels are welcomed to enroll in a “Knit it this year,” says the author of “Life Your Way: A Bunny” workshop that will create Refresh Your Approach to Success and Breathe a crouching bunny with floppy ears Easier in a Fast-paced World.” That’s the mes- at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Vilsage she’ll take to upcoming programs in South lage, Route 26, New Gloucester. Fee: Portland. On Wednesday, July 13 and Thursday, $30. For details call 926-4597 or www.

Aug. 4, she’ll be at Borders at the Maine Mall in shaker.lib.me.us.

South Portland. It’s free and open to the public. Urban Epic Challenge (COURTESY PHOTO) 10 a.m. “The Urban Epic Challenge

presented by Oxford Networks offers a course that rivals any existing race in terms of variety of terrain, unique elements, and stunning views. The run starts near the East End Beach and winds from one end of the prom to the other and back There are two times when you will be able to sign in and get your packet: Friday, July 8 at Maine Running Company in Portland from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, July 9 at the Eastern Prom (near the Beach) from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Participants will line up at the start line at approximately 10 a.m., which is located on the paved trail near East End Beach.” www.urban-epic. com/urbanepicchallenge

‘The Other Dickens’ at Boothbay 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. 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.

Maine State Music Theatre’s ‘Annie’ 7:30 p.m. Maine State Music Theatre’s “Annie” plays through July 16. MSMT’s 2011 summer season continues July 20 with “Xanadu,” and closes out the season with “The Wiz.” Maine State Music Theatre is located at the air conditioned Pickard Theatre located at 1 Bath Road in Brunswick on the campus of Bowdoin College. For tickets and more information, please call 725-8769 or go to msmt.org. see next page

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Sunday, July 10

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Jimmy Higgins: A Life in the Labor Movement

Boat Building Festival concludes

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.

9 a.m. This July 8 through July 10, Compass Project will present its eighth annual Boat Building Festival at Back Cove Park on Preble Street Extension (accross from Hannaford). Compass Project is a Portland-based youth development organization that engages at-risk youth through experiential boat building programs.

These hands-on programs help youth find new directions for the future by combining life-skills, academic challenges and jobskills training. “Join us July 8th, 9th and 10th at our new Location, Back Cove Park on Preble Street Extention in Portland.

Twelve boat building teams will be arriving Friday afternoon to begin the intensive three-day task of building their very own 12-foot Skiff and helping to raise funds for our Youth Boat Building Program. Along On Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Skyline Farm’s ninth annual Summer Celebration with our new location, we have new activi- fundraiser takes place in North Yarmouth. (COURTESY PHOTO) ties! We are very excited to announce the First Ever Mascot Row-down to be held this one day, the artists of Portland’s East End open their at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 9 at the Festival. The Portland working studios to the public. Experience the source point Sea Dogs mascot, Slugger, has issued a rowing challenge for some of Portland’s most eclectic creators and qualify to Salty Pete of the Pirates and Crusher of the Red Claws. to win prizes from East End vendors just by participating.

Come find out who has the best rowing skills in town!”

Connect to community, expand your horizons and/or add Friday, July 8, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, July 9, 9 a.m. to to your art collection all on a summer day! The tour is a 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, July 10, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Parade from free self-guided walk through the Munjoy Hill neighborBack Cove to East End Beach; launch at East End Beach. hood. It is held in conjunction with the Munjoy Hill Garden www.compassproject.org/bbfest.htm Club tour. Maps of the Open Studios will be available the

‘Summer of Love’ continues 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.

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10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Hidden Gardens of Munjoy Hill offers an opportunity to explore a dozen lush city gardens tucked away in this charming Portland neighborhood. The self-guided garden tour will feature a dozen unique urban retreats scattered throughout Munjoy Hill. Members of the Society for East End Arts (SEA) will also open their studios for visitors. The tour is presented

by Friends of the Eastern Promenade. “Visitors can stroll through a delightful English Victorian garden, a tranquil Japanese garden and a “wild” flower garden that attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.

Some gardens are brand new, with others tended by gardeners for several generations.

All of the gardens highlight the creativity of gardening in the city.” Advance tickets are available for $15 online at hiddengardensofmunjoyhill. org or at Skillin’s Greenhouse, O’Donal’s Nurseries, Allen, Sterling & Lothrup, Broadway Gardens, Rosemont Market and Coffee by Design. On the day of event, tickets will be sold for $20 at the Munjoy Hill Neighborhood Organization’s Hill House at 92 Congress St., where the tour begins. For more information, visit hiddengardensofmunjoyhill.org.

7:30 p.m. Defenders of the Funny is a new improv group in Portland. Expect new games, sketches, music, and audience participation. Special guest: Comic Stephanie Doyle. Tickets $7. Defenders of the Funny will also be participating in the second annual Portland Improv Festival, held at Lucid Stage Aug. 11-13.