The Portland Daily Sun, Tuesday, August 2, 2011

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“I was standing there and it just went ‘crack,’ like a firecracker. I was just telling him, ‘We’re calling an ambulance, it’s going to be OK,’ and just trying to console him.” — Michelle Broome, witness

Portland man shot to death in Libbytown

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Police are investigating an early Monday morning shooting that left a 41-year-old Portland man dead in Libbytown.

Officials did not identify the victim who they say was seen running from behind an apartment building at 4 Massachusetts Ave. Witnesses described seeing him running frantically, stating he was going to die, before he collapsed on a Congress Street sidewalk.

“I heard a gunshot and then I heard a man say, ‘I’m dying,’” said Michelle Broome, who was standing outside a nearby convenience store where she works, waiting to open for the day.

Police are investigating the city’s first homicide of the year. It took place near an apartment building located at 4 Massachusetts Ave. (MATTHEW ARCO PHOTO)

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Federal budget Festival survey aims to make case for arts cuts affect local food programs

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Cumberland County is one of six Maine counties that will lose funding from a national food assistance program following budget cuts at the federal level.

The Root Cellar, Preble Street Resource Center, the Salvation Army and Wayside Soup Kitchen are among the 24 local agencies that will be see FOOD page 9

The Screaming Orphans perform at the Saltwater Celtic Music Festival in Brunswick Sunday. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

While fiddlers picked their strings on stage, Darrell Bulmer picked the brains of festival goers on Sunday at the first-ever Saltwater Celtic Music Festival in Brunswick.

Before the daylong festival was over, Bulmer had asked nearly 200 attendees to fill out a 14-question survey.

A similar Q-and-A solicitation will take place at the Portland Chamber Music Festival, held from Aug. 11 to 20 at the Abromson Center at the University of Southern Maine’s Portland Campus, and at other fairs and festivals this summer in Maine.

“We’re trying to keep it short and sweet, not to annoy people, but get the data we need,” Bulmer said.

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Charging a premium for movies SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Would you go to the movies more if tickets cost less?

“Yes, absolutely,” said Sarah Galvin. “We go twice a month, we’d go every single weekend.”

Ms. Galvin had shown up to see “Captain America: The First Avenger,” in 3-D, at the AMC Santa Monica 7 theater here on Wednesday.

She had a little one in tow, in superhero costume. Adult tickets were $15.75, children’s, $12.75. “It costs so much,” Ms. Galvin said.

After years of grumbling about steadily rising ticket prices, consumers achieved the nearly unthinkable earlier this year: they forced a momentary drop in the average cost of a movie ticket, to $7.86 in the first quarter, down from $8.01 in the fourth quarter of last year, partly by opting out of costly 3-D tickets for movies like “Mars Needs Moms,” and watching films in cheaper 2-D. But prices started rising again this summer. In a conference call with investors on Thursday, executives of the Regal Entertainment Group, the nation’s largest theater chain, predicted the usual average price increase of 3 percent or more across the industry by year’s end.

If so, it will be the 17th consecutive annual increase in a business whose prices have outpaced the effect of general inflation by more than half since 1999. Theater attendance has fallen by about 10 percent in that period, or even more when measured as a share of the growing population.

Executives from Hollywood’s major studios are generally reluctant to discuss prices. But with domestic box office down 5.55 percent — to $6.42 billion from $6.80 billion — from last year at this time, according to Hollywood.com, even some of the best-compensated players are beginning to wonder whether exhibitors and studios are pushing their luck with consumers.

At the Comic-Con International fantasy convention in San Diego last month, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, two of Hollywood’s most prominent directors, voiced a strong hope that ticket prices for 3-D films would ultimately fall into line with the lower charge for 2-D movies. Consumers are being charged an extra $5 to see a movie only to find out it is “as bad as the one you saw in 2-D,” Mr. Jackson said.

Their plea brought a sharp response last week from Jeffrey Katzenberg, the DreamWorks Animation chief executive, who has been an advocate of 3-D and the increased price that comes with it.

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G.O.P. hopefuls, minus one, line up against budget deal

BY MICHAEL SHEAR THE NEW YORK TIMES

As they court the party’s faithful, the Republican candidates for president in 2012 are embracing Tea Party sentiment and lining up against their leaders in Congress by opposing the debt ceiling compromise reached with President Obama.

All but one of the candidates assailed the agreement reached by the Republican Congressional leaders on Sunday as weak and inadequate. Their positions suggest how the field is intent on courting Tea Party supporters as voters begin to form their opinions of the candidates.

After initially remaining silent on the agreement, Mitt Romney, who has promoted his experience on the fiscal and economic fronts, derided the deal as a prelude to higher taxes.

“As president, my plan would have produced a budget that was cut, capped and balanced — not one that opens the door to higher taxes and puts defense cuts on the table,” Mr.

Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, declared in a statement Monday. “President Obama’s leadership failure has pushed the economy to the brink at the 11th hour and 59th minute.”

Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota; Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota; and Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, also criticized the bill.

Those candidates are apparently eager to maintain a sharp contrast with Mr. Obama, especially on his handling of the economy, and are fearful that backing a deal with the president would undermine that message. They also seem to be betting that compromise remains a dirty word among voters who are most likely to be fully engaged once primary voting is underway.

“There remains, in the eyes of your typical Iowa caucusgoer, a healthy dose of skepticism” of the budget deal, said Matt Strawn, the chairman of the Republican Party in Iowa. He

said the candidates’ opposition “does seem to express the sentiment of what I’m hearing from Iowa voters.”

Only Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the former governor of Utah, expressed support for the deal, calling it “a positive step toward cutting our nation’s crippling debt.” Mr. Huntsman, who served two years as Mr. Obama’s ambassador to China, is trying to appeal to a broader and more moderate Republican electorate and is not campaigning in Iowa.

Political strategists said that for most of the 2012 candidates, there is little advantage to be seen as embracing Washington at a time when polls show wide mistrust with the nation’s leadership, particularly its handling of the debt crisis, and concern among Republican voters about the growth of federal spending.

“Without question, I have heard more than ever from voters expressing concern about not only the debt but the need for fundamental structural

reform of how Washington spends money,” Mr. Strawn said.

Mr. Romney, like Mr. Huntsman, has tried to appeal to more moderate Republican voters, but his opposition to the debt deal positions him on the same side of the argument as Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who has been a vocal critic of any plan that includes an increase in the debt ceiling. Mrs. Bachmann returned to Washington from campaign events in Iowa on Monday to vote against the plan.

Alex Conant, a spokesman for Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota who is also seeking the Republican nomination, said Mr. Pawlenty believed that “this deal is nothing to celebrate.”

“Only in Washington would the political class think it’s a victory when the government narrowly avoids default, agrees to go further into debt, and does little to reform a spending system that cannot be sustained by our children and grandchildren,” Mr. Conant said.

Syrian forces renew strike on Restive City Insurers must

BY NADA BAKRI AND ANTHONY SHADID THE NEW YORK TIMES

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian security forces bombed the central city of Hama for a second day on Monday as the government pressed its campaign to crush a four-month-old popular uprising against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. On Sunday, at least 70 people were killed when the military and security forces assaulted Hama and other restive cities before dawn, in the broadest and fiercest crackdown yet.

The shelling resumed Monday in the early hours of the morning as people were returning home from mosques where they had performed dawn prayers, according to residents and protesters. At least three people were killed, according to activists.

Obada Arwany, an activist reached by telephone, said that tanks had entered two neighborhoods, Al Qousour and Al Hamidiya, and bombed residential buildings there. One man died in his sleep when his house was bombed and another was killed by a sniper’s bullet

as he was getting in his car.

“The city is like a ghost town,” Mr. Arwany said. “We were not expecting this at all.

Hama is getting massacred.”

One protester was also killed in Deir al-Zour in northwestern Syria, according to the Local Coordination Committees, an opposition group that helps organize and document protests.

The simultaneous raids on several cities on Sunday came a day before the holy month of Ramadan began, a time in which Syrian activists have vowed to escalate their uprising with nightly protests. The scale of the assault and the mounting death toll underlined the government’s intention to crush the uprising by force, despite international condemnation and its own tentative and mostly illusory reforms ostensibly aimed at placating protesters’ demands.

The scenes of bloodshed in Hama and Deir al-Zour on Sunday, cities that had slipped beyond the government’s control this summer, were certain to put more pressure on other countries, in particular the

United States, to take a harder line against Mr. Assad. American and European officials have harshly criticized the Syrian president, and they did so again on Sunday.

President Obama described the government’s actions in Hama as “horrifying” events that “demonstrate the true character of the Syrian regime.”

But his administration has yet to demand formally that Mr. Assad leave power, as it has with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya.

“Once again, President Assad has shown that he is completely incapable and unwilling to respond to the legitimate grievances of the Syrian people,” Mr. Obama said. “In the days ahead, the United States will continue to increase our pressure on the Syrian regime and work with others around the world to isolate the Assad government.”

The attacks also cast new light on decisions of the Syrian government, which have seemed bereft of any coherent strategy in its swings between promises of reform and episodes of harsh repression.

cover approved contraceptives WASHINGTON (New York Times) — The Obama administration issued new standards on Monday that require health insurance plans to cover all government-approved contraceptives for women, without co-payments or other charges.

The standards, which also guarantee free coverage of other preventive services for women, follow recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences and grew out of the new health care law.

The requirements apply to insurance in years starting on or after Aug. 1, 2012. They take effect in January 2013 for insurance plans that operate on the basis of a calendar year.

Supporters of the new requirement said it would go a long way toward removing cost as a barrier to birth control, a longtime goal of advocates for women’s rights and experts on women’s health. However, the requirement does not immediately help women who have no health insurance.

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Far flung arts outposts feel the sting of state budget cuts

BY ROBERT POGREBIN THE NEW YORK TIMES

For 10 years Erika Nelson, an artist in Lucas, Kan., has been making miniature models of giant pieces of Americana, putting them in a van and driving around the country to show people.

She has made tiny copies, for example, of the World’s Largest Ball of Twine, which is down the road in Cawker City, and the World’s Largest Can of Fruit Cocktail, which is in Sunnyvale, Calif.

She calls her mobile museum The World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things.

But this year she may not be able to travel far. Kansas, which has one of the country’s smallest state arts budgets, has decided to shrink it even further, to zero.

“I think it’s a sad day for Kansas,” said Ms. Nelson who lost a $2,000 state grant that had helped underwrite her van’s trips to colleges and county fairs.

Across the country this is a tough time for small arts groups because state grants have largely shriveled up.

Thirty-one states, still staggered by the recession, cut their arts budgets for the 2012 fiscal year, which began on July 1, continuing a downturn that has seen such financial aid drop 42 percent over the last decade, according to data compiled by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.

The impact may hardly be felt at places like the Metropolitan Opera, established regional theaters or other large organizations that rely primarily on loyal donors and ticket revenues to underwrite their budgets.

But much of America’s artistic activity does not happen in major recital halls and theaters; instead it occurs in places like Lucas, population 407, where the cultural attractions include S. P. Dinsmoor’s Garden of Eden historic folk art site and where smaller arts organizations are highly dependent on state grants.

“When any form of government funding is cut, the organizations that tend to get hit the most are rural, organizations of color, avant-garde institutions — those that have a harder time raising individual and corporate money,” said Michael M. Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.

Nationwide, state aid represents just a small portion of the money used to underwrite the arts, perhaps 2 to 5 percent of total expenditures, according to Americans for the Arts, a lobbying group. Budgets adopted this

spring in the 50 states call for a total of $259 million in spending on culture, or slightly more than the yearly spending of the Metropolitan Museum of Art alone.

The impact of state cuts is magnified, though, in smaller settings where operating margins are slender and where state money is often used to leverage other public funds or to convince private donors that an organization is worth backing.

In Kansas, for example, where a proposed budget of $689,000 was vetoed

by Gov. Sam Brownback, groups like the Music Theater of Wichita stand to lose their matching funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The endowment notified the state last month that it will not receive a planned $700,000 grant unless it puts forward a new viable state arts agency. (In May Governor Brownback fired the entire staff of the Kansas Arts Commission, which distributed the funds.)

Kansas is an extreme example.

Texas, though, cut its aid to the arts by 50 percent and New Jersey by 23 percent. In Wisconsin, where state arts money was reduced by 67 percent, the Milwaukee County executive, Chris Abele, said the county could no longer afford a new sculpture planned for outside the courthouse. Four designs had been in the running, from a figure of Lady Justice to a giant wildflower.

“We’re furloughing employees,” said a county supervisor, Joe Sanfelippo.

“But we want to spend $800,000 on a sculpture? It just doesn’t make sense.”

The downturn is largely a product of tough economic times, not a clash of values between conservative state governments and more liberal cultural organizations. States controlled by both Republicans and Democrats have cut grants as officials debate whether support for the arts is a core mission of government comparable to, say, road repair.

“The positioning of arts within the public policy arena has always been tenuous,” said Bill Ivey, director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University.

“The arts are considered an amenity — nice to fund when you have a bit extra but hard to defend when the going gets tough.”

This year Rocco Landesman, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, prompted an outcry when he publicly suggested that the supply of arts organizations may have exceeded the demand. He seemed to be promoting a cultural Darwinism in which government could seed promising theaters, museums and other groups, but after that they would

Erika Nelson, an artist from Lucas, Kan., drives the World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things, her mobile art museum (Photo by Fred Hunt for The New York Times).

largely be on their own.

The ability of the endowment to help may be limited this year, with some members of Congress proposing to cut the agency’s $155 million budget by $20 million. In response the National Endowment has been promoting the benefits of investing in culture, like the $278 billion in economic activity that federal research showed was spun off by the arts in 2009.

Across the country communitybased arts groups typically receive small state grants funneled through regional commissions. In Kansas the Junction City Arts Council has received $10,000 a year from the state arts commission annually since 2005, money it used to provide visual arts scholarships for underprivileged children, a summer community theater program and a storyteller who performed at schools.

Gail Parsons, the council’s executive director, said that to offset the state cut the council is scrambling to add fund-raising events, like selling work by local artists and staging murdermystery dinners. “We have to focus on the almighty dollar a lot more,” Ms. Parsons said.

Governor Brownback has created the Kansas Arts Foundation, dedicated to private fund-raising to fill the void left by the budget cut. “The governor campaigned last fall on returning the state to core responsibilities such as education and public safety,” said Sherriene Jones-Sontag, a spokeswoman for Mr. Brownback.

“He believes that the arts should be privately funded.”

Recently he sent a letter to citizens urging them to contribute to the foundation. “I have no doubt that the arts will continue to thrive through private donations,” he wrote.

Rosslyn Schultz, the executive director of the Grassroots Art Center in Lucas, said via e-mail that she thought it was incredible that the governor, having just cut $4,300 from the council’s $78,000 operating budget, was looking for donations.

“Really,” she asked, “are you kidding, Governor Brownback?”

Established arts institutions often find it easier to secure government assistance because they are prestigious and have board members with political clout. Smaller programs that may rely more on grant money can have a harder time because their work — and its impact — is not as well known.

Ms. Nelson of the mobile museum says she will have difficulty competing for contributions. “Everybody is reaching out to private donors now,” she said.

In addition to the $2,000 grant she will not receive, Ms. Nelson anticipates she will lose additional revenue because groups that hire her to run programs are themselves heavily dependent on state funds. As a result she is planning to drop her operating budget to $3,000 from about $12,000 and reduce her travel.

“People are saying that Kansas doesn’t appreciate the arts,” she said.

“But there are so many of us out here who do and struggle on a daily basis to give arts to people who can’t afford to pay $90 for a symphony seat.”

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Cumberland County spending still represents a tax on residents Editor: If a representative government spends a dollar — let alone a penny — it is a tax.

That is why Neal Pratt, who chairs the Cumberland County Civic Center trustees, is so poorly mistaken when he argues that the county can build — sorry, renovate — a public arena that will in his words “not result in a tax hike” (“Civic center panel defers renovation plan,” Portland Daily Sun, July 28).

Pratt suffers the indulgence practiced by many, if not most, of our public leaders.

He thinks that if the county spends money that heretofore was spent paying off the loan to build the latest county jail, then it is not a tax.

Pure folly, of course.

He seems to claim that since the county this year made the last payment on the jail loan, then the $2.1 million that taxpayers spent yearly to finance the jail mortgage is now “freed up” to spend on something else.

Whether the people need a new or renovated public arena — or any arena, for that matter — is a discussion for another day.

So let’s focus on Pratt’s thesis about the sources of public financing.

The most cherished authority of a democratic government is the power to tax, that is, to finance the costs of governance through a required public contribution. see LETTERS page 5

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In April 2010, a crew replaces the roof to the Abyssinian Meeting House, a landmark of the abolitionist era located on Munjoy Hill at 75 Newbury St. Built in 1828, the Abyssinian (“African”) Meeting House survived the 1866 Great Fire of Portland, widely considered the largest fire to ever devastate a large city up to that time. The meeting house, which was a place of worship along with a segregated public school, concert hall and community center, closed in 1917 and in 1924 was remodeled into apartments. In 1998, after the building had sat vacant and was left to deteriorate for years, a volunteer committee acquired it. Now, it’s Maine’s first listed site on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

Abyssinian Meeting House event to shed light on the Rev. Pennington The restoration of Portland’s Abyssinian Meeting House will mark another milestone on Wednesday with the publication of a new biography of one of the church’s most famous 19th century ministers.

“American To The Backbone,” about the Rev. James W.C. Pennington, an outspoken black abolitionist with a hidden past, will make its Maine premier with a presentation by an author, the Rev. Christopher L. Webber, to the annual meeting of the Committee To Restore The Abyssinian at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church on Newbury Street. The annual meeting is free and open to the public.

Plans for an archeological and excavation project at the 1828 meeting house, slated for this fall, will also be unveiled.

Copies of the new biography of Rev. Pennington will be on sale to the public with some proceeds benefiting the restoration effort.

Built in 1828, Portland’s Abyssinian Meeting House is the third oldest known African-American church still standing in America, after only Boston’s brick African Meeting House on Beacon Hill and the wooden Nantucket Meet-

Herb Adams ––––– Guest Columnist ing House on the island.

Portland’s Abyssinian was saved from destruction only in the 1990s, when it was up for sale for back taxes. Caring Portlanders caught it literally at the last moment. Now we all can appreciate this jewel in the rough — getting less rough, and more like a jewel, all the time.”

The Rev. Pennington was one of the most important and outspoken pulpit figures of the 19th century, a black abolitionist, and the first U.S.-born African-American to receive an honorary doctorate, from the Universityof Heidelberg, Germany.

But he was a black man with a price on his head, and a past he had to hide to stay free.

Pennington was actually a Maryland-born slave named Jim Pembroke, born about 1807 or 1809, about the same time as Henry Wadsworth Longfel-

low. Orginally he was a slave apprentice to a blacksmith. But Pembroke escaped North by 1828 — the same year Portlland’s Abyssinian Meeting House was built. A Quaker family took him in, gave him safety and an education, and he took a new name: James William Charles Pennington, under which he rose to fame in the church. see ADAMS page 5

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Lingering in the door Casual observers of life here in the city by the sea will have noticed this trend before. It’s hardly the sort of thing you can ignore any time of year, but during the extreme winter and summer months, it becomes that much more apparent.

The “Doorway Lurkers” are afoot.

Dedicated as I am to the fine art of people-watching, I first noticed the trend about twenty years back. It’s one of those little pet peeves that, if you’ve been among the folks that have noticed it, are finally gesticulating, jumping up and down screaming “SEE! I KNEW I wasn’t the only one!”

Of course, if you’ve never noticed it, most likely you are among the offenders.

Everywhere you go, from the quick convenience stop to the laundrymat to the shopping center, it happens. Folks go to the coffee shop, reach that mysterious arch in the building called the door, and suddenly find themselves engrossed in conversation, oblivious to the fact that they are acting as some special mutant form of human cholesterol, thus blocking up a main artery.

Somehow, a door causes folks to suddenly stop, adjust their watch, calculate interest payments, conduct

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist a fearless and soul searching moral inventory, catch up on a years worth of text messaging, and engage in conversation so dull it would make a train jump the tracks and take a dirt road.

What is this mysterious power of the doorway? During the summer months when it’s hot out, you just want to blow past these folks to get to all that fine air conditioning on the inside. During the winter, you need to get past them to find some source of heat.

It isn’t just us smokers now, it’s everyone.

Somehow, that doorway arch holds that mysterious no-man’s land description. You’re no longer in, and you’re not really out. You’re just there in some undefinable state of being.

Perhaps we should get physicists to examine this.

I’ve tried to be polite to get past

these folks, but to no avail. Over the weekend, it was a meeting of three half-minds at a local coffee shop, all gibbering at each other. After the first patient bit of waiting, I tossed out the old “excuse me” trying to be polite.

Since that is not one of my strong suits, I tried again.

My eyes met the other person’s, and they did the least amount of recognition of their surrounding possible.

Their move to one side could have been measured with the same device used to measure the fatness of a group of atoms. After two polite passes at passing, I figure I’m justified in being a bit rude. “Sorry, you dropped your brain,” I uttered while pointing at the floor.

Almost everyone looks at that one.

If you’re stuck inside, the group in a doorway can be more than an issue.

Observational powers for the doorway lurkers are not keen. It should be quite obvious when the person trying to get OUT the door is bent double, carrying rolls of toilet paper and a can of air freshener, that it really IS in your best interest to make a hole in the doorway.

Either that, or have a bucket handy.

With a mop.

What should we do about these doorway lurkers? At what point is it

acceptable to be rude? At what point is it morally acceptable to whack them with rolled up copies of this fine paper? (Alright, I admit that last one might be stretching it a bit. It’s not legal, but perhaps it should be.)

If you doubt me and have the time, dedicate yourself to people watching for a couple of hours in the next few days. Sit outside a coffee shop or some other frequently visited place, and study the comings and goings. Before long, you’ll notice that pause in the doorway.

Before you decide to go all “Conan The Barbarian” on the folks who block the great egress, look in the mirror for a second or two. Are you one of the great offenders? Have you noticed people wandering past you near a door with a look on their face that could blister paint? Have barristas yelled out at you “In or Out! You’re worse than the cat!”

Unless you are one of the observant, you never knew until now that there was a problem. But here’s a bet.

Everywhere you go for the rest of the day, I bet you see this all day.

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

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Every penny so derived is a tax, like it or not.

The people will face a tax increase if the county spends $2.1 million a year — or just 2.1 cents — renovating the Civic Center.

The corollary would be no different if a charitable benefactor were to donate to the county the money to build a public arena.

Were the arena financed with those funds, the county taxpayers on the very face of it would be paying a tax.

Why? Because, to invoke an old adage of the world of physics, to every action there is a reaction. A dollar spent is a dollar not saved, no matter how Neal Pratt wants to pretent he is building us a “free” arena.

If our friendly benefactor handed the county $30 million to build a new arena, then our public servants should find $30 million elsewhere to offset the gift.

The county budget, to pick an example, has

expanded from one year to the next with such abandon that it is time to reassess how we do business.

This is a foreign concept to a nation that is now in the throes of a crippling debt crisis. But it may not be too late to exorcise our bad habits.

Ted Cohen South Portland

Carmona is worth a look as Portland’s mayoral race heats up Editor, Ethan Strimling’s entry into the mayoral race is certainly newsworthy; also newsworthy are concerns about rank voting and Strimling’s challengers in his own neighborhood (“Who’s the frontrunner? How will RCV play out?” Saturday, July 30). Strimling’s background and previous election campaign make him a recognizable figure in Port-

land politics.

I hope Casey Conley will provide us readers with information on more — perhaps all — of the candidates as summer flows into autumn.

One candidate in particular — Ralph Carmona — has impressed me with his deep knowledge and experience of how political processes work and his wide knowledge of the many problems Portland faces now and in the future.

Since before his announcement, Ralph has been talking with — and listening intently to — people all over Portland: attending meetings, walking the streets (regardless of the weather), knocking on doors. I’ve seen people listen to his views, even when they disagreed with him, because he had listened carefully to theirs.

I think Ralph’s knowledge, energy, and ability to bring people together will make him a great mayor.

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Pennington came to Portland the year of the city’s Great Fire city’s Great Fire of July 4-5, 1866. He found a city that was one-third blackened piles of bricks, chimneys rising over empty cellar holes. The Abyssinian Church stood alone surrounded by devastation, like Dresden after the bombings of World War II. He had a congregation — and a people’s hope — to rebuild.

Legend says the Abyssinian Church survived only because Depty Fire Chief William Wilberforce Ruby — Portland’s first black fireman, and son of the Ruben Ruby who helped build the church — had a bucket brigade that washed down the walls of the church against the advancing flames.

tantly embraced black voting rights, if at all. That struggle — for civil rights — went on for another 100 years.

Pennington eventually bought his own freedom.

But the fight exhausted many of the pioneers, and he was one. He died in Florida in 1870, troubled by alcohol, illness, and the death of his wife. Portland was one of his last postings. Likely he found the work here as demanding as anywhere, as did most of the outspoken souls of his generation. But I like to think Portland was made better by him being here, and Portland made better his hopes for America.

WHEN DID HE COME TO PORTLAND ?

WHY IS PENNINGTON IMPORTANT AND WHAT BECAME OF HIM?

Pennington served Portland’s Abyssinian Church from 1866-1869. His job here was rebuilding — literally.

Pennington came to Portland the year of the

We forget how dangerous America was, even in the North, for outspoken abolitionists, black or white, before the Civil War. And after the war, an exhausted country still blamed them, and reluc-

The Rev. Chistopher Webber’s book is titled, “American to the Backbone: The Life Of James W.C. Pennington, the Fugitive Slave Who Became One of the First Black Abolitionists.”

ADAMS from page 4

By the 1830s Pennington was a famous preacher in New Haven, Conn., and performed the first marriage for the famous black abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.

In 1843 Pennington attended the first World AntiSlavery Convention in London and was a celebrity in Europe. But in America he had to hide the fact he was an escaped slave with a price on his head.

In 1850, he blew his own cover with a brave autobiography, “The Fugitive Blacksmith,” still one of the most important American slave narratives.

(Herb Adams is a former state legislator and historian from Portland.)

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Portland state rep to attend regional wind conference DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT With oil and gas prices remaining high across the Northeast, Portland Democratic State Rep. Jon Hinck will join regional leaders to discuss clean power alternatives during an Offshore Wind seminar on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 6 and 7 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Hinck announced. The meeting is being organized by The Council of State Governments/Eastern Regional Conference (CSG/ERC).

“The development of an offshore wind industry offers the potential to revive the local shipbuilding industry, launch a lucrative manufacturing sector for turbines and other wind components, and offer important environmental and energy-security advantages over the region’s current reliance on fossil fuels,” said Hinck, who serves as vice-chair of CSG/ERC Energy & Envi-

ronment Committee. Hinck will be moderating opening and closing sessions of the event.

The seminar will feature panel discussions among state and provincial officials with wind projects in their communities. Attendees will discuss regional efforts to use wind power to diversify energy resources, while creating broad Hinck economic and environmental benefits for the region.

According to a 2010 report from the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, offshore wind power could provide 54 gigawatts of electricity by 2030. The report also found that offshore wind projects could generate an estimated $200 billion in new economic

activity and create more than 43,000 permanent, wellpaid technical jobs in manufacturing, construction, engineering, operations and maintenance.

“Offshore wind is a potential source of abundant, home-grown, emission-free power that could serve as a critical economic stimulus for our region,” said Pennsylvania Rep. Chris Ross, chair of CSG/ERC Energy & Environment Committee. “I am pleased to be joined

by Rep. Hinck in this important discussion with our Northeastern colleagues to help reduce our reliance on foreign imports of energy and create stable, wellpaying jobs in a thriving, clean-energy economy. Jon has been engaged in these policy discussions for years and has helped assure that Maine is well positioned to take advantage of offshore wind opportunities.”

For more information about 2011 CSG/ERC’s Annual Meeting, visit www.csgeast.org.

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“I was standing there and it just went ‘crack,’ like a firecracker,” she said. “I was just telling him, ‘We’re calling an ambulance, it’s going to be OK,’ and just trying to console him.”

She said the man was not responsive and that he died within five to eight minutes of falling to the ground in front of a Mobil gas station at 1196 Congress St.

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“He tried to cross the street and almost got hit by a car,” she said. “He collapsed on the sidewalk and just basically started bleeding out of his nose and his mouth.”

She said the man had been shot in the face. She heard the gun go off at about 4:20 a.m.

“I just held his hand,” she said.

“It’s very scary.”

The shooting is the city’s first homicide of this year.

Acting Police Chief Mike Sauschuck held an afternoon news conference asking anyone with information to contact the Portland Police Department. He declined to comment on whether officials identified a suspect and said that Sauschuck the state’s Chief Medical Examiner is slated to conduct an autopsy today to positively identify the victim.

“We’re gathering additional information as we speak,” he said. “... I really can’t speak on any specific suspect information at this point.”

He said they tentatively identified the victim and that family members were notified.

Officials were not called to the apartment building in the hours before the shooting and could not say what led up to the incident. Sauschuck said he was not sure if drugs were involved, but that it’s “one of the avenues (detectives are) looking at.”

No weapons were found around the victim, and Sauschuck would not say if a gun was recovered following the shooting. He said police have reports that there was a party at the house Sunday night, but that he didn’t know if the shooting was related to it. “(The investigation) is focused on the building and surrounding area,” he said.

Anyone with information should call the PPD at 874-8533 or text a tip from a mobile phone using keyword “GOTCHA” plus their message to 274637 (CRIMES), he said.

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Tuesday, August 2, 2011— Page 7

Opposing the health law, Florida refuses millions

BY KEVIN SACK THE NEW YORK TIMES

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When it comes to pursuing federal largess, most of the states that oppose the 2010 health care law have refused to let either principle or politics block their paths to the trough. If Washington is doling out dollars, Republican governors and legislators typically figure they might as well get their share.

Then there is Florida. Despite having the country’s fourth-highest unemployment rate, its second-highest rate of people without insurance and a $3.7 billion budget gap this year, the state has turned away scores of millions of dollars in grants made available under the Affordable Care Act. And it is not pursuing grants worth many millions more.

In recent months, either Gov. Rick Scott’s administration or the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature has rejected grants aimed at moving long-term care patients into their homes, curbing child abuse through in-home counseling and strengthening state regulation of health premiums. They have shunned money to help sign up eligible recipients for Medicare, educate teenagers on preventing pregnancy and plan for the health insurance exchanges that the law requires by 2014.

While 36 states shared $27 million to counsel health insurance consumers, Florida did not apply for the grants. And in drafting this year’s budget, the Legislature failed to authorize an $8.3 million federal grant won by a county health department to expand community health centers.

In interviews, Mr. Scott, a Republican, and state legislative leaders were clear about their rationale. They said they detested everything about the federal health law, which was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge in a case filed by the state. Unless ordered to do otherwise by an appellate court, they said, they had no intention of putting it in place, even if that meant leaving money on the table.

“There are a lot of programs that the federal government would like to give you that don’t fit your state, don’t fit your needs and ultimately create obligations that our taxpayers can’t afford,” said Mr. Scott, a former hospital company executive who rose to political prominence by financing an advertising campaign against the health care legislation.

State Representative Matt Hudson, the chairman of the Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, said his chamber’s leadership felt the same way.

“I do not believe that act is the right thing for the country or the right thing for Florida,” Mr. Hudson said, “and I am not going to start implementing things that I don’t believe in.” Asked whether states had the authority to stymie federal law, Mr. Hudson answered, “We’re not required to accept a grant.”

Florida is by no means the only state hostile to the health care law. A majority of those states have gone to federal court to challenge the law’s central requirement that most Americans obtain health insurance.

Alaska, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, among others, have turned away grants, some of them substantial.

But many of the states challenging the law have taken a posture more like that of Idaho, where Gov. C. L. Otter, a Republican, made a show this spring of ordering his agencies not to pursue Affordable Care Act grants and then quickly issued 10 exceptions to that rule.

Florida has had few peers in subverting the law’s provisions since Mr. Scott took office in January. After a federal district judge in Pensacola invalidated the entire act later that month, Mr. Scott quickly put the brakes on planning for the insurance exchanges and started rejecting grants pursued by his predecessor, Charlie Crist, a more moderate Republican. The state maintained its stance even though the judge, Roger Vinson, suspended his ruling pending appellate review.

“I don’t want to waste either federal money or state money on something that’s unconstitutional,” Mr. Scott said in a 30-minute interview in his office on Friday.

The governor, sporting black cowboy boots embossed with the state seal, said his subordinates had made case-by-case decisions about whether particular grants advanced the state’s efforts to remake its Medicaid program. This year, Mr. Scott and the Legislature

and the expansion of Medicaid eligibility.

“It’s simply unconscionable that they’re turning back federal tax dollars that our citizens and businesses pay and sending those tax dollars to other states,” said Representative Kathy Castor, a Democrat who represents the Tampa Bay area.

“Florida’s economy has been hit very hard, and we need every dollar and every job in our state.”

Health care advocates scoff at the assertion by Mr. Scott and the Legislature that some of the rejected grants would duplicate existing state programs (a few of Gov. Rick Scott of Florida in his office in Tallahassee. (Jason Henry for The New York Times) the grants require a state contribution). enacted Florida’s own law directing most recipients Although Florida is the fourth most populous state, into managed care plans. it ranks 12th in the amount of money received from But Mr. Scott deflected requests to explain where health care act grants, according to the government’s the line was drawn, other than to say that competition, grant-tracking Web site. The law has directed $46.4 personal choice and quality incentives should drive the million to the state out of $1.98 billion awarded nationhealth care market. ally. Much of the money has gone directly to local gov“I’d have to go through each program to look at it,” ernments, community groups and medical providers.

Mr. Scott said. “We have a Medicaid plan, so if it fits Three of four grants to expand community health with that plan, then we’re interested, and if it doesn’t, clinics in Florida went to medical centers that are we’re not.” beyond the reach of the governor and the Legislature.

Mr. Scott, a former hospital company executive, The fourth was to the Osceola County Health Departattended an employee recognition ceremony in the ment, which under Florida law is effectively a unit of State Capitol. state government. The Legislature used its power to In distancing itself from the law, Florida declined not authorize a grant won by the county to expand two to participate in a Medicaid pilot program that would health centers and build a third. have authorized up to $2 million in reimbursement to Some of the forsaken grants were for small amounts, providers using a new hospice model for severely ill but others, over time, would have infused state prochildren. The state insurance commissioner applied grams with substantial sums. As long as the state to the Obama administration for a waiver from this makes no moves toward setting up an insurance year’s requirement that health insurers spend at least exchange, it will not compete for grants worth tens of 80 percent of premium revenue on medical care. Only millions of dollars to help establish them and invest at the last minute did the State Health Department in needed technology. If Florida does not demonstrate agree to provide required letters of support for comadequate progress by early 2013, the federal governmunity groups applying for federal wellness and prement can take over the state’s exchange. vention grants.

Although many conservative governors consider Critics say the state’s Republican leadership has that the worst scenario, Mr. Scott said his antipathy carried its opposition to the health care law too far. toward the exchanges was so strong that he would The grants being shunned by the state, they point out, oppose running it. “I’d rather nobody run it,” Mr. Scott have little connection to the provisions that Florida is said. “I don’t think there’s any way the state can do it challenging in court, namely the insurance mandate where it’s good for health care policy.”

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ABOVE: Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul take the stage as the closing act at the Saltwater Celtic Music Festival Sunday in Brunswick. BELOW: Festival goers visit with vendors. LEFT: An osprey descends on its nest where babies await at Thomas Point Beach in Brunswick Sunday. The birds were a bonus attraction to a crowd gathered for the first Saltwater Celtic Music Festival.

BOTTOM: The Maine Irish Heritage Center staffed a festival booth. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

‘This is just continuing the creative economy research we’ve been doing’ FESTIVALS from page one

Maine Arts Commission, said the surveys will help build the case for supporting the “creative economy” and also give events organizers an idea of how to market their functions.

“We’re going to continue doing a series of these, and it will really help us shape what we do in the future.

They’re relatively inexpensive,” Bulmer said.

The 2011 Festival Impact Survey asks basic information such as a person’s hometown, the place in Maine they’re visiting and their purpose for being here. Other questions probe modes of travel, locations they’re staying, duration of trip and the amount of money they expect to spend while here.

“We’re getting good statistical data, I’m happy with it so far,” Bulmer said.

While most are administered at the site of an event, the commission also uses social media such as Facebook to solicit online responses.

The commission is working with state economists to crunch the numbers and make sure the data are interpreted correctly, Bulmer said.

“We share it with the festival orga-

nizers themselves first and foremost so they can extrapolate what area they’re interested in. ... It helps them with their marketing plan,” Bulmer said.

The commission also plans to show survey results to legislators and the governor’s office, he said.

“This is just continuing the creative economy research we’ve been doing

for the past 10 years,” Bulmer said.

The commission plans to administer 15 or 16 surveys this season — Sunday’s Celtic festival marked about the halfway point for the number of events attended. Staff will be in Freeport next weekend for the Freeport’s L.L. Bean concert series, and other upcoming events for survey distribution include the KahBang Arts Festival in Bangor

and the Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival in Litchfield.

Early results indicate that about half of survey respondents are visiting Maine from out of state solely for the event in question.

“I’m seeing it’s a 50 percent split, 50 percent of the people are only coming here because of these festivals,” he said. “They probably wouldn’t have come to Maine for any other reason, they came only for that festival.”

The surveys can make the case for the importance of not only marketing out of state but also generally the value of the arts and arts grants, Bulmer said.

“These people really are coming from out of state just for these festivals, staying the night and going back again. It’s remarkable,” he said.

Last year, the commission studied 14 Maine museums and conducted surveys on how they affect the economy. Copies of that survey’s results were sent to every member of the legislature to show how much impact the arts have on the economy, Bulmer said.

For more information on the festival and fairs survey, visit http://mainearts.maine.gov.

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Tuesday, August 2, 2011— Page 9

Salvation Army names new divisional secretaries DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT

Divisional Secretaries, Majors Asit George and Sunetra George, have arrived at divisional headquarters in Portland, The Salvation Army reported.

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The Northern New England Division of The Salvation Army, which covers Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, announced the newly appointed Divisional Secretaries, Majors Asit George and Sunetra George at divisional headquarters in Portland.

Major Asit George will oversee divisional personnel, property and estates and legal matters. Major Sunetra George, Program Secretary is responsible for the division’s social services, women’s ministries and community care ministries which involve visits to veterans, the elderly, hospitals and nursing homes.

Major Asit George has an undergraduate degree from Rutgers’ University in Communication and a Masters from LaSalle University in Professional communication.

Major Sunetra George has a MBA in Human Resource Management from Nyack College.

Both their grandparents were Salvation Army Officers which had a strong impact on their decision to serve the Lord and become officers.

Major Asit George was ordained as a Salvation Army office in New York in 1990 and his wife Sunetra in India in 1992.

They previously served at the Greater New York Division.

Reductions made to Emergency Food and Shelter Program budget FOOD from page one

affected by reductions to the federal Emergency Food and Shelter Program budget in the 2011 calendar year.

All told, Cumberland County will lose about $143,000 this year.

Program directors for these agencies say they will look elsewhere for funding to bridge the gap, but admit residents and some partner agencies will feel the pinch.

“We are affected, and it affects us in a big way,” said Susan Violet, executive director of Wayside Soup Kitchen, which will lose about $10,000. “It also affects the 64 other agencies that we source and distribute food to” across Cumberland County.

“We are going to have to find the money somewhere because we have to continue to provide the food, there is no way around it for us” she added.

“But it’s just another ding in our budget at a time where it’s tough to endure another ding.”

Becky Merriman, office manager at The Root Cellar, said her agency will lose about $10,000 as a result of program cuts.

“That does definitely affect us, more than just a couple thousand,” she said.

“The money they give us doesn’t just go to food, it goes to gas to go pick it up, maintaining the van, and things like that.”

In this case, the issue begins and ends with an act of Congress.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Congress voted to slash the 2011 budget for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program allocation from $200 million to about $119 million, said Rebecca Ermlich, a community team leader for United Way of Greater Portland, which administers the federal grant.

The program is managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. But with less federal funding to allocate, FEMA was forced to change the formula that decides which coun-

ties receive funding. Under the new formula, counties where there were more than 300 people unemployed with either an 11.5 unemployment rate or a 14.4 percent poverty rate would qualify, Ermlich said.

She said data from the 2000 census were used to determine the poverty rate in those counties, which has almost certainly changed between then and now.

Meanwhile, Cumberland County’s unemployment rate, as of May 2011, was 6.2 percent.

Lincoln, Sagadahoc, York, Hancock and Waldo counties were the others in Maine that did not meet either guideline.

Statewide, Maine will receive about $347,000 in 2011 for the program, down from about $815,000 last year, a 57 percent reduction.

Merriman, at The Root Cellar, said that agency found out about the funding cuts last week.

“It won’t be the end of our food program, but we will be looking at ways to supplement our food program,” she said, adding that about 125 households rely on the weekly food program.

In the past, money from the federal program has been used to buy additional food for the weekly assistance program. For instance, she said the agency sometimes receives donations of milk, meat, or some other product, but not enough for all 125 households.

In those cases, staff would go out and buy more of that item to ensure everyone received the same items, she said.

At Wayside, Violet said they used program funds to pay for fuel for a vehicle that picks up and transports food to 64 agencies across the county.

Like other agencies, she’s already exploring ways to replace the lost funds.

“It will have to come out of reserves, but with other cuts this year, it makes it particularly painful,” Violet said, adding, “I will have to look for that

money elsewhere.”

According to Ermlich, Preble Street’s food pantry and its breakfast program will also lose funding it received through the program last year. A spokesperson for that agency did not return a phone call yesterday.

Although facilities in Portland will

feel the squeeze from the lost funding, United Way predicts smaller churchrun pantries without another funding source will be hardest hit.

“Many have no operating budget, just what comes in the door through monetary or food donations,” Ermlich said.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). The way you learn grace is to, from time to time, fall from it. Much depends on your ability to recover from the tips and tumbles that are a normal part of life.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You won’t give in. But the person you’re negotiating with doesn’t realize this just yet, so he or she will continue to try to sway you with logic, emotional appeals and other temptations.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You will maintain the policy that your emotions are no one else’s concern.

You are so impressively self-contained now that you will earn the trust of people you don’t even know.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You will give in on the small points and validate your loved one with your agreement, even when you’re not so sure he is right. Your selflessness, loyalty and support are commendable.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

Though a certain person sees you as attractive in every way, your standards for yourself are a bit more stringent.

You’ve set the bar high, and now you’ll work hard to keep it there.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (August 2). No matter what you do for a living, this year you will be in the business of making people happy. Your intuition is honed, and you’ll realize just what it takes to make people smile. This month, you’ll spend time with those you admire and make some memories. In September, you’ll sign an important contract. Sagittarius and Virgo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 2, 19, 31 and 11.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Those who are observant will notice straight away: You are different from who you were before. You would rather show your newfound confidence with action than talk about it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You know yourself well. You require a degree of challenge in order to stay engaged and involved. Another person might get stressed out by the stimulus you find comforting.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You have nothing to prove. People react to you the way they do because of their deeply rooted attitudes and opinions that have very little, if anything, to do with you.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll try new places, things and ideas. This keeps life fresh and exciting. You may spend more money than expected, but you won’t regret the expense. It’s the cost of a good life.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Opposites don’t really attract as often as people say they do. However, reacting in an equal and opposite way to the one you love will build the relationship now.

When the other person pushes, you pull back.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You value your friendships and expect them to take up an appropriate amount of space in your life. You have no need for overpowering relationships that upset the flow of normal life.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Maybe you don’t know what to expect, but that hasn’t stopped you before. Go forward.

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just for reading Dreamer; hopeful Insert Uttered Taking target practice 45 “The Lone __” 47 Ms. Zellweger 48 Price labels 39 41 42 44

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, Aug. 2, the 214th day of 2011. There are 151 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 2, 1876, frontiersman “Wild Bill” Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Jack McCall, who was later hanged. (Legend holds that Hickok died holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights, now known in poker parlance as “the Dead Man’s Hand.”)

On this date: In 1610, during his fourth voyage to the Western Hemisphere, English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay. In 1776, members of the Continental Congress began attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.

In 1909, the original Lincoln “wheat” penny first went into circulation, replacing the “Indian Head” cent.

In 1921, a jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team and two others of conspiring to defraud the public in the notorious “Black Sox” scandal.

In 1923, the 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, died in San Francisco.

In 1943, during World War II, Navy boat PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, sank after being rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri off the Solomon Islands.

In 1974, former White House counsel John W. Dean III was sentenced to one to four years in prison for obstruction of justice in the Watergate coverup. (Dean ended up serving four months.)

In 1985, 135 people were killed when a Delta Air Lines jetliner crashed while attempting to land at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

One year ago: President Barack Obama, addressing the Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta, said the U.S. would leave Iraq “as promised and on schedule,” portraying the end of America’s combat role in the 7-year war as a personal promise kept.

Today’s Birthdays: Former Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., is 89. Actor Peter O’Toole is 79. Rock musician Garth Hudson (The Band) is 74. Movie director Wes Craven is 72. Singer Kathy Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 68. Actor Max Wright is 68. Actress Joanna Cassidy is 66. Actress Kathryn Harrold is 61. Actor Butch Patrick (“The Munsters”) is 58. Singer Mojo Nixon is 54.

Actress Victoria Jackson is 52. Actress Apollonia is 52. Actress Cynthia Stevenson is 49. Actress Mary-Louise Parker is 47. Rock musician John Stanier is 43. Writer-actordirector Kevin Smith is 41. Actor Sam Worthington is 35. Figure skater Michael Weiss is 35. Actor Edward Furlong is 34. Rock musician Devon Glenn is 31.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: A year ago, my 73-year-old sister, “Jenny,” married a man she barely knew. He had been married three times before, and she was aware that he had problems. Being a nurturing person, she thought she could help him.

They live off of his Social Security and my sister’s pension checks. They are now buying a house, and her husband has some medical expenses, so things are tight. In addition, Jenny cannot sleep with him because he has apnea and won’t do anything about it. He also has an anger problem and has yelled at Jenny a couple of times. He has a sexual addiction and has made passes at three people I know of, including Jenny’s granddaughter. We haven’t told Jenny about that, but her children are encouraging their mother to leave this man.

Jenny is diabetic and has some short-term memory loss.

We are concerned about her future. Her husband shows signs of wanting to isolate her from her family and friends. She told me she would like to get out of this marriage, but he has attempted suicide in the past, and she feels responsible for his safety.

Should we tell Jenny about his infidelities? We don’t really see much hope in his changing. -- Worried Sister in Memphis Dear Memphis: We doubt Jenny will believe your accusations or do anything about them. Instead, help her understand that she is not responsible for another person’s mental health, only her own. However, she may be unwilling to leave him, regardless of his faults, because she doesn’t want to be alone. Right now, the situation seems unpleasant, but not threatening. Jenny needs her family close by to keep an eye on things and intercede if the relationship deteriorates.

Dear Annie: I am a 16-year-old girl and a junior in high school. I get great grades and am athletic and friendly. I have a lot of guy friends. They are funny and relaxed and don’t

gossip as much as the girls.

The problem is, I am large-breasted, and a lot of the guys think that when I’m being nice, I’m somehow flirting. I don’t want to say, “I’m not interested in you,” because it sounds offensive. But I hate feeling I have to hang out with guys when I know their intentions, and I end up miserable waiting for them to make a move, knowing I’ll have to shut them down.

Lately, when a guy asks me to hang out with him, I claim to be busy. How do I make it obvious that I’m not interested?

I don’t flirt. I don’t wear low-cut shirts or draw attention to myself that way. What do I do? -- Lost for Words in Kentucky Dear Kentucky: High school is a testing ground for relationships, so consider this good practice. When guys are attracted to you, it helps to decide which ones are worth your time and how to gracefully extricate yourself from the others.

It is generally safer to hang out in groups of both males and females. If you don’t wish to spend time with a particular guy, it’s OK to say you are busy or, “Thanks, but no.” And it is not offensive to tell a persistent suitor that you just want to be friends -- please don’t be afraid to say so.

Dear Annie: I’d like to respond to “Alice’s Friend,” who said there are a lot of complainers in Alice’s senior residential community.

I live in a very nice home for independent and assisted living. I have been here eight years, and I have “friends” who have been here even longer. Two of them I avoid eating with because one complains and the other is so hard of hearing that conversation is tiresome.

If Alice sits at the same table every meal, she should ask to be moved. Better yet, she should ask management if she can sit anywhere she wants, which is the way it is here now.

-- Happy Senior

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.

Prickly City

by Scott Stantis

SMCC receives gift from Maine Cancer Foundation’s Tri for a Cure SOUTH PORTLAND — Southern Maine Community College received a $5,000 check from the Maine Cancer Foundation’s Tri for a Cure event to support the Hannemann Scholarship for SMCC Radiation Therapy students established in 2000 in honor of Dr. Jake Hanneman, the college announced. This is the third year SMCC has benefited from the successful triathlon, with this year’s donation doubling that of last year.

Dr. Hanneman was the force behind the establishment of the Associate Degree Radiation Therapy program at SMCC in 1982 and still serves on the SMCC Radiation Therapy Advisory Board. He was a radiation oncologist for 28 years, 18 of which he was the Medical Director at Maine Medical Center.

SMCC hosted the Tri for a Cure on July 31 at the seaside campus where 1,000 athletes took part and over 4,000 spectators cheered on friends and family members.

“For four years, SMCC has been a generous partner in hosting our annual Tri for a Cure on their beautiful campus, and in turn, we are proud to support their Radiation Therapy program with scholarships for students,” said Tara Hill, executive director of the MCF. SMCC President James Ortiz said, “We’re thrilled to be able to share this beautiful campus with thousands of athletes and spectators for such an outstanding event, not to mention this important cause.”

The triathlon raised over $1 million this year, all of which stays in Maine funding scientific laboratory and clinical research, professional and public education and patient support programs, the college announced. Due to the success of the Tri for a Cure, MCF has been able to increase its donation to the scholarship fund each year with a $1,000 donation in 2009, $2,500 in 2010 and $5,000 this year.

Warren Cook to chair effort to expand broadband in rural Maine Warren Cook has accepted the position of chair of the Broadband Capacity Building Task Force for the Maine State Planning Office, the agency reported.

The Task Force will recommend regulatory, investment and best practice strategies to the governor and the legislature for expanding the availability and use of high-speed internet in rural Maine, the planning office reported.

In accepting the appointment, Cook said, “I’ve worked to promote the prosperity and quality of life of rural Maine for my entire career. What I’ve learned is that the two keys to success in economic development in rural Maine are quality education and the availability of high-speed internet. These two essentials are necessary to attract and retain creative business people, professionals, artists, and retirees. I look forward to helping the governor, the ConnectME authority, commissioners, educators, and regulators to develop policies to promote highspeed internet accessibility and use in rural Maine.”

The Broadband Capacity Building Task Force will examine current practices in the fields of health care, education, and economic development; identify obstacles to greater use; and recommend policies for change. Other members of the Task Force will be named soon, the agency stated.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage endorsed the appointment and the Task Force effort, saying, “The expansion of broadband capacity in the state will help accomplish one of our major initiatives, which is workforce attraction and economic development for Maine.”

The Commissions of Economic and Community Development and Educations as well as the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate have fully endorsed this effort, the planning office stated.

Warren Cook is a co-founder of Maine Network Partners, an effort to strengthen the nonprofit sector organizations “through collective impact and networks.”

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Tuesday, Aug. 2 Music from the Andes noon to 1 p.m. With a full schedule of diverse free events, there is something for everyone to enjoy each week in downtown Portland. Post Office Park, Congress Square and Lobsterman’s Park provide perfect venues for live music, talented local performers and activities for kids.

Whether during a lunch break or with the kids, downtown Portland’s free events are not to be missed.

Weekday Performance Series — Tuesdays, noon to 1 p.m.

Enjoy your lunch outside and be entertained by Portland’s best talented performers! Congress Square: Aug. 2, Music from the Andes with Inca Sun. The richness of Peruvian folk lore comes alive with Inca Son. Haunting melodies that will transport the listener clear to the Andes Mountains. Aug. 9, Samuel James acoustic blues. A roots troubadour of the highest order, James will sing you a song with raw, sweatpouring soul, all the while playing the guitar with such commanding virtuosity you’ll swear he’s reinventing it. Then he’ll tell you a story enrapturing you to the point where you’ll almost forget he’s a musician. Aug. 16, West African rhythms with Annegret Baier. Annegret Baier will present West African rhythms and songs on authentic drums and percussion instruments! Brought to you by WPXT, WPME, WHOM, mainetoday.com, raisingmaine.com. For more information and a full schedule of free summer events visit portlandmaine.com or call772.6828.

The 1866 Fire Disaster noon. Book Talk: Portland’s Greatest Conflagration: The 1866 Fire Disaster. Speakers: Michael Daicy and Don Whitney, Authors. “On the Fourth of July in 1866, joy turned to tragedy in Portland, Maine. A boy threw a firecracker onto a pile of wood shavings and it erupted in a blaze as residents prepared to celebrate the 90th anniversary of American independence in the momentous time following the Civil War. The violent conflagration killed two people and destroyed 1500 structures on nearly thirty streets. Authors Michael Daicy and Don Whitney, both retired firefighters, chronicle the day’s catastrophic events, as well as the bravery of those who fought the ferocious fire, dispelling the myth that ill-trained firefighting contributed to the devastation. The book is based on records, documents and reports, as well eyewitness accounts from firefighters and citizens.” Maine Historical Society.

East Bayside National Night Out 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The East Bayside Community Policing Center along with the East Bayside Neighborhood Organization is sponsoring National Night Out celebration.

National Night Out is designed to: (1) Heighten crime and drug awareness; (2) Generate support for, and participation in local anticrime efforts; (3) Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships; and (4) Send a message to criminals letting them know neighborhoods are fighting back. Residents in the East Bayside neighborhood are asked to lock their doors, turn on outside lights and spend the evening outside with neighbors and police.

Those participating in the parade are asked to assemble at 6 p.m. at Mayo Street Arts Center; 10 Mayo St. The celebration begins at 6:30 p.m. at Mayo Street Arts Center, where a sidewalk parade will kick off the event. The parade will proceed down Mayo Street and turn right onto E. Oxford Street.

People are encouraged to enter the walk at this location and along the route. The route goes from this location and turns left onto Anderson St. down to Madison Street, right onto Greenleaf Street, right onto E. Oxford Street, left onto Anderson Street and will end across Cumberland Avenue at Peppermint Park. A BBQ will be held in the park as well as a few guest speakers. Katie Made Bakery will be open late during the event and have fresh coffee and pastries available. In the event the weather is rain, the celebration will end at Mayo Street Art Center.

Concert with Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin 7:30 p.m. “This summer, Sophie-Véronique CaucheferChoplin, world-renowned French musician, will sit before the Kotzschmar Organ audience and for a few hours create a magical atmosphere. ‘Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin is a tremendously gifted and elegant performer,’ said Ray Cornils, Portland’s Municipal Organist. ‘She brings a rich understanding to the interpretation of the great French organ works of the 19th and 20th centuries, and is considered by her peers to be on one of the best improvisers of her generation.’” Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. $15, 2 for $25, 13-21, $5, 12 and under are free. Tickets available through PortTix, 842-0800, porttix.com.

Freeport Shakespeare Festival 7:30 p.m. The Freeport Shakespeare Festival becomes a major Maine festival in only its second year of production.

Over 2,500 people attended in 2010. This year, the Freeport Shakespeare Festival features three different productions, three locations and a total of 25 performances over an 18-day period. An estimated 12,000 people will attend one or

As the Freeport Shakespeare Festival continues, today the mainstage production of “Twelfth Night” opens at L.L. Bean Discovery Park.

Here, actors perform in “The Tempest” in 2010. (COURTESY PHOTO) more of these shows. On Thursday, July 28, a three-week production of “Before Bill” kicks off the festival at the new Freeport Factory Stage, located in downtown Freeport at 5 Depot St. Visit www.freeportfactory.com for details.

The following week, on Tuesday, Aug. 2, the mainstage production of “Twelfth Night” opens at L.L. Bean Discovery Park. Audiences can choose from 10 nightly free performances from Aug. 2 through Aug. 12 (no performance on Monday, Aug. 8). Visit www.freeportshakespearefestival.org for schedules.

7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Portland Farmer’s Market in Monument Square in Portland from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. http://portlandmainefarmersmarket.org. “We are excited to announce our new SNAP Program ... a system that allows customers to buy (almost) any farmers’ market food item or vegetable seedling with their SNAP (food stamp) benefits. SNAP Program opening day is Wednesday, Aug. 3 in Monument Square.”

at 5 Monument Square.“Breaking Ground” is Andrews’ second novel. The first, the highly acclaimed “Stealing History,” introduced readers to Julie Williamson, the inquisitive director of an historical society in a western Maine mountain town. In “Breaking Ground,” Julie is embroiled yet again in another mystery set at the historical society. This time, a well-known benefactor is murdered on the morning of the ceremony to celebrate construction of an important new building. As in Stealing History, Julie can’t help but want to solve the murder, much to the dismay of those around her. From the familiar board of trustees to the tireless town police chief, to Julie’s professor boyfriend, Andrews presents another suspenseful novel filled with Maine characters and history.

Andrews is the former president of Westbrook College in Portland, Maine. Now a consultant, freelance editor, and writer, he divides his time between Newry and Portland, with his wife, Debby. For more about the event, contact the library at 871-1700. For more information about the book, contact Islandport Press at 846-3344 or at info@ islandportpress.com, or visit www.islandportpress.com.

Islandport Press is a Maine-based publisher of quality books about Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

Portland Museum of Art tour with cancer center

The Empty House Party & Lobster Bake

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Join the Cancer Community Center of South Portland this Wednesday for a free field trip to the Portland Museum of Art. Meet at the Cancer Community Center at 10:30 a.m. to carpool or meet at the museum at 11 a.m. “We will participate in a tour (approx 1 hour) then dine together in the museum cafe (buy lunch there or bring your own). Afterward, browse the museum at your own pace. Admission is covered as part of your registration; only seven openings remain. To learn more and to reserve your seat call 774-2200 or register on-line at: http://cancercommunitycenter.org/RegistrationJulAug.htm.”

5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The evening before a group of the area’s top interior designers begin the process of redesigning an historic Portland Tudor for the 2011 Portland Symphony Orchestra Designers’ Show House, the public is invited to tour the empty house and feast at a festive lobster bake presented by Bernie’s Foreside.

The Empty House Party & Lobster Bake costs $40 per person. The 2011 Designers’ Show House is located at 149 Western Promenade in Portland. The event is the first, last, and only opportunity the public has to view the “before” of the house prior to the Show House’s opening, completed, on Sept. 10. The designers will redecorate nearly the entire house beginning on Aug. 4, working over the course of the five weeks between the Empty House Party and the Gala Preview Party on Sept. 9. Reservations are required and can be made by calling the PSO at 773-6128, ext. 311, or emailing events@portlandsymphony.org.

Wednesday, Aug. 3 Portland Farmer’s Market

Meeting of the Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The next meeting of the Committee to Restore the Abyssinian Meeting House will be an open house from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., followed by a brief business meeting of the Board of Directors. concluding by 6 pm. and including final plans for the Excavation Project. Estimated to begin Aug. 20 and completion hoped to conclude by Dec. 1. The program and times will be sent out that are associated with the events of the day. The Open House will feature “Meet the Author” Christopher L. Webber: hear the story of the Rev. James W.C. Pennington, the fugitive slave who was a national leader in the pre-Civil War abolition movement and also Pastor of the Abyssinian Church in Portland.

‘Breaking Ground’ author at library noon. William D. Andrews will read from and sign copies of his new novel, “Breaking Ground,” at the Portland Public Library’s Brown Bag Lunch at noon. The library is located

Discover Girl Scouts 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Girl Scouts of Maine is hosting an event for girls aged 5-9, entering grades k-3 in the fall, and who are not yet in a troop. First Congregational Church in Scarborough. This fun event will allow new girls and their parent or guardian to sample a variety of activities and discover what Girl Scouting is all about! Girls must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Registration is required in advance and a fee of $6 will help cover supplies. To register, please call 772-1177, by July 28. see next page

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‘L. L. Bean: The Man and His Company’ 6 p.m. Bull Moose Scarborough (456 Payne Road) will host James Witherell, author of the biographical “L. L. Bean: The Man and His Company,” for a book signing. The book was released on May 2. “Witherell’s book tells the story of the L. L. Bean Company, from its modest beginnings when Leon Leonwood Bean developed the now famous ‘boot’ because his feet got wet and sore on a hunting trip, to its growth into a company with its own zip code. It follows the ups and downs of the company, a family business that has held onto its core principles and has become an icon nearly synonymous with the state of Maine, lighthouses and lobster. Witherell is a Master Maine guide and creator of hiking maps for Acadia National Park and Baxter State Park. He is also the author of Bicycle History and is currently working on a book about the Tour de France. He is an avid cyclist.”

Bull Moose will have copies in stock for $13. Nearly all of the 20,000 books in Bull Moose’s Scarborough and Bangor locations are 35 percent off list price.

Selene Luna: Special Needs comedy 7 p.m. “We proudly welcome famed comedian and television star Selene Luna to the St. Lawrence Arts Center. At 3 feet, 10 inches, Selene Luna is a small package with a very big presence. A veteran of the stage and screen, Selene cut her teeth performing in clubs and art venues, and quickly became a darling of Hollywood’s underground scene. An original member of the Velvet Hammer Burlesque, Luna tours internationally and performs regularly with burlesque idol Dita Von Teese. Luna is probably best known for her role in Lionsgate’s feature, ‘My Bloody Valentine 3D’ and her role as Margaret Cho’s assistant in Vh1’s ‘The Cho Show.’Luna’s stand-up comedy has led her to work alongside comedy legends Roseanne Barr, Robin Williams and Garret Morris. To date, Luna has written and performed six original one-woman shows, most recent Born to Be Alive produced by the Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center.” $12 Advance, $15 at door. For more information: www.stlawrencearts.org

Thursday, Aug. 4 American Legion Northeast District Regional Championship Tournament 9:30 a.m. Old Orchard Beach will be hosting the American Legion Northeast District Regional Championship Tournament from Aug. 4-8. More information and a schedule is available at www.oob365.com

First Friday Art Walk at Portland Harbor Hotel.

4 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Art Walk at Eve’s in the Garden at the Portland Harbor Hotel. Lenora Leibowitz will be displaying some of her newest work in the Garden at the Portland Harbor Hotel. Ms. Leibowitz’s work is shown to advantage amidst elegant flowers and trees. Her landscapes of the Portland area with their bold colors and strong strokes express the ruggedness of the Maine coast.

Their rich texture emphasizes the rough terrain found around the marshes. The areas features are emphasized by the sharply contrasting light of sunset found in her paintings. Join her and other artists in The Garden.” http://www. firstfridayartwalk.com

Alive at Five free outdoor concert 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The much anticipated Alive at Five free outdoor concerts kick is taking place each Thursday in Monument Square. “What better way to spend a summer night than to kick back, listen to free music in the summer sun and enjoy a cold drink in the beer garden, presented

by Sebago Brewing Company.” Aug. 4 — The Modest Proposal (MAMM SLAM High School Band Winners) and The Kenya Hall Band (Rhythm and Blues). For more information and a full schedule of free summer events, visit portlandmaine.com or call 772.6828.

Concert at Fort Allen Park: Big Chief 7 p.m. “We’re putting the band back in the bandstand at Fort Allen Park!” In July and August, Friends of the Eastern Promenade scheduled seven Thursday evening concerts.

Big Chief (Rhythm & Roots Music). Sponsored by Coyne Piergrossi Associates, Keller Williams Realty. Other concerts: Thursday, Aug. 11 — The McCarthys (Country Rock).

Sponsored by Kemp Goldberg Partners. Thursday, Aug. 18 — Banda di Nepi (Community Band from Italy). Sponsored by the Italian Heritage Center.

Fenix Theatre Company 6:30 p.m. “Fenix Theatre Company exists to provide the southern Maine community access to free classical theater in the beauty of Deering Oaks. We thrive on the unique collaboration between audience and performer found in outdoor theater.” Bring your own seat and some food, drink, etc.”

“Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett, running Thursday and Saturday evenings Aug. 4 and Aug. 6 and Friday nights

July 29 and Aug. 12 at 6:30 p.m. by the bridge in Deering Oaks. “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” by William Shakespeare, one of Shakespeare’s early comedies, running Thursday and Saturday evenings Aug. 11 and Aug. 13 and Friday nights, Aug. 5 at 6:30 p.m. by the reflecting pool in Deering Oaks. www.fenixtheatre.com

through his art. Matthew’s paintings carry with them the style of his heroes, Picasso, Marchand and Rivera. Learning his art while on the streets, his tools remain the same: brown paper canvas, markers, oils and pastels. The artist currently lives in transitional housing, working on his art, and improving the quality of his life.

‘Before Bill’ at Freeport

First Friday Art Walk at SPACE

8 p.m. The second Freeport Shakespeare Festival production, on the Freeport Factory Stage located at 5 Depot St. in downtown Freeport, will be the New England premiere of “Before Bill: A Comic Romp through Medieval Times,” directed by Andrew Harris. Opening on July 28, the play will run Thursday, Friday, Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons through Aug. 14. www.freeportfactory.com

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

Friday, Aug. 5 Sudanese International Organization rally noon. A rally to protest genocide by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Africa is planned in Portland. The Sudanese International Organization will hold a Rally Against Genocide at Monument Square. “The Rally Against Genocide will focus on the massacres being performed by the Lord’s Resistance Army not only in various regions of Sudan, but also in Uganda, Congo and the Central African Republic. In Sudan, the Lord’s Resistance Army receives aid and support from the Government of Sudan (northern Sudan) as it makes war in Darfur, Blue Nile, western Equitoria, the Nuba mountains and Abeyei. The Sudanese community in Portland is urged to come together for this Rally in order to discuss future plans to educate the public about the ongoing genocides in Sudan.” For more information, contact Charles Goui at charlesgoui@yahoo.com or call 221-7766 or come to the office of the Sudanese International Organization at the Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St., Portland. http://megperrycenter.com

‘Choices for Sustainable Living’ in Auburn 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Choices for Sustainable Living” will be explored on Fridays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Aug. 5, 19 and 26 and Sept. 2, 16, 23 and 30. This course, offered

by Adult Religious Exploration at the First Universalist Church of Auburn, will be held at 169 Pleasant St. (enter on Spring Street, across from Dairy Joy). “Choices for Sustainable Living” is a seven-session exploration of the meaning of sustainable living anf the ties between lifestyle choices and their impact on the earth. Topics include the way our society’s functions affect the earth, ecological principles, consumerism, food choices, communities and visions of sustainability. A $5 donation is requested, for course materials. To sign up or FMI, contact Casey Iris Knight at caseyknight@myfairpoint.net or 783-0461.

Kids Fun Run 6 p.m. The Kids Fun Run will take place at the Soccer Field at Fort Williams. The races will be run in heats, according to age. If it rains, check the website at www.beach2beacon. org for updates and a decision will be made by 4 p.m. Registration and packet pick up for the kid’s race will take place from 4 to 8 p.m. during race registration at Cape Elizabeth High School and also on Friday, Aug. 5 near the Soccer Field at Fort Williams.

Photographs by Michael McAllister at Nosh

Art Walk music at KeyBank

5 p.m. Photographs by Michael McAllister will be exhibited at Nosh, 551 Congress St., Portland, during the month of August. Deer Isle, Maine is the focus and he brings to life a current documentation of these rural islands. From a four panel Stonington waterfront, that stretches over 7 feet to a single shot of a sun-drenched trail with everything in between. A total of about 28 photos measuring 17 X 22 inches will be on display in time for the First Friday Art Walk Aug. 5. McAllister is a native to Maine currently living in Poland Spring. He has been a photographer since early childhood, where he began developing and printing his own black and white. Today a digital Canon, with the help of Photoshop replaces the darkroom and allows color photography to be adjusted and printed by the artist rather than the interpretation of a photo lab.

6:30 p.m. KeyBank’s Monument Square branch in Portland will participate in the upcoming First Friday Art Walk with an art exhibit and two performances by members of the Portland Chamber Music Festival at 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

The performances will feature Portland Chamber Music Festival members violinist Jennifer Elowitch and cellist Marc Johnson. Attendees can also enter to win CDs and tickets to the Portland Chamber Music Festival’s August 18 performance, sponsored by Key Private Bank. The Monument Square branch will be open to the public during the First Friday Art Walks until 8 p.m., however the teller windows will close to banking at the usual time of 4 p.m. On the first Friday of each month, regardless of weather, between 50 and 90 venues throughout the city are free and open to the public from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Artists, venues, and visitors can find out how to participate at www.firstfridayartwalk. com. Information about PACA, the event organizer, is available at www.portlandarts.org.

Dressing Up, Fitting In, Standing Out 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Dressing Up, Fitting In, Standing Out: Identity & Adornment in Maine at the Maine Historical Society, part of the First Friday Art Walk. Will you come dressed up to “fit in” or “stand out”? Visit Maine Historical Society during the First Friday Art Walk and see the recently opened new museum exhibit, “Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In: Adornment & Identity in Maine.” Have your photo taken against the exhibit studio backdrop! Also on view: Images of the Longfellow Garden. The garden will be open late and refreshments will be served. Please direct any questions to Elizabeth Nash, enash@mainehistory.org

‘French Silk’ for Art Walk 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Memories of a Visit of a Lifetime: Painting in Monet’s Garden and Giverny by Susan M. Wierzba.

“This new silk series by award winning artist Susan Wierzba is being seen for the first time at The Gallery at Harmon’s & Barton’s, during the month of August 2011. All of the images are painted with dye on silk using the Serti ‘fencing in’ technique. Sue’s paintings are all inspired by her visit in August 2008 to France where she painted in Monet’s Garden and surrounding Giverny for 6 days. She captures the colors, the mid-summer sunshine and the sense of lushness and fluidity of the verdant garden and the countryside. At the reception on Aug. 5, a slide show of her week in France will be accompanied by French Café melodies and her three, 8-foot panels of Waterlilies putting you right in the garden along side Monet! In addition, Sue will be holding a hands-on, silk painting demonstration in conjunction with her exhibit on Saturday, Aug. 27, at Harmon’s & Barton’s during the WCSH6 Sidewalk Art Festival. Sue will have small paintings and silk scarves for sale as well. Come see the silk painting techniques the French and the Chinese are famous for and give it a try yourself.” 774 5948

First Friday Art Walk at the Meg Perry Center 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Meg Perry Center presents artist Matthew Wetherby, 644 Congress St. “Matthew Wetherby, the artist, has lived on the streets or in homeless shelters for eleven of his thirty-eight years. A victim of typical street trauma, Matthew learned to channel his personal demons

Portland Playback Theater dating excursions 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Theme: Dating stories from heaven and hell. “Everyone has bad dates, but hopefully some good ones, too. Watch your best and worst dates acted out, unrehearsed and on the spot. Every month, Portland Playback puts five actors at your disposal to replay moments from your life. Learn more at www.portlandplayback.com. 516 Congress St., CTN5 studio next to MECA. $5 at the door.

Saturday, Aug. 6 TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race 7:30 a.m. The 14th annual TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race will host a race day field of 6,000, including many of the top world-class runners as well as the best in Maine and New England. TD Bank is the title sponsor of the race founded by Joan Benoit Samuelson, the 1984 Olympic gold medalist and Maine’s most recognizable athlete. In addition to TD Bank, the title sponsor, other major corporate partners this year include Hannaford, Poland Spring, MaineHealth, Fairchild Semiconductor, Nike, Northeast Delta Dental, Wright Express and WCSH6.

Runner drop-off is at the Gull Crest Fields parking lot a half mile from the intersection of Spurwink Road and Route 77.

Look for flaggers to direct you. Runners are required to be at the start line by 7:30 a.m. This year’s race beneficiary is Day One (www.day-one.org), a non-profit agency providing substance abuse prevention, intervention, treatment, and aftercare programs for Maine youth. The TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, will provide a cash donation of $30,000 to the organization, which will also benefit from fundraising activities and publicity through its association with the race. For additional information about the race, visit www.beach2beacon.org or call the race hotline at (888) 480-6940. see next page

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Old Orchard Beach Salvation Army sale 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Old Orchard Beach Salvation Army will hold a large indoor sale at The Salvation Army Tabernacle on the corner of Union Avenue and Sixth Street in Old Orchard Beach. Items for sale include home-made baked goods, handcrafted items, books, household goods, jewelry, miscellaneous items, as well as a coffee break and lunch menu items. Proceeds of the sale will be used to assist with various projects and programs which will benefit many individuals located in the community, as well as funds will support the World Mission Program. For further information, call 934-4381.

Clothing Swap Shop 9 a.m. to noon. Elm Street United Methodist Church, 168 Elm St., South Portland.

799-0407. www.elmstreetumc.org “We have clothing for all ages and sizes.

Come donate, swap, or take as needed.

Enter through the door on Chapel Street, down a few stairs, turn left and follow the signs.”

Set sail on the Schooner Wendameen 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Join Maine Historical Society for a sail on Casco Bay on board the historic Maine schooner Wendameen. Jim Millinger, Portland Harbor historian, former MHS Trustee, and Casco Bay Lines skipper, will be our host, and will provide a narrated tour of the harbor’s past and present. The 88-foot Wendameen, designed by John Alden, one of America’s most celebrated yacht designers, was built in East Boothbay in 1912. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Help the crew raise the sails, take a turn at the wheel, or just relax and enjoy the talk and the scenery. This program is a perennial favorite and sells out quickly. Space limited. Registration required. Please call 7741822. Fee: $40; members: $35.

John McDonald at Freeport Shakespeare Festival 1 p.m. “What do popular Maine humorist John McDonald and William Shakespeare have in common? Why, they’re both at the tops of their field in storytelling, of course!

Come find out for yourself how McDonald’s traditional Down East tales will fare against the bard’s on Saturday, Aug. 6, when he

Performers at the 2010 Portland Chamber Music Festival. The Portland Chamber Music Festival’s 18th summer season runs Aug. 11–20 at the Abromson Center. (Photo by Henry Grossman) performs as part of the Freeport Shakespeare Festival at L.L. Bean. His act is scheduled for 1 p.m.” McDonald, who performs regularly around New England, is the author of “A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar” and “Down the Road a Piece: A Storyteller’s Guide to Maine,” both published

by Islandport Press. For more information about the books, contact Islandport Press at 846-3344, email at info@islandportpress. com or write to Islandport Press, P.O. Box 10, Yarmouth, ME 04096. For more information about the Freeport Shakespeare Festival, go to www.freeportshakespearefestival.org.

Sunday, Aug. 7 WMPG Dance Cruise noon. Enjoy electronic beats on Casco Bay to benefit WMPG Community Radio.

With special guests DJ’s Corbin, ATOMIK, Jen Popgirl23, Secret Weekend, Tim D and JonEK@T; Portland’s popular DJs and Casablanca Cruises have joined up to create the Second Annual electronica dance benefit for WMPG’s Power Up! campaign. Last year’s Dance Cruise was beautiful, loud, fun and by far one of the best parties of the summer! So we’re doing it all again! Bring your friends, sunglasses, and get ready to dance and party. The boat leaves the dock located at 6 Custom House Wharf for an afternoon of music, light hors d’ouevres and dance. Tickets are $20, available at any Bull Moose Music location and online at www.wmpg.org or right at Harbour’s Edge on the day of the cruise. This event is 18 plus with ID, 21 plus for alcoholic beverages with ID.

‘The Bully Show’ 1 p.m. UU Theater presents “The Bully Show.” “This hilarious play by Brian Guehring, awarded by the Kennedy Center for the 2002 New Visions/New Voices National Forum, challenges us to reconsider our assumptions about bullies and to realize the consequences of bullying. The audience actually participates in this family-friendly show for all ages.” The show will performed at First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St., across from Dairy Joy. Tix $5. Parking; accessible.

FMI 783-0461 or www.auburnuu.org.

Party Barge 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Hot August Night, On a Boat, aka Party Barge. $15, 21 plus.

“Peapod Recordings and HillyTown Presents, in association with SPACE Gallery, bring you Hot August Night, On A Boat, aka Party Barge. Remember last year’s boat party? Here it is again, with more rock ‘n roll for yr seafaring ways. Things start off with the pastoral electric indie post-folk of if and it, a reprise performance by the everfluctuating brilliance of Tyler Jackson’s

Foam Castles, punched out by Huak’s lovely discordant DC-isms, garage popped

by Mango Floss, and closed with a set from Portland noise pop ingénues Metal Feathers. Plus special guest DJ Cutlass.

A sunset ride with your closest rock pals and a healthy supply of booze. Perfection.

Board at Casablanca Cruises, 18 Custom House Wharf in Portland.”

Monday, Aug. 8 Law Enforcement Explorer Academy 8 a.m. The Portland Police Department is receiving applications for its third annual Law Enforcement Explorer Academy. With sponsorship from the Boy Scouts of America, the academy is a “mentally challenging, rigorous 50-hour course open to young adults, ages 14 to 20, who are interested in the field of law enforcement as a potential career. Members will attend regular meetings, participate in a ride-along program, receive situational and law enforcement instruction, participate in physical fitness exercises, and much more.”

The Academy will begin Monday, Aug. 8 at 8 a.m. and will conclude with a graduation ceremony, where cadets will earn their Portland Police Explorer Badge Friday, Aug. 12 at 4 p.m. at the Portland Police Station. For more information about the program or to apply to be an explorer, contact Senior Lead Officer Tim Farris via email, or Senior Lead Officer Ray Ruby via email.

Bayside Bowl Nonprofit Night 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Bayside Bowl in Portland will host True North for their Aug. 8 nonprofit night and donate 5 percent of the day’s revenue from bowling and food sales to support True North’s integrative health care research and education programs. True North is a nonprofit integrative health care and research organization. The event will include a 50/50 raffle. The event will be held at: Bayside Bowl, 58 Alder St., Portland.

791-BOWL (2695). www.baysidebowl.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. 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. 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. www.meca.edu/mfa