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Did you hear there’s a hurricane coming?

Seriously, there really is this time. Well, a tropical storm anyway.

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which ambled slowly toward Maine before easing painlessly out to sea, forecasters with the National Weather Service are predicting a weakened Irene will bring heavy rains and winds to Maine by late Sunday.

Just how much rain falls and how strong the winds will actually be depends on where the storm makes landfall, which at this point could be as far west as New York and as far east as Bar Harbor, said Margaret Curtis, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray.

“At this point, no matter how you cut it, we will see significant wind and rain ... even if it shifts hard to one side,” Curtis said. see HYPE? page 7

Up in the air

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A judge sentenced a Veazie man to 18 months behind bars Thursday for criminal charges and violating his probation after he led police in a car pursuit that ultimately resulted in him being shot twice by officers.

Jonathan Mitchell was sentenced in Portland after he pleaded guilty earlier in the week to operating a vehicle after see JAIL page 8

Man holds girlfriend captive for two hours See the story on page 3

Culinary elitism?

Anthony Bourdain takes on Paula Deen.

See the Frank Bruni column on page 4

Ashley Battles is scheduled to perform aerial feats at the Great State of Maine Air Show in Brunswick, which starts today and runs through Sunday. Air show organizers are exchanging Sunday’s tickets for Saturday’s due to Hurricane Irene’s possible arrival in New England late Sunday.

The finale may be up in the air, but today and Saturday are expected to go on as planned. Unit 265 of the Air National Guard in South Portland will be one of the exhibitors, part of the “Rise to the Challenge” outreach effort at the Aviation Expo. See a story on page 6. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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Los Angeles River tries on new role LOS ANGELES (NY Times) — As they stood on the bank, the small and eager group exchanged the requisite disparaging jokes about the Los Angeles River, best known for its uninviting concrete channels that make many think of a drainage ditch.

“You think we’ll turn into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle if the water touches us?” asked Aaron Goldstein, one of the group.

They could be forgiven for their dark humor. After all, there had not been an approved float trip down the river in more than seven decades. But in a few minutes, the 10 people gathered in Balboa Park, about 20 miles northwest of downtown, would take to the river in kayaks and canoes, as part of a pilot project to allow paddling on the waterway.

For advocates who have spent decades fighting politicians who suggested that the river be paved over for a new freeway, the inaugural boat rides are the best sign yet that a revitalization is coming — at least on the sections lined with willow trees and cattails.

“Every great city has a river,” said Steve Reizes, 50, a property manager who occasionally bikes along part of the river to commute from his home in Sherman Oaks to his office downtown. “They market riverfront properties and restaurants and all kinds of things. Why shouldn’t we have that, too?”

The 280 spots for the trips sold out within 10 minutes earlier this month.

Just a few years ago, the Army Corps of Engineers decreed that the river was not even a river, with parts of it too dry to be considered much of a waterway.

Last year, it reversed that decision and said that the 51-mile river could be navigated like any other, although parts of it can dry to a tiny trickle at times.

This summer, the corps granted a limited permit to the Los Angeles Conservation Corps that would allow a set number of paddlers on a 1.5 mile stretch for eight weekends.

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TRIPOLI, Libya (NY Times) — Rebels intensified their hunt for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and his sons on Thursday, engaging in a ferocious fight with loyalists in a neighborhood of apartment blocks near his former Tripoli fortress, as Western officials said NATO was actively helping in the effort to find the elusive leader. But in a new taunt, Colonel Qaddafi urged Libyans in a brief audio broadcast to cleanse Tripoli of the insurgents, whom he called “rats, crusaders and unbelievers.”

The broadcast, carried on loyalist channels, came amid other indications that even with an accelerated momentum by the rebels in the Libyan uprising, strong

pockets of resistance remained in Tripoli and other parts of the country, which Colonel Qaddafi ruled for the past 42 years.

Colonel Qaddafi’s spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, added to the defiant message in a telephone call to the Cairo Bureau of The Associated Press. He gave no clue to the whereabouts of Colonel Qaddafi or his family but said the Libyan leader’s morale was high, and that he was in command and capable of withstanding any rebel onslaught for “weeks, months and years.”Hundreds of wounded fighters and civilians streamed into Tripoli hospitals from the new clashes in Tripoli’s Abu Salim neighborhood, adjacent to Colonel Qaddafi’s former Bab al-Aziziya

compound, which was overrun by rebels on Tuesday. Rumors swirled in the capital that insurgents fighting in Abu Salim had cornered Colonel Qaddafi or at least one member of his family. The claims were impossible to verify.

There were reports, too, that the bulletriddled bodies of more than 30 pro-Qaddafi fighters had been found at a military encampment in central Tripoli. At least two were bound with plastic handcuffs, suggesting that they had been executed, Reuters reported.

Five of the dead were found at a field hospital, one strapped to a gurney in an ambulance with an intravenous drip still in his arm, Reuters said.

Japan lifts ban on beef Hurricane Irene moves slowly, gathering strength from disaster area NAGS HEAD, N.C. (NY Times) — As Hurricane Irene inched north toward North Carolina on Thursday, some people in this resort area packed their cars and boarded up their windows. Others, among them diehard vacationers, said they were staying put a while longer.

“We paid for a whole week; we’re staying,” said Erica Shore, 18, who arrived here on Saturday and said she and her friends planned to drive off the island at precisely 6 a.m.

Saturday, just hours before the hurricane is expected to make landfall in the southeastern part of the state.

In a bulletin issued Thursday morning, county officials said they expected the highways and roads in low-lying areas to be flooded when the storm comes ashore. Two shelters will open in the county on Friday morning. Hurricane Irene — which on Thursday was a Category 3 storm with wind gusts of up to 125 miles per hour — has been

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Twelve inches of rain is expected to fall on the island nation before the storm veers northward.

At 5 p.m., the National Hurricane Center in Miami issued a hurricane warning for the North Carolina coast, indicating that preparations for the storm should be completed as soon as possible.

It also issued a hurricane watch for the coasts of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and New Jersey.

The storm is expected to spare Florida, passing off the coast of Central and North Florida on Thursday night and Friday morning as it gathers speed, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Storm swells reached the Southeast coast of the United States on Thursday, creating dangerous surf conditions, including rip currents, the hurricane center said.

TOKYO (NY Times) — Despite continuing fears over the safety of food from the area of the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan has lifted a ban on beef shipments from there that it had imposed just a month ago, when meat contaminated with radioactive material was found to have reached Japanese supermarkets.

The decision to lift the ban underscores the difficulty faced by the government. Officials are eager to minimize the harm to farmers from the Fukushima area and to bring the local economy back to normal, but they are also trying to repair the damage to their credibility from the handling of the nuclear disaster.

The discovery of radioactive cesium in a number of products last month has greatly undermined public trust in the safety of produce from the region, even if, as the government says, the amount that was found was tiny.

“There is no safe level of internal radiation exposure, especially for children,” Tatsuhiko Kodama, head of the Radioisotope Center at Tokyo University, said in an interview.

Inside the 12-mile evacuation zone around the nuclear plant, where three reactors melted down, all farming has been abandoned. But radiation that exceeds safety levels has been detected in tea, milk, fish, beef and other foods produced outside that zone, and as far as 200 miles from the plant. Officials in Fukushima and in neighboring prefectures sporadically check a range of products but do not have the capacity to screen all of the region’s farm produce for radiation.

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not to come back,” he said. “He did go back at about 10:20 a.m. on (Aug. 20 and) he was arrested.”

Sheriff officials were later called to the home on Aug. 24 shortly before 2 a.m. and, again, warned Gurney to leave and not return.

“She basically said that he came back,” said Capt.

Donald Goulet, a Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office spokesman. “He was removed and told not to come back.”

Officials say less than two hours later Gurney returned and held the woman against her will, leaving only after she agreed to be with him, police said.

After he left the house, the woman called police at about 6 a.m. and Gurney was later arrested.

Goulet explained that a court dismissed the criminal trespass charge as the paperwork was not filed with the District Attorney’s office, as the reason why Gurney was able to return to the home after the first arrest.

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said the couple’s arrest came after an intense investigation into the robbery of Cloutier’s Market at 1026 Lewiston Road on Aug. 16.

Police say Dennison was an employee of the store and that Fecteau was outside near a dumpster, waiting for the employee to exit the store with the money.

No weapons were displayed during the robbery, police said. He’s accused of pushing the employee to the ground and demanding the deposit.

Both were charged with robbery and bail was set at $10,000 cash. Fecteau was also being held on an additional $5,000 Fecteau and Dennison cash bond for a habitual offender charge, police said.

Officials wouldn’t say how much money was taken from the employee or if any of it was recovered.

Police arrested a man Wednesday for allegedly holding his estranged girlfriend captive in their New Gloucester home for nearly two hours.

Jacob Gurney, 28, is accused of verbal and physical domestic assault after police say he broke into his former girlfriend’s home and held her against her will. The incident occurred days after he was arrested for trespassing and following at least two warnings from authorities to stay away from the home, police said Officials say he disabled the 27-year-old alleged victim’s phones and detained her until she agreed to start seeing him again. During that time he threatened her and pulled her hair, police said.

Gurney was charged with burglary, domestic violence assault and terrorizing, kidnapping and obstructing the report of a crime.

Police said he lived in the same home as his girlfriend on Windmill Lane in New Gloucester, though Gurney listed a Windham address when he was booked into Cumberland County Jail and told to A husband and wife were arrested Wednesday and stay away from the house. accused of robbing a New Gloucester convenience Maine State Police made first contact with him store employee of a bank deposit.

Nicholas Fecteau, 26, of Lewiston, and his wife on Aug. 19 and then returned to the victim’s the Kyleen Dennison, 25, of New Gloucester, were being next morning to arrest him for trespassing, said Lt. held at Cumberland County Jail Wednesday pendWalter Grzyb, a state police spokesman. ing arraignment.

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Jetport to receive $7.8 million

port, $3.6 million, and Brunswick Executive Airport, $4.6 million.

Augusta will use the money for improvements to its runway and Brunswick plans to buy snow removal equipment and improve utilities and runway lighting.

Portland’s International Jetport is among three Maine airports slated to receive more than $15 million in federal Department of Transportation grants.

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree’s office announced Thursday the jetport will get $7,837,835 to build a runway safety area and rehabilitate other areas of the runway.

“Our airports are a critical piece of our economic infrastructure and it’s important that we take care of them,” stated Pingree in a statement.

Also slated to receive grant funds are Augusta Air-

Maine’s Secretary of State announced Thursday that officials traced the origin of the malware security breach to voter information to the town of Millinocket’s clerk’s office.

Yet another panel of scientists has found no evidence that a popular vaccine causes autism. But despite the scientists’ best efforts, their report is unlikely to have any impact on the frustrating debate about the safety of these crucial medicines.

“The M.M.R. vaccine doesn’t cause autism, and the evidence is overwhelming that it doesn’t,” Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, the chairwoman of the panel, assembled by the Institute of Medicine, said in an interview, referring to a combination vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella that has long been a focus of concern from some parents’ groups.

The panel did conclude, however, that there are risks to getting the chickenpox vaccine that can arise years after vaccination. People who have had the vaccine can develop pneumonia, meningitis or hepatitis years later if the virus used in the vaccine reawakens because an unrelated health problem, like cancer, has compromised their immune systems.

These same problems are far more likely in

patients who are infected naturally at some point in their lives with chickenpox, since varicella zoster, the virus that causes chickenpox, can live dormant in nerve cells for decades. Shingles, a painful eruption of skin blisters that usually affects the aged, is generally caused by this Lazarus-like ability of varicella zoster.

The government had asked the medicine institute to review the known risks of vaccines to help guide decisions about compensation for those who claim to have been injured by vaccines. Legislation passed by Congress in 1986 largely absolved vaccine makers of the risks of being sued for vaccine injuries and forced those who suffer injury to petition the government for compensation.

The government generally restricts compensation to cases involving children who suffer injuries that scientists deem to have been plausibly caused by vaccination, including seizures, inflammation, fainting, allergic reactions and temporary joint pain. But battles have raged for years over whether to expand

State: Voter info not compromised

Secretary of State Charlie Summers said in a statement that it doesn’t appear that any personal voter information is at risk of being breached.

“As of right now, it appears that no personal information contained in the (state’s voter registration database) has been compromised,” he stated. “We will, however, continue to look into this matter and try to determine how this breach occurred.”

Summers said his office was working with the Maine State Police’s computer crimes unit. They plan to conduct a forensic examination of the computer equipment in question.

— Staff Reports

No link between vaccines and austism, federal panel reiterates

this list, with most of the fighting revolving around autism.

Many children injured by vaccination have an underlying immune or metabolic problem that is simply made apparent by vaccines.

“In some metabolically vulnerable children, receiving vaccines may be the largely nonspecific ‘last straw’ that leads these children to reveal their underlying” problems, the report stated.

For instance, recent studies have found that many of the children who suffered seizures and lifelong problems after receiving the whole-cell pertussis vaccine, which is no longer used but once routinely caused fevers in children, actually had Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy.

The flood of lawsuits over the effects of the wholecell pertussis vaccine was the reason Congress created the national vaccine injury compensation program in the first place.

— The New York Times

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The rugged altruists

Many Americans go to the developing world to serve others. A smaller percentage actually end up being useful. Those that do have often climbed a moral ladder. They start out with certain virtues but then develop more tenacious ones.

The first virtue they possess is courage, the willingness to go off to a strange place. For example, Blair Miller was a student at the University of Virginia who decided she wanted to teach abroad.

She Googled “teach abroad” and found a woman who had been teaching English in a remote town in South Korea and was looking for a replacement.

Miller soon found herself on a plane and eventually at a small airport in southern South Korea. There was no one there ––––– to greet her. Eventually, the airThe New York port closed and no one came to Times pick her up. A monk was the only other person around and eventually he, too, left and Miller was alone.

Finally, a van with two men rolled in and scooped her up. After a few months of struggle, she had a fantastic year at a Korean fishing village, the only Westerner for miles and miles. Now she travels around Kenya, Pakistan and India for the Acumen Fund, a sort of venture capital fund that invests in socially productive enterprises, like affordable housing and ambulance services.

The second virtue they develop is deference, the willingness to listen and learn from the moral and intellectual storehouses of the people you are trying to help.

Rye Barcott was a student at the University of North Carolina who spent a summer sharing a 10-by-10 shack in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya.

One night he awoke with diarrhea and stumbled to the public outhouse. He slid onto the cement floor and vomited as his bare body hit puddles of human waste.

He left his soiled pants outside the hut, but when he went to find them later they were gone. He was directed to another hut where a stick-thin girl, with missing clumps of hair, had the pants, scrubbed and folded, in her lap. Barcott said softly, “I’m grateful,” and asked her why she had cleaned them. “Because I can,” she replied. A week later, she died of AIDS and her body was taken in a wheelbarrow to a communal grave.

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Unsavory culinary elitism Anthony Bourdain, the parttime chef and full-time celebrity, has a tongue on him. It’s the sharpest knife in his set. He has used it to carve up vegans, whom he called the “Hezbollah-like splinter faction” of vegetarians, and the culinary moralist Alice Waters, whose rigidity is “very Khmer Rouge.”

The latest to be slashed: Paula Deen. For the uninitiated, she’s the deep-fried doyenne of a fatty, buttery subgenre of putatively Southern cooking. And Bourdain, in an interview with TV Guide published last week, branded her an outright menace to America, scolding her for “telling an already obese nation that it’s O.K. to eat food that is killing us.”

To this he added a gratuitous schoolyard-crass putdown of Deen cuisine.

Which certainly isn’t my cup of lard. But it bothers me no more than his ill-timed elitism, which Deen nailed in her response.

“Not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine,” she told The New York Post. “My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.”

Put aside her one-with-themasses pose, ludicrous in light of the millions she has made from television shows, cookbooks, cookware, mattresses and more. She’s

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The New York Times otherwise 100 percent justified in assailing the culinary aristocracy, to which even a self-styled bad boy like Bourdain belongs, for an often selective, judgmental and unforgiving worldview.

And her retort exposes class tensions in the food world that sadly mirror those in society at large.

You can almost imagine Bourdain and Deen as political candidates, a blue-state paternalist squaring off against a red-state populist over correct living versus liberty in all its artery-clogging, self-destructive glory.

To give him his due: we are too fat and must address that. But getting Deen to unplug the waffle iron doesn’t strike to the core of the problem any more than posting fast-food calorie counts or taxing soft drinks do. A great deal of American obesity is attributable to the dearth of healthy food that’s affordable and convenient in lowand even middle-income neighborhoods, and changing that requires a magnitude of public intervention and private munificence that are

unlikely in such pinched times.

On some level, Bourdain gets this, or used to. When he denigrated Waters, he did so — rightly — because of what he deemed her fantasy that recession-era Americans would “start buying expensive organic food and running to the green market.”

Some of Deen’s fans have the means for mesclun. They’re not consigned to overloads of animal fat; they elect it. But then so do plenty of New York gourmands who favor pâté and duck confit, both on the menu at Bourdain’s Brasserie Les Halles restaurant in Manhattan.

When Deen fries a chicken, many of us balk. When the Manhattan chefs David Chang or Andrew Carmellini do, we grovel for reservations and swoon over the homey exhilaration of it all.

Her strips of bacon, skirting pancakes, represent heedless gluttony.

Chang’s dominoes of pork belly, swaddled in an Asian bun, signify high art.

There’s some class-inflected hypocrisy in the food world, where the center seems to be ceding territory to two wings: the selfappointed sophisticates and the supposed rubes. And the latter — represented by Deen and other objects of Bourdain’s ire, including see BRUNI page 5

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Cut Medicare, help patients

BY EZEKIEL J. EMANUEL AND JEFFREY B. LIEBMAN Op-Ed Contributors THE NEW YORK TIMES

MEDICARE is going to be cut. That is inevitable.

There is no way to solve the nation’s long-term debt problem without reducing the growth rate of federal health care spending. The only question is whether the cuts will be smart ones.

Smart cuts eliminate spending on medical tests, treatments and procedures that don’t work — or that cost significantly more than other treatments while delivering no better health outcomes. And they can be made without shortchanging patients. There are plenty of examples; here are three.

Late last year, the Food and Drug Administration determined that the drug Avastin, which has serious side effects, is not effective for treating breast cancer.

Astonishingly, Medicare declared it will still pay for Avastin — at a cost of about $88,000 per year for each patient.

Consider colonoscopies. The United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends not doing colonoscopies for most people over 75 because there is no evidence that they save lives in this population. Moreover, the risk of perforating the intestines rises with age. Yet Medicare pays for the procedure regardless of the patient’s age.

Every year more than 1 million cardiac stents are placed in patients to open blocked arteries. Stents are essential immediately after a heart attack, but a 2007 randomized trial conducted at 50 medical centers in the United States and Canada showed that for patients with stable heart disease, stents do not reduce the number of heart attacks or save lives when compared with drug therapy. And they are substantially more expensive.

Because stents are more effective at reducing pain in some patients, the best practice is to start patients on drug therapy and insert a stent only for those who do not respond to treatment. Yet many patients who receive stents paid for by Medicare are either experiencing no pain or have not tried medication first.

The list of procedures Medicare pays for that are proven to have no benefit goes on and on. Cutting payment for these is not rationing. It saves money, but it also protects patients from the pain, stress and risks associated with unnecessary care.

Smart cuts can also be achieved through better

coordination of patient care. One program, at the University of Pennsylvania, sends a nurse to visit older adults at home immediately after they have been discharged from the hospital. By reducing readmissions, the program saves $5,000 per Medicare patient. It also improves health outcomes. By assigning a nurse case manager to high-cost Medicare patients, Massachusetts General Hospital has reduced spending on these patients by 4 to 5 percent and also reduced mortality.

Group Health Cooperative in Washington State transformed its primary care practices in a pilot program by creating teams of doctors, nurses and pharmacists who work together, extending its regular office visits to 30 minutes and introducing “care coordinators” who follow up with patients after office visits, hospitalizations and procedures. After two years, quality of care and patient satisfaction improved; emergency room visits declined by 29 percent and hospitalizations by 6 percent.

Unfortunately, Washington is preoccupied with illconceived cuts. Three kinds of cuts got serious consideration in the recent debt limit negotiations, and are likely to resurface as the special Congressional committee tries to achieve $1.5 trillion in additional deficit reduction: • Meat-cleaver cuts hack spending indiscriminately.

Across-the-board cuts in payments to Medicare providers (which will kick in if the special committee doesn’t come to an agreement) fall into this category. Cuts that fail to distinguish between high-value and low-value medical care would do more harm than good.

• Cost-shifting cuts don’t actually reduce health care spending; they just shift costs from the government to the private sector. Increasing Medicare’s eligibility age from 65 to 67, as Senators Tom Coburn and Joseph Lieberman have proposed and as the Obama administration reportedly floated during the debt ceiling negotiations, is a classic example. While raising the eligibility age would reduce government spending on Medicare, it would shift the costs to individuals and businesses. It would also increase the number of uninsured 65- and 66-year-olds, leading to worse health outcomes and making it harder for older Americans to find work.

• Penny-wise, pound-foolish cuts reduce current spending by a little but raise future costs by a lot.

Raising co-payments for office visits and medications is a good example. Research shows that when

older adults are charged higher co-payments, they reduce their primary care visits and use of prescription drugs. But the research also shows that forgoing this outpatient care leads to an increase in expensive hospitalizations.

The sad truth is, Washington is never going to do a good job of making smart cuts to Medicare. Elected officials hate being blamed for directly restricting access to medical treatments — even when those treatments are proven to be worthless. Moreover, much wasteful spending occurs in situations where care that is appropriate for some patients is given to patients for whom it is inappropriate. It is impossible for Medicare to write payment rules that cover all such circumstances.

The responsibility for ending unnecessary medical spending needs to be placed in the hands of doctors and hospitals. This can happen only if we change our fee-for-service payment system. Today doctors and hospitals that develop new programs to keep patients healthy lose money in two ways. They spend money re-designing care and then, with fewer office visits and hospitalizations, the payments they receive go down.

The seeds of a solution lie in the accountable care organizations, medical homes and bundled payment reforms that were authorized by last year’s Affordable Care Act. Accountable care organizations are groups of health care providers and hospitals that work together to treat patients. Medical homes coordinate primary care services. And bundled payments consolidate the many costs of an episode of care, like a hospitalization, into a single payment, incentivizing efficient delivery of tests and treatments. All of these reforms allow payments to be based primarily on the number of patients cared for and the quality of that care rather than on the volume of services provided.

To control Medicare spending and reduce the deficit, we need to stop paying for wasteful procedures, accelerate adoption of the Affordable Care Act reforms and empower doctors, nurses and hospitals to provide higher-quality and more efficient care. The path to smart cuts is clear.

him back to the hospital to save his life. Letchford pressed his wounds to stem the bleeding, using tattered garbage bags as surgical gloves. He had scraped his hands gardening that day and was now covered by the man’s blood.

They saved the thief’s life and discovered he was infected with H.I.V. For several days, Letchford and his family were not sure whether he had been infected by the man who robbed them. Their faith was tested.

(They later learned that he was not infected.) When the man recovered, he showed no remorse, no gratitude; he just folded in on himself, cold and uncommunicative.

This final virtue is what makes service in the developing world not just an adventure, a spiritual experience or a cinematic moment. It represents a noncontingent commitment to a specific place and purpose.

As you talk to people involved in the foreign aid

business — on the giving and the receiving ends — you are struck by how much disillusionment there is.

Very few nongovernmental organizations or multilateral efforts do good, many Kenyans say. They come and go, spending largely on themselves, creating dependency not growth. The government-to-government aid workers spend time at summit meetings negotiating protocols with each other.

But in odd places, away from the fashionableness, one does find people willing to embrace the perspectives and do the jobs the locals define — in businesses, where Westerners are providing advice about boring things like accounting; in hospitals where doctors, among many aggravations, try to listen to the symptoms the patients describe.

Susan Albright, a nurse working with disabled children in Kijabe, says, “Everything I’ve ever learned I put to use here.” Her husband, Leland Albright, a prominent neurosurgeon, says simply, “This is where God wants us to be.”

ment-approved Bon Appetit.

The establishment’s former darling, Gourmet, died in 2009. What just recently sprouted in its place is an even more rarefied journal, Lucky Peach, a literary quarterly that costs $10 an issue. Its first one showcased an interview with Bourdain about culinary mediocrity.

I prefer it to Food Network Magazine. And I prefer his TV show, “No Reservations,” a summons to eat adventurously around the world, to any of Deen’s.

But these preferences reflect privileges and don’t

entitle me, Bourdain or anyone else who trots the globe and visits ambitious restaurants — the most casual of which can cost $50 a person and entail hourlong waits — to look down on food lovers without the resources, opportunity or inclination for that.

Besides, treating Deen, Lee & Co. with anything that smacks of moralizing and snobbery isn’t likely to move them or their audience toward healthier eating.

It’s apt to cook up resentment. And we’ve got enough ill will and polarization in our politics. Let’s not set a place for them at the table.

(Ezekiel J. Emanuel, an oncologist and regular contributor to Op-Ed, will be a vice provost and professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania beginning in September. Jeffrey B. Liebman is a professor of public policy at Harvard. Both were White House advisers.)

For many, the greatest and most essential virtue is thanklessness BROOKS from page 4

Over the next several years, Barcott served as an officer in the Marines in places like Iraq and created an inspiring organization called Carolina for Kibera, which offers health services and serves as a sort of boys and girls club for children in the slum.

The greatest and most essential virtue is thanklessness, the ability to keep serving even when there are no evident rewards — no fame, no admiration, no gratitude.

Stephen Letchford is a doctor working in Kijabe, Kenya. One night, years ago, when he was working at a hospital in Zambia, a man stole a colleague’s computer. Letchford drove the police down the single road leading from town. The police found the man carrying the computer and, in the course of the arrest, shot him in the abdomen.

They put the man in the back of the car and rushed

Rachel Ray and Sandra Lee are the champions of downscale cooking BRUNI from page 4

Rachael Ray and Sandra Lee — have come on strong over the last few years.

They’re champions of downscale cooking that’s usually more affordable and easier to master, and they’re the most luminous stars of the expanding Food Network, whose 3-year-old publishing offshoot, the Food Network Magazine, recently announced a projected circulation increase to 1.4 million copies. That would put it just 100,000 copies behind the more establish-

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South Portland cyber unit part of air show

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

It could be called the new space race: the challenge of keeping up with cyber security and hightech communications. And one of the hubs for its military application is Unit 265 of the Air National Guard in South Portland.

The squadron will participate in the "Rise to the Challenge" Air National Guard outreach effort at the Great State of Maine Air Show & Business Aviation Expo, starting today at 4 p.m. and running through Sunday at the new Brunswick Executive Airport at Brunswick Landing.

Recruitment is up for the 265th Combat Communications Squadron, said MSgt Ted Brissette, a unit recruiter. A stagnant economy accounts for some of this interest in the unit's high-tech The Great State of Maine programs, he said, but Air Show & Business Aviathere's also the fact tion Expo begins today that cutting-edge techat 4 p.m.; gates open nology in the military at 9 a.m. Saturday and can translate into lucraSunday. Sunday’s schedtive careers in a civilian ule may be affected by industry, the squadron Hurricane Irene. Held at notes on its web page the new Brunswick Exec(www.101arw.ang.af.mil/ utive Airport at Brunswick units/index.asp).

Landing, the Air Show features the U.S. Navy Blue "The jobs that we Angels and the U.S. Army do down in South Golden Knights Parachute Portland are high Team, along with military tech, satellite comtach demos, top national munication, fiber aerobatic acts and classic optics, meteorologimilitary legacy aircraft. For cal and navigational details, visit www.greatguidance systems, stateofmaineairshow.us. and we're part of the new Air Force Space Command," a military-focused space and cyberspace "joint warfighting team" based at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado, Brissette said.

"What we do is we're support units, we do cyber-space security, we provide secure communications around the world for the U.S. Air Force and other government agencies," he explained.

In Maine, the Air National Guard, a reserve component of the U.S. Air Force, includes two units, one in Bangor, the 101st Air Refueling Wing; and two squadrons in South Portland, the 265th Combat Communications Squadron and the 243rd Engineering Installation Squadron.

About 250 people are assigned in South Portland, and about 900 in Bangor, Brissette said.

Bangor's air refueling wing, which practices inflight refueling, is one of the top three busiest refueling wings in the nation, he said.

Brissette said this weekend's air show is an opportunity to practice outreach. Recruitment isn't as much the focus as a public relations effort, he said.

Jackie Bilbao, manager of the "Rise to the Challenge" tour, said one of the goals is "to raise awareness about the Air National Guard."

The public can play simulations, with seven different challenges, all highlighting a career field, Bilbao explained. Inside a 38-foot trailer, three different computerized challenges are offered; outside are four more. The games are suited to those over age 13, she said.

Examples of simulations are a refueling challenge, a security forces challenge, a pilot simulation and even a "cargo challenge" for a loadmaster position, where someone loads a cargo plane.

The 265th Combat Communications Squadron will promote its latest commercial communication and computer technologies. Brissette said these technologies change swiftly — think of the rapid advance of smartphones in the civilian world.

"It's just ever-changing, it's very challenging, because what ever people come up with, someone

Aviation Expo

Staff Sgt. Mark Dougthy coordinates positioning of a KC-135E Stratotanker with a C-130 Hercules while he operates the boom duri ng an air refueling in 2006 over Tucson, Ariz. Sergeant Dougthy and the KC-135E are from the Air National Guard’s 101st Air Refueling Wing at Bangor. The C-130 is assigned to the 42nd Electronic Combat Squadron at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. In Maine, the Air National Guard, a reserve component of the U.S. Air Force, includes two units, one in Bangor, the 101st Air Refueling Wing; and two squadrons in South Portland, the 265th Combat Communications Squadron (see its logo inset below left) and the 243rd Engineering Installation Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Christina D. Ponte)

develops a counter.

And then you have to counter the counter," he said.

Brissette said mostly the Air National Guard hopes to make people aware that the squad- A visitor to the Air National Guard ‘’Rise to the Challenge’’ Tour tests his flight skills using this augmented reality ron exists and challenge to refuel a B-2 Spirit bomber midair. (Photo courtesy of the Air National Guard) what it's role is. operated air show to take place at the new Brunswick And it doesn't hurt to put a human face on a unit that Executive Airport at Brunswick Landing: Maine's deals with high tech.

Center for Innovation, organizers noted.

"Just think of us as the hometown air force," he said.

The Maine Aerospace Alliance is exhibiting at this The Great State of Maine Air Show & Business year's Great State of Maine Air show, focusing on Aviation Expo begins today at 4 p.m.; gates open at job opportunities within the aerospace industry. The 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. Due to the advance of exhibit will be hosted in Hangar 5 and staffed by Hurricane Irene up the East Coast, air show officials MEAA Executive Director Rich Gritch. put out word that ticket buyers can exchange Sunday The Air Show features the U.S. Navy Blue Angels tickets for Saturday's. Anyone affected is urged to call and the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team, 888-695-0888 to make the exchange and not the air along with military tach demos, top national aerobatic acts, classic military legacy aircraft including the B-25 show office.

Panchito, the L-39 Albatross "Vandy-1" and the P-51D Hosted for the first time by the Midcoast Regional Mustang "Glamorous Gal," and the Geico Skytypers Redevelopment Authority, the Great State of Maine squadron made up of WWII vintage fighters.

Air Show has been presented in the past by the U.S. For more information and for weather updates, Navy at Naval Air Station Brunswick. With the closvisit www.greatstateofmaineairshow.us. ing of base this year, this show will be the first civilian

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Friday, August 26, 2011— Page 7

Agencies, stores brace for Irene

Central Maine Power: ‘We’ve been preparing for this all week’

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Mainers who wait to prepare for Hurricane Irene may find empty shelves at their hardware store.

"The early bird gets the sump pump, the early bird gets the generator," said Robert O'Brien, assistant manager at the Aubuchon Hardware store at 832 Stevens Ave. "We've already sold a couple of generators, people are coming by looking for flashlight batteries and bulbs," he said Thursday.

Forecasters following Hurricane Irene say severe weather, including high winds and heavy rain, are possible for Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine beginning as early as Sunday afternoon into the early hours Monday morning. The public should make sure there's a backup supply of food and water, officials say.

Central Maine Power, which serves more than 600,000 customers, has put all employees on notice to be available to work on power restoration early next

week, according to Gail Rice, spokesperson for Central Maine Power.

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In other words, this storm is for real. Or, as real as it gets for Maine.

Hurricane coverage has dominated the media-sphere for the past several days, whipping cable news anchors and local storm teams into the usual frenzy.

Websites for CNN, Fox News and MSNBC all led with storm coverage yesterday, and their local affiliates followed suit. Irene was also “trending” on Twitter.

Here in Portland, “Storm Team 13” posted videos of the storm's likely path, while “News Center 6” took a page out of its winter playbook, detailing storm-related cancellations and closings.

As of yesterday afternoon, Irene was a category 3 storm moving north in the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida. The storm is projected to intensify and then potentially make landfall along the Carolinas Saturday and move north.

It is expected to reach New York state Sunday and move north along the Connecticut River Valley.

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“We are going to feel the effects of this storm. We are going to get heavy rains, heavy winds; we could get a coastal storm surge and possible coastal flooding.”

— Lynette Miller, spokesperson for the Maine Emergency Management Agency person for Maine Emergency Management Agency, or MEMA, admits that some people may not take storm warnings seriously because of the recent “near misses” that “flirted with us and went away.”

This storm is the closest we have come in “some time,” she says, adding that the agency is taking Irene seriously.

“We are going to feel the effects of this storm,” she said yesterday.

“We are going to get heavy rains, heavy winds; we could get a coastal storm surge and possible coastal flooding.

“We don’t know the track of the storm, but we know we are going to get a pretty good wallop out of this,” she continued.

MEMA’s website (maineprepares.com) lists a host of precautions and steps in the event of a major hurricane, but in general, she urges Mainers to keep track of the latest weather reports so they know what to expect.

Mainers should be prepared for rain, winds and downed power lines when the storm arrives.

Those living along the coast should also be ready for coastal flooding, she said As far as MEMA’s response, Miller says the agency is staying on top of forecasts and weather reports and also reaching out to FEMA, local utilities and countylevel emergency response teams.

While governors across the Eastern Seaboard have taken preemptive action by urging residents to evacuate and in at least one case (Maryland) calling a state of emergency, Gov. Paul LePage is in a wait and see mode, according to his spokesperson.

Adrienne Bennett, the spokesperson, said yesterday while en route to Aroostook County that LePage was “keeping an eye" on the storm and was “prepared to be in the office over the weekend if need be.”

With any luck, this storm, too, will pass us by, more or less unscathed, although that doesn’t appear likely, officials say. At best, forecasters say the storm will be severely weakened by the time it reaches New England.

“By the time it gets to us, it will certainly by dying, but again, whether it’s 50 m.p.h. or 30 m.p.h. or even 60 or 70 m.p.h., we are still going to have a lot of rain,” said Curtis, the Maine-based meteorologist.

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a habitual offender revocation and refusing to stop for police and submit to an arrest. Mitchell was indicted by a grand jury after he led officers on a chase in April in which he was shot in the neck and back shoulder.

Mitchell, 30, received the state's mandatory minimum sentence for operating as a habitual offender — nine months and a day — and another nine-month sentence for violating his probation.

Deborah Chmielewski, assistant district attorney, spoke to the court of Mitchell's criminal history going back to 1999, saying he's faced charges from disorderly conduct to assault, criminal mischief and failing to register as a sex offender — in addition to a handful of driving convictions including operating under the influence.

"There is a strong possibility that he will reoffend," she said.

Chmielewski asked the judge to sentence him to four years behind bars.

"I want to emphasize that I'm sentencing on the ... charges that have been presented to me," said Cole, before delivering the sentence and referring to two charges recently dropped by prosecutors.

Mitchell originally faced two additional counts of reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon. Police accused him of using the car he was driving as a "dangerous weapon in an attempt to escape," which resulted in police firing at him, said former police Chief James Craig during an April news conference.

Those charges, as well as another charger for criminal trespass, were later dropped by the District Attorney's office.

Mitchell, 30, received the state’s mandatory minimum sentence for operating as a habitual offender — nine months and a day — and another nine-month sentence for violating his probation.

Before he was sentenced, Mitchell addressed the court, saying he apologized for the incident.

"I regret my actions and how they hurt not only my family, but the community," he said. "I'm sorry."

After he sat down, Mitchell turned to his parents sitting in the courtroom and appeared to mouth the words, "I love you."

"He wants help and then move on in the right direction," Roger Mitchell, his father, said after the court proceeding. "We're just grateful that he's alive."

J.P. DeGrinney, Jonathan Mitchell's defense attorney, said after the trial that he was "very pleased with the end result" of the case.

Things will likely now turn to Jonathan Mitchell's civil attorney, Michael Turndorf, who couldn't be reached for comment Thursday but has indicated that a lawsuit against the Portland Police Department is likely in the coming days or weeks.

In July, he told The Portland Daily Sun he intended to "move along quite quickly" with filing a lawsuit.

Members of the PPD, including acting Chief Mike Sauschuck, attended the sentencing. Sauschuck declined to comment, citing an ongoing investigation by the attorney general's office.

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The hurricane is forecast to approach the coast of North Carolina on Saturday, with maximum sustained winds near 115 mph, making it a Category Three hurricane, the National Weather Service reported Thursday.

"Hurricane Irene is forecast to move up the East Coast and in the general direction of New England Sunday then move northward through New England Sunday night," the National Weather Service reported. "The timing, track and impacts from the storm are still uncertain at this time."

"It's a wait and see to see how she tracks and see what she does," Rice agreed.

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"When you have a storm of this magnitude that comes through, you can't prevent all of the outages, but you do what you can. We've had a pretty aggressive tree thinning program," Rice said.

Unitil advised checking and making an inventory of the following items: • Flashlights and fresh batteries.

• A battery-operated radio and clock.

• Bottled water, canned foods and a manual can opener.

• A list of important phone numbers and a car charger for cell phones if applicable.

• A first aid kit.

• Bring in anything that can be picked up by wind (bicycles, lawn furniture, etc.).

• Fill your car’s gas tank.

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Friday, Aug. 26

Friday, Sept. 9 Paranoid Social Club

The Jen Chapin Trio

8 p.m. Paranoid Social Club at Port City Music Hall. “Paranoid Social Club is the bastard brainchild of Dave Gutter and Jon Roods of the Rustic Overtones. Hailing from Portland, the band has received international accolades for its high energy style. Equally inspired by punk, soul, psychedelic rock, and the human psyche; PSC is a musical movement like no other. Picture Jimi Hendrix smashing a keyboard or The Clash backing Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival.” www.portcitymusichall.com/events

8 p.m. Jen Chapin’s music is urban folk — story songs that search for community and shared meaning, powered by the funk, soul and improvisation of the city. Critics have hailed her work as “brilliant .. soulfully poetic.” One Longfellow Square. http://www.onelongfellowsquare.com/

Saturday, Aug. 27 Picnic Music+Arts Festival

Lauren Rioux CD Release

11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The fourth annual Picnic Music+Arts Festival will take place on Saturday, Aug. 27. This juried indie craft fair will be held outdoors at Lincoln Park on Congress Street and Franklin Arterial, in Portland. The festival will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., rain or shine. The Picnic Music+Arts Festival will feature clothing, jewelry, prints, accessories, bags, plush, stationery, photography, housewares, fine art, vintage goods and more. There will be live music and tasty food to enjoy all day. www.picnicportland.com

8 p.m. One Longfellow Square. Lauren Rioux fiddles from the heart with soul and joy. This, in combination with her warm tone, elegant and expressive phrasing, and playful style, leads her to create music that artfully explores themes of both heartache and hope. With her debut album, All the Brighter, Rioux presents a beautiful collection of melodies that embrace and celebrate the richness of life. www. onelongfellowsquare.com

The Baseball Project

Tuesday, Sept. 13

8 p.m. The Baseball Project comes to Port City Music Hall. “Volume Two: High and Inside,” the new album from Steve Wynn, Scott McCaughey, Linda Pitmon and Peter Buck, “is another winning collection of songs about the game’s greats that will be pleasing to those who love America’s pastime — and fans of intelligent, melodic and fun rock.” http://portcitymusichall.com

The Moody Blues

8 p.m. Steve Litman Presents, The Moody Blues in concert. Tickets $109.50, $77, $67 (includes service fee). “The Moody Blues are an English Rock band that have sold 70 million albums worldwide and have been awarded 14 platinum and gold discs. With hits such as ‘Nights in White Satin,’ ‘Just a Singer in a Rock n Roll Band,’ ‘Ride My See-Saw,’ and ‘Question of Balance,’ Moody Blues have been around since 1964!” Merrill Auditorium. https://tickets.porttix.com/ public/show.asp

WCLZ Presents: Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

8 p.m. Bela Fleck & The Flecktones at the State Theatre. $40, $35 and $30/Reserved Seating.

Béla Fleck, often considered the premiere banjo player in the world, picked up the banjo at age 15 after being awed by the bluegrass playing J.J. Grey’s deeply personal songs are steeped in the rhythms of his native home outside of JackThursday, Sept. 15 of Flatt & Scruggs. In 1989 Fleck and Victor sonville, Fla. His group, JJ Grey & Mofro, is coming to Port City Music Hall on Thursday, Sept. 15.

Wooten formed Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, (COURTESY PHOTO) Gabriel Kahane at One Longfellow along with keyboardist and harmonica player made up of their employees. After a bit of practice time, the 8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents Gabriel Kahane.

Howard Levy and Wooten’s percussionist brother Roy band will be competing against each other, to reach the ultiHailed by the Los Angeles Times earlier this year for “an all “Futureman” Wooten, who played synthesizer-based permate goal, a $1,000 cash prize! If you work at a restaurant around dazzling performance,” Gabriel Kahane is not part cussion. Levy left the group in 1992, making the band a trio and are interested in competing please contact Spencer or of a scene. He writes string quartets and musicals and pop until saxophonist Jeff Coffin joined the group onstage partHeidi at foodfightportland@gmail.com.” songs, and his heart is fully in all of those endeavors. But time in 1997, eventually becoming a permanent member. what unites all of his musical efforts is the desire to comwww.statetheatreportland.com municate honestly and without pretense.

Tuesday, Aug. 30

Kelly Joe Phelps and Corrine West

8 p.m. Kelly Joe Phelps and Corrine West at One Longfellow Square. The fundamental layer of Corinne and Kelly Joe’s new partnership is mutual admiration and respect both for the ideal of honest, inspired, poignant art, and each other’s own creativity and musical vision. They also share a ravenous passion for the acoustic guitar. From this foundation these two are creating beautiful, exceptional music. http://www.onelongfellowsquare.com

Clouder and Weird Children at Geno’s

9 p.m. On the heels of Picnic (www.picnicportland.com), come over to Geno’s to keep the party going. Clouder and Weird Children are in town for Picnic, but they’ll tease you there before playing full sets at this night party, with Portland legends-in-the-making Vanityites sandwiched right in the middle. http://hillytown.com

Sunday, Aug. 28 Buckethead with Wolff

7:30 p.m. State Theatre. $22 advanced / $25 day of show / General Admission. An instrumentalist, Buckethead is best known for his electric guitar playing. He has been voted number 8 on a list in GuitarOne magazine of the “Top 10 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All Time” as well as being included in Guitar World’s lists of the “25 all-time weirdest guitarists” and is also known for being in the “50 fastest guitarists of all time list.”

Food Fight at Port City Music Hall

9 p.m. Spencer Albee is putting out the word. Port City Music Hall will host Food Fight, a unique battle of the bands. “Food Fight is a one night battle of the Restaurant Bands. Imagine an inter-restaurant bowling league, switch the balls to guitars and you’re just about there. Artists from bars and restaurants all around Portland will be competing to see which restaurant rocks the most? Food fight is the competition you’ve all been waiting for. Each restaurant/ bar in the Portland is allowed to put together a band

American Idol Live! in Portland

7 p.m. American Idols Live! reveals its touring agenda, bringing you this season’s top 11 finalists in a 40-plus city trek beginning the first week of July. Tickets: $65 and $45 All Seats Reserved.

Ray Cornils with Kotzschmar Festival Brass

7:30 p.m. The Kotzschmar Organ is the oldest working municipal pipe organ in the United States. Municipal Organist Ray Cornils has served Portland and the Kotzschmar Organ since 1990. Cornils performs several times each year and hosts the popular Kotzschmar Konversation with visiting artists prior to their concerts. www.foko.org

Wednesday, Aug. 31 Heptunes Presents Richard Thompson

7 p.m. Richard Thompson w/special guest: Robin Lane, The Westbrook Performing Arts Center, 471 Stroudwater St., Westbrook. Richard Thompson is a critically acclaimed, prolific songwriter (Ivor Novello Award), recipient of BBC’s Lifetime Achievement Award and was named one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 20 Guitarists of All Time for his acoustic and electric virtuosity. Robert Plant, REM, Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, David Byrne, Del McCoury, Bonnie Raitt, and many others have recorded his work. Thompson’s livetour CD Dream Attic received a 2011 Grammy nod. Online: www.HeptunesConcerts.com

Friday, Sept. 2 One Longfellow’s First Friday Free Concert

6 p.m. Celebrate summer with some live outdoor music at One Longfellow Square. Between 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Tricky Britches will be playing in Longfellow Square. Tricky Britches is a high-energy string band hailing from Portland. http://www.onelongfellowsquare.com

JJ Grey and Mofro at Port City

8 p.m. Port City Music Hall presents Adam Ezra Group and JJ Grey and Mofro. Adam Ezra Group is a dynamic acoustic roots/rock band rising to the top of the Boston music scene. A mixture of old school rhythm & blues and downhome roots rock ‘n’ roll, has carried JJ Grey & Mofro from the backwoods of Florida to hundreds of concert stages across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia. www.portcitymusichall.com/events

Friday, Sept. 16 The Edith Jones Project

8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents the Edith Jones Project. Maine’s All Women Big Band (86 percent less testosterone ... 200 percent of the swing) plays modern big band jazz made famous by Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, the Count Basie Orchestra and others. Members of the band include some of the most talented performing and teaching musicians in Maine. Band members include faculty from Bates College, USM, UNH, and high schools, middle schools and elementary schools throughout southern Maine.

USM Spotlight Concert Series

8 p.m. Broadway performer Mark Jacoby joins a collection of USM faculty and visiting guest artists gathered by School of Music faculty member Betty Rines to perform two extraordinary instrumental/narrative works, Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat and Walton’s Façade, in the first in the University of Southern Maine School of Music’s Fall 2011 Spotlight Concert Series. Join Betty Rines and Friends in Hannaford Hall, Abromson Community Education Center (Bedford Street), USM Portland. Spotlight Concert tickets cost $15 general public; $10 seniors/USM employees; $5 students/children. Tickets may be purchased at the door.

For additional information, contact the USM Music Box Office at 780-5555. Sponsored by the School of Music Advisory Board.

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played constantly with a soft stick and soft ball. Soon his father put him in pads, “and they nearly tore up the apartment,” said an uncle, Bill Thomas. Not long after, he graduated to more competitive games with his father and uncles.

“We always played garage hockey,” Tim Sr. said. “He couldn’t stand Tim Thomas at his old high school. He helped the Bruins win the Stanley Cup this past season. (Fabrizio Costantini for The New York to have me Times) score on him.

I’d put one in we didn’t want him to feel bad,” said lot and even sold fruit door to door. on him to the upper corner and say, Tim Sr., who was also paying for his One time Ken Morrow, a Davison ‘He shoots, he scores!’ And the little other son’s hockey-playing days. “It High graduate who won the Olympic guy would say, ‘You’re offside!’ ” was one of those things you’re forced gold medal in 1980 and four straight When Thomas was old enough to to do when the economy is tough.”

Stanley Cups with the Islanders, hapskate, he was already showing preterMichael Moore, the documentary pened by the stand. natural talent. filmmaker and graduate of Davison “I tried to sell apples to him, but I “The first time I ever saw him play, High, noted that the Flint area sufdidn’t try very hard — I just wanted he was 5 years old, in Flint,” Bill fered from unemployment as high to get his autograph,” Thomas said. “I Thomas said. “The other kid playing as 29 percent when General Motors was embarrassed.” goal came out first and fell down on began closing factories two decades Times may have been tough for the ice. Then Tim came out, skated a ago. the Thomases, but there was always pirouette and did a leg save. He was so “I think there’s a work ethic where hockey and family. far ahead of anyone else.” people are very used to a hardscrabBarely old enough to walk, Thomas ble existence,” Moore said Wednesday.

“And they know that no one is coming to rescue us. The cavalry is not on the way to pull us out of the position we’re in. So we have to sort of do that ourselves.”

Tim Sr. was a car salesman, but his career began “at the beginning of the end of the economy in the Flint area,” as he put it, when the American auto industry was starting its long decline.

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“I wanted to say thanks to the people who always believed in me, even when others didn’t,” Thomas said. “Thanks for sharing this day with me.”

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Thomas went home to Davison on Wednesday, taking with him the Cup and the other trophies he won in a record-breaking season with the Boston Bruins. About 2,500 people turned out at the Davison High School stadium, about half the population of the city, to salute the hometown boy who made good the hard way.

“We were never poor poor, but we were never rich, either,” said Thomas’s father, Tim Sr., 57. “We always paid the bills.”

The story of how Thomas’s father and his mother, Kathy, hocked their wedding rings to pay for one of Tim’s many trips to tournaments while he was growing up was told often last season. It was told as Thomas compiled an N.H.L.-record .938 save percentage on his way to becoming the oldest player in league history to be named the most valuable player of the playoffs.

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Empty it onto a list. This will help you focus on the pleasure in each activity, instead of on remembering what else you must accomplish in order to call this day a success.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The effects of your gallantry and kindheartedness will endure. As your sign mate and fellow philanthropist John Ruskin suggested, “It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). If you occasionally indulge, the indulgence has a special feeling. Do it too often, and the act ceases to be a treat. It’s a fine line, and one you navigate well this week.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Aug. 26).

You are happy for the most part, and yet things get better still. This year brings improvement to your intellectual, monetary and social status. You have amazing powers of concentration in September and will bound ahead in a study or project. October brings a chance to travel. December brings new purpose. Capricorn and Cancer people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 25, 1, 50 and 35.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll be in a mood to exert your physical strength and stamina. You want to know what you can do, and you have energy to burn. Dynamic individuals will be drawn in by your vitality.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You will affect destiny through your conversational choices. This is no time to stir up controversy and opinion, so stay away from religion, politics and genderspecific categories.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It’s almost always easy for you to give because you enjoy the feeling so much. You strive to reach the level of personal development where you never expect anything in return for your generosity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You think someone needs help, and you offer it before the person has a chance to ask for it. This act of graciousness is one of the reasons people identify you straight away as a gem.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You have faith in others, so you extend the benefit of the doubt wherever possible. The situation will call for you to stand back and watch for a while -- to see how things get handled without you.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2011. There are 130 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 23, 1775, Britain’s King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of “open and avowed rebellion.”

On this date: In 1305, Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace was executed by the English for treason.

In 1754, France’s King Louis XVI was born at Versailles (vehr-SY’).

In 1914, Japan declared war against Germany in World War I. In 1926, silent film star Rudolph Valentino died in New York at age 31.

In 1927, amid protests, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.

In 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, in Moscow.

In 1944, Romanian prime minister Ion Antonescu was dismissed by King Michael, paving the way for Romania to abandon the Axis in favor of the Allies.

In 1960, Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, 65, died in Doylestown, Pa. In 1973, a bank robbery-turned-hostagetaking began in Stockholm, Sweden; the four hostages ended up empathizing with their captors, a psychological condition now referred to as “Stockholm Syndrome.”

In 1989, in a case that inflamed racial tensions in New York, Yusuf Hawkins, a 16-year-old black youth, was shot dead after he and his friends were confronted by a group of white youths in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.

One year ago: A jury in Goldsboro, N.C., convicted former Marine Cesar Laurean of first-degree murder in the death of a pregnant colleague, Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach. Laurean was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Vera Miles is 81. Political satirist Mark Russell is 79.

Actress Barbara Eden is 77. Pro Football Hall of Famer Sonny Jurgensen is 77.

Actor Richard Sanders is 71. Ballet dancer Patricia McBride is 69. Pro Football Hall of Famer Rayfield Wright is 66. Country singer Rex Allen Jr. is 64. Singer Linda Thompson is 64. Actress Shelley Long is 62. Actorsinger Rick Springfield is 62. Country singermusician Woody Paul is 62. Actor-producer Mark Hudson is 60. MLB All-Star pitcher Mike Boddicker is 54. Rock musician Dean DeLeo is 50. Tejano singer Emilio Navaira is 49. Actor Jay Mohr is 41. Actor Ray Park is 37. Actor Scott Caan is 35. Country singer Shelly Fairchild is 34. Figure skater Nicole Bobek is 34. Rock singer Julian Casablancas (The Strokes) is 33. NBA player Kobe Bryant is 33. Actress Kimberly Matula is 23.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: How do we deal with our sister “Michelle” who says and e-mails hurtful things to each of us at the most inopportune times?

I have three other sisters. “Debbie” called me this evening in tears. She recently spent a week in the hospital after surgery on her leg. She’s now in a rehabilitation facility and still has a long recovery ahead of her. Since we live many hours away, she has been keeping us updated via e-mail.

Today, Debbie received a terse note from Michelle, saying she did not want to receive any more of these group e-mails.

There was no acknowledgement of the tough time Debbie has been going through. I was not surprised. Michelle did a similar thing to me when I underwent cancer treatment several years ago. It seems she likes to kick us when we are down.

We find Michelle’s behavior heartbreaking and difficult to accept. Why does she push us away? Every time we reach out or try to include her in a discussion or even voice an opinion, we get slammed or completely ignored. She cannot sympathize and is becoming more and more distant as time goes on.

We would like a relationship with her, but it seems this is not possible. On the rare occasions when we see her, she is aloof, won’t make eye contact and barely participates in conversations. Is she mentally ill? No healthy person could do such cruel things. -- Heartbroken Sister Dear Heartbroken: Michelle seems incapable of participating in the sisterly give-and-take that the rest of you expect and enjoy. She finds it overly attached rather than comforting, helpful or supportive. She could be jealous, short-tempered, insecure, unkind or completely self-involved, but none of those things necessarily makes her mentally ill. We suggest you back off and try to accept Michelle as she is and, unless

she exhibits clear signs of deterioration, ignore the rest.

Dear Annie: I used to be friends with a girl who lived across the hall from me in college. “Toni” was a nice person, but had little command of written English and often came to my roommate and me to proofread and correct her papers.

Toni has now become a Facebook friend, and I recently learned she is a special education teacher in a public elementary school. It is obvious her writing skills have not improved at all. She admitted to me that she got her job because she knew the principal, but I have no idea how she has kept her position.

I’m tempted to call the Board of Education, but don’t want to rat her out. Yet, if it were my kids learning words like “alot” and “lastnight,” I would only hope someone would intervene. What should I do? -- Spell Check Is Your Friend.

Dear Spell Check: It’s possible that Toni checks her spelling more carefully in the classroom than she does on Facebook.

It is also likely that poor spelling would have been noticed by some of the parents, as well as school officials (who are also known to check Facebook pages). Instead of assuming she is incompetent, send her a lighthearted note, saying you notice her current spelling isn’t much improved from her college days, and that you trust she is more conscientious in the classroom.

Dear Annie: I am writing in response to “Midge,” who complained that a young woman who was recently awarded a scholarship hasn’t written a thank-you note.

I, too, was a recipient of a similar scholarship. When I applied for this money, one of the requirements was to write a note to the main benefactor to thank her and let her know how I was doing. I honestly had no idea that I needed to do this until it was listed as a requirement. -- Grateful

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

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Buffet’s investment shores up a wobbly Bank of America

BY BEN PROTESS AND SUSANNE CRAIG THE NEW YORK TIMES

On Thursday, Berkshire Hathaway, run by Mr. Buffett, announced plans to invest $5 billion in Bank of America, a vote of confidence for the beleaguered financial firm.

While investors initially cheered the news bidding up bank stocks in trading this morning, the sector settled down in the afternoon as the market digested the deal.

Shares of Bank of America, which spiked more than 25 percent on Thursday, are currently at $7.55, up roughly 8 percent. Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, both up which jumped nearly 10 percent in the morning, gave back much of their early gains, too.

JPMorgan Chase was off slightly in the afternoon.

The pullback reflects the continued trepidation about the industry, which is clouded by economic concerns, regulatory uncertainty, and legal liabilities.

Still, the Berkshire investment has helped allay concerns about Bank of America. Shares of the financial firm have been battered of late over fears the company lacks sufficient capital. The stock has fallen by nearly 30 percent since the beginning of August.

“I remain confident that we have the capital and liquidity we need to run our business,” Bank of America chief executive Brian Moynihan said in a statement. “At the same time, I also recognize that a large investment by Warren Buffett is a strong endorsement in our vision and our strategy.”

The Berkshire investment comes at a pivotal time for Bank of America. Its troubled mortgage division has racked up billions of dollars in legal bills, and the financial firm faces a nationwide investigation into its foreclosure practices. Last quarter, Bank of America reported an $8.8 billion loss, owing in large part to a settlement with mortgage investors.

Mr. Moynihan has taken steps to cut costs and improve its capital cushion. He put the European credit card operation up for sale and sold off the Canadian card division, making it clear non-core assets would be on the block.

Last week, the bank announced plans to cut 3,500 jobs. In a memo to employees, Mr. Moynihan said that “we owe it to our customers and our shareholders to remain competitive, efficient and manage our expenses carefully.”

But the embattled chief stopped short of raising capital, reiterating that the financial firm was on solid footing. The assertions did little to soothe investors.

Then on early Wednesday, Mr. Buffett called Mr. Moynihan to discuss a potential deal. At first, Bank of America’s chief was skeptical, saying the bank didn’t need a capital injection. But Mr. Buffett emphasized it would be a long-term investment, not a short-term fix. Over the course of the day and multiple calls, they hammered out the investment, finalizing the details late on Wednesday.

Under the terms of the deal, Berkshire will buy $5 billion of prefer red stock that pay a 6 percent annual dividend, and receives warrants for 700 million shares that he can exercise over the next 10 years. Bank of America has the option to buy back the preferred shares at any time for a 5 percent premium.

It is the sort of move industry insiders had been expecting. In May, Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman told reporters at his firm’s annual meeting that a big name investor was bound to jump into financials, prompting the “the malaise to lift.”

With Bank of America, Mr. Buffett is once again jumping in at a point of weakness. Since the beginning of the year, the bank’s shares have dropped to less than $7, from $15. Last year, it was trading at more than $19.

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Friday, Aug. 26 Maine Air Show & Business Aviation Expo

4 p.m. Gates open to the Great State of Maine Air Show & Business Aviation Expo at the Brunswick Executive Airport.

Featuring the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, Aug. 26-28. Saturday and Sunday, gates open at 8 a.m. Blue Angels perform on Saturday and Sunday. www.greatstateofmaineairshow.us.

GOP presidential candidate Gary E. Johnson

5 p.m. GOP presidential candidate Gary E. Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, will be the guest speaker at the annual Maine Republican Liberty Caucus Calvin Coolidge Clambake at Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park.

“The purpose of our annual clambake is to celebrate the legacy of our great Laissez Faire President Calvin Coolidge ,who is said to have once remarked that the business of America is business. While he cleaned up corruption in government he left individuals and businesses alone leading to the great economic prosperity of the 1920s,” said Maine RLC Chair Ken Lindell, a former member of the Maine legislature. The public is welcome to attend. Tickets are $25 at the door. The menu includes full-belly Maine clams and mussels. From Route One in downtown Freeport, take Bow Street to Wolfe’s Neck Road and follow it to the park gate.

Johnson, a Republican presidential candidate, will be the keynote speaker at the event.

History on the Eastern Promenade

5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. A bit of history on the Eastern Promenade. “Enjoy a fascinating evening walk with former State Representative Herb Adams and learn about historically significant events that have happened at places seen from the Eastern Promenade. Herb’s walk will take you along the Eastern Promenade and through hundreds of years of history. This event is RSVP only as space is limited. Please RSVP for information on where to meet.” http://www.trails. org/events.html

SPACE Gallery Weekend at The Saco Drive-In

7 p.m. SPACE Gallery Weekend at The Saco Drive-In featuring “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” and “Aliens.” Friday, Aug. 26 through Sunday, Aug. 28 at the Saco Drive-In, 969 Portland Road (US1), Saco. Gates open at 7 p.m.: First feature (“E.T.”) begins at dusk. Admission: $15 per carload. Saco Drive-In website: www.facebook.com/home.php#!/sacodrivein. 799.6649. SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, 828.5600. “SPACE Gallery has brought hundreds of original film programs to downtown Portland over the years and the Saco Drive-In has been hosting outdoor screenings of films since 1939. This weekend we join forces to bring you a doublefeature of classic blockbuster ‘alien’ films to close out your summer in the warm Maine night air, Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic ‘E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial’ followed by James Cameron’s 1986 sequel in the Alien trilogy, ‘Aliens.’ Before and between films, SPACE will curate a mix of music by local musicians to be played over the Drive-In’s broadcast system. A portion of the gate proceeds will go to support SPACE Gallery’s programming.”

Saturday, Aug. 27 Childrens Theatre: Pippi Longstocking’s Musical Adventure in Ogunquit

10 a.m. and noon. John Lane’s Ogunquit Playhouse, 10 Main St., Ogunquit, Aug. 27-28. “Dressed in strange clothes and living with her horse and pet monkey, Pippi is the high spirited, warm hearted girl of supernatural strength and untold wealth. With new friends Tommy and Annika, Pippi questions the world in which she lives and the expectations placed upon her; all the while longing to be reunited with her father, Captain Longstocking, and his band of pirates aboard the ‘Hoptoad.’”

Ogunquit Playhouse, Route 1, Ogunquit. All Tickets $10, call the Box Office Direct at646.5511, Ticketmaster at 800-9822787 or www.ogunquitplayhouse.org.

Juried Arts and Craft Show

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. On the Green, Kennebunkport; sponsored by the Society of Southern Maine Craftsmen. Concessions provided by the Animal Welfare Society of Kennebunk. Free admission and free parking. (Rain Date: Aug. 28)

Picnic Music+Arts Festival

11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The fourth annual Picnic Music+Arts Festival will take place on Saturday, Aug. 27. “This juried indie craft fair will be held outdoors at Lincoln Park on Congress Street and Franklin Arterial, in Portland. The festival will run in the park, rain or shine. The Picnic Music+Arts Festival will feature clothing, jewelry, prints, accessories, bags, plush, stationery, photography, housewares, fine art, vintage goods and more. There will be live music and tasty food to enjoy all day. Spindleworks of Brunswick will have a booth among over 50 other crafters. www.picnicportland.com

Life of the honey bee

11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Life of the honey bee at Maine Wildlife

The Great State of Maine Air Show & Business Aviation Expo, at the new Brunswick Executive Airport at Brunswick Landing, starts today at 4 p.m.; and gates open at 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. Highlight of the show is the performance of the Blue Angels. Here, Blue Angel No. 7 and Blue Angel No. 8 are shown at the Portland Jetport for a preseason visit. (Photo by T.K. Dudley) Park, 56 Game Farm Road, Gray. “Learn about the industrious life of the honey bee, & the role of the beekeeper. Parts of the bee hive & beekeeping equipment will be on display, and experienced beekeepers will be available to answer your questions. A variety of delicious native Maine honey and other natural products from the hive will be on sale.” www.mainebeekeepers.org or www.mainewildlifepark.com

Annual ChiliFest in Wells

11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Maine State Contests and Peoples Choice. Join the competition or judge for yourself. Music, vendors, crafters, and more. Tasting kits available. Free parking and admission. Wells Jr. High School, (1470 Post Road) Wells. www.wellschilifest.com

New Faces Outdoor Art Exhibit

noon to 5 p.m. The public is invited to a New Faces Outdoor Art Exhibit featuring New England artists who are not known to the gallery-hopping public. A diverse group of artists will set up shop with tables and easels in Monument Square in downtown Portland. For many of these artists this will be their first time exhibiting in public and for others, while they’ve had exhibition experience, this will be their first time to show their work in Portland. This one-day show is the brainchild of Evan T. Gilbert, a Nobleboro, Maine artist.

Gilbert and his sister Jessica, also an artist, are raising the funds for this event themselves through a variety of sources including bake sales, Indie-A-Go-Go on line donations and sponsorships. Gilbert is a graduate of Lincoln Academy.

He promises the work will run the gamut from traditional to digital media. Participating artists include Ann Tracy, http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/ann-tracy.html, who has returned to her native New England from a 25-plusyear sojourn in the west; Emily Hefferon; Michael Farley; Adam Jacob Cram, http://vizionarysight.weebly.com/paintings.html;Jessica Lauren Lipton, http://www.facebook. com/pages/Pop-Killed-Culture/114631571929670; Rachel Helen Alexandrou; Joyce Wong, joycecwong.com; Aura Ever, http://www.aura-ever.com/newpage.html; Michael Farley; Mya Blue Elliot; and Adam Drisko.

Gallery Talk at the PMA, Portraits

1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Join docents for casual and informative discussions of works in the Portland Museum of Art, Saturdays at 1 p.m. “Portraits in the Permanent Collection

by Sy Epstein.” Free with museum admission. www.portlandmuseum.org

‘Dave Astor Show Visits Jordan’s Meats’

2 p.m. Join Maine Historical Society for a screening of the only remaining episode of “The Dave Astor Show,” one of Maine’s best-loved homegrown television shows. The program, which aired on Saturday afternoons from 1956-1971, featured students from area high schools performing dance routines and other productions. “The Dave Astor Show, Maine’s own American Bandstand, quickly became a teenage phenomenon, a fixture in numerous homes, and pro-

vided invaluable training and experiences for the students who participated. In this episode, recorded in 1962, Dave and his students help celebrate the opening of the new Jordan’s Meats plant in Portland with song, dance, and lots of fun. (60 minutes).” Saturdays at 2 p.m. in July and August, remaining screenings, Aug. 6 and Sept. 3. Included with Museum admission: $8 Adult, $7 Students and Seniors, $2 Children, Members free.

The Kevin Brady Memorial Alumni Soccer Game

5 p.m. The Kevin Brady Memorial Alumni Soccer Game (“Alumni Game”) is an annual event created in loving memory of Kevin Brady. The Alumni Game is celebrating its 11th Anniversary on Aug. 27. The Alumni Game is hosted by the Cape Elizabeth Boosters to raise money for the Kevin Brady Spirit Award/Scholarship. Each year, the CEHS Men’s Varsity Soccer Team plays the CEHS Alumni battle on the newly dedicated Hannaford Field at Cape Elizabeth High School. The game is always well-attended by CEHS Alumni, community members, and supporters of the CEHS Soccer Program. The 2011 schedule is as follows: 5 p.m.: Women’s Alumni vs. Women’s Varsity; 6:30 p.m.: CE Youth Parade & Festivities; 7:30 p.m.: Men’s Alumni vs.

Men’s Varsity.

Finale of ‘The Wiz’

7:30 p.m. Finale of “The Wiz” at Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick, which plays all week at 7:30 p.m. nightly. “‘The Wiz’ is a Tony Award-winning musical that follows the well-known tale of Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Lion as they travel through the Land of Oz, but it adds a dazzling and lively mixture of rock, gospel and soul music made popular in the 1970s. This show is a mysterious, opulent and fancily journey that follows a beloved story of courage, brains, heart and home.” Pickard Theatre, Bowdoin College, 1 Bath Road, Brunswick. www.msmt.org. 725-8769.

‘Passion of the Hausfrau’ finale

7:30 p.m. Finale of “Passion of the Hausfrau” at Freeport Factory Stage, which plays all week at 7:30 p.m. Thurs. through Sat. “A one-woman show that combines comedy, innovative projections, and music in portraying the hilarious misadventures of a Portland mom who discovers that the rollercoaster ride of raising young kids is actually the path to creating her own masterpiece.” Freeport Factory Stage, 5 Depot St., Freeport. www.freeportfactory.com

Birdie Googins at Lucid Stage

8 p.m. Birdie Googins: Maine’s Only Supermodel and Possible Future Queen at Lucid Stage. “Birdie is also a well known and respected television personality who has received rave reviews from outdoor sportsmen who marvel at the rugged outdoor skills of such a glamorous and famous model. In addition to being wildly popular, Ms. Googins has wicked funny sense of humor.” see next page

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Sunday, Aug. 28 Operation Starlight Commemorative Rifle Match

8 a.m. Operation Starlight Commemorative Rifle Match.

Scarborough Fish & Game Association will commemorate “Operation Starlight,” which was the first major battle of the Vietnam War, on resulting in the loss of nearly 700 Vietcong at the cost of 45 dead and 200 wounded U.S. soldiers.

“This operation was launched because we had intelligence that the Vietcong were ready to attack the Marine base at Chu Lai. This rifle match is held every year as near to the actual anniversary date (August 18, 1965) as possible to honor those who served and died in this historic battle some fortysix years ago.” At Scarborough Fish & Game Association, 70 Holmes Road (across from Beech Ridge Speedway). Awards to be given to top three shooters. For details, contact Dave Blouin, 767-2464, or dblouin@maine.rr.com.

Did Lincoln Really…..? at Fifth Maine

8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Breakfast by the Sea, Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island. $7 adult, $4 child under 10. Enjoy a delicious breakfast of blueberry or buttermilk pancakes, eggs, ham, baked beans, watermelon, juice and coffee in a beautiful setting by the sea.For more information call 766-3330 or email fifthmaine@juno.com.

Free Family Play Time at Children’s Museum

9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. This admission-free play time is open to the public and brought to you by the National Children’s Study in partnership with PROP’s Parkside Neighborhood Center, the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine and Catholic Charities of Maine. For more information about this event or the National Children’s Study call 662-1675. www.kitetails.org

Storytelling Celebration: Ramadan

2 p.m. Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. “Do you know the story of Ramadan? Join us for a special program in which we’ll explore this Muslim holiday through storytelling, costumes, food tasting and more! Funding for this program generously provided by the Sam L. Cohen Foundation.” Also Aug. 31. Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. www.kitetails.org

‘Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington’

4 p.m. A special performance in Southern Maine of the play “Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington” will be held at University of Southern Maine’s Abromson Center in Portland to benefit the American Heart Association. “This one-woman show provides an intimate look into the life and times of Margaret Chase Smith. It tells of her journey from humble beginnings in Skowhegan, Maine, to a position of power and respect as the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.”

Rooftop Film: ‘The Karate Kid’

9 p.m. Spring Street Parking Garage, 45 Spring St., Portland. MENSK is pleased to announce a rooftop screening of ‘The Karate Kid.’ The public is invited to the top level of the Spring Street parking garage in Portland for a screening of ‘The Karate Kid.’ The film begins around sunset, (or by 9 p.m.) Bring your own lawn chair, blankets and snacks.

Enter at 45 Spring Street. A free event, hosted by MENSK. Sponsored by Coffee By Design.” Weather dependent. For more information, visit www.menskmaine.org

Monday, Aug. 29 Mostly Maine acrylic paintings on canvas

10 a.m. Mostly Maine acrylic paintings on canvas by Betsy Elliman, Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St., Yarmouth, Aug. 29 – Sept. 30. Hours: Mon, Thurs, Fri, Sat. 10-5; Tues & Wed 10 – 8 p.m. “Portland painter, Betsy Elliman, captures charming glimpses of Maine in richly textured, vibrantly colored canvases. Her paintings of seascapes and flowers, landscapes and barns, cityscapes and houses will be on view at Yarmouth’s Merrill Memorial Library during the month of September.” Ann Jordan, 846-9768; Betsy Elliman, 400-6871; ellimanb@gmail.com; Merrill Memorial Library, 846-4763; info@yarmouthlibrary.org.

Wednesday, Aug. 31 Free Seminar, Annuities and Your Retirement

10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Free seminar hosted by Seth Cheikin, AAMS, Financial Advisor. “You’ll learn about the different types of annuities and how the right one can help alleviate the impact of some retirement-related uncertainties. Join us at Edward Jones, 251 U.S. Rte. 1, Falmouth Shopping Center, second floor, Falmouth,” Aug. 31 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Sept. 1 at 10 a.m., and Sept. 6 at 10 a.m. To reserve your place, call Carole Vreeland at 781-5057.

A Call to Remember, A Call to Action

noon. The Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence, Family Crisis Services and other local domestic violence programs across the state are coming together at noon Wednesday, Aug. 31, to honor the memory of Maine’s recent domestic violence homicide victims. A Call to Remember, A Call to Action is a statewide effort by domestic violence projects to mourn the continued loss of lives and to raise awareness that together we can stop domestic violence. Throughout the state, people will gather at noon for an observance comprising tolling bells, interfaith prayers, a moment of silence and remarks from community leaders speaking about the actions we all can take to end domestic violence. Family Crisis Services, the local domestic violence project, will be holding its main event at noon Aug. 31 in Brunswick at the gazebo on the town green. Family Crisis Services has asked many faith-based communities and community buildings in the area to join in ringing their bells, including the First Parish Church in Brunswick, The Brunswick Area Interfaith Counsel and Bowdoin College. Churches in the Lakes Region are participating, including the First Congregational Church and St Peter’s Catholic Church in Bridgton, and Fryeburg’s First Congregational Church. In greater Portland, the Irish Heritage Center, Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church and others are coming together to help support this event. Call 1-866-834-4357 or visit the Family Crisis Services website at www.familycrisis.org.

‘Remembering Union Station’

5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The 50th anniversary of the demolition of the clock tower at Union Station will be remembered. Greater Portland Landmarks will host a “Remembering Union Station” event at 93 High St. “Portland’s historic Union Station Clock Tower was demolished on August 31, 1961 to make way for a strip shopping center. This dramatic loss was a turning point in inspiring Portland’s historic preservation movement and the founding of Greater Portland Landmarks, which was incorporated in 1964. The clock face from the James Exely with Gorham Sand and Gravel carries a rotary laser during road tower was saved, and is now located in Congress subgrading work at the site of Ocean Avenue Elementary School in early 2010.

Square,” reports PreserveNet (www.preservenet.

The newly completed school will host a grand opening on Thursday, Sept. 1. cornell.edu/eventdetail.cfm?EVENTID=352).

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Thursday, Sept. 1 USM Welcome Husky Fest 2011

11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lawn between Payson Smith and Luther Bonney Halls, Portland campus, University of Southern Maine. “Follow the paws to Husky Fest! USM’s largest event ... the 11th annual welcome kick-off party! FREE BBQ for all students! Live Music and activities! Campus departments, student organizations, and community vendors will all be present to help you get connected to the USM community! Rain location: Sullivan Gym, Portland Campus.” 228-8200

Ocean Avenue Elementary School holds grand opening ceremony

4:30 p.m. A ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the Ocean Avenue Elementary School will take place at the school, located at 150 Ocean Ave., Portland. The ceremony will include brief remarks by Mayor Nick Mavodones, Portland Superintendent James C. Morse, Sr., Portland School Board Chair Kate Snyder and Portland City Councilor Cheryl Leeman. Students, families, staff and community members are invited to attend. For more information, please call 874-8180.

Students from the former Clifford Elementary School moved into Ocean Avenue Elementary School last February. Beginning in September, the school will fully open to students from the Back Cove neighborhood. www2.portlandschools.org

Friday, Sept. 2 ‘Curtain Up!’ in Congress Square.

4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “Curtain Up!” showcases Portland’s theater community. Part of Sept. 2 Art Walk. The vitality and diversity of Portland’s theater community will be on display at “Curtain Up!,” an exciting preview of what Portland’s many theater companies will be offering during the 2011-12 theater season. The event will take place in Congress Square (at the corner of Congress and High Streets) on Friday, September 2, from 4:30om to 7:30pm p.m. as part of the First Friday Art Walk. Theaters will perform brief excerpts from their shows to introduce themselves to Artwalkers, who will receive

a Theater Sampler card including information about each company and ticket discounts. Curtain Up!” is being sponsored by the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance (PACA) and produced by Acorn Productions, AIRE (American Irish Repertory Ensemble) and Lucid Stage. “This is a great opportunity for people attending Art Walk to sample the terrific work that Portland theaters are doing,” said Michael Levine, Producing Director of Acorn Productions and lead producer of the event.

“And it gives us, as a community, a chance to present a unified presence as a vital part of the arts scene in Portland.” Susan Reilly, Managing Director of AIRE, added, “We hope to reach out to different kinds of people interested in the arts who may not be regular theatergoers. And the Theater Sampler will be a handy take-away that prospective audience members can hold on to and use throughout the season. If all goes well this year, we hope to make this an annual event.” Participating theaters include Acorn, AIRE, Children’s Museum and Theater of Maine, Fenix Theater Company, Good Theater, Lucid Stage, New Edge Productions, Portland Playback Theater, Portland Stage Company, Snowlion Repertory Company and more!

First Friday Art Walk

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Join PACA for a free self-guided tour of local art galleries, art studios, museums, and alternative art venues on the First Friday of every month from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance (PACA) is a nonprofit organization with a mission of “Strengthening Portland by strengthening the Arts.” www.firstfridayartwalk.com

Oliver at Maine Charitable Mechanic Association

5 p.m. For First Friday Art Walk, the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association library will be hosting local artist Jeffery Oliver, with drawings and underwater photography. The MCMA library is starting a book club that will meet on the first Tuesday of each month at noon; bring a sandwich, dessert coffee and tea provided. Bring a list of what books you would like to read and discuss. First Book Club meeting is Tuesday, Oct. 4 in the library. Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, started in 1815 with 65 members, in 1859 built a landmark building on Congress Street where the membership library still exists today and is open to many public events.Library is open Tues., Wed. and Thurs, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., phone 773-8396 see next page

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Mariah K. Brinton at the St. Lawrence

5 p.m. First Friday Art Walk opening at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. The St. Lawrence Arts Center is owned and operated by the nonprofit corporation Friends of the St. Lawrence. Parish Hall Theater, see the newest installation; Photographs by Mariah K. Brinton. Complimentary snacks and wine on hand. “Photographic exhibits range from San Francisco in 2004-2005, with her first solo show in December 2004, to the Netherlands, New York and Brooklyn. With a style formed by the time she spent as a teenager exploring the NYC streets with a 35mm Pentax in hand and her love of fashion, the combination is an aesthetic reminiscent of William Klein’s New York street work.” www.stlawrencearts.org

First Friday Exhibit at Mayo Street

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Exhibit at Mayo Street Arts.

Portraits, group show curated by MSA artist in residence Heidi Powell. Jim McGinley, Daniel Meiklejohn, Hillary White, Sonia Cook Broen, Baxter Long, Heidi Powell, Zoe Ryan-Humphrey, Jessica Beebe and Russell Ouellett. The opening is immediately followed by LIT. More info on all events at www.mayostreetarts.org.

Susan Elliot’s ‘Trees: In a Different Light’

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Artists’ Social for First Friday Art Walk at The Gallery at Harmon’s & Barton’s. Exhibition through September. Gallery hours: Mon thru Fri, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sat 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., 584 Congress St. 774 5948. “With a background in Natural Resources, a wellspring of humor, and rampant, joyous imagination, Maine tree artist Susan Elliot’s subjects are always the embodiment of one or more of these qualities. Narrowing her focus in 2008 to simply drawing trees, Elliot discovered that choosing a subject matter close to her heart immeasurably widened the range of her creativity.”

Prison Inmates Art Exhibit

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Meg Perry, 644 Congress St., Portland. A First Friday Art Walk exhibit at Meg Perry Center will feature both visual and musical art produced by inmates from within correctional facilities throughout the state of Maine. “There will be visual arts items submitted by both adult prisoners from Maine Correctional Center, Two Bridges Regional Jail, and Maine State Prison, as well as from juveniles housed at Long Creek Youth Development Center. Items will range from sketches and paintings to wood crafts and quilts. Also on hand will be Guitar Doors — Instruments of Change, a local nonprofit dedicated to bringing music and music programming to those incarcerated. There will be CDs available and playing that are the original compositions and recordings from inmates at the same facilities and more.”

Indian Trail in the Peaks Island Land Preserve

5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Indian Trail in the Peaks Island Land Preserve. “Join Ellen Mahoney, Island Institute Community Leadership Fellow, for a hike along the Indian Trail which weaves its way through the Parker Preserve on Peaks Island. Catch the 5:35 p.m. Ferry at Casco Bay Lines Ferry Terminal, the tour starts right when you get to the dock at Peaks Island.” http://www.trails.org/events.html

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6 p.m. First Friday Art Walk opening, at Sanctuary Tattoo.

“The collected crypto-historical works of Graham Meyer,

A hops plant is draped over a beer figurine at Maine Brewing Supply. Hop to it. The Portland Brew Festival comes to the Portland Company Complex Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 3 and 4. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) Sarah Tarling Matzke and Christian Matzke chronicling the parallel antiquities of Forgotten Wars... The 1905 Invasion of Mars, and the 1913 Lantern Annexation of the Industrial Empire of the East. Featuring portraiture, artifacts and illustration curated in a museum-style exhibit. History is crafted; Speculation is an Art.” 31 Forest Ave.

Southworth Planetarium full dome shows

7 p.m. The Southworth Planetarium is offering full dome video planetarium shows starting on Sept. 2. “On Friday nights in September, we will have a Full Dome Double Feature at 7 p.m. and at 8:30 p.m. ‘Two Small Pieces of Glass’ is a program about the history and science of telescopes.

How have telescopes enabled astronomers discover the outer Universe? From Galileo’s little scope to the Hubble Space Telescope, we’ve used optical equipment to study the cosmos and its myriad wonders. ‘IBEX’ is a new show about the probe which surveys the solar system’s outer edge. Where does the solar system end? What exotic objects lurk around its periphery? Join us as we explore the nether edge of our own planetary system. A full dome show is an total immersion experience. Both shows encompass the entire dome. As opposed to traditional programs in which both static and moving images appear at various locations, the Full Dome show is entirely digital video that covers all 360 degrees above the audience.” www.usm. maine.edu/planet

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Portland Playback Theatre in the workplace

7:30 p.m. CTN5, 516 Congress St., right next to MECA, $5 at the door. Theme: What happened at work. “The workplace is an epicenter of everything from ego-ridden chains of command to secret, perilous office romances. It can be a playground of imagination and purpose, or a wasteland of meaningless drudgery. And after work, we let loose and tell stories - of what happened at work. Tell us a story from your workplace life and watch our team of improvisors immediately play it back! Or just come to watch! Now in its sixth year, Portland Playback Theatre puts five talented actors at your disposal to replay the stories of your life. Learn more at www.portlandplayback.com.”

LIT at Mayo Street Arts

8 p.m. A literary happening curated by Portland poet and theater reviewer Megan Grumbling. This month’s theme for LIT is an exploration of the works of Brecht, and dovetails with Lorem Ipsum’s upcoming production of The Three Penny Opera at Apohadion Theater later in the month. $5-10 suggested donation. www.mayostreetarts.org.

Comedian Bob Marley at the Landing at Pine Point

8 p.m. “Our Labor day Weekend kickoff show is here again with the fabulous comic antics of Bob Marley. The Landing at Pine Point is recognized as kicking off the Labor Day weekend with a bang and what better way to do it than with the hilarious work of Mr. Marley.” The Landing at Pine Point, 353 Pine Point Road, Scarborough.

Saturday, Sept. 3 Ride in memory of 9/11

9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Two Wisconsin men on a motorcycle ride to honor military personnel and those affected by 9/11.

“Despite a recent diagnosis of a brain aneuresym, Woody West of Wisconsin has organized a 17-state, 15-day ride to honor rescue workers and those who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks. During the ride, organized and joined by Terry Werdewitz, they will be stopping at the Pentagon, Ground Zero and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, as well as visiting 19 local fire stations along the route as a part of the Remember Rally patch exchange. Woody is a Viet Nam Vet. They are inviting anyone along the way to join them in their Ride To Remember, whether for one mile or a hundred.” The ride will stop at the Portland Fire Department at 380 Congress St. in Portland. www.rememberrally.com

Open House at the New Gloucester History Barn

9 a.m. to noon. The September Open House at the New Gloucester History Barn, Route 231 (behind the Town Hall), New Gloucester, will be held from 9 a.m. to noon. The special exhibit this month will be photos and artifacts related to New Gloucester schools. The exhibit of historic vehicles remains on display. Admission is free. see next page

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Unity hosts dog show

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Unity of Greater Portland, 54 River Road in Windham, will host the Second Annual Scoop Robbins Dog Show with Craft and Book Sale. If last year’s event was any example, there should be fun for the whole family and plenty of prizes for the family dog. Lots of ribbons will be awarded for such unusual categories as “Dog with the Longest Ears” and “Saddest Eyes.” Maggie the Beagle has already announced her intention to attend and defend last year’s title for “Waggingest Tail.” Entry fee $5 per dog, humans free.

You do not need a dog to participate. For more info go to the dog show webpage at www.adevadesigns.com/dogshow/dogshow.htm or visit the church website, www. unitygreaterportland.org.

Irish genealogy/history roundtable

10 a.m. Irish genealogy/history roundtable at the Maine Irish Heritage Center. “Bring your lunch, genealogy, old photos, questions, etc. This is the center’s third monthly meeting of its kind. The MIHC will host a roundtable the first Saturday of every month.”

Portland Brew Festival

noon to 8:30 p.m. Portland Brew Festival at the Portland Company Complex.

“2011 is the inaugural year for the Portland Brew Festival, what promises to become one of the jewels of summer in Maine. With three buildings for exhibitors, over 75 varieties of regional craft brews, home-brewing supplies and demonstrations, the best in food, local music how could it really get better? But we realize after 3 1/2 hours of tastingsized samples and a whole head-load of beer education, you’ll likely want to get out and get friendly with a full-sized pint or two and see how some of your new favorites stand up to your favorite dishes. So we’re putting this whole craft beer-stravaganza right on the edges of Munjoy Hill and the Old Port where you can meander into town after the fact and get feel for these beers in a real-world context.” Organizers are partnering with Sail Maine, a local nonprofit supporting sailing in Maine at the grass-roots, community level. A portion of the proceeds of the event go to benefit community boating through Sail Maine. Also Sunday. www.portlandbrewfestival.com

‘Up Up, Down Down’ screening

7 p.m. A part of the St. Lawrence Arts Center’s Local Monthly Film Series. $5. “Don’t miss the premier screening of Portland filmmaker Allen Baldwin’s much anticipated premier of ‘Up Up, Down Down’.

This will be Portland’s only screening and DVD release of the final theatrical version so we hope that you come on down. In the works since 2009, ‘Up Up, Down Down’ is Baldwin’s most recent feature length film; a coming of age story that tells the tale of a young couple of underachievers eating cereal, playing video games and facing the trials and tribulations of an unforeseen pregnancy. Featuring lead performances

by Erik Moody and Kristina Balbo. Written by Jeremy Stover and Allen Baldwin.

Shot by Luke Pola.” Following the screening on September 3rd will be a open table Q&A session with the director and actors involved in the feature. Tix and information: www.stlawrencearts.org

Sunday, Sept. 4 Lions Club breakfast on Peaks

8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Lions Club breakfast at Greenwood Gardens, Peaks Island.

Pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee, milk, orange juice. Adult: $6 Child: $4. http:// www.peaksisland.info/calendar_2011. htm#September

Paws in the Park at Payson Park

10 a.m. The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland’s annual fundraiser, Paws in the Park, is scheduled in a brand new location, Portland’s Payson Park. Registration begins at 10 a.m. and the dog walk at 11 a.m. Each registrant will receive a gift for participating. There will be lots of fun festivities beginning at 10 am. There will be agility demonstrations, pet items for sale, raffles, rescue groups, adoptable dogs, animal communicators Sara Moore and Jailene Fontaine, Reiki demonstrations, micro-chipping and a host of other activities. Erin Ovalle from WMTW 8 is honorary MC and WGAN’s Dynamic Duo Ken and Mike will serve as judges for the Cool Canine Contest held after the walk.

Prizes will be awarded to the team, child and adult with the highest dollar value in pledges. The proceeds will help provide food, shelter, emergency, and preventative veterinary care, as well as provide new beginnings for the more than 4,000 animals who come through the shelter’s doors each year. To celebrate the ARL’s 100th Anniversary, this year there will also be a 5K run which will precede the dog walk. The Furry Friends 5K will begin at 9 a.m. (registration at 7 a.m.) and also be in Payson Park. To register and collect pledges for Paws in the Park or The Furry Friends 5K visit the ARL website at www. arlgp.org. To sponsor, become a vendor or ask a question contact the ARL Community Relations Director at lmcghee@ arlgp.org or call 854-9771, ext. 115.

New Gloucester Community Market

11 a.m. Filled with a diverse selection of local products, the New Gloucester Community Market will be premiering on Sunday, Sept. 4. Music, a barbecue and raffle will add to the festivities on opening day. The Market will set up shop at Thompson’s Orchard, 276 Gloucester Hill Road, New Gloucester. There you will find products such as vegetables, bread, jams and preserves, eggs and dairy, meat, plants, berries, herbs, soaps, alpaca yarn and wears, and more. The Market will be held Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Thursdays from 2 to 6 p.m. and is slated to run through the end of October. For more information, contact Noah Fralich, 232-1304, or norumbegafarm@gmail. com.

Portland Brew Festival, day two

noon to 3:30 p.m. Portland Brew Festival at the Portland Company Complex. “2011 is the inaugural year for the Portland Brew Festival, what promises to become one of the jewels of summer in Maine. With three buildings for exhibitors, over 75 varieties of regional craft brews, home-brewing supplies and demonstrations, the best in food, local music how could it really get better?

But we realize after 3 1/2 hours of tastingsized samples and a whole head-load of beer education, you’ll likely want to get out and get friendly with a full-sized pint or two and see how some of your new favorites stand up to your favorite dishes. So we’re putting this whole craft beer-stravaganza right on the edges of Munjoy Hill and the Old Port where you can meander into town after the fact and get feel for these beers in a real-world context.” Organizers are partnering with Sail Maine, a local nonprofit supporting sailing in Maine at the grassroots, community level. A portion of the proceeds of the event go to benefit community boating through Sail Maine. www. portlandbrewfestival.com

Handmade Puppet Dreams Volume I

7 p.m. Film screening with intro/talk by filmmaker Tim LaGasse $7, Mayo Street Arts. “Tim LaGasse is a renowned puppeteer and filmmaker and we are thrilled to have him oin us for the first screening in the four-volume HMPD series produced

by Heather Henson’s Ibex Puppetry.” www. mayostreetarts.org

Monday, Sept. 5 Toys-for-Tots Car Show

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Labor Day will be the third annual Toys-for-Tots Car Show at Portland Motor Club. It is a joint effort between all the car clubs in Maine (as opposed to being hosted by one group) and usually attracts a couple hundred classic and sports cars and hundreds more spectators. The show is a “cruise-in” car show format so that there is no preregistration or entry categories. Cars line up and attendees walk around and enjoy the cars, the people and the activities as well as get a peak inside Portland Motor Club. The event starts at 10 a.m. and will wrap up at 2 p.m. with a parade of cars heading out to an area ice cream shop.

Cars are welcomed after 9 a.m. at Portland Motor Club which is located at 275 Presumpscot Street in Portland. This is a rain or shine event.

Tuesday, Sept. 6 Students return to schools

8:55 a.m. Classes will begin on Sept. 6 for students in first through 12th grade in the Portland Public Schools. Kindergartners will start school on Sept. 8. The normal daily schedule is: Elementary schools: 8:55 a.m. to 3:05 p.m.; middle schools: 8:25 a.m. to 2:35 p.m.; high schools: 8 a.m. to 2:10 p.m.; West School: 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Portland Arts and Technology High School (PATHS): Morning session — 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.; afternoon session — 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Students are released one hour early on Wednesdays from October through May. The PATHS schedule on early release days is 8 to 10 a.m. (morning session) and 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. (afternoon session). The Portland Public Schools has added five more instructional days for stu-

dents this year, giving the district one of the longest school years in Maine. The additional days, spread throughout the year, were made possible by a new, three-year contract agreement between the district and the Portland Education Association (PEA). Teachers gave up one professional development day and two days of personal professional time. They also agreed to work two additional days at no cost to the district in order to have more time in the classroom with students. www2.portlandschools.org

Rape Aggression Defense Training

6 p.m. to 9 p.m. This September, the Portland Police Department will offer its Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) Training class.

“R.A.D. provides women with the tools they need to both avoid dangerous situations and escape them. The course is specifically designed to help women survive situations in which their lives are in jeopardy.

This class is open to all women, ages 13 and older, in the Greater Portland area who would like to develop real life defensive tools and tactics.” The Basic SelfDefense Course consists of a series of four classes and one scenario day. The class is scheduled for Sept. 6, 8, 13, and 15, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Sept. 17 from 8 a.m. to noon (registration deadline August 31).

All classes must be attended to complete the course. The classes will be held at the Portland Police Department, 109 Middle St. A donation of $25 for the course is suggested. All donations support the Amy St. Laurent Fund, which sponsors the R.A.D. training. Due to attendance issues, all donations must be paid prior to the first class (send checks to ASLF/PPD RAD Program, Portland Police Department, 109 Middle Street, Portland ME 04101). To sign up for the class or receive more information about Portland R.A.D., e-mail ppdrad@ portlandmaine.gov or call 874-8643. see next page

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Portland mayoral election gathering

7 p.m. The Portland Club, 156 State St., Portland. (Just down from the Longfellow statue on the right, before Mercy Hospital.)The event will begin in our grand ballroom with a photo op featuring all 20 candidates; following that each candidate will be given two minutes to state why people should vote for them for mayor; following that the candidates will adjourn to individual tables with their names on them to host the public and the media for as long as they wish to; following that the candidates will be free to circulate throughout the mansion to interact with the public and the media.” No admission charge. Free parking at the rear of the building.

Wednesday, Sept. 7 Southern Maine Children’s Chorus auditions

5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Southern Maine Children’s Chorus is auditioning new members for its fall performance. Auditions will be held at Corthell Hall, University of Southern Maine, Gorham. Auditioning singers grades 12 and younger have the option of singing a prepared song or a familiar song, such as “Happy Birthday.” The audition will also include singing back pitch patterns and a range check. The audition will take approximately 5-10 minutes. Some previous choral group experience is recommended. Rehearsals will be held on Wednesday evenings in Gorham. The University of Southern Maine School of Music administers this program, with support from Macy’s. Find more information on the School of Music and its community programs at www.usm.maine.edu/music. To schedule an audition time, or for more information, contact Marshunda Smith at marshunda.smith@maine.edu.

Unity of Greater Portland Hosts World Day of Prayer

7 p.m. “Prayer is the most powerful instrument for change available in our world today. On Sept. 7 and 8, Unity of Greater Portland, 54 River Road in Windham, will host a series of special activities that will focus the consciousness of our community on the Annual World Day of Prayer (www.worlddayofprayer.org), a world-wide celebration affirming peace, abundance, and love on an individual and global level. This 18th annual event will involve people from 160 countries in a world-wide effort to uplift our world in shared prayer consciousness. This year’s theme is ‘Together We Shine, we are channels through which Spirit illumines the world.’” On Wednesday Sept. 7 at 7 p.m., Unity of Greater Portland will hold a service focused on Forgiveness, followed by a 24-hour prayer vigil. The prayer vigil will end at 6 p.m. on Thursday followed by an hour of silence. At 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 8 will be the World Day of Prayer service which will feature prayers from many of the world’s religions. For more information about Unity of Greater Portland or World Day of Prayer please contact our church office at 893-1233 or visit www.unitygreaterportland.org.

Friday, Sept. 9 The Black Frame Art Sale

5 p.m. The Black Frame Art Sale returns to Merrill Auditorium Rehearsal Hall in Portland for its eighth annual show, which features more than 150 works from 34 Maine artists all priced at $200. Doors open and sales begin at exactly 5 p.m. and continue until 8 p.m. Art collectors appreciate this show for its value and regularly form a line outside the door (even in the rain) ahead of the 5 p.m. opening in order to get first dibs on the artwork. The show features wellknown and emerging Maine artists selected to participate in the show by a curatorial committee. Artists in this year’s show include Marsha Donahue, Lindsay Hancock, Daniel Minter, Caren-Marie Michel, and Matt Welch. All the works in the show measure 10-inches by 10-inches, are custom framed in identical black wooden frames and sell for $200.

Work is sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission is free and refreshments will be served. The nonprofit Bayside Neighborhood Association hosts the event and splits all sales with the artists. The money raised by the Bayside Neighborhood Association is used to support children’s art programs, neighborhood clean-ups, the community garden, an annual health fair and other community activities in this diverse downtown neighborhood. For more information visit www.blackframeartsale.com or call 332-0253.

Great Gatsby Jazz Age Lawn Party

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The 2011 Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) Designers’ Show House, 149 Western Promenade, will be held in a stunning 1920s stone and slate Tudor. In the spirit of the era, the PSO will host a Great Gatsby Jazz Age Lawn Party as its preview event on Friday, Sept. 9, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets to attend are $100 per person and are available through the PSO office at 773-6128 ext.

311 or by email, events@portlandsymphony.org. For more information, visit the PSO Designers’ Show House page. The PSO also offers Patron Tickets for $250, which include the Gala Party and unlimited access to the Show House and all special events. Seventeen area designers have been working on the Designers’ Show House for nearly five weeks to completely redesign this historic and architecturally significant Portland-area home. The Gatsby Jazz Age Party is the only opportunity to see the completed house before it opens to the public with tours on Sept. 10. Admission to the Show House from Sept. 10-Oct. 2 is $25 per person or $20 if purchased

by Sept. 8. Tickets are available through PortTIX, 842-0800 or porttix.com. Tickets will also be available at the door for $25.

For tickets to the special events, visit portlandsymphony.org.

Open Mic/Poetry Slam in Auburn

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

‘Unnecessary Farce!!’

7:30 p.m. The comedy “Unnecessary Farce!!” Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Road (Route 114), in Standish, 7.5 miles north of Gorham center. The show will only run for 3 weekends starting on Friday, Sept. 9. Friday and Saturday performances will rock the stage at 7:30 p.m. Sunday shows will be at 2 p.m. But tickets will go fast for this one, so make your reservations early. Ticket prices are $10 for students and seniors — $12 for adults. Make your reservations soon by calling 642-3743 or online at www.schoolhousearts.org. “Unnecessary Farce” is directed by Keith Halliburton (Limerick). It stars Rebecca Cole (Windham), Ted Tocci (Standish), Steve Morin (Gorham), Karyn Diamond (Standish), Mike Ashley Battles is scheduled to perform aerial feats at the Great State of Maine Air Show Reardon (Biddeford), Charlie Cole (Windham), in Brunswick, which starts today and runs through Sunday. (COURTESY PHOTO) and Terri Plummer (Limington). Schoolhouse of America’s top antiques dealers. Remick Barn, Rte 1A Arts Center is a nonprofit, community-driven organization & Lindsey Road, York. Sept. 10-11. The $10 admission dedicated to arts education and the presentation of the arts. includes a two-day ticket to experience the Museums of Our mission is to encourage individual growth and a spirit of Old York. Free parking is available on-site. Old York Historicommunity through participation in the arts. We seek to foster cal Society. www.oldyork.org a fun, creative, educational, and supportive arts environment Walking Tour of Historic Stroudwater where people can grow, develop skills, and involve them10:30 a.m. to noon. Greater Portland Landmarks presselves in the arts. The Schoolhouse Art Center is located at ents: A Special Walking Tour of Historic Stroudwater. “Visit 16 Richville Road Route 114 just west of the intersection with what was once a thriving town, a city almost. See what Route 35, 7.5 miles north of Gorham center. For directions, remains, the beautiful river, the bank of the once famous ticket purchases, more information about the Schoolhouse waterfront, the sites of some of the businesses, homes of Arts Center or Unnecessary Farce, please contact our office the leaders, graves of a few, and hear the stories of the pine at 642-3743 or visit www.schoolhousearts.org. mast trade.” Rain date: Saturday, Sept. 17. Meet outside the Means House (at the Tate House Museum), 1267 WestSaturday, Sept. 10 brook St., Portland. Ticket price: Advance ticket purchase only. Members $10, non-members: $15. For more inforBonny Eagle Flea Market mation and reservations please call: 774-5561, ext. 104; 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Rain date 9/17, at B E Middle School parke-mail: jpollick@portlandlandmarks.org; online ticket sales ing lot, corner of Rt. 22 & Rt. 35, Buxton. Tablespaces $10 at www.portlandlandmarks.org. or 5 for $40. New school clothes and shoes $1-$2, antiques, Sandsations Sand Sculpting Contest toys, books, etc. Baked goods, drinks, snacks & lunch availnoon to 3 p.m. Support a local nonprofit (www.ourbirthable. Call Karen at 692-2989 FMI or to reserve tablespace. (83 roots.org) by creating a masterpiece in the sand at the third tables in 2010) BEHS scholarship fundraiser. annual Sandsations Sand Sculpting Contest. Come join the Lucid Stage Autumnal Arts & Crafts Show fun as Scarborough’s Pine Point Beach is transformed into 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland. a menagerie of imaginative sculptures. Birth Roots hosts Stop by Lucid Stage this weekend and enjoy local artists this relaxed, family-friendly event every September where and artisans work. They will be selling everything from sand-sculptors of any skill level come together for some painting and sculpture to knitwear and t-shirts. We’ll also friendly competition and outdoor fun. “If you can dig, you have caricatures by Ed King, chair massage, and live music! can sculpt...” The event is both a community-builder and a fundraiser, with proceeds benefiting Birth Roots Perinatal United Maine Craftsmen’s Fall Festival Resource Center of Portland.

of Arts & Crafts in Westbrook

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A show and sale of unique handcrafted products made by 100 Maine Artisans, on the grounds of Smiling Hill Farm. Ample Free Parking, Food Vendors, Rain or Shine. Admission $2. Smiling Hill Farm, 781 County Road, Westbrook. www.unitedmainecraftsmen.com

23rd annual Summer Solstice Craft Show in Wells

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. “The best of Traditional, Country and Contemporary arts and crafts featuring herbs and everlastings, jewelry, pottery, graphics, folk art, photography, stained glass and more. You will meet 70 of New Englands finest artisans. Musical entertainment by John Tercyak. Gourmet food available. Look for our tall flags and come enjoy the day.” Wells Elementary School. Also Sunday. www.wellschamber.org

York Antiques Week

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Antiques Show will feature 18-20

Elizabeth Miles at Scarborough Bull Moose

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Portland author Elizabeth Miles will be at the Scarborough Bull Moose to sign her first Young Adult novel, “Fury.” “Fury” will be released on Aug. 30 and is the first in a trilogy about a small Maine town that has been targeted by the mythical Furies: beautiful, mysterious, and sometimes deadly agents of revenge. “Miles sets the stage for a page-turning Young Adult saga; a girl has a crush on her best friend’s boyfriend, a seemingly perfect boy has done something cruel. Set in the small fictional town of Ascension, Maine, in the dead of winter, the furies will rise, and as the series tagline says, ‘sometimes sorry isn’t enough.’ Early reviewers have called ‘Fury’ ‘achingly gorgeous,’ ‘a fresh dark twist on paranormal,’ and Kirkus Reviews wrote, ‘The furies are reinvented in eerie modern form, wreaking havoc in the lives of a group of teens … in this spine-prickling debut….’” Miles is a resident of Portland. Visit http://thefuryseries.com for details.