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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: World War II veteran Bucky Walters (left) chats with USS Maine Submarine Base Commander John Starbird Thursday prior to the Portland Veterans Day parade. For a story about the submarine group, see page 6. ABOVE RIGHT: “Thank you” is the message to marchers as the parade nears City Hall. LEFT: A color guard flourishes American flags. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

Veterans Day 2010 FAR LEFT: A USS SS Maine Submarine Base float navigates down Congress Street during the Portland Veterans Day parade. LEFT: Karen Hill cheers on the parade near the High Street intersection. Hill was joined by husband, Glenn, a Navy veteran, and son, Robert, 6.

Glenn’s father, Robert A. Hill, landed at Normandy in World War II. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

Ruminations on parking violations from a scofflaw

A history with cats and obsessive behavior

The Olas sound: Like someone put an atlas in the blender

See Bob Higgins on page 4

See Barry Smith’s column on page 5

See the Featured Show, page 8

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Sideshow performers unite WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Della Deadgirl celebrates another year’s worth of hard work by pounding nails into her nose. Martin Ling the Suicide King scrubs his face with broken glass.

The Rev. Tommy Gunn and his young son, The Green Monster, recline on 8-inch metal spikes.

How else would you expect a bunch of sideshow performers to behave at their annual end-of-season blowout?

The Sideshow Gathering, held each November in the northeastern Pennsylvania city of Wilkes-Barre, bills itself as the “world’s only sideshow convention,” a time for sword swallowers, light bulb eaters, glass walkers and human blockheads to unite as one weird and freaky family.

It was started nearly a decade ago by Franco Kossa, co-owner of a chain of tattoo parlors and founder of an annual tattoo convention in Wilkes-Barre called “Inkin’ the Valley,” to which the Sideshow Gathering is attached.

Kossa, 45, got the idea after a chance encounter with sideshow promoter Ward Hall. They spoke about “how the sideshow is dead,” he recalled. As a sideshow fan, Kossa thought it only natural to invite some acts to his tattoo gathering.

“Tattooed people have been (sideshow) exhibits forever,” he said. “Sideshow history and tattoo history are conjoined.”

About 30 acts showed up this year, among them the Rev. Gunn. He bounds onto the stage, his long dark hair flowing behind him. A bed of 500 metal spikes awaits.

“One mistake and bam!

My body slides down till my flesh rests against the bare wood, eight inches of sharpened steel piercing its way through my entire body,” he says forebodingly. “It would be GRUESOME.” Gunn, a 42-year-old from Los Angeles who founded a wildly successful troupe called FreakShow Deluxe, stolidly eases his frame onto what looks like a medieval torture device. A second nailboard is placed atop his bare belly, and The Green Monster (5-year-old son Grennan) lies down on it.

Then daughter Charlotte, not quite 3, stands on The Green Monster’s stomach.

Gunn groans from the bottom of the pile. “You guys gotta lay off the snacks. Ah, geez!”

Afterward, he explains how he does it.

“The human body is amazing. It can do amazing and astounding things, and all you have to do is train yourself to work together in body, mind and spirit,” said Gunn, whose real name is Thomas Nealeigh.

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Specter of trade war looms over G-20 SEOUL, South Korea an advantage.

(AP) — The world’s econRichard Portes, presiomies stand on the brink dent of the Center for of a trade war as leadEconomic Policy Research ers of rich and emerging in London, said the dim nations gather in Seoul. prospect for a substanA dispute over whether tive agreement “is very China and the United dangerous for the world States are manipulateconomy.’” ing their currencies is Portes said he fears “the threatening to resurrect possibility that currency destructive protectionwars and global imbalist policies like those ances might lead to severe that worsened the Great trade protectionism over Depression. The biggest the next year or so.” fear is that trade barriers For now, the G-20 counwill send the global econtries are expected to agree omy back into recession. on noncontroversial issues, Hopes had been high like an anti-corruption that the Group of 20, initiative and the need for which includes wealthy oversight by the Internanations like Germany tional Monetary Fund. and the U.S. and rising But they’re finding no giants like China, could common ground on the be a forum to forge a U.S.President Barack Obama arrives for the G-20 working dinner at the National Museum of Korea in most vexing problem: lasting global economic Seoul, South Korea, Thursday. World leaders are meeting in Seoul Nov. 11-12 to discuss the state of the how to address a global recovery. Yet so far, G-20 global economy as it emerges from the financial crisis (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool) economy that’s long been countries haven’t agreed nourished by huge U.S. on an agenda, let alone trade deficits with China, tries, like the United States, 2008 record of $268 billion. solutions to the problems that Germany and Japan. want China to let the value But other countries are irate divide them.

Exports to the United States of its currency, the yuan, rise. over the Federal Reserve’s plans G-20 leaders were expected powered those countries’ econoThat would make Chinese to pump $600 billion into the to issue a communique detailmies for years. But they’ve also exports costlier abroad and sluggish American economy. ing results of the summit on produced enormous trade gaps make U.S. imports cheaper for They see that move as a reckless Friday. for the U.S. because Americans the Chinese to buy. It would and selfish scheme to flood marThe delegates have clashed consume far more in foreign shrink the United States’ trade kets with dollars, driving down in particular over the value of goods and services than they deficit with China, which is on the value of the U.S. currency their currencies. Some counsell abroad. track this year to match its and giving American exporters

DNA test casts doubt on executed Texas man’s guilt DALLAS (AP) — A DNA test on a single hair has cast doubt on the guilt of a Texas man who was put to death 10 years ago for a liquor-store murder — an execution that went forward after then-Gov. George W. Bush’s staff failed to tell him the condemned man was asking for genetic analysis of the strand.

The hair had been the only piece of physical evidence linking Claude Jones to the crime scene. But the recently completed DNA analysis found it did not belong to Jones and instead may have come from the murder victim.

Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project, a New York legal center that uses DNA to exonerate inmates and worked on Jones’ case, acknowledged that the hair doesn’t prove an innocent man was put to death. But he said the findings mean the evidence was insufficient under Texas law to convict Jones.

Jones, a career criminal who steadfastly denied killing the liquor store owner, was executed by injection on Dec. 7, 2000, in the closing weeks of Bush’s term as governor and in middle of the turbulent recount dispute in Florida that ended with Bush

elected president.

As the execution drew near, Jones was pressing the governor’s office for permission to do a DNA test on the hair. But the briefing papers Bush was given by his staff didn’t include the request for the testing, and Bush denied a reprieve, according to state documents obtained by the Innocence Project.

Scheck said he believes “to a moral certainty” that Bush would have granted a 30-day reprieve had he known Jones was seeking DNA testing.

“It is absolutely outrageous that no one told him that Claude Jones was asking for a DNA test,” Scheck said. “If you can’t rely on the governor’s staff to inform him, something is really wrong with the system.”

Bush had previously shown a willingness to test DNA evidence that could prove guilt or innocence in death penalty cases.

Earlier in 2000, he had granted a reprieve to a death row inmate so that Scheck and other attorneys could have evidence tested.

The test confirmed the man’s guilt and he was executed.

A spokesman for Bush, who is on a book tour, declined to comment Thursday.

The other primary evidence against Jones came from one of two alleged accomplices: Timothy Jordan, who did not enter the liquor store but was believed to have planned the robbery and provided the gun.

Jordan testified that Jones told him he was the triggerman. However, under Texas law, accomplice testimony isn’t enough to convict someone and must be supported by other evidence. That other evidence was the hair.

“There was not enough evidence to convict, and he shouldn’t have been executed,” Scheck said.

Scheck, a death-penalty opponent, said the case shows that the risk of a tragic mistake by the legal system is just too high.

“Reasonable people can disagree about the moral appropriateness of the death penalty. The issue that has arisen is the risk of executing the wrong person,” he said.

San Jacinto County District Attorney Bill Burnett, who prosecuted the case, died earlier this year.

“I still think he was guilty,” Joe Hilzendager, the murder victim’s brother, said Thursday. “I think they executed the right man.”

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Actor Bruce Willis and Sobieski Vodka, the vodka company for which Willis is the global spokesperson and a 3.3 percent owner in its parent company Belvédère S.A., salute the veterans and troops on the eve of Veterans Day at The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York, Wednesday.

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Willis salutes troops with party on USS Intrepid Party sponsored by Sobieski vodka NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce Willis, famous for his movie roles, believes the real stars are the military and veterans.

In honor of Veterans Day, the actor threw a party Thursday for hundreds of veterans on board the USS Intrepid, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that has been converted into a museum in New York City.

Willis says supporting veterans isn’t about politics but about freedom, and he wants to recognize the men and women who’ve sacrificed their lives for Americans.

He says “there’s no country like” the United States and that when he travels the world, he always loves “coming home.”

The party was sponsored by Sobieski vodka, whose parent company Willis is a part owner of.

Plaque to honor Maine’s female vets Flags at half-staff for fallen Marine

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The Committee to Honor Maine Women Veterans will partner with the Maine Mall today to raise awareness about the state’s effort to honor female veterans with a bronze memorial plaque.

“Teaming up with the Maine Mall is a great way to bring the importance of Veterans Day together with the high traffic shopping volume generated by the kick-off of the national weekend of blow-out sales,” said Rep. Linda Valentino, D-Saco, who serves as the co-chair of the committee.

“We want to build as much support for the memorial as possible, while also gathering names of women veterans,” Valentino said.

Committee members and women veterans will host a booth at the Garden Court near Best Buy in the mall from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. to promote the memorial, provide information on important services for Maine women veterans, and collect

the names of Maine women who served in the armed forces.

The group is also building a database of women veterans. While there are 10,000 estimated Maine women veterans, no comprehensive list exists.

Maine’s 124th Legislature passed a resolve to arrange for the plaque to be placed in the State House Hall of Flags in a prominent position among existing plaques honoring veterans of World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

The display design depicts Maine women who served in different U.S. military capacities over four centuries. This included Hannah Watts Weston, a Revolutionary War patriot; Emily W. Dana, a Civil War nurse; Patricia A. (Chadwick) Erickson, a World War II Army Air Force Service pilot; and Sgt. Annette M. Bachman, a soldier in the Maine Army National Guard who served in the War on Terrorism.

The plaque will be funded through private donations.

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HOULTON (AP) — Flags flew at half-staff as a Marine killed in Afghanistan was remembered at a memorial service in northern Maine.

A service was held Thursday at Houlton High School for 1st Lt. James Zimmerman, who died Nov. 2 of injuries suffered in combat operations.

The 25-year-old Zimmerman was

a platoon commander out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. Zimmerman grew up in Smyrna, about 10 miles outside of Houlton, and graduated from Greater Houlton Christian Academy. Gov. John Baldacci directed that U.S. and state of Maine flags fly at half-staff from sunrise to sunset in Zimmerman’s honor.

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Letting ex-cons vote is no crime If you voted last week, you may have seen some new faces in the line to cast ballots. College kids who have turned 18 since the last election. Naturalized immigrants eager to exercise one of the privileges of citizenship. Even a few ex-convicts.

Or maybe more than a few. In most places, anyone convicted of a felony loses the right to vote for some period — while he’s behind bars, until he’s completed his term of probation, or even for life. But in recent years, 23 states have revised their laws to let more onetime criminals take part in this ritual of democracy, and the changes have had a noticeable effect.

According to a new report

by Nicole Porter of the Wash––––– ington-based Sentencing Project, “As a result of the reforms Creators achieved during the period Syndicate from 1997-2010, an estimated 800,000 persons have regained the right to vote.”

It’s an unlikely development. True, the case for letting former inmates vote is easy to make. It recognizes them as individuals capable of rehabilitation. It encourages them to reintegrate into society.

Steve Chapman

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Ruminations on parking violations from a scofflaw Since this paper moved from its start-up location on Munjoy Hill to spacious Congress Street digs at (REDACTED BY EDITOR: We don’t need any more tickets, Bob), parking tickets have become quite the hot office topic. No surprise, since parking tickets and the oft-noted efficiency of Portland Parking Enforcement has been compared to the meticulous swift precision usually associated with the nations of Bavaria or Switzerland.

We have noted that perhaps all cities should be turned over to their parking enforcement teams, since that’s what gets done in places otherwise unknown for efficient government. It was reporter Matt Dodge, who suggested that I write a column about “weird parking laws in Portland.” His initial inquiry to me about the parking situation came in the form of a jeopardy answer. “Did you know that it’s illegal to park against the flow of traffic?”

Captain Obvious responded in the affirmative. Being a notorious ticket scofflaw who has studied the Portland Parking Code to a level previously unseen by those who don’t receive money from

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist those tickets, I knew this one off the top of my head. I only had to be cited for this particular offence once, but yonder reporter claims to know someone who has gotten three tickets for this particular offence.

Usually, You only have to have the hammer drop on your head once before figuring out wearing a helmet is a good idea.

See, I used to buy old cars, long past the “sticker inspection” stage, and use them for running around town. More often then not, the pile of tickets in the glove box led to world-class cautious parking behavior, at least until the car gave out for good. Then, I would leave it on the street until the car piled up the required amount of tickets for seizure, and the hulking rust monstrosity that would not move was no longer my problem.

Over 20 years, that has only

happened twice, but you do need to keep up on some of the silly parking laws, and decide if the ticket and fine are worth the cost of vehicle retrieval.

From high to low, some of the highlights.

The BIGGEST fine you can pay for a ticket in Portland is the seldom written “Parking in a disabled zone” which will cost you about $200 bucks and who knows how much karma. As serious as Portland is about this, I’ve rarely ever heard of that fine being levied. I’m sure it has, and I’ll just look for a person who looks like their head just exploded. You’ve been warned.

Second on the list is a stumper.

“Other Violation” is listed as a $100 fine and that covers a whole gamut of offenses. I suspect it involves questioning if the parking enforcement officers parents were married prior to their birth, general inquiries about their sexual habits, heritage, lineage, or other commentary. This is called “incidental damage after the play” in the game of football.

Park in front of a fire hydrant or other safety area? That is going see HIGGINS page 5

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Remembering a fat cat who loves lasagna “What’s are you counting down to?” someone asks.

They’re pointing to the calendar page stuck to my fridge, the one with big Sharpie-written numbers — 15 through 1, backwards — and the day after the 1 has an exclamation mark in it.

The first half of the numbers have been crossed out. Only 7 days until ... whatever.

“Oh, that’s the cat countdown calendar.”

Ugh. I can’t believe I just said that.

Out loud. Voluntarily.

Because making a “countdown calendar” to tick off the days until my friend Arman drops his cats off for our annual catsitting gig seems like a perfectly normal and well-adjusted thing to do. Until you say it out loud. In front of others.

“Cat? Countdown? Calendar?” the person repeats, making it even worse.

“Uh, yeah, I, uh, we, ha ha, um…”

That’s the best response I can muster. And it’s actually preferable to going into detail about my history with cats and obsessive behavior. It just seemed like the wrong place and time.

This, however, seems like the perfect place and time.

Ahem…

Barry Smith ––––– Irrelativity MY HISTORY WITH CATS AND OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR I can still remember the day — it’s the summer of 1978, and I’m at my grandmother’s house. She and my grandfather live in a small town in Mississippi, so they have the big city paper delivered to them — the Commercial Appeal, published in Memphis. I like the Commercial Appeal because it has the best comics. I’m 12. I still judge papers by their comics.

On that day there’s a new face on the comics’ page. A very fat cat introducing himself as “Garfield” and announcing that he loves lasagna.

I know that this is a special moment.

I’ve never seen the very start of a comic strip before. All the ones that I read seem to have been around since, well, forever, I guess. Marmaduke, Family Circle, Beetle Bailey, I can’t even imagine them having a starting point. So this is something momentous.

I cut it out the Garfield Genesis and put it on my grandmother’s fridge. The next day I cut out the second one and it joins the first under a magnet.

I have a revelation on the third day.

If I cut out every one of these Garfield comics from this point on, then I’ll ... have every one of them! Hey, revelations don’t have to be huge when you’re 12.

And so I have a purpose — to collect every Garfield. I get some of those 70s photo albums with the clear sticky film that holds your pictures in place and I start down the Road to Garfield Obsession.

Problem is, we didn’t get the Commercial Appeal at home, so I have to count on my grandmother to save each day’s paper for me. I visit her often in the summer, at least every other weekend, so I’m able to keep the pile of papers in control. And I never lose steam with this project. With each visit I cull the latest feline hijinks and put them in the book.

In order, of course.

I was never was into baseball cards or matchboxes or anything that came with the marketing suggestion to collect ‘em all. But I made up for lost time with Garfield.

I’m not proud of this, folks, I’m just telling you what happened.

Inevitably my grandmother would forget to save the paper every now and

again, and I’d have to go next door to Miss Dolly’s house. Miss Dolly saved everything. She was my redundant backup plan.

And I did this for a few years.

Yes, a few years. About 8 photo albums worth.

Then they published the first Garfield collection, “Garfield at Large.” Get it?

‘Cause he’s fat.

I see this book at the bookstore and realize that all my work has been for nothing. Worse than nothing, actually.

It’s been a frittering of precious life energy. Now anybody can have a collection like mine by simply buying the book.

Over the years I reused most of the albums — peeling out the yellowed Garfield strips and replacing them with pictures. The rest I threw away. One of the few things I’ve thrown away that I don’t regret.

The cat countdown calendar, though — I’ll probably hang on to that for a while, even after the cats are gone.

Nothing weird about that.

(Performance artist and writer Barry Smith has been writing his weekly humor column, “Irrelativity,” for The Aspen Times for over 15 years. He lives and writes from Aspen, Colo. He is also extremely popular in Canada.)

Political consquences of ex-con voting rights hard to detect CHAPMAN from page 4

But let’s face it: There is not a huge incentive for state legislators to care about this disenfranchised group, since disenfranchised people don’t vote.

Beyond the ranks of felons and their families, most people don’t know or care much about the issue.

Granting a benefit to those who have broken the law can be portrayed as soft on crime. When the idea began to get attention back in the 1990s, some Republicans even worried that easing the bans, which have a disproportionate effect on AfricanAmericans, would only help Democrats at the polls.

In spite of all these impediments, though, a lot of states have liberalized their laws. One pioneer was George W. Bush, who as governor of Texas signed legislation automatically restoring the franchise to inmates who have served their sentences. That decision gave 317,000 people the right to vote. Other red states have inched the same direction, including Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana and Nebraska.

That’s a credit to Republican politicians who grasped the basic indefensibility of the policy. It’s not as though barring felons from voting is a deterrent to crime, and it’s not as though bands of ex-cons are plotting to gain political power.

For that matter, disenfranchisement is of no consequence to incorrigible criminals, who are more apt to see Election Day as a chance to burglarize unoccupied homes than an opportunity to shape economic policy.

Most of the people affected by restrictive policies are people who have cleaned up their acts enough to care about being participants in our system of government.

The political consequences of the reforms are hard to detect, if they exist at all. Texas is every bit as Republican as it was in 1997.

Florida, which had one of the harshest policies, now automatically restores the vote to those convicted of some crimes and made it easier for others to regain it. The measure, pushed by then-Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, helped some 150,000 people.

They apparently did not turn out in droves to vote for him in his independent U.S. Senate race, which he lost to Republican Marco Rubio.

Utah, Montana and North Dakota remain as red as a fire truck even though felons are eligible to vote as soon as they complete their sentences. Vermont and Maine allow felons to vote while they are in prison, and Sentencing Project executive director Marc Mauer notes that “they have not been taken

over by criminals.” For that matter, Republicans just captured the Maine legislature and the governorship.

The puzzle is that the changes have come about when there are no important constituencies to press for them. Mauer says that his group’s campaign against strict disenfranchisement laws helped spark interest among legislators and ordinary citizens.

“Some of these policies had been in place for 150 years, and no one had ever looked at them,” he recalls. “Some struck people as extreme, like a lifetime ban for one offense committed at age 18.”

Reform attracted the support of the conservative Prison Fellowship, as well as the American Correctional Association.

Eventually, all this made a difference in policy. In a period of often bitter divisions, we have a rare case of simple good sense overcoming partisan impulses.

“Sometimes,” says Mauer, “politicians do things for the right reasons.”

(Steve Chapman blogs daily at newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/steve_chapman. To find out more about Chapman, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.)

Parking against the flow of traffic among many obscure violations HIGGINS from page 4

to cost you $30 bucks. Portland is serious about this, and so is the Portland Fire Department. Try it for just ten minutes, and you will see. I think parking enforcement has some weird “only dogs can hear it” sixth sense, as this offense gets dealt with swiftly, and without any known incident of mercy.

Blocking a driveway, parking in a taxi stand, failing to remain with a vehicle parked in a taxi stand are all going to cost you an Andrew Jackson, and his good buddy Abe Lincoln.

A true shocker from the list is one I see all the time. In Portland, it is against city code to display

your vehicle for sale. I’m sure this will come as a shock to all those folks who have put the “Low Mileage, good brakes, needs sticker, $1,500” placard in the window. The simple act of doing that is good for a $25 dollar fine.

I’ve done it dozens of times, but one offense I’ve never been tapped for is interesting. “Washing, greasing or repairing such vehicle except for repairs necessitated by an emergency” is a $25 dollar fine. Fix a tire, that’s ok. Pulling a hub or fixing your brakes isn’t unless the car came to a dead stop, and its hard to make that excuse work, especially on Portland’s hilly streets. But it would seem that “emergency” is at least some-

what up for debate.

A strange one in the pile is “Advertising Purposes.” This must have been put in place to prevent the drive around billboards you see in other parts of the country. Twenty-five bucks for that one.

If there is one overall suggestion to dealing with parking enforcement in Portland, I would summon up what some wags have called the “Eleventh Commandment.”

Thou shalt not get caught.

There is no fee for that, yet.

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

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Bob Meeken of Portland watches as military vehicles pass on Congress Street. ABOVE RIGHT: USS Maine Submarine Base members gather before the Veterans Day parade. They include (from left) Roy Gorman, Larry Farrell, Richard Harris and John McCutcheon. RIGHT: The Deering High School marching band performs during Thursday’s parade. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

Maine Submarine Veterans honor the fallen

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A submarine traveled down Congress Street Thursday as hundreds turned out to cheer for the city’s Veterans Day parade.

The submarine, a 10 percent scale model of the U.S.S. Skipjack, served as both a float and as a memorial to one of the longtime friends of the United States Submarine Veterans, Inc., a veterans group based in Augusta.

Dick McGoldrick, an associate member of the group from Denmark, died this summer.

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“He had a lot of interest in submarines and always enjoyed coming up and getting together with our group, and listening to the sea stories,” said USS Maine Submarine Base Commander John Starbird.

Portland proved to be a small world during a big parade.

Bob Meeken of Portland, a graduate of Deering High School, was watching the parade from High Street when he noticed the McGoldrick memorial.

“We were both on the board of Harvest Hills Animal Shelter, and Dick was president for quite a while,” said Meeken, snapping a camera phone

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“This is a memorial float, we’re dedicating it to all of our submariners and sailors that we’ve lost in the wars.” — USS Maine Submarine Base Commander John Starbird, Maine Submarine Veterans picture of the submarine float and its tribute to McGoldrick. “Those were good times.”

While acknowledging an old friendship, Meeken said he felt it was important to salute the veterans marching in Thursday morning’s parade.

“I was not a veteran, it was disappointing, I couldn’t make it in World War II, and by Korea, I had a family with two youngsters, and didn’t really want to go, I would have, of course,” he said.

Bucky Walters, 84, marched with the USS Maine Submarine Base. Walters came from Philadelphia to Maine about 15 years ago.

“I went in the Navy in 1943 and got into submarines in 1944 and got out in 1947,” he said.

Walters said he was deployed out of New London.

“We took out students every day and dove with them and let them handle the controls and stuff like that. When I enlisted out of high school, I thought I would get to see some action, but the Navy had other ideas,” he said.

The submarine float also was dedicated to submarine shipmates who gave their lives in the pursuit of their duties while serving their country, Starbird noted.

“This is a memorial float, we’re dedicating it to all of our submariners and sailors that we’ve lost in the wars,” he said.

The base, which counts 48 members, participated for the eighth year in Portland’s parade. Starbird said the group was invited by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Deering Memorial Post 6859.

The United States Submarine Veterans, Inc. (http://www.maine-subvets.org/index.html) meets in Augusta on the third Sunday of every month at the Augusta American Legion Post on Route 17, Memorial Post 205.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Friday, Nov. 12, the 316th day of 2010. There are 49 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 12, 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. (The Allies ended up winning a major victory over the Japanese.)

On this date: In 1927, Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.

In 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.

In 1970, the Bhola cyclone struck East Pakistan; it’s believed half a million people, possibly more, were killed.

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Tonight at Mayo Street Arts, Olas will hold album release SHOW from page 8

definitely European with a splash of Afro-Cuban and a hint of Brazillian — there’s even a little bit of rock in there.”

The band is an eclectic line-up of recognizable faces from the local music scene, and includes Chriss Sutherland and Tom Kovacevic (Cerberus Shoal, Fire on Fire), Dylan Blanchard (Grupo Esperanza), and Curtis (Conifer, AOK Suicide Forest).

But traditional instruments are only half of the equation when it comes to Olas. Flamenco relies heavily on palmeras (hand-claps) and percussive dance style known as zapateado to produce its signature sound.

Dancers Lindsey Bourassa and Megan Keogh contribute to the beat and add a visual element to the performance, with palmeras Molly Angie and Anna

“There’s a few of us who have a lot of recording experience, but we were not absolutely sure how to go about recording this type of group.” — Olas guitarist Leif Sherman Curtis Trunzo also contributing vocals.

Tonight at Mayo Street Arts, the band will hold a release for their debut album La Perla, a record that guitarist Curtis said “was an incredibly challenging record to record.” And that’s from a man described by the Portland Phoenix as “a riff clinician.”

“There’s a few of us who have a lot of recording experience, but we were not absolutely sure how to go about recording this type of group,” said Curtis.

“We wanted to make it sound like you’re hearing us live and just bring out all the dimensions of what you’re hearing,” said Curtis.

Easy enough when you’re talking about traditional instruments, but a sight more complicated when trying to figure out how to best record the stomp/clack of the zapateados on a wood floor.

“They are wearing this style of shoe that is very percussive on good wooden floors,” said Curtis, who suggested that the dancers are as integral to the Flamenco style as his own fancy finger work. “They are doing both dance and percussion, they are a huge part of it,” he said.

For Curtis, Olas is a departure from his heavier rocking projects (his instrumental rock band AOK Suicide Forest just released their self-titled debut this month), but an important exploration in style see OLAS page 16

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I have been dating “Tom” for two years and am close to his family. Since early in the relationship, Tom’s cousin “Jeremy” and his two sons have been maintaining my yard. When they come over, I always talk to them because I consider us one big family.

Recently, Jeremy’s wife, “Rachel,” accused me of having sex with her husband. She said she checked his cell phone account online and saw that he had spoken to me for 38 minutes.

She went on to say that she heard he had been badmouthing her to some woman on the phone and concluded it must have been me.

I assured Rachel that I was not sleeping with Jeremy, nor was I interested in doing so, and whatever their problem, it had nothing to do with me. I thought that would be the end of it, but Rachel then told Tom and everyone else in his family that I was having an affair with Jeremy. I had already told Tom about the confrontation, and he doesn’t believe Rachel’s accusations. But some of the other female cousins do and no longer want me around their husbands. I am totally innocent here. Jeremy has never been inappropriate with me. I miss being around Tom’s family. What do I do? -- Presumed Guilty Dear Presumed: Rachel doesn’t trust her husband and, because he spends a great deal of time with you, believes you’re the Other Woman. Tom needs to speak up on your behalf, particularly to his parents. They are more important than the cousins. Hopefully, Rachel and Jeremy will get over this outburst of insecurity, and when they do, the cousins will come around. In the meantime, hold your head up and make sure your behavior is above reproach. You can weather this storm.

Dear Annie: I am married to a guy who has not seen a toothbrush for at least 10 years. He has severe halitosis, rotten

teeth and gums, and massive cavities. He uses breath mints all day to try to cover up the odor and insists I’m the only one who notices because no one else has mentioned it to him. I explained that most people are not going to tell you your breath stinks, but he won’t listen to me.

My friends have made sly remarks about it, but he either doesn’t pay attention or doesn’t catch on. Every room he goes into starts to smell as soon as he opens his mouth. I’ve bought him a new toothbrush and toothpaste for sensitive teeth, but he refuses to use them. His breath is so horrible, I refuse to be intimate with him. We haven’t had sex in years, and I am seriously thinking of leaving him. Can you recommend anything? -- Living with a Stinkbomb Dear Living: Has your husband seen a dentist in the past 10 years? Does he know that gum disease is linked to heart disease? Can you get one of his friends, co-workers or family members to tell him he needs to take better care of his teeth?

If the man is willing to endure bad breath and a sexless marriage, it sounds like he has a major phobia and may need psychiatric help to overcome it. Try sympathy and understanding, and see if it motivates him to get help.

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Either the noise is too much, or he has trouble hearing in that environment. He should see his audiologist and be checked out. It’s possible his hearing aid is not doing the job. -- Sun City West, Ariz.

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Friday, Nov. 12 The 2010 Ocean Literacy Summit in N.H.

working with assistant director Gina Sabatini. College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. Donations.

288-5015 or visit www.coa.edu.

Raqs Borealis belly dancing

8 a.m. The 2010 Ocean Literacy at Bayside Bowl Summit, hosted by the New Eng8 p.m. Belly Dance and Live Music land Ocean Science Education at Bayside Bowl. $10 seating, $8 Collaborative, will be held at the general admission. Bayside Bowl, University of New Hampshire, 58 Alder St, Portland. “Join us for Durham, N.H., from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. the seventh Raqs Borealis, feaThe keynote address will be given turing Mimi Fontana & Manhatby Dr. Paul Snelgrove, lead scientan Tribal, Ayperi and the return of tist for the Census of Marine Life at Okbari! Belly dance performances, 11:30 a.m., and a panel discussion open dancing, henna, free shoe of Census of Marine Life researchrental and Bayside Bowl’s delicious ers from the Marine Biological fare!” http://www.raqsayperi.com/ Laboratory in Woods Hole, and the events/raqsborealis/ Universities of Connecticut, South‘Green Room: The Musical’ ern Maine, and New Hampshire will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. An Maine premiere evening lecture by world-renowned 8 p.m. Presented by New Edge ocean scientist and member of the Entertainment, “Green Room: The US Census National Committee, Musical” makes its Maine premiere.

Dr. Sylvia Earle, will be hosted by Directed by John Bryson, this musithe Gulf of Maine Marine Education cal is a “new backstage musical Association and the Gulf of Maine The 2010 Ocean Literacy Summit, hosted by the New England Ocean Science Education Collaborative, will be held at the Uni- illustrating the journey of four college Census of Marine Life. As part of versity of New Hampshire from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. The keynote address will be given by Dr. Paul Snelgrove, lead scientist best friends determined to make it the ten-year Census of Marine Life, for the Census of Marine Life at 11:30 a.m., followed by a panel discussion from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (AP FILE PHOTO) out of the Green Room and onto the local scientists and historians from Broadway Stage. They live out their Maine, New Hampshire, MassaSunday, Nov. 14, 2 p.m.; NR. “An enigmatic musical poet, complicated lives in the green room chusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut have gathered, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captiof their college theater department. Funny and heartwarmshared, and analyzed information on the Northeast and vate 27 years after his untimely death. His inimitable music ing, this modern musical gives an authentic account of the beyond, making comparisons of marine environments and writing reveal an insightful worldview that we are still struggles these four have in finding their place in the world.” across time and space. Their findings have made significant unravelling — his complex recording technologies, includNov. 12, 13, 19 and 20, $10. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Bouleadvances in our understanding of how patterns of diversity, ing overdubbing, was unprecedented. Though there have vard. www.LucidStage.com distribution, and abundance play a key role in marine ecobeen many documentaries about Gould, most are dis‘Steel Magnolias’ at Portland Players systems. tracted by his eccentricities, focusing on the pills, gloves, 8 p.m. “Steel Magnolias.” Nov. 5-Nov. 21 at Portland Playand scarves while missing the man and message behind ‘How to Make Money and Save the World’ ers in South Portland. “Join us for this compelling comedythe music. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould 9 a.m. Time Warner Cable Business Class Speaker Series drama about a group of Louisiana women who are tough pierces through the myths, revealing the man beneath the presents ‘Stirring it Up: How to Make Money and Save the as steel and delicate as sweet southern magnolias. ‘Steel icon.” www.portlandmuseum.org/events/movies.php#5232 World’ – a free presentation for small and mid-sized busiMagnolias’ explores the deep threads of friendship and is ness owners at the Portland Regency Hotel. Business Slideshow at Maine Rock Gym the perfect start to the holiday season.” Show times are owners are invited to attend a networking reception and 10 7 p.m. The Maine Rock Gym in Portland will host a slide Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m., and Sunday aftera.m. presentation/Q&A. “President and CE-Yo of Stonyfield show by professional climbing guide Bayard Russell at 7 noons at 2:30 p.m. Contact the Box Office at 799-7337.

Farm, Gary Hirshberg, will present stunning evidence that p.m., followed by open climbing time for all. The slidewww.portlandplayers.org/shows/current.html businesses can not only save the planet, but can simultaneshow is titled “New England’s Best: A Tour of the Newest ously deliver higher growth and superior profits. For more Lines on the Best Crags in Your Own Backyard, from Saturday, Nov. 13 information or to register, visit www.twcbc.com/northeast.”

Western Maine to the Adirondacks.” Russell, 33, a prolific New England first ascensionist, will present images and Portland Symphony Orchestra UNE Marine Animal Rehabilitation stories of his adventures.

The entry fee of $15 will also KinderKonzert at Scarborough High include Flatbread pizza and other refreshments, and a Center benefit in Kennebunkport 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. KinderKonzerts (Strings): The day pass to the gym (gear/instruction is included). “Rus7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. The Nonantum Resort in KennebunkStory of Abbie Burgess. “This new composition by Delvyn sell is a climbing instructor for Kismet Rock Foundation, port will host a buffet breakfast to benefit the Marine Animal Case tells the true story of Abbie Burgess, painting a musithe beneficiary of the event. Kismet provides multi-year Rehabilitation Center at University of New England. The cal portrait of a raging storm and the brave young girl who rock climbing programs for disadvantaged New England breakfast costs $9.95 for adults and $4.95 for children kept the lighthouse burning despite all odds. This concert youth. By developing their potential, Kismet prepares under 10, and 50 percent of the proceeds will be donated is recommended for grades 1 and up.” Scarborough High students to positively contribute to their communities to MARC. “With our official mascot being Henry the Harbor School. www.portlandsymphony.com and their culture throughout their lives. Several Kismet Seal, we felt this was an important group for us to support, In-Town Holiday Craft Fair students from King Middle School in Portland will be stated Tina Hewett-Gordon, general manager of The Non11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. In-Town Holiday Craft Fair, Tag and in attendance at the event.” The event is sponsored by antum. MARC plays an important role in helping to educate Bake Sale, 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday; 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Outdoor Research, with support also provided by Maine us all about the marine wildlife around us, so I am thrilled we Saturday, First Parish Church, 425 Congress St., Portland.

Rock Gym, Flatbread Company, Shipyard Brewing Comcan help in this way.” For more info, contact Emily Mercker pany and Cathedral Mountain Guides. at 602-2124 or Keith Matassa at 602-2670.

Toys for Tots fundraiser in Biddeford 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Toys for Tots fundraiser. St. Andres SLANT at SPACE Gallery Christmas Gifts and Decorations Sale Nursing Home, 407 Pool St., Biddeford. Night in Italy Dinner, 7:30 p.m. Emily Dickinson famously wrote, “Tell all the truth 8 a.m. Fifth annual Christmas Gifts and Decorations Sale, 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. seating. $5 plus toy or donation/ but tell it slant.” This free event at SPACE Gallery will put 1 p.m., Limington Town Hall, Route 11. Hundreds of new per person. those words to the test as a series of writers, performers, Christmas things from 25 cents to $2. Toys, gifts, decoraand notable community members tell real 10-minute stotions, underwear, clothing and shoes. FMI call Karen 692Claddagh Award at Maine Irish Heritage Center ries to a live audience without notes or props. This series is 2989. Proceeds provide BEHS scholarships. Sponsored by 5:30 p.m. Third annual Claddagh Award, Maine Irish Heriinspired by The Moth, a live storytelling organization estabLimington Extension. tage Center, corner of Gray and State streets. Governor lished in NYC in 1997 and featured on Maine Public Radio.

John Baldacci will be speaking at the event to honor CynSt. Luke’s Holiday Fair Storytellers will include Portland Press Herald columnist Bill thia Murray-Beliveau. www.maineirish.com 9 a.m. St. Luke’s Holiday Fair and State Street Stroll; 5:30 Nemitz, award-winning non-fiction writer Liz Peavey, perp.m., Misio San Lucas (Chapel). http://cathedralofstluke.

Flick and Float at Reiche Pool former and educator Gretchen Berg, and longtime Portland episcopalmaine.org/ 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The second of four Flick and Floats arts and cultural booster and unofficial mayor of Commerwill be held at the Reiche Pool, 166 Brackett St. Families Celtic Christmas at the Maine Irish Heritage Center cial Street Cyrus Hagge. Presented by The Telling Room, in and children of all ages can watch “How to Train Your 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. A Celtic Christmas at the Maine Irish association with the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Dragon,” the animated story of a hapless young Viking who Heritage Center. “Enjoy this uniquely Irish holiday event as the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, and SPACE Galbecomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon, while floatwe team up with Mercy Hospital, St. Luke and The State lery. www.space538.org ing in the heated pool. Kids and adults are encouraged to Street Church for the first annual State Street Holiday Stroll.

‘Hamlet’ by College of the Atlantic bring their favorite float, swimsuit, towel, and a bathing cap Browse among the many tables of crafter’s selling their 7:30 p.m.

College of the Atlantic’s tradition of annual if hair is longer than chin length. Children under the age of hand crafts made in Maine and Ireland. Listen to the Celtic Shakespeare performances continues with a production seven and under four feet tall must be accompanied by an fiddlers, The Highland Trio, throughout the morning and of “Hamlet” on Friday, Nov. 12 and Saturday, Nov. 13 at adult in the pool. Fees are $1 per child, $3 per adult and $5 watch the dancing of the talented Stillson School of Irish 7:30 p.m. with a 2 p.m. performance Sunday, Nov. 14 in the per family. Come and enjoy a one-of-a-kind movie experiDance.” A luncheon menu offering clam chowder, chili and Gates Community Center. The show is produced by many ence. For more information about Flick and Float, contact home baked goods will be available from 11 a.m. Bagpipof the same students who recently brought “Macbeth” and Portland Recreation Aquatic Office at 874-8456. Other Flick ers from the Claddagh Mohr Pipe Band will stroll and play “The Tempest” to the community, but this time features a and Floats are scheduled for Jan. 14 and Feb. 18. on State Street. Park at any one of the designated parksoundtrack of “glam-rock” from the 1970s. The cast and ing areas, or on the street and enjoy a day of holiday fairs, ‘Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould’ crew includes a highly enthusiastic and tight group of stumusic and food. For more information, contact Colleen dents, many of whom have participated in the previous screening at the Portland Museum of Art Boland at 767-1017. productions. “Hamlet” is directed by COA students Alicia 6:30 p.m. Movies at the Museum, Portland Museum of Hynes (who co-directed “The Tempest” and “Macbeth”) see next page Art. Friday, Nov. 12, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 13, 2 p.m.;

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Mercy Hospital’s 14th Annual Christmas Craft Fair 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mercy Hospital’s 14th Annual Christmas Craft Fair will be held in the Mercy Hospital State Street Auditoriums on level B2. There will be over 30 crafters/artisans and Mercy’s Auxiliary will participate in this event. A sampling of items featured this year are: quilting, jewelry, gift baskets, holiday decorations, soaps, knitted items, heat packs, baked goods, ceramics, stationary, photography and much, much more. Mercy Hospital will be part of the State Street Holiday Stroll joining the Maine Irish Heritage Center, the State St. Church, and the Cathedral of St. Luke for holiday fairs at all locations.

State Street Holiday Stroll 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St., invites the public to participate in the State Street Holiday Stroll. The Maine Irish Heritage Center, Mercy Hospital, The State Street Church and other businesses on State Street in Portland have combined forces this year and will be hosting holiday fairs on the same day this year. In addition to the artistry available, the MIHC will also be featuring a luncheon menu, live music and Irish step dancing throughout the day.

St. Patrick’s Annual Bazaar 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. St. Patrick’s Parish will hold its annual bazaar at 1342 Congress St. Raffle items: Hand Knit Irish Aran Sweater, 32-inch HD Flat Screen Television, $1,000 cash and $100 cash. Drawings will be Saturday at 6 p.m.

St. Patrick’s Parish, 772-6325.

Windham Athletic Boosters holiday craft fair 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Windham Athletic Boosters will hold a two-day holiday craft fair, Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Windham High School, 409 Gray Road, Route 202, Windham. Over 150 crafters, refreshments, door prizes, kiddies’ craft table.

Unity Church of Greater Portland 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. On Nov. 13 and 14, Unity Church of Greater Portland, 54 River Road, Windham, is celebrating the approaching holiday season by holding a very special Craft Fair. It will feature the works of both local artisans and those from around the world under the sponsorship of Fair Trade. “Fair Trade is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries obtain better trading conditions and promote sustainability. It strives to ensure that craftsmen and farmers are assured reasonable prices for the products they market, providing their families with a sustainable living wage. It is Spiritual Social Action at work Unity-style, providing others with a ‘hand up’ rather than a ‘hand out.’ The Craft Fair will be open in the Unity sanctuary from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 13 and from noon to 2 p.m. Nov. 14.”

The fair will offer a wide assortment of craft products and food items which will give you a head start on your holiday shopping and provide gifts with a unique touch that only custom-made items can offer. For more information about Unity or the Craft Fair please contact the church office at 893-1233 or visit www.unitygreaterportland.org.

10th Annual Riverton School Craft Fair 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This year the Riverton Branch Library will participate in a craft fair with a table and lots of books to offer for sale. Come on down and visit the library and also check out all the crafts and the great food that will be available during the craft fair.

Jamie Adkins’ ‘Circus INcognitus’ 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. South Portland Auditorium at South Portland High School. “An alumnus of the famed Pickle Family Circus, Cirque Eloize and a featured soloist with Cirque du Soleil, Jamie Adkins’ clowning and acrobatic pedigree is unparalleled. Children and adults alike will revel in his unfor-

gettable one-man comedy, Circus INcognitus, which brings to life the story of a man who has something to say, but can’t quite get it out. Whether precariously balancing upon a slack wire or deftly maneuvering a jaw full of ping-pong balls, Jamie leads audiences on a thrilling, humorous and ultimately inspiring adventure about having the courage to try new ideas, pushing them to their limits, and not giving up when all goes wrong.” Appropriate for all ages. $10. http://portlandovations.org

Portland Public Schools benefit art auction 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Hand-painted chairs and other whimsical furniture will be sold at an auction to raise money for community service projects planned by students in the Portland Public Schools. The auction will take place in the Rines Auditorium at the Portland Public Library’s main branch on Congress Street. Admission is $10 per person and $25 for a family. The auction will feature one-of-a-kind pieces made

by Painting for a Purpose, a group of women who have combined their love of painting with their interest in supporting education and empowering young people to make a difference. Additional auction items will be donated by local artists, including David Marshall and a group of artists from the Constellation Gallery, Alex Rheault, Nanette Tanner, Diane Manzi, Portland Superintendent James C. Morse, Sr. and students in art classes at Portland Arts and Technology High School (PATHS), Deering, and Portland High School.

Students in the PATHS fashion marketing program will help market the event. The auction will feature about 50 chairs and other hand-painted wooden items. Rob Elowitch of Barridoff Gallery will be the auctioneer in the live chair auction and other pieces will be sold in a silent auction. Refreshments will be served. Tickets are available in advance from Jane Ellis by calling 934-3616 or by e-mailing ellis123@maine.rr.com.

Tickets also will be sold at the door.

Bayside potluck dinnner 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Bayside Neighborhood Assoc. Annual Meeting & Harvest Pot Luck Dinner, Lost Coin Café, 40 Portland St., free. FMI bayside_neighbors@msn.com.

Linda Greenlaw caviar dinner 6 p.m. Best selling author, reality TV star and the only female swordfishing captain in America, Linda Greenlaw, will attend the Caviar Dinner at the Portland Harbor Hotel along with renowned caviar importer and expert Rod Mitchell from Browne Trading Company. The evening will begin with a champagne and hors d’oeuvres reception at 6 p.m. and continue with four courses highlighting Maine seafood and imported caviar from Browne Trading Company, including Linda Greenlaw’s swordfish. Attendees will have the rare opportunity to meet and hear from Linda Greenlaw as well as learn about the caviars served during the dinner from Browne Trading owner Rod Mitchell. Greenlaw, a resident of Isle au Haut, Maine, is best known for her best selling book “The Hungry Ocean,” and has also published several works of fiction and a cookbook in addition to starring on the reality TV show on the Discovery Channel, Swords: Life on the Line. She recently published a sequel to “The Hungry Ocean,” titled “Seaworthy.” The Caviar Dinner is $140 per person, including the wine pairings, tax and gratuity. Caviars featured in years past include American Spoonbill, Desietra Baerrii, Galilee Osetra Caviar, and White Sturgeon Caviar. Seating for the Caviar Dinner is limited. Reservations are required and may be made by calling 775-9090.

‘Africa and Poetry’ at Mayo Street Arts 7 p.m. Mayo Street Arts presents “Africa and Poetry.” “An evening encapsulated with the African theme, featuring young African writers, songs, and Dance performers living Portland Maine. Sudanese and other African or minority youth living in Portland have no access to a place where they can organize and share their talent with other youth of their kind.The mission of the organizer is to make this event as a talent outlet for African youth trapped in Maine Snow.

Thankfully, Maine has been a home to Many refugees from Sudan, Somali,Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi and Iraq so diversity in talent is ecumenical.” Hosted by Alfred Jacobs. cover by donation $3 plus. http://mayostreetarts.org

Evening of Bharata Natyam 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Portland Yoga present Evening of Bharata Natyam ( Classical Dance of South India) by Jaan R. Freeman, a premiere dancer of the T. Balasaraswati lineage. Mr. freeman is a disciple of Nandini Ramani & Priyamvada Sankar ( both senior disciples of T. Balasaraswati).

Freeman will present items of the repertoire and brings a fresh approach to the art. Portland Yoga, 616 Congress S., third floor. $16 in advance, $20 at the door. www.portlandyoga.com; Dakshina Palli at (917) 214-6466.

Join the Maine Red Claws at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 17 at the Portland Expo to meet the players, get an autograph, have photos taken and shoot a few hoops with the 2010-2011 Maine Red Claws basketball team. This fun, family friendly event raises awareness and funds for Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine and the Maine Red Claws Foundation. (FILE PHOTO)

‘Adam and Eve and What REALLY Happened in the Garden of Eden’ 7 p.m. “Adam and Eve and What REALLY Happened in the Garden of Eden.” A hilarious musical “battle of the first sexes” at the Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St., Nov. 11-28. Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.,

Sunday at 2 p.m. $15-$22. Box Office, 773-0333, http:// oldportplayhouse.com

Anthony’s Idol Jr. 7 p.m. Anthony’s Idol Jr., featuring 10 singers ages 12 to 16, who compete for cash prizes and votes. Anthony’s Dinner Theater in Portland; $29.95 includes dinner and ballot, half price for children. Call 221-2267 for reservations. anthonysdinnertheater.com

‘Steel Magnolias’ at Portland Players 8 p.m. “Steel Magnolias.” Nov. 5-Nov. 21 at Portland Players in South Portland. “Join us for this compelling comedydrama about a group of Louisiana women who are tough as steel and delicate as sweet southern magnolias. ‘Steel Magnolias’ explores the deep threads of friendship and is the perfect start to the holiday season.” Show times are Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m., and Sunday afternoons at 2:30 p.m. Contact the Box Office at 799-7337. www.portlandplayers.org/shows/current.html

Sunday, Nov. 14 Bayside Trail 5K Race 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The Bayside Trail Campaign Committee announces open registration for a 5K “trail race” benefiting Portland’s new Bayside Trail. This 1.2-mile-long urban trail through the diverse industrial heart of Portland will ultimately connect the Eastern Promenade trail to Deering Oaks Park and include pocket parks, an outdoor amphitheater, rain gardens, and public art. $20 pre-registered, $25 day of race. Complimentary long-sleeve t-shirt for the first 200 registrants. Joan Benoit Samuelson, the first ever female marathon Olympic gold medalist, will be joining organizers for the event. Runners are encouraged to bring dogs on leash. Every four-legged participant will receive a free dog toy, compliments of Planet Dog.

Friends of Eastern Promenade sponsors Casco Bay Geology Field Trip 9:30 a.m. to noon. Explore the geology of Casco Bay on a field trip on the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad. The tour, sponsored by Friends of the Eastern Promenade, will be led by Arthur M. Hussey II, professor emeritus at Bowdoin College, and Walter Anderson, state geologist emeritus with the Maine Geological Survey. Discover evidence of the creation and breakup of the supercontinent Pangea, the formation of the Atlantic Ocean, and the last continental glaciation that covered Casco Bay. Cost: $10. RSVP to info@friendsofeasternpromenade.org. Meet at the Narrow Gauge Railroad Station, 58 Fore St.

University of Maine System Board 2 p.m. The University of Maine System Board of Trustees will hold a two-day meeting Nov. 14-15 at the University of Maine at Farmington campus. Items to be reviewed and considered by trustees include: Various proposals for facilities — renovations, leases, and new projects; changes to academic programs; approval of the annual financial report for fiscal year 2010; confirmation of two faculty and two students as non-voting representatives to the board; and role and scope statements for each university. The complete agenda for the November UMS Board of Trustees meeting may be viewed at: www.maine.edu/pdf/committeescheduleandagendaNov2010.pdf

‘Adam and Eve and What REALLY Happened in the Garden of Eden’ 2 p.m. “Adam and Eve and What REALLY Happened in the Garden of Eden.” A hilarious musical “battle of the first sexes” at the Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St., Nov. 11-28. Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. $15-$22. Box Office, 773-0333, http:// oldportplayhouse.com

‘Steel Magnolias’ at Portland Players 8 p.m. “Steel Magnolias.” Nov. 5-Nov. 21 at Portland Players in South Portland. “Join us for this compelling comedydrama about a group of Louisiana women who are tough as steel and delicate as sweet southern magnolias. ‘Steel Magnolias’ explores the deep threads of friendship and is the perfect start to the holiday season.” Show times are Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m., and Sunday afternoons at 2:30 p.m. Contact the Box Office at 799-7337. www.portlandplayers.org/shows/current.html

‘Nosferatu’ at Mayo Street Arts 7 p.m. Film: “Nosferatu” with live original score by Les Sorciers Perdu, at Mayo Street Arts. “‘Nosferatu’ is a German Expressionist vampire horror film. The silent film, shot in 1921 and released in 1922, was in essence an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ and is famous for its amazing abstract expressionist set design. Les Sorciers Perdus (The Lost Wizards) are a local Jazz ensemble and will perform a live score composed by band leader Mark Tipton. $7. http://mayostreetarts.org/calendar

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Veterans Day pomp RIGHT: Dignitaries gather on the steps of City Hall Thursday for the Veterans Day ceremony in Portland. U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, (two seats right of the podium) said she recalled meeting a woman who along with her husband, was serving in the Army, “they had left three young children behind in the care of her parents, today that’s a serious sacrifice.

Last year at a troop sendoff in Bangor, Lt. Col. Diana Dunn sat in the front row, her two teenage children next to her as she got ready to ship out to Afghanistan as a combat battalion commander.” Mayor Nick Mavodones (right of the podium) said, “We stand together in honor of service and sacrifice by hundreds of thousands of men and women of all races, religions, poor, rich, old and young, from every town in America.” (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

ABOVE: Bill Ingraham, a graduate of Portland High School, watches the pageantry of Thursday’s parade, including a color guard (LEFT) on Congress Street. Ingraham served as grand marshal of this year’s parade. Ingraham joined the Maine Army National Guard in 1956 and served in several units until his retirement in 1993, according to his introduction at City Hall, where speakers paid tribute to the nation’s veterans. He worked in construction and was a bridge operator for 14 years. He has been a member of the American Legion Post 197 in Westbrook for 30 years and served as past district commander covering eight states for AmVets. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

A day of remembrance as Portland honors veterans

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that allows him to keep things interesting. “I love so much music, I definitely need a couple different worlds to do it in.

I don’t necessarily like all the styles to be compiled into one band,” he said.

The band made for Montreal in July to take lessons from professional Flamenco teachers, with Sutherland taking voice lessons, Bourassa and Keogh brushing up on their Flamenco dance, and “clinician” Curtis being reduced to a novice at the hands of a Flamenco guitar instructor.

“I come from a North American folk finger picking style, it’s really different than traditional Flamenco finger picking,” he said.

“My teacher took my right hand and just rotated the way I hold my hand on the guitar — it just completely reduced me to beginner status, it was really humbling,” said Curtis.

Curtis said the whole band also took palmera lessons, an aspect of the style that he said is “very integral in the percussive side of the music.”

Olas will take Flamenco to the wooden floors of an former church tonight at Mayo Street Arts at 8 p.m. To get a taste of the Olas style, check out a video of their song “so es lo que yo soy?” from the Acadia Sessions at http://bit. ly/OlasAS