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A Chat with Dana Bullen at Sunday River

BL: What are the major differences between Sunday River and Sugarloaf ?

DB: Sunday River people want others to experience what they have.

Bethel Living sat down with Dana Bullen, President of Sunday River Skiway, to talk about his tenure at Sunday River and to find out the inside story on plans for the 2016 / 2017 ski season.

Sugarloaf is a smaller community with a sense of Sugarloaf pride.

They’re a more closed group. Here, if there’s a favorite mug club, folks want everyone to go there, as with a favorite trail, they want to share it with each other. Sunday River folks are very inclusive, very welcoming from all senses.

BL: Dana, you’ve been President of Sunday River Skiway for a dozen years now - how does it feel?

BL: So you plan on being here for a while?

DB: It feels great! Things are a lot different than when I started. Now

DB: Yes, I’m 51 now, and I plan on working until I’m 64. I’d like

it feels like home. We have 1,200 team members in the winter and about 400 during the summer months and they all feel like family. After being at Sugarloaf for about 15 years I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I’ve been extremely pleased with the homey feeling we have here.

to finish out my career right here. Working for the Boyne family and for Stephen Kircher has been a delight compared to working for publicly traded companies. When you talk with Boyne, you talk from experience, people who truly know how to run ski resorts.

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BL: You’ve seen many changes over the past dozen years - what are some of the largest changes you’ve seen?

DB: The Chondola was a huge change - it’s not just for the skiers, it’s

turned the Peak Lodge into a place for conferences and weddings. Gordon Research holds Lobster Bakes up there every Thursday throughout the summer. Our wedding business is constantly growing and we offer Full Moon Dinners up there. The Chondola has helped transform what we have been able to do with the entire South Ridge area.

BL: Anything else new and fun coming up?

DB: Our team is always drumming up fun weekend plans and you’ll be able to continue to count on all of our regular events, plus our world renowned snow making and grooming. Sunday River folks know what to expect here. We won last year’s Snowmaker of the Year award from HKD! BL: Harding Lee Smith of his famous “The Rooms” Restaurants is joining you at Sunday River as well, eh?

BL: What’s a fun thing about Sunday River?

BL: Tell us what’s new for this upcoming ski season.

DB: Yes, he’s an amazing man! We are working on “The Mountain Room”, under his guidance and direction. Phase One will increase the bar up at the Peak Lodge from 5 seats to about 25 seats and will have full restaurant service with Harding’s delicious offerings. We’ll be expanding that side with a large deck to mirror the current deck. Folks will still be able to get the same cafeteria service with more healthy options this year.

DB: We’ve spent about $2 Million in capital in residing buildings,

BL: All indications point to a very snowy winter . . .

new pavement and we’ve been doing a lot of repairs down at White Cap Lodge. We’ve also completely rebuilt the snow making pump house to be more efficient and we’re working on the plan for a new Spruce Peak lift.

DB: Yes, tell all your friends to come on up and join us for a fabulous winter season!

DB: I love Eddy the Yeti! I love who he is and I love who he represents.

He’s taken on a life of his own with his new home in the woods. He and Betty leave for the summer and come back around peak foliage for Columbus Day weekend and Fall Festival. It’s wonderful.

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Fire&Rain Bethel Living sought out Steve Perry, who has lived in the area and worked at Sunday River for a few decades. It’s always fun to chat with Steve as he reminisces about happenings big and small at Sunday River and Mount Abram. Beer may have been involved.

BL: Hey, Steve, everyone loves hearing about local drama, what incidents from the past are in your story bag?

SP: During the summer I often think back to the middle of July

2011. I was out on my deck and a large thunderstorm raged through with an excess of lightening. Just after that I could see a lot of smoke coming from Mount Abram, the base lodge had been struck and burst into flames. Everything was destroyed — from computers to phones systems, all records of their history — everything but the gravel in the parking lot. Complete loss. Now they have an energy efficient Quonset Hut-styled base lodge and a hugely successful solar array with a highly sophisticated snow making system. It’s an awesome tale of survival from tragedy!

BL: Wow! That was an amazing time, yes, since that fire things have really changed at Mount Abram — and for the better!

SP: Yeah, that’s for sure.

BL: How about a Sunday River memory or two?

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was moved down through all the brooks and streams eventually blowing apart the Barker holding pond -leaving Barker Lodge hanging by a thread! This all occurred on the day that Boyne signed papers and took over the operations at Sunday River. The town of Bethel’s water reservoir located on the back side of Barker Mountain couldn’t contain the surge of excess water, and it was destroyed, never to be rebuilt again. That flood caused over $2.5 million in destruction of fiberoptic lines, phone lines, culverts, wells and removed earth — just at Sunday River. It was devastating!

Road Runner was gone. After the wrack-up, everyone was placed on super long shifts to try and get all the systems back and functional. It took a few months of really hard work, but somehow we all recovered.

One woman from the Forest Rally was almost swept downstream in Barker Brook at the entrance to the Summit Road but was saved in the nick of time as a security worker was able to back a Sunday River heavy-duty pickup to her car. She leapt from her car into the pickup bed just before her car was hurled down river through the woods in the rage.

BL: What about that Skip King story about a crazy event with a piece of heavy machinery??

SP: I heard this at a roast for Skip some time around the late 90’s that was given when he was leaving employment at Sunday River.

Jay Gamble shared this story. This is how Sunday River got its first computer.

They were building a bunch of new trails from the top of the Barker lift and Skip was working on a new trail called Right Stuff. For transportation Skip used a Bombardier, which looks like a tank on tracks. With this a worker could carry all the trail clearing gear and welding equipment as well as have a rugged mountain vehicle to do the tough clearing jobs and climb the steep sections. Anyway, at the end of the day Skip headed down the last headwall of Right Stuff and as the “bomb” picked up speed Skip realized he had no brakes! Skip was normally the Patrol Director, not really a trail clearer and he was finding it impossible to stop the huge rig so he bailed on the steepest part and mangled his leg pretty bad. As Skip rolled around and watched the bomb go it slowed and gently came to a stop in the hollow below that headwall.

Being all banged up, Les said to Skip “Now that you’re all banged up, what are we going to do with you for the next few months?” So Skip, being Skip, created a new job for himself by saying “Well, I can write up a new manual for rules and procedures, but you’re going to have to get me a computer”.

BL: Too much! It’s always great to hear your stories not only of Sunday River but of the entire area. We’ll check in with you again soon!

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In 2010 when Deb and Dave Doyle, along with their 8 kids, purchased the already established Bethel Hostel they expected to maintain the affiliation with Hostelling International — hosting visitors from around the world and forming lasting relationships during their weekly or nightly stays. But life intruded on that plan when Dave received a cancer diagnosis. The challenges raised by Dave’s illness forced a reduction in Hostel visitors, and his passing this summer brought Deb to the realization that she had to repurpose the Bethel Hostel into a more sustainable entity by instituting a local focus.

Ending the connection to Hostelling International and beginning over as a resident-managed housing cooperative has allowed Deb to put her “Occupy Life” philosophy into action.

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or any type of hospital or step-process program. It is temporary lodging — a way station for people to inhabit while they attempt to settle (or resettle) in the Bethel community. But it involves more than that; learning to live with integrity while sharing space, Deb believes, is the basis for developing essential life skills.

Doyle’s cooperative housing model is a work in progress without a huge set of rules and regulations — just common sense pathways to bettering one’s life. There is a strict alcohol and drug policy with mandatory clean living in shared spaces. Each person must live independently, yet there is a once-a-month pot luck dinner to encourage community spirit. The Hostel has three private apartments upstairs and six private sleeping quarters with a kitchen and common area on the first floor. The ideal resident has an external support system such as family or faith, employment and — hopefully — transportation. Young families looking to work toward permanent housing are preferred, but the Hostel possesses the ability to work with individuals as well. Resident’s progress is assessed on a monthly basis with the goal of moving them out to a self-reliant housing situation within a year of moving in.

The entire scheme is based on the belief that we can create the life we want without taking from others. Hostel residents live together with the expectation to act as neighbors, mentors and friends — helping each other as they work toward a balanced life by maintaining a healthy environment while

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No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people tells all.

Integrity is everything.

Deb thanks her lucky stars for her life with Dave. Being open to the ideals of compassion, forgiveness and responsibility — having a bond with others and shedding light on a positive future through this type of venture was always their goal. The Bethel Hostel is an asset to the Bethel area, and Dave would be extremely proud of Deb’s transformation from their original plan to this new vision. Life, love, hope and the shot at a second chance define Deb’s message. And that is how communities grow in the right direction. ÊV Ì>VÌÊ iLÊ Þ iÊ>ÌÊ } ` Þ iÃJ} > °V Ê ÀÊV> ÊÓäÇ ÎxÇ äÓÇx

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investing in each other, but not telling each other what to do.

Deb oversees the group and offers guidance about establishing a budget, securing transportation or planning for the next stable, sustainable living situation. Essentially, the arrangement all hinges on harnessing the desire within people to give, support and coach each other toward a better life.

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Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation, the state’s largest provider of outdoor programming for

as runners, cyclists or paddlers!

Throughout the summer, its program for

adults and children with physical disabilities,

advanced athletes, Team Maine Adaptive,

has wrapped up another summer and is

brings volunteers and athletes to the runs,

preparing for its 34th winter. Headquartered at Sunday River, Maine Adaptive is an independent

paddles and cycling events offered by other organizations. Designed to raise funds and awareness

501(c)(3) organization that offers its programs free of

for Maine Adaptive, Team Maine Adaptive cycled with the

charge. With generous support from a variety of corporate,

Bicycle Coalition of Maine at its Women’s Ride in June,

individual and foundation supporters, including Sunday

paddled with the Androscoggin River Watershed Council

River Resort, Maine Adaptive serves nearly 450 people with

during a segment of its Source-to-Sea event in July, ran the

lessons in alpine and Nordic skiing, snowshoeing, tennis, cycling,

TD Beach to Beacon 10k in August, and cycled in Vermont with

paddling, golf and fishing.

the Kelly Brush Foundation in September.

One of the highlights of the 2016 summer was Maine

The bulk of Maine Adaptive operating funds are generated at

Adaptive’s Veterans No Boundaries Adaptive Sports Camp,

its Ski-A-Thon, held at Sunday River each March. This winter’s

held at Camp Wavus in Jefferson, Maine. More than 28 disabled

Ski-A-Thon will be on Saturday, March 25, 2017. New to the Ski-

Veterans and 36 family members and caregivers used the Camp’s

A-Thon this year will be the “Something Bigger” Rando Race, part

fields, waterfront and ranges for a long weekend filled with sports,

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the Ski-A-Thon’s other activities once the race finishes.

River, Maine Adaptive hosts an alpine race team, offers weekend

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The majority of people who visit the Bethel area — tourists fill the gap. He purchased an AWD minivan and took the plunge and second home owners from Massachusetts and Maine — drive — Stagecoach Shuttle Services opened their (passenger) doors up for vacations or weekend fun during the winter months. But and have not stopped driving since. over the past decade our area’s year round attractions, combined At the start Gary would drop by local hotels with pizza and with consistent snow up on the mountain (natural and man made), gift certificates for the desk staff, reminding them to give out the have enticed visitors from different parts of the country and the number for Stagecoach when guests needed a ride. A trip to world. Whether these travelers come here to hike, fish, snowmobile, the local supermarket and back? No problem. Last minute calls paddle or ski they all need to get where they are going and many from North Station in Boston? Stagecoach was on the way. An do not want to, or cannot, drive themselves. During the winter easy to navigate website and 24 hour response quickly established months visitors without a car can move around the local area easily Stagecoach as the go to transportation option. Stargazing trips to on the Mountain Explorer. Since it’s inception in 2000 this free Mahoosuc Notch at midnight? Jump right in. shuttle service, supported by local businesses and communities, A decade down the road Stagecoach has transported thousands has provided environmentally-friendly transportation for the of guests to the beautiful western Maine area and chauffeured public between downtown Bethel and Sunday River. Until 2007 more than a hundred wedding couples on their special day. Three however there were no convenient vehicles, including a 15 passenger and reliable public transit options van, are in near constant use Want to get somewhere? Check out: for accessing Bethel from the greater delivering groups to the mountain SUNDAY RIVER STAGECOACH outside world. That was the year that or the Mahoosuc Guide Service SHUTTLE SERVICES LLC Gary Coyne, an enterprising local dog sledding operation in Newry 207-357-5783 figure, began talking to motel owners during the winter. New Year’s Eve www.srstage.com / ride@srstage.com and the Sunday River marketing reservations are a must with available team about creating a shuttle service. rides to local clubs and house parties Not surprisingly, a lack of regular train or bus service from capped at 150 trips. The warmer seasons keep Stagecoach busy the Boston and Portland airports was a constant deal breaker for with bachelor and bachelorette groups, casino trips, Gould individuals and small groups trying to organize a trip to Bethel.

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The Gardner Roberts Memorial Library in Hanover Since its inception in 1895, the Gardner Roberts Memorial

community activities.

Library has been dedicated to providing resources to the children

The Gardner Roberts Memorial Library is a privately held,

and citizens of the town of Hanover, Maine. The “Little Library”,

independent, 501(c) 3 non-profit organization located in Hanover,

a one-room structure built and owned by J. Gardner Roberts,

Maine.

originally served as the town’s Post Office where space was made

sellers, a children’s section, books about Maine, antique volumes

available for a book-lending corner. When the Post Office moved

and the latest DVDs.

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to Russell’s Store on Main Street, Alfred Pierce of Lexington,

The Busy Bees meet on Tuesdays, from 1pm to 3pm. All are

Massachusetts, offered to donate 100 volumes of books and 10

welcome. Bring a project to work on or just come to chat with

volumes a year for the next five years provided that the Library

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be named the Pierce Library. His offer was accepted and in 1901

Fresh homemade baked goods, hot donuts, and Miss Peggy’s

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famous baked beans are available for sale during library hours.

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year – a fee that was also to be used for the cost of wood and lights!

gift? The Craft Corner has a variety of fine handmade items such

As space for additional books became in demand, Mr. Roberts

as knitted hats, scarves, mittens, handmade quilted bags, crocheted

provided funding to add a wing to the building in order to house the growing book collection. When he died in 1924, the building and surrounding land were deeded by his heirs to the library corporation with the stipulation that the name be changed to the Gardner Roberts Memorial Library. To this day, the “Little Library” continues to actively serve the Town of Hanover as it did over a century ago and proudly bears the name of its founder.

Originally located at the bottom of Howard Pond Road, the Library was moved in 2007 to its current location near the Town Office to make it more centrally located and to provide parking for patrons. Ms. Peggy Susbury, librarian, has faithfully served the Library since 2007. GRML has become the local hub of Hanover where neighbors and friends meet and both adults and children enjoy the wide variety of books and partake in the various

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Fresh From Mountains

In our continuing effort to support all the wonderful people, places and products from our Western Maine haven BL will be offering a series of short profiles entitled “Fresh from the Mountains”. If you know of someone or something that embodies the mountain way of life, let us know. We love a good story!

Mary Harrington grew up in the Sunday River Valley spending many pristine days surrounded by horses, goats, chickens and the large garden at her grandmother’s farm. With the mountains as her backdrop, the Sunday River as her boundary and the tall pines by the Covered Bridge as her canopy she swam in the river, biked to the Letter S and Frenchman’s, and remembers a time -- not so long ago -- when things were a lot quieter around here.

Now residing in Albany Township, Mary offers up Mountainess Hand Mades, a wholesome product line she has been melding since 2013. Using snow as one of the essential ingredients, she compounds soaps, lotions, balms and deodorants with sensuous aromas and soothing spirits.

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Surrounded by fluffy white water for much of the year, Mary stockpiles melted snow whenever she can, filtering out impurities for use in many of her creations. She started with baby lotions for her infant daughters then continued expanding the product line into home necessities such as soy candles — available in 14 scents -- with favorites like balsam, lavender, lilac, pumpkin and varied fragrances that fluctuate throughout the year.

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the Kennedys at 7 p.m. followed by

Cornhole Championship, and activities for the whole family. The festival

a book signing reception. Monica

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