It’s all mint condition. St. Luke’s had a successful capital campaign a while back and the kitchen was the last step. It came online just last August. Using the space in this unique way... That was the brainchild of parishioner Tom Flynn. He had the vi sion and St. Luke’s needed the money, like any church. So, why not rent the kitchen to someone like Mariama Jallow.
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MARIAMA’S KITCHEN “In Gambia, I went to school for two years to study Gambian cuisine. So, I want to bring that to Portland – to Maine in general.”Mariama Jallow is an experienced en trepreneur who currently runs a beauty supply store. But she has a passion for West African cuisine and wants to bring the favors of Gambia to the West End. She started training at the age of ffteen and loves to cook most of all. She was looking for a way to make Mariama’s Kitchen happen when she discovered St. Luke’s Community Kitchen. “Starting a restaurant is risky. But if you start here, then you build clients. And then there will come a time when you will have a lot of people and you’ll be ready to have your own space. This way is less risky.”Whoever wants to try Mariama’s West African cuisine, you’ll have a little wait. She has not started at the kitchen yet, but when the grand opening comes Mariama suggests the jollof rice - with to mato, onion, spice, vegetables, and meat cooked in a single pot - it’s a delicious GambianMariamadish.invites you to try it, “Who ever wants to try West African food can come here. We will have a grand opening when the licensing is done. We are going to offer something outside where people can come and try different things. And we don’t have that in Portland. We don’t have West African food in Portland. So, it is time for people to come and try some thing new.”
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READERS CAN HELP “Because people like Mariama, no matter what their story is, they want to establish their business. But with the price of real estate, you can’t buy or rent a store front. That’s why we’re so devoted to this. People are trying to support themselves and their family. They are trying to make a living. But there’s not much around and what is around is expensive.”
Dawn Brennan-Daly says the number one way anyone can get involved is to vol unteer. “If you want to come in and you have a skill and you want to do something. That’s great!” Email Dawn (dbrennanda ly@cathedralofstluke.org) and she can get you started. Or you can make a donation online. Visit openingandCommunityothercanEndfaith-in-action/#communitykitchen.https://stlukesportland.org/“Butmore,I’dlikepeopleintheWesttosaythisismyneighborhood,whatIthinkofthatcouldgetthishelpingpeople,”encouragesDawn.So,joinusinwelcomingSt.Luke’sKitchentotheneighborhoodfollowWENforupdatesandagrandannouncement.St.Luke'senvisionstheircommunitykitchenasaplacewhereunderservedentrepreneurscangettheirstart.
“We’re a commissary kitchen, that’s the model, that’s what you call it,” Dawn told me to highlight that they are not an incubator and are not putting money behind projects. Instead, they’re offering affordable commercial kitchen space to start-ups and underserved entrepreneurs. And there is demand. Like the guy from code said, there is a big challenge with kitchen space in Portland.
Mariama Jallow wants to use St. Luke’s Community Kitchen as a springboard to her own West African restaurant, Mariama’s Kitchen. -Photos by Tony Zeli
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The range, Dawn assures me, is the best on the market. Even the fre department was impressed with the griddle. They said so when inspecting the kitchen and its ad vanced fre suppression system.
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By Tony Zeli “A person from the city’s code offce stood right there and said to me, ‘One of the biggest challenges in Portland right now is kitchen space.” Dawn Brennan-Daly is the Executive Manager at St. Luke’s Community Kitchen and she wants the community to know that their space is here to help. I had a chance to speak with Dawn last month at their brand-new kitchen at the cathe dral. While showing off the new space, she introduced me to Mariama Jallow a local entrepreneur who is hoping to introduce Portland to West African cuisine.
What is nice about their model - be sides the fact that there aren’t very many commissary kitchens in Maine - is that they don’t charge a yearly membership fee. Though they cannot offer everything say Fork Food Lab can, the kitchen is a viable commercial space at much less than market rates. (And Fork Food Lab is a friend of the community kitchen.)
For $20 per hour an entrepreneur can have access to state-of-the-art, stain less-steel equipment and limited cold and dry storage (for as little as fve or ten dol lars per shelf). The equipment is topnotch.
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Governor Janet Mills was on site for the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Maine International Cold Storage Facility. The large new warehouse will dominate a relatively small lost across from Eimskip’s shipping container terminal on Portland’s western waterfront.
The 107,000-square-foot building will bring a massive amount of cold storage to Commercial Street. The Maine Depart ment of Transportation backed the proj ect for years to support Maine business and commercial fshing. According to a re port prepared by the University of South ern Maine, the project could generate an economic impact of between $500 and $900 million annually.
In 2020, dozens of residents from the West End and Western Promenade neigh borhoods signed a letter to the planning board opposing the project. They sighted the lack of maritime demand for the proj ect and concerns for increased trucking traffc on West Commercial Street. From a circulated draft of the letter: “The massive disconnect between warehouse size and maritime demand should concern anyone examining this proposal for the Waterfront Port Devel opment Zone [WPDZ]. It is impossible to reconcile how this warehouse, with almost entirely non-waterborne cargo, could be considered ‘compatible with water dependent and marine uses,’ as re quired of conditional WPDZ uses.”
On hand for the dedication were the Whitehouse great-granddaughters Aman da Dustin, Anne Gass, Vicki Gass, and Elizabeth Scully. Anne Gass wrote a biog raphy about her great-grandmother, “Vot ing Down the Rose – Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage.”Florence Brooks Whitehouse was an activist in the National Women’s Party. She and her husband Rober t Treat White house, head of the Men’s Equal Suffrage League, lived on Deering Street from 1894 to 1917. Their struggle lasted years, but f nally in 1920 women in Maine attained the right to Localvote.historian Herb Adams deliv ered the dedication address. “Rights are won and history is made right here in the streets of Portland - an important lesson to remember these complex and contra dictor y times,” said Adams. The marker was provided by the Wal ter G. Pomeroy Foundation and is one of a series of markers making their way across the state. With the dedication of the sec ond this September, Parkside becomes the frst in Maine to have two such trail makers. Visit https://thewestendnews.com before September 18th for more deatils on the dedication of the second marker.
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Amber Infrastructure Group is de veloping the facility in partnership with Treadwell Franklin Infrastructure. Ameri cold, a refrigerated storage company that currently operates a facility elsewhere in Portland, was the frst project lead. They cancelled their plans in 2018 after a con tentious planning process. The Portland Planning Board approved the project in its current form earlier this year. Construc tion will continue through 2024. The state contributed $8 million to prepare the property. The project is leasing state land.
The Parkside Neighborhood Associ ation and Maine Suffrage Centennial Col laborative dedi cated Portland’s frst marker on the National Votes for Wom en Trail at 42 Deering Street. It marks the his toric home of suffrage pioneers Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Robert Treat Whitehouse. They are planning the dedication of a second marker this Sep tember at 165 State Street, home of Au gustus Hunt, one of frst women to cast a ballot in Portland.
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Ed King Moves to North Carolina leave the place. It’s a place that presented me with a lot of opportunities to be part of something that was growing and chang ing and gave me a chance to contribute in a positive way to that evolution. Along the way, I picked up some great friends, had some unforgettable experiences, and had lots of Ourlaughs.new place is a little bigger, I have a beautiful view from my desk of the sur rounding woods, and our dog Daisy has her own yard. Liz’s family is all nearby, and it’s a little warmer here in January. But I won’t be running into friends in Monu ment Square or at an art opening on Con gress Street or having coffee with them in Pleasant Street Park. Liz and I will miss being surrounded by the people of Port land who have given us so much love and support over the years. We’ll cherish all the wonderful mem ories we have from our years in Portland and look forward to new adventures in Chapel Hill. -Ed King Tony Zeli is publisher and editor. Reach him at thewestendnews@gmail.com. Ed King with loaded moving van and ready for NC. Read his note to readers below.
The Portland Police Department is releasing comprehensive data on over doses following the tragic milestone that fatal overdoses have already surpassed those in 2021–as well as total overdoses year-to-date.FromJanuary to July 5th, 2022, Port land Police have responded to 28 fatal overdoses, surpassing the 2021 year-end total of 23 fatal overdoses.With police re sponding to an 84% increase in overdose incidents this year compared to the same time frame for 2020 and 2021, it’s clear that the opioid epidemic is not slowing down and Portland is on track to surpass the record set in 2017 of 436 overdoses. There have been 238 total overdoses year-to-date, with Portland Police Offcers using Narcan to revive a person 41 times. Overdose patients were transported to the hospital 99 times and patients refused further assistance 111 times.
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By Tony Zeli I started to hear the rumors in July. Could it be true? Ed King, WEN found ing publisher and local personality for 25 years, was relocating to North Carolina. It was hard to believe. But the rumors were true. King, partner Liz McMahon, and fam ily dog Daisy flled up a U-Haul in late Au gust and relocated to Chapel Hill. “Makes me sad. Portland won’t be the same without him,” said WEN contributor Rosanne Graef. King and McMahon had become a fx ture of West End life. King founded and edited our community newspaper from 2001 to 2014. In addition to the News, he is known for his cartoons lampooning Portland politics, organizing dance parties in Congress Square, and drawing carica tures at neighborhood events. Liz McMa hon was an English as a Second Language Teacher at Portland Adult Ed.While teach ing she organized our “My Story” column. This column introduced new Mainers and ESL students to the neighborhood in their own words. Also, Liz was co-founder of the nonproft theater Lucid Stage.
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“I think that so many of us in this town are really going to miss them both. I know I will,” said former WEN food writ er James Fereira.
A short time later an offcer checking nearby businesses located a pickup truck belonging to Markie in the parking lot of Waste Management.The bed of the pickup contained several battery powered tools that belonged to a company working at the construction site. The stolen copper was valued at more than $20,000 and the tools were estimated to be worth $8,500. Both sus pects were arrested and taken to the Cumberland County Jail.
PORTLAND POLICE BEAT to his apartment at 75 Sheridan Street. When police arrived at his apartment to arrest him, he barricaded himself inside and made threats to harm himself and others.Asearch warrant was issued and the Special Reaction Team, Crisis Negotiation Team, and Behavioral Health Unit re sponded to the scene. Nutter eventually surrendered and was taken into custody without incident. He was taken to Maine Medical Center for evaluation and was brought to the Cumberland County Jail and charged with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon. Nutter is being held without bail.
All of us at The West End News wish them well in their new home. Below is a note from Ed King.
On Thursday, August 11th, Portland Police Offcers arrested Ryan Nutter (4/26/94), of Portland. Nutter walked into the Front Room, located at 73 Congress Street, and threatened an employee with a fxed blade knife. Nutter then fed back
A local resident notifed police when he witnessed two subjects exiting the con struction site of the City’s new Homeless Services Center located at 654 Riverside Street after 11:00 p.m. on August 15th. When offcers arrived, they heard noises coming from a nearby section of the Portland Trails and located Edward Demers (DOB 11-04-1979) and Chayne Markie (DOB 02-08-1999), both residents of Portland, pushing wheelbarrows loaded with copper that had been stolen from the construction site.
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So, I was going to write a long piece describing every step of our journey from Portland, Maine to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but moving is actually kind of boring so I’ll keep this short. When we decided to move a few months ago, I had to keep my mind fo cused on the future, because thinking about my past twenty-fve years in this town would have made it impossible to
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Beautiful Children’sBlackbirdBookFest at the Children’s Museum Saturday, September 17 / 9a – 4p / Children’s Museum (Thompson’s Point) / Pay What You Can The Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine is proud to partner with the Beau tiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival again this year! On September 17th, the Museum and Theatre will present a ro bust in-person schedule of literary and art activities for the whole family, including Read Alouds featuring local community members and art-making workshops. In addition, the Museum & Theatre will offer a Pay What You Can ticketing option for all visitors. Our Wildest Dreams: A 1619 Project Discussion Saturday, September 17 / 12-2p / In digo Arts Alliance (60 Cove St., Port land) / Free Indigo Arts Alliance will host a dis cussion, inspired by The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning book "The 1619 Project: Born on the Water" by Ni kole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson, surrounding the past, present and future of the Black American Experience. Edu cators, parents, and youth of all ages are encouraged to attend this free, in-person program.
Mayo Street Arts is pleased to an nounce Puppets in Portland (PiP), its in augural international festival of puppetry arts. Held in venues across Portland from September 20th - 25th, PiP will feature over a dozen professional puppeteers, technicians, and sound engineers from ten different countries, all eager to share their art with others while exploring Maine’s friendly city by the sea. Guest artists include Kr ystal Pup peteers, a Kenyan/German puppetry and performing company established in Mom basa, Kenya; Dafa Puppet Theatre, based in Prague, Czech Republic by the way of Jordan; Lone Wolf Tribe, based in Brooklyn, New York; and Portland’s own Shoestring Theater. In addition to live performanc es, guest puppeteers will offer hands-on workshops and engage with audiences during post-performance conversations. Shoestring Theater kicks off the fes tival with a parade starting at 6 p.m. trav eling through our Kennedy Park neigh borhood in East Bayside, ending with a family-friendly puppet show in front of Mayo Street Arts. Parade-goers can expect giant puppets and masks, tall stilt-walkers, wild drummers, huge assemblages of color, costume, and sound. Enjoy the spectacle or volunteer to join in the fun and parade alongside PiP’s visiting artists.
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West End resident Pat Taub will lead a staged performance of eight original and true stories told by local women, “Wom en Sharing Stories.” The stories are culled from the experiences of eight different se nior women, who began the journey taking a writing class from Pat Taub at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the Universi ty of Southern Maine two years ago. The stories cover a wide range of topics in the lives of girls and women, from connecting with a tough, hardscrabble grandfather, to deciding whether to marry, coming out as a lesbian and trying Internet dating in late middle
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From September 17 to 18th, Indigo Arts Alliance (IAA) will present the third annual Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival. Joining Indigo Arts Alliance this year in its celebration of Black children’s books and their creators from across the African Diaspora, are eight community partners holding events in three Maine cities over the weekend of September 1718th.This year’s festival, honoring the leg acy of Black children’s book creator and artist Ashley Bryan, will feature a 4,500book giveaway, the production of ac claimed media, and live events in Portland, Lewiston, and Rockland. This year’s festival holds special signifcance as Ashley Bryan, best known for his picture book “Beau tiful Blackbird,” passed away in February of this year. Throughout his career, Bryan’s passion for amplifying the legacy of African and African American knew no bounds. It was that same passion that inspired In digo Arts Alliance to create the Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival. Two Portalnd-based book festival events are listed next.
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People have different defnitions, and strong opinions, but it includes thinking about city planning, land use, transporta tion, and how to make nice places to live. I would like to build spaces that are walk able, where there are a lot of small ame nities in neighborhoods, and a lot of dif ferent types of housing working together. We use an online platform called Discord where you have different channels for text chats among groups of people interested in the same thing to share their perspec tives. People share thoughts and promote projects we’re working on. We have some bike ped people promoting their events, we discuss issues, news articles, and com ment on public meetings. We have about thirty people in our Discord currently, including people who are just enthusiasts, and others with ex pertise in transit, planning, development, land use… It’s exciting to hear from actual experts with experience on the ground. That’s been the most valuable experience for me.We tend to agree on the larger vi sion and disagree about technicalities. We all want to see more middle density hous ing. Some people feel we should go fur ther and have very dense housing. The top ideas are opening up more land for mid dle density housing, especially along tran sit corridors. We’re supportive of ADUs [accessory dwelling units], streamlining the zoning process, increasing transit, and de-emphasizing arterial roads through the city. With the Franklin [Street redesign] plan possible to implement in the midterm, all of us agree that it should be narrower. A bunch of us went on one of the walking tours of Franklin Street a few weeks ago to envision how it could be dif ferent.We do some very light activism, just going to city meetings and commenting on topics, but nothing more organized at this point. We have encouraged people to go to city meetings, and we maintain a central calendar of events. We’d like to have more meetups and events going forward. How did you get here?
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I’ve been in Portland for just over a year, but always wanted to live here. I grew up in a suburban environment in Westchester, New York. As a kid, I couldn’t drive, and when I visited Portland, I was so happy, and I asked myself, “What makes this place so great?” and I came to realize it was because I could walk places.
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I lived in California for two years recently for work, and I saw the massive problems that came about there. I was living in an apartment building, surround ed by oceans of single-family homes, and there were whole families living in RVs in the neighborhood near my building. And then one day the police cleared out all the families and RVs. My emotional reac tion was, “Why don’t we just build more housing?” That was my inspiration, and the more I looked into it, and studied the issues, it confrmed that constructing more housing was the answer to so many problems.Ithink a lot of places have similar problems that they feel are unique. Port land is actually in a uniquely good position to solve problems, and that gives me hope. We have an excellent urban fabric to build off of and the energy to make change. The town I lived in in California has a median income of three times that of Portland, and a larger population, but has built onethird of the public housing. I appreciate the strong energy to accomplish things here, and I think we can do more with less. Right now, my day job is as a soft ware developer for an infectious disease research non-proft. We build a free tool that helps public health departments track the progress of outbreaks and identify po tential new threats. What are the big debates in Portland, and what do you think are the solutions? We don’t want to wade too much into divisive issues. Most people can agree on the nuts and bolts of building a livable city. With housing, we talk about issues around the edges, but how can we really remove barriers to making more? Also, we have to talk more about moving away from dependence on cars. We’ve seen progress with bike share but can go further. With housing, there’s a lot of talk in the city about Short Term Rentals, but I would love to also get that kind of en ergy for discussing what we can do with the Recode to allow for construction of more housing. That’s so much more im portant. We could expand the capacity of the Portland Housing Authority to build more types of housing, tweak policies to encourage development, improve and ex pand TIF [Tax Increment Financing] ...
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The awards were made by the Pan demic Recovery for an Innovative Maine Economy (PRIME) Fund, which is admin istered by the Maine Technology Institute.
To be eligible for a PRIME grant, businesses must be engaged in Maine’s designated technology sectors through research, development, or innovation; em ploy 250 full-time employees or less, and demonstrate that their business has been adversely impacted by the pandemic.
The awards represent the frst phase of grants from the overall $39 million PRIME fund and ranged from $10,000 to approximately $387,000. This round re ceived 321 total applications seeking more than $71 million. Two further rounds of PRIME grants are expected later this year.
There’s a video that’s called, “Does Induced Demand Apply to Housing?” The gist is there’s no evidence that construct ing more housing is bad in terms of afford ability. I see people who think constructing housing is the cause of gentrifcation, but I believe it’s a symptom. Any new con struction relieves some of the pressure, but we need to do more. And our devel opment pattern is not sustainable. Paving the roads and getting utilities to sprawled areas costs more than property taxes will ever pay, and towns end up in debt forever to maintain that amount of infrastructure per home or business. StrongTowns is re ally inspiring in that area. More LivableInformationPortlandwebsite (https://Liv ablePortland.me) has a link to the Dis cord channel, a Google Calendar of public events, and an interest form. Read the article, “Does Induced De mand Apply to Housing?”: MoreU6w.www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FB_xI-https://informationon
Students will also get to work with an inverted Leica DMI 6000 B microscope. This microscope was donated to the Uni versity by the Updike Lab at the MDI Bi ological Laboratory in Bar Harbor. It has a 600 times magnifcation and can detect fuorescent-labeled proteins. It will give students the opportunity to study a wide variety of biological samples that were previously too small to see. These types of microscopes are used to look at cell and tissues samples in professional laborato ries by lab technicians, research assistants, PhD students or those working for bio technology organizations.
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The most obvious next steps are al lowing slightly denser housing types, like two to four units and rowhomes, in ar eas that are currently single-family. Even though parking requirements along transit routes are gone, people still want to build parking. Transit doesn’t feel like a viable option for most people. It’s probably go ing to take money to increase frequency. I worked on a proposal to create a fee for parking lots to fund transit. Why should we break our dependency on cars? I don’t want to take people’s cars away. I want to allow people to not need a car.We live in a society that supports driv ing in all sorts of ways. Cars cause wear and tax on roads, but the gas tax doesn’t come close to covering the cost of the roads. Roads cost the City something like ten times what we spend on public transit. Designing roads so people feel safe walk ing and biking and even a small amount of transit funding could pay big dividends... for drivers, pedestrians, clearer air. What’s something you wish everyone understood about making livable cities?
The new fund focuses its investments in businesses engaged in Maine’s targeted technology sectors, which include bio technology, composites and advanced materials, forestry and agriculture, marine industries, precision manufacturing and more.
The state announced $23.3 million in grant awards from the Maine Jobs and Recovery Plan to help Maine technology companies recover from the pandemic, invest in new products and business lines, attract new customers, and create longterm economic growth.
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One such piece of equipment is a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spec trometer. NMR spectroscopy allows indi viduals to observe magnetic felds around atomic nuclei. Found in professional healthcare research facilities, this equip ment helps individuals better understand biological processes at the molecular level and the inner workings of cells.
Husson University celebrated the off cial opening of seven new modern science laboratories on its Bangor campus with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on August 25th. Approximately one-third of Husson’s cur rent population is enrolled in health-relat ed programs that would utilize these new biology laboratory facilities. This includes students enrolled in the University’s new pre-med degree program.
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It is the frst national, geographic-driv en tool designed to measure the cumu lative impacts of environmental burden through the lenses of human health and health equity. Cumulative impacts are the total harm to human health that occurs from the combination of environmental burden such as pollution and poor envi ronmental conditions, pre-existing health conditions, and social factors. An example of how environmental burden can worsen pre-existing health conditions would be two people with asthma. One person lives in a community with elevated air pollution, and the other person does not. While both people have asthma, the person living in the communi ty with elevated air pollution may be more likely to be hospitalized based on having bothThefactors.EJI was created to help public health offcials and communities identify and map communities most at risk for facing the health impacts of environmen tal hazards. Social factors, such as poverty, race, and ethnicity, along with pre-existing health conditions, may increase these im pacts. Specifcally, the EJI databases and maps can be used to: • identify areas that may require special attention or additional resources to improve health and health equity, • educate and inform the public about their community, • analyze the unique, local factors driv ing cumulative impacts on health to inform policy and decision-making, and • establish meaningful goals and mea sure progress towards environmental justice and health equity. Environmental injustice can have pro found negative effects on human health and well-being. Addressing these negative effects is a key part of promoting health equity.The EJI presents data for each census tract in the United States.The data used in the tool comes from the Census Bureau, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Formore information about the EJI, visit: https://eji.cdc.gov.
Popham Beach State Park got a new upgrade this August that improves acces sibility to the beach for people with dis abilities. The new mobility pathway was funded through the Maine Jobs and Re covery Plan.
“We are thrilled with this new beach path,” said Andy Cutko, Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands.“Popham Beach State Park had more than 60,000 visitors in July alone, and we want everyone to be able to experience one of Maine’s most scenic State Parks.” The Governor’s Job Plan dedi cates $50 million to improve infrastruc ture at state parks across Maine . Also at coastal state parks, offcials have imple mented new shark sighting and visitor no tifcation protocols.
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The new mobility pathway at Popham Beach State Park will help people with wheel chairs access the beach. -Photos courtesy of Governor's Offce servation and Forestry.
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Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Regis try, in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Offce of Environmental Justice, announced the re lease of the Environmental Justice Index (EJI). The EJI builds off existing environ mental justice indexes to provide a single environmental justice score for local com munities across the United States so that public health offcials can identify and map areas most at risk for the health impacts of environmental burden.
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In 2021, Maine’s 48 parks and histor ic sites welcomed more than 3.3 million visitors. These visitors generated an esti mated $100 million in revenue for Maine’s economy.Despite the popularity of the parks, it has been more than ffteen years since they have seen any meaningful investment. This forced the state to defer much-need ed maintenance on roads, trail systems, and other vital infrastructure.
“The pathway provides a smooth and even surface designed to assist wheelchair users and others with physical disabili ties so they have greater access to the beach,” said Amanda Beal, Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture, Con
“I want every person to have access to Maine’s beautiful state parks, and with state parks more popular than ever be fore, it’s the perfect time to make these upgrades,” said Governor Mills. “This new mobility pathway, funded by my Maine Jobs and Recovery Plan and brought to fruition by members of the Phippsburg commu nity, will help ensure all people can enjoy our parks for generations to come.”
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Delayed delivery does not mean a delay in patient care. William Bas sett, MD, pediatric orthopedic surgeon, Northern Light Pediatric Orthopedics, ordered a Mehta Table, which was on backorder. The table is used to treat infan tile scoliosis through a series of casts that de-rotate and straighten the spine. As the only pediatric orthopedic sur geon in the state, Dr. Bassett knew that families would have to travel to Boston to receive care for this condition. When he met a mother whose child was diagnosed with infantile scoliosis and could not trav el for treatment, Dr. Bassett and his team got to work building their own specialized table.Dr. Bassett and the Pediatric Ortho pedic team researched how Mehta Tables are made and created a plan.They reached out to a vendor who sells orthopedic traction materials and secured parts that would provide patient stabilization and support. Dr. Bassett connected with op erating room leaders and the Clinical En gineering department to review his work and received approval all around. It was deemed safe for patient care!
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Northern Light Mercy Hospital’s pri mary care and pediatric practices recently introduced online patient self-schedul ing for new and existing patients. Mercy also offers online scheduling for screening mammograms. These are the frst steps in offering online scheduling at all Northern Light Health member locations. “We’re always looking for ways to improve access to our services. We know that our patients are busy, and offering on line scheduling is one more way to make it easier for patients to get the care they need,” said Charlie Therrien, president of MercyOnlineHospital.scheduling is one of many online tools being launched at Northern Light Mercy Hospital and Northern Light Health this year. A new virtual walk-in care service launched earlier this spring, and a paperless registration and appoint ment check-in tool, new patient education and care management tools, and more will become available in the coming weeks and months.Current patients can log into their patient portal to make an appointment, and anyone can access the new online scheduling tool on the hospital’s lishedpatientulednot(NorthernLightHealth.org/Mercy).websiteWhileallappointmenttypescanbeschedonline,screeningmammograms,newvisits,sick/urgentcareforestabpatients,annualwellness/Medicare
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vor of their Lobster roll (mayo, please) at $25.00 are a perfect match (market price for lobster is determined via Ouija Board). My wife is partial to the Kelp mar tini paired with the spoons of delectable seafoodTherecrudo.you have it. A newish neigh borhood with parking, walk-in and sitdown convenience, and bottles of wine that are both delicious and affordable. It is but a short jaunt across the bridge. There are two confuences in action here: “the WashingtonAvenueization” (you know what I mean) versus THE WINTER. Only the heartiest will survive. We will still be here. NOSH (the “new Nosh”) 551 Congress St. Portland, Arts District Tuesday-Saturday: 4-11p (kitchen closes at 10p)
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12 THE WEST END NEWS / SEPTEMBER 2022 FOOD & DRINK
I adore restaurants. Especially the ones with carefully thought-out, wellpriced, drink lists. Not the price gouging, precious, and curated ones. Especially not those.Please
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The old Nosh was a famed local food icon in its own way. Best if you frequented this spot with your cardiologist as your dining partner. There was nothing like their “Arteriosclerotic Burger Special.” To us, this place was the cavern of excess, and a well-documented one, having been featured on the television show “Man vs. Food”!One of our fondest memories was a dinner complete with all-you-could-eat delicious grub and all-you-could-drink local craft beer, with a substantial house wine chaser, followed by a leisurely crawl
Ant Moore Pinot Noir, New Zealand, $25.00/bottle
The beauty of New Zealand wine is that most of their 100,000 acres of grapes are planted in that “gooseberry splashed by cat pee” style of Sauvignon Blanc that we have come to not be able to live with out.Well, their Pinot Noir is a semi-closely guarded secret as you don’t see a whole lot of it around.The cool climate produces a Burgundian lookalike at a third of the price! A perfect accompaniment to their tuna tartare rice bowl at $18.00. Tuna and Pinot Noir with its earthy, dry, fresh ber ry-like essence is an ideal match.
don’t use that word, “curated” for your drink lists. “Curated” is for your collection of Goya prints - not wine, beer, ciders, or the latest cilantro/jalapeno in fused seltzer. Your price per bottle jumps $20.00 or more when that magical word appears.We like to support local restaurants, using our own money, and cringe when that $15.00 retail wine (yes, you can look it up on your phone) magically leaps into the $50 plus world. Precious means just that. Be wary of “precious” anything. There is faux local, then there is real local. Here are some real locals.
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For those of you Portland newbies, here is a little history. The last occupant of this space, the 5 Spot was a little calmer than Popeyes and a lot nicer than Sangillo’s. But there was a mancave in the basement with a bar, couch, a stage, and beer taps. It fortunately never reached its full potential. In antique Portland lore, the former incarnation was reputed to have been a gam bling den. The new space is clean, serene, and orderly. The basement is now storage. After decades in the biz, Sarah is still an esteemed presence behind the bar. The list is small, good, and reasonably priced. Also, she can both concoct an absinthe cocktail and talk stories about the “green fairy” with the best of them. Ask her about the legendary rabbit sighting. She was the frst person to bring absinthe into Maine.
A comprehensive beverage selection; and a model, budget-sensible, eight item wine list features the likes of:
The more I go to these neighborhood places the more it becomes apparent that they are there for us - the local customer. They deserve our support. And we will be here when all the cruise ships and snow birds are long gone.
Real Local Deserves Real Support I get it. Portland can be too precious at times. But if you know where to look there are hardworking, caring, local people who aren’t vulturing it up with tchotch kes waiting for the cruise ships to come in. You can still eat and drink well in this town without spending a fortune.
• 2 Copas Spanish white, $7 glass/$25.00 bottle
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They have included a creative cock tail list featuring high quality drinks at, by Portland standards, very reasonable prices - like $10-12.00 each. This is not a typo. They ARE $10.00 and exceptionally good.
• Simply Chardonnay, Washington, $7 glass/$25.00 bottle
Layne has been a professional in the wine business for many decades as a teacher, importer, writer, competition judge, and winery CEO. He was awarded the Master Knight of the Vine for his pioneering work in the Oregon wine industry. He can be reached at lvwith erell@gmail.com.
• Two by Sea Cabernet Sauvignon, Washington, $7 glass/$25.00 bottle. A personal fave with their BLT Club at $14.00 or Burrito at $14.00.
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935 Congress St., Portland, St. John/Valley Thu, Fri, Sat: 2p - 11p. Check for possible ex tended hours on their Facebook page. Talk about emerging neighborhoods! This is it. Sarah Martin, owner of Bar of Chocolate on Wharf Street in the Old Port, has completely re-invented the old 5 Spot space (former home of “the world’s best Philly Cheese Steak”).
Her list is small, well-chosen, and her by the glass pours are generous.
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DoZoe Albarino, Northwestern Spain, $36.00/bottle DoZoe Albarino, that aromatic grape from Rias Bais in Northwestern Spain, is like a lime centric lychee with a touch of melon, $10.00 a glass or $36.00 per bot tle. A deal for Albarino. Always a treat. The shrimp ceviche app at $9.00 is ideal as its accompaniment.
Corte Giacobbe Soave, that slightly almond tinged white from the Veneto in Italy, clocks in at $28.00 a bottle. Try the Edmeades Zinfandel from California at $32.00 a bottle to wash down her ca prese. Also, after decades of tending bar, you can rest assured she does mix a seri ous Manhattan or Martini, as my wife will attest.
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“We Scots are a people who are bound to our ances tors. Though we cannot look into their eyes , or hear their voices, we can walk in their footsteps and be where they once stood.We keep our ancestors alive, in our fesh and in our blood and we carry them within our hearts with pride because for as long as we remember them, they will truly never be gone.” -Author unknown By Nancy Dorrans I am bound. I’ve been three times and Scotland keeps calling. The frst time was in 1985 when I fulflled a childhood dream and went with my grandmother. She was born Bessie Macleod in 1893 in the small town of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, the largest island of the Western Isles or OuterWeHebrides.almost didn’t go. A few weeks prior I had sprained my foot, and then she fell and broke her elbow. It was risky, but we weren’t planning to hike the West Highland Way. We were going there to be together, fulfll a dream, and visit with our relatives. And so, against those odds we went.
On the fight from Boston to Glasgow I was chatting with a man sitting with us while my grandmother napped. He was a professor of British history. He asked me how old my grandmother was. I asked him to guess. He said seventy-fve. When I told him that she was ninety-two, he got excit ed and started doing the math in his head. After a moment he asked, “Do you sup pose she’ll remember the death of Queen Victoria?” I had no idea and asked that he please not wake her up to ask. When she did wake up, he asked. She recalled that they got half a day off school that day. He was thrilled to meet some one from that page in history! You can read more about that adventure in an ar ticle from 2016 at thewestendnews.com/ grandma-dorrans.Sincethattrip
I have returned to Scotland two more times, once with my parents in 1994 and ten years ago with a group of travel agents to attend the Visit Scotland travel trade show. From the blokes in a pub in Glasgow to Torquhil Camp bell, the 13th Duke of Argyll, the people of Scotland were gracious and friend ly - albeit a tad bit hard to understand at times.Our tour ended on a Thursday, which happened to be my birthday! It didn’t seem right to fy home on my birthday. So, my coworker and friend Shelli and I extended our stay through the weekend. The folks from Visit Scotland helped us with our itinerary and directions. We rented a car in Edinburgh and headed west. Along the way we saw a sign pointing to a castle! Why not stop? It was in the town of Doune. The sign at the cas tle read: “Once a regal residence and also the site of a very silly flm.” If you are a fan of Monty Python, you know. It was that castle! Shelli had no idea. I asked the guy in the souvenir shop if they sold coconuts. He replied with a sigh, “Yes, we have the coconuts.” Also, Out lander and Game of Thrones were flmed there.The Duke had invited us to come and visit his castle in Inveraray and so we did that too! We drove on to Oban, the fshing whiskey village, and stayed the night. The next day we headed south to Tarbert. We took a car ferry to the Island of Arran, known as “Scotland in miniature” because of its mountainous terrain to the north and lush, green lowland countryside to the south. We spent one night at the lovely Auchrannie Resort. Another ferry across to Ardrossan and on to Kilmarnock to vis it with my dad’s frst cousin Jean, her son Gordon, and a few other cousins. Then east to Aberdeen before return ing to Edinburgh via St. Andrews. Scotland is a small countr y – about the size of New Jersey - so it is fairly easy to travel about.
Highland Games in our Backyard If you are bound to Scotland at all then you know the draw. If you aren’t ready to travel overseas but want a true Scottish experience, I highly recommend the New Hampshire Highland Games and Festival in Lincoln, New Hampshire. It is always the third weekend in September!
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Saturday is the day to go if you only have one day so you can witness the mass-band opening ceremony. There are over seventy clans and ments,withrepresentedsocietiesalonghistoricencamp-piping,drumming, fddle, harp and dance competitions, strong man athletic competitions, whisky tastings, Scottish goods, crafts, Scotch eggs, meat pies... and so much more! I’m planning to go to the NH Games this year. Though looking forward, I know I must return to Scotland again someday. I want to visit the Isle of Lewis... and the town where my grand mother was born... and maybe take a trip through the stones… Till then, Safe Home. That’s what my grand mother would say! Nancy Dorrans is a pro fessional travel expert and founded Adventure Marketplace in 2014.
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The Dorrans family in Kilmarnock circa 1920. Given to me by my father’s cousin Jean. My great grandparents William and Mary Dorrans surrounded by their eight children. My grandfather John Dorrans is standing, upper left. -Photos courtesy of Nancy Dorrans pub, Glasgow
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Like Carson’s title, climate devasta tion in Maine is quiet. It doesn’t conjure images of starving polar bears or civil war. Yet, look around, it is exposed like the bar rens. We’re All in this Together is a monthly Climate Justice column provided by the Portland chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby.
Maine feels safe, superfcially insulat ed from any climate emergency. Yet, while home, as I have every year for the past few, I spent the wild blueberry harvest work ing on an organic family farm in Lincoln County. Despite early predictions for a bumpah crop, severe drought decimated 70% of the expected yield by the time the Emerson harvesters were packed away on July 26th.Maine is the largest global produc er of wild blueberries and the only state with a commercial harvest. Last summer, Senators King and Collins co-sponsored a successful resolution to declare July as National Blueberry Month in honor of the state fruit. Ironically, several decades ago when either senator could have been crawling around the barrens with hand rakes, the harvest would have been squarely in August. Not only have warming temperatures caused the season to creep forward – also meaning the berries are susceptible to spring frosts – but they af fect the carbon sequestration capacity of the plants. This turns blueberries into net emitters! From the top of the blueberry feld, I can make out the outline of Isle au Haut where my cousin hauls lobster traps yearround. I think about how our Gulf of Maine is warming faster than any other contiguous body of water in the world, how our fsh are changing, and about the increased fuel needed to venture farther fromFromland. that same spot, I can pivot to see Southport Island. There Rachel Car son inspired a generation and challenged the chemical industry with “Silent Spring,” unfortunately while dying of one of the same diseases she associated with indis criminate use of pesticides.
Earlier this year, I skied across the Arctic conducting climate research in an area warming more than seven times the global average. In a few months, I’ll sail to Egypt as a delegate to the UN’s COP27 climate conference where compounding climate crises yield water scarcity, sea level rise, and confict. In the interim, I’m home in Maine.
With the exception of Bar Harbor and Portland, the ships are small, 100 to 210 guests. Eastport does have three ships carrying between 530 and 730, while Rockland has two with 2,038 and 2,506. Cruises visiting Portland have up to 4,500 guests. Sixty-four of them will have more than 1,000 Essentially,guests.this referendum’s purpose is to ban all cruise ships carrying 1,000 or more passengers. Note the use of the word passengers here. In the full wording of the referendum, “No cruise ship shall be allowed to disembark passengers or crew [without a permit] ... No such per mit may allow more than 1,000 persons, in the aggregate, to disembark from cruise ships within the City on a single calendar day.” To Cruise or Not to Cruise?
By Rosanne Graef
As with many things humans do or in vent, cruise ships seemed like a good idea at the time. However, as with other ac tivities and inventions, things don’t always work out so well and we’re left with the questions of: “How can we fx this?” and “How can we fx this fairly?”
Susana Hancock is an internationally recognized climate activist and transdisci plinary scientist. When not traveling around the world (by train), she spends half the year in mid-coast Maine where she volunteers with Citizens’ Climate Lobby and has founded her own climate organization. Pictured above at work in the blueberry felds of Lincoln County. -Courtesy photo
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This would have a negative econom ic impact, especially on those who can least afford it. Those working in service industries, non-proft attractions, retail, as street vendors and others would be hit hard.When
it comes to congestion and pollution, presumably the Act is referring to vehicles, not the presence of visitors. This referendum is a ham-handed attempt to impose a hard and fast simple rule that cannot solve a complex problem and should be rejected.
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What ship with more than 1,000 guests is going to dock in Portland if not all their guests are going to have the op portunity to leave the ship— even if their only desire is to walk a few blocks to try a lobster roll, a Holy Donut donut, or some Duck Fat fries? In addition, in the 2023 schedule, there are days when two small er ships arrive with over 1,000 passengers between them. If all those ships were not to dock in Portland, the 118 scheduled landings would be reduced to 50!
Nine ports in Maine receive cruise ships. In 2023, ships are scheduled for Bar Harbor (126), Bath (28), Bangor (18), Boothbay Harbor (27), Bucksport (10), Camden (18), Eastport (10), Portland (118), and Rockland (25).
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By Susana Hancock
On the November 8th Portland bal lot is “An Act to Restrict Cruise Ships in Order to Reduce Congestion and Pollu tion.” The summary language states that the Act, “Limits the number of passengers who may disembark from cruise ships to no more than 1,000 people on a given day, in aggregate, going into effect in 2025.”
What we do need to tackle, howev er, is the pollution caused by the ships themselves idling all day to provide power and the internal combustion engines of buses, cars, minivans, etc. that idle wait ing to schlep people around to sightsee and shop. Electrify the port and require transportation providers to transition to electric vehicles by a date certain. While that transition is happening, take stock of how large an infusion of people the Old Port can realistically accommodate for 8 hours and adjust the number and capacity of ships accordingly.
The recently passed Senate bill the Infation Reduction Act may not be every thing climate activists hoped for but it’s quite an accomplishment, nonetheless. In fact, $375 billion has been earmarked to fght climate change – the most substantial investment in history! Surprisingly, this bill made it through a deadlocked 50-50 Senate. For the frst time ever, climate change is receiving the attention and priority it deserves. Congrat ulations go out to everyone who helped make this happen.
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Maine Standard Biofuels (MSB), a Maine biorefnery that recycles cooking oil into fuels and bio-based products, is acquiring Urban Farm Fermentory (UFF), a Portland-based producer of fermented beverages made from locally-grown and foraged ingredients. The purchase of UFF furthers MSB’s mission of developing busi nesses built on the regenerative systems critical to enduring sustainability. The sale is the result of longstanding discussions between MSB owner Jarmin Kaltsas and UFF founder Eli Cayer. Cayer will serve as a consultant to Kaltsas until the condi tions of the sale are complete.
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For his part, Kaltsas shares Cayer's excitement about the future this move is designed to inspire. "We're motivated to continue to expand our waste to energy systems regionally, as well as develop and other innovative products. But our ulti mate goal is to create a scalable business model built on local sustainability that can play a part in the global change needed to sustain our world."
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These days the terms “climate justice” and “just transition” foat around freely. But what would a just transition look like? Addressing the climate crisis is a sur vival issue for everyone. Climate change does not discriminate but the ability to respond to it does. Wildfres don’t avoid fancy homes. Likewise, snowstorms, hailstorms, and tornadoes don’t discriminate. But recovery from such disasters does. It’s nearly im possible for communities of color, Indigenous reservations, small rural towns, and traditional fshing communities to respond appropriately.
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Optimum effciency will be achieved through shared back-offce operations, sales, and synergistic design strategies that reclaim waste heat and byproducts for processing power. Corporate and public audiences will be welcomed for educa tional visits to the production facility and future tasting room.
A planned network of satellite facili ties will be explored as common connec tion points for MSB’s used cooking oils and vetted as potential markets for Sec ond Power’s cleaners and UFF’s extensive menu of fermented beverages.
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The stories we tell ourselves will determine whether our society declines and self-destructs or whether we heal and thrive. So, what’s your story? Are we going to pull out of this or are we doomed? There’s a short 16-minute video, “We will fx climate change,” that you are sure to fnd interesting and in structive. It’s produced by an education al company called Brilliant. Find it at this link:
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Good eating starts at home, and one of the most important things we can do for the future of the planet is to minimize food miles. Our staples should be foods raised in this country, the closer to home the better. We need to do our best to understand the journey to our plates of what we eat and try to keep that journey as short as possible. Credits “Calling In,” Xiye Bastida, an essay in “All We Can Save,” 2020. “Eat this to save the world,” Clare Finney, The Guardian, July 29, 2021. Bright Ideas is brought to you by Portland Climate Action Team which meets monthly on the 4th Thursday, 6-7:30 p.m. All are welcome to join in. FMI: portlandclimateaction@gmail.com.
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Changes in product compositions would be explored to harvest local ingre dients when this model scales to serve other markets. Native plants would yield new tastes for UFF’s drinks and fresh scents for MSB’s Second Power cleaning products. The fexibility to design these hubs around local market needs will help to build the closed, biodynamic-based business system Kaltsas and Cayer have in mind.For Cayer, the chance to achieve that vision prompted his decision to sell the company he’s guided to success. “My trust in Jarmin’s business expertise and his ex pansion of MSB’s regional hubs and envi ronmental mission assures me that this is the next, natural move for UFF.”
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The two companies will anchor a state-of-the-art twelve-acre green in dustrial park that MSB is building along the banks of the Presumpscot River in Windham. The site’s foundation will in clude agricultural felds engineered with living soils. Herbs for UFF beverages will be grown there, along with plants for the essential oils used in the upcycled clean ing products MSB sells under its Second Power brand, as well as incubator sites for like-minded start-ups.
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By Sadie Levy
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Most students attempt to follow the predesigned path of what society has la beled as successful and expected. In do ing so, we are bound to burn out. Perhaps even lose touch with individuality. There is no solution to completely avoiding the bounds of cultural expectations. However, there are small ways in which we can con nect more with ourselves, our environ ment, and our greater community, such as taking a gap year before carrying on with our academic careers.
The Gap Year
The result is an epic road trip. The story unfolds over ten days and is told with Towles’ usual graceful and multi-lay BOOK SHORT
There is so much weight on formal education post high school; yet a toxic culture surrounds the college application process and access to education has be come inequitable. I think that while ed ucation in a school setting is extremely valuable, the best education comes from experience.During the pandemic many students graduating high school and planning to attend college opted to take a gap year. College classes were running remotely in many cases and the overall experience was polluted with pandemic protocol. Even now, as life returns to normal on campuses, many continue to choose to take a year off post-graduation. When attending college after a gap year, one may fnd that they have actually improved their performance academically.
Lincoln Highway, By Amor Towles
Starting school refreshed and motivated about the world results in better grades for many students. Consider, academic burnout is something many tiptoe danger ously close to the edge of. But it can be avoided. It’s important to gain confdence in yourself and your abilities outside of a classroom. It is necessary that we start prioritizing learning how to be an individ ual in our global community with life skills beyond formal classroom schooling. A gap year is customizable to the in dividual. It could look like volunteer work, getting a job, an internship in one’s feld of interest, and so many other creative pos sibilities.Ihave always planned a gap year abroad. I see it as a vital opportunitywhen I have the time in my life to see the world - to practice language and learn by reacting to an environment. For this pur pose, I have saved money working various jobs throughout high school. The very act of being fnancially conscious as I plan my travels has made me substantially more f nancially aware. This is learning in context. This whole business of living is noth ing if not a great big risk! And a gap year abroad may just be the perfect opportuni ty to collect stories, life skills, and freedom.
Sadie Levy is a Junior at Waynfete high school in Portland, Maine. She loves writing and adventuring in nature. Review by Stephanie Miller A hero’s journey always begins with the call.In“Lincoln Highway,” the latest novel from best-selling author Amor Towles, a young man Emmett and his eight-year-old brother Billy set out to follow their moth er’s escape to California. All they have are nine postcards sent after she left them and their father on a failing farm in Ne braska fve years ago. They inherited the cards along with unpaid bills after their father’sThedeath.farm and everything in it must be sold to pay the bank, so Emmett and Billy agree they will take only what can ft in a kit bag each and fnd their mother by driv ing Emmett’s beloved Studebaker across the newly built, cross-country Lincoln Highway to San Francisco. Emmett has a plan to build and fip houses, and he agrees to Billy’s quest just like most heroes do, with a bit of skepticism, his own agenda, and a lot of love. Still, no hero gets an easy ride. As they set out, two of Emmett’s friends show up with a different plan: Take the Lincoln Highway to New York to collect a family “inheritance.” Despite attempts to send these castaways back, his friends “borrow” his car and head east without them. As heroes do, Emmett and Billy must follow.
ered style, through multiple voices, and with historical facts woven in from our country’s glory days of the automobile. We meet characters who change the course of the hero’s journey but play only bit parts in the overall drama. One of these is a six-foot tall freight train rider named Ulysses. Billy shows him his pre cious book - a collection of hero stories – and introduces him to his wandering ad venturer namesake. Serving as protector and guide as he reckons with this new ver sion of himself as returning hero, Ulyss es enables Emmett and Billy to continue theirDuchess,journey. the car borrower, is good hearted, but completely lacks a moral compass. His incredibly disturbing behav iors are all well intentioned. Cruel, dan gerous, and thoughtless actions explained by Duchess almost make you agree with the logic. I found myself both repelled and fascinated by him. I didn’t love the book at frst. It grew on me. The ending is especially uncom fortable. It’s not as strong as “Gentleman in Moscow” or “Rules of Civility,” Towle’s frst two novels (both of which I loved). However, it’s worth reading because Tow les is an expert at drawing charactersheroes, storytellers, penitents, wanderers, benefcients, dreamers, killers, and pio neers. Bayside resident Stephanie Miller is a voracious reader and bibliophile and spends a lot of time lost in the stacks. Find her online @StephanieSAM.
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Middle English, ponde, artifcially confned body of water. Wadleigh Pond was damned and created after the great fre of 1947, Is a place in Maine On a map The usual approach is by car But Game Wardens do arrive by pontoon planes from time to time So it’s a noun But to me it’s also a verb One can “do” Wadleigh Dive through its waters into the lake Fly through its air on the rope swing Paddle across its surface in a canoe or kayak Cast a fy into its deep waters Lie on your back and stare at the clouds Swim on a whim to the opposite shore Watch the eagles and great blue herons catch their supper Search the clouds for signs of “weatha” Search for falling stars Search for ...WadleighserenityPonding -Susan Pickford © Send your short poetry submissions to thewestendnews@gmail.com.
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