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Friday, February 22, 2013
Volume 9 • Issue No. 8
maine diner Celebrates Three decades of delicious Food By Adam Marletta Contributing Writer
Dick Henry, owner of Maine Diner, surrounded by staff during the 30th anniversary celebration. (courtesy photo)
WellS – The Maine Diner, a popular Wells eatery, celebrated its 30th birthday this week. The restaurant marked the occasion with week-long raffle drawings and with $1-priced coffee throughout the month of February. Raffle prizes included restaurant gift cards, T-shirts, muffin mix, and other quirky and collectible items from the diner’s famous Remember the Maine Gift Shoppe, located next door. The Maine Diner celebrates three decades of serving up world-famous food “like Grandma used to make,” in the
wake of a successful media campaign of sorts. In the last few years the restaurant has received prominent exposure on nationally viewed TV shows like The Food Network’s Diners, DriveIns & Dives, NBC’s Today Show and Boston’s Phantom Gourmet Show. Additionally, the restaurant was awarded the New England Cable Network’s (NECN) “Best Diner in New England” distinction, as well as The Maine Restaurant Association’s “Restaurateur of the Year” award in 2010. And last summer, the diner’s customer count reached the 6 million mark. To be certain, if the Maine
Diner started as a local secret, 30 years later it has become a national fixture of the southern Maine area. In fact, Wiley Miller, creator of the syndicated comic strip, Non Sequitur claims he based Flo’s Offshore Diner – an establishment frequented by the characters in the fictional Whatchacallit, Maine – on the Maine Diner. Yet, despite all the accolades, nobody is more amazed at the diner’s success than owner Dick Henry. Dick and his two brothers, Myles and Bruce, purchased the original Maine Diner from See DINER page 4...
Old Berwick Historical Society Kennebunk Team Wins Presents Firearms of 300 Years ago maine’s Titan Challenge SOuTH BerWICK – Seventeenth century Maine had a gun issue far different from that of today. Guns were a basic necessity for hunting food in the wilderness and defense in a time of warfare between Native Americans and European set-
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tlers. And the problem was that too few weapons were available. In a talk celebrating the Berwicks’ 300th anniversary this year, a local blacksmith and gunsmith, Steve Woodman, will discuss the perpetual shortage of firearms in colonial Maine, the men who tried to alleviate the shortage, and the methods they used. Sponsored by the Old Berwick Historical Society, the talk will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, at Berwick Academy’s Jeppesen Science Center on Academy Street. The public is invited and refreshments will be served. “Among those living in our area, there were always more people needing firearms than there were weapons to arm them,” Woodman explained. “With low supplies and great demand, a number of men worked to keep as many guns in working order as possible.” His talk, entitled “Blacksmiths and Gunsmiths: Building and Repairing Firearms in Maine, 1670-1720,” will explain who these men were and the conditions they worked under. He will also describe the types
POrTlaNd – And the winner is… The seventh annual Junior Achievement of Maine’s Titan Challenge was the biggest ever. This year 99 teams from 33 high schools participated throughout the state. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert Moore of Dead River Co. was at the University of Southern Maine’s Glickman Library to announce the winners. Congratulations went to “Rams 2” team from Kennebunk High School mentored by Peter Welles from IDEXX Laboratories who placed first.
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Steve Woodma n w i l l present, “Black smit hs and Gunsmit hs: Building and Repairing Firearms in Maine, 1670-1720.”(courtesy photo)
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Each member of the winning team took home $1,000 scholarships for post-secondary education. Second place $500 scholarship winners went to “Biddeford 5” team from Biddeford Regional Center of Technology, mentored by Chris Magnuson of WASCO Products Inc. “Eagles 2” team from Erskine Academy mentored by Jamie St. Claire of KeyBank took home third place, winning $250 scholarships for each team member. All scholarships were
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Rams 2 team from Kennebunk High School took first place. (courtesy photo)
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