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Volume 18 • Issue No. 9
North Berwick Police Raising Childhood Cancer Awareness NORTH BERWICK The North Berwick Police Department views itself as a pillar of pride within the Community – representing the values that make North Berwick such a wonderful place to work and live. Over the years they have used their “public platform” to help raise awareness and bring the community together for common goals or causes. Whether it be our assistance in the annual Toys for Tots Drive, their continued support of the Special Olympics, or the Scholarship Fund for Noble graduates seeking a
career in criminal justice – they try to use our platform to promote positive change in the world. March is recognized as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in Maine. It is nearly impossible to find someone who hasn’t been emotionally affected by cancer in their lives. This doesn’t ring more true than for one of their very own. In 2017 Officer Ashley Sargent gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, Wyatt; only several months later would she be dealing with every new parent’s worst nightmare – a cancer diagnosis. Wyatt was diagnosed with
ATRT – a rare fast-growing cancerous tumor of the brain and spinal cord. Wyatt, the son of two first responders, put up a courageous fight against this disease, but in 2019, at the age of two, he would lose his battle with cancer; leaving his parents, friends, and loved ones with a hole in our hearts that would never heal. For the month of March the North Berwick Police Department will be “Going Gold” in memory of Wyatt, the countless other children See GOLD page 2...
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Return of Irish Stepdancers OGUNQUIT To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Ogunquit Performing Arts welcomes the return of Stepdancers from the Stillson School of Irish Dance on Saturday, March 12 at 6:30 p.m. at the Dunaway Center, 23 School Street, Ogunquit. Tickets will be $5 per person, but unlike previous years, there will be no sales at the door. They must be purchased in advance at www.ogunquitperformingarts. org. Seating is limited to 50% capacity, socially distanced, and masks will be required. The award-winning Stillson dancers will perform a brilliant array of jigs and reels,
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dressed in a variety of dazzling, handmade costumes. The performance will consist of the fluid soft-shoe style as well as the rhythmic hard-shoe popularized by shows such as Riverdance and Lord of the Dance. The Stillson School of Irish Dance Performance Team has been in existence for more than twenty-five years. The school is the only certified school of Irish dancing in Maine, and the dancers compete all over New England and place in the Regional Irish Dancing Championships
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Back in 1971, Mary Andrews and Louise Works saw a need for local ambulance service after a woman had a lengthy wait for the contracted ambulance to arrive, even though she was just down the hill from York Hospital. With an empty garage, a handed down hearse from the Wells Fire Department, a tarp to cover the hearse in the winter and lots of extension cords to keep the heating units in working order, York Ambulance was started with a team of about fifteen volunteers and loads of New England ingenuity.
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the design of the many different costumes worn by the dancers. Traditional Irish dress is repre-
sented in the school dress which features embroidery designs taken from the Book of Kells.
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annually. Dancers have placed in the North American Irish Dance Championships, and competed in the All Ireland Championships, the European Championships, and the World Irish Dance Championships. The students are proud to have performed with Cherish the Ladies, Solas, The Trinity Irish Dance Company, Natalie MacMaster, and Eileen Ivers, among many others. In addition to the dance performance, Carlene Stillson will tell about the history of the dance and explain the reasons for
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Today, York Ambulance is comprised of paramedic level, paid licensed professionals who cover the needs of the community “24/7, 365” with only a
small contract with the Town. In 2021 York Ambulance answered over 1,400 calls for various types of support and unlike the early days of the organiza-
tion, many of the care recipients do not get transported and instead receive care in the field. Back in the early days of York Ambulance, Mary got adept at backing the hearse up onto the Port Gas lift, and Louise was famous for riding her bicycle to emergency calls. It is from these strong local roots that our York Ambulance Association is made up of high caliber professionals. With eleven full-time and twenty-one part-time emergency team members, Chief Karen Tucker shared that “unlike fire and police protection, which
York Ambulance team members Gene Streck and Laura Hohenstein. Photo by Raya Al-Hashmi.
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