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Friday, April 24, 2015
Volume 11 • Issue No. 17
Win a Chance to Be Big Papi’s Guest at Fenway Park STATEWIDE – A few lucky winners of the Maine Lottery’s newest instant game will have the chance to watch a Boston Red Sox regular season home game from a suite as guests of the team’s top slugger, David Ortiz, known affectionately to fans as Big Papi. Maine Lottery’s 2015 Boston Red Sox instant game begins on April 2 at lottery agents across Maine. This is the first time an active Major League Baseball (MLB) player has been featured
on a lottery ticket. Ortiz, a perennial fan favorite, said, “I love all the fans in Maine and look forward to hosting the lucky winners at Fenway Park. I am honored to be selected by the Maine Lottery as the first majorleaguer on a ticket.� In addition to offering a total of $2 million in cash prizes, this game includes two secondchance drawings from non-winning tickets. In the first drawing, 10 lucky winners will receive a Boston Red SoxŽ Suite Package for Maine Day at Fenway
Park on August 2. Each package includes a pair of 2015 regular season home game suite tickets, food, beverages and two MLB Authentic Collection Boston Red Sox David Ortiz game jerseys. This drawing will also award 50 winners an MLB Authentic Collection Boston Red Sox David Ortiz game jersey. Prizes in the second drawing will include 10 winners of the Boston Red Sox Suite Package with David Ortiz for September See ORTIZ page 35...
Kennebunk’s 17th Annual May Day Festival Next Weekend KENNEBUNK – Get ready for a day jampacked with activities at Kennebunk’s 17th Annual May Day Festival on May 2. The schedule of events includes: May Day Parade featuring Little League teams and their mascots (1:30 p.m.). Also look for the Portland School of Ballet, Shoestring Theater, Shriners, Gym Dandies, classic cars, and the Dunlap Highland Band. On Main Street: Duffy’s
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Tavern & Grill, 4 Main St., will hold a benefit pancake breakfast for May Day (8-10 a.m.); The Kennebunk Free Library, 112 Main St., is offering non-profit tables (7 a.m. - 3 p.m.), a book sale (8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.), and a Faerie Festival (9:30-11 a.m.); The Unitarian Universalist Church, 114 Main St. will host the MWA Annual Awards Show / Clothesline Show (10 a.m. - 5 p.m.); Brick Store Museum, 117 Main St. presents “Make-Your-Own May Basket� (10 a.m. - 1 p.m.); Christ Church, 6 Dane St. will have their annual Spring Rummage Sale (8-11 a.m.); KK&W Water
District, 92 Main St. is offering a “Drinking Water Week Open House� (9 a.m. - 2 p.m.); Cole Harrison Insurance, 83 Main St. presents “Starbird Players� (11 a.m. - 1 p.m.); Kennebunk Police/Fire Rescue, 64 Main St. (back lot) will host a Safety Expo (10 a.m. - 1 p.m.). The Waterhouse Center will be home to a craft market (8 a.m. - 3 p.m.), free wagon rides with “Larry McIntire & Max the Horse� (10 a.m. - 12 p.m.), a free photo booth (10 a.m. - 2 p.m.), a face painting fundraiser for KHS sophomores (11 a.m. - 1 p.m.), and a rock climbing wall (10 a.m.
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Students Take Part in Making Maple Syrup By Carin Lee, Contributing Writer ELIOT Students at Eliot Elementary School in Eliot, ME got to taste the sweet results of their hard work at “Breakfast for Lunch� day on March 15, 2015, when they enjoyed the maple syrup they had made together. “It’s the best maple syrup I’ve tasted,� said second grader Jackson Estes. The sap-to-syrup project was the brainchild of school nurse Stacey Donnell. It was facilitated by a number of adults in the school and the community. Donnell identified all the sugar maples on school property last fall and marked them with spray
paint. Ed. Tech Debbie Scribner loaned the school the equipment for tapping the trees and Ricki Carl, husband of one of the teach-
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ers, did the tapping. Once the taps were in, Donnell took groups of students out to gather sap daily. They emp-
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tied what they collected into a huge kettle that custodian Mike Butterfield kept boiling over a propane cooker outside the school. The students could smell the sweetness in the steam, and they were given samples. The liquid that looked like water actually had a little magic in it, that hidden sugar that would make it into syrup. After the initial outdoor cooking the sap was brought inside, Donnell helped students filter it, â€œâ€Śto get the bugs out,â€? said second grader Laura Horvath. Then Butterfield supervised See MAPLE page 6...
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