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Friday, May 1, 2015
Volume 11 • Issue No. 18
Kennebunk Students Invited to African Robotics Championship KENNEBUNK – The Lego Robotics team called LibertÊ, Égalite, FraternitÊ, and Robots from Kennebunk placed as a championship level team at the First Lego League Maine Robotics state championship in Augusta last December and was recently invited to be one of 5 teams representing the United States at the FIRST Robotics Open Africa Championship at the Africa Automation Fair in Johannesburg, May 5-7, 2015. The team is comprised of 10 girls and boys from grades 5
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to 8 who are a remarkably wellspoken and talented group of children. The students are from 2 schools, the Middle School of the Kennebunks and Sea Road School. There are top musicians, athletes, and scholars on the team. These children and the Lego robotics program exemplify both the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math education, and the innovative ways of teaching and promoting STEM curriculum. Mary, age 10 says, “Lego Robotics is like an array of fireworks, bursting into
the air, with so many colors of all the talents of the students and coaches on our team.� FLL teams compete in three areas: first, building and programming a robot to perform given tasks (“The Robot Game�), second, researching and presenting a solution to that year’s themed problem (“The Project�), and third, working with each other and with other teams in a respectful and gracious way (“The Core Values�). One FIRST See ROBOTS page 37...
Jellison Runs Boston Marathon to Benefit Children’s Hospital By Nancye Tuttle, Contributing Writer YORK – Jeff Jellison pounded the pavement from Hopkinton to Boston last week, 26.2 exhausting miles in the wind and the rain, competing in his third Boston Marathon. It was the toughest race the York man had ever run. Conditions were grueling, his legs cramped up and his body nearly froze. By mile 20, he
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wanted to quit. But he didn’t thanks to supportive crowds, cheering him along the punishing route, and thoughts of his family — wife Elizabeth, kids Zoe, Jack, Harper and Ruby, plus sister, Carrie, and her daughters and sister-in-law Julie and her boyfriend, Eric — waiting to see him cross the finish line. That kept him going the last six miles. “I was dying those final miles — physically and mentally done. I was exhausted, freezing and considered dropping out,� Jellison said last Friday. “But when I’d stop, grimacing in pain, to stretch out
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my calves, the crowds kept yelling, ‘Don’t stop now.’ And I kept thinking about my family waiting at the finish line. The thought of seeing their faces got me through the final miles and helped me finish,� he said. Now that it’s over, he’s pleased he didn’t quit. “It’s very rewarding to get through it,� he said. Jellison, a 39-year-old York native and realtor with Century 21 Atlantic Realty, was a short distance runner up until 2009, when he decided to tackle his first Boston Marathon. “I’d never done any long distance running before – just short
Firefighters battled a fire at Ogunquit Beach, Ogunquit on Tuesday evening, April 28. Flames destroyed the landmark Blue Water Inn and then spread to two neighboring restaurants. One firefighter was taken to the hospital for observation. No other injuries were reported. The State Fire Marshall is investigating the cause of the fire.
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three-mile races,� he said. But a friend told him about a training program created by Hal Higdon, a runner and author. Higdon’s 18-week, on-line program helps novice to professional runners train for marathons by increasing the miles they run each week to build up their stamina and strengthen their legs. “I tried it — and by the end of See MARATHON page 18...
Jeff Jellison crosses the finish line at the Boston Marathon.
Special Olympic Spring Games in Kittery KITTERY – Approximately 350 Special Olympians are expected to attend the York County Spring Games on Thursday, May 7 at Shapleigh Field in Kittery, Maine. Opening ceremonies are scheduled for 9:15 a.m., and events begin immediately thereafter and continue through 2 p.m. Special Olympics athletes from all over York County attend the annual event, which is a divisioning event for the Special Olympics Maine State Summer Games, held each June in Orono. Athletes participate in track and field events, and there is a division for athletes using wheelchairs and other assistive devices as well.
Sponsors of the event include the Knights of Columbus and York Hospital. Nearly all of the event officials are student athletes from Traip Academy. Logistical support is provided by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Many Law Enforcement agencies send representatives who assist in award presentations. The events are open to the public and spectators are welcome. Shapleigh Field is located adjacent to the Shapleigh Middle School, 43 Stevenson Road in Kittery. Please note that parking is extremely limited, and shuttles may be used. If so, you will be directed where to park by officials at the event. Illegally parked vehicles will be subject to ticketing or towing.
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