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Friday, June 3, 2022
Volume 18 • Issue No. 22
BonAire! Returns with Seaside Flair OGUNQUIT Three years in the making, “BonAire!” celebrates Ogunquit’s 40th anniversary as its own town. Originally scheduled for June 2020 to celebrate the town’s founding in July 1980, the all-day street festival will take place June 11 and will be a giant celebration featuring free live music on a 40-foot-long stage on Shore Road, an artisan craft fair in the adjacent Jacobs Lot, and the transformation of a school playground into an impressive circus entertainment venue for the family. Headlining the musical acts
will be the The Mallett Brothers Band, a nationally touring altcountry/rock group based in Maine, with their set beginning at 4:30 p.m. Other music will begin at 10 a.m. with the Charles
Greenwood Trio, followed by sets from the stages of Ogunquit – featuring acts from Ogunquit Playhouse, Leavitt Theatre, The Front Porch, Jonathan’s, and MaineStreet – and The Dirt
Boys. The adjacent artisan craft fair will feature more than 50 vendors selling their locally made products. Shore Road, from its intersection with Route 1 to the entrance to Jacobs Lot, as well as Jacobs Lot itself, will be closed to vehicular traffic from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. to ensure the safety of all guests. Beginning at 11 a.m., the Ogunquit Village School playground will serve as the center for family-friendly activities, with roving circus performers including stilt walkers, hoopers, and wanders. Fairy storytelling, free caricatures and face painting,
Kind Kids music, and bubble art will also be featured. The grand finale will be given by Andrew Silver Circus Show with a performance, 4-5 p.m. The Perkins Cove section of Ogunquit will host a live lobster sale at noon – buy your lobsters from the lobstermen and women who caught them that day! Perkins Cove will also serve as the starting destination for the town’s self-guided art walk, beginning at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art and trailing its way up Shore Road and along Main Street. Down at Main Beach, artists of all ages can join sand artist Sebastian during low tide, See BONAIRE on page 8 . . .
Community Invited to Help with Cold Case in Kittery KITTERY On June 4, the Kittery Police Department will hold a press conference and special community event that is open to the public in connection with the 1983 missing persons cold case of Reeves Johnson (pictured). This announcement comes about eight months after Kittery Police Detective Brian Cummer decided to revive the decades-old case last October after years of inactivity, with the hope that the public would be able to help bring
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the surviving Johnson family answers to what really happened to their brother. Reeves K. Johnson III went missing February 3, 1983, sometime after returning to his Kittery home from his job as a welder for Donnelly Manufacturing in Exeter, NH. He was 31 at the time. In the weeks following Johnson’s disappearance, his bank account was drained and his home emptied of valuables.
BERWICK The Berwick Car Show cruises into Sullivan Square on Sunday, June 5 (rain date Sunday, June 12). Now in its tenth year, this annual event, hosted by the members and auxiliary of Charles S. Hatch American Legion Post #79, will once again bring good food, great music, and lots to see to the square. Dozens of entrants in multiple categories and year-groups have already signed up to take part in the show and include a wide range of cars, trucks, motorcycles, and customs. According to the press release, “This year’s featured car is a real stand-out with a storied history in the local community. It begins with a man named Vernon F. Heustis, born in 1927 in Bristol, RI. Like many people of this era, Vern was drafted into the Army where he trained to be a radio operator. Upon returning home, this stalwart veteran
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case titled “Missing: Where is Reeves K. Johnson III?” They are once again teaming up for this live community event and official press conference. “We are asking for your help. Anyone who knew Reeves in Kittery or knows what may have happened to him, please help his family and reach out to us. All we are trying to do is to bring him home to his See CRIME on page 9 . . .
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His mother also caught an unknown man taking Reeves’s mail from his post office box. She took a photo of him, but he hid his face with his hand. His identity and Reeves’s whereabouts still remain a mystery 39 years later. In November 2021, Kittery PD partnered with Kristen Seavey, creator and host of the local Maine true-crime podcast “Murder, She Told,” to release a special episode featuring the
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completed his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering through the GI Bill and raised a family of five in Bristol. Vern worked as a draftsman/designer in his father’s machine shop, JF Huestis, Inc., where he designed
Vernon Heustis and daughter Lisa in his ’62 Dune Buggy. Photo by Drew McCormick.
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one-of-a-kind machines or made adjustments to improve machine processes. . . . Boxes of ‘test runs’ often came home with Vern for the eager kids! “Vern made a camper by gutting and retrofitting a Beck bus, and he also built this year’s featured car, a dune buggy (sportster?), from a plan in ‘Popular Mechanics.’ Vern bought a 1962 Volkswagen Beetle that had been in a rollover and was off and running. The crew at his dad’s machine shop joined in the fun, especially the welder! All Vern’s kids learned to drive a standard in that car on the back roads of Maine where the family settled after Vern’s Dad sold his business . . .Vern now lives in the Scarborough Veterans Home.” Proceeds from the car show will go to benefit area veterans and their families. For more information, contact Rosanne Martin at rosanne.martin@hotmail.com. Have you seen our
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