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Friday, June 5, 2015
Volume 11 • Issue No. 23
Law Enforcement Torch Run Travels Up Route 1 STATEWIDE – The Maine Law Enforcement Torch Run kicked off Tuesday, June 2 in Eliot. It continued straight up route one from Kittery toward Brunswick! 750 members of Maine Law Enforcement carried the Special Olympics Flame of Hope across the state of Maine. Law Enforcement members hope to raise funds for and an awareness of Special Olympics Maine. The final leg of the run will enter into the UMO campus late afternoon on Friday. The 47th annual Special Olympics Maine State Summer Games are fast approaching. Over 1500 athletes, ages 8-88 have been training and planning
Runners passed through South Berwick in the morning of June 2. (www. facebook.com/MaineLawEnforcementTorchRunforSpecialOlympics photo)
for this exciting event. They will represent approximately 125 teams from Kittery to Presque
Isle and will compete in a variety of Olympic Style sports at the University of Maine in Orono
June 5-7. Competition actually began on Thursday, June 4 at 9 a.m. with Bowling and Unified Bowling. Unified events bring together athletes with intellectual disabilities and those without for an opportunity to compete together on the same team.) On Friday the excitement continues with more bowling, Time trials, Bocce Competitions and relays. Friday evening, June 5 always proves to be a fun filled night with the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run Final Leg arriving around 4:30 p.m., an outside picnic for the athletes, a parade at 6 p.m. followed by Opening Ceremonies at 7 p.m.
On Saturday morning Track and Field events begin at 8:30 a.m. and run until approximately 3:30 p.m. In addition to the competition athletes will be treated to an Olympic Village full of games and entertainment, as well as Unified Volleyball. Saturday night includes our annual Victory Dance in the field house. The theme for this year’s dance is Disco Dance Party and our athletes will be getting their groove on to the music of ‘Motor Booty Affair’ (Please note that the dance is a private function for the athletes, and coaches and is not open to See TORCH page 9...
Kennebunk Student Builds Chair to Benefit Classmate KENNEBUNK – Eric Powers, 15, a Freshman at Kennebunk High School, has built a beautiful folding Adirondack Chair that he has donated in order to raise money for another student, Zachary Jewett, a senior at Kennebunk HS who is in need of a wheelchair. Powers had approached the school and
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offered to build the chair. Powers’ sister, Monica Powers, jumped in and designed the tickets they are selling to raffle off the chair in the fundraising event for Jewett. The raffle tickets are being sold for $1 for 1 ticket, $5 for 6 tickets, $10 for 15 tickets. The winner will be drawn at Kennebunk High School at the Seniors last assembly at Kennebunk HS on Friday, June 12, 2015. Tickets may be purchased at the office of Kennebunk High School, or at the school store, ‘The Bunker.’ Ticket purchases
may also be made by mail: Kennebunk High School, 89 Fletcher Street, Kennebunk, Maine 04043. The Kennebunk High School may be contacted at 207985-1110 for more information. Anyone wishing to purchase tickets may call or text Monica Powers at 207-590-4984 or Eric Powers at 207-590-1045. You may also email 16mpowers@rsu21.net to purchase tickets. Support is greatly appreciated from the community toward helping to raise money for the benefit of this wheelchair for Zachary Jewett.
Memorial Powwow Honors “Whirling Thunder� ELIOT – For more than 50 years before his passing last February, Paul "Whirling Thunder" Bullock dedicated his life to the advancement of Native New England culture and education. This spring, his memory and his life’s legacy will be honored during what promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime event for local residents and participants alike: the Whirling Thunder Memorial Powwow. The event, which is being hosted by the Bullock family and
will be held at the Raitt Museum, 2077 State Road, Eliot, ME on Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14, is expected to draw several thousand people, native and non-native, from as far away as Alaska, New Mexico and Canada. “Whirling Thunder was an active part of the Maine/New Hampshire powwow circuit and emcee of the long running annual York Beach Powwow, recently held in conjunction with the York Harvest Festival,� explains his son, Ed Bullock, of
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York Beach. “He also founded the Wandering Bull Indian craft store in Attleboro, MA in 1982.� As an extension of the family business, Ed Bullock founded the York Beach fixture, The Little Bull, in 1988. Prior to his passing, Whirling Thunder had begun chronicling his journey through the New England powwow circuit, developing both an interesting story and a valuable historical document of events, people See CHAIR page 12...
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Freshman student Eric Powers proudly shows off the Adirondack Chair he has built in order to raise funds for a fellow student in need of a wheelchair.
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