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Friday, June 7, 2013
Volume 9 • Issue No. 23
Weightlifting Wife and mother Continues Her Olympic Quest
Competitive weightlifter Gwen Sisto trains in the Eliot sports gym she operates with her husband. (Photo by Brittany Davenport)
By Brittany Davenport Contributing Writer elIOT – When the weekend arrives, most people prepare to relax, rejuvenate and unwind from the busy week. For Gwen Sisto, 30, and her family, weekends generate motivation, strength and fatigue. From Friday morning to Sunday night, Sisto powers out two-hour weightlifting sessions twice a day at Risto Sports Gym in Eliot. “We work through fatigue,” said Sisto. With a passion for lifting and a love for the sport, Sisto is on the path to the Olympics. “I’m at that point where I just
keep getting better. I can’t make excuses,” said Sisto. With U.S. Olympic weightlifting qualifying rules changing every year, Sisto needs to get to the point where she is in the top five in the world, she said. “There’s no reason why I couldn’t be number one in the world. I just got to keep pushing myself,” said Sisto, who competes nationally against other world-class athletes. Gaining an interest in competitive weightlifting by watching her older brothers, Sisto was invited into her first weightlifting club at 12 years old. From there, it became a passion. It wasn’t a linear climb
to the top however. “During pregnancy I also became anemic. I lost so much strength,” said Sisto. But she didn’t let that stop her and hasn’t let anything hold her back since. “I don’t want to be just a mediocre lifter. You can’t be complacent or think of any reason to quit,” said Sisto. Juggling five important roles – wife, mother, aerospace engineer, business owner, and competitive weightlifter – it can be easy to make excuses to quit or slow down, she admitted. But Sisto manages her time and life with efficiency. See SISTO page 3...
marshwood drama department ruger Promoted to Police Sergeant Wins National recognition SOuTH BerWICK – The people of South Berwick and Eliot have known for a while now that there was
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something special happening on the stage of Marshwood High School. After all, thousands of people a year flood into the Wesley M. Kennedy Auditorium for the musicals, one-act plays and dramas. But it still was a thrill – and a surprise – when students and faculty of the district’s theater department learned their
talents had been recognized on an international stage this spring. The surprise came when Director Tanya West learned that someone – to this date no one knows who – nominated Marshwood High’s drama department for the American See DRAMA page 6... Chief Dana Lajoie, right, offers congratulations to newly promoted Sgt. David S. Ruger. (courtesy photo)
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Students at Marshwood High School perform in a production of “Oliver.” Marshwood’s drama department was recently selected to be part of the American High School Theater Festival. (courtesy photo)
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SOuTH BerWICK – Chief Dana P. Lajoie of the South Berwick Police Department this week announced the promotion of David S. Ruger to the rank of sergeant. The police department held a swearing in and pinning ceremony at Town Hall to recognize Ruger’s promotion. Ruger was sworn in by Town Clerk Barbara Bennett and his sergeant badge was formally pinned by his 16-year-old son, Zach. Present for the ceremony were Ruger’s parents, fellow officers, dispatchers and about two
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dozen town employees. The ceremony was held just prior to Ruger’s first official shift as a supervisor. Ruger began his career with the South Berwick Police Department in 1997 as a dispatcher. In 2000, he was hired as a police officer and is a graduate of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy. Since that time he has obtained advanced training certifications in specialized areas such as field training officer, crash reconstructionist, TASER instrucSee RUGER page 8...
weekly sentinel announces change in telephone number For all readers in the 384 exchange area, our old telephone number
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