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Friday, June 10, 2016
Volume 12 • Issue No. 24
New in the Kennebunks – LAUNCH! A Maritime Festival THE KENNEBUNKS The Kennebunks will kick off summer with the first LAUNCH! A Maritime Festival, which gets underway on Friday, June 17 through June 19. Fresh local seafood, nautical history and an array of events at locations throughout Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Arundel will celebrate the community’s rich maritime history — one that continues to this day. Shipbuilding, lobstering and commercial fishing remain a vital part of the community. Bringing to life this vi-
Ships and yachts of all sizes will fill the harbor during the Kennebunks’ LAUNCH Maritime Festival.
brant part of the towns’ cultures and culinary scene,
LAUNCH! will highlight the community’s love of the sea
through various anchor events and activities: from a Clam Jam at the Seafood Center of Maine with homemade clam cakes and ice cream, buoy decorating and a bouncy house for kids; to a "Chopped" style chef competition, chowder cook-off and local food truck gathering in downtown Kennebunk; to an authentic Lobster Bake with red and white checked tablecloths at the Pilot House, overlooking the Kennebunk River; to a River Lights boat parade and a VIP “Rock the Boat� adults-only shipboard after party. Throughout the three-
day festival, visitors can also run the Sailors & Sirens 5K themed road race, enjoy historic walking tours with costumed interpreters from the Brick Store Museum and White Columns (Kennebunkport Historical Society), brewery tours and tastings at the Kennebunkport Brewing Company, a craft fair on the river green and more. Sunday morning, the festival will conclude with a resurrection of the traditional Blessing of the Fleet in beautiful Cape Porpoise village, wishing capSee FEST page 4...
York Family Raising Puppy for Canine Companions YORK Canine Companions for Independence – a national nonprofit organization that provides assistance dogs for children and adults with disabilities, is proud to announce that York residents Ryan and Evelyn Jones and family recently began raising an assistance dog in-training for Canine Companions for Inde-
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Arts & Entertainment 16-19 Business & Finance 21-24 Calendar of Events 20 Classifieds 41-44 Computer Lady 37 Health & Fitness 25-28 Home & Business 38-40 Library News 13 Obituaries 34,35,37 Pets 36 Puzzles 46 Real Estate 48 Sports 44 Where To Dine 29-33
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pendence. Puppy Leigh is a lab/golden retriever cross who will one-day know over 40 advanced commands, and be matched with a person with disabilities and will make amazing difference in the life of a person. Volunteer Puppy Raisers are critically important to the work of Canine Companions for Independence. Puppy Raisers take the pups into their home at eight weeks of age, raising them, teaching them basic commands and socialization skills. The socialization is perhaps the most
important, because the dogs need to be exposed to any and all types of surroundings. With the special yellow capes they wear, these dogs are permitted to go to many public areas that family pets are not allowed. When the dogs reach about a year and a half old, they are returned to the Canine Companions for Independence regional headquarters in New York. They begin 6 months of advanced training with the organizations nationally renowned See PUPPIES page 8...
Special Olympics Summer Games STATEWIDE The 48th annual Special Olympics Maine State Summer Games are approaching. Over 1500 athletes, ages 8-87 have been training, planning, and now packing for this exciting event. They will represent 122 teams from Kittery to Presque Isle and will compete in a variety of Olympic Style sports at the University of Maine in Orono June 10-12. The week prior to the games, nearly 600 members of Maine Law Enforcement will be carrying the Olympic Torch, the Flame of Hope, across the entire
state. These members of Law Enforcement will be trying to raise funds for and an awareness of Special Olympics Maine. The run began in Berwick on Tues-
day, June 7 and will conclude on Friday with a Final Leg entering in to the UMO campus late afternoon. Competition will actually
begin on Thursday, June 9 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 10 always proves to be a fun-filled night with our annual Law Enforcement Torch Run Final Leg arriving around 4:30 p.m., an outside picnic for the athletes, our
Runners carried the torch through Ogunquit on the morning of Wednesday, June 8. (Ogunquit Police Department on Facebook)
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Samantha, Evelyn and Dylan Jones with puppy Leigh.
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