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Friday, July 12, 2013
Volume 9 • Issue No. 28
decorator Show House ‘Secret Cove’ to Open on July 13 By Brittany Davenport Contributing Writer KITTerY POINT – Tucked away in Kittery Point lies a beautiful house overlooking the sweeping water views of Maine’s coastline. Perfectly named Secret Cove, the house is the 24th home selected by Museums of Old York for its annual Decorator Show House fundraiser. For over two decades, people throughout the region and beyond have looked forward to viewing the newest summer show house sensation. With the help of sponsors such as Maine Home+ Design, Anne Erwin Sotheby’s International Realty and Farrow and Ball, the Museums of Old York are able to host this event and allow various designers to show off their creative abilities. Each year the Museums of Old York staff carefully selects a site for the event. “We work with local Realtors, and really try to find the most magnificent house that’s available and have the owner agree to let us use it,” said Laura Dehler, director of
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Secret Cove was built in 1996 on land used as a pasture in the 18th century. (courtesy photo)
marketing and development. It is an extensive process, she said, starting in January and continuing until the last days of summer. “The process can take a full year. We had to find a house with an owner who was willing to give up their house for four months,” said Dehler. The home, she noted, is not just
a showcase for designers but is also a selling point for the owner and the Realtor. Secret Cove is spectacular in appearance, but it is also literally surrounded by history. According to Museums of Old York librarian Virginia S. Spiller, the house is encircled by hisSee COVE page 6...
Young entrepreneurs academy Closes Season YOrK – The Young Entrepreneurs Academy is wrapping up its second year. The academy is a school-year-long program that brings students through the process of starting and running their own real business. Students take their entrepreneurial ideas and transform them into written
business plans. The students present these business plans to potential investors for start-up funds at an Investor Panel Event. The panel also chooses one student to move on to the next level of the competition. The next level allows the See ACADEMY page 21...
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Participants in this year’s Young Entrepreneurs Academy (courtesy photo)
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Sentinel mourns loss of Publisher mark J. Wilcox WellS – Mark J. Wilcox, founder of The Weekly Sentinel, died Wednesday afternoon, July 10, in York Hospital. He was 76. Born in Charlestown, Mass., Mr. Wilcox began his 50-year newspaper career with The Boston Globe. He later joined Harte-Hanks Communications, a multi-media corporation of newspapers, television stations and direct marketing facilities throughout the United States, advancing to the position of vice president. Mr. Wilcox was a graduate of Boston College with a bachelor of science degree and a graduate of New England Law School with a doctorate of law. Mr. Wilcox founded The Sentinel in 2005 and launched its sister newspaper, The Granite State Sentinel, in 2009, serving as editor/publisher of both publications until his death.
A resident of Wells for the past 25 years, he was active in many business organizations throughout Southern Maine. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at press-time. Bibber Memorial Chapel, 111 Chapel Road, Wells, is in charge of arrangements and can be contacted at 207-6466133 or at info@bibberfuneral. com.
‘Capture Culture’ in annual Photo Contest KeNNeBuNK – A third annual photography contest sponsored by the Brick Store Museum will get under way on Tuesday, July 16, when submissions will first be accepted. Photographs can be submitted through Sept. 6. Photographs will be accepted in three categories: “Kennebunk,” “Travel” and “Nature.” Participants under age 16 may share their entries in a separate children’s category. Winners will be selected from each category. Each participant may submit a maximum of three entries. Three artists from the southern Maine community will serve as the judges for the photo contest. In keeping with the contest’s motto of “Capture Culture,” the museum asks amateur
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photographers to participate in documenting the world in the 21st century. Edith Barry, founder of the Brick Store Museum, was an artist and world traveler. In over 60 years of her travels, she photographed the places she visited – as close as Kennebunk and as far as Singapore. Each entry must consist of a digital image and entry form. Every image received for judging will appear on the Brick Store Museum’s website from July 17 to Sept. 7. Winning photographs, including a “Visitor’s Choice,” will be displayed in the museum’s History Showcase in the fall. For more information on the contest and its rules and to print an entry form, visit www. brickstoremuseum.org or call the museum at 207-985-4802.
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