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Friday, July 22, 2016
Volume 12 • Issue No. 30
York Days Events Kick Off This Weekend: July 22-31 YORK York Days, 2016, will bring an exciting lineup of entertainment, special events and fireworks, from July 22 through July 31. The York Days Co-Ed Softball Tournament will be a double elimination tournament limited to 10 teams. Each team will have a maximum of 15 players, four of which must be female. ASA rules will govern all play. Trophies will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams. So get your teams
together and we’ll see you Saturday, July 30. Register at the York Parks and Recreation Department, 207-363-1040. The York Days 5k on Sunday, July 24, is part of the York Days Festival that is held every summer in York. This is a summer run through scenic York Village and York Harbor, sponsored by York Hospital. The course uniquely incorporates a small section of cross country terrain as it winds over the Wiggly Bridge and through Steadman Woods. For
more information or to register visit www.yorkhospital.com or contact the Friend Raising Office directly at bamegian@ yorkhospital.com or 207-3512385. Same day registration opens at 6 a.m. and closes at 7:45 a.m. Race starts at 8 a.m. York High School, 1 Robert Stevens Drive, York. For more information, visit parksandrec. yorkmaine.org. A centerpiece of the York Days celebration will also take See YORK page 4...
21st Antique Tractor & Engine Show at Raitt Homestead ELIOT “Where Tractors and Engines Meet,� The work has begun to bring the yearly event to life at the Raitt Homestead Farm Museum's (RHFM) 21st Antique Tractor & Engine Show to be held July 29-31. It takes over 40 people working 10 hour days the week before the show to get things ready. Not to mention the countless hours the weeks and months before. And it is definitely a
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labor of love for those that volunteer and participate. The tractor & engine show brings hundreds of different farming exhibits from all over the region and country. These include tractors, hit n miss engines, farm exhibits of all kinds, which ensures that you will see some pretty unique machinery. 40hp Reid, Evans engine, rope making, wooden stake making, and so much more. The machinery will be displayed running at certain times throughout the days demonstrating how they
operated long ago. The Shingle Mill and Hildreth Woodsplitter are two demonstrations that really draw crowds to watch as they work away at the wood, making it into either firewood or shingles which are then painted and used to repair buildings. Tractor parades, tractor pulling, kids pedal tractor pulling, kids corner, crafts, displays, flea market, ladies skillet toss and fun are all on the schedule for See RAITT page 18...
“Black to BLUE�: Jaime Rooney Tells her Story By Alyssa McArdle, Staff Reporter YORK Jaime Rooney never expected to be a writer. She had wanted to be a cop since she was a little girl. Now she is both. The petite 38-year old woman with a big smile and warm eyes isn’t what you might picture when you imagine a police officer. But there is a lot more to Rooney than meets the eye. Behind her cheery disposition and charitable nature, Rooney is a survivor of a truly horrific childhood in which drugs, poverty and abuse were part of her daily reality. “I told myself this was not going to be my life,� Rooney
said. “I said that to myself so many times.� She spent most of her childhood in a housing project in Worcester, MA, with her mother and sister. Her parents were sepa-
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“Every time they came to the house, which was a lot, I was so relieved. Everyone else in the projects hated them, but I secretly loved them.� Once Rooney was emancipated, she was free to attend college to follow her dream of joining law enforcement. She put herself through school, relying on friends to teach her how to drive, something no one in her family had ever thought to do. Rooney not only supported herself but also paid for her mother’s rent back in Worcester, until she realized that money was being spent on drugs and alcohol, not living expenses. See ROONEY page 6...
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rated by the time she was born. Rooney’s mother struggled with substance abuse, leaving the children to mostly fend for themselves, finding meals at soup kitchens and shoplifting shoes when theirs were too worn. After an assault by a neighbor’s uncle, Rooney knew she needed to get out. She hoped moving to Maine to live with her father would bring a new sense of security to her life, but her father’s new wife shattered that dream. One night, when Rooney was a teenager, her step-mother beat her so badly she was hospitalized. After that night, she became emancipated. “I knew I wanted to be a cop since I was little,� she said.
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