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Friday, September 21, 2012
Volume 8 • Issue No. 38
Answering the Call: Young Maine Native Living in Tel Aviv By Rhyan Romaine Staff Columnist WELLS This week, Jews around the world observe Yamim Noraim, (translated from Hebrew as, “ ” or, “Days of Awe”), the ten High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. For one former Wells resident, this is remembered as an isolating time. Jamie Dandreta, 22, now a citizen of Israel and student at Tel Aviv University, would rarely have friends or close family to celebrate with during her childhood growing up on the Seacoast in and around Wells, Maine. While
Jamie Dandreta in Israel (courtesy photo)
Farming Documentary to Premier at Marshwood High School SOUTH BERWICK – “Farming 101,” a new documentary film by Peter Randall about Kittery and Eliot dairy farming, will have its premier on Friday, September 28, at Marshwood High School auditorium. The event is co-sponsored by SeacoastLocal, an organization that encourages residents to “think
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local first” to cultivate socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable communities in southeastern Maine and coastal New Hampshire. The film will be shown at 7 p.m. When Randall moved from seacoast New Hampshire to Goodwin Road in Eliot, his well-seasoned photographic eye was immediately attracted to the beautiful fields, many of which were regularly used by local farmers. Goodwin Road, along with Wilson Road in Kittery, is an eight-mile stretch of winding Route 101 between Route One and Route 236. Here are located two dairy farms, the last of the dozens of such farms that once made agriculture a common business in York County. Recently retired after forty years and 450 titles as a book publisher, Randall also has authored a dozen books of his own, combining a love of history and photography into prize-winning publications. Always ready for new challenges, Randall made a decision to make a video documentary about the dairy farms. “Although I had no experience with making a film, I charged ahead anyway,” Randall
A couple of cows greet their newest arrival (Photo by Peter E. Randall)
said. “Not many years ago, dairy farms were commonplace and most people knew how the farms operated. But now, in this area anyway, farms are disappearing along with knowledge of this way of life. I wanted to help preserve this culture.” Now three years later, Randall has finished his film telling the story of the two dairy farms, but also a working hay production farm, three former farms, a dairy, a tractor dealership, a tractor collector, and a cider mill. Randall used a new type of Canon digital SLR camera that was made for still photography, but had a video capability that exceeded the quality of con-
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Jamie always felt she had a special heritage, she felt disconnected from her heritage while growing up in an area where she didn’t know many other Jewish people. Dandreta first had the opportunity to explore her faith and culture in 2010 as a participant in the Taglit-Birthright Israel program, a nonprofit organization providing a free trip to Israel for young Jewish people. Her two-week tour helped her embrace her Jewish identity through peer education and cultural immersion. “As soon as the plane landed in Jerusalem and I read Hebrew on all the signs, I had an
immediate sense of inclusion,” a sense that Dandreta notes was lacking in her southern Maine youth. While touring various locations in Jerusalem, it wasn’t rare for strangers to approach Jamie on the streets of Jerusalem and just say, “Welcome home.” It was at that moment Jamie felt she was answering a call, and she wasn’t alone. In August, 2012, Dandreta officially made Aliya, a word that, when translated, means the return of Jews in exile back to Israel. This term is also used when establishing formal citizenSee DANDRETA page 7...
Cross-Country Bike Trip a Testament to Energy Conservation ELIOT & CAPE NEDDICK – The idea to bicycle across the United States started in May 2011 at Ceres Bakery in Portsmouth when Peter Billipp of Eliot ran into Stephen Kosacz of Cape Neddick. Billipp, a commercial real estate broker at Kane Company, and Kosacz, owner of Autoworks in Kittery and vice chairman of the Seacoast Energy Initiative, have known each other, off and on, for thirty years. But a coastto-coast trip, covering more than
3,600 miles, was something they had never imagined before. While both may be considered senior citizens (Kosacz is 63 and Billipp is 59), they had been keeping in shape all their lives. Billipp is an avid hiker, bicyclist, and Nordic skier of the White Mountains while Kosacz races Lasers, an Olympic class singlehanded dinghy, cycles, works out at the gym, and cross country ski raced with Peter decades ago. See BIKING page 30...
Stephen Kosacz on the shore of Lake Superior, Marquette, Wisconsin (courtesy photo)
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