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By Seth KoenigBangor Daily News

SCARBOROUGH — Kyle St. Clair, a boy whose mysterious ailments largely confined him to his bedroom and hospi-tals, but whose story became an inspira-tion to thousands, died Tuesday morning at the age of 8, according to his family.

St. Clair, who earlier in 2012 confessed to his sister he didn’t think he would sur-

vive to see his eighth birthday, reached the milestone on Oct. 27, and then lived to spend one more Christmas and New Year’s Day with his family.

On Tuesday, the boy’s family posted the following on a Facebook page devoted to Kyle:

“After 8-plus years of fighting, our love

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By Will GraffPORTLAND — Advocates

said they were baffled when one of the first serious at-tempts at improving fishing industry safety was stripped down in an annual act passed quietly last month.

The U.S. Coast Guard Re-authorization Act of 2010 provision requiring all com-mercial fishing vessels operat-ing more than three miles from the coast to have dockside inspections by Oct. 16, 2012, was extended to Oct. 15, 2015, by the latest 2012 act, which became law on Christmas Eve.

The revision also extends the amount of time required between inspections from two years to five.

“It was a major surprise to me,” said Eliott Thomas, a Yarmouth lobsterman and board member of the Maine Lobster Fishing Safety Coun-

cil. “I thought they might delay it, but this is just like emasculating for safety. “

Under current federal law, fishing vessels must carry an emergency position-indicating radio, known as EPIRB; a lifeboat or life float; a flare kit; life jackets or immersion suits; a ring buoy; a fire extinguish-er; a sound-producing device and running lights.

Five years between inspec-tions for those items doesn’t make sense, said Gerald Dzugan, director of the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association, who chaired a national board that recom-mended the two-year schedule.

“The impact on safety is not good when you consider much of the survival and safety equipment have lifespans for maintenance that’s less than

Advocates decry holes in fishing industry safety net

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Will GRAff / ThE fORECASTERYarmouth lobsterman Eliott Thomas displays his survival suit aboard his

boat on Monday, Jan. 8. Although commercial fishing is the deadliest industry in Maine, a new regulation requiring commercial fishing boats to

be inspected by the U.S. Coast Guard was loosened last month.

Lawmakers push forranked-choice electionsBy Will Graff

AUGUSTA — So long, spoil-ers.

That’s the message two Yarmouth legislators hope to send with legislation aimed at eliminating the chances of elect-ing statewide candidates with less than a majority vote.

Freshman Rep. Janice Cooper, D-Yarmouth, and veteran legis-lator Sen. Dick Woodbury, U-Yarmouth, have submitted draft legislation for ranked-choice voting to the Legal and Veterans Affairs Committee.

“Today, there are more third-party and unenrolled candi-dates, and the current system doesn’t work well when there’s a broader range,” Woodbury said. “I think that it tends to give an advantage to candidates that are more at the party extremes, and are less moderate, which can lead to candidates winning with less than 50 percent of the support from voters.”

Under Woodbury’s and Coo-per’s proposed bills, the pro-cedure for statewide elections would be similar to Portland’s mayoral elections, where voters enacted a ranked-choice system in 2011.

The system allows voters to rank candidates according to their preference: first, second, third, etc., until they no longer have a preference or all candi-dates have been given a ranking.

Cost of Shore Road path more than 10% over budgetBy Will Graff

CAPE ELIZABETH — The town spent about $165,000 more than expected for construction of the Shore Road path.

The largest cost overrun was for traffic flaggers.

Public Works Director Bob Malley said the project went

over its $1 million budget in several areas. He said there was a need for additional drainage systems, clearing of extra trees, engineering fees and the instal-lation of concrete sidewalks in some areas, instead of less expensive asphalt.

A 10 percent contingency

fund was exhausted and an ad-ditional $65,000 was spent.

“It’s like anything when you design and build things, there’s unforeseen conditions,” Malley said. He added that cost over-runs for flaggers is common, according to state project man-agers.

The town budgeted $58,500 for flaggers, but spent about $144,000, according to its in-voices.

Malley said a lump sum was initially budgeted for flaggers, to be paid to the contractor, L.P. Murray & Sons of Cape Elizabeth.

But under a stipulation of the project’s $729,000 Maine Department of Transportation grant, the town had to pay a higher unit cost for the flaggers than had been expected.

Town Manager Michael Mc-

Scarborough boy who inspired thousands dies at 8Kate St. Clair cuddles her son Kyle, 8, for a moment while he plays a game on his iPad in November 2012 at their home in Scarborough. Kyle died Tuesday, Jan. 8.TROy R. BEnnETT / BDn

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SOUTH PORTLAND — The year: 1971.The setting: a fourth-grade class at the

Willard School.The question from one of the students to

the young, new teacher: “Just how old are you, anyway?”

Janet Kandoian, known as “Miss K” to many students, well remembers her first class and that particular question.

“It was a hard year, because there was a wide range of students, and I was new to teaching,” Kandoian said. “I was kind of the ‘new kid’ at the school, and I gave the students lots of freedom.

“The children had been accustomed to sitting in rows of desks, but I arranged them

in pods of four or five. I had them work in groups to create murals for the bulletin boards as final projects for units. And we sang lots of songs, some of which came from camp with me, others just caught the kids’ imaginations like ‘Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie.’”

Kandoian is now in her 42nd year of teaching. She taught for the first seven years at the Willard School until it was torn down, and she has taught at the Frank I. Brown

Diane HuDson / For THe ForecasTerJanet Kandoian in her classroom at the Brown School in South Portland: “As teachers, we’re

successful if our students don’t need us any more. It’s essential for teachers – and parents – to help kids become more independent, more self reliant.”

School for the last 35 years, although she taught at another school for one year while Brown was being renovated.

She estimated that she’s taught more than 800 students, and that she keeps up with at least 100 of them.

Her students have gone on to pursue a variety of careers: doctors and lawyers, plumbers and electricians, teachers and coaches. Many of them have stayed in Maine, but others have left the state or gone overseas. Shana Kieran, for example, served as deputy public officer at the U.S. Embassy in Manama, Bahrain, and she’s currently back in the states learning Hebrew in order to take a posting in Israel.

Back to the beginning: Why teaching?“I graduated from college in the late

‘60s, when there was a lot of talking about making the world better,” Kandoian said. “I wanted to actually do something to move things along.”

And why did this New Jersey native move to Maine?

“I moved to Maine because I wanted to work somewhere where I could live on my own,” she said. “In the late ‘60s many of us contemplated adventures of various kinds. Mine was leaving suburbs, familiar cities, and a large, warm extended family to come to a place that was home to me from the beginning. The ‘on my own’ part was even more important than the ‘adventure’ part.”

Kandoian has witnessed many changes over the years, some of which she applauds while others give her pause. She enjoys the greater diversity of students, she said, and

easy access to information via computers can prove helpful.

On the other hand, she is concerned that it’s more difficult today for children to learn self-reliance.

“In the ‘70s, children were free to roam in their neighborhoods on bikes and on foot, to play pick-up games, to explore on their own,” Kandoian said. “As teachers, we’re successful if our students don’t need us any more. It’s essential for teachers – and parents – to help kids become more inde-pendent, more self reliant.”

A conversation with Kandoian confirms that she retains her passion for teaching and for life.

“I love that phrase, ‘It was a delicious day,’” shes said, “which came, I think, from E.B. White’s book, ‘The Trumpet of the Swan.’”

Kandoian said she experiences “delicious days” when she encounters her former stu-dents around town.

“I love seeing their eyes light up when they see me and remember their childhood and begin talking about their time in my class,” she said. “I love being part of my warm extended family in South Portland.”

She also retains the sense of humor so vital for all of us, especially teachers.

“This year one of my students asked, ‘Just how old are you, anyway?’,” she said. “So there you go: I’ve evolved from being the new kid to the senior citizen.”

Unsung HeroesOne in a series of profiles by Brunswick writer

David Treadwell about people who quietly contrib-ute to the quality of life in greater Portland. Do

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New rules put noise-makers on notice in Cape ElizabethBy Will Graff

CAPE ELIZABETH — The Town Council tied up the last loose end in the short-term rental saga Monday night, putting teeth into the rules governing excessive noise.

The council also approved an ordi-nance amendment that allows larger signs for some businesses operating in residential zones.

In a unanimous vote, councilors amended the “disturbing the peace”

Winterfest returns to ScarboroughBy David Harry

SCARBOROUGH — From snow sculpting to wagon rides, Winterfest is set to return to town Saturday, Jan. 20.

Sponsored by Scarborough Community Services, the 24th annual free-admission festival will be held on the Scarborough High School athletic fields and adjacent outdoor ice rinks. The festival begins with the lighting of a bonfire at noon.

Events for all ages are scheduled, including competitions such as slalom, backwards, and speed skating for points to determine the festival king, queen and royal family.

A snow-sculpting contest features three classes for entrants: family, 12 and younger, and 13 and older. Frosty the Snowman will visit at the ice rink closest to Wentworth Intermediate School.

Other games include milk jug curling at 12:30 p.m., navigating an icy obstacle course on the lower ice rink at 4:15 p.m.,

and a Score-O competition at 2 p.m. on the upper rink.

Younger children are invited to take part in an ice cube/candy cane hunt at 1:45 p.m. on the playground at Went-worth Intermediate School. Families can also enjoy wagon rides from 12:30-3:30 p.m., and refreshments will be available throughout the festival.

The festival concludes with a fireworks display at 5 p.m. and crowning the festi-val king, queen and royal family at 5:20 p.m.

The make-up date for Winterfest is Sunday, Jan. 20. In the event of inclement weather, updates will be available by call-ing 730-4150 or 883-7645 or by listening to local radio stations.

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section of the miscellaneous offenses ordinance in an attempt to give police and the code enforcement officer more power to enforce the three-strikes rule in the short-term rental ordinance.

The amendment includes violations for “excessive volume of music” and sets quiet hours beginning at 10 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays, and from 11 p.m.

on Fridays and Saturdays. It also holds property owners responsible for noise violations.

And although the new language was designed with short-term rentals in mind, it applies to everyone.

“This could be anyone who has a dog that habitually barks every night that the

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DISTRICT ONE CITY COUNCIL SEATPetition papers will be available on January 14, 2013 for the

District One City Council vacant seatAny resident of District One interested in running to fill this seatmust obtain petition papers from the City Clerks’ Office and collectat least 100 qualified signatures from registered South Portlandvoters in order to have their name placed on the ballot. Petitionpapers must be returned and qualified on or before 4:30 P.M. onFebruary 1, 2013.

The Special Election will be held on March 13, 2013 at the SouthPortland Community Center. Absentee ballots will be available tothe public beginning February 4, 2013. Please contact theCity Clerk at 767-7627 for more information.

Election to fill S.P. council vacancy set for March 12By David Harry

SOUTH PORTLAND — Nomination petitions for a March 12 special election to fill the District 1 City Council seat will be available at City Hall at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 14.

Councilors approved the election date in a 30-minute council meeting on Monday, Jan. 7.

Voters will elect a replacement for former Councilor Tom Coward, who resigned Dec. 31, 2012. He will take a seat as a Cumberland County commissioner on Jan. 14.

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City asks public about Wilkinson Park prioritiesBy David Harry

SOUTH PORTLAND — Does the club-house at Wilkinson Park need a face-lift or a full-body reconstruction?

Neighbors of the 112 New York Avenue park and the general public are invited to give their opinions to Parks and Recreation Director Rick Towle at a 6 p.m. forum on Jan. 16 at the Community Center, 21 Nel-son Road.

Rebuilding or renovating the clubhouse at the city-owned park has been a short-term

goal for Towle almost since he was named parks and recreation director last summer.

The seven-acre park is home to the South Portland Little League, other athletic fields and trails bordered by the Interstate 295 Connector. The nearly 1,200-square-foot clubhouse, once used for gatherings and dances, is about 60 years old.

Its oil tank was removed in September, the kitchen is not up to current public health codes and the restrooms do not comply with accessibility standards. The knotty pine

candidates must live in the district, balloting is open to all registered city voters.

Coward’s unexpired term expires in De-cember 2014. Nomination papers require at least 100 signatures from registered voters. The deadline to submit nomination papers is 4:30 p.m. Feb. 1.

Polls will open March 5 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the South Portland Community Center, 21 Nelson Road.

The brevity of Monday’s meeting al-lowed councilors to consider three agenda items in a 75-minute workshop after the meeting was adjourned.

The first item helped set workshop

agendas through early March. Councilors also agreed to hold off on policy changes regarding attendance at meetings of munici-pal boards and committees and using social media for communications.

Councilors will be discussing ordinance amendments for the outdoor farmers mar-ket, plans to restripe traffic lanes on Broad-way and possibly future plans for Wilkinson Park or creating a city endowment fund on Jan. 28.

Council workshops on working with city

boards and committees and plans for a new public works, recreation and transportation facility will be held next month. Mayor Tom Blake said he would like to see a workshop on the possible flow of Canadian “tar sands” oil into the city, perhaps in mid-March, before budget discussions begin to fill workshop agendas.

The policy changes were part of a five-item list compiled by City Manager Jim Gailey last summer regarding possible amendments to council standing rules.

While councilors Jerry Jalbert, Al Livingston and Patti Smith noted councilors

walls inside are homey, but Towle said the joists underneath the floor have been ex-posed to the elements and have deteriorated.

Last November, Towle outlined three choices to city councilors: repair the club-house, raze it and build a new one, or raze it in favor of an open-air pavilion.

The city has about $60,000 available for a clubhouse project. Towle offered a very preliminary cost estimate of $83,000 to build a clubhouse of the same size meeting current codes.

He said a pavilion could be used for eight or nine months a year and would fit in the current budget. Future pavilion improvements, including concessions and

restrooms, are estimated to cost between $50,000 and $100,000 and could be part of annual capital improvements budgets.

After the forum, councilors could hear more definitive park plans at a Jan. 28 workshop. Towle said he would like work to begin this winter or spring.

Parking on New York Avenue has al-ready been expanded by cutting down trees bordering the Little League diamond; city crews also cut down trees in the small play-ground beyond the outfield fence.

The park was donated to the city for recreational use by the Wilkinson family about 35 years ago, and named for the fam-ily in 1983.

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SCARBOROUGH — Mike Audet took a simple view of his career in broadcasting.

“I went to work, I did my job, I came home,” he said upon retiring last month af-ter more than 50 years on the air in Maine, Arizona and Connecticut.

A Waterville native, Audet, 70, first stepped to the microphone as a high school sophomore in the mid-1950s. At the time, the first TV station in Maine, Bangor-based WABI, was barely on the air.

Audet also spent time in the U.S. Army in the late ’50s and worked as a corporate driver for for cosmetics manufacturer Elizabeth Arden about 50 years ago.

“Then I thought it would be fun to do radio,” he said, and returned to the air in Flagstaff, Ariz., at a station that eventually went bankrupt. He also worked in New Haven, Conn. But most of his last 40 years were spent on Portland airwaves, reporting and reading news on WPOR and WGAN.

“I left WPOR once to sell cars,” Audet said. “I didn’t sell many, which is why I got back into radio.”

At WPOR and WGAN, Audet teamed with morning disc jockey Bud Sawyer for a show that consistently ranked close to or at the top of local ratings. Sawyer played music; Audet packed six or eight news stories into each hour.

His tone and style put listeners at ease, former WPOR colleague and current Maine Public Broadcasting Network pro-ducer and reporter Irwin Gratz said.

“A lesson I learned from others, but Mike reinforced, is to have a relaxed style on air. It’s not just reading to them, you are having a having a conversation,” Gratz said.

Sawyer and Audet are members of the Maine Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and share mutual admiration for each other.

“Mike Audet’s retirement equals the end of an era,” Sawyer said. “He is one of the last of the real broadcasters. It was impos-sible to stay ‘down’ when he was in the same studio.”

DaviD Harry / THe ForecasTerScarborough resident Mike Audet has retired after a broadcast journalism career spanning almost 60 years, mostly in the Portland area.

stories or important developments from getting through.

“It is amazing now, you can get a lot more news,” Audet said. “But you still have to write it.”

Audet also covered press conferences and local news often forwarded from lis-tener tips.

“You would get calls from people. They would give you the bare essentials and you would get the rest,” he recalled.

In 1975, Audet covered the murder trial of Herbert R. Schwartz and Truman Dongo, who were accused of shooting Jon Pownall. Pownall had come to Maine to make a movie and the two were accused of killing him to collect on an insurance policy.

“I found out just how boring trials can be,” Audet said. “It’s not like TV. I had a hard time staying awake. I was doing mornings at WGAN, then covering the trial, then do a standup for TV news.”

Audet said reporting tragic stories was always more troubling for him.

“It’s part of the job, to get the soundbite. It’s a nasty part of the job,” he said.

Sawyer said Audet remained composed no matter how hard his colleagues tried to make him laugh during a newscast.

“After the newscast was over, the laugh-ter began,” Sawyer said.

One loss of composure on a story cost him a week’s suspension, Audet recalled.

“I dropped the f-bomb once. I recorded the piece for the umpteenth time and the editing on it was flawed,” he said.

Audet said he won’t miss being on air, because the time to retire had come.

“I got up at 2 o’clock for decades,” he said. “I enjoyed going to work until the last day I was there. You have to have a professional attitude, whatever problems you have, leave them at the door. You just do it.”David Harry can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @DavidHarry8.

Gratz is now perhaps the longest ten-ured broadcaster on air or TV in southern Maine. He started in Sanford in 1978, and Audet helped recruit him to WPOR.

“I walked into the newsroom, and Mike had been on that morning. He looked over and said ‘hello Irwin Gratz, I’m Mike Audet, we want hire you,’” Gratz recalled.

Audet also spent time as a TV reporter and weekend news anchor on WGAN (now WGME). The late newscasts on Saturday night sometimes came after he and his wife, Frances, had been out for the evening.

She would sit out of camera range, and a director would work in the booth. Dur-ing commercials, the couple could chat.

“Franny might be sitting next to me and we might be having an argument, and then (the director) would tell me ‘30 seconds,’” Audet recalled.

Frances Audet teaches in Westbrook, and the couple have a grown son living in Tennessee.

Audet’s career began when FM stations were unheard of and news arrived by clacking teletype machines feeding wire-service copy through one phone line from Boston to all the radio stations in Maine. A malfunction at one station could mean copy had to be re-sent, blocking new


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That number is much larger today.Recently, Louise Story of The New York Times wrote

a series of articles docu-menting that “states, coun-ties, and cities are giving up more than $80 billion each year to companies.” After noting Texas’ huge corporate giveaways, she compared each state’s sub-sidies to their annual bud-get: “Oklahoma and West Virginia give up amounts equal to about one-third of their budgets; Maine al-locates nearly a fifth.”

Corporate welfare takes many forms. In Maine, business and equipment tax reimbursement (BETR) is one form. In fiscal year 2012, BETR reimbursed some 1,800 corporations $52.7 million. Of this amount, 55 percent went to 20 large corporations – almost all highly profitable Fortune 500 companies. In BETR’s 14-year existence, approximately $730 million has been disbursed, and most of it went to these same (or similar) large corporations.

TIF payments (the return by municipalities of prop-erty tax revenues) are another form of corporate welfare. Payment commitments often extend 20-25 years into the future. In 2011, $60.4 million was returned to 500 Maine corporations. Over the last five years, approxi-mately $280 million was disbursed, and the amounts grow annually. Again, the largest recipients are large, profitable national corporations.

In 2011 one corporation, Bath Iron Works, received a $3.5 million “credit against withholding taxes other-wise due.” Individual employees were credited for their withheld taxes, but since 2000 BIW has retained and will continue to retain $3 million-$3.5 million annually. This subsidy lasts 20 years, or until $60 million of state income tax revenue has been captured by the company.

Beyond the reimbursements noted, the variety of corporate welfare mechanisms seems infinite: the gift, or sale, of government owned property at write-down prices; sales-tax exemptions (which abound in Maine); job and investment tax credits; research expense credits; visual media (TV and movie) production credits; fishery infrastructure credits – the list goes on.

This transfer of scarce state and local tax dollars to corporations is undertaken in the belief that these subsi-dies will induce a heightened level of capital investment in Maine, which in turn will produce jobs.

But no data supports this premise.On the contrary, over the last 10 years – a period in

which Maine’s population rose slightly, and all forms of corporate welfare increased dramatically – total private employment declined.

This decline was most dramatic in the manufacturing sector, where nearly 30,000 Maine jobs were lost. The reality is, new capital investment in many manufacturing settings simply substitutes equipment for labor – em-ployment declines; it does not increase.

BIW is a classic example. After being given $197 million in state and local tax subsidies to modernize its Bath plant, employment went from nearly 7,700 in 1999 to below 5,200 in 2011. Similar data exists for Maine-based paper-making and construction firms.

Proponents of corporate welfare argue that tax sub-sidies are a necessary inducement to obtain corporate commitments to come to, or remain in, a particular town or state. This argument, whether stated bluntly or more coyly by a corporate entity, contains an implied threat that the corporation will not undertake a proposed project or capital investment in a town or state unless a generous BETR, TIF, or some other tax subsidy is provided.

Corporations are often actively (and simultaneously) engaged in negotiating tax subsidy options with nearby towns and/or states to get the best deal possible. This cynical playing of one town or one state against an-other is little more than extortion – and it is engaged in widely.

Economists see this for what it is: a no-win, “zero-sum game.”

Maine’s economy is not better off when Wal-Mart opens in Skowhegan instead of Waterville. The national economy is not better off when a new assembly plant is built in Ohio instead of Michigan. The only entity better off is the corporation that extorted the largest subsidy from the so-called “winning” town or state.

What a perversity: one “wins” by losing – by giving away more taxpayer money than the competition.

The reality is some jobs have been shifted from one location to another – nothing more. But sadly, tax dol-lars have been shifted from schools and roads, from the needs of real people to the bottom line of the “winning” corporation.

This ongoing transfer of public funds to private cor-porations is a state and national absurdity. It is corporate welfare that Maine and the nation cannot afford.

Next month: A closer look at corporate threats to leave, or not come to Maine, unless subsidies are pro-vided, and an examination of the real factors that deter-mine where corporations build or expand. Also, how to reduce outlays and change the direction of the current corporate welfare system.

Orlando Delogu of Portland is emeritus professor of law at the University of Maine School of Law and a longtime public policy consultant to federal, state, and local government agencies and officials. He can be reached at [email protected].

There’s snow end in sight

OK, show of hands: who has shoveled enough snow?

Come on, get ‘em up. I refuse to believe that I am the only one. And please, no homespun Downeast folk wisdom.

“You call this snow? We can still see the windows on our house! Longfellow wrote ‘The Song Of Hi-awatha’ in deeper snow than this, barefoot. With no coat on. Before all the folks from away moved in. L.L. Bean wouldn’t even have the long sleeve shirts out yet.” Cue the old guy at the potbelly stove hitting a spittoon from 20 feet away. Barefoot. With no coat on.

Don’t get me wrong. I like snow. I like mak-ing snow angels and snowmen, snow forts and snowball fights. I used to dream of white Thanksgivings and got quite a few growing up in Michigan. In college I caught a ride home for turkey day with a girl who had just gotten her first car, and judging from her driving, her first license. We had about 16 inches fall on us in the 70 miles between Detroit and Lansing, where she spun a 570 that landed us straddling the cen-ter line, facing the oncoming traffic, if there had been any. Nobody else was stupid enough to be on the highway. We ended up getting 27 inches that day. We lived. I never rode with her again.

Snow shoveling is the problem, not snow. This last snowfall wasn’t even that bad, but for some reason, I hit my personal wall. It took the form of chilling (“chilling” – see what I did there?) flashbacks to long winter days with the wind blowing through my threadbare coat as I wielded a comically over-sized shovel, my fingers and feet frostbitten. Apparently, I was Oliver Twist as a child.

Fantasies of workhouses in Victorian London notwithstanding, an unscientific but oddly satis-fying analysis has yielded a few theories about why I hit that wall.

One: shoveling is like exposure to pollen. Some people can take more, some less, but sooner or later, everybody hits his limit. This winter I hit mine. The downside of this scenario is that you can’t take a pill that will clear your driveway like it was your sinuses.

The other scenario sounds crazy until you think about it. Then it sounds really crazy. How-ever, it must be true because it came to me as a vision while I was trying to remove the chunky stuff blocking the entire width of my drive. This is the worst part of digging out. It’s an unavoid-able side effect of city snow plows’ heroic work clearing the streets; no amount of gratitude can make it fun to get rid of. Anyway, here is the

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Peeved at my own incompetenceNothing puts me in a foul mood faster than some-

thing I can’t fix. That means I’m in a fuming funk a lot of the time, not fit to live with until whatever is broken is either repaired or replaced. At the mo-ment it’s the #*(^%$! roof.

The roof over my sunroom office has been leak-ing for the better part of a decade. That ticks me off because 1) the whole purpose of a house is to keep you warm and dry, 2) it‘s annoying to have pans and buckets underfoot, 3) we have paid two differ-ent contractors good money to repair and then replace the roof and it still leaks like a sieve, and 4) the leaks bring me face to face with my own incompe-tence.

I can’t fix anything and I hate being re-minded of the fact.

I am now getting too old to get up there and shovel snow off the roof, but the sunroom sometimes leaks whether there is snow on it or not. To their credit, the roofers who replaced the entire roof a few years ago came back dutifully every time I called about a leak, but pulling up shingles and flashing seemed to indicate that it was not their work that was defective. The outside of the roof would be completely dry while there would be ice and frost on the inside. When the temperatures heat up, it “rains” in the crawl space under the eaves, the water backs up along a rafter and eventually emp-ties out in my office. The current leak, however, is in the kitchen.

As a conscientious suburban homeowner, I got out after the holiday storms and raked off the roof of our little cape as far up as I could reach in order to prevent ice dams from forming along the edge. Removing the snow just moved the ice dams up about six or eight feet. We discovered as much when the ceiling light in the kitchen began dripping and we found close to a quart of water in it.

After the initial flurry of chipping ice off the roof

and placing containers in the crawl space to catch the leaks, I reached the limits of my own technical competence when I disconnected and removed the soaking wet ceiling fixture. That restored all the rest of the first floor lights and my spirits – until the following day, when I came home from a trip to Worcester to find that the front and back door outside lights no longer work.

When you’re as incompetent as I am, it is im-portant to know who to call when problems arise. Unfortunately, the electricians we have relied on for years have gone out of business. But then I’m not sure it makes any sense to call in an electrician until the leaking roof problem is fixed, which may be never.

About the only malfunction that makes me more upset than the long-running leaky roof is when my computer – and therefore my livelihood – goes on the fritz. I expect lights to go on when I flip the switch and I expect to be able to research, write and e-mail when I boot up in the morning.

Back in October, my corrupt old Dell, which had been limping along for months, suddenly crashed and turned blue. I called Marc, my friendly lo-cal computer whiz, and he was able to rescue my data, but not my desktop. I would have been out of business years ago if not for Marc’s prompt and professional service.

I had planned to invest in a new iMac when the Dell finally died, but the folks at the Apple Store were so negative about transferring my possibly corrupt files onto their pristine machine that I decided not to spend the $2,500 or so to convert from PC to Mac. After using a borrowed laptop for a week, I finally bought a reconditioned HP from Marc for $180 and went merrily on my way as though nothing had happened.

And that’s what you want when things go wrong – a quick fix and a return to normalcy. We want to believe that life will go on uninterrupted forever.

I wonder whether Marc does any roofing?

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idea: snow shoveling is God’s way of asking if you re-ally want to live in a place that has snow.

On that day it seemed there was an amused, but loving supreme being watching me wrestling tectonic plate-sized pieces of ice and asking, “Seriously? You know this will be going on for three more months, right? Five, if you live in The County. It’s not like this is a secret. I do winter every year.”

I was thinking, “Whatever happened to global warm-ing? Shouldn’t Portland be more like Miami at this point?”

“It’s complicated. Anyway, have fun playing with your shovel. Did I mention there is no snow here? Well, no shoveling. The snow parts like the Red Sea when you walk through it, because it’s, you know, heaven.”

All kidding aside, the snow does bring out a side of Maine that I really love: neighborliness. In general, people seem more helpful here than other places I’ve lived, but it really shows up in winter. You often see passersby stopping to push cars stuck in snow banks. When I got in a traffic accident recently (no injuries), many people stopped to help, even if it was just the offer of a warm car to sit in while we waited for the EMS unit that would check us out.

In an earlier column I expressed surprise and gratitude for the neighbor who used his snow blower to clear my drive. I thought that was pretty remarkable. It was remarkable, but either we are extraordinarily lucky, or

that particular good Samaritanship is a Maine thing. During this last snowfall, in a new neighborhood where we haven’t even gotten to know our neighbors, the lady across the street simply walked her snow blower across the street and did our house. Also, just like our last neighbor, she shrugged off any attempts at thanks, almost as if my gratitude was embarrassing. She told me not to be silly, it was fun.

There is only one possible explanation: there is a patron saint – St. Olaf of Husqvarna, perhaps? – who travels the world seeking out the noblest of the noble, people who never hit a wall about doing what is nec-essary to live in a beautiful northern state. When he finds them, he endows them with the tools to go out and perform their good works. It explains so much, especially why I have always resisted getting a snow blower myself.

I’m not worthy.Mike Langworthy, an attorney, former stand-up comic

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1/2 at 8:35 a.m. Allan L. Martin, 73, of Pulpit Rock Road, was arrested on Pulpit Rock Road by Officer Ben Davis on a warrant.1/6 at 6:14 p.m. Clare Smith, 67, of Sawyer Road, was arrested on Spurwink Avenue by Officer Jeffrey Gaudette on a charge of operating under the influence.

Summonses1/2 at 12:43 p.m. Nathan Eaton, 27, of Lewiston, was issued a summons on Sawyer Road by Officer Ben Davis on a charge of driving an uninspected motor vehicle.1/4 at 12:29 a.m. A 17-year-old male, of Cape Elizabeth, was issued a summons on Scott Dyer Road by Sgt. Andy Steindl on charges of operating after suspension and possession of marijuana.

Fire calls1/4 at 7:34 p.m. Cooking fire on Bowery Beach Road.1/6 at 11:26 p.m. Overheated motor on Mitchell Road.

eMSCape Elizabeth emergency services re-sponded to nine calls from Dec. 31 to Jan. 6.

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12/29 at 3:33 p.m. Dawn M. Ovitt, 55, of Cape Elizabeth, was arrested on Anthoine Street by Officer David Stailing on an outstanding local warrant.12/29 at 5:47 p.m. Tara N. Gassett, 31, of South Portland, was arrested on Maine Mall Road by Officer Ryan Le on charges of theft by unauthorized taking and violating condi-tions of release.12/29 at 11:38 p.m. Michael Verney, 31, of South Portland, was arrested on Memory Lane by Officer Ryan Le on charges of criminal trespassing and possession of burglary tools.12/31 at 2:24 a.m. Jordan D. Riley, 24, of South Portland, was arrested on Broadway by Officer Kevin Sager on an outstanding local warrant.12/31 at 11:46 p.m. Jason Frisco, 23, no address listed, was arrested on Cumberland Road by Officer Patricia Maynard on an outstanding local warrant.1/1 at 1:17 a.m. Jason M. Chambers, 23, of South Portland, was arrested on Nutter Road by Officer Alfred Giusto on a charge of operating under the influence.1/1 at 3:25 a.m. Timothy J. Gillis, 44, of Portland, was arrested on Broadway by Officer Michael Armstrong on a charge of operating under the influence.1/4 at 11:38 a.m. Philip Candelmo, 37, of Portland, was arrested on Westbrook Street by Officer Philip Longanecker on charges of criminal trespass, violating conditions of release and violating conditions of probation.

Summonses12/29 at 4:29 a.m. A 17-year-old male, of Hollis, was issued a summons in Bug Light Park by Officer Michael Armstrong on a charge of sale and use of drug paraphernalia.12/29 at 5:56 p.m. Sarah Dudevoir, 24, of Bid-deford, was issued a summons on Broadway by Officer Patricia Maynard on a charge of sale and use of drug paraphernalia.12/29 at 5:56 p.m. Allyson Ridge, 25, of

Poland, was issued a summons on Broadway by Officer Patricia Maynard on a charge of sale and use of drug paraphernalia.12/31 at 8:46 a.m. Susan A. Frazier, 44, of Old Orchard Beach, was issued a summons on Maine Mall Road by Officer Ryan Le on a charge of operating an unregistered vehicle.12/31 at 4:22 p.m. Tylor Brawn, 21, of South Portland, was issued a summons on Main Street by Officer Ryan Le on a charge of criminal mischief.12/31 at 4:45 p.m. A 16-year-old female, of Gorham, was issued a summons on Maine Mall Road by Officer Andrew Nelson on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking.12/31 at 7:52 p.m. Christopher M. O'Brien, 36, of Portland, was issued a summons on Main Street by Officer Ryan Le on a charge of operating with a suspended or revoked license.1/3 at 10:22 a.m. Cassie Slisher, 41, of South Portland, was issued a summons on Cottage Road by Officer Rocco Navarro on a charge of operating an unregistered vehicle.1/3 at 9:48 p.m. Joseph Nappi, 49, of Scarborough, was issued a summons on Rigby Road by Officer Peter Corbett on a charge of failing to produce or display registration on a snowmobile.

Fire calls1/2 at 5:01 a.m. Smoke detector malfunction on Gannett Drive.1/2 at 5:59 a.m. Unintentional alarm trans-mission on Gannett Drive1/2 at 1:11 p.m. Accident, no injuries, on Cottage Road.1/2 at 5:27 p.m. Alarm call on Fellows Street.1/2 at 11:14 p.m. System malfunction on Gorham Road.1/3 at 7:13 a.m. Smoke detector malfunction on Running Hill Road.1/3 at 6:06 p.m. Cooking fire on Gooseberry Drive.1/4 at 11:33 a.m. Hazardous materials release investigation, no release, on Westbrook Street.1/4 at 12:30 p.m. Accident, no injuries, on Western Avenue.1/4 at 12:49 p.m. Accident, no injuries, on Main Street.1/5 at 7:58 a.m. Sewer gas odor investigation on Anthoine Street.1/5 at 12:12 p.m. Defective elevator on Broadway.1/5 at 12:30 p.m. Smoke odor investigation on Main Street.1/5 at 4:21 p.m. Smoke detector malfunction on Chestnut Street.1/6 at 8:43 p.m. Alarm call on Hall Street.1/6 at 5:48 p.m. Water or steam leak on Smith Street.1/6 at 6:14 p.m. Gas leak on Clark's Pond Road.1/7 at 12:24 p.m. Gas odor investigation on Market Street.1/7 at 8:14 p.m. Carbon monoxide detector malfunction on Pine Street.

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was arrested on Foxcroft Circle by Officer Timothy Dalton on a charge of domestic violence assault.1/1 at 3:18 a.m. Nicholas T. Walker, 28, of Fox Street, Portland, was arrested on Payne and Beech Ridge roads by Officer Andrew Flynn on a charge of operating under the influence.1/1 at 7:33 a.m. Alison R. Tracy, 34, of Elm-wood Avenue, was arrested at Spring Street and Mussey Road by Officer Timothy Dalton on charges of leaving the scene of an accident, operating with a suspended or revoked license and violating conditions of release.1/2 at 8:16 p.m. John A. Jamison, 44, of Bayberry Lane, was arrested on Coach Lan-tern Road East by Officer Andrew Flynn on charges of operating under the influence and endangering the welfare of a child.1/4 at 6:32 a.m. Shannon M. Ernst, 29, of Broadturn Road, was arrested on Broadturn Road by Officer Michael Beeler on a charge of domestic violence assault.1/5 at 6:35 p.m. Patrick J. Lakin, 43, of North Raymond Road, Gray, was arrested at Route 1 and Westwood Avenue by Officer Cory Lounder on charges of operating under the influence, operating without a license and violating conditions of release.1/5 at 9:47 p.m. Kevin P. Barry, 32, of Mil-liken Street, Old Orchard Beach, was arrested at Payne Road and Bridges Drive by Officer Garrett Strout on charges of displaying a fictitious inspection sticker, failing to register a vehicle, possession of marijuana and sale and use of drug paraphernalia.1/5 at 10:59 p.m. Steven M. King, 46, of Seavey Landing Road, was arrested on Hannaford Drive by Officer Andrew Flynn on charges of operating under the influence, unlawful possession of scheduled drugs and trafficking in prison contraband.1/6 at 2:06 a.m. Gregory P. Hugill, 26, of Summerfield Lane, was arrested at Portland Farms Road and Professional Drive by Sgt. Mary Pearson on a charge of operating with a suspended or revoked license.

Summonses12/31 at 2:53 p.m. Amy Boyden, 23, of Al-fred, was issued a summons at Payne Road and Haigis Parkway by Officer Benjamin Landry on a charge of operating with a suspended or revoked license.1/3 at 8:42 a.m. Gregory Burnell, 56, of Bristol Drive, Rockport, was issued a sum-mons on Van Carll Circle by Detective Eric Greenleaf on a charge failing to register as a sex offender.1/3 at 2:50 p.m. Jamie West, 35, of Stevens Avenue, Westbrook, was issued a summons on Payne Road by Officer Michael Thurlow on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking.1/3 at 5:44 p.m. Keonia M. Frew, 20, of Parsonsfield, was issued a summons on Gal-lery Boulevard by Officer Michael Beeler on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking.1/3 at 5:44 p.m. A 17-year-old female, of

Porter, was issued a summons on Gallery Boulevard by Officer Michael Beeler on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking.1/4 at 8:57 a.m. Amanda L. Perrin, 27, of Dale Lane, Windham, was issued a sum-mons on Route 1 by Officer Donald Laflin on a charge of operating with a suspended or revoked license.1/4 at 10:43 a.m. Emily Kiesow, 38, of Beach Street, Saco, was issued a summons on Scot-tow Hill Road by Officer Michael Thurlow on charges of burglary, criminal trespass and theft by unauthorized taking.1/5 at 12:36 a.m. Matthew H. Stotts, 26, of Newton Drive, Gorham, was issued a sum-mons on the I-295 Spur by Officer Andrew Flynn on a charge of operating under the influence.1/5 at 11 a.m. Wesley Morgan, 22, of Preble Street Gorham, was issued a summons on Running Hill Road by Officer Scott Vaughan on a charge of operating with an expired inspection sticker.1/5 at 5:30 p.m. Samuel J. Churchill, 27, of Town Farm Road, New Gloucester, was issued a summons at Route 1 and Pleasant Hill Road by Officer Benjamin Landry on a charge of operating with a suspended or revoked license.1/5 at 6:07 p.m. David Tozier, 32, of Burn-ham Drive, Buxton, was issued a summons at Broadturn and Sterlingwood roads by Sgt. Thomas Chard on a charge of failing to stop at a signal.

We heard that1/3 at 3:19 p.m. Police responding to a call about a Walmart customer creating a distur-bance found a woman upset about alleged comments from other customers directed at her and her mother.

Special delivery1/4 at 1:22 p.m. A Hunnewell Road resident complained about vandalism after crushed eggs and a fire extinguisher reported stolen from Biddeford were found in the resident's mailbox.

Neighborly gesture1/4 at 6:28 p.m. A Burnham Road resident reported possible intruders at a neighbor's home. It was found someone had been on the property, but police said all was secure when they investigated.

Fire calls12/31 at 4:35 p.m. Alarm call on Pine Point Road.1/2 at 9:21 a.m. Alarm call on Spring Street.1/2 at 1:57 p.m. Alarm call on Pine Point Road.1/2 at 5:56 p.m. Alarm call on Gorham Road.1/3 at 2:14 p.m. Alarm call on Old Ironside Lane.1/3 at 5:23 p.m. Alarm call on Route 11/3 at 6:30 p.m. Smoke odor investigation on Payne Road.1/4 at 6:11 p.m. Alarm call on Colonial Drive.1/4 at 8:38 p.m. Smoke odor investigation at Homer Sands Drive and Old Blue Point Road.1/5 at 11:22 a.m. Alarm call on Pleasant Hill Road.1/6 at 4:23 p.m. Smoke odor investigation on Black Point Road.1/6 at 11:08 p.m. Smoke odor investigation on Payne Road.

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SCARBOROUGH — Helen M. Arse-nault, 84, died Jan. 6 at Gosnell Memo-rial Hospice House in Scarborough with her family by her side.

Arsenault was born Oct. 12, 1928, in Portland, a daughter of James and Diana Tanguay Mills. She was a 1947 graduate of South Portland High School, where she was the founder of the student newspaper.

She married Ronnie Arsenault at St. John the Evangelist Church on July 16, 1949.

Arsenault was a homemaker who enjoyed spending time with family, friends and her beloved grandchildren. She loved all kinds of sporting activities including skiing, bowling, basketball and especially golf. She was a longtime member of the Purpoodock Club and an active member in the Southern Maine Women’s Golf Association. She also

loved to play bridge and travel with her husband.

She was a longtime communicant of Holy Cross Church.

Arsenault was predeceased by her hus-band, Ronald, and three of her brothers, Arthur Mills, Lloyd Mills and James Mills.

She is survived by her children, Donald Arsenault, Dianne McConnell, Anne-Marie Arsenault, Theresa Arse-nault, James Arsenault and Jane Chap-man; a sister, Mary Mahoney; brothers Donald Mills and Charles Mills; and 10 grandchildren, Jeffrey, Michael, Sarah, Stephanie, Brian, Kevin, Jane Elizabeth, Thomas, Steven and Sean.

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Ellsworth B. Mills, of Cumberland, a professor of journalism at Boston Uni-versity’s College of Communication and an award-winning broadcast journalist, was elected president of the board of the Maine Center for Public Interest Report-ing at the organization’s recent annual meeting. Founded in 2009, the Center is Maine’s only nonprofit, non-partisan investigative news source producing sto-ries about state government and elections. The Center publishes its stories on its website, pinetreewatchdog.org, and also provides them free of charge to 24 media partners across the state.

Jaimey Caron was recently elected unanimously to a one-year term as Port-land School Board Chairman during the board’s inauguration ceremony. Caron has served on the board and its finance committee since 2007. He also chairs the transition team for Portland’s new super-intendent, Emmanuel Caulk. Caron pre-viously chaired the board’s facilities and transportation committee, the elementary schools capital needs task force, and the facilities task force.

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The Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons has granted Mid Coast Hospital’s compre-hensive cancer care program a three-year accreditation with commendation. A national organization, the commission is a team of experts dedicated to improving the quality of life for cancer patients. The cancer care program at Mid Coast Hospi-tal includes preventative care, treatment

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The Long Barn Educational Initiative at Broadturn Farm, which was incorpo-rated as an organization in March 2012, recently announced its nonprofit status. The organization operates farm-based educational programs at Broadturn Farm, a 434-acre property owned by the Scarborough Land Trust. The mis-sion of The Long Barn is to cultivate a knowledge of and respect for locally produced, organically farmed food, and the environment within our community and throughout Maine.

The cardiology department at the Mar-tin’s Point Portland Health Care Center was recently granted a three-year term of accreditation in echocardiography in the area of adult transthoracic and adult stress by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission. IAC accreditation is only granted to those facilities that provide quality patient care, in compliance with national standards. The accreditation pro-cess involves an expert panel's exhaustive review of the echocardiography lab's operational and technical components including detailed case study reviews.

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Norton Financial Services, which of-fers employer-sponsored retirement plans and investment management services to businesses and individuals, announced that Todd Gibson has joined the com-pany as retirement plan administration specialist. Gibson has more than 12 years of experience. He most recently served as recordkeeper/administrator for the retirement plan group in the private cli-ent services division of TD Wealth Man-

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Bernstein Shur, one of northern New England’s largest law firms, announced the selection of nine attorneys for the Katahdin Counsel Recognition Program. The Katahdin Counsel was created by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to recognize the pro bono work done by Maine lawyers and to encourage lawyers to provide legal services for Maine’s low-income and elderly residents. At-torneys must complete more than 50 pro bono hours in a year to qualify for the program, placing them in the top tier of those donating legal services. The following Bernstein Shur attorneys have been honored as Katahdin Counsel: Eben Albert-Knopp, Travis Brennan, Ken Lehman, Arnie Macdonald, Hal-liday Moncure, Jack Montgomery, Ellen Palminteri and John M.R. Paterson.

Eaton Peabody recently welcomed Neal Pratt to the firm. Pratt will be resi-dent in the firm's Portland office which is expected to open during the first quarter of 2013. Pratt joins Eaton Peabody's litigation practice group where he will concentrate on complex civil litigation, including commercial litigation and construction claims, product liability and tort defense, and professional liability complaints. He also has extensive ex-perience in insurance coverage disputes, employment litigation and white collar criminal defense.

PDT Architects has hired three new staff members: Adam D. Holmes is a Maine-licensed architect who is primarily working on the Augusta courthouse proj-ect. He is a graduate of the architecture program at Roger Williams University and has worked for several architecture firms in the area. Architectural designer Chelsea L. Lipham, a graduate of He-bron Academy, is working on healthcare projects. She holds a bachelor's in archi-tecture from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., and has moved back to Maine after three years with an architecture firm in New York City. Tracie J. Reed, also an architectural designer, is working on K-12 projects, including a study for the Brunswick School Department. In Janu-ary, she begins a term on the board of di-rectors of the Maine Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council. She graduated from Evergreen State College in Olym-pia, Wash., and received an M. St. IDBE from the University of Cambridge in the UK. She also holds a master's from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.


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Sports RoundupPage 15

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Everyone underway as winter season resumesBy Michael Hoffer

The new year has brought ac-tion for everyone, in all sports.

Local athletes and teams con-tinue to set the bar with plenty of challenges to come.

Here’s a glimpse:Boys’ basketball

The cream is rising to the top on the hardwood and so far on the boys’ side, South Portland is leading the way. The Red Ri-ots didn’t lose during the 2012 portion of their schedule and opened 2013 with a decisive 76-55 win at Scarborough. Friday, South Portland fell from the un-beaten ranks with an agonizing 58-52 overtime loss to Deering after leading most of the way. Tuesday, the Red Riots bounced back and improved to 8-1 with a 56-43 home win over Sanford (behind 17 points from Jaren Muller, 15 from Ben Burkey and 12 from Tanner Hyland). South Portland (fourth in the Western Class A Heal Points standings at press time) is at top-ranked, undefeated Portland Friday (see theforecaster.net for game story) and hosts Marshwood Tuesday.

Scarborough bounced back from its 76-55 home loss to South Portland with a pair of key road wins, 81-74 at Thornton Academy and 73-51 at Cheverus (the Red Storm’s first-ever win at the Stags). At Cheverus, Sam Terry erupted for 24 points and Kevin Man-ning had 15. Scarborough (5-4 and seventh in Western A) plays host to Noble Friday and goes to defending Class A champion Deering Tuesday.

In Western B, Cape Eliza-beth was 7-2 and second to Falmouth in the Heals after wins over visiting Waynflete (52-34) and host Poland (56-47) and a hard-fought 70-65 home loss to Wells (despite 20 points from Henry Babcock). The Capers go to defending Class B cham-pion Yarmouth Friday and play host to Fryeburg Tuesday. Next Friday, Cape Elizabeth is at un-defeated, top-ranked Falmouth.

In Western D, Greater Port-land Christian School fell to 0-5 and 14th in the standings after recent losses to visiting Pine Tree Academy (63-32) and Rangeley (55-34, despite David Duval’s 16 points). The Lions seek their first victory Friday and/or Saturday, when they play at North Haven.

Girls’ basketballOn the girls’ side, Scarborough

began 2013 with wins at South Portland (42-30) and at home against Thornton Academy (52-26) to race to an 8-0 start, but Tuesday, in an instant classic, the Red Storm lost in triple over-time to visiting Cheverus, 58-57 (see theforecaster.net for game story). Scarborough led by four in the second overtime and by three in the third OT, but despite 17 points from Taylor LeBorgne, fell just short.

“It was a great basketball game for people to watch, but it’s a tough one to lose,” said first-year Red Storm coach Ron Cote. “I told my girls, I’m ex-tremely proud of the effort they gave. We got our energy back and got back in the game. We

were down by 10 at one point and fought back to make it three overtimes. In a couple of those overtimes, we had a lead.”

Scarborough (still clinging to the top spot in the Western A Heals at press time) plays at Noble Friday, then returns to the heavy lifting with a home game versus Deering Tuesday and a trip to McAuley for a regional final rematch a week from Friday.

South Portland began the new year with a 42-30 home loss to Scarborough, but Tuesday, the Red Riots got a last-second hoop to force overtime, then beat host Sanford in a thriller, 68-63, thanks to 27 points from Danica Gleason and 21 from Brianne Maloney.

“The kids showed a lot of composure late in regulation,” said South Portland coach Mike Giordano. “That is a very good win Heal Point-wise for us.”

South Portland (fifth in West-ern A) plays at Portland Friday (see theforecaster.net for game story) and visits Marshwood Tuesday.

In Western B, Cape Elizabeth is on the rise. After a 1-5 start, the Capers went to Western C power Waynflete last Thursday and pulled out a stunning 49-45 overtime win (see theforecaster.net for game story). Cape Eliza-beth was paced by 15 points from Marlo Dell’Aquila, 13 from Kisa Tabery and a stellar defensive effort from freshman Montana Braxton on Flyers standout Martha Veroneau.

“This is huge for us,” said

MIke Strout / For the ForecaSterScarborough junior Eric Grantz and Cape Elizabeth freshman Matthew Riggle

battle during the Red Storm’s 8-0 win last week.

MIke Strout / For the ForecaSter John JenSenIuS / For the ForecaSter

South Portland senior Danica Gleason, left photo, goes up for a shot while being defended by Scarborough sophomore Ashley Briggs during the Red Storm’s 42-30 win last week. Cape Elizabeth’s Sophia Avantaggio, above, clears the bar

en route to a fifth-place finish in the junior high jump at last week’s league meet.

Dell’Aquila. “It feels so great to be in the locker room after a win. We’ve collapsed in the fourth quarter, but tonight, we fought through the whole game.”

“I’m really proud of the team,” said Tabery. “We pulled it out in the end. Defensively, we were really strong. Especially in the fourth quarter. We didn’t want to let them get anything on the inside.”

“Hats off the kids,” added Capers coach Chris Casterella. “I’m very impressed. I think it’s big because we have been so close. This is a win we got under pressure against one of the best teams we’ll see all year. It wasn’t a blowout. We were behind almost the whole game long. We need to get wins wherever they come. I think we nabbed a big one. Waynflete’s a very, very good team.”

Cape Elizabeth then downed visiting Poland (43-35) and host Wells (44-35, behind 17 points from Tabery) to improve to 4-5 (and sixth in Western B). The Capers host winless Yarmouth Friday, go to Fryeburg Tues-day and welcome dangerous Falmouth Friday of next week.

In Western D, GPCS was 5-1 and eighth in the Heals at press time. The Lions won at Pine Tree Academy, 40-30, last Friday, as Clarissa Jones had 11 points and 14 rebounds and

Ashlee Dawson added 10 points. Tuesday, GPCS lost at home to Rangeley, 64-18 (Jones had a team-high eight points). The Li-ons play at North Haven Friday and Saturday.

Boys’ hockeyAction is picking up on the

ice as well.Scarborough’s boys sit atop

the Western A Heals with a 7-1 mark following recent shutouts of host Cape Elizabeth (8-0) and visiting Marshwood (6-0). After playing host to Brunswick Saturday, the Red Storm is at Biddeford Wednesday.

South Portland fell to 0-5 and 14th after an 11-0 loss to Bonny Eagle Saturday. The Red Riots hosted Lake Region Thursday and go to Noble Wednesday of next week.

In Western B, Cape Elizabeth bounced back from its 8-0 home loss to Scarborough with a 5-1 home win over Westbrook Sat-urday. The Capers fell to 2-5-1 and fourth in the standings Tues-day after a 2-0 loss at Yarmouth. Cape Elizabeth is at York Satur-day and hosts Cheverus Thurs-day of next week.

Girls’ hockeyScarborough’s girls’ hockey

team fell from the unbeaten ranks Saturday with a 2-1 overtime loss at York. The Red Storm was coming off a 9-1

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home win over Cape Elizabeth and took an 8-1-1 record and the top spot in the West Region into Wednesday’s game at Leavitt/EL. Scarborough hosts Bruns-wick Saturday.

Cape Elizabeth fell to 3-3-3 and fourth in the West after its loss to Scarborough. The Capers were home with St. Dom’s Wednesday, go to Biddeford Saturday and Cheverus Monday and welcome Gorham Wednesday of next week.

Indoor trackLast Friday, Cape Elizabeth opened a

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South Portland’s Tyree Bitjoka won the boys’ 12-13 division at Sunday’s Portland Elks Foul Shooting Contest at Catherine McAuley High School and advanced to the Coastal District Shootoff, to be held Sunday at the Wells Junior High School gym. The state championships are Jan. 27, in Brewer.

SMCC teams split in 2013 opener

The Southern Maine Community Col-lege men’s basketball team opened the new year with a 78-70 win over visiting John Abbott College Saturday. Chance Baldino led the way with 15 points as 10 different Seawolves got in the scoring column. SMCC is now 14-3 (10-1 in the Yankee Small College Conference). The women’s team wasn’t as fortunate, fall-ing to John Abbott, 71-64, after letting a

10-point halftime lead slip away. Nyalieb Deng led the Seawolves with 12 points. SMCC fell to 9-5 (5-3 in conference). Both Seawolves teams go to Nashua (N.H.) College Thursday. SMCC hosts King’s (N.Y.) Saturday and New Hamp-shire Technical Institute Tuesday.

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207Lacrosse Winter Programs, featur-ing speed, agility and quickness training, skills and drills, elite league and games, will be held in January and February and again in March and April at the Riverside Athletic Club. FMI, 841-2453 or 207la-crosse.com.

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and Francesca Governali combined to finish eighth (41 minutes, 22 seconds).

On the Alpine side, Cape Elizabeth’s boys and girls defeated Freeport, Fryeburg and Gray-New Gloucester in a giant slalom meet Monday at Shawnee Peak. Max Bar-ber won the boys’ race with a two-run com-bined time of 1 minute, 3.9 seconds. Emma Dvorozniak was the girls’ winner (1:10.55).

Scarborough’s girls beat Windham,

Winter seasonfrom previous page

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Academy. Each clinic is followed by 30 minutes of game play. The cost is $175. FMI, [email protected] or main-eiax.com.

Marshwood, Gorham and Kennebunk in a GS race last week. Abby Mills (1:10.57) came in third individually. The Red Storm boys were second to Marshwood. Kevin Dryzga placed seventh (1:09.28).

WrestlingScarborough’s wrestling team fell to

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Tuesday 1/15The Portland Community Chorus will be holding auditions for its spring session. The PCC is one of the largest community choruses in New England with more than 140 members. To schedule an audition call 449-0379 or email [email protected].

Books & AuthorsFriday 1/11 “Cajetan the Stargazer,” Norman Beaupre, 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Port-land, 871-1700.

Friday 1/18“The Russian Coup and the Girl,” Kira von Korff, 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700.

MusicSunday 1/13Portland Rossini Club, public concert series, St. Luke’s Cathedral, 143 State St., Portland, 899-0531, $10 general, $5 seniors, students free.

Theater & DanceArgentine Tango Practice, Wednesday 7-9 p.m., beginner les-son 7 p.m., $10; Ballroom Dance Party, Saturday 8 p.m.- midnight, beginner lesson 7 p.m., $7; Maine Ballroom Dance, 614 Congress St., Portland.

Club 188, line dancing instruction, Wednesday, 7-8 p.m. beginners; 8-9 p.m. intermediate; 9-9:30 p.m. ad-vanced; 188 Warren Ave., Portland.

Contradance, Greater Portland Community, first Saturday, 7:15 p.m. lesson, 8 p.m. main dance, $9 adult, $5 child, Falmouth Congre-gational Church Hall, 267 Falmouth Road, new dancers welcome, no partner needed, 756-2201.

Maplewood Dance Center, night classes followed by dance socials on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sat-urdays, 383 Warren Ave., Portland, 878-0584, maplewooddancecen-ter.com.

Irish Set Dancing, 7-9 p.m. Thursdays, Yarmouth Community Services building, 200 Main St., Yarmouth, [email protected].

Second Saturday Contradance, 6 p.m. family dance; 7:30 p.m. potluck; 8 p.m. beginner lesson; 8:30-12 p.m. dance, $10 adult/ $7 student or senior, bring clean shoes, Wescustogo Hall, Route 115, North Yarmouth, 233-4325, [email protected] or 318-8746, [email protected].

Square Dancing Classes, by Mix ‘n Mingle Square Dancing Club, 6:30-8 p.m. Thursdays through April, ages 9 and up, $3, no experience necessary, Eight Corners School, 22 Mussey Road, Scarborough, [email protected].

Mid CoastGalleriesFriday 1/11CSA: Community supporting arts, opening, 5-8 p.m., Frontier Cafe, 14 Maine St., Brunswick, 725-5222.

Saturday 1/12Crooker Gallery reception, 1-3 p.m., Topsham Public Library, 25 Foreside Road, Topsham, 725-1727.

MuseumsBowdoin College Museum of Art, 9400 College Station, Brunswick, 725-3275.

Maine Maritime Museum, open daily 9:30 a.m.- 5 p.m., 243 Wash-ington St., Bath, 443-1316 or mainemaritimemuseum.org.

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Hubbard Hall, Bowdoin College, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesdays-Saturdays; 2 p.m.-5 p.m., Sundays; closed Mon-days, 725-3416, bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum.

Pejepscot Historical Society Mu-seum, CSI Brunswick: The Forensic Work of Dr. Frank Whittier, and Pejepscot’s Early Scots-Irish His-tory, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., free, 159 Park Row, Brunswick, 729-6606.

MusicSaturday 1/12The January Men and Then Some, 3 p.m., Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland, 615-3609, $9 ad-vance, $12 door.

Bellamy Jazz Band, 7-8:30 p.m., South Portland Public Library, 482 Broadway, South Portland, 767-7660, free.

Saturday 1/195G Fire and Ice, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., St. Lawrence Arts, 76 Congress St., Portland, 775-1248, $12.

Sunday 1/20Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, 2:30 p.m., Orion Performing Arts Center, 66 Republic Ave., Topsham, 846-5378, $18.


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MeetingsGreater PortlandBulletin BoardFriday 1/11El Centro Latino, general meet-ing, 7 p.m., 68 Washington Ave., Portland, 749-8823.

Dining OutFriday 1/11Chowder luncheon, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., South Freeport Congregation-al Church, 98 South Freeport Road, South Freeport, 865-4012, $8.

Saturday 1/12Bean supper, 5-6 p.m., First Parish Church, 40 Main St., Freeport, 865-6022, adults $8, children $4.

Music and muffins, 10:30 a.m., Prince Memorial Library, 266 Main St., Cumberland, 829-2215.

Friday 1/18Pasta dinner and potluck dessert, 6 p.m., Cumberland Congregational Church, 282 Main St., Cumberland, 829-3419.

Saturday 1/19Bean supper, 5-6:30 p.m., Falmouth Congregational Church UCC, 267 Falmouth Road, Falmouth, 781-3413, adults $8, children 12 and under $4.

Bean supper, 5-6 p.m., People’s United Methodist Church, 310 Broadway, South Portland, $8 adults, $17 family.

Getting Smarter Marketing Series for Artists, Jan. 9-April 10, second Wednesday of the month, 6-9 p.m., Maine College of Art, 522 Congress St., Portland, 879-5742.

Tuesday 1/15Starting your own business, 2-5 p.m., SCORE, 100 Middle St., Port-land, register: scoremaine.com or 772-1147, $35.

Wednesday 1/16iPad skill-building workshop, for seniors, 9:30-11 a.m., Scarborough Public Library, 48 Gorham Road, Scarborough, 883-4723.

Thursday 1/17College goal Maine, FAFSA assis-tance, 6 p.m., Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., Bath, 443-5141 ext. 25.

Kids & FamilyFamily Place workshops, Mondays, 4-5 p.m., Jan. 7 - Feb. 11, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, registration required, 871-1700 ext. 707.

Mid CoastDining OutSaturday 1/12Bean Supper, 5-6:30 p.m., Bruns-wick United Methodist Church, Church Road, Brunswick, 725-2185, adults $8, children 6-12 $4, children under 5 free.

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Garden & OutdoorsOrganic gardening methods, Jan. 13-March 17, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 27 Pleasant St., Brunswick, 729-7694.

Getting SmarterFriday 1/11Herbal First Aid for Families, 7-8:30 p.m., Milestones Family Wellness Center, Fort Andross Mill, Suite 216G, 14 Maine St., Brunswick, [email protected], $5-$15.

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Health & SupportBlood pressure clinics, Jan. 7-25, various times and locations, CHANS Home Health Care, 729-6782.

Monday 1/14Information session, 2 p.m., Mid Coast Center for Joint Replacement, Mid Coast Hospital, 123 Medical Center Drive, Brunswick, 386-0418.

Tuesday 1/15Prostate Cancer Support Group: Active surveillance, 6:30 p.m., Mid Coast Hospital, 123 Medical Cen-ter Drive, Brunswick, 855-552-7200 ext. 800.

New Hope for Women, six-week domestic violence support ses-sions, 5:30 p.m., 12 Court St., Bath, 800-522-3304.

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Comment on this story at:http://www.theforecaster.net/weblink/147678 Town Council

workshop postponedSCARBOROUGH — Due to the death of Coun-

cilor Kate St. Clair’s son Kyle, a Town Council goal-setting workshop planned for Wednesday, Jan. 9, was postponed. The workshop will be rescheduled.

doesn’t need to fight anymore. Kyle William St. Clair passed away here, at home, this morning with his family by his side. We can’t say enough about what joy this boy has brought to us in his short time on Earth. So much love. Thank you to all for the support you have given to him and to us.”

St. Clair was born prematurely in 2004 and spent more than seven years in different hospitals around the eastern U.S., as a range of specialists treated a cascading list of ailments which restricted his breathing and digestion.

Mysteriously, the boy’s digestive tract worked in reverse, confounding doctors, who never did provide a definitive diagnosis of the underlying problem, Kyle’s parents said in early November. That reverse motility drove dangerous digestive acids back up through organs such as his lungs and esophagus, effectively destroying them.

Over the course of more than 50 surgeries, doctors replaced most of his internal organs with plastic, external stand-ins to keep him alive. Tubes connected to sacks and medical equipment extended from his torso. A feeding tube provided nutrients, as his throat no longer connected to anything but another tube leading out of his body.

Kyle needed a new set of lungs, stomach, bowel, intes-tines, liver and esophagus, and specialists who treated him ultimately determined he would never be able to withstand

can and should attend municipal committee and board meetings as private citizens, the question of how many should attend at once and how they should interact stemmed from a Planning Board meeting last May about moving the farmers market.

Planning Board Chairman Rob Schrieber protested “undue pressure” from written and oral comments from councilors and refused to vote on the proposal to move the market to Hinckley Drive from Thomas Knight Park.

On Monday, councilors agreed to discuss interaction with boards and committees at a workshop next month, while also having Corporation Counsel Sally Daggett conduct a workshop outlining proper use of social media and email for communications.

Councilors also agreed to hire an independent consultant to help form a commission to review councilor compensa-tion and propose any potential changes to the City Charter.

The commission is a goal for Blake, following extended debate last summer about taxpayer-funded health insurance benefits for councilors. The benefits, available since 1977, are not mentioned in the charter clause that sets councilor compensation at $3,000 annually.

After Nov. 30, taxpayer funding for the health benefits will be eliminated, but councilors will be eligible to buy their own coverage in plans available to municipal staff.

Blake and Councilor Jerry Jalbert, according to city documents, were the two remaining councilors enrolled in taxpayer-funded health-care plans.

Setting up the commission to study councilor compensa-tion will be the task of Michael Wing, the Yarmouth-based consultant who leads Human Resources/Labor Relations Consulting Services.

City Manager Jim Gailey said Tuesday he is offering a $110 per hour contract to Wing to steward committee selec-tion and deliberations, with the goal of having any potential charter change ready by Aug. 20.

Wing, who has consulted on municipal hirings in Bar Harbor and on compensation questions in North Yarmouth, is expected by Blake to supply expertise, but let the com-mittee determine its own course.

If the committee concludes charter changes are in order, the goal for councilors is to schedule a public hearing and vote for Sept. 4 and to put the changes on the Nov. 5 elec-tion ballot.

Blake said keeping the commission independent is criti-cal to the process.

“One thing we’ve learned through the process was it was done wrong in the beginning,” he said about the council provision for health care. “At the end of this process, there should be no questions at all.”

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such a dramatic overhaul.But while Kyle St. Clair was never able to eat a morsel

of food, he was credited with inspiring thousands during his short life.

A website and Facebook pages chronicling his good days and bad days were set up by his mother, Town Councilor Kate St. Clair, and the sites went viral. Nearly 11,000 people began following Kyle through the most recent and regularly updated Facebook page, titled “Team Kyle.”

Many followers sent Kyle notes saying his battle inspired them in the face of their own medical ailments. The boy received more than 500 birthday cards from strangers all over the world when he reached the eighth birthday he once considered out of reach.

Through those online networks, Kate and father Mark St. Clair, helped Kyle organize multiple charity efforts, includ-ing the sale of bracelets and T-shirts to benefit institutions such as the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center and Angel Flight Northeast, among others.

Perhaps the most original of Kyle’s projects involved dis-tributing about 400 small cards reading “Live for today” on the front and urging the finder to do something nice for an-other person before passing it along. The “pay-it-forward” cards were scattered all across the country by friends and supporters, and emails began coming back to the St. Clairs from card-receiving kids who had started lemonade stands to benefit local charities or adults who simply paid the cof-fee tab for the stranger in line behind them one morning.

Kyle’s baffling ailments and his efforts to spread acts of

kindness made him a kind of local and Internet celebrity, even as he was requiring powerful drugs hourly to with-stand the pain of his ravaged internal organs.

The boy was made an honorary member of the Scarborough High School football team, whose members frequently visited him at his home and played games with him.

Local establishments, such as the restaurant Anjon’s, held fundraisers to both help the St. Clair family pay for medical expenses and to donate to their favored causes.

Over the first four hours since the St. Clairs posted news of Kyle’s death on their Team Kyle Facebook page, more than 1,700 comments of reaction were posted by followers.

When the St. Clairs moved Kyle back to Scarborough in February 2012 after the last of his many surgeries in Ohio, doctors gave the boy four days to live, his mother said.

On Jan. 1, nearly a year later, his family posted that his health had taken a downturn and that they had to double many of his medications to compensate, but that he vowed to fight on.

On Tuesday, they posted that he had died, at home, and surrounded by family.


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Mike McGovern said. “This is good teeth for the local Police Department to deal with in the first instance and also compliments the work the council has done on short-term rentals.”

The new short-term rental ordinance took effect Dec. 14, 2012, and includes a $50 permit fee. It also requires rental property owners to adhere to several new regulations and go through a permitting process for leases shorter than 30 days.

Permits will only be granted after the code officer determines the rental property

has adequate fire extinguishers, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, proof of sani-tary waste disposal, appropriate exits, and evacuation plans.

The new ordinance also restricts the number of tenants to no more than two per bedroom and does not allow more than eight tenants in one property at any time on lots smaller than 30,000 square feet.

In a 6-0 vote, with one abstention, the council also amended the sign ordinance to allow businesses operating in residential zones to have the same size signs that are allowed in non-residential zones.

The issue was brought to the council by Ginger Brown, owner of the Veterinary and

Rehabilitation Center of Cape Elizabeth, on Route 77. The center had changed the logo on the sign, which made the wording too small, Brown said.

The new ordinance allows signs up to 20 square feet and affects fewer than half a dozen grandfathered businesses allowed to operate in a residential zone. Two of the businesses already have signs that size, according to Town Planner Maureen O’Meara.

Councilor Jamie Wagner abstained from voting because he owns two businesses on Route 77, although he only disclosed the conflict when he was prompted by fellow councilors after the vote. He also asked

questions about the ordinance before dis-closing the conflict of interest. The issue was cleared up after McGovern explained that councilors are compelled by the rules to vote and cannot abstain unless they provide a valid reason, such as a conflict of interest.

Chris Bond, of Ocean House Road, who said he previously owned the veterinary center, spoke against the sign size increase and said that having a sign that large would negatively impact the residential feel of the neighborhood.

Will Graff can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @W_C_

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Govern said the town was able to save money in some areas and that the money to cover the spending overruns will come from savings made throughout the year in other areas.

“The expectation is that you save in other areas; save a little bit here, you save a little bit there,” he said, noting the town saved on worker’s compensation and health-care expenses last year. “I’m concerned about

(the path cost), but at same time, it was important to get the project done.”

While the majority of the funding for the path came from the state grant, $110,000 was raised privately. The remaining $160,000 came from the town.

The 2.2-mile, 5-foot wide pathway ex-tends from Fort Williams Park south to the

intersection with Ocean House Road (Route 77). Construction began in June 2012 and the project was dedicated in October 2012.

The project still has a few minor pieces remaining and will not be 100 percent com-plete until spring, Malley said.Will Graff can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @W_C_Graff.


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CUMBERLAND ANTIQUESCelebrating 28 years of TrustedCustomer Service.ABSOLUTE BEST PRICESPAID FOR MOST ANYTHINGOLD. Buying, Glass, China,Furniture, Jewelry, Silver,Coins, Watches, Toys, Dolls,Puzzles, Buttons, SewingTools, Linens, Quilts, Rugs,Trunks, Books, Magazines,Postcards, Old Photos, Paint-ings, Prints & Frames, Stereos,Records, Radios, MilitaryGuns, Fishing Tackle, & MostAnything Old. Free VerbalAppraisals.Call 838-0790.

ANTIQUES

INC

maine.rr.com

EST 2003 INC.

ExperiencedAntique Buyer

Purchasing paintings, clocks, watches,nautical items, sporting memorabilia,early paper (all types), vintage toys,games, trains, political & military items,oriental porcelain, glass, china, pottery,jugs, crocks, tin, brass, copper, pewter,silver, gold, coins, jewelry, old orientalrugs, iron and wood architectural pieces,old tools, violins, enamel and woodensigns, vintage auto and boat items, duckdecoys & more. Courteous, promptservice.

Call Steve atCentervale Farm Antiques

(207) 730-2261

ANTIQUE CHAIR RESTORA-TION: Wooden chairs repaired.Tightening, refinishing, caning,rushing, shaker tape. Neat anddurable repairs executed in aworkman like manner on theshortest notice for reasonableor moderate terms. Will pick-upand deliver. Retired chairmaker, North Yarmouth, Maine.829-3523.

ANTIQUES

I BUY ANYTHING OLD!Books, records, furniture, jewelry,coins, hunting, fishing, military,

art work, dishes, toys, tools.I will come to you with cash.

Call John 450-2339

TOP PRICES PAID�

WANTED:Pre 1950 old postcards,

stamp collections,old photographs

and old paper items

799-7890 call anytime

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BOOKS WANTEDFAIR PRICES PAID

Also Buying Antiques, Art OfAll Kinds, and Collectables.G.L.Smith Books - Collectables97 Ocean St., South Portland.799-7060.

AUCTIONS

AUCTIONS- Plan on havingan auction? Let FORECAST-ER readers know about yourAuction in over 69,500papers! Call 781-3661 foradvertising rates.

ASK THE EXPERTS

ASK THE EXPERTS: Adver-tise your business here forForecaster readers to knowwhat you have to offer in69,500 papers. Call 781-3661for advertising rates.

AUTOS

Body Man on Wheels, autobody repairs. Rust work forinspections. Custom paintingand collision work. 38 yearsexperience. Damaged vehicleswanted. JUNK CAR removal,Towing. 240-2564.

BOATS

SELLING A BOAT? Do youhave services to offer? Whynot advertise with The Fore-caster?Call 781-3661 for advertisingrates.

BODY AND SOUL

Intimacy, Men and WomenSupport Group. Helping Peoplewith the Practice of Intimacy.Openings for Men. Weekly,Sliding Fee. Call Stephen at773-9724, #3.

CHIMNEY

ADVERTISE YOUR CHIMNEYSERVICES in The Forecasterto be seen in 69,500 papers.Call 781-3661 for more infor-mation on rates.

CLEANING

Customized cleaning • LaundrySuperior serviceAffordable Prices

Eco-Friendly Products

[email protected]

“The Way Home Should Be”

Call 233-4829 for free estimatewww.mrsmcguires.com

LOPEZ Cleaning ServiceWe offer many differentkinds of Cleaning Services:House Cleaning, Office &Apt. & Condo, Banks &Store Cleaning. Free Esti-mates, Fully Insured, Low-est Rates.

Abel & TinaCell: 207-712-1678

FOR HOME/OFFICE, NEWConstruction, Real EstateClosings etc. the clean youneed is “Dream Clean” theclean you`ve always dreamedof with 15 years of expert serv-ice. Fully Insured. For rates &references call Leslie 807-2331.

CLEANING

Glenda’s Cleaning Services BASIC AND DEEP CLEANING

207-245-9429207-891-0150

Have you house clean as you never had it before!

Call for [email protected]

looking to clean yourhome your way

Have great references

GREAT CLEANER

Call Rhea 939-4278

TABATHA’S SPARKLINGHOMEORGANIZING

Call Rebecca 838-3049

We do home cleaningand organizing

Gift certificates available

We Have OpeningsFREE ESTIMATES • Shirley Smith

Call 233-4191Weekly- Bi-Weekly

Home CleaningReliable service atreasonable rates.Let me do yourdirty work!Call Kathy at892-2255

COMPUTERS

NEED COMPUTER HELP?• We Come To You• Problems Fixed/Repaired• Tutorial Lessons• SENIORS Our Specialty• Reasonable Rates• References Available

Friendly Tech Services207-749-4930

A+ Network+ Certified

Computer RepairPC – Mac – Tablets

Member Sebago Lake Chamber of Commerce and BBB since 2003

Certified in PC Board Repair / Inspection / Rework

All Levels of Hardware Repair Can Be Performed

Disaster RecoverySpyware – VirusWiFi NetworksData Recovery

PC LighthouseDave: 892-2382

30 Years ExperienceSeniors Are Especially Welcome

All Major Credit Cards Accepted




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Eastern Maine HomeCare d/b/a Bangor Area Visiting Nurses iscurrently accepting applications for the following positions:

REGISTERED NURSESFull-Time

$500 SIGN-ON BONUS

Must have a minimum of one year clinical experience and a current MaineRN license. Must have the ability to observe, assess, plan, implement andevaluate individuals and families using the nursing process; must havegood communication skills; must have knowledge of the team concept inproviding health care; must be detail-oriented and able to work indepen-dently.

The community health nurse provides and promotes comprehensivehealth services to individuals and families in the home for the purposeof promoting, maintaining or restoring health or minimizing the effect ofillness and disability.

BangorWeekend Registered Nurse and an Evening (Noon-8:00pm)Registered Nurse to work from our Bangor office.

Waterville/FairfieldRegistered Nurse to work in the Waterville/Fairfield area.

Apply online atwww.easternmainehomecare.org

Qualified applicants should submit a cover letter and provide a relevantresume with three references with names and addresses.

Bonnie Turck, HR, Director, Eastern Maine HomeCare,14 Access Highway, Caribou, ME 04736Tel (207) 498-2578 * Fax (207) 498-4129

E-mail: [email protected]

Assisted Living at its Best!Freeport Place

andWebster Commons

Come Join our Families!

Please call 207-865-3500for more information or email:[email protected]

Looking for C.N.A.s, PSSs and CRMAsWeekends 7-3 and 3-11 • Some per diem shifts are available.

We are a family focused Assisted Living and DementiaAssisted Living Units located in Freeport Maine. All staff mustbe personable, Team oriented and driven to help provide aComfortable, homelike environment for our Residents.

Looking for PSSs and CRMAsPart-time and per diem shifts are available.

Direct Support ProfessionalsSouthern and Central Maine

Work with and forthose who inspireand support aCulture of Possibilities!

Equal Opportunity Employer

Tel: 207.294.7458 x1131

Kim Dionne, Employment Coordinator124 Canal St., Lewiston, METel: 207.795.0672 x2108

56 Industrial Park Rd., Saco, ME

Find more information and apply atwww.supportsolutions.org

If you feel you have whatit takes, let’s talk!

CRAFT SHOWS/FAIRS

CRAFT SHOWS & FAIRS-HAVING A CRAFT FAIR ORSHOW? Place your specialevent here to be seen in69,500 papers a week. Call781-3661 for more informa-tion on rates.

ELDER CARE

ADVERTISE YOUR ELDERCARE Services in The Fore-caster to be seen in 69,500papers. Call 781-3661 formore information on rates.

FIREWOOD

Custom Cut HighQuality Firewood

Contact Don Olden(207) 831-3222

Cut to your needs anddelivered. Maximizeyour heating dollarswith guaranteed fullcord measure or yourmoney back. $185 percord for green. Seasonedalso available. Stackingservices available.BUNDLED CAMPFIREWOOD

now available.

FIREWOOD

*Celebrating 27 years in business*

Cut/Split/DeliveredQuality Hardwood

State Certified Trucks for Guaranteed MeasureA+ Rating with the Better Business Bureau$220 Green $275 Seasoned

$330 Kiln DriedAdditional fees may apply

Visa/MC accepted • Wood stacking available353-4043

www.reedsfirewood.com

FIREWOOD

Call 389-2038 or order on the webat hawkesandtaylor.com/firewood

Kiln-dried $300Green $230

Great WoodGreat Price

Quick Delivery25 years kilndrying wood

FLEA MARKETS

FLEA MARKETS- ADVER-TISE YOUR BUSINESS in TheForecaster to be seen in69,500 papers. Call 781-3661for more information on rates.

FOODS

Barbecue Eat in,Take Out and

Catering.America’s largest BBQ chainDickey’s of Dallas is now in

the Maine Mall, locally owned.Mouth watering meats like

pulled pork and ribs that falloff the bone, smoked over

Maine hickory, plus grilled andfried chicken items, and all the sides.

Free ice cream for every customer.

Kids eat free every Sunday! Catering: we deliver, setup,

serve and clean up.Call Dickey’s 207-541-9094

FOR SALE

GOT STUFF TO SELL?

Call 781-3661 for rates

List your items inTHE FORECASTER

where Forecaster readers will seeyour ad in all 4 editions!

NEED SOMEEXTRACASH?

FOR SALE

XBOX- Refurbished- paid$119, comes with 6 DVD’s,Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 &2006, Madden 2004, RealWorld Golf, Call of Duty,Nascar Thunder 2002. A bar-gain price at $100. Please call653-5149.

BOWFLEX MOTIVATORWorkout Machine. Great con-dition. Can send pictures.NEW PRICE $250. Freeport.Get fit for the new year! CallCathy 653-5149.

FUNDRAISER

HAVING A FUNDRAISER?Advertise in The Forecasterto be seen in over 69,500papers. Call 781-3661 formore information on rates.

FURNITURERESTORATION

DON’T BUY NEW, RENEW!REPAIR & REFINISHINGStripping w/no dipping. Myshop or on site. PICKUP &DELIVERY PROVIDED by For-mer high school shop teacherwith references. 32 yearsexperience.

QUICK TURN AROUND! 371-2449

FURNITURE RESTORATION-Place your ad here to beseen in 69,500 papers aweek. Call 781-3661 for moreinformation on rates.

FURNITURE

List your Furniture items forsale where 69,500 Forecasterreaders will see it! Call 781-3661 for more information onrates.

HEALTH

Alcoholics Anonymous Fal-mouth Group Meeting TuesdayNight, St. Mary`s EpiscopalChurch, Route 88, Falmouth,Maine. 7:00-8:00 PM.

HELP WANTED

Apply online athttp://www.mercyhospitalstories.org/

cms/careers/or call 400-8763

We are a thriving programproviding in-home supportto older adults. Our per diem

Companions offer socialization,light personal care and end of lifecare. We see skills and experiencebut are willing to train. If you arecompassionate, mature and a

helper by nature call LifeStages.All shifts available, particular need

for evenings and week-ends.Competitive wages.

Pownal, Maine

Green Firewood $210(mixed hardwood)

Green Firewood $220(100% oak)

Kiln-dried Firewoodplease call for prices.

688-4282Delivery fees may apply. Prices subject to change.

Order online:[email protected]

VISA • MC

$220

Kiln-dried Firewood$340

Green Firewood

$220(mixed hardwood)




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Caring and Experienced♦

Call Laura today at699-2570 to learn about arewarding position with our company.

550 Forest Avenue, Suite 206, Portland, ME 04101www.advantagehomecaremaine.com

Advantage Home Care is looking for caring and experiencedcaregivers to provide in-home non-medical care for

seniors in the greater Portland, Maine. If you possess aPSS or CNAcertificate, have worked with clients with dementiaor have provided care for a loved one in the past, we wouldlike to talk with you about joining our team. We have part-timeand full-time shifts available weekdays, nights and weekends.

We offer competitive wages; ongoing training and support;dental insurance; supplemental medical benefits and a

401k plan with employer match.

Aroostook, Waldo, Knox, and York CountiesCARE COORDINATORS

Care Coordinators manage a caseload of elders and adults with disabilities enrolled in com-munity based long term care programs by setting up and managing home services and sup-ports that sustain the consumerís ability to remain independent in their home.

After a period of initial training, the Care Coordinator will work from their home office set-ting during daily work hours,Monday through Friday with periodic travel to consumer homes.

The qualified candidate must have a degree in nursing or social work and must be a licensedsocial worker or nurse and have one year of professional community experience. Motivationalinterviewing skills, experience with home visiting, working with ethnic minorities and strongtime management skills are a plus. Strong computer skills are essential.

Salary is commensurate with experience. Interested candidates should submit a letter of inter-est including salary requirements and resume to: [email protected]

Human Resources, SeniorsPlus, 8 Falcon Road, Lewiston, ME 04240

SeniorsPlus/EIM is an EqualOpportunityEmployer

Enriching the lives of seniors and adults with disabilities, SeniorsPlus believesin supporting the independence, dignity and quality of life of those we serve.

BEST OF THE BEST

Do you want to leave work knowing you’ve made a real difference insomeone’s life? Are you the kind of dependable person who won’t let a perfectsummer day (or a winter blizzard) keep you from work? Are you trustworthyenough to become part of someone’s family? We’re looking for natural bornCAREGivers: women and men with the heart and mind to change an elder’slife. Call us today to inquire about joining the greatest team of non-medicalin-home CAREGivers anywhere! Flexible part-time day, evening, overnight,weekday and weekend hours.

Call Home Instead Senior Careat 839-0441 or visit

www.homeinstead.com

HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE IS LOOKINGFOR THE BEST OF THE BEST.

RESPECTED & APPRECIATEDIf you are looking for meaningful part-time or full-time

work, we’d love to speak with you. Comfort Keepers is a non-medical,in-home care agency that is dedicated to taking good care of thosespecial people whom we call our caregivers. Quality care is our mission,hiring kind, compassionate, and dependable staff is our focus. Many ofour wonderful Comfort Keepers have been with us for years because:

• They have found an agency that they can count on to be there for them,all of the time, and that truly appreciates their hard work.

• Some are retired and have embraced a wonderful way to stay busy.• Others have discovered a passion for being involved in end of life care.• All know that they belong to a caring, professional, and well respected agency.

Experience is always helpful, but not necessary. Our ongoingtraining and support helps all of our caregivers to become skilledprofessionals. Please call us to find out more!

152 US Route 1, Scarborough www. comfortkeepers.com

885 - 9600

Looking forcommitted

professionalsto join our

team ofYES!

CWS is seeking exceptionalcandidates to support people with disabilitiesto live life fully.

We have full- and part-time openings in Saco/Biddeford, Portland and the Lewiston/Auburn areasin Residential Support and Employment Assistance.

For information on these and other openings,visit us online atwww.CreativeWorkSystems.com

To apply, please fax resume to 207-879-1146or email: [email protected]

Benefits. Training Provided.Equal Opportunity Employer

Direct Support Professionals

Four Season Services

CertifiedWall and Paver InstallersCALL FORA CONSULTATION

829.4335www.evergreencomaine.com

NOWSCHEDULING:• Fall Cleanups• Landscape Renovations• Tree Removal• PaverWalkways, Steps

• Patios, Driveways• RetainingWalls• Drainage Solutions• Granite Steps & Posts

HELP WANTED

Portland law firm specializingin protecting workers’ rights,seeks part time secretary/para-legal. Some flexibility for set-ting a family-friendly scheduleand pro-rated paid holidays.Please respond [email protected]

HELP WANTED

Start up to $.40/mi. Home WeeklyCDL-A 6 mos. OTR exp. Req.50 Brand New Coronado'syou’ll be proud to drive!

888-406-9046

Drivers

HELP WANTED

Premiere Homekeeping Serviceis actively seeking people who enjoy

making homes sparkle! We’re looking forpeople who have an eye for detail andtake pride in their work. You must also

be dependable and enthusiastic,and beresponsive to customers. We currently

need homekeepers for Portland,Falmouth,Yarmouth and Cumberland.

We offer full-time hours,and excellentcompensation and working conditions.

Plus ,we work for the nicest people in Maine!Apply online at www.mrsmcguires.com orsend resume to [email protected]

HOME REPAIR

846-5802PaulVKeating.com

• Painting• Weatherization• Cabinets

CARPENTRY

HOME REPAIR

Dr.DrywallQuality workmanshipat Affordable Prices

207-219-2480

799-5828

Residential & CommercialGenerators-Kohler • Honda

All calls returned!

BOWDLER ELECTRIC INC.

Seth M. RichardsInterior & Exterior Painting & Carpentry• Small Remodeling Projects • Sheetrock

Repair • Quality Exterior & Interior PaintingGreen Products Available

FULLY INSURED – FREE ESTIMATES

Call SETH • 207-491-1517

Chimney Lining & MasonryBuilding – Repointing – Repairs

Asphalt & Metal RoofingFoundation Repair & Waterproofing

Painting & Gutters20 yrs. experience – local references

(207) 608-1511www.mainechimneyrepair.com

JOHNSON’STILING

Custom Tile design available

Floors • ShowersBacksplashes • Mosaics

829-9959ReferencesInsured

FreeEstimates

HOME REPAIR

EXPERT DRYWALL SER-VICE- Hanging, Taping, Plaster& Repairs. Archways, Cathe-drals, Textured Ceilings, Paint.Fully Insured. ReasonableRates. Marc. 590-7303.

GET IT DONE!Maintenance, Yard Work &Plowing. Portland & Westbrook

References, Insured.Call James 207-420-6027.

INSTRUCTION

ADVERTISE YOUR BUSI-NESS in The Forecaster to beseen in over 69,500 papers.Call 781-3661 for more infor-mation on rates.

LANDSCAPINGCONTRACTORS

SERVICES• Leaf and Brush Removal• Bed Edging and Weeding• Tree Pruning/Hedge Clipping• Mulching• Lawn Mowing• Powersweeping

Call or E-mail forFree Estimate(207) 926-5296

[email protected]

We specialize in residential andcommercial property maintenanceand pride ourselves on our customerservice and 1-on-1 interaction.

D. P. GAGNONLAWN CARE & LANDSCAPING

LOST AND FOUND

LOST! GOLD CHAIN w/heartwith 3 diamonds, in the cen-ter of the heart 1 more dia-mond. Lost on ChristmasEve either at Shaws parkinglot/store in Falmouth or at St.Joe’s church in Portland.Please call if found 781-2945.

MASONRY

MASONRY/STONE-Placeyour ad for your serviceshere to be seen in over68,500 papers per week. Call781-3661 for more informa-tion on rates.

MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS-Place yourad here to be seen in 69,500papers a week. Call 781-3661for more information on rates.

MOVING

BIG JOHN’S MOVINGResident ia l /Commercia lHouseholds Small And Large

Office Relocations Packing ServicesCleaning ServicesPiano MovingSingle Item Relocation

Rental Trucks loaded/unloadedOPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

828-8699We handle House-to-Houserelocations with Closingsinvolved. No extra charge forweekend, gas mileage orweight. Happy Holidays!

MUSIC

Singing Lessons or PianoLessons?

347-1048All Age Levels

ORGANIC PRODUCE

O R G A N I C / H E A L T H YFOODS- Place your ad hereto be seen by over 69,500Forecaster readers! Call 781-3661 for more information onrates.

PAINTING

Hall PaintingInterior/ExteriorFamily owned andoperated for over 20 yearsFree and timely estimates

Specializing in Older Homes

Call Brett Hall at 671-1463

Violette Interiors: Painting,tiling, wallpaper removal,wall repairs, murals andsmall exterior jobs. Highestquality at affordable rates. 26years experience. Free esti-mates. Call Deni Violette at831-4135.

Seeking part time caregiverfor elderly woman

Experience and certificationpreferred, references required

Call Monday-Fridaybetween 2-5pm

781-9074

ELDER CARE




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We haul anything to the dump.Basements and Attic Clean-Outs

Guaranteed best price and service.

INSURED

DUMP GUY

Call 450-5858 www.thedumpguy.com

Practical NursingProgram *located in Maine

- Anatomy & Physiology- Medical Terminology- NCLEX-PN Prep Course

- Day and Evening Nursing

Alcohol & DrugCounseling StudiesGive others hope. Become a

Substance Abuse Counselor!

Pharmacy TechnicianMedical Assistant

FINANCIAL AIDAvailable for those who qualify

JOB PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE

VA APPROVED

INTERCOAST CAREER INSTITUTE

207 GANNETT DR., SO. PORTLAND, ME

275 U.S. 1, KITTERY, ME

19 KEEWAYDIN DR., SALEM, NEW HAMPSHIRE

For more information about graduation rates, the median debt ofstudents who completed the program, and other importantinformation, visit: www.intercoast.edu

PAVING

ADVERTISE YOUR BUSI-NESS in The Forecaster to beseen in 69,500 papers. Call781-3661 for more informa-tion on rates.

PERSONAL CARESERVICES

Place your Personal CareServices to be seen by over69,500 Forecaster readers!Call 781-3661 for informationon rates.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Got PHOTOGRAPHY Ser-vices? Place your businessad here to be seen by over69,500 Forecaster readers!Call 781-3661 for more infor-mation on rates.

POOL SERVICES

GOT POOL SERVICES?Advertise your business inThe Forecaster to be seen in69,500 papers. Call 781-3661for more information on rates.

REAL ESTATE

FALMOUTH, HOUSE forsale. FSBO, 2bed, 1 1/2baths, cape, 1 car detachedgarage, 1 acre, hard woodfloors, claw ft tub, $191,800,realtors welcome. Call 232-0744.

REAL ESTATEWANTED

SEEKING MULTIPLE HOMESor Camps on the same lot with-in an hour of Portland. Payingcash, Referrals compensated.Brokers protected. 749-1718.

RENTALS

2 BEDROOM, SECOND FLR.RENT, WEST BUXTON.NEWLY RENOVATED, ONSACO RIVER, SEE THEFALLS YEAR ROUND.LANDLORD PAYS, WATER,SEWAGE, PARKING FOR 2,HEAT. APROX. 15 MIN. DRIVETO PTLD, SO. PTLD, SACOETC.COMBO LIVINGROOM ANDKITCHEN WITH WORKINGFIREPLACE. FULL BATH ANDPRIVATE DECK.MANY RECREATIONAL SER-VICES NEAR BY.CALL 207 775 2549 OR [email protected]$950 per mo., Deposit $500,References, 1 yr. lease.

Windham waterfront, fur-nished efficiencies. Singleoccupancy through May. Shop-ping nearby. $450.00—$595.00monthly. Utilities, wifi, cable tvand parking included. Call892-2698.

GRAY- CABIN FOR RENTFurnished. No pets. All utilities,cable, wireless internet.$175.00/week. 657-4844.

ROOFING/SIDING

BRUCE FOURNIER CONSTRUCTION

ROOFING SPECIALISTSNew roofs, roofing repairs,chimney flashing, siding,gutter cleaning, and more.

Fully insuredFree estimates

Contact Bruce Fournier @207-713-9163 or 240-4233

ROOFING/SIDING-Place yourad here to be seen in 69,500papers a week. Call 781-3661for more information onrates.

SERVICES OFFERED

MEMOIR ASSISTANCEStruggling to write yourlife story or a short book

about a crucial period of yourlife? Don't know how to begin?Or have you been urging yourparent to write his/her storywith no success? I can help byoffering editing and organizingadvice or by interviewing youor the elder, thus producingricher material. Finished prod-ucts from low cost to high are:a CD of the recorded inter-view(s); a simple softcoverbook; or a more elaborate bookwith photos. Call Ruth, 207-774-9378, for a free consulta-tion.

SERVICES OFFERED

JUST USHOME CLEANING

• Handyman• Property Maint.

Snow PlowingSouth PortlandCape Elizabeth

653-7036

LADIESFOOT

REFLEXOLOGYSPECIAL

$34 for 60 minwith this ad

RED STONE SPA585 BROADWAYSO PORTLAND233-0157

SERVICES OFFERED

Attic • Basement • Garage • CleanoutsResidential & Commercial

We Recycle & Salvageso you save money!

NEED JUNK REMOVEDCALL THE

DUMP MAN

We will buysaleable salvage goods

Furniture/Doors/Windows/etc.

Guaranteed

Best Price

828-8699

ALL METAL HAULED FREEWashers/Stoves etc.

Removal of oil tanks

SNOW SERVICES

ROOF SHOVELING & ICEDAM REMOVAL.Free Estimates & Fast Ser-vice. 865-2119.

SNOW SERVICES

SNOW PLOWING SERVICESParking lots, roads & driveways

Commercial orResidential

Sanding and Salting as neededSeason Contract or per storm

Call Stan Burnham @ 272-3006

ROOF SHOVELINGSNOW BLOWING

Insured OSHA Safety Certified

Call for Free Estimate • Low Rates!Call Ryan 317-6274

STORAGE

ADVERTISE YOUR STORAGEbusiness in The Forecasterto be seen in 69,500 papers.Call 781-3661 for more infor-mation on rates.




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Prepare for the WinterAdvertise Your Services in The Forecaster for Forecaster readers to find you!Deadline is Friday noon before following publication on Wed-Fri in all 4 editions

Call 781-3661 for rates

GOT SNOW SERVICES?

TREE SERVICES

TREE SERVICESAdvertise your Tree Serviceswhere69,500 Forecasterreaders will see your ad!

Call 781-3661formore information on rates.

TREE SERVICES

McCarthyTreeServiceCasco Bay’sMost Dependable

• Fully Insured• Climbing• Difficult Take-downs

Great Fall Rates

Low Rates Fast Service

232-9828

$100 OFFWITH THIS AD

TREE SERVICES

FullyLicensed

AndInsured

www.southernmainetree.com207-632-4254

FreeEstimates

Justin CrossFCL2731

Experienced x Safe x AffordableStump Grinding Services

• Planned Removal• Crane Work

• Pruning• Storm Damage

24 Hour Emergency Services

FOWLER TREE CARE:Licensed Arborist & MasterApplicator, fully insured. Largetree pruning, ornamental tree,shrub pruning, spraying, deeproot fertilizing, hedges, difficulttree removal, cabling. Free esti-mates. Many references. 829-5471.

TREE SERVICES

• Climbing• Limbing• Difficulttake-downs

• Fully insured • Free estimates• Many references

829-6797

REE SERVICEJIM’S• Removals• Chipping• Lots cleared& thinned

VACATION RENTALS

SCENIC TUSCANY- Charm-ing 1 bedroom apartmentequipped, old world patio,backyard, great views. Historichillside village, ocean and Flo-rence close by. $725.00 week-ly. 207-767-3915.

WANTED

WANTED for free- Worn outWool Sweaters for crafts.Please call Cathy @ 653-5149.

WANTED

Seeking personaltrainer/physical therapist inHarpswell or Brunswick. Expe-rience working with Parkin-son’s patients on balance, flex-ibility, & strength. (585) 746-3800 or [email protected]

YARD SALES

CUMBERLANDESTATE SALE

Sat. Jan. 12th- 8AM374 Main Street

Antiques, Tools, (yard & car-pentry), Books, Records,Ephemera, Glass, Collectibles,Household, Linens & More!

NO EARLY BIRDS!

YARD SALES

YARD SALE DEADLINES arethe Friday before the followingWed run. Classifieds run in all 4editions. Please call 781-3661to place your yard sale ad oremail to:[email protected]

Votingfrom page 1


If on Election Day no candidates re-ceives a majority of votes, an instant run-off election occurs. Candidates with the fewest first-choice votes are eliminated, with their votes redistributed among the remaining candidates. Successive rounds continue until a candidate receives a majority.

In Portland, 15 candidates ran for may-or in 2011; Michael Brennan, who held an 850-vote lead in the popular vote, was elected in the 14th run-off round, about 24 hours after the polls closed.

Although, she doesn’t yet have a co-sponsor for her bill, Cooper said she hoped to gain support from Democrats and Republicans this week on a legisla-tive bus tour of western Maine.

“I think instituting a runoff or ranked election is simple and easy to understand. And, it works in the system well,” Coo-per said. “This isn’t a major change in the way the system works.”

Cooper and Woodbury said they hope to eliminate the possibility of the “spoiler effect” and results like the last two Maine gubernatorial elections: Republican Gov. Paul LePage won a five-way race with just 38 percent of the vote in 2010, and former Gov. John Baldacci, a Democrat, was re-elected in 2006, also with 38 per-cent of the popular vote.

Plurality winners are common in Maine: U.S. Sen. Angus King was the only gubernatorial candidate to win an election with a majority in the last 25 years.

Bill similar to Woodbury’s and Coo-per’s have failed to make it to the House floor, victims of politics and, in large part, practicality.

Portland City Clerk Kathy Jones said implementing ranked-choice voting in the city in 2011 required intensive planning and organizing.

Existing ballot-counting systems are not capable of processing ranked votes, Jones said. The city looked at renting machines that could handle the process, but the $80,000 cost was too high.

Instead, the city hired an outside con-

tractor, TrueBallot, to administer the new system and write special program-ming for the election. The company also scanned and digitized every ballot. The service cost the city about $30,000.

“Once they were done scanning, we had to upload all the ballots, which took hours,” Jones said. Some 26,000 ballots had to be digitized, and the ones with discrepancies, such as a skipped rank-ing or improperly filled ovals, had to be reviewed.

Would she volunteer to do it on a state-wide level? Probably not.

“Every municipality would have to upload all the data to whoever was going to be figuring out the algorithm to get it all together,” Jones said. “I don’t know, on a big scale. We did ranked-choice vot-ing with one election. If you’ve got all the seats, and you’ve got to rank every candidate, it’s something I don’t want to be in charge of.”

If the voting machines could process ranked-choice votes and aggregate them electronically, the system, especially on a large scale, would be much easier to manage, Jones said.

But right now, that’s illegal.Under state law, ballots can’t be trans-

mitted electronically, whether over the Internet or a network, due to fears about the information being hacked. The law also ensures a paper trail is maintained, something opponents believe could be be lost with electronic voting systems.

The inability to aggregate voting data electronically is the biggest challenge to instituting ranked-choice voting in Maine, Deputy Secretary of State Julie Flynn said.

“Think of it logistically. If there’s no plurality or winner, you are bringing all the ballots to Augusta,” she said, noting that she has yet to see either draft bill and was commenting generally on ranked-choice systems. “I just don’t see any way. ... It would be 500 times more complex than doing it in Portland.”

All of the nearly 500 municipalities in the state, which have 330 different ballot

styles, would have to deliver their bal-lots to Augusta to be counted as a whole, Flynn said. Then, after the election, they would have to be taken back to the mu-nicipalities for a retention period, also required under existing law.

Despite the challenges, Flynn said her office would find a way to accom-modate the Legislature if it backs the ranked-choice proposals, with a caveat that legislators should ensure the program has funding.

Without reviewing the bills, Flynn said she couldn’t provide a cost estimate.

Although, instituting ranked-choice voting systems has its challenges, Rep. Diane Russell, D-Portland, a proponent of ranked-choice voting, said the new support is encouraging.

“It’s great to see momentum building,” said Russell, who has been working on the issue for years, first as the director of the ranked-choice advocacy group, FairVote, and now as a legislator.

Russell, who introduced bills in previ-ous sessions, said criticism often comes from a lack of understanding. She also acknowledged that technically, the sys-tem does have some difficulties, but said it works well in practice.

“The devil is always in the details,” Russell said. “There was so much hesita-tion about Portland. The folks managing the election system, they were concerned it wouldn’t work. People thought it would have all these negative effects. ... It had all these opportunities to fail, in Maine’s largest city, and frankly, some people wanted it to. But at the end of the the day it was a success.”

Russell’s bills, which were previously focused solely on the governor’s race, have never made it to a floor vote.

Under Maine’s Constitution, the gover-nor has to be elected by the same system as the Legislature.

So now Russell is going one step fur-ther. She hopes to make an amendment to the Constitution allowing different and separate voting systems for the Legisla-ture and the governor’s office, known as bifurcation.

“We want our system to be a market-place of ideas that does not allow for a

minority candidate to win. They have to have a mandate,” Russell said. “That’s why bifurcation, a Constitutional amend-ment, is essential.”

Other voting systemsNevin Brackett-Rozinsky, a computer

scientist who studies election systems and now works as a staffer for King, argues that implementing ranked-choice voting systems not only has serious ad-ministrative challenges, but can produce some of the same problems as the current system.

He said ranked-choice voting can still produce situations of “voter betrayal.”

“It actually has situations where it can be in the voter’s best interest to betray their favorite, and put the front-runner in first to avoid” the possibility of someone they don’t want getting elected, Brackett-Rozinsky said.

He advocates for approval voting, which treats each candidate as a separate question, allowing voters to select more than one candidate. Whoever receives the most votes, wins the election.

But, he said, approval voting isn’t as well known as ranked-choice voting, and likely wouldn’t be politically possible right now. Still, ranked-choice voting is an improvement, he said.

Woodbury agreed.“What concerns me is that (approval

voting) doesn’t have a lot of precedent and it’s not well known,” he said. “I’m worried it would have a difficult time moving forward in our political process. So, what I’m saying is, don’t throw out the good in trying to get the perfect. My sense is that there is a lot bigger appetite for ranked voting and that it has more political feasibility.”

Russell contends that practically, ranked-choice systems don’t have the problems raised by Brackett-Rozinsky.

“There’s no perfect system, that’s the thing,” she said. “But, If you’re looking at a system that discourages mudsling-ing and encourages coalition-building, you’ve got to look at ranked-choice voting.”Will Graff can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or wgraff@

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that,” Dzugan said. “If you only have re-quired exams every five years, that’s a lot of people fishing with gear that’s outdated and hasn’t been inspected.”

Commercial fishing is the deadliest in-dustry in Maine, and in the country.

In Maine, deaths on the job in the fishing industry make up 15 percent of workplace deaths in the last decade. The number is especially striking consider-ing that of the more than half a million workers in Maine, only 2,000 make their livings in commercial fishing.

According to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Commer-cial Fishing Incident Database, 36 people were killed in 26 separate incidents while fishing commercially off Maine’s coast from 2000-2011. Of the total deaths, 27 were caused by vessel disasters, usually induced by flooding. And a third of the deaths occurred in the lobster fleet.

NIOSH found commercial fishing most dangerous in the Northeast.

An August investigation by the Center for Public Integrity, Boston public ra-dio station WBUR and National Public Radio, found that from 2000 to 2009, people working in the groundfish fishery off New England and New York were 37 times more likely to die on the job as a police officer.

A 2010 report from NIOSH shows that from 2000-2009, 165 commercial fisher-men were killed while fishing off the East Coast, making the region more deadly than Alaska, which had 133 deaths.

The inspections currently only search for equipment and don’t regulate the boat’s integrity. Changes to the standards boats would have to meet in the inspec-tions are still being developed and will likely not be implemented for another few years.

The original mandate was the first ac-tion to come from the 2010 re-authoriza-tion act, requiring vessels to be inspected before being allowed to fish. In the past, the inspections were voluntary.

The U.S. Coast Guard can still board boats at sea and would have required them

to carry the proper safety equipment by the mid-October deadline if the time frame wasn’t extended.

Thomas said larger vessels fishing off the West Coast would be most impacted by the potential new standards and lobbied for the new timeframes.

Although death tolls continue to mount, government and industry have been slow to act, with this latest move prolonging already overdue regulations, Dzugan said.

“I think Congress was misinformed about the survival aspects of it and the ef-fect that it will have,” he said. “They were responding to too much pressure from in-dustry without understanding the survival aspects. ... I think this undercuts the reason for doing it in 2010, and in terms of safety, it’s ill-advised.”

And, although this regulation would have helped, Thomas said, regulations alone won’t make the industry less dan-gerous.

“Regulations will help some things,

but it’s more the culture,” he said. “So you have emergency suits on every boat, but you don’t have drills every month or you’re not wearing what you should be wearing. ... People just have to be more careful. That would go a long way to a lot of this.”

That culture was evident before the loosened law took effect, with only about 30 percent, or 700 out of 2,100 boats, actually inspected by the October dead-line, said Kevin Plowman, Coast Guard inspector for southern Maine and part of New Hampshire.

The low numbers were somewhat ex-pected Plowman said, especially at this time of year, with some people not work-ing their boats.

With the extended deadline, Plowman expects his job to slow down, but said overall, people have found the inspections helpful, even if they don’t need them for a couple more years.

“The response has been good,” he said. “Very, very good.”Will Graff can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or wgraff@

theforecaster.net. Follow Will on Twitter: @W_C_Graff.

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