tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75034388753324191082024-03-05T12:33:45.576-05:00The Weekly SentinelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger663125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-30003788147341894242012-11-02T08:42:00.000-04:002012-11-02T09:11:34.159-04:00Maine Diner Offers Myles Henry Scholarship to Local Scholars<br />
<i>Seniors at Wells High School can apply for a student-athlete
scholarship honoring the former restaurant owner</i><br />
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WELLS –</div>
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The Maine Diner, an award-winning family-owned restaurant on
Route 1 known for its hallmark hospitality, speedy service and hearty
home-cooking, is awarding annual academic scholarships to deserving Wells High
School student athletes in honor of former Maine Diner owner Myles Henry. To
date, two students have been awarded the scholarships. Applications for 2013
graduates are being accepted at this time.</div>
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Henry, one of the beloved owners of the Maine Diner, died
unexpectedly in 2010. To know Myles was to know of his love of sports - all
sports - whether it was golfing, basketball, surfing, baseball, football and
even curling. To celebrate this love, his close friend Vinny LoBello helped to
set up The Myles Henry Scholarship Fund. The $1,000 scholarship recognizes a
Wells High School student athlete senior 'who exhibits honesty, sportsmanship,
integrity, passion and enthusiasm on and off the field of play.' Each year
essay submissions are reviewed and chosen by Henry’s wife Trisha Wilson.</div>
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“When I read through these essays I try and read them
through the eyes of my husband, looking for the essay that embodies the essence
of the scholarship the best.” Wilson said. “It is a very emotional and
meaningful night for Vinny and I when we stand up and give out the award. We
both loved Myles so much. I am so proud of what he has done, creating such a
sense of community. It means so much to me,” </div>
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The first recipient of the award was Ben Durfee of Wells,
who went on to study at Furman University in Greenville, S.C. Noah French was
the 2012 recipient. He is a freshman studying engineering at the University of
Maine in Orono. At Wells High School he was a wrestler, soccer and lacrosse
player.</div>
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“It meant so much to me to be awarded this scholarship. I
felt it was made for me,” French said. “Of all the scholarships awarded in
Wells this had a really good feeling because there is a name and a story behind
it.”</div>
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Community involvement is part of the Maine Diner’s history.
Over the years the Diner has supported the Make-A-Wish Foundation through
benefit art shows, Gary Pike Day to help support cancer patients at Gary’s
House in Portland, and special golf tournaments.</div>
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“We have supported events near and dear to our hearts…and
this scholarship honoring the memory of my brother Myles certainly is important
to us and falls into that special category,” Maine Diner owner Dick Henry said.
“Myles and I always loved sports. We have so many happy memories surrounding
them.”</div>
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Students interested in applying for the Myles Henry Memorial
Scholarship should contact their guidance counselors at Wells High School. An
essay entry is submitted for review.</div>
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To help keep the scholarship going, people in the community
who would like to contribute to this fund may do so in the memory of Myles
Henry by donating to the address below. </div>
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The Myles Henry Scholarship Fund </div>
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P.O. Box 579</div>
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Wells, Maine 04090</div>
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The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-42412473128958411152012-11-02T08:37:00.001-04:002012-11-02T08:37:54.680-04:00Pink Power Earns Some Green in Battle with Breast Cancer<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Pink Pals are (from left to right) Ellen Baldwin,
Barbara Conda, Cathy Barnhorst and Leslie Ware. (courtesy photo)
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Celebrities donate designer purses to help raise money</h3>
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By Pat Sommers</div>
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YORK –</div>
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Four area residents have harnessed the “power of pink” to
earn some serious green to help women battling breast cancer.</div>
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Ellen Baldwin, Cathy Barnhorst, Barbara Conda and Leslie
Ware are finalizing plans for their third gala fundraiser, “Santa’s Got a Brand
New Bag.” The dinner and auction, held at the Portsmouth Harbor Events and
Conference Center, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Thursday, November 15, will
offer about 160 high-fashion handbags, including a collection of seven designer
purses donated by celebrity Oprah Winfrey.</div>
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The four organizers – known as the Pink Pals – will donate
proceeds from the event to York Hospital’s Breast Cancer Living Well Program
where the funds will be used to support women receiving treatment in ways that
typically fall outside the parameters of health insurance coverage.</div>
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According to Dawn Fernald, hospital director of marketing
and new service development, the fund established by the four Pals may, for
example, provide a wig for a woman who has lost her hair as a result of
chemotherapy but cannot afford a suitable hairpiece on her own. Or, it could
help a woman and her family with the cost of traveling to and from cancer
treatment facilities.</div>
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“York Hospital is honored to have the Pink Pals work so hard
to help our patients and their families,” said Fernald. “Over 25 percent of
patients diagnosed with cancer at York Hospital are diagnosed with breast
cancer, making it the most prevalent cancer in our community. The funds raised
by this event will undoubtedly affect the lives of many in our community.”</div>
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It was Leslie Ware who first posed the idea of hosting a
designer handbag auction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Leslie
came up with the idea,” said Barbara Conda, noting Ware had friends who had
hosted a similar event. She networked with those friends, and the Pals set to
work planning their own event in the Seacoast region. It was Ware who also
dubbed the gala “Santa’s Got a Brand New Bag.”</div>
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The Pink Pals, who laughingly decline to give their ages but
describe themselves as “mature professionals,” enlisted the help of friends,
relatives and hospital staff members to serve on planning committees for the
dinner-auction. “We have women of all ages, from young to old, from late 20s
and early 30s to women in their 80s,” said Cathy Barnhorst of the inter-generational
effort.</div>
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Leisa Smith, a dietitian with the hospital’s Dining and
Nutrition Services, was tasked with contacting Winfrey, a favorite with the
hospital staff, to ask if she would donate a handbag. To catch the attention of
the entertainment icon and the staff of her Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), Smith
and her team created a video on which they sang, “Oprah, we want to OWN your
handbag” to the tune of the early Beatles hit “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.”</div>
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The video was uploaded on YouTube and shared through social
media sites in an effort to draw notice by Winfrey. It did. Just two weeks
after the video was launched, the hospital was contacted by an OWN staff member
from Los Angeles who promised a handbag autographed by Oprah.</div>
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And just a few days later, York Hospital accepted shipment
of two large cartons containing not one but seven signed designer handbags –
from Versace to Ferragamo – all straight from the closet of Oprah.</div>
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Signed purses donated by actress Sally Struthers, a favorite
at summer productions at Ogunquit Playhouse, and by Emmy-winning television
star Carson Kressley, will also go on the block, as will a purse contributed by
chef Mary Ann Esposito, whose “Ciao Italia” is America’s longest-running TV
cooking show. Esposito, who is expected to attend the event, donated a glittery
pink bag she selected especially for fundraiser while on a recent trip to
Italy.</div>
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In their first two fundraising efforts – spectacular fashion
shows hosted under tents on the grounds at Ogunquit Playhouse – the Pink Pals
brought in about $200,000. They hope to top the $300,000 mark with proceeds
from “Santa’s Got a Brand New Bag.”</div>
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“Ellen and I started the first fashion show, but we had
never done a show of that size so we asked Cathy to help us put the show
together,” Conda said. Leslie, who was literally recruited on the street
outside a shop - “She was carrying a clipboard and she looked organized…” - completed
the fundraising quartet.</div>
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Money raised by that first fashion show was donated to York
Hospital toward its purchase of a digital mammography machine. “But we didn’t
want to raise money for a machine,” said Conda of the subsequent effort. “We
wanted it to go to women who were going through cancer treatment.”</div>
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The Pink Pals met with hospital officials who agreed to establish
and administer such a fund.</div>
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“We embrace the power of pink,” Barnhorst said of the
Pals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of the four has
personally received a cancer diagnosis, she said, “But cancer has touched all
of us in some way… family, friends.”</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Santa’s Got a Brand
New Bag” will open with a champagne reception with butlered hors d’oeuvres. A
silent auction will be conducted during the 90-minute cocktail hour. A
four-course, small-plate dinner and live auction will follow. The Pals also
promise several surprises, including a special dessert planned for the
fundraiser.</div>
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An Oprah-donated handbag will be awarded as a door prize, as
will a Christmas tree decorated in a pink color scheme and a handbag motif.</div>
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Because the 300 tickets offered for “Santa’s Got a Brand New
Bag” sold quickly, a waiting list has been established. Should cancellations
occur, those on the list will be contacted.</div>
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Seacoast residents can also vie for the chance to own a
gorgeous designer bag, including one carried by Oprah Winfrey, through an
online auction now in progress. The online auction offers twenty bags of all
shapes and sizes and in all price ranges. Several are signed by celebrities.
Bidding will continue through Sunday, November 18.</div>
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Visit www.yorkhospital.com and click on the pink auction button
for details on both the November 15 gala and the online auction, or call
207-351-2385.</div>
The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-4474398512182761312012-11-02T08:35:00.001-04:002012-11-02T08:35:26.151-04:00Students Learn About Alternative Fuel Vehicles<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students from Biddeford Regional Center of Technology
(courtesy photo)
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BIDDEFORD -</div>
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Students from the Biddeford Regional Center of Technology
(BRCOT) joined Maine business, engineering and energy leaders to learn about
the next generation of alternative fuel vehicles and check out a collection of
electric and natural gas trucks and automobiles.</div>
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The Environmental and Energy Technology Council of Maine
(E2Tech) and Maine Clean Communities (MC2) hosted more than 120 attendees at a
two-part forum and workshop on electric vehicles (EVs) and compressed natural
gas (CNG) vehicles at Texas Instruments in South Portland on October 25.
Instructor Eddie Driscoll brought his Engineering, Architecture, and Computer
Aided Drafting class to the forum “to promote the concept of learning outside
the classroom and stimulate their interest in becoming part of Maine’s future
technology workforce.” BRCOT serves high school students from Biddeford,
Thornton Academy, Kennebunk, Old Orchard Beach, and Massabesic.</div>
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“The transportation sector is the largest source of energy
costs and petroleum use in Maine,” said E2Tech executive director Jeff Marks.
“We want to encourage high school and college students to become engaged in the
innovation industry in Maine and help find solutions to reduce our dependence
on oil, improve the environment and save money. What better way to do this than
introduce them to Maine’s best engineers, business owners and energy experts?
And, having cool, environmentally friendly sports cars on hand doesn’t hurt
either.”</div>
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“It's not too often you get to see 89 miles per gallon with
that kind of horsepower,” said Connor Morrison, a BRCOT senior from Biddeford
after sitting in the driver’s seat of the Tesla Roadster electric sports car.
Rhyan Paquereau, a junior at BRCOT agreed, “Interesting to see an electric car
that can compete so well with its gasoline rivals.”</div>
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Panelists presented an overview of EVs and infrastructure,
and John Carroll from Central Maine Power described the utility’s new pilot
program to evaluate electric vehicles and to explore how to put more vehicles
on the road in fleet and private use. In addition to the Tesla Roadster, Chevy
Volts, Nissan Leafs, a CMP bucket truck, a natural gas van, solar charging
station and even a 100 percent biodiesel car were on display.</div>
The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-729580147699314802012-10-26T05:00:00.002-04:002012-10-26T05:00:04.933-04:00Farm-to-School Week Ends with Bountiful Harvest<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wells Junior High School student volunteers and staff pose
with green beans that they picked on Spiller Farm in September. From left to
right are Samantha Jones (Grade 5), Jessica Licardo (Grade 7), Abigail Bourque
(Grade 7), Beth Cilluffo, Ethan Huber-Young (Grade. 7) Mary Rand, Caden Gibson
(Grade 6) and Kerry Georgitis. (photo by Saul Lindauer)
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Local farms’ food now in school lunches</h3>
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WELLS – </div>
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‘Farm to School Week’ in the Wells-Ogunquit CSD concluded on
September 30. Since 2005, this annual week-long event aims to bring locally
grown food to the District’s lunch rooms in order to improve nutrition and
create a greater appreciation for food from hometown farms. </div>
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Over the past seven harvest seasons, the WOCSD Nutrition
Services, directed by Tyler Goodwin, has steadily increased the purchase of
food from Chase Farm, Spiller Farm and Sunny Acres Farm, all located in Wells. </div>
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This year not only saw a continued increase in the purchase
of locally grown food but the introduction of student and staff volunteers to
participate in the harvest. In September and early October, up to twenty
student volunteers and six Wells Junior High School staff took bus trips after
school to Spiller Farm to help harvest bushels of carrots, green beans, and
potatoes. The student and faculty participation on the farm was organized by
WJHS science teacher, Saul Lindauer. </div>
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This year Spiller Farm agreed to devote space specifically
for growing food for the District. Produce harvested from this area was sold to
the District at a reduced cost. This new arrangement will allow Goodwin and
staff to process and freeze a much greater volume of vegetables that can be
offered throughout the school year. </div>
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Goodwin admits that buying locally adds work and costs to
preparing school lunches but said that “the trade off is worth it to get farm
fresh veggies” for students. Goodwin indicated that buying locally grown food
provides fresh food high in nutritional value, a real “hands-on” education for
school children in the growing and harvesting of food, the reduction of a
school lunch program’s carbon footprint and support for local farms. </div>
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For several years, the Maine Department of Education has
encouraged schools to buy more locally grown food to support the Farm to School
initiative. Goodwin firmly believes that what goes into growing and preparing
food should be a part of a student’s learning.</div>
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Story provided by Reg Bennett </div>
The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-11254482653749786602012-10-26T05:00:00.001-04:002012-10-26T05:00:00.364-04:00OgunquitFest 2012 Winners<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Littlefield Village's winning entry in the scarecrow contest (photo by John Hurley)</td></tr>
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The 4<sup>th</sup> Annual OgunquitFest was held last
weekend, featuring wild costumes, crazy races, fun for all and funds raised for
some good charities.</div>
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Contest and race winners are listed below, as well as a
mention of the beneficiaries and the money raised.</div>
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OgunquitFest Scarecrow Contest: </div>
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1st place: Littlefield Village </div>
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2nd place: Anchorage by the Sea </div>
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3rd place: Beachfire Bar & Grille </div>
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High Heel Dash: </div>
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Best Time: Lance Powers </div>
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Highest Heel: Bryan Wilson (platform); Robert Coles
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Most Outrageous Costume: “Gigi”</div>
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Money raised from registration for the High Heel Dash and
donations from the crowd during the race generated more than $2,000 for the
Frannie Peabody Center in Portland. The donations included a check for $500
from Donato Tramuto, local business owner. This is the 4<sup>th</sup> annual
high heel dash and Frannie Peabody has been the charity recipient all four
years.</div>
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Bridge to Beach Bed Race: </div>
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Whippersnappers</div>
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Best Time: Meadowmere Resort </div>
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Second Best Time: Anchorage by the Sea </div>
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Best Time: Hot Flashes </div>
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People’s Choice: Hot Flashes </div>
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Beautiful Bed by the Sea (best costumes & decorations):
Meadowmere Resort </div>
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Broken Spring Award (craziest): Hot Flashes</div>
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Money raised from the Bridge to Beach Bed Race went to the
American Cancer Society the Animal Welfare Society, and the Marginal Way
Preservation Fund. More than $3,000 total raised for those three organizations.</div>
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The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-35469120119367888372012-10-26T05:00:00.000-04:002012-10-26T05:00:08.700-04:00Keep South Berwick Warm Community Supper<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Volunteers serve up a warm meal, and help raise money to
warm houses this winter (courtesy photo)
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The 5th annual Keep South Berwick Warm community soup supper
will be held 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, November 7, at Spring Hill Restaurant on
Pond Road in South Berwick. The proceeds from the supper will pay for fuel or
weatherization for local families in need.</div>
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“This event can really make a difference in local families’
lives over the winter,” said Pat Robinson, an organizer of the event with the
Keep South Berwick Warm program of the local non-profit, SoBo Central. </div>
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Donations will be accepted at the entrance to Spring Hill in
a large soup pot to be used to help families get through challenging economic
times.</div>
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Soups, breads, and cookies at the annual event are made by
local restaurants, bakers and community members. Raffle items have been donated
by residents and a South Berwick Seniors sponsor the bake sale. </div>
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Local restaurants and bakers generously providing food at
the supper include: Nature’s Way Market, Pepperland Cafe, Fogarty’s Restaurant,
The Catered Event, The Redbarn at Outlook Farm, The Black Bean Cafe, The
Brixham General Store, Spring Hill Restaurant, King Tut’s Cider, Isidore on the
Rocks, Borealis Bread and When Pigs Fly Bread. River City Jazz will provide the
entertainment with acoustic jazz music. </div>
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Those who can’t make it to the supper are invited to send
donations now or any time during the year to SoBo Central, c/o Fuel Fund, 46
Witchtrot Rd, South Berwick, ME 03908. All donations are tax deductible. </div>
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SoBo Central is a non-profit organization that oversees the
Food Pantry, Hot Summer Nights concert series, Friends of Powderhouse Hill and
Home for the Holidays, as well as Keep South Berwick Warm. Its mission is to
nurture the town’s unique character by connecting and engaging citizens in
community life. </div>
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The organization’s signature event, the LanternFest, has
drawn thousands of people to Spring Hill in August. More information about SoBo
Central is available at www.sobocentral.org or on the SoBo Central facebook
page.</div>
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Best-selling novelist Salman Rushdie spoke at the Music Hall
last week, about his new memoir called "Joseph Anton" and the life he
lived in fear since the 1989 "fatwa," or death sentence, imposed on
him by the Ayatollah Khomeini.</div>
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The fatwa was for his allegedly blasphemous novel "The
Satanic Verses," which Rushdie said is actually one of his least political
works, much less so than "Midnight's Children," which took on the
public life of India or "Shame," which was based on "genuine
political confrontation" in Pakistan.</div>
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Rushdie seems to have weathered the storm, though the
600-page book is a harrowing account of the effects of the fatwa decree,
including the dissolution of a dying marriage, his raising of his nine-year-old
son, and living with a 24-hour security detail from Scotland Yard.</div>
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He was shocked at the reaction to "Satanic
Verses," especially the accusations in the British press that he did it on
purpose to attract attention.</div>
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"'Joseph Anton' is how my real life turned into a
novel, stranger than anything I had ever made up," Rushdie said.</div>
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A dream sequence from the work, in particular, seemed to
incite Islamic tension. Rushdie read from this episode to start his talk, and
emphasized that "Satanic Verses" was a novel "primarily about
migration," he said. </div>
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"In the middle of it there was this dream sequence...
about a prophet, not called Muhammad, living in a city, not called Mecca,
inventing a religion not called Islam. And the person having the dream was
losing his mind and going insane. This is what we, in the trade, call
‘fiction.' Unfortunately, it wasn't read like that."</div>
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The serious thing that this passage talked about, Rushdie
said, was the nature of revelation, or "how does a new idea come into the
world?" Also integral to the contentious passage was "what do you do
when you are strong? When your enemies are at your mercy?"</div>
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After a short break, Rushdie returned to the stage with
Virginia Prescott, host of Word of Mouth, for an interview. The Music Hall
house band Dreadnaught played the Platters "Great Pretender," and
Rushdie noticed the tune and sang along.</div>
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Prescott asked how Islamic culture has changed since he was
a child. Rushdie said he grew up in a house that was "happily
godless," where his father and his father's friends would discuss whatever
they wanted. Rushdie was free to think and express himself. That did not mean
his opinions went uncontested. There just wasn't a threat of violence for
unapproved thoughts. Then came Valentine's Day, 1989, when the fatwa was
issued, and there began "the difference between rhetoric and
reality," said Rushdie, exasperated after all this time at the extreme reaction.</div>
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"Books are books. If you don't like it, don't read it.
This is why they have books by more than one person in bookstores," he
said. The United States is a very divided country, he pointed out, where half
the people are often saying things that the other half of the country can't
stand, "but it doesn't occur to either half to burn the country
down."</div>
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Rushdie was often light-hearted and humorous on the night,
belying the years of living in fear. Asked if he was still fearful or looking
over his shoulder, Rushdie motioned to the audience and said "Look, there
are hundreds of them in the dark. They don't seem that scary."</div>
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Audience reaction to Rushdie was overwhelmingly supportive
of his plight, even if many in attendance knew more about his life's story than
his written works.</div>
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Peter Randall, a filmmaker on local farms, was invited to
the talk by a friend. He said he was interested in the whole story of Rushdie
and the fatwa against him.</div>
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"It's ridiculous," Randall said. "I don't
understand why people get so upset about something written. An act, I can see,
but it's just words."</div>
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Henry Linscott said he was in grammar school when the fatwa
was issued. "I didn't know what the book was about, but it sounded
scary."</div>
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Twenty-four years after the fatwa, Rushdie feels it's
"get-along time" now and looks forward to discussing the literary
merits of "Satanic Verses," a work which has been analyzed through
political and religious lenses, but has remained unstudied in the language of
literature.</div>
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Rushdie said he is proud of the novel, but would have
changed its history if he could. Related to the "Satanic Verses," an
Italian translator was stabbed, a Norwegian publisher was shot, and a Japanese
publisher was killed.</div>
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Rushdie lived in hiding, in England first and then in the
United States, and tried to provide a normal life for his young son. </div>
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"Joseph Anton" tells of his hidden life and was
his alias with the police, based on two of his favorite writers, Joseph Conrad
and Anton Chekhov. His case, called Operation Malachi, was considered the most
dangerous assignment for the police, and they served by volunteering instead of
being required to do so. Despite the disdain from some higher-ups who didn't
feel he had done anything to deserve their protection, hadn't "performed a
service to the state," Rushdie grew close to many of the police officers
who were protecting him. He thought they had it tougher than he did, since
"sitting around, looking out the window, wondering what to do next"
was the typical life for a writer.</div>
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"Joseph Anton" was originally written in the first
person, a standard voice for a memoir, but Rushdie changed it to third-person.</div>
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"I had to get beyond the anger and resentment. That's
why I waited so long to write it," he said. The objective voice also gives
him some emotional distance and allows him to write more
"novelistically."</div>
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"The thing about an autobiography, in the end, is to
tell the truth," he said. "Otherwise, why write it?"</div>
The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-41930211660346734222012-10-19T05:00:00.001-04:002012-10-19T05:00:06.914-04:00Haunted Walks a Halloween Treat<div class="MsoNormal">
There are several options for haunted walks in southern
Maine for this Halloween season. Coming right up, the Raitt Homestead Farm
Museum has a “Trail of Terror” and Kittery is holding its final “Night Terrors
Haunted Walk.” And recently, local high school and college students teamed up
with area charities to hold a haunted walk in West Kennebunk to raise money for
the Animal Welfare Society.</div>
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Nature Trail Turns Scary in Time for Halloween</div>
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ELIOT –</div>
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The Raitt Homestead Farm Museum fundraiser is set to kick
off next weekend, October 19 and 20 with the scary “Trail of Terror.” Running
from dusk to 10 p.m., the fundraiser is sure to raise some eyebrows.</div>
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For more than seventeen years, the Raitt Homestead Farm
Museum has held popular events like the Tractor & Engine Show and Vintage
Car Show during the summer. </div>
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“A few years ago we decided to do a fall event and thought
that a Halloween event would fit perfectly here at the Farm,” said Tom Raitt,
museum vice-president. “One of our biggest challenges was getting the
long-awaited Nature Trail done, which in turn could be utilized for many of our
programs and events.”</div>
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“We are excited to start an October schedule of events that
has something for everyone,” said Steve Beckert, museum president. “Not only
are we doing the Trail of Terror on four nights, but we also have a children's
day on October 20 from 2 to 4 p.m. Kids can bring a decorated or carved
pumpkin, wear their costumes, ride in the barrel tractors and take a wagon ride
as well as play games, trick or treat and more.”</div>
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One hundred percent of the proceeds from the events go to
the children's programs, restoration and preservation of the thirty-three acre
Farm Museum property. The Trail of Terror is $6 admission and the HarvestFest
on October 20 is $3.</div>
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“It is going to be really fun and terrifying here at the
Farm, and we are so grateful for all the support we have from area businesses,
the community, our members and volunteers,” said Lisa Raitt, coordinator and
trustee. “I personally can't wait to walk the Trail of Terror! I love Halloween
and all things scary!”</div>
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The Raitt Homestead Farm Museum is always looking for a few
more volunteers to help at all of the events throughout the year. For more
information on volunteering or info about events, visit
www.raittfarmmuseum.org, call 207-748-3303 or 207-332-5444.</div>
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Raitt Homestead Farm Museum is located at 2077 State Rd (RT
103) in Eliot.</div>
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Dave and Marion Raitt hang out in the graveyard (courtesy
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Night Terrors Haunted Walk Schedule</div>
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KITTERY –</div>
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Night Terrors Haunted Walk, located at 10 Bridge Street in
Kittery, is back for one final year. Admission to the Walk is free and open to
the public, but there is a suggested $7 donation for those that are able to
help us cover expenses. Experience the Gothic Cemetery, Blood Lust & the
Shrine, Doll E. Wood, Barnum & Bedlam Asylum, and The Great Pumpkin, a
display area for after-school program pumpkin decorating contest. For more
information, contact their hotline at 207-451-9279.</div>
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October 26 & 27 – 6:30-11 pm; October 30 - Children’s
Twilight (scare-free) walk – 5-6 pm and Regular Walk – 6:30-9:30 pm. October 31
– 6:30-9:30 pm.</div>
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Wells High School Cheerleading Squad hams it up before the
Haunted Walk at the Animal Welfare Society. (courtesy photo)</div>
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Haunted Walk for Animal Welfare Society Draws Hundreds of
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WEST KENNEBUNK –</div>
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Animal Welfare Society volunteers, Behind the Scenes
Charity, along with University of New England students and the Wells High
School Cheerleading Squad, brought the woods to life for the 4th Annual Haunted
Walk on October 13. The walk attracted hundreds of people of all ages and
raised more than $1,600 for the animal shelter. Included in the cast of
characters were zombie cheerleaders, Bigfoot, a mad scientist, a chainsaw murderer,
witches and ghouls. Behind the Scenes Charity spends all year preparing for the
walk. The week prior to Halloween, the group builds elaborate scenes in the
woods with spooky twists and turns around every corner. Gloria Berry says,
“It is our way of supporting the work that the AWS does day-in and day-out and
allows us to have fun while we are doing it! Every year the walk has grown,
we’ve added more and more props and it attracts more and more people.” She
added, “It’s a lot of work. When it is over, I’m exhausted but as soon as the
last box is packed, I start thinking about ways to improve it the next year!”</div>
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About Behind the Scenes Charity</div>
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In 2004, Scott Kearney and Gloria Berry, along with family
and friends, decided to capitalize on their love of Halloween and their desire
to support the work of local nonprofits by creating a haunted walk. Over
the years, they have donated thousands of dollars to organizations that address
domestic violence, homelessness, hunger and animal welfare. In 2008, they walked
through the wooded property of the AWS and decided it was a perfect location
and a perfect cause for their group to support.</div>
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The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-47386254222245380192012-10-19T05:00:00.000-04:002012-10-19T05:00:04.843-04:00YCCC Announces Fall 2012 Distinguished Lecturer Series<br />
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WELLS –</div>
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In keeping with the mission of York County Community College
(YCCC), each fall the Distinguished Lecturer Series seeks to celebrate the
artistic, innovative, and educational accomplishments of individuals and
communities across the state of Maine. The college has offered the series each
year since 2009. To continue the tradition, each fall the YCCC invites three
distinguished individuals to speak about their experiences and accomplishments
as a way to inspire the community toward their own achievements. </div>
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The 2012 Distinguished Lecturer Series will feature:</div>
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- Bonita Pothier, certified financial educator, Key Bank on
Wednesday, October 24.</div>
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Born, raised, and educated in Maine, Pothier has made her mark
on the town of Biddeford, as mayor, teacher, small business owner, and bank
manager.</div>
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- Shanna Horner O'Hea, chef/owner of Kennebunk Inn on
Tuesday, October 30.</div>
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O’Hea studied art and marketing at North Park University in
Chicago. She also attended the Culinary Institute of America and is now owner
and chef of Kennebunk Academe Brasserie & Tavern at the historic Kennebunk
Inn. </div>
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- Kathryn Slattery, district attorney of York County on
Tuesday, November 6.</div>
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After graduating from the University of Maine School of Law,
Slattery served as a clerk for Governor Joe Brennan and later as an assistant
attorney general. She was a York County Prosecutor from 1987 until 2010, when
she was elected district attorney.</div>
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The Distinguished Lecturer Series at YCCC is free and open
to the public. All lectures will be held in the YCCC Mid Café at 4 p.m.</div>
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Story and photo by Reg Bennett</div>
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WELLS –</div>
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Wells Elementary School student Heath McHugh got a very big
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McHugh is a Black Hawk helicopter pilot and is stationed in
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“It was awesome,” said McHugh about being able to travel to
Wells to see his family and son in school. McHugh indicated that he only has
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Visiting WES with McHugh was Heath’s mother Shawna McHugh,
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<!--EndFragment-->The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-53724860931803948542012-10-13T19:06:00.001-04:002012-10-13T19:06:54.248-04:00Former First-Daughter Continues Family Legacy of Service
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Story and photo by Rhyan Romaine</div>
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BIDDEFORD –</div>
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“My parents not only brought us into the world, they brought
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Hager has cradled the infant face of hunger in Guatemala,
witnessed the impact of HIV/AIDS throughout Latin America and Africa, and
lifted the heavy hearts of children left parentless after the 9/11 terrorist
attacks on America. Often fighting back tears, Hager shared these powerful and
poignant stories with nearly 500 people on Monday, as part of the George and
Barbara Bush Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of New England’s
Harold Alfond Forum. While explaining the importance of sharing these personal
stories she said, “I believe the more we know about the plight of people all
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Hager talked about Lydia, a young, single mother of five
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urs every week to secure packets of nutritional supplements
that she sprinkles on her children’s food. Hager also fondly recalls Ana, a
17-year-old mother living in Latin America who contracted HIV after being
abused by a neighbor in her village. Never considering herself “sick,” Ana
raged against the abject poverty of her world and educated herself about the
necessary precautions to ensure her daughter, Beatrice, would not contract the disease
(Beatrice is HIV free). Back in the United States, Hager remembers the joy she
found in the eyes of children at America’s Camp, a camp in Massachusetts for
children who lost parents in the terrorist attacks of the World Trade Center in
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Prior to Hager’s address, the audience of students, faculty,
administrators and community members took to its feet in a standing ovation
when her grandparents, former President George H. W. Bush and his wife, former
First Lady Barbara Bush, entered the gymnasium. Nancy Walker Bush Ellis, the
41st President’s sister, was also in attendance for the event. Hager has
visited the family’s home on Walkers Point, Kennebunkport, every summer of her
life and thanked the University for the opportunity to see how beautiful Maine
is in October. She was especially grateful for the opportunity to spend a quiet
evening with her grandparents on the family’s oceanfront compound. The former
President was assisted by a wheelchair.</div>
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who inspire her, Hager took time to honor her family and the legacy of service
they’ve instilled in her. Married in 2008, Hager announced that it is her
grandparents’ marriage that she strives to emulate with her own. Amid friendly
anecdotes of playing “house” in the East Room of the White House or “sardines”
on the South Lawn, Hager proclaimed never taking for granted the “amazing
privilege of living history.” Joking about her father, George W. Bush’s life
away from public office, she mentions he has returned to more domestic policy,
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Since her family left the White House, Hager has become a
contributing correspondent to NBC’s “Today” show, a role her family has
humorously considered fraternizing with the enemy. She is active in UNICEF, and
is currently the chair of UNICEF’s Next Generation, an initiative dedicated to
reducing the number of preventable childhood deaths around the world.</div>
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Sells bundle of his “Buoy Bats” to Adam Sandler</div>
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SOUTH BERWICK – </div>
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It’s been just over two years since South Berwick resident
and inventor Bill Page decided to turn a wayward lobster trap buoy into a
novelty baseball bat. Since then, thousands of people have taken notice of this
fun and innovative product including Manchester, New Hampshire native and Hollywood
actor Adam Sandler, who recently approved the purchase of 640 custom made Buoy
Bats for gifts to the cast and crew of his upcoming movie “Grown Ups 2.” The
film was shot on location on the North Shore of Boston over the summer.</div>
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“My wife answered a call in June and almost didn’t give me
the message. The caller wasn’t forthcoming about what he was looking for and
she thought that was odd,” said Page. “I called him (Kevin Grady) and after
some due diligence on his part, he filled me in on why he was calling.” It
turns out Grady works for Sandler, had seen Buoy Bat in a store in Marblehead,
and if properly produced, thought it would make an excellent “Cast & Crew
Gift” for the New England-themed movie. </div>
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Page traveled to Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, where the Columbia
Pictures production was shooting a scene for the movie, due out in July of
2013, to show several samples of the bat. The scene they were working on called
for four famous actors to quiver at the edge of a quarry’s cliff, being bullied
by frat brothers from the local college.</div>
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“Sandler, Kevin James, David Spade, and Chris Rock were all
there with dozens of extras and hundreds of crew,” Page said. “And there I was
with my Buoy Bat feeling a lot out of place but very excited to be auditioning
for a ‘role’ in a major motion picture.”</div>
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At the end of the shoot, Page and Grady waited for Sandler
to review the footage before calling a wrap. At that point, Grady handed
Sandler the sample Buoy Bat painted in a red, white, and blue, stars and
stripes theme and branded with the “Grown Ups 2” logo. Sandler held the bat,
looked at it for a second and said, “That’s cool… I don’t get it.” </div>
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“It’s a baseball bat
made from a lobster buoy,” Grady said. Sandler walked off toward a waiting
all-terrain vehicle, and Grady said to Page, “Come on, he likes it. We’ll wait
by his trailer and when he comes out, we’ll let him try it.”</div>
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While waiting for Sandler to reappear, Page and Grady played
Buoy Bat in a corral of campers and studio work trailers. During the wait, many
cast and crew members gave Buoy Bat a try including teen heartthrob Taylor
Lautner, whom Page did not recognize. Sandler eventually came out of the
trailer and took the Buoy Bat from Grady as if on queue to test the proposed
crew gift. Page played outfield, and Sandler stood taking swings as Grady wound
up. Sandler hit a squibber off the end of the buoy on the first pitch. Page
cringed and said to Grady, “Give him a meater.” Grady obliged and Sandler
ripped a line drive over some trailers on the next pitch. Sandler replied with,
“Yah, that’s cool” and Page breathed a sigh of relief.</div>
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Page said the sales pitch was exciting for business
prospects, but also a great time seeing life on a Hollywood movie set. Page
told his daughters, Katherine, 11, and Sydney, 9, about the impromptu ballgame,
and they certainly knew who Lautner was. Page and his wife, Susan, also have a
son named Harrison, 7, and the family enjoys take the Buoy Bat on beach
outings. Page has also developed a Buoy Bat Go Fetch to use with your pooch.</div>
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He recently landed a contract deal with Orvis, which sells
the Buoy Bat on its website for $45. Kittery Trading Post sells it for $25.
Business has been great, but Page is not ready to quit his main job, ice rink
manager at Churchill Rink in Durham, New Hampshire.</div>
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The Buoy Bat is made of a typical wooden baseball bat, with
a foam buoy stretched over it for the hitting end. The ball that comes with
Buoy Bat is made of foam and covered with a polyurethane skin. It’s
“face-friendly,” according to Page, “doesn’t break windows and is waterproof.”</div>
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A single telephone call prompted Jean Smith to begin shaping
a “new normal” in her life.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“My doctor
called me and said I probably had breast cancer,” Smith said of that phone call
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The York area woman had just undergone a routine mammogram.</div>
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The film image produced by the mammogram immediately raised
concerns with the physician who reacted quickly. A biopsy was ordered and was
subsequently performed by a surgeon.</div>
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“Three or four days later I had the bad news,” Smith
recalled. The diagnosis of breast cancer was confirmed. She was just
forty-five.</div>
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A wife, mother of two and a registered nurse, Smith was
promptly scheduled for a mastectomy and for reconstructive surgery. Six months
of chemotherapy followed.</div>
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In observance of October as National Breast Cancer Awareness
Month, Jean Smith agreed to share her experience with breast cancer and its
treatment and to emphasize to other women the importance of self-examination
and scheduling regular mammograms.</div>
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“It saved my life,” she said of the screening procedure
which aids in early detection of breast cancer. Early detection can be a
critical factor in successful treatment.</div>
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“If I hadn’t had a mammogram,” Smith said, “I might have
gone three or four years until I felt something in my breast.”</div>
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Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in
women, according to the Maine Cancer Foundation. It ranks second among cancer
deaths in women, falling right behind lung cancer in current statistics.</div>
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As a nurse, Smith said she knew of breast cancer patients
who had undergone treatment and “were fine.” But thoughts of the side effects
she knew sometimes accompany chemotherapy were unsettling.</div>
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“I was horrified at the idea of being sick all the time,”
she admitted. But the nausea she anticipated was limited, and Smith was able to
continue working at her part-time job at York Hospital. “I worked the whole
time,” she said.</div>
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The diagnosis was difficult for her entire family, she said,
noting daughter Courtney was only sixteen at the time, and her older daughter,
Jennifer, was a college freshmen about to take end-of-semester exams. “I got
the diagnosis during finals week,” Smith recalled, “and I didn’t want to put
that pressure on her. I called one of her friends to find out when her toughest
exams were and then I waited until they were over to tell her.”</div>
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Smith’s husband of forty-two years accompanied her to
appointments for doctor visits and treatments in Portland where cancer care
facilities were based at that time.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It was rough
for them to see me go through it,” she said, “but our faith made it easier. We
managed it as a family.”</div>
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Those insights are a part of what she shares as
co-facilitator of the York Hospital Breast Cancer Survivors Group. The group,
with just under 100 members, meets monthly for sessions she said are both fun
and valuable, particularly for newly diagnosed women coping with the enormity
of the illness and the demands of its treatment.</div>
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“You find a new normal in your life,” Smith advises these
women. “You change your priorities.”</div>
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Smith, who has been cancer-free for two decades, made such a
change when at age fifty she returned to school, enrolling at the University of
Southern Maine and becoming a nurse practitioner. She now works for a private
family practice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.</div>
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She also takes part in an annual Walk for Hope sponsored by
the survivor group. The volunteer-run summer event benefits York Hospital, the
Maine Breast Cancer Coalition and the Women’s Cancer Fund of the Maine Cancer
Foundation, all of which provide services to the women of the Pine Tree State.</div>
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Medical experts in Maine anticipate that about 1,100 women
will be diagnosed with breast cancer during the next year. A similar number of
new cases is expected to be reported in New Hampshire. That is why hospitals
and other health organizations in the region are offering a variety of events
and services to help Seacoast women and others learn more about their personal
wellness and manage it effectively.</div>
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“We are providing several opportunities for the community to
become better educated about breast health,” said Nancy Notis, associate
director of marketing and public affairs for Portsmouth Regional Hospital in
New Hampshire.</div>
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As part of its observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month,
the hospital will offer a free lecture, “Taking the ‘Scary’ Out of Your
Diagnosis,” on Saturday, and a “Teacher’s Event” mammogram party on October 17.
The hospital launched the observance on Monday with a community lecture on
breast reconstruction.</div>
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Families First Heath and Support Center, a community health
center and family resource center serving the Seacoast region of New Hampshire
and southern Maine, will offer a free breast and cervical cancer screening
clinic this month, according to Margie Wachtel, communications director.</div>
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Families First, which also provides affordable primary
health care for people of all ages, prenatal care, dental care and parenting
and family programs, will offer screenings on October 24 for women age forty
and over or who have not had a pap examination for at least three years, who
have no health insurance or are covered by high-deductible policies, and who
meet income guidelines, according to Wachtel.</div>
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All women should have a baseline mammogram by age forty,
said Jane Cummings, a registered nurse with Families First. This initial
screening provides experts with an image with which the results of subsequent
mammograms can be compared to detect changes in breast tissue. After the
baseline screening, women should schedule mammograms every year or two,
depending on personal history and the advice of their healthcare providers,
experts say.</div>
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Cummings, who is handling appointment requests for the
October 24 event, said the fear that sometimes prompts a woman to delay having
a mammogram is unfounded.</div>
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“Certainly some women have heard tales of the discomfort in
having a mammogram,” she said. “Others are just afraid of learning the
results.”</div>
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But healthcare providers are increasingly aware that “there
is a lot of anxiety” associated with mammograms, and improvements have been
made, she noted.</div>
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“It really has been improved, and it is more comfortable,”
she said of newer breast screening equipment that may be bolstered with soft
padding or warmed slightly where surfaces touch delicate skin.</div>
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“They certainly try to make it more comfortable,” she said
of mammogram technicians, and results are available more promptly, often within
twenty-four hours, which eliminates the days of worry many women experienced.</div>
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Follow-up treatment is included in Families First care,
Cummings noted.</div>
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Appointments for the October 24 should be made with Jane
Cummings at 603-422-8208, extension 222. Space is limited but should a need be
indicated a waiting list will be assembled, Cummings said, and additional
clinics will be scheduled.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jayme McDaniel, associate producer of Ogunquit Playhouse,
will choreograph “Rebecca” in Seoul, Korea (courtesy photo)</td></tr>
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OGUNQUIT –</div>
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Jayme McDaniel, associate producer at the Ogunquit
Playhouse, is taking his skillset on the road, to Seoul, Korea, where he will
choreograph the musical “Rebecca.”</div>
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The production is based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier,
which was made into a 1940 film by Alfred Hitchcock.</div>
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The show presents some challenges to McDaniel, beyond having
to fly across the world to get to work. The musical is German, and is being
translated into Korean. McDaniel will have an interpreter with him at all times
to help ease the communication difficulties.</div>
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The production will be at the LG Art Center in Seoul,
opening on January 15, 2013. McDaniel leaves for Korea on November 9.</div>
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“This is the first time it’s being done in Korean,” McDaniel
said. “Theater is a little different there. On Broadway, for example, when a
show starts a run, they hope it goes forever. In Korea, they will have a
limited run, and then take the show on the road. They produce a show for three
or four months, then they’ll take it off the boards and tour it. Then in a year
or two, they bring the show back.”</div>
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McDaniel will be there for the limited engagement but won’t
take the extended tour.</div>
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“When they remount show, I would return and restage it,” he
said.</div>
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The story of “Rebecca” features a mysterious death, and
another production of the musical has encountered some mysteries of its own.
The New York version of the musical has been postponed indefinitely, “due to
the unfortunate withdrawal of a crucial investor,” according to that show’s
website. “All current performances have been cancelled and ticket holders will
be fully refunded. The producers wish to thank everyone for their continued
support and remain committed to bringing this wonderful and unique musical to
Broadway in the future.” </div>
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That future has been cast in doubt since the investor, Paul
Abrams, died of malaria in London, according to Ben Sprecher, producer of the
New York show. Some are wondering if the investor ever even existed, and the
mystery is now part of a criminal inquiry by the United States attorney’s
office in Manhattan and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.</div>
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McDaniel’s musical in Korea is not related to the New York
production in any way, and he is happy that travel and translations will be his
main concerns. He is also using the trip to offer himself some much-needed
vacation time, as he has just finished a busy and successful season at Ogunquit
Playhouse.</div>
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McDaniel is returning to the United States after “Rebecca,
the Musical” runs in Korea, and he will stage “Always: Patsy Cline” in New
Jersey.</div>
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“It’s a combination of work and vacation,” said McDaniel,
who is also traveling to Thailand and Cambodia.</div>
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His involvement in the production stems to Vienna, five
years ago, when he saw “Rebecca,” which has also been produced in Budapest,
Tokyo, and is currently running in Stuttgart, Germany.</div>
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“I was with my good friend, Robert Johanson, artistic director
of Papermill Playhouse, the state theater of New Jersey,” McDaniel said. “We
were in Germany together in the spring, saw it together and immediately talked
about how we would stage it.”</div>
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For the last four years, Johanson has been the lone director
for EMK, the company producing the show.</div>
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“When EMK decided to produce it, we talked again,” McDaniel
said. The schedule fit well with his work at Ogunquit Playhouse, he added.
“Brad Kennedy and the board gave me the okay, so I’m going off to do it.”</div>
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While Korea is new to him, it’s not his first foray into
foreign language.</div>
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“In 1994, as an actor, I did a production of “Chicago,”
touring German cities, and the work was done mainly in German,” he said. “I’ve
done some work on operas and their translations. But this is the first time
with a whole company of non-speaking actors, and my first time working in
Asia.”</div>
The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-18792472317850743102012-10-05T05:00:00.000-04:002012-10-05T05:00:00.682-04:00Bush Daughter to Speak at UNE<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(photo courtesy of UNE website)
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<i><b> The Power of Compassion and How it Can Change Lives</b></i>
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BIDDEFORD - Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of former U.S.
President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, will speak at the University of New
England on Monday, October 8, at 5:30 p.m. Her talk, on “The Power of
Compassion and How it Can Change Lives,” will be at the Harold Alfond Forum on
the Biddeford Campus.</div>
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Hager is a correspondent for NBC News. The graduate of the
University of Texas, where she received a degree in English, covers a variety
of human interest and feature stories.</div>
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In 2006, she traveled to Latin America as an intern with
UNICEF. During her journey, she was inspired to write “Ana’s Story: A Journey
of Hope,” a New York Times bestseller based on the life of a 17-year-old single
mother living with HIV and determined to shield her child from the abuse and
neglect that riddled her own childhood. Hager is still very involved with
UNICEF and is currently the chair of UNICEF’s Next Generation, an initiative
dedicated to reducing the number of preventable childhood deaths around the
world.</div>
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In addition to “Ana’s Story,” Hager is the co-author with
her mother of “Read All About It!” The educational children’s book was inspired
by Hager and her mother’s mutual love of reading and teaching.</div>
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The 2012 Bush Distinguished Lecture coincides with Family
First for a First Family – The Ties That Bind: A Family Album, an exhibit
honoring the life and times of the 41st President, at the George and Barbara
Bush Center Gallery on UNE’s Biddeford Campus. Family First for a First Family
is a photo essay conceived as an inspirational tribute to a marriage and family
life that have known not only extraordinary acclaim, success, and joy, but also
disheartening trial, tribulation, and tragedy.</div>
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This is the third speaker in the George and Barbara Bush
Distinguished Lecture Series, an annual event honoring the legacy of President
and Mrs. Bush as political and community leaders. Last year’s lecture, which
was attended by George and Barbara Bush, featured Andrew H. Card Jr., who
served as White House chief of staff under President George W. Bush from 2001
until 2006.</div>
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The lecture and gallery are free and open to the public. The
Bush Center Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.</div>
The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-28014986535444329452012-09-28T05:00:00.002-04:002012-09-28T05:00:03.792-04:00“Shark Girl” Visits Berwick Academy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jillian Morris filming a tiger shark in the Bahamas (Photo
by Duncan Brake)
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SOUTH BERWICK –</div>
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Jillian Morris is a marine biologist, videographer, shark
lover, and ocean advocate. Originally from Maine, she now resides in the
Bahamas and loves talk to kids about sharks. Recently Jillian spoke with
students at Berwick Academy and shared the plight of the declining global shark
populations and to encouraged kids to get involved to help the sharks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She talked about her love for sharks
and highlighted the many benefits of a healthy shark population to the world’s
oceans. “Often kids think that they cannot do anything because they are too
young,” Morris says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I want kids
to know that they can do so many things to help our sharks and our oceans. They
have voices that are powerful and as good junior scientists they can ask
questions.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morse enjoys the time
she spends in classrooms as much as the time she spends in the water with sharks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She feels it is important to give the
next generation the tools they need to help protect our oceans and she firmly
believes that each child can make a difference. </div>
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When Morse is not busy speaking to schools she travels the
world with her husband filming for various media outlets including BBC, Animal
Planet, Discovery and National Geographic. They recently filmed the fifth
season of Animal Planet’s “Whale Wars” aboard the Sea Shepherd vessel Brigitte
Bardot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morse says, “It was a wild
ride and an experience I will never forget. Antarctic waters are raw, wild, and
gorgeous. There is no place on the planet like it. I feel very fortunate to
travel and experience these adventures. I also feel fortunate for the
opportunity to speak to kids all over the world about sharks and our oceans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fins up Berwick Academy for loving
sharks!”</div>
The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-57494338007344888852012-09-28T05:00:00.001-04:002012-09-28T05:00:08.000-04:00Wells High School Senior Becomes National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zoë Onion, semi-finalist in National Merit Scholarship
Program (courtesy photo)
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WELLS –</div>
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Wells High School senior Zoë Onion has learned that she is a
semifinalist in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She achieved semifinalist status by
scoring highly on the 2011 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test or PSAT/NMSQT. </div>
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Annually, 1.5 million high school juniors and seniors
throughout the United States take this standardized test.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Based upon test results, 16,000 are
selected to become Semifinalists. </div>
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Semifinalists have the opportunity to compete over the
coming months to be among the 15,000 finalists selected in the spring to
qualify for over 8,300 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $34
million.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“About 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to
attain finalist standing, and more than half of the Finalists will win a
National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar title,” according to the
National Merit Scholarship Corporation. </div>
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“First, it’s great to have this opportunity available for
students and second it is great to be recognized for all the work I have put in
through the years,” said Onion about becoming a semifinalist. </div>
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At Wells High School, Onion is on the Math Team, school
newspaper, and Student Council.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
addition, she participates in the jazz, marching (this year she is a drum
major) and concert bands and plays piano for the school chorus. She also plays
on the softball team at school in the spring. Currently, she is in the cast
rehearsing for the upcoming fall play at WHS, “And Then There Were None.”</div>
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Onion says that she has not decided on a college to attend
after high school but says that she would like to study molecular biology and
do research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the summer of
2012, Onion inspected incoming boats in Mount Vernon for invasive species such
as milfoil and hydra. </div>
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“We’ve been very lucky to have several students qualify each
year in the National Merit Scholarship Program,” said WHS secretary Lil
Lagasse.</div>
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The National Merit Scholarship Program is administered by
the National Merit Scholarship Corporation of Evanston, Illinois. It is a
non-profit corporation established in 1955.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scholarship money awarded by the NMSC comes largely from
corporate and college sponsorship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Story and photo by Reg Bennett</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kids decorate pumpkins at last year’s Fall Fun Farm Day
(courtesy photo)</td></tr>
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CAPE NEDDICK -</div>
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The Youth Enrichment Center at Hilton-Winn Farm will be
hopping again this year on Saturday October 6. The whole family can enjoy a
beautiful day on the farm with games, nature hikes, arts and crafts activities,
scarecrow making, pumpkin painting, and more. The farm is located at 189
Ogunquit Road in Cape Neddick. </div>
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The Youth Enrichment Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization dedicated to positive youth development, nature-based education,
and stewardship of the unique agricultural landscape of New England. It s based
at Hilton-Winn Farm, a King’s Grant farm dating back to the 1600s.</div>
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Over its 400+-year history, the Hilton-Winn Farm has been a
witness to the changing cultural and environmental landscape of southern New
England. Its early inhabitants were likely participants in the colonial French
and Indian Wars, and since then the property has supported a range of economic
activity that reflects Maine history. It has been used variously to cultivate
many different kinds of vegetables, fruit orchards, raspberries, and
blueberries, to run a logging sawmill and a blacksmithing operation, and to
raise chickens and dairy cows, among other activities. Today, it provides the
perfect setting for the Youth Enrichment Center.</div>
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The land that comprises the Hilton-Winn farm has a rich
history, starting with the first known inhabitants: the Algonquian-speaking
Armouchiquois tribe of Native Americans who were based in what is today Saco,
Maine, according to its website.</div>
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The farm’s site first came under English colonial influence
in 1620 through a land patent from King James 1 to the Plymouth Council for New
England. It appears that English settler Edward Winn acquired a royal land
grant of the property in or about 1640, and by 1710 his grandson Josiah Winn
had settled 10 acres of land there. The property—which grew to over 200
acres—was farmed by eight generations of Winns, and then Clifford Hilton (Ada
Winn’s son) purchased the farm in the 1940s.</div>
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In the 1990s, as the rural qualities of southern Maine life
were being threatened by rampant development, Ethel Hilton, the 9th generation
of the Hilton<span style="font-family: "Menlo Italic";">‐</span>Winn family, was
dedicated to preserving the woodlands, wetlands, and agricultural character of
this historic property for future generations to enjoy. In 1998 she donated 185
acres of the property to the York Land Trust, which now forms the Hilton<span style="font-family: "Menlo Italic";">‐</span>Winn King’s Grant Conservation Area.</div>
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In 2002 Youth Enrichment Center executive director Nancy
Breen purchased the remaining central forty-eight acres of rolling fields and
forests with one goal in mind: to establish a safe, peaceful, and fun
environment for children to connect with the land, learn about the science and
art of farming, and be transformed along the way.</div>
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The Fall Fun Farm Day is one of many offerings that looks to
achieve this mission.</div>
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Admission for the Fall Fun Farm Day is $5 for adults and $3
for kids; the day starts at 10 a.m. and goes until 4 p.m.</div>
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The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-64691897171424070942012-09-21T06:00:00.002-04:002012-09-21T06:00:02.466-04:00Answering the Call: Young Maine Native Living in Tel Aviv<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jamie Dandreta in Israel (courtesy photo)
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By Rhyan Romaine
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WELLS - </div>
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This week, Jews around the world observe Yamim Noraim,
(translated from Hebrew as, “ימים נוראים or, “Days of Awe”), the ten High Holy
Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. For one former Wells resident, this is
remembered as an isolating time. </div>
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Jamie Dandreta, 22, now a citizen of Israel and student at
Tel Aviv University, would rarely have friends or close family to celebrate
with during her childhood growing up on the Seacoast in and around Wells,
Maine. While Jamie always felt she had a special heritage, she felt
disconnected from her heritage while growing up in an area where she didn’t
know many other Jewish people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Dandreta first had the opportunity to explore her faith and
culture in 2010 as a participant in the Taglit-Birthright Israel program, a
nonprofit organization providing a free trip to Israel for young Jewish people.
Her two-week tour helped her embrace her Jewish identity through peer education
and cultural immersion. </div>
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“As soon as the plane landed in Jerusalem and I read Hebrew
on all the signs, I had an immediate sense of inclusion,” a sense that Dandreta
notes was lacking in her southern Maine youth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While touring various locations in Jerusalem, it wasn’t rare
for strangers to approach Jamie on the streets of Jerusalem and just say,
“Welcome home.” It was at that moment Jamie felt she was answering a call, and
she wasn’t alone.</div>
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In August, 2012, Dandreta officially made Aliya, a word
that, when translated, means the return of Jews in exile back to Israel. This
term is also used when establishing formal citizenship in Israel. This
citizenship marks the end of a two-year process that also included studying
abroad as the first University of Maine-Orono student in more than a decade to
request to study in the Middle East. On a personal level, this accomplishment
means so much more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was no
longer a tourist or study-abroad student, she is a citizen of the world’s only
Jewish state.</div>
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Dandreta has permanently relocated from the Southern Maine
area to Tel Aviv to continue her studies, get married (she recently became
engaged) and pursue a career in communications. </div>
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“When I’m in Israel, I feel like I’m home, in a community, a
big beautiful family,” says Dandreta. While completing her degree in Digital
Communications, Dandreta feels it is her obligation to communicate back to the
US about the real Israel. “Before I came here, I thought it was just a desert.”
</div>
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Most of all, Dandreta wants to underscore how her experience
does not reflect the restive environment so often depicted in mass media
coverage of the Middle East. Even as terrorist attacks continue to rock
different areas of the Middle East, she says Israel is very safe.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stephen Kosacz on the shore of Lake Superior, Marquette,
Wisconsin (courtesy photo)
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ELIOT & CAPE NEDDICK -</div>
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The idea to bicycle across the United States started in May
2011 at Ceres Bakery in Portsmouth when Peter Billipp of Eliot ran into Stephen
Kosacz of Cape Neddick.</div>
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Billipp, a commercial real estate broker at Kane Company,
and Kosacz, owner of Autoworks in Kittery and vice chairman of the Seacoast
Energy Initiative, have known each other, off and on, for thirty years. But a
coast-to-coast trip, covering more than 3,600 miles, was something they had
never imagined before.</div>
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While both may be considered senior citizens (Kosacz is 63
and Billipp is 59), they had been keeping in shape all their lives. Billipp is
an avid hiker, bicyclist, and Nordic skier of the White Mountains while Kosacz
races Lasers, an Olympic class single handed dinghy, cycles, works out at the
gym, and cross country ski raced with Peter decades ago.</div>
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“For me, the toughest part was the mental aspect” said
Kosacz. “Preparation, online research of what to leave behind, wondering if we
could climb all those snow covered peaks in the Cascades right at the beginning
of the trip, and then a few days later get over the Continental Divide in the
Rockies at Logan Pass in Glacier National Park produced a fair amount of
anxiety.”</div>
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The epic journey is a great example of what Kosacz espouses
though his work with the Seacoast Energy Initiative, and is a living testament
to energy conservation.</div>
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SEI works with residents in Kittery, Eliot, York, South
Berwick, North Berwick and Ogunquit to improve the energy efficiency of their
homes.</div>
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“We worked with Efficiency Maine to reduce energy
consumption of residential homes through a revolving loan program they set up,”
Kosacz said. “If people pay down the loans to weatherize their homes, those
funds became available to other homeowners.”</div>
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The group set up a half million dollar revolving loan fund.
Homeowners could borrow up to $10,000 with zero percent interest if they paid
the loan off in three years, and if loan went to improvements. The idea for SEI
came to him during another journey.</div>
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“I was inspired while on a trip to New Zealand in winter of
2009,” he said. “I was amazed by what other countries were doing to reduce
energy consumption.”</div>
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The bike trip with Billipp called upon all of their energy
reserves, as they traveled through five mountain passes as high as 5,600 feet
in the first week. Fifty-seven days later, they pedaled back to Maine.</div>
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“I like to do physically demanding trips,” Kosacz said. “I’m
not a cruise type of person”</div>
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The trip began on July 5 when the two flew to Seattle, took
a bus up to Anacortes in the San Juan Islands, and the following morning
started pedaling home.</div>
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They had shipped their bicycles ahead of time and picked
them up from the bike shop on the morning of July 6, loaded them with their
panniers filled with spare tires, tubes, camping and sleeping gear, clothing,
food, and headed out to the Cascades. They biked all but two days, on which
they rested, they were welcomed by friends and family on August 31 as they road
into the Atlantic Ocean at York Harbor Beach.</div>
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“Once we had the mountains behind us, we gained confidence,”
they said.</div>
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“For me the most spectacular part was Logan Pass on the Road
to the Sun where the highway had been cleared of a rock and mud slide the night
before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we wound our way up we
could see clouds, backlit by the sun, cascading over the ridges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the summit I hiked in the snowfields
to see mountain goats with the kids,” Kosacz said. “Until you witness it
firsthand it is hard to comprehend how much moves by rail in this country:
freight trains are carrying containers filled with goods from the Far East,
coal from Montana, grain from the Midwest.”</div>
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It seemed to take forever to cross eastern Montana and North
Dakota where every day was basically a grind as they rode through hundreds of
miles of corn, wheat, soybean, or hay fields in the scorching record heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With temperatures in the high 90s and
low 100s, the water bottles were quickly emptied but the evaporation that comes
from riding at 15 – 20 miles per hour cooled them off.</div>
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“We were relieved to get to Minnesota where it was green
again from the thousands of ponds and lakes,” they said. “ After crossing
Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Duluth is a great city to visit
with all of its activity of grain, coal, and iron ore being transferred to
boats to cross the Great Lakes), we entered Ontario Canada at Sault Ste Marie
re-entering the US at Niagara Falls.”</div>
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Returning to New England brought familiar sights and welcome
relief from the heat and western mountains.</div>
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“Aside from the last 100 feet of our journey, the happiest
day for me was descending the Adirondacks into Ticonderoga NY, seeing the Green
Mountains of Vermont, crossing the lower end of Lake Champlain on a cable
barge, and making our lunch on the village green of Orwell, Vermont.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the mountains of the West we knew
could go over anything.”</div>
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In addition to many memorable scenic vistas, they saw some
less attractive sights as well.</div>
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“It’s sad to see some towns pretty empty. Imagine a town the
size of South Berwick but less prosperous. On Indian land, we spoke with people
who said gambling had sucked the lifeblood out this town,” Kosacz said.</div>
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“The most dangerous part of the trip was riding on the
Trans-Canada highway across Ontario – a two-lane highway with no paved
shoulders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We cringed every time a
tractor trailer or giant RV passed us in the rain wondering if this was ‘it,’”
said Kosacz, who talked with Canadians about their health care system, marveled
at the wind turbine blades being transported from factories in South Dakota
heading to Montana, Oregon, and Canada, and was impressed by an electrician
they met in a public campground in Shelby Montana. “He was wiring the wind
turbine generators but was terrified of heights. He said<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘I’m 300 feet up inside the tower, I
don’t dare look down, I just focus completely on what’s directly in front of
me.’”</div>
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What’s directly in front of Kosacz and Billipp now? Miles of
memories, lots of time to rest and recover, and plans for the next trip.</div>
The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-47723240308293384442012-09-21T06:00:00.000-04:002012-09-21T06:00:04.990-04:00Farming Documentary to Premier at Marshwood High School<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A couple of cows greet their newest arrival (Photo by Peter
E. Randall)
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SOUTH BERWICK -
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“Farming 101,” a new documentary film by Peter Randall about
Kittery and Eliot dairy farming, will have its premier on Friday, September 28,
at Marshwood High School auditorium. The event is co-sponsored by
SeacoastLocal, an organization that encourages residents to “think local first”
to cultivate socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable communities
in southeastern Maine and coastal New Hampshire. The film will be shown at 7
p.m.</div>
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When Randall moved from seacoast New Hampshire to Goodwin
Road in Eliot, his well-seasoned photographic eye was immediately attracted to
the beautiful fields, many of which were regularly used by local farmers.
Goodwin Road, along with Wilson Road in Kittery, is an eight-mile stretch of
winding Route 101 between Route One and Route 236. Here are located two dairy
farms, the last of the dozens of such farms that once made agriculture a common
business in York County.</div>
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Recently retired after forty years and 450 titles as a book
publisher, Randall also has authored a dozen books of his own, combining a love
of history and photography into prize-winning publications. Always ready for
new challenges, Randall made a decision to make a video documentary about the
dairy farms.</div>
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“Although I had no experience with making a film, I charged
ahead anyway,” Randall said. “Not many years ago, dairy farms were commonplace
and most people knew how the farms operated. But now, in this area anyway,
farms are disappearing along with knowledge of this way of life. I wanted to
help preserve this culture.”</div>
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Now three years later, Randall has finished his film telling
the story of the two dairy farms, but also a working hay production farm, three
former farms, a dairy, a tractor dealership, a tractor collector, and a cider
mill. </div>
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Randall used a new type of Canon digital SLR camera that was
made for still photography, but had a video capability that exceeded the
quality of consumer video cameras. In fact, this type of camera has been used
to make production television and Hollywood films. With relatively inexpensive
digital equipment and software, it is now possible for anyone to make a quality
film.</div>
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When it came time to turn his raw film footage into an
organized narrative, Randall turned to his grandson, Kael.</div>
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“Editing video to me is like another language,” said
Randall, who also got help from his daughter, Deidre, who wrote a song for the
film. “Deidre and Kael actually lived on one of these farms a number of years
ago. They rented a house from Fred Schultze.”</div>
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Randall has published a lot of book on local history,
including one a few years ago on North Berwick. Also, he has written a history
of Hampton, New Hampshire, a short history and guide to Mount Washington, and
three books of photographs of New Hampshire.</div>
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“I was not a farmer growing up,” Randall said. “I can hardly
grow anything. I had a neighbor who grew radishes. I asked why and he said,
“they come right up.’”</div>
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In his formative years, Randall lived in Hampton Falls,
where he spent a lot of time roaming around fields and woods. “I’ve always had
a feel for the land, always had sort of a conservationist outlook on things,”
said Randall, who was chairman of the Hampton Conservation Commission for ten
years.</div>
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“I saw, in particular the seacoast of New Hampshire, farms
going out of business for one reason or another and saw houses moving onto
their fields. When I moved to Eliot in 2000, I was amazed to see most of the
open fields still being used - haying, growing crops,” he said. He had been
using panoramic cameras, and started taking pictures for Goodwin farm and
Leavitt farm on Goodwin Road in Eliot.</div>
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“Farming is sort of a – I hate to say it – dying way of life,”
Randall said. It’s been in decline over the last forty or fifty years. Now the
farms are gone. People don’t know about farming anymore, as a common way of
life, the way it used to be.”</div>
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He hopes his documentary will re-instill in locals some of
that lifestyle, and let people know how farms operated and where their milk
came from.</div>
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“The original plan was just to do video interviews of
farming families. Once I got started I was told I needed to have more video. I
needed to have B-Roll. So if I have a farmer talking, the tractor in the field
becomes the B-roll,” he said.</div>
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Editing is perhaps the most complicated aspect of any film.
Randall’s grandson edited what began as a short documentary into an 80-minute
film. Making this a family affair, Kael’s mother, singer-songwriter Deidre
Randall, composed a song called “Dig,” especially for the film. Local
performers Mike Rogers and Dave Surette provided other music.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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“While my first approach to filming was simply to document
what happened on the farms, “ Randall said, “People who knew what I was doing
asked, ‘What’s the point of the film?’ As I talked with the farmers and looked
at the landscape, I began to wonder what the future holds for the businesses
and the property.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the Kittery
Land Trust recently announced plans to purchase a conservation easement on the
Johnson Farm on Wilson Road, I knew my film then had a point!”</div>
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Kenneth and Richard Johnson own Rustlewood farm, but Ken
stopped working there several years ago, leaving the operation of the farm to
brother Richard. In order for Kenneth to receive his value in the farm and for
Richard to keep working, the brothers accepted the Kittery Land Trust proposal.
Richard and his wife Beth will now own the farm outright, and the conservation
easement means the land can never be developed, preserving it’s valuable soils
as open space, watershed protection, and wildlife habitat. While the farming
continues, the property will be open to the public for passive recreation and
hunting.</div>
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The film also features the dairy farm of Fred and Tony
Schultze, and the haying operation and former dairy farm of David and Jeanne
Leavitt, in addition to the former dairy farms of the Pettigrew, Pearson, and
Kashmere families, and the former Rowan dairy. Numerous historical photographs
illustrate the film, that also includes the Pearsall family’s tractor
dealership, tractor collector John Sullivan, and Ken Tuttle’s King Tut’s Cider
Mill. Other details are found on the website farming101film.com.</div>
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Admission to the film is by a suggested donation of $2 for
adults, students are free. DVDs of the film will be available for purchase.</div>
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A related film is also showing on Saturday, September 29, at
the John F. Hill Grange Hall, 1333 State Road, in Eliot. You can view Randall's
short documentary, “Rustlewood,” featuring Johnson Farm in Kittery/Eliot, and
segments of Maine Farmland Trust’s film, “Meet Your Farmer.” Bondgarden Farm's
Paul Goransson will introduce the film and Great Works’ challenge to raise
$25,000 in support of Kittery Land Trust's conservation easement for Johnson
Farm. For more information on this event, contact 207-646-3604 or
info@gwrlt.org.</div>
The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-42848898593409054832012-09-14T09:53:00.000-04:002012-09-17T09:55:17.353-04:00Ogunquit Playhouse’s Brad Kenney to Direct Holiday Special at Carnegie Hall<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brad Kenney, executive artistic director at Ogunquit
Playhouse, is going to Carnegie Hall (courtesy photo)
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By Timothy Gillis
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OGUNQUIT -</div>
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Brad Kenney, the executive artistic director at Ogunquit
Playhouse, has been tapped to work on a new holiday special at Carnegie Hall in
New York City. Kenney will be working with multiple Emmy and Golden Globe
award-winning actress Jane Seymour and PBS composer Tim Janis for the musical
journey called “The Christmas Rose” on Thursday, November 29. A cast of 400
performers will fill the stage for an evening of music, dance, and drama.
Kenney has met with producers of the show and will begin work in earnest in
early November.</div>
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“It’s kind of a different genre,” Kenney said. “A mix of
symphony, large choir, folkloric dancing, with a Broadway musical story.”</div>
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“The Christmas Rose” is a whimsical, family tale that
follows a young orphan named Annabelle into the desert, pursued by a team of
bandits. She crosses paths with everything from the three wise men and singing
angels to Mary and Joseph.</div>
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“It has a spiritual, holiday feel to it,” Kenney said. “It
will be very inspirational, fun, upbeat. We’re shooting for it to be an annual
holiday event there.”</div>
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The show will employ Broadway-caliber talent, he said, and
is very funny. “A team of bandits, led by a character named Adbul, are comic
and farcical in their attempts to capture this young girl,” Kenney said. “The
backstory is really about a lot of us, a universal message. She’s finding her
way in the next part of her life.”</div>
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Kenney came to be involved in the mega-production when he
was approached by Janis, a noted composer from York, and his producing
partners. Kenney’s reputation as Ogunquit Playhouse’s artistic director is
known in theater circles around the country, and they recruited him to be at
the helm of this new venture in a theatrical fashion.</div>
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“We hope it’s the new Nutcracker,” Janis said.</div>
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Jane Seymour is the star of the show, set in a story-telling
environment. Seymour’s husband, James Keach, who produced “Walk the Line,” will
work with Kenney on the production. Kenney thinks Seymour is the perfect choice
for her role.</div>
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“There’s a beautiful aura of elegance about her, for telling
a story like this, on the grand scale of Carnegie Hall,” he said.</div>
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Janis and Elizabeth Demmer wrote the music and lyrics for
the musical spectacular, and Janis wrote the script. The show will play for one
evening only. The following evening, Janis will return for the American Christmas
Carol, an annual treat at the venerable venue.</div>
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Janis has ten Billboard charting CDs, more than one million
albums sold, and four national public television specials. He’s worked with
some of the top artists in the music and entertainment business including Paul
McCartney, Billy Joel, Ray Charles, George Clooney and James Earl Jones. He has
also conducted the Czech National Symphony, the Kwazulu Natal Philharmonic and
the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.</div>
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“A lot of what Tim does is inspirational,” said Kenney, who
has only been to Carnegie Hall once, as a patron to see a classical music
concert. “I’m looking forward to it. It’s an incredibly prestigious place.”</div>
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Kenney plans to work with some familiar faces from the
Ogunquit Playhouse, who will be collaborating on the project.</div>
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Kenney is in his seventh season at the Ogunquit Playhouse,
and he is already looking to next year.</div>
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“Although we are working on the current production (“Buddy,
the Buddy Holly Story”), we’re already working furiously on the 8<sup>th </sup>(season),”
he said. “The seacoast has been a great partner with the playhouse.”</div>
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Even with people interested in their digital devices, live
theater continues to grow, he said. Kenney credits “the support network, from
the community, the board, and the talented actors and actresses that are drawn
here. The seacoast is an incredibly cultured and intelligent community, and
when you put out a strong piece, they react to it. That’s not always the case
in other parts of the country.” Kenney says he repeatedly hears from actors and
actresses that “the audiences are smart; they really react to the material.” </div>
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The final production of the season, “Buddy,” has some
surprises in store. “The actors not only sing and dance and act,” Kenney said.
“They also play the instruments.” The theater was fortunate to work with the
original creators of the show from London’s West End, he said, and there will
be “new songs in the show that haven’t been heard before.”</div>
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After “Buddy,” Kenney will focus on “The Christmas Rose,”
which will also feature the country’s premier concert boys choir The American
Boychoir, and internationally renowned and Ireland’s own Damhsa Dance Company. </div>
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The evening’s proceeds will go to benefit The Open Hearts
Foundation, which encourages people to live with an open heart in the face of
adversity. Tickets go on sale September 28, at the Carnegie Hall box office.
Call 212-247-7800 or visit carnegiehall.org. Tickets are discounted thirty
percent the first four days they go on sale, from September 28 at 11 am until
October 1 at 11:59 pm. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olympian Julia Clukey (left) speaking to a group of freshmen
at WHS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On stage with Clukey
are WHS seniors Bryanna Welch and Sean Roche</td></tr>
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Story and photo by Reg Bennett
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WELLS –</div>
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Flying down a winding, ice-coated track on a small sled at
speeds exceeding eighty miles an hour takes courage, practice and great
skill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that is what Julia
Clukey does when in competition on the U.S. National Luge Team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To get to where she is today involved
goals and the motivation to achieve them through persistence, determination and
lots of hard work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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On September 4, Clukey, a 2003 graduate of Cony High School
in Augusta, was the motivational speaker for freshmen orientation at Wells High
School.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was introduced to the
audience by team leader for the freshman team and math teacher Andy Bridge. </div>
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Following a short film about her sports career thus far,
Clukey talked about being on the Junior Olympic Team and how, at just 17, she
became a member of the Senior Olympic Team, a spot that is normally for those
20 and older.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“This was a huge moment for me,” said Clukey to the
students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I had reached my goal,
I made the senior team.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
indicated that this experience showed her “how important it was to work hard
and how hard work was the one thing you are always going to own yourself.”</div>
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She told the audience in the WHS auditorium that her role
models are her parents and that “school” came first over sports in her
family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told the group that
she has studied electrical engineering and was employed in the summer of 2012
in a marketing department creating graphic design. </div>
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Clukey has been a motivational speaker appearing at Maine
high schools for the past two years. She estimates she has spoken to 10,000
students in that time period. </div>
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“Anytime I get to meet new kids it’s great,” said Clukey.
“I’m always amazed by no matter where I go, there’s great kids everywhere and
they all have goals of their own and I love talking to them.” </div>
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Clukey competed in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and is
training to compete in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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At Wells High School, Clukey also participated with senior
class officers in panel discussions on freshman life. Between panel discussions
she met students and signed posters. </div>
The Weekly Sentinelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196896965241169720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503438875332419108.post-43342651354217718432012-09-14T09:51:00.000-04:002012-09-17T09:51:26.382-04:00York Family to Compete on Family Feud<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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(left to right) Megan, Alyssa, host Steve Harvey, Sandy,
Meg, and Jeff, on the set of Family Feud. The Lathrop family competed on the
television game show, which airs Tuesday, September 18, on the Fox channel
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YORK –
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The Lathrop Family from York will face off against the
Carlyle Family from Stillmore, Georgia, in front of a live studio audience in
Atlanta with the chance to win up to $100,000 and a brand new car, along with
some serious bragging rights. The show airs Tuesday, September 18 at 4 p.m. on
the Fox channel. Family Feud host Steve Harvey and his no-holds-barred brand of
comedy are back for an all-new season of one of America's favorite family
competitions.</div>
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The Lathrop Family – which includes Meg, a stay-at-home mom;
cousin Jeff, a firefighter; cousin Sandy, a librarian; cousin Alyssa, a
teacher; and cousin Meg, a teacher – will be playing for big prize money plus a
brand new car when they appear on the show. Since Harvey took over as host of the
show, viewership has increased nearly 50 percent overall, and it's no wonder.
Harvey brings down the house five days a week as he puts contestants on the
spot and mines laughter from the crowd with every remark, gesture and eye roll
he makes.</div>
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“I saw a story in my local newspaper about an open casting
call for ‘Family Feud’ happening at Foxwoods Casino, so I immediately asked my
crazy family to try out with me,” said Sandy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“If we win we want to donate a portion of the winnings to
the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation in honor of my aunt and Meg’s mother.”</div>
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One of the original Kings of Comedy, Harvey brings his
‘tell-it-like-it-is’ brand of humor to center stage where he keeps audiences in
stitches for the show's 14th season in national syndication. Families travel
from all over the country to compete for big cash prizes on the set of Family
Feud, and enjoy a great bonding experience while they’re at it. When the show
is over, fans can connect for breaking news on Twitter (@FamilyFeud), find
outtakes and behind the scenes footage on YouTube (www.youtube.com/familyfeud
<http: familyfeud="familyfeud" www.youtube.com="www.youtube.com"> ) and even face off against friends
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One of the most beloved and successful game shows in
history, Family Feud is produced by FremantleMedia North America and
distributed by Debmar Mercury. Gaby Johnston is executive producer; Jim Roush
is executive in charge of production; Ken Fuchs is director.</div>
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To secure their spot on the show, the Lathrop Family called
the Family Feud hotline to begin the process. Other contestant hopefuls can
also call the show’s hotline at 323-762-8467 for an interview.</div>
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Nationally, 33 million joined movement last year
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The Maine Commission for Community Service invited area
citizens this week to join the 9/11 tribute movement called “I Will” to
commemorate this relatively new National Day of Service and Remembrance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Organized nationally by My Good Deed, a
foundation started by family members of 9/11 victims and first responders, “I
Will” calls on each citizen to pay tribute to those remembered on 9/11 by
performing a good deed, a personal act of service, an act of “neighboring.”</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Maryalice Crofton, executive director of MCCS, said the tribute
movement was a way to honor those who died on 9/11 and also to begin to look at
the day in a positive light, somehow.</span></div>
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“Families spent ten years to get 9/11 as a day of service
and remembrance,” Crofton said. “In 2009, it finally happened as part of the
Serve America Act passed by Congress.” The act reauthorized the American
service programs, AmeriCorps and Senior Corps, and affirmed all the national
days of service including the new one, she said.</div>
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This is the second year in a row that Maine has participated
in the national campaign.</div>
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“People design or pick out their own way of remembering,”
Crofton said. “Some of the things people did last year: there were a couple of
classrooms who wrote letters to active military stationed overseas, some people
collected food for a food bank, some helped out neighbors who didn’t have
family close by. It’s a wide range of things to do. It’s called neighboring.
And it gives an opportunity to let folks highlight what they do.”</div>
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“Neighboring is the informal volunteering we do to help out
in the community,” said Pam Zeutenhorst, the Commission’s coordinator for
volunteer sector initiatives. “It is the food we bring to a sick neighbor, the
community drive to refurnish a family whose house burned, and the citizen who
keeps an eye on seasonal camps for their owners during the winter.”</div>
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The MCCS has registered Maine's “I Will” tribute as a
single, statewide project with the national movement. Each citizen wishing to
participate decides what personal act of service will be the tribute to 9/11
victims and first responders and then registers the pledge of service at
VolunteerMaine.org by September 11.</div>
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Zeutenhorst noted that neighboring complements formal
volunteering. Both connect residents to each other, make communities stronger,
and foster mutual respect and responsibility. In rural, under-resourced
communities throughout Maine, neighboring and formal volunteering flourish
side-by-side, tackling serious local needs.</div>
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Schools, clubs, town councils, faith communities, and
fraternal organizations can organize a “pledge drive” among their members.
Posters and pledge cards with instructions on how to participate are available
from the Commission. Group leaders can obtain these at no cost by emailing
service.commission@maine.gov or calling 207-624-7792 during business hours.</div>
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All Maine pledges of service recorded at VolunteerMaine.org
will be bundled and reported to the national organizers by September 15. Last
year, through the efforts of the “I Will” campaign, thirty-three million people
observed 9/11 by engaging in charitable activities that ranged from simple good
deeds to organized volunteer work. The results far exceeded the national
organizers’ hopes for ten million people undertaking volunteer activity. For
more information and pledge registration details, visit VolunteerMaine.org.<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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