The Forecaster, Portland edition, January 30, 2013

January 30, 2013 News of The City of Portland Vol. 11, No. 5

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Sports:February, title time arrivePage 19

Maine Goes Red For WomenPages 15-18

IndexObituaries ......................12Opinion ............................6Out and About ..............24People & Business ........13

Police Beat ....................10Real Estate ....................32Sports ............................19

Arts Calendar ................25Classifieds .....................26Community Calendar .....23Meetings ........................23

SummerCamp DirectoryPages 20-21

‘I’d rather be doing anything than this’More people in need turn to panhandling on city streets

By William HallPORTLAND — Timing is everything,

the saying goes, and Maurice “Mo” Al-len became homeless at one of the worst times: winter.

Allen, 33, is a Portland resident who lost his restaurant job in the fall. After strug-gling to pay his bills, he said, he had to vacate his apartment in December. In Janu-ary, he started panhandling.

Late Sunday afternoon, while the city shivered through more bitter cold, Allen

was standing on a median at Somerset and Franklin streets in Bayside. He carried a sign that said “HOMELESS” and asked passing drivers for money to buy food.

“It’s really cold,” he said, as the Time and Temperature Building visible down-town displayed a reading of 24 degrees. Wind chill was in the low teens. “This has been a rough few days. I’d rather be doing anything than this.”

The city is making a special effort to help people like Allen. The Oxford Street

Shelter has been opening early, at 1:30 p.m., and its staff have been searching Portland streets for people who are home-less and offering them transportation to the shelter.

“Clearly, (being homeless) in this weather can be a matter of life or death,” Douglas Gardner, the city’s health and hu-man services director, said Monday. “But there is always a place folks can go, 24

BRAndOn MCKEnnEy / FOR ThE FORECASTERA panhandler stands on the traffic island at the intersection of Park Avenue and St. John Street in Portland on Monday afternoon, asking for help from

drivers as they wait at the stoplight.

Portland by the numbers: Rankings pay dividendsBy William Hall

PORTLAND — The Portland-Auburn area ranks No. 8 among the nation’s “best restaurant cities,” The Huffington Post announced Friday. The ranking is based on the area’s ratio of restaurants per capita of 23.5 – nearly as many per person as New York City (No. 5), which has 24.4.

The previous week, a City Hall press release announced Portland was No. 10 on a list of the 100 healthiest U.S. cit-ies for women, compiled by Women’s Health magazine.

Portland is on more than 20 other similar lists, according to the city’s website, including a half-dozen rank-ings in the past year alone.

They range from distinctions for its hipster downtown (No. 11 on Forbes magazine’s 20 “hippest ‘hoods”) to being a one of the best places to raise a family (No. 3, according to Parenting magazine).

But what do the rankings really mean? And why does the city show up on so many of them?

“These rankings put us on the na-

tional stage. They put us on a platform that is unique for a city our size,” City Hall spokeswoman Nicole Clegg said, noting that the lists often include cities such as San Francisco and New York.

Some rankings are more significant than others, Clegg added.

A No. 6 ranking for job growth in 2012, also by Forbes, was “pretty remarkable,” she said. And other dis-tinctions tie into specific objectives of City Hall – in the case of the Women’s

WilliAM hAll / ThE FORECASTERIn January, Portland ranked No. 10 in a ranking of healthy cities for women, according to Women’s Health magazine – and No. 22 in a similar ranking by its affiliate, Men’s

Health.

State of the CityHomelessness, education amongBrennan’s concernsBy William Hall

PORTLAND — Mayor Mi-chael Brennan recited a roster of achievements and challeng-es Monday night in Port-land’s first “State of the City” address.

T h e a d -dress is re-quired by the 2010 City Charter amendment that created Brennan’s office; he is the city’s first popularly elected mayor since 1923.

“A lot of what I’ve been doing is trying to figure out what the mayor can and should do,” he said Monday.

Brennan credited partnerships with the City Council and city staff for much of Portland’s suc-cess over the year. He then sum-marized that success with a list of kudos that included a below-average unemployment rate of 5.6 percent, $250 million of commer-cial and residential development in progress, and national rankings for the city’s quality of life.

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Protesters march to the Maine State Pier in Portland Saturday

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By Noah HurowitzPORTLAND — Despite freezing tem-

peratures, hundreds of people turned out Saturday to oppose the possible piping of “tar sands” crude oil through Maine.

Organizers called the rally the largest anti-tar sands protest in the Northeast. They said it demonstrated widespread opposition

to potential plans by oil companies to run tar sands oil through a 236-mile pipeline running from Montreal to South Portland.

Tar sands oil, more properly known as bituminous sands, is a type of crude oil deposit – a sludgy mixture of sand, clay and petroleum. The material is more difficult to transport than conventional crude oil and

critics say its acidity makes it more likely to eat through pipes and cause spills.

Critics of the pipeline have pointed to existing safety concerns in their efforts to block any use of it for tar sands. The 72-year-old pipeline, which carries crude oil from ships docked in South Portland to refineries in Canada, runs near Sebago Lake, the primary water supply for the greater Portland area.

But industry representatives reject claims by critics that tar sands oil is more cor-rosive.

“There is not a single scientific, peer-reviewed study out there showing tar sands is any more corrosive than other heavy crude oils that have passed safely through pipelines in this country for decades,” John Quinn, executive director of the New Eng-land Petroleum Council, told a Portland City Council hearing last week during dis-cussion about a resolution to ban the city’s use of tar-sands oil.

Protesters filled Monument Square Satur-day morning before marching to the Maine State Pier. Members of participating orga-nizations spoke briefly before the march, as drums beat out a steady rhythm. A small marching band played along the route as the crowd marched to the waterfront to hear speeches of support from organizers and local politicians, including U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, and Portland Mayor Michael Brennan.

At the pier, Pingree told the crowd she would lobby the Obama administration to conduct a full environental review of mov-ing tar sands oil through the pipeline.

“Reversing the flow of the Portland Pipeline so tar sands oil can be delivered to Portland Harbor would pose some serious environmental risks,” Pingree said.

Many of the protesters came from outside the state to rally in solidarity with Maine activists. Marla Malcum of the environmen-tal organization 350 said the group brought more than 100 people.

“We know this is a regional fight, a na-tional fight, and we know that when we’re fighting down in Massachusetts, people from Maine will come down and help us there,” she said.

Jean Knight, 73, also travelled to the rally Saturday, driving more than five hours from Burlington, Vt.

“Fossil fuels and tar sands in particular are killing the earth,” Knight said. “I just wanted to add my body here.”

At City Hall last week, Brennan and City Councilor David Marshall spoke at a press conference opposing the piping of tar sands.

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By David HarryPORTLAND —

The second time may be the charm for William Kayatta Jr., the Cape Elizabeth lawyer renominated to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit.

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Tuesday announced the Senate Judiciary Committee will reconsider Kayatta’s nomination to the Boston court by Presi-dent Barack Obama on Thursday. The committee is expected to vote early next week.

Committee approval would move the renomination to the Senate floor, where it stalled last year during because of an election-year maneuver that has been used by Democrats and Republicans over the last 45 years.

Kayatta, a civil litigation specialist at the Pierce Atwood law firm, would replace Judge Kermit Lipez, a South Portland resident who is taking senior judicial status.

Collins said she has asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., to expedite Kayatta’s renomina-tion to the court. The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals is one judicial rung below the U.S. Supreme Court; it hears fed-eral cases from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Puerto Rico.

Collins and independent Sen. Angus King of Maine support Kayatta’s nomina-tion and previously urged Senate leaders to schedule a floor vote after the elections and before the 112th Congress adjourned late last year. The new congressional term requires reconsideration of the president’s prior judicial nominees.

After gaining Judiciary Committee support last spring, Kayatta’s nomination stalled in the full Senate when Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., vowed to block pending federal court nominations by use of filibusters.

The tactic was originally attributed to the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C.,

who blocked President Lyndon John-son’s 1968 nomination of Abe Fortas to the U.S. Supreme Court. Leahy and Sen-ate Democrats have also used filibusters to block election-year judicial nomina-tions by Republican presidents.

Last summer, Collins and former U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, vowed to vote to end any filibuster. Unable to muster 60 votes to end debate last July on Judge Robert Bacharach’s nomina-tion to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D.-Nev., did not schedule any more floor votes. The stall affected at least three other nominations, including Kayatta’s, during the presidential election campaign.

“I thank Chairman Leahy for moving quickly to consider Bill’s renomination,” Collins said. “Bill has a stellar record (and) the highest ABA rating. I am hope-ful that, once he is approved again by the Judiciary Committee, the full Senate will move swiftly to confirm this qualified nominee and finally fill this vacancy.”

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PORTLAND — As a part of its inter-national focus, Deering High School has partnered with the University of New Eng-land to offer students a more international education.

By being the first school in New Eng-land to join the International Studies Schools Network (ISSN), Deering has added a more global focus to its curricu-lum. Through this program students will be able to attend lectures by international experts and get information from UNE students who have traveled abroad.

The program also allows teachers the opportunity to work with UNE professors on topics such as the importance of devel-oping a global outlook.

“We are very fortunate to have a college program focusing on international affairs located just a short walk away,” Ira Waltz, Deering principal, said.

Dr. Anouar Majid, associate provost for global initiatives and founding direc-tor of the Center for Global Humanities

at UNE, said that a partnership between Deering and UNE is long overdue, since the schools have shared Stevens Avenue for more than a century.

“UNE is committed to supporting all creative educational and cultural endeavors in or communities,” he said.

Through the partnership, Deering stu-dents may have opportunities to attend UNE classes for college credit and par-ticipate in the school's international travel programs.

By joining the ISSN, Deering has joined a network of 34 schools across the country with a heightened global awareness.

Students won't notice a major change in their curriculum, because the school will continue to offer a full array of courses with an international focus. But the focus will be woven into all subject areas starting in the fall.

Students will investigate the world through interdisciplinary projects, develop proficiency in a second language and take action in their community.Amber Cronin can be reached at acronin@theforecaster.

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Storm water project to close part of Baxter Blvd.By William Hall

PORTLAND — A portion of Baxter Boulevard will be closed for up to eight months starting Wednesday, as the Depart-ment of Public Services breaks ground for two underground storm-water conduits designed to reduce sewage overflow into Back Cove.

The stretch of the boulevard from Van-

nah Avenue to Bates Street was scheduled to be closed to all traffic beginning at 7 a.m., according to a City Hall press re-lease. The roadway was originally slated to close last November, but the project's start changed because of permitting de-lays.

Pedestrians will continue to have ac-cess to the trail system that borders the

boulevard, and parking in Payson Park will be available for those wishing to use the trails.

The city suggested that motorists use In-terstate 295, Brighton and Forest avenues, and Riverside Street as alternate routes.

The concrete conduits, each with a capacity of 1 million gallons, are being installed under the boulevard and the park. When complete late this year, they still store a mix of waste water that can then be sent to the Portland Water District's treat-ment facility in the East End, instead of being discharged directly into Back Cove.

Currently, more than half of the city’s sewer system combines residential and industrial sewage and storm water into a single drainage system. When the system is overloaded – for example, during heavy rain storms – some of the untreated mix-ture flows into Portland waterways, and eventually into Back Cove, Casco Bay or

the Fore River.The city also has been grappling for

two decades with a deteriorating system of sewer pipes, many of which were built of brick around the time of the Civil War. In November, the city announced it was negotiating with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over fines for past overflows.

Under federal order between 1993 and 2010, the City Council funded projects that reduced sewer overflow volumes 42 percent, from 720 million gallons to 420 million gallons annually. Those projects included $70 million of work to separate the storm-water and sewage systems.

More recently, the City Council ap-proved a plan supporting $170 million of additional projects that would reduce sewer overflow volumes to 87 million gallons annually. That plan is set to begin in 2014.

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PORTLAND — Police said they have increased patrols in the area after a 36-year-old Falmouth woman was robbed at gunpoint at a downtown bank ATM on the evening of Jan. 24.

According to a Police Department press release, officers responded at about 5:35 p.m. after the woman said she was forced to withdraw an undisclosed amount of money from her bank account at a TD Bank ATM at 2 Portland Square.

The woman told police the suspect showed a black, semi-automatic handgun, and fled west toward Pleasant Street after

he took the money and the woman’s cell phone.

The suspect was described as a white man, between 6 feet and 6 feet 2 inches tall, and weighing between 160 and 180 pounds. He wore jeans and a blue pull-over hooded sweatshirt, which was under a light gray-blue, zippered hooded sweatshirt, according to police. He also wore a black winter mask that revealed only his eyes.

On Tuesday, Lt. Scott Pelletier said police continue to investigate the robbery, and have beefed up patrols around the area. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 874-8533.

Probe continues into woman’s death in PortlandBy William Hall

PORTLAND — After receiving a “substantial lead” that led them to a West Concord Street apartment last week, police Tuesday said they are still investi-gating the death of a Westbrook woman found two weeks ago in a Riverside Street motel parking lot.

The body of Margarita Fisenko Scott, 29, was discovered Jan. 17 in a red 2002 Chevrolet TrailBlazer parked at Motel 6. After an autopsy by the state medical examiner, police said Scott’s death was a homicide, but did not release the cause of death.

At a press conference last week, Lt. Scott Pelletier said investigators exam-ined an apartment at 266 West Concord St., where they believe Scott may have stayed or frequented in December, based on information received from the public.

He said police were looking for evidence that Scott had been at the apart-ment, two miles from where her body was found. He also said they towed a vehicle from the property.

On Tuesday morning, Pelletier said police were still piecing together infoma-tion about Scott’s movements, places she

may have been stay-ing, and people who knew her.

“We’re trying to put everything to-gether, to establish a time-line,” he said.

The f i r s t - f loor apartment is now va-cant and apparently under renovation, but police have talked to the previous residents, who were “very cooperative,” Pelletier said at last week’s press conference. It’s unclear what rela-tionship Scott might have had with the tenants.

“We are establishing whether they were just mutual friends or what their relation-ship is, we’re not exactly sure right now,” he said. “I believe they knew each other, but the extent of that, I’m not really sure.”

Scott and her husband, Cary Scott, were separated at the time of her death, but in regular contact, according to po-lice. The TrailBlazer was registered in Cary Scott’s name, and he and a friend discovered the body on Jan. 17. Police believe the SUV was parked at Motel 6 previously, but that Margarita Scott had

Portland police on the scene at 266 West Concord St., where homicide victim Margarita Fisenko Scott is believed to have stayed or frequented.

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not stayed at the motel.Pelletier said Scott’s husband and fam-

ily have cooperated with the investiga-tion, and that police have not found any history of domestic violence or criminal activity. Relatives did not initially report Margarita Scott missing, but did so in late December, he said.

A previously released photograph of Scott was provided by the federal Im-migration and Naturalization Service, according to Pelletier, but he said he

didn’t know why the INS might have had contact with her.

Scott’s family is originally from Ka-zakhstan, Pelletier said.

Police said anyone with information for investigators should call 874-8533 or 874-8604.William Hall can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 106 or whall@

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He knew how he was going to use the empty jug of washer fluid and a left-over PVC pipe to create an automatic water dispenser for our cat.

I know. What an ama-teur. As if it isn’t patently obvious how to fashion feline plumbing out of recyclable plastic.

In his defense, he had just turbo-vacuumed his car in the driveway wearing nothing but a flannel shirt and jeans. His brain was tired. And potentially frozen through.

The event does serve, though, as yet another example of the many, many, mahahahany ways he and I are different.

Opposites, you might say. Yet here we are, almost nine years married.

We met at the end of our sophomore year in college. He was wearing threadbare corduroy pants, a white V-neck T-shirt, and espa-drilles. His shoulder-length hair was pulled back with a faded bandanna I later learned he had found on the beach in his native Puerto Rico. He was smoking a cigarette, and his girlfriend was sitting on his lap.

I was wearing something off the Ann Taylor sales

rack, mixed with some baubles from the Banana Republic discount line. My freckles were blinking on my face, and my

hair was an electric mess pointing in the direction of “away.” I was likely carrying a book and doing my best impression of a girl who did not feel totally out of her league. (It was a terrible impression.)

We were introduced. He immediately captivated me; I made zero impact. The next time we spoke, he was asking me for the homework assignment from the class we were about to enter. He had no idea who I was; I was nervous he’d caught me doodling “Abby Diaz.”

After he dated three or four other na-tionalities, we finally began dating just before our senior year started. We then went to law school together, and married a few months after graduation. We could be the counter-point to almost every point about relationships.

He grew up gathering mangoes in his backyard and going to the beach after school. He created games using tamarind seeds and lived for weeks without running water after a bad hurricane. He saw the "Rambo" movies in theaters.

The first time I saw a mango, I thought someone had done a science experiment with an avocado. I went to the beach when my parents got adventurous in the summer. I think a tamarind is from the woodwind family of instruments, and hur-ricanes scare me if they don’t get pushed out to sea by the Carolinas. I saw "Beauty and the Beast" in theaters.

His idea of a nice meal is steak, rice and beans. Mine is take-out. He can fix leaky faucets, trap mice and make child safety gates out of a discarded trellis. I can Google plumbers, exterminators and

Target. He wanted to make our house more homey, so he bought six chickens. I’m still looking for curtains.

He has haggled with AT&T and now they pay us. He taught himself to roast a pig and hosted 20 for dinner later that day. He never looked happier than he did the summer afternoon that he backed into our driveway with a wood chipper. I dis-like confrontation, can make eggs explode in the microwave, and think dandelion removal is exhausting.

While our differences were clear from the outset, I’m not sure they were what (finally) drew us together. And although they certainly keep things interesting to-day, I’m equally unconvinced that they’re the reason we still like each other.

Because underneath all the quirks and preferences and hobbies are two outlooks on life that overlap in the right places: money (save it), religion (go easy), kids (cute), marriage (be nice), and Disney World (totally overwhelming).

Opposites attract? More like opposites interact, similarities impact.

Or something.I’ve got to run. He’s trying to buy rab-

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I really ought to come up with a better story, but the truth is I cut the dickens out of my index finger on the jagged edge of the chair as I settled in for lunch. I knew in an instant this was not your average superficial nick, and when my eyes cleared sufficiently to have a look at the digit, now swathed in napkins, my suspicions were confirmed. There was no way I could stop the bleeding.

The restaurant’s owner was solicitous – at first offering me a tiny band-aid (which was laughingly inadequate), but then escorting me to a nearby pharmacy for treatment, and ultimately picking up the tab for that as well as for our lunch. The pharmacist disinfected the wound, wrapped my finger in a proper bandage and sent us off to the hospital with the ad-monition that the wrapping would prob-ably hold for a couple of hours before it would become, shall we say, saturated.

By this point I was no longer cursing

or seeing stars and was able to carry on a conversation. Thus we learned, as she walked us from the pharmacy towards

the hospital, that the owner of the restaurant was origi-nally from Israel and had moved to Paris 35 years before, and so on. By the time we arrived at the salle d’urgence I was somewhat mollified and therefore decided to drop the billion-dollar lawsuit I had been contemplating just minutes before.

(What can I say? I’m a sucker for the French lan-guage. I will have to find another source of retire-ment income. One hates to profit at the hands of one’s

friends, particularly those who own a restaurant. )

And so I was feeling more charitable when we arrived at the emergency room, but my finger was not, and the bandage was already in need of attention. I ap-proached the intake clerk and explained to her what had happened. She referred me to a clerk immediately to her left, two feet away, who listened to me repeat the explanation and then accepted my Maine driver’s license as identification. I then joined three other patients, some wrapped in sleeping bags and other accoutrements of life on the streets, in the reception area

and prepared for a long wait.Within five minutes, however, I was

called to an examining room where a burly nurse gently took my blood pressure, unwrapped the pharmacist’s work, examined the wound, listened to my explanation of what had hap-pened, rewrapped the wound and then released me again to the waiting area.

Within 10 minutes a young, tired-looking nurse fetched me and took me deeper into the bowels of the hospital, into yet another examining room. There she and two other nurses unwrapped the wound and noted that it wouldn’t stop bleeding. I agreed. They then told me to lie down as they poured a few drops of black squid ink – they insisted it was an antiseptic – on the wound (“It won’t hurt,” they said. They were wrong.) After wrapping me up rather loosely, they sent me down the hall for an x-ray.

I pointed out that the wrapping had immediately become saturated, but they insisted I go to x-ray, where I waited and bled some more. Ten minutes after that I was x-rayed and told to go ... somewhere. I apologized for having bled on the table. The technician directed me back to the reception area.

At this point, I had an x-ray in one hand and a mound of bloody gauze on the other. I told the receptionist that I was no doctor, but was I supposed to leave

the hospital with bloody bandages on my finger? Whereupon the burly nurse whom I’d seen an hour before summoned me back inside, calmly rewrapped the wound – tightly and properly – and finally sent me on my way. I went to the cashier to make arrangements for payment but she didn’t look up.

“Not today. Eventually, you’ll get a bill,” she said. And so we left.

Three days later, a nurse knocked on my hotel room door. Torn from the pages of GQ, he had a motorcycle helmet tucked under his arm and announced that he had come to change the bandage on my finger.

More squid ink, more lies about it not hurting – after which he rewrapped the wound and said, in so many words, that I was good to go. He left, and we resumed our visit to Paris. I self-medicated with rich food and fine Bordeaux.

Last Friday, the bill arrived from the hospital. The total, including the nurse’s visit, was 150 euros (about $200).

That part didn’t hurt a bit.Perry B. Newman is a South Portland

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I have never seen a stronger, more coura-geous piece of opinion in your paper than Dana Marcoux sharing his 1970s experience (“‘Out’ in Maine: How people, times change”).

I can relate. I am a Jewish American who had to endure hate during the same time Dana did, just for another reason. Before Hebrew school on a regular basis, we would have to physi-cally fight before going to class, and during the

fights, the name calling got worse and worse. The anti-

semitism was just as bad as a gay man being bullied and harassed. All these actions are mor-ally wrong. In some cases criminal. We should never let this to happen again. We all should realize the true weakness of a person that may disagree with our religion or sexual orientation while using verbal abuse and physical force. There is no tolerance in my life for it and that kind of hate could be better used in a much dif-ferent and positive way.

Dana, you have done well and get my respect 100 percent for sharing detailed and maybe hurtful truths about your life. I ask God to bless you and others that have gone through similar difficulties and pray to try to end these kind of hateful actions. Let us hope that all who read this letter will also agree with us.

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As policy, LePage budget plan is ‘fundamentally dishonest’


By Steve WoodsI love Yarmouth as a community and Maine as the great-

est state in the country. And, I’m sure that residents and community leaders throughout our state feel the same way about their towns and cities.

But, in my opinion, local municipalities are under at-tack. Not from the outside, but from within. And unless we speak up, with voices loud and clear, fiscal budget decisions made in Augusta over the next few weeks threaten our immediate interests, with the potential to greatly cripple our collective futures.

Gov. Paul LePage recently submit-ted his 2014-2015 biennium budget to the Legislature. His $6.2 billion two-year budget pro-posal is unprecedented in ways that go far beyond fiscal management, into the realm of recasting the constitutional relationship between the state and its municipalities.

The budget hierarchy between federal, state, county and local municipalities has always been part of our system of government. The core principle of that revenue collection/expense budgeting approach is that each government entity collects an approximate amount relative to the services being provided, and the oversight and infrastructure com-manded.

LePage’s budget proposal wildly overreaches in the rev-enue burden that he is attempting to shift to municipalities across the state.

Reducing state income taxes while shifting significant cost burdens to local towns through various mechanisms (homestead exemption change, revenue sharing, teacher retirement funding, excise tax, etc.), is bad policy, weak fiscal management, and fundamentally dishonest as an approach to meeting our challenges. It also shifts a higher revenue burden onto property taxes, which is regressive tax policy by nature.

In addition, the LePage proposal to take $14 million in casino funds earmarked for public education, and transfer those funds into the state General Fund, represents more than a broken promise to Maine’s voters; it’s a horrible precedent to directly link casino revenue to our state bud-get. Such dependency over time will only lead to regulatory

issues, budget variances, and an unhealthy co-dependency between the gaming industry and the state.

Two years ago, LePage personally touted tax cuts and a lack of gimmicks as features of his first budget as governor.

In his current proposed budget, he is effectively demanding enormous “tax burdens” shifted to local towns and cities with numerous gimmicks to abdicate portions of our state’s responsibilities (education, health services, public safety, etc.).

Aside from LePage’ s breathtak-ing budgetary policy zigzag in just two years, I’m more concerned about the immediate crisis at hand that threat-ens virtually every person in Maine. The proposed budget goes far beyond the scope of a responsible recalibration of state and municipal revenues and expenses; it attempts to fundamentally change, now and forever, the financial and constitutional relationship between Maine and each municipality.

Maine’s bond rating was reduced by one agency last week, with the “contentious” atmosphere in Augusta being cited as one factor. The New York Times ran an article last week suggesting that Maine’s political standoff between the governor and lawmakers could lead to a government shutdown.

As the leader of a municipality, and as a citizen of Maine, I’m asking the governor to reconsider his budget proposal.

In addition, I am asking that the Maine Municipal As-sociation, the organization that represents the state’s towns and cities, to formally ask all municipalities to vote indi-vidually on a shared resolution that demands a 2014-2015 budget that is fair and equitable between the needs of the state and the needs of local municipalities.

Based upon input from fellow town councilors and resi-dents of Yarmouth, I intend to support such a resolution as soon as possible.

Steve Woods is chairman of the Yarmouth Town Council, CEO of Falmouth-based TideSmart Global, and an an-nounced Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.

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A recent Public Policy Polling poll suggests that if a three-way race for governor were held today, Gov. Paul LePage, with a solid 37 percent of the vote, would beat any Democratic candidate and indepen-dent Eliot Cutler. In a head-to-head race, the poll found that just about any Democrat wins.

We all know how far off polls can be and how far off November 2014 is, but do we really want to take a chance on another spoiler election con-demning Maine to a second LePage admin-istration with all the insulting, ill-mannered, oafish behavior that might suggest?

What Maine needs for its gubernatorial election is the sort of ranked-choice voting that Portland has ad-opted for its mayoral elections. By designating first, second and third choices on the ballot, voters ensure that the eventual winner has a majority, not just a slim plurality.

But because Maine is unlikely to adopt ranked-choice voting in time for the 2014 election, it may take some creative collusion to defeat LePage, though it’s hard to believe that close to 40 percent of Maine voters actually approve of the bully in the Blaine House.

Like a lot of Democrats, I voted for Eliot Cutler at the last minute in 2010 when it became apparent that Libby Mitchell couldn’t possibly win. Cutler came so close to beating LePage that in hindsight, Mitch-ell seems to have been the spoiler.

I have since met and talked with Cutler and I could very well vote for him again. Cutler’s message of moderation and bipartisanship has its appeal. But he may not fare as well in 2014 as he did in 2010, when he was essentially a choice of last resort. Cut-

ler will have to overcome the “Romney Curse” – a lack of the common touch – if he is going to appeal to enough voters to beat both LePage and Fill-in-the-Democrat.

A lot of the politically savvy folks I have talked with about 2014 sing the same song: “Cutler ain’t no Angus King” and caution that he represents Paul LePage’s best chance of re-election.

It was rather laughable last fall when independent U.S. Senate candidate Steve Woods announced that he would drop out of the race if it looked as though he might take enough votes away from Angus King to give the election to Charlie Summers, but some similar form of deference may well be in order come 2014.

There is precedent here in Yarmouth, in fact, for a candidate bowing out to help elect a sympathetic op-ponent. In 2012, gracious Democrat Cindy Bullens withdrew from the state Senate race and endorsed independent incumbent Sen. Dick Woodbury when it became apparent that she and Woodbury risked splitting the moderate-progressive vote and letting conservative candidate Chris Tyll slip in.

I somehow doubt the Democratic Party will defer to Cutler the way it did to Angus King by fielding a candidate who couldn’t win, but I would like to see an agreement between Cutler and a Democrat-to-be-named-later that one of them will withdraw and endorse the other as the gubernatorial campaign goes down the home stretch. If it’s not clear with two weeks to go who’s in the lead and who should defer, I’d just as soon they flipped a coin – anything to prevent the unthinkable.

As much as Cutler wants to be governor and might make a good one, he cannot possibly want to be remembered as the guy who saddled Maine with Paul LePage not once, but twice. Four more years of Gov. Buttkiss would be a rank choice, indeed.

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Who is watching the cable TV monopoly?

When my TV went dark, I called Time Warner and learned there was a deliberate (unannounced) overnight service interruption for maintenance. I missed the end of my show and wasted time reporting the outage, but when I asked for credit, I was told to call back after the interruption to request credit. Shouldn’t Time War-ner be required to credit all customers without being

asked when service is deliberately interrupted? Last month my service went out on

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I asked for a supervisor, but was told repeatedly they were all busy. I insisted. Eventually I got a supervisor who credited my account – small compensation for the half hour invested in the call, but saving me a follow-up. When I asked where to direct my complaint about how Time Warner, which has a government-granted monopoly, administers credits, he could provide no information.

So, Time Warner and government officials, please advise: Where should citizens register complaints about how Time Warner does business? Does Time Warner have an obligation under its monopoly contract to direct complaining customers to a governmental monitor of the contract and, if not, why not? Why do we allow Time Warner to make it onerous for each customer to claim the small credits to which we are entitled, small amounts that add up to very large profits for Time Warner?

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I am writing this in response to Edgar Allen Beem’s most recent column, “It’s time to tax guns, ammo.” Mr. Beem’s diatribe proves that he has lost all common sense and confirms that he is in the group of people that have no clue as to what they are speaking about when it comes to the recent gun debate. His opinion on gun-related matters makes joining the National Rifle As-sociation a viable option for many gun owners that may have considered that organization’s policies too rigid in its approach to gun laws.

It would be in Mr. Beem’s best interest to at least educate himself on a topic before commenting and providing an inaccurate opinion. He should know that there is already an existing tax on the sale of firearms and ammunition. The Pittman-Robertson Act enacted in 1937 and named for the two senators who sponsored it provides states with funds to manage wildlife, conduct

research projects and provide hunter education courses. A great example of the use of these funds is the success-ful reintroduction of the wild turkey to Maine.

True gun control will only come through the success-ful enforcement of the current laws we have and the

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ObituariesPatricia “Pat” Dancil, 67: Savvy businesswoman, lived life to the fullest

PORTLAND — Patricia Ann Dancil, 67, of Portland, died Jan. 20 in Portland.

She was born March 6 1945, and was the adopted daughter of Mary Fulcher and Henry Frazier, of Portland.

Dancil attended Portland schools and was very proud in her 40s to earn her G.E.D.

She worked for Hostess Bakery and Sears before owning her own thrift shop on Danforth Street.

Dancil loved listening to music, danc-ing and shopping. She was a savvy

Dorothy M. “Dot” Merrill, 43PORTLAND — Dorothy M. “Dot”

Merrill, 43, of Portland, died Jan. 24, surrounded by loved ones after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Born Nov. 25, 1969, in Portland to Ir-ving A. and Barbara R. Merrill, she was

businesswoman and had a great eye for bargains, loving to buy and resell.

She lived in the moment and thor-oughly enjoyed life and was proud to have found God in the 1990s. She will be sadly missed by her husband, Solomon Dancil, whom she loved dearly.

Dancil was predeceased by her parents, a daughter, Jean Fulcher, and a grandson, Corey Murray. She is survived by her husband; her children, Pamela MacLearn, of California, Susan Parks, of Alabama, James Horne Jr., of Massachusetts, Melanie Thomas, of Westbrook, and Jonathan Hines, of Portland; her step-daughter, Sheila Dancil, of Portland and Kesha Horne-Fortson who has been like a daughter to her. She will also be missed by a host of grandchildren, extended fam-ily and friends.

A memorial service was held Friday at A.T. Hutchins Funeral and Cremation Services in Portland with an interment at Forest City Cemetery in South Portland.

Dancil

a graduate Westbrook High School and worked at Peregrine Corp. of Portland for 18 years.

Merrill’s family remembers her for liv-ing each moment to the fullest. She loved music and particularly enjoyed going to live shows and outdoor concerts. She was also an avid sports fan, dedicated to the Red Sox and the Patriots.

Merrill loved to go camping and travel-ling with friends and family. Possessing a loud and infectious laugh, a beautiful smile and an incredible spirit, she loved family gatherings and is remembered as being among the first to start mischief.

She is survived by her brothers, Louis Santamore Jr. of Saco, Maurice Santa-more of Westbrook, Sidney Santamore and his wife, Patricia, of Westbrook, Kenneth Santamore and his wife, Cathy, of Cumberland, Ralph Santamore Sr. of Portland, Dennis Santamore and his wife, Nancy, of Cumberland, Gary Santamore and his wife, Belinda, of Biloxi, Miss., James Adams and his wife, Barbie, of Windham; her sister Shirley Daniels of Lewiston, dozens of nieces and nephews and many friends she considered family.

A memorial service was held Monday at A.T. Hutchins Funeral and Cremation Services in Portland. Interment will be at a later date at Brooklawn Memorial Park in Portland.

Barbara Brittain Aber Jennings, 86

PORTLAND — Barbara Brittain Aber Jennings, 86, of Portland, died Jan. 23.

She was born March 24, 1926 in Hor-nell, N.Y., to Mollie Brittain and Frank Ward Aber.

Jennings was a be-loved friend, wife, mother and grand-mother. Generous in her love and support, she quickly made others feel comfort-able, respected and well-liked. She dedi-cated her life to furthering women’s and civil rights.

Jennings was predeceased by her husband, William Jennings, who died in 2009. She is survived by her sons, Nick Logan and his partner, Joanne Evans, of Fenton, Mich., Mac Logan and his wife, Lori Logan, of Zanesfield, Ohio; and daughter, Laurie Logan and her husband, Randy Braley, and their two children, Mollie and Emily Braley, of Cumberland.

A memorial service will be held in Michigan this summer. In lieu of flowers, donations may be given in her memory to the Unitarian Universalist Church at 2474 S. Ballenger Hwy., Flint, MI 48507 or a charity of your choosing.

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The Curtis Memorial Library in Bruns-wick received a $3,000 grant from the Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust of Portland. The money will expand the graphic novel collection for young adult readers at the library. All purchases will be made locally through Casablanca Comics.

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Thomas R. Flood, CPA, recently joined Albin, Randall & Bennett, a certified public accounting firm in Portland, as a senior manager. Flood has more than 25 years of experience in public accounting and specializes in tax consulting. Before join-ing Albin, Randall & Bennet, Flood was a tax director at MacDonald Page & Co., in South Portland.

Lori Norris joined the Marc Gup team at Keller & Williams Realty as team admin-istrator. With 15 years of experience in real estate administration, Norris holds a broker license, is a notary public and a member of the Greater Portland Board of Realtors and the Maine Association of Realtors.

Attorneys Catherine B. Cosgrove and Michael S. Smith joined the Concord, N.H., litigation group of the law offices of Preti Flaherty. Cosgrove was previously was an associate in the New York and Boston of-fices of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Smith previously practiced with Nel-son Kinder & Mosseau. Preti Flaherty has offices in Portland and Augusta, Concord, N.H., Boston and Salem, Mass., Bedmin-ster, N.J. and Washington, D.C.

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CEI Capital Management named F. Rob-ert Wilson to the newly created position of managing director, new products. Wilson

previously served for five years as the com-pany’s chief investment officer.

Dawn M. Harmon and Christopher M. Dargie have been elected as directors and shareholders at Perkins Thompson. Harmon runs an employment law and civil litigation practice, with an emphasis on representing employers in discrimination and wage and hour disputes, commercial litigation, prod-ucts liability and real property disputes. Dargie is an experienced business law attorney at Portland-based Perkins Thomp-son and also serves on boards of the Tate House Museum, Propel and To The Top Foundation.

Appointments

The Institute for Humane Education named Tony Scucci to its board of direc-tors. The institute offers graduate degree programs, online course, workshops, sum-mer institutes and an award-winning online resource center.

Maine Youth Leadership recently named Amey Leadley, Mary-Anne Rouse, Wendy Cunningham, Logan Greenblatt and Nathan Elmore to its board of directors.

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has named Gregory T. Caswell of Falmouth as the chairman and Charles E. Gilbert III of Bangor as vice chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Bar. Additionally, Barbara Halpern Furey of Portland and Cathy De-Merchant have been appointed as members of the board. The Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar was created by the Maine Su-preme Judicial Court in 1978 to govern the conduct of lawyers as officers of the court.

Moves

The Brunswick location of the law offices of Arthur J. Lamothe has moved to 157 Park Row, in Brunswick.

Good Deeds

The Curtis Memorial Library received a gift of $750 from Wild Oats Bakery and Cafe, a sum raised during a community awareness day in celebration of the cafe’s 20th anniversary. A percentage of all café

sales on Sept. 30 were donated to the li-brary. Library staff were in the café that day to greet customers and sign up new library card holders during National Library Card Sign Up Month.

The Maine Marathon has donated $60,000, its largest single donation ever, to STRIVE, a South Portland-based organiza-tion dedicated to helping tweens, teens and young adults with developmental disabili-ties. The STRIVE donation is part of more than $180,000 in charitable donations raised as part of the race effort this year.

The L.L. Bean Board of Directors approved the 2012 Charitable Giving Program, which will give $1.5 million in community grants ranging from $500 to $25,000 to more than 200 local, regional and national nonprofit organizations.

Recognition

Beverly Neugebauer, executive director of Coastal Women’s Healthcare, has earned the professional designation of Certified Medical Practice Executive from the Ameri-can College of Medical Practice Executives. The designation demonstrates that Neuge-bauer has achieved board certification in medical practice management.

Enterprise Trenchless Technologies Inc. has been nominated by Equipment World Magazine for the award of 2013 Contractor of the Year, along with 12 other contractors around the country.

Awards

Wright-Pierce, an engineering firm with

eight offices, ended 2012 on a high note by receiving a national award. Founded in Topsham in 1947, the company was lauded as the “best of the best” with the PSMJ Platinum Award at the annual A/E/C (archi-tecture/engineering/construction) Industry Summit, which was held in Orlando, Fla., on Dec. 5-7.

The board of directors for the Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber is pleased to an-nounce the recipients of their 2012 Business & Community Awards. The honorees are Hampton Inn of Bath as Business of the Year (Large), Greater Brunswick Physical Therapy as Business of the Year (Medium), The Brunswick Inn on Park Row as Busi-ness of the Year (Small), Amtrak/Downeas-ter as Business of the Year (Non-Profit), Long Branch School and General Store as New Business Venture of the Year, Norway Savings Bank as Business Health and Wellness Champion, Winter Street Center as Regional Arts and Culture Champion, Amanda Leland of Long Cove Builders for the Young Professional Award, Independent Consultant for Mary Kaye Robin Whorff as Volunteer of the Year, Lois Skillings of Mid Coast Hospital for the Chairman’s Award, First Federal Savings of Bath for the President’s Award, Rick Wilson and Cheryl Sleeper as Educators of the Year, Family of Ruthe Pagurko as Citizens of the Year, Paul F. Loveless of Fleet Reserve Association for the Joshua Chamberlain Award, and retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John Libby for the Harry C. Crooker Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Sports RoundupPage 22

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February, title time arrive(Ed. Note: For the complete

Deering-Windham and Portland-Deering boys’ and Waynflete-Wells girls’ basketball game stories, with additional photos and box scores, please visit theforecaster.net)By Michael Hoffer

The end game of the winter sports season is near.

While the regular season con-tinues in basketball and hockey, championship time is right around the corner in track, swimming, skiing and wrestling.

Here’s a look at what happened last week and a glimpse at what’s to come:

Boys’ basketballDefending Class A champion

Deering and this year’s favorite, Portland, squared off for the first time Thursday evening at the Portland Expo. The teams entered the showdown going in opposite directions.

The Rams had beaten visiting Windham, 69-34, Tuesday. After a sluggish and sloppy first half, which saw Deering only hold a nine-point lead, 6-foot-7 senior Labson Abwoch made sure the Rams quickly ended all doubt the in the third quarter, person-ally scoring 10 points, as Deering opened a 22-point lead. Abwoch led all scorers with 22 points.

“There’s a lot of talk about Port-land, so you automatically want to look at them,” said Abwoch. “Coach (Dan LeGage) settled us down and told us one game at a time. We were playing more aggressive in the second half. They outworked us in the first half. Coach told us in the locker room to be more aggressive and it worked out for us. My teammates were looking for me and I just finished. I just went after them.”

“We had a good first quarter defensively,” said LeGage. “The second quarter was not good bas-ketball. We try to tell these guys we pride ourselves on defense. In the second half, defensively, I thought we did a fantastic job. We fought through screens, we communicated, we boxed out, we did all the things we needed to go to take away their free looks. We wanted to pick up the tempo. We set small goals for the second half and they did a great job. (The kids) told us, let’s get one more charge. Let’s hold them to single digit quarters. It’s human nature (to look ahead). It was a trap game. (Windham’s) record wasn’t indicative of how good they were. They’ll beat a good team. They have the players to do it.”

Across town, Portland let a

late lead slip away for the second straight game and was shocked by visiting Westbrook, 46-45. Matt Talbot had 11 points in the defeat.

Thursday, however, the Bull-dogs bounced back and this time, didn’t squander a lead down the stretch.

Portland was once again in jeopardy of letting a victory slip away when an 11-point advantage with just over a minute to go was cut to five in the waning seconds, but Deering wasn’t able to take advantage of an opportunity that could have made it a one pos-session contest and after a steal, Talbot capped his stellar evening with a layup that brought the curtain down on a 44-37 victory. Talbot had a team-high 11 points, Portland forced 21 turnovers, led virtually the whole way and got back on the right track.

“(Letting a win slip away) almost happened again, but we closed better,” said Talbot. “It’s going to be easier to sleep tonight. Our intensity helped tonight. It means a little more when it’s a crosstown rival. We don’t really talk about it, but this was one we really wanted.”

“A win’s a win,” said Portland coach Joe Russo. “When you lose two in a row, you need a win. It doesn’t matter who it’s against, however, it’s a lot to ask of a team that’s sliding to beat the best team in the league. We went from the frying pan to the fire. We responded. It’s a great way to hopefully come out of the slide, to do it against a quality team. This hopefully gives the guys some confidence.

“The kids played great defense. Our man-to-man defense is what we tried to be best at. We tried multiple defenses the past few games and wanted to go back to basics. We’ve still got to figure out how to finish stronger. The difference tonight was we man-aged a few points. If we didn’t score, we’d have been in trouble. We got a few layups and some free throws.”

The Bulldogs improved to 11-2 and returned to the top of the fluid Western Class A Heal Points standings. Portland was at Noble Tuesday, hosts Cheverus in a makeup game Wednesday (the game will be played at Portland High School at 7 p.m.), welcomes Massabesic Friday and closes the regular season next week with games at South Portland and Deering.

“We can’t take anybody lightly,” Russo added. “Cheverus is desper-ate. Noble beat Westbrook. We

Clockwise from above: Cheverus sophomore Zordan Holman goes up for a shot during the Stags’ 67-44 loss at South Portland. Two of the state’s best big men, Deering senior Labson Abwoch and Portland junior Matt Talbot went head-

to-head Thursday. Abwoch had a game-high 13 points, but Talbot’s 11 helped the Bulldogs to a 44-37 victory. Waynflete senior Rhiannan Jackson drives on a Wells defender during the Flyers’ 57-49 loss at the Warriors Saturday.

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have three games next week. We need to focus on defense and how to finish a game.”

Deering got a game-high 13 points from Abwoch in the loss to Portland, but couldn’t overcome their 21 turnovers.

“We turned the ball over more than we have,” LeGage said. “Some of them were uncharacter-istic. (Portland will) turn you over because they’re up on you and they’re physical, but we had some unforced errors too. We really didn’t get into a good flow until very late. We put them on the foul line 20 times and we only went eight. We have to do a better job of running our offense. Tonight wasn’t a good job of that. With four minutes to go, we started playing with some passion and energy and started making some shots. Hopefully we can build on that. Instead of four minutes of that, we need 32 minutes. (Port-land) played hard. They’re the preseason favorites for a reason. In this environment, you have to execute. It’s Portland-Deering. It doesn’t matter what the situ-ation is or what the records are. It’s always emotionally charged. It’s been that way for the past

decade.”The Rams fell to 12-2 (and

second in Western A) with the loss. After hosting South Portland Tuesday, Deering welcomes Gor-ham Friday and closes next week with games at Cheverus and at home versus Portland.

“For us, it’s a good learning experience,” said LeGage. “(Port-land) exposed things we need to work on. Us coaches need to see what we need to work on and help the kids get better. I’ve always said it’s about putting good seg-ments of play together. Tonight, we didn’t do that. We’ll look at the film and see what caused that. We happen to be in a pod where three of the top four teams are. It’s a real grind.”

Cheverus’ skid hit seven games Friday with a 67-44 loss at South Portland. The final score with mis-leading as Cheverus was within five midway through the third period and only trailed by eight with just over seven minutes to go before the Red Riots pulled away. Drew Ferrick had 11 points in the loss. Saturday, the Stags got in the win column for the first time since Dec. 21 with a 66-43 home win over Massabesic (Noah Stebbins

had 11 points, Zordan Holman 10 and Spencer Noel and Emmanuel Ismail each added nine). Cheverus (4-9 and 13th in Western A, where only 11 teams make the playoffs) was home with Kennebunk Tues-day, goes to Portland Wednesday and visits Thornton Academy Friday before closing next week at home versus Deering and South Portland.

In Western C, Waynflete con-tinues to dazzle. Last week, the Flyers downed visiting Western D power Hyde (70-52) and visit-ing Western B contender Wells (67-60) to improve to 13-1 and first in the Heals. Jack Cutler had 18 points and Serge Nyirikamba 17 versus the Phoenix. Nyiri-kamba added 21 versus the War-riors, while Max Belleau had 15. Waynflete is at North Yarmouth Academy Friday and closes Feb. 7 at Sacopee.

Girls’ basketballOn the girls’ side, McAuley

extended its win streak to 40 with wins last week over over visiting Gorham (72-38) and at Sanford (61-35). Sisters Allie (17 points) and Sarah (15) Clement engaged in another sibling scoring duel in

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the win over the Rams. Against the Spar-tans, Sarah had 16 points and Allie 15, while Olivia Smith and Jackie Welch both added 10. The Lions (14-0 and first in the Western A Heals) were at South Portland Tuesday, go to Westbrook Friday and close next week with home games versus Port-land South Portland.

Deering is second in the Heals with a stellar 14-1 record following victories last week at Windham (38-24) and at home over Portland (55-37). Chelsea Saucier had 14 points and Keneisha DiRamio 10 versus the Eagles. In the win over the Bulldogs, Ma-rissa MacMillan had 20 points and Alexis Stephenson added 14. The Rams return to action Friday at Gorham. They host South Portland Monday and close at home versus Cheverus Wednesday of next week.

The Stags began the week third with a 12-2 mark. Cheverus won at South Port-land (43-33) and Massabesic (83-48) last weekend. Against the Red Riots, Mikayla Mayberry had 13 points, while Brooke Flaherty added 11. Jess Willerson led the way with 21 points versus the Mustangs.

The Stags were at Kennebunk Tuesday, play host to Thornton Academy Friday and close next week at Deering and at home versus South Portland.

Portland would be in the tournament if it began today, as the Bulldogs were 4-10 and 11th in the Heals at press time. Last week, Portland edged host Westbrook, 41-40, and fell at Deering (55-37). In the victory, Elizabeth Donato and Merritt Ryan both had 12 points. Against the Rams, Brianna Holdren had 14 points. The Bulldogs were home with Noble Tuesday and close with games at Massabesic Friday and McAuley and Cheverus next week.

In Western C, Waynflete had a week off, then went to Wells Saturday night. The Warriors were desperate for a win in their playoff quest and shot to a 35-15 lead over the sluggish Flyers at halftime. Then, Waynflete came to life and behind the 3-point shooting of Martha Veroneau got as close as a single point in the fourth quarter, but Wells hit its free throws down the stretch and held on for a 57-49 triumph. Veroneau had 26 points and Julianna Har-wood added 15 in the defeat.

“We started off really slow,” said Vero-neau. “We weren’t the team we usually are.

Sometimes we just don’t realize we have to come in with all our energy or we won’t be able to stick with tough teams. We weren’t playing as hard as we should. Then, we came out and came back from 20 to one. We can look to a lot of good things in the second half. If we work hard, we can come back from pretty much anything.”

“It was a great comeback, but it took too much out of us,” Flyers coach Brandon Salway said. “I think we learned something from it. I hope we learned a lot and we know we can come back. I just hope we’re not down that much anymore.”

Waynflete fell to 10-3 and fifth in the standings with the loss. The Flyers likely won’t be tested again, as they go to Hebron Wednesday and NYA Friday and visit Kents Hill and host Greater Portland Christian School and Sacopee to close next week. If the Flyers move up to third, they’ll avoid a preliminary round playoff game, but regard-less of what happens, this group knows the hour is growing late and that it’s time to display the consistency of the championship team they hope to become.

“We’re going to go into practice Mon-day and work harder,” said Veroneau. “We have seven practices and five games left.

Everything leading up to February break will be crucial. We have to hone in and focus on our goal. Obviously, we have to work harder, but we have a great group and a great coach. It’s a once in a lifetime team. We’re not giving up. This was obviously a tough loss and we’ve had some tough patches during the season, but we’ve had some great games as well and we know we can be where we want to be in February. We just have to work for it.”

“We had a long talk after the game about what we want to do and that it’s going to end abruptly if we don’t fix the beginning,” Salway said. “We’ve talked about the time this group has left. It’s not much. They need to enjoy it and take advantage of the opportunity. It’s a great group to coach. Either way, I and they are going to be bummed when it ends. Hopefully this was our last loss.”

HockeyCheverus’ boys’ hockey team didn’t

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RoundupDeering hires Moody as softball coach

Deering has hired John Moody as its new varsity softball coach. Moody coached Gray-New Gloucester to the Class B championship in 2001 and 2003 and most recently coached at Southern Maine Community College.

Waynflete seeks spring coachWaynflete School is looking for a

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Mixed results for SMCCSouthern Maine Community College’s

basketball teams split at Eastern Maine CC Wednesday. The women prevailed, 77-50, while the men lost, 64-60. Sat-urday, versus visiting Dean College, the women’s squad lost, 67-39, despite 12 points from Katryna Gilson to fall to 12-7 (6-3 in conference). The men were defeated, 69-60, their fourth straight loss. Emmanuel Donalson had 23 points as the Seawolves fell to 16-7 (9-2 in confer-ence). SMCC is at Unity Wednesday and hosts U. Maine-Machias Saturday.

Thursday at home against St. Dom’s. The Stags visit Scarborough Scarborough Sat-urday and play host to Kennebunk Monday.

The Portland/Deering co-op team began the week 6-4, but was in the 10th spot in the Heals (only nine teams make the playoffs). The Bulldogs dominated visit-ing South Portland, 9-2, last Monday as Luigi Grimaldi had three goals and Chris Eye added two. Portland is at Kennebunk Saturday.

On the girls’ side, Cheverus has moved into the fifth and final playoff spot in the West Region with a 5-10-1 mark following Friday’s wild 12-9 win at Gorham (which featured a mind-boggling eight goals from Katie Roy). The Stags host York Thursday and wrap up the regular season Saturday at home versus Scarborough.

Portland/Deering is eighth at 3-11-2 fol-lowing a 1-1 tie at Winslow and a 7-5 home win over Cape Elizabeth/Waynflete last week. Drew Barry had the goal and Leanna

Reichert made 23 saves in the tie. Against the Capers, Barry scored four times and Mia Thurston added a pair of goals. The Bulldogs play host to Gorham Wednesday and finish the season Saturday at home versus Biddeford.

Indoor trackThe Southwestern Maine Activities As-

sociation indoor track championship meet is Saturday at USM in Gorham.

The Class A state championship meet is Feb. 18 at USM. The Class B meet will be contested the same day at Bates College in Lewiston.

SwimmingIn the pool, Cheverus’ boys edged Deer-

ing Friday, 91-78 and Portland lost to Yar-mouth, 91-73. Waynflete competed with Gorham and Hyde. No team scores were available.

On the girls’ side, Deering defeated Cheverus, 93-75, McAuley was a 100-73 winner over South Portland, Portland lost to Yarmouth, 87-80, and Waynflete competed with Gorham and Hyde. No team scores were available.

Deering is home with Cape Elizabeth Friday. Waynflete competes in the southern division Southwesterns Friday and Saturday in Cape Elizabeth. The northern division Southwesterns are the following weekend in Westbrook. The state championships are Feb. 18 (Class A boys at Bowdoin and Class B boys in Orono) and Feb. 19 (Class A girls at Bowdoin and Class B girls in Orono).

SkiingCheverus’ girls were sixth in a six-team

Alpine giant slalom meet at Shawnee Peak Friday. Hanna Sonneson came in seventh individually (a two-run combined time of 1 minute, 22.35 seconds). The Stags boys didn’t score as a team. Joshua Boynton came in 36th (1:39.41).

On the Nordic side, local skiers took part in the Sassi Memorial classical race

at Black Mountain Saturday. Team scores weren’t available, but Portland’s Abby Popenoe had the third-best time on the girls’ side (17 minutes, 41.9 seconds). Teammate Laura Frank was 15th (19:01.1). In the boys’ race, Waynflete’s Josh Espy came in fifth (14:46.8) and Deering’s Kuba Chan-dler was sixth (14:47.6).

WrestlingThe wrestling regular season wrapped

up last week.Deering was a 39-22 winner over Scar-

borough, a 39-30 victor over Biddeford and lost, 66-12, to Windham and 47-15 to Bonny Eagle.

Portland last week beat Kennebunk (24-19) and Biddeford (39-36) and lost to Windham (45-27) and Noble (60-21).

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Wednesday 2/6Scarborough Historical Soci-ety monthly meeting. 7:30 p.m., Scarborough Historical Society Museum, 647 Route 1, Scarbor-ough, 883-5445.

Maine Adventure Club monthly meeting, 7 p.m., Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Avenue, Portland, [email protected].

Thursday 2/7Eggs & Issues: John Baldacci and Rick Bennet of Fix the Debt, 7 a.m., Holiday Inn By the Bay, 88 Spring St., Portland, 772-2811; $17, must register by Feb. 4.

The Editorial Board public discus-sion forum., 5:30 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700 ext. 729.

Community meeting with State Senator Rebecca Millett (D-Cape Elizabeth), 7 p.m., South Portland Community Center, 21 Nelson Road, 232-5892.

Sunday 2/10Sleigh Day, 12 p.m., Skyline Farm, 95 The Lane, North Yarmouth, 829-5708.

Call for VolunteersOpportunity Alliance is looking for foster grandparent and senior companion volunteers, 15 hours a week, 55 or older, for more infor-mation call 773-0202.

The Maine Boat Builder’s Show seeks volunteers to help staff and run the show March 15 through March 17. Volunteer 4 hours and receive free admission to the show, and/or a show t-shirt. For more information please contact Vol-unteer Coordinator Kerry Ratigan 615-6271 or [email protected].

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Saturday 2/2Church Supper, 4:30 p.m., Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church, 280 Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth, 883-5344.

Baked bean supper, 5-6 p.m., Cas-co Lodge, 20 Mill St., Yarmouth, $8 adults/$5 children, 846-4724.

Friday 2/8Haddock chowder lunch, 11:30 a.m., South Freeport Congrega-tional Church, 98 South Freeport Road, South Freeport, 865-4012, $8, every second and fourth Friday through March.

Garden & OutdoorsThursday 1/31Foraging for edible mushrooms and medicinal mushrooms: Grand adventures and possible pitfalls, 7 p.m., Freeport Community Center, 53 Depot St., Freeport, 865-3985.

Getting Smarter Thursday 1/31Basic Computer Training II, 10 a.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland,

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Brown, BAND Band, Beachams and BeethovenBy Scott Andrews

The second letter of the alphabet provides the common theme for four of this week’s picks of the tix. Otherwise, it’s a fairly disparate lineup.

Fiddler Erica Brown is riding at the top of the Pine Tree State’s traditional music scene these days. The Maine Arts Com-mission has dubbed her a “Master Artist of Traditional Fiddling,” and she’ll be appear-ing with her bluegrass band at Portland’s One Longfellow Square this Friday.

The next night The THE BAND Band, a tribute to the music of Bob Dylan, is play-ing One Longfellow Square.

Graybert Beacham is an outstanding violinist, while wife Karen Beacham is an equally outstanding clarinetist. Hailing from Farmington, the two Beachams will be performing together this Sunday as guests of the Portland String Quartet.

The Portland Symphony Orchestra’s Feb. 5 concert features the most famous work by the most famous composer in all of clas-sical music: Symphony No. 5 of Ludwig van Beethoven. Its opening four notes are familiar to millions of people who have never heard another scrap of classical.

Erica Brown and Bluegrass Connection

How time flies. It seems like only yester-day that I was attending bluegrass festivals and Franco music gatherings and notic-ing a precocious child fiddler playing far better than most longtime veterans of the instrument. A dozen years and many prizes and honors later, Erica Brown is a young woman who’s recognized as one of Maine’s premier old-time musicians.

She has recorded five albums and has opened concerts for several national touring stars. Equally fluent in several time-honored fiddling styles, for the past couple of years Brown’s main interest has been bluegrass. She teaches at the 317 Main Street Commu-nity Music Center in Yarmouth, plus she’s a member of The Stowaways, Record Family Band and has often collaborated with blue-grass singer-songwriter Ted DeMille.

She’s appearing this Friday at Portland’s One Longfellow Square with her own four-man band, Bluegrass Connection. Brown has played this venue often, and held the CD release party there to promote her

Fiddler Erica Brown fronts Bluegrass Connection, a traditional Maine string band that will play this Friday at One Longfellow Square in Portland.

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most recent effort, “From Now On,” two years ago.

Erica Brown and Bluegrass Connection play at 8 p.m. Feb. 1 at One Longfellow Square, corner of State and Congress in Portland. Call 761-1757.

The THE BAND BandThe Band was one of the pioneering

groups of roots-rockers in the 1960s and 1970s. These five Canadian men got started as a backup band – hence the name – for a number of stars. They started with Ronnie Hawkins and later toured for years with Bob Dylan.

Plus The Band recorded 10 albums under their own curiously generic moniker, mostly songs written by members. Three of the best-remembered tunes are “The Weight,” “Up On Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” About 10 years ago Rolling Stone magazine gave them the No. 50 ranking in its “100 Great-est Artists of All Time.”

The Band’s exuberant decades of roots-rock are recalled by a tribute act that calls itself The THE BAND Band, five guys who look and sound like the originals. All are longtime veteran performers who have “banded” together on this project for the

sheer love of performing the music. The fivesome will be performing this Satur-day in Portland in a program that they’re describing as “a nod to Bob, featuring the songs of Bob Dylan.” Plus they’re promis-ing to play a selection of The Band’s own independent hits.

Catch The THE BAND Band at 8 p.m. Feb. 2 at One Longfellow Square, corner of State and Congress in Portland. Call 761-1757.

Portland String QuartetI love the combination of strings and

woodwinds in classical music, so I find this Sunday’s concert by the Portland String Quartet to be especially appealing. Clari-netist Karen Beacham, a music professor at the University of Maine at Farmington, will be the featured guest in a performance of Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Quintet in B-flat Major.

She’ll be joined by PSQ violinist Ron Lantz, violist Julia Adams and cellist Paul Ross. Husband Graybert Beacham, also a UMF music professor, will substitute for violinist Stephen Kecskemethy during his illness.

Also scheduled are Franz Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in D Major and Gordon Jacob’s Sonatina for Two Violas, with Graybert Beacham switching to viola for this piece. Jacob was an English composer and pedagogue who wrote and published more than 400 works in the middle of the 20th century, but his music was character-ized by conservative 18th- and 19th-century

stylistic leanings.Catch the Portland String Quartet and

guests at 2 p.m. Feb. 3 at Woodford’s Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St. in Portland. Call the LARK Society at 761-1522.

Portland Symphony OrchestraWho’s the most famous classical com-

poser in history? Most people, even those with zero interest in classical music, know the answer: Ludwig van Beethoven. And his most famous work? Again, Symphony No. 5, with its distinctive dum-dum-dum-DUUUUUM opening phrase, is the quick answer.

Portland Symphony Orchestra maestro Robert Moody has programmed No. 5 to anchor the Feb. 5 Classical Tuesday concert.

PSO program annotator Mark Rohr notes that the opening phrase, the “motive,” drives the work’s endless fascination for longtime classical fans (such as myself) and relative newcomers to the genre.

“The essence of the motive is rhythm; three short notes, one long,” explains Rohr. “This rhythm is pervasive: you find it ev-erywhere you look.”

And it propels the entire symphony from the outset. “In the first movement of the Fifth Symphony, nearly every note that follows can be traced back to Beethoven’s simple four-note motive,” comments Rohr. “This is what gives the music its inexorable inner logic and its extraordinary power.”

Two more “B-list” items precede No. 5: Bela Bartok’s “Miraculous Mandarin” and “Butterfly Lovers” by He Zhanhao and Chen Gung. The first is an orchestral suite derived from an earlier ballet score. It dates from 1928, but is based on much earlier work. Rohr notes that the composer’s cen-tral message is “the unconquerable power of human aspiration over every obstacle – even death.”

“Butterfly Lovers” is described as a concerto for violin and orchestra, and pre-miered in Shanghai in 1959. A few years later it was severely condemned by the Chinese Communist Party as “western,” “bourgeois” and “corrupt” and the com-posers were placed under house arrest and given a punitive “re-education.”

Only in more recent decades has “But-terfly Lovers” been performed in its native country, and Rohr notes that it is steadily finding favor with wider audiences.

Catch the Portland Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 5 at Merrill Auditorium at Portland City Hall. Call PortTix at 842-0800.


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Reader’s Circle discussion of “Let the Great World Spin,” Mer-rill Memorial Library, 215 Main St., Yarmouth, 846-4763.

Friday 2/1Former Rep. Tom Allen presents “Dangerous Convictions: What’s Re-ally Wrong with the U.S. Congress,” Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Square, Portland, 772-4045.

Tuesday 2/5“A Study in Revenge” book discus-sion, 6:30 p.m., Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, 781-2351.

Wednesday 2/6Brown Bag Lecture Series: “Life Among Giants,” Bill Roorbach, 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700 ext. 723.

Saturday 2/9Josh Pahigian reading and book signing, 2 p.m., Thomas Memorial Library, Cape Elizabeth, 799-1720.

Film Wednesday 1/30“Only the Young,” 7 p.m., SPACE, 538 Congress St., Portland, $7, 828-5600.

Free Thursday Midday Movies: “The Long, Hot Summer,” 1 p.m., Freeport Community Library, 10 Library Drive, Freeport, 865-3307.

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Thursday 1/31Paintings and Prints: by Laurie Hadlock and Carrie Lonsdale, 6-8 p.m., through April 15, Thos. Moser Showroom, 149 Main St., Freeport, 865-4519.

Friday 2/1Afterthoughts, 5-8 p.m., through April 3, The Green Hand Bookshop, 661 Congress St., Portland, 253-6808.

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MusicWednesday 1/30ETHEL: Present Beauty, 7:30 p.m., USM Hannaford Hall, Bedford St., Portland, $40/$10 students, 842-0800, portlandovations.org.

Thursday 1/31Noonday Concerts: Mark Tipton and Anastasia Antonacos, 12:15 p.m., First Parish Unitarian Univer-salist Church, 425 Congress St., Portland, 775-3356.

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Sunday 2/3Portland String Quartet, 2 p.m., Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland, $22 general/$20 seniors/students free, 761-1522.

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Friday 2/1“Hardwater” film screening, 7 p.m., Merrymeeting Arts Center, 9 Maine St., Bowdoinham, 841-5914; $5.

Latin American Film Festival, “Post Mortem,” 7 p.m., Kresge Auditorium, Bowdoin College, 5000 South St., Brunswick, 725-3522.

Sunday 2/3“Bottled Life: The truth about Nes-tle’s business with water,” 3 p.m., Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St., Brunswick.

GalleriesFrom the Heart, through March 31, Fri.-Mon. 10 a.m.- 5 p.m., Markings Gallery, 50 Front St., Bath, 443-1499.

MusicThursday 1/31KinderKonzert, 9:30 and 10:30 a.m., Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School, 116 Maquoit Road, Brunswick.

Saturday 2/2PCM French Music Concert. 3 p.m., Woodfords Church, 202 Woodfords St., Portland, 775-3356.

Thursday 2/7Portland Conservatory Noonday Concerts: DaPonte String Quartet, 12:15 p.m., First Unitarian Univer-salist Church, 425 Congress St., Portland, 775-3356.

Friday 2/8Rob Schreiber’s Standard Issue, 6:30 p.m., Marriott at Sable Oaks, 200 Sable Oaks Drive, South Port-land, 712-0930.

Theater/DanceWinter Cabaret, Jan. 25 - Feb. 10; 8 p.m. Fri./Sat.; 2 p.m. Sunday, adults only, pay-what-you-want ($18 sug-gested), The Theater Project, 14 School St., Brunswick, 729-8584, theaterproject.com.

Thursday 2/7“Theater of War,” 7 p.m., Kresge Auditorium, Bowdoin College, 5000 South St., Brunswick, 718-624-0351.

Friday 2/8“End of Life,” 12:30 p.m., Kresge Auditorium, Bowdoin College, 5000 South St., Brunswick, 725-3617.


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hours a day, seven days a week.”On Wednesday night, teams of volunteers are scheduled

to comb shelters, parks, streets and other locations to con-duct a “point-in-time” census of homeless individuals in the city. Portland is one of 3,000 jurisdictions that make an annual survey each January, as a requirement of receiv-ing funds for shelters and other assistance from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Mayor Michael Brennan and HUD Maine Field Office Director William Burney are scheduled to join the volun-teers conducting this year’s count.

“The point-in-time survey is a critical resource for the city as its helps the community better understand the reali-ties of homelessness,” Brennan said in a press release. “At a time when resources are diminishing and numbers are increasing, it is clear that we need to do more for the city’s and state’s most vulnerable.”

An average of 425 people now seek refuge in one of six shelters in Portland each night, according to City Hall data. Since the beginning of the economic downturn four years ago, the number of people seeking shelter has grown 20 percent each year.

“The number is at a level we’ve never seen before. ‘Cri-sis’ is not too strong a word for this situation,” Gardner said.

The reason for the continuing rise isn’t clear, because there are “multifaceted” causes of homelessness, including job loss and untreated mental illness or substance abuse, he said. But the effect of the crisis is “unsustainable.”

The crisis may also be part of the reason for an apparent increase in panhandling.

Not every homeless individual asks for money – and vice versa – and the city doesn’t keep records of the number of panhandlers. But Gardner said the number “anecdotally” seems to be greater than last year.

Allen, too, said there is a growing number of people in situations similar to his.

“I never realized how many people have to do this,” he said as traffic streamed by the median. “There are people almost everywhere now. It’s sad.”

Six months ago, the City Council rejected a proposal to ban pedestrians from medians except when crossing the street, a measure critics said was a thinly veiled attempt to clamp down on panhandling.

On Sunday, Allen said he’d made about $25 for the day.“I consider that to be great,” he said. “But it all has to

do with the public, the generosity of people who happen to be coming by.”

A driver once gave Allen a book, he said. Another gave him a pair of hand-warmers. When he collected enough money, he bought himself another pair.

Being homeless in frigid weather requires caution and creativity.

Allen said he takes breaks in a fast-food restaurant, the Whole Foods supermarket across the street, or anywhere he can get out of the cold for a few minutes. At night, he some-times stays at a friend’s home, but usually is at a shelter.

On Sunday, he wore a parka that partially concealed his face, and said he sometimes covered it with a scarf too. “The scarf also helps because to be honest, I feel embar-rassed standing here,” he said. “But people get creeped out by it.”

He said another homeless man, who frequents the St. John Street area, had scraped enough money together to join an inexpensive gym, in order to have access to its bathrooms and a place to get warm.

“That’s not a bad idea,” Allen said.As sunset approached, he said it was time for him to walk

elsewhere. He’d been standing on the median about a half hour, and it was a much-sought spot.

“There’s a guy, he’s a father, right over there waiting,” he said, pointing to a man who stood next to Whole Foods. “I

try to share. We all try to share, even the drinkers.”He shouted to the man, explaining that a reporter was

about to leave.“I was always the kind of guy who would drive by, never

give people (standing here) a buck, because I figured they were going to put it into booze or drugs,” Allen said. “When I get back on my feet, and I think I will someday, I’m going to help people out like I’ve been helped. ... All I need is a job. I’ve just never been in this situation before.”

William Hall can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 106 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @hallwilliam4.



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Panhandlingfrom page 1

“As Maine’s largest city, we have a responsibility to lead and demonstrate to others that by enacting reason-able policies we can make a real difference in the effort to halt climate change and reduce greenhouse emissions,” Brennan said.

The companies involved with the pipeline say there aren’t even plans at the moment to use it for tar sands. And critics of the proposed ban say it could hurt business and be difficult to enforce.

Jamie Pye, president of the Maine Energy Marketers Association said the ban would be impractical because tar sands cannot be easily identified and separated from other forms of petroleum.

“The city cannot ban what it ban what it cannot define,” he said.

Ultimately, the council voted neither for nor against the ban. Instead, it sent the proposal back to its Transportation, Sustainability and Energy Committee for further review.Noah Hurowitz can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 115 or [email protected].

Tar sandsfrom page 2


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He also outlined challenges, such as federally mandated improvements to the city’s storm-water system, the increas-ing number of people experiencing homelessness, and reductions in state and federal budgets.

“We need help from the state, and we need help from the federal government,” Brennan said. “We will do our part, but we can’t do it alone.”

Education was another focus of the mayor’s remarks.

“I want to be able to assure parents that Portland schools are some of the best in Maine, and some of the best in the country,” he said.

He said his goal for Portland is a school system in which 99 percent of students graduate from high school and then have an opportunity to attend college. He also said City Hall would announce a major new “education partnership” in the coming weeks, but did not go into detail.

Portland, Brennan said, is much changed from the city his grandmother found when she arrived from Ireland in 1909.

As an example, he mentioned an October visit by the vice president of the one-year-old country of South Su-dan, Riek Machar, who addressed hundreds of the city’s Sudanese-American residents at Portland High School.

“I’m proud of the way Portland has greeted its new resi-dents,” Brennan said, although he noted that more must be done to bridge language barriers and provide job training for the city’s immigrants.

Food security is another area where Portland can make improvements, Brennan said.

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He noted that more than 500 people turned to Preble Street Resource Center for an evening meal Friday, the highest number ever. And 80 to 85 percent of the city’s food is imported from outside the state, he said, putting residents at risk if there is a disruption in the food supply.

“The ripple effect is huge,” he said.Last year, Brennan created a task force on healthy and

sustainable food systems. He said Monday that one of its goals is to increase the use of locally produced food in city schools from the current level ot 30 percent to 50 percent by 2015.

As he closed his address, Brennan recounted a story of talking with a Japanese exchange student. When he asked

the student what he would remember most about the city, the student mentioned three things: restaurants, brew-houses and the kindness of its residents.

“I want to be able to say that we are creating a kinder community,” Brennan said. “A community that understands everyone has a role to play and a contribution to make.”William Hall can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 106 or [email protected].

Follow him on Twitter: @hallwilliam4.

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