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FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012 VOL. 3 NO. 254 PORTLAND, ME PORTLAND’S DAILY NEWSPAPER 699-5801

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Gulls of Portland;

elder aviators

See Cliff Gallant, page 4

One dead in I-295 crash

See page 7Concerns have been raised that there isn’t enough space on the Maine State Pier for city and Casco Bay Lines vessels, including a 2009 fi re boat and a yet-to-be-built ferry. Here, a water taxi pulls in to the left of a Portland Fire Department fi re boat Thursday. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Groups plan ballot question. See the story on page 3

Same-sex marriage: Round two in Maine

Maine State Pier pressure? Water taxi operator worries city has eye on private dock; city councilor

says no push to limit public access — Page 8

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Pentagon plans base closings, smaller raises

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon took the fi rst major step toward shrinking after a decade of war as it announced on Thursday that it wanted to limit pay raises for troops, increase health insurance fees for military retirees and close bases in the United States.

Although the pay-raise limits are modest, and would not start until 2015, the proposed cuts are certain to ignite a political fi ght in Congress, which since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has consistently raised military sal-aries beyond what the Pentagon has recommended.

Increasing health insurance fees for former service mem-bers and closing bases are also fraught with political risk, par-ticularly in an election year when the Republican presiden-tial candidates are charging that President Obama is deci-mating the military.

Next year’s Pentagon budget is to be $525 billion, down from $531 billion in this fi scal year. As the Pentagon is called on to fi nd $259 billion in cuts over

the next fi ve years — and $487 billion over the decade — the department’s base budget (not counting the costs of Afghani-stan or other wars) will none-theless rise to $567 billion by 2017. For comparison, the cur-rent Defense Department base budget is $531 billion.

Although troops left Iraq and the Obama administration has announced plans to drawn down in Afghanistan, the new budget proposal will include a request for $88.4 billion to pay for overseas combat operations next year. The current combat contingency account is $115 bil-lion.

The modest changes to mili-tary pay and benefi ts were an acknowledgement of the politi-cal risk of loading budget cuts on the backs of active-duty and retired personnel. Other savings are to come, as expected, from reducing the size of the military and canceling or stretching out weapons purchases.

Presenting an equal political challenge was an announce-ment by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta that President Obama will ask for another round of base closings and

realignments — never popular with a Congress that tries to preserve military spending, and jobs, in local districts.

Pentagon offi cials said sav-ings from any future base clos-ings were not factored into the fi ve-year budget that Mr. Panetta was sending to the White House, but one offi cial described the closings as “the right thing to do.”

There were already objections on Thursday morning, hours before Mr. Panetta made his public presentation. Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Dem-ocrat who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Com-mittee, told reporters that until the United States shut down some American military bases in Europe, “I’m not going to be able to support” closing down bases in the United States.

Mr. Panetta has disclosed that two heavy Army brigades will come home from Europe over the next decade, leaving an airborne brigade and a Stryker cavalry brigade on the conti-nent.

Most of the broad outlines, and even many of the fi ner details, of the budget cuts described

Thursday by Mr. Panetta and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chair-man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were previously disclosed.

But even as the adminis-tration vows to focus on the Asia-Pacifi c region while not decreasing American infl uence and deterrence in the Persian Gulf, a number of warship and jet-fi ghter programs useful in long-range missions are being trimmed.

Purchases of the Marines’ F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will be stretched out over more years, in order to accrue immediate savings. Six of the 60 Air Force tactical jet-fi ghter squadrons will be eliminated.

To fi nd savings, the Navy will retire seven cruisers, and slow work on amphibious ships and an attack submarine. Two lit-toral combat ships will be elimi-nated.

But all 11 aircraft carriers, the Navy’s crown jewels, will be preserved.

As previously disclosed, the Army will drop to 490,000 per-sonnel, from 570,000, and the Marine Corps to 182,000, from a post-Sept. 11, 2001, peak of 202,000.

BY ELISABETH BUMILLERTHE NEW YORK TIMES

Alcohol the role model in Colo. push to legalize pot

DENVER — Proponents of marijuana have argued for years that the drug is safer than alcohol, both to individuals and society. But a ballot proposal to legalize possession of marijuana in small amounts in Colorado, likely to be on the November ballot, is putting the two intoxi-cants back into the same sen-tence, urging voters to “regulate marijuana like alcohol,” as the ballot proposition’s title puts it.

Given alcohol’s long and checkered history — the tens of thousands of deaths each year; the social ravages of alcoholism — backers of the pro-marijuana measure concede there is a risk of looking as if they have cozied up too much, or are comparable, to old demon rum.

“Why add another vice, right?” said Mason Tvert, a co-director of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, which has led the ballot drive. “But we’re not adding a vice — we’re providing an alternative.”

The goal of legalization, Mr. Tvert added, is not to make access to marijuana easier, but rather, “to make our commu-nities safer by regulating this substance, taking it out of the underground market, control-ling it and better keeping it away from young people.”

The debate here and in Wash-ington State — where mem-bers of a pro-legalization group have also submitted what they say are more than enough sig-natures to secure a spot on the ballot — is premised on the idea that marijuana has become, if not quite mainstream, then at least no longer alien to the aver-age voter. Medical marijuana is already legal in both states.

But greater familiarity with marijuana could be a double-edged sword, opponents say.

Medical marijuana dispensa-ries, especially in Colorado, have exploded in number in the last few years — some with medical-sounding names, others gar-ishly suggestive in their names and imagery of the intoxicating substances on sale within. More

than 88,000 Colorado residents have medical marijuana cards, according to the most recent state fi gures, with young men in their 20s and 30s — many of them suffering debilitating pain, according to their doctor-signed certifi cates — dispropor-tionately represented.

And many Colorado commu-nities have been actively debat-ing medical marijuana — and saying no to it. Eighty-fi ve Colo-rado communities have banned or halted openings of dispen-saries, through popular vote or through their city councils or commissions, and where a municipality posed the question to voters, marijuana has lost 88.1 percent of the time, accord-ing to the Colorado Municipal League, an association of city governments.

The federal government, meanwhile, in states from Cali-fornia to Montana, has also been cracking down on medical marijuana growers and sellers who prosecutors say have gone beyond what is allowed in their states.

Some critics of legalization say that medical marijuana’s growth, and the abuse of medi-cines that leak out to become recreational, foreshadow the dangers if accessibility is increased. Washington’s mea-sure would be a statutory legal change, while Colorado’s would amend the State Constitution.

“It’s largely state-sanctioned fraud,” said Colorado’s attor-ney general, John W. Suthers, a harsh critic of the medical mari-juana system who is speaking out against the ballot measure. “We have thousands and thou-sands of people lying to doctors, saying they have a debilitating medical condition.”

And some doctors are going along with the ruse, Mr. Suthers said, “practicing sub-standard medicine by actually closing their eyes.”

Supporters of legalization agree that medical marijuana — now legal in 16 states and the District of Columbia — has led to abuses, and that many voters are angry and disgusted with how things have unfolded.

BY KIRK JOHNSONTHE NEW YORK TIMES

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SAYWHAT...‘Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.”

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(NY Times) — In a new study published in the jour-nal Science, a team of sci-entists at Michigan State University describes how viruses evolved a new way of infecting cells in about two weeks.

Some critics have ques-tioned whether such a change could have hap-pened on its own. The new research suggests that new traits based on mul-tiple mutations can indeed occur with frightening speed.

The Michigan research-ers studied a virus known as lambda. It is harmless to humans, infecting only the gut bacterium Escherichia coli. Justin Meyer, a gradu-ate student in the biol-ogy laboratory of Richard Lenski, wondered whether lambda might be able to evolve an entirely new way of getting into its host.

The standard way for lambda to get into a cell is to latch onto its outer membrane, attaching to a particular kind of mol-ecule on the surface of E. coli. It can then inject its genes and proteins into the microbe.Meyer set up an experiment in which E. coli made almost none of the molecules that the virus grabs onto. Now few of the viruses could get into the bacteria. The scientists found that in just 15 days, there were viruses using a new molecule — a channel in E. coli known as OmpF. Lambda viruses had never been reported to use OmpF before. Meyer was surprised not just by how fast the change happened, but that it happened at all. “I thought it would be a wild goose chase,” he said.

To see if this result was just a fl uke, Meyer ran his experiment over again, this time with 96 separate lines. The viruses in 24 of the lines also evolved to use OmpF.

The researchers then sequenced the genomes of the evolved viruses and were surprised to fi nd that this transformation always required four mutations. In all the lines that could grab OmpF, those four mutations were identical, or nearly so. No single mutation could allow the viruses to start latching onto OmpF. Even three out of four mutations brought no change. Only after they developed all four muta-tions could the viruses make the switch.

The results from the experiment suggest that the mutations initially help the viruses do a better job of hooking onto the origi-nal molecules after they became scarce. “When you put all four together, you get this entirely new function,” Meyer said.

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Groups plan same-sex marriage question for fall ballotOpponents: ‘We’re dismayed that they would bring this issue back’

Three years after the state’s gay marriage law was narrowly repealed at the polls, a coalition that includes EqualityMaine, Gay and Lesbian Advo-cates and Defenders and ACLU of Maine announced plans to launch a citizen initiative this fall to legal-ize same-sex marriage.

Despite the outcome of a similar ballot referen-dum in November 2009, supporters are confi dent the measure will pass this year, pointing to internal polls that suggest a majority now favors allowing same-sex couples to marry.

“We really do feel like we have a great chance of winning the freedom to marry in 2012,” said Matt McTighe, with Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders.

“We have really spent several years working on the issue, working to educate Mainers on marriage and we have spent the last several months thinking about the decision (about whether to launch the ref-erendum),” McTighe continued. “We wouldn’t have gone forward if we didn’t think we would (win).”

The title of the proposed Citizens Initiative is “An Act to Allow Marriage Licenses for Same-Sex Cou-ples and Protect Religious Freedom.”

The proposed ballot question wording submitted

will ask this question: “Do you favor a law allowing marriage licenses for same-sex couples, and that protects religious freedom by ensuring that no reli-gion or clergy be required to perform such a mar-riage in violation of their religious beliefs?”

As it stands, Maine is the only New England state that does not offer some form of legal recognition for same-sex couples. Gay marriage is legal in Connecti-cut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. Rhode Island allows civil unions between same-sex couples, which conveys some but not all benefi ts of marriage.

Yesterday’s announcement in Augusta sets the stage for what will essentially be a rematch of the 2009 referendum. In that contest, churches and other conservative organizations led the effort to repeal a gay marriage law passed earlier that year by the legislature, while EqualityMaine, GLAD and others worked to preserve the law.

News of this year's referendum drew a swift response from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Port-land, which pledged to fi ght the gay marriage refer-endum “head on.”

“After the bitterly divisive campaign of 2009, in which Maine people clearly and decisively voted against changing the meaning of marriage, we’re dismayed that they would bring this issue back for yet another vote,” said Brian Souchet, director of the Offi ce for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage at the diocese, in a statement.

“Marriage is an institution that cannot be arbitrarily

redefi ned to accommodate adult desires for public affi rmation or state-sponsored benefi ts,” he added.

Even with opposition from the Catholic Church and other faith-based groups, supporters of the ref-erendum believe support has swung their way over the past few years. Canvassers gathered more than 100,000 signatures this fall to qualify for the 2012 ballot, and a host of internal polls that suggest 54 percent of Mainers now support allowing same-sex couples to marry.

“The number of signatures we gathered and the thoughtful conversations we’ve been having with voters tell us that Mainers are eager to speak on this question again,” said Betsy Smith, executive director of EqualityMaine, in a statement. She added that, “Many Mainers have changed their minds and want a chance to bring equality and fairness to our state.”

It should be noted, however, that polls leading up to the 2009 referendum showed a similar majority of Mainers supporting gay marriage, even though the law was ultimately repealed by a 53-47 margin.

McTighe noted that there are also advantages to holding the referendum during a presidential year versus an off year. Others have speculated that changing demographics over the past three years tend to favor same-sex marriage supporters.

For now, a political action committee and a website have been set up, but an actual campaign in sup-port of the referendum is still several weeks away, McTighe said.

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Moonen announces bid for Maine House seat

West End resident Matt Moonen announced this week that he was run-ning for the Maine House in District 118, a seat being vacated by fellow Democrat Jon Hinck.

In a statement, Moonen expressed concern with Republican proposals emerging from Gov. Paul LePage.

“Rather than working together to get things done, the current adminis-tration has been playing politics with divisive attacks on health care, work-ers’ rights, and education. District 118 is the progressive leader for the state, and we need someone who has a record of success in standing up for our shared values,” he said.

Moonen is a former political direc-tor for EqualityMaine, and worked on the 2009 ballot referendum to pre-serve Maine’s gay marriage law. More recently, he has worked with Maine Citizens for Clean Elections and is the current vice chair of the Portland Democratic City Committee.

Green Party candidate Tom Mac-Millan and Democrat Dillon Bates are also running for the seat in District 118, which includes the West End, Libbytown and the St. John-Valley Street neighborhoods.

Chipman running for re-election in District 119

State Rep. Ben Chipman said this week that he intends to seek re-election in District 119, which covers Parkside and Bayside on the Portland Peninsula. Chipman was elected to his fi rst two-year term in 2010.

Chipman, who is not enrolled in a political party, serves on the House Veterans and Legal Affairs committee, which handles bills deal-ing with election law and landlord-tenant law, among other things.

Chipman is one of two Indepen-dent candidates

in the Maine Legislature. He shares an offi ce with the other Independent, state Sen. Dick Woodbury from Yar-mouth.

In a brief interview yesterday, Chip-man said he intends to “run on his record and let the voters decide.”

Several candidates have discussed running in the past, including former District 119 representative Herb Adams, but none have announced a bid for the seat.

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Drop your hot dog in Monument Square and the fi ve second rule will do you no good. A seagull’s prob-ably got it within two. It’s likely that one’s been hov-ering above you like a hummingbird since his hawk eyes spotted you with your arms full trying to stuff your lunch into your mouth. They’re a very smart bird, and focused like you wouldn’t believe. Precisely at the moment of the fateful drop one dives down straight and fast and zappo, the bird and your lunch

Gulls of Portland, elder carnivores of the air

Cliff Gallant

–––––Daily Sun Columnist

are up on the ledge at the top of One City Center. Hey, shrug it off, you’ve been had by the best. And, after all, this is Portland, the guy at the hot dog stand will probably chuckle and give you another one.

Most of the gulls around here are imaginatively named Large White-Headed Sea Gulls, differ-entiating them from the smaller variety found in less consequen-tial places evidently. They’re offi -cially known as “ground nesting carnivores,” which, to me, means that they’re a land animal that can fl y, which is what the rest of us ground nesting carnivores would go for if given the chance. Seagulls are also among the most long-lived creatures on earth, one having been known to live for forty-nine years. So some of the ones you see hanging around Monument Square might be the same ones who were there in the 1960s. Which is also true for a few pony-tailed characters I could point out.

Seagulls “demonstrate complex methods of com-munication and live according to a highly developed

see GALLANT page 5

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The U.S. government is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricature of hypocrisy. Leon Panetta, a former congress-man who Obama appointed CIA director and now head of the Pen-tagon, just told the sailors on the USS Enterprise, an aircraft car-rier, that the U.S. is maintaining a fl eet of 11 aircraft carriers in order to project sea power against Iran and to convince Iran that “it’s better for them to try to deal with us through diplomacy.”

If it requires 11 aircraft carri-ers to deal with Iran, how many will Panetta need to project power against Russia and China? But to get on with the main point, Iran has been trying “to deal with us through diplomacy.” The response from Washington has been bellig-erent threats of military attack, unfounded and irresponsible accusations that Iran is making a nuclear weapon, sanctions and an oil embargo. Washington’s accusations echo Israel’s and are contradicted by Washington’s own intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Why doesn’t Washing-ton respond to Iran in a civilized manner with diplomacy? Really, which of the two countries is the greatest threat to peace?

Washington sends the FBI to

Drowning in hypocrisy

raid the homes of peace activists and puts a grand jury to work to create a case against them for aiding a nebulous enemy by pro-testing Washington’s wars. The Department of Homeland Secu-rity unleashes goon cop thugs to brutalize peaceful Occupy Wall Street demonstrators. Washing-ton fabricates cases against Brad-ley Manning, Julian Assange, and Tarek Mehanna that negate the First Amendment by equat-ing free speech with terrorism and spying. Chicago mayor and former Obama White House chief-of-staff, Rahm Israel Eman-uel, pushes an ordinance that outlaws public protests in the City of Chicago. The list goes on. And in the midst of it all Secre-tary of State Hillary Clinton and other Washington hypocrites accuse Russia and China of sti-fl ing dissent.

Washington’s grotesque hypoc-risy goes unremarked by the American “media” and in the

debates for the Republican presi-dential nomination. The corrupt Obama “Justice” Department turns a blind eye while goon cop thugs commit gratuitous violence against the citizens who pay the goon cop thugs’ undeserved sala-ries.

But it is in the War Crimes Arena where Washington shows the greatest hypocrisy. The self-righteous bigots in Washington are forever rounding up heads of weak states whose countries were affl icted by civil wars and sending them off to be tried as war crimi-nals. All the while Washington indiscriminately kills large num-bers of civilians in six or more countries, dismissing its own war crimes as “collateral damage.” Washington violates its own law and international law by tortur-ing people.

On January 13, 2012, Carol Rosenberg of McClatchy Newspa-pers reported that Spanish judge Pablo Rafael Ruz Gutierrez re-launched an investigation into Washington’s torture of prison-ers in Guantanamo Prison. The previous day British authorities opened an investigation into CIA renditions of kidnapped persons to Libya for torture.

see ROBERTS page 5

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Rosenberg reports that although the Obama regime has refused to investigate the obvi-ous crimes of the Bush regime, and one might add its own obvi-ous crimes, “other countries are still interested in determining whether Bush-era anti-terror practices violated international law.”

There is no question that Bush/Cheney/Obama have trashed the U.S. Constitution, U.S. statutory law, and international law. But Washington, having overthrown justice, has established that might is right. No foreign govern-ment is going to send its forces into the U.S. to drag the war criminals out and place them on trial.

The War Criminal Court at the Hague is reserved for Wash-ington’s show trials. No foreign government is going to pay Wash-ington several hundred millions of dollars to turn Bush, Cheney, Obama and their minions over to them in the way the U.S. bought Milosevic from Serbia in order to create the necessary spectacle at the War Crimes Tribunal to jus-tify Washington’s naked aggres-sion against Serbia.

No government can be perfect, because all governments are composed of humans, especially those humans most attracted by power and profi t. Nevertheless, in my lifetime I have witnessed

an extraordinary deterioration in the integrity of government in the United States. We have reached the point where noth-ing that our government says is believable. Not even the unem-ployment rate, the infl ation rate, the GDP growth rate, much less Washington’s reasons for its wars, its police state, and its for-eign and domestic policies.

Washington has kept America at war for 10 years while mil-lions of Americans lost their jobs and their homes. War and a fal-tering economy have exploded the national debt, and a looming bankruptcy is being blamed on Social Security and Medicare.

The pursuit of war continues. On Jan. 23 Washington’s servile puppets — the EU member states — did Washington’s bidding and imposed an oil embargo on Iran, despite the pleas of Greece, a member of the EU. Greece’s fi nal ruin will come from the higher oil prices from the embargo, as the Greek government realizes.

The embargo is a reckless act. If the U.S. navy tries to intercept oil tankers carrying Iranian oil, large scale war could break out. This, many believe, is Washing-ton’s aim.

It is easy for an embargo to become a blockade, which is an act of war. Remember how easily the UN Security Council’s “no-fl y zone” over Libya was turned by the U.S. and its NATO puppets into a military attack on Libya’s

armed forces and population cen-ters supportive of Gaddafi .

As the western “democracies” become increasingly lawless, the mask of law that imperialism wears is stripped away and with it the sheen of morality that has been used to cloak hegemonic ambitions. With Iran surrounded and with two of Washington’s fl eets in the Persian Gulf, another war of aggression seems inevita-ble.

Experts say that an attack on Iran by the U.S. and NATO will disrupt the fl ow of oil that the world needs. The crazed drive for hegemony is so compelling that Washington and its EU puppets show no hesitation in putting their own struggling economies at risk of sharply rising energy costs.

War abroad and austerity at home is the policy that is being imposed on the western “democ-racies.”

(Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Jour-nal, has been reporting shock-ing cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, “The Tyranny of Good Intentions,” co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a docu-mented account of how Ameri-cans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random House.)

ROBERTS from page 4

Washington has kept America at war for 10 years

social structure,” so they can talk and in different ways, depending who they’re talking to and what they want to say. Like us. Only their voices carry a little further.

Another characteristic of seagulls is that they’re mobile from birth, which means that they don’t hang around the nest for very long after they’re born in the spring the way other birds do. They ought to, actually, given the way they amble around all summer bumping into every-thing and getting into so much trouble, but that’s not the way it is with them. Me, I’d want to stick closer to home until I got beyond the gangly stage and could get around with some degree of confi dence. Then there are the unsightly adolescent feathers. You’d think they’ed want to hang a little closer to home until they were a bit more presentable.

Seagulls develop a certain depth of character, though, as a result of their diffi cult childhoods, and end up con-tributing a lot to the family of living things. We all know that they’re pro-tected by federal law. And it’s not because they’re scarce, that’s for sure. It’s because they eat many times their

weight everyday in stuff that would otherwise bring disease and pesti-lence to us humans. So it’s not a good idea to mistreat seagulls. There’s a lot more going on there than one might fi rst imagine.

There would be no way to verify it by empirical data, I’m sure, and the world’s major religions would prob-ably resist the notion, but I know that seagulls have emotions and a fi rm belief in the afterlife. Saw it myself. I was living in an apartment on High

Street when a seagull somehow got tangled up in some telephone wires across the street and died struggling to free itself. All through the struggle its companions had tried desperately to disentangle it, then when the end came and the lifeless form hung from the wires an ever-growing number of them circled fretfully above it day and night, all the time screech-

ing long and loud, their pained cries tearing at one’s heart. This went on for the better part of a day, until I called the phone company and they came and removed the dead bird. After the deed was done a refl ec-tive quietude came over its devoted brethren. They con-tinued circling the place where their companion had been, but calmly and serenely now and in an ever-widening arc, then, with the barest tip of a wing, one-by-one they swooned off with the power and grace of eagles into the great blue beyond.

Okay, there you go. If believing makes it so there are defi nitely seagulls in heaven. So even up there you’ve got to be careful not to drop anything that’s even close to being edible.

(Cliff Gallant of Portland is a regu-lar columnist for The Portland Daily Sun. Email him at [email protected].)

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GALLANT from page 4

Word to the wise: It’s not a good idea to mistreat seagulls

A seagull is engulfed by fog at the East End Boat Ramp. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

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SoPo resident suing city over councilors’ public health benefi ts

A South Portland resident says some SoPo city councilors are being illegally overcompensated for their service and wants a judge to weigh in on the debate.

Albert DiMillo fi led a civil lawsuit against South Portland and its city manager Monday, claiming the city is in violation of its own charter. At the core of the argument is the prac-tice of health benefi ts being offered to elected offi cials.

He says the city has paid tens of thousands of dollars to insure some of its members and that the practice is in direct violation of the charter, which states the annual compensa-tion of council members is $3,000.

"We've given them three years to fi x this," said DiMillo, referring to him-self and a handful of other residents who have been speaking out about the health care payments since they were discovered in 2008.

"A number of people in town have been saying that this isn't right," he said. "The only way to stop them is to sue them."

DiMillo, who describes himself as a concerned citizen and a retired certifi ed public accountant, says he believes the issue is clear; the charter does not specify $3,000 in wages or stipends, for example, but says $3,000 in compensation.

He argues any compensation that exceeds $3,000 is then in violation of

the charter.In his lawsuit — which he fi led on

behalf of himself, not with outside counsel — he states that he contacted the city manager in January 2009 and asked the health insurance payments be terminated.

"The city manager refused to act and during the period from January 2009 through December 31, 2011, total payments for health insurance for the benefi t of City Council members total $183,680," reads the complaint.

"It's crazy," DiMillo said.The issue of health insurance ben-

efi ts has been debated by councilors in the past, with it even being the focus of two dissenting legal opinions, DiMillo said.

The fi rst opinion came from the city's attorney and said nothing in the charter prohibits the benefi t. The other opinion, from an outside fi rm, qualifi ed the benefi t as compensation.

A call made to South Portland's city manager, James Gailey, for comment was never returned. Gailey is also named in the suit.

BY MATTHEW ARCOTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Health insurance violates city charter, suit asserts

“A number of people in town have been saying that this isn’t right.

The only way to stop them is to sue them.” — Albert DiMillo, who fi led a civil lawsuit against South Portland

and its city manager

Carl Dolbow (front) and Shawn Perkins repaint the stairwell in Portland City Hall Thursday, part of a two-month touch-up to the building’s decor. Both men work in the city’s facilities manage-ment department. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

City Hall touch-up

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An armed gunman robbed a Portland Cumberland Farms Wednesday, two weeks to the day after it was robbed in a similar fashion, police said.

A man entered the Cumberland Farms located at 49 Pine St. Wednesday, shortly after 9 p.m. The suspect pointed a gun at the clerk and demanded money, police said.

The same convenience store was robbed by a man brandishing a fi rearm on Jan. 11, at about 10:30 p.m., according to offi cials.

"It's obviously a dangerous situation," said Lt. Gary Rogers, a police spokesman. "We're doing all we can."

The robbery was the second time this week that a suspect used the threat of force to rob a convenience store. Just a day prior, police say a man kept his hand in his pocket and indicated he had a had a gun when he stole from Global Mart at 1569 Forest Ave.

There have been a total of fi ve robberies — four of which involved display of a weapon — in the city this month.

The University Credit Union at 272 Park Ave. was robbed on Jan. 12, and the TruChoice Credit Union was robbed on Jan. 19.

Investigators are also working to determine whether the same suspect is responsible for one or more of the incidents.

Rogers said some of the robberies appeared to be related, while others did not.

"We're certainly looking into it," he said.The FBI has responded to all incidents of any

bank robberies in the city, Rogers confi rmed.The University Credit Union was also robbed on

Dec. 21 by two teenagers. The men passed a note to a teller demanding money. The pair were later iden-tifi ed by surveillance video and arrested by police.

Police say there have been no injuries reported as result of any of the robberies to day.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Portland Police Department at 874-8533 or text an anonymous tip from a mobile phone using keyword "GOTCHA" plus the message to 274637 (CRIMES).

One death in head-on I-295 crash;driver went wrong way, police say

FREEPORT — Investigators were still working to determine Thursday how a 78-year-old man ended up driving in the wrong direction on Interstate 295 at Freeport which resulted in his death following a head-on collision.

Police say Daniel Cressey Sr., of Gorham, avoided several collisions on I-295 in Freeport as he drove in the wrong direction for about two miles before slam-ming into an oncoming car.

The vehicle he hit was being driven by Mary Warner, 58, of Holden, who is being treated at Maine Medical Center. Offi cials said her injuries are not believed to be life threatening.

The crash occurred Wednesday shortly after 7 p.m. in the southbound lane two miles north of the Mallet Drive exit, offi cials said.

The southbound lane was closed for almost two hours, backing traffi c up into Brunswick. One lane reopened about 9 p.m.

Steve McCausland, a Department of Public Safety spokesman, said several calls were made to emer-gency offi cials about a car traveling the wrong direc-tion shortly before the accident. — Matthew Arco

Maine Association of Police awards banquet set for Saturday in Portland

The Maine Association of Police plans to hold its annual awards banquet on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. at the Italian Heritage Center, 40 Westland Ave.,

Portland. Entertainment will be provided by Motor Booty Affair. A social hour will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., and dinner from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. ; awards presentations follow from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Awards are based on merit and nominations from the membership, according to the association.

U.S. Congressman Mike Michaud, D-Maine, announced that he would be attending the event.

For details, visit www.maineassociationofpolice.com.— Staff Report

City reminds public about parking ban notifi cations, procedures

The city of Portland reminds residents and visi-tors that they can sign up online to receive email notices from the city when a city-wide parking ban

is implemented. People can also get parking ban updates by either becoming a fan of Portland City-line on Facebook, receiving tweets from Portland-Cityline at Twitter, or tuning in to the local news. Motorists can also call the parking ban hotline at 879-0300 or check the Time and Temperature sign for up-to-date postings.

When a parking ban is declared, all vehicles must be off city streets typically by 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. the following day, the city reported. Vehicles left on the street during a ban will be towed at the owner’s expense (tow fee — $70, impound fee — $35, ticket cost — $30; and all outstanding tickets must be paid). Vehicles not claimed within 24 hours will be charged a $25 storage fee per day. Vehicles will be towed to the city’s impound lot located at the Ocean Gateway International Marine Terminal at 40 Com-mercial St. (phone number 774-3025).

— Staff Report

BY MATTHEW ARCOTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

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A group of city staff toured the Maine State Pier yesterday, in what City Councilor and Casco Bay Lines operations manager Nick Mavodones described as a preliminary look at berthing spaces for fi re boats, ferries, private water taxis and other vessels.

But at least one major water taxi operator worried Thursday that the city may boot private users off a dock at 72 Commercial St., near the Flatbread Com-pany pizza restaurant, and hamper private access to the pier.

Warner Ogden, captain and franchise owner with Sea Tow, an operator of private water taxi and towing services in Portland Harbor, said he is con-cerned that the fi re department would “take over that entire fl oat where we park,” referring to the dock at 72 Commercial St. “That would be a prob-lem,” he said.

“It would be a hardship for me,” and worse for other water taxi operators, Ogden said.

Concerns have been raised in the past that there isn’t enough space on the Maine State Pier for city and Casco Bay Lines vessels.

John Tracy, a veteran ferry captain, told local media in 2010 that a new ferry would not fi t on the pier unless the city moved its fi re boat.

Construction on a controversial $5.5 million ferry, Wabanaki — funded with federal stimulus money in 2009 — has been delayed, according to Blount Marine in Warren, R.I., but Mavodones said he expects the new Casco Bay Lines vessel to arrive in 2013.

The new 110-foot-long ferry — almost double the size of the 65-foot-long Island Romance which it’s replacing — presumably will need a berth on the pier, which is where Casco Bay Lines is headquar-tered.

Ogden predicted a ripple effect from the ferry’s arrival.

“The ferry may be looking to push further down the wharf, and push the fi re boat into the public space,” he said.

Portland Fire Department has updated its fl eet of vessels, including the addition in 2009 of a 65-foot

fi re and emergency medical response vessel. The City of Portland replaced a vessel by the same name and joined the department’s rescue boat, the 44-foot Cavallaro.

A 2006 city policy statement for the Maine State Pier emphasized public access, noting that it’s home to two public parks, Compass Park and Buoy Park, and “two public boat landings serving recreational, commercial, and water taxi vessels.”

“For many visitors and citizens alike, Maine State Pier is their only point of vantage and access to expe-rience the heart of the working harbor. The accessi-bility, size, and functionality of these public assets shall be protected to ensure the public’s visual and

physical connection to the harbor and the bay. Any re-use or re-development of Maine State Pier must improve the public’s access to the water and rein-force the City of Portland as a city of mariners,” the document stated.

But the policy statement also acknowledged the pier’s function for berthing of emergency vesselss. The pier “provides a critical security service for the harbor and the City of Portland islands.

The existing emergency boat berthing is con-strained and potentially confl icts with the existing public landing, water taxi, and CBITD (Casco Bay Island Transit District) ferry function. Any re-use

Pier pressure? City eyes berthing spaceBY DAVID CARKHUFF

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

On Maine State Pier, one water taxi operator sees public space in peril

A crew boards a Portland fi re boat at the Maine State Pier Thursday, near the Casco Bay Lines terminal. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

see PIER page 9

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or re-development plan-ning for Maine State Pier should consider the crucial role emergency vessels play and must promote, and potentially improve, their continued existence and function on the pier,” the policy state-ment reads.

Yesterday’s visit by city staff, including David Pendleton, a fi re boat cap-tain with the fi re depart-ment, was exploratory, according to Mavodones.

“We’re just talking about options and what kind of needs we might have over the next couple of years,” Mavodones said.

A key question, Mavo-dones said, is whether there is a way to improve berthing for vessels.

“Is there a way to enhance the public berth?” Mavodones said, citing one of the questions being asked.

Rather than a loss of public access, Mavodones predicted a second public berth may become avail-able at the end of the pier, where fl oats were dam-aged from a storm but recently repaired.

“I don’t see any impact on water taxis in a nega-tive way at all,” Mavodones said.

“There’s room, we just have to fi gure out the best

way to make use of it,” he said.“The pier has suffi cient space for all the boats, it’s

just how you make the best use of it,” Mavodones said.

Others are wary of changes at the pier.“A lot of the people who live on the islands come in

and use that dock to pick people up and drop people off. It’s not just water taxis,” Ogden said.

In the summertime, there could be dozens of boats in and out of the docking area on any given day, he said.

In the winter, water taxi services still operate there. Efforts to reach Captain Gene Willard with Portland Express, another year-round water taxi service, were unsuccessful. Ogden said operators who don’t offer service in the winter forward calls to his franchise.

PIER from page 8

Mavodones: ‘The pier has suffi cient space for all the boats’

The Maine State Pier is viewed from atop the Casco Bay Lines parking garage. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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DAILY CROSSWORDBY WAYNE ROBERT WILLIAMS

Today is Friday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2012. There are 339 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:Two hundred and fi fty years ago, on Jan. 27,

1756, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.

On this date:In 1880, Thomas Edison received a patent

for his electric incandescent lamp.In 1901, opera composer Giuseppe Verdi

died in Milan, Italy, at age 87.In 1943, some 50 bombers struck Wilhelms-

haven in the fi rst all-American air raid against Germany during World War II.

In 1944, the Soviet Union announced the end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.

In 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.

In 1951, an era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats.

In 1967, astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a fl ash fi re during a test aboard their Apollo 1 spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla.

In 1967, more than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weap-ons.

In 1973, the Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.

In 1981, President Reagan greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran.

In 1996, A man invaded a convent in Water-ville, Maine, stabbing and beating four nuns, killing two of them (Mark Bechard was later found not criminally responsible because of mental illness). Soldiers seized control of Niger’s government.

In 2001, Two Darmouth College professors, Half and Susanne Zantop, were murdered at their Hanover, N.H., home by two teens. (Robert Tulloch later pleaded guilty to murder and conspiracy and is serving a sentence of life without parole; James Parker pleaded guilty to being an accomplice to second-degree murder and is serving a sentence of 25 years to life.) Ten people were killed when a plane bringing people home from Oklahoma State University’s basketball game against Colorado crashed in a fi eld outside Denver.

Today’s Birthdays: Singer Bobby “Blue” Bland is 76. Actor James Cromwell is 66. Actor John Witherspoon is 64. Rock musician Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) is 61. Rhythm-and-blues singer Nedra Talley (The Ronettes) is 60. Ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov is 58. Country singer Cheryl White is 51. Country singer-musician Richard Young (The Kentucky Headhunters) is 51. Actress Mimi Rogers is 50. Rock musician Janick Gers (Iron Maiden) is 49. Rock singer Margo Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) is 45. Rock musician Gillian Gilbert is 45. Actress Bridget Fonda is 42. Actor Alan Cumming is 41. Coun-try singer Tracy Lawrence is 38. Rock singer Mike Patton is 38. Rapper Tricky is 38. Rock musician Michael Kulas (James) is 37. Actor Josh Randall is 34. Country singer Kevin Denney is 30.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I never thought I’d be writing, but here I am. I was a single mother and struggled to raise my children with-out help. They are all good kids. One daughter, “Susan,” lives 2,000 miles away from the rest of the family. She left home early, went to the big city and educated herself. She is the only member of the family to have a degree, and we are very proud of her. Susan has worked hard to distance herself from her blue-collar roots. She has high expectations of the rest of her family in terms of our behavior and attitudes, and we invariably disappoint her. Recently, Susan cut off all contact because the stress of dealing with us is “making her ill.” Next spring, Susan will be marrying into a wealthy family. She has made it clear that we are not to behave in any man-ner that embarrasses her and informed me that she will have friends “keeping an eye on us” throughout the event. It hurts all of us that we are not up to par for the social circles she is now a part of. If I go to the wedding, I cannot genuinely be myself. I was looking forward to meeting her new in-laws. (I haven’t met them in the fi ve years she’s been with her fi ance.) I want to share in Susan’s joy, but I feel I’ll be an actor in her play. She doesn’t truly want me there. She only wants me to fi ll a role. Do I bow out of the celebration and regret it for the rest of my life? Or do I attend and participate in this charade? -- Heartbroken Mother of the Bride Dear Mother: You’ve answered your own question. If you don’t attend, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life. So go. Most weddings require a certain amount of play-acting and being on one’s very best behavior. Surely you can manage it for a few hours on Susan’s wedding day. Yes, she seems more than a little snobby, but if you don’t focus on how much you dislike your role at the wedding, you might even enjoy your-

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It took only 55 minutes yesterday for a jury to convict Abdi Awad of elevated aggravated assault in a stabbing inci-dent dating back to March 2010.

Awad, 25, was arrested on Aug. 22 in the small Texas town of Sierra Blanca, about 80 miles from Juarez, Mexico, after fl eeing Portland.

Awad was wanted in Portland for stabbing a man on March 6, 2011, a little before 1:30 a.m., at 1192 Forest Ave. The location was rented out for a private party, and the organizers hired security people for the occasion.

A security offi cer was in the process of breaking up a fi ght, during the course of which he was allegedly stabbed in the back by Awad. “He was conscious and alert at the time,” according to police spokesman Lt. Gary Rogers, who said the victim was transported to a nearby hospital by paramedics.

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Dead body found in city apartment building

A 27-year-old man visiting friends in Portland was discovered dead Thurs-day morning, police said.

Offi cials declined to release the name of the man whose body was discovered in a Bayside Village apartment build-ing. Offi cers were called to the apart-ment at about 9:30 a.m., offi cials said.

The investigation into the man’s death is ongoing, but police said ini-tial fi ndings indicate there was no foul play. — Matthew Arco

Police: Man was drunk on way to pick up kids

RUMFORD — A 52-year-old Rum-ford man is accused of driving drunk on his way to a high school to pick up two teenagers, according to reports.

Kevin Nasatowicz was pulled over by one of the high school’s DARE offi cers after he failed to yield at an intersection, WGME reported. Nasa-towicz was driving to Mountain Valley High School. According to reports, his blood-alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit.

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Portland Sea Dogs Food Drive9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Portland Sea Dogs have announced that the organization will hold its 12th annual Food Drive which will run from now through Friday, Jan. 27. All the collected food items will be donated to the Good Shep-herd Food Bank. As in the past, this year’s food drive will be “Buy One, Bring One, Get One.” “For every ticket purchased and every donated food item you bring, you will receive a free Sea Dogs ticket to the same game. For example, if you buy three tickets to the June 7 game and bring in three food items, you will receive three additional complimentary tickets of equal or lesser value to the June 7 game. The offer is good for Box Seats, Reserved, General Admission, and Pavilion seating; subject to availability. Fans may take advantage of this offer by bringing their non-per-ishable food items to the Hadlock Field Box Office. The Sea Dogs Ticket Office is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Each year the Sea Dogs have been able to donate hundreds of food items to the Good Shepherd Food Bank thanks to the generosity of Sea Dogs’ fans. The Sea Dogs hold their home opener Thursday, April 12 at 6 p.m. against the Binghamton Mets at Hadlock Field. The 2012 season will be the Sea Dogs 19th year in Portland and 10th as a Boston Red Sox affiliate.” 879-9500, www.seadogs.com.

Movies at the Museum, ‘One for the Road’6:30 p.m. Movies at the Museum, “One for the Road,” Port-land Museum of Art. “One for the Road sets out to capture the craziness, drama, and migratory nature of skiers chasing down a dream .... segments that will go down as some of the most intense, exciting, and jaw-dropping as anything ever fi lmed.” Friday, Jan. 27, 7 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 28, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Sunday, Jan. 29, 2 p.m. NR. www.portlandmu-seum.org/events

‘Sailing with Paper’ at Constellation7 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Sailing with Paper” at Constellation Gallery. Constellation artist Jos Ruks is offering a free demonstration and hands-on workshop “Sailing with Paper.” “Jos will be teaching you how to expand your paper-art horizons beyond traditional origami! Materials for attendees are provided free of charge. Light refreshments provided.” Constellation Gallery, 511 Congress St., Portland. 409-6617.

‘Next Fall’ by Good Theater7 p.m. “Next Fall” by Geoffrey Nauffts, Jan. 25 to Feb. 19. “Good Theater presents the Maine premiere of this recent Best Play Tony Award nominee. A charming, funny and touching play about life and love from one of the writers of the hit TV series, Brothers & Sisters.” Directed by Brian P. Allen and starring Joe Bearor, Rob Cameron, Matt Delamater, Moira Driscoll Abbie Killeen and Tony Reilly. St Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. Wednesdays 7 p.m. ($15), Thursdays 7 p.m. ($20), Fridays 7:30 p.m. ($20), Saturday 7:30 p.m. ($25), Sundays 2 p.m. ($25) with a special added matinee on Sat-urday, Feb. 11, 3 p.m. ($20). Reservations and information call 885-5883. Presented by Good Theater, a professional theater; the theater is in residence at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. www.goodtheater.com

‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream’8 p.m. “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” by Portland Players continues through Jan. 29 with performances Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Portland Players is located at 420 Cottage Road in South Portland. Call 799-7337 or go to portlandplayers.org.

Saturday, Jan. 28

‘Puss ‘n Boots’11 a.m. This winter, Acorn Productions’ “Fairy Tale Play-ers,” an ensemble of children, teens and adults who have studied at the Acorn Acting Academy, continues its third season of productions with Producing Director Michael Levine’s adaptation of “Puss ‘n Boots.” “The production is suitable for audiences of all ages, and centers around the story of a clever cat who helps her mistress win the love of a prince by pretending to be the Marquis de Carrabas. Along the way, we meet a crazy cast of characters includ-ing spoiled sisters, a foolish hare, and a lonely ogre. Acorn’s comedic version of the well-known fairy tale is directed by Karen Ball, and the script includes references to King Lear and the Occupy Wall Street Movement for the more sophis-ticated audience members. There are 8 actors ranging in age from 9 to 17 in the show, which runs from Jan. 28 to Feb. 12 in the Acorn Studio Theater in Westbrook.” Saturday, Jan. 28 at 11 a.m.; Sunday, Jan. 29 at 2 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 4 at 11 a.m.; Sunday, Feb. 5 at 2 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 11 at 11 a.m.; Sunday, Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. Acorn Studio Theater, Dana Warp Mill, 90 Bridge St., Westbrook. Admission: $8 adults; $6 kids 12 and under. FMI: www.acorn-productions.org or 854-0065.

Where’s The Love? with the Red Clawsnoon. Make-A-Wish Foundation of Maine and the Maine Red Claws will kick off Where’s The Love?, a three-week Maine Mall event featuring make-and-take valentines. The Valen-tine workshop will open at noon, and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., Crusher and the entire Red Claws team will be on hand to sign valentines and coach kids in a hoop toss. “Can’t make it to the mall Saturday? Where’s The Love? will take place in Center Court at the Portland Expo from noon-5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays through Valentine’s Day, as well as Feb. 13 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Club 86 comedy and music 7:30 p.m. Near Sighted Productions and SPACE Gallery present “Club 86,” an evening of comedy and music fea-turing special guest, Grammy award saxophone virtuoso, Charlie Neville of the Neville Brothers. The evening features the fi rst live performance of “Club 86,” an exciting new radio series in the tradition of A Prairie Home Companion and The Vinyl Café. Charlie Neville will appear as himself in “Club 86” and will perform a solo set afterwards. Charlie Nev-ille’s solo work as a jazz saxophonist has been hailed around the world. The evening includes music from the Club 86 Ensemble, led by noted jazz pianist Jesse Lynch plus music/spoken word collaborations with a prominent member of Port-land’s arts community, poet and spoken word performer Gil Helmick. Club 86 is a weekly series following the sometimes reluctant, sometimes clumsy, always entertaining reactions of employees and patrons of a local tavern in Lewiston as the new manager strives to re-brand the club as a showcase for local and national performing artists.

‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream’8 p.m. “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” by Portland Players continues through Jan. 29 with performances Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Portland Players is located at 420 Cottage Road in South Portland. Call 799-7337 or go to portlandplayers.org.

Mad Horse Theatre Company’s ‘Becky Shaw’ 8 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre Company presents “Becky Shaw,” “the Pulitzer Prize fi nalist and smash hit by Obie Award winning playwright Gina Gionfriddo. In what The New York Times calls ‘a comedy of bad manners,’ a woman fi xes up her romantically challenged best friend with her husband’s mysterious co-worker. The date goes horribly awry, forcing the matchmakers to examine their own relationship and leading the daters to an emotional detente.” Written by Gina Gionfriddo, directed by James Herrera. Previews begin Thursday, Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m. Opening night is Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $22 student/senior $20. The Maine Premiere of “Becky Shaw” marks the fi rst time Mad Horse Theatre Company has produced a work by Gionfriddo. It also marks

the directorial debut of company member James Herrera, who jumped at the chance to helm a cast made up entirely of Mad Horse Theatre Company members. According to Herrera, the cast made his transition from actor to director easier than it could have been.

Sunday, Jan. 29

Swish-Out, Junior Swish-Out7:30 a.m. Hill Gymnasium, University of Southern Maine, Gorham Campus. Maine’s longest-running, continuous three-on-three benefi t basketball tournament will again take place at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham. The 18th Annual Dr. Noel Paradise Memorial Swish-Out and Junior Swish-Out Childhood Cancer Challenge is currently seeking teams to participate in this year’s event. “Coor-dinated by Maine’s credit unions, teams of businesses, friends and family, and or any other connection are once again sought to participate in the event which benefi ts the Maine Children’s Cancer Program. Since MCCP treats chil-dren and families from Maine and New Hampshire, teams come from both states to participate. The tournament is a three-on-three, co-ed, double-elimination event and is open to adults 18 or older. The entry fee is $100 per team, and all funds raised go directly to the Maine Children’s Cancer Program. Since it began in 1994, more than $200,000 has been raised through the event. This year’s event also fea-tures the second annual Junior Swish-Out, open to middle school students (grades 6-8). The Junior Swish-Out format is similar to the adult tournament with a three-on-three, co-ed format. The Junior Swish-Out is limited to the fi rst 12 teams to enter and the entry fee is $75 per team. In addi-tion, there are again two divisions for the Adult Swish-Out Tournament with a 28 team ‘Just For Fun’ Division and an Elite 8 Division that is by invitation only once a team has registered.” For an entry form, sponsorship information and/or for more information, please contact Jon Paradise at the Maine Credit Union League at 773-5671, ext. 273 or e-mail [email protected]. Entry forms may be down-loaded at www.mainecul.org.

‘The Art of the Fugue’2 p.m. Violinist Patrick Doane and Colby College Musi-cologist Dr. Steven Saunders at Woodfords Congrega-tional Church, 202 Woodfords St., Portland. “The concert will present an in-depth exploration of J.S. Bach’s ‘The Art of the Fugue.’” Cost: $22 general admission, $20 seniors, Free for 21 and younger. LARK Society for Chamber Music, 761-1522, [email protected].

Peaks Island Puppets presents Solomon and Ashmedai, at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5 during Handmade Puppet Dreams Volume 4 and a Live Puppetry performance at Mayo Street Arts. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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The Titanic Centenary: A Survivor’s Story2 p.m. Corner of State and Gray streets, Maine Irish Heri-tage Center. Dr. Karen M. Lemke, Professor of Education at St. Joseph’s College. “The year 2012 marks the centenary (hundredth anniversary) of the sinking of the Titanic — the legendary, ‘unsinkable’ ship built in Belfast, Northern Ire-land. One of the survivors was an 8-year-old second-class passenger from Westerly, Rhode Island, Marshall Drew. In 1986, Marshall Drew was again in the news. With the discov-ery of a shipwreck of an ocean liner on the sea fl oor, he was able to look at photographs taken by a robotic submers-ible device and identify the luxurious interiors of the Titanic from his indelible childhood memories. Six weeks before his death, Marshall Drew spoke at length with Dr. Karen M. Lemke, now a professor of education at St. Joseph’s College. As part of the Maine Irish Heritage Center’s series of Dúchas (Heritage) talks, Dr. Lemke will recount Marshall Drew’s story — the very human tale of great resilience, told in the voice of an Edwardian lad. Drawing on this interview, she will look at the Titanic tragedy as a metaphor for chang-ing times at the beginning of the 20th century, focusing on labor issues, matters of maritime safety, and the roles that simple greed and arrogance played in the loss of more than 1,500 lives.” The Titanic Centenary: A Survivor’s Story will take place on Sunday, Jan. 29 at 2 p.m. at the Maine Irish Heritage Center, at the corner of State and Gray streets in Portland. Admission is free, and all are welcome. For more information, contact Ellen D. Murphy, 899.0505.

Filmmaker Walter Ungerer7 p.m. Experimental Films by Filmmaker Walter Ungerer. Join the St. Lawrence Arts Center as the center presents a program of recent short fi lms by renowned fi lmmaker Walter Ungerer. In the 1950s – 60s he was a fi xture in The Village art community and underground fi lm scene in New York City, which included such names as Ed Emshwiller, Bob Lowe, Jonas Mekas, Tony Montanaro, and Stan Van-derbeek.

Tuesday, Jan. 31

MHS Book Event: Celebrating A Maine Prodigynoon. Maine Historical Society book event. “Please join us to celebrate and hear the story behind Maine Histori-cal Society’s publication of ‘A Maine Prodigy: The Life and Adventures of Elise Fellows White.’ White was a violinist from Skowhegan whose musical talents and adventure-some spirit took her around the country and abroad in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This new book has been compiled by Dr. Houghton White from her autobiography, diaries, letters, and photographs, now part of the MHS col-lections. A Maine Prodigy was edited by MHS’s Candace Kanes, who also wrote the introduction. White and Kanes will share background on Elise’s life.”

‘Business After Hours’ Networking Event5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The DownEast Pride Alliance “Business After Hours” Networking Event at Plush West End, 106 High St., Portland. Cash bar, lite food and media table. Bring business cards to share. Find DEPA on Face-book and www.depabusiness.com. “The DownEast Pride

Alliance is a GLBTQ business networking group in Southern Maine meeting monthly at local establishments for ‘Business After Hours’ events that pro-vide a safe forum for, and help strengthen, the local gay and gay-friendly business commu-nity.”

Wednesday, Feb. 1

WorldQuest 2012 in Cumberland4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. World-Quest 2012 — the Ultimate International Trivia Competition will be taking place at Greely High School in Cumberland. “Which two places besides Denmark use the Danish Krone as their primary currency? Feeling bewildered or feeling brilliant? Questions like this will be answered by teams competing on Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the annual World-Quest International Knowl-edge Competition sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Maine and hosted by Greely High School in Cumberland. WorldQuest provides stu-dents and adults an opportunity to test their knowledge across a variety of international issues. The top high school team has the opportunity to compete in the spring 2012 national Academic World Quest competition in Washington, D.C. The competition is organized around teams of 4 to 8 players. High school and college teams compete against teams formed by sponsoring corporations. Individuals may also sign up for a modest fee and be assigned to a team. The game consists of six rounds of 10 questions that are answered by teams, not by individuals. This year’s categories are: Current Events; UN Millennium Goals: Child Health; China; NATO; US Economic Competitiveness, and the Middle East.” www.wacmaine.org/Events?eventId=396025&EventViewMode=EventDetails

Rotary Club of Casco Bay Social5:30 p.m. 2012 MCCP Rotary Club of Casco Bay Social. The 14th annual Silent Auction and Wine Social to Ben-efi t the Maine Children’s Cancer Program will be held at DiMillo’s Floating Restaurant. The 2011 auction was a huge success with over 200 attendees bidding on over 180 items we raised over $17,000 for MCCP. https://fundraising.mmc.org/netcommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=283

‘Racing Dreams’ screening5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. “Racing Dreams,” at the Portland Public Library. The Portland Public Library announces its Winter Documentary Film Series, to be held Wednesday’s throughout the winter from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Rines Auditorium at the Main Library. Dates for the series are: Feb. 1, Feb. 22 and Feb. 29, and March 7, March 21 and March 28. This series is made possible by a partnership between the Portland Public Library and POV (Point of

View), Public Televi-sion’s premier docu-mentary series. Films are offered free to the public and facilitated group discussions will be offered after select showings. The award-winning POV series is the longest-running showcase on American television to feature the work of today’s best inde-pendent documentary filmmakers. POV has brought more than 300 acclaimed documenta-ries to millions nation-wide and has a Webby Award-winning online series, POV’s Borders. Since 1988, POV has pioneered the art of presentation and out-reach using indepen-dent nonfiction media to build new commu-nities in conversation about today’s most

pressing social issues. For more information visit www.pbs.org/pov.

West End Meeting Place5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. The next West End Meeting Place will be held at the Reiche Community Center. Meeting Place is an Art At Work project to help neighborhoods develop and deepen their networks and connections through part-nerships with local artists. Artists lead monthly workshops on topics designed to increase civic engagement, pride, and neighborhood knowledge. For more information, go to www.ArtAtWork.com/Projects/MeetingPlace, Facebook.com/ArtAtWork or www.ArtAtWorkProject.us.

Seventh annual Maine Photography Showmidnight. Deadline for submissions. “If you like photog-raphy you’ll like the Maine Photography Show. It is the premier state-wide juried exhibition of fi ne photography in Maine. Entries are being taken now-- the deadline is midnight February 1, 2012. Open to all amateur and pro-fessional photographers with a Maine address. There are four categories you can enter although you can enter only three pictures total. The categories are: Black & White, Color, Student (18 and under) which includes photogra-phy in any of the categories, and the themed category this year: Abstract.” The 2012 Maine Photography Show opens to the public Saturday, April 14 and continues to May 5. The exhibition is produced and presented by the MPS Committee of the Boothbay Region Art Foundation and takes place at its spacious gallery, One Townsend Ave., in midtown Boothbay Harbor. 633-2703. This year, the show is being judged by André Gallant. All entries are taken online and is very easy. To enter, or to get more information, or to see last year’s show, just go to maine-photographyshow.com

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Diane Eggert, executive director of the Farmers’ Federation of New York, is a scheduled speaker at the Maine Farmers’ Market Convention in Freeport on Jan. 27 and 28. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Page 16: The Portland Daily Sun, Friday, January 27, 2012

Page 16 — THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Friday, January 27, 2012


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