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NewEMT ~duates The training coune sp,mntd nearlyfour 1nonthsb"t,v;w m,age,uy Jn&{i«Jl rovmigt IS i11crea.ted on tht i.,lam/J, espe.-ially Clij[&andwhercitwmdownto tmc/Jefort thedass. PageJ Stll)lll1Pr ningo lovers lingered attbe TEIA dub house Friday e_venin~June 18 after the Schmoozcfes_t co~ktail parry tha_t bef." PeaksFest, with entertainment by the Uncalled Four. T he 3-day fesuval raised money for a variety oforgaruzaoons on Peak$ I.Ian · J-ClubKids FO'f' summer, the Peaks lsla11d Peaks Island AAA team wins championship REPORTEDBY SUSAN School'sjounu,/is,n dub rreiews HANLEY island ,ateries, explores da11u and mystery, antihas afew /1111 For some young hors on Peaks projects lo work on. Island, June 22, 2010 is a day Page12 they will remember for the rest of th<:ir lives. J\fter an epic game that spanned rwo days, the Peaks Lobster Lover lsland Fuel baseball team won the Writer L ua Goel/ Si11i,ki Porrland Bayside Lmlc League reveals how a love-hate A AA championship game, relati.imship she has with a defeating the Police Arhleuc certain crustncean stems from League team 18- 14. The game an early childhood mmwry. began on June 21, and was set Page17 ro go into cxua tnnmgs but was called for darkness - it seemed even the longest day of the year IntheArts was not quire long enough for this g:ime. The players returned to the Summer Readini? field prepared for :inother The Peaks Irland libraryIJaS cmouonal roller coaster ride, wich issued a challenge to the iJ/and 's both teams innking their share of school students: ifthey ca11 mu/ great plays and terrible blund,·rs, eight books {or spemleight buc ic cook only one inning to hours reading) by the endof cake the title. Coach Beau Boyle the mo111h, they ca11 splash the crcdus the boys' fighting spirit. librarians. HDespitc being down by six runs Page15 The Peaks Island Fuel AAA baseball team. Front Row (left to right): TJ Flynn, Bobby Wilson, u·ith just rwo innings EO go, these Brady Dorie, Jonathan Bergh, Back Row: Jameson Childs, Eric Conrad, Nick Cushman, Nick Boyle, boy• never gave up. One thing's Rowan Daligan, Danny H anley. Standing (from l~ft) are Asst, _Coach Tom Bergh, Team Manager for sure - they arc not qUltterst Always Something Melissa Conrad and Head Coach Beau Boyle. Missing from pteture: !be Okeme,Jerzy Sylvester, said Coach Boyle. Edie Sylvester. New pbcto by D•n H•nley Arts &litorJamie Hogan Imus us to Ri Peaks Island residems. Peaks Island A total of eight $25,000 grants and o ne $15,000 grant were also awarded DIVER Children's Workshop this year to programs across the scate that provide family literacy services, including adult and early childhood DOWN awarded$5,000 instruction and time for parents and children to read together. UNDERWATER FROM BECKY D YER, MAINE FAMILY Founded by Barba ra Bush in LITERACY INm ATIVE DIRECTOR 1989, the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy supports the SERVICES• On June 16, Mrs. Barbara Bush development and expansion of family announced that Maine Family I .itcracy literacy programs across the United Initiative, funded by her foundation States in settings where parents and 399 Presumpscot Street, Portland, ME 04103 for family literacy, had awarded a children read and -Icarn together. In $5,000 planning gram ro Peaks Island addition to its national program, it also ph (207) 828-0444 • fax (207) 828-1255 Children's Workshop. supports the work of four statewide Emai l: info~v,divcrdown.info PTCW Interim Director Lo ri Freid 10itiatives in Maine, Texas, Maryland Moses accepted the award on June 10 and Florida. from Mrs. Bush at a ceremony held Since 1996, The Ma ine Family at the J. Richard Martin Community Literacy Initiative has awarded 226 Center in Biddeford. The grant will be grants totaling $3.96 million. To learn ISLAND TI{ANSPORTER, LLC used for planning purposes to develop more, visit JJWIIVHainefami!Jlitm,fJ.rom. 1..V l AH. I NE T H.ANSPOH.TATIO'.'J 01: l : {)\."11•.'\tl"l'\: T Ar,.;I> 1\-1 ,\TLIOJ\L a famil)' literacy program that benefits A CONTINUED C O MMtTMENT TO OUR CUSTOMERS. OLD & NEW. I N C A SCO BAY MN Rel.lane.,, 'lug Pi.o,,e,u, MN ldaod lnuu· pMter ~ith service to Casco Bay, ~ nob:scot BY JUUE KILMARTIN Bay and the attire Mahv: c:oast. our 3 unir. con bepositionl'CltohaodlcC\'Cn lhelargcltjob. 1:'.ach yea r the Treferhen Evergreen Improvement Association presenrs a graduating Peaks Island senior with a scholarship for $1,000. Students must submit a wr itten application and a recommendation from their • Ruil $80/week per person Register with a buddy or 1111all group for $bO Island eachfweek Sole 4 person limit Work 7t.." Call NOW to reserve your time IE 0&10S zo-,.;Sl8886 978-}02,9640 ~ July 2010 ISLAND TIMES PAGE3 TRSSS,from pa9ei want natural forces 10 harvest the t rees and deal wich the aftermath, or have Peaks arc all between 60 and 100 some control over things and harvest years o ld, having become established in a planned manner?" after farming was abandoned, and are Because of the way che trees have mature at this poim. He said rhat storm fa llen on Cliff Island, the fire danger damage 1s going co be a continuing is particularly acute there, Noel Extended problem because ofi ,_ scared. "The terrain and lay of the J\s trees start ro declioe they will damaged timber create risk of a very be less resiliem to wind, according dangerous ftre. Any person, strucmre Service! ro Noel. I le stated tbat t he forests or equipment in the area of damaged will contim1ally be a fire hazard over timber will be at risk." the next 25 ro 50 years as the mature He figured it will take six to eight forest gets replaced by younger trees. weeks of hard work to clear the debris "It is oot a question ofif, butwheo," be on Cliff, but in its favor, the island wrote. has good roads and open spaces for "The question the island community processing rhe m.~terial. and city needs to answer is: Does it FREE Delivery New EMT graduates swell the ranks of to Casco Bay Lines island rescue personnel 7 days a week through Labor Day BYKEVINATTRA All the students passed their scare e.xams. They will he taking the Mrional For nearly four months 1S islanders test individually, and will then be fully All in-store shopping must be completed from Peaks, Great Diam o nd, certified by 12-noon for delivery to an afternoon ferry!''' Chebeague and Cliff spent two ro With che addition of students from three d ays a week being trained as Great Diamond, that cornmunity will Emergency Med ical Technici:ins have five EMTs at irs disposal, with 18 • Your groceries will be carefully packed in banana by the Po rtland Fire Department ro ro 20 volunteers in its fire and rescue help increase the number of rescue service w1der Captain John Condon. boxes and/or cooler bags for ferry transport, and personnel available on the islands. On Chebeague, there will be a total of labeled with contact information for safe arrival. There arc four tiers of emergency 10 EY!Ts wich 33 volumecr firefigluers care certification, starting with First under Capcatn Jarrod Smith. Packingfees may apply. Responder, which some oft he studcnrs Before this class, Cliff Island's only bad previously received. This course EMT was Pon lo nd firefighter D ave • Everything in our store is available for delivery. was a 120-hour 1::,:,.,tT-Basic skills cla. Just minutes from the ferry ! Open Daily, 8 am-10 pm 2 Somerset Street• Portland, Maine 207-774-771 l www.who lefoodsmarket.com/ portland-me Just off 1-295, Exit 7, Frankli n Street Group shot: Seated from front row back, left to right -Judy Lee, Martha Champagne, WHOLE Faith Rawding, Piper Anderson, Amy Lent ancfMatt L.. (standing); Pam Parkes, instructor Ryan Walsh and Barry Shaw; Choryl Crowley and Mi.ke Haskdl, Standing in back from left- Kevi,1 Attn, Heidi Holloway, Eric Anderson, Peggy Gillooly and FOODS. Bob Howard. MARl<[T photo by Dave Crowl,y PAGE4 ISLAND TIMES July lOJO the winter season and 30 round trips land and at sea. Casco Bay Lines is 'Dry dock' is a nother term with a Linesfrom each day during the summer season. required by law to use ultra low sulfur different meaning for the C BITD team. "'Maintenance issues sometimes arise diesel fuel. Filling tanks takes place "We schedule major services like engine Casco Bav Lines during those trips a nd we rely on t he once or twice each week between 3 a.m. overhauls, Coast Guard hull exams, BY CHRIS t-foPPIN crews to tell us what needs to be fixed," and 4 a.m. "That middle-of-the-night painting and general large repairs during Bruce concluded. "So, it's a real team schedule lets us park fuel trucks and the winter season so we minimize In our ISLAND TIMES' series of effort and I have been very impressed run hoses from the street to the vessels the impact on sailing schedules," columns about t he people who make with how all team members work without interfering w ith passengers, Bruce explained. "That leads to some Casco Bay Lines work effectively, this together for the safety ofour passengers.• vehicles and freight," Bruce explained. interesting trip combinations involving one concentrates on the three workers Car and truck owners would recognize "But it also leads to some interesting late our back-up ferries, Island Romance who keep the boats in ship shape. the manufacturers' suggested preventive night scheduling issues for our thrcc and Bay M ist. They must be available as Maintaining five vessels to operate maintenance schedules, and Casco Bay man tcam." needed to continue service, so we always daily on Casco Bay takes an cxpcricncc Peaks Island Baptist Church Thissummer ErervSurxJa.y_ 11:00AM WorshivService July f6-July 31: Youth Camp at Camp ~ ilmot, New H ampshire9rades 7-12 (Theme: Fisbersc!fMen). Au9ust 10-12: Vacation Bible School 4 pm-6 pm (Theme: The person efJesus Christ). Au9ust 15th: 6th Anniversary Celebration, 11 am Worship, 12:30 Bar-B -Q, 2:00 Outdoor Concert. Au9ust 22nd: Believers Baptism (any Born Again Christian never baptized scriptually, invited). 235 Pl,as,m/ A vt., Ptaks Island, ME 04108, 766-3031, WW1P.pibc.iefo PAGE 5 July 2.010 ISIAND TIMES a piece he would have them all cooked year I was here for my 96th birthday in and ready for us when we were on our March. Such wonderful times. Such For the love ofPeaks! wayhome. wonderful memories. We would sit, knit and crochet, swap recipes and stories all the day. Helen Kilmartin Sometimes we'd try a recipe and bring it down the next day. Usually it was go to Charlie Brown's to get PB&J sandwiches that we would have a hot dog - the best in town available for the family, and usually - then go back to the Gem a couple extras, in case another mom and rush to get the boat back was running late. Ifone ofthe mothers home, because that would be had to leave early, the others would the last boat! keep an eye on their children. T he street was made of slats I remember in the late 1960s or ofwood, called the boardwalk early 1970s hearing the talk about and the road up from the women's lib and all, thinking back to boat was cobblestone. T he myself, my friends and our summers cobblesto nes were ju st at the beach from morn to dusk, and Haw you lived q11 Penhfaro lang timef replaced with tar a few years not understanding what they were thinking. All of us would be on the Do you 7,ove o Peaks Island ,tory lo tell of ago. I hated to see them go. memorits from childhacd qr that illustraleJ I later bought my own island all summer and the husbands why 1_ou 1we living here? Plum email or summer house in thel930s. I would leave on Sunday night, work all call Fron Howton. She ha, already heard was visiting a long time friend week and return on Friday night. My some great storits and she wants to hear husband would take the 6:15, running y_oun.-([email protected], or coll and walking bade to the boat 766.2186. and there was this woman out down the hill, and return late at night in front of her house and she and do it again the next day. You could said, "I have to sell my house! have women's lib; my friends and I My husband left me and I would take the beach. Annna l CBI '11 D can't afford it." And I said, (At this point, her daughter Julie, sponsorPd i sl a nd "Well, wou ld you hold it for who was present during the interview, BY FRAN HOUSTON awhile to see ifl can buy it?" She said says: Wed go exploring or blueberry lllt~eting will be held off she'd love me to have it. So that's how picking and Mom would get a vacation Cliff Island aboard the Boy Mist 1 was born on March 14, 1914 in on Thursday, July 22. The ferry I got the house, and then I would because we'd be gone all day. But then Portland, 96 years young. I frrsr came she'd have all ofus , all the cousins and will dep2rr from Ponland at to Peaks in the 1920s with my parents. come all the time. I took only seven 5:30 p.m. and srop at each island to pick years to pay [the mortgage] because aunts and uncles, at our house. They One of my first memories was seeing had their own house, but everyone up passengers as shown in the schedule my father way out on Whaleback, I was bound I was going to have it below. paid. always came to ours. That's why she This is the annual n,ecring for fishing. I was so afraid for him. went to work!) Whaleback was in a lot better shape in Little did I know that my soon islanders to discuss problems and to-be in-laws lived diagonally The house was just beautiful. It had concerns they may have with the those days. You knew then how it got a great big fireplace. It burned down its name. He had a good day fishing, I across from my property, also on opaanon of the Casco Bay Lines, and in 1978. Three or four houses burned have some fun as well. You'll get to talk remember how be put a rope through Meridian St. I formally met Steve at a dance in town. We both attended down the same night. We were told wtth other islanders, board members the gills to carry the catch home. who burned it down but we don't and Bay Lines staff. Peaks seemed like Old Orchard St. Dominic's C hurch, had gone to St. Dom's school and went to St. know for sure . You could sec the fire CBITD will provide sandwiches Beach in those days. There was a lot from Portland . As a matter of fact, and snacks for you to eujoy prior to the going on. They had the Ferris wheel, Christopher's in the summer. He was meeting. Cash bar opens for the return a few years older, so I knew of him Steve, my son Joe and son-in-law Gus slides and aU forms of entertainment. watched the flames from the steps of trip immediatcly ,urer the meedng. The playhouse was very active in the and his family. Married in 1942, we continued our the Civic Center at a hockey game only summer months, off Broadway right to later find out it was our cottag<:. 5:30 p.m. Portland departw:e here on Peaks at Greenwood Gardens. winter in town and summer on the 5:50p.m. Pe:lks Tsland Island. Our family grew and every (Julie: I should tell you, my father As a young adult I returned to the did make collages before collages were 6:00p.m.Linle Di•mond Island with no coaxing of my parents. summer we came with the eight children by the Fourth ofJulyand left popular. vVhen the house burned 6:05 p.m. Creat Diamond Peaks and Old Orchard were the down, the first thing everyone said 6:20 p.m. Diamond Cove places to be for dancing. Take the on Labor Day. We hated the summer was what about the pictures? The 6:30 p.m. Longlsland trolley to the beach or the boat to to end. I was an only child, that's why I'm saying eiiht children. Ha ha. negatives were in the cottage too. 6:50 p.m. Chebeague Island Peaks. Peaks was actually the easier There were very, very few pictures left. trip. The big bands - Cab Callaway, Finnerty s Cove, now called 7:05 p.m. Cliff Island Hadlock's Cove, that's where we That was the really sad part.) 7:15 p.m. Meeting Ted Nichols and His Ten Pennies or It was sad to lose tne cottage but Ishman Jones to name a few - would met every day with the kids. Mr. Finnerty, the elder lobsterman who we all just loved it here. After the make the circuit, go to the Casino at fire, four of my · Hampton Beach then go to either the lived at the entrance of the beach, children bought Pier in OOB or the Gem here on the would take care of us if we were having a special occasion or guests. new places. Now Island. we all come every It was at the Gem I met my first We could stop by on the way to the rocks, sitting of course on the same s ummer again boyfriend. It had a lovely dance floor. and sometimes We'd come down on the boat and, of one every day, tell him how many on holidays. This course, go to the dance. And then we'd lobsters we needed and for a quarter MONDAYS July 12 & 19 August 9 WEDNESDAYS August 18 & 25 September 8 6 p.m. - ·sonnets and Soliloquies· accompanied by dinner /not included in bcket price) 7 p.m. • Comic scenes from some of Shakespeare's best-loved plays Tickets $10 ($5 kids 12 and under) presented by Naked Shakespeare at the Inn www.acorn-productions.org on Peaks island -· PAGE6 ISIANDTIMES July2010 Island Views Awards may exceed $48,000. The from Congresswoman Letters Peaks Island Fund is now accep ting Chellie Pingree applications for its 2010 grant cycle. IsLANDi TrMES ·ro the editor: Applicants must have S0l(c) (3) ,•-r-- Although I respect the prh,acy of our charitable tax status or a charitable friends rhe McRntee'sduring these terrible sponsor. times. l must w rirc toc.larify errors in your To apply go to our website ac '"""" June amcle. Jack McEntee sold his Nth ptak!i1/a11df1111d.org a nd click on Fund Publisher: Kevin Attra Degree company 10 years ago and retired and Gram Applications. Applications from the trade show and events business should be submitted by July 15 and any Member of the Society of 10 focus his full auention on the adoption, questions should be e-mailed to Pam Professional Journalists education and upbringing of three Cleghorn atpr.kghom@n,aintif.o,g, (761- children~ two brothers and a sister. who 2440). previously had been tragically orphaned in Pl F committee members Reta Rusm . Morrill, Bob Hann igan , Brad Arts Editor - Jamie Hogan Burkholder, Stephanie Castle, Aaron At first glance, the cafeteria at Bonny Fred O'Keefe Schuit, Nancy F lynn, To m Snyder, Eagle M iddle Schoo l was typica l. Comm. Notes - Rhonda Berg Peaks Island l'erry Sutherland, Jim Lausier, Kathy Students crowded around tables talking H urley or Bill Zimmerman are also excitedly, quickly eating off trays and Research - Irene Schensted * • • • • willing to answer questions. drinking out of milk cartons. But what Grants will be reviewed at the Aug. made t his scene stand out was the Proof Reader - R. W ingfield A special .thank you to John Kamp, 4 meeting o f PlF and awards will be dark green Swiss chard on their plates, Chris Kamp, Marcus Kamp and Conner announced at the annua l meeting grown by the students in the school's Flynn of Kamp Masonry & Landscaping Aug. 19 at the Zimmerman ho me greenhouse. More surprising, t hough, for spreading the woodchips on our at 16 City View Road. The annual was that they were eating it-and, by Feature Writers: playground so that the children at Peaks meeting activities will begin at 6:30 the looks ofthings, actually enjoying it. Jerry Cannan Island Children's Workshop will be safe if PM and the community is invited to I recently held a forum at the school they fall. attend. Any community residents and to ask experts from around the state Mike Richards visitors interested in contributing to bow we can make this scene cbe reality Lori Freid Moses t he fund may consult our website or for m ore Maine schools, including Fran Houston Interim Director, Peaks Island send checks to: Peaks Island Fund, c/ Portland Public Schools Food Service Children's Workshop o Maine Community Foundation, One Director Ron Adams. Now is the time Rebecca Stephans Monument Way, Suite 200, Portland, to make the changes we need to get • • • ME04101. us there as we reauthorize the Child * * Kimberly Macisaac The PIF is always anxious to have Nutrition Act- Joining me was Kevin Special thanks to Towanda Brown for your opinions on emerging needs of Concannon, Under Secretary o f Food curating the annual Srudent An Show for the island that might be considered for and Nutrition at the U.S. Department the month ofJ une. Her creative approach g rants io the future. ofAgriculture-and a born-and-raised Special Contributors: to both the diversity and volume of work Mainer- w ho was cager for input from kindergarteners to college students .. • * • • on s trengthening o ur country's child Justin P.tlmcr was an A+. nutrition programs. Wood chipping program for Peaks What these experts- food service Jess;ca George Maggie Carle Island dire ctors, nutritio n ists, agricultural Curator, Dodwell Gallery, Loog Island The Maine Forest Service's new leaders, child advocates, and more Nicole Evans "Defensible Space Chipping Progran1" had to say was clear. Maine is making • • • • • will visit Peaks Tslaod on July 20. The incredible progress i n providing Chcllie Pingree federally funded program is designed our children hea lthier a lternatives The I lealth Center will be fully staffed to help communities reduce rhc risk thro ughout the year, but things need to Mary Terry the month of July, however, due to of wildfire near their homes. Peaks change so it can go further. vacat ions, we have had to re-arrange Island qualified for ic by completing a Every day, programs of the Child Lois a nd Kitty's schedules on certain community wildfire risk assessment N uttit.ion Act help feed over 30 mill ion days. Please check the calendar on the with the Maine Forest Service in 2005. of t he n ation's children. They are Production Assistance: door of the Health Center or ca ll for an Homeowne rs who arc interested in critical for the health and success ofour app0tnl!D(!nt. participating in this free program are children, and a Lifesaver for low-income Craig Davis The Health Center 1s welcoming requested to contact Lynne Richard families, especially as a tough economy Mark Shain medical equipment donations. If you of the Peaks Island Council (i1!J1111t@ makes it more and more d ifficult tO have items such as wheelchairs, crutches, maine.rr.com or 766-2984). put a solid m eal on the table. T hese Jack any orthopedic supplies, etc. that are in Rcsidenrs will need to complete healthy breakfasts, lunches, and snacks Shallow excellent condition and you have been a " Requ est fo r C hip ping Form" arc as essential to education as pencils wondering what to do with them, pkase a nd then place tree I imbs and brush and notebooks. As Darlene F rench , bring them mus. Thanks, roadside by July 19. D etails a re given president of Main e SchO()I Food •l on the application form. Homeowners Service Association, said at the forum, The Casco Bay Island Timts is a Mary Grimaldi interested in keeping their wood chips "Yon can't teach a hungry child." community newsr,aper covering !he Clinical Assistant, Peaks Island Health should indicate so on the form. But for too long the system has been islands in Casco Bay. We welcome Center Several volunteers from the Peaks geared coward processed food-high birth, eogagement and wedding Island community will be needed to in calo ries, low in nut rition-to the announcements; obituaries!· notices • • load brush into the wood chipper. The benefit of a few large companies and of community events; and etters to * • • the e , ' July2010 ISLAND TIMES PAGE7 PINGR££,from page 6 the country when we can g row Leaders ac the forum expressed a to summer student programs, provide that not only feed kids but also local chem right here? Like a watershed, a number of ways the Nutrition Act snacks after school, funds grams for economies. At the forlllll, nutrition "foodshed" describes rhe food that could support their efforts. Schools schools to provide fruits, vegetables directors recounted that they have can be produced in a given area. In need more access to grants like the and more. been able to get kids co eat vegetables Maine, that food~hed is rich with local one that helped Lewist0n school~ buy Concannon was truly impressed they wouldn't couch before, and, farms looking to gain a foothold in the a refrigerator so it could store fresh with what he heard and, like me, what's more, chat students arc asking market. There is incredible potential ingredients. A more streamlined pledged to bring their comments back their parents for it at home. The key for economic development if t hey paperwork process would help eligible ro Washington as the Child Nutrition has been engaging kids in the process, have major institutions to create the fami lies sign up for free and reduced Reauthorization Act takes shape. Tf taking them to sec the farms where demand. lunches as well as other programs. you have an idea to share, please email their food grows or, in the case of Many Maine schools are eager It should be harder for school it to [email protected]. You Bonny Eagle, acmally getting their co oblige and have been incredibly districts co raid food budgets for can find video of the entire forum at hands dirty. industrious in stretching their thin other departments. A strong Farms ,w,w.pi,,grn.house.~v. A local community feeding its resources co make t his change co Schools program would set the own. A hundred years ago it was the happen. Bue they don't have many of groundwork schools need tO access more local food. norm-it's what my grandfather came the resources they need. After all, for Congrt.rswman Ch,llir Pingne reprmnls Leaders a l so supported co America 10 do. In today's drive years, they made lunch from a box; Maint~ .First Di1trirt in Congre.u. YoN ran thru world, it's a foreign concept. it takes more equipment and more strengthening key Nutrition Act programs that subsidize meals at con/or/ h in Monument Square every morning, incomes, the $Jo,ooo the city gives us included was funds to help islanders View from the Chair •nd •s I walk by he asks plaintively, for island proje.cts every year is like me pay for in-town parking and to provide ucan you spare some change, Sir? .. givingJessie a dime a week. a person to help clean up down front. And every morning I say no, and he It is true the city provides services to T he city not only denied all of our says, "Thanks anyway.'' Peaks Island, but my tax dollars also funding requests, they then took half of I've sat down and spoken with Jesse help feed Jesse and give him • place our existing police for their use in town, on several occasions and advised him to sleep at night. The PIC has tried leaving the island unprotected except lhat, although l generally don't mind to spread out the s30,ooo as justly as on summer weekends. Thus ends this helping folks out of a jam, l never carry possible to help islanders with their fiscal year, not with a bang for our buck. change (I luve it in a jar at home), and boat tickets, but we can only provide but with whimper for our luck. even if-I did I don't want to give him vouchers eno\lgh for one book of tickets And thus begins another year of the money to support his alcoholism. He to each person - a week's worth, and PIC begging the cicy for spare change. admitted' there's really nothing else not enough to make a difference. for Unlike Jesse, however, I remember all too well, which makes it hard for me BY MIKE RICHARDS PICCHAIR I v.:rong'w:i•h,him, land he promised to islanders wondering bow they can ' qui.tdcinking t1somcaay." afford to continue living on Peaks to muster up the nerve to ask aga in. Can You Spare Some Change? L askecl-.him co look at me and Island. Maybe I should take a lesson from I have lived on Peaks Island for 25 1 remember me-.oo he could refrain from This past year, per the city's request, Jesse: drink more and think less. It years and commute to my job in townl asking me for motley in the. fu ture, but we submitted a list of island needs, in sure works for him, but still I bet he'd $i x days a week. I'm up at 5 a.m., take he said could never remember that, and order of priority, and tbeir approximate yell like hell if I not only refused to give the 6:15 boat and walk up to my office he hasn't. In fact, he asked me ag•in cost to rhe city. T hey cotaled $36t,ooo - him rhe change he heard jangling in my on CongTeS$ Strttt, and at the end ofthe th.is morning, and again I said, "Sorry, about 1/10 of the profit the city makes p<>eket, but also took his boots. day I walk back down to the boat and Jesse, I don't have any spore change." 1off the island every year, after paying for the. services us. head home. I AJ I· walked· on,• 1 bemoaned his fate, the city provides FROM ROBERT LAUTERBACH Top on the list was s2.0 000 to fund Walking the streets of Portland reduced to begging as he was, and I 1 PORn.AND POLICE SENIOR LEAD the overtime needed for two triple eve~y day, I often cross paths with the thought to myself, "There, but for the OFFICER, PEAKS ISLAND same people who also have a regular grace of God, go L" Thtn it occurred train police officers 24/7/365. Next on schedule, some of them beggars I to me - there I am, Chair of the PIC, the li st was $1?5 1000 to help islanders know by name. One of them isje.ssie, begging for money every year from pay for transportation on the ferry (the overweight, slovenly-dressed, long hair the city for island needs. I got to my amount is equ~l 10 what we islanders and beard, who sits on che. same bench office and did the math: comparing our pay toward Metro each year), and also New Construction Renovation ""'""""""""000M/WINOOW8 8ARIWt ,ME b, lfJfRjQR I EJ(TERIOR PI.AH$l 1'1:RMITTING John Kiely Weidemann Carpenter CarpentrylLC Property Management 591 Island Avenue Peaks Island, ME 04108 Greetings to all, 766-3030 (207) 766-2026 Firs"t off. 1 would like to again thank Ruth and the .res, of the Peaks Islood Senior Adam Wcldomenn [email protected] Association for allowing me 10 enjoy lunch with them at rbe Fifth Maine Regimen,. portk111dmai11t.gov/ ro11ncilpadeet.ht1n. rehab/ reconstruct the existing home It was a gxeat time and I appreciated the From the HomeStart lf the City Council approves the at 18 Luther to be an energy efficient, opportunity ro answer your questions request, che proposal wiU be presented secure, affordable rental. A second about the Police Department. I'm looking board ofdirectors to the Planning Board for a public site energy efficient home will provide a forward to domg it agam soon. Let me take this moment to explain PROVIDED BY MARY TERRY review process. Meetings ace open to rem-to-own oppt)ttunity. The third the public and will be posted as dates home is proposed as an affordable che changes that ar:e going to occur at the The Hon1eStart Board is pleased co are announced. energy efficient home for sale. beginning of July. In its simplest terms, provide a community update on recent HomeStart is eligible to apply co the On a smaller scale, a dollhouse, we cuttently work two officers per shift. activities. 2010 Affordable Housing Initiative built on island using local talent, will However, starring in July we will have one On June 21 the City Council heard for Maine Islands Program, which be completed over the summer and officer working full-time in conjunction the conditional rezone application co will make $2 tnillion in grant funding raffled off co a lucky winner. Look with a Ponland firefighrer. allow HomeStart ro build two new available from the prc)cecds of bonds for the 1-lomeStarr dollhouse at local Medical services and fire services will energy-efficient affordable homes and issued by MaineHousing. Awards will venues. Take a chance, and buy a ticket remain 1he same. There will be cercain to rehab/ replace the existing home at finance the creation or substantial or two. The drawing will be held over situations though, chat will require a back 18 Luther Street. rehabilitation of affordable multi• Labor Day weekend. Ticket sales up officer to respond from the mainland. On Monday, July 19, the councilors fami ly rental housing unir;s located in will support HomeStarr. Our sincere The officers tWlt are remaining on the will vote on the proposal. P ublic Maine's island communities. thanks co those who are hard at work Island Services Unit will be meeting with comment will be taken at this meeting, HomeStart will apply to this program building the home! our supervisor before July to cnsuxe that which begins at 7:00 p.m. in the City for $350,000 in outright grant funds co We thank those who have generously we are all on the same page as far as the Council Chambers (second floor of rehab or replace the existing home at 18 supported our efforts and encourage protocol is concerned for handling such City Hall). Agendas are available in the Luther Street and build a new home on continued support. Board meetings are situations. City Manager's office the preceding the property. Jf successful in winning the third Thursday of each month at 7 TbJlt's it for now, and I hope everyone Friday or o nline at h11p://www. this grant, HomeSran wiU be able tO p.m. at the Pay Garman Senior Center. had a great Peaks Fest. PAGES ISLAND TIMES July2010 thank their organ systems for all the support. His patients are often surprised including vigorous breathing exercises, YOGAFORLIFE work they do without our conscious how quickly they begin to feel better. vigorous inversion postures, and many A yogie Pf'I'Sp<'etive on effort. You may never master regulati ng As a result of the lifestyle training, repetitions of sun sa lutation. You may your k idneys, but with just a few most patients reduce medications, learn be surprised to learn that there arc also b<'alth and simpl<• ]jving slow deep breaths or a few minutes of ro avoid over-eating, lose weight, lift many yoga postures that naturally meditation, even beginning students can depressed spirits, and gain vitality. An BY REBECCA JOHANNA STEPHANS increase your heart mte if )IOU hold them slow down a racing heart, quiet a chaotic integral part of h is rcnab program is for a minute or longer. I offer a group of nervous system, and calm an upset classes in yoga and meditation. these postures below. Rebttta Jobanna Stephans leache.r wuldv stomach. ).'<>gtl classes and priwtt)'Of!. tl lessons on Peals Research on t he benefits of yoga Whether or not you have any personal Island and in Purtlantl You may direr/ your In addition to keeping us alive, a for cardiac patients shows a reduced or family history ofheart disease, I invite tomm~nts, inquiries> or rolumn ideas to 766- healthy cardio-vascular system supports pulse rate and blood pressure, greater you to begin taking excellenr care ofth is 3017 or [email protected]/. vitality, emotional stability and mental efficiency in lung function, Increased unique muscle today. G iven a chance, clarity. The heart is a specialized, circulation to the extremities, and Many years ago one of my massage our tissues will restore and heal over striated involuntary muscle that is reduced anxiety. Also, when muscle tone time. Take an honest inventory of your therapy instructors suggested that we controlled by nerve impulses produced is improved, the muscles in the legs help stress level, your ea ting habirs, your have conversations with our internal by an organic pacemaker called the pump venous blood that is retu rning to exercise routines, and/our access to organs. Before I managed to close my sinoatrial node. All day long cardiac the lungs so the heart doesn't have to community support an see where you ey,:s and commune with my kidneys, my muscles contract and relax, rhythmically work as hard. A holistic roga practice can make some changes. brain had already responded with the pumping blood through an intricate web offers all the components of Or. Ornish's assessment that she was thinking just a If you find yourself claiming that of arrencs, veins ancl capillaries. Our training, though I would recommend you don't have t ime for this inquiry, little too fat outside the box. \,Vnen my heartbeat is the sound oflifc itself, and cooking classes if you arc uncomfortable kidneys showed no interest in talking to ask yourself if you have time for a heart when it goes awry all havoc breaks loose. with changing your eating habits. attack. Your heart is longing to have an me, I imagined that she was speaking Dr. Dean Ornish revolutionized t he Many of my previous columns have metaphorically not literall)', important conversation witli you. Make care of cardiac patients by introducing addressed stress reduction, so in this a cup of tea, curl up in your favorite chair, Now I often find myself inviting yoga lifestyle training into rehab centers. He one I will focus on the exercise aspect of and prepare to listen. students to rum their listening inwar Practice Suggestions: CAUTION! Ifyou have unmedicated high blood pressure,donot practice any of the! SQUAT (left): Stand with your feet hip-widlh apart and parallel, and raise your arms up in front of you. Engage your arms by reaching forward and pulling your shoulders back at thes ame time. Optionally, rise up onto Your toes and keepyour heels lifled Bend your knees a bit, keeping your spineup right. CHAIR (right): Begin in the squat. Bend your knees deeper, sitting back into an imaginary chair as You raise youra rms up alongsideyour ears. TRIANGLE LUNGE (left): Begin in lable pose. Step onefoot forward between your hands and slide theot hef knee back until YoU havea satisfying slfetch. Sweep onearm oul to the side and up overhead, following your hand with your gaze. Hold and then switch arms. Switch legsan d repeat. LATERAL PLANK (right): Begin in table pose Walk your hands lorward ab it, tuck Your toes 1under and lift Your knees, coming into plank pose. Shift Your right hand over aco uple of inches and roll onto theside of your right foot. Place your left foot either in front ol (easier) or on top of theright and sweep YoUr lefl arm up overhead. Switch sides and repeat. HALFL OCUST (lelt): Begin belly down with your chin or forehead on the mat. Tuck your hands under your pelvis wilh palms facing up. Lengthen your right leg and lift it up, leaving your pelvisc radled in your hands, andhands on the mat. Switch legs and repeal LOCUS (right): Begin belly down with your chin or moutho nthe mat. Tuck your arms deep underneathYo Ur lorso so that YoUare lying on your extended arms, either palms down or fists with the thumb side down. Press your arms against themat as YoUsweep your legs up. Breathedeeply as you hold REVERSE TABLE (left): Begin sitting withknees bent, feelflat onfloor, and hands behind your hips, fingers pointingtowards your back. Press wilh your hands and feet and lift your hips. Lengthen from shins to the crovm of your head. INCLINED PLANE (right): Begin sittingwil hYo ur legs extended in front of you and hands behindyour hips, fingers pointing towards your back. Press with Your hands and heels and lilt your hips. Lengthen from toes tothe crown of your head. BOW (left): Begin lying on your belly Bend your knees and reachfor your feet or ankles. Keep YoUr knees close together (you may practice with ablock between your knees). Lift your torsoas you press your feet back and lift your toes towards the sky. Youm ight rock ab it as you breathe. WHEEL (right): Begin lying onyour back with knees bent, feet flat on the noor. Place Your handsu nder YoUr shoulders with fingers pointing lowards your waist. Press with your handsand feet and lift your hips strongly up. To release the posture, tuck your chin as you lol'/efyour shoulders to avoid comingdown on your head. RESTORATIVE INVERSION (right): Begin lying onyour back with knees bent and feet flal on thefloor. Lift your hips and place ac ushion or folded blanket under your sacrum (I used ayoga mat folded around my flip flops). lift your feet and straighten your legs. The support under your hips shoulda llow you to relax your legs. Breathe and rest. Rebecca Johanna Stephans, Kripalu Certified Yoga Teacher since 1994, has 23 years experience in the healing arts. , July 2010 ISLAND TIMES PAGE9 Peaks sland.[xpe-rienceS L._: rp I. f S) 11110 by Palmer coo( l ( Just3ot l 9ot- C{ Protiressjve co~servt.iltive fv~ 'Mj e,GH' l. Thivt~ T&i11~ ! What do you do on an island? BY JERRY GARMAN W har Do You Do On An Island? have been held individually and once T he most frequently asked questions collectively at Greenwood Gardens. by visitors and people from away are: Fairs have become an important part of How many people live here year-round? our island culture not only for generating How long have you lived here? And revenue but also fo r enhancing our sense finally, what do you do on an island? T he ofcom munity. answers to the first two are easy bur the Like the mysterious Scottish village third question requires some thought. Brigadoon - appearing for one day every Long Island There are 32 organizations on our 100 years - the Trefethen Everg reen island, most with 50l(c)3 tax status, each I mprovemcnt Association Fair has Open House Tour having a specific program, but all having appeared one day every 12 months for 97 a common goal: FU NDRAISJNG. yea rs, on the first Saturday in August. So, the major activity on the island has It generated $210 in the first fair in Sunday J11r 11' 1fall · 3pa people constantly involved in some 1912, and has become the largest on the fundraisingeffort. island, netting five-digit returns and Every month there is a supper, a culminating in a fair supper feeding over pancake breakfast, a bake sale, a raffie, 300people. •·e infte ,., to i& i. feny Olff te the Tooul I.Gag liln •iffl,., lril be an auction, an ans and crafts show, On the Friday before the fair all gl\'1:1 a gllWed llllr of Ille l1UII)' pnper1ies for sale lleing 6N4 'r a concert, a yard sale or a fair in an the clubhouse tables arc filled with a attempt to raise funds for one of these never-ending stream of merchandise Port Island Realty organizations. In July and August there ,and edibles. In a few hours the TEIA will be over 35 ofth ese events. clubhouse and grounds arc magically The feny o.,ts ~ Bay lines, Plrtw,I at 10:00 • IN mtns t• Island fundraising may have started transformed into a colorful fair ground. Po111Hd al 4:40 ,- with a lemonade stand, evolved into a W hile everything seems to come yard sa le and finally cu lmi nated into together in 48 hours, the fair requires some form oforg anized effort. A bumper the effort of over 100 year-round and The tour •ill "C[n II 111111 !NIii the lffly inlillC sticker suggests that if we had to finance summer people, donations from 27 war through a bake sale we would always businesses and the support of rhe entire Trwlltltllion and lullcil ,rill be ,mldld be at peace. Many organizations now island. Fair chairpersons or co-chairs sponsor a fair. An ancient t radition, start organizing shortly after the fair Resenoations are required fa irs were once a gathering of people to closes. They must find chairs for a display agricultural goods, animals and luncheon, a supper and 14 theme rabies. handicrafts. On the island the ani mals As t he fair ends over 500 islanders will Space is limited have been dropped, but little else has. have been involved, maki ng this another The first fair occurred at the Brackett successful event. l'ltN cal Laurie WIied 207·232-G758 ToMalie Yoar Resm1lion Episcopal Methodist Church in the late Both rheir energy and monetary 1860's. Their 1912 fair netted S46.30. contributions will have helped to Currently, the church sponsors at least support many island projects essential four variations, including two rummage to perpetuating the uniqueness of our sales, a Summer Fair, and a December island. Fairs are a part of our island lore, DISTINCTIVE HOMES FOR DISCERNING PEOPLE Jingle Bell Fair. and raising funds fo r so many beneficial St. Christopher's Cat holic Church projects will always be one ofour major also holds an ar1nual fair with the Holr activities. Make sure you come to a Trinity Episcopal Chapel sale. The Lions FAIR. Club Variety Show runs for several days in August, and the American Legion Randall MacVane Post 142sponsors many special events KIRK GOODHUE A LYCE A. BAUERLE Jill K EEFE - even a bus tour to Boston. The Eighth Maine Regiment LAURIE WILDES DEB HANNA Association has its Annual Art Show and Sale, whlle rhe Fifth Maine Regiment Museum's fair has become Art on the Porch, PEAKS ISLAND PO RTLAND LONG ISLAND a Harvest Home Supper and a calendar of other events. Even • • PeaksFest, a three day festive 207.766.5966 207.775.7253 207.232.0758 event, qualifies as a fair. Island Fairs have included rides on ponies, hot air balloons, seaplanes and boats. T hey PAGE10 ISLAND TIMES July2010 ACROSS DOWN Le Jour de Gloire Est Arrive~ by Anna Tierney 1 Meal in Montparnasse 1 \/\'rapper 6 Word fo r Chnsto's art (with 11 2 f.l,!!pper and de.ad ball, e.g .., Down) 3 Whats 1sprologue. 11 Frequently 4 Company headquartered in 14 Speechify Dallas 15 Smus cavities 5 T--~Arrondissement 16 Patriotic org. 6 Characteristic of corpses 17 Leiourdeg1oire 7 -day vitamins 19 Before 8 Oap,c.g. 20 Direction from Brest to Nancy 9 Monastery in Normandy 21 French novelist 10 Kind of battery 22 Lighthouse in Alexandria 11 See 6 Across 24 A man named Joan 12 Islands in Gulf Stream 25 Table centerpieces 13 Lock 26 Bourbon dynasty 18 Forsaken 30 Women's group 23 A son of Zeus 31 Lobos 24 Crumb, in Bordeaux 32 Fog_+ smoke 25 Schiele, German painter 36 Aout in Grenoble 26 Polite interruption 37 Second word of 47 Across 27 Boston Celtic Robinson 41 Woman's name 28 Rowing -- 42 Row of stables 29 Fill wifhjoy 44 Flyball 33 Noon in Nantes 45 Druids' favorite tree 34 Pindar creations 47 Famous national anthem 35 RR station in Paris 51 Urge 38 Person from 12 Down 54 Cuckoo 39 Bones can do this 55 Rook 40 Deerdraw 56 Kind of stitch 43 Plantfungus 57 3 ditsl 3 dahs, 3 dits 46 Cruces 58 Prefix for Mom 60 Coac 1 Parseghian 48 First word of47 Across 61 Know-it-all's fo rte 59 Pursue 49 ~~,_..conditjon (not new) 62 Direction from Toulouse to 64 Good cholesterol 50 Gov'tofNorth Woods 65 Boston Patriots star Qijon Jim _ _ 51 Wall Street icon 63 lfaseball stat. 66 falopy 52 Weekday in Lyon 67 Mailiematical game 53 Song or poem 68 Slammin' Sammy 56 Eatmg disorder 69 Tropical tree 57 Bones can do this Ferry Cot1vettiet1t lsla11d-balced pizza, great food to travel a11d 011ly steps away fro111 the ter1tti11al. ____A" AJ-J~_,,;s www.hannaford.com 94 Commercial Street, Portland 207 874.2639 SOLUTION TO LAST MONTH'S PUZZLE I 10 II 12 ,.s R A L "s 0 s s 0 A V A L A L create a I< " D mas-terpiece J F in yovr kitchen ·o A B 0 y 6 C 0 " 0 N s s T n 0 L 0 l r S T A ·1 l ~1 E. I ~ A T A N I., s I• A R July io10 ISIAND TIMES PAGEn STARS July2010Sky Precession has set Sirius's hcliacal rise b,ck to Aug. 7 this year, so it's still invisible Star Gazing BY MIKE RICHARDS behind t he sun's glue, but Regulus is July is named for Julius Cacsar,bornlucky positioned righc on che edipric, so it's in the: (co potridans) on rhc 13th of chis month, middle of chc planecs as chey dance around 100 BC. He joined the army, w2s elected ic chis monch. Loolong southwest, Spira, tribune, conquered Europe. Asia, Norrh the alph, sr.r and horizon-side hand of Africa, scarred a civil war and became Virgo is fairly bright, bur Antares the red first Ernperor of Rome and Dictator for super-gi,nr hearc of Scorpio is due south Perpetuity- well. untilsenarors' long knives and much brighter. Overhead is Arcturus, ended it on the Ides of March 44 BC. But a sm.. Uer red gianc, confirmed by following he left roads on the English landscape and chute of che Big Dippers handle. Almosc a, Larin in the English language. ,he zenirh is Vega, the fasr-spmning. blue Romans called these the dog days, white Stlr in Lyra, and to rhe t.lSC ls Air.air, bccaus.: they cou Id finally see the Dog Star, in Aquila the Eagle. The consrelb,ion Sirius, rhc bluc.-.white .1.lpha st.Ir in Canis Hercules is overhead around 10 p.m., and if Major :ind hrighcesr: sur in the h~vens, you're up late. you can see rhc Grear Square rising ahe:ad ofche sun in che east4 It 5temcd of Pega•us in the EaSt. Polans, of course, Sirius generated hear here, coo. barely movesocall, as it sics above our North When che dog scar rose in che Roman Pole, and the conscellacions slowly parade dawn, it meant hoc weather and bnguid around ic like diamond.. srudded horses on a citizens, though now folks think ofinnring ccles,ial carousel. dogs. In che rwo millennia since Julius, the Earth's precession has roc:a.red che Norrh ALMANAC Pole clockwise a bir, so Sirius is lace arriving July 1- Moon's ac,pogee,but ir will be 570 now, but July 1s scill chc horresr monrh ofche miles further av.ray on che 29ch when ic's at year up here ,nd che coldesc monrh below apogee again. The ancients choughc orbics the equator. must be perfectly round, buc we know now Our star, che sun, wakes up every 11 thu eccentricity is true pcrfcct10n. years and is just coming off an unusually July 4- Independence Day! Lasr-quatter deep sleep. In che nexc few years, as che sun moon is high at sunrise and out of the way re.tches maximum, we should expect more for fireworks conighr. Thar's Jupiter a hand solar ourpur .tnd the Storms on Earth that width aboYe it. it will generace. You can see movies of the July 8- If my foster-puppy Toby wakes sun's surface, wich sunspots and Hailing me up ot 4:00 ag,in chis morning. l will arms of solar man flying off into space grab him - and n,y binocubrs - and we'll (spacowcarhcr.com). head backshore in che golfcaret<> watch che As ,hose photons reach E:trth three days crescent moon hangju.sc below che Pleiades lacer, chey ionize in the upper atmosphere, scar cluster •s dawn approaches. Dog days especially around che poles, where Earch's indeed! Illustration by Jamie Hogan strong magnetic field shepherds chem, and July 9- In che west over Portland. Venus in the cobalt sky we can sec Aurora, Roman is a finger-widch above the scar Regulus goddess of dawn, in her gossamer gowns tonight, but you"ll have co waic uncil abour flowing and glowing red and green. Ev.n in 9:J S p.m. Venus is brighc enough to bore che middle ofsummer, wich our nonh pole through our :u:mosphere C3rl icr than that, tipped. toward it, the sun is never overhead buc Regulus is j usc a disunt point of light - check your sh,dow at noon. We li Ye so f.ar and needs more concrast to be seen. norch, having followed the receding gl.cier June 11· New moon means no moon to 13,000 years ago. spoil rhecontT:\St tonight-. Ir's prime time for Ifit gees too hoc, go furchernorrh. Bue jusc bwn.-chairs and binorulars-sund2rd is.sue remember, another ice age 1s coming when for the increpid hunter of fainter qu-arry the 100,000-ytar Milankovic crde lines up of che heavens: galaxies, scar.-cluscers, and Earth's maximum orbital flex with winter nebulae, especially over the conscellation at aphelion, the opposice of our c:urrent Sagict.arius the Hunter1 low on the south. arrangement, so we'll have to go back south July 13- The moon's 2t perigee, ics closest evennwly. to Earch this month, and ic's just p:asc new, so cides are building. fn the west over the PLANETS nexr few nights, a waxing crescent moon This tnonch follr pla~ts line up nicely in slides under the planets. Tonight Mercury the early evening sky along che ecliprir, the is to the right of th< moon, but ,his will fast p>th rhe sun (and moon) rake from ease ro for jusca few minutes around 9p.m. wesc each day. At our l2ritudc, the ecliptic July 14-Tonighc Venus isab0>-e chemoon. is a shallow arc cresting 2hove the southern Ascronomical high and low tides coday, horizon, at a 456angle: coming up in che with 12.8'betwecn them. Currents will run cast and going down in che wesc. From the fasc mid--morningand mid~fternoon. western horizon going up and lefc, firsc July 15, Tonight Mars iS1bow,ch The dance mimics what farmers do. 1-ancy headgear in the form of a horse's neck is considered sacred. Farme rs relied on horses in rhcjrwotk. As an island nation, Japan also depends on the sea. \\"e saw a man in colorful clothes do a funnv dance. He was trying· to catch a big fish. On che fourth cry, hegorn. The show a lso feat ured songs by - BY ELISA MEMBRENO, GRADE 4 Tomomi ',facsu hashi, 20, who is the third-ranked opera singer in Japan. Wrn-t REPORTING CONTRIBUTED BY Solo dancers made amazing shapes MAISIE W INTER, GRADE4 with a bamboo lattice. A woman \\;th a very large bow and arrow demonstrated The gym floor shook. Tt was not an kudo, the "way ofthe bow!' How you can make an instrument using only earthquake, but the pounding of big T he finale was a tiger dance. One drums. K ids and families ar Peaks of t he dancers, 12-year-old Eisuke glue and bells Island School we~e being treated to a Ncgishi, was introduced as a top math show by the Hachinohe Enbun. wizard. Peaks kids stretched to touch Hachinohe is a port city in Aomori, the tiger. Touching the tiger brings BY !SABELLA LEVINE, GRADE 3 a prefecture, or district, in the north of good luck. Japan's main island, Honshu. Enburi is 1. The next time you have olives or hummus in a plastic container, a traditional Japanese dance performed save the top. at spring planting time. The wo1·d cnburi comes from the Japanese for 2. Get a glue that dries clear. Fill the conrainer cop with g lue. farming tool, eburi. "Farming is really hard work;' said Yukari, a U.S.M. smdent traveling with 3. Put small bells and any decorations you like in the g l~e. the performers on their co1u ofMaine's southern coast and Brooklyn. The rour 4. Let it dry. Then cake icouc. It might be flexible but shake it and ic was sponsored by the M ainc-Aomori jingles. And there's your music! Sister-State Advisory Council and Hachinohe City's USN (United States N ippon) Internacional Friendship Group. · WORD HUNT Enburi is a prayer to the gods for a good harvest, Yukari explained. Tt is A D V E N T u R E E A F also for "encouraging farmers' wo rk." The goal is to get lots of food. Enburi T I D E p 0 0 L s D E s grew from Shinto ceremonies, she said. Shinto is the old religion ofJapan . L V 0 A N I 0 D T R B N Look into the tiger's mouth (top). Look B C y p 0 N B R s A w into th• tiger's mouth (right) - stud•nts don the tiger costume after the show. Sam Dupont and Atticus Wa,klewkz try s z L A p p u y s L C C their hands at taiko drums (below). L D 0 w E C T J N L K R J Club photos A w B w A T A 0 u s A N D s z C N K D C G H B D u T K E C R C E A 0 B E z E A 0 I y T A E R I R T R u M p Q V N s E N s p s L u s A 1 L I N G summer on theisland by Fan Tai Bridges & Anna Mitchell rind the words below in the diagram. They may be written forwards, backwards, up, down or diagonally. tidepool, lobsters, picnic, backshore, sailing, ocean, seagulls, islanders, ferrytickets, peace, adventure, crabbing · ]-Club is the journalism club ofstudencs in &!_ades one through five ar the red brick schoolhouse1 Peaks Island Elemen~ School established in 1832. The club also includes alumni. Members: Kaylin Beck;Fan Tai Brid_ges, Audrey Byrne, Anniss.-i Carey, Galen Carey,Jameson Childs, Devon D.tligan, Maisy Davis, Dianne Dervis, Gabi Dumas, Zeke Duponc, Jonah Green, Tio Holdridge, Isabella Levine, Elisa Membreno, Anna Mitchell, Eddie Sylvcsrer,Jcrzy Sylvester, Phineas Underwood, Maisie Winter. Advisers: Diane Eacret, Lisa Penalver. Contact: [email protected]. July 2010 ISlAND TIMES PAGE13 with an arrow. W1e i ncerviewed Daisr are cool," Dais)' said, "but it might Q.Howmany> Into the Braun, an islander who has spent time work better if you get the older kind." A.7 learning about the mysteries of Ouija The new boards may be a distraction, Q. Do you like spaghetti? UNKNOWN board~. causing questioners to focus on the A. Yes Daisy was given a Ouija board three style and forge, abour the purpose. A fmal word ofadv ice: Tf you use rhe years ago by her cousins. She cxplainc-d "Ouija boards are very serious," she Ouija board you might want to have how it works, or what most people added. an adult with or near you because you believe, and how to use it. Two people Before asking whar you want to never know what might happen. sit on the right and left sides of rhe know, ic is important to begin wich chis boatd opposite each orher. They gently quescion: uArc you a sun or a place rhcir hands on the arrow, wbich moon?" A sun means good, is the passageway to communication. and you may carry on talking It is supposed that the spirit or ghost is co rhe spirit. A moon means p resent in from of the board, moving evil. If the spirit replies as and pointing the arrow to the true moon, say "goodbye, goodbye, answer. goodbye" and don't use the BY FAN TAI B RIDGES, GRADE 6, AND All Ouija boards are basically the Ouija board for the rest of the ANNA M ITCHEL.L, GRADE 5 same - eacb bas the alphabet A to day. Z, numbers I to 9 and 0, the words Here ts an excerpt of the Some things cannot be explained in "goodbye" (and sometimes "hello"), talk we had with Daisy's Ouija this world. Consider the talking board "ycsn and "no/' and i1nages of sun board: known as Ouija. and moon - but they vary in style. Q. What is your name? A Ouija board (pronounced wee-jee) Some modem boards come in pink, or A.Greped is said to be one way ofcommunicaring glow in che dark. Tf you want to get a Q. Are you a boy? with spirits and ghosts. You can ask a Ouija board, Daisy recommends the A.No Fan Tai BridJ.••, Daisy Braun, Anna Mitchell ·• question ouc loud and the spirit will and "Greped (not visible). cradirional style. Q. Do you have kids? ]-Club photo point or spell out the correct answer " 1 know that the newer Ouija boards A.Yes Craves & Raves BY JERZV SYLVESTER, GRADE6 A re you new co the island? Hungry, and wondering where to go? The best way to find out •lmosc anything about Peaks is tO ask a kid. Better yet, ask a group of them. At a reccnrJ-Club meccing, I did rhat foryotL There are three restaurants open in the swnmcr: The Cockeyed Gull, The In.non Peaks Island and the Peaks IsL,nd I louse, all down front on Island Avenue. Herc are the]-Club kids' (and rwo adults') favorite places and why. The Inn got 13 vot~, the Gull three, and the Island House one. Two kids didn't .. have a preference. The reasons people like the Inn are the mac and cheese (rwo votes), Prcnch fries, PU LUNG TOGETHER: Students, staffand_parentS form a florilla before paddling hot dog, >rtichoke bread roll, fncd chicken, chocolate "moose," pineapple cranberry from Peaks: to Fort Gorgc-s last month. Otis Thompson, a 40·year veter.tn educator, juice, island cow burger, Buffalo tenders, PB&J sandwich, haddock undWJch and called it the "best field trip of my life."Two rrips - one for fourth- and fifth-graders calamari. and another for third..-graders, were made possible by a generous donarion of time, The Gull was praised for its bacon egg sandwich, buns and veggie cakes. equipment and expert:i&e from Maine l•landKayak Co1npany. !lo Holdridge likes t.bc Island House for gnlled cheese. More tnformal and also kid-friendly is the C,.afe on Welch Street, open for breakfast photo by Christine Cassidy and lunch. Word parade stretches out vocabulary Now available! Words, words, words. That's what Hamlets-aid he read, and that'$ what we btccune for the second annual Vocabulary Parade on June 9. Engine 12 led the way to the library, where words formed sentences and e ·oyed cookies and 1emonade. The idea for the parade came from· wharelse!-ahook.1 -Clubpl,ot<> BRAD'S ISLAND BIKE RENTAL and full service ~hopl A sweet Peaks Island keepsake. Seven Days of Daisy Story and pictures by Jamie Hogan, Bike accessories & fishing tackle Peaks Island illustrator. Take a colorful summer romp t/1rough the week as a young 115 Island Avenue•• Peaks girl awaits a visit fram her Nana. Available at The Peaks Cafe and GEM Gallery, Peaks Island •• 766-5631 and Casco Bay Lines. Or contact Jamie at 766-9726. PAGE14 ISLAND TIMES July 2010 From the FIFTH MAINE U7titer, water everywhere & nary a drop to drink Such was the lament ofPeaks Islanders as the 1920s approached. BY KIM MACISAAC was a seasonal service operated The committee hired Judge Memorial Church, and various Flf"Tli MAINE M USEUM CURATOR by summer resident Judge Tolman Joseph Connolly to shepherd its individuals with the largest donation and bis daughters Laura and May, efforts through the legal process, coming from the TEI A. Early residents of 1he island dug who taught history at Portland High and fundraising was begun to help The campaign to bring a public wells or fetched water from the many School. Yet it was not enough to meet cover the cost of extending the water supply to Peaks was a ponds on the island. As the number the demands of thousands of summer water main from Forl McKinley resounding success. Sebago Lake of summer visitors began to grow visitors or the needs of year round on Great Diamond Island 10 Peaks. water flowed to Peaks on May 28, after the Civil War, community wells residents. Donations were received from the 1920! were dug to serve the campgrounds at By 1919 the underground aquifer Businessmen's Association, Brackett Evergreen and Forest City. Islanders that supplied fresh water had all but who bad wells on their property often dried up. Islanders had to resort to shared water with their newly arrived the "rain barrel by the back door" neighbors. to collect water and the melted - It wasn't until 1903 that a "water snow method during the winter. In company" was established on the response to this crisis the Trefethen island. In March of that year the Evergreen Improvement Association state legislature authorized Edgar and the Peaks Island Businessmen's E. Rounds, Walter S. Crandall, Progressive Association began a and Emma Rounds to incorporate campaign to bri ng Sebago Lake waler the Peaks Island Water and Light to Peaks. Company. The purpose of the new The Water Committee consisted of company was to supply "Peaks Island John G. McGregor, W.T. Bradford, with pure water." Water was pumped Charles Stevens, Anna M itchell, from a deep well on the si1e of the and Mary Daveis. For the next 10 recently demolished water tower months the committee \.vorked i1s way on Brackett Avenue to a series of through the local and siate political auxiliary pump houses wbichgravity bureaucracy, garnering support from fed water to homes and businesses in 1he Public Utilities Commission the Forest City section of the island. and Portland's Mayor Clarke. A Only one if its three pump houses conference with Governor Milliken remains today on El izabeth Street resulted in his calling a special session About the same ti me, the Tolman of the 79th Legislature. His message Water Company began pumping One of the old pumphouses, built 1903. to that body was simple: "Peaks Island from Fifth Moine ,oll«tion water to some 34 houses in Tolman has an emergency.'' Heights from an artesian wel l. This The 2010 Island Phone Directory is here! ZOIO The Artesian well house in Tolman Height$. fr<,m Fifth M.ai11, collution HELP PRESERVE Cover design by Jamie Hogon WHAT'S SPECIAL NOWAVAliABLE at Casco BaY Unes, Andfs Old Port Pub, Hannigan·s ABOUT PEAKS. Island MarKet 4- The Boat House! Qpdated liStings <1- island FriendlY adVertisers, large print, llandYsp iral binding, lotS Of 'nOtes' pages for your own Often-used numbers. fta Wind- i$ »tru ly SptciaJ pbce, with iu rocky proven indispensable since 2001. UIOffl, iU woodbnd$ aod its Wdlandt. Your mcmbmhip (on!, !IS mdM (,etYOUrSOOW! Phonebook Publishing 51 Woods Road ..ISLAND =.::=- Peaks Island, Me 04108 Lu o PRE SE RH·--- -.phonebookpublishing.com ._...,..~,.o. IOIIM(lt " ..,_...,_...· ,uu nu __••. N(.,. t41U __ _ July2010 ISIAND TIMES PAGE15 aod sec people smiling and feel the vibe of opPns snrnmf'r Pails" by Chip and Arnie. Kids will fish T11 anna mutual energy circulating between us and conrt>rt serit>S at. Fiftl1:\faint> our audience,,. Summer Reading for words and tell stories with their catch. You can check out their website There will also be a ukulele. It's free, at BY FArTHYORK ar www.i11a1111o.ws. Heuer yer, carch BY DIANE EACRET the libn.ry, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3. ,hem live at che Fifth Maine on P EAKS ISLAND SCHOOL'SJ CWBADVISOR While we had the librarians on the line, Kickmg off the 20 IOWednesday night July 7. Show st2rts at 8:00 p.m. we asked what's hot at t he library this Summer Concert Series at the Fifth Maine The second concert of the season on A famous line by t he poet , Emily summer. "A ll sorts of things," said Mrs. on July 7 will be lnanna, the fa bulous July 21 will be the popular "Annual Island Dickinson, tells us: •-rherc is no frigate Webster. "T he new graphic book, Big Sisters m Rhythm themscl ves. l'.[usicians'' concect. a wonderful mix like a book." Books are boau that "take Nate, by Portlancl teacher Lincoln Peirce Founded by Peaks Island's own Tori of talented rnusicians wirh Peaks Island us lands away." But unlike boat< we build didn't even make it lo the shelf.• Mo rrill, 1he four-member, all-female connections. from u umpct to banjo, to travcl on the ·waler while staying out drum band was ong10ally created by Serials arc popular, Mrs. Webster harpsichord to clarinet, soaring soprano ofil, books this summer may become the the partic1pams of a drum class 10 Alna, noted. People arc rc.ading Erin Hunter's to resonant double bass there is something means ofge tting people wet. Maine 20 years ago, and rakes its name for e,...e ryone. Warriors. Rick Riordan·s Olympians, Librarians at the Peaks branch of Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl and Kate from an ancient Sumerian goddess who All Wednesday night Summer Concert Portland Public Library, Priscilla Webster reigned in an age when d rummers and Sccies programs arc held at chc Fifth OiCamillo's Mercy Watson, as well as and Rose Ann Walsh, have thrown down dancers were predominantly women. Maine Regiment Museum on Seashore old favorites. "We p ut the series books The women masterfu lly max thcu Avenue, 8:00 pm; suggested donation t he gauntlet to Peaks Island School together in their own section so chat kids vocals with authenttc and replica African $5.00/person. students. If e,reryone in a class signs up can fi nd them easily," she.said. percussion insuuments, which Portland T he tvfusic Association is c urrently for and completes the library's summer Always in demand, and especially so Press Hernld music critic Christopher acccpring applications for this year's reading program, that class will h.ave the in summer, arc books by Peaks Island Hyde calls "especially intriguing - Barbara Goelman Scholarship, offered opportunity to splash the librarians in the authors and illustrators: Scott Nash. and ddighrful ... sw itching from one annually to a Peaks Islander between the fall. Anne Sibley O'Brien and former islander percussion instrument to another, at the ages of 8 aod 22 who is studying music. )-C lub spoke to M rs . Walsh, who Ke,•in Hawkes, al I of whom are featured same time singing complex h2rmonies that The $500 award is open co any island devised the challenge, to find out what in an article in the current Island Journal complement che rhythm and sometimes music student who can demonstrate kind of splashing she has in mind. Are we (available at the library). echo the overtones of the drums." significant ability and a real commitment talking squirt guns, buckets, an above A book that caught Mrs. Webster's lnan,,a has recorded and released five .. to pursuing and working towards musical ground pool? Will they wear wetsuits? full-length albums and has played venues excellence. eye is Tbe I nveotion of Hugo Cabret by Ever enigmatic, Mrs. Walsh is keeping such as the Great Went with Philh in For more information, call Paith York at Brian Selznick. She described it as "like Limestone, the Majne .Arts Festival_, 766-5763 or [email protected] her definition of"splash" fluid. Al l she a movie." Full-page black and white Porcland's Merrill Aud itorium, t he would oonflde is that the splashing would drawings alternate with pages of text. Augusta Civic Center and the Common take a form suitable to t he age group "You read the drawings," she said. Ground Fair in Uniry. T he Peak$ Island MU$ic A5Sociatioo i$: Charles dishing it out. To sweeten the deal, T his book is on the list of recommended lnanna is deeply dedicated to t be Bun, Tcch.nicia.o; Jackie Clifford, Co•Trca$u.rt;r; she added this fillip: Mrs. Litchfield, books for kids in grades 3, 4 and 5. Boole education and cultivation of peace and Surr O cmitre, Hiuorian; Larry Ouch:i.rmc, who retired this year, will return for a lists provided the school, for studenu sharing among cultures through the Facilincs Manager; Stephen Fox. Desi Larson. by splashing if tbc entire school completes powe.r of music. "Getting the audience Eleanor Moue. Kubie Schneider, Sec.reta.ry: of all ages, ore available at the libruy. Cdia Sttick.k.r, Tickeu & Co-Tcn.!Su.ru-; and Paith the prog~am. K;ds need to read eight involved and creating an experience•is our York, President. We are dedicated to planning When you think about it , there's not too goal," emphasizes Andrea Antognoni, one aod prod\lc:tog iotcresdng rousical programs thtt books, or for eight hours, by July 31 . much that's not available at or through the repreKnc boch ou r com mun ity ,and the world A wind-up activity to the reading library. Check it out. of the founding members ofthe group. "lt uou.nd us; we seek to fulfill our simple m ission of really feeds us to look out in the audience bringing good music to our beloved isb.nd. program is a special event, "Tales from the PEAKS ISLAND HOUSES Veterinary care for Companion Animals, FOR SALE i Bracliett Rabbits, Ferrets & Pocllet Pets By Harborview Properties www.harborviewproperties.com • St:rret ISLAND REAL ESTATE AGENTS Veterin~rv Ellen Mahoney Rhonda Berg 207-776-0327 207-756-3450 Ctinic' General Medicine & Surgery Act1puncture and Alternative .Medicine House Calls In The Portland Area & T/Je Islands 192 Brackett Street Portland, :\laine 04102 _ 8 5 www.portvet.net 7 72 33 :&perience tne Spirit ofPeak.§ (}o(f Cart Tours depart from Forest City Landing We are happy to show throughout the summer and fall. Intown office: you all houses for sale on 47 India St Adult $ I 5; Child $8 Portland, ME Peaks or in the Portland Har1>0 Or concacr Fran Houston r fran [email protected] t_.____ ...., _ _. 766.2286 Pottery by Richard Boyd and Pamela Williamson, and oils by Jeanne O'Toole Hayman at the Richard Boyd Pottery Studio and Gallery oo Peaks Island. pl,oro by Jamie Hogan July 2010 ISlAND TIMES PAGE 17 My friend, Lucy, a New York chef, once demonstrated what she considers Lobster Execution 101. Picking up Lobster Lover a live lobster, tail in one hand, body in the o ther, she rwisted her hands in opposite directions as though ·.. wringing out a dishrag. J screamed as - - .,... -- .. _.,_ she threw the tail portion into a pOt . - of boiling water and proceeded to • separate the claws from che body in the same manner. " T hey don't feel a . . .. thing:' Lucy insisted, as TU'lltched the ...... ,.. :·, -...-- ...... _., -- tailless, clawless, lobster body continue - ....__ to walk across mi• kitchen counter apparently unaware chat it had been - dismembered. It's a tough dilemma. I feel bad _-..,, about Carl, bur I support our Maine ..- lobstermen and I am proud o f our - state. I want to show my guests that - A what they've heard about Maine is true. ~:.:-~ Mittens and sweaters made in Maine -~-..,. -- . are warmer, our blueberries sweeter, /• . .,.;. ~ and our lobster is the most succJ.1lcnt ,; . ... in the world. To me, cooking lobster ·,._ . ' . in Maine is one of those things you do for the welfare of the community . . , • like paying taxes, cleaning up after your dog, and staying on your meds. B Y l.JSA GOE LL SINICKI \Xlhen Carl headed toward the stove, clear, having someone else pull the I choose to be a hostess first and a I scooped him up and deposited him trigger for you does not diminish your Crustacean Crusader second. It is what E arwigs aren't the only things t hat in the sink. "You don't want to know guilt. You've still perpetrated a crime. J bclic,·e serves tl1e greater good. crawl our of my woodwork in summer. what's happening in that por;' T said. Man)' chefs cL-um the fastest and least At rhe same time, I bold those People I haven't seen for years come I let Carl roam the sink. I poked at cruel way to kill a lobster is by thrusting lobsters who give t heir lives for t he to visit: People I love. People I like. his feelers and stroked his rail. Using a knife into the back of the lobsrcr's c•use in the highest esteem. I honor People I never really liked. People who a steak knife, I cut off the oppressive head. Personally, I reject stabbing. It's every lobster before I slide it into the never really liked me. They all make rubber bands from his claws freeing too violent and I'm not confident in pot by looking him in the eye and their way to Peaks Island and show up bim to enjoy a few final unencumbered my skills. \'ilhat if J put t he knife inm whispering, "This will only hurt for a at my house hoping for the srune thing: pinches. Carl gazed at me lovingly the wrong part of the head and cause second." a traditional l\laine lobster dinner. as I confided about David, the boy at some sort of lobster seizure, stroke, or For Carl's sake, I really hope it's true. I wam to be a good hostess, so· I school that I liked. He didn't interrupt cerebral hemorrhage? head to Harbor Fish co purchase the once. He wa.~ the best listener ever. appropriate number of pound-and-a Ding-ing-ing-ing. quarcer lobsters. I pretend I'm happ)' Ttwas time to add Carl into the pot. I to do this. No one suspects t hat I 'm shivered and wracked my brain for an corn between pleasing m)' guests and alternative. \Ve didn't have a salt water Keep Portland an issue of conscience: As much as I aquarium. I'd never heard of anyone •• enjoy eating lobster, I despise killing keeping a per lobster. My school already ..:..../ Independent! them. And not just the physical act of had a mascot. And there was oo way lobster slaughter. I have an emotional Mom would let me set Carl free. Not arnichmenc to lobster. after paying $3.99 a pound for him. Buy Local. My relationship with lobster started Carl's dcstin)' was our diru1er table. in elementary school. Every August Holding my breath, 1 held Carl we celebrated Mom's birthday with a over the pot. 1 closed my eyes and dock-side lobster dinner at The Clam performed my duty. The moment Carl Hut in New Jersey. There, I devoured hit the water, l heard a scream-really claws, sa,·orcd rails, and sucked every more of a high-pitched hiss-ascend last briny bit from the scrawny legs. from the boiling water. I burst into When my family moved ro Roanoke, tears. Virginia, we didn't see, or eat, lobster Mom returned. I could only get out for several years-unti l one day when fout words between sobs:"I - killed Twas twelve aoe Mom arrived home my-fricnd." with three stunned, bur still moving Now, l steam o r boil lobster a few specimens. Mom's srockpot was too times every summer to satisfy guests. small to cook three lobsters at once, In Carl's memorr, I continue to seek a so she decided to cook two first, then more humane method of preparation: the third. She had to go to the bank so lobster euthanasia. I've been assured she asked me co hdp. "\Xlhcn the timer br numerous people that a lobster's goes off, take these two lobsters out nervous system is barely developed. of the pot, and pur the third in," she However, I'm convinced t hat Carl instructed. and h is brethren aren't completely My mistake was returning to the o blivious. I 've heard the thrashing, kitchen too ea rly-lobsrers number the dang of shell against pot when a one and two still had five minutes to lobster is submerged in boiling water. go. 1b kiU rime, Tfreed lobster number It's definitely not the sound of a three from his brown bag purgatory celebration. and set him o n the counter. He was l 've made it a point to explore everything a crustacean should be: alternatives. Occasionally, I have the toogh shelled, segmented and the color fish market do the steaming for me, of pond scum. I named him Carl. l but I know that doesn't alleviate my think he winked at me, though it was responsibility for the heinous act of hard to tell for sure since lobsters don't lobstercide. As ace district attorney have eyelids. Jack McCoy of Law and Order makes PAGE18 !ST.AND TIMES July2010 COMMUNITY NOTES The Gem Gallery Summer schedule: July 1-7 Paul Brahms; July 8-14 Mary The Eighth l\Iaine ,.. Hv1ng Annual .Bloocl Drive Classes& La,·cnd1cr Myen~ )uh IS •ll Oidm· Wieud.e; museum and lodge built in 1891 as a summt>r The Peals Island'-, AW1 ual Blood Drive, co· Jul) 22-28 C~rol C.trtjer; July 29-Aug. 4 Xorm retreat for the Cavil W~r ..-cten.m. lt fNturd 'ipon-.ol'ed by the Amcrtcan Red Cross, wiJI be Inst1~uction Proulx, Aug. 5-11 C laudia Whnrnan: Aug. 12· 12 rooms for overnight guests and hi$t ory held Tue,day, July 6 fro,n 12:00 • 5:00 pm, ,ll IN Jane- 8anq1Je1•; Aug. 26-Sept. I P;mlaCm•;ard. filled, guided tours daily from I lam until 4pm. Greenwood Carden. 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