Casco Bay Weekly : 20 April 1989
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Portland Public Library Portland Public Library Digital Commons Casco Bay Weekly (1989) Casco Bay Weekly 4-20-1989 Casco Bay Weekly : 20 April 1989 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1989 Recommended Citation "Casco Bay Weekly : 20 April 1989" (1989). Casco Bay Weekly (1989). 15. http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1989/15 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Casco Bay Weekly at Portland Public Library Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Casco Bay Weekly (1989) by an authorized administrator of Portland Public Library Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SEND IN A READERSHIP SURVEY - HELP US & WIN! w E E K L y Portland's FREE news and arts weekly Thursday April 20, 1989 THE DOCTOR Dr. Bach. Dr. Michael Bach sees more AIDS patients than any other doctor in Maine. They are all virtually certain to die. But until they do, Dr. Bach will keep trying. See page 6. SMITH HOUSE Before we can tell WU A Life.Chafing Resource or '. about Portlands finest health Chemica Dependency and fitness club, 7}eatment 91-93 State Street, Portland, ME 04101 we'D have to size you up. IN BRIEF: THERE'S A BEER BA1TLE BREWIN' ... Treatment for Geary's Pale Ale goes to court Alcoholism and Arts contribute cash David Geary, Portland Geary said that while his no objection during the 90 days, Will that be small, medium, three distributors in otherparts only contacting Geary after large or extra large? The arts contibuted $92 brewer of Geary's Pale Ale, is Chemical million to the Maine econ doing court battle with Valley of Maine sold an average of 13 Pine State took over. February Whatever yo ur size, we have a Bay Club percent more beer in 1988 than 10 Valley filed suit. By then the , shirt that'U fit you to a "1': And it's absolutely omy last year according to a Distributors Inc. from which free. Just come by the Bay Club Memben; Dependency . survey conducted by the he withdrew his business early in 1987, Valley sold 28 percent Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages Information Center at One City Center and New England Foundation for this year. less. In August he wrote to had reviewed the case, and pick up your own, specially designed shirt~ pronounced that Pine State was Once we size you up, wellteU you about • intensive, 4-week the Arts. April 14 the Maine Geary is claiming the dis BuckyRunser. Citing the Maine Casco Bay Weekly Bay Club, soon to be Portland's finest outpatient program Arts Commission announced tributor "failed to perform," Franchise Law, he told Runser the new distributor. health and fitness facility. We've designed David Geary is countersu Thursday an exciting club for both the fitness fanatic that money generated from allowing sales of the beer to go that Valley's performance was ing, claiming Valley breached April 20, 1989 as well as the occasional user, with com· • evening hours available non-profit performing arts flat in Kennebec, Somerset and seriously deficient. 28 pages plete strength training and Cardio·Action" "We are a small, struggling its contract by "failing to use its centers, aerobics studios, attractive locker centers, museums, historical Waldo counties last year. Val rooms with sauna and steam ... just what societies and community arts ley is claiming, in Kennebec company and we need to have best efforts" in selling Geary's you'd expect from a fin;t class club. Best • family program every day organizations has increased County Superior Court, that distributors who share our Pale Ale. Geary says, "We feel of aU, our higbly qualified fitness stall' will that we've been badly dam assist you to get the most benefit from your 63 percent in the last decade. Geary violated the Maine Fran goals. I have asked you twice {/' personalized fitness program. • three-month The survey took into account chise Law when he switched to to voluntarily release our aged and that we needed to get Stop by today for your free T·shirt and brand; and I am asking you out from underneath that. All hear about aU the exciting features at Bay aftercare program what the audiences and or Pine State Beverage Co. TALK '''::11: Club. We're sure you'U agree, when it ganizations spent on food, "I don't know why they again in this letter. Bucky, we want to do is go on about Mr. and Mrs. Fish comes to health and fitness, Bay Club's a please help us survive." OnOc our business." great fit for you. • fees reimbursable by most gasoline, etc. as well as pro would want to do this," said duction expenditures and Geary, who said the beer he's tober 14, 1988, Geary gave Runser has a keg of reasons insurers and Maine Medicaid admittance fees. The 2,265 been brewing for two years Runser the 90-day termination for the slow sales of Geary's people employed make arts makes up a tiny percentage of notice required by law. Pale Ale. In the first place, he the ninth biggest private Valley's business. However, Valley responded called the decline of sales a The At Smith House, clients "normal beer curve." He continue with their employer in the state. Under the Maine Franchise in January that the August let Law,a brewer may not sell beer ter does not fulfill the require claimed Geary wanted him to day-to-day lives while directly. It must be sold through ments of the "first notice." It do the hard work of establish AIDS receiving treatment. a distributor. The brewer gives didn't give the company a ing the brand in the area, then Lower sulfur for the distributor exclusive rights "specified reasonable period of give his business to another doctor Health and Fitnl!M" at One City CenleI; Rlrlland, 71~ time to cure the deficiency," distributor. And he said the For information or a brochure, industrial fuels to distribute the beer in a given STORY AND PHOTOS -One pel'" penon. WIllie lIuppilet M.sI 2O)ftI"I or okb to joia. wrote Valley's attorney Albert beer is hard to sell in his terri 1.1:. be please call 772-8822. Portland Rep. Jim Oliver area. The distributor marks up by Monte Paul•• n AlIothtrquabtyfimesseealtll" &om HMth ~ Corp;nIio.. predicted his legislation to the price of the beer to make a Bernier in a letter to Geary. It tory because there are no tour profit. To terminate this agree only asked voluntary release. ists or ski areas. (The territory lower the allowable sulfur ....- ..l~ ¥-"'f.;~~ ment the brewer must give the It wa~n't the first time Geary does, however, include the content for industrial oil will :~:-~..t·,.~.·~.; . M hit the floor of the House distributor two separate no had asked voluntary release. state capital, Augusta.) Runser ,. .,K ," u. M.)·IEWS within a couple of weeks. tices: one specifying the prob In January 1988 he had begun finally claimed Geary didn't Garbage and the arts Oliver said the bill would lem, and another giving a final, to worry a bout the fizzling sales supply him with the beer he IF THE TAXCAP lower the sulfur content from 90-day notice. at Valley, and he asked then to needed. 2.5 to 1.5 percent, yielding a While Geary claims he fol be voluntarily released from Geary said in response that 16 to 30 percent reduction in lowed the legal procedures to the agreement. Geary alleges Valley's territory may not be GOES sulfur dioxide emissions, end his contract with Valley, that Runser said he would sell great, but that doesn't explain ••• which produce acid rain. The Valley President Bernard his distribution rights to Pine why Valley's sales actually bill gota unanimous endorse "Bucky" Runserclaims Geary's State, but wouldn't name a declined. To Runser's other ment from the Energy Com first notice of termination was price. charges Geary replied, "Abso GOT Geary claims Valley made lutely false. Not true." so mittee, although the Maine incomplete. -Hannah Holmes CALENDAR Department of Environ Sleazoids and felines mental Protection testified NE RHOODS! for a higher allowable per LEASH LAW LOOMING centage. "Our own DEP," Organized and active neighborhoods are the said a disgusted Oliver. ''Isn't Baxter school governs Mackworth foundation of Portland. If a tax cap is approved on May that incredible?" The Attorney General's of were in the habit of walking problems of unleashed dogs ]~6~ 2nd, our neighborhoods may deteriorate. Needed LISTINGS fice has concluded that the their pets on the island raised and increased traffic on Mack services and programs that help make Portland so Commissioner of the Depart objections and questioned the worth. The committee is now attractive and provide the quality of life we all enjoy, West End parking ment of Education and Cul authority of the Governor ready to submit some sugges tural Services (DECS) has sole BaxterStateSchool for the Deaf tions, which include the en :::;f!! ;([Jt; EATS may have to be cut. pushed to summer Carnivorous dining Portland City Councilor authority over Mackworth Is to make rules on what they forcement of a leash law, to Eve A tax cap could rob neighborhoods of programs and Bither, commissioner of DECS. services they rely on everyday: fire, medcu, and police Don MacWilliams is propos land. In a five-page legal opin understood to be state land. ing that the West End park ion assistant attorney general Stewart's opinion states that Mackworth Island was /W~i} /····::;1~~ protection; quality education for our children and although the island was given donated in 1943.