Casco Bay Weekly : 23 August 1990
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COURSE GUIDE Greater Portland's news and arts weekly AUGUST 23, 1990 FREE Payin' for the land down under Marine operators A new Maine law says that owners of marinas, in Portland waterfront property values average $700,000 boatyards and floating restaurants win have to pay up to an acre and many pier and wharf owners are facing 23 times the amount they currently pay to '1ease" the making splash about dramatic increases. Investors interested in building a statEXIwned "submerged land" their businesses float marina or expanding one may shy away from Portland, over. Under the new law, fees depend on the value of where the prospective development faces much higher "submerged land" fees property adjacent to docks and other structures. fees than elsewhere in the state. In Phippsburg, waterfront property values average Struggling along in a stormy economy and seeing $60,000 an acre and the new fee structure could give pier By Alldy Newman competitors up and down the coast steering clear of and wharf owners there a break on the amount they sharp increases, some Portland pier and wharf owners presentlypay,encouragingwaterfront development. But are about ready to jump ship. Continued on page 6 A stock car on the back stretch of Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. A run for the money Deep, disturbing fun at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway By W.D. Cutlip looking to bust out and get somebody. the lion's den; at the volcano's edge. Run. In two or three laps the engines warm up and the Every Saturday at about 4:30 p.m., the man at the But no one runs screaming from the 'Speedway. pit ramp waves a dozen cars out of the pits and onto tires feel right and suddenly all twelve cars accelerate in a single rattling explosion. Five thousand people sit serenely in the grandstand, the Beech Ridge Motor Speedway for some hot laps. eating popcorn and drinking sodas. Unless you're familiar with this kind of auditory They pull out with a popping, snarling roar and You might wonder, then and there, what's wrong violence, you may be a teensy bit nervous, even afraid. immediately begin to lurch threateningly from side to with these people? Why aren't they running? What the side as they make their way around the track. The sound of 12 such behemoths in widEXIpen me hell are they all doing here? chanical rut produces subsonic vibrations that your This maneuver is designed to warm up the tires for Having fun, that's what they're doing here; having body fears, however brave your head may be. maximum traction and optimum handling, but it gives the deepest, most disturbing, most unnerving and the newcomer the impression that a herd of satanic The desire to run from this noise is natural - even complete kind of fun a person can have. commendable. Where in your primal, prehistOrical cattle has just been let loose on the track and is now That is, next to driving a stock car in a race. Now racial memory have you ever heard such a noise? In there's some real deep, disturbing fun. Continued on P'lge 8 NEWSBRIEFS P'lges 2-5 INSIDE LAND DOWN UNDER P'lge 6 SPORT P'lge 22 SPEEDWAY page 8 CLASSIFIEDS page 24 VIEWS page 12 ERNIE POOK page 26 REAL PUZZLE page 27 -r 2 u.Sa> Bay Weekly August 23, 1990 3 RICHARD ~ PARK~ ~ GALLERY FOLK ART OF INDIA Maine Youth Center report calls You might know Richard Parks Gallery for it's quality contemporary home and office furniture, for stricter but take a second look at our art. Now is a good security time to come in and view our new show. In a report released on Aug. 16, a task force explored A review of the top news stories affecting Showing August 17 - September 7 Creater Portland: August 14 through 21, 1990. problems at the Maine Youth Center and offered recommen Our Portland location is pleased to feature the dations for improving security work of the village women from ancient Mithali and rehabilitative services at the facility. Located in South in Eastern India. Carrying on a 3,000 year old It was a week of barriers. that "Joe Brennan seems Portland, the center has been a tradition unique these women, they create to A task force paralyzed" when he "an source of community dissen sacred colorful icons drawn from India's rich recommended building a nounces that he's going to sion for the past several years Hindu mythology. Come in and enjoy the exhibit fence to keep In Juveniles announce his position." primarily because of the and see what the gallery has to offer. at the Maine Youth Center Lyford attributes this paralysis perceived danger of itinerant In South Portland, two to Brennan "trying not to youth. Since the beginning of AIDS groups attacked offend" either the environ 1990, there have been at least Mon.Thurs 10am.5:30pm, Fri until 7pm, Sat lOam.5pm what they claimed were major credit cards • in·store financing • free parking mental groups that oppose the 212 escapes, 30 of which police PORTLAND BANGOR ELLSWORIH barriers to care for people widening or the business and have linked with local crime. 288 Fore Street. 170 Park Street. High Street with AIDS, Cov. John tourism interests that favor the Among other recommenda 774·1322 942~0 667·3615 RICHARD . PARK~ , GALLERY McKernan told widening. tions, the report proposed Democratk gubernatorial The decision whether to building a fence around the opponent Congressman grant pennits to the Maine facility, replacing the staff Joseph Brennan to "get Turnpike Authority for members currently doing duty off the fence" and come widening the turnpike from as guards with a separate Some people think there's not much to do late at night. out for or against the Wells to Scarborough now security force, and reducing widening of the Maine rests with the Board of Envi escapes by enhancing treat They haven't been to L.L. Bean. Turnpike, and a city ronmental Protection. A final ment programs. According to council that said It would decision by the BEP is ex A.L. Carlisle, Panel Chair and 10 p.m. Valerie Marshall, 30, build a park Is now on the pected in October. Associate Corrections Com Enlarge. your summer works in L.L. Bean's Men's J came out into the lobby, and there was a perfect set of fence because of the missioner at the Department Deparbnent. wet foot tracks heading right out the front door. J don't sagging economy. of Corrections, the total cost of AIDS group forms, know, I guess somebody took a swim in the trout pond!" memones! the recommendations would "J think we stay open a/l day and Couple found fights patient be "very, very expensive. a/l night because, as LL used 6 a. m. Olga Bishop, 55, works ONA ...... (10lY . dumping We'd be lucky if we could do to say, '}6u never know when in L.L. Bean's footwear guilty of running a security fence - 6,000-7,000 someone is going to need you: .. 1 deparbnent. /Mi if199 . 16x24 .. Jl!J9 2Qx30 (fJ!OIo Pcmrl ••• 12.99 A local task force tha t will ... "" ,,' q;.,.. t;Qlct #'«, prostitution ring feet of small mesh - for a remember late one evening last help people with AIDS minimum of $1.5 million." The ''My grandfather was a shoe Joseph Sabatino, Jr. and I year this older, very refined. digni "And don't forget ... ((The Big Deal" (PWAs) obtain medical and cost of implementing the other maker, and I've spent my whole Diane Sabatino were found fied gentleman came in-I think he Free 2nd Set of Prints and Free Film social services announced its recommendations, said /L'as Austrian. This was his first time in the store, and we life around shoes. I stitched guil ty of running a prostitu formation on Aug. 14. Toby shoes and luggage before I came EVERY DAY OF mE WEEK wilen your film is developed ... Carlisle, could easily run as went from mens to lL'Omens, then to home and camp It ~ l tion operation in Portland by a exclusively at BPS Photo Express Simon, a member of the newly high as $10 million. Funding to work in this department. I federal jury on Aug. 17. The took nearly all night, but he got everything he needed. fonned Task Force on Human the changes could be posed to know shoes, and I never recom jury ruled that while the Rights, said in a prepared Folks tell me that walking through the door here at, so;: voters in the fonn of a bond 10 or lJ at night is an experience in itself. I know what mend a shoe I'm not sure offers HURRY! Enlargement Sabatinos ran Classic Escort statement that the task force's issue.