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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.

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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.

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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 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. exactly what the customer is offer ends Aug. 31st! Service and Massage on Forest they mean-but its probably more a feeling than any­ mission would be to attack As for the threat to the thing you could put into words. .. ., looking for. Sometimes that can take a while. People will Avenue in Portland during "the problem of patient general public, Carlisle try on shoe after shoe, but I don't mind. I'm glad theres 30 City Center, Portlnnd • 772-7296 1988 and 1989, their employ­ dumping by physicians who pointed out that as of Aug. 20, 2 a. m. Assistant Manager plenty of time to get it right. In fact, that s one of the best ees engaged in sex with JJU~~LlI.I"'''''''I.&''''''''''''IAAII'''''' 7I US Route 1, Scarborough • 883-7363 refuse to treat PW As with the center's population was John Chaney, 53, has been things about working this hour. .. }6u see, it may seem clients. Fonner employees Medicaid." Simon also said 245, of whom only 13 were at with Bean's for 17 years. peaceful here at night, but YOUQ be surprised. Theres who testified against the the group will work toward large. "I've had people ask me who always something interesting going on." Sabatinos said that they had getting more physicians in "(Carlisle) always plays it on earth would shop here at travelled as far as Some people like to visit LL Bean during the day, and outlying communities to treat down," said task force mem­ 2 in the morning, and I just Massachusets and New some like the expe- AIDS patients rather than ber and Portland Deputy look at them and grin. .. Back Hampshire to be paid for sex. rience they have referring patients to "AIDS Police Chief Steven Roberts. when I st0l1ed working here, Joseph Sabatino faces up to here late at night. specialists" in urban areas. "Five percent is still 10 kids ... 55 years in prison and $2.8 there were only three clerks So we're here 24 General practitioners referring and some of those are ... on. and if it was real quiet, we played cnbbage. Hunters LL.Bead million in fines. Diane AlDS patients to specialists hours every day, SOCiopaths preying on the used to come in on their way up to camp then. Were big­ Our store offers durable. Sabatino faces up to five years ready to answer All Aboard for a instead of treating the patients community." ger nou;, but theres still a small feeling about the place. In practical products and knowledgeable. in prison and $250,000 in fines. your questions themselves has led to a fact, /L-eL>e had the same crew on for four years now. Nowa­ friend I.. service for people who A federal judge ruled that and help you make love the outdoors. We're open Charter, Cruise, or Day Trip handful of Portland doctors days, some people come in just for the company, and! neither of the Sabatinos could becoming overburdened and Group seeks the most of your 24 hours. ever\' dav. serve a lot of coffee... One of my favorite stories is the night on Maine's Finest Fleet be released on bail until their needing to "dump" patients, improvements for time outdoors. sentencing, which will occur Simon and others in the task Roule I. Heeport. Mame at the end of October. force said. Task force members City Hall plan to work toward improv­ Auditorium Jock to Joe: "Get ing treatment for PWAs at the Portland CARES (Citizens off the fence" Maine Medical Center (MMC). for Auditorium Restoration) Dr. Robert S. Hillman, Chief fonned recently to help raise about turnpike of the Department of Medicine money for restoring the aging Maine Governor John at MMC, said that none of the Portland City Hall Audito­ VIDEO BLOWOUT SALE McKernan reiterated his 130 doctors who report to him rium. Bad acoustical vibes, I challenge at an Aug. 16 press "have sat me down and lousy seats and Ii ttle room GREAT BUYS ON conference for Democratic refused an AIDS patient." baCkstage to rehearse and D opponent Congressman Hillman did say that there are change are among the com­ E HUNDREDS OF VIDEO TAPES Joseph Brennan to "get off the only five infectious disease plaints voiced by groups and AUGUST 23 - AUGUST 29 * PALAWAN specialists in Portland who o Long lasting, tropical DAYSAILS fence" and take a stand on the performers who use the issue of widening the Maine have "a limited capacity to auditorium and by people VI~~~S $9. 98 from the Custom llouse Turnpike. "Unfortunately for cope" with the present de­ who have attended perfor­ B Wharf In Portland Joe, there does come a time mand for AIDS treatment. He mances and graduation L • New Releases. Foreign Films. Comedies • ORCHIDS 773-2163 said that the issue of AIDS • Classics • Horrors • Kids' • when you actually have to say ceremonies there. o 5 stems 3ttrll-eti17ely where you stand," said specialists being Estimates peg the renova­ wr3pped 3nd deli17end to McKernan. overburdened is not so much tion of the auditorium at $6 W Portfand 3nd mstbrook. a result of other doctors $15 For more information C3sh or endit ell-rd. 'Ilm, _ oh, Brennan last released a million. The late Paul E. o about putting your ad here "" ..... O'HoI'""uI' statement about the turnpike refusing to provide care as of Merrill donated $1 million U bool{land call Maureen Magee at on July 27, in which he weighs "an issue generic to all medi­ toward restoring the audito­ T ~ I both sides of the issue but cine: Do you go to a Specialist rium. Portland CARES hopes This sale will only be at the follOwing locations: Casco~ <9!·mttiiil)) or do you go to a general Trips doesn't corne out on either to raise another $2 million in Bookland South Portland Bookland Northgate VWEEKL:. * 6 Daily * $5 ofT any Adult fare practitioner who covers all of Mall Plaza North Gat. Shopping Center whit. ,,&lid Maiae Dri'len Ue~ side of the road. private funds. The group is S S. Portland, Maine Portland, Maine the waterfront?" HARMON'~~BARTON'S 775-6601 Wharf· Portland. 207-774-3578 McKernan campaign looking for public money for A 773-4238 797.9274 584 Congress Street ~ 117 Brown Street manager Willis Lyford said BooJdand N<>rth Gate w.u continue Ie s

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the remaining $3 million and 538 C.ongre" Street is lobbying the Portland City Rare and Used Books Council to send a bond issue Maps and Pr ints referendum question to Bought & Sold Portland voters on the upcom­ Highest Prices Paid ing Nov. 6 ballot. An Aug. 20 Search Service public hearing drew 150 Tax & Insurance Appraisals citizens who spoke for and Single items or large collectIons wan ted BROWSERS ALWAYS WELCOME against the $3 million bond 1 0 am to 5 :30 pm Mon.-Sat. issue. The council will vote on whether to send the question AntlQuoriOn Booluelen Assocohon of Americo to the voters on Aug. 27. 1-800-228-1398 The present auditorium 761 -2150 646·8785 was built after a fire burned 538 Congress St. Route 1. Well. , the previous City Hall to the ground in 1908. Which restaurant Planned park may in the Old Port remain parking lot will serve you a An Old Port parking lot first~rate dinner was the site of a ceremony last in the peaceful spring for visitors from seclusion of a Handcrafted for us in Vermont with solid hardwood aspen slats, combined Portland's Sister City garden patio? with our 30-tuft pure cotton futon mattress and scotchguarded cover, Shinagawa in honor of the this futon package is a terrific value! Also available in queen and proposed Japanese-style Post twin sizes, all in stock. Office Park. The lot is bor­ Pavement outside MaIne Med following ACT-UP/Maine's "die-In." dered by Exchange, Middle None of them. At noon on Aug. 20, more than two dozen AIDS activists rain and Market streets and We sell no wood products from forests. representing the Maine chapter of the AIDS Coalition to Workmanship guaranteed. currently contains 35 metered Unleash Power (ACT-UP) staged a protest outside the Maine Corne to our neighborhood. parking spaces_ We carry New England's largest in-stock selection of frames, Medical Center. Canylng signs that read "106 deaths from The Portland City Council AIDS In Vacationland" and "Sllence,.Death," the group chanted Till': futons and covers. Futons priced from $89 to $189. is deciding whether to spend "Shamel" repeatedly while pointing toward Maine Med. Futons made specially for us by ~d f3oi5/) $265,000 of the capital im­ Alleging that Maine Med Is guilty of patient dumping and that 't.~"...~WEQT provements budget to finish services provided by the Maine Med Outpatient Clinic are CJIDE FUTON FURNISIDNGS ,.... """ ... ' ~m" the proposed project, which Inadequate, they demanded that Maine Med open a resource R U,L\ L R ~ ~ ' I includes a dry waterfall, a rock center specifically for AIDS patients by Jan. 1, 1991.The event Also servi ng Breakfast, Lunch and Sunday Brunch. garden representing the ended with a "die-In." Protestors lay down on the pavement while othen drew chalk lines around them In a homlclde­ islands of Casco Bay and an 58 Pine Street 773-8223 crime-scene fashion. Then proteston stood up and wrote open space for performances. . :.:: ';:::' ..: :.;: .... . ,,::: ::,,: names Inside the drawings of people who have died of AIDS, The Ci ty of Portland squirted and smeared the drawings with fake blood and purchased the lot in 1985 at scattered black flowers on the Images. the urging of a citizens' group called Friends of the Park. The Protesters act up. Photos(fonee Harbert city wanted a building at the Office Park would be better up quite a struggle" when he affidavits after an event.) location to collect taxes on it. spent renovating Franklin and Navarro wrestled it to Wasmund is hoping the feat WEIRD NEWS: The city asked Friends of the Park and maintaining the shore. Flaherty said that they will entice the Guinness folks JOSEPH'S Park to demonstrate public other parks in the Old Port, sold the fish, which weighed to create a "Biggest Sno-Cone" trHold That Chisel support for the park and including Tommy's Park over 200 pounds, for $475. category in the book. Guinness Steady ... A statue of Polish We don't challenged them to raise across the street from the "] could have thrown them presently documents gargan­ hero Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, Saturday, August 25 is the last day $100,000. Friends of the Park proposed Post Office Park. in jail for the sale of fish tuan Popsides and ice cream sculpted in Yugoslavia half a of our raised $115,000 from private The City Council will commercially without a sundaes. century ago, was recently know interests and the City Council decide on the capital improve­ license," said Sergeant David The sno-cone rested in a shipped to the Polish city of SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE agreed to building the park ments budget and the fate of T. Maulden of the Maine cone constructed from wood, Katowice to be put on display. where to within four years. But with Post Office Park Monday, Department of Marine Re­ chicken wire and wallpaper. Officials there discovered that merchants and residents Aug. 27. sources. But Maulden said he Spectators were encouraged to the statue, which was sup­ Business Selected Men's and Women's put his complaining about the lack of was convinced the Fish eat the sno-cone but barely put posed to depict Pilsudski on clothing, shoes and accessories accessible and affordable Duo catch 6-foot Exchange workers "had no a dent in it, Wasmund said. his legendary chestnut mare, and Social Jersey- parking and a tight city idea" about permits required Reached three days after the shows him mounted on what Catering budget, the present City fish with bare for selling fish commercially event, he reported that the is unmistakably a stallion. The 50-700/0 off Council is having second hands and let them off. The two men cone had not yet completely officials are agonizing over thoughts about public financ­ were allowed to purchase two whether to alter the statue in • On Aug. 17, two Portland melted. Word from Guinness 410 Fore Street Portland, Maine 04101 Gary Bowden has ing of the project. The present permits, costing $10 each, after the interests of historical Gounnet-To-Go Fish Exchange workers caught on whether Wasmund will council is not legally bound by they sold the fish. make the record book is accuracy. Men's Store: 773-1274 Women's Store: 773-4454 been Operations Manager a rare, blue-fin tuna that was the decisions of previous expected within two months, trPhiiadelphia's prisons 10 am - 5:30 pm, Thurs. til 7:00 at WGAN Radio for two and a half over six feet long with their councils. Portlander builds he said. have begun giving inmates years. In that time, he has helped The City Council meeting bare hands. But they risked only decaffeinated coffee in an change the way Portlanders look at heard public comment on the being reeled in by the law biggest sno-cone effort to make them "less AM Radio by bringing News/Talk to when they sold the fish Oooops park on Aug. 20. Tony Payne, On Aug. 17, approximately jumpy," according to William WGAN's long-standing audience. without commercial fishing Ellen Gurlitz, bassist for the ."THEMO\iIES ' . a founding member of Friends 200 friends and curiosity­ Hightower, the prison Gary is leaving WGAN to pursue a permits. Snake Alley Bluegrass Band, of the Park, remarked that the seekers gathered on Bedford system's food service director. brand new career. We wish him well One of the Fish Exchange was incorrectly listed in the park was originally proposed Street to watch Keith trJulia E. Arden, a 28-year­ in his new job, but don't worry.. .we 'll workers, Richard Flaherty, Aug. 9 Calender as "Ellen to prevent building construc­ Wasmund build a sno-cone old New York City woman continue to bring the latest news from said it was around 12:30 p.m . Meisner." tion on the lot and preserve that was 12 feet high and four stayin'g at the Stratton, Vt. the award-winning WGAN Radio at a Fish Exchange employee Morgan Shepherd's review views of the newly renovated feet in diameter. The 26-year­ Mountain Inn, called police to News Team, and keep the best talk picnic at Winslow Memorial of "Judevine" in the Aug. 16 historic landmarks in the area. old Portlander is hoping to report that someone had going! Park in Freeport when some issue of CBW was incorrectly "We had a deal," he said. '1t's earn a spot in the Guinness stolen three bags of marijuana i AUGUST 24-25 &<. FRI-SAT 11 ~ two to three dozen bathers attributed to W.D. Cutlip. • ''''R_r_~~ llil time to get this done." Payne Book of World Records. from her room. According to All of us at WGAN wish you the best, were scared out of the ocean lllustrations on pages 12-13 AUGUST25-28 SAT-SUN MAT 3 fears that further delays will Wasmund, owner of the Deputy Sheriff Raymond Gary. Thank you for a great two and a when they saw a fin circling in for the Aug. 16 "The News ~ SUN-TUES 7,9 " increase the cost of the pro­ Wasy's Sno-Cones pushcarts Wilson, Arden volunteered half years. the shallows. Flaherty and You Didn't Hear" article were ~ '!0 built before 1975 was given an easement for 30 years and won't have to pay until 2005. Even with so many people grand fathered for so a virtuAl drAthtrap, of hazard) all AVEDA. products ct\ftTfRlftl full long. new businesses hit with the fee in 1975 didn't make waves at • Environmentally responsible, No animal testing, Plcase recycle· 545 Coa"u. Itrllt, Partllall and pokntlaJ 't:Jury! Thats v:Jry first. 'The rate structure was minimal and relatively non-impac­ Offer good through September 6, 1990 879-1878 O~JfCTS tive," explained Joe McCarty, a member of the Maine Marine Trades 484 Congress Street (eave 1t1e cookl~ Iv -n-al~) ~!!l\.'J M-f 1:18-6:30 hi. 1H Portland, Maine 04101 r Association and owner of Robinhood Marine Center in Robinhood. PORTLAND'S ELITE CUTTERS 774-1241. SUMMER HOURS: YISk-takl~, tnrlll-sukl~ pros: McCarty would prefer not to pay the more than $4,000 he now pays 828-0426 20-50% OFF Monday-Saturday 10:30-5:30 the state on the portion of his marina built since '75, although he said ~ kI~ KIVljs QVld kWce¥lS C{t 222 St. John St.• Suite 215 • Portland IIIIclld CllIol l Ray. CIotllill An eclectic .collection ofwearables the amount was low enough that he could still compete with marina We QTt a salon fOT YOUT good health AI .. M Off d fill Art Rill from this centuy for men & women. -fhp 4oet:i ~j Olpl.! owners excused from the fees. But McCarty said the new fee structure that becomes effective on Oct. 1 is "inequitable and fairly loony." McCarty and 138 other owners of piers, docks and floats will now have to pay a fee that depends not only on the type of work they do in and over the water, but also on the value of property adjacent to the marine structure. People will no longer simply pay a certain amount per foot. Instead, whatawf 7 the state will figure the assessed value per square foot of inland you property adjacent to the structure, then make the marine businesses pay a percentage of the assessed land. Marine-rela ted structures will have to pay one percent of the per square foot value of the adjacent property on land; other marine-related businesses will have to pay two percent; and condos, restaurants and other enterprises that don't by nature have to be on the water will pay 10 percent. FOR A ROOKIE COP, The new fee structure will result in 35 of the 139 fee payers giving the same orless to the state, thanks to very cheap adjacent land. But THERE'S ONE THING MORE the 104 other people who live in areas like Portland that have DANGEROUS THAN comparably higher land values will pay more, Some face increases • Manicure. Pedicure • UNCOVERING A KILLER'S of up to 23 times the fees they currently pay. (The state will raise the • Aromatherapy Facial. Come to our fee incrementally over the next 10 years to soften the blow.) • Haircut. Half Hour Massage. Summer Sale FANTASY. BECOMING IT. According to Matthew Bley of Maine's Bureau of Public Lands, • Float In Floatation Tank. 25%-50% off the submerged land had been "grossly undervalued" and the new • Aveda Cosmetic Makeover. selected Clothing, structure brings the element of "fair market value" into the fee House waTtS & Jamie Lee Curtis (A Fish Called scheme. Now, said Bley, the state will "get a fair return for the Goodies too Wanda) stars in this tightly strung, private use of public land." psychological action thriller about But McCarty said the program is not fair at all. He said assessing fees relative to adjacent property is a "cockamamie idea." 86 Exchange Street, a female cop trapped in a steel web Portland, ME 04101 of romance, revenge and murder, The idea certainly isn't being applauded at DiMillo's Floating 207-774-9746 Restaurant or DiMillo's Marina in Portland. The restaurant's fee will Ron Silver (Enemies: A Love Slory) go from $3,900 to $19,000. And at DiMillo's Marina, the present fee co-stars as a smooth-talking of $5,500 will climb to $31,000. The marina has 130 slips and it costs commodities broker by day ... and a an average of $2,100 for boaters to rent a slip for a year, according crazed madman by night. to Bill Scherr, who manages the marina. He said DiMillo's will have to pass their increased fee along to boaters and that it will be reflected in an increase of up to $240 per slip_ The increase could NEW ACTION HIT RELEASE keep some potential Portland visitors at bay. 1L6 Factory Outlet "It seems unfair to the marine operator in Portland," said McCarty. Sportswear for Since property values and thus submerged land fees are now the whole famllyl .~ IRI R considerably higher in Portland than in many other coastal areas in BLUE STEEL e1969 Melro-GoIdwyn-Mayer Pictures, Inc. All Rights Reserved . $89.98 the state, McCarty predicts that Portland may lose some recreational boaters when business is "driven out of the west and into the east 50% OFF NOW AVAILABLE where the cost of submerged land wiII be less." McCarty pointed out TENNIS & SKI that boaters with full sails are clearly "mobile clientele" who by You've Never Seen A Video Superstore nature like to be out on the water and may elect to sail longer if it WEAR means saving a tidy sum for men & women Like this! People hit with the highest fees stand to lose a competitive edge not only to competitors in other areas, but also to those competitors who have been around since before '75 and are now grandfathered. Scherr of DiMillo's estimated that there are as many as 6,000 of these 4 RENTALS FOR JUST $9.95 business operators who were grandfathered. The Submerged Lands Program is mandated to identify all cases of submerged land use by 30% OFF (Now Thru Labor Day) 1995. LADIES GOLF Largest Selection in Area 3 Evening Rentals for Just $3.00 The increased fees will allow the program, which has had much by Dance France WEAR Free lifetime Membership wlmajor Cl

Desperately serious fun Andy Cusack, General Manager of Beech Ridge Speedway, is the only rnan within five miles of the track wearing a tie. As he walks through the dusty inferno of the pit area, he somehow manages to stay crisp and clean. He comports himself with a directness and confidence that belie his 25 years. Andy is the son of the man who owns Beech Ridge, Ralph Cusack, who purchased the track in 1981 from Calvin Reynolds. Andy is the ringmaster of the area's hairiest, most frenetic circus, and the experience has given him a very definite, emphatic way of speaking. "Stock car radng is not dangerous," he said. "It's risky. Put 30 cars on a track and put drivers in them that want to win and you've got some serious competition. They're going to do some rubbing and bumping, but they're fairly safe out there." Driven get last mInute advice before the start of He walked over to a Modified stock car near the pit tower and a race at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. started to explain stock car safety. "See all this welded tubing? This is a six-point roll cage. A roll four or five laps; the pace car peeled off into the infteld and the cage protects the driver from contact with any object in a crash. race, as they say, was on. This super-seatbelt thing here is a five-point harness. This holds In the fourth tum of the eighth lap, Lew Weatherby's #40 him in his seat. The seat itself protects a driver from three sides. modified stock car left the ground at approximately 80 miles an "He's got a fire extinguisher here, see? The fuel is stored in a hour, rolled in the air and was crushed like a beer can on the foam-lined fuel cell instead of a stainless steel tank so that, when tire-lined concrete wall in front of the stand. it's hit, it simply collapses, as opposed to blowing up." "Everybody stay cool," said Andy Cusack to the press box. Lew Weatherby, the car's owner, stepped up while Andy was "Everybody stay in their seats." talking. He smiled. Kim Weatherby screamed wordlessly and ran out of the press "What are you doing in my car, Andy?" box. Down on the track, she was held back from Lew's car by "This guy," he said, pointing at me, "wants to buy it." friends while the rescue team worked feverishly to free him from "Oh, is that a fact?" asked Lew. the abstract metal sculpture that was once the #40 Modified. Photos by "Not really," I said. This task was made extremely difficult by the fact that Lew Lew laughed. "Too bad. I could've used the money." was unconscious and obviously very badly hurt. Fortunately, Tonee Harbert After a tour of the pits I was transported via pace car to the there was no fire. (This was not a prime-time television stunt. Race can In the Limited Sportsmen division round he track at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. stands. Up in the air-conditioned press box Kim Weatherby, Not every car that crashes bums.) Lew's wife, was scoring drivers for track records. The rest of the cars stopped and the track was suddenly way "What were you doing in our car?" she asked with a smile. too quiet, as was the grandstand. Hunkering over the table with "Planting a bomb," I said, soul of wit that I am. a can of beer in my trembling hand, I was struck by two relatively underpopulated Late Model Sportsman division. "Oh, She laughed. thoughts. A RUN FOR THE MONEY yeah," says Mike Johnson, Late Model owner and radng I sat down facing the window just in time for the first modi­ My first thought was: stock car radng is a sport, a spectator affidanado. "We swap paint every night, every race. Sometimes fied heat. Lew Weatherby and 1] other drivers pulled onto the Continued from front page every lap." Predictably, keeping the body work up is one of track in two files. They warmed up their engines and tires in Mike's biggest headaches - and one of Mike's bigger expenses. Continued on pt'ge 10 One day soon you may be groping for a simile to describe Which is not a major reason for anybody with sufficient cash something battered to the point of featurelessness. Perhaps it reserves to stay out of this division. Generally speaking, people will be a boxer's face after losing a particularly one-sided fight; who can afford to race late-model muscle cars can afford primer, or some comer of the Great American Cityscape crying out for paint and body putty. bulldozers and the wrecker's ball, like the Washington, D.C. In the Modified division, body work is not a big worry. To the ghettos, the South Bronx or the Million Dollar Bridge. average Modified driver or owner, the biggest concern is getting Grope no further. The phrase you're looking for is "like a around the track in one piece. stock car." Come to Beech Ridge and see for yourself. Modified stock cars are "stock" only in the sense that their Beech Ridge Motor Speedway offers four classes of stock car engines are not manufactured in a laboratory somewhere by races: Modified, Late Model Sportsman, Limited Sportsman and people wearing masks, paper hats and dust-free environmental Wildcat - listed here in a coveralls. Built from the ground up, Modified stock cars closely descending order of financial resemble their Formlua One "Indy 500" cousins. burden and aesthetic visual Modifieds are open-wheeled, almost identically equipped appeal. 600-horsepower monsters. The cars cost anywhere from $4,000 to Wildcats race in "teams" $10,000. Upkeep, including gas, tires and oil, is about $15,000 a of 50 cars. Fifty cars on a one­ year, " __ .depending on how often we crash," says nine-time third mile oval track is some Modified champion Dave Coutermarsh. Dave says a crash can kind of Darwinian rush-hour ruin your whole season - at a minimum. nightmare. After the first lap, "There's been a lot of deaths in Modified stock car radng," he the leaders fuse with the says. "The cornering speed of the average Modified is very high likely losers in a confusing, and the cars are pretty rigid. If the angle of impact is severe, the snake-eating-its-tail blur. The driver is going to take a hell of a shot." leaders may be known only Scott Watts, a Modified driver in his early 20s and ninth in the to the track offidals after just overall Modified point standings at Beech Ridge, says that the two laps. greatest danger is not so much the design of the car but the If they even know. To the approach to Modified radng taken by newcomers. uninitiated, it may seem like According to Scott, most Modified drivers have "graduated" the track officals are picking from Limited Sportsman and Late Model racing. They tend to Jeff Morgan of Saco a car at random and hoping race with the reflexes and wheel-to-wheel chutzpah they picked prepares to start In the for the best. This impression, known to the sporting press as the up in those "lower" divisions, which can be real trouble for the Limited Sportsman Blender Mystique, is created by the apparent fluidity of the cars rest of the field. division. themselves. "Some of these guys think that they're still protected by doors In the Wildcat and Limited Sportsman divisions, drivers and fenders," says Scott. "They rub tires and think that's okay. spend so much time rubbing, colliding and caroming off each They don't realize what that can do to you." other that entire bodies may switch chassis en route. What rubbing tires can do to a Modified stock car was seen Well... That may be a little far-fetched. But entire paint jobs here at Beech Ridge on May 26. In his fourth start in a Modified have been known to move from car to car on a given night. The stock car, Walter "Kenny" Wilkinson Jr. ran the left front tire of car bearing a certain number at the beginning of a race may not his Modified up over the the tire of an adjacent car and was sent necessarily be the car bearing that number at the race's end. flying into the wall in front of the stands. He was pronounCed All this banging and swapping of paint lends itself to a dead at the scene. homogenization of the cars themselves. If you can point to a Wilkinson's death was the seventh such fatality in the Modi­ Wildcat or a Limited Sportsman and say "That's a Chevy" fied class in five years - a record, if you want to call it that, in the or "That's a Ford," the car probably hasn't been in too many field of automobile radng. races - it may in fact be that car's first day on the track. Every sport keeps records in neat boxes printed in the back of This can even be true (to a lesser extent) of the ritzy and the daily that you can review at your leisure. Columns marked Friends and pit crew discuss the engine In Jeff Morgan's 1980 Pontiac Grand Prix. 1 0 Ozsco Bay ~kJy Augusl 23, 1990 1 1

neck, and Jeff feels the pressure keenly. "1 was eighth in points last year," he says. "1 was up to fourth Remaining race dates: as of last week until I got pinned up against the wall. That happens all the time here. There's way too many people out on that track with their heads on hold. Beech Ridge Oxford Plains "I race down at the Lee Speedway in New Hampshire, and Motor Speedway Speedway it's a lot saner there. They have 20 cars in a race, whereas here it seems like you got 90." 70 Holmes Rd., Rte. 26, Oxford What's he doing here? Scarborough 539-8865 He shrugs. "I'm racing." 88H030 Racing schedule And racing, believe it or not, is its own reward. Racing schedule through Sep. 30: '''There's a thrill knowing you beat somebody, even if you're through Sep. 30: 8/25 at 7 p.m. way back in the pack and there's only one or two other guys 8/25 at 7:03 p.m. 9/1 at 7 p.m. behind you," says two-time Limited Sportsman champ Kevin 9/2 at 7:03 p.m. 9/9at2p.m. Durgin. 9/9 at 1:33 9/16 at 2 p.m. "Some guys go 10 years without a win and get discouraged. 9/14 at 7:33 9/23 at 2 p.m. Then one day they win and they say 'What do I do? Am I going 9/16 at 1:33 9/30at2 p.m. to keep on winning or what?' That's enough to keep some 9/23 at 1:33 people going. I know it's not for everybody." 9/30 at 1:33 , But its seems to be "for" more and more people every year. Behind the grandstand " Beech Ridge is enjoying one of its most prosperous years ever - is now in fact a Mecca for every motorhead in the Greater Portland area. The amazing surge in the number of drivers and spectators at Beech Ridge Speedway reflects a growing national trend: 72 million people attended stock car races last year, which makes racing the number one spectator sport in the country. Part of this trend is due to the fact that women are infiltrating the sport en masse. Testosterone was once considered to be the most important fuel additive in the racing business, but lately women like Lyn 51. James and Shawna Robinson have been , showing up in the winner's circle at NASCAR (National Stock • t I Car Association) events with a disproportionately high fre­ I \ quency. '''The women are blown away," said Lyn St. James in an interview in Vogue last year. '''They say, This is the most fun we've ever had with our clothes on.'" St. James, who holds 21 NASCAR speed records and is the first woman ever to win the International Motor Sports Associa­ tion Camel GTO series, is having more fun than just about everybody out there. "We have two women registered to race in the Wildcat division," says Andy Cusack. "But they haven't been racing. I Track worken and emergency penonnel remove Lew Weatherby's car after his crash on Aug 4. expect we'll see more (women) out there in the next couple of years." If so, expect the Wildcat division to get even wilder. Which would really be something to behold. It can't be the money. A good number of racing teams at Wildcats race for the fun of racing and little else. Wayne To the vkton go the trophies - and the fun of doing It. A RUN FOR THE MONEY Beech Ridge are deeply in the red and running on raw optimism. Marshall drives what appears to be a late 70s Camaro but may Continued from page 9 "Most of these people are racing to break even," says Andy. actually be '69 GTO. (Or a Bonneyville. Or a Tempest. Or a milk Like Scott Wi/tis, w,ho may earn $1,000 after paying for the truck. See above). What does it cost Wayne to race? sport. People do this for fun. Other people looking for fun come upkeep of his car. "Well, I blew a tranny (transmission) last week. I picked up here to watch stuff like this happen. If anyone needs proof that Cash awards in the Modified division run from $650 for the another one in a junkyard for $30 and put it in myself. The amazing surge in the number of people in general are nuts, they need look no further than Beech winner down to $100 for 10th place. First place in the Wildcat '1 was given this car. Put a roll bar in it from another car in a Ridge. division gets you $100 and a hearty handshake. No one is getting junkyard, and that was maybe $10. All in all I've got about $400 drivers and spectators at Beech My second thought was: I have a big, big mouth. rich at Beech Ridge. invested in this car." (At the other end of the racing world, Rick Mears' paycheck Wayne's car - number 65B - is not the fastest or the finest ride Ridge Speedway reflects a growing for three Indy 500 wins was $2,741,675. So Beech Ridge is quite a at Beech Ridge, but it does the job. Enough fun departure from the big-time, front-runner world of auto racing. 1 "1 came in second in the first heat two weeks ago," he says national trend: 72 mil/ion people ;! Lew Weatherby was unconscious a total of three days, due in But isn't everything? This is not the Times of London you're with some enthusiasm. part to sedation and in part to the shock of his brain hitting the reading.) What did he win? attended stock car races last year. ~i front of his skull at 70 or 80 miles an hour. If .;i the money doesn't draw racing teams, surely the point "Fifty dollars," he says with a smile. "But I had a lot of fun." "He's doing extremely well," said Andy Cusack over the system alone won't do it. All drivers are rated from race to race " And that's enough for Wayne. " phone, "much better than most people in his position." on their performances and awarded points based on how Will he ever race again? they've done against the field. It's nice to win an individual race, "Well, Kim (Weatherby) said she wouldn't be surprised if he but whoever finishes out the season with the most points has just had to go out and take a couple of laps, even at half throttle, reason to be proud. this year or next. He'll probably go out again." The prize for such a victory is a trophy. It looks great on the W. D. Cutlip is a type-A terrur behind the wheel. Which leads to the inevitable question: Why would he do a mantelpiece, but it doesn't pay the bills. thing like that? Jeff Morgan has been running hard and is now fifth overall in Why would anyone race in the first place? a very big field: 244 Limited Sportsmen are breathing down his

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Today), and failure to remove pitiful excuse for a paper. The turnpike - and that's almost Contributing Edlton 1 am sorry to hear you've Robert Niss from reporting on people of Portland and Maine always - there's a problem. 1 Jonathan St. Laurent, owner of Regular Toki Oshima/illustration had such a hard time finding Retail domestic assault cases (as a deserve and need a more think barrier tolls and more Uncle Billy's South Side BBQ. Mike Quinn/sport Jesus. You seem to have said South Portland. start, in this case) were the intelligent and substantial exits would relieve congestion ~!!~~~ Prices Ann SilJJmer/silverscreen all the right words. Maybe you ... straws that broke this back. paper with civilized reporters; a lot. "O.K., so a few years ago I should spend a little less time WE PAY";!:)! I for your I could make all kinds of it's inexcusable that you've I think we need to do invented Death by Contrlbuton worrying about Theresa and Chocolate, and now I own chi,ldren s outgrown clothing, accessories fonnatting changes to this chosen to move in the oppo­ something to reduce pollution Lynda Barry, Brmm. Chandler, Wayne Doug and a little more time Uncle Billy's, but by God, and toys - call for an appointment Todayl letter with my computer to site direction. You more than and our dependency on oil, so Curtis, KeUy Nelson, Morgan Shepard, seeking Christ. That's not to I never tasted a beer this HOURS 220 Mall Plaza. S. Portland "'" • make it look "good;' the deserve the scathing tone of improving public transporta­ good," Roland Swed, Don Rulrin say Theresa shouldn't be Mon. - Sat (By Ames &: Bookland) essence of the letter is what this letter and the loss of my tion should be a priori ty in the worried. She seems to know Discover Portland Lager remains important. 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I'm appalled at your is published by Get real about Portland others. 1 know there's a secret obviously low opinion of your Casco Bay Weekly, Inc. place in your heart. And it readers. I'm nauseated with transportation Dodge D. Morgan, president. wants to know the real Jesus. your abdication of the respon­ If I were you? I'd skip the sibility to provide people with 1 think some of the people Shed our sexism Entire amtents e 1990. retreat and just stay home Classical Rags, Portland the opportunity to infonn and opposing the Maine Turnpike with a Good Book. Mens improve themselves. Whether expansion have a reality Three cheers for W.O. Andover College, Portland you find some who appl~ud problem. How about an honest Cutlip! 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TYPE lotte Warner and Robert Niss tourists or residents who As a fellow male, I too can $1.59 VALUE Fila, Freeport case in Casco Bay Weekly. would sit and wait a few certify that penises h<'rden for MaIne Coast Brewinf Company $1.29 Diamonds Edge Restaurant, Technically anyone is innocent hours to save a buck. 1 think a variety of reasons - very few Portland, Malne until proven guilty. However, the vast majority of people having to do with oppression Diamond Cove given the situation as reported don't want to be inconven­ or abuse. As a masculinist, I Ric Wheel Food, Portland in CBW (and it did not publish ienced; they're going to go found Ms. Kukka's rational­ any corrections in its Aug. 9 when they want to go. Cost ization (not to publish Walter Lighters I C2:= ~ Global Village, Portland and 16 issues), Robert Niss isn't going to matter. Chappell's "Father and Son")

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If you go anywhere in male nude was considered the at,· ____ Newswee1clies i ~~m~ One wonders if he'll remain as Maine or New Hampshire on model of beau ty. a reporter on your papers a train, what are you going to Fortunately, Mr. Cutlip ing Ceremony today at Experimentism)," a live stereophonically repro­ noon on the Western performance featuring duced in ultra-high fidelity. Prom. State experimental music, sound All this for only $3, $2 for Sena- and film today at 7 p.m. in students. For more informa­ USM Portland's Luther tion, call78O-4249. Bonney Auditorium. • Restless drums: Feeling Admission is $3 at the beat? 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Listings Editor, Casco Bay Weekly, 187 Clark Street, Circle of Sound, an evening challengins­ 442-8399. This concert is part of Portland, ME 04102. • Righteous reggae: Inner of live music with many of combining Intown Portland Exchange's Circle will dub Zootz The Casco Bay Weekly Calendar: 10 days and more ways the state's most respected, elements of Noontime Performance tonight at 10 p.m. with root to be Informed, get Involved and stay amused. best-known folk and blue­ neoism, Series. Free and wide-open rock reggae. Twelve years grass musicians, including plagiarism, to the public. They don't after playing the legendary AI Hawkes, Dave Utter, anachro- call him "Slaid" for nothing! Jamaican Peace Festival, Kathy Osgood, Lazy For more information, call Inner Circle-whose hit "Bad Mercedes and many more. 772-6828. Boys" has become the Tickets are $10 at the door, more information, call • Contact is the moment: If theme song for Fox $8 in advance. A bargain at 780-4974. you recognize that phrase, Network's "Cops" series-is any price. • Laserium planetarium: then you must be a fan of still a force in reggae. As the tor Tom Andrews will be on Hey, Spaceshot! This is yOUT PBS' 3-2-1 Contact, a hands­ Reggae Times recently hand to help commemorate ticket. The Southworth on educational experience noted: '1nner Circle is a • Heard any good birds • Big band, hot time: If you A.I.'s Portland Group #174 Planetarium (96 Falmouth vicariously enjoyed by refreshing, rootful band that lately? Maybe not. There's a haven't heard big band jazz adoption of Dr. Hamoda St., Portland) offers two millions of public television has a lot to offer ..." It's true: reason for all that silence, live and in person for a few Fathi AI-Rahman, a prisoner shows today starting at 8:30 viewers every day. Come • Not just last year's model: they do. Go down to Zootz and the news is not good. years, you're probably of conscience in Sudan. Do p.m. The first is an astro­ "make contact" with 14- Hobe Sound Galleries and get some. For more right on his heels. This is Want to know more about ready to drop from lack of your part! Remember: "Big nomically correct view of year-old Stephane Yu, one North (58 Maine St., information, call773-8187. some band! For more it? Corne down to the Wells this essential musical • Treed freedom: The oak trees from little acorns the planet Mars, not to be of 3-2-1 Contact's bright Brunswick) is pleased to Jah love, mono information, call 773-6886. Estuarine Research Reserve experience. If you have world desperately needs a do grow." For more infor­ confused with the candy bar young hosts. Stephane will announce the opening of at Laudholm Farm, (Rte. 1 never in your life heard little shade and a fresh mation, call 775-7911. Mars. The second show is a be in WeBB's Ladd Studio "Transportation In Art," a Wells, just south of Rte. 9), swing the way it was meant breeze. You can help supply • Rumors of humorism: full-color laser light show (1450 Lisbon St., Lewiston) benefit for the Owl's Head at 1 p.m. Bring a brown bag to be heard-from a dance both by coming to Amnesty WMPG will present "Capi­ featuring Pink Floyd's today at 2 p.m. to talk about Transportation Museum, lunch and a good ear to floor- then you are in International's Tree Plant- tal F (Festival of "Dark Side of the Moon" a new program called "You tonight from 5-7 p.m. The hear June Ficker talk about serious trouble. Get yourself Can't Grow Home Again," Gallery is donating a Ruth The Decline of Song Birds. down to the Shawmut Inn a show about the destruc­ Ann Harris drawing of a (Why do coal miners bring in Kennebunkport for tion of rain forests. It's free, Ford Trimotor-a funky old • Crucial bluegrass: The • Nothin' ado? Do this: canaries with them into the Richard Marster's Big Band but seating is limited. For airplane if there ever was Tony Rice Unit rolls into Port Star Productions mines? Hint: birds breath.) tonight from 8-12 p.m. (Too Want to see reservations and more one-from the museum Raoul's tonight at 9 p.m. presents William For more information, call bad you can't take the"A" art In motion? information, call 783-9101. collection to be raffled off at This band has so much Shakespeare's "Much Ado 646-1555. train.) For more informa­ See Aug. 29. the opening. The tion, call 934-9776. power and talent, is so About Nothing" tonight at exhibition will in­ eclectic and inspired, that 8:30 at the lsland Playhouse, clude works by one wonders how they get Peaks Island. Tickets are Richard Estes, away with charging just $8 $15.50 and include round­ Reginald Marsh and for tickets. Tony's playing trip tickets on Casco Bay Linwood Easton, How does freedom grow? . has set the standard among Ferry lines. Get away from See Aug. 26. among others. For flatpicking guitarists for the sweaty city and take in a more information, decades, and his brother little culture. It'll do you ca11725-4191. Wyatt-known in some good. For more information, circles as "Quiet Wyatt"-is ca11775-0514.

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