September 11, 2010

PRSRT STD U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 62 Portland, ME The Cape Cour erECRWSS Volume 23 Number 12 An Independent Not-for-Profi t Newspaper Sept. 11 - Sept. 24, 2010 Serving Cape Elizabeth Since 1988 capecourier.com Superintendent to step down Dec. 31 Four candidates vie for two council seats School board seeks interim work they want me to do around curriculum and around the emergency plan, and if a new while School Board coverage through June; superintendent wants some advice and help, Hawkins to consult I would come in to do those things,” he said slate draws just one Sept. 2 in a telephone interview with The through April 15 Cape Courier. By Elizabeth Brogan A longtime South Portland resident, Two seats on the Town Council will be By Wendy Keeler Hawkins spent 32 years there as a teacher fi lled in the November election in a race Cape Elizabeth School Superintendent and principal. among four candidates. Incumbent Frank Alan Hawkins will step down Dec. 31 after As Cape superintendent, he will leave his J. Governali, Caitlin R. Jordan, John W. 5½ years as Cape’s district chief. Hawkins, biggest mark in his work coordinating the McGinty, and James R. Wagner all returned who has worked in Maine schools for 42 kindergarten-through-12th-grade curriculum, completed nominating papers to Town Clerk years and served as Wiscasset superinten- he said Sept. 2. Debra Lane by the Sept. 3 deadline and will dent before coming to Cape, announced his “When I got here it was like the schools appear on the ballot. The seats, currently resignation at a School Board meeting Tues- were three little castles. We have done an held by Governali and Penny Jordan, are for day, Aug. 24, a week before school opened. enormous amount of work in making it a K-12 three-year terms. “Though the decision is a diffi cult one for system,” he said. “We still have social stud- Although two three-year seats on the me, the time has come to retire from my cur- ies and science to get done, and I hope that School Board, those currently held by Linda rent role as a superintendent. It is done with I will get the opportunity to get that at least Winker and Rebecca Millett, will be on the great pride and humility at the opportunity of closer to done before a new superintendent.” November ballot, only Kimberly J. Mon- working collaboratively with so many in our Board Chair Rebecca Millett highlighted aghan-Derrig returned completed nominat- community,” Hawkins said, reading from a Hawkins’ contributions to Cape schools on ing papers and will appear on the ballot. resignation letter addressed to the board and Sept. 2. Incumbent Linda Winker took out nomi- the community. “I am deeply appreciative of Alan’s con- Photo by Jenny Campbell nating papers but did not return them to Board members voted 6-0 to accept tributions to our district, and in particular Alan Hawkins watches members of Cape’s Lane by the Sept. 3 deadline. Hawkins’ resignation and his offer to serve his work around curriculum,” said Millett, Class of 2010 graduate on June 13. With a School Board slate consisting of as a consultant through mid-April. He will a member of the board, along with current only a single candidate, Lane says she antic- work full time until Dec. 31. In addition to vice chair Kathy Ray, that hired Hawkins. “I “It is with great sadness that I very reluc- ipates “there will be a write-in campaign,” receiving pay for 57 days in accrued vaca- have come to admire his passion for educa- tantly accept the retirement of Alan Hawk- something she says will be a “logistical tion time, he will receive $432 for each day tion and for remaining student centered.” ins as superintendent of the Cape Elizabeth nightmare” for election workers. of consulting. Ray spoke emotionally at the Aug. 24 school system,” said Ray, who praised Incumbent Portland Water District Trustee “What I told the board is that through meeting about Hawkins’ resignation. April 15, I’m going to do any consulting —see SUPERINTENDENT, page 18 —see ELECTION, page 18 Middle school administrator John Casey, Deer hunting season in Cape begins Sept. 11 high school’s McNulty win teacher awards By Elizabeth Brogan hunting in Cape] I ask them if they have Deer hunting season begins in Cape Eliz- somewhere to park,” Hunt says. “I tell them abeth one-half hour before sunrise on Sept. it is mostly private property and they need 11. Cape Elizabeth is part of Maine Wildlife to contact a property owner to get permis- Management District #24 and is designated sion.” for an expanded archery season, which runs Town-owned property, including the from Sept. 11 through Dec. 11. land behind the Transfer Station and the Deer hunting with a fi rearm is not al- Poor Farm across from the station, is open lowed in Cape Elizabeth. for deer hunting as well, although Cape’s Ed Hunt, a longtime Cape Elizabeth bow state parkland is not. hunter and the clerk at the Cape Elizabeth “People hunt just about everywhere in Police Department, says that Cape Elizabeth Cape,” Hunt says. “Bow hunting is really a does attract deer hunters, although less so pretty safe sport. You have to have an open, than in past years when houses were fewer clear shot. It is a close-range proposition, so and deer more plentiful. there is no reason for anyone to mistake a person for a deer.” Deer in decline “When my dad taught me to hunt he “We used to have a reputation for deer, would say, ‘Deer are horizontal and people but with the loss of habitat and drop in the Photo by Patricia McCarthy are vertical,’” Hunt recalls. “And it’s true.” deer population,” that reputation has dwin- Cape Elizabeth Middle School Vice Principal John Casey, right, addresses Cape Elizabeth But Hunt also acknowledges that the bow dled, says Hunt. school staff Aug. 31 at the high school after receiving the Cape Elizabeth Education Founda- is a deadly weapon. “If you don’t want any- The state fi sh and game website includes tion’s 2010 Tim Thompson Award from Nancy and Tim Thompson, at left. one on your property, you should post it,” maps listing the number of deer harvested in says Hunt. “If it is not posted, it is the gen- each Maine town by year. In 2005 and 2006, By Wendy Keeler Longtime Cape Elizabeth Middle School eral practice to hunt on it.” 94 deer were harvested in Cape Elizabeth, In the fi rst hour of their fi rst morning back Vice Principal John Casey, whose 21-year- Hunt also says that when walking on the but the numbers dropped to 60 deer in 2007, on the job on Aug. 31, Cape school employ- old son Sean died as the result of an unde- trails during hunting season it “doesn’t hurt 57 deer in 2008, and 45 deer in 2009. Hunt ees greeted each other, took their seats at an tected heart condition last summer, won to wear bright colors.” attributes the precipitous drop in the deer all-staff meeting in the Cape Elizabeth High the nonprofi t foundation’s Tim Thompson “For the most part it has been pretty quiet; harvest to two bad winters beginning with School cafeteria, and did what they usually Award for “going above and beyond the not a lot of complaints,” says Hunt of past the winter of 2006-2007 and an increase in a do the fi rst hour of their fi rst staff day each call of duty in mentoring students in Cape archery seasons in Cape, although last year a deer-hunting coyote population in Cape. year: cried. Elizabeth.” Cape residents Nancy and Tim house in Shore Acres was struck by an arrow. Hunt says that the number of deer killed This year may go down as the Kleenex- Thompson established the award in memory According to state law, no weapon, in- on the road, numbers not included in the heaviest of all fi rst staff days since 2004, of their son, Timmy, who died in the summer cluding a bow, may be discharged within deer harvest fi gures, have also declined in when the Cape Elizabeth Education Foun- of 2004 when he was 18. 300 feet of a building or residence without the past fi ve to 10 years. dation began its tradition of bestowing two “I am uniquely aware of how important permission of the owner, or within 500 feet honors, the Elaine Brownell Award and the it is to the Thompson family that this award ‘Just about everywhere’ of school property. Tim Thompson Award, on staff members. —see CEEF AWARDS page 18 “Generally, when people call [about deer —see HUNTING, page 18 Page 2 • The Cape Courier LETTERS Sept. 11 - Sept. 24, 2010 The Cape Courier P.O. Box 6242 Cape Elizabeth Maine 04107 207-767-5023 capecourier.com OUR MISSION STATEMENT The mission of The Cape Courier is to foster a sense of community by presenting news specifi c and unique to Cape Elizabeth and its residents, and, whenever possible, to promote volunteerism within our community. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Trish Brigham, Debbie Butterworth, Bob Dodd, Sheila Mayberry, Gene Miliard, Bill Springer, Beth Webster; Clerk: Paul Thelin Publisher: Patricia McCarthy Photo by David LaRose [email protected] About 250 young soccer players from Cape Elizabeth Soccer Club pose Aug. 28 during the 10th Annual Kevin Brady Memorial Alumni Soccer Game at Hannaford Field in the largest CESC photograph ever taken.

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