Student Films Improving Every Year
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VOLUME 13, ISSUE 3 PO Box 75, North Waterboro, ME 04061 • 247-0273 • [email protected] FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2015 FREE Dayton www.waterbororeporter.com LOCALLY OWNED & OPERATED Waterboro woman seeks DOT plans Mrs. Maine America title to replace BY SHELLEY BURBANK teen attending Massabesic High [email protected] School. “I was able to beat the odds by bridge Chara Gannett of Waterboro working hard in school which led BY BRIGIT MCCALLUM hopes to be crowned the next to a full scholarship to college. I [email protected] Mrs. Maine America in a pageant then went on to help start a local to be held in March at the Seasons business, A New Leaf Salon & A public hearing for discus- Event and Conference Center in Spa in Hollis. I continue to pur- sion of the replacement of the Portland. sue my passion for acting and Stimson Bridge that spans the “I was approached by the work hard to be a loving mother Little Ossipee River on Route 5 pageant director last year about and wife. Each time I speak with between the towns of Limerick running,” said Gannett during a group of young adults dealing and Waterboro was held on Jan. an email interview. “I had never with similar struggles, I can al- 14. Mark Parlin and designer thought about doing a pageant ways see at least one who is truly Devon Eaton, representatives of before and was unsure what it grasping what I’m saying. If by the Bridge Division of the Maine was all about. I have always been the end of the visit even one de- Department of Transportation, very involved in my community, cides to push forward to a brighter met with about 30 Waterboro and and I’m always looking for new future, I feel I have done my job.” Limerick residents at the Water- ways to expand my involvement As part of her campaign, boro Town Hall Annex. to make a difference.” Gannett has been participating According to Eaton, the exist- After researching the Mrs. in community events and mak- ing bridge was built in 1931 and Maine America Pageant, Gannett ing appearances at charity events is rated at 12.8 out of a 100-point decided it would be a good plat- throughout the state. She and sufficiency rating, with many de- form for educating others about some other candidates dressed up ficiencies. There is delaminated homeless and troubled youth our as princesses and visited the chil- concrete, and parts of the road are communities--an issue she has dren at the Barbara Bush Chil- missing. The width of the current been passionate about since her dren’s Hospital at Maine Medical Lindsay Decker, right, of Shapleigh attended a blacksmithing class at bridge, curb to curb, is 27 feet, as own experience as a homeless Willowbrook Museum on Jan. 10. For more information see page 6. (Continued on page 2) COURTESY PHOTO (Continued on page 3) Student films improving every year 2014 Freshman Film Festival winners, from left, Dan Bolender, Sam Foglio, Kate Shubert, Mikiah Jordan, Madison Richards, Melanie Bryan and Cayleigh Morris. COURTESY PHOTO BY SHELLEY BURBANK horror-film elements like scary The character from “Percep- [email protected] sound effects and a narrative tion” could have had a friend like about a porcupine toy that had the claymation character in Mela- Massabesic High School become inhabited by a malignant nie Bryan and Cayleigh Morris’s teacher, Mark Mercier, says that spirit. A mix-up regarding the third-place entry, “How To Save the student films culminating in words “exercise” and “exorcise” a Life.” The film was shot as a an annual freshman film festival created a roadblock for the pro- video version of the song “How Frank and Chara Gannett of Waterboro. COURTESY PHOTO are getting better overall every tagonists, two students plagued To Save A Life” by The Fray and year. This year’s festival was held by the so-called Porcugeist. Liter- featured simple clay characters Woodsome to Chair Energy, Utilities Dec. 16 in the MHS auditorium ature (reading from the Holy Bi- and drawings. The simplicity with 11 films shown and three ble) saved the day, however, and combined with the messages of and Technology Committee winning films announced at the the song “Take Me To Church” friendship and compassion shown AUGUSTA - Senate Presi- The jurisdiction of the Energy, end of the screening. either underscored that religious to someone who is suffering was dent Michael Thibodeau (R-Wal- Utilities, and Technology Com- “As we get better at planning theme or provided irony, depend- powerful and effective. do) has appointed Senator David mittee includes energy resources, and coaching, I find the number ing on the viewer. And was that According to Mercier, stu- Woodsome (R-York) as the Chair the electric industry, the natural of good movies increases,” said horse head in the messed-up room dents taking freshman English in of the Joint Standing Committee gas industry, the telecommunica- Mercier. “The best movies this a reference to “The Godfather?” the first trimester use iPads and on Energy, Utilities, and Technol- tions industry, E-9-1-1, water and year were just as good as the best The second place entry, “Per- the iMovie application to create ogy (EUT). sewer utilities, the Public Utilities movies from last year, but there ception,” was Mikiah Jordan, films that allow student to demon- “It is a privilege to be named Commission, the Office of the were more quality movies made. Madison Richards, and Kate strate proficiency in the narratives Chair of this important commit- Public Advocate, and the Effi- I think the students’ comfort with Shubert’s depiction of a teenage standard, including pacing and tee,” said Senator Woodsome. ciency Maine Trust. technology allowed them to feel girl troubled by the death of her logical sequence of events, and “Energy costs are going to be a “At this important time for safer experimenting with ideas, father, bullying, and self-harm the planning and revising stan- key priority in the coming legis- Maine’s energy policy, I am con- so, the floor is raising. Every film which led eventually to a suicide dard through the use of story- lative session, and I look forward fident that Senator Woodsome is made had some kind of complex attempt. Shot in black and white, boards and outlines. to working with my colleagues the right person to lead this com- technique employed.” the film featured a narrated story, “I love seeing how hard they to address that and other poli- mittee,” said Senator Thibodeau. This year’s first place winning essentially a suicide note, which work at something they enjoy. cies that affect essential services “His integrity and sense of fair film was “Porcugeist,” by Dan was a very well-written, poetic Students stay after school, use such as telecommunications and play will be essential to the policy Bolender and Sam Foglio. The lamentation about life being over- activity block, or use up their broadband access.” (Continued on page 2) film was made with traditional whelming and sad. Heavy stuff. (Continued on page 2) PAGE 2 Friday, January 23, 2015 REPORTER ‘Crime’ at Line solved, thanks to Solomon York County Sheriff’s Deputy they developed a list of suspects, Jason Solomon recently visited brainstormed questions to ask, Danae Secunde’s second- grade and then interviewed the suspects. reading class at Line Elementary Solomon visited the following to show students how officers col- day to lead the students through lect evidence from crime scenes. the process and, with the students’ Solomon is also a school re- help, “interrogated” the main sus- source officer in Regional School pect. Unit 57. Secunde’s students start- Finally, Solomon showed stu- ed a mystery unit and had a crime dents how to dust for fingerprints scene of their own when cookies and allowed them to sit in the inexplicably disappeared. “My back of his cruiser. The students hook was to have the students completed thank you cards and a solve a mystery of cookies that written piece on their favorite part someone ‘ate,’” Secunde said. “I of the visit. had the clues on a quadrant, and “It was a terrific way to start students had to draw and write the unit and Deputy Solomon’s the evidence left over from the visit was the highlight,” Secunde c r i m e . ” T h e s t u d e n t s n o t o n l y said. documented clues left behind, Deputy Jason Solomon working with second-graders from Line Elementary School. COURTESY PHOTO MRS. MAINE Briarwood Children’s House, speaking. “By being an inspira- FILM FESTIVAL year, new MHS freshman English Tanya Thayer, Lydsay Wood- tional speaker, an actor, and busi- teacher Amanda Buckley came (Continued from page 1) ward, Bridals By Sandy, Town ness partner of A New Leaf Salon (Continued from page 1) on board with the project, and Line Pizza, Waterboro NAPA, GF & Spa, I have a lot of practice.” weekends to put this project to- according to Mercier, “had some Center. On Saturday, the contes- Septic, Nasons Variety, A New She is a graduate of the University gether. I am the most proud of great material and gave us some tants are helping out with a Habi- Leaf Salon & Spa, Ceara O’neil, of Southern Maine and graduated my students when I see them take good ideas for how we could tat for Humanity Women’s Build and Kelly Roy Photography. from Massabesic High School in pride in their own work, and they improve it.” The three educators in Freeport.