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Art Music Food Shops Living Since 1958 FREE www.touristnewsmaine.com July 5 - 11, 2018 Volume 60, Issue 10 . for the people who live here, visit here and love it here. TouriSt NewS Finley Baxter, Age 8 WinnerTourist of the 1stNews Annual Kids Cover Art Contest Elementary Category ART MUSIC FOOD SHOPS LIVING kittery | york | ogunquit | wells | kennebunk | kennebunkport | arundel | biddeford | saco | old orchard beach PAGE 2 TOURIST NEWS, JULY 5 - 11, 2018 I reflect often on the concept IN THIS ISSUE of doing what you love and Meet Our Cover Artist loving what you do. It’s an and Winner of the Catching Tuna . .PAGE 3 From the enviable place to be and when Tourist News Cover Contest Farmers' Market . PAGE 4 Publisher's a person finds it, it’s a beauti- Elementary Group! Local Heroes . PAGE 5 Desk... ful thing. When a business finds it, customers know it. Finley Baxter Mainely Authors . PAGE 6 We asked our readership this week for cus- It's Like This . PAGE 7 tomer service shout-outs, and the glowing words Finley is 8 years old and lives in Ken- nebunk with her Mom, brother (Jack) Profile: Jean Briggs . PAGE 9 – about local businesses doing what they enjoy and enjoying what they do – came pouring in. and cat (Limey). Finley loves making art in all forms, from painting and drawing In the Art World . PAGE 12 In this issue you will find a couple prominent to turning recycling material into huge OAA Anniversary . PAGE 15 themes – community and customer service. creations. "I like to do art when I have The Downtown Page. PAGES 16 & 17 As I see it, the two are inextricably linked. feelings of mad, sad, happy or stressed And so here’s to all the businesses fos- Calendar. PAGES 18 & 19 out. I usually draw with red when I am tering a powerful sense of community mad, sometimes ladybugs; when I am sad Activities . PAGES 26 & 27 through excellent customer service. For the I draw with blue colors usually the ocean. Fishing Report. .PAGE 29 locals and tourists alike, we appreciate you! Art is my favorite subject in school." Nightlife . PAGE 30 Our 27th year! Out & About . PAGE 31 Dress for Less! Beach Toys • Board Games • Puzzles Kites • Pranks & Gags • Models Crafts • Stuffed Animals • Science And More! Come meet Trevor, our 15 Ocean Ave. KINGSLEY GALLUP Talking Tree! Kennebunkport OWNER AND PUBLISHER 207-967-8336 GRAPHICS EDITOR ourisGERALDINET ews AIKMAN Taff CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Rte. 1, Ogunquit– 1/4 mile south of the Playhouse T FAITH GILLMAN N. DANA P EARSs ON, of OGUNQUIT VALERIE MARIER, KRISTIN KUEHNLE, JO O'CONNOR, STEVE HREHOVCIK, GREG METCALF, ROB COBURN Women’s Clothing & Accessories DISTRIBUTION Bookkeeping eturn to Cinda THINK SUMMER! THINK AQUINNAH! DAVID SPOFFORD Irene Seltzer RResale Clothing for Women Eileen Fisher, Comfy, Gerties, Tribal, Flax Tourist News Tues., Wed., Thurs. Wonderful PLUS SIZE Collection 7 Chase Hill Road 9:30 to 5 Fri. & Sat. Kennebunk, Maine 04043 9:30 to 5:30 Perkins Cove • Ogunquit www.touristnewsmaine.com 207-967-3800 [email protected] Christensen Lane, Rte. 35 207-641-2050 • Open Daily 207-204-0055 Kennebunk Lower Village Mostly made in the USA Story Contributors This Issue Rob Valerie Faith Kristen Dana Jo Coburn Marier is Gillman Kuehnle Pearson is O’Connor is a a freelance has called is an avid a writer, is a lo- market- journalist Ken- reader, musician, cal writer ing strat- who has nebunk “turned” and invet- with deep egist and traveled home for columnist, erate mov- roots in copywrit- the world 30 years. who moved ie-goer the Ken- er. He’s written feature writing for magazines A freelance writer/edi- to Maine from Salem, who lives in Kennebunk nebunks. She is the articles, speeches, TV and and newspapers. She tor by night and loan Mass. She retired from with his wife Diane. mother of twins, the radio commercials, print moved to Maine from processor by day, Faith Salem State University Though he loves where founder lead singer of ads, brochures, blogs and the New York metro- has written for numerous in 2016 and now serves he is, he enjoys leaving the local band The Dock websites but never un- politan area thirty years Maine-based magazines on the SSU faculty as from time to time, if only Squares, and an artist der his own name. He’s ago. She considers the and newspapers in the professor emerita. Since to relish the sensation of who creates driftwood from away but is here to Kennebunks home but last several decades. She’s retiring, Kristen opened coming home again. He and sea glass art. With stay. He’s a Registered loves every inch of the happiest when sharing a book store, Fine Print can be found garden- boundless energy, she Maine Guide in training Pine Tree State. Val is the stories of the people Booksellers, in Dock ing, skimming stones, also teaches Zumba and and leads summer bike a happy wife, moth- and places that make Square, Kennebunkport. cultivating his beard, aqua classes. Her career tours that include mostly er and grandmother Maine the best place to She is the mother of two and referring to himself has included marketing accurate Maine facts and who also enjoys knit- be in every season. When sons and a happy grand- in the third person. Find and communications trivia. Rob, Wendy and ting and reading, golf she’s not writing, Faith mother. Reading is a pas- his novels Two Birds and positions for the Boston their son Steve live in and travel, and writes spends the majority of her sion. One of her favorite The Muralist, as well as Celtics, the Boston Gar- Kennebunk. Rob looks about them in her week- time with George – that expressions is “Open a No, But Seriously: 1994- den/FleetCenter, CBS forward to contributing ly blog, Wandering is when she’s not busy Book and open a mind”. 2007, a collection of hu- Radio, Sonesta Hotels, articles on the outdoors, With Val (www.wan- maintaining her reputa- To reach Kristen: kristen@ mor columns at www. and the Wang Center beer, wine and spirits. deringwithval.com). tion as the “Kennebunk fineprintbooksellers.com. amazon.com/author/ for the Performing Arts. Dance Lady.” danapearson. TOURIST NEWS, JULY 5 - 11, 2018 PAGE 3 Catching Tuna in the Gulf of Maine is a Race with Speed by Valerie Marier a broker who’d driven up Smart usually fishes for “Fishing for tuna is like from Gloucester, Massa- tuna five or six times dur- trying to hook a Fiat going chusetts. An ice truck idled ing the season. Ideally, he 90 mph down the high- nearby. After the tuna was likes to go out with a buddy, way,” John Smart says. The weighed, it was driven to leaving mid-afternoon and Kennebunk Beach resident the airport and on its way returning the following speaks from experience. to Tokyo. afternoon. “The older I get, Early last September, “You don’t get a price for the less I go out,” he says. John Smart and his buddy a week or two,” Smart says, “You come back exhausted Barry Braddock cruised out “and you have to pay bro- after one night on the wa- from the Kennebunkport kerage, freight and import ter.” Marina aboard the Blue fees, so you end up with The hardest part of Chip, Smart’s Stamas 310 about half – for us, for that tuna fishing, Smart says, is powered by two 250-HP fish, about $1,500.” “learning the trade. Books Yamahas. When they were Smart used to love an- don’t teach you, nor does about 15 miles out, they gling for stripers. Then a the television show Wicked “jigged” the lines with bait work colleague took him Tuna, so you need a knowl- (mackerel and pollock), set tuna fishing. He got hooked, edgeable friend who helps their depths, and started al- and received his commercial you learn the ropes. The key ternating positions between license in 2011. That means thing is to not take it too se- the helm and rods, 8-foot the 40-year-old can keep riously. People think it’s all bent butt Shimano 130s. blue fin tunas 73-inches about the money – it really If you ask John if he felt and up. The biggest blue fin isn’t, it’s just plain fun.” “lucky or good” when he Smart caught was 102-inch- When John’s not out on fished for tuna, his imme- es in 2014. The event echoed the Blue Chip or playing golf diate response is “Lucky, Ernest Hemingway’s saga at Webhannet Golf Club, he for sure.” Especially that of Santiago trying to land runs Smart Transportation, afternoon. But he had to a marlin in the Gulf Stream a provider of non-emergen- be good too because he and off the coast of Cuba. cy medical transportation, Braddock landed an 83- “When I caught my big- with offices in Saco, Maine inch (303-pounds dressed gest, I was solo at night on and Charleston, South Caro- weight) blue fin tuna, the a center console Mako 23,” lina. highest grade there is. Smart recalls. “It took five Oh yes, he also makes Within hours they were hours to land the tuna, and and eats a lot of sushi, es- back at Government Wharf then I had to haul him back pecially sashimi. Fresh? You on the Kennebunk River, into shore because he was bet. Right off the Blue Chip. discussing their catch with too big for my boat!” Sea to table, as it were. John Smart and Barry Braddock with their tuna.
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