ACTON • ALFRED • BUXTON • CORNISH • HOLLIS • LIMERICK • LIMINGTON • LYMAN • NEWFIELD • SANFORD/SPRINGVALE • SHAPLEIGH • WATERBORO FREEEVERY FRIDAY OMMUNITY NEWSPA YOUR C PER SHOP LOCAL www.waterbororeporter.com Locally owned & independently operated VOLUME 16, ISSUE 32 PO Box 75, North Waterboro, ME 04061 • 247-1033 • [email protected] FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2018 Plastic bags no longer allowed in recyclables To assist with education ef- BY BRIGIT MCCALLUM forts, a link is on the Town of [email protected] Waterboro website leading to resources, including a list of dos Over the past few months, and don’ts that can be download- new fees leveled by ecomaine on ed and printed out and copies are the recyclables delivered there available at the transfer station. In have evoked both education and June, ecomaine’s environmental enforcement efforts on the part educator Katrina Venhuizen came of municipal officials in Water- to Waterboro to produce a video boro and at most of the more than with helpful information about 70 municipalities served by that the background of the changes as waste management facility. In well as details on how to recycle, May, ecomaine communicated to and there is a new database pro- the towns and cities it serves the duced by ecomaine called the Re- percentages of contamination, cyclopedia that can be accessed at meaning the presence of materials www.waterboro-me.net. that are not, in fact recyclable, in In the “enforcement” depart- the loads they were sending there. ment, the first step was the elim- They also communicated the fees ination of the so-called silver that would be charged for the rel- bullets at the town hall in Water- ative amounts of contamination boro, where some of the greatest found, beginning in September. contamination of recyclables oc- Anticipating what the changes Recycling curred. Now, all recyclables that will cost their municipalities over are not picked up commercially the next year, all of which were by D&E Rubbish or other con- not budgeted for, officials are re- tractors, must be brought to the sponding with combinations of right education and enforcement.. (Continued on page 2) Film school running Due to changes in recycling rules in Waterboro and all the communities served by ecomaine, plastic bags are no longer accepted in recycling containers. Here Paul Morin of North Waterboro is emptying out his recyclables from his black plastic bag, when in the past he would have just smooth in Kezar Falls dumped the whole bag into the compactor. He plans to reuse the bag, which will help keep Waterboro’s contamination levels down and save the town money. To the side is one of the barrels BY CYNTHIA MATTHEWS the Playhouse Movie Theater, now of non-recyclables that have been collected and will be put into the household waste. affectionately called the Kezar PHOTO BY BRIGIT MCCALLUM On Monday, Aug. 6, students Falls Theatre. He began renova- gathered at the Kezar Falls The- tions to the theatre and started the atre for a week of fun, and proj- Smooth Feather Film School in the ect-based learning. Students got summer of 2016 with Jewell and to know each other a bit, and France and other collaborators. then got started with Acting 101. Hagerty is in charge of select- Actor Xander Berkeley and his ing the students that will partici- wife, Sarah Clarke, worked with pate. He and Morrow worked out students to get their bodies mov- the broad storyline in advance (this ing and find their voice. “What we year’s film is about a high school do with our bodies and voices is rock band), but when the students liberating,” said Berkeley. “You arrive, they make all the decisions want to be loose,” said Clarke, “let “Students learn by doing,” said your imagination express yourself Jewell, “they are the ones that through your body.” make it happen.” Berkeley and Clarke are both On the first day, once the stu- actors who worked in Hollywood dents get to know each other, they and now live here in Maine, in immediately get to work putting Yarmouth. They are just two artists the film together in a week, writ- who volunteer their time instruct- ing, filming, editing, and finally ing at the film school, working showing the film at the Premiere with the students this week. Film- on Saturday night. “Kids are not makers Alex Morrow and Myles used to being spoken to as future From left, Instructor Alex Morrow, instructor Alex Sutula on the camera, Savannah Monroe, Gwyneth Jewell were on hand, as well as adults, as their truest self,” said Hibbert and Destiny Dohring. PHOTO BY CYNTHIA MATTHEWS Cameraman Alex Sutula, and vi- Sutula. “We ask them to be open olinist David France, founder of and ready. It’s a lot to ask, but it’s the Roxbury Youth Orchestra. The fun to see their progress over the Aidan Foley. While the two were Fellow Senior, Collin Hughes, at anytime.” glue that holds all these feathers week.” playing at a festival, they got a text is returning to the film school for Devyn Haskell and Jacob together and keeps things running Ethan Parker met Hagerty while from Hagerty, asking if they’d be the second year. Hughes met Ha- Brooks-Madgey are participating smoothly, is founder and director, doing a film project in high school, interested in playing some original gerty at the theatre during the for the third year. Both boys met Silas Hagerty. and helped edit the Uptown Kezar music for the film. Then he asked showing of “The Shawshank Re- Hagerty after getting into trouble Hagerty graduated from Sa- video created by the Senior Class if they’d be willing to act in the demption.” He had always been in school. They did community copee Valley High School, attend- in 2015. Parker graduated from film. “Everything he suggested, interested in film, and talked to service at the theatre, cleaning, ed the University of Vermont, and Sacopee two years ago, but still we said yes,” said Foley. Parker Hagerty about it. Hagerty invit- running wires and painting. He began his filmmaking career. He comes to events at the theatre and plays the main character, Eric in ed him to attend the film school. asked them if they’d like to join returned to Maine in 2012 and helps out whenever Hagerty asks the film and Foley plays Adrian, Hughes will be on the camera and in the film school. Of course, they bought the old 1880 movie theatre him to do something. He plays in the antagonist to Eric. This is their editing again this year, though he said Yes! “We have a good time, in Kezar Falls, formerly known as a band with rising Sacopee Senior first year at Smooth Feather. added, “that can change on anyone (Continued on page 5) PAGE 2 Friday, August 10, 2018 REPORTER BRIEFS RECYCLING litter. Results like this have been choosing to not collect contam- (Continued from page 1) seen in other towns as well, and ination in recycling any longer. because of such abuses Lamb Sanford did this, and saw their What to do Tuttle to run for transfer station, where the next anticipates “This may result in contamination rate drop dramati- significant change in procedure us being a minimum four-person cally.” He advises that communi- with those Maine Senate has been the prohibition of plastic operation rather than the present cation with residents is key here, John Tuttle of Sanford has bags in the recycling compactor. three. In the past, the recycle per- in order to not have residents up- plastic bags? announced his candidacy for the According to ecomaine Commu- son might be on the skid steer or set at something not being picked Nine Maine communities have Maine Senate. Tuttle has devoted nications Director Matt Grondin, loader backhoe, but now that has up! In other places, Cumberland’s banned the use of single-use his career to representing the peo- the bags tangle in the cogs that to stop.” Having a staffer there all mailing focused on a Septem- plastic bags, including Saco, ple of Sanford, and has pledged to run the vast conveyor belt system the time may also push a project ber deadline, at which time, they bring his passion for his commu- that sorts the “one-stream” recy- that has been on hold for some will instruct their haulers to leave Kennebunk and York in York nity to the Maine Senate. He will clables there. They estimate that time. According to Lamb, “We behind recycling contamination. County. Along with Portland, fight for jobs, lower property taxes, each machinery shut down due to also need to build a weather en- South Portland’s sustainability South Portland and Cape Eliza- and defend the will of the voters. tangled bags, wires or hoses, costs closure at the recycle compactor intern is going around neighbor- beth, most of the communities “I feel that the people of Sen- the non-profit facility $10,000. In station so an employee does not hoods, “tagging” bins that have with the new law charge a $.05 ate District 33 are looking for pro- addition, the plastic in those bags have to stand in the rain and snow contamination in them, so as to fee for a single-use paper bag, gressive leadership in Augusta, is not recyclable through eco- all day. We put such a project out inform residents that way. while at this time, the York County someone who can place the cause maine. So, materials to be recy- to bid nearly two years ago (it in- Joanne Andrews reports that towns do not.