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Greater Portland's news and arts weekly NOVEMBER 9, 1989 FREE ---------------5EEPAG£B-- ---------------------~ ( r ( UPDATES page 2 CALENDAR page 12 WEIRD NEWS page 3 LISTINGS page 14 TALK page 4 SPORT page 19 VIEWS page 6 POOl page 20 COVER pageS CLASSIFIEDS page 21 Forest takes over GreRt Northern. Grandmother for peace. Joe Egg: Fragile humor. STAGE page 11 PUZZLE page 23 See page 2. See page 4. See page 11. • 2 - - Uscc'Bay Wukly NOTJembtr 9~ 1989 • 3 '; The Hot New Parkas '.I are Here! ALSO FEATURING MAINE'S LARGEST SELECTION OF JUNIOR SKI WEAR NOW ON SALE , THE WEEK IN BRIEF: \ Mainers spend bucks on ballot , snow Mainers were in a spending mood as they went to the polls on "~sail Breakfast & Lunch Nov. 7, approving more than $105 million in statewide ~nd ,.- bike S Dana St., Old Port .761-9567 issues and rejecting a proposal to limit gubernatorial campaIgn Fort Andros, Maine SI. 63.fiL spending. 315 Marginal Way South Portlanders likewise repealed the three percent spend­ Portland Brunswick 775-5117 725-8930 ing cap they enacted last year. Richard Shinay, of the Committee to save South Portland, said, "People won't have to worry about losing services that were threatened of being cut." The tightest race of the day was the referendum pr~posing to ban testing of nuclear-capable cruise missiles over Maine. Unof­ ficial returns showed that question passing narrowly. LAKES REGION BOAT STORAGE Only one bond issue was defeated: the $35 million bond t? INDOOR BOAT STORAGE expand the new maximum security prison at Warren. The consti­ CLEAN, DRY, SAFE-100% INDOORS PIZZA tutional amendment that would allow the state to insure housing SPECIALS loans was also defeated. The passing bond issues were: $14.5 million f~r juvenile jails,$5 SANDWICHES millionfor recycling equipment, $20.2 mIllIon to Improve the cam­ puses of the Maine Vocational-Technic~ .Institute ~ystem, $4.4 CONVENIENT L0CA110N: CONVENIINT HOURS: million for sewer construction, $21 nulhon for highway and IN TIlE HEART Of CBW/Mont< Paulsen M-TH 7AM-IOPM Earth First! protestor Jamie Sayen struggles with security men outside the Portland harbor improvements, $7 million to help mentally ill ~p~e, $12 TIlE OLD PORT fRl7AM-2AM million to remove asbestos from state buildings, $6 nulhon to 30 MARKET STREIT SAT trAM-2AM offices of Great Northern Nekoosa, the paper company Georgia-Pacific wants to buy. clean up landfills, $15 million to help build affordabl~ h~using 772-7171 SUN 5PM-IOPM and a controversial $1.1 million back-up plan to send Maine s low­ CALL ----------------------- level nuclear waste to Nevada. 846-9771 One-tenth of Maine could be sold DAY or NIGHT Great Northern Nekoosa, the paper company which had been bolted shut minutes before the City may rescue Portland West 75( OFF that owns more than 10 percent of the state of forest arrived. "It's the forest. We've come to see ANY LARGE. SANDWICH OR ANY SIZE PIZZA Maine, has been targeted for hostile takeover by you." The City of Portland has taken the first step toward saving (WITH THIS AD. GOODTHRU t t/30/89) Atlanta-based paper giant Georgia-Pacific. But Portland West Neighborhood Council's Bell Street project. On Crowded into the small elevator foyer, Sayen the $3.18 billion deal, which has drawn fire from Nov. 7, the housing committee unanimously approved giving read statements to the media as security staff ... $51,584 in services to Portland West to complete the transitional Great Northern shareholders and Maine environ­ looked on nervously. The protestors, organized ~_ housing project at 98-100 and 102-104 Bell 51. mentalists, may be cut off at the roots by the U.S. by Maine Earth First!, then returned to One City Supreme Court. Portland West has struggled since 1987 to develop the project Center's cavernous lobby where they paraded but, according to Portland West Executive Director Jim Oliver, CCN is Movinll•• ~ about to the sound of a taped song, "We all are Land sale feared has "run into brick wall after brick wall" financing it. One of those -on- animals." An elk strolled past the Bay Gub. A brick walls has been the Maine State Housing Authority, which The Georgia-Pacific buyout would be the larg­ handful of birds soared above the fast-food court Nove".ber 15th est consolidation ever in Maine's paper industry in the glass elevator. offered to loan Portland West $175,000 to renovate the buildings and would make Georgia-PaCific the world's larg­ but won't write the check until it sees the city support the project Your Community Cable Network Meanwhile, Sayen and a handful of the wilder first. est forest products company, with annual salesof creatures returned upstairs. Several scuffles en­ previously seen on Channel 16 $13 billion. Approval by the housing committee is a good indication that sued between theprotestorsand the security staff, is moving to the city council will commit to the project, said Peter O'Donnell, Great Northern's directors have not yet re­ including Sayen's airborne ejection from Great who chairs the committee. O'Donnell gives the proposal "a nine Channel 37 sponded to the offer. Nor had they responded to Northern's suite less than a minute after he had any of several suits brought by stockholders al­ out of 10 chance" of passing when it goes to the city council on in Portland, South Portland, Falmouth, slipped inside. But no one was hurt during the Nov. 20. Cape Elizabeth, and Scarborough. leging that Great Northern's officers were acting demonstration, and the protestors and security to protect their high-paying jobs at the expense of staff bantered jokingly with each other in between shareholders. According to that suit, GreatNorth­ scuffles. CCN Scbedule ern's top two executives took home $1.1 million State bucks for homeless shelters SALE DATES "We're here to protect the wilderness from FRIDAYS - 7 to 10 p.m. last year. Portland will get some of $500,000 the state is giving to home­ Nov. 11th, 12th, 13th junk bonds," shouted a young protestor. Sat., Sun. & Mon. 1 to 3 and 7 to 10 p.m. less shelters. Dan Simpson, a spokesperson for the Maine State Great Northern began producing newsprint in "You sound like me 20 years ago," responded Tues., Wed. & Thurs. 9 a.m. to Noon 1900 at a Millinocket mill that was then the largest Housing AuthOrity, said homeless shelters that have applied for One City Center operations manager Frank Thi­ 345 Fore St.. Portland. ME 51 Ceres St.. Portsmouth. NH . 77 3-7784 in the world. But "the Northern," as the company boutot. assistance will find checks for $3,000 in their mailboxes in early December. Since "most homeless shelters operate on a shoe­ is called in central Maine, has laid off hundreds of Great Northern remained faceless throughout Public Cable string," the funds are meant to help with added costs and volume workers at its aging Millinocket and East Milli­ the two-hour protest, refusing to send out even a during the winter, Simpson said. Inaddition to the$3,000,monthly A T MOVIES 3[8 nocket mills during recent years. And financial public relations person from behind the locked THE analysts predict that after the takeover, debt-rid­ doors. "reimbursement" checks will be distributed to the shelters ac­ den Georgia-Pacific would be unlikely to up­ cording to traffic. grade those mills. New law awaits test What Georgia-Pacific would be likely to do, as But those doors couldn't muffle the sound of Big Brothers/Big Sisters return the Wall Street "junk bond" market crumbles, is timber falling on Nov. 6 when the U.s. Supreme to sell off Great Northernassets in order to finance Big Brothers/Big Sisters, which ran out of money and had to Court unanimously upheld a Wisconsin anti­ close four months ago, has opened again. Local "matches" of 87 the huge deal. Of all Great Northern's assets, its takeover law. If a similar Maine law is also up­ kids with grown-ups should be revived soon with rec~nt grants 2.1 million acres of timberland could be most held, the Georgia-Pacific bid may topple. easily converted into cash. and donations: the federal government gave $60,000 whIch wIll be Congress Street, Although Great Northern is headquartered in doled outover the next two years, an anonymous do-gooder gave But the prospect of selling off vast areas of Connecticut, it is incorporated in Maine and is 772-3932 timberland has Mainers worried. Developers $5,000 and will give $5,000 more to match others' donations,. the th{'refore subject to a anti-takeover la w passed by Maine Department of Human Services gave $5,000 and the UnIted Our jewelry is already half the cost of retail... would likeiy pay higher prices for that property the Maine legislature in March 1988.