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Portland's FREE news and arts weekly Thursday January 12,1989
SHERMAN STREET'S
For almost two years they've'dodged city housing inspectors, they've never paid a penny in property tax, they've collected $30,000 in welfare rent payments and neighbors say they rent to pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers. No wonder they wanted to keep it secret. See page 8 .
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HA~lf'~ rH~f H MIN~ ~AU IN BRIEF: CONDOS, TRAILERS AWAIT SIGNAL CHANGE Clam flats closing The Department of Marine Morrlll's Cotner moratorium : GlASSES FREE. Resources is pleading a staff Morrill's Comer, traffic tar cilors Don MacWilliams, Ed shortage while one-fifth of the pit of modem-era Portland, ward Bernstein and Ronald , state's clam flats are being might just get a "brake." Three Dorler, who represent the Riv closed for lack of pollution Portland City Councilors pro erton area, whipped upa broad, testing. In compliance with posed a building moratorium 180-day moratorium. It would interstate commerce policy, to give city planners a chance cover a rough triangle between Maine agreed one year ago to to unsnaggle Morrill's Comer Riverside Street, Warren Ave test its shellfish beds regu traffic. A public hearing is nue,Allen Avenue and Auburn larly for contamination. But scheduled for Jan. 18. Street. It does not specifically the DMR didn't have time. As north Portland and its target housing developments; Beds from Cutler to Wells will suburbs have grown, com its drive is to weed out any be posted over the next week. muter traffic has converged on project that would add signifi It won't be until the end of the intersection of Warren, cant traffic to Morrill's Comer. 1989 that all the areas will be Allen, Stevens, and Forest ave Dorler says the three months tested and reopened. nues. But it was a Portland would give the city's planning condo project that broke the staff time to think up a new So long Long Wharf camel'sback.Orwasitamanu traffic plan for north Portland. Dorler (who lives just beyond factured housing (trailer) park? Casco Bay Weekly Liberty Croup's vision of Morrill's Court, 108 condo Morrill's Corner) said that condos and offices on Long units planned for the Allen while the condo project brought Thursday Wharf (DiMillo's Restaurant Avenue-Forest Avenue area, the traffic problem to his atten January 1 2, 1989 parking lot) finally collapsed 24 pages WORRY FREE. got past the planning board last tion, the purpose of the mora Pearle offe rs an exclustve. "'llrry-free, one-year eyeglass guarantee on when Tony DiMillo refused materials. "" rkmansh,p, and accidental breakage.t We back our glasses that fall. But the neighbors - the torium is not to shut out the way because they're made With high-quality brand name frames and to extend Liberty's option to Riverton Community Associa condos. ,"",. .; ...... lenses. buy the parking lot. The proj tion-didn't quit shouting. They "1 believe the moratorium is UPDATES ji ect, like many of Liberty'S, aimed at Morrill's Court," in '-:&.RJ has spent time in court, and convinced the Council that sists James Wolf of Wolf Asso I~------, ~One Pair. Get One Free. CBW I traffic through Morrill's Cor with questions of ocean view ciates, developer of the project. and traffic impact still pend ner is bad already, and could ing, it was by no means out of become dangerous. The Coun Regardless of Portland's devel I Nowwhen ~~ bu?;c!~~pa~~~!:!;~ce . ~~ get a ~ I cil, agreeing, in late December opment, he says, "Windham I second pair (same prescription) free fn:m l~r specially tagged collection. ;;! I Walsh's lawyer the woods, legally speaking. sent Morrill's Court back to the and Westbrook are still going w·::~.... %~ Ottel' onr::Iudes most 'Ingle ""fOIl I n(! tIIIOCI' PfllCf,ptlOfl5 M,",mll," hrsl pal' purct\ase $15 Tlnls U V and No-Ser. reI! a I ·.·• ..· .·.N:i'l Some lel'l$ ,eslncloons appty TLlln,'~ "" • •,. nt) good for one Coating, Ir. avadab" III "'5Iul., COsl Complete gllsseS ~ I ~. , on "~ I I Of r&placement 0 1 tHOkeo trilmes Ind lenN, Il'I(:II..de I,ames and Ien_ Coupe!" mv51 be ptesented III planning board. The planning to put traffic in our streets." doesn't show Ricci takes lawyers board, which had until the end "1 suspect that (new state I V. ' . _~M",. ""~'''P''~' ~PEAR'LEot~'~~'- 00 I / VIEWS When his attorney didn't of January to put Morrill's laws) have something to do Ceramic, capitalism and to court before bar Harry Pallen show up, the Cumberland The Maine Board of the Bar BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL Court back on its agenda, had with the moratorium," count L ______vIsion center ~ I I County register of deeds James is delaying its public hearing made no move to do so as of ers Waxler, who says his at Walsh missed his chance to on the conduct of three Port Rosa True gets a face lift Jan.11. tempt to provide Portland with Secret NOBODY CARES FOR EYES MORE THAN PEARLE. appeal for a salary raise Jan. 9. land lawyers from the firm For the first time in recent What separates this effort At the same time, a state law affordable housing is a victim Paul K. Stewart had a better Berstein, Shur, Sawyer and history, one of Portland's from your average rehab proj was looming that would make of snobbery. slumlords SOUTH PORTlAND PORTlAND excuse than Walsh gave for his Nelson so that Joseph Ricci brick buildings is being reno ect is that it combines preser it easier for developers to put Wolf says Morrill's Court is of Maine Mall 600 Congress St. last six-week absence from the can have at them first. Ricci's vated into something other vation with community in manufactured housing parks in idling in hopes of working out job. Walsh returned in Decem case against SumnerT. Bern than a lawyer's office or a terest. PROP will be main cities. Portland, which has no differences with the neighbors. Sherman 774-6382 772-8368 C1988 Poa rto Hoalth SeMOOS. Inc ber, saying he'd had a bad cold. stein, Leonard M. Nelson and left-handed coffee mug bou taining offices as well as the mobile-home parks, had re But there is a more substantial Street Stewart underwent triple by George A. Tselikis springs tique. The Rosa True School day care facility there. Port quired mobile-home lot sizes roadblock. Although the plan pass heart surgery Sunday. COVER STORY from and event in 1981 when at 140 Park Street will get a land West will be converting of 6,500 square feet. Jan. 1 it ning board is so far refusing to by Mont. Pauls.n Walsh was going to ask the Key BankcutoffRicci'scredit. substantial face lift this win the upper floors into five became law that cities can't reconsider Morrill's Court, the and Thoma. A. V.rd. county commissioners to in The law firm, it was charged, ter and spring with funds three-bedroom apartments demand more than 5,000 square Riverton association has filed crease his salary from $100 to continued to work for both secured by Rosa True Inc. and one efficiency for low feet per trailer. an appeal in Maine Superior $20,000. Ricci and Key Bank. Ricci's This non-profit organization income families. These com Allred J. Waxler, who has Court. As City Attorney David ""* ,"""% Stewart's son William T. has case is scheduled to begin represents a partnership be munity-oriented uses quali been trying for years to get a Lourie said, if Wolf began the ~~ L7< said he will represent Walsh at project, and the court reversed .1b.. d !,,:;n CALENDAR April 3 in Bath. tween the People's Regional fied the Rosa True school for trailer park past the planning A celebration of civil rights a Jan. 19 misconduct hearing in Opportunity Program a $100,000 federal grant from board, said that if it wasn't for the planning board's decision, Cumberland County Superior Fish Pier Authority (PROP) and the Portland the National Trust for His the moratorium proposal, he'd "They'd be in deep doo-doo." Court. The suit was filed by West Neighborhood Plan toric Preservation's Inner City submit a new plan under the Wolf denies that he's ready to A ttorney General James Ti flops past Council ning Council. Ventures Fund. This fund is smaller lot-size laws. Waxler's sell the property. erney, who appears to be in A new level of manage PROP, a local community specifically for historic build property behind the Riverton A footnote to the moratorium good physical condition. ment, the Fish Pier Author would establish traffic impact -Hannah Holmes action organization that pro ingrestorations that will serve School is in the same neighbor ity, was created to take over vides various assistance pro the community rather than hood as the Morrill's Court fees for future development the whole Portland Fish Pier. grams, has run offices as well private interests. Rosa True project. Waxler wouldn't say city-wide. The City Planning A new level of spending is as a day care center at the will be the first building in how many homes could fit on Office hopes in six months to necessary, but the council Rosa True school since 1980. Portland to receive such a his property under the new law, present the Council with a NEWS OF hasn't decided where to get THE WEIRD Portland West rehabilitates grant. Other funds are being but Janice Carpenter of the method of passing the cost of the $500,000 City Manager houses all over the city and floated by the city ($110,000) neighborhood group said she road updating on to develop Robert Ganley says is needed --"When I first saw Andre at converts them into low-in and several local banks, guesses it's 180. ers. to implement the plan. A hot [agel 2 or 3, I didn't think he come housing units. The two Maine Savings being high on For whatever reason, Coun- -Hannah Holmes 1~~ ter topic is where a subsidy -£.f".. was going to be any good," entities gottogethertwo years the list. The overall project ARTS' said tennis great Pancho of $50,000 to $200,000 a year ago and asked the city, which cost is $726,000. Stu Kestenbaum Gonzalez when asked for will come from. Ganley sug owns the school, for a lease "We're very pleased with comment on the current top gests that profits from the on the building. That lease this outcome," says Ed Rosen other tenants of the pier be TOSSED SALAD, CHUCKED STEAK ~0~ U.S. player, Andre Agassi, who came through at the city thal, housing director of Port w ~~ used to buoy the auction. P, ru is now 18. council meeting Jan. 4. land West. "The pressures of Brat pack gets a spanking JbM ,..JL SPORT --In Westminster, England, Councilor Ron Dorler sug The lease on the school is gentrification and the federal People break parking meters that accept gests the Fish Pier become a for 35 years, with annual pay government pulling out of the Club officials at the Wood rooms of their respective op credit cards were installed on a separate tax district, paying ments of $4500. This figure low-income housing business lands Club, a local yuppie posite sexes and members pass trial basis in August. property taxes to itself for its allows for rent increases under Reagan have been two theme park, had to come down ing their children off on staff own support. --In Indianapolis, Yvette M. based on the Consumer Price big problems we've had to hard on members because of persons there, expecting them CLASSIFIED Tyler, 21, was charged in Sep Index and payments are deal with." "unruly" behavior in dining to become babysitters on the tember with stabbing herunde, Radon tests tailspin -being deferred for the first The historic value of the rooms and other areas of the spot. Gregory Stanfield, to death Private and public purvey two years. Rosa True Inc. will Rosa True school extends exclusive Falmouth recrea Woodlands manager Phil because he had eaten the ham ors of the test kits for radioac be paying for renovations, beyond its brick exterior and tional club. Food fights, errant Swett has indicated that the burger and pork and beans she tive radon gas are seeing sales utilities and insurance dur its age. Built in 1844 and dirty diapers, and foul situation sounds worse than it Casco .ay W_kly is a paper mouthed kids are just a few of actually is. The letter appar for people living in or concerned had set on the table for her and slide. Meanwhile a recent ing and after construction named after one of its princi about the cities and towns of the her daughter's meal. EPA study concluded that while major repairs over pals, the school was in con the complaints listed in a three ently wassentto remind people Portland area. It is published by Mogul Media. Inc. from posh --Philadelphia Phillies' radon may cause 1,500 cases $5000 will be picked up by tinuous operation until the page letter issued recently to how to behave in place that has corporate headquarters at catcher Darren Daulton broke of cancer a year to one caused the city's Capital Improve mid-1970s, one of the few the club's 630 members. salad forks. We suppose that if '87 Clark Street. Porlland. his hand in September when he they really wanted to get tough, Maine 04'02. by Superfund sites. ment Program after the job is schools in the country to make Other inelegant infractions Send us your event listings. HYPNOSIS punched a wall in disgust after have included kids old enough they'd make members drink a your angry lellers and especially For a list of reliable racton completed. the grade for so long. OF MAINE • 846-0606 watching a videotape replay of to tell a bird from a bee wan domestic wine with lunch. your advertisements! We need test peddlers, or the $18 kitit -Thomas A. 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We lived up in Not any more. I don't live on Avenue and State Street ev- Aroostook County. Up in the Cumberlandanymorebutthey DRAFT BEERS ANION'S Since 1957 sticks! We used to have to ride TUESDAY 521 U.S. Route 1 eryweekdaymorningandaf- tell me that at night it's some- MARGARlTAS & BLOODYS ternoon. When you see her because the schools were a long thing else. WEDNESDAY Scarborough, ME 04074 step off the curb with her ways away so there were no WElL DRINKS SPECIALS Tel: (207) 883-9562 hand held "Stop" sign, slow crossing guards at that time. what do you do when you're THURSDAY down-she's got a low toler- They've got them now. not doing this, Bernice? MARGARlTAS & BLOODYS ance for "crazy drivers." FRIDAY -FAMOUS HOMEMADE STUFFED BREADS· Don't you mind it out here in My housework. And I plant CHAMPAGNE the winter? the garden - my flower garden. That's about all. ALSO: $2.95 MUNCHIES How'd you get started as a So far this winter hasn't been crossing guard? so bad, but wheneverthey have what do you like best about school I'm always right here. being a crossing guard? Twenty years ago my neigh Every time it snows I listen to eat/iliac ~cJJ e YOUR CHOICE bor told me about it. I'd been BEEF ALA ANJON'S the radio to see if there's school It gets me out, and it gets me A Good Place to Eat •••• ,1. Served over Fettuccine working at Cushman's Bakery or no school. And in Portland a little extra money besides my MOON for thirty years. But the bakery we have school when all the social security. And I enjoy the 442 Fore Street in Portland's Old Port.' 774·7466 closed its doors, so I got this children, I really do. I've never L-______--' e FISH AND CHIPS other places don't! But I think if 425 Fore St. • 871·0663 job, and I've had it ever since. the children can make it then I had a child hurt. But they have Served with Cole Slaw can, too. to cross where they're sup- r------, How many kids do you figure posed to beca us e this @rt@t~~iM&~f:~~lW@itml@t:illkt1ft"fl:t=ttiti=ffi&>f2l:::rf~W~y:1t%rI2f;:1~~ft;EiligtrM~;:~: e CHICKEN PARMIGIANA • you'll cross today? What do you think about this intersection's very dangerous. OPEN TILL Served with Spaghetti I had 21 this morning, and neighborhood? Have you lAMFRI&SAT I'll probably only have about seen a lot of change here? Are people driving any dif ferently than they did when BOOKSTORE e FISHERMAN'S PLATTER 4.95 e LOBSTER ROLL 4.95 20 this afternoon. It varies. I've been in Portland since I you started doing this 20 Mon·Thur .--.--...... - .....-011-.--.- '.-- was 28, and I turned 77 on New 6:30 am·ll:30 pm Are they pretty good? years ago? w 1989 w Year's Day - and there have Fri-Sat 6:3(H:00 am Well, this year I've had three been a lot of changes. My good Good heavens, yes! They're CALENDARS Sun 10:00 am-7:1l0 pm ARE HERE! bad children. Those three boys! ness yes, a lot of changes. crazy today, these drivers. They YOUR CHOICE They think they're something My sister used to own that have quite a few accidents at The Best Calendar big apartment house up on the this intersection, but never in the world that you e SHRIMP SCAMPI else. They don't cross where Cheapest can get for free. they're supposed to, they talk comer of Cumberland and when I've been crossing, thank Served over a Bed of Linguini back. But they're getting Deering Avenue. That's where goodness. Beer & Wine NOW OPEN SUN. 12-5 straightened out now. As a rule I lived when I first came to Port in the Old Port e CHICKEN CORDON BLEU they're good, but a few of them land nearly 50 years ago. That Andy Newman's ed~or now lets TUE.-sAT. 10-5 him cross the street without the help 01 W 773-4200 W Served with Potato or Pasta and Vegetable I have to step on! a crossing guard. 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• ."• • 0' ~ There is nothing illegal or immoral 18 about speculating in real estate. But when people own property, no matter how "silent" the partners consider themselves to be, they assume , +oki the responsibility to provide decent Ceramic wins O~nr-Q living conditions in exchange for I was out of town the other of reactionary paranoia I've doubt in anyone else's that weekend for a wedding. The read in quite a while. Col. Ward these irresponsible actions their tenants' rent money and to be • morning after, a buddy and I would have us substitute the should be dealt with harshly good neighbors. That responsibility drove through the town look Coercive Utopia of the com and convincingly. ing for a diner-style breakfast. mies, pinkos, and liberals with It is my hope that people in carries the weight of law, and it The sun intensely bright after his own free enterprise utopia. power and responsibility cannot be shirked just because the only a couple of hours of sleep No small intellectual elite or would use this situation to investment didn't turn out to be as We have changed our name to and eyes smarting behind even inflated bureaucracy is going improve conditions and per dark glasses; in the air cold to tell "ordinary" people like sonnel at these institutions. profitable as the broker said it Christmas music floats over the Col. Ward what they can do. would. Christmas tree lot. We've Under the "pure" free enter The slumlords exposed by the parked and head into a greasy prise system Col. Ward longs JUST BLACK & WHITE spoon, eggs and toast and cof for, a small profit mongering Ben Lothrop Parks ide Neighborhood Association have fee we both want badly and business elite would call the Westbrook ignored their responsibilities and look forward to the warm shots. Screw the PUc, Adam on February 1st we will be moving to strong taste. "I'm not drinking Smith's invisible hand should buried their heads in the sand. that!" exclaims my companion, be allowed to regulate the price Harry Patten Sadly, they are neither the only nor and I see the dark Asian woman of electricity. If your granny In the week before Christ the worst in Portland. pouring our coffee into styro can't afford the going rate then mas Harry Patten of Patten 54 YORK STREET foam cups. We sip it anyway, let her get a job, I hear Corp. sent us a special present: If you cannot find the owner of your sop up egg yokes with toast, McDonald's is hiring. But wait, ads in newspapers all over the building or a problem building in your and head back to the hotel for a in Col. Ward's utopia she al state which proclaimed his and we'll be offering a new service real cup of coffee. ready has to be working be friendship and good will for neighborhood, go to the tax office at The breakfast room's a bit cause pinko ideas like Social Maine people. your city or town hall. There you will stuffy, plastic lights and elec Security certainly wouldn't Mr. Patten, who is the largest find the taxpaying (or avoiding) tric lights make me look over exist there. fast-buckland speculator in this 4" X 6" MACHINE PRINTS the railing to arm chairs by a Come on Col. Ward, your state, must have been visited . owners filed by street address. If the picture window. "Could we," I dippy little free enterprise uto by Scrooge's ghosts, so sudden owner turns out to be a corporation, pia doesn't exist and never has is his transformation. ask, "take our coffee and sit by look up the deed number on the tax the window?" "Sure," they existed because the majority of ls this the same Patten Corp. answer, "we'll get you a coffee humanity is not driven by the that sued the town of Hartford, records. Armed with that you can to go." "But can we have it in single minded greed of the population 510, for $1 million? usually find the owner's names on the ceramic mugs?" "No." "Are "pure" free enterprisers and the ls this the same Patten that is you sure?" "I'll get the man monopoly capitalists who like being investigated by the At deed which is on file at the county ager." And on and on we go, to hide behind the free enter torney General for consumer courthouse. There are people in both prise facade. History clearly fraud? Is this the same Patten until we accept the bottom line offices who will help you. of accepting their breakfast shows the the regulations, plan that sold land along the Narra room atmosphere and holding ning boards, and state institu guagus River to Maine's De The Parks ide Neighborhood Associa warm ceramic, or looking out tions Col. Ward whines about partment of Inland Fisheries tion has shown what can be done. What on the hotel driveway and feel are necessary to protect us and Wildlife (read: Maine tax ing that dry, brittle and crum ordinary people from the profit payers) for an average of four is working for them can work for you bly plastic while delving into lust of unscrupulous capital times its original purchase too. the curative wonders of coffee. ists. Inside your American price? Ceramic wins out, well and Dream, Colonel, lurks the Is this the same Patten that good, because the ceramic nightmare of poverty, starva has bought prime shorefront makes it last and feel substan tion, greed, and environmental acreage, skated around local tial, like an activity - the qual suicide. Think about that. and state review, and sold the C•• co I.y W_ldy J.nuary 12, 11811 ity of the coffee experience inti And about the IRS Colonel. high-priced parcels to city folk? An instrument ot \k>lume 2. Number 2 mately linked to the quality of Who the hell pays your salary? Is this the same Patten that has community understanding. the drinking vessel. pumped up land values and Cary S.nt.nl.llo Mont. P.ul_n A day later back in town, I'm made it hard for Maine people publisher editor JUS J M • ., Wa ... Ann 5110 ....' down at the coffee shop with to buy land and build a home? advertising manager entertairvT1ent editor brew to go or stay. Someone's After seven years of unscru Kat. H.lp.rt H.nnahHol..... taken away the trays of mugs Matthew Dyer pulous wheeling and dealing Garry Young editorial assistant in Maine, Mr. Patten thinks that display advertising for the stayers looking for ce South Portland lob I.".ncourt ramic. A failed experiment I he can gain our good will by John 5h.r.k art director class~ l ed advertiSing think the depressing thought. I pretending to be a Mr. Scrooge C ...ryl Mill., ··_11 Toklo.hlm. production manager ask the cashier. "Our who has changed his ways. It illustration dishwasher's sick," she says, won't work. S ...rry Mill., DI.na De.Ma,.I. Mlk.Qulnn and before the coffee has hit If Mr. Patten really wants to CIrculation manager columnists my stomach I'm warming in give Maine people a Christmas John Jona. Mlc"".' Hug.... side. It seems human again, no present, he will make a New circulation All .... K.y. Changes needed lonnl. Moo .. reversion to the dry chemical Year's resolution to buy land K.lly N.I.on atAMHI Thom •• A. V..... process here, just people, one and develop projects only in Published 'i'#ff .'t.".,,'1·r'~l If):l it~nf/r l:,l By Monte Paulsen >' \t\f ,,,:: ,to WI and Thomas A. Verde III Z "We attempted to locate the owners of the bunding but had great difficulty I- rmding them... it seemed as if the owners were trying to conceal their identities. " -DonnaEddy I. "I had hoped to keep a low o prortle in this." -John Ughtbody Outside tbeir meeting witb tbe Parkside Neigbborbood AssociatiOn, Kennetb Bowden, at left, andJobn Ligbtbody greet Herb Adams. CBW photos/Monte Paulsen In the game of real-estate speculation that has driven in-town rents neighborhood, Sherman Street is neither an investment nor a casual Adams, the neighborhood association dug up the deeds-and therefore these conditions, he nonetheless maintained - in separate con versa tions beyond the reach of many long-time residents, players like Steven Dodd concern - it is where they live. are the workers. Players like John Lightbody are the so-called "silent" the owner's names - of every landlord on the street. And when they had withcityplanner Joe Gray, the ParksideNeighborhood Association and finished, their knife pointed in a most unexpected direction. partner~ - and they like to keep it that way. this paper - that he had no idea that his buildings were causing But Lightbody, also a partner in the prestigious Portland law finn of Waking the neighborhood problems in the neighborhood. "I frankly didn't know," he said, shaking visibly as he sat. When Murray, Plumb and Murray, got caught. "This used to be a very nice neighborhood," said Father Gerald No money down After months of painstaking investigation, members of the Parkside asked about the nature of the purchase, about the nature of his involve Levesque of Sacred Heart Churchon the comer of Sherman and Mellen ment, about the code violations, about the taxes owed and about the ~eighborhood Association were shocked when they discovered streets. The address was 75 Pearl 51. businesses of his tenants, his only response was a whispered, "No com Lightbody's ';lame on t~e deeds of two Sherman Street buildings said by church has been robbed three times within the last year. Every It was listed on a tax declaration as the mailing address of "New Th~ ment." Portland ~hce ~nd ,neIghbors to house prostitutes and drug dealers. door. IS kept locked now; Levesque, who is called to nearby Maine Sherman Street Associates." It also happens to be the historic Woodman Furthermvestlgationhas shown that dllTingthe 20 months Lightbody Me~hcal at all hours, adrrutted that he is afraid to leave the rectory late block - and the home of Murray, Plumb & Murray. and hiS partners have owned those buildings, they have paid not one ~trught. "Wedon'thold parish functions in the evenings:' said Levesque, New Sherman Street Associates turned out to be a partnership Cashing the checks penny in city tax while collecting between Steven C. Dodd, James E. Dodd, Peter A. Levecque and 'because.~ur people don't want to come here at night anymore." "Lightbody doesn't know anything about this," agreed Steven Dodd, more than $30,000 in local, state In addItion, Father Levesque faces a mountain of trash almost every something called "BBL Ventures," a second layer of partners made up the managing New Sherman Street partner. "That man only owns and federal housing subsidy pay day he steps out of the rectory. He said that it begins piling up as early of John Bums, Kenneth Bowden and John Lightbody (hence the B-B-L). ments. "We were not trying to conceal our identities," said Lightbody about maybe eight percent of the thing. The guy's a lawyer. What's the big "They invest as as Monday afternoon, shortly after the weekly collection. "We have the deal? He's not a city councilman." "He (Lightbody) got caught phone number of the city now," he said, "and we start calling them on BBL during a tense interview at his Pearl Street offices on Jan. 9. "If we with his pants down," said Port Tuesday mornings." were interested in being anonymous landlords we would have done so Neighborhood association complaints about the Sherman Street little money as land Planning and Urban Devel through a different vehicle." buildings are of little annoyance to Dodd - he said he'd never heard a Neig~bors - those w~o a:e willing to talk ~bout it - recite a litany of word from them. opment Director Joe Gray, a State complaints about prostitution, drugs and VIolence similar to Father Another vehicle Lightbody wasn't interested in filing was a "DBA." "I think what we've done is piss off one or two people who have possible and then Street neighbor who has spent levesque's. They tell of men being propositioned by prostitutes and At press time, neither the Portland City Clerk nor the Maine Secretary more than a year attempting to of State had a "Doing Business As" statement on file for either BBL nothing better to do than to give us hell and who know how to punch !!,treat~~ed by d':lg deal~rs; of women ~ing solicited by confused the right buttons. Now they're getting their way. Those buildings are so they turn their locate the owner of the buildings Johns and recrUIted by pimps; of young children finding used needles Ventures or New Sherman Street Associates. According to Portland much better than when we gotthem a year and a half ago. I believe we've so that he could serve more than and of teenagers buying them; of loud music and louder brawls' and of Corporation Counsel David Lourie, companies such as these are re put $30,000 or $40,000 into them in improvements." backs on the t~o dozen notices of housing, quired by Maine law to file DBAs. th~,perman~~ mountains of trash in front of certain buildings~ Despite these "improvements," city housing inspector Burton Ma fire and trash code violations. Two buddmgs have become quite notorious," said Parkside resi The New Sherman Street partners did obtain a Post Office box and cIsaac has been citing violations at the New Sherman Street buildings When Gray discovered that dent Donna Eddy, referring to 56 and 60 Sherman 51. "Throughout the within a few weeks they had quietly become the owners of 29 units of property until Lightbody was among the mys summer, the police had been working diligently to clean them out." Sherman Street rental hOUSing. since the new partners purchased them. Bats nesting in the attic, roaches, no ventilation, no garbage cans, no lights, a locked cellar where tery owners, he was "so upset" Lt. Edward J. Googins, who was directing the Portland Police The buildings were purchased from Blaine E. Davis II, then doing the time comes to fuses couldn't be changed, trash outside, ceilings falling in, mattresses about it that he was "almost pre Department's undercover team at that time, confirmed that he raided business as Bayside Associates, and were sold to the New Sherman in the front yard, no heat for the month of October, broken windows, pared to have that garbage taken that building. a drug-related search warrant last August and Street partners in a paper-and-promises sale brokered by real-estate ~th bathroom sinks and toilets broken, bugs, and nails sticking ou t of stairs sell it." downtown and left off in front of a1'!'e~ted a f~!9t1ve on charges of trafficking in cocaine. Googins was un master-dealer John Gendron. (his) office." to the address in detail for fear of jeopardizing ongoing Tax records show that the first of the two parcels, a brick building at are among the most frequent complaints. Across the bottom of one ~dlln~ ~scuss report MacIsaac scrawled "TAKE THIS BIRD TO COURT!" -Joe Gray Yet despite the saturation of mvestigations, but he agreed that the block is "an area where we have 77/79 Sherman St., sold for $499,000. The deed for that property shows television news coverage of drug frequ.ent problems." a $340,000 loan from Maine Savings Bank. Bayside Associates put up a MacIsaac attempted to serve notice of these violations through regis tered mail a half-dozen times last month alone. Certified letters sent and prostitution raids at these that same month, on his way to a meeting of the fledgling second $130,380 loan, and Bayside partners Blaine Davis and Thomas Lat~r both to the New Sherman Street P.O. box and to Dodd's Scarborough addresses las~ summer, lawyer John Lightbody claims that he never ParkSlde Neighborhood Association, Herb Adams stepped out of his Acker tossed in a personal loan of $28,620. home were returned because Dodd refused to sign for them. Having heard of the Illegal activity in his buildings; despite the predictable S~erma!lStreet apartment building to find two men slashing each other In other words, the seller of the building (Bayside Associates) loaned appearance o.f Sherman S~reet addresses on the daily paper's crime WIth knIves. He fled west, dodging the trash piled high on the sidewalk the difference between the bank loan and the purchase price to the failed at that, MacIsaac attempted to track Dodd down in person, al ways unsuccessfully. Takingintoaccount the amount oftime Dodd said page~ John LIghtbody clalm.s that he never read anything about it; a~d made his way down the block to the Sacred Heart church. Along buyers (New Sherman Street Associates). The New Sherman Street despI~e .numerous c?mmuruty meetings held by the neighborhood With Father Levesque, Adams, and a roomful of angry neighbors City partners purchased a half-million dollar building with no money down. he spent working on the buildings, it's curious they never ran into each aSSOCIation, the housmg code and trash violations, the fact that he has Councilor Pamela Plumb attended that meeting. ' Although the transactions are less clear for the second property (56/ other. "I don't know aboutany refusals," said Dodd. "Any landlord in town ~ever paid any of his taxes on these properties, John Lightbody pleads According to all involved, neither Plumb nor Adams knew then that 60 Sherman), it added another 17 units to the holdings of New Sherman gets slips from the city, it's a common thing. We've never had a major mnocent. both the b,:,il~ing where the knife fight had taken place (60 Sherman) Street Associates and it was also purchased from Bayside through problem. It's always been small stuff." For Lightbody, a lawyer who lives in Falmouth, Sherman Street is and the bUIlding where the trash was piling up (77/79 Sherman) were Gendron. now an embarrassing investment deal that has gone sour. Why would Bayside offer such a deal? For one thing, the upper floors Dodd is right when he classifies the Sherman Street buildings crum own~ by a law partner ~f ~Iumb's husband. But on that August night, bling around the tenants' heads as "small stuff." That is if you stack ~o~ Steven Dodd, one of Lightbody's partners and manager of the the neIghborhood assoCiatIon as a whole, and Adams in particular, of 77 /79 Sherman St. had been damaged by fire. For another, Bayside bUlldmgs, the Sherman Street deal "seemed like a good idea at the vowed to find out just who did own them. was already more than $10,000 behind in their taxes on the buildings. these kinds of problems up against the fact that heand his partners have paid not one cent in property tax on these buildings since they bought time," but has tllTned into a self-inflicted nightmare. . "''!ve att~ml?ted to lo~ate , the owners of the building but had great But at the heart of it all, these were deteriorated buildings in a bad them, bringing the current total of back property taxes owed for these . For those who live there and pay taxes that get returned to suburban difficulty finding them, saId ~nna Eddy, describing the process. "It neighborhood. As partner Steven Dodd put it, "These aren't luxury two properties to $16,524. In August, the city placed liens against both mvcstors who rent to theprostitutcsanddrugdealers that threaten their seemed as If the owners were trymg to conceal their identities." Led by condos." Although Lightbody knew that he purchased the buildings under continued _ nexl page 10 Casco a_y Weekly January 12, 1989 11 continued from previous p_g. "They leave it to the city to worry about trash problems and housing the New Sherman Street properties that could result in foreclosures at violations ... and in this instance they got caught." the end of this year. Ins~tor MacIsaac spent the better part of Friday, Jan. 6, again That is, if the banks don't beat the city to it. The principal mortgages attempting to track down Steven Dodd. It came as no surprise to Gray for both New Sherman Street properties-the loans from Maine Savings that Dodd managed to dodge the city once more. and People's Heritage - state specifically that the banks have the right What did surprise Gray, shortly before 4 p.m. that same Friday to foreclose if taxes aren't paid or if the buildings are not kept up. afternoon, was the Parkside Neighborhood Association's revelations Dodd claimed he just can't collect the money to pay those taxes. about Lightbody. "We've had tenants in there that "I deal with lawyers all the time," said Gray, "so I knew who they wouldn't pay rent for a month and a are." Gray confronted Plumb - who happened to be at City Hall-and half at a time," he said. "We serve Lightbody, who was summoned by Plumb. them an eviction notice, they go to According to Gray, the first words out of Lightbody were, "Shit. I had the city, the city sends an inspector hoped to keep a low profile in this." over who says you have to take care "He said that as far as he was concerned he was a silent partner who of these things (violations) or you had merely invested in the building," said Gray. "He had hoped he won't get the money." could stay quietly in his comfortable suburban home." The money Dodd was referring to Gray went on to tell Lightbody about thecityinspector who had spent is welfare money. During the 20- the entire day looking for Dodd, about the weekly trash violations, month period they have owned the about the housing and building code violations, and abou t the building's neighborhood reputation as a home for pimps, prostitutes and drug buildings, New Sherman Street As dealers. sociates has collected $14,948 from the Ci ty of Portland in rent subsidies "I am going to start sending the violations to Mr. Lightbody at Pearl Street," said Gray, who then mused about sending the trash there as and another$15,916 of federal money well. administered through the Portland Housing Authority. Lightbody claimed that he had never heard anything about any of Where did that $30,864 go? Well,it this until that moment. According to Gray, Lightbody asked who obviously didn't go the city needed to know about this and what could be done. treasurer's office. Gray suggested that hiring a manager and buying a dumpster for the The backs of dozens of cancelled dozens of apartments might not be a bad start. Gray also suggested that city checks examined by this paper Lightbody talk to the Parkside Neighborhood ASSOciation. show that Dodd's wife, Pam, en dorsed and deposited them into a Meeting the neighbors New Sherman Street account at People's Heritage. Dodd said he Immediately after the meeting in Gray's office, Lightbody called spent that money on the bUilding. Herb Adams of the neighborhood association. "When we boughtthem, they were According to Adams, Lightbody said at first that he was an attorney a mess. Out of 29 units, I'd say we've representing a businessman who was part of a consortium that owned been through 25 of them - painting, the 60 Sherman St. property. Lightbody reportedly then told Adams carpeting, new sheetrock and plumb that the businessman had just recently become aware of the problems ing. We've taken care of everything there and that he was calling Adams in search of constructive solu tions. and that's whyit pissesmeoffto hear Adams claims that it was only after he named Dodd, the New this now. We're taking care of the Sherman Street partnership, BBL Ventures and other specific aspects of problems." the real-estate deal that Lightbody admitted he was directly involved. He resents being "singled out" Adams then recounted the litany of crime and filth of these buildings. because of what he considers to be a "I really have nothing to say," said Lightbody, according to Adams. neighborhood disease, not endemic "I cannot erase the past." to 77-79 Sherman Street. The following day, Lightbody met with several more members of the "Is ours the worst building on the neighborhood association at the home of Dana Trattner, its president. street? It's a street-wide problem," Although she was out of town, her husband, Jeff Stevenson, as well as he said. "I've gone down there and neighbors Donna Eddy, Ralph McGarvey, Tom Joyce and Adams were ~n a trash bag here, a trash bag present. Kenneth Bowden, one of the "B"s in BBL Ventures, accompa Trash and decay in the hallway of 77/79 Sherman St. there. Trash on the streets has always nied Lightbody to the meeting. been a problem. I don't know what "Throughout the discussion, they referred us to Steven Dodd," said they're comparing it to. If everyone Jeff Stevenson afterwards. He and others present said that both New wanted to blame all the sins of Sher Sherman Street partners claimed ignorance of the tenant screening, man Street on a couple of buildings maintenance, rent collection, tax payment and other such management of the buildings. "Unscrupulous landlords down there, they're crazy." Herb Adams assists as Jolm Lightbody, back to camera, begrudgingly removes some of tbe garbage from bls Sherman Street property. When asked if Dodd was the general, or managing, partner, those The trashman present said that both admitted that they "had met the IRS qualifica should not be allowed to profit tions" to be general partners - but that their actual role was more like cometh that of silent partners. from human misery." When asked about the potential embarrassment to City Councilor Every time Father Levesque called Old promises and new beginnings associations. He has already begun sending the violations Dodd re Pamela Plumb - who had helped enact a stricter city trash ordinance fused to Lightbody. "1 applaud what the neighborhood association has - Herb AdatIlS thecitytocomplainaboutthemoun due in part to complaints about trash on Sherman Street - Lightbody At the meeting Lightbody repeated his promises to "make things done." tain of trash, city planner Joe Gray reportedly nodded in agreement and claimed again that he knew right." heard about it. It's his job to enforce And for the buildings themselves, a ne~ begi~ing is most certai~y nothing about the management of the properties he owned. He promised to have the trash removed Monday. In fact, the city in store. Both properties are currently lIsted WIth G&S CommercIal the housing and trash codes. "I don't buy it," said Donna Eddy afterwards. hauled the curbside garbage Monday ~rning and by t~t aft~rnoon "These two are right up there among the worst buildings," said Gray, Brokers for a combined asking price of $1,080,000 - only $6,000 more "We were the subjects of so much media coverage abou t this issue last new complaints had Joe Gray prepanng a new trash VIolation for than what the New Sherman Street partners paid for them almost two who complains that his nine inspectors spend so much time on a Lightbody. . . handful of buildings like these that it makes it hard for them to tend the summer," chimed in Adams, "that the hookers and pimps knew me by years ago. name. How could Lightbody not have ever noticed?" He also promised to remove ~teven Dodd and hIre a full-ti~e "Like Bayside, New Sherman Street Associates had every anticipa rest of the city. He says that the peninsula has been consumed byabsen manager, but Dodd claimed that this step had a.lready been taken at hIS tee landlords hoping to tum a quick buck. Said Stevenson, "This whole thing just points up how endemic the tion of spinning these buildings for big bucks," explained Herb Adams. 'everybody else is doing it' attitude is here. Portland is becoming just request - because he had become too busy sellIng real estate. But, as Steven Dodd put it, "It just didn't work out that way." "They invest as little money as possible and then they tum their backs another place to do business." If the New Sherman Street partners do "make things right," these onthe property until the time comes to sell it two years later," said Gray. buildings could indeed be the ~nn,ing of a "New" Sherman Street. "When the market gets soft and they get caught in a cash bind, where "Unscrupulous landlords should not be allowed to profit from human misery," concluded Adams. "And lawyers should not be al But even if they don't, new beginmngs abound. do they cu t back? They cut back on management of the buildings." lowed to break the law." For Joe Gray, who has now crossed a most familiar name off his most Monte Paulsen is ed~or of Casco Bay Weekly. Thomas A. Verde is a wanted list, this could be the beginning of a new role for neighborhood frequent contributor. Both have done time in sub-standard housing. What makes you so special? 1f-~ m hich is ... a new band featuring members from Maine W& New Hampshire's Hottest Bands: The Upsetters, ~I·N=-=-·S ·I·D·E·R The Red Light Revue, The Practical Cats, Blues Over Easy, The Blues Prophets and Neil & The Nightlife Do you want more people to know your specialty? 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The Annual MLK minute moment of silence will read poems, essays, sing Breakfast Celebration will be dedicated to world peace. and perform as they remem held at Keeley The Katerer, MI. '1Dexter King, son of It is also National ber and reflect on the life and 176 Warren Avenue, with Martin Luther King Jr., speaks Learn-To- Ski Free times Rev. King at 7 pm at the guest speaker Hollis Watkins on his father's "Unfinished Day and A.M.E, Zion Church on of Jackson, Miss. Awards and Agenda" at 1:30 pm in the everywhere will Sheridan Street in Portland. scholarships will be presented Campus Center of University be offering ski The 6, 518 pipes of the for commitment to civil of New England in Biddeford. lessons to the Kotzschmar Memorial Pipe rights. The cost of the break A celebration of the change uninitiated. Organ in City Hall Audito fast is $8 per person. 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Portland 04102 775.6601 1he Fri and Sat Jan, 20-21 * Emilio Estevez * Kiefer Sutherland * Lou Diamond Phillips * Charlie Sheen What's• • Where • Maine Mall Cinemas Maino Mall Road, S Ponland Rain M.n Dustin Hoffman's per Brok.n M.n Jan 13-14 at the Dry Dock, n4-1022 formance in this movie deserves the 84 Commercial, Portland. 774-3550. T ..kA..ao ~~~b~VIDE0romV R~~:' SUNDAY SILVER (opens Jan 13) Academy Award. Hoffman plays an Kopten:Jan 13-14 althe Marble Bar, 51 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 autistic aduft, Raymond Babbitt, who Vor/(, Portland, 773-5516. 'T1I. Accident.. T_st has inherited his father's estate. Tom Cha.ter Slicks and The Furious Mel" ~otfL'CjY1~9tPtzt. All day ILite Drafts 1 :30, 4, 7, 9:30 ons Jan 14 at Geno's, 13 Brown, Port Cruise plays his brother who has just a ••ch .. land. 761-2506, & nite 75¢ (opens Jan 13) discovered his brother's existence and 1 :30, 4, 7, 9:25 Dav. M ....n Jan 15at Raoul's, 865 For Working Girts has his eye on the inheritance. est. Portland. 773-S886, 12:30,2:45,5:05,7:30,9:45 Unfortunately, Crui~e's performance is P.nlc Station Jan 15-16 at the Old Port SCREEN TwIn. just good enough; he is diminutive in 1,3:15,5:25,7:35,9:45 Tavern, 11 Moulton, Portland. 774-0444. LUNCHEON Th. N-..dQun ~':::'I>;;, the presence of Hoffman. But what is BI.hop Av.nu. Jan 17-18 at the Old 1 :15, 3:10, 5:05, 7, 9 done is done, and +recommends you Port Tavern, 11 Moulton, Portland, 774- T-,I. Sunrl .. A Cry In the Dark Meryl Streep is at see Hoffman's great performance, but 0444. SPECIALS 4:45,7:10,9:35 For The Ultraviolet. Jan 18 at the Tree (Ihrough Jan 12) her best in this docu- The New Engl.nd PI.no Qurtelte perform Jan 18. 7:45pmatSt. Luke·sCa· thedral. 143 State. Portland. Works per formed include Mozart's Quartet in g minor. Martinu's Quartet (1942) and Schumann's Quartet in E-flat Major. Tick ets are $8 at the door. $5 for students. For information, call n2-5434. • FACTORY STORE for Amateurs & Professionals ON~ by 3 - Hour Black & White Processing TomasA. - .. Custom Enlarging Verde 120 & 220 Developing Richie HIIvens .nd Tom Pulon "' 30%OFF perform Jan 15. 7:30 pm at the Colby College Field House in Waterville. Tick· ..... ~ ets are $10 in advance and are available at Record Exchanlle. Portland. Proceeds will benefit the United Way. NAACP. the MINUTE United Negro College Fund and future SELECTED MLK celebrations. For more information. olNnlng. PHOTO call 872-3208. P ...... cllv •• : Work. by contam. A WELL-INTENTIONED ATTEMPT AT SOCIO-POLITICAL COMMENTARY Soulh Afrlc.n folk .0,.. will be per por• ." Maine artl.l. An exhibit of formed Jan 17. 12:30 pm in the Olin Arts paintings by Mark Wethli opens Jan 12 at COMFORTERS INC. Center Concert Hall. Bates College. the Portland Museum of Art. Exhibit con Lewiston. Free and open to the public. tinues through Mar 12. For more information. call 786-0330. Co... bo .. Uve Sculptu,. lnal.... • 107 Main Street Yarmouth lion produced by visiting artist Rick Paut Benefactors Greg Bum. Jan 18 at the Barnhouse Tavern. Rt. 35. N. Windham. 892-2221. and Portland School of Art students at the Next to North Yarmouth Academy' Baxter GaI.lery. 619 Congress St. o~~ In an essay published in the elegant," Frayn's play is sim 37 OCilan Street, South Portland 157 Middle Street (Old Port) T ..ditlo .... 1 Rua.l.n b.I.I.lo mu· and sniveling method ("hoo • Ic will be performed. followed by a brief ing recepbon Jan 13. 6-7 pm. Exhibit Portland Stage Company's ply plodding and boring. If you hoo!") of announcing herself 846-3695 767·2007 Bill Ciccarone 761·2882 Debbie Dolan discussion of the history of balalaika music continues through Jan 25. Hours: Mon Please ask for our catalogue . • '" Jan 19. 1 pm at the Olin Arts Center Fri 10 am-5 pm (Thu until 7 pm) and newsletter, "Prelude," Bates want wit and elegance, read before she enters the house. Ms. Concert Hall. Bates College. Lewiston. B.nefacto,. A Portland Stage Produc Sunday 11 am-4 pm . College theater teacher Paul Wilde. The occasional utterance O'Sullivan knows her charac Free and open to the public. for more tion which tells the story of two British Artl.ts In Celebr.Uon of M.rtln information. call 786-0330. couples over a period of 15 years through Lulher King Jan 14-28 at st. Luke's Kuritz calls the latest offering of a few amusing, well-turned ter well. Her voice is beggarly, Sco" Fulaom Jan 19 at the Barnhouse Jan 22 at the Portland Performing Arts Cathedral. State Street. Portland. Open in the PSC season a "witty and phrases in a British accent her face an atlas of insecurity Tavern, Rt. 35. N. Wincflam. 892-2221 . Center. Performances are Tue-Fri at 7:30 ing Jan 14. 3-0 pm. All work will be for paradoxical play about an Who Know. Jan 20-21 althe Barnhouse pm. Fri at 8 pm. Sat at 5 and 9 pm. and sale. unless otherwise specified. and 25% doesn't quite constitute either. and her delivery is outstand RAM Tavern. Rt. 35. N. Windham. 892-2221. Sun at 2 pm. TIckets are $8-$19. For of the selling price will go to the Maine architect and a social activist Frayn is also guilty of overus ing. Called a "dormouse," Schooner Fare with Roll 'n' Go perform more information. call n4-0465. Project on Southern Africa. For more in ISLAND formation. call 774-9833. engaged in a power struggle ing the device of dramatic Jan 20. 8 pm at the First Parish Congre I Do! I Do! A musical comedy following Sheila does not seem to have a gational Church. 425 Congress. Portland. over housing for the poor." monologue; thus we are told DANCE one couple through 50 years of marriage. ar.und town life of her own. She is constantly Tickets are $8 in advance (available at Performances are Jan 13-14 at 8 pm at Huh? Excuse me, but did we what happens in the play far Amadeus Music. Buckdancers Choice or the City Theater. 205 Main St.. Biddeford. Portland Muaeum of Art Seven Con crossing the road to visit Jane Gallery Music) and $10 at the door. For gress Square. Portfand. Hours: Tue-Sat. DANCE AROUND TOWN THURSDAY 1/12. FRIDAY 1/13 TIckets are $10. For more information. see the same play? more than we are shown it and for fixes of energy and reassur more Information. call n3-9549. call 282-0849. 10-5; Sun. 12-5; Free on Thursday eve Set in London, it is true that this is just as somnolent as SILENT PROPHET Straight uee Jan 21 and 28 at The Youth Night In c.lebr.llon of Mar nings. 5-9. Current exhibits: The Land of ance. Even her children come Shawmut Inn, Kennebunkport. 967-3931. tin Luther King Jr. Day Jan 13. 7pm Norumbega (Nov 15-Jan 22); Maine "Benefactors," by to regard the Vanes An exhibition of 25 weather vanes Doug Varone SATURDAY 1/14 at the A.M.E. Zion Church, Sheridan St.. British play Portland. from the collection of Ida and Ken neth house as their Manko of Wells (Dec 3O-Apr 2); Perspec wright Michael CHEATER SLICKS j.zz Tha He.rt of Gold V.udeville Com own, eating and Meli••• H.mllton Jan 13-14 at the pany. featuring Robin Mello and Rick tives: Works by contemporary M&ine art Frayn, concerns and Dancers FROM BOSTON Blue Moon. 425 Fore. Portland. Music Adam. will appear Jan 13-14 at the Tho ists. an exhibit of paintings by Mark Wethli sleeping there on 60's screaming garage rock! 7:30-11 :30 pm. 871-0663. mas Inn and Playhouse. Old Route 302. Jan 12-Mar 12). n5-6148. an architec t, a regular basis. Extraordinarily lyrical and exuberant dances Sun Hal Jan 15 at the Tree Cafe. 45 Dan S. Casco. Dinner begins at 7 pm. the J.Ine Potte.. Markel, 376 Fore St.. David (Douglas WITH THE FURIOUS MELONS forth. Portland. n4·1441 . show at 8:30 pm . The cost for dinner and Portfand. Group exhibit by gallery artists Ridiculed by her "music made visible" Royal PhIlMnnonic J.zz B.nd play through Jan 15. Hours: 10 am-6 pm daily. Simes), and his the show is $27 per person. For reserva 774-1633. husband, en SUNDAY 1/15 Dixieland Jan 15. 3 pm at The Center for tions. call 655-3292. neighbor, Colin dured by David, January 19, 20, 21 the Arts. 804 Washington. Bath. TIckets Storyte.. er Brother Blue Jan 14, 7 pm P.n.lope Schenk will be exhibiting her (Richmond are $101$8. For more information. call at Luther Bonney Auditorium. USM Port drawings and paintings at Tru's Que-Me and coddled by Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8 pm MIKE SANTORO Vietnamese Restaurant. 929 Congress. HOSTS OPEN MIKE NIGHT 442-8455. land. Hoxie), who is a Tony Ric. Unll Jan 20 at Raoul·s. 865 Doug Varone and D.ne... Jan 19-21 Portland through Jan 24. Hours: Mon-Fri Jane, Sheila's Chapel Hall, State Street Church 11 :30 am-9 pm, Sat 12-9 pm. Sun 5-9 pm . journalist/social Forest Portfand. n3-6886. at 8 pm at the Chapel Hall. State Street cowering inepti 159 State Street, Portland Bill Street Jan 20-21 at the Blue Moon, Church. 159 State. Portland. TIckets are 772-3171. LOOK FOR: THE SILOS N.Y.C. JAN271h malcontent. tude is amusing from 425 Fore. Portfand. Music 7:30-11 :30 pm. $10.50 and $8 for students and seniors. Jud Sianley Oil landscapes in the tradi Tickets: 773-2562 871-0663. Call n3-2562 for tickets. tional style Jan ll-Feb 1 at t':3 Artisans. David, whose and attractive. It A SMyn. M.ldel Jan 19-Feb 5 at The 334 Forest Ave. Portland. Hours: Mon most fascinating Co-sponsored by Tucker Anthony and RL Day. Fri 9 am-6 pm. Sat 9 am-3 pm. 772-5522. engages the Theater Project. 14 School St.. Brun and G&:S Commercial Brokers c ....lc.1 swick. Showtime is Thu-Sat at 8 pm. Sun T ...... Man Show: Allaon Hildreth, and compelling audience's im Sight. and Sound.: A Survey of West· at 2 pm. Tickets are $8 on Fri-Sat. $6 on Toni Wolf .nd Willi.... Manning at characteristic is ern Art and Music from Prehistory to Thu and Sun. For reservations. call 729- Barridoff Gallenes, 26 Free. Portfand. mediate sympa Baroque Jan 12 and 18 at 8 pm at Baxter 8584. Exhibit continues through Jan 31 . Also at that he is "excited thy and provides Auditorium. Portland School of Art. 619 In The M_d A nostalgic look at the the gallery a collection of 19th and early by the smell of wet n~·~~~~~~~s~rr~ _~. Congress St. The Calderwood Consort Golden Age of Radio Jan 20-21. 27·28. 20th century paintings. Hours : Mon-Fri some sort of rea present period music played on original Feb 3-4 and 10-11 at the Thomas Inn and 10 am-5 pm. Sat 12-4 pm. n2-5011 . cement," has ap son to pay atten musical Instruments accompanied by a Playhouse. Old Route 302. S. Casco. Galle." t27. 127 Middle. Portland. Works parently received slide presentetion of visual art from the Dinner begins at 7 pm; showtime is 8:30 by John Hultber!j. new watercolors by tion to what hap SfJ!i!~~riru!S!!ngan~s Graydon Mayer. Introducing new sculp a contract to de o· corresponding historical period. Musicand pm. The cost of dinner and the show is pens to her. 46 Market Street. Portland. 774-5246 art from Prehistory to the Early Middle $27 per person. For reservations. call tures and paintings by Gary Haven Smith. sign a low income John Swan. new oils by Michael Water Things do in Ages will be presented Jan 12, from the 655-3292. housing develop Middfe Ages to the Baroque on Jan 18. Son of. We.. ·Tampered uNr Sat man and Neil Welliver. Also. works by deed happen to Free and open to the public. For more urdays. 7:30 pm in Southworth Planetar Diana Arcadipone. John Dehlinger. Lynn ment. Colin is Sheila as she falls information. call n5-3052. ium. USM Portland. Tickets are $3.50 for Drexler. Alex Gridzeijko. Eric Green. ~~~SW .. Work. of J.S. B.ch arranged for two pi adults. $2.50 for children under 12. For Richard Hutchkins. C. Michael Lewis. both his friend in love with anos will be performed Jan t2. 12:20 pm more information, call 780-4249. Charles E. Martin. Nick Snow and Gina and nemesis who David, is es in the Olin Arts Concert Hall. Bates Col The D.rk Sid. of The M_n A laser Werfel. Exhibit continues through Jan. for reasons that We startj\from scratch! lege. Lewiston. Free and open to the light show to the music of Pink Floyd will Hours: Tue-Fri 10 am-6 pm. Sat 10 am-5 tranged from pubic. For more information. call 786- be shown at 8:30 pm on Saturday nights pm. 773-3317. are much too Colin and moves 6330. in Southworth Planetarium, 96 Falmouth. Photog.. phy by Ellen SI.vlk at the unclear decides to The PorII.nd SIring Qurt.t will Portfand. Admission is $3 for adults. $2 Good Egg Cafe. 705 Congress. Portfand. in lock, stock and 773-0801. ! perform works by Mozart. Ives and for seniors and children ages 7-16. For oppose the proj barrel with her • • • • 1HEREDUGHTREVUE • • • • Beethoven Jan 13. 8 r.m in the Olin Arts more information. call 780-4249. ect. Yet their :SAVE-BITKI---l Center Concert Hal. Bates College, neighbors. She We'll be back at Raoul1s in June ... Every Wednesday Night Lewiston. Tickets are $6 for the public. $3 .chool•• llbrarle. "power struggle" begins to assert for students and seniors. For more infor Beverly Jock... Impressionistic land doesn't seem to be Now booking Spring and Summer Weddings and private parties. mation. call 786-6135. scapes and seascapes. watercolors. oils herself for a The Kolzachm.rMamorI.1 Pipe Or and pencil a-awings at the USM Saco as much over if BURGER 1 gIIn will be played by municipal organist Biddeford Center Jan 16-31 . Hours: Mon change, even it : $1.00 housing for the See us this month at Earl Miller Jan 13. 1:45 pm in City Hall Thu 8 am-8 pm, Fri 8 am-4:30 pm, Sat 9 is engaging in a Moose Alley, Portland· January 20-21 Auditorium. Works performed include am-12 noon. 282-4111. poor as their own In "Benefactors." bit of adultery I AdelicillJS blend of seasoned groundree( cooked tD : Handel's Royal Fireworks Music. music Bo.lon .rtl.1 Nick uwrence dis I Iredium and served on IlIrfresh hollEmade rol\ $3 2 5 cou;i~ plays his paintings at the AREA Gallery, personal visions of what a cer- having any person speak to you Port Garden, Kennebunkport -January 27·28 composed by municipal organists from wishing with her best friend's I tDpped with tDmatD, onion, letture and acrisp p~kl~ • pon I England and the United States, and a USM Portland Campus Center Jan 17· tain residential section of Lon- for two hours straight. husband. Her decisions to be CALL 883-2802 medley of Broadway musical hits. Admis Feb 25. Hours: Mon·Fri 8 am-l0pm. Sat L moire of salad andhomemes.:... ______...! sion is free. but donations are accepted. Sun 12-5 pm. 780-4090. don ought to look like. Luckily, some elements res- lieve in David and his project (Band rehearsal space available also) Ask about our new video! Baroqu. Mualc Concert featuring the Conlampo.. " Sculplure by Michael ''Wethoughtthatthestaging cue "Benefactors," namely the and to turn against her hus choir and soloists of Woodfords Church Porter through Feb 18 at Thomas Memo and a chamber orchestra of PSO mem rial Ubrary. Cape Elizabeth. 799-1720. of 'Benefactors' was appropri- wives, Jane (Ellen Tobie) and band are elements of progress bers Jan 15.4 pm at Woodfords Congre h.I.1 .nd St_1 Drawings and sculp ate for Portland," says PSC Sheila (Anne O'Sullivan). Jane and movement in her charac gational Church. 202 Woodfords St.. ture by Carol A. Sleeper through Jan 30 at Portland. The p~ram will include the Portland Public Ubrary. Monument artistic director Richard Ham- is David's highly efficient and ter. Together with a momen / Vivaldi's 'Gloria: a tno sonata for strings SQuare. Open during library hours. n3- burger, "owing to the current capable wife. She handles eve tary bit of verbal and nhysical by Corelli and organ works by Bach and 4161 . Buxtehude. Donations will be accepted Rec.nt Wortla by D.vld Drt.kell Jan conflict going on in this city be- rything from the scheduling of scuffling between all the char and a public reception of home-rnade 8-Feb 28 at the Colby College Museum of tween progress and preserv- his daily appointments to the acters in act two, this progress refreshments win foUow the concert. Art. Waterville. J. P. Morgan The Choral Art. Singe,. perform Jan Public B.ked a..n Supper Jan 14,5- ing its original integrity. It collapse of her marriage with represents the only real action Dinner for 2 15. 3 pm at the Immanuel Baptist Church, 6:30 pm at Trinity Episcopal Church. doesn't provide all the answers, equal aplomb. She even man in the whole performance. 156 High St. Portland. Works performed Forest & Coyle. Portfand. Adults $3.50. out .ttown purchased his fine Oriental include Liebeslieder Waltzes, songs by children $2. Bird Cervi,.. by Foster M. LOll through but we thought of the playas a ages to lend her organizational This play, then, has basically Hindemith and Berger. and a grouJl of Flah Chowdar LuncheonJan 13. 11:30 January at the Maine Audubon Society vehicle for the discussion of this skills to the clinging neighbors, two very good things going for rugs from Ed Runge $12.95 English folk songs bY David Wilcox. TICk am-l pm at the South Freeport Church Gilsianil Farm. 118 U.S. Rt 1. Falmouth. ets are $10. $8 for students and seniors. Vestry. The cost of the buffet style lunch Hours: Mon-Sat9 am-5 pm. topic." Colin and Sheila, when things it - actress Anne O'Sullivan and can be purchased at the door or by eon is $4.50 per person. Pints 01 chowder hwlt.II_1 photograph)' exhlbll Recognizing that the issue go awry between them. Ms. and PSC's w_ell-intentioned calling 781-3567. are available for take-out at $3.50 per Jan 6-31 at The Center for the Arts. 804 pint. Washington. Bath. Hours: Tue-Fri 10am- of development vs. preserva- Tobie is particularly good at attempt at socio-political com Break".t and awa.... preaent. 4 pm. Sat 12 noon-4 pm. 442-8455. tion is paramount in a city like being upstanding and proper mentary on why and how we Quality and service are still a tradition at tlon In c .....,.11on of Martin Lu A New Delli tor Amerlc.n Art Ten Portland is an ambitious and but we get the point at the • Italian Pu-Pu Platter • Chicken Parmigiana lher King Jr. 0., Jan 16. 8 am at framed posl9r panels featuring works of lose structures such as Union Keeley the Katerer. 178 Warren Ave. art commissioned 50 years ago by the admirable thing for a theater beginning of the play and after Station and inherit strip malls Portland. Cost is $8. Public workshop fol Works Project Administration (WPA). • Eggplant Parmigiana • 8 oz. Sirloin Steak through Feb 3 at the Attornay Genera/'s company to do. Although the this realization her character instead. A.E. Runge, Jr. lowing the breakfast, 10:45 am-12 noon...... k.,..ndSlnglng.t Mon_nt Gallery Soace. Sixth Floor, Slate Office theme of ''Benefactors'' seems can become tiresome. • Fried Maine Shrimp • Fettucine Alfredo Squa,.. Portfand in celebration of Mar· Buildinl/. 'Exhibit provided by the Maine tin Luther King Jr. Day at 12 noon. After Humanities Council. sponsored by the to satisfy this goal, its execu- In contrast, the character of Oriental Rugs Thoma. A. Verde is a Portland the rally there will be a march to the First Maine Arts Commission. 289-2724. tion, unfortunately, does not. Sheila is a sheer pleasure from GIOBBI'S JANUARY SPECIALS Parish Church where there will be an The fault lies not in the theme, her first line (an uncertain and writer who lhinks development is for Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays inl9rfaith service atl pm. Third World countries. We specialize in high quality, old and new 'ORE ••• however, but in the script. unexpected blurt oflaughter at Oriental rugs and needlepoint r Weekdays 3-10 P.M. Sundays 12-9 P.M. Touted as being "witty and thedinnertable)toherpathetic Mon-Sat 10:00-5:00 or by appointment 106 Main Street, Yarmouth, Maine 04096 • 846-9000 tl Vision 2000, a citizen's planning group, IS forming task forces to create a better future for Cumberland County. Ongoing meetings are being held in Portland. Call 773-8655. FREE CHOWDER! Affordable Inauguration Dey Stand For P.ac. Moment of Silence Jan 20 at 12 noon . EvelY Friday night at The Oyster Club PAUSICA (Portlanders Against Interven tion in Central America) third annual six we're serving our hour dance-a-thon benefit for EI Salvador Fin e Art Jan 20, 8 pm at Zootz, 31 Forest Ave, Grilled Swordfish Dinner with a free cup Portland. Admission is $6. Proceeds will • go toward the material aid caravan to the of our Award Winning Clam Chowder! For people of EI Salvador. For information, call 773-7873. just $12.95. Whal is Our Future: Reproductlv. Rights and the Supreme Court That's regularly a $17.95 value. Sarah Weddington, the attorney who OFFW PortlandSENSE Writ.... Network meeting argued Roe vs. Wade, will speak Jan 21 , So when you step ~ Jan 12, 7:30 pm in the Public Safety 3:30 pm in Kresge Auditorium, Bowdoin Building, 109 Middle, Portland. Novelist College, Brunswick. out on a Friday Katherine Stall ("Den of Thieves") will talk about the writing of a novel from concep night step into tion to oom bon and how to finish a MAKING ART WORK FOR OTHERS novel while ~ading a busy life. Free and The Oyster Club open to the public. For more information, Wl LL call 871-0466. for a Grilled Archllectural M.taphors Guest lec- Swordfish Dinner An Insld.,.s view of lhe "Land 0' turer Donna Dennis from the School of Art behind the seens Norurnbep" exhibit will be given by Visual Arts in NYC will discuss the use of RAW BAR & GR I LL Richard D'Abate, project director of the arch itectural forms in contemporary art and Clam exhibit, Jan t 2, 7 pm at the Portland Jan 13, 7 pm in the Baxter Building of the Tall, skinny,long-neckedStu elementary schools, Now they pointed the third director of 164 Middle S L. Portland 1207) 773·3760 Chowder, Museum of Art, Seven Congress Square. Portland School of Art, 619 Congress St. Kestenbaum has been making For more information, call 775-6148. Free and open to the public, For more in have sent many different kinds Haystack Mountain School of Women Who Hav. II All - Molh.,. formation, call 775-3052. art happen in Maine for the of teachers to a program run by Crafts, the na tionally renowned ing and Art Slides and discussion by 0110 Emmersleben East German short past eight years. A resident of Joanna Moore at USM to train Martha Miller, Ana Kissed, Sue Peder storywriterwill give a free reading Jan 14, craft school on Deer Isle. Wide son, Susan Drucker, Lynne Harwood, 7:30 pm at the Maine Writers Center, 190 Hershey Street in Portland, teachers to teach about the arts, spread enthusiasm greeted his and Edi Tucker Jan 13, 7:30 pm at the mason, Brunswick. Open to the public. Kestenbaum began commuting This two-week summer pro Maine Writers Center, 190 Mason St. , For more information, call 729-6333. appOintment. He's been travel Brunswick. Presented by the Union of Sailorfadv.ntu..... Dodge Morganwill to the Maine Arts Commission gram has resulted in restruc ing back and forth each week, Maine Visual Artists, the evenin9 is free show the film of his solo circumnavigation in Augusta eight years ago. turing the Windham curricu and open to the public. For more Informa • but soon the Kestenbaums will of the wortd Jan 15, 3 pm at the Portland ~on, call 729-6333. Museum of Art. Mr. Morgan will discuss Now he commutes to the Hay lum to integrate the arts into look for a house in the Blue Franklin Simmons: Port ralls 0' Hi.. his trip before showing the film. The pro stack Mountain School of Crafts the teaching of diverse subjects, lory George Scheffler will discuss the life gram is offered in conjunction with "The Hill/Deer Isle area, and work of this Maine sculptor whose Land of Norumbega" exhibit and is free on Deer Isle. "The key to MAC programs Haystack offers two- and subjects included many 19th century poli with museum admiSSion . For more infor BODY He started as part-time coor is when something takes root ticians Jan 13, 12:30 pm at the Portland mation, call 775-6148. three-week 5ummer programs Museum of Art, Seven Congress Square. .ludalsm and Feminism A talk given dinator for the Commission's locally. There has been such a in various craft media with The talk is free with museum admission. by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein Jan IS, lOam Artists in Residency Program. growth of cultural activity in For more information, call 775-6148. at USM's Payson Smith Hall, Room I , nationally known teachers. Its F.stlval 0' Llghl and Dark Jan 17, 7 Portland. Free and open to the public. For Artists in all different media - the state. The Portland Stage outstanding site on the granite pm in the Baxter Bui Iding of the Portland more information, call 780-4083. dance, poetry, painting - are Company started out on a rocks of Deer lsle complements School of Art, 619 Congress SI. A cele Malllmlzing Mind Pow.r: Thinking & L bration of the change of season's and the Technlqu_ 'or Increasing Your Theat.r Class_ Improvisation, mime assigned to schools statewide shoestring and is now a nation the concentrated teaching and turning points of the sun's light. Free and Productivlly Jan 16,7 pm in the Baxter and movement. Wednesdays 6-7:30 pm, for several months. They do ally recognized theater com open to the public. for more information, Building of the Portland School of Art, 619 Jan 25-Mar IS, at the Theater of Fantasy, learning experiences that have call 775-3052. Congress Sl A lecture given by Lee Pier 50 Danforth, Portland. Fee is $50 . For their own work, teach students, pany." gained the school its interna Mal... Vanes exhibit at the Portland Mu son, psychologist and educational oon more information, call 761-2506. and give demonstrations. With Kestenbaum also spoke a tional reputation. seum of Art will be the subject of a gallery sultant, who has developed program s Casco Bay Mov.rs starts a new ses talk Jan 19, 5:15 pm and Jan 20, 12:30 incorporating "thinking-aloud" and other sion of jazz danceciasses Jan 16. Classes the growth of the program, little about the pitfalls of the "Two years ago Haystack pm. Allison Perkins will discuss the his introspective techniques for the improve held at the Portland School of Ballet, 341 Kestenbaum's position grew Maine Arts Commission. Most tory and relevance of the folk art pieces in ment of reading , test-taking, mathemati Cumberland Ave, Portland. For a oom received the TrailblaZing Medal the exhibition. The talk is free with mu cal and problem solving and other cogni plete schedule of classes or more infor into a full-time job. In 1985 he juried systems in the state of for Leadership in the Crafts seum admission. For more information, tive skills. Free and open to the public. For mation, call 871-1013. became Assistant Director of Maine seem to run into a lot of from the American Crafts C o tt o n L ove Sea t call 775-6148. more information, call 775-3052. R.sourc.s 'orthe Dev.lopmentally Edward May.r, sculptor and instillation Studenls and Civil Rights Mov.. DI_bled is looking for a volunteer to MAC. objections and the recent juried Council. I'd like to see the Mad e i n th e U . S. A. artist, gives a lecture In conjunction with ment A symposium in the Campus spend one hour a week providing one-on Kestenbaum originated proj awards for artists in residence school maintain a leadership his exhibit Jan 19, 7 pm in Hastings Center of the University of New England one time with a mentally retarded woman. $459 Sale PrICe Lounge, USM Gorham. Free and open to in Biddeford Jan 16 at t2 noon. The In-service training will be provided if ects like the Chapbook Compe position," said Kestenbaum, the public. For more information, call 780- symposium is followed by a New England needed and as interest indicates for this tition which awards a writer 5460. Town Meeting on campus racism at 2 pm, position . Three references are required. "Haystack can be a place of Pal and Dewlll Hardy, a figurative For more information, call 283-0171 . Activities would include going out for with publication, and the Writ inquiry and imagination where artist couple, will prosent a slide show A Dream Deeply Rool.d In the coffee, playing games and just spending ers at the Library series, which people are challenged and discuss their work Jan 20 7:30 pm at American Dream An address by time With this woman, who needs some and ask the Maine Writers Center, 190 Mason Walter Fauntroy on Jan 16, 8 pm at LOrl special attention and self-esteem build presents Maine writers read questions. We don't have to Fine Design", St. , Brunswick. Presented by the Union of mar Chapel, Colby College, Waterville. ing. Volunteer must be able to be firm yet ing their own works. As Assis Maine Visual Artists, the evening is free For more informatIOn, call 873-7131. kind and caring. For more Information, have the answers; we want to and open to the public. For more informa D.lIt.r King, son of Martin Luther King, contact the Center for Voluntary Action at tant Director he worked on the encourage the questions. ~ . I tion , call 729-6333. speaks on his father's "Unfinished 874-1015. arts in education programs, "Through Haystack we can • Portland Mus.um 0' Art is seeking Agenda" Jan 17, 1:30 pm in the Campus Mal... Medical Cent.r is looking for I . people to participate in its volunteer de Center, University of New England, Bid volunteers in several areas. Openings managed the budget, devel increase the public access to cent training pr09ram, beginning Jan 21. deford. For more information, call 283- include a clerical assistant for the Blood oped planning, initiated pro the arts. For instance, when we • Fab ric", New docents will provide a variety of 0171 Bank and a Cardiac Cath lab Assistant. services for the museum, including staff Sins 0' Our Mothers A true-life Gothic Both of these jobs require dependable grams for individual artists and have an international craftsper ing the information desk, developing tours tale set in a small Maine Town airs as part people with the ability to follow directions. established the new artists fel for special exhibitions, and finding new of the PBS series "The American Experi Free meals in the hospital cafeteria, park son like glassblower Dale Chi and creative ways to interpret the perma ence" Jan 17, 9 pm on MPBN television. ing , training and workshops are some of lowship program. huly at Haystack, perhaps he " When I want assurance of a nentcollection. The docent training course A'..... American Wom.n and Social the benefits volunteers receive at Maine The Maine Arts Commission, could also give a lecture at the Style", will be taught at the museum on Sat Change: Th. Historical L.ssons Mad. Call the Center for Voluntary Action great salad, chicken sandwich ." mornings throughout the winter, 9:30- of Communlly Work A lecture given at 874-1015 for more information . created in 1966, was originally Portland Museum of Art. We 11 :30 am . The training sessions will intro by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes Jan 18, 8 pm Women and Self Esleem A six-week funded by the National Endow can strengthen the programs duce new volunteers to the museum's at Roberts Union, Colby College, Water workshop starts Feb 6 and oontinues on or home-made french fries, collections, and teach them effective tour ville. For more information, call 873-7131. Monday evenings, 7-9 pm. The cost of ment for the Arts. Today the for Maine students and Maine techniques. No background in art is nec P_try Reading given by award-win the workshop is $80. For more informa Maine legislature funds over craftspeople, as well as the Function " , essary. Interested persons should con ning poet Amy Clampitt Jan 19, 8 pm in tion, call Crescent Moon Workshops at I go to Ruby's. " tact the museum'seducation department, Chase Hall Lounge, Bates College, Le 773-7117. 50% of the $1 million annual Stu Kestenbaum people of Deer Isle. 775-6148. wiston. Free and open to the public. Creativity: The Art 0' B.lng and budget. Kestenbaum feels that "I see Haystack as a place Ongoing art program 'or adults of Lighlshlp Nantuck.t Basics for Becoming Meditation class Jan 15, f fered by Portland Recreation on Wednes Tourgui.... seminar is being held Jan 6:30-8 pm offered by the Portland Sufi "the Governor is very suppor are no exception. Many long where art transfonns people, ·Jadine O'Brien, day evenings, 6:30-9 pm at the Reiche 19, 7-13:30 pm in the ward roorn of the Order at 232 St. John Street, Portland. tive of the arts and the pro time participants were turned Art permits them to look more t Community Center, Brackett, Portland. lightship at the Maine Wharf on the Port (Use back door of building and take ele Blue CrossIBlue Shield and P ric e, The cost of the program is $15 for four land waterfront New and experienced vator to first floor.) Free and open the grams of the Commission. down. And many established deeply and be more drawn classes. For more information, call 874- tourguides are welcome. For more infor public. For more information, call 657- McKernan recognizes the posi and respected artists like down into themselves. If you 8873. mation, call 775-1983. 2805. Teen art program continues through Riol In Tibet John Ackerfy and Blake Aft.r lhe Dlvorc.: The Support N.t" tive and important part art UMV A President Carlo Pittore spend time in that intense fo j the spring on Monday evenings, 6-13 pm Kerr, leaders of the International Cam work is the topic of the Family Transition plays in the life of Maine, and were also turned down. cus, the experience can stay -- • e legant , affordable, furniture at the Reiche Community Center, Brack paign for TIbet, speak Jan 19, 7 pm atthe Center's Opening Night Jan 19, 7:30-9 IS JADINE'S CHOICE ett, Portland. There is a one-time $1 0 reg Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College, pm at the First Parish Congregational now there is a chance for more "We're humans judging with you a long time and have istration fee . For more information, call Brunswick. For more information, call 725- Church, 12 Beach St., Saco. For more 1 information, call 282-7508. legislative support. The state humans," explains Kesten an impact on your work. l 874-13873. 3151 . -- Maine Arts Convnlsslon's Artist In The March of Dimes annual "Dear already supports cultural insti baum. "Actually we do a pretty Portland probablyneversaw R_ldenc. ~m deadline is Feb Neighbor" residential camllaign will take tutions and the touring artists good job here. In most state arts much of Kestenbaum during scardinavia 1,1989. The Artist In Residence Program place in Portland, South Portland, Fal BUY • SELL • TRADE ' 'nouse provides partial funding for programs in mouth, Westbrook and Scarborough programs. agencies, the systems are over the eight years he was driving cluding artists who work a minimum of 10 through Jan 17. Contributions fund re "Anywhere you go in the built and far removed from the around the state for the Com days in non-profit institutions in Maine. In search and education programs directed most cases, funding will be for up to one at the prevention of birth defects. For state today you can find locally public. Here we have a fair mission and maybe we won't Trading more information, call 1-600-63-DIMES F o r e st A v e., P o r t I and, M E I I half of the artist's fee, plus travel and based arts programs, In many agency which is responsive to see much of him now. But the 34 3 0 4 0 materials. Because there are new guide Blankels The ReflJ!lee Resettlement Pro In The Ma i ne Mal l Ne x t To File n e 's lines and application forms this year, gram, 107 Elm St. In Portland, is in need cases, a program that was first what the public wants. There's Maine arts community seems Co. Inc. applicants are required to discuss their of blankets and other household items for funded by the Maine Arts no bureaucratic labyrinth. Lots to be a statewide coalition. Sett l er ' s G reen In N o rth Con way applications with Arts Commission staff new arrivals. Please call 871 -7437 to members before the deadline. For infor arrange delivery. Commission has been picked of artists like dancer Nancy Many people from Portland 498 Congress Street, portlanb mation, call 289-2724. Woman Survivors of Inc.st A free self-help support group for adult women up by the local community, In Salmon and ceramicist Sharon have been artists in residence; ! 772-3932 survivors of incest is now meeting in Gorham there were artists in Townshend work there, As many of us have spent time at Portland. There are many advantages to ~. joining a support group for incest SUrvi residence in the early '70s, long as there are juried pro Haystack. vors and here's just a few: to help make mostly in dance programs. grams, people will be upset." For more infonnation about experiences a reality by keeping them up Come in and check out our holiday specials front and not buried; to allow for learning Now the Gorham Arts Council Meanwhile, Kestenbaum's MAC programs please call 289- what incest survivors didn't learn as chil funds programs throughout the wife, Susan Webster, an artist 2724. For Haystack call 348- Diamonds • Gold· Silver • Watches Renovation and Design dren, to trust, to be assertive an to build self-esteem; to be able to have a safe year and these programs have in residence at the Maine Cor 2306. Rings • Stereos • TVs • Musical Instruments of Fine Art Glass Windows ~:!IiIo~....,C?..,., place to meet where isolation and loneli a life of their own apart from rectionallnstitutein Windham, Tools • Antiques • Guns • VCRs Classes begin January 19 (:.?J1f}.1WW!~~1 ness can be fought. This confidential, on Sherry Miller, artist and writer to North Am.rlcan Bloreglonal Co", going support group meets on a regular the Maine Arts Commission, and sons Isaac, 8, and Sam, 3, gress IV Planning meeting to organize basis. For more information, please call ''Windham started out with are haVing to deal with Stu part day, used to work as a fundraiser and 4 STORES TO SERVE YOU grant and never applies for those 630 Forest Avenue, Jan 14,5 pm at the Gulf of Maine Book 657-3907. some artists in residence in the wr~er 498 Congress Street, Portland • 330 Lisbon Street, Lewiston Portland, ME store, 61 Maine S1. , Brunswick. For more time. He was recently ap- things. 774-4154 information, call 729-5083. 155 Front Street, Bath· 185 Water Street, Augusta -"ORE ••• "'We buy anything worth buying" BUY • SELL • TRADE 20 Casco Bay W•• ::..:k::..:ly~ ______ Wint.r'. S.cret A winter nature walk Fly Tying Don Davis will demonstrate the I *~J,.,.~. ,:~.. .,The Thomas Inn & Playhouse offered by the Maine Audubon Society methods to tie the numerous patterns f£:;~~~J". T t!"'4 on Tlwmas Pond . Jan21 . 1-3pm at Gilsland Farm. 118U.S. available Jan 17,7:30-8:30 pm at the L.L. -.: . ...- _ - Old Route 302, So. Casco, Mame 04077 . Route 1, Falmouth. The cost of the trip is Bean Casco Street Conference Street Spaghetti's $81$10. For more information, call 781- Center, off Rt. 1 in Freeport. Free and Enjoy an evening 0/ comic entertainment 2330. open to the public .. guaranteed to tickle the/unny bone! Wing. of Wlnt.r A birding field trip Jan C ••co Bay Blcycl. Club meets Jan 21. 9 am-2 pm in Scarborough with the 17, 7 pm at the Portland Public Safety Maine Audubon Society. The cost of the Building, Middle Street. Portland. Scott Reaoy! Heart of Gold In The Mood trip is $81$10. For more information. call Finlayson of L.L. Bean will be speaking Vaudeville Company A nostalgic look at the 781-2330. on cross-country skiing. The public is welcome to come and see what the club Robin Mello & Rick Adam Golden Age Of Radio more Snow.h_ Bu.hw.ck With maps, comes with bread and butter January 20, 21,27,28 + compasses and snowshoes. safely ex is all about. Call 829-4402 for more infor January 13 & 14 plore the inner reaches of the winter for mation. est at the Appalachian Mountain Club's BI.thlon: Th. M.lne Nordic Chal Dinner at 7:00 pm Show at 8:30 pm 655 3292 I Pinkham Notch Camp. Thecost is $50 for I.ng. U.S. Ski Team memberKirkSiegel ONLY $27 per person· Call now for reservations - AMC members, $55 for non-members. discusses getting started in this sport For reservations. call 603-466-2727. which combines cross-<:ountry skiing and - Org.nlc F.nnlng A course presenting marksmanship Jan 19, 7:30-9 pm at the $1.99 the basic concepts and methods of main L. L. Bean Casco Street Conference Cen taining healthy soil-including soil fertility, ter.located off Rt. 1 in Freeport. Free and (with this ad) BODY open to the public. HELLO composting. crop rotation, green manures. :J Offer expires Jan. 29, 1989 and pest and weed control - is scheduled National L.a .....To-Ski Free Day Jan CASCO BAY WEEKLY for Jan 24, 7-9 pm at the Maine Audubon 20 at mountains everywhere. For more THE CAMELOT SPORTS ZEALOT HEALlli PLAN Society'S Gilsland farm sanctuary in Fal information, call 236-8645. :!o 1373 Washington Ave. at the corner of Allen Ave., READERS! mouth. The cost is $18. For more infor Snowmobll. Snocl.o Jan 21-22 with by Frank Gaziano mation, call 781-2330. demonstrations, fun races, and a parade I near Northgate • 797-9030 • EAT IN OR TAKE OUT and fireworks in the late afternoon Satur It is a great pleasure having our ingly led the NFL in rushing in 8 & L day in Lakeside Park. Rangeley Vii/age. I M.dltatlon for Wom.n every Monday column appear in this great different seasons-1957 through Public is invited to participate. Bring your People break at the Quaker Meeting House, Forest I own snowmobile. For more information. PORTLAND 1961 and 1963 through 1965 ... Ave. Portland. Guided meditation and weekly paper. To the readers and call 864-5571. the Casco Bay Weekly starr we Nobody else has ever come close to ritual. For more information, contact the One of the worst drawbacks As the temperature contin maladies marches on and no Feminist Spiritual Community at Introductory Ski Touring Wo .....hop raise' a stein of 8 udweiser and that record. n3- to introduce novices and beginners to the to sports is that these fun and ues to drop on these chilly one is completely immune from 2294. basics of cross-country skiin!!: equipment, :_ HOU_SE _OF 'IZZA __ say - "This Bud's For You!" Although many fans consider that The AIDS ProJ.ct, 48 Deering, Port 4 " , ski techniques, climate, waxing, dothing. games held on grass, turf, Portland nights, lam reminded this sad tune; not Birds, not The most fantastic record ever made bauing.400 ina season is baseball's land, lists many support groups around \ Portland for PWAs and the lovers. car fitness and safety. Workshop is being wood, cement, ice, parquet, of the great athlete Mercury planes, not even Supennan. by a major college foot rarest single-season held Jan 21-22 at the Appalachian Moun egivers and friends 01 PWAs. For more water, dirt and air can lead to who was the speedy messen We all have our crosses to "TAKE IN ALL YOU CAN TAKE-OUT" ball team over a 4-year achievement, consider information. call 774-6877. tain Club's Pinkham Notch Camp~ The cost is $50 for AMC members, $55 for crutches, casts and traction. I ger of the Roman gods. Long bear. Into every life some kryp period was this incred this facl...Eight men non-members. For reservations. call 603- ible streak by Michigan have batted over .400 in 466-2727. have been to the proverbial before Federal Express, Mer tonite must fall and some bones from 1901 through modern major league Fre. Shuttl. to Sundey Rlv.r pro sports mountaintop, only to fall cury had to absolutely, posi must break. The trick is getting history BUT only 3 men vided by Joe Jones Ski & Sports Shops 1904 .. .In 4 years, Michi weekdays, except during school vacation off to the tune of four knee tively get it there the next day, back up after the injury or the gan not only never losta (Maury Wills, Lou and Martin Luther King Day, from Joe operations. While this gimpy no excuses. During all of setback. The best and worst game, but they scored Brock and Rickey Hen Jones on Western Avenue. S. Portland. 8 record does not even approach Mercury's incredible travels,he advice in sports usually comes 2,326 points WHILE derson) have ever sto am. Shuttle returns at 6:30 pm. For more + Cro.. Country Skll"ll for Llf. and information. call 761-1961 . Joe Namath's league, it is nev never once got injured. I was from your father. The best tip I GIVING UPONL Y 30. len 100 bases in one B ...th Join the AmerICan Lung Asso ertheless indicative of an ana truly disappointed during my ever received from Pop was to And each week we season, and only 2 men ciation 01 Maine for a weekend of skiinQ, LUNCHES. BUSINESS MEETINGS • DINNER PARTIES hope to "tip our hat" (Babe Ruth and Roger winter activities to help fight for clean aIr tomical fact: people break. research to discover from my "count my blessings." Grow SKI TRIPS • HOLIDA Y GATHEmNGS • GIFT BASKETS to an organization, an event, or Maris) have ever hit60 homers in a and healthy lungs. The second Annual For years now I have been editor that Mercury was not a ingupasanaccidentwaitingto Mon.-Sat. 11-7:30 PM .9 Deering Avenue, Portland. 773-2624 Winter Trek is Jan 20-22. The lung asso b an individual, for any current season. ciation provides accommodations. meals, pushing hard for the Camelot real person. That hurt. I subse happen, I often went to church event that takes place that we feel Talking about events-the best skiing and guides for skiers helping to + Sports Zealot Health Plan quently used my collection of just to pray for my health, par .' should be mentioned in our col event taking place today is the OUT raise money to fi,9ht lung cancer. The top fundraiser will Win a trip for two to Miami where no one gets seriously non-tainted Mercury dimes to ticularly the knees. As often as R'~rtfr umn. introduction of Michelob Dry by courtesy of Eastern Express. For more in hurt even when playing with buy a definitive book on my I got bruised or banged up or ." 1!5 Of all the running backs in the Anheuser-Busch, the world's best formation, call 1-800-462-LUNG. history of the National Football brewer. How do they feel about Gorhem Family Swim D.y Jan 15. 1- reckless abandon. Still allowed thology. crunched or cut or crumbled or NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION alg'.UIT'~~Nd League, which one led the league Michelob Dry? One taste and 3 pm at Davin Pool, Westbrook Junior would be losing your wind, My quest for a real-life, in funny-boned or fractured, my Start off 1989 righi, with a dozen octivifle$ and $ervice$, High SchooL Cost is $1 per person. scratching an elbow or chip jury-free leader was dampened, father always made me feel like Club$ come ana go, but if you are $eriou$ about a ~tne$$ re$()lUnon, in rushing the most seasons? ... you'll drink it dry! That state· trU$! your "1989 YOU' to the proven profe$Sional$ at Tennis Main.SIDE guide G...... tt Conov.r will FOR ment tells it all. Answer is Jim Brown, who amaz- present a slide show of snowshoeing in ping a tooth. The impact would but somehow I continued to the luckiest kid on the block. the wilds of Quebec and Labrador Jan 13, be immediate on our medical search for this sports hero. I Faster than an IBM computer 7 :30-9 pm at the L. L. Bean Casco Street community. Hospitals would had a heap of near misses: Er he made comparisons of me to Maine Arts Inc. for another Conference Center, off Rt. 1 in Freeport. Free and open to the public. be beside themselves staring at rol Flynn, Jack LaLane, Johnny boys who had no parents, no wonderful New YearsIPortland. are being 01- Maine• Mariner. •Hockey Wlnt.r Ecology Walk. • fered through Mar 31 for community Home games empty beds. Orthopedic sur Unitas, Mickey Mantle, Oscar house, no legs, no hope. It was groups at the Maine Audubon Society's CeI.. tlal N.vlgatlonDS A workshop for geons would be forced to sell Robertson, Gordie Howe, Mark like the old folk song "Streets Gilsland Farm Sanctuary in Falmouth. January 13 children ages eight to 13 at the Portland Walks are scheduled Tue-Fri between Springfield Indians Museum of Art. The workshop is being pencils and save their empties. Spitz, Mary Lou Retton and of London," showing the 8:30 am-3 pm. The fee is $2.50 per per January 14 offered Jan 14 at 10:30andagain at 1 pm. The cast from "Cocoon" would Burt Reynolds. Unfortunately walker something grisly or son with a minimum of $15 per group. Sherbrooke Canadiens The cost is $6 for museum members, $8 Reservations can be made by calling January 21 for non-members. Call the museum edu be the typical hoop-playing, these people inexplicably either horrid enough to change his Carol LeMere at 781-2330. Hershey Bears cation department at 774-6148 to regis break-danCing grandparents got older, slower, grayer, sicker, mind. My "major" injuries The International Smelting A discussion of techniques, January 27 ter. PI.n.t.rlum Wo ..... hop Jan 14. 9 am· from coast to coast. fatter, retired or died. Their seemed like Godsends. I was , gear and places to go Jan 18. 7:30-8:30 Newmarket Saints I pm at the L.L Bean Casco Street Confer 12 noon at Southworth Planetarium, USM Little Leagues in all sports moments in the sun seemed fortunate enough to be spend ThePlace~· Language Of ence Center, located off Rt. 1 in Freeport. Portlmld. The workshop is for children •I , would no longer need health Free and open to the public. All hom. gam...... t 7:35 pm. ages 6 to 14, and will introduce the partici briefer and briefer. Fans began ing time in a wonderful hospi 425 Forest Avenue, Portland un I ••• otherwise noted. Snow...... lng Adv.nture. Across pants to the planetarium, teach them to insurance for their respective to say "what if' and combine tal with caring physicians. I The "'rinoN pia, at the Civic: Center. Identify constellations and help them to Near Interstate 295 I . North America A slide show of snowshoe Ticket..... $647 and ara available fields and facilities because the crazy notions. I'll never forget Why tnen should a fairly expiorations in Alaska. the Sierras. Mon at the bOll office. construct a planetarium of their own. tana. Wyoming and the White Mountains 775·3411 Reservations are required in advance; major injuries would be fun the day when my high school well-adjusted lad like to pre 774-2091 Jan 20,7:30-9 pm at the L.L Bean Casco call 780-4249. The cost of the workshop goed out to left field. This real baseball coach said, "If only tend in a sports world without Street Conference Center, located off Rt. '-- is $15. , . 1 in Freeport. Free and open to the public. I Hav•• Dr.am Based on Martin Luther crippler of youth sports pro· Mickey Mantle had Willie injury, Amen? I believe it is the ... King's famous speech, preschoolers will illustrate their ideas for a "World they grams, the insurance monster, Mays' legs." That thought frustrated ex-jock in me that would like to see- Jan 17, 2-3 pm at the would be kicked squarely in makes less sense now than it wants desperately to put the Children's Museum, 746 Stevens Ave., • SUBS i I Portland. Free with museum admission the balls, scoring an injury free did then, but I still recall it legs of Willie Mays onto Mickey TICKETS ON SALE TUESDAY, JANUARY 3 AT 10:00 AM For more information, call 797-KITE . •f goal for all children. anytime I need a good locker Mantle. It's the same reason I Mime Shell. Curti. performs a show t for children Jan 21. 2 pm at the Portland This fantasy of perfect health room laugh. suppose that when a great I ;. Public Library. Monument Square. Her lasts until I wake up and strap Combining the qualities of contest is over, I devour the show combines mime, juggling, balloon on my trusty knee brace. How different people and their par highlights ten more times, and • PASTA DINNERS David J. Werlin & ~i' sculpture and clown antics. The perform ance is free of charge and recommended fast the dreams of grandeur ticular parts might have some it's still not enough. The conta Expressed with Great Northeast Productions for children of all ages. Ongoing Cr•• tlv. Mov.m.nt fade. One day at the impres merit. The corning together of a giousand unquenchable sports CI ••••• for children. New session be sionable age of 18 there is the perfect machine reached a new fan does not have time for the presents gins Jan 25, 3:30-4:30 pm at the Theater Flowers, Cards, of fantasy. Mime, stories, characters and tryout with the "old" Baltimore meaning for me when I rented pain. Injuries slow down the • FRIED DINNERS more. Taught by Jackie Reifer and John Orioles (when they had class the movie "Robocop" and timelessness of my moment Saccone. For more information, call 761- I' Jewelry, Dinner, Ziggy and won more than any other it 2508. played it on my new VCR. and suffocate before its time. , . ..a PSO'. Young Artl.t Competition team from their era). Then carne Robocop had it all there for a It is not right that legends '- etc ..... Applications are now invited for the sec .. I. Marley the car accident, followed by while: he always won and he should have to trip on their I ond Young Artist Competition. Competi • COLD DRINKS I Advertise for Valentine's Day tion will take place on May 3. Rules and the hospital room. The ultimate never got hurt. In the end, vio shoelaces, much less get hurt, and the applications are available from the Young Reach the reader lhal reaches Artist Competition Chairman, Portland indignation was when the lence got the better part of him get old and post pattern their for Casco Bay Weekly. Symphony Orchestra, 30 Myrtle St.. Port mother of wounded knee said and he threatened the entire way into the end zone in the land, 04101. 773-6128. The deadline is I • Melody to her college freshman, ''That's Feb 17. community. Besides that, he sky. , " Storl.. for Kids Portland Public Library okay, at least you can still play was only a metallic movie char So please remember the next • TAKE-OUT , . Makers (773-4761): Mon and Wed, 10:30 am (3- intramurals." That's like tell acter on the silver screen and time you get hurt playing 5 year aids) and Fri, 10:30 am (2 year ·\, olds); Riverton Branch Library (797-2915): ing the most gifted of the he never played for the Balti sports, immediately close your I • Ina Fri, 10:30 am; Scarborough Public U brary (883-4723) : Wed, 10:30 am & 1 pm Walendas the he can never walk more Orioles. Some mythical eyes and transport yourself to I . very special (3-5 year aids) and Tue, 6:30 pm (5-6 the high wire again, but the heroes die more easily than Camelot. Your injury will go , . year olds); Prince Memorial Library. DANCE Cumberland (829-3180): Wed, 10:30 am curb is still available. others. away like a wispy cloud and ~ . CONCERT (2-3 year aids); Thu, 10:30 am (3·5 year Perhaps "the curb" is not Records were made to be lovely Guinevere will appear . ... - olds) . such a bad thing after all. If a lot broken. Kneecaps were made to ask you to the Round Table '"" ·. Flicks for klcle at the Portland Public ! . Friday Library in Monument Sq. For children of of us didn't sit on it all the time to be shattered. Hamstrings Prom. I'm serious. If ever I Feb. 10th all ages every Saturday at 10:30 am and and watch and clap, then there were made to be pulled. Achil would kid you, it wouldn't be ·. Tuesday at 1:30 pm. Free. For more infor . mation. call 773-4761. would be no parade - no super les tendons were made to be in winter. · 8:00 P.M. Finger Fun for Babl•• Wed at 9:30 am stars. There is a lot to be said for bone spurred. Lower backs ·. atthe Portland Public Library (773·4761). USMGym the good sport as well as the were made to be a pain above Mike Quinn always confronts his great sports player. the ass. The list of medical own mortality during cold and flu sea Portland son. ·. Campus • I A limited number of tickets will be available to the Jleneral public. 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