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Portland Public Library Portland Public Library Digital Commons Casco Bay Weekly (1989) Casco Bay Weekly 12-14-1989 Casco Bay Weekly : 14 December 1989 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1989 Recommended Citation "Casco Bay Weekly : 14 December 1989" (1989). Casco Bay Weekly (1989). 50. http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1989/50 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Casco Bay Weekly at Portland Public Library Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Casco Bay Weekly (1989) by an authorized administrator of Portland Public Library Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ~asc Greater Portland's news and arts weekly DECEMBER 14, 1989 FREE ~ ~- -:r-.... J Ul c!J j- ~ LU 0 Ul f' Each day during dlis holiday shopping season more dian 40,000 people parade across dlese tile noors. Each day dley spend more lIIan a milHon dollars. And each day lIIey return to a six-acre concrete beast so ubiquitous lIIat it has come to be known only as ... See page 6. + INSIDE: UPDATES page 2 LISTINGS page 14 IhleU. WEIRD NEWS page 3 ART page 19 Tolli~1(t tloL ~1I,:l is ~ ~,,~t.. O"r VIEWS page 4 POOK page 20 !.lUI, ku.rU . tb. trt.1'Ivt..). COVER page 6 CLASSIFIEDS page 21 STAGE page 11 PUZZLE page 23 Mc8attle brewing. Barroom theater. Barcelona sends her artists. CALENDAR page 12 Seepage 2 Seepage 11 See page 19 2 CASCO Bay Weekly Deumbtr 14,1989 3 A ,et/.ani.;} CYCLEMA N I Don't pay for useless (.)~:)~ packaging! TREK'SOO $279 TREK'S50 $409 TREK' 950 $569 A Great City Bike Suntour XCE equ'ipped American Technology Buy food in bulk. wllh Decre LX componenls G<IDD ----DAY MARKET ~.'" COO I I v l ~~ 155 Brackett St .• Portland. ME 04102 • (207)772-4937 PERFORMANCE ACCESSORIES MON - FRI9-8PM· SAT 9-6PM • SUN 12-5PM <!:ELDHelmets WIND TRAINERS Spectrum $»:00 Blackburn ALL TUBES Trackstand $129 Image~ 3 for $5.99 Blackburn Hamburg/or shakes up packaging debate .~ Gortex PROI=I&S Aero II's Mag Stand $169 MONTREAL NEW YEAR'S TRIP THE WEEK IN BRIEF: G Medalist Covers As low as $6lH5 T1DDD $99 Sat. - Mon., Dec. 30 - Jan. 1 • ~Z.'i4/Del"SOlll_ '.0= Rhode Gear Bags Medalist HOOD • Two nights at Monlreal's finest hotel, the McDonald's fights Freeport foam ban magnetiC $149 RITZ-CARLTON! Ponying up for liquor licences 40% OFF • New Year's dinner and party at Old Munich Portland may raise liquor license fees by 40 percent in order to The HamburgIar made off with McDonald's Again, a plastic recycler in Leominster, Mass., Restaurant. with live Bavarian Orcheslra. pay for two additional police officers to respond to calls at bars at • Sightseeing tour and a second meal in Monlreal. polystyrene foam sandwich boxes, but not until where it is processed into little beads that can be night. But at a Dec. 8 hearing before the public safety committee, • High mass at NOire-Dame Basilica, .= __~., ..... Ronald's la wyers had juggled their best recycling morning (optional). formed into stuff like combs, coathangers, cas bar and restaurant owners said the increase could drive them to • Round-trip Iransportation from Portland arguments before the Freeport Town Council. But sette tape cases, scouring sponges, plastic lumber, drink. "I'm not going to take it anymore," said Frank Pierobello, luxury motorcoach. ~ in spite of last-minute pleas made before a work and even McDonalds food trays. owner of the Brass Rail Cafe, "There's going to Qe a tea party." 797-8688 shop session of the council on Dec. 12, the Free McDonald's already pats itself on the back for According to the Portland Police Department, disturbances at port McDonald's will be forced to comply with a a myriad of other half-baked recycling efforts. bars and restaurants account for 2.4 percent of all calls and are on new law banning polystyrene foam in that town Mona Yarnell, marketing supervisor with the increase. For restaurants and bars with full liquor licenses, a beginning January 1. McDonald's in Boston, said that McDonald's is 40 percent increase WOUld. mean an additional $600 a year. That one of the largest retail users of recycled paper in could generate around $58,000, enough to pay additional officers, A no foam town the U.S., making napkins, Happy Meal boxes, said committee chairperson Linda Abromson. Last July the Freeport Town Council decided take-<>ut drink trays and tray liners out of it. She Bu t the 50 bar and restaurant owners gathered at the hearing GREAT said it isn't fair that they should have to foot the bill for increased to require businesses to find an alternative to thinks that since polystyrene foam is as recyclable police protection. Steven Micheletti, owner of Raphael's asked,"lf polystyrene foam by as rigid polystyrene, it Jan. 1, 1990. you had a rashofbank robberies, would you assess banks a higher BOOKS should not be bullied fee?" The ordinance grew by environmentalists. The public safety committee will make a recommendation on out of a campaign by a But neither the envi the increase to the council in January. QUALITY FILM DEVELOPING handful of elementary ronmentalists nor the school kids last spring. FREE FILM pius waste management Watery cruise missile demands Bridget Sulli van-Ste people are buying that FREE EXTRA PRINTS RAFFLES vens, nine years old, shake. Governor John McKernan and Maine's four members of Con every day of the week with C·A·F·E learned at school that the "Recycling poly sty gress told the Secretary of the N~vy, H. Lawrence Garrett III, that ozone layer was dete rene is a public relations Mainers don't want Tomahawk cruise missiles tested over MaIne. BOOKSTORE riorating. Bridget got response, an attempt to A referendum question passed by Maine voters on Nov. 7 re ~BIG DEAL! worried, and the worry head off polystyrene quired McKernan to convey that message, and he did. Free film available only on 35mm and 110 orders. But McKernan watered down his message to the Navy by didn't go away after bans," said Jeff Mann, asking them to test only in winter, according to Peter Wilk. "We Don't forget to stock up on film for the holidaysl school. "She was wor chair of the Bath Area find that totally unacceptable," said Wilk, a spokesperson for the TWO CONVENIENT LOCATIONS: CONVENIENT HOURS: ried that she would have Waste Reduction Com Coalition for the Cruise Missile Referendum. He added that the 30 City Center 71 U.s. Route I Mon - Frl 7:30 - 6:00 to live underground or Portland Scarborough Sat 9:00 - 1:00 mittee. "You're only Navy has only tested the missiles in the winter anyway, and said 772-7296 883-7363 the world would get so slowing the process of the coalition will now pressure McKernan and the delegation to TRUST THE PROS AT BPS PHOTO EXPRESSI hot it would explode," the plastic making it schedule a meeting with President Bush. ' said Kathleen Sullivan, into the landfill by a Gift Wrapping Available her mother. little bit," he said. Like Lobsters bound for Fish Exchange ----------- ------------------ When Bridget other polystyrene bash Open 7 Days learned that both pro ers, Mann thinks that it Lobsters will be sold at the Portland Fish Exchange as soon as Thurs. & Fri. until 9 pm ducingand incinerating is wasteful to use petro early January. Casco Bay lobstermen have fought to get into the I polystyrene foam de leum on packaging that Fish Exchange, claiming it ~uld help them fetch better prices and help the financially floundering exchange stay afloat. plete the ozone layer, has a useful life meas 555 Congress St Alan Caron, a consultant for a group of locallobstermen, said she got a bunch of like- CBW(fonu Harbtrt ured in the seconds or ~ 761-3930 that the exchange will sell 5,000-10,000 pounds of lobsters in Free Parking at minded classmates to minutes it travels from *' Gateway Garage The Freeport McDonald's has already January and may grow to sell up to 100,000 pounds of the .; One button is your ticket to gether and they took the counter to a diner's all New V.or's/Portlond I begun collecting polystyrene, In spite of crustaceans by April. Caron said that the exchange will ensure I their concerns to the P0 RT L A -N D ~ events! table. "If the pending ban on foam contalnen. fairer prices and act as a "barometer" of market price. the • Adults, $Z50 in advance. Freeport council. The "Ourcommitmentis exchange price is low, the lobstermen will know it's market driven $9.00 on December 31. • group called themselves ~ - Celebrate the First Night of the to fresh, hot food," said and not just a concoction coming out of the back room of a lobster J I Nineteen Nineties! Kids and seniors, $3.00. I Concerned About Kids' Yarnell. When the Free- dealer," Caron said. • Buttons available Dec. 150t Super Stors, Rising Stors, Rood most Shop'n So"" Supermar I Environment (CAKE). The concern they brought port McDonald's is forced to give up polystyrene Roce, Masquerade Boll, Moine kets, One City Center and Folk Traditions. Cartoon Art to the council led to the polystyrene foam ban, an foam, it will use recycled paper coated in plastic Portland Wine' and Cheese. Warren short changes Westbrook I and Fireworks! • For Visa and MasterCard ordinance approved by all seven of the town and / or foil.