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1 A Publication of the Cliff Island Association Volume LIII Number 2 Cliff Island, Maine Spring 2005 President’s Report Greetings to one and all! Spring has finally we need property tax relief in the Sate of Maine. Tell started to arrive on the island. We seem to have gotten them to stand up to special interest groups and make thru winter, black eye season and half of mud season some hard choices and do what is right for the people. out here and eagerly await spring to come into full The other tidbit is that thanks to Representative Herb bloom. One of the things that helped us get thru the Adams, Augusta is moving forward on a bill to force winter was the great clearing job on the roads done the telephone company to install pay telephones in (again) by Gary – we had our fair share of snow locations where they are a public safety issue. This is a dumped on the island this year and Gary was out there follow-on to action we started a few years ago to force ahead of the storms each time doing a fantastic job. the Public Utilities Commission to work the issue. This There is some news on several fronts to report bill would specifically require that locations such as the – Barge ramp funding is now fully in place – a total of CIA Hall, where the phone was yanked out a few years $300,000 thanks to the HCD Fund and a grant from the ago, be serviced. The Associated Press picked up on State of Maine. It is sounding like once a final agree- the story – according to well placed Washington ment between Land Associates and the City of Portland sources, if it had not been for the death of the King of is finalized, as well as some permits, the construction Monaco, we would have been front page news earlier phase will begin. The State of Maine came back to the this week. island to do a deer count after this winter’s culling. On the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend (29 Unfortunately, according to the experts, we seem to MAY), there will be a Chili Dinner at the CIA Hall. have about as many deer as was estimated when we Anyone who is interested in volunteering before, started this process two years ago. Golf cart insurance during and afterwards, please let either Diane or I know is still a major item – the Island Coalition, sponsored ([email protected] or 766-2130). by the Island Institute is working the issue at the state And last, but not least by any means - Our best level – in the meantime, I just renewed efforts to information is that Large Item Pick-Up is scheduled to identify an insurance company who will in fact provide start 6 JUNE 2005. Please follow the rules and (1) do the insurance. That word will be passed on as soon as not put out your treasures more than a week in advance we hear from the City of Portland. Rumor has it that (2) segregate materials (3) if you find that one person’s the State of Maine, in an attempt to help fund the state junk is your treasure, please return the pile to a neat budget, will put a 7% tax on rents received if a property mess and (4) of major import – once the pick-up is rented more than 14 days per year – apparently, this process starts, you CAN NOT add to the piles – it just is already law if one uses a real estate agent for the prolongs the process and makes it much more rental, but now, it would apply to all who rent out their expensive for the taxpayers. property, with or without an agent. We all got our That’s all the news that is fit to print! See you all soon. property tax re-evaluation notices a few weeks ago – Steve Little, CIA President wow!!!! I can report that the only reason the increase is being phased in is due to the efforts of our representative on the City Council, Willie Gorham. He was against the increase in total, but the best he could www.cliffisland.com muster for the entire council to pass was a phase-in For island related links, house rentals and to process. Hopefully, before we get hit with the entire get on the mailing list increase, the State of Maine will make some meaningful property tax reform. I urge you to contact CHECK OUT THE NEW HOME PAGE!! your elected representatives and make them aware that 2 Hear and There My apologies to the O’Reilly family for spelling Anne Sharp will graduate from Philips Academy Braedon’s name incorrectly in the last Seagull. in June. In September she will be headed to the The announcement should have read as follows: School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington. Braedon Flynn O'Reilly, born June 14, 2004 to Dave Sharp is in Providence, working as an Shawn & Colette O'Reilly. Braedon weighed 8 Americorps-VISTA volunteer for The Steelyard, lbs. 15 oz. and was 20" long. He came out with a an urban arts education project being created out full head of black hair (unlike his sisters who of an old steel fabrication plant. With all of the were very fair). Braedon is doing great and is a metal parts, machines and tools around, Dave happy, healthy baby boy. Allannah and Lauren reports that it is just like his grandfather Reamer think he is great! Kline's pump house, only about 1000 times larger. McNamara Clan News: Andy Sharp has been to Africa twice this year for * Nancy and Joe McNamara will celebrate his job, and worked for a bit in sight of Mt. their 50th wedding anniversary on April 30th. Kilimanjaro. He plans to go to business school in * Their daughter and son-in-law, Tricia and the fall. Carl Kasierski will celebrate their 25th wedding Larry Sharp has become the Executive Director anniversary. of Merrimack Valley Habitat for Humanity, which * Rachel Swirsky got an early acceptance into builds affordable housing in 22 communities in Boston College and is enrolled for this fall. Great northern Massachusetts and southern New job Rachel! Hampshire, including Lawrence. Ivy and Gordon Griffin have just returned from Nancy and Tom Sandoski ( Nancy is Matt spending the winter on the “Redneck Riviera!” ... Blank's oldest daughter -and granddaughter aka Myrtle Beach. We had a lovely condo there of Charlton and Florence Murphy ) would like and our family and friends were able to visit. We to announce the adoption of their new grand- went to see the “Medieval Times” and Carolina daughter, Camille Jing Mei Fowler, originally Opry Shows plus a wonderful Aquarium. The from ChangSha, China, by their daughter Jennifer weather was a little temperamental, but no snow - and her husband ,Tom. Jennifer and Tom brought we were lucky! Hope you all are well—we wish home little Jing Mei in October, 2004. She was a you a Happy Spring and Summer. very petite 13 months old at the time. Having made great strides in the "catching up" business, Kelly (O'Reilly) Profenno just got back from a she is almost up to normal size and walking! month in Naples, Florida visiting her sister-in-law The new family will be joining Nancy and Tom and making contacts for her Reliv business. Gary this July at the Murphy cottage on Cliff for a short Profenno has started up a small business called visit. The Computer Patch, located in the same office as Freeport Self Storage in Freeport. Gary's Caroline Foley Walsh, daughter of Liz Ryan and daughter, Jamie, along with a friend, bought a van granddaughter of Hani and John Kenefick, and are traveling along the Eastern coast of the married Matt Walsh on October 30, 2004, in United States. They have stayed in places such as Omaha. Matt and Caroline recently honeymooned Lake Placid, Burlington, Buffalo, New Orleans, in Curacao. They live in Red Bank, New Jersey. and all over Florida. They have two dogs — Fritz and Bubba. Diane O'Reilly has started her own real estate Nicole Gagne (Daughter of Larry and Roberta) company. DIANE OREILLY REAL ESTATE, and her husband Stephen Pennisi along with their LLC . Please see her ad elsewhere in this issue. son Dominic welcomed the arrival of their daughter, Gianna Isabella on April 2nd. OBITUARIES 3 Doris Olney, a long time resident of Cliff her dream of becoming a wife and starting her island has been reunited with her beloved husband own family. In 1965 she lost her infant son at in The Lords company. She will be missed by her three days old. In 1967 she gave birth to a healthy many life-long friends on Cliff and in Portland, La baby girl, and in 1969 gave birth to a healthy baby Jolla, San Francisco and Bradenton, Florida and boy. very greatly by the family she leaves behind. A In the 1970s she enjoyed her weekends by private grave-site remembrance of her life was her husbands side, as he performed with the local held by her two sons, David and Richard Olney, country rock band 'The Malibu's.' Betty always their wives, Meme and Carolyn; her three went home to the island. Summers and free grandchildren, David, Robert and Heather: their weekends would be spent fishing with her spouses and her four great-grandchildren. husband, lobster bakes on the beach, and playing Born in Hartford, Conn. to David and with her children in the sand.