Portland Public Library Portland Public Library Digital Commons
Casco Bay Weekly (1991) Casco Bay Weekly
11-7-1991 Casco Bay Weekly : 7 November 1991
Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1991
Recommended Citation "Casco Bay Weekly : 7 November 1991" (1991). Casco Bay Weekly (1991). 43. http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1991/43
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 (1991) by an authorized administrator of Portland Public Library Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NOVEMBER 7, 1991 Portland Harbor will become one "Outsider Art" of four centers on the East Coast gives a FREE equipped to deal with a major oil powerful folk spill. page 6 message at Dean No bones about it, Governor ~IN NEWS Velentgas. Lincoln's crypt is empty. Naples granite quarry opposed page 20 page 7 by residents calling themselves Neighbors of Madison Moun- tain. page 3 ~ INSIDE ~IN ARTS Calendar page 14 Lake Umbagog Wildlife Refuge Sexual allegory comes to For Kids page 22 has been funded by Congress. Portland Stage Company. Puzzle page 26 page 3 page 17 Pook page 26
• By Monte Paulsen widening Vote No On #1 Coalition was also blessed with a million dollar war chest that enabled them to Maine voters put themselves in the driver's seat outspend their opponents by at least 4-to-l. on Nov. 5 when they overwhelmingly approved a But the Portland-based coalition calling itself the referendum that will stop the proposed widening Campaign for Sensible Transportation overcame of the Maine Turnpike and establish a new trans those odds through the combination of more than a portation policy requiring state officials to consider year of grassroots organizing and less than a week alternatives such as mass transportation. of broadcast blitzkrieg. The victory - won by a margin of 59 percent in "It wasn't really that tough a campaign," said favor to 41 percent opposed, with heavier than campaign strategist and spokesman Alan R. Caron. expected voter turnout - carne in the face of over "We were only up against the entire power struc whelming odds. In addition to the support of key ture," business executives and elected officials, the pro- Continued on next page
," I
Campaign for Sensible Transportation President Peter Troast and campaign coordinator Karen Schuler laugh at a comment CBW/Tonee Harbert by campaign strategist Alan Caron, at right. They were addressing a crowd of about 300 referendum supporters at Father O'Hara's on Nov. 5. Portland-area women continue to have a thousand abortions a year. But despite the raging pro-life vs. pro-choice debate - or perhaps because of it - no one wants to talk about them. . Talking about the A-word : . • By Ellen Liburt people you know have either had an abortion or frightening. almost incomprehensible sense of
know someone who has. having complete control over another life. And .\ Pro-life protesters in Wichita chained them More than 41,000 women had abortions in most of all, they are bound by a nebulous but selves together to get it out of Kansas. Presidents Maine during the 1980s, according to the state powerful fear of sharing their experiences. Reagan and Bush waged a slow but increasingly Office of Data Research and Vital Statistics. Resi If you're someone who has never experienced effective war to restrict it. Judge Clarence Thomas dents of Greater Portland account for more than a an abortion, you should know that the social and said he hadn't thought about it, so he was ap quarter of those - about 1,000 a year. political dissension surrounding the abortion issue pointed to the Supreme Court, which recently If you're one of these people, you probably obscure the actual experience. upheld a "gag rule" designed to keep health haven't discussed. it openly. That's unfortunate. And without an understanding of abortion workers from even discussing it. For while no two abortions are the same - even itself, the political discussion rages on over the A It is the A-word: abortion. for the same woman - many of the people who word - without any basis in reality. And lately it seems as if everyone is talking experience abortion have a lot in common. They about everything that has anything to do with it share a deep and lingering sense of loss. They fear Continued on page 8 except the experience itself. what other people will think not just of their US POSTAGE PAID PORTLAND, ME. 04101 Yet abortion itself is commonplace. Most of the decision, but of them. They grapple with the BULK RATE P£RMIT NO. 2.55 2 Casco &y Weekly NoTJtmbtr 7, 1991 3 Quarry plans rile 4 Naples neighbors BOOKS ETC FREE BOOK DAY 1/2 PRICE SALE A cement company's plan One Free with 10 YES!! to open a granite quarry in Book Card Brand Name MENS' SUITS as low as $169 Continued from front page Naples drew opposition from neighbors, who claim the 15- 100% wool SPORTCOATS as low as $119 The tactics employed by the acre operation would For gifts or for yourself- , 100% wool OVERCOATS as low as $137 opposing camps were as dis threaten drinking water and Start your Book Card Now. tinct as the Portland watering ruin their serene lifestyle. . 99 38 Exchange st. • In the Old Port· 774-O(j26· Mon. - Sat. 10-6, Sun. 12-5 100% cotton DRESS SHffiTS as low as $19 holes they chose for their elec 'They're not going to be 100% silk $28 NECKTIES as low as $999 tion-night parties. good neighbors no matter tJ3eautijul 'D.5. L~ The prO-Widening forces what they do," said Cecilia J'fowers began by arguing for the turn Wemau, who moved with J'ine J'fowers SALE NOW THRU pike widening. But mid-sum her husband Henry to a log for the A review of the top news stories affecting Greater home of their dreams on VETERANS'DAY Portland: October 29 through November 5, 1991. mer, with the help of a Cali Jiofiaays fornia consulting firm, that Madison Mountain. group renamed itself the Vote The Wemaus and others ~) l ~.-_ fear their tranquility will be /#"".P-'~ . ~e.-... -::t:Cl!I.:i';;;"-- No On #1 Coalition and satu 468 :JoreStreet, Portland, Maine shattered by dynamite blasts, rated the October airwaves 1·207·772·3881 A.H. BENOIT & CO. Local election results with television and radio ad grating machinery and huge, 188 Middle St .. In the Old Port vertising that portrayed the rumbling dump trucks if Dragon Products Inc. opens a transportation policy as unnec Westbrook quarry on the 700-foot essary red tape. Mayor of Westbrook Ward 2 Alderman mountain ridge. IronicaH y, in a terse conces Fred C. Wescott Peter T. Adams Dragon officials said the sion speech delivered at the 78 Brackett St., Westbrook 51 Oakland Ave., Westbrook proposed quarry meets all posh but somber Portland Re 854-4633 854-5490 requirements and will not gency Hotel, Vote No chair disturb anyone. The project Aldermen-At-urge Ward 3 Alderman woman Barbara Trafton was OK'd by the state Kenneth M. Lefebvre Don E. Richards blamed her loss on "mislead DANGER 80 Mechanic St., Westbrook 429 Saeo St., Westbrook Department of Environmen ing" television advertisements SIGNALS OF PINCHED NERVES 772-9llJ5 854-8185 tal Protection and was THE $99.00 placed by the Campaign for approved on appeal by the • Heod.a::hes • ww Bc:r:k Pain Sensible Transportation dur Paul LeConte Ward 4 Alderman Naples Planning Board. • Di2ziness • Hip Pain 8 Louise St., Westbrook ElmerT. Welch ing the final hours of the cam • Neck Pain • Pain Down Leg A group called Neighbors Cere6rating 854-5158 148 North St., Westbrook paign. BALOUCH of Madison Mountain has • Arthritis • Shoulder Pain 854-4245 Those ads pictured Trans filed a lawsuit asking a • Indigestion • Numbess in Ward 1 Alderman portation Commissioner Dana 'Ilie year of'Ii6et Lionel R. Dumond Ward 5 Alderman Superior Court judge to • Constipation Hands Connors, former Governor EXHIBIT OF TIBETAN MEDITATIVE PAINTINGS We thought we'd 164 Marrett St., Westbrook Peter Wescott reverse the town's approval AN Kenneth Curtis and State Po A Chiropractor can help relieve your pain. 854-1954 275 E. Bridge Road, Westbrook and send it back to the lice Chief Andrew Demers - ~ never get more of these rugs. Call for a consultation. 854-2312 planning board, where they ~ all of whom had taped testi hope it will be rejected. The 21 NOVEMBER ·19 DECEMBER 1991 But, from a warehouse in monials for the Vote No group South Portland project is on hold until the OPENING RECEPTION, THURSDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 5· 8PM - along with Governor District 3 Councilor District 4 Councilor lawsuit can be resolved. Gennany more have arrived. Dr. Stephen D. WUlkler, D.C. McKernan and a graph depict James A. Soule Robert W. Fickett Dragon, the state's largest 797-8776 980 Forest Ave., Suite 106 ing the state's budget deficit. RICHARD • PARKS •GALLERY These are Afghan Balouch Most Insurances 23 Whitworth Drive, 1106 Highland Ave., supplier of ready-mix "First they gave us a $1 billion 288 Fore Street, Portland, ME 04101 (207) 774·1322 are accepted. Portland, ME 04103 South Portland South Portland concrete, operates quarries in nomadic prayer size rugs, 767-1343 deficit," intoned the deep 799-2814 Thomaston, Portland and throated TV announcer, "and ~. Chapman. approximately 3x5. Freeport Scarborough now they want to waste an other $100 million to gold plate They'll go quickly. Councllman-At-Large Town Council At-Large Portland to be oil the turnpike." Edward F. Bradley Jr. Philip A. Rowe They make great gifts! As calculated, McKernan spill cleanup base 242 Flying Point Road, 26 Down East Lane, took the bait and publicly Within 15 months, Port Make sure you Freeport Scarborough land Harbor will become one 865-4612 883-9584 howled about the ad - thereby magnifying its last of four centers on the East don't forget Dlstrkt 3 Councilor Michael J. Martin minute impact. Coast equipped to deal with a Discover.•. John A. Nelson 3 Horseshoe Drive, ''We saved all our television major oil spill. 2 Church Road, Freeport Scarborough pennies for one tactical strike Marine Spill Response "The Maine Source birthdays & 865-3009 883-2554 at the end," said Caron. "The Corp., a non-profit company • • District 4 Councilor • Voters rejected a referendum Vote No camp attacked us with created by the major oil of Oriental Rugs"© anniversaries. Cary V. Veilleux for the construction of a new inaccurate and misleading ad companies, plans to station in 160 Wardtown Road, Freeport $1.8 million Town HaIl. vertisements for weeks and Portland a 208-foot oil 865-0903 weeks, so we took out our one cleanup ship, 2 1/2 miles of Bringing you Oriental Rugs little slingshot and hurled our oil booms, four skimmers to at unbeatable prices one little ad - and hit the gi vacuum oil and a barge to We'll call to ant on the head." store cleaned-up oil. since , Y C\ tl 1974 Statewide referenda But the Campaign for Sen "1 hope 1 never have to reDlind you! In addition to passing the turnpike initiative (Question 1), sible Transportation's victory clean up an oil spill here," Maine voters also passed two of the eight other referenda on the party, held at Father O'Hara's said J. Stephen Darrler, statewide ballot. Maine voters chose to: pub on Danforth Street, was manager of the Northeast • Reject Question 2, a $5,500,000 bond issue for construction, equally the result of a year division of Marine Spill. purchasing and renovation of correctional facilities. spent building a grassroots "In terms of degree of • Reject Question 3, a $16,500,000 bond issue to help munici network of 300 volunteers who difficulty and number of palities and water districts with the costs of protecting water brought an unusually high areas that could be poten quality. voter turnout to this off-year tially contaminated, this • Reject Question 4, a $7,500,000 bond issue for use in election. would be a long-term 5~~~~N'~~~;~::_Portland Weotbrook providing financing assistance to Maine's natural resource and Losses were heavy in the cleanup operation," said 774·5946 854·2518 Darrler, who explained that a Frco p SMALL WONDERS were damaged. treating people with AIDS." by Loca I officials said the "A clinic open seven days pi~~N:lE " storm and tidal flooding a week, staffed by AIDS caused far more damage to specialists, is the least we will the ooast than did Hurricane accept from Maine Med," Bob, which swept ashore said a news release from ACT • Continued from page 3 Aug. 19, and rivaled the UP Portland. destruction wrought by a The proposed clinic is FREE Russo sues 008 winter storm in February based on hospital oosts, and '--'--, . SUPERCAB 4X4 AIR CONDITIONING Frank Russo and Dale 1978. has not been finalized, - Blow, the former operators of The damage was caused according to McDowell. from $125 pair & up by an intense storm churning "When we open in January 1 yrs parts & labor the Seashore Performing Arts 00 about 100 miles south of we will better be able to OPEN EVERY SUNDAY 814,495 Centre (SeaP AC), filed a UNJ1L CHRISTMAS Nantucket. It caused a high evaluate whether the clinic ""'"'*'~ AFTER REBATES lawsuit against Old Orchard Beach on Nov. 4, charging tide in Portland that was should have longer operating 3 SUPERCABS town councilors with forcing among the 10 highest since hours," he said. NewE~laRd IN STOCK- them out of business by the National Weather Service ACT UP Maine, another 2WD & 4X4 requiring them to lower began keeping records there AIDS activist group which is (Hi-Fi) Music e.O music volumes during in 1914. not affiliated with ACT UP (207) 883-41 73 concerts. Gov. John R. McKernan Portland, has also declared The suit, filed in York asked President Bush on the clinic inadequate. County Superior Court, asks Nov. 4 to declare the south Cathie Pelletier for the return of a $600,000 ern Maine coast a federal Ricci arrested, disaster area, which would :....'/_\/\/1 ... ,·-" ,.'_/"/1,' II' ,I security depOSit, along with AG to step in Book Signing unspecified monetary make it eligible for funds. I,I~ I - ~ ~N~YElls - "I'_/~~ The owner of Scarborough damages. Bush, who got a firsthand ... " ~~,., - , -1- \ / I I : -' , _ ,4:1t,t-: .' AFFORDABLE look at his storm-damaged Downs race track was 12 - 1 :30 on Friday / ... · .... 1 Russo and Blow had been _','\'_ J'Oln U 5, ,/,1\_',I' Kennebunkport vacation arrested after allegedly battling town councilors over threatening a Portland police November 8 , ,..... - \ I \ Mo d N b 11 ' '" \ - '", FAMILY HEALTH CARE a ooncert volume ordinance home on Nov. 2, was ex \ I _" n ay ovem er ,'.... _" '\ \ , officer. "Readers familiar with Pelletier's novels 1\ \. _ ,'/ I ,'_,'- passed last month that set a pected to sign the request. at As We Celebrate! ... Joseph J. Ricci, a Falmouth will rejoyce to find themselves back in 1' .... 1\ _ I-I "I • Family Payment Plans ~ limit of 62 decibels on I- - - -,' I , -' • \ ,- \ ~" 1:--: .• , I -," .:; / \ resident, was charged with Mattagash ... This masterful work casts a Bookland Downtown • Same Day Eme~ency Care • concerts at SeaPAC. Webster plan OK'd criminal threatening and ... ~- "'Ie ••. ""1 SATUBDAYSA.B.E • Evenings & Weekends By Appointment wide net in it's portrayal of present-day 1 Monument Square by court, creditors disorderly conduct after descendents of Mattagash's early Portland, Maine ~/_' ~S:. \."'I...... ~ .,.~':I ~1~!.!lf~ • Children To Seniors Welcome Women march The first major bank being arrested at about 10:30 . , '" " ' , _ - I, ...... \ '" _ \ -.... 8 PM to last caUl settlers ... Pelletier's ear for dialogue is against violence ruptcy-reorganization plan p.m. on Oct. 29 in the parking exceptional, and her characters' interior ~ Pub Atmolphue ~ ...../ I Don't suffer any longer. Chiropractic filed by a developer who lot of the Amato's on Wash serving a complete: , 1 HAPPY HOUIlS: More than 100 women monologues, what they think but don't 772-4045 Brcakfalt, Lanch 11 Diuerl II ...... ; MONDAY·FIlIDAY corrects the cause afyour pain. rallied at Fort Allen Park in crashed and burned when the ington Avenue in Portland. say, are subversive, humorous and starting at $2.95 I- \ . 7·10 AM 4-7 PM Portland and then marched bottom fell out of Portland's Ricci filed a formal heartbreaking. " , " /1 , , ... - ; -, , , , . , , / \ . .... /., I .... , through Munjoy Hill and the real estate market was complaint with the police -"" ... - A BETTER WAY CHIROPRACTIC " Old Port on Nov. 2 to protest approved by U.S. Bankruptcy department the next day, - Publishers Weekly Thanks to OUT staff. patrons~ a,' 2063 Outer Congress violence against women. Court on Nov. 1. challenging Officer Gary bool{land family and friends. ~, ~ Hutcheson's account of the (next to UNUM) Portland The march, organized by William H. Webster's ofMaine ·((l.·.1.~ ~JmI 'rruETfO~ ME d1 the Greater Portland National reorganization plan resolves incident. '".WhtreG90!lf.1'ftftdi;Fiftc rood., b/$jdrlt.Bdttd TOt:Wstf.~ 879-5433 Organization for Women, the 45 real estate and business Lt. Detective Richard J. University of Southern Maine partnerships that had Rizzo said Hutcheson was Women's Forum and the accumulated $93 million in responding to another call in Family Crisis Shelter, was debt. the area when he saw a man held to "celebrate the power Webster, a high roller in yelling in the parking lot of WARRIOR harvest vegetable casserole + indonesian chicke of women and take back the the 1980s real estate market the store. OF THE french lasagna + eggplant rollatini + spanakopit streets that are normally and the fonner president of When Hutcheson asked if RAINBOW mi so soup +. . ••••••••••• -.pepperburger unsafe," acoording to Beth Morse Payson & Noyes there was a problem, the man l\~l\N£NIAL MArrKESS CLOSEOUT DA" Toolan, one of the organizers. Financial in Portland, filed became belligerent and began Celebrating the mediterranea~ .fish stew + t t RU SAT. ONLYI L PRICES OF THE YEAR Organizers said attitudes for Chapter 11 bankruptcy screaming obscenities at the TH . '8 Life of the Spirit .+ + reorganization in March 1990. officer, acoording to the in pesto lasagne. I)I~I)I)I~II(~I.. IJII m?ussaka about violence against 30 DAY black bean e· ...... nchllada + ta women are changing because Some of Webster's credi report. The man threatened to Worship, the Arts & BUY BACK SIMPLY THE BEST Community Service ndoori chick· Great vegetarian cuisine, • en + curri ed of the attention focused on tors will be paid in full, but fight Hutcheson when the SLUMBER ELEGANCE others still claim millions of officer asked for identifica Ortho-Comfort Support GUARANTEE PremIum luxury Comfort • OI'ganic beef. and tasly • 11 sexual harassment, in light of lOyr guarantee seatood,allatreasonable dollars. Fleet Bank of Maine tion, Rizzo said. luxury FIrm corn chowder. .+ sca ops wi the charges brought by Anita IOyr guarantee th spi cy pea. pricl'~, in a smoke-free .nut sauce + b Hill against Supreme Court has claims of about $4.7 The case will be pros 50 million, and Webster's former ecuted by the state Attorney l' - $8260 Twin ea. pc ... 889 luefi sh and . environment, SL'vPllllights .tamari ginger Justice Clarence Thomas. WID oolleagues at Morse Payson General's Office. The ea. pc... Full Set. .. $250 sauce + curr· a week! • ied beef pi e SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCH Guilford to bid for claim they are owed a Cumberland County District Full Set... $175 6."'u~m Queen 2 pc set. .. $299 302 Stevens Avenue + greek salac: 7!l MI[)OLE ST., PORTLAND .+ haddock sko oombined total of $3.5 Attorney's Office usually Queen 2 pc set... $22S'li; \... King 3 pc set. .. $399 Portland. ME 04 103 rdaU a + beet. 772-0531 :and tomato so Maine rail line million. would prosecute such a case, (207) 772-8277 up + tuni 51 aT. • • • • • • •• • • •• .cous cous + 5 "We can do it cheaper and To help satisfy claims, but District Attorney SOLD IN SETS ONLY ~ ~~;;,~;~~!;~S~O~L;D~)NijS~E~TS~O~N;:LY~~;;. Rev. Ken Turley better than Amtrak," said Webster liquidated his Stephanie Anderson worked Service: lOam Sunday pinach mushroom pie + salmon with hollandaise + Colin Pease, executive vice partnership and personal for Ricci when she was a No Heavy Hymnals creampuffs with chocolate sauce + key lime pie + president of Guilford Trans Childcare provided holdings. He sold his Cape private attorney. portation Industries, which Elizabeth home for $575,000, FREE FRAME plans to bid against Amtrak a house in Northeast Harbor Curbside recycling with all sets for the right to provide for $113,500 and a condo proposed in city passenger service from minium on Portland's FREE ------~ Boston to Maine. waterfront for $175,000. A recycling proposal Pease said Guilford's under study by Portland's LOCAL DELIVERY proposal will include stops in ACT UP Portland public works director oould RADIANCE DESIGNER MEDALLION Freeport, Augusta and help the city meet a state Super-Ultra Luxury FIrm lSyr guarantee PILLOW TOP Waterville, as well as options wants better clinic mandate to recycle half of its 20yr guarantee for seasonal service to Old Five members of ACT UP waste by mid-1994. Twin ea. pC ... 89950 Orchard Beach. Portland met with Maine The proposal would offer Full Set ... $299 Guilford already operates Medical Center President incentives to Portlanders to Full Set. .. $299 - Come Our Current Work - VIsit freight service in Maine. Donald McDowell on Oct. 31 separate their trash into Queen 2 pc set ... $349 RR4 Box 4366 Freeport. Maine. 04032 (207) 688-5555 Amtrak dropped its Boston to to argue that Maine Med's specially marked bags, one King 3 pc set... $499 Portland route in 1965. proposed AIDS clinic is for recycling and one for the SOLD IN SETS ONLY unacceptable. incinerator. Storm outdoes The AIDS clinic, which is Under the proposal, scheduled to open in January, Portlanders would be given Hurricane Bob will provide speciality no-cost or low-priced bags to F~~~ICE A violent Atlantic storm treatment for AIDS patients put their glass, can and GWENDOLYN L. O'GUIN, D.O. brought an estimated $6 two mornings a week. plastic recyclables in, and million of damage to ooastal "The group from ACT UP charged $3 for specially AIII4It/P.llu.tric M.llicim • Office Gynecology M,."ipl4llJtion • Pr.""tllti,e Mellici"e areas of York and Portland feels we haven't marked bags destined for the Cumberland oounties on Oct. Walk·In and by Appointtnent gone far enough in regards to Regional Waste Systems 222 St. John St., Suite #322, Port1ind, Maine. 871·1300 30. More than 100 homes the AIDS Clinic," said (RW5) incinerator. McDowell. "We feel the AIDS Clinic will meet the needs of • Continued on page 6 6 C/lSCO Bay Weekly Nooember 7, 1991 7 the need for the state to get We're Much More Than into the business. RUSSIAN The companies in question 1989 ISUZU TROOPER II WATERWAYS: provide up to 90 percent of LS Package, loaded JV\ASTERCRAFT JOURNEY THROUGH the mandatory ooverage low miles $12,900 THE CZARIST PAST against workplace injuries. "I can't run the risk of • Continued from page 5 4 WEEK SALE bankrupting the company," PERFORMANCE MOTORS "We have to give people MERCEDES· BENZ us in May on a new, unique cruise from said Richard A. Sawyer, the 183 U.S. ROUTE I, FALMOUTH, MAINE 04105 JOin an incentive to recycle," said Leningrad to Moscow on rivers, canals and lakes that president of Hanover of TEL (207) 781,3207 George Flaherty, the ci ty' s are just now opened to foreign travelers. We're also the leading source for Maine, the largest provider of STENCILS AND STENCIUNG SUPPUES public works director, "and workers' oompensation. ~§~~~~!St 3 Pc. Travel in complete comfon on the new Ruaaian Riverboat MY i! Computer OVER 400 SfENCILS TO CHOOSE FROM: this proposal is a way of Besides Hanover, the other P~OMOV. ~ f!leaIa ~ Ibore excuniona are included. Fly doing just that." Desk Fmruur to Helainki, overnight before continuing on to Ruasia. Our • Gail Grisi • StenciIEase • StenArt companies that notified state ~scort/lec.turer ia Prince GaIitzine, Oxford Univenity. Gain insight • jeannie Serpa • Liberty House Flaherty said his depart regulators on Oct. 31 that mto the history and culture of Russia on this incredible voyage. ment is studying similar PIan to join us now. they intend to stop providing • BRUSHES. PAINI'S: Acrylics, Japan and Paintsticks programs already in effect in For details and complete listing of what's new in '92, please calI. coverage in january are • CLASSES. PERSONAL ATTENTION TO COLOR AND other New England towns DESIGN COORDINATION affiliated with Hartford, 781-3395 "to see what problems we Travelers, Commercial lAnD TOURS and CRUISES, INC. We're easy to find: Just 1/2 mile north of Exit 10, Maine Thrnpike should avoid." Union, Maryland Casualty, "For 1M bur qlllJliry WJCtlriOflS worldw~ . " 100 Gray Road. West Falmouth FOUR FUNDY ROAD, FALMOUTH ME 04105 797-7568 • Tues-Sat 10-4 USF&G, Peerless, Canal and Children's museum American Fidelity. moving downtown The pullout may be in response to a federal lawsuit The Children's Museum of filed earlier this year by a Maine announced Oct. 31 that group of businesses that it will be moving to down Lift Top Desk accused several insurers of town Portland by October ODDS ARE SHE'LL conspiring to fix prices 1992. AFFORDABLE through a similar threatened The museum, which SAY 'YES' ANYWAY. abandonment of the Maine purchased the Greater FAMILY HEALTH CARE market four years ago. BUT WHY NOT Portland Chamber of Com merce building for $300,000, STACK THE DECK Do You Suffer From: USM inaugurates Headaches Sciatica is in the middle of a $2.5 Bejamin Mendlowitz: million capital fund-raising new president Slide Show, discussion and booksigning IN YOUR FAVOR? Back Pain • .'~ . Ann/Leg Pain Friday, November 8 at 6 p.m. campaign which will go Richard Pattenaude was Fatigue . " Anhritis Bc:n '. photographs are found in Tiu lIOOd.lIboat calendar, Woodestuaries between Kittery and 01 Boots, Aaphappy, everything back. begin at4:30 PM.) Call 871-2190for more Cape Elizabeth. BrambllJa Wigwam Sox and more. information. down Lacross Glenn AdamslAssoc~ted Press outerwear. Waterproof Insurance firms 20% OFF Winter Booll threaten pullout en lire line. Companies that provide CycleMania the lion's share of workers' 59 Federal St., Portland cYeealthp cYeollr compensation insurance in (207) 774-2933 Maine have joined their M-W: 10-5:30 smaller competitors in T-F: 10-7; Sat: 10-5 D'S • G E A R threatening to pull out of the market, a prospect some BEHIND LEVINSKY'S. PLENTY OF FREE PARKING 273 St., Portland 772·5357 • Mon.Sat. lawmakers say underscores NorIcmbcr7,1991 9 DESIGN THEA-WORD Continued from front page cafe 110 YODRO It 11(''-1' 'he hi'at ,!:.tH"·, HIl Abortion is commonplace. We talk about the issues surrounding it all the time. But we hardly ever talk about serves abortion itself. PHOTO If you're not a woman who's had an abortion, chances are you know one. She's between 10 and 44 years old. She probably had an abortion when she was anywhere from less CALENDARS than nine to 19 weeks pregnant. It cost between $300 and $500 if she had it in her first trimester. and more The operation was most likely a dilation and suction FOR CHRISTMAS lue_at 11100-9:00 (vacuum aspiration) abortion, the procedure most commonly eunday 2:00 - 8:00 used for pregnancies up to 12 weeks. eloeed mondaya The procedure was safer than invasive surgery in the ''There's no place dentist's chair, according to health-care workers. The woman like it in Portland" experienced mild to moderate discomfort for a couple of days afterwards. Then she returned to the clinic or doctor about ***j M.E. Curley three weeks later for a routine check-up - and went on with Portlond Pr_ Herold her life. 20 danforlh at •• 772-8114 The majority of women who have abortions in the Portland area do so either at the Women's Community Health Center in Portland or at the office of a private physi cian in a nearby town, according to Dr. Phillip Stubblefield, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Maine Med also performs a limited number of MEN IN abortions, as do a few other local physicians and a group practice. RECOVERY Although her experience was shared by tens of thou sands of other women in the state, she probably didn't talk Proactive much about it outside a close circle of family and friends - if Recovery that. "M".'I" 5--'t-old Inf.m clutc.... lit her finger. CBW{To1l« Harbert "My biggest fear was not the actual abortion, but the Groups people around the abortion - who would know, who an abortion. I hate him," she said. and 16 for her second. She said most of the girls she knows 15% off MEN IN RECOVERY, * wouldn't," said one woman who recently had an abortion, "My boyfriend flipped out at first. He didn't really have had the same experience: They started hanging around If ordered groups for men with and who did not want her name used. realize what happened," Maria said. U And then once he with older people, stopped seeing friends their own age, and one or more years in before Thanksgiving! In this way, a silence of intimidation occurs: Doctors realized that I was telling the truth and everything, then he just grew up too fast. successful recovery avoid publicity for fear of becoming the targets of right-to-life was very supportive.'" "This is the worst thing." she said. "If you go to a party seeking a pragmatic, protests; women avoid discussion because of social pressure. Her boyfriend was with her during the abortion, which in South Portland, you'll find 12- and 13-year-old girls who action oriented '. . '...... ,...... '.' ' ...... ' ...... The physician who performs a lion's share of local wasn't as painful as Maria had expected. are getting drunk and doing drugs and going home with the approach to solving abortions is highly sensitive about publicity. His office "1 guess a lot of people think about what the baby would first guy who puts an arm around them." daily life dilemnas. Monday· Friday 8-6. Saturday 10·4 A 4455 Ufe skills M81ket Street (next 10 the Oyster Club) Old port, Portland • nor manager said he chooses to be discreet within the community have looked like, what he would've been like," she said. "I She added wryly that using a condom isn't the first and doesn't talk to newspapers for the sake of patient really didn't think about the baby's life; I know it would've thought that springs to the mind of a drunken 12-year-old. developement confidentiality. been miserable for both of us." '1 can name girls who are 11 years old who have had including: Several other local doctors contacted by CBWalso Although she was firm in her decision to abort, Maria sex," she said. "I was 13." · Setting personal declined to comment for this article. had mixed feelings about discussing the procedure. Dana said she had an abortion the first time because her bounderies & limits NIt's not that the doctors feel bad about what they are "It was just something I didn't want to share," she said, birth control failed. And the second? "Well, I used condoms • Intimacy & sexuaHty· doing." said a health-care worker familiar with the area's searching for words to explain her reluctance. '1 didn't really - but that was only sometimes," she said with a burst of issues for men leading abortion practice. '1t's that they want to protect the tell anybody about it." laughter. · The art of negotiating privacy of their patients." Maria said she wasn't upset that friends knew, but she There were other differences between the two abortions with ~ pa1rer And it's not just protesters who worry these doctors. never told her father. '1'm not entirely secure in his feelings as well. Dana said her first boyfriend was a drug addict, that · Taking ca-e of "There are a lot of parents and boyfriends who don't towards me," she reasoned, "so what is he going to think she was doing drugs and that she worried about their effect yourself financially want their daughters and girlfriends to have abortions. One about me if I tell him? I don't really know what to expect on the fetus. She broke off that relationship after the abortion. • Reciscovering "play" as an adult father came into the waiting room and dragged his daughter from my father. That's what really scares me, is not know Then Dana met someone new and told him about her · St..vMng the out," she said. ing." experience. He was supportive of her and they've been stress of the 90's "It's kind of like the battered women's shelter," she After the abortion, Maria went on the pill. And the seeing each other ever since. added, "you want to keep it as private as possible. Because second time she found herself pregnant, she had no choice "And then the same thing happened with him," she said. · Groups start monthly. (the doctor) has had picketers there, (publicity) would just but to have a child. The second time, Dana went to talk to a counselor who Insurance reimbursable increase picketing and harassment of clients. Those women, Maria missed a couple of periods after going on the pill, specializes in helping people who are unmarried and expect like battered women, go there hoping to avoid their abusive but she said a woman at the clinic told that her irregularity ing. Dana's considerations were very different the second partners and any other kind of hassle." was due to the pill. By the time she returned again, she was For more information call Continued on page 10 And these women, like the medical professionals who six months pregnant. Dr. David Margolis. attend to them, are afraid of talking about abortion. "1 probably would've had an abortion for the baby I have 781-2185. If unavailable. Even women who are not threatened by fathers or now," said Maria, "if it hadn't been too late. leave day ard evenirg boyfriends avoid discussing abortion openly because of more "When I think about what I'm saying, it's like 1 WHERE TO CET PRECNANCY COUNSEUNC phone numbers. All ca'is personally responded to by subtle social pressures. Their shame is based in part on their would've killed this kid, too'" - her hands moved restlessly Community Counseling Center Dr. Iv1argolis. perceptions of unarticulated but pervasive stereotypes about in her lap - "when now I have a baby I love." J43 Forelt Ave., PortlMMl 874-1030 what kind of women have abortions and why. The last three months of her pregnancy were difficult, The center offers all types of counseling, including counseling In the interviews that follow, three local women speak said Maria, because she and her boyfriend were both emo for unwed and teen parents. Sliding fee scale, Medicaid and out about their abortions. Their names have all been changed tional wrecks. The two intended to put the child up for insurance fee reimbursable. at their request. But their stories show that the alienating adoption. experience of abortion is also one of the most common. "But I guess it's not that easy," she said, her voice M.lne Medic" Center softening. "You have a baby and you feel attached. You've ZZ Br.m.... 1 St., Portl.nd 871-4Z21 \ Having a baby been carrying him around for nine months ... When you have The OB/GYN clinic offers a full range of OB/GYN services. Maria was 14 years old when she had an abortion. a baby, you realize more what a human life means." Maine Med also offers a limited number of low Portland taxpayer Patrick Gardner has some great ideas about frosh council would be likely to muster. how to get more of us involved in the difficult task of balancing the • Throwing out the city council won't cut the budget. The man city budget - but recalling the city council isn't one of them. with the most control over the city budget is City Manager Robert Gardner is justifiably angry about the taxes levied against his Ganley - a city employee, not an elected official. Inexperienced Peaks Island home, which doubled after the recent revaluation. He councilors have in the past been less likely to vote against Ganley's is understandably upset that the state "circuit breaker" program, experience. which faces an uncertain future, won't help him much. And he has • Throwing out the city council won't solve the structural raised important criticisms of the ambiguous and inconsistent recall problem that gives Ganley so much power. Instead, the action process in the Portland City Charter. would only worsen the leadership vacuum created by Portland's So Gardner did what more citizens should do: He went to council-manager style of government. meetings, he challenged city councilors, he staged protests, he • And throwing out the city council won't get us a better one. organized what has mushroomed into nothing less than a secession Instead, the action would simply discour movement on Peaks Island - and he began a campaign to recall all age talented and civic-minded residents six Portland city councilors who are not already facing election in from becoming involved. Who would May 1992. work so many hours for such little pay to be treated like that? on Election Day, Gardner and his fellow anti-tax activists Gardner and his fellow citizen activists have done us all a favor gathered an average of 600 signatures on each of the six petitions by bringing this issue so forcefully before us. And we hope he'll they are circulating in order to force a recall election. Gardner has consider running for a council seat next May - his energy and until the end of the month to gather 3,000 signatures on each of the enthusiasm would be a great addition. petitions, which can be Signed at Portland City Hall. But throwing out the council with the bath water is just a bad The complaints by Gardner, by the other supporters of the idea. recall drive and by the Portland Taxpayers Association are valid. Mark these words, gentle reader, for it isn't often that Casco Bay But throwing out the Portland City Council is the wrong way to Weekly defends an existing power structure: This is the most diverse, go about addressing those complaints. forward-looking and hard-working bunch of citizens to grace the • Throwing out the city council won't cut taxes. That will Portland City Council Chambers in years. require more constituent courage and political savvy than an all- Keep the council. (MP) Curt Loeb, a visitor from Phlladelpla, flexes his muscle while drinking" beer • By Tonee Harbert • at Gritty McDuff's In Portland, Oct. 11 . seen keeps on getting away with Janet Mills for governor Liberty's back Keeping quiet I need to tell you person How can you expect 140 everything. taxes owed I am writing to Casco Bay ally how hurt I am, deep caseworkers to cover this It just goes to show both • By Donald Maurice Kreis will tell stories of BIDE entrapping people to commit nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court should start It still amazes me after all Weekly to express my feelings inside, for the decision to load? Why does the amount towns that the rich get richer drug crimes by using all manner of fiscal and sexual asking questions about the pathway to the judiciary the letters that have gone to about the Thomas nomina discount Ani ta Hill's state of abuse rise, and the amount and the poor get poorer with Joe Brennan wants to run for governor again - subterfuge. Stand in any field during the summer here at home. Atwood may be well qualified save the editor and the various tion. There hasn't been a ments, for thatdedsion of programs, employees and no help in sight. or so goes the rumor spreading through Democratic and watch the BIDE helicopters buzzing overhead, his titular baggage, but how come only prosecutors public issue like this one that discounted me and all the money drop? groups dealing with two city I feel 'the city government circles these days. But if the Maine Democratic Party poking into the back yards of minding-their-own and cops get to be judges? When is the last time a council chambers - one in has caught my interest much thousands of women who As a citizen, I ask for needs to get aggressive and has any sense of alrpe diem, any ability left in its business Mainers from the Piscataqua to the Maine governor nominated a defense attorney to the the Portland area and one in as the Hill/Thomas hearings. have suffered in silence by everyone not to let this issue go after this money or these collective political soul to follow the winds of Allagash. Be a little old lady whose grand kids bench? It seems the only political honor we bestow Westbrook, to which I have I've never been involved the words and actions of be swept under the state's towns will not survive all change to their inevitable destination, it will thank happen to run with druggies and watch the govern upon talented defense attorneys is to tum them into in any intellectual debates abusive men. rug again. personally pointed out this these state cuts. Brennan for his tried-and-true approach to winning ment seize your home. Dare to write a newspaper prosecutors, as in the case of Cumberland County problem to the City Council concerning opinions of either It has happened before. Or, we need to look at this 5fo.J Lveskv office, and the party will tum instead to a woman column criticizing BIDE and listen as the assistant District Attorney Stephanie Anderson. members in Westbrook Democrats or Republicans, Cr'i 5iJ Let's recall the young girl issue to see who is running candidate. Not just any woman, mind you, but the director of the Although Anderson won her job last year as a but I found myself reading Crystal Sylvester who was burned to death in how we can allow the Liberty for election and who is woman whom the history of this great state has agency calls your Republican, it is her scrappy, nonpartisan campaign Group (Katahdin Manage the news accounts and Old Orchard Beach an oven in Lewiston in the aggressive enough to go after suddenly thrust to the forefront editor to check up that could serve as a model for Democratic a ment) and all the bureaucracy watching the hearings on TV. 1980s. D.H.S. and the state citizen the money that is truly due That person is Androscoggin County District on you, and then gubernatorial bid by Mills. Anderson's message was around this company to And for the first time in my were questioned then about these towns. Attorney Janet Mills. asks you for your home address. ("Just kidding," that the good old boys ought to stand aside and let a keep getting away with so life I felt someone was Help the children the amount of workers and I feel we need to change Just as Maine's greatest GOP Republican Senator, said Assistant Director Paul Kurtz.) person of competence and principle go to work. much that is owed to both speaking to me. I felt deeply, the programs, but we the the policies on the books and The responsibility of the Margaret Chase Smith, attained political immortal Democrats ought to remind themselves that BIDE Mills could run on a platform of noble Democratic cities. from my own personal public let it calm down. Let's not have one for businesses rape of the six-month-old ity with her stirring "statement of conscience" that was a bipartisan creature of Reagan-era drug principles - compaSSion, and visionary approaches experience, the truth of Anita . start to help the children, by I would like to know why, and corporations and one for child is not the Department of was a decisive blow against McCarthyism, Mills has hysteria. At a time when drug abuse was actually to the problems of governance - while shedding Hill's words. taking care of abuse at a state with all the cuts coming homeowners. Human Services' or the courageously stepped forward to say that Maine's declining in the United States, visionless Democrats Democratic baggage like the party's complicity with down from Augusta to the I grew up with a father level. We need to get aggressive young man who committed home-grown secret police operation, the Bureau of like former Attorney General James Tierney signed BIDE. taxpayers of these towns, who was in the public eye and go after this money like the crime. Even though he is 4 \c..<; "Le..W Intergovernmental Drug Enforcement (BIDE), will onto the scheme by Republican U.S. Attorney Janet Mills has done nothing to encourage much of his life, a lawyer, why something more isn't they do for people who owe responSible for his actions, not squash her - and that BIDE is state terrorism Richard Cohen to create a secret police agency with gubernatorial speculation. It is likely she has no done to collect this money much respected and looked Douglas Neff parking tickets. So lets look at both are victims of the state's run riot (or words to that effect). nearly unlimited powers that was essentially interest in the ordeal of a statewide political cam now that it is overdue, other up to by the whole commu South Portland who is truly running for avoidance of child-care Mills' allegations, that BIDE sought to silence her accountable to nobody - certainly not to its "titular paign. But her David and Goliath battle with BIDE is then liens being placed on the nity. Our home looked like election, who can really make issues. We are spending too ongOing criticism by investigating her personal life head," the public safety commissioner. In a sense, the most exciting development of the year in state properties. I know from a the lovely, perfect home to changes. We need to reform much time placing blame, and then leaking lies about her supposed drug and John Atwood is taking the fall for a hydra-headed politics, and no one who has read anything about it one standing outside looking taxpayer's point of view this our cities. and less time correcting the sexual practices, have deservedly stymied Governor monster for which Democrats are as responsible as can help being impressed with her tenacity and would not be allowed if the in. problem. McKernan's nomination to the Superior Court of the Republicans. common sense. Her impending lawsuit against shoe was on the other foot! r<.~ t But I can tell you that it The responsibili ty for this Public Safety Commissioner John Atwood, famous Only Janet Mills has distinguished herself as a BIDE is terrific news - but there ought to be 4'lCUJ.v-t was far from lovely behind I feel that the system and Nancy Roderick act rests upon Jock these days as the "titular" head of BIDE. Democrat who stands for this proposition: Criminals another trial, for everyone in politics who ever went those doors, for this wonder policies are unfair to both Hamlet Coach Park McKernan; you and myself. Lovers of freedom and the right to privacy ought ought to be prosecuted but Mainers ought not to be along with BIDE and all that it represents. fully respected, intelligent, towns and we need to look at Westbrook Gross misappropriation of to ask why BIDE had to go after someone as power persecuted - and certainly not by an army of the people who are coming admired lawyer, judge of funds, and the denial of the letters ful as Mills before the Legislature, especially renegade undercover cops driving big cars seized Donald Maurice KTeis has movtd to a new home since giving up for election to try to deal probate and public utilities severity of cases, have both Democrats, began raising questions about BIDE's from previous targets. tire assistant director of BIDE his old address. with these issues. With over commissioner in Maine, been encouraged by the state. Casco Bay Weekly tactics. Call any defense lawyer in the state and she Citizens who are all worked up about recent So has his editor. $500,000 due to the city of would molest me on a weekly Children are being welcomes your letten. Portland in back taxes and basis from the time I was 11 victimized, brutalized and Please keep your $63,000 due to the city of years old until I got the hell ignored by the state, which thoughts as brief as you Editor: Monte Pmt1sen Arts Editor: Ellen Liburt PhotoJournllllst: Tonu Harbert Illustrator: Too OshimR Westbrook, how can the out chooses to treat child abuse Regular Contrlbuton: Wayne Curtis, Eric Hannelius, Paul KRrr, Donald Maurice Kreis, Margot McWilliams, Mike Quinn people of both towns look the And not once did I ever as a "family problem." Well can (300 words, max.), Production Manager: Elissa Conger Graphic Designer: Laurie Spugnardi Layout Artist: KRren Gallagher Circulation: Robert Lord other way and not do consider telling this shameful Jock, abuse only works if Include a daytime phone secret I kept for him until I Customer Service Manager: Robyn Barnes Classlfled Manager: Michael Pajak Advertising: Marilyn Blinkhorn, Maureen Magee, something about this situa people stay quiet. The public number, and address to C4ry SmRrt Advertising Manager: Larry Haws Acting Publisher: Seth Sprague President: Dodgt! D. Morgan tion? was 41. So I know all about is not anymore. Why were Our taxes keep going up what keeping quiet is, not just over 2,000 cases investi Letten, Casco Bay 551A Congress St., portland, Me 04101 2077756601 fax 207 775 1615 and services keep getting cut. risking being re-victimized gated last year, when over Weekly, 551A Congress and discounted. However, this company 17,000 were reported? St., Portland, ME 04101. l' the vitality of the local Auditorium, level B2, Union, Bowdoin College, The Casco Cheap thrill: Make like ~ leaf region, and how this Mercy Hospital, 144 State Brunswick. Call Lorraine at Remember when you were II kid and had to rake the lawn before you could partnership impacts the St. Call 879-3486 for info. 236-6328 to hunt down Bay Weekly play? Well, think of how Portland's parks personnel feel each fall when they are behavior of the university, those wild details. Entertainment faced with raking all of Deering Oaks ParI(. It's almost enough to make a generating a stakeholder Calendar: leaf town. role for the community. 10 days and Now you can say thank you to the good folks who keep things green and Breakfast begins at 7:35 • '1 sucked and sucked and blooming the rest of the year by lending them a hand on the First Annual a.m., the program at 8:05. more ways sucked some more/I sucked Raking Day, Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Of course, altruism is ultimately They'll be followed by a until my lips were sore," selfish, but who cares if everyone benefits. Just think of all the benefits that will question and answer period to be says one of the sisters in ''''-'-"'IP to you through your generous volunteerlsm: at 8:35. Eggs 'n Issues is a Portland Stage CO.'s adapta Raking leaves from the edges of the pond will get you better Ice this \Allr,t .. r monthly breakfast/ speaker • "Breaking Hunting's Grip • Philharmonia Virtuosi, a Informed, Raking leaves around the Oaks will Improve the grass and minimize erosion. tion of Christina Rossetti's program sponsored by the on Life in Maine": Tonight 20-piece orchestra con Submissions for Entertainment Weekly get Involved poem. Not necessarily a Raking leaves will put the roses In your cheeks and the crisp air In your lungs. Portland Community from 6:30 to 8:30, The Non ducted by Richard Kapp, sections must be received In writing on the sexual allegory ... "Goblin Raking leaves will make you feel you are giving something back to your Chamber of Commerce in Hunters Rights Alliance will will give a concert tonight Thursday prior to publication. send your and stay Market" is a musical drama community. the ballroom of the Sonesta present a conference on the at 7:30 including the works Calendar and Listings Information to Ellen in verse depicting the Bring gloves and boots, a rake, and good company. Bring money for the Hotel, 157 High St., Port clash between hunting and of Ives, Copland & Mozart. Llburt, Casco Bay Weekly, 551A Congress St., amused. desires of women impris farmer's market from 8 a.m. till noon. Bring good cheer! Call Portland Recre land. Admission is $11 for modem society with guest Bowdoin College Professor Portland, ME 04101. oned in a society which Division 874-8793 for more Info. chamber members, $15 for speakers Heidi Prescott, of Music Elliott Schwartz version of '1ack and the prohibits those desires. Go non-members. Pre-registra National Outreach Director will join the orchestra as Beanstalk," as adapted by One of these young see this lively production tion is required by Nov. 8; for the Fund for Animals, piano soloist for a perfor Charles Ludlam. The ladles sucked and tonight at 7:30 at Portland call 772-2811. and Arnold Baer, New mance of Ives' "Hallow production is a joint effort sucked until her lips Stage Co., 25A Forest Ave., England Regional Director een." The PV is big-time: with King Middle School, were sore. Find out Portland. Tix are $12 to for the Humane Society of it's performed since 1974 at and involves a cast of three more Thursday, Nov. 7. $2650; call 774-0465 for the United States. The focus the Kennedy Center, Avery adults and 18 young people. Photo ,",dil: D TOGETHER IN e . Thl Thill. Projlet pre ..nts: F· .. ···L····jvE"i.y·~ CONCERT! i< Antoine de Saint Exupery's IIESTIS lift!! -) :£1') JOHN PRESTON : ,.:~ ART S SIlIlI5: SAT., NOV. 23 ~~, ~ . ~~ IIUthor: The Big Gay Book •••••••••••••••••••••••••• BEST 8:00 PM ~ , .. " . ;r- Wlndh... Hili '.:0 ·great lind editor: Hometowns ••c ...... nl Art.... People hesitant to call a .st:::;:. , Along with your • great music ALLDAY CITY HALL AUD. will be present for II dating service-until they Welcome11j\(4~ to ~ Ca!IClO Bay WeeJcly'IJ • great beer & wine T.fte [ttili learned about the meal enjoy a choice ~11 BREAKfAST Portland J_ BOOK SIGNING • BookI..,d of Maine Thursday No'P., 7 at 7:30 pm of 45 of the best • Nov 7 SATURDAY &. SUNDAY • Sound Alternatives, Special Guest: NOVEMBER 9 - 24 tJ NEW WAY TO The Alan Nevew QuIntet Portland 6AMle 2PM Thurs. thru Sat. at 7 pm MEET IN THE 90s. wines for under $20 .Nov8&9 • K.J. Wolfles, Portland JOHN GORKA Sunday Matinees at 2 pm RA·F F L E S The Bagel Shop Trio Featurtng • The Theater, Portland We m&y know sonuone spel!ild a bottle. • Nov 10 • Clark's UnfinIshed deYeloped w-.itina to know you. • Eggs Benedict TICKETS improvisariorslly Open Jazz Jam • Belgian Waffles Furniture, Scarborough C·A·F·E • Nov i3 • The Theater Project, $15, 20 & 22.50 by -0 lurtl. Island TfIE Open Poetry ReadIng • Homemade Brunswick Th, Young 883-1066 Corned Beef Hash • Tuckerman's Outfitters, TICK.~ 7}1-~S"rG,=" PlOP I,', TheIler BOOKSTORE String Quart.t. • Nov 13 directed by AI Miller Portland VIntage Repertory Company • french VaniHa Yogurt Freeport 800/382·8080 Nov, 22, 8 PM TIx: $12 ,,-~ W~1DE presents Peter Schatfer's with Stawberrfes • Dr. Stephen Winkler, D.C., music by Brad Terry Portland Tickets now on·sale at TICKETS· $5 Kresgie Auditorium on the PRIVATE EAR 783-1500 Qr:&TAUQANT Breakfast Mon-FM 6AM to t tAM • Dr. David Margolis, all Tidetmaster outlets Bowdoin College Campus, . serving breakfa&. open jazz jam sunday 4:3U-Hpml Lunch Mon-FM llAM·2.PM Falmouth (including Tangerines in CALL FOR Brunswick Lewiston • lAdd Tours and Cruises, SIl Portlandl and at The RESERVATIONS: lunch. dinner @ suooay brunch rel!ervationl welcome 98 Portland Street Record Exchange in Old ..,ld.!. .,Iowd _ Pol. , Falmouth 729-8584 hcI...... , .... closed mondays Opposite MaIn Post Office I'IIrt. For more info. taU 555 CONGRESS SfREET u_ e.un. Ray I"";" "".... idl"..! .. 58 Pine Street 773·8223 • Brunswick Ford, Brunswick t4 SCHOOLSI ec..a.. """" ~a mare 1110 JeQ.IOn kI.~ & 10 C01llpatibles 20 danforth st. • 772-81 PO~~lI'Id 773-2096 611/5241272. BRUNSWICK PORTLAND • 761-3930 d>otgo iOn by""""', 001715-3201 , B:JO.5. MI • 16 C= &zy Wully Ncroember 7, 1991 1 7 Oth.r Peopl... Money Danny Devito stars "Goblin Market" Portland Stage Com as a real estate developer who enjoys pany will open its season with a rrusical SAfflRE~~~ Entertainment spending other people's money. adaptation by Polly Pen and Peggy Paradl.. MelanieGriffith and Don Johnson Harmon 01 Christina Rossetti's richly SOlDe Faets About star in this film based on the French fitm evoc:aUve Victorian poem, "Goblin Mar "Le Grand Chemin" (The Grand Highway), ker telts the story oltwo adult sist«n who Reuaissanee in which a couple estranged over the retlJ'n to their childhood nursery and em death 01 their child take in a friend's 10- bark on a magicat journey through merrory year-oid boy in Paradise, Mich. and imagination, Directed by EYan Greeting Cards: Appearing in November Yionoulis, director 01 last season's Rambllnll Ro.. A southern family hires an CURT BESSETTE "Mirandolina," Through NoY 24 - Tues, irrepressible young woman from the other --They're UNIQUE Wed & Thurs at 7:30; Fri 8 at pm: Sat at 5 Slnger/songwrHer side olthe tracks and then must deat with featuring songs & 9 pm; Sun at 2 pm - at the Portland her innocent sexual prec:oc:ity. Stars Laura -- Th~ Create Cards for from his new Performing Arts Center, 25A Forest Ave, Alii W.nt for Chrlst"",s Two New York Dern and Robert Duvall; directed by ALL OCCASIONS release "Harbor" Tix: $12-$26, Call 774-0465 to reserve. Beginning 11/6 Cily children want to bring togather their Marthe Coolidge. ·God.... l1· Waynllete's Uppar School stu estranged parents for the holiday season, Requiem for DomInic Shot while events --ALL New Cards are Printed dents will present their rrusical NoY 14-15 Stara Leslie r-lelsen, Lauren Bacall, Ethan were changing the poInical climate daily, Wed.8-11pm at 7:30 pm and NoY 16 at 1 at Waynefleet on RECYCLED PAPER TIlu,,- 8- mldnlghl Randall and Thora Birch, "Dominic" is a investigative doc:OO'lIIntary School, 360 Spring SI., Portland. Adrris Frl. &. Sal: 8:30pm-12:300m Arch"II" Guy Maddin's f'Tales from the drama. Dominic Paraschiv died alter be TDmD"DIII Night FreePol1 Hot Ch.rry PI" (rock) Old Port Tavern. 11 Open Mle NI,ht with P"ter Glea... n Moulton St. Portland. 774-0444. (b.y.o. jam) Spring Point Cafe. 175 Pickett DOES YOUR HEALTH Entertainment Aztec Two-step (Iolk & rol~ Raoul's Road St. S. Portland. 767-4627. UPCOMING • Fun Classes For Beginners, side Attraction. 865 Forest Ave. Portland. PORTlANDfS NEWEST DANCE NIGHT! Will Turner (acoustic) Wharf's End. 52 Laur. Kargul 11115191 (pianist) 8 pm, intermediates & Advanced? 773-6886. Wharf St. Portland. 773-0093. CortheilConcerI Hall. USM Gorham cam Th. Wave Bre.k.ra (rock) Spring Point • Specialization In Women Only? pus. Mozart·s Sonata in 0 Major. K 311; Cafe. 175 Pickell St. S. Plid. 767-4627. • Over 35 Classes Per Week? Schumann's Fantasy in C Major; Uszl's • Informative Seminars & Speakers? Eight to the Bar (rock) T-Birds. 126 N. Balade No. 2& Ravel's solo piano V81Slon Boyd st. Portland. 773-8040. ~ F RID A Y • Great Step Classes? WEDNESDAY 11.13 of La Valse. Tix: $8 public. $4 students. *.1 • Convenient Hours? Marc Brann (acoustic) TIpperary Pub, seniors. faculty & stall. Caq 780-5555. • Continued from ptzgt17 Sheraton Tara Hotel. S. Plid. 775-6161. VIntage Repertory Company'. ·Prlvat• • Personalized Service? Canadian Bra.. 11/15191 (brass) 8 pm. WHEREHOUSE Road Hon. (rock) Tha Wrong Brothers e.,. by Peter Shaller(theater) cafe no. 20 • Plenty Of Free Parklng? Portland Cily Hall Auditorilm. 30 Myrtle Pub at Port Biliards. 39 Forest Ave. Port Danlorth St. Portland. 772-8114. st. TIx: $10. $16. $21 & $25. children half with d.j.'. Nov 7: WORRY DOLLS • Aerobic Classes & Equipment land. 775-1944. ComecI}r NI,ht (laughs) Falher O'Hara's price. 772-8630. & In One Program? Public House. 45 Danlorth St. Portland. Th. PrId. of Main. Rddlln, Flltlval111 ~ -.,n" ai- 871-1579. • Low Monthly Dues? 1fi/91 (French-Canadian. Acadian & coun ~ full bar • 21+ Nov 84-: 9: TIlE LOOK • Babysitting Services? Bachelor.' NI,ht (xxx) Moose Alley. 46 try-style) 8 pm. Bishop Feeney Audito Market st. Portland. 174-5246. Ifyou ,n,w" NO 10 2 Dr mOff Dllh,,, qUllliofll... SATURDAY 11.9 rium. Saint Joseph's College. Standish. STAGE Plnlc Station (rock & blues) Old Port Tav Adnisslon: adults. $3.50 seniors & $5 funkfest with DON'T DELAY - CALL TODAY/ "The M ...... MIIn" The Windham Center Privet. Property (mellow) Bramhall Pub, ern, 11 Moulton St. Portland. 774-0444. kids. $15 lamilies. 892-6788 ext 1240. Stage Th.... tre present. the rruslcal 768 Congreaa St. Portland. 773-9873. Charll. Mu... lwhlt. (blues) Raoul's Introductory through Nov 24 at 8 pm at the Windham Th. 88gel Shop Trio (jazz) cale no. 20 RoedsideAllraction. B65 ForestAw. Port 1 Montbs$69 Center Stage Theatre on the Windham Danforth S~ Portland. 772-8114. land. 773-6886. Offer (expi ..... 11121191) Center Aced. Eve perfomances areal 8. Ecldle Kirtdanel & T1Ie Ene.,., 88ne1 N.w 88nd Night (rock) Spring Point Cafe. Sunday matne. at 2. The: $5-$8; for (blues) Father O'Hara's Public House. 45 175 Pickett st. S. Portland. 767-4627. rMerVIItlons & group rates. ca/I Marll Danforth St. Portland. 871-1579. PrIvIIta To," (rock) T-Birds. 126 N. Boyd Ryder at 874-2357. Women's Fitness Love Cactu. & TIle Unt Don.... (rock) st. Portland. 773-8040. "The PrIvata e."VintageRepertory~ Geno'•• 13 Brown st. Portland. 772-7891. Bill Cameron .ndJ• ...",LIIt.r(acous (rear) 170 US Rt I, Falmouth 781.4502 pany wi. ~t thlaone-act comedy by Mldnl,ht RIder (rock) Gritty McDuff'•• 396 tic) Wharf'. End. 52 Wharf st. Portland. Pe.. Shaffer. author 01 .~: Nov Fore st. Portland. 772-2739. 773-0093. 13 .t 8 pm .t cale no. 20 Danforth Sl Seon 0.k1., Trio Oazz) Little Willie's. 38 Open Mic NI,ht with the Cool Whlpe ~l.§ a AVAILABLE FOR CHRISTMAS PARTIES. Adrniealon $5. Call 772-8114 tor info. Market st, Portland. 773-4500. (bkJes & rock The Wrong Brothers "8h1 ....'V ... ntln.· Doing SlJange ThingI ianV "1'\' II at T1Ie Bicycle TIll... (a~ernallves) Mooee Pub at Port Biliards. 39 Forest Ave. Port in the Name of An (the c:orT"p8ny that Alley. 46 Marlcet st. Portland. 774-5246. land. 775-1944. ZOOTZ broughlyou 1a8lsulTl"lW'."GaI1nJdeSIein Hot Cherry Pie (rock) Old Port Tavern. 11 & A Co"1l8nloni. ~ts thla comedy Moulton S~ Portland. 774-0444. ~~\. about Shirley Valentine: She·.42. herkidl ®rown. 9he talk. 10 thewa/I. and then. TIl. Bo ...... (rock) Raoul's Roadside Jofinny rJ) 's Maine's ~ Authentic suddenly. Mro. Joe Bradshaw _12•• Atlraction.865 ForestAve. PIId. 773-6886. DANCING ART Oyster Bar moment 01 life. there to disco_ that N.twork (rock) Spring Point Cafe. 175 InsideMro. JoeBredshawwaits thefomao Pickell St. S. Portland. 767-4627. Golla Danc., Inc., "ThorTv-Ion'. Point. ShIIIeyValentineionging togetoul. Shirley. Cool (rock) T-Bil'ds. 128 N. Boyd st. second IIoor Bldg 1A. Portland. Smoke OPENING Serving Lunch & Dinner 11:30am·llpm W., and chem-Iree dances with swing. Lalin& 31 FOREST AVE breeki'lg out of her mould. II shown with Portland. 773-8040. Lounge Hours 11: 30am-lam hlmOl'. warm syr11l8thy and humin In ...Ight Up (POP) Tlpp8ftlry Pub. Sheraton balroom music Fridays from 9-12 pm & Hitchcock Gallery. 602 Congress St. Port sight by Wily Ru ...... author of "EclJcat Tara Hotel. S. Portland. 775-6161. SUndays from 3-6 pm. $5. 773~558. land. Opening reception Nov 10 Irom 1-4 PORTlAND 425 Fore Street. Old Port. Portland. 772-7713 Ing RiIII." Nov 13-Dec 29. with an 8 pm Open Mualc Educato.. ' JIZZ/Jam Sa. The r.-. 425 Fore st. Portland. Open pmfor·An as Daily Rituar by Paul Plante. MlC & VISA Aa:epted • Ample Pa.rkinQ • Formerly Blue Moon curtain Wed. Thu. Fri & Sat. and Sat & Sun • Ion Vemllo's Convention Center. 8 Riv nightly. 8 pm on... Frl-Sat until 3 am. 773-Ql76. 773.8187 Co_: $2. Thursday's arecoliegeaHerna mati..-.t2. at the storefront Theatre.t ersidest. Tumpike Exit 8, Plid. 846-9741. T1Ie La... o.lI.ry, Portland Public li It's Football Season live night. No co_ with college 10. $1 Bookland. MaIneSavlngoPlaza (comerof Road Hou.. (rock) The Wrong Brothera braIy.5 Monument Square. Opening I"& wtthout. 871-0063. ad,$ Brown & Congress). TIx $15. Call 774- Pub at Port Billiards. 39 Forest Ave. Port ception Nov 7 from 5-7 pm for "Bangor or 6741to_. land. 775-1944. Seluta.. 20 Mill SI, Portland. Open nightly Bust: juried visual art exhibition of work Watch the Game unlil1 am. No cover. 774-4200. by Maine residents ages 59 and older. T·BlnI'.. 126 N. Boyd st. Portland. Sun: The works in the show will share the and enjoy footbaI altemoon. comedy night; Mon. theme of "home." Sponsored by FREE ALIW:OST FREE AUDITIONS Iootbal perty; Wed. local bands; Thurs. Portland's Danlorth Gallery. Throug h Nov FAMOUS mo\-f1£ff,c! FREE MUNCHIES college night; Fri & Sat. bands and/or 29. Slide presentation at 6 about pr8'olious Volcano S'n tlO(c.(I,lIO 2 Dinners for $9.95 T1IeChlklren'. T1Ieaterof M.lnellhold deejay. all contemporary dance music. shows and services 01 the Danforth Gal Wings 's(l.1.lL£! Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday ing auditions and Intet'Views lor its holiday 773-8040. lery. Hours: Mon. Wed & Fri 9-6; Tues & VOL~ANO 11 am - 9 pm . Sunday 12 Noom.ber7,1991 23 Cod.pendent Wo.... n Come gain a basic Hold.y Cr'Itft CI•• Judy Faust. local Entertainment understanding of codependency. how artist. wil be offering this class for chi stereotyped female roles have historically dren5-8&9-12starting Nov 12. This four "-1 codependent, and the att~udes and w_ prograrn wil be held at S. Portland methods necessary for recovery and rec center from 3:3()'5 pm. Ages 5-8 wil change. Speaker will be Cathy meet Tuesdays, ages 9-12 will meet Levendusky. administrator of The Recov Wednesdays. Cost: $30. Pr&-raglstration berry Street ery Center at Mercy Hospital. The presen and prE>-payment are required. Call 767- tation wil be followed by a question and 7650 for mont lnfo. answer period. It·s free in the Medical • Con linued {rom page 21 LIve Reptll. Program Professional envi Staff Memorial AuditorlUll\ level B2. at BEST CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN MAINE ronmental educalors from The Chewonki Mercy Hospital.l44 State St, Portland. Foundation of Wiscasset will present two complimentary gift wrapping tool Cal 879-3486 for more info. natll'lll history programa designed for Head. N.ck and Should.r M ....ge 83 India Street Portland ME 04101 (201) 775-5011 • Mon-Sat 11-5 chldren In kindergarten through eighth Christina Lyons. a certified massage thera grade. The Maine Parents for GiftedfTaJ. ~I/ pist. wil teach beginning as wei as axp& ented Youth lnvite all aree children to rienced participants to identify appropri participate Nov 18 at 9 am at the School SENSE ate massage strokes for maxirrum relax Halloween originals House ArIII Center, Route 11 • • Sebago ...... F8m1IJMoney Men.ge.... "' .. mI ation and/or stirrulation. and to perform Lake. Uva ReptIle Progt8II1: Hanness rat INI, Kerry Courtk:e of A.G. Edwards & By now, the equivalent of last week's Rocky Mountain ~ugar strokes correctly. Offered byUSM LWeline snake, turtle, allgator and green iguana. Sons inviteefamillee \0 attend a free money Nov 7 from 6:3()'9 pm In the Ca~ GUITAR STUDIO Halloween high has crumbled back down into the usual hill-and KidI are In .... ted fo \ouch the rapt.. In a nanagamant-nnar. Thetwo-pert..n Center. Rooms B & C. at the Portland non-threatening atmosphere. Maine's nar is designed to help fIImllal CMII'COm& dale routine of the normal junk food malaise (less sugar, tastes ca~ on Falmouth Street. Faa: $17. great). Predators: Uva kaatreI falcon. Chidren All styles WORKSHOP the obe1acIeIo of Innatlon. taxation and Pr&-registration required. Cal 780-4170. leam about misunderstood predators. procraetinatlon. Featured~k8risKeny Anyway, as another Halloween passes into the p~verbial bag, "Not Old, R.turn to SprIng" Expressive Coat: $6 per child per program; $10 lor Courtice, who has 0YfJIf seval yearw' ex All aves some reflection of who and what came to our doors IS necessary. Therapy Center introduces concept. of both. Pn>-reglstration required. space lim perience planning investment strategies traditional Chinese medicine. meditative ited; call 642~. Special attention throughout Maine and New England. Part Kids are much smarter than they used to be. Either that or they have exercise fundamentals with Beijing's Zhao 1IMI Portland PublIc 1..IbNry'a Chllclren .. I of the &Minar wil be held Nov 7 from to beginners extraordinary in-house staffs with highly developed briefing skills. Mel. MD. Nov 13 from 7-8:30 pm at 150 Room u .. for the week of Nov 7: Private 5:30-7:30 pm. Part II will be held Nov 1. at ac ..... A skinny, serious kid showed up wrapped in a set of kinky locks St. John Street in PtId. Call 871 -8274. Nov 8.10:30 am. Talea for Twos; Nov 9. Professional the same tm.. At the AG. Edwards of and chains. TIle only logical question was, "Who in all saints are Sah,q. Yoga Ills time you got your enlght 10:30 am. "More Storiea Around the Instruction fices at Two Portland Square, PHd. To 113·3444 enment. Costa no money, just. desire to WoI1d," a chldren's play ~ted by "'IIister cal 77.-5620. you?" Without flinching, he offered, "I'm Harry Houdini, real ~e know yourself. Wedn8sctaysat7pmlnthe Theater; Nov 11 .lbrarycloeed N J TcaU &he claill offwith .ome good CemlClll Coolcing/ DR. KATH£RIN£ J. MOODY :n...cfo,. - S-..lo,.. Accurate • Affordable • Fast. Non-Destructive C£RTIf"IED eL.1"1eJU. HY_OTHERAPtST Dinner 5 &0 9 pm CERTIFIED HYPtotOAHAESTttESlOI..OO1ST CoU for DoiJy sp«;.u, R ...,.",tio,.... Acc.plad Portland, Maine 04108 729-9673 C~L.L. TOO~Y TOLL-FREE 1-800-788-6891 RTE 123, NO. HARPSWELL, ME (207) 766-9723 We wi! be dooIng __30 lor .. ...- (207) 828-4849 . Community "BEST IN TOWN!" \ cable Network GOLDEN FRIED CHICKEN ~... of11/8/81 • LIVING TAPESTRIES: BBQ SPARERmS Looking 10 Ih. 90's: with. homemade .sauce My F•• ls Too Big (1/2 hr) CATFISH SPECIAL • USM CLOSEUPS: Daan Davis &. Judy Tizon discuss • fresh water • (1/2 with. tarter .sauce Christoph.r Columbu. hr) • IRELAND TODAY: An AU meals corne with "Super" Vegetables Interview with For YOUT Party Slavl Concannon (1 hr) CaU for 100 or more pieces of • POWER &. STEELE ON THEATER: The Aclor'. Golden Fried Chicken Persplctive (112 h) • IN THE GALLERY: The Hunlar .. ·.I~" Dinner Hours: and Ihl Hunlad (1/2hr) ',,,• 8OUTBlBlt'• •••• Monday· Saturday 5·9pm ~ Programs premiere Fri. 7-10pm, ~~A~...... , We serve small parties. and are repeated Sat. - Moo. 1-4 & 7·1Opm and Tues., Wed., Call tor take out; '1'13-89" & Thurs. 9am-noon. Cable Channel 37 In Portland, SO. Port· 14 VEB.Al\TDA ST•• PORTLAND land, Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth, & Scar· borough. Channel varies in Gorham. Gift Baskets for the Holidays Feeling Addiited to Food? DON'T GO ON A DIET! ORDER EARLY NOV 6-10 WE[)'SAT9 • Cheese Platters for 1J;;';MATI:15 CONTROL YOUR WEIGHT PERMANANTLY your Holiday Parties WIlli CLINICAL HYPNOSIS WORKSHOP • Taking Orders for OBSESS] O'J.£ Holiday Pates NOV 9-12 Call today for Free Introductory Session November 13, 1991 Portland ARCHANGEL Class Begins November 20,1991 Wme&Cheese NOV RUSSELL MOAT L.C.s.w. lJTU. SAT·SUN I, 7 Delicious Homemade Soups Daily I New Hours Starting Nov. 14: REQUIEM CERTIFIED HYPNOTHERAPIST. 775·1771 Tel: 772-4647 • Fax 772·5294 Mon·Wed & Sat: 9:'30·5:30 168 Middle Sl in Portland's Old Port Thurs« Fri: 9:30·7:30 DOMINIC 757 Congress St., Portland "Dos and Don'ts" Parenting Guide THE HIGHLIGHT A senSible, direct and easy-to-read parenting guide. OF YOUR LIFE! let our staff add customized Designed to provide direction for highlights to your hair wi1hout parents, to furnish them with subtracting time from your busy lifestyle by USing the NEW understanding of their child's Colorgraphics Highligh1ing System. behavior and to instill confidence. irS FUN Issues and behaviors are Irs FAST Irs FASHION common in childhood and HOW'S MY Brilliant highlights make your hair adolescence. Telis parents what shimmer and shine with a new vitality. to do and what not to do. Indexed DRIVING? CALL MATRIX and alphabetized. Written by carl 207-780-4909 Metzger, M.D., who has a private psychotherapy practice in Portland, and hosts "Healthllne," a weekly radio talk show. Send $10.95 check or money order to: Good Parenting Guide The Lost Highway P.O. Box 15237, Portland, Maine 04101 8 EXCHANGE STREET 8:30 - 7:00 M-F Wednesday 9 - 11 am PORTLAND, MAINE 775-2555 8:30 - 5:00 SAT