Since 1958 FREE www.touristnewsmaine.com August 16-22, 2018 Volume 60, Issue 16 . for the people who live here, visit here and love it here. TouriSt NewS Pastel Sunset by Holly Lombardo ART MUSIC FOOD SHOPS LIVING kittery | york | ogunquit | wells | kennebunk | kennebunkport | arundel | biddeford | saco | old orchard beach PAGE 2 TOURIST NEWS, AUGUST 16-22, 2018 Note to Readers: Meet Cover Artist Holly Lombardo Hold onto your Tourist News issues. I've been a painter my whole With rotating listings and resources, timeless stories and loads of art, life, I just didn't know it. I am each issue's shelf life extends a self-taught artist. I now paint well beyond issue dates! exclusively with acrylics and continue to be surprised with the vibrancy and effects I can IN THIS ISSUE August 16-22 create with mixing colors and their juxtaposition on the canvas. Because I attended an Local Heroes . PAGE 3 engineering school and did not take art after middle school, Dogs of the Kennebunks . PAGES 4- 5 I paint with purposeful urgency, putting onto canvas the Outreach. PAGES 6-7 colors and textures I've noticed since I was a child. Local Scene . PAGES 8-9 When I am in the woods or near the ocean, I not only hear Day Tripper. PAGES 10-11 the sounds and smell the air, but I see colors. Growing up In the Art World . PAGES 12-13 as a child in Brunswick, Maine, I have always noticed the The Beat . PAGE 15 colors in nature. It is nature's color palette that inspires Calendar . PAGES 16-17 my work. I was so happy to be able to grace to cover Downtown Page . PAGES 20-21 of the 2017 Summer LLBean catalog, having grown Guest Editorial. PAGE 23 up just 10 minutes from the flagship store in Maine. Dine Around. .PAGE 24 I am also a mother of two beautiful daughters. On Stage . .PAGE 25 Contact info: www.HollyLombardoArt.com, Activities . .PAGES 26- 27 Instagram: @HLombardoArtist Fishing Report. PAGE 29 Facebook: Holly Lombardo Art Nightlife . .PAGE 30 Community From the Publisher's Desk Compassion 25 Dock Square - Kennebunkport It's easy in this life 207.204.0396 KINGSLEY GALLUP to get so caught up in www.jakdesigns.com Celebration OWNER AND PUBLISHER the flurry and frenzy of Open 7 days a week it all that we don't stop Outreach GRAPHICS EDITOR to think about the WHY GERALDINE AIKMAN VentiCordi Summer Concerts 10th Anniversary Season! ourisT ews Taff Goodwill - the WHY behind the CONTRIBUTING WRITERS goals we have set and the Thurs., August 16, 7 PM FAITH GILLMAN. DANA PEARSON, the activities in which we are presently - ‘Continual Journey’ T N s and often feverishly - engaged. VALERIE MARIER, KRISTIN KUEHNLE, JO O'CONNOR, S. Congregational Church, But what's most important? Is it STEVE HREHOVCIK, GREG METCALF, ROB COBURN WHAT we do? Is it HOW we do it? Or Kennebunkport CHAMBER MUSIC DISTRIBUTION BOOKKEEPING is it really about WHY? 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Tourist News Contributors This Issue Guest Contributors Valerie Jo Rob Dean John Marier O’Connor Coburn Johnson Goffar Guest Writers: is a free- is a local is a has is a Rhode Tourist News lance writer with mar- written Island na- deep roots wants to hear journalist keting about tive who in Ken- strat- now lives who has Maine's from you! nebunk- egist in San Di- traveled southern the world writing for port. She is a mother and copywriter. He’s ego, California. He mar- coast for many years We are always magazines and news- of twins and the found- written feature articles, ried into a Maine family and for many pub- papers. She moved to er/lead singer of the speeches, TV and radio and has been coming to looking for guest Maine from the New popular local band, commercials, print ads, lications, including Vacationland in Winter voices - creative The Dock Squares. She brochures, blogs and both Boston dailies. and Summer for more York metropolitan voices, expert area thirty years ago. teaches Zumba and websites but never un- He grew up in his than 20 years. He enjoys She considers the Ken- aqua classes, is an on- der his own name. He’s family's Ogunquit the outdoors and com- voices, young nebunks home but line marketing commu- from away but is here to restaurant, spent pleted numerous triath- voices, business nication professor at stay. He’s a Registered lons and ran the Chicago loves every inch of the time on Drake's Is- voices. Whatever Pine Tree State. Val is Northeastern Univer- Maine Guide in training land, and now is part Marathon. He is a lawyer sity and Lasell College, a happy wife, moth- and leads summer bike of the Cape Porpoise by trade, and got his feet your age, what- and has worked for the tours that include mostly wet in journalism writing er and grandmother community. When ever your inspira- Boston Celtics, the Bos- accurate Maine facts and for his school paper in who also enjoys knit- he is not walking on tion, please reach ting and reading, golf ton Garden/FleetCen- trivia. Rob, Wendy and law school. He dreams of Goose Rocks Beach he and travel, and writes ter, CBS Radio, Sonesta their son Steve live in the day he will retire from out. We want to is often kayaking or about them in her week- Hotels, and the Wang Kennebunk. Rob looks law and declare himself hear from you! ly blog, Wandering Center for the Perform- forward to contributing paddle boarding near a “writer.” He is cur- With Val (www.wan- ing Arts. Say hello at articles on the outdoors, it. He is a talk show rently actively working deringwithval.com). [email protected]. beer, wine and spirits. host on WBZ-AM. on his first fiction thriller. TOURIST NEWS, AUGUST 16-22, 2018 PAGE 3 LOCAL HEROES Policewoman, School Resource Officer and ceaseless volunteer by Valerie Marier er’s home in Worcester, 90% of these cases go unre- some day,” Robie says. Welcome to “Local He- Massachusetts, then in ported,” Robie says, which “They need to know that To volunteer in any capacity or roes” – a regular feature in her father’s in Jackson, is one of the reasons she life can knock you down to become a trainer with ENOUGH Tourist News about local Maine. Drugs were ram- spends countless “off- but that you can also pick people or organizations who pant, meals were scarce, duty” hours volunteer- yourself up and move ABUSE MAINE, contact Jamie Robie we find inspiring, because tempers were tinderboxes, ing for ENOUGH ABUSE forward.”“The hardest via email: [email protected] of their dedication to making happiness was nil. At 16 MAINE. part of writing Black to Blue this world a better place. This her step-mother beat her Co-founded in 2017 was actually publishing week's local hero is a most so badly, she ended up by Robie and Dr. Jeanine it,” Jamie says. No one — deserving Jamie Robie. nearly blind in the Waldo Ward, an emergency room not her husband, her kids, Sitting on a granite County General Hospital doctor at York Hospital, her Police Department bench in the bustling sun- in Belfast. ENOUGH trains York vol- colleagues, her friends lit heart of Ogunquit, Ja- While at the hospital, unteers to present free edu- — knew everything that mie Robie’s cobalt blue Jamie spoke with a sheriff’s cational workshops to local she had lived through as eyes sparkle when she deputy who asked what organizations, businesses, a child and teenager. “I talks about having recent- she wanted to do with her churches, rec centers and never told anyone because ly taken her 10-year-old life. Jamie revealed that she schools. She says, “Our I didn’t want their sorrow daughter rock climbing. wanted to become a police goal is simple: prevent, or pity,” she says. “I want “So much fun,” she says. officer “because they make recognize and report.” people to see me for what Happily married to hus- me feel safe.” “Then this “Currently we have I am today.” band Jason, and “mom” is what you need to do,” 12 area residents who are Today, Jamie Robie is to a blended family of the deputy said. “Are you trainers, in addition to a Local Hero. There is no four children, Robie looks ready?” Indeed she was. Dr. Ward and me,” Ro- doubt she will continue to barely out of her early Within a year, Jamie bie says. She hopes to take be one in the years ahead. 20s. And her smile never was enrolled in the Up- ENOUGH ABUSE quits. Considering what ward Bound program at MAINE statewide, this irrepressibly positive the University of Maine. county by county, 40-year-old has survived She later went to Southern in the coming years.