Portland Public Library Portland Public Library Digital Commons Casco Bay Weekly (1989) Casco Bay Weekly 10-5-1989 Casco Bay Weekly : 5 October 1989 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1989 Recommended Citation "Casco Bay Weekly : 5 October 1989" (1989). Casco Bay Weekly (1989). 40. http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1989/40 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]. osc Greater Portland's news and arts weekly OCTOBER 5, 1989 FREE During a night on the town, Lisa RoJhas walts for her chauffeur outside LaVerdiere's. COYER STORY by Andy Newman a stretch limo in Portland, chances PHOTOS Uy Tonee Har/Jert are the people inside aren't from A stretch limo cruised through away. Portland's Old Port" late one Satur­ Chances are they aren't rich or day night and turned some heads. famous. Chances are they're regular People rubber-necked to see who folks willing to fork over big bucks to was inside. travel in style, to steal a glimpse of last summer it might have been prestige. Chances are they prefer Rod Stewart. It might have been quarter pounders to caviar, Bud to George and Barbara Bush. But Perrier, Van Halen to Vivaldi. chances are it wasn't. They're just blue-collar people in Five years ago there were five black-tie cars. limousine companies in Portland; today there are 15. So when you see (ONnNUED on page 8 + INSIDE: UPDATES page 2 CALENDAR page 12 WEIRD NEWS page 3 LISTINGS page 14 TALK page 4 EATS page 16 VIEWS page 6 POOK page 20 COVER page 8 CLASSIFIEDS page21 The Archdruid speaks. 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(207) 846-5143 Dogman's dogfight escalates Da vid "The Dogman" Koplow's six dogs ha ve been impounded SOLUTIONS again, and this time he's in really deep do-do. computer center Koplow's dog drama began on Aug. 30, when his dogs were A dMsoon 01 MiJI'IiE ~. ScMce, Inc. impounded because he refused to obey a court order to leash them. On Sept. 18, Koplow promised to leash the dogs if they were Looking at pollution sources on a cruise up the Fore River. CB w/Mtmtt Pou/..,. Bring those old photos 28 U.S. Route One, Yarmouth, ME 04096 returned to him, but then unleashed them soon after getting them to JUST BLACK & WHITE The type in this ad was produced on an HP laserJet printer back. So on Oct. 1, police took Koplow's dogs again, and arrested and we'll put the love Solutions sought for unromantic problems him on charges that he struck one police officer while one of his light back Into them. dogs allegedly bit another. Another court order, banning Koplow from ever having dogs We can copy and enhance your Friends of Bay study pollution ' in Portland again, could be in the making, according to City old, faded photographs and ma~e Attorney David Lourie. City Manager Robert Ganley favored as many enlargements as you like. such an order because it would allow Koplow to keep his dogs but Friends of Casco Bay, a fledgling environmental cussed the long-term effects of spilled oil on an would get him out of Portland. "If we could somehow get assur­ We'll also process and print all group, held its first public seminar Sept. 30 and ecosystem such as Casco Bay. USCG Cmdr. Jack ance that he and his dogs could go elsewhere that would be good, types of black & white film and we • promptly found itself caught in the gulf between McGowan explained the Coast Guard's role in but I'm not taking his word. We took his word before and he lied can convert to black &whi te from THE technical and activist environmentalism. monitoring oil in the port, and said that his office to us," Ganley said . LET your color originals. The day-long seminar, held at SMVTI in South is in the process of rewriting Maine's oil spill Portland, began with a series of three workshops 54 YORK ST. clean-up contingency plan. Pushcarts still cooking in Old Port JUS I 761-5861 FOREVER addressing the question "How polluted is Casco Along the Portland waterfront, numerous A proposed ban on late-night pushcart venders in the Old Port LOVE Bay?" One focused on sewage, one on oil and parking lots drain rainwater into the bay. Ronald was put on the back burner by the city council. The proposed ban another on toxic sources of pollution. Although Dyer, an environmental scientist with the Maine grew out of concern about late-night rowdiness in the Old Port NOT FADE DRESS the thesis question was rephrased often by those Department of Environmental Protection (MDEP), after police reported that parhers crowded around the vendors ­ in attendance, no clear answers emerged from the AWAY 100% Cotton explained the difference between point source some of whom sell their munchies until 2 a.m. Several peddlers panels of experts. pollution (such as what drains out of a pipe) and showed up at an Oct. 2 council meeting when the council was due Colors $84 Fall non-point sources (such as oil that drips from cars to vote on the measure. City councillor Peter O'Donnell said that Improving reality and makes its way downhill to the bay) to the the council acknowledged it hadn't heard enough input from the Over a lunch of white bread and chicken, the morning toxics workshop. He said that the lack of venders and put the vote off. O' Donnell said that "There isn't a keynote speaker criticized the cautious approach funding for non point-source programs hampers frenzy to get this done because the summer crowds aren't down the h(JUSe oj stiles of the morning sessions: "1 heard too much reas­ his work. "Let's face it," said Dyer, "it's more there now. Bu t we do hope to get some so~t of mechanism in place before the crowds return next summer." surance this morning," said activist David Brower, romantic to attack a pipe than it is to attack 125 Main Street, "and not enough concern and excitement." • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Yarmouth 846-4232 parking-lot runoff." But John Sowles, an aquatic • • Monday- Saturday He asked the lunching crowd of more than 200 biologist with the MDEP, said that he has found Preservation law foundation laid 9:30-5:00 people if any of them were really excited about • • , r substantially larger deposits of lead and other The planning board handed over a draft of a historic preserva­ • , IPILA\.'o/ IllrA"6A\II~ • saving Casco Bay.