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Our hi-def screens, full bar & killer Set your alarms: this Monday, with the fears and hopes of a young has been posted online will contain f menu will make you feel like March 24, at 5:31 pm, Felix Yz boy than with gender issues; over additional art and content. Maine’s leaders “just don’t believe scientifically what’s you're at all your favorite games. the course of the month, readers f will make his grand debut. “One of the things I’ve always happening to us” in terms of climate change, said Laurie Voted #1 Wings in Portland! The brainchild of local author will follow as Felix falls in love, hated about writing is that it’s so Lachance — a radical statement for the president of Water- CATCH ALL OF and WMPG program director Lisa grapples with family dynamics, solitary,” Bunker confesses. “This ville’s conservative, business-oriented Thomas College. Bunker, Felix is the 15-year-old copes with a bully at school, and is delightfully multimedia. It’s not Speaking at the Climate Solutions Expo and Summit at BLACK & protagonist of a new interactive invents a new life philosophy. just me and my story anymore.” the Augusta Civic Center on March 12 — sponsored by a dozen THE online serial, The ZeroDay Countdown “I find Felix effortless to write,” organizations from 350 Maine to the Penobscot Nation — La- of Felix Yz, which will appear in blog Bunker says, adding that she _Deirdre Fulton chance came across as one Maine leader who understands YELLOW ACTION installments over the course of 31 hopes “some lonely and confused what needs to happen. days at felixyz.com. Illustrated by kid somewhere will love and draw It’s only practical for the state’s business leaders, she said, AND ENJOY OUR Bunker’s 21-year-old child, Cyrus, strength” from Felix’s adventures. to pay attention to “sustainability” if they “want to attract the story unfolds in the month Felix and a few of his friends (as young folks” to their companies.