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Greater Portland's news and arts weekly JULY 26, 1990 FREE STILL DI AFTER ALL THESE YEARS Government money and citizen activists are flooding into Casco Bay - the only thing flowing faster is the pollution By Deborah Fuller Ten years ago, Maine scientists were sur­ prised to learn that Casco Bay was suffering from pollution. Two years ago, the Conserva­ tion Law Foundation declared the bay one ofthe dirtiest harbors in the nation. This spring, the federal government admitted that Casco Bay needs help. Casco Bay was declared a Nationally Signifi­ cant Estuary, a designation which opened the floodgates for federal funds to flow toward the bay. But that money can't be used to stop the pollution. Even though Boothbay Harbor scientists and Boston lawyers have demonstrated to the satis­ faction of the U.5. District Court that the Port­ land Water District (PWD) is a leading polluter of Casco Bay, the National Estuary funds can not be used to rebuild the PWD's problemed sewer­ age treatment plant at East End Beach. Instead, that $2 million will bankroll studies to deter- mine, once again, that the PWD is among the leading polluters of the bay. And while that BULK RATE money is being spent, Casco Bay and its 240,000 library Collection , u.s. POSTAG~ Maine Historical Society i PAlO inhabi tants will keep suffering. 488 Congress Street ''ORT1..UIO. ME: fl.4IG1 "I'd be happier if they were implementing Portland, Maine 04101 / PfRMIT NO. 255 actions for some of the problems right now, within the next year," said Eleanor Dorsey, a scientist for the Conservation Law Foundation. Continued on page 6 CBW ilIustrationfPeter Gorski INSIDE Junk food; junk world NEWSBRIEFS pages 2-5 SEEN page 5 DIRTY WATER page 6 PERSONAL ECOLOGY, PART SEVEN: FOOD snack food consumes obscene amounts of oil, water and PERSONAL ECOLOGY page 8 topsoil while polluting the air, water and the chips VIEWS page 12 By Andy NtUJTnRn themselves. 10-DAY CALENDAR page 14 And Doritos are not unique. Supermarkets and SCREEN SPIDERS page 16 When you tear open a bag of Doritos, you know convenience stores are stuffed with highly-refined, FIDGETY FIDDLERS page 17 you're not eating health food. The list of 44 ingredients preserved and overpackaged food. Americans ingest an I BATES DANCE FESTIVAL page 18 reads like the glossary of your high school chemistry average of six pounds of synthetic material each year. STONECOAST SCHEDULE page 20 textbook. Still, you munch away, sensing that you're And that junk food doesn't just junk them - it junks the DEERING OAKS SCHEDULE page 21 doing something self-destructive - but doing it none­ whole world. SCRANTON PHILUES page 22 theless. SPORTS QUOTES page 23 But the destruction is not limited to your body. The CLASSIFIEDS page 24 production and distribution of America's best-seIling Continued on page 8 THE ONE WAY page 26 REAL PUZZLE page 27 2 C4sco Bay Wukly Tulv 26, 1990 :I RICHARD ~ PARK~ ~ GALLERY WCSH loses fight Top left - Safari Dining Set - to keep outtakes An exotic expedition in rattan ... The Maine Supreme Court Table and 4 chairs has ruled that a Portland 'IV Retail $650 station must hand unaired Special $450 portions of a reporter's interview over to the York Bottom left -Three for $199 - County district attorney. The . station, WCSH-'IV (Channel Specially priced Doxey Bookcases, 6), had already turned over 30" X 72" X 12" in teak, white, A review of the top news stories affecting Greater Portland: July 16 through 23, 1990. the three minutes of tape it black, grey, oak & walnut finishes. aired Feb. 21. In those three minutes, Biddeford Police Right - Westnofa Totem Chair - Commissioner Dennis Eclectic art joins functional design. Letellier said he had used his A chair to compliment contempo­ influence to get a traffic charge rary settings. Life without Lourie against his son dropped. But Side $395 when York County District Arm $450 City attorney resigns, Attorney Mary Tousignant major credit card. • In·store financing • free parking subpoenaed another seven PORTLAND BANGOR ELLSWORTIi minutes of tape that the 288 Fore Street. 170 Park Street. High Street beats critics to punch station did not air, WCSH said 774·1322 942-6880 667·3615 RICHARD, PARK~, GALLERY it wouldn't hand over the Portland city attorney David Lourie resigned on July 23, just tapes. WCSH News Director hours before a dozen local activists planned to go before the Mike Carque said that WCSH Portland City Council to demand his resignation. viewed the outtakes as the Lourie, who has served as Corporation Counsel to the City of equivalent of reporters notes, Portland for 10 years, touched a raw nerve in local activists in which many journalists We help you pack more fun into your time outdoors. April. Lourie had been requested by the city council to amend consider protected. STAY COOL But on July 20, the Maine CHRIS. "I have good memones of camping. It's something I've done Portland's referendum law, in order for it to comply with a Supreme Court ruled to recently changed state law_ But while the changes to the state law since I was a kid, and still do every chance I get. But I really like to hear uphold a York County Supe­ THISS -~ ... required only cosmetic changes at the city level, Lourie drafted an about other people's experiences, too. Their excitement mbs off on you, rior Judge's decision that amendment that would have required Portland interest groups to and it's fun not only to sell gear; but to get people excited about getting WCSH must hand over the out there and using it." gather more than six times the number of Signatures presently tapes. Before the ruling, required to go to ballot. Carque had said that the At L.L. Bean, we know camping trips are times you want to remember forever. WATCH Lourie's proposed amendment would have allowed the station would appeal such a We can help you get ready for those times. Vlhether you camp with your family on council to amend citizen-initiated laws in just three years rather decision to the U.s. Supreme weekends, or take extended backpacking trips, you can find almost everything you than five years after passage, and would have given the council Court. need among our generous selection of dependable outdoor sporting equipment, the power to decide whether initiatives should be retroactive to But Lou Colby, General clothing and accessories. We also have a staff that knows how fun camping can be. before their passage. Manager of WCSH, said the ChriS Mader. 24. lL'orks In LL BPOns Lourie's critics accused him of trying to push the amendment station has decided to hand Camping Department. CHRIS "Some people don't want their kids touching things here, but I through the council without telling the council how substantive over the tapes instead of tell them d's okay That gets everyone to relax. That's important. It's important fighting the decision further. the changes actually were. Karen Sanford, a local activist who for people to ask questions, too, and test everything Colby said that the Supreme If is dashed with Lourie over the 1987 working waterfront referen­ before they make any decisions. someone look­ Court worded its decision in ing at tux) tents, I take both out, and we go some­ dum, said "I think the (April) incident brings a serious questipD.,. such a way that even though where and set them up. That way they can see into play about who is making policy and whose agenda was WCSH case lost the case, a how each will UX)rk, and there are no surprises." being forwarded through the council." positive precedent was set in The April episode made strange bedfellows of City Hall Maine case law concerning the The staff at our store can help you make the most of watchers. Parkside-area State House Rep. Herb Adams said that media. Specifically, the Maine your outdoor adventures. We're open 24 hours every day, activists who usually are at one another's throats galvanized Supreme Court for the first so there's always someone here to offer advice on finding the OUTRAGEOUS when they perceived Lourie's effort as "a deliberate attempt to time recognized that "police best fishing or some of the most scenic day hikes in Maine. NEW EPISODE! frustrate their fundamental right of free access to the ballot." and other authori ties don't And everything in our store is 100 percent guaranteed to give have an absolute and unquali­ you satisfaction. S1mDAY 9:30PM PORTLAND~51 Alan Caron, who serves with Sanford on an ad hoc committee fied right to reporter's notes," that is helping re-draft the amendment, said that on July 18 his Colby said. 'They established CHRIS: "I try to remember the things people forget­ committee voted unanimously to go before the Portland City that there has to be a weighing like an extra canister for their camp stove.