Portland Public Library Portland Public Library Digital Commons Casco Bay Weekly (1990) Casco Bay Weekly 9-13-1990 Casco Bay Weekly : 13 September 1990 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1990 Recommended Citation "Casco Bay Weekly : 13 September 1990" (1990). Casco Bay Weekly (1990). 33. http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1990/33 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 (1990) by an authorized administrator of Portland Public Library Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. asc Safe sushi, bad bran It's been pretty funny lately watching some of thedecade'sbiggesthealthfindingsmakenational headlines while subsequent studies throw their conclusions into doubt. Recent findings debunk some of the most popular medical myths of the '80s. Read on to find out the latest opinions on oat bran, bee pollen and decaf coffee. (Hurry, before they change again!) Also in this WELLNESS report: updates on Maine's produce labeling laws and on the na­ tional health care movement. See page 9 Gearing up at home Like liposuction, green marketing and a thriv­ ing orbital-laser defense industry, home fitness is peculiar to First World nations. Other countries just can't be bothered. Whatever their appeal in the United States, LifeCycles simply have not grabbed an impressive share of Bangladesh's disposable income. And no matter how much Americans hyperventilate over the hottest new development in weighted-flywheel rowing er­ gometers or computer-programmed treadmills, such items will probably never sell well among Chinese peasants whose job it is to break rocks and carry them up a hill. U.S. citizens are expected to lay out more than $1.5 billion for the latest in heart-pumping, muscle-tearing torture machines for the home. According to the National Sporting Goods Asso­ ciation, thatis three times more than just 10 years ago. Put another way: that's about five times what President Bush plans to spend on rebuild­ ing Eastern Europe next year. CB Wl1lustratim/Toki Oshirrn That's a lot of money. The question is: are the people who are shelling out these huge sums Conflicting messages from our bodies, and beyond: getting greater fitness in return? Seepage 12 Women vs. their bodies INSIDE thinking their bodies aren't good enough. From By KeUy Nelson somewhere outside of themselves they get a NEWSBRIEFS pages 2-5 A body is what we all first knew. We lived in a picture of how they are supposed to look, and BODY IMAGES page 6 WELLNESS pages 9-11 body while we grew our own. After those they become alienated from their bodies. Their FITNESS GEAR page 12 months inside a body there were the arms that bodies become their enemies. Their bodies be­ 10-DAY CALENDAR page 14 enveloped us, the bosom that fed us, the form come an embarrassment, a hindrance, ART IN THE DARK page 16 that protected us and told us everything was a source of dissatisfaction and inadequacy. PIG PERSONS page 19 DOGSPORTS page 22 okay. CLASSIFIEDS page 24 A body was everything. POOK AT SCHOOL page 27 But many women and some men spend years PUZZLING STRINGS page 25 Continued on page 6 2 Casco &y WukIy September 13, 1990 :I notification from Shaw's to stop producing and packaging milk for its Maine supermar­ kets. Leonard said Shaw's inspectors had visited the Back,·to.. School Specials! plant the day before, on Aug. Right: 28, and noted among other Three for $189 Long lasting, tropical Below: Hardwood Bunkbed Specially priced things that a wall was chip­ Complete with two safety bookcases, ping paint, an employee was rails and ladder $429 30" x 12" x 12" in wearing a hat instead of a ORCHIDS teak, white, hairnet, and a milk defoaming black, oak & white machine wasn't working to 5 stems attractil1ely wash finishes. their satisfaction. "No plant is wrapped and delil1ered to A review of the top news stories affecting operated absolutely perfectly:' Portfand and Westbrook. Greater Portland: September 3 through 10, 1990. $15 Cash or credit card. said Leonard, adding the 'lIAtl"IXWNSIONS: II" H, Ii" IUMmR DOME conditions the inspectors flagged ''had no influence on Peoples Heritage and environmental protection the wholesomeness of the at the top of our transporta­ milk." OIMORA 26 EXCHANGE STREET , Right: Wood and Canvas snags Sun Savings tion priorities." ''They did not meet the HARMON'S~~ BARTON'S PORTLAND MAINE 041 01 Easy Chair by Doxey. PORTLANO'S OI..D PORT On Sept. 17, Peoples The group will need to standards required by 584 Congress Street ~ 117 Brown Street (201) n5-7049 Mahogany, natural, green, gather approximately 50,000 and white. $79 Heritage Bank acquired Sun J Shaw's," said Fred Hartz, Vice Portland Westbrook Savings Bank from the federal signatures to put the question President of Non-perishables 774-5946 854-2518 MON 111-1 TUE 10·. WEN 10-8 THR., FRllU·. SAf1G-9 SUN 12-5 major credit cards • in·store financing • free parking agency that had seized it in to Maine voters. Carson at Shaw's. Hartz said some of All major credit cards accepted on phone orders. PORTLAND BANGOR ELLSWORTH April. The acquisition adds 11 predicts the effort will be "a the standards were so far from 288 Fore Street. 170 Park Street. High Street very tough uphill fight." He 774·1322 942-6880 667·3615 RICHARD, PARK~, GALLERY Southern Maine branches to being met that "we felt it the 47 branches Peoples said a group of pro-widening would put our customers in already operates throughout advocates called the Maine jeopardy." Nevertheless, Maine. Committee to Revitalize the Hartz said he was satisfied According to John Menario, Turnpike "will raise a lot of enough that Old Tavern was Executive Vice Ptesident of money and put on a very addressing the problems that Peoples, the bank didn't pay fonnidable campaign" to on Sept. 4 he told them they -t-t-t-GraphicAid++-+- the feds a cent for Sun Sav­ thwart the environmental could again supply to Shaw's. Complete Graphic Services ings. But Peoples is respon­ groups' efforts. Carson expects But Leonard, meanwhile, sible for $270 million in Sun the question to appear on the had laid off 25 of the 38 110A Exchange Street. Portland, Maine 04101 Savings deposits that will be November, 1991, ballot workers at the dairy when (207) 772-0014 The Big Deal converted to Peoples accounts. Shaw's first told them to stop Menario said there is a risk RailVision takes producing for the supermar­ that major Sun Savings ket. Leonard said Shaw's had Portland-to­ ' .. ' depositors will withdraw their accounted for 86 percent of 1. Complete Prepress Service Free 2nd set of prints ~lus money but advantages of Boston train Old Tavern's total milk sales increasing Peoples market ii:!!f,;i~., (We get advertising stuff ready so it can go to service to ballot and it would have been a printer, magazine or newspaper) Free film every day of the week! share far outweighed that risk. "atrociously expensive" to Five Sun Savings branches - A group that wants to get retain a full crew to produce in South Portland (Maine passenger train service only 14 percent of their , , ~\t.\ 2. Exclusive Swisscreen Halftones Mall), Scarborough, Gray, between Portland and Boston regular volume. The 13 \ t,\) (These make much nicer printed pictures Pictures bring it home. Auburn and Brunswick - will back on track is working to get employees remaining at Old than normal) be converted to Peoples a referendum question on the Tavern are manufacturing \\ t,\)\\)\ ~ branches. The other six November 1991 ballot. John t,?;\\\) ~ 1 plastic milk containers and 50 3. Overnight Service Two convenient locations; branches in Southern Maine Hume, president of the newly transporting dairy products. (Like bakers, we work while you sleep) 30 Ci,,' Celllcr, Porr/lI/lt/ • 772 -7291i "are being looked at in terms formed RaiIVision, said that if . Even before the dispute, 7I US Row e /, Scarborough • 883-7363 of whether they will be his group collects approxi­ Shaw's had decided it would i~fi' -1"'#I""1~~"":j""I-. ~ jJ ~ mately 50,000 signatures, a I • '!1 il] Im:J! continued," Menario said. He expand to have more items in Need Help with; Design, Layouts, Mechanicals, added that while many of Sun ballot question will be posed their dairy case carrying the - Artist's Proofs - Quick Business Copies Typesetting, MAC Output...? Savings 80 employees will be to Maine voters asking them if Shaw's label. "We're in the - Student Reports - Family Photos retained, others may be laid they want to catch a train from process of eval ua ling all off. If employees are let go, Portland to Boston. If voters dairies in the State of Maine Q~N~B~If.Q,. !M!1G~ . NfIj!.tig they will be given "preferen­ approve the initiative ques­ for the sole purpose of seeing tial hiring" treatment when tion, the Department of who will supply Shaw's-Iabel 774-4455 positions open at Peoples in Transportation(OOT) will be products," said Hartz. Even if Market Street (next to the Oyster Club) the future, Menario said. With directed to restore rail service Old Tavern and Shaw's Old Port, Portland A Havelock Group Company assets pegged at $2.5 billion, before June 1, 1993. Legislation relations hadn't deteriorated Peoples remains the largest that would become effective if this month, Old Tavern might bank based in Maine.