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SLAND IMES OCT0BER2009 A community newspaper covering the islands ofCasco Bay FREE INSIDE Golf cart lntheNews rampage solved ' on Peaks Island AN ew Educational Model is Considered BYKEVINATTRA While brainstorming ideas ~ for the Children's Workshop a According to officer Robert Lobster fishing in the bay. Lauterbach of the Peaks Patrol, group ef Peaks Island residents "" by mid-September five or six hit upon a new kind of/earning golf carts had been stolen from experiencefor ,hildren. various locations on Peaks Island 'PageJ Round trip ticketing for ferry service may be and taken for joy rides that, in some cases, ended badly for the implemented byJanuary carts. ALookatthe BY KEVIN ATTRA but a recent dash that flared The ad wi II use the ehrasc One was found in a ditch near up between two prominent "gene ral manager/CEO/ the transfer station. Another one November Ballot At the outset of the Casco members of Long Island and !'resident" in its job description, was wrecked and abandoned Vottrs go to the polls on Bay Island Transit District's Peaks Island may hint at a though he vehemently assured in Trott-Littlejohn Park, a nd a November 3. Here's a brief monthly board meeting deeper resentment over the the lioard that the actua I job third was foWld smashed up on look at the candidates and tlie Thursday, Sept. 24, President issue. descrietion had not been the baseball field, abandoned in questions being put to the public Donna Rockett said she wanted Board member Jim Phipps changccl. such a way that AAA towing before the curtain is dr11W11. to encourage the board to said he projected a lot of Some discussion was given operator Paul Bridges was hard imelemcnt roundtrip ticketing resistance to round trip to finalizin_g the design Page JO pressed to get it out. by January using toe existing ticketing, especially if paper rcguirements for the new boat, A fourth one disappeared bemg funded with $1.5 million paper ticket ~tern. tickets are used. "The only way completely. The owner parked it will work is if the deckhands in stimulus money through Interim General Manager it down front 011 a Saturday and Nick Mavodones Jr. said that a leave somebody on the dock if the Maine Department of lnMemorv found it missing on Tuesday. study committee composed of thC)' don't have a ticket, and I Transportation. A roll call ifisland r,sidenn Like many of the victims, she who passd away lastyear. office personnel and lioat staff don't see that happening," he Several members cautioned had formed and met that week said. the board that making large didn't report it right away, pagt15 to begin studying the process. He recommended that design changes at this late date thinking it had been "borrowed" For more than a year the electronic ticketing be would be ltke looking a gift island fashion and would transit district has been trying pursued instead, which board horse in the mouth, ano might be returned, but that never Ready for Winter? to plug a perceived hole in its member Chris Hoppin has cost them their funding,_ happened. Fi11111uial rol11m11ist Nilde Eivms revenue stream in order to been advocating for all along. Board member -Patrick Police were confident that maximize profits for scheduled "Electronic ticketing is still out Flynn argued that the board islanders were involved in the IJUllints three gowmn:ent programs service to the islands. there. We haven't abandoned was obligated to ensure that thefts - some people consider that http~u gtt reatfy for winter The board believes that from it," J\lr. Hoppin said, but.owing the boat, which will be built it a seasonal ritual: leaves fall, according to a modified design '1f11Jfo,t ca'JibacJ. in )~UT pocket. $70,000 to S75,000 is lost to costs he added that "a gooil carts disappear • but officer annually to riders who use water first step is paper ticketing. based on theAucocisco Ill, will Lauterbach said the severe Page16 taxis or other alternate means In otner business, a search not have some hidden flaw or of transportation to get to the committee for the new limitation that would make it damage being done to the islands and then ride the ferry seneral manai;,er's position is obsolete before it even hit the vehicles was something new. back into Portland for free. wordsmithing an ad that will water. He recommended tliat owners lntheArts The debate over which island be sent to internetj<,b sites. ·our "I agree we don't want to look park their carts off the streets community is the most guilty plan is not to do this quietly in a giffnorsc in the mouth," he and chain them up if possible of doing this has been quietly any way shape or form," said said, "but I don't want to look a because many were club carts IslandHoney Sells hovering under the radar, Mr.Hoppin. jackass in the mouth eithec." with universal ignition keys, a convenience on a golf course but OutFast "I don't know how ofttn he's essentially useless for security. The Peaks Patrol stepped up EadJyear is dijferent for Howard Woodside retires from spent the night here," said Mr. Christian Filipos, who produca surveillance, especially at night CBITDafter 26 years \fa,·odones. and asked people to report any Ptalu hla11d llflney. He reportedly had grrat skill Page4 susP.icious activity immediately. being buik. in developing relationships with 1 he case broke in mid­ He has omlasted several general vendors and subcontrnctors and September when a suspect, 18, managers and "is a big reason ~Ir. Mavodoncs sa,d that he was confronted by police and Art Roamin2'S and ochers m the organization confessed. A second person \Ya$ Fiber umne,tiom. 'two artists the district runs so weJI," said interun Genera I Manager Nick came to rely oo him to resolve also implicated, but before a tlJf)()I warrant could be issued for rus who use and other materials ~favodones Jr. in a briefceremony their cvr.ry need when it came to make warm, S(//ntlima wearable te.> outside services. He was arrest he n ,med rumselfin. ,orecognize~!r. Woodside before According to officer Patrick art are Tt'Uiewedby Art UttorJamie the monthly board of directors said to be invaluable during construction ofthe terminal. Connolly all the carts have Hogan. meeting Thursday, Sepr. 24. been accounted for, but he Pagt14 Mr. Woodside rerired this When his turn came, added that the rampage may month after 26 years with the Mr. Woodside praised ,he have begun earlier, involving company. "This is, wirhout a organization, especially rhe unreported incidents of carts REGULAR doubt, one of the mosr unusual general 'managers he had that were borrowed and returned FEATURES organizations ever," he sa1d. worked with. unharmed. He heard about them Board President Donna "We could not, with al1 irs incidental!)' during the summer when owners mentioned finding Rockeu presented him wi,h a failures, have done all rhis Howard "Woody" Woodside their carts somewhere other than Letters p. 6 plaque commemoranng his yrars without them.'' {left) accepts a commemorative where they'd left them the night of service, bur deferred to Mr. Explaining rhat he had a lo, YOGA p.7 elaque from board President of people to rhank, he wem before. Donna Rockett. ~fo, oclones, who has known hun Charges were filed by two of around the table and shook each Love ofPeaks staffphoto the longesr, ro make a speech. the victims whose carts were p.8 person's hand, rhen, wuh his ln it he said that Mr. Woods,dc damaged. In one case the vehicle PIES p.11 BYKEVINATTRA has been employed longer than wife, Flom, he left ro pick up h!S was totaled, sustaining Sl,500 granddaughter, who he said was The Puzzle p.12 anyone else on the staff, but the worth of damage, including When rhe Casco Bay Island public never see!- him. "a full-rime job as well." electrical wiring that reportedly Star Gazing p.13 Transit District was organized "Woody hates ,he pubuc," he In the brief pause after ,he had been rippedout of tlie cart. in 1982 our the ashes of the said. Woodsides left, Mr. l\lavodones The case nas been turned over to District Attorney's office At the 5th Maine p.15 foiled Casco Bay Lines, port Mr. WoodSidc was described as cold another board member the and is expected to go to court in engineer Howard "Woody" a dedicated worker who showed char Mr. Woodscde was also an Financial Tides p.16 November. Neither suspect has Woodside stepped m to help get great care in getting things done, enthusiastic hiker. ''He used to rhe 0edgling orgaruzauon off the have a sacellitc phone, so I could a prior record, but because they Community Notes p.18 whether tt -.,-as sweeping a floor are over 18 they will face charges ground, overseeing construction or putting a boat back in service.