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FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2011 VOL. 3 NO. 102 PORTLAND, ME PORTLAND’S DAILY NEWSPAPER 699-5801 D a i l y D a i l y D e a l D e a l visit PORTLANDDAILYSUN.ME for this and other great offers 36 KEARSARGE ROAD, NORTH CONWAY, NH 03860 P a y j u s t $ 1 0 f o r a $ 2 0 v o u c h e r P a y j u s t $ 1 0 f o r a $ 2 0 v o u c h e r Pay just $ 10 for a $ 20 voucher Brewing for a cause — Victoria Ale the tip of the tankard Beer snobs are attuned to the subtle differences in every style of ale and can distinguish a bitter IPA from a stout with a single whiff, but one new rising style of ale carries few olfactory trademarks, no cohesive color scheme and can vary wildly between brewers. The new brew? Charity beers, a trend in micro- brewing circles where a portion of proceeds for select beers go to support specific charities and nonprofit organizations. Tonight, Allagash Brewing Company will release its Victoria Ale during a gala event at Victoria Man- sion, the namesake of the Belgian ale. Part of the brewer’s Tribute Series, one dollar of the sale price for each bottle of Victoria Ale will go to support the FREE Infamous Boston crime boss Bulger nabbed See page 2 Jetport rolls out extra flights See the story on page 13 People’s veto campaign aims to restore election-day voter registration See page 7 Portland author Michael Connolly documents the ups and downs of the Portland waterfront and its laborers in his 2009 book, “Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen,” issued this month in softcover. Here, Connolly stands in front of the Maine Irish Heritage Center on Gray Street. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO) BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN A comeback on the waterfront? see BREWING page 7 Maritime shipping service set to resume It’s quiet now, but Portland’s Inter- national Marine Terminal will soon be buzzing with activity. Weekly cargo traffic between Port- land, Boston and Halifax, Nova Scotia, is set to begin as soon as next week at the Commercial Street facility, ending nearly 10 months without a regular shipping service. Meanwhile, the $5 million project to upgrade port facilities is expected to begin within the next month. “Because we are such an export dependent state, this is just another opportunity for shippers to export their cargoes,” said John Henshaw, executive director of the Maine Port Authority, which leases the facility from the city. Resumption of maritime cargo ser- vice at the terminal is expected to create up to 20 full- and part-time jobs, said Jack Humeniuk, the local union representative for the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association. New York City-based American Feeder Lines will operate the new route. The company has chartered a 360-foot British-flagged vessel to make the weekly loop between the three ports. Portland author depicts glory days, years of decline for Irish workers In some alternative history scenarios, Port- land could have rivaled Boston as a world-class shipping port. OK, so the city would have had to belong to Canada, not to the United States, and this thesis required a different political attitude toward Portland's place in the world from the city's own leaders. Portland "was turning inward," even as competing ports in Saint John, New Bruns- wick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, captured a greater share of Canadian wheat exports, an author notes in a sweeping history of the waterfront and its laborers. In retrospect, Portland author Michael Con- nolly documents instead a "decline of Port- land as a major cargo-handling port that had begun in 1923," describing this decline as "both steady and precipitous." But in his 2009 book, "Seated by the Sea: The Maritime His- tory of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Long- shoremen," issued this month in softcover, Connolly also offers a hopeful note about the city's chances of restoring its port. "The last few years have been very dicey. Just about the time I was finishing this study, things didn't look so good for Portland," Con- nolly said in an interview Thursday. "It was in 2009 that the Maine Port Author- ity took over control of the International Marine Terminal from the city with the city's blessings," he continued. Now, a new transport line, American Feeder Line, is connecting Portland to Boston and Halifax (see related story this page). BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN see SERVICE page 15 see AUTHOR page 15

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FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2011 VOL. 3 NO. 102 PORTLAND, ME PORTLAND’S DAILY NEWSPAPER 699-5801

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Infamous Boston crime boss Bulger nabbed See page 2

Jetport rolls out extra fl ights See the story on page 13

People’s veto campaign aims to restore election-day voter registration See page 7

Portland author Michael Connolly documents the ups and downs of the Portland waterfront and its laborers in his 2009 book, “Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen,” issued this month in softcover. Here, Connolly stands in front of the Maine Irish Heritage Center on Gray Street. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

BY MATT DODGETHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A comeback on the waterfront?

see BREWING page 7

Maritime shipping service set to resume

It’s quiet now, but Portland’s Inter-national Marine Terminal will soon be buzzing with activity.

Weekly cargo traffi c between Port-land, Boston and Halifax, Nova Scotia, is set to begin as soon as next week at the Commercial Street facility, ending nearly 10 months without a regular shipping service.

Meanwhile, the $5 million project to upgrade port facilities is expected to begin within the next month.

“Because we are such an export dependent state, this is just another opportunity for shippers to export their cargoes,” said John Henshaw, executive director of the Maine Port Authority, which leases the facility from the city.

Resumption of maritime cargo ser-vice at the terminal is expected to create up to 20 full- and part-time jobs, said Jack Humeniuk, the local union representative for the Interna-tional Longshoremen’s Association.

New York City-based American Feeder Lines will operate the new route. The company has chartered a 360-foot British-fl agged vessel to make the weekly loop between the three ports.

Portland author depicts glory days, years of decline for Irish workers

In some alternative history scenarios, Port-land could have rivaled Boston as a world-class shipping port. OK, so the city would have had to belong to Canada, not to the United States, and this thesis required a different political attitude toward Portland's place in the world from the city's own leaders.

Portland "was turning inward," even as competing ports in Saint John, New Bruns-wick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, captured a greater share of Canadian wheat exports, an author notes in a sweeping history of the waterfront and its laborers.

In retrospect, Portland author Michael Con-nolly documents instead a "decline of Port-land as a major cargo-handling port that had begun in 1923," describing this decline as "both steady and precipitous." But in his 2009 book, "Seated by the Sea: The Maritime His-tory of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Long-shoremen," issued this month in softcover, Connolly also offers a hopeful note about the city's chances of restoring its port.

"The last few years have been very dicey. Just about the time I was fi nishing this study, things didn't look so good for Portland," Con-nolly said in an interview Thursday.

"It was in 2009 that the Maine Port Author-ity took over control of the International Marine Terminal from the city with the city's blessings," he continued.

Now, a new transport line, American Feeder Line, is connecting Portland to Boston and Halifax (see related story this page).

BY CASEY CONLEYTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

BY DAVID CARKHUFFTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

see SERVICE page 15see AUTHOR page 15

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Fugitive former mob boss to face charges in Mass.

LOS ANGELES — James Bulger, the accused murderer and money launderer captured here on Wednesday after a 16-year international manhunt, waived his right to a hearing during a swift court appear-ance this afternoon and agreed to go back home to face a litany of charges stemming from what the authorities described as a career as a violent crime boss.

Mr. Bulger’s girlfriend, Cath-erine Greig, who fl ed with Mr. Bulger 16 years ago before they were found living in a Santa Monica apartment, also waived her right to a removal hearing during a brief hearing at Federal District Court in Los Angeles. They were remanded to a federal magistrate to be returned to Boston.

The hearings were almost perfunctory. When a judge asked Mr. Bulger if he had read

the indictment against him, he said he had not. “I got them all here,” Mr. Bulger said. “It will take me quite a while to fi nish these. But I know them all pretty well.”

Before he faced the judge, Mr. Bulger — wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, and sporting a thick white beard, with his hair almost completely gone — sat at the front of the courtroom, look-ing straight out at the throng of journalists who packed the seats in the courtroom, grin-ning at times as he surveyed the scene before him. Ms. Grieg, appearing spectral, with short white hair, stared into space and offered monosyllabic responses to the judge when asked routine questions about her name and if she understood the charges against her.

Mr. Bulger, 81, disappeared early in 1995 after a retired F.B.I. agent alerted him to an imminent indictment. He had been an F.B.I. informant. The

case has long captivated Boston, while proving an embarrass-ment to the F.B.I. Mr. Bulger was arrested without incident at a private residence on Third Street in Santa Monica along Ms. Greig, the F.B.I. said.

A variety of weapons and a substantial amount of cash were found at the scene.

At a news conference at the United States attorney’s offi ce in Boston on Thursday, Rich-ard DesLauriers, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.’s Boston offi ce, said the bureau’s Los Angeles fi eld offi ce received the crucial tip just after 8 p.m. Pacifi c time on Tuesday. He said the tip was a “direct result” of the new publicity campaign to raise Ms. Greig’s profi le. The agency also dou-bled its reward for Ms. Greig’s capture to $100,000.

The Los Angeles offi ce imme-diately relayed the tip to a spe-cial command post in Boston, Mr. DesLauriers said, that had

been set up to analyze tips from the new campaign around the clock.

“We quickly recognized that the information appeared to be credible and promising,” he said, but he refused to elabo-rate on the nature of the tip or who provided it. Mr. DesLauri-ers also would not say whether the tipster had actually seen the 30-second public service announcement, which began running in media markets around the country on Monday, but not in Los Angeles.

On Wednesday around 10:50 a.m., he said, agents from the F.B.I.’s fugitive task force in Los Angeles started doing surveil-lance on the apartment build-ing in Santa Monica where Mr. Bulger and Ms. Greig had been living. The tipster had provided information that led them to that address, he said. Accord-ing to the building’s manager the pair had lived there since the mid-1990s.

BY ABBY GOODNOUGH AND ADAM NAGOURNEY

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Some Aghans wary of drawdown; not Karzai

KABUL, Afghanistan — Many in Kabul are welcoming the announcement that 33,000 United States troops will go home over the next year, but in southern Afghanistan, in the pomegranate orchards and deserts that are the war’s front lines, the mood is far more sober: local offi cials and tribal elders are questioning the ability of Afghan troops to defend them and say the Taliban are far from defeated.

President Hamid Karzai, who spoke to reporters Thursday in his heavily guarded palace in the capital, Kabul, set the tone for senior government fi g-ures with words that sounded almost heady with excitement. He described the announcement that American troops would depart as “a moment of happi-ness for Afghanistan.”

In keeping with 5,000 years of Afghan history, he said, “Afghans would take responsibility for the preservation of their soil, the security of their people and edu-cating their children by the end of 2014.”

Fruit vendors in the city’s relatively safe downtown and students at universities struck a similar tone and added a fre-quently heard argument: If the Americans leave, then the Taliban will no longer have an

excuse to wage war.“During the Taliban regime

there were no suicide attacks, but since these people have shown up in our country we have faced lots of adversity,” said Nasrullah, a shopkeeper in Kabul’s dilapidated down-town, who like many Afghans uses only one name. “When they leave Afghanistan, the Tal-iban will stop fi ghting; it is only because of these foreigners they are fi ghting.”

The views were far less opti-mistic 300 miles to the south in Kandahar Province, the spiri-tual heartland of the Taliban and to a lesser extent in neigh-boring Helmand, the country’s largest producer of opium poppy and a place where active fi ght-

ing has not eased. Even though most of the 30,000 troops from the surge went into the south and southwest of Afghanistan, safety is not yet a given in many areas.

Hajji Kala Khan, a tribal elder from Maiwand, said local people had begun to help the Taliban again by re-establishing Tal-iban courts to resolve problems rather than turning to the gov-ernment.

“This drawdown will embolden the morale of the Taliban, and actually it has already embold-ened them,” the elder said. “The Taliban are saying to the elders not to support Americans or you will be killed, and now they say, ‘The Americans are leaving and your lives will not be spared.’ ”

Budget talks in doubt as GOP leader quits

WASHINGTON — Budget talks aimed at clearing the way for a federal debt limit increase teetered near collapse Thursday as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor abandoned the negotia-tions, and top Republicans said they would not give in to a Dem-ocratic push for new revenues as part of a compromise.

The decision by Mr. Cantor, one of two Republicans partici-pating in the talks being led by Vice President Joe Biden, jolted the discussions in what was con-sidered to be a crucial week of bargaining as the Aug. 2 dead-line for an increase in federal borrowing authority neared.

While the Virginia lawmaker had previously expressed opti-mism that the sessions could produce a deal, he announced he would not be attending Thurs-day’s meeting because Demo-crats continued to press for part of the more than $2 trillion in savings to come from revenues such as phasing out income tax deductions.

Democrats expressed dis-appointment at Mr. Cantor’s decision and maintained that revenues must be part of any agreement.

— The New York Times

BY ALYSSA RUBINTHE NEW YORK TIMES

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, with his fi rst vice president, Qasim Fahim, left, and Abdul Karim Khalili, his second vice president, on Thursday in Kabul (Photo by Musadeq Sadeq/Associated Press/ The New York Times).

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(NY Times) — Tim Artz’s brewery is enclosed by glass walls on three sides and looks out onto a bluff of apple trees and a garden fi lled with beans, squash and 35 varieties of pepper. On a raw April morning, the brewery doors were open but the brewery itself was warm; the gas burner below the 30-gallon brew tank was cranking at near full power.

Artz, 48, is just a home brewer, not a professional; his main job is director of information technology at a health care fi rm. But with the elaborate set-up he has built and installed in his Florida room (there is a big cask for holding mash and an $1,800 fer-mentation tank, in addition to the 30-gallon kettle), he could easily be mistaken for much more than an amateur.

Home brewing, which was rendered illegal by Prohibition and not legal-ized again until 1979, is enjoying a resurgence. The American Homebrewers Association, based in Boul-der, Colo., had just 11,724 members in 2006; that has since more than doubled, to 26,000. This increased interest, in turn, has fos-tered a mini-boom in brew-ing equipment, according to Gary Glass, who is the director of the association. “Home-brew supply shops reported a growth of 16 percent in gross revenue, according to 2009 num-bers,” Mr. Glass said, refer-ring to the change from the prior year.

The numbers for 2010 are not yet available, he added, but he anticipates double-digit growth once again.

This increase has been aided by the rise of social clubs, books and com-petitions geared to home brewers, as well as by the success of microbreweries over the last two decades, which has inspired many amateur beermakers. The D.I.Y. and locavore move-ments have played a role, too. “There is a trend to do things more locally,” Mr. Glass said. “You don’t get any more local than doing it at home.”

Even the recession did not slow things, Mr. Glass added. “Part of the theory,” he said, “is that people have more time for hobbies when they are unemployed or underem-ployed.”

In a way, the revival recalls America’s roots. The Pilgrims are said to have landed at Plym-outh Rock rather than continue on to Virginia, because they had run out of beer and wanted a fresh supply. Many found-ing fathers brewed ales on their farms.

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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — They were known as Charlie and Carol.

Residents of the modest three-story apartment building where James Bulger lived with his companion, Catherine Greig, spoke Thursday of a couple who would go for walks on the nearby beach and at the park and took care of a stray cat. They had heard of Mr. Bulger, known as Whitey, and had seen the reports on him on “60 Min-utes” and “America’s Most Wanted,” but they never recognized the elderly man with the wife who rarely left his side, never realized that he was the legend-ary crime boss accused of murder and money laundering whom the F.B.I. had been pursuing since 1995.

It is unclear exactly how long the couple, who went by the aliases Char-lie and Carol Gasko, lived at the Prin-cess Eugenia apartments on Third Street in Santa Monica, where they paid their rent in cash. Joshua Bond, the building’s manager, said they had been there since the mid-1990s and described them as “just a very nice old couple,” who once gave him a cowboy hat as a gift.

One neighbor, Barbara Gluck, described Ms. Greig as “a very lovely person.”

“He, on the other hand, when we talked too long, would shout, ‘Stop talking, let’s go,’ ” she said.

Janus Goodwin, 61, who lived on the same fl oor as Mr. Bulger and Ms. Greig, came to know the couple in 1999. She said Mr. Bulger rarely left the apartment.

“When I would be invited in, he

would always be lying on the sofa, watching TV,” Ms. Goodwin said. “He was very proud of his little art pieces, which were cheap knockoffs of Monet and Van Gogh.”

In recent months, she said, they had a sign on their door, “Please do not knock at any time.”

She said Ms. Greig would go out walking on her own — they rarely drove — often with a cart for errands, when she would go to the Santa Monica farmers’ market or the nearby 99 Cent store.

Ms. Goodwin said Ms. Greig doted on Mr. Bulger, but in retrospect, might have been afraid of him.

“Carol was very, very, very nice and extremely devoted to him,” Ms. Good-win said. “Anything he needed, it was instantly taken care of. He would just look in that direction, and she was all over it.”

While some residents expressed shock at the arrests, the building quickly became a gathering spot for former Boston residents curious to see where the legendary Mr. Bulger had been hiding out.

Jack Baker, 31, grew up in South Boston, where he once thought of Mr. Bulger as a kind of neighborhood Robin Hood.

“Everyone knew him — my father, my grandfather, everyone,” Mr. Baker said. “We always thought he pro-tected the place. People here have no idea who he is, but for us, he was the legend.”

When Mr. Baker heard the news of Mr. Bulger’s arrest late Wednes-day night, he rushed over to take pictures. He returned to the build-ing on Thursday morning with his infant son.

BY JENNIFER MEDINA AND IAN LOVETT

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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The Republican presidential fi eld looks less like an assemblage of candidates than a collection of fatal mistakes and irreparable fl aws, with occasional embodi-ments of one or more of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Mitt Romney? A fl ip-fl opper who inspired Obamacare. Tim Pawlenty? A too-bashful critic of Romneycare, with a sleepy persona. Newt Gingrich? Serial adultery and terminal hubris.

Herman Cain? A rousing speaker with a future in talk radio. Rick Santorum? Not many politicians warm up for a presi-dential race by losing a Senate seat in a landslide. Michele Bach-mann? Only one House member has ever gone directly to the pres-idency (James Garfi eld, in 1880).

Jon Huntsman? Service in the Obama administration is no way to gratify Republican voters. Ron Paul? A libertarian in a conser-vative party whose 2008 race yielded a paltry handful of con-vention delegates.

All this explains why a 2012 race is now tempting Rick Perry, the three-term governor of Texas whose liabilities come with some

Another Texas Republican for president?

assets: a record of fi scal frugal-ity and economic growth, a fl air for channeling anti-Washington sentiment, a proven fundraising capacity and an appealing biogra-phy (hardscrabble farm upbring-ing, Eagle Scout, Air Force pilot).

It helps that he delivers a good speech and looks like the lead in an old Western movie. Not for nothing did the late liberal columnist Molly Ivins dub him “Governor Goodhair.”

As that unshakable nickname suggests, though, many people in the Lone Star State — and not only liberals — see Perry as a photogenic lightweight who got his offi ce only by the luck of being fi rst in the line of succession when Texas Gov. George W. Bush was elected president.

In 2006, he won re-election with just 39 percent of the vote in a four-way race. One opponent,

musician and humorist Kinky Friedman, used a slogan that was a sly poke at Perry: “How hard can it be?” Only 9 percent of Texas Republicans say they would sup-port him for president. He has not worn well with those who know him best.

Perry has a tendency to make people ask, “Did he really say that?” — as when he indicated an openness to secession, and when he dismissed a TV reporter with, “Adios, mofo.” There is also the implausible yarn he tells of going for a run one morning without his security detail and, when a coyote threatened his dog, drawing his pistol and blowing the varmint away.

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ship, was extremely disheartened when we read Jeffrey Spofford’s “opinion” of the report we com-piled on Casco Bay High School’s academic pro-gram (“K-9’s, Casco Bay High and graffi ti, oh my!”, Thursday, June 23). Clearly, your columnist did no actual reporting or fact checking, given the numerous errors made in the column. Legitimate editorial columnists worthy of the name investi-gate the facts and base their viewpoints on actual evidence — they do not extrapolate false assump-tions from an irrelevant, decades-old personal expe-rience and use them as a rationale for making rash and inaccurate claims, as did Mr. Spofford.

To set the record straight, the Great Schools Part-nership is not an “accreditation fi rm,” we have never presented ourselves as such, and we do not aspire to become one. A simple Google search would have revealed this fact. We are a nonprofi t organization that helps schools improve their academic programs and graduate their students prepared to succeed in college and contribute productively to society. Our report was not an accreditation process or even a replacement for it. In fact, the evaluation was volun-tary — Casco Bay engaged our organization because it wants to improve, not because it was required to.

If Mr. Spofford had read our report, which is pub-licly available on the Portland School District’s website, he would have learned that our inde-pendent evaluation was conducted over twelve

Many people in the Lone Star State — and not only liberals — see Perry as a photogenic lightweight who got his offi ce only by the luck of being fi rst in the line of succession when

Texas Gov. George W. Bush was elected president.

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months (not two weeks), and that it entailed hun-dreds of fi rst-hand classroom observations, a com-prehensive analysis of student-performance data and school policies, and dozens of interviews with students, administrators, and teachers. In addi-tion, the feedback we provided to Casco Bay was rigorously evaluated against a signifi cant body of research on high-performing schools across the globe, so its assessments are neither arbitrary nor subjective.

The evaluation, which was based on standards that can be applied to any high school, did in fact determine that Casco Bay is an exemplary learning institution in many areas, as evidenced not only by its performance, 100 percent college-acceptance rate, the national recognition it has received, or our own fi ndings, but also by the fact

that its students consistently praise the learning experience they receive there. Your columnist’s passing judgment of the school is, like the rest of his column, both cavalier and erroneous.

Since our report was based in part on fi rst-hand interviews, we would recommend that Mr. Spof-ford consider asking Casco Bay’s students what they think. In fact, we would recommend that he visit the school on one of the many days when the school’s entire faculty and student body comes together to celebrate — with stomping, cheering, and clapping — every student who gets accepted to college.

Given Mr. Spofford’s professional oversights, it’s deeply ironic he chose Casco Bay as the object of his unsubstantiated rant, since the school makes a point of teaching its students to conduct investi-gative research and confi rm the accuracy of their work using primary sources. But don’t just take

my word for it — these academic values are clearly described in Casco Bay’s Family Handbook, which is readily available online.

Sincerely,Stephen Abbott, Director of CommunicationsGreat Schools Partnership

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His biggest shortcoming is that most Americans don’t ache with nos-talgia for the last time a former Texas Republican governor occupied the White House.

That concern is accurate but not clearly disqualifying.

When President George H.W. Bush lost badly in 1992, after all, it was safe to assume the country wouldn’t elevate another member of the family to the White House anytime soon. No novelist would have dared to invent a winning black presidential candidate with a name like Barack Hussein Obama.

Perry’s fl aws are mostly the sort that other GOP candidates wish they had. His ostentatious disdain for federal interference is a tea par-tier’s dream. His high-octane ideology makes an advantageous contrast to the suspicious moderation of Romney, Pawlenty and Huntsman.

He inspires trust on the Christian right while getting valentines from the Wall Street Journal’s editorial writers. He could quickly cut off the air supply of the other conservatives in the race.

And the general election? Perry’s conservatism is too strong a brew for mainstream tastes, and his cowboy swagger will evoke unwanted memo-ries of George W. Bush. In a normal election year, those handicaps would

be insuperable.But 2012 is not looking normal. If

the economy remains sluggish and unemployment high, Americans are apt to be more weary of Obama than of his immediate predecessor. Ronald Reagan’s alleged extremism didn’t look so scary next to the economic chaos and foreign-policy humilia-tions of Jimmy Carter’s presidency.

Democrats (and some Republi-cans) thought Reagan a smiling dunce. But the simple themes he enunciated were a welcome tonic when prevailing policies seemed to be failing.

Perry has the advantage of being able to claim that his state accounts for more than 37 percent of all the jobs created since the recession offi cially ended, which could make a vote for him feel more pragmatic than ideo-logical.

As he considers his prospects, Perry may recall the old joke about the hiker who didn’t need to be faster than the grizzly bear — just faster than his hiking buddy. Perry’s fl aws loom large, unless you compare them to anyone else’s.

(Steve Chapman blogs daily at newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/steve_chapman. To fi nd out more about Chapman, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and car-toonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.)

CHAPMAN from page 4

Rick Perry is painting himself as the authentic, don’t-mess-with-Texas conservative. (Dan Winters for The New York Times)

Perry may rise above peers

Why was Casco Bay the object of columnist’s unsubstantiated rant?

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Second annual Hot Air Balloon Fest in OOB9 a.m. Opening ceremonies for the second annual Hot Air Balloon Fest now combined with a BBQ festival plus much more in Old Orchard Beach. The hot air balloon festival is mostly downtown in the square area. Friday night there is a lobster bake on the beach by The Brunswick on West Grand Avenue. Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. is a BBQ event in The Ballpark on Emerson Cummings Blvd. behind the fi re station. www.oob365.com

Hands-On Historic Gardening9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Hands-On Historic Gardening: A Work-shop. Maine Historical Society. Presenter: Jeff O’Donal, Owner, O’Donal’s Nursery. “Join us for a hands-on explora-tion of the issues and opportunities in maintaining or re-cre-ating an historic garden. Using the Longfellow Garden as a laboratory, participants will be introduced to a variety of locally-available plantings, consider which plant varieties are appropriate in a variety of settings, and identify spe-cifi c plant varieties to introduce at home. This program is free but registration is required. This event is held in partnership with the Longfellow Garden Club.”

Portland Public Library ‘Ebook Sandbox’noon to 1:30 p.m. The Portland Public Library will host “Ebook Sandbox: Embracing a new way of reading,” an informational session and open house aimed at teaching the public more about digital books. “Over the past few years digital books, also known as ebooks have become a popular way for readers to read books. While many classics and other books in the public domain are free and available as ebooks, the Portland Public Library also offers the Over-drive digital book service for popular, contemporary ebooks at no charge. At the event, library staff will share insights into the leading ereader devices, how to use the Overdrive service, and other tips and tricks about enjoying ebooks. ... Representatives from Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Apple will also be on hand to talk about ereader devices they offer and demonstrate their special features.” Rines Auditorium. For more information about this event, or to access the Overdrive ebook library go to the library’s website at www.portlandlibrary.com.

The Awake Collective grand opening4 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Awake Collective, a co-working collective, will be hosting its grand opening event at 509 Forest Ave. The Awake Collective is a new multi-use space providing massage and a variety of alternative healing arts services; yoga, dance, meditation, classes, and workshops in support of awakening. “I’m so excited to get the word out about this new space that is open to the greater Portland community,” said Becca Demers, founder and director of the Awake Collective. “What has been missing in Portland is an accessible, affordable, all-ages space for healing arts and movement that makes it possible for people to receive services on a regular basis, experiencing the highest benefi t of healing arts.” The Awake Collective was founded in 2009 and operated in the East End in Portland. This new location is a major expansion of space and services, with over 3,500 square feet for healing arts, movement, and dance, as well as offi ces and workspace that is available for use by the hour, or on a regular basis. For more information, visit www.theawakecollective.com

Allagash Victoria Ale Premiere5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Victoria Mansion, in partnership with Allagash Brewing, announced the sixth annual Allagash Victoria Ale Premiere, which will take place at Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth St., Portland. The event cel-ebrates the release of Allagash Brewing’s 2011 Victoria Ale. The fi rst ale in Allagash’s popular Tribute Series, Vic-toria Ale is a unique beer brewed with Vidal Blanc grapes. The beer will be available in stores in early May, with one dollar from each bottle brewed benefi tting Victoria Man-sion’s historic preservation and education programs. The Allagash Victoria Ale Premiere will feature a live out-door performance by the Pete Kilpatrick Band, recent winners of the 2011 USAA Garageband Music Com-petition, as well as self-guided tours of Victoria Man-sion, tastings of Victoria Ale, samples of Maine Mead Works’ Honeymaker Mead, and light supper gener-ously catered by Blue Elephant Catering. Advance tickets are $15 for Victoria Mansion members or $20 for non-members. All tickets are $25 at the door.

Strawberry Festival in Cape Elizabeth6 p.m. Third annual Strawberry Festival in Cape Elizabeth kicks off Friday evening, June 24 with a Lobsterbake & Pig Roast at Andy & Kelly Strout’s Shady Oak Farm on Fowler Road. There will be feasting (only the best local foods of course), music and a silent auction. Tickets will be avail-able soon at Jordan’s Farm Market and Alewives’ Brook Farm. Saturday, June 25 the fun moves to Maxwell’s Straw-berry Fields on Two Lights Road. Come and enjoy lus-cious strawberry treats, great music, fun and crafts for kids

including tractor rides, and a wide range of artisans and vendors. It’s a full day of fun from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and there’s no admission charge! For information on being a sponsor, a vendor or a volunteer, please contact Suzanne Martin-Pillsbury.

MECA Master of Fine Arts lectures6:30 p.m. Each summer, the Master of Fine Arts program at Maine College of Art invites guest artists, curators and scholars to participate in the curriculum. All visiting artists deliver a free public lecture in Osher Hall at 6:30 p.m. June 24: Allan McCollum; McCollum’s work focuses on the rela-tionship between labor and art, with an emphasis on mass production. June 27: Elllie Ga; Ga’s projects explore the limits of photographic documentation and span a variety of media, often incorporating her exploratory writing and cul-minating in performative lectures, videos and installations. July 5: Juan Logan; Logan’s paintings, drawings, sculp-tures, installations and videos address the interconnections of race, place and power. July 11: Sina Najafi ; Najafi is the Editor of Cabinet Magazine. July 18: Anne West; West is a writer, theorist, and independent curator. She teaches in the graduate program at RISD. July 25: Lee Boroson; Boroson’s airy sculptures give viewers the chance to experience the ineffable impossibilities of the world. Aug. 1: Hamish Fulton; Since the early 1970s, Fulton has been labeled as a sculp-tor, photographer, conceptual artist andland artist. Fulton, however, characterises himself as a “walking artist.” Aug. 8: Lisi Raskin; Raskin handcrafts whimsical recreations of military command centers. This summer the MFA’s Moth Press is also releasing Mapping the Intelligence of Artistic Work; An Explorative Guide to Making, Thinking, and Writ-ing by Anne West. Her lecture on July 18 will be followed by a book signing. West is an educator, writer, and indepen-dent curator. She teaches in the Division of Graduate Stud-ies at Rhode Island School of Design, where she supports students across disciplines in conceptualizing and writing their master’s thesis. http://www.meca.edu/mfa

‘Beautiful Darling’6:30 p.m. Portland Museum of Art presents “Beautiful Dar-ling” as part of its Movies at the Museum series. Friday, June 24, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, June 25, 2 p.m.; Sunday, June 26, 2 p.m. NR. “‘Beautiful Darling’ chronicles the short but infl u-ential life of Candy Darling who was a major part of Andy Warhol’s entourage and was one of the inspirations for the Lou Reed song ‘Walk on the Wild Side.’ Born James Slat-tery in a Long Island suburb in 1944, he transformed himself into a gorgeous, blonde actress and well-known downtown New York fi gure. Candy’s career took her through the rau-cous and revolutionary off-off-Broadway theater scene and into Andy Warhol’s legendary Factory. ... She dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star, but tragically died of lym-

phoma in the early ’70s, at only age 29. The fi lm uses both current and vintage interviews, excerpts from Candy’s own diaries and letters, as well as vintage footage of Candy and friends. Chloë Sevigny appears as the voice of Candy Dar-ling. Beautiful Darling also features appearances by Paul Morrissey, Micheal J. Pollard, and John Waters.”

‘Seated By The Sea’ author at Irish center7 p.m. Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St. “Seated By The Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, And Its Irish Longshoremen” by Michael C. Connolly, Professor of History, Saint Joseph’s College. “Join us at the Maine Irish Heritage Center for a book launch and signing by Michael Connolly (Dept. of History, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine) for the newly released paperback edition of ‘Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen’ (University Press of Florida, 2011).” A power point presentation and lecture on the Portland water-front and its connection to the Irish community of Portland will be held in the upstairs hall followed by the sale and signing of books downstairs together with musical enter-tainment. The cost of the paperback book is $30 (less than half that of the hard cover edition) and proceeds from the sales go entirely to benefi t the MIHC. It should be a great night for remembering and honoring this important group of mainly Irish laborers.”

‘E.B. White’s Eccentric Life in Nature’7 p.m. Michael Sims will read from “The Story of Charlotte’s Web: E.B. White’s Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic” at Longfellow Books. Longfellow Books events are open to the public and always free to attend. “Fusing information from White’s correspondence with the likes of Ursula Nordstrom, James Thurber, and Harold Ross, the E. B. White papers at Cornell, and the archives of HarperCollins and the New Yorker with his own elegant nar-rative, Sims brings to life the shy boy whose animal stories, both real and imaginary, won him a permanent spot in the hearts of families around the world.”

‘Ida’s Having a Yard Sale’7:30 p.m. Ida Leclair, “the funniest woman in Maine,” is having a yard sale. From crocheted toilet paper covers to the complete Box Car Willy record collection and plenty of gossip going around Mahoosuc Mills. Performances are June 22 through July 2, Wednesday through Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sundays at 5 p.m. Tickets are $22.50/ $17.50 for seniors and students, and are available through Brown Paper Tickets, www.free-portfactory.com 865-5505. The Freeport Factory Stage is located at 5 Depot St., downtown Freeport, one block east of L.L. Bean.

Next Thursday,the Portland Sea Dogs, Double-A affi liate of the Boston Red Sox, are offering a summer networking series titled “Build Your Network.” It’s just one of the activities happening at Hadlock Field outside of the home games for the Sea Dogs. Above, Little Leaguers from Windham, Gorham and Portland are recognized for their skills, after beating out other competitors in their age groups from seven Little League divisions including Falmouth, Gorham, Portland-Bayside, Standish, Westbrook, Windham and Yarmouth. Finalists from each area competed at Hadlock Field on June 7 for the title. The winners are (from left) Bode Meader, Will Snyder and Zach Lacomb, pictured with Slugger the Sea Dog. Mercy Hospital and Dunkin’ Donuts partnered with the Sea Dogs to celebrate the winners of the Hit, Run and Throw Competition. Visit http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/index.jsp?sid=t546 for other events. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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150-year-old mansion’s historic preservation and education programs.

Inspired by Allagash owner Rob Todd’s trip to the historic mansion, the ale is brewed with Vidal Blanc grapes, giving the brew a wine-infl uenced fl avor designed to refl ect the imagery of grapes and the Greek god of wine, Bacchus — images which adorn the interior of the mansion.

“Brewing the Trib-ute Series of beers is an incredibly important part of our company culture,” says Dee Dee Germain, brewer at Allagash. “It allows us the ability to be innovative, experimental and give back to our local community.”

Other beers in the All-agash Tribute Series include Victoria Ale, sup-porting Munjoy Hill’s St. Lawrence Arts Center, Belgian IPA Hugh Malone for the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and the annu-ally-changing Fluxus brew, which funds a scholarship set up for pediatric nurses at The Barbara Bush Chil-dren's Hospital at Maine Medical Center.

But Allagash isn’t the only local brewery trying to give back with every sip, swig and chug. Many Portland brewers have rolled out brews with char-ity tie-ins in the last few years, including Shipyard, Peak Organic and Maine Beer Company.

In business for under two years and producing just three styles of beer thus far, Maine Beer Company might be the only local brewer that can be qualifi ed as a nano-brewery. But the fl edgling company’s size has not impeded its ability to give back to the com-munity.

A member of the 1% for the Planet initiative, Maine Beer Company donates 1 percent of sales — not profi ts — to various environmental causes.

"If it was 1 percent of profi ts, at least fi rst year, we wouldn’t have donated anything,” said founder Dan Kleban.

"When we were starting our company, part of our mission was that we wanted to be socially conscious in all aspects of our operations,” said Kleban.

The company’s small size meant that it would not be economically viable to integrate the newest, most effi cient energy-saving technologies into the opera-tion, so Kleban had to fi gure out another way to green their beer.

“I love the outdoors, I think Maine in particular really benefi ts from having a pristine outdoors and we wanted to do whatever we can as a company to give back,” he said.

When Kleban came across 1% for the Planet, he knew it would be a good fi t. “It’s a way for us to give back. From day one we’ve tried to instill a culture of always thinking about how our business practices are impacting our communities. If every company just gave 1 percent, we wouldn't be on the brink of some of the major environmental catastrophes that are on the horizon,” he said.

Maine Beer Company’s latest ale takes its name from a whale the company “adopted” through their work with Allied Whale out of Bar Harbor.

“We did their adopt-a-whale program and one of the whales that we supposedly adopted was named ‘Lunch’ because it has a chunk taken out of its fi n that looks like a bite,” said Kleban. “It’s also a play on ‘liquid lunch’,” he added.

Propagating the use of locally sourced food and ingredients on both sides of the sale, Peak Organic Brewing Company sources many of their hops, wheat and barley from Maine, but takes that com-mitment to all things local one step further with their Maple Oat Ale.

With oats from Brownfi eld’s Grandy Oats and organic maple syrup from a local producer, a portion of sales go to benefi t Chefs Collaborative, a national chef network aiming to change the sustainable food landscape using the power of connections, education and responsible buying decisions.

“We’ve always been about promoting [things] local and sustainable, so for us it was just a no-brainer, it’s part of our DNA,” said Peak Organic founder John Cadoux.

Immortalizing Maine’s own Civil War hero, a por-tion of the sales from Shipyard Brewing’s Chamber-lain Pale Ale go to support the museum run out of his Brunswick home.

Other altruistic ales from the local brewery include Shipyard Light, benefi ting the American Lighthouse Foundation and a root beer in the com-pany’s Cap’tn Eli soda line supporting Nobleboro’s Camp Kieve, a summer camp for boys, according to Shipyard owner Fred Forsley, who said that chari-table donations from the drinks usually rings in at “a couple thousand dollars a year.”

Portland company Geary’s Brewing Company has also done its part to support the local community through the years. While the brewery does not have any charity beers on tap, they’re currently in their 13th year of partnering with Maine College of Arts Students to design the packaging for their summer ale, with the winning student earning a $5,000 scholarship.

Victoria Mansion, in partner-ship with Allagash Brewing, announced the sixth annual Allagash Victoria Ale Pre-miere, which will take place at Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth St., at 5 p.m. today. (COURTESY IMAGE)

BREWING from page one

Victoria Ale brewed with Vidal Blanc grapes

On Tuesday, hours after Gov. Paul LePage signed a bill to elim-inate registration of new voters on election day, Barbara McDade fi led paperwork to seek a people's veto of the legislation.

"We should not make things harder for people to vote, we need to make it so everyone can vote," McDade, president of the League of Women Voters of Maine, said yesterday during a State House press conference.

LD 1376, which eliminates

election day voter registration, was sponsored by House Speaker Robert Nutting, R-Oakland, and narrowly passed the legisla-ture. The bill was titled, “An Act To Preserve the Integrity of the Voter Registration and Election Process.”

"Our goal is to ensure that Maine voters can continue to reg-ister to vote on election day as we've been doing in Maine for the last 38 years," McDade said, "and the question that we would like to see on the ballot that will be pro-posed by the Secretary of State,

is: 'Do you want to reject the new law that prevents voters from registering to vote on election day?' It's a simple question on a critically important issue that is fundamental to our democracy."

The law will take effect 90 days from the time of the Maine Leg-islature's adjournment, which means it will take effect in time for the Portland mayoral election on Nov. 8. Advocates of its repeal have until early August to place a people's veto measure on the fall ballot.

Coalition unveils people’s veto campaign to restore election-day voter registration

BY DAVID CARKHUFFTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

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Barbara McDade, president of the League of Women Voters of Maine, urges support for a people’s veto of a law eliminating election-day voter registration. She was joined yesterday by other repeal advocates during a State House press conference. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

To be successful, a peo-ple's veto needs 57,277 valid signatures, based on the formula requiring 10 percent of the number of people who voted for governor in the last elec-tion, explains the Maine Secretary of State's offi ce. Any Maine regis-

tered voter may circulate a people's veto referen-dum, but the application for the petition must be fi led with the Secretary of State within 10 busi-ness days after adjourn-ment of the legislative session.

McDade, the chief applicant, for the petition to overturn LD 1376, was fl anked by a line of sup-porters, including Ben Dudley, executive direc-tor of Engage Maine.

"While the job of col-lecting signatures so quickly is challenging, we are organized, we are energized and we will be successful," Dudley said.

“Ending same-day registration will make it much harder for young people to vote," said Nicola Wells, co-director of the Maine League of Young Voters, in an emo-tional statement.

Seventeen organiza-tions have joined the coalition so far. Coali-tion members include: Engage Maine, the Maine Civil Liberties Union, Maine League of Conservation Voters, League of Women Voters of Maine, Maine AFL-CIO, Maine League of Young Voters, Maine People’s Alliance, Oppor-tunity Maine, Maine

Equal Justice Partners, EqualityMaine, Maine Women’s Lobby, Maine Education Association, MSEA-SEIU, Speaking Up for Us, Disability Rights Center, Preble Street Resource Center and Homeless Voices for Justice.

In response to the coalition's press confer-ence, Nutting yesterday released a statement, which read: “LD 1376 won approval in the Leg-islature because it is a reasonable, measured approach to address-ing a growing problem at polling places around the state: municipal elec-tion offi cials who lack the staff to accommodate the ever increasing number of last minute registra-tions and absentee bal-lots. Maine is now set to join 42 other states which understand that not being able to register to vote on Election Day is a very small incon-venience to maintain the integrity of every vote cast. This new law doesn’t disenfranchise anyone, because all eli-gible residents will still have 247 days out of the year to register. Main-ers are intelligent and thoughtful and they take their duty to vote very seriously. Perhaps that is why there was little impact on voter turn-out after Maine adopted same day voter regis-tration back in 1973. I would not expect that this small change in the law would have any impact on voter turnout in the future.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll meet someone who can help you advance your interests. You laugh and have fun talking to this person. Is there enough common ground to build something meaningful? You’ll fi nd out next week. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You will heighten your awareness through instruction, especially if you’re the teacher. As you show someone how to accomplish a task, you will see how it could be done better. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Neo-phobia, the fear of change or anything new, is not something from which you would normally suffer. Still, you like to have a general sense of where things are going. Encourage loved ones to keep you abreast of breaking news. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You care what your friends, colleagues and the community at large think of you. You will knock yourself out to please them. Your selfl essness will be strongly felt, and your approval rating will soar. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It will be challenging to stay tuned in as some-one else tells you what to do. You’re just not in the mood for following direc-tions. You’d much rather have the sat-isfaction of fi guring it out for yourself. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). A spirit of adventure will lead you to spend time with people whose backgrounds and preferences are different from yours. Peel off the labels, and you’ll fi nd that you’re all the same underneath. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Avoid the fantasy that once a certain problem is solved, you’ll coast on easy street for a while. There will always be new obstacles, and that’s what makes this journey so fun. Persist and persevere. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It will

be lucky for you to make a request of a friend. Do this as far in advance of the event as you possibly can. Give the other person plenty of time to warm up to the idea of what he or she will be doing for you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Two options will be presented to you, one right after the other. This makes the compare-and-contrast element of your decision making quite easy, and by the end of the day, the answer will be clear. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). When you know you don’t know but you act anyway, the result can be quite hilarious. Just be sure not to make these kinds of snap decisions about anything that could put your safety in question. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Don’t worry about the mistakes you’ll make. A joyful life is fi lled with mistakes. There is no thrill in living without risk. You’ll mess up, which is what makes getting it right so wonderful. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You are open to opportunities to work with those with different strengths and tal-ents. Volunteer to help in any way nec-essary -- it will change your life for the better. Together, you will accomplish a shared vision. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 24). Worldly success means nothing to you unless you have personal success with the people you love. You’ll enjoy the attention of admirers in July. You’ll move on from outworn duties in August and take on new responsibilities. Sep-tember shows increased social power. A dietary change ushers in excellent health. Pisces and Leo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 31, 6, 34 and 42.

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FRIDAY PRIME TIME JUNE 24, 2011 Dial 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 5 CTN 5 Profiles The Build Drexel Int. Bike TV Penny Dreadful’s Shilly Shockers

6 WCSHFriday Night Lights An elite program courts Coach Taylor. (N) Å

Dateline NBC (In Stereo) Å News Tonight Show With Jay Leno

7 WPFOBones A body is found in a socialite’s home. (In Stereo) (PA) Å

House “Two Stories” House speaks at a school’s career day.

News 13 on FOX (N) Frasier “RDWRER” Å

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8 WMTWShark Tank Entrepreneur in a deep financial hole. (In Stereo) Å

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution “A New Start, A New Chance”

20/20 (In Stereo) Å News 8 WMTW at 11 (N)

Nightline (N) Å

10 MPBNWashing-ton Week (N) Å

Maine Watch

McLaughlin Group (N)

Inside Washing-ton Å

Need to Know (N) (In Stereo) Å

Charlie Rose (N) (In Stereo) Å

11 WENHPriceless Antiques Roadshow

Antiques Roadshow

History Detectives Air-plane engine parts; Civil War cannon. (N)

A Cemetery Special Graveyards across the U.S. hold artwork.

POV “Kings of Pastry” Sixteen pastry chefs compete for award. (N)

12 WPXTSmallville “Isis” Lois undergoes a transforma-tion. Å

Supernatural Sam and Dean investigate sui-cides. (In Stereo) Å

Entourage “Aquaman-sion” Å

TMZ (N) (In Stereo) Å

Extra (N) (In Stereo) Å

Punk’d (In Stereo) Å

13 WGMEFlashpoint A carjacker holds a young man cap-tive. Å

CSI: NY “Holding Cell” A Spanish club promoter is found dead.

Blue Bloods A young girl is murdered at a ball. (In Stereo) Å

WGME News 13 at 11:00

Late Show With David Letterman

17 WPME Monk (In Stereo) Å Monk (In Stereo) Å Curb Buy Local Star Trek: Next

24 DISC Dual Survival Å Dual Survival (N) Å Swamp Loggers (N) Dual Survival Å

25 FAM Funniest Home Videos America’s Funniest Home Videos Å The 700 Club (N) Å

26 USA NCIS “Family” Å NCIS “Bounce” Å NCIS (In Stereo) Å Law & Order: SVU

27 NESN MLB Baseball: Red Sox at Pirates Innings Red Sox Daily Dennis

28 CSNE Boxing Sports SportsNet Sports SportsNet

30 ESPN College Baseball Baseball Tonight (N) SportsCenter (N) Å

31 ESPN2 ESPY’s Nomination Boxing Friday Night Fights. (N) (Live) Å Track and Field

33 ION Without a Trace Å Without a Trace “Bait” Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å

34 DISN Wizards ANT Farm Phineas Fish Random Good Luck Good Luck Wizards

35 TOON Hole/Wall Hole/Wall King of Hill King of Hill Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Fam. Guy Fam. Guy

36 NICK Big Time Victorious My Wife My Wife ’70s Show ’70s Show ’70s Show ’70s Show

37 MSNBC The Last Word Rachel Maddow Show Lockup: Raw Lockup: Raw

38 CNN In the Arena (N) Piers Morgan Tonight Anderson Cooper 360 (N) Å

40 CNBC 60 Minutes on CNBC American Greed Crime Inc. Mad Money

41 FNC The O’Reilly Factor (N) Hannity (N) Greta Van Susteren The O’Reilly Factor

43 TNT Movie: ››› “Transformers” (2007) Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson. Å Falling Skies “Pilot”

44 LIFE Reba Å Reba Å Reba Å Reba Å The Protector “Help” How I Met How I Met

46 TLC Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes My Big Fat Gypsy Say Yes Say Yes

47 AMC Movie: ››› “The Cowboys” (1972, Western) John Wayne. Å “Cahill-Marshal”

48 HGTV Hunters Hunters House Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters

49 TRAV Paranormal Challenge Paranormal Challenge Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures

50 A&E Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å The Glades Å

52 BRAVO Housewives/NJ Movie: ›› “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” (2003) How Lose

55 HALL Martha Stewart Movie: “Rock the House” (2010) Jack Coleman. Frasier Frasier

56 SYFY WWE Friday Night SmackDown! (N) Å Haunted Collector Hollywood Hollywood

57 ANIM Whale Wars Å Whale Wars (N) Å Finding Bigfoot Whale Wars Å

58 HIST American Pickers Å Pawn Pawn American American Modern Marvels Å

60 BET Movie: ››‡ “Stomp the Yard” (2007) Å Movie: ››‡ “Barbershop” (2002) Ice Cube.

61 COM Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Gabriel Iglesias: Fat Comedy Comedy Larry, Cable

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Today is Friday, June 24, the 175th day of 2011. There are 190 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On June 24, 1314, the forces of Scot-

land’s King Robert I defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn.

On this date: In 1509, Henry VIII was crowned king of

England; his wife, Catherine of Aragon, was crowned queen consort.

In 1793, the fi rst republican constitution in France was adopted.

In 1807, a grand jury in Richmond, Va., indicted former Vice President Aaron Burr on charges of treason and high misdemeanor (he was later acquitted).

In 1908, the 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, N.J., at age 71.

In 1910, Italian automaker Alfa Romeo was founded in Milan.

In 1940, France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.

In 1948, Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Ger-many and West Berlin, prompting the west-ern allies to organize the Berlin Airlift. The Republican National Convention, meeting in Philadelphia, nominated New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for president.

In 1968, “Resurrection City,” a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People’s March on Washington, D.C., was closed down by authorities.

In 1975, 113 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.

In 1983, the space shuttle Challenger carrying America’s fi rst woman in space, Sally K. Ride coasted to a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

One year ago: President Barack Obama declared that he and visiting Russian Presi-dent Dmitry Medvedev had “succeeded in resetting” the relationship between the former Cold War adversaries.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Al Molinaro is 92. Comedian Jack Carter is 88. Actress Michele Lee is 69. Actor-director Georg Stanford Brown is 68. Rock musician Jeff Beck is 67. Singer Arthur Brown is 67. Rock singer Colin Blunstone (The Zombies) is 66. Musician Mick Fleetwood is 64. Actor Peter Weller is 64. Rock musician John Illsley (Dire Straits) is 62. Actress Nancy Allen is 61. Reggae singer Derrick Simpson (Black Uhuru) is 61. Actor Joe Penny is 55. Reggae singer Astro (UB40) is 54. Singer-musician Andy McCluskey is 52. Rock singer Curt Smith is 50. Actress Danielle Spencer is 46. Actress Sherry Stringfi eld is 44. Singer Glenn Medeiros is 41. Actress-producer Mindy Kaling is 32. Actress Minka Kelly is 31. Actress Kaitlin Cullum is 25. Singer Solange Knowles is 25.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I’m so frustrated right now. Our 22-year-old daughter, “Olivia,” is living at home with my husband, our 17-year-old son and me. A while back, she quit college and moved in with her friends, which turned out to be a fi nan-cial disaster. Two years ago, Olivia decided to return to school and moved back in with us. She works full time, goes to class-es and has managed to pay off her creditors. She is saving money to buy a car. We do not charge rent, but she does pay for her own gas and personal items. The problem? Olivia is a sweet girl, but she is really letting herself go. She has gained a considerable amount of weight and doesn’t seem to care about her appearance. However, what is really tipping me over is her room. It is an absolute mess -- clothes all over the fl oor, the bed and stuffed in the closet, and dirty dishes, garbage and makeup strewn about. I can’t even walk through the room. Every time I look in there, it just makes me sick and angry. I don’t do her laundry, but can’t recall her doing it, either, so she must be wearing dirty clothes. Her father and I have begged and threatened, but nothing gets her to clean up. All she says is “I’ll get to it” or “I’m too busy.” But when she’s not at work or at school, she’s sleeping, watching TV or visiting her boyfriend. I’m ready to kick her out, but I’m afraid she will quit col-lege and get in fi nancial trouble again. Olivia has one year left of school. Should I put up with this disgusting room until then? -- At the End of my Tether in South Dakota Dear S.D.: If you are too worried to throw her out, then yes, you’ll have to put up with the mess until she graduates. Olivia may be slovenly or depressed, and her schedule may be so busy that she needs more downtime than most. If you think she may be depressed, please suggest she visit the col-

lege counseling department. Whatever the reason, you are not obligated to go into Olivia’s room if it is too stressful for you. Close the door. Dear Annie: My sister-in-law, “Maureen,” has two different sides to her personality. A month ago, we were invited to my brother’s house for dinner. My teenage daughter took a piece of bacon that was drying on a rack. Maureen yelled at her and then hit her on the back with the fl at of her hand. I said noth-ing, but was hurt and angry. Maureen will snap for no apparent reason at some innocu-ous remark. She has been doing this off and on for years. I have overlooked her behavior for a long time, but the incident with my daughter was the last straw. I believe she needs some kind of help, but she would never admit it. How do I deal with this situation? -- Totally Fed Up Dear Totally: We’re astounded that you said nothing when Maureen hit your child. That would have been the moment to speak up, tell her she was out of line and then leave. You can-not force Maureen to deal with her mood swings, but there is no reason for you to put up with such abuse. Dear Annie: I laughed when I read the letter from “Neglect-ed,” who complained about her husband’s lack of gift giving. Here’s how my friend “Nadine” handled a similar situation: Nadine kept dropping hints to her hubby that she wanted some new dishes for their 25th anniversary. When nothing was forthcoming, she “borrowed” his credit card and ordered the reasonably priced set she wanted. When it arrived, she unpacked it, called a few friends to come over and waited for her husband to come home. When he arrived, she made such a tearful, effusive appreciation speech (with many kisses thrown in) that he was speechless. He never forgot again. -- LOL at the Memory

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Portland Jetport announces carriers’ extra fl ights to Atlanta, Toronto

Air Canada, AirTran and Delta will be offer-ing extra service this summer from the Portland International Jetport to meet increased passenger demand, the Jetport reported in a press release.

Delta will be offering a third roundtrip fl ight to Atlanta, Air Tran will be offering a second roundtrip fl ight to Atlanta, while Air Canada will be offering one additional roundtrip service to Toronto.

Jetport Director Paul Bradbury said although it is not unusual for airlines to increase fl ights during the summer season, these fl ights are in addition to last summer’s schedule.

“This shows that the airlines are aware of the demands their passengers have for service to Maine and assists the Jetport in meeting that increased demand,” he said.

“Atlanta is the biggest airport in the world and it offers numerous connection possibilities for our pas-sengers,” Bradbury added. “Toronto assists our goals to increase our capacity into the Canadian markets.”

Bradbury said the news of the additional services was in line with predictions of ongoing growth for the Jetport and Maine as a popular destination for both business and leisure travelers.

“With the opening of the terminal expansion in the fall we will be in a position to continue to actively seek additional services to new destinations, some-thing which we have not been in a position to do so over the last few years,” he said.

The Bank of Maine plans Monday grand opening with music, food

The Bank of Maine will welcome Portland resi-dents and the business community to its new head-quarters and branch with a grand opening event on Monday, June 27, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 2 Canal Plaza, the bank reported.

Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the bank’s services and enter to win a tablet com-puter and other prizes through The Bank of Maine Celebration, a monthlong sweepstakes, which will run from June 27 to July 25.

“Our new headquarters and branch in Portland are the latest milestones in The Bank of Maine’s 177-year history,” said John W. Everets, chief executive offi cer and chairman of The Bank of Maine. “We are committed to providing our customers with Amer-ica’s best checking account, The Promise Account, which could get customers up to a $250 credit.”

The Portland grand opening event, which is free and open to the public, will feature welcome remarks by the Mayor of Portland, Nicholas M. Mavodones, Jr., and Chief Executive Offi cer of the Portland Regional Chamber, Godfrey Wood; a check presenta-tion for $12,500 to the Portland Public Library; free food and refreshments provided by Famous Dave’s B.B.Q.; performance by the South Portland Boys and Girls Club Dynamite Dancers; performance by Portland musician, Eric Bettencourt; live radio remote by Maine’s classic hit station, 107.5 Frank FM; and the kickoff of The Bank of Maine Celebra-tion Sweepstakes.

With the Portland opening, The Bank of Maine now has 33 branches, from York to Fort Kent, and more than $830 million in assets and $124 million in capital.

Bernstein, Osher named Honorary Trustees of Portland Museum of Art

At the Portland Museum of Art’s annual meeting on June 21, guests celebrated the appointment of Rosalyne S. Bernstein and Peggy L. Osher as Hon-orary Trustees.

Together, Bernstein and Osher have dedicated nearly 100 years of service to the museum as trustees, volunteers and committee members, the museum reported.

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‘Summer of Love’ at Ogunquit Playhouse8 p.m. The Ogunquit Playhouse, Route 1, Ogunquit. Box Offi ce 1-800-982-2787 or go online ogunquitplayhouse.org for online ticketing and more information. June 22 through July 16, “Summer of Love.” With a 2:30 p.m. preview. “Be sure to wear some fl owers in your hair for the east coast premier of ‘Summer of Love,’ a groovy new musical by Roger Bean, the creator of The Marvelous Wonderettes and The Andrews Brothers, with choreography by Lee Martino. When a runaway bride discovers the countercultural revolu-tion of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, with a little help from the hippies and dropouts of Golden Gate Park, she comes to realize she has to make her own kind of music! This hippie, trippy musical features the pow-erful music of the late 1960s, by some of the most infl u-ential artists of the love generation: The Mamas and the Papas, Donovan, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane and many more.” Next on stage: “The Music Man,” July 20-Aug. 20; “Legally Blonde” starring Sally Struthers, Aug.24-Sept. 17; and “Miss Saigon,” Sept. 21-Oct. 23.

Saturday, June 25

Limington Extension Yard Sales8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 11 and every dry Saturday in June, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., 476 Sand Pond Road, Limington. Used and new items. Bug sprays, yard foggers and ant products for $2. New gallons of paint, shoes and jeans $2. Napkins, paper plates & envelopes 25 cents. Hundreds of 25 cent items. Benefi ts BEHS scholarships. FMI — 692-2989.

Trot for Tots 5K Run/Walk8:30 a.m. Youth and Family Outreach (YFO) is having its fi rst Trot for Tots 5K Run/Walk at Back Cove in Portland. “All proceeds will benefi t YFO which has been providing quality early care and education for low-income families in the Portland area for 25 years.” 874-1073. Registrations and donations accepted at active.com.

Cemetery walk at Calvary Cemetery10 a.m. Cemetery walk at Calvary Cemetery. “The last one was cancelled, but we are going ahead with this one no matter the weather (well, if it is too bad...). Rain date will be in the fall. The tour is by Matthew Jude Barker and features a brief history of the cemetery and discussion of interesting gravesites.” www.maineirish.com/

Calling All Cars: Giant Car Show10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Portland Police Department and the Portland Motor Club will present Calling All Cars: Giant Car Show to benefi t the Portland Police Youth Activities League (PAL), at Portland Motor Club. 275 Presumpscot St. The classic and newer vehicle show is a fun free event for all ages with fi fteen prize categories for registrants. The show will feature a special Police Tactical Vehicles demonstra-tion, police cars, new and classic muscle cars, green hybrid cars, indoor carting vehicles, and a vintage HO scale race track. Activities will include tire-changing races, detailing demonstrations and youth-oriented car safety and care les-sons. Raffl e prizes and refreshments from area restaurants including Bingas Wingas, Siano’s Brick Oven Pizza and Cap’n Eli’s Soda, will be available to attendees. Live music to be performed local teen musicians. For more informa-tion about the event or to register a vehicle (including trucks and motorcycles) for the car show, visit www.Portland-MotorClub.com. All categories of vehicles are welcome, especially teen vehicle owners and classic police cars (cat-egories exempt from registration costs). Registration fee is $15, includes a car show t-shirt.

Strawberry Festival in Cape Elizabeth10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Third annual Strawberry Festival in Cape Elizabeth kicks off Friday evening, June 24 with a Lobsterbake & Pig Roast at Andy & Kelly Strout’s Shady Oak Farm on Fowler Road. There will be feasting (only the best local foods of course), music and a silent auction. Tickets will be available soon at Jordan’s Farm Market and Alewives’ Brook Farm. Saturday, June 25 the fun moves to Maxwell’s Strawberry Fields on Two Lights Road. Come and enjoy luscious strawberry treats, great music, fun and crafts for kids including tractor rides, and a wide range of artisans and vendors. It’s a full day of fun from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and there’s no admission charge! For information on being a sponsor, a vendor or a volunteer, please contact Suzanne Martin-Pillsbury.

Vegetarian Food Festival11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Maine Animal Coalition’s seventh annual Vegetarian Food Festival at East End Community School, 195 North St., Portland. Music provided by Thom and Stacie Hanes with Mike Brown and Anne McKee, violin with Chris-tine deCosta, piano accompanist. Presenters in the large classroom: 11:15 a.m., Jasmin Singer of Our Hen House, “Let the Doughnut Do The Talking: Food as Activism”;

12:15 p.m., Mariann Sullivan,Our Hen House “Writing for Animal Rights”; 1:15 p.m., Meg Wolff, “Kicking The Sugar Habit”; 2 p.m. Elizabeth Fraser of Girl Gone Raw, “Unleash a Vibrant NEW You with Raw & Living Foods.” In the Band Room: noon, Dr. Reuben Bell of Healthy Doctors, LLC, will share his decades of medical experi-ence in his talk “Living in the Food/Pharma Matrix”; 1:30 p.m., Susan Rooker, Author/Illustrator, will read from her new children’s book, “Lucky Pigs.”

Portland Lobster Fest11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The third annual Portland Lobster Fest takes place on the Maine State Pier. “With live music featuring The Stream, Maine premier reggae band, the smooth vocals of the David Good Trio and the unique sounds and songs of Typhoon Ferri, the Portland Lobster Fest offers the best of Maine’s iconic food, the Maine Lobster, a festive atmosphere and a unique, scenic setting on the Maine State Pier.” Presented by the Falmouth Rotary, Lobster Fest benefi ts the Maine Children’s Cancer Program. Lead spon-sor is FairPoint Communications. The Great Maine Lobster Eating Contest begins at 1 p.m. and will feature contestants shucking and eating as many Maine lobsters as they can in 10 minutes. Maine Gov. Paul LePage; winner of the hit CBS show “Survivor” Bob Crowley; and Miss Maine USA Ashley Marble are the judges for the Great Maine Lobster Eating contest. Contestants will be announced the week before the competition. The Calendar Island Lobster Company is presenting a Gourmet Lobster Tasting Bar at this year’s Portland Lobster Festival. The tasting will consist of Lobster Pizza, Lobster Cakes, Lobster Bisque, Lobster Stew and a few other delicious lobster items. The Gourmet Lobster Tasting Bar is open to the public the day.

Public Supper at SoPo United Methodist Church4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Elm Street United Methodist Church, 168 Elm St., South Portland, public supper. Casseroles, pies. Call 799-0407 FMI. Suggested donation: Adults $8, Under 12: $4, Family: $20.

Sunday, June 26

Pancake breakfast at Fifth Maine8 a.m. to 11 a.m. “Bring the whole family for a delicious breakfast of blueberry or buttermilk pancakes, ham, eggs, baked beans, watermelon, juice and coffee of tea in our seaside dining room and verandah. A great way to start the day! The Fifth Maine Regiment Museum is a nonprofi t museum and cultural center housed in the 1888 Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Hall. Its mission is the preservation of Civil War and local history. To that end the museum offers a wide variety of lectures, concerts, tours, youth education programs, and community activities.” $7 per person; $4 per child under 10. Membership is open to the public. Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island. 766-3330 or email fi [email protected].

Temple Beth El’s Open House & Family Fun Day11 a.m. to 3 p.m. “Please join Temple Beth El for a fun-fi lled Open House & Family Fun Day with kosher hot dogs on the BBQ, refreshments, music, kids activities including a bounce house and crafts, and more. Free, and all are welcome!” Temple Beth El, 400 Deering Avenue, Portland. 774-2649, offi [email protected], www.tbemaine.org

Hands Across The Sand11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. “Mainers will stand in solidarity with folks from around the globe as we call for an end to dangerous offshore oil drilling. Hands Across The Sand is a movement made of people of all walks of life and crosses all borders and political affi liations. This movement is not about politics. It is about protecting coastal economies, oceans, marine wildlife and fi sheries from the threats of expanded offshore drilling.” East End Beach, Portland. Visit www.handsacrossthesands.com for information on other locations in Maine. Hands Across The Sand is endorsed by national and state organizations including Oceana, Alaska Wilderness League, NRCM, Maine Interfaith Power and Light, Maine Audubon, Conservation Law Foundation and Environment Maine.

Friends and family potluck picnicnoon to 4 p.m. Summer event at UU Church of Saco and Biddeford. Part of 25th Annual Southern Maine Pride. Bring food to share. Hot dogs and hamburgers provided. RSVP on www.gosaco.ning.com

Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project 5K12:15 p.m. Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project hosts a 5K

on the Bayside Trail. Following the run, stick around to watch high qual-ity soccer matches by the Portland United Soccer League. Black Bear Medical, 275 Marginal Way, Portland. “This is a day for the whole family! What better way to celebrate our multi-cultural community, with run-ners of all levels and highly skilled soccer players enjoying a beautiful Maine summer day for a great cause.” $20 registration fee; to register, go to www.ilapmaine.org/events.html.

Sixth annual Taste of the Nation3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wine & Spirit Tast-ing Reception, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.; General Admission, 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Southern Maine Commu-nity College, Leavitt and Parris Tent Pavilion, 2 Fort Road (Middle Campus), South Portland. “The sixth annual Taste of the Nation Port-land will include over 20 chefs from Maine’s fi nest restaurants paired with an open bar serving premium wines and spirits, and local craft

beers. Dance under the stars along Maine’s spectacu-lar waterfront to Portland’s ‘DJ Jon’ and one of Maine’s hottest live bands ‘Now is Now’!” A 21-plus event, and valid ID will be required at check-in. This event is a ben-efi t to raise money to feed the hungry. The menu is being prepared by many of the top restaurants in the state. VIP tickets are $200 and entitle the holder to arrive at 3 p.m. for a food preview and a chance to meet the chefs and ‘a gift bag packed with fantastic goodies from companies like Stonewall Kitchen.’ General admission starts at 4:30 p.m.; tickets are $125. For more information or to buy tickets visit the Share Our Strength website, http://strength.org.

Tuesday, June 28

Bomb Diggity Arts Program ‘TV SHOW’7 p.m. “Presenting episode two and three of TV SHOW fol-lowed by The Kidnap — a 1930s era spy movie. TV SHOW is a television variety show produced by Bomb Diggity Arts, a program of Momentum and Shoot Media Project, a program of Creative Trails. Using video cameras from the Commu-nity Television Network, artists in these two media programs create short documentaries, comedies, interviews, anima-tions, music videos, etc. for the show. ... Anna Schechter, a staffer at Bomb Diggity Arts Program, and Natalie Conn, a staffer of Shoot Media are two SALT Alumni who started this innovative multi-media program with the adults with intellec-tual disabilities with whom they work. This project morphed into ‘TV SHOW.’” SPACE Gallery. www.space538.org

Wednesday, June 29

Music rights workshop6:30 p.m. A workshop, led by attorney Valerie Lovely of The Music Law Firm, “is designed to give performers, produc-ers and dance instructors an overview of music rights as it pertains to performing and how to obtain permission to use a piece of music in a production or show.” Presented at SPACE Gallery by Maine Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and Dark Follies in collaboration with Portland Music Founda-tion and Lucid Stage. www.space538.org/events.php

Property Assessed Clean Energy loan program6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. How local homeowners can fi nance and move ahead on energy-saving projects for their homes, using Effi ciency Maine’s new low-interest loan program, will be the focus of a community forum at Ocean Avenue Elemen-tary School. The event is hosted by the Maine Chapter of Sierra Club, Effi ciency Maine and Maine Partners for Cool Communi-ties and its signature Green Sneakers Project. The program at Ocean Avenue Elementary School, 150 Ocean Ave., is open to the public. Homeowners and community leaders are encour-aged to attend. Forum presenters include Effi ciency Maine residential program specialist Dana Fischer, who will provide an overview of the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loan program, already adopted by more than 70 communities including Portland, South Portland, Falmouth, and other neigh-boring communities. Dave Marshall, City Councilor, and Chair of the Energy and Environmental Sustainability Committee will provide background on the city’s adoption of the PACE program and share success stories of various initiatives undertaken by the Energy and Environmental Sustainability Committee. For more information, please contact Green Sneakers-Portland Team at 774-7989 or Sierra Club at 761-5616 or visit the MPCC website at www.coolmaine.org.

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The Freeport Factory Stage features Ida Leclair in “Ida’s Having a Yard Sale.” COURTESY IMAGE)

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Thursday, June 30

‘Effective Networking’ seminarnoon to 1 p.m. “What Everyone Does, But Few Do Well: Effective Networking,” part of the Wisdom at Work series at the Portland Public Library, Rines Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Featuring Barbara Babkirk of Heart At Work Career Counseling.

Build Your Network with the Sea Dogs5:30 p.m. The Portland Sea Dogs, Double-A affi liate of the Boston Red Sox, are offering a summer networking series titled “Build Your Network.” The series, which gets underway on June 30th, is designed to give professionals in the business community an opportunity for profes-sional development, creating contacts and to network in a casual social setting at the ballpark. The summer

networking series will consist of three events over the course of the summer. The fi rst event is on June 30 with the remaining events taking place on July 14, and Aug. 23. Each event will include a featured local business leader speaking, networking opportunities in the Coca-Cola Picnic Grove at Hadlock Field, and a Portland Sea Dogs baseball game. The speaking portion of the series will take place at 5:45 p.m. in the Portland Room and will conclude at approximately at 6:15 p.m. Following the speaking portions, all attendees are welcome to con-tinue networking in the Coca Cola picnic area, where you will be able to enjoy a ballpark style dinner consisting of hamburgers, hot dogs, BBQ chicken sandwiches, Sea Dog biscuits, and much more. After dinner enjoy watch-ing the Sea Dogs in action, game time is set for 7 p.m. Tickets to each event cost $20, and include the speaking portion as well as your ticket to the game in the Coca Cola Picnic Area with food. Tickets are limited and can be purchased by contacting Liz Riley at the Sea Dogs

offi ce at 874-9300 or email at [email protected]. The series will kick off on Thursday, June 30 at 5:30 p.m. and will feature Eastern League President Joe McEacharn as the speaker prior to that evenings’ 7 p.m. game against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Blue Jays).

Portland Improv Experience at Lucid Stage 7:30 p.m. “Since 2010, Portland Improv Experience (PIE) has brought long form improvisational theater to audiences across southern Maine. Each show features PIE’s ensemble cast working together to create uncommon stories driven by audience inspiration. ... Portland Improv Experience brings a different kind of improv to Maine’s theater scene. In addition to live performances, PIE is committed to expanding theater and arts education across Maine through classes and workshops. Most recently PIE worked with Yarmouth High School to produce student programming for the state’s One Act Festival and was a featured company in the fi rst annual Portland Improv Festival.” $10. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard. 899-3993. www.LucidStage.com

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The ship will leave Halifax, then pick up and drop off cargo in Boston and Portland (but not from Boston to Portland, which is against federal law when using a foreign-fl agged vessel) en route back to Halifax. There, materials loaded in Boston and Portland will be transferred onto ships destined for Asia, Europe and other major ports.

The route is similar to one that ran between Port-land and Canada for 17 years. That service ended three years ago when funding for the Iceland-based feeder line dried up, Humeniuk said.

“We have spent a lot of time with the ports and the industry stakeholders in New England. Our research showed that importers and exporters in the region are disadvantaged as there is a lack of all-water services serving the region,” said Percy Pyne IV, chairman and co-founder of American Feeder Lines, in a March 1 statement.

Andrew Haines, vice president of American Feeder Lines, didn't return a call yesterday seeking comment.

Port offi cials say the new shipping line should be more stable, and therefore more attractive to cus-tomers, than the barge service that ran intermit-tently from Portland to New York over the past few

years. That service ended last August.“Part of the challenge we had with the barge, was

that during adverse weather conditions, the barge would either not run or would run late,” Henshaw said. “Importers especially can’t work under that uncertainty.”

Products that could regularly move through Port-land include pulp and paper from Northern Maine on the export side, and liquors on the import side. Special cargo, including wind turbines and other large shipments, could also run through the IMT.

The state is actively trying to fi nd Maine compa-nies that can save money by shipping over the sea.

“There are basically two components to determine if a business should use a service like this. One is cost — if it’s cheaper to get your goods to market, either inbound or outbound,” Henshaw explained. “The other is speed to market.”

Humeniuk said freight is already booked to run through the IMT when the cargo ship arrives, although it wasn’t clear if the new service would begin next week or the week after. He said three major shipping fi rms — Hapag-Lloyd, Hanjin and Maersk — have already signed on to use the new feeder line.

Soon after the cargo service begins, Maine Port Authority is expecting to move ahead with upgrades

at the 13.5-acre pier site.“The project includes the demolition of the customs

building and the ferry terminal, the addition of new pier area where the terminal building now sits, and the regrading and strengthening of what had been the ferry terminal parking lot to make it available for cargo operations,” Henshaw said in an email.

A 3,500-square-foot building will replace a trailer currently located on Commercial Street that houses various offi ces and other space.

Roughly $600,000 in security upgrades are planned for the site in addition to the $5 million in upgrades. Work is expected to begin by August and wrap up by next summer.

Port offi cials are hoping the new feeder service is the beginning of a sustained freight operation at the IMT.

Henshaw said American Feeder Lines is already considering a domestic freight in the near future that would run between Portland, Boston and New York in addition to the Halifax route.

Beyond that, the new route is spurring discus-sions of new cross-border trade between Maine and Canada.

“It’s huge,” Humeniuk said of the new service. “It connects Portland to trade centers all over the world.”

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Maine Port Authority to move ahead with upgrades

"The idea is they will pick up goods and cargo from Boston and then come up to Portland, pick up con-tainers here, and then go on to Halifax, and from Halifax they'll be loaded on the mega-ships and shipped directly to Europe," Connolly explained.

"That's probably the most realistic use of our deep-water port here," he said.

It's been a gradual evolution for Portland Harbor. The east end of the harbor has become a place for tour-ism and passenger cruise ships; the center part of the harbor has become mixed use, with longshoremen and fi shermen sharing the waterfront; the International Marine Terminal, located just to the east of the Casco Bay Bridge, now allows ships easy access for container shipping; and the far end of the harbor has become a destination for bulk cargo and oil.

The International Marine Terminal, the city's major container facility, is the place today where longshoremen — workers on shore who transport goods from ships — continue to work, and they'll be working even more frequently with the American Feeder Line, Connolly said.

"It seems that fi nally the harbor is taking off now, it's been a little rough for a while," he said.

"You've got a small but a skilled longshore labor force here, it never completely disappeared," Con-nolly noted.

There's still an Irish presence on the waterfront, it's just not a dominant as it was in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Connolly noted.

"If you look at the workers that are there, there's

still an awful lot of Irish surnames," he said, but today, "it's an open mix, mostly people who have time available so they can maybe use this as a part-time job."

Pictures on the front of Connolly's book are of the late Pat Malone, native Irish speaker who spoke Gaelic. He hailed from Inverin, County Galway, Ire-land, and came to Portland by way of Pittsburgh. Malone, as an example of an early Irish immigrant,

worked as a longshoreman in Portland up until about 1970. There's also an image on the cover from the 1920s of whiskey being shipped into Portland, with a police offi cer present to monitor the transfer onto land.

"They were hard workers," Connolly said of Irish longshoremen, "they weren't afraid of manual labor, and I think that's a trait that many of them got from working the land in rural Ireland."

In that day, the Irish immigrants also demonstrated a form of cliqueishness.

Communities could become insular and slow to spread into the larger city, but they also found security in their respective neighborhoods, Connolly explained.

"They were fairly clannish when they came to Portland," Connolly said of the Irish, "they tended to stay in the same neighborhoods, East End and West End, Munjoy Hlil and Gorham's Corner, that clan-nishness I guess you could say had elements that could be bad or good."

Today, the Maine Irish Heritage Center, like Port-land Harbor itself, seems to be bouncing back, Con-nolly said. Housed in the old St. Dominic's Catholic Church on the West End's Gray Street, the center is undergoing a restoration and becoming a magnet for genealogical research.

Connolly plans to sign copies of his book at 7 p.m. tonight at the Maine Irish Heritage Center during a book launch event and discussion of Irish long-shoremen in Portland. Proceeds from the sales of the paperback version of "Seated by the Sea" tonight go entirely to benefi t the Maine Irish Heritage Center, Connolly noted.

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Author: Irish longshoremen ‘weren’t afraid of manual labor’

History comes full circle It’s a small world in historical circles, when it comes to studying the Irish in Portland. Patrick Mannion, a young historian from Newfound-land, who’s now doing graduate work at University of Toronto, has come to Portland to work on his disser-tation, a comparative study of St. John’s, Newfound-land; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Portland as port cities, according to author Michael Connolly. Connolly plans to introduce Mannion to an audi-ence tonight at the Maine Irish Heritage Center during a 7 p.m. book signing for the paperback version of Connolly’s 1999 book, “Seated by the Sea.” Many will recognize the name of Connolly’s guest. Patrick Mannion’s father, John Mannion, is a retired historian who researched Irish immigration to New-foundland with Fidelma McCarron. McCarron lives on Munjoy Hill and authored one of the chapters in a previous book compiled by Connolly, “They Changed Their Sky.”

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Friday, June 24

Jabon and Dada Trash Collage7 p.m. Jabon and Dada Trash Collage, East Coast Summer Tour, The Apohadian Theater, Portland. “Jabon is the solo music project of Scott Colburn. While Colburn is not well known for playing music, his production skills for record-ing music are, with albums from artists such as Sun City Girls, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire and more to his credit, including his tour mates Dada Trash Collage. Jabon is an attempt to present musical ideas, sounds, image and perfor-mance that is designed to entertain. Jabon is dark ambient avant garde disco comedy. Jabon is most like The Residents. Dada Trash Collage is a duo from Minneapolis, Minn., con-sisting of Billy Freed and Richard Bell. Their relentless output in just a few short years shows that there is much music in the duo. Their fascinating blend of drums, keyboards, samples and vocals create a sound nearly 10 times and big as the two members. Dada Trash Collage is most like Animal Collective.”

Jeff Beam with The Lucid, Laminated Cat9 p.m. Returning to Maine after a brief stint in New York, Jeff Beam returns to Portland with their ‘60s psych and British invasion-inspired experimental rock. Beam combines catchy, oddball melodies with obscure but cohesive chord changes, matched with existential and surrealistic lyrical con-tent. Woah, sounds trippy. The Lucid return to SPACE with their epic pop-rock, evinced on this year’s self-titled album. Maine-to-Athens, Georgia transplants Laminated Cat open with a set of Elephant 6-style far-out pop. $8, 18 plus.

Saturday, June 25

Pianist Christian Saunders in Bar Mills7:30 p.m. In the Old White Church, 15 Salmon Falls

Road, Bar Mills, next door to the Saco River Grange Hall. Christian Saunders. Old White Church (15 Salmon Falls Road in Bar Mills.) FMI and reservations please call 929-6472. Adults $14, students and seniors $12, or by affordable donation. Children 12 and under are free. www.sacoriver-grangehall.org

Meghan Yates, Panda Bandits, Jesse Pilgrim at Mayo Street 8 p.m. Meghan Yates & The Reverie Machine, The Gallerist, Panda Ban-dits, Jesse Pilgrim at Mayo Street Arts Center. Panda Bandits call their music dark country magic. Jesse Pilgrim was born and raised in West Bath, Maine and wouldn’t have it any other way. He plays loud and proud folk music with his band The Bonfi re. Meghan Yates is a native of Maine. Her second CD is now available. Contact Meghan for more info at [email protected]. www.eternalotterrecords.com

Audrey Ryan album release 8 p.m. Mount Desert Island native Audrey Ryan is a multi-instrumental-ist, one-man-band act on most occa-sions, best known for her ability to play drums to her live guitar loops and accordion creating a full band sound from just one person onstage. How-ever, her new record “Thick Skin” is a departure towards multi-track record-ing with as many as 20 instruments on some songs. The result is an orchestral sound that evokes the work of Sufjan

Stevens and Bjork in its ambience and instrumentation. Providence’s Brown Bird pulls from blues, outlaw coun-try, roots rock, early American folk, Gypsy and Eastern

European music to offer harmonized voices, haunt-ing lyrics and diverse rhythm and instrumentation, often swelling into high-spirited, foot-stomping madness. Portland’s favorite musical couple, South China opens. $8, 18 plus. SPACE Gallery. www.space538.org

Sunday, June 26

Josiah Wolf at SPACE 9 p.m. Josiah Wolf, like his younger brother and WHY? bandmate (and Anticon labelmate) Yoni, has never been able to escape the call of music. His father, a Cincinnati rabbi, taught him drums at the age of 9, so that curly-haired kid could provide the backbeat for worship service. Later, he’d dabble in darker arts (i.e. grunge) and fall in love with the hard bop of Thelonious Monk on his way to the University Of Cincinnati’s music conservatory. Inspired by the likes of the Silver Jews’ melancholy acoustic storytelling and multiple cross-country relocations over the past decade, Josiah’s solo album, “Jet Lag,” fi nally came to fruition in a cottage in the woods outside Cincinnati. $8, 18 plus. SPACE Gallery. www.space538.org

Friday, July 1

Slaid Cleaves at One Longfellow8 p.m. “Slaid Cleaves. Grew up in Maine. Lives in Texas. Writes songs. Makes Records. Travels around. Tries to be good. Granted, there’s a whole lot of history and detail that could be shoehorned into that most minimal of bios to fl esh out Cleaves’ story. But all that’s really called for, from time to time, is a footnote or two to bring folks up to speed on his latest batch of liter-ate, sepia-toned Americana songcraft.” www.onelongfel-lowsquare.com

Sunday, July 3

Seaside Pavilion Series kicks off in OOB6 p.m. The Seaside Pavilion in Old Orchard Beach will launch its Summer Concert Series with a special patriotic concert featuring the Strafford Wind Symphony. The perfor-mance will include such stan-dards as John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes For-ever,” Morton Gould’s “Ameri-can Salute” and George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris.” The concert is free and open to the public. The Sea-side Pavilion Series, a com-munity treasure and outreach ministry of The Salvation Army, is held annually from June through August. www.seasidepavilion.org

Audrey Ryan was nominated “Best Folk Act” at the Boston Music Awards in 2009. She will appear this weekend at SPACE Gallery. (COURTESY PHOTO)