WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011 VOL. 3 NO. 50 PORTLAND, ME PORTLAND’S DAILY NEWSPAPER 699-5801

Store manager Christian Steppe loads up old boxes at the Reny’s department store in Portland in preparation for a grand opening. The new Reny’s will open its doors at 9 a.m. Thurs-day, the Maine-based retail chain announced. The store opens at 9 a.m. Thursday and will stay open until 6 p.m. Regular hours will be 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday; and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Reny’s fi lls a vacancy on Congress Street left by L.L. Bean and Olympia Sports. Portland is the company’s largest city to date for a store. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Reny’s gets ready for its grand opening on Thursday

A non-spring chicken fi nds age inhospitable

See Natalie Ladd’s column on page 4

NASA chooses space shuttles’ retirement homes

See the story on page 3

Refl ections on happiness: Look for that pot of gold each day

See Maggie Knowles on page 5

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Call it a classic case of government “hurry up and wait.”

A new $5.5 million Casco Bay Lines replacement ferry — dubbed the “boat to nowhere” by its critics after a rush for federal stimulus grant money precluded usual design steps — is being stalled as government offi cials review its design.

“I think its going much more slowly than anyone expected,” said Portland Mayor Nick Mavodones, who is also operations manager of Casco Bay Lines. “Certainly, it’s slower than I would have hoped.”

The ferry became controversial after critics of the boat, most signifi cantly some of the ferry boat captains, argued

A Casco Bay Lines terminal ferry awaits passengers at the dock. A federal stimulus grant was awarded to replace Casco Bay Lines’ Island Romance ferry, one of the service’s smaller boats that was built in 1973. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

Once fast-tracked ‘boat to nowhere’ going nowhere fast

BY CURTIS ROBINSONTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

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A legislative committee will vote Friday on a pro-posal that rejects the federal REAL ID law in Maine, and for sponsor Rep. Ben Chipman, I-Portland, it’s like coming full circle.

“It’s something that we’ve been trying to do for several years,” Chipman said Tuesday.

“We haven’t been able to have any success until now,” he said. “The political climate might just be right for this bill.”

The legislation would reject security mandates on state driver’s licenses imposed under the federal REAL ID law, a post-9/11 law that required states

to meet federal security standards in designing and issuing driver’s licenses. Critics also contend it’s an unfunded federal mandate that will cost Maine tens of millions of dollars.

The state’s closely watched and long-sought-after personal-liberties legislation has been around for several years, but never has it been this close to pas-sage, Chipman said.

At a hearing last Thursday, a representative for Gov. Paul LePage spoke in favor of the bill, and the

REAL ID rejection faces committee voteA work session for LD 1068, an Act To Protect the

Privacy of Maine Residents under the Driver’s License Laws, is scheduled for Friday, April 15, at 9 a.m. in front of the Transportation Committee, Room 126.

BY DAVID CARKHUFFTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

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Absentee ballots available for Portland school budget vote

Portland residents can now apply to the Portland city clerk for absentee ballots for the May 10 referendum on next year’s Portland Public Schools budget. Applica-tions can be found at portlandmaine.gov/voter/voter.asp#absentee_ballot

The Portland School Board has pro-posed an $89,587,035 budget for the 2011-12 school year. A copy of the budget and related documents are posted on the dis-trict’s website, portlandschools.org.

The Portland City Council’s Finance Committee will hold a public hearing and vote on the school budget on April 14 at 5:30 p.m. in Room 209 of Portland City Hall. The full City Council will hold a hearing on the school budget on April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the City Council chambers. The council is expected to vote on the school budget on May 2 at 7 p.m. in the same location.

The referendum ballot asks voters if they approve the budget as passed by the City Council.

Ballots must be returned between May 3 and May 10 at 8 p.m. People also may vote at City Hall on May 3-10 during regular business hours. The city clerk’s offi ce will be open on Saturday, May 7 from 8 a.m. until noon for voting.

For more detailed information about where or how to vote, contact the city clerk’s offi ce at 874-8677 or visit portland-maine.gov/voter/voter.asp.

State to issue fewer deer permits this hunting season

In an effort to improve the state’s deer populations, the state agency that regu-lates hunting has announced plans to reduce the number of antlerless deer per-mits it issues this hunting season, accord-ing to Associated Press.

Commissioner Chandler Woodcock, of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife wants to reduce the number of those permits by 46 percent, to 26,390 next year — a reduction of more than 22,000

permits, AP reports.Legal hunting, poaching, coyotes and

longer winters with deeper snow cover are to blame for the declining health of the state’s deer herd across most of Maine, AP reports, although deer populars are healthy in southern and central Maine.

According to AP, Woodcock said the cuts are necessary to ensure the deer herds bounce back.

Investment fi rm no longer interested in N. Maine mills

MILLINOCKET — The California investment fi rm that was showed interest in buying two Northern Maine paper mills has walked away from the deal. The Asso-ciated Press is reporting that state and local offi cials are not interested in re-start-ing talks with Meriturn Partners, which earlier this year had issued a formal letter of intent to buy mills in East Millinocket and Millinocket.

AP reports that labor issues and Mer-iturn’s request for $48 million in tax breaks, as well as other fi nancial incen-tives, doomed the deal.

Michael Madore, a Millinocket town councilor, told AP on Monday that “Mer-iturn is no longer a player in this game.”

San Francisco-based Meriturn’s decision to pull back puts to 450 jobs at the East Millinocket mill in jeopardy. That mill, which was scheduled to re-open this week, is still idle. The Millinocket mill has been idle since 2008.

Unemployed mill workers to receive job training

EAST MILLINOCKET — Workers dis-placed by a paper mill closure here will be eligible for job training and unemployment benefi ts, according to the Bangor Daily News. Up to 450 people will lose their jobs after a California-based investment fi rm abandoned talks to buy a working paper mill in East Millinocket and a shuttered facility in nearby Millinocket.

The East Millinocket mill was due to re-

open this week, although it’s likely shut down permanently now that Meriturn is no longer negotiating to buy it.

The Maine Department of Labor’s rapid response team will host meetings next Tuesday at Schenck High School at 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., Bangor Daily News reports.

The paper says several potential inves-tors have emerged as potential owners for the two mills, and local offi cials as well as Gov. Paul LePage are still hopeful that a buyer will be found.

State senate rejects runoffs for gubernatorial elections

A proposal to amend the Maine constitu-tion to require governors to win a majority of the vote failed in the state Senate yes-terday, effectively killing the proposal for the next two years, according to the Associ-ated Press.

The proposal would have required can-didates to receive 50 percent of the vote or more in governor’s races. If no candidate reached that threshold, a runoff would have been held, AP reported.

No candidate has received more than 50 percent of the vote in the last three Maine gubernatorial races. in 2006, John Baldacci won a second term despite receiving just 38 percent of the vote, which is roughly the same percentage Gov. Paul LePage received in November.

AP reported that the bill was introduced in part because of the recent trend of gov-ernors winning with fewer than 50 percent of the vote.

FairPoint lost millions in 2010The formerly bankrupt telecom company

FairPoint lost more than $282 million last year, on top of $241 million a year before, according to a report in the Nashua Tele-graph. Those details emerged in fi nancial fi lings to the SEC, MaineBiz reported.

FairPoint declared bankruptcy in late 2009, and emerged three months ago with a total debt load of roughly $1 billion, according to Maine Biz.

NATO split widens over Libya military action

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PARIS — France and Britain urged NATO on Tuesday to intensify airstrikes against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi ’s forces and called on it to do more to shield noncombatants from loyalist attacks.

The remarks could well embolden rebels who have proved unable to hold on to ter-rain captured from loyalist forces in weeks of advances and retreats along the coastal highway leading westward from the insur-gents’ redoubts in eastern Libya.

The comments by William Hague, the

British foreign secretary, and Alain Juppé, the French foreign minister, also appeared to signal a rift within NATO only eight days after it assumed command from the United States for the air campaign over Libya.

NATO rejected the French and British criticism.

“NATO is conducting its military opera-tions in Libya with vigor within the current mandate. The pace of the operations is deter-mined by the need to protect the population,” it said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.

While the pace of NATO air attacks appeared to pick up Monday in the battle-

ground between Ajdabiya and the oil town of Brega in eastern Libya, rebel leaders have complained bitterly of a lull that seemed to coincide with the handoff of responsibility from the allied coalition to NATO. NATO pilots were also involved in two friendly-fi re incidents that killed well over a dozen rebel fi ghters.

NATO has been criticized for a go-slow approach in the rebel-held western city of Misurata, which has fallen into desperate straits as a weeks-long siege by pro-Qaddafi forces has stretched thin its stocks of food, water and medical supplies.

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SAYWHAT...‘Classic.’ A book which people

praise and don’t read.”—Mark Twain

MARIETTA, Ga. (NY Times) — It doesn’t take much to talk Selina Faye Sorrow into slipping on her replica of the dress Vivien Leigh wore in the barbecue scene from the fi lm “Gone With the Wind.”

You don’t know the dress? Then you are clearly not one of the “windies,” fans so ardent that recreating the burn-ing of Atlanta in an airport hotel banquet room is not out of the question.

Mrs. Sorrow, 48, might best be described as windies’ royalty, one of perhaps 100 people in the country who meet a few times a year to indulge in all things G.W.T.W. This year, the book’s 75th anniversary, will be as indulgent as it gets. Nearly every room of her house in Powder Springs, Ga., a short drive from the Gone With the Wind Museum, drips with the book and film. It started with the Scarlett O’Hara Barbie doll that Mrs. Sorrow’s husband gave her 18 years ago. Now, she has more than 500 items worth thou-sands of dollars.

Twin Rhett Butler-Scar-lett O’Hara pillows adorn the couple’s king-size bed. She has a replica of Clark Gable’s driver’s license, G.W.T.W. wine and water bottles and rare engraved invita-tions to Margaret Mitch-ell’s funeral, which were delivered after the novel’s author was killed, at age 48, by a reckless driver in 1949.

There are 30 copies of the book in several lan-guages and a movie seat from the Atlanta theater where the movie premiered in 1939. She sews gowns from movie scenes and sells them for $500, taking joy in seeing the expres-sion on a woman’s face when she puts one on.

“I love that time, with the struggles and the way they got through it all,” Mrs. Sorrow said, trying to explain how a slight inter-est grew into full-blown worship. “It just seems like it would have been a precious time to enjoy being a lady.”

“Gone With the Wind” means a lot in Atlanta. After all, Ms. Mitchell, who published her novel in 1936, lived, died and was buried here. Her story of the South before and after the Civil War is one that Atlantans, who like to joke that they only get burned once, hold as one of the city’s great contributions to American culture.

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that the new boat was a “boat to nowhere” because it could not really perform the same functions as the Island Romance boat it was replacing. They argued that the rush to qualify for grant money had side-stepped the public planning process.

The “boat to nowhere” moniker is a reference to the famous “bridge to nowhere” project in Alaska that became iconic of unnecessary federal spending.

Supporters of the boat admitted that, to meet fed-eral stimulus funding deadlines, design steps that might usually happen were too slow. Instead, they said, the only way to meet the deadlines was to “dust off” a recent design and use that for the grant appli-cation.

The process was unusual not only in its need for speed, but because 100 percent of the funding was

from federal coffers. Typically, such projects require a local match of 10 percent or more.

In an interview Monday, Mavodones confi rmed the review process is slowing the pace, and indeed has been so slow that the Rhode Island boatyard tasked with building the ferry has placed another project ahead of it in the production cycle, a signifi -cant move in the boat-building scheduling process. The new CBL ferry is expected to take more than a year to build once construction begins.

Mavodones said he had been told that the U.S. Coast Guard was reviewing the ferry design. He

said some of the federal money had been released, but that the bulk remained undistributed.

The new ferry seemed to be on a fast track last summer as bids were opened in July and the project was quickly awarded. But then it reportedly went “nowhere fast” for months. To date, construction hasn’t started on the vessel.

In last year’s debate, supporters of the new ferry noted that benefi ts of the new boat, beyond the 100 percent federal funding, is that it replaces a 1973 vessel with a larger 400-seat vessel expected to be equipped with electronically controlled diesel engines that meet new federal standards for effi -ciency and emissions.

“This is not the right boat and this is not the right time,” complained Frank Paretti, a ferry board member and a leading critic of vessel choice, when the proposal became public last year.

FERRY from page one“I think its going much more slowly than anyone expected.” Nick Mavodones, Portland mayor and

operations manager of Casco Bay Lines

New $5.5 million replacement ferry still not built

NASA’s space shuttles, which have been carrying astronauts aloft for 30 years, were assigned to their fi nal destinations on Tuesday: one will head to the nation’s capital, another to Los Angeles, and the third from its current home at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the center’s visitor complex next door.

In a ceremony commemorat-ing the shuttle program, Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr., the NASA administrator, made the long-awaited announcement of where the soon-to-be museum pieces would end up.

The Discovery, which com-pleted its fi nal fl ight last month, is headed to the Smithsonian, for display at the spacious Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles Inter-national Airport. The Endeav-our, currently on the launching pad for its fi nal space trip, will go to the California Science Center. The Atlantis, scheduled for its last mission in June, will go to the Kennedy visitor com-plex.

The audience at the Kennedy ceremony erupted into cheer-ing and whooping as General Bolden announced the Atlan-tis’s destination. “I guess I got something right today,” the general said with a laugh.

Conspicuous among the unsuc-cessful hopefuls were the Museum of Flight in Seattle, which had already begun construction of a wing that it hoped would house an orbiter; the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Ohio; and NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas, the site of mission control for the 135 shuttle missions.

The disappointment in Houston was pronounced. Representative Pete Olson, a Republican whose district includes the space center, said in a statement, “This oversight smacks of a political gesture in an agency that has always served above politics.”

With the Discovery headed to the Smithsonian, the museum will no longer have need for the Enterprise,

the shuttle that has been on display there since 2003. The Enterprise, which was used for early glide tests but was never sent into orbit, will now go the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in Manhattan.

Twenty-one institutions across the country had put in bids for one of the orbiters, and in recent weeks, Gen-eral Bolden was inundated with let-ters and phone calls from members of Congress and others advocating vari-ous sites.

“There were many, many worthy institutions that requested an orbiter, and only four to go around,” General Bolden said.

NASA also announced on Tuesday that hundreds of other pieces of hard-ware from the shuttle program would be heading to various museums. The Seattle museum, for example, will not

receive a fl own orbiter, but it will get a full-size mock-up that is now at the Johnson Space Center and is used for astronaut training.

NASA had been expected to make its museum choices last year, but that was when the fi nal shuttle fl ight had been scheduled for last September. As the schedule for the fi nal missions was stretched out, so were the prepa-rations for the shuttles’ post-fl ying careers.

Finally, General Bolden chose Tues-day for the announcement to coincide with the anniversaries of two historic moments in space fl ight: the 50th anniversary of the fl ight of Yuri Gaga-rin, the Soviet cosmonaut who was the fi rst human in space, and the 30th anniversary of the fi rst launching of a space shuttle, the Columbia, in 1981.

Two shuttles — and the astronauts

aboard — were lost in the last 30 years. The Chal-lenger disintegrated upon liftoff in January 1986 because of a leaky booster rocket, and 17 years later, the Columbia broke up as it returned to Earth because of wing damage caused by falling insulating foam during liftoff.

In the aftermath of the Columbia, President George W. Bush decided to resume fl ying the three remaining shuttles — the Discovery, the Atlantis and the Endeavour, which had been built as a replace-ment for the Challenger — but then to retire them as soon as construction of the International Space Sta-tion was complete.

NASA inquired a few years ago whether any museums or other institu-tions had an interest in acquiring a shuttle. Poten-tial bidders were told that educational programs would have to accompany the exhibits, and that the shuttles would have to reside in an indoor, climate-controlled environment.

The winning institutions will now have to negotiate with NASA over the cost, estimated at $28.8 mil-

lion apiece, of preparing the shuttles for display and moving them to their destinations. But not all of them will have to fi nd that much money: Con-gress exempted the Smithsonian, and the transportation costs for the Ken-nedy Space Center visitor complex — instead of traveling piggyback on a 747, the Atlantis is to be towed just a short way down the road — will be signifi cantly lower.

Some of the orbiters may go on a farewell tour. NASA is looking into “possibly taking them on a tour around various locations throughout the country while they’re en route to their fi nal destinations,” said Michael Curie, a spokesman for the space agency.

NASA expects to deliver the shut-tles next year.

The Discovery is headed to the Smithsonian, for display at the spacious Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport. (Stan Honda/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images/New York Times)

NASA chooses space shuttles’ retirement homesBY KENNETH CHANG

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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As the weather breaks and the foot and paw traffi c on the bou-levard picks up, I am reminded that I am no spring chicken.

I am reminded by a bit of sore-ness in my hands and hips that sadly have nothing to do with a red-wine hangover, or other wild and crazy nighttime escapades. I am remind by the fact that Number One graduates from high school in two months, and I was considered chronologically “older” back when she was born.

I am also reminded that I am no spring chicken with the increase of snail-mailed propa-ganda from AARP and the fact that I am eligible to take classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Oh, but the list goes on and on.As New Guy and I approach the

one-year mark (just the thought will cause him to break out in a cold sweat) I am aware that the sweet, young things in Pandora’s box seem even more tempting as he wonders where his own time and window of opportunity has fl own. The only wryly amusing thing about this is that age and perspective dance through an hourglass, and the muses he cur-rently wonders about are now in

A non-spring chicken fi nds age inhospitable

their fabulous forties.At the risk of being shrewish,

I even manage to fold the paper just so to cover up Maggie’s pic-ture (she’s practically jail bait) when New Guy reads my column.

As far as being a working girl goes, blame society, mass media, beautiful-people icons or bad genes; but time waits for no woman and little few feel the sting more than my sisters who are veterans in the restaurant and hospitality business.

Take what happened on “The Jersey Shore” for example. Not the train wreck of a TV show with Snookie and The “Situa-tion,” but something even more absurd. It should have been an April Fool’s Day joke, but last week the Associated Press ran a disturbing piece about an Atlan-tic City casino that was changing their overall image to a Roaring ‘20s theme, complete with music,

decor and naturally, uniforms.The previous “classic” tuxedo

cocktail waitress get-up was tossed aside and a skimpy fl apper costume, avec fi shnets was intro-duced to take its place.

The cocktail waitresses were asked to put on the costumes and have pictures taken, thinking all-the-while the photo shoot was to evaluate correct size and fi t. There was no photo-opportunity posing, just shots from different angles with each woman holding up a number. What resulted from the fi nished glossy product was the fi ring of 15 of the servers for “violating uniform standards.” Not surprisingly, these were highly experienced, long-time, competent women in their early 50s.

Several had a loyal follow-ing, primarily men, who waited patiently to sit in their sections. The uproar over the fi ring was louder than the day Prohibition itself was put into place, and seven of the fi red waitresses are suing the resort, claiming age and sex discrimination. Others are considering legal action.

To the casino’s “credit” they have offered the women hiring prefer-

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At the start of his brilliant, funny novel “The Pregnant Widow,” Martin Amis writes: “This is the way it goes. In your mid-forties you have your fi rst crisis of mortality (death will not ignore me) ; and 10 years later you have your fi rst crisis of age (my body whispers that death is already intrigued by me) . But something very interesting happens to you in between.”

That passage resonated, perhaps because I’ve

Times of upheaval

hit the latter of the ages men-tioned, and I recall my father, a doctor, saying that aging is not a smooth process but more like a staircase — you go along heedless for a while with noth-ing appearing to shift and then, oops, you fi nd you’ve gone down another step and the exit is closer than the entrance.

Amis goes on to say what it is that happens “in between.” Life, he says, “thickens out again.” And the thickening is due to “an enormous and unsuspected presence within your being, like an undiscovered continent.” What is this presence? Amis answers: “This is the past.”

Yes, the past! How rich in consolation it becomes. It grows, eddies, recedes and blossoms by turn, making its claim on the imagination. Amis’s book unfolds in the early 1970s in Italy where, a decade after the arrival of the pill, a group of Brits gathered in a castle go through their iteration of the sexual revo-lution. The narrator’s pondering of that heady time — of the sex and drugs and rock ’n’ roll and what they wrought on one small circle — provides the ele-giac counterpoint to the passions of a faraway Italian summer.

I was in Italy the summer of 1973 with a group of friends before taking the hippie trail to Afghani-stan. We discovered Piero della Francesca and Ghir-landaio, but that was not all. Here was one of those moments — from the late ’60s into the early ’70s — when, like in this season of upheaval, time seems to accelerate.

As Lenin once observed, “Sometimes decades pass and nothing happens; and then sometimes weeks pass and decades happen.” The staircase principle works for peoples as well as individuals.

A postwar generation, in Europe and America, came of age. The confrontation could be brutal, as in Germany, where the fi ght was to overcome the rigidity of what some called “the Auschwitz generation.” Everywhere barriers broke. There was political turmoil — Paris ’68

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Baby Boy has a newfound curiosity: the level of one’s happiness. Several times throughout the day, I am under inquisition, “Mama, are you happy?”

Last week I gave him a giant smile (as I was scraping a potpourri of dried banana and Play-Do off the leather chair) and said, “Of course! I get to be your Mommy.”

To which he recoiled in horror and asked, “Why your teeth very yellow, Mama?”

Wrong time to launch into what a lifetime of red wine and coffee will do?

So, are you happy? Not just right now, but in general, do you consider yourself happy? Ah, such a loaded question — for isn’t that the human condition, defi ning happiness before attaining it? No short work there.

You may have an idea of shallow happiness, “I feel happy when I eat a whole pizza.” Or when you buy some-thing new or date The Hot One from work. But those are external forces twisting your mind into an idea of happiness, usually which leaves you feeling guilty and destitute after-wards.

Look at a typical American lifestyle — hours on the computer or in front of the TV; eating processed junakaroo; in a chronic state of disconnect from nature and our family; constantly running on all stressful cylinders. How can we reclaim our birthright to be happy when we are in a constant cycle of dis-ease?

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Kids are happy. They exude happi-ness. They are either happy or not. There is no guesswork or question. They wear their emotion like a milk moustache. We need to be more like our kids in order to get back to Hap-piness 101.

A typical trait of children is that they love looking forward to things. They get so excited that Billy’s birth-day party is on Saturday or that they get ice cream after nap. What do you have to look forward to? You need to get excited about something down the road or your days have a blah purpose. Set yourself up with a small treat that acts like an allow-ance for a week/month/year well done. A yoga class, lunch with your favorite college professor, opening a new home business … pick some short and long term treats.

The trick here is to make sure all of your actions during the day are leading you to that pot of gold. When you align your activity with some-thing positive and fun, how can you not be happy?

You also need something from your

past that you can be really proud of for those times when you feel like you have been run over by a com-muter train. Your kids hang up every art project ever made (such pride in those sparkly creations!) You need an inner art gallery for your accomplish-ments. Did you deliver a baby on the road in a snowstorm? Kick a winning goal? Sing like a badass in choir? There is something in your past that is awesome. Remember what that is and hang on to it for when you need an ego security blanket.

Despite the moaning and groan-ing, your kids are most happy when they are with you. (At least until they turn 14.) I asked a bunch of kids what makes them happiest and every single one said being with their families. No one said eating pizza or sleeping or getting stuff. Follow suit. Schedule time if you have to for family dinners, walks, game nights, whatever. Just be together, no phones, iPods or distractions.

Because there will be a time when you don’t have your family at your fi ngertips any longer. But you have them today.

When have you ever met a kid that holds a grudge? Freddy took Betty’s favorite teddy? Sure, rage and fi re erupts. Two minutes later they are BFF’s again. You cannot be happy if you are holding on to long lost anger, hurt and regret. Give yourself per-mission to let go of these grudges

and forgive those that have wronged you. You won’t lose power. On the contrary, new space opens for light and positivity to grow. Most impor-tantly, forgive yourself. You can’t go back and change your choices. But all those choices got you to where you are today, and today you have the chance to be fabulous.

Kids spend the day singing their own praises and giving themselves hugs (yes, I know you aren’t that fl exible, but …) you also need to tell yourself that you love your-self. You tell the kids, the dog, the chocolate …when is the last time you told you? Know how happy it makes you to hear your partner tell you they love you? It has the same effect. Look at your gorgeous mug in the mirror and say, “I love you.” You will feel like a goof the fi rst few times. Then you get this instan-taneous zap and glow. It is amazing how much more you can achieve if you know you love yourself.

And that will make you happy. And you, more than anyone, deserve to be happy.

(I need to give a shout out to the fab Local Sprouts Co-op where I am writ-ing this. You guys have the best food and Vegan cuppies! Thank you for being here!)

(Maggie Knowles is a columnist for The Portland Daily Sun. Her column appears Wednesdays.)

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Jersey Shore episode illustrates struggles for older workersLADD from page 4

ence in other open positions, but I wonder about the fi nancial equity between a bathroom attendant and cocktail server. The whole thing ruffl es my feath-ers even more since the neighboring Borgata Casino and Spa settled a multimillion-dollar sex discrimi-nation law suit in 2008, with two of their servers who were humiliated by a blatant emphasis of looks over job performance, imposing weight limits, and encouragement from management to have breast augmentation surgery.

It is only slightly amusing to think how some-thing like this might play out in Maine. Would a server be demoted to busser if her orange hunting

vest was too baggy? What if her fl annel shirt didn’t match her Bean boots? Or more realistically, what if the applicant on the Pier in OOB is not quite a fresh faced college kid, but has oodles of experience? Why is it so uncomfortable to think about Flo from Mel’s diner offering up Jello shots at The Brunswick on a hot summer afternoon?

So many other industries value the expertise and experience a seasoned, mature person brings to the table. I realize The Jersey Shore fi asco is indicative of a larger, cultural issue; but it pains me to see the value, beauty and wisdom “women of a certain age” in the hospitality industry have to offer being swept aside.

As far as the whole spring chicken thing goes,

sometimes it can be a little tough to take. But, hey, I have a great job where I am indeed the oldest hen in the house and dressing like a fl apper would only happen on Halloween. I also know aches and pains can be handled with a few Advil and crazy night-time escapades are defi nitely not a thing of the past.

Truth be known, I believe that like my veteran restaurant sisters, I am really more like a peacock in full bloom with so much to offer, and have no intention of hanging up my apron or retiring my tip jar any time soon.

(Natalie Ladd and her “What’s It Like” column take a weekly look at the culinary business in and around Portland.)

The dike has broken; another generation has its sayCOHEN from page 4

and Prague and Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy and the Chicago convention — refl ecting a social revolution in which the answers to everything seemed wondrously to be, “Yes.”

We were at the end of what the French called “Les Trente Glorieuses” and the Germans the “Wirtschaftswunder” — a 30-year economic miracle in any language — and possibility had no bounds. Perhaps Jim Morrison of The Doors put it best: “The old get old and the young get stronger…They got the guns but we got the numbers. Gonna win, yeah we’re takin’ over.”

I can think of several capitals right now, from Damascus to Tripoli, from Sana to Manama, where autocrats might ponder that line about guns and numbers. A baby-booming Arab generation is also coming of age. There is no turning back however

turbulent the passage proves. The dike has broken. Another generation must have its say.

After reading Amis I turned to the good Keith Richards autobiography, “Life,” in which the Rolling Stones guitarist brings that late-1960s pivot to vivid life. The energy of the moment — and the creative power of the Richards-Jagger combo at the time of “Let it Bleed” (1969) — are irresistible. As Rich-ards writes of the fecund frenzy that could produce “Brown Sugar” in 45 minutes, “Take it away, Mick. Your job now. I’ve given you the riff, baby. You fi ll it in.” There was not much thought — “It was a groove.”

Richards and Jagger turn 70 in a couple of years; Bob Dylan will be 70 next month. Yes, the past grows. To be young in that moment, rather than a genera-tion earlier, was to have the blessing of late birth.

What worries me is the loss of mystery since that time: The world was uncharted, the unknown was everywhere with its liberating invitation. What reas-

sures me is that progress, however uneven, has been immense. People are freer and live longer. As Dylan put it, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

The leadership of China, where Dylan has just been touring, knows that. O.K., Dylan was compliant on the surface in Beijing. But he’s as subversive as the epoch in which he came of age. You can’t direct genius like trade sanctions. He said it long ago: “To live outside the law you must be honest.”

Amis’s conclusion is reassuring. “I’m as old as NATO. And it all works out,” he writes, and con-tinues: “Your eyes get hotter — but that’s all right because your hands get colder (and you can soothe them with your frozen fi ngertips.)” Yes, “It all works out in the end.”

It does — even in times when the world is a “preg-nant widow,” one order gone and another not yet born.

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SAN FRANCISCO — If the pros-pect of fl ying holds all the appeal of a cross-country bus trip, the $6,500, lipstick-red leather Egg chairs at San Francisco International Airport’s Ter-minal 2 are intended to return some long-lost glamour to air travel.

More Standard Hotel than standard airport gateway, T2, as it is known here, is one of the few terminals reno-vated top to bottom since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and represents an ambitious attempt by the airport and airlines to take both stress and carbon out of air travel. The $383 million renovation gutted a drab 1950s-era building that last served as the inter-national terminal before being shut-tered more than a decade ago. Even compared with more contemporary terminals at San Francisco Interna-tional, T2 represents a new approach to airport design. It opens on Thurs-day.

“It’s about the intersection between passenger delight and bringing back the joy of fl ying with the high-perfor-mance building aspects,” said Melissa Mizell, a senior associate with Gensler, the San Francisco fi rm that designed the renovation. “That really guided a

lot of our decisions, even with sustain-ability.”

The words delight, joy and fl ying do not usually appear in the same sen-tence. But airport offi cials, airlines and architects said that they put as much emphasis on redefi ning the travel experience as on lessening its environmental impact.

“We wanted this to feel like a San Francisco terminal and not a terminal anywhere else in the world,” Raymond Quesada, an airport project manager, said as he stood in the soaring, light- and art-fi lled ticket lobby shared by Virgin America and American Air-lines, the terminal’s two tenants.

Those San Francisco values include a city mandate to achieve at least LEED Silver status for the renova-tion. LEED — Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design — is a rating system administrated by the United States Green Building Coun-cil that ranks structures according to points earned for energy effi ciency, water conservation and other environ-mentally benefi cial attributes.

Airport offi cials intend to apply for LEED Gold certifi cation, and if it is awarded, T2 will be the fi rst air-port terminal in the United States to achieve such a ranking, according to

Ashley Katz, a spokeswoman for the building council.

Drivers of hybrid and electric cars get preferential parking in the nearby garage, and there are vehicle-charg-ing stations for the electric cars. Cool air seeps from perforated white wall panels in the terminal rather than being forced down from the ceiling. The system, called displacement ven-tilation, cuts energy use by 20 percent because the air does not need to be cooled as much since it displaces the rising warmer air, Mr. Quesada said.

Reclaimed water is pumped into the restrooms, reducing water consump-tion by 40 percent. The abundant nat-ural light through walls of windows makes most daytime artifi cial light-ing unnecessary.

Passengers are encouraged to carry reusable bottles and fi ll them at blue “hydration stations” in the terminal rather than buy throwaway bottled water.

“Originally, we were considering banning the sale of bottled water, but we got a lot of pushback from the concessionaires,” Mr. Quesada said. “But they are required to sell more environmentally friendly plastic bottles. But again, we’re hoping they won’t have to do that and people will bring their own bottles to the air-port.”

Under their leases, food sellers must use utensils and packaging that can be composted, and compost bins are prominently displayed in the ter-minal. The airport scores more LEED points for making the green experi-ence educational through signs and even a mobile phone tour.

But passengers will probably pay most attention to the terminal’s food, fashion and fl ow, all of which refl ect the esthetic of Virgin America, which has its headquarters in San Francisco.

The neon mood lighting found on Virgin planes is mirrored in the lob-bylike ticketing area, where pods of those high-backed, Danish-designed Egg chairs are clustered around sculp-tures and paintings by local artists.

The security checkpoint has six lanes to expedite screening and pas-sengers exit into an airy “recompose area” that features colorful ottomans, installed with the Transportation

Security Administra-tion dispensation in place of the govern-ment’s usual utilitar-ian benches.

That area opens into a food hall mod-eled after the one in San Francisco’s Ferry Building and offers some of the same upscale Bay Area res-taurants, including Cowgirl Creamery, Acme Bread, Napa Farms Market and Lark Creek Grill. Travelers hungering

for a Burger King or Dunkin’ Donuts are out of luck.

“The whole idea is that you feel like you’re in San Francisco, with an emphasis on local, organic produce,” Mr. Quesada said.

Beyond the food hall are the gates, arrayed in two wings. “The concept was to make this area very much like a lounge,” he said. “You could be in the food area and still be within ear- and eyeshot of your check-in podium and thus minimize stress.”

Free Wi-Fi and the presence of some 350 power outlets — available on work tables and every few seats in the gate areas — may well also be a major stress reducer for travelers accustomed to sprawling on termi-nal fl oors with their laptops.

Virgin does not plan on having a separate airport lounge. “We feel like the gate area is the lounge,” Ross Bonanno, Virgin’s vice president for airports and guest service, said as he rested an arm on an Egg chair.

(American Airlines has built a dedi-cated lounge, which will seek LEED Silver status.)

David Cush, Virgin America’s chief executive, said he was hoping the green-tinged amenities would give the airline an edge with sustainable-minded travelers.

“Certainly for San Francisco and people who live in the Bay Area, this is a top-of-mind issue,” said the tan and long-haired Mr. Cush, who could be mistaken for a local surfer. “It’s becoming a bigger and bigger top-of-mind issue for corporate America in terms of travel policies.”

But how much impact can a low-carbon terminal really have on the most carbon-intensive form of trans-portation?

“Not traveling is really not an option, so the real question is how do we make it more sustainable,” Mr. Cush said, noting that in January Virgin America placed an order for 30 Airbus A320neo jetliners, which will be 15 percent more effi cient than cur-rent models while emitting far fewer pollutants.

“It can be green and fun,” he added. “You don’t have to choose one or the other.”

The new terminal in San Francisco will feature children’s play areas created by Walter Kitundu. (Peter DaSilva for The New York Times)

Renovation of a terminal, keyed to San Francisco

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Wednesday, April 13, 2011— Page 7

hearing brought out Republicans, Democrats and Independents who urged passage, Chipman noted.

“There wasn’t one person who spoke in opposition,” Chipman said.

A work session for LD 1068, an Act To Protect the Privacy of Maine Residents under the Driver’s License Laws, is sched-uled for Friday, April 15, at 9 a.m. in front of the Transporta-tion Committee. Room 126

“It’s gone really well. I’ve talked to a few committee mem-bers and they’ve been support-ive,” Chipman said.

In 2009, then-Gov. John Bal-dacci vetoed a similar push in Maine to withdraw from the law’s federal security mandates.

Now, Chipman expects a favorable vote out of com-mittee Friday.

“Now you’ve got the Republicans being in the majority, they’re not fans of federal mandates, and

this is a huge federal mandate,” he said.A study conducted by the National Conference of

State Legislatures, the National Governors Associa-tion and the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators determined the act could cost states more than $11 billion over fi ve years. In Maine, the price tag is an estimated $79 million.

“Where are we going to fi nd $79 million? I have no idea,” Chipman said.

Prior to being elected, while he was a community organizer, Chipman helped gather about 30,000 signatures in an unsuccessful bid to undo the fed-eral law’s security mandates on driver’s licenses in Maine.

When he was elected to a seat vacated through term limits by Democrat Herb Adams, Chipman said he found an earlier version of the bill and renewed the fi ght.

“I think it’s a worthwhile cause,” he said.How did a freshman legislator from neither major

political party manage to propel such a signifi cant piece of legislation so far, so quickly?

Before his election as a freshman legislator last November, Chipman worked as a legislative aide for Rep. John Eder at the State House from 2002-2006,

which he said gave him a feel for how to pass legis-lation.

“I’m a freshman, but I also worked here for four years,” he said. “I know how to get bills passed, who to talk to.”

“Being an Independent, I’ve been able to network with Democrats and Republicans. ... It’s kind of knowing what arguments to use and building coali-tion support from both sides,” he said.

The timing doesn’t hurt, either. With a Republican turnover of the Maine Legislature, Chipman fi nds a different dynamic in Augusta.

“Everybody agrees we don’t have the money,” he said.

The Maine Civil Liberties Union joined a coali-tion of legislators and privacy advocates to push for the legislation, and a new LePage administration in Augusta is breaking from its predecessor. Although Chipman said he doesn’t support much of what the governor is doing, this is an issue that unites them.

“Certainly, on this it’s something that we found common ground on,” he said.

Following Friday’s committee vote, the legislation will go to the full House and Senate for consider-ation.

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BY JENNIFER STEINHAUERTHE NEW YORK TIMES

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WASHINGTON — House Republicans scurried on Tuesday to secure the votes needed for a bill that would keep the government fi nanced for the rest of the fi scal year, delaying action by one day to abide by their self-imposed rule to air all legis-lation publicly for three days before a vote.

The House and Senate are scheduled to vote on the spending plan Thursday, the deadline before the expiration of a very short-term stopgap fi nanc-ing measure worked out late Friday night. Over the roughly two days between the revelation of the details of the plan early Tuesday morning and the vote Thursday, Republicans and Democrats have the chance to voice their skepticism about the bill.

Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, who is chairman of the infl uential House Republican Study Committee, said on Tuesday that he would oppose the measure because it did not cut enough in federal spending.

“While I respect that some of my Republican colleagues will ultimately support this spending deal,” Mr. Jordan said in a statement. “I believe voters are asking us to set our sights higher.”

The study committee, made up of about 175 House Republicans, forced the House Appropria-tions Committee to push for higher cuts in its original spending bill, which ultimately failed in the Senate.

While only 28 Republicans voted against the bridge plan to keep the money fl owing until Thursday’s vote, it is highly likely that some of the Republicans who supported that measure were looking to avoid a government shutdown and will vote nay on the bill to fi nance the government through the rest of the fi scal year.

In a meeting with reporters, the House major-ity leader, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, while saying it was his understanding that the bill had “strong Republican support,” conceded Tues-day that he was not certain the bill would pass without support from Democrats. “Certainly we’ll always ask for them,” he said about Democrats.

House Democrats also largely supported the agreement reached Friday night, but it was some-what unclear where they would stand this week on a bill that hacks away at some of their favor-ite programs, though the cuts are far less than Republicans had sought.

“My presumption is we don’t know where our people are,” Representative Steny H. Hoyer, the minority whip, said in a meeting with reporters on Tuesday morning. “I don’t think they know where

their people are,” he said of Republicans.

If more than 24 Republi-can members defect, Demo-crats would be needed to pass the legislation. The failure of the bill — an unlikely, though not impos-sible, prospect — would lead to a government shut-down.

Large Republican defec-tions would not neces-sarily lead to that result, but would be an enor-mous embarrassment for Speaker John A. Boehner.

Republicans leaders moved to show unity for the measure, which incorporates signifi cant con-cessions from both Democrats, who took a hit on environmental and education programs, and Republicans, who failed to get anywhere near the $61 billion in cuts they sought.

“I applaud the leadership of Speaker Boehner in securing tens of billions of dollars in spend-ing cuts, forcing the president and his party’s leaders to retreat from their reckless spending spree,” Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wiscon-sin, the House Budget Committee chairman, said in a statement. “The historic spending cut turns the page from Washington’s pervasive culture of spending, sending a welcome signal to job creators and cleaning up the unprecedented budget mess left by the last Congress.”

The spending plan cuts $38 billion in the cur-rent fi scal year. The House will also vote on two separate measures: one to end all federal fi nanc-ing for Planned Parenthood, and the second to undo the health care overhaul of 2009. If the bills are approved, they will go to the Senate for a vote that same day, where the Planned Parenthood and health care measures are almost certainly doomed.

Last week, a fi ght over the money for Planned Parenthood threatened to derail the negotia-tions over the measure to fi nance the government through Sept. 30. The House Republicans sought to take away all federal money for Planned Parent-hood and other family-planning services and turn those dollars over to the states instead. President Obama and Senate Democrats held fi rm against that policy rider, and it was ultimately dropped.

On Tuesday Mr. Cantor said Republicans would continue to seek ways to take federal money from Planned Parenthood. “Where I think that we have consistently been,” he said, “is to refl ect that we believe very strongly that government dollars should not be used to fund abortion.” (In fact it is already against federal law to use federal dollars to obtain an abortion.)

On the Senate side, the spending plan faced skepticism from the most conservative mem-bers, who do not think it makes enough cuts, and from more liberal members, like Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, who said Tues-day that he would reject the measure because it was “Robin Hood in reverse.” Still, passage in that chamber appeared likely.

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Valerie Cole with Andy’s Agway of Dayton serves customers at the Portland Flower Show in March. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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Andy’s Agway of Dayton, outside of Saco, is located at the former Cole dairy farm. The farm store, while a bit of a throwback, is responding to current trends, including one evident in Portland — home-grown eggs. In 2009, the city of Portland allowed the rais-ing of back-yard chickens. Andy’s Agway is offering a free seminar at noon on Saturday, “Raising Chick-ens.” In the seminar, the lawn and garden/farm store will tackle a topic that was a hot item last month at the Portland Flower Show. Andy’s Agway set up an exhibit, complete with baby chick incubator, at the fl ower show. Valerie Cole, owner with her husband, Andy, of Andy’s Agway, said she fi elded a host of questions from show attendees about how to raise chickens. Saturday’s seminar will discuss the basics of keeping chickens: starting with chicks, feeding and security. Cole said staying up with the times is part of the store’s strategy. As for the name, Andy’s Agway ... “Agway is what used to be a franchise at one time, it isn’t so much anymore,” Cole explained. “We thought, ‘you really need to know who you’re dealing with in business,’ and when you come to Andy’s Agway, you’re dealing with Andy.” Open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Sat-urdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., For details, visit andysagway.com.

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Stocks on Wall Street were dragged down by tum-bling crude oil prices and weaker commodity mar-kets on Tuesday as investors expected lower demand in Japan in the aftermath of the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear crisis.

Some analysts said oil prices had been due for a correction, with the speculative nature of the mar-kets one reason behind its recent rise. Prices had

risen in recent weeks on a weaker dollar and height-ened concern over the potential for oil supply dis-ruptions in the Middle East and North Africa.

On Tuesday, however, crude oil prices turned decidedly lower after weeks of hitting highs not seen since September 2008. Oil fell 3.3 percent, to $106.25 a barrel in New York trading, while Brent crude fell 1.6 percent, to $121.04 in London.

Prices for other commodities were also lower, including gold, silver, copper, cotton and corn.

Economists at Capital Economics said that Japan was just one factor in the overall weakness in com-modity prices.

“More generally, we have been arguing for some time that these prices would soon reach danger levels that would undermine demand and contribute, in time, to sharp falls,” Capital Economics said in a report.

The Dow Jones industrial average recorded its big-gest decline in nearly a month when it fell 0.95 percent or 117.53 points, to 12,263.58. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index declined 0.78 percent, or 10.30 points, to 1,314.16. The technology-heavy Nasdaq com-posite fell 0.96 percent, or 26.72 points to 2,744.79.

Also weighing on the market were quarterly results from Alcoa, the aluminum producer, which reported Monday after the market closed that its fi rst-quarter profi t slightly beat estimates but that its revenue lagged estimates. Alcoa shares fell more than 6 per-cent, to $16.70.

As oil prices fell, so did energy shares, which declined

nearly 3 percent. Materials shares were down 1.35 per-cent and technology shares were 0.89 percent lower.

Chevron declined 3.34 percent, to $104.18, while Exxon fell 2.33 percent, to $83.18. Caterpillar also pulled down the Dow with a 2.29 percent drop, to $106.57.

Clark Yingst, a chief market analyst for Joseph Gunnar, said the recent surge in oil prices had not been driven by underlying demand but by a weaker dollar and the geopolitical crisis in the Middle East and North Africa.

Goldman Sachs economists wrote in a research report that they expected a “substantial pullback” of $20 in the near-term target price of Brent crude oil price goal to $105 a barrel.

Speculation has also been cited as a factor in the surge in prices, and the Commodity Futures Trad-ing Commission said in its most recent report that oil futures contracts had increased 4.5 percent as of last Tuesday to reach the third-highest level since records started in 2006.

Such speculation, Mr. Yingst said, “contributed to the skyrocketing oil prices” in the futures market in 2008. “All of that has come together and caused the decline across the board,” he said of the range of fac-tors affecting the drop in commodity prices.

But he said the decline in oil prices was good in that it could help consumer discretionary spending and lower inputs for corporations.

Meanwhile, analysts said that bond prices bene-fi ted from increased risk aversion and fears over the human and economic costs of the continuing situation in Japan.

The Treasury’s 10-year note rose 23/32, to 101 3/32. The yield fell to 3.49 percent, from 3.58 percent late Monday.

“Recognizing this, the global investment community is taking the latest developments as good reason to reinitiate the “fl ight to quality” trade by fl eeing riskier assets in favor of Treasuries,” said Kevin H. Giddis, the executive managing director and president for fi xed-income capital markets at Morgan Keegan & Company.

Oil and commodity prices decline, and shares go with themBY CHRISTINE HAUSER

THE NEW YORK TIMES

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Wednesday, April 13, 2011— Page 9

Volunteers are needed to survey frogs across Maine, Maine Audubon reported Tuesday.

“Wood frogs are the earliest frogs to emerge from the frozen mud,” said Susan Gallo, a wildlife biolo-gist with Maine Audubon and coordinator of the Maine Amphibian Monitoring Project (MAMP), which this year enters its 15th year of surveying Maine’s amphibian populations. “When they start calling, it means that spring is really here!”

Potential volunteers should visit www.maine-audubon.org/conserve/citsci/mamp.shtml for more information about how and when surveys are done, and to see where MAMP routes are located.

Audubon seeks frog surveyors

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One more sure sign that it’s fi nally spring — the osprey have returned to Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park in Freeport, according to the Maine Department of ConservationBureau of Parks and Lands.

One nesting pair has arrived back from their winter vacation in South America and has set up nest-keeping on the Googins Island site, reported Park Manager Andy Hutchinson. A single male arrived Tuesday at the mainland site, which means its mate should be returning by Monday, April 18, Hutchinson said.

“It’s almost like clockwork,” the park manager said. “You can expect them to return around the same time every year.”

The popular seacoast park has had two nesting pairs of osprey for some years, one large nest on Googins Island and another smaller nest on the mainland. The birds, which can be easily viewed by visitors, have been a regular favorite attraction at the park, which is owned and managed by the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands, under the Maine Department of Conservation.

The osprey’s continual return to the park nesting sites is as predictable as other famous U.S. bird migrations, including the swallows’ return to San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and the buz-zards to Hinckley, Ohio.

The osprey’s return this year also is perfect timing for a two-day, family

birding event, “Feathers over Free-port,” to be held April 30-May 1 at both Wolfe’s Neck Woods and Brad-bury Mountain state parks. More information will be forthcoming about the event, which will feature not only osprey watches, but also hawk watches at Bradbury in Pownal and numerous activities for children and families and beginning and interme-diate birders, Hutchinson said.

Osprey are one of the largest birds of prey in North America and eat fi sh almost exclusively. Once an endan-gered species because of pesticides, they are found on all continents except Antarctica. Osprey build nests on high trees and manmade struc-tures. They mate for life, though if a mate dies, the remaining bird will fi nd a second mate. Osprey can live 15 to 25 years.

Hutchinson, who is a naturalist, said the Googins Island male returned on March 28, while the female returned on April 5. The birds most likely are the same pair that lived previously on the island, but because they are not banded, observers can’t be certain.

“Chances are pretty good, given that they’re a fairly young pair, that it’s the same pair,” he said.

The birds winter separately, though in the same general area, the park manager said, and the male returns to the summer nest fi rst. The male “usu-ally gets a head start, fi xing up the nest for mom,” Hutchinson said. The island nest “over-wintered well and is com-pletely intact” with no damage, he said.

Osprey return to Wolfe’s Neck WoodsDAILY SUN STAFF REPORT

This month has offered great dog-walking weather, as demonstrated by these recent visitors to the Western Prom. A setback is coming, however. Rain is expected today, with new rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible, the National Weather Service reports. The rest of the week is expected to bring sunshine and mild temperatures. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Dog days of springDAILY SUN STAFF REPORT

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll fi nd new motivation for personal improvement. What you do before bed makes all the difference in how you feel in the morning, not to mention how you’ll look tomorrow. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You could coast on what you already know, but you choose to keep your skills up to date. Those who pay you will be pleased at the initiative you show by staying current. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll get a chance to perform what you prac-ticed. It feels different to do this in front of people. Even if you don’t put on the best show of your life, your high-spir-ited effort will be enough to push you to the next level. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Some-one will be willing to pay you for the effort you would have freely given. Take the money. Your warm reception of the good fortune that’s coming your way will attract more of it. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It’s never fun to feel like someone is talking at you instead of talking to you. Luckily, today there will be a way to avoid the person who regularly perpetrates the crime of having a one-way conversa-tion between two people. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Seize the opportunity to be creative, even if there is a risk of being critiqued at the end. You just might be enthralled with the outcome. You’re better than you realize. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You like your drama with popcorn. As for the real-life show that’s going on, you didn’t buy a ticket, so you don’t have to watch if you don’t want to. Take a step back. You deserve tranquility just as much as the next person.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Take your problem to the whole team. Brain-storming in a group is fun and is likely to get everyone’s creative juices fl ow-ing. Make sure everyone knows that there are no “wrong answers” in a brainstorming session. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Though there will be a degree of frus-tration to express, do everything in your power to keep from complaining. You have better things to do than bond over shared gripes. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It’s fi ne to go off task once in a while. In fact, when you need a new idea, it’s recommended. During all your wan-dering around, you just may stumble across a groovy opportunity. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll show the world that you’re skilled. You’ve done the hard learning already, and now it’s time to relax and let your talent take over. Whatever game you’re playing, this is the start of your hot streak. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You will align your agenda with that of col-leagues and higher-ups. When every-one is on the same page, it will be easier to produce big results and make your boss happy at the same time. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 13). You’ll make a difference in the lives of others. Over the next six weeks, your glowing smile attracts good fortune. In May, work provides the opportunity to recognize your own power and assert yourself. You’ll begin a new regimen in June, and loved ones will follow your lead. You’ll give your domestic scene a makeover in July. Aquarius and Virgo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 25, 40, 19 and 16.

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pioneers 37 Astonished 39 Parent or

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capital is Kampala 56 Priests’ caps 60 Yahtzee cubes 61 Puncture 63 __ fi rma; dry land 64 Word of lament 65 British noble 66 Reds & Browns 67 Information 68 Bumpkin 69 Awards for TV

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WEDNESDAY PRIME TIME APRIL 13, 2011 Dial 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 5 CTN 5 Main Social Justice Portland Water District Meeting Community Bulletin Board

6 WCSHMinute to Win It “Kids Rule” A family of five competes. Å

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Trophy” (In Stereo) Å

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Benson bonds with Calvin.

News Tonight Show With Jay Leno

7 WPFOAmerican Idol “Eight Finalists Com-pete” The eight remaining contestants perform. (N) Å

Breaking In (N) Å

News 13 on FOX (N) Frasier Å According to Jim Å

8 WMTWThe Middle Sue wins a trophy. (N)

Better With You (N) Å

Modern Family (N) Å

Happy End-ings “Pilot” (N)

Happy End-ings (N) Å

Modern Family Å

News 8 WMTW at 11PM (N)

Nightline (N) Å

10 MPBNSecrets of the Dead “Battle for the Bible” (In Stereo) Å (DVS)

Nova “The Bible’s Buried Secrets” The Old Testa-ment and how the concept of one God emerged. (In Stereo) Å (DVS)

Charlie Rose (N) (In Stereo) Å

11 WENHAntiques Roadshow “Billings” Chinese jade brush washer. (N) Å

Who Has Seen the Wind Study of wind. Å

American Experience Americans help famine victims. Å (DVS)

Burt Wolf 2011 Euro-pean Cruises Å

12 WPXTAmerica’s Next Top Model Modeling eco-friendly couture. (N)

Shedding for the Wedding The final two couples compete. (N) Å

Entourage “Three’s Company”

TMZ (N) (In Stereo) Å

Extra (N) (In Stereo) Å

Punk’d (In Stereo) Å

13 WGMESurvivor: Redemption Island Double tribal council. (N) Å

Criminal Minds “The Stranger” A stalker tar-gets college students.

Criminal Minds: Sus-pect Behavior Young mothers are abducted.

WGME News 13 at 11:00

Late Show With David Letterman

17 WPME Burn Notice Å Burn Notice Å Curb Buy Local Star Trek: Next

24 DISC MythBusters Å MythBusters (N) Å MythBusters Å MythBusters Å

25 FAM Movie: “Freaky Friday” Movie: ›› “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” (2008) The 700 Club Å

26 USA NCIS “Love & War” NCIS “Deliverance” NCIS “Jack Knife” NCIS “Bloodbath”

27 NESN MLB Baseball: Rays at Red Sox Innings Red Sox Daily Instigators

28 CSNE NBA Basketball New York Knicks at Boston Celtics. (Live) Celtics SportsNet Sports

30 ESPN NBA Basketball New Orleans Hornets at Dallas Mavericks. NBA Basketball

31 ESPN2 MLB Baseball: Phillies at Nationals Baseball Tonight (N) SportsCenter (N) Å

33 ION Without a Trace Å Without a Trace Å Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å

34 DISN Good Luck Good Luck Movie: “Another Cinderella Story” Shake it Good Luck Good Luck

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

36 NICK My Wife My Wife Chris Chris Lopez Lopez The Nanny The Nanny

37 MSNBC The Last Word Rachel Maddow Show The Ed Show (N) The Last Word

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

40 CNBC American Greed American Greed American Greed (N) Mad Money

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

43 TNT Bones (In Stereo) Å Bones (In Stereo) Å Bones (In Stereo) Å CSI: NY Å

44 LIFE The First 48 Å The First 48 Å Glamour Glamour Army Wives Å

46 TLC Hoarding: Buried Alive Extreme Extreme Hoarding: Buried Alive Extreme Extreme

47 AMC Movie: ››› “Batman Begins” (2005, Action) Christian Bale. Å Movie: “Constantine”

48 HGTV Property Property Income House House Hunters Income Income

49 TRAV Man, Food Man, Food Man, Food Man, Food Man, Food Man, Food Border Border

50 A&E Dog Dog Storage Storage Storage Storage Dog the Bounty Hunter

52 BRAVO Housewives/OC Top Chef Masters Top Chef Masters (N) Top Chef Masters

55 HALL Little House Frasier Frasier Frasier Frasier Gold Girls Gold Girls

56 SYFY Ghost Hunters Å Ghost Hunters (N) Fact or Faked Ghost Hunters Å

57 ANIM River Monsters River Monsters I’m Alive “Guardians” River Monsters

58 HIST Ancient Aliens Å Countdown to Zero Å Mega Disasters Å

60 BET Movie: ››‡ “Blue Hill Avenue” (2001) Allen Payne. Å The Game The Mo’Nique Show

61 COM Macdonald Chappelle South Park South Park South Park Work. Daily Show Colbert

62 FX Movie: ›››‡ “Slumdog Millionaire” (2008) Justified (N) Justified

67 TVLND All/Family All-Family Raymond Raymond Cleveland Cleveland Roseanne Roseanne

68 TBS Browns Browns There Yet? There Yet? Payne Payne Conan (N)

76 SPIKE UFC Unleashed (N) The Ultimate Fighter Coal “Down N Out” (N) The Ultimate Fighter

78 OXY Tori & Dean: Home sTORIbook sTORIbook sTORIbook

146 TCM Movie: ››‡ “A Southern Yankee” (1948) Å Movie: ››› “The Littlest Rebel” Advance

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Today is Wednesday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2011. There are 262 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On April 13, 1861, Fort Sumter in South

Carolina fell as the Union commander, Maj. Robert Anderson, agreed to surrender in the face of the Confederates’ relentless bom-bardment.

On this date:In 1742, Handel’s “Messiah” was fi rst per-

formed publicly, in Dublin, Ireland.In 1743, the third president of the United

States, Thomas Jefferson, was born in Shadwell in the Virginia Colony.

In 1860, the Pony Express completed its inaugural run from St. Joseph, Mo. to Sacra-mento, Calif. in 10 days.

In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial.

In 1958, Van Cliburn of the United States won the fi rst International Tchaikovsky Com-petition for piano in Moscow; Russian Valery Klimov won the violin competition.

In 1960, the U.S. Navy’s Transit 1B navi-gational satellite was successfully launched into orbit.

In 1970, Apollo 13, four-fi fths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank con-taining liquid oxygen burst. (The astronauts managed to return safely.)

In 1981, Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke received a Pulitzer Prize for her feature about an 8-year-old heroin addict named “Jimmy”; however, Cooke relin-quished the prize two days later, admitting she’d fabricated the story.

One year ago: World leaders concluded a 47-nation nuclear security conference in Washington, endorsing President Barack Obama’s call for securing all of the globe’s vulnerable nuclear materials within four years.

Today’s Birthdays: Movie director Stan-ley Donen is 87. Former Sen. Ben Night-horse Campbell, R-Colo., is 78. Actor Lyle Waggoner is 76. Actor Edward Fox is 74. Actor Paul Sorvino is 72. Actor Tony Dow is 66. Singer Al Green is 65. Author-journalist Christopher Hitchens is 62. Actor Ron Perl-man is 61. Actor William Sadler is 61. Singer Peabo Bryson is 60. Bandleader/rock musi-cian Max Weinberg is 60. Bluegrass singer-musician Sam Bush is 59. Rock musician Jimmy Destri is 57. Singer-musician Louis Johnson (The Brothers Johnson) is 56. Comedian Gary Kroeger is 54. Actress Saundra Santiago is 54. Sen. Bob Casey Jr., D-Pa., is 51. Rock musician Joey Maz-zola (Sponge) is 50. Actress-comedian Caroline Rhea (RAY) is 47. Rock musician Lisa Umbarger is 46. Rock musician Marc Ford is 45. Actor Ricky Schroder is 41. Rock singer Aaron Lewis (Staind) is 39. Actor Bokeem Woodbine is 38. Singer Lou Bega is 36. Actor-producer Glenn Howerton is 35. Actress Courtney Peldon is 30.

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Douglas quote 7 Fancy tub 10 Org. founded in

1868 14 1998 Olympics

site 15 Internet add. 16 “__ Lama Ding

Dong” 17 Circumvents 18 Cutesy ending? 19 Lode loads 20 Sushi fi sh 21 Part 2 of quote 24 Pay for lunch 27 Taking in, as sails 28 King of Troy 30 Wayne’s “Wayne’s

World” cohort 33 Part 3 of quote 38 Okinawa city 39 Honor society

letter 40 Forensic sampling 41 Radiation-

absorption unit 43 __ for the course 44 Orange peel 46 Part 4 of quote 49 Spiritual

practitioners 51 One archangel 52 Redgrave title role 55 Head honcho 59 Part 5 of quote 62 Fruit drink 63 Russian saint 64 Barcelona bravo 65 Hume of

“Cocoon” 68 Molokai neighbor 69 Negative link 70 __-oo! 71 Armchair athlete’s

channel 72 Nixon’s

bookends? 73 End of quote

DOWN 1 Map on a map 2 Impostor

3 Light on one’s feet 4 Besmirch 5 Common insect 6 Snack 7 Ultimate 8 Exploratory vessel 9 High and mighty 10 Actor Pierce 11 Collection of

related sentences 12 Prophetic sign 13 Simple 22 Bygone PLO

leader 23 Trucker’s truck 25 Mentally acute 26 Walked (on) 29 Moroccan region 31 Modern Siamese 32 No __ done 33 Light on one’s feet 34 State on Lake Erie 35 Telephoning 36 Ark’s landing spot 37 Drink of the

Middle East 42 Judge worthy

45 Consider beneath oneself

47 Slays 48 Abbr. on many

cameras 50 Mule of song 53 Lorna of literature 54 Synthetic fi ber 56 Monopoly RR

57 Pastoral poems 58 “The Screens”

dramatist 59 Capital of Togo 60 Lamenter’s

comment 61 80-year-old prefi x 66 Maris, casually 67 La-la lead-in

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Wednesday, April 13

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Tax Day Extravaganza with Jeff Beam / Bass Box / Sea Level / the Vanityites at Empire Dine & Dance9 p.m. 9:30 – 10:00: The Vanityites, 10:15 – 11:00: Sea Level, 11:15 – 12:00: Jeff Beam Philharmonic, 12:15 – 1:00: Bass Box. $6, 21 plus.

Saturday, April 16

Melissa Ferrick at One Longfellow Square8 p.m. Indie-maverick (and major label veteran) Melissa Ferrick is an accomplished singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has shared stages with artists as wide-ranging as Bob Dylan, Paul Westerberg, Weezer and Ani

DiFranco, and performs over 150 shows a year — often for audiences of 7,500 or more. Her extraordinarily pas-sionate, grassroots fan base began when she opened for Morrissey in 1991, and has grown into one of the most loyal followings in recent indie memory. $20/$25, all ages.

Tuesday, April 19

Glass Fingers / Of the Trees / Michael Stoltz9 p.m. Prepare yourselves for a night of excellent Maine electronic music. You’re sure to be dancing and nodding your head to the sweet sounds of Glass Fingers, Of the Trees, and Michael Stoltz late into this Tuesday night. An excit-ing new electronic music act from Portland, Glass Fingers (aka Jesse Gertz) was hand picked by Dan Deacon to open for his Portland show at Space Gallery on March 11th. Electronic music from South Portland, Of the Trees is rich in infl uences ranging from down-tempo/ambient to face-melting dubstep-laden beats. Get lost in the warm, fuzz-drenched, swirling, sprawling sounds of Michael Stoltz. A true master of his art, this is Michael’s Portland debut, and will undoubtedly be one of many more appearances to come. Free, all ages. Slainte Wine Bar and Lounge. http://www.myspace.com/slaintew-inebar

Thursday, April 21

The Portland Jazz Orchestra at One Longfellow 8 p.m. Dr. Chris Oberholtzer and his 18-piece ensemble perform an evening of big band swing! $5 students, seniors, and advance. One Longfellow Square. $9 door.

Friday, April 22

Caravan of Thieves at One Longfellow Square8 p.m. Just Announced! Over A Cardboard Sea will open the show with a special duo featuring Timothy Findlen and Ukulele Eck! Stretching the parameters of acoustic swing, Caravan of Thieves has been winning immediate praise for their new and unique brand of gypsy fl avored song writ-ing and their high intensity show. The vocal harmonizing, acoustic guitar spanking husband and wife duo Fuzz and Carrie have extended their family to include fi ery violin-ist Ben Dean and double bass madman, Brian Anderson to complete their colorful vision. Seeking inspiration from beyond the great divide, the quartet produces layers of Beatlesque vocals, driving rhythms, satirical, dramatic song writing and an overall circus of sound. $12/$18, all ages.

Saturday, April 23

Spose and Cam Groves at Port City Music Hall8 p.m. Portland’s most well known emcee, Spose and fellow hip-hop lyricists Cam Groves and Educated Advo-cates come to Port City Music Hall. Since the release of his debut album “Preposterously Dank” in 2008 on his own imprint, Spose has seen his musical endeavors reach a new plateau. He was named Maine’s “Best HipHop Act” for both 2008 and 2009 at the WePushButtons Awards and also named “Best Hiphop Act” in the Portland Phoenix’s 2010 Best Music Poll. In 2009, he released a mixtape with fellow emcee Cam Groves entitled “We Smoked It All.” A track off that mixtape, produced by Spose himself, “I’m Awesome”

garnered Spose his fi rst major label recording contract with Universal Republic Records. Spose used the opportunity to build his own company, the Preposterously Dank Entertain-ment label based out of Wells, Maine. Artists signed to his imprint include himself, Spose, emcee Cam Groves, hip-hop trio Educated Advocates, and the space-funk-sex-r’n’b of Doctor Astronaut. In 2010, Spose released both “In Ses-sions,” the debut album from Educated Advocates, as well as his own indie album “Happy Medium.” $10 advance, $12 day of show, $20 VIP, 21 plus.

HillyTown Presents: Milagres / Milkman’s Union / Husband & Wife at One Longfellow Square8 p.m. HillyTown Presents: Milagres + Milkman’s Union + Husband & Wife. This triple bill will be a night not to miss. Three great performances, one night! $10, all ages. www.onelongfellowsquare.com/

Friday, April 29

John Prine, presented by the State Theatre,performing at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium8 p.m. SOLD OUT. John Prine plays at Merrill Auditorium, presented by the State Theatre. Some four decades since his remarkable debut, John Prine has stayed at the top of his game, both as a performer and songwriter. Recently honored at the Library of Congress by U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, he’s been elevated from the annals of songwriters into the realm of bonafi de American treasures. http://www.statethe-atreportland.com

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The Gay Blades are made of magic and they are almost always on the road sending magic to new friends everywhere. Local indie rockers Marie Stella and if and it round out this night at Bayside Bowl. $5, all ages, Friday, April 15. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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Neighborhood Byway in Deering Center6 p.m. The city of Portland and the Deering Center Neigh-borhood Association will host a neighborhood meeting to discuss the creation of a Neighborhood Byway in the Deer-ing Center neighborhood. A Neighborhood Byway uses local, residential streets to create a comfortable environ-ment for bicyclists and pedestrians of all ages. Byways are designed to encourage use by beginner or less expe-rienced cyclists, kids and families traveling to and from local schools, and residents walking or riding to various neighborhood destinations. The Deering Center area was selected for the pilot project as a Neighborhood Byway would be able to connect a large number of locations and address long-standing neighborhood concerns regarding traffi c and pedestrian safety. The pilot project will promote safer connections between four neighborhood centers, fi ve schools and numerous trails and parks (for a map of the proposed byway, visit the city’s website at www.portland-maine.gov.). The Neighborhood Byway initiative is funded in part by a $1.8 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant to the City of Portland’s Healthy Portland to pre-vent obesity by increasing physical activity and improving nutrition within the community. Funded through Communi-ties Putting Preventing to Work (CCPW), the city’s obesity prevention program seeks to provide quality ways for Port-land residents to lead active, healthy lives, including creat-ing safe places to walk and bike. Meeting at Hall School, 23 Orono Road, ends at 8 p.m.

St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church Holy Week services at Old Orchard Beach6 p.m. St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church, located at Cathedral Pines Chapel, 156 Saco Ave., Old Orchard Beach, has announced its Holy Week Sched-ule. Every Wednesday until April 20, there will be at 6 p.m. Stations of the Cross. On April 17, Palm Sunday at 4 p.m., the parish will have the Blessing and Distribution of Palms and Mass followed by the Service of Tenebrae. During Holy Week, on April 21, Maundy Thursday at 7 p.m., there will be Holy Communion and Stripping of the Altar. On April 22, Good Friday, from noon until 3 p.m., there is the remembrance of the Sacrifi ce of Christ on the Cross called Tres Ores. It begins at noon with the Stations of the Cross and Meditations on the Last Words of Christ in the Cross. Holy Week wraps up on Sunday April 24, with the Great Celebration of Easter and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ at 4 p.m. The Rev. Jeffrey Monroe MM is Rector.

Thursday, April 14

Eggs and Issues: ‘Maine’s Finances at the Crossroads’7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Eggs and Issues, “Maine’s Finances at the Crossroads, Reform or Bust,” at Holiday Inn By the Bay, 88 Spring St., Portland, by Portland Regional Cham-ber of Commerce. Networking, breakfast, program at 8 a.m. “State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin will discuss Maine’s debt problems and what Governor LePage is doing to fi x it. Find out what every Maine taxpayer needs to know about reforming the state’s spending and pension liabilities and what it means for jobs and opportunity.”

‘The Great Tax Divide’noon to 1:30 p.m. The Great Tax Divide: Maine’s Retail Desert vs. New Hampshire’s Retail Oasis” presented byScott Moody, chief economist, The Maine Heritage Policy Center. “Learn about our latest research and in-depth analysis of cross-border shopping along the Maine — New Hampshire border which represents one of, if not the, largest tax differentials in the country. Scott Moody has analyzed decades of data and the effects of sales tax on Maine retailers with the goal of building a greater under-standing of the Maine versus New Hampshire’s retail sector and what it means for Maine businesses as well as enable The Maine Heritage Policy Center to work with policy makers and business leaders to implement meaningful tax reform.” Portland, DiMillo’s On the Water, 25 Long Wharf, Portland. (Also in Bangor Wednesday, April 13, at Sea Dog Brewing Company Banquet Center.) MHPC Member: $17 per person, inclusive of tax and gratuity. Non-member: $22. For more information, contact Amanda Clark at 321-2550 or by e-mailing aclark@mainepolicy.org.

Scarborough Chamber Meet Your Legislators5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Scarborough Community Chamber and its Public Policy and Legislative Affairs representatives will sponsor a Meet Your Legislators special event at Maine Indoor Karting in Scarborough. “This will be a great opportunity for Scarborough Community Chamber members and guests to meet and talk informally with our legislators, Senator Phil Bartlett and Rep. Amy Fern Volk.” www.portlandregion.com

Deering Players talent show7 p.m. The Deering Players will host a talent show in the auditorium at Deer-ing High School, 370 Stevens Ave., Portland. Tickets are $5. For more information, please contact Kathleen Harris at 874-8260.

Public hearings on budgets5:30 p.m. The public will have one of several opportunities to voice their opinion on the Portland Public School system and the City of Portland’s municipal budget. Monday, May 2, the City Council will hold a public hearing for the municipal budget only and will vote on the school budget. The school budget will then be sent to the voters for a citywide vote Tuesday, May 10. The City Council will vote on the munic-ipal budget May 16. Opportunities for Public Comment: Thursday, April 14, 5:30 p.m., Room 209: Finance Com-mittee Public Hearing, public comment taken on both city and school budgets. Monday, April 25, 7:30 p.m., City Coun-cil Chambers: City Council Public Hear-ing for school budget only. Thursday, April 28, 5:30 p.m., Room 209: Finance Committee Public Hearing, public com-ment taken on city budget. Monday, May 2, 7 p.m., City Council Chambers: City Council Public Hearing for city budget only. Tuesday, May 10: Citywide vote on school budget. Visit the city’s website for the latest information on the budget process, www.portlandmaine.gov/fi nancialreports.htm#FY12_Budget_Process.

Youth Ensembles Spring Instrumental Concert7 p.m. University of Southerm Maine Youth Ensembles Spring Instrumental Concert. Merrill Auditorium, Myrtle Street, Portland. Sponsored by Macy’s, with support from the Sam L. Cohen Foundation.

Portland Pirates in playoffs7 p.m. The Portland Pirates shootout win over the Albany Devils combined with a Connecticut Whale 4-3 loss to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers Saturday night means the Pirates will face the Whale in the opening round of the 2011 Calder Cup Playoffs beginning with Game 1 to be played Thursday, April 14 at 7 p.m. at the Cumberland County Civic Center. Game 2 of the best-of-seven series will be played Saturday, April 16 at 7 p.m. at the Civic Center with the series shift-ing to Connecticut for Games 3 and 4. Tickets for the fi rst round of Portland Pirates Playoff Hockey MISSION: 16W, powered by Time Warner Cable are on sale at the Cumber-

land County Civic Center Box Offi ce, by calling 775-3458, visiting the Cumber-land County Civic Center Box Offi ce or on-line at ticketmaster.com.

FOOD + FARM 20117:30 p.m. April 14 to April 17, FOOD + FARM 2011. A food and fi lm festival at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. in Portland. “This is the fourth year of Food+Farm, SPACE Gallery’s annual look at issues challenging our access to safe, sustainable food. This year’s pro-gram features our fi rst foray into farm theater with a reading of the work-in-progress Of Farms and Fables, a visit from the young farmer’s advocacy group The Greenhorns who will be conducting a young farmers’ mixer and screening their new fi lm The Greenhorns, a talk by sustainable food author and edu-cator Anna Lappé on the connections between diet and climate change and hands-on learning opportunities with a work/learn party at Cultivating Com-munity’s Turkey Hill Farm and intensive growing workshops at The Urban Farm Fermentory. Co-presented by SPACE Gallery, MOFGA, Cultivating Com-munity, The Urban Farm Fermentory, and Flatbread Co. In-kind and under-writing support is provided by Local Sprouts, The Portland Phoenix, Aurora Provisions, Caiola’s Restaurant, Maine Root, Rosemont Market and Bakery, Grandy Oats and the WIld Iris Inn.”

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Author Rosemary Mahoney at UMFVisiting Writers Series7:30 p.m. The University of Maine at Farmington’s notable Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program presents award-winning author Rosemary Mahoney as the next reader in its 2010-11 Visiting Writers Series. Mahoney will read from her work in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a signing by the author. Mahoney is the author of “The Early Arrival of Dreams”; “A Year in China,” a New York Times Notable Book; “Whoredom in Kimmage”; “The World of Irish Women,” a new York Times Notable Book and National Book Critics Circle Award fi nalist; “A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman”; “The Singular Pilgrim”; “Travels on Sacred Ground”; and “Down the Nile; Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff,” chosen as a best book of the year by both Publisher’s Weekly and The Christian Science Monitor.

In a movie still from the documentary, “Everything in Sight,” Mitchell Pfeifl e and Angela Alderete strike a pose. This 2007 documentary about Spindleworks Art Center in Brunswick will be broadcast on Maine Public Broadcasting Network on April 16 at 11:30 a.m. and April 21 at 10:30 p.m. (COURTESY PHOTO)

The University of Maine at Farmington’s notable Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program presents award-winning author Rosemary Mahoney as the next reader in its 2010-11 Visiting Writers Series. Mahoney will read from her work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 14 in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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Friday, April 15

Flaws for a Cause Benefi t Sale10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Second annual Flaws for a Cause Benefi t Sale, April 15 to April 30, at Maine Potters Market, 376 Fore St., 774-1633. Buy perfectly usable, but less than perfect pots, to benefi t Cultivating Community. The Maine Potters Market, 376 Fore Street in Port-land’s Old Port, announces its second annual Flaws for a Cause Sale from April 15 to April 30. This is a unique opportunity to buy per-fectly usable, but less than perfect pots. Last year’s sale was a big success, raising money for Cultivating Community, a Portland non-profi t that grows food for the hungry and uses their work in gardens and farms for community development and empowering youth.

‘Saving the Union’ Civil War remembrance1 p.m. The Maine State Archives will present “Saving the Union: The Call for Volunteers,” at the Augusta Civic Center to commemorate Maine’s entry into the Civil War. The event is free and open to the public. “It was on April 15, 1861 that President Abraham Lincoln asked states such as Maine to raise 75,000 volunteer soldiers to defend the Union against southern states that were seceding, primarily over the issue of slavery,” said State Archivist David Cheever. “Maine answered Lincoln’s call with vigor and this event is representative of Maine’s key role in the Civil War.” Maine’s Secretary of State, Charles E. Summers, Jr., Maine’s Adju-tant General John “Bill” Libby, and Maine Governor Paul LePage will speak about how Maine rose to President Lin-coln’s challenge to defend the country and the Constitution. Members of The Maine Legislature will also participate in the ceremony. “Saving the Union” will include readings of Civil War-era letters from Maine citizens; music by the 195th Maine National Guard Band and Civil War re-enactors; choral music by the Bowdoin and Colby College chorus’; and color guards from the Maine National Guard and Civil War re-enactment groups. For more information about this event, contact State Archivist David Cheever, or visit the Maine State Archives website at www.maine.gov/sos/arc/.

‘Bill Cunningham New York’6:30 p.m. “Bill Cunningham New York” screens at Movies at the Museum at the Portland Museum of Art. Friday, April 15, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 16, 2 p.m.; Sunday, April 17, 2 p.m. NR “‘We all get dressed for Bill,’ says Vogue edi-trix Anna Wintour. The ‘Bill’ in question is 80 plus New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obses-sively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his col-umns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fi xtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the fi lm out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cun-ningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place, and individual fl air. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny, and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.” http://www.portlandmuseum.org/events/movies.php

‘The Greenhorns’ screening at COA7 p.m. America’s young farming community will be cele-brated at a showing of “The Greenhorns,” a movie about the current numbers of young people who have taken up farming. The screening will be in the college’s Gates Com-munity Center, Bar Harbor. The fi lm will be introduced by Severine von Tscharner Fleming of the Smithereen Farm in New York. Following the fi lm will be a panel of young farmers including the manager of COA’s Beech Hill Farm, Alisha Strater, von Tscharner Fleming and others. In addi-tion to the screening, there will be a Wild Herbs Walk and Workshop with COA alumna Rachel Randall from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The workshop is limited to 25 people on a fi rst come-fi rst served basis. To pre-register, or for more information on the 7 p.m. showing of “The Greenhorns,” contact Matthew Doyle Olson at 801-5688 or mdoyleolson@coa.edu. www.coa.edu

Food+Farm: Anna Lappé7:30 p.m. April 14 to April 17, FOOD + FARM 2011. A food and fi lm festival at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. in Portland. “This is the fourth year of Food+Farm, SPACE Gallery’s annual look at issues challenging our access to safe, sustainable food. ... Anna Lappé is a widely respected author and educator, renowned for her work as a sustain-able food advocate. The co-author or author of three books

and the contributing author to nine others, Anna’s work has been widely translated internationally and featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, Oprah Magazine, among many other outlets. Named one of Time’s ‘eco’ Who’s-Who, Anna is a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund and has for more than a decade been a key force in the growing international movement for sustain-ability and justice in the food chain.” http://www.space538.org/events.php

‘Unaccustomed Earth’ concert at USM8 p.m. Spotlight Concert Series: “Unaccustomed Earth.” Two Sides Sounding & South Oxford Six. Corthell Concert Hall, University of Southern Maine, Gorham. A part of Inno-vation Celebration, a partnership with the Portland Conser-vatory of Music, and USM’s New Music Weekend.

‘Blood Brothers’ at CLT in Auburn8 p.m. Mark Brann of Portland, as the “Narrator” in Com-munity Little Theatre’s “Blood Brothers,” tells the story of “Mrs. Johnstone, deserted by her husband and unable to cope with her oversized brood of children.” Played by Stefanie Lynn of Auburn, she reluctantly gives one of her twin boys to the wife of her wealthy employer. The adop-tive mother, Mrs. Lyons is played by CLT veteran Cheryl Reynolds, also of Portland. Years later, the brothers meet and become inseparable friends, but their relationship is doomed. Whether it is a child’s inherent nature or the way he is nurtured that determines his fate is at the crux of the storyline. “A total of 12 talented singers and actors make up the cast of this hit musical by Willy Russell, which has accu-mulated a host of awards and has become one of the lon-gest standing works of musical theater in history. The cast also includes, Adam Morris of Westbrook, Paige Berube of Gray, Andreas Wyder of New Vineyard, and Lewiston-Auburn residents, Chris L’Hommedieu, Sydney Browne, Guy Pilote, Andrew Leeman, Brandon Chaloux and Mary Turcotte. The show is directed by Celeste Philippon.” Ron Bouffard is the assistant director, Paul G. Caron is musical director, and Eileen Messina is the choreographer. “Blood Brothers” opens at Great Fall Performing Arts Center (Academy Street, Auburn) on April 8 and runs for two full weekends. Performances are at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Sundays and 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 15. Tickets are $16 in advance and can be purchased online at www.LACLT.com , at the Box Offi ce (30 Academy Street, Auburn) or by calling 783-0958.

Saturday, April 16

Dress for Success spring sale8 a.m. Filene’s Basement may be gone, but great bargains on new or nearly-new women’s clothing may be found at Dress for Success Southern Maine’s annual spring sale! The sale will take place on Saturday, April 16, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Catherine McAuley H.S., 631 Stevens Ave. in Port-land. The event is open to the public and features new and nearly-new women’s clothing in all sizes, shoes, jewelry and accessories — casual, formal, and everything in between. Proceeds go towards Dress for Success Southern Maine’s annual operating budget. Donations of new or nearly-new (less than 2 years old), clean, ready-to-wear women’s cloth-ing (from casual to dressy) for the Spring sale, are welcome. The dropoff site and times are: 51 Baxter Boulevard (in the Hannaford Shopping Center parking lot location) on March 19, April 2, and April 9 from 9 a.m. to noon, plus April 15, 5-9:00 p.m. at Catherine McAuley High School. Volun-

teers of all ages are also always welcome – whether at the sale or at the Congress Street, Portland boutique during regular hours. To volunteer, or for more informa-tion, please email southernmaine@dress-forsuccess.org or call 780-1686.

Biddeford Winter Farmer’s Market9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Biddeford Winter Farmer’s Market is held every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. At the former West Pepperril Mill on Main Street in Biddeford. Roy Guzman, 210-0123

Art Supplies Yard Sale9 a.m. to 2 p.m. “Are you looking for that perfect picture frame? Do you want to try something new as an artist? You will fi nd all sorts of art making materials at the Art Supplies Yard Sale at Barn Gallery and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Look for frames, paper for drawing and painting, canvas and mat board, easels and draw-ing tables, art books and videos and other art supplies. All proceeds go to support Barn Gallery and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art.” Barn Gallery, corner of Shore Road & Bourne Lane, Ogunquit and Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 543 Shore Road, Ogunquit. Contact Roz Fedeli

207-351- 3262 or rivercurrentart@myfairpoint.com. Ogun-quit Museum of American Art 207-646-4909

Portland Trails 10K ‘Trail to Ale’ registration9 a.m. Online registration for the Portland Trails 10K “Trail to Ale” will open. “Because of the popularity of this race, registration will be limited to 2000 participants. Portland Trails will accept online registrations on a first come first serve basis, with spaces reserved for Port-land Trails members. Runners register on the Portland Trails website, www.trails.org. Before online registra-tion opens, runners will get a chance to register early at the Shipyard Summer Ale Party, held at Portland Pie Company at their Portland, Scarborough and West-brook locations on April 14 from 5-8 p.m. For each pint of Shipyard Summer Ale sold that night, Portland Pie Company will donate $1 to Portland Trails. Run-ners who register for the 10K at the party get their first pint for free and will be guaranteed a spot in the ‘Trail to Ale.’ The Portland Trails 10K ‘Trail to Ale’ will take place on Sunday, Sept. 18 in Portland. The race starts on the Eastern Promenade Trail, loops Back Cove, and finishes at East End Beach. The course is exclusively off-road and offers beautiful views of Portland harbor and Back Cove. The first 400 registrants to the race will receive a complimentary running jersey. Registra-tion for the ‘Trail to Ale’ is $20.”

Earth Day volunteer work party at MOFGA center9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Maine Organic Farmers and Garden-ers Association (MOFGA) will host an Earth Day volunteer work party at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center in Unity. Volunteers are needed for the following projects on April 16: Spring garden clean-up; raking and mulching; orchard weeding; and light carpentry projects. The work-day will take place rain or shine, so participants are asked to dress appropriately. Volunteers should bring work gloves and favorite garden tools. MOFGA will provide a hearty, organic lunch and volunteer t-shirt for each participant. “MOFGA has many engaging, year-round volunteer oppor-tunities. For more information or to register for the Earth Day Work Day please contact MOFGA’s Landscape Coor-dinator Joe Dupere in the MOFGA offi ce by phone at 568-4142, or by email at jdupere@mofga.org.”

Healthy Kids Day at the Y9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Cumberland County YMCA invites kids and parents to come play at Healthy Kids Day at its Greater Portland branch and Casco Bay branch in Freeport. Activities are free and open to all. “At Healthy Kids Day, the nation’s largest health day for kids, families will enjoy family group exercise classes, lacrosse clinics free healthy snacks, a climbing wall, an infl atable obstacle course, out-door games, basketball, seed planting, fl y fi shing, a puppet show, and much more. There will also be raffl e items and giveaways. Slugger will be at the Portland branch to give away gift bags. As the leading nonprofi t for strengthening community, the Y holds Healthy Kids Day to bring families together to engage in fun, active play and learn healthier habits that help them grow and thrive. Kids Day takes place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Greater Portland YMCA and from 10 a.m. to noon in Freeport. Casco Bay YMCA, 4 Old South Freeport Road Freeport, 25 Campus Dr., Ste 100, New Gloucester. For more information on the Portland branch activities, call 874-1111, and for Casco Bay in Free-port 865-9600, or visit cumberlandcountyymca.org

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At 4 p.m. Sunday, April 17, the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players will present “The Mikado” at Merrill Auditorium in Portland. The New York troupe is a professional repertory company giving vitality to the living legacy of Gilbert & Sullivan through performance and education. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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Food+Farm: Wake Up the Farm9 a.m. Food+Farm: Wake Up the Farm with Cultivating Community. “Come out to Cultivating Community’s Turkey Hill Farm in Cape Elizabeth and help them get ready for the 2011 growing season. You’ll help CC wake up the farm and you’ll get hands-on experience and an opportunity to ask the CC staff about your farming/gardening questions. Activities for all ages and skill levels and we’ll end the morn-ing with a soup and bread lunch to thank you for your hard work. Cultivating Community’s mission is to strengthen communities by growing food, preparing youth leaders and new farmers, and promoting social and environmental jus-tice. We use our community food work as an engine for high-impact youth and community development programs that reconnect people to the natural and social systems that sustain us all.”

Maine Photography Show opens10 a.m. An exhibition of over 100 photographs by many of Maine’s best photographers will be open for public view-ing April 16 through May 7 in Boothbay Harbor. New this year is the chance to win a framed and signed photograph by the show judge, Jay Stock. There will be a BRAF ben-efi t raffl e for the Jay Stock photograph titled “Massai Tribe, Kenya, Africa.” which will also be on view with three other

photographs by Stock throughout the exhibition. Chances will be available until the ticket drawing on the last day of the show Saturday, May 7. The Maine photography Show is produced and presented by the Boothbay Region Art Foundation and is held at their gallery: One Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor in the center of town. Call 633-2703 for Maine Photography Show bus parking directions.

The Big Thaw Arts, Crafts and Vintage Sale10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland. “The Big Thaw is an arts, crafts and vintage sale meant to celebrate the coming Spring and a wide array of talented and innovative vendors. Kick off those winter boots and join us to fi nd about a thousand things to brighten your closet, home, toy chest, kitchen and more in 2011. ... The Big Thaw is the brainchild of Portland artist Audrey Hotchkiss of Little Eye Designs. She has had the valuable support of Malaika Picard of Hand-Me-Down Designs and Shanna Tice of The Makings of Shanna Tice in making this a reality.” Website: http://thebigthawportland.wordpress.com

The Wabanaki Arts Festival10 a.m. The Wabanaki Arts Festival continues to build the strong relationship between the Midcoast community and the four Native American Tribes in Maine (Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot). The festival brings together artisans, basketmakers, and traditional music as a celebration of Wabanaki culture. The music will be ongoing throughout the day and includes the Alamoosic Lake Singers, fl ute and storytelling by Hawk Henries, and hand drumming and song by Watie Akins. Thirty artisans and crafters will offer their unique items for sale and will provide demonstrations of their crafts. The Wabanaki Arts Festival is hosted by Bowdoin’s Native American Students Association (NASA), and is partially funded by the Blythe Bickel Edwards Fund. For further information please call the Bowdoin information desk at 725-3375 or contact Leslie Shaw at lshaw@bowdoin.edu. Location: Smith Union, Sills Drive, Brunswick. 725-3815 www.bowdoin.edu

MPBN to air Spindleworks documentary11:30 a.m. “Everything in Sight”, a 2007 documentary about Spindleworks Art Center in Brunswick, will be broad-cast on Maine Public Broadcasting Network on April 16 at 11:30 a.m. and April 21 at 10:30 p.m. Directed by Nikolai Fox, the fi lm explores the history of the center and show-cases video art currently produced by Spindleworks artists. A program of Independence Association, Spindleworks was founded in 1978 by local artist Nan Ross. Ross’ vision was to teach weaving and fi ber arts skills to clients of the Independence Association, which they could use to create items to sell for income. Many of the original artists in the program were transitioning from living in Pineland, the state institution for persons with developmental disabilities. Over the years, the program has grown to include a variety of art forms and has represented several well-known artists in the state of Maine, including Betty Pinette and Rita Langlois. Today, artists working in media arts — video, photography, music, and sound — are also included in the Spindleworks program.

Meet the Artist: 2011 Biennial Talks begin11 a.m. to noon. Colleen Kinsella, Philip Brou, Robert Monroe and Carly Glovinski at the Portland Museum of Art. This is a series of informal artist talks to learn more about the process and inspiration of these artists and their work on view in the 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial. 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Deborah Wing-Sproul, Marissa Girard and Lauren O’Neal; 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., Ellen Wieske, Alicia Eggert, Tyson Jacques and Andrew Thompson. The Portland Museum of Art Biennial showcases the best in today’s art world by artists associated with Maine, from digital video to paint-ing, installation to photography, sculpture to prints, and more. This exhibition will feature 65 works by 47 artists. As a series, the Biennial exhibitions create a visual record of Maine’s evolving contemporary art scene and testify to the profound infl uence that the landscape, traditions, and people of Maine continue to have on living artists. http://portlandmuseum.org/Content/5614.shtml

Lost in Lexicon: A Fantasy Book Event for Families1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Kids ages 8-14 and their families are invited to visit the nine villages of the Land of Lexicon, based on the fantasy adventure by Pendred Noyce. Families will untangle tangrams, anagrams, wordplay, and other puzzles to save the villagers of Lexicon. The event is a fundraiser for Maine’s literacy organization, Raising Readers. Open House, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Port-land. Free with a Suggested Donation. Details, call Curious City, 420-1126.

Record Store Day at Bull Moose1 p.m. Originally conceived by Bull Moose staff, Record Store Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in April by more than 1,500 independent music stores worldwide. Prominent indie rockers The Decemberists, while on tour, will be releasing a CD titled “Live at Bull Moose” from their January performance at the Scarborough Bull Moose. All performances are Saturday, April 16. All performances are

acoustic, free and open to the public. In Maine, The Lucid will be performing in the Bangor store at 2 p.m. The Port-land store will host Sophomore Beat at 1 p.m. These Portland rockers are releasing an EP entitled “Party Like A Lobster” this day, which will only be available at Bull Moose. The Kenya Hall Band will be performing at 4 p.m. They are a Portland band with an intriguing, soul-ful, jazzy R&B sound with powerful female vocals. They released “Learning For Miles Vol. 1” in November 2010. 151 Middle St., Portland. Scarborough 456 Payne Road. Zach Jones will perform at the Scarborough Bull Moose at 3 p.m. on April 16. For updates, visit the Bull Moose site at http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home.

Food+Farm: The Greenhorns’ Young Farmers’ Mixer3 p.m. April 14 to April 17, FOOD + FARM 2011. A food and fi lm festival at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. in Portland. “This is the fourth year of Food+Farm, SPACE Gallery’s annual look at issues challenging our access to safe, sustainable food. ... This afternoon mixer is an opportunity for young farmers to come and meet their peers and enjoy a little nosh. We’ll be providing good eats and beverages from Local Sprouts, Flatbread Co. and Maine Root in addition to volunteer massage thera-pists to ease sore farm muscles. Representatives from The Greenhorns and MOFGA will be on hand to discuss their work with the young farming community. The Green-horns is an organization focused on recruiting, promot-ing and supporting young farmers in America — ‘young’ being loosely defi ned as farmers under the national aver-age age of 57. If you’re a farmer or intern currently work-ing in agriculture, please come down and socialize with us from 3-5 p.m. If you’re interested in supporting or are considering becoming a young farmer, please consider coming to our Greenhorns evening event later with The Greenhorns at 7:30 p.m.” www.space538.org

Miss Maine Scholarship Program gala5:30 p.m. The Miss Maine Scholarship Program proudly announces the 10 fi nalists for the third annual Maine’s Got Talent honors. They will compete at the Springtime Gala at the Hilton Garden Inn in Freeport. They are Roy Beck of Topsham (vocalist), Elexa DuBoise of Cherryfi eld (vocal and guitar), Fusion-dance team from the Biddeford area (dance group), Hannah Graham of Skowhegan (vocalist), Smokey Hicks of Bath (vocalist), Matt Houde and Julia Nadeau of Topsham (vocal duet), Adrianna Leonard of Pittsfi eld (ballet dancer), Drew Masse of Lewiston (vocalist), Hannah Rowell of South Portland (vocalist), and Nicolette Smith of Lincoln (vocalist). To obtain tickets to see the competition live, con-tact Patricia Crooker Mulligan by calling (207) 725-6009 or toll free 1-877-872-4321. Tickets are $40 in advance (April 11) or $50 at the door. Tickets can also be obtained via mail Miss Maine Springtime Gala, 23 Meadow Road, Brunswick, ME 04011. The Gala will feature Miss Maine 2010, Arikka Knights, a native of Chester, Maine and a Mass Commu-nications graduate of Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire. The evening also offers both a silent and a live auction. The delicious buffet style dinner is provided by the Hilton Garden Inn. All proceeds of this event will benefi t the Miss Maine Scholarship Program, the offi cial state prelimi-nary to Miss America, the largest source of scholarships for young women in the world. The 2011 Miss Maine Scholar-ship Pageant will be held at the Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School in Brunswick on Saturday, June 18. For more information about the Miss Maine Scholarship Program visit www.missmaine.org on the web.

Maine Gay Men’s Chorus ensemble7 p.m. The seven-voice Touring Ensemble of the Maine Gay Men’s Chorus (MGMC) will sing at the First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St. Their show, “As Long As You Love Me,” features a new line-up of songs including an a cappella arrangement of Toto’s “Africa,” the brand-new “My House,” and Mozart’s “Ave Verum” — one of the most beautiful pieces of choral music ever written. New arrange-ments of several songs make use of guitar, bass, keyboard, violin, and even a bright blue glockenspiel, all played by members of the ensemble. “The Touring Ensemble sings to fulfi ll the chorus mission of spreading the message of social acceptance and diversity.” Tix are $10 (suggested dona-tion). FMI 783-0461 or www.auburnuu.org.

Cameron Carpenter on the Kotzschmar Organ7:30 p.m. Cameron Carpenter will draw his concert reper-toire from the following sources: jazz etudes for the piano of the Ukrainian classical-jazz genius Nikolai Kapustin; organ premieres of great piano encores by Vladimir Horowitz, Arcadi Volodis, and Cyprien Katsaris. Experience the Pipes of the Kotzschmar Organ in Portland. “The Kotzschmar Organ is the oldest working municipal pipe organ in the United States. ... Select from a wide variety of concerts including jazz, classical, and pops. Municipal Organist Ray Cornils has served Portland and the Kotzschmar Organ since 1990. Cornils performs several times each year and hosts the popular Kotzschmar Konversation with visiting artists prior to their concerts.”

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