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Gardiner-Hallowell DAR Announces
Good Citizen Winner
Samuel
Grant-Mary
Kelton Dummer Chapter
Daughters of the American
Revolution of GardinerHallowell are pleased to
announce their chapter
winner of the DAR
Good Citizen Program
for the 2014-2015 school
year. Miss Lilly Marie
Beauregard, daughter of
Andrew Beauregard and
Sarah Prescott, also has
her essay and credentials
entered in the state
MSODAR Good Citizen
scholarship contest.
Miss Beauregard has
demonstrated academic
excellence
while
participating in many
extracurricular activities
and actively volunteering
for her community. She is
ranked third academically
in her senior class at
Winthrop High School.
She is currently Student
Council President, a
member of National
Honor Society, a member
of Concert Band, Varsity
Cross Country Captain
and has played Varsity
Soccer, Varsity Softball
and Varsity Basketball. In
addition to receiving the
William’s College Book
Award and St. Michael’s
College Book Award, she
was honored as Mountain
Valley
Conference
Academic All-Star and
received the Trudy Hanson
Manager of the Year
Award for Basketball.
She works as a lifeguard
at Winthrop Public Beach,
volunteers for her church,
helps coach the youth
basketball program, and
organized a food drive
with Student Council for
the local food pantry. Miss
Beauregard will attend
either the University of
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tea honoring the students
and their families at
10:00am on Saturday,
March 14, 2015 at the
Mayflower
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28 Mayflower Road
(at the intersection of
Mayflower and Orchard
Lane), Hallowell. Miss
Beauregard will read her
winning essay. Rebecca
McNaughton,
chapter
Regent, and Robin Reed,
chapter chair, will present
certificates and pins to
the students. In addition,
Miss Beauregard will also
receive a cash award for
her winning essay.
This program for high
school seniors is sponsored
each year by the National
Society Daughters of the
American
Revolution,
Maine State Organization
of the Daughters of the
American
Revolution
(MSODAR),
and
Maine’s
twenty-three
local chapters. For more
information about DAR,
please contact Robin Reed
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schools where officials
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senior may be honored
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DAR
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certificate, and wallet
recognition card. This
student is then eligible,
if he/she wishes, to enter
the DAR Good Citizen
scholarship contest by
writing an essay and
personal statement.
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selected by their schools
this year include: Eleanor
Luken, Gardiner Area
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Hall-Dale High School;
Angus Koller, Monmouth
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Solargraphs of the Kennebec River
From Indian Pond to the
Gulf of Maine, the mighty
Kennebec River winds
its way down a 170-mile
course through the state
of Maine. Photographer
Johanna Moore lives and
works along the river.
The body of water and
its history has served as
a source of learning and
inspiration for her for more
than 25 years.
Moore built 120 pinhole
cameras, and with the help
of her husband David Keef,
set the cameras along the
shores of the Kennebec
and many of its tributaries.
Between the Summer
and Winter Solstices, the
cameras created a visual
diary of the light that
shines along the course of
the great river, from Indian
Pond to Phippsburg. The
finished result pays homage
to the Kennebec’s vitality
and all that its tributaries
Provost Joseph Szakas
today announced the University of Maine at Augusta’s 2014 Fall Semester Dean’s List.
To be on the Dean’s
List, a student must earn
a 3.25 grade point average for a given semester
and must be enrolled fulltime.
Local students include:
Jacob Allen, Augusta; Elizabeth Anderson,
Chelsea; David Arbour,
Augusta; Kimberly Baker,
Augusta; Carmen Bragg,
Augusta; Keith Bragg,
Augusta; Jennifer Brown,
Augusta.
David Burden, Augusta;
Joshua Carrier, Augusta;
Arielle Cousens, Augusta;
Michelle Cueto, Augusta;
Michael Emerson, Augusta; Jordan Fitch, South
China; Robert Foss, Augusta.
Chele Fuller, South
China; Karen Giles, Vassalboro; Carla Giuka, Augusta; Allison Grinnell,
Augusta; Jeanne Hanson,
South China; Corey Harris, Augusta; Ruth Henderson, Chelsea.
Well Done!
Noah Hoffman, Augusta; Michael Johnston,
Augusta; Jay Joslyn, Augusta; Nicholas Kimball,
Chelsea; Erika King,
North Vassalboro; Rayna
Knight, Augusta; Masha
LaChance, Augusta; Autumn Lagasse, Augusta;
Garrett Leavitt, Augusta;
Anthony Lopatosky, Augusta.
Ralph Lyden, Augusta;
Heather Lyon, Augusta;
Hannah
McLaughlin,
Manchester; Justin Onofrio, Augusta; Philippe
Patenaude,
Augusta;
Kathryn Pinkham, Augusta; Courtney Porter,
Augusta; Tristan Power,
Augusta.
Amanda Pratt, Augusta; Jacob Quimby,
Home Care and Behavioral Health Agency
Augusta; Kailah Reed,
Va s s a l b o r o ; A m a n d a
Seekins, Augusta; Bryant
Sirois, Augusta;
Jonas Sleeper, South
China; Ryan Soucie, Augusta; Meghan StetsonBartlett, Augusta; Brooke
Thibodeau, Chelsea; Hannah Tyce, Augusta; Christopher Veilleux, Augusta;
Melissa Walden, Manchester; John Wentworth,
Augusta; Taylor Wilbur,
Manchester.
Brien Crisci, daughter
of Lenann and Sal Crisci
of Augusta, has been included on the Dean’s List
at Belmont Abbey College.
Brien is a Junior and
participates in Track and
Cross Country at the col-
provide to the landscape
and wildlife that live along
the river’s banks.
Solargraphs are long
exposure images made with
a pinhole camera. These
pinhole cameras captured
the sun as it transited the
sky. Moore had great luck
with her ambitious project.
“Wherever I went along the
river to set out the
pinhole cameras for the
Solargraph project, I took
photographs with other
cameras I brought with
me. I used 4 x 5 and 8 x 10
pinhole box cameras, Holga
pinhole cameras, and an old
Polaroid retrofitted to work
as a pinhole camera. I also
created imagery using my
iPhone and digital camera.
I lost only 30 cameras
which give me enough
imagery to select an
exciting representation of
the sunlight captured along
the Kennebec River.”
The River in Time:
Solargraphs
of
the
Kennebec River features
Moore’s
photographs
from nearby portions of
the Kennebec River. To
honor the river, Johanna
Moore and Monkitree
will contribute 10% of the
sale of each solargraph
to the Kennebec Land
Trust, an organization
that works cooperatively
with
landowners
and
communities to conserve
the forests, shorelands,
fields, and wildlife that
define central Maine.
The public is invited to
meet the artist at a reception
on Friday,
March 6, 2015 from
5:30-8:30pm. Monkitree is
a fine art and craft gallery
located at 263 Water Street
in historic downtown
Gardiner, Maine. n
lege.She attended HallDale High School,where
she held several state
titles in track.
The
University
of
Maine at Farmington announces its Dean’s List
for the fall 2014 semester.
UMF maintains a Dean’s
List each semester for
those students completing
a minimum of 12 credits in courses producing
quality points.
Students whose grade
point average for the semester is equal to or greater than 3.8 are listed with
high academic achievement. Students whose
grade point average for
the semester is less than
3.8 but equal to or greater
than 3.5 are listed with
academic achievement.
Any incompletes must
be satisfactorily completed before the student is
honored with Dean’s List
status. Academic achievement awarded at commencement is based on
all course work taken at
UMF.
Local students include:
Augusta:
Katherine Beach, Erika Burns,
Shiloh Davis, Taliesin
Greaton, Nathaniel Kidson, Kevin Lind, Carlene
Mosca, Dylane Saylor,
Lauren Wheelock, Alison
Zubrod.
Manchester:
Nicole
Smith.
Chelsea: Emily Soule,
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Business
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Tax Free Roth IRA Conversions
Moving money from
a tax deferred retirement
account to a potentially
tax-free Roth IRA usually
will trigger income tax.
That won't always be the
case, though, thanks to recent IRS announcements.
Some examples show how
this can work.
Example 1: Nancy
Martin has participated in
her company's 401(k) plan
for many years. She typically has made maximum
pretax contributions to the
plan. Nancy's company allows employees to make
additional aftertax contributions (many employers
do), which she has done.
Nancy decides to leave
the company at a time
when she has $600,000
in the 401(k), including
$100,000 from aftertax
contributions.
Thanks to an IRS notice
published in September
(IRS Notice 2014-54),
Nancy can have her plan
administrator
transfer
$100,000 of aftertax money to a Roth IRA. Because
this is aftertax money,
Nancy won't owe tax on
the transfer. Inside her
Roth IRA, untaxed growth
can continue.
Once Nancy has met the
five year and age 59½ requirements, she can withdraw as much or as little
from the Roth IRA as she
wishes without owing any
tax.
In order to qualify for
this tax treatment, Nancy's
Roth IRA transfer must
be part of a distribution to
two or more retirement ac-
counts. Thus, she can send
$100,000 to a Roth IRA
and the other $500,000 to
a traditional IRA. Nancy
won't owe any tax on these
transfers. However, her
$500,000 traditional IRA
(and any future earnings)
will remain pretax. Nancy
will owe tax on any withdrawals from that traditional IRA or any future
conversion to a Roth IRA.
Beyond 401(k)s, this
strategy can be executed
by taxpayers with aftertax
money in other types of
employer sponsored qualified plans.
IRA implications
What if Nancy already
had rolled her $600,000
to a traditional IRA? In
that case, any distributions from that account—
including those for a
Roth IRA conversion—
would be considered a
mix of aftertax and pretax money. If Nancy had
$600,000 in a traditional
IRA, with $100,000 of
aftertax money, for instance, a $150,000 Roth
IRA conversion would be
considered $125,000 (5/6)
taxable and $25,000 (1/6)
untaxed.
Nevertheless, there can
be a way to execute a taxfree Roth conversion in
that situation.
Example 2: Assume that
Nancy leaves the company
and rolls her $600,000
401(k) balance to a traditional IRA. Currently, that
IRA has the same balance,
including $100,000 of aftertax money. Nancy has
just accepted a new job
with a company that sponsors a 401(k) plan for its
employees.
In this situation, Nancy
can roll her $500,000 of
pretax money into the new
company's 401(k) plan and
then convert the aftertax
$100,000 to a Roth IRA.
Again, she'll owe no tax on
either move and she'll have
$100,000 in a potentially
tax-free Roth IRA.
That tactic has been possible in the past but not always practical: many employer plan administrators
were reluctant to accept
such rollovers from IRAs
into a company retirement
plan because the IRS had
not explained how such
transactions should be
handled.
That changed last year
when the IRS published
Revenue Ruling 20149, setting out the ground
rules. Now, Nancy can
have the custodian of her
traditional IRA transfer up
to $500,000 of her pretax
money to the new company's plan. Nancy also
has to submit a statement
to the administrator of the
new plan, certifying that
this rollover is all pretax
money. Following Rev.
Rul. 2014-9, company
plans are likely to accept
such rollovers from traditional IRAs.
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Courtesy of Rebecca
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One of the more common wage and hour
violations seen by the
Department of Labor is illegal wage deductions and
failure to pay employees
when their employment
ends. The law that applies
to deductions from checks
is 26 M.R.S.A. § 626.
According to the law, an
employee leaving employment must be paid in full
within a reasonable time
after demand at the office of the employer where
payrolls are kept and wages are paid...and any loan
or advance against future
earnings or wages may
be deducted if evidenced
by a statement in writing
signed by the employee.
According to § 626, the
term "employee" means
any person who performs
services for another in
return for compensation,
but does not include an
independent
contractor. A “reasonable time”
means the earlier of either
the next day on which
employees would regularly be paid or a day not
more than 2 weeks after
the day on which the demand is made.
If an employee sues, the
employer may not deduct
as a setoff or counterclaim
any money due the employer as compensation
for damages caused to
the employer's property
by the employee, or any
money owed to the employer by the employee.
An employer found in
violation of § 626 is liable
for the amount of unpaid
wages and, in addition, a
judgment rendered in favor of the employee must
include a reasonable rate
of interest, an additional
amount equal to twice the
amount of those wages as
liquidated damages and
costs of suit, including a
reasonable attorney's fee.
What if an employee
tells her employer to just
go ahead and make the
deductions and not to
worry about the signed
agreement? If money has
already been loaned to
the employee, the offer
is tempting but the employer shouldn’t make
the wage deductions. An
oral agreement will not be
enough under the law and
the employer becomes
dependent on relations
never souring with the
employee.
What if an employee has
just been fired for damaging company equipment
due to sheer inattention
or sloppiness? The employer would really like to
hold his check, or deduct
the cost of the damage,
but shouldn’t do it. While
the employer’s reaction
may be justified, it needs
to separate payment of
wages due to an employee
for hours worked from
any money an employee
may owe. There are other
avenues rather than wage
withholding for recovering money owed. Deducting will give the employee
a wage and hour claim
that will multiply the
amount owed plus include
the employee’s attorney’s
fees. When in doubt, pay
it out – or at least give us a
call to find out what to do!
This article is not legal
advice but should be considered as general guidance in the area of employment and corporate
law. Rebecca Webber is an
employment attorney; others at the firm handle business and other matters.
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Nothin’ But Small TalkFirst Aid at Home!
Jess Small
First aid kits at home
are a must if you have animals! Horses are curious
and playful creatures and
sometimes even aggressive towards one another,
so a horse owner must
always be prepared for a
wound or injury. A home
first aid kit is essential as
well as a portable one for
your trailer and to take to
events away from home.
Your kit does not need to
be elaborate but supply
you with the necessary
tools and equipment to
treat injuries that don’t
require medical attention
or when you need a temporary measure until your
veterinarian arrives.
Primary rules of first
aid start with calming
yourself when you discover your horse is injured. Proceed in a calm
slow manner and assess
the situation. Remember
to allow 30 to 60 minutes
for a fresh would to stop
bleeding. Larger flesh
wounds may need stitches or staples to promote
healing and minimize
scarring and your veterinarian should be contact
right away. I have had
two flesh wounds one my
horse’s head, one gash
on the forehead and one
slice by the corner of the
eye. The forehead needed
15 staples and was down
to the muscle and the cut
by the eye required many
stitches. I had vets out
that same night and today
there is no scarring and
healing was fast!
You can buy a first aid
kit directly with your vet
that supplies you with
A hoof boot is essential when dealing with hoof injuries
and abscesses, as well as having your first aid kit stocked
with adhesive wrap, gauze, salves, ointments, scissors,
Epsom salts, and more! Oh and who can forget the
faithful companion who never leaves your side while
playing nurse to your injured horse!
medications and supplies.
I did that many years ago
but through the many
years of horse ownership
I have had to replenish
mine with supplies and
out of date medications.
Self adhesive bandages, cotton, and gauze
are extremely important
to have on hand to help
stop bleeding and to keep
wounds clean. After soaking an abscessed hoof for
a month I thought about
buying stock in Vet wrap
and gauze pads as I had to
wrap and pack the hoof
with a poultice twice a
day. I also had a boarder who had a puncture
wound that required to
keep clean by wrapping
his leg with cotton and
Vet wrap.
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would
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Betadine or Novalsan are
great to have on hands to
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help wounds health and
keep them clean. Epsom
salts are great for drawing out infections and are
mostly used with hoof
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recommend if you have
to soak a hoof to purchase
a soaking bag. A friend
loaned one to me and it
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easier. I would recommend it to anyone who
has a hoof to soak!
Always have a pair of
sharp scissors, wire cutters, and bandage cutters.
If you have wire fencing
you need to be prepared
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CLUES ACROSS
1. Printing speed mea-
surement
4. Fed
7. A domed or vaulted recess
11. Macaws
12. Neck garment
14. A billionth of an ohm
15. Local area network
16. Cleve. basketball hero
18. Wounded & disfig
ured
20. Civil Rights group
21. Master of ceremo
nies
22. Smallest artery branches
26. Ref
27. Exist
28. Diagram of earth’s surface
29. SE Asian sarsaparil
la soft drink
31. Fire remains
35. 3rd tone
36. Before
37. It breaks down lactose
39. A waterproof rain
coat
40. Atomic #18
41. NW Canadian ter
ritory
42. Hindquarters
44. Follows sigma
ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20
You impress everyone with your creativity this
week, Aries. Allow this creativity to be the inspiration behind projects you have been putting
off of late.
TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21
Keep your goals relatively simple for the next
few days, Taurus. You can benefit from the positive reinforcement of completing tasks and getting things done.
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21
Gemini, you have been immersed in work and
are starting to show the ill effects of keeping
long hours. Now is a great time to take a few
days off or enjoy a mini-vacation.
CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22
Cancer, you have a lot to get done, but resist the
urge to micromanage every detail, as this could
be a surefire path to burnout. You need to take a
few breaths.
46. Rural delivery
47. Point that is one point N of due E
48. Excels
53. Berkus and Silver
56. Famous for fables
57. Philippine capital
58. Meg Ryan’s ex-hus
band
62. Doleful
63. Arugula genus
64. Nursery verse
65. The 7th Greek letter
66. Container for ship
ping
67. Charge for services
68. Immature onion plant
CLUES DOWN
1. Swedish statesman Olaf
2. Baltic flat-bottomed boat (alt. sp.)
3. Fingernail treatment
4. Breezed through
5. Check
6. Stray
7. Ancient computing devices
8. Something cheerlead
ers wave
9. The woman
10. Ambulance rescue initials
12. In a drowsy manner
13. A set of type of one style
14. Not completely Page 5
closed
17. No (Scottish)
19. Microelectrome
chanical system
22. Having the wind against the forward side
23. Reestablish
24. Khloe K’s former husband
25.Verse forms
29. Places to sit
30. Chilean pianist Claudio
32. Rounds of poker
33. Spanish be
34. Sing and play for somebody
38. Chem. symbol for gold
39. Praying insects
43. Israeli politician Abba
45. 7th planet from the sun
49. Br. plural of a penny
50. Largest continent
51. Distress signal
52. Senate and People of Rome
54. Fill with high spirits
55. Egyptian statesman Anwar
57. Non-verbal enter-
tainer
58. 12th calendar month (abbr.)
59. A major division of geological time
60. Ultrahigh frequency
61. Yes vote
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Leo, avoid the temptation to get started on
another new project. You already have plenty
of other things on your plate. Finish those tasks
before moving on to something new.
CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20
Capricorn, find balance between your personal
ambitions and things you have to accomplish at
work and at home. Finding a middle ground is
the best approach.
VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22
It is sometimes easy to miss the forest for the
trees, Virgo. Try taking a step back so you can
look at a puzzling project from a new perspective.
AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18
Aquarius, you need a few extra people to contribute to a special task, but you do not know
who to ask. If you think hard enough, you will
know who you can depend on.
LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23
Libra, you may be searching for a new adventure, but try to appreciate the here and now as
well. It’s easy to get swept up in fantasies, but
don’t let them carry you too far away.
PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20
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Members and Staff Recognized for Efforts
in Ending Hunger
Maine’s Credit Unions’
Campaign for Ending
Hunger raised a record
$552,257.43 in 2014.
Gardiner Federal Credit
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of the employees and
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of the members. The
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spaghetti supper and buy
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hundreds of Hearts for
Ending Hunger (sold
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“Starting Seeds”
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Friends of Starling Hall
is sponsoring a “Starting
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a new series of gardening
workshops, designed to
help you grow and harvest
your best garden, while
also supporting the hall’s
rebuilding efforts.
The
workshop is Saturday,
March 14, from 9:00AM
-11:00AM at Starling Hall,
Route 17, Fayette. It will
be led by local gardener
Jean St. Clair who will
share her expertise in how
to get the best start for
your seedlings, covering
topics such as plants, soil
mediums and containers,
optimal timing for various
species, and how to avoid
common problems. Learn
great ways to begin your
garden while the ground is
still snowbound.
Recommended donation
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cost of printed materials
and help to support the
rebuilding of Starling Hall.
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Library Loans Ukuleles
Check out something
new at Waterville Public
Library -- a beginner
ukulele kit!
Through a partnership
with a local uke club,
Waterville Public Library
card-holders will be able
to borrow instruments
and beginner songbooks.
The kits are listed in
the Library's computer
catalog, so that users can
check availability and get
notification when a kit is
ready to borrow.
Local resident Bob
Michaud and Waterville
Public Library Children’s
Librarian Kathleen Kenny
organized the first ukulele
meet-ups at the library in
September 2013. Since
then, more than two
dozen people of all ages
and musical abilities
have dropped in to strum,
sing and encourage each
other. Some members of
the group now perform
at area nursing homes
and community events as
"Uke & Be Happy." To
bring the fun of making
music
to
everyone,
members donated money
to purchase the kits.
The group continues to
meet at the Library on the
2nd and 4th Thursdays
each month from 6 – 7:30
pm. They tackle beginner
and intermediate tunes of
all kinds.
To inaugurate the new
ukulele checkout program,
there will be "Tune In and
Sing Along" concert at
Waterville Public Library
on Thursday February 26
at 6:30 pm. Everyone is
welcome to join in. n
March 2015
The Party’s Over
I can remember back in
the 1960s when the phone
company announced plans
to automate our phone
service. It sounded exciting
to me even though I didn’t
know exactly what it would
involve. Local business
owners thought the changes
would lead to a Golden Age
in our town. Old-timers
began to think that the word
was coming unglued at the
seams.
With the new phone
system everyone would
have to learn and use phone
numbers and dial the correct
number if they expected
their call to go through.
We had never used phone
numbers in our town. I was
almost 12 years old at the
time and didn’t even know
that people in our town had
telephone numbers.
In those days the clunky
hand-operated switchboard
for the town phones sat in
Thelma Ames’s kitchen.
She was the town’s
switchboard
operator
and handled every call in
and out of town. On rare
occasions when Thelma
went out, her sister Becky,
who lived across the street,
would come over to mind
the switchboard.
Before
automation,
you didn’t have to know
anyone’s phone number.
You’d just tell Thelma
who you wanted to talk
to and she’d connect you.
Thelma really didn’t need
the job, since her family
was pretty well off by
local standards. They say
the only reason she took
the fairly demanding job
was because she wanted to
know all the town gossip.
And that switchboard job
supplied Thelma with lots
of raw, unfiltered town
gossip.
Like I said, whenever you
wanted to call someone in
town you’d pick up your
receiver and nosy Thelma
would come on and ask
who you wanted to call.
You understood upfront
that anything you or the
other party said on the
phone could and would be
overheard by Thelma Ames.
That
kind
of
eavesdropping may seem
like an “invasion of privacy”
in our hypersensitive age,
but it didn’t bother us much
and sometimes came in
handy.
For example, if Mother
The Friends of the
Belgrade Public Library
will hold a used book
sale on Saturday March
14th from 9 am – 2 pm
at the Belgrade Central
School, located on the
Depot Road off Rte 27 in
Belgrade Depot, near the
new home of the Belgrade
Public Library. If there is
a snowstorm the afternoon
John McDonald
picked up the phone to call
Marge Cook over on the
river road, Thelma might
say, “Oh, Alice, I just heard
Marge tell Esta Watts that
she was going shopping.
”If you want, I’ll give you a
call when Marge gets back.
”And she would. If you
were interested, Thelma
could even tell you what
Marge said she was going
to buy, and anything else
she and Marge talked about.
In this age of iPhones,
emails, texts, tweets and
twitters, I’m still not back
to the kind of friendly,
personal service I used to
get from Thelma Ames.
And Thelma never charged
for the extra service.
Since our family had an
eight-party line back then, I
always assumed there were
other people listening in
along with Thelma. I like
to think that my public
speaking career began with
those party line calls of
years ago. And even though
I have gone on to speak to
larger audiences in person
and on the radio, I can only
hope that my audiences
today listen as often and as
intently as my neighbors
back home on that party
line.
More and more I agree
with those who say, “not all
change is for the best.n
Used Book Sale
Announcement
of March 13th that prevents
us from moving the books,
or on March 14th, the sale
will be held Sunday March
15th. For information call
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Scholarship Opportunities Available
Each spring, the Holocaust and Human Rights
Center of Maine (HHRC)
recognizes exemplary individuals through an annual program of awards
and scholarships. The
HHRC is currently accepting applications for
scholarships and awards
to be presented at the Annual Meeting on Sunday,
May 31st in Portland.
The opportunities include the request for
nominations for the
Gerda Haas Award for
Excellence in Human
Rights Education and
Leadership. In addition,
the HHRC is soliciting
scholarship applications
from high school seniors
for the Lawrence Alan
Spiegel Remembrance
Scholarship and K-12th
grade students for the
Mathilda Schlossberger
Outstanding Student of
the Year Awards.The
HHRC also offers an an-
nual award for Holocaust
and human rights educators with the Holocaust
Educator
Professional
Development Grant.
All applications can
be found online at hhrcmaine.org/awards-scholarships and submitted
via email to infohhrc@
maine.edu or sent to the
Michael Klahr Center at
46 University Drive, Augusta, Maine 04330 before April 1.
The Gerda Haas Award
for Excellence in Human
Rights Education and
Leadership was created
in honor of the HHRC’s
founding mother, Gerda
Haas. Gerda inspired
many with her passion
for human rights
education. A Holocaust
survivor originally from
Germany, Gerda worked
for many years as the librarian at Bates College.
In the late 1970s, Governor Longley appointed
Gerda to the State Board
of Education. While
serving on the board,
she learned that students
weren’t being taught
about the Holocaust in
Maine schools. Gerda
not only identified a critical educational void, she
took action to rectify it.
The Holocaust and Human Rights Center welcomes the opportunity
to recognize and honor
an individual who, like
Gerda Haas, has demonstrated excellence and
initiative in human rights
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Jodi Cornelio
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Jodi R. Cornelio, AS, BA, MBA
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Are you a female between the ages of 20 to
90 and been told by your
doctor that you need more
calcium in your diet? Are
you
post-menopausal?
Are you lactose intolerant and wondering how
you can get calcium in
your diet? Have you been
told you have osteopenia
or osteoporosis and you
are searching for more information on how to take
care of your bone health?
If any of this sounds like
you please keep reading
as I lay out a crash course
in bone health.
According to a study
performed by the American College of Nutrition
only 16% of women between the age of 20 and
29 get the recommended
amount of calcium in
their diet.
Healthcare
professionals
encourage calcium sources or
supplements if you are female and especially if you
are a female over the age
of 40 years old.
Females are at a higher
risk for osteoporosis than
their male counterparts
for many reasons. Most
women have smaller
bones and less muscle
mass than men and the
difference in hormones
play a role in calcium
needs as well.
Here are some examples of calcium rich
choices that you can make
to increase your calcium
intake:
Dairy products such as
milk, cheese and yogurts
are the obvious choices
White beans, sardines,
canned salmon – my favorite, make sure you
eat the edible bones in
canned salmon as that is
the greatest source of calcium you can get. Dried
figs, blackstrap molasses,
kale and spinach, blackeyed peas, almonds and
almond milk, oranges,
turnip greens and beet
greens, sesame seeds,
seaweed, soymilk and
firm tofu.
Now that we have covered calcium, don’t forget
your Vitamin D. You’ll
need vitamin D to absorb
the calcium you put into
your body. They go hand
and hand. You can get
vitamin D through fortified foods such as orange
juice and many cereals,
just read the label to see
if it says fortified with Vitamin D.
Vitamin D also comes
from sunlight and can be
found as a supplement.
If using supplements for
calcium and or Vitamin
D try to find a source
that you can either drink
or eat. Many companies
offer chewable vitamins
which tend to have a
higher absorption rate.
Shop around.
The third topic on bone
health includes exercise.
Resistance exercise along
with healthy eating helps
maintain bone health. So
what is resistance training? Resistant training is
weight bearing exercises
but that doesn’t mean you
have to start pumping
iron. There are many other forms of weight bearing exercises. Walking is
one of them and is great
for bone strength and
overall health. Pilates and
even yoga can be weight
bearing and great for bone
health. Experiment with
exercise and hopefully
you will grow to love one
of these types of exercise
so that you can stick to
it on a regular basis and
your bones strength and
overall health will stay
healthy and even improve.
Live Long Live Well. n
education and leadership. The center welcomes nominations from
the public, center staff
and board members. The
recipient will be recognized on May 31, 2015
at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of
Maine’s Annual Meeting.
The Lawrence Alan
Spiegel Remembrance
Scholarship is a $1000
scholarship that is awarded annually to a graduating high school senior
who resides in Maine,
and who has been accepted at any accredited
Title IV-eligible college
or technical school. To
apply, students are asked
to submit an original essay that addresses the
following question: Why
is it important that the remembrance, history, and
lessons of the Holocaust
be passed to a new generation?
Three levels of the
Mathilda Schlossberger
Outstanding
Student
of the Year Award are
available each year. The
award is given to one
student applicant in each
of the following grades
K-4, 5-8 and 9-12. The
Schlossberger
Award
recognizes students who
have produced an exceptional piece of original
writing, fiction or nonfiction, or an unusually
expressive work of visual art, media, or performance relating to a
human rights issue.
For teachers, the Holocaust Educator Professional Development
Grant is a professional
development grant funded through the generosity
of Dr. Julius Ciembroniewicz. The grant provides
financial support to an
outstanding Maine teacher – at any grade level,
public or private – who is
committed to Holocaust
and human rights education. Awarded annually,
the $500 grant must be
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The Augusta Circus
V. Paul Reynolds
When it comes to prospective new state laws
related to hunting and
fishing, state lawmakers
are one step ahead of Barnum and Bailey. There is
a stack of bills, some worthy of discussion, some
transparently self-serving,
and a few just plain silly,
if you ask me.
Here are some of them.
You decide into which
category they belong.
There is a bill to lower
the age of junior hunters
from 10 years to 8 years
of age. There is one in the
hopper that would allow
all non-resident college
students to purchase hunting and fishing licenses at
the resident rate. One bill,
LD 242, allows hunters to
wear blaze pink instead of
blaze orange during the
month of October. Another would allow farmers and other depredation
hunters to kill crop-damaging wildlife with rifles
equipped with silencers!
(Sounds like fodder for
another Warden Bowditch
novel). There is a bill that
would allow a registered
guide to use one leashed
hound to find a wounded bear. Still others, if
passed, would allow: the
transfer of moose permits
among family members;
the use of a crossbow
in any deer season by a
hunter 70 years or older;
the hunting of small game
with a slingshot; and Sunday hunting on land that is
larger than 10 acres.
This one really caught
my attention: LD 257. An
act that would allow ice
fishermen to leave their
traps unattended for 20
minutes every two hours.
There has to be a story
behind this one. Which reminds me of a story.
One day on Seboeis
Lake a buddy and I were
ice fishing. “I’m going
back to camp to check the
beans,” he said. “Better
raise your bait up to the
hole before you leave,” I
said. “Naw,” he said,” I’ll
be right back in 20 minutes. You keep an eye on
‘em.” Then he left.
Moments later, as if by
some higher plan, Warden
Smith arrived by snowsled. “You have five traps
too many,” he said with
a scowl .”Only five are
mine, sir,” I said. “Well,
who belongs to the others?” he queried.
Pointing a finger down
the snow-covered lake at a
speck of a snowsled headed our way, I said, “That
would be him. He went
back to camp to check the
beans.”
Upon my buddy’s return
he was greeted by Warden
Smith and a summons for
unattended traps. To this
day, my ice fishing companion is convinced that I
threw him under the bus.
It is his belief that I should
have taken the rap, as an
act of true friendship.
No, neither of us had
anything to do with the
promotion of LD 257, but
we suspect that behind
this piece of legislation
there is a similar story. My
friend, the bean checker,
feels his pain.
Of all the bills introduced so far that relate to
sportsmen, SAM’s bill,
LD 176, strikes me as the
most serious, far-reaching
and worthy. Put simply, it
would safeguard our citizen referendum process
by not allowing groups
like the Humane Soci-
ety of the United States
(HSUS) to hire professional, out-of-state petition signature gatherers.
During the bear referendum, HSUS reportedly
spent $228,000 on hired
guns from away to gather
signatures. This is an out-
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Key Events in Irish History
Great Britain. Since
7500 B.C., when
the first inhabitants were believed
to occupy the land
of Ireland, many
notable
events
have taken place
on the Emerald
Isle.
Christianity
comes to Ireland Although St. Patrick
is largely credited
with bringing Christianity to Ireland, the
arrival of Christianity in
Ireland may actually have
been a by product of both
St. Patrick’s missionary
work and a visit by Palladius, abishop who was
sent by the Pope to Ireland
in 431 A.D. Accounts as
to the success or failure of
Palladius’mission differ,
but historians do agree that
Palladius was ultimately
banished from Ireland. St.
Ire-
land is a nation with a rich
history, some of which is
celebrated every St. Patrick’s Day. The third-largest island in Europe and
the 20th largest island in
the world, Ireland lies in
the North Atlantic west of
Patrick might have been
more tolerated because of
his familiarity with Irish
culture and language, and
that may be the reason his
name, and not Palladius,
is linked with spreading
Christianity in Ireland.
Decline of Viking power
Vikings made various raids
and established fortresses
in Ireland throughout the
8th and 9th centuries. One
such fortress was close to
where the city of Dublin
now stands. During the
Battle of Tara in 980, King
MáelSechnaill mac Domnaill defeated Olaf Cuarán,
resulting in Gaelic control
of the Kingdom of Dublin.
By 1014,the Viking forces
had been defeated by the
armies of Brian Boru, and
Viking power in Ireland
began to decline, paving
the way for other leadership.
English rule begins Fol-
lowing the pleas of exiled
Dermot MacMurrough to
Henry II of England to help
MacMurrough reclaim his
kingshipin Ireland, Henry
II decided to pay a visit to
Ireland, and in 1171 he declared himself Lordship of
Ireland. Upon signing the
Treaty of Windsor in 1175,
Henry II established Norman influence in Ireland,
which lasted for several
centuries.
Scottish influence By
the 14th century, Ireland
had not had a high King
since 1186. Much of the
nation was divided by
Irish dynasties and Anglo
lords who ruled part of
the land. In 1315, Edward
Bruce, the younger brother
of Robert the Bruce, King
of Scotland, arrived in Ireland to rally the Irish to
rise against Anglo control
of the nation.
Great Potato Famine Al-
though cold winters in successive years around 1740
resulted in large scale
famine, the Great Potato
Famine of1845 to 1849 is
the famine many speak of
when discussing famine in
Ireland. During this time,
a blight destroyed potato
crops, knocking out twothirds of Ireland’s staple
food. It is believed that
roughly one million died
as aresult of the famine,
which also spurred an additional million people to
emigrate.
Britain rescinds some
control In 1916, The Easter Rebellion was a battle
between armed Irish patriots and British troops in
Dublin. Rebel leaders were
executed; however, the rebellion may have been the
catalyst for the Anglo-Irish
War, which began three
years later and during
which the British battled
the Irish Republican Army.
That battle eventually led
to atreaty in which Britain
rescinded control of most
of Ireland, retaining only
portions of Northern Ireland. This division caused
a rift between those who
accepted the treaty and the
Irish Republican Army,
which wanted all of Ireland to be free of Britain.
By 1949, Britain declared
Ulster in Northern Ireland
a permanent part of the
British Empire. The lower
26 counties declared themselves the Irish Republic.
The history of Ireland
is rich and vast, spanning
milleniums during which
many notable events took
place on theEmerald Isle.
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nutrition program. The Fill
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Last year, SeniorsPlus
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counties
through its Meals On
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600 volunteers donate more
than 28,000 hours to the
program annually. Each
meal provides one third
of the recommended daily
allowance of nutrition, a
safety check, and a visit to
these vulnerable adults. The
majority of the consumers
of Meals On Wheels are
lower income, on fixed
income, or MaineCare.
“We struggle to keep up
with the demand for Meals
On Wheels and continually
have a waiting list for
the program,” said Betsy
Sawyer-Manter, Executive
Director of SeniorsPlus.
“We seek funding through
this event to keep the
waiting lists to a minimum
and to help fund the
program.”
The overall program goal
of SeniorsPlus is to assist
older adults and adults with
disabilities in our tri-county
area to remain at home safely
for as long as possible. The
overwhelming majority of
older adults (greater than
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wish to remain at home
until they die.
“Meals On Wheels can
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Dr. Verrill is an internist
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a frequent contributor to
education programming at
SeniorsPlus that engages
more than 1,000 people
annually.
“Alan Verrill donates
his time regularly to
the education program
at SeniorsPlus – often
presenting classes as part of
our Healthy Aging Series,”
said Ms. Sawyer-Manter.
“He is a joy to work with
and has a huge fan base.”
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March 2015
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Q. What do the warnings
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Many of the household
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poisons. These include pesticides, oven cleaners, detergents, polish, paint and
drain uncloggers.
Manufacturers use a low-
medium-high system on labels to alert you to hazards.
The following are brief descriptions
If the label on a container
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the contents could hurt you.
For example, the product’s
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If there is a “warning”
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“Danger” indicates that
you should handle the
product with extreme care,
because it can be lethal.
A possible explosion is
among the hazards that require a danger label.
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If you have an emergency with a household product, here are some steps
you can take. The order of
the steps depends upon the
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You can call 911, call your
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to induce vomiting. Doctors no longer recommend
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* Never throw these
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you can dispose of these
products properly.
The following is some
information about the dangers in common household
products.
* Paint can irritate the
eyes and skin. Paint fumes
can give you headaches,
nausea and dizziness.
* Clothes detergents, if
ingested, can cause nausea,
vomiting, shock, convulsions, and coma.
* Ammonia fumes can irritate eyes and lungs. Never
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bleach because the combination produces a potentially lethal gas.
* Oven cleaners that contain lye can burn you and
are potentially fatal if swallowed. Spray cleaners pose
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* Toilet bowel cleaners
rely on acids that can burn.
* Mold removers can
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* Drain cleaners contain
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in your eyes.
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* Air fresheners contain
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* Mothballs can cause
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* Insect repellents can
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National Park System Includes a Variety of Sites
Navajo National Monument, located in Arizona.
Peacefield, located in Quincy, Mass., is preserved in the
Adams National Historical Park.
By Victor Block
Yellowstone National
Park. Yosemite. City of
Rocks National Reserve.
City of Rocks? What,
you may ask, does that
have to do with two of the
most magnificent jewels
in the U.S. National Park
Service crown?
Mention
“national
parks” and people usually think of soaring
landscapes and dramatic
terrain. But that doesn’t
tell the whole story. Dozens of smaller, lesserknown sites around the
country have their own
special appeals. They include magnificent scenery, overlooked chapters
of American history and
intriguing learning experiences.
Westward Ho.
In 1849, a miner
heading for the California Gold Rush passed
through a region of dramatic granite spires in
Idaho that he dubbed
“City of Rocks.” When a
national reserve was established there 140 years
later, the name stuck. The
outcroppings soar above
alpine-like meadows to
create an other-wordly
landscape.
The site also recalls
the westward migration
of early pioneers. Deep
ruts cut into the ground
by wagon wheels remain
visible today. Inscriptions
written on large rocks still
Early Americans.
Some 150 million years
ago, a much larger river
in what now is Utah attracted 11 different types
of dinosaurs to its banks.
Their bones remain embedded in rock at Dinosaur National Monument.
Most are fossils of Sauropods, high, long-necked
plant eaters which were
the biggest creatures ever
to walk on earth. Other
specimens range from
large to small.
Reminders of life of
another kind also are
found in the area. Rock
petroglyphs remain from
800 to 1,200 years ago
when Fremont, Ute and
Shoshone Indians left
their marks. Near them
stand remains of homesteads of settlers who arrived during the 18th and
19th centuries.
Navajo Nation.
It’s the prehistoric
Puebloan People who are
recalled at Navajo National Monument in Arizona. Three 13th-century
dwellings are perched
in natural sandstone alcoves on cliffs overlooking wide canyons. The
structures include roof
beams, hand and foot
holds, and other original
architectural elements. A
museum displays pottery,
tools and other items of
various Native American
groups that took up residence in the Southwest
including the Navajo,
who live there today.
Famous Family.
Many decades after
early Spanish explorers
encountered families of
Puebloan people in the
bear the names of hardy
souls who undertook the
treacherous journey during the nation’s westward
expansion.
Pots and pools.
Popping mud pots and
pools of boiling water
are among geological
creations that dot the
landscape of Lassen Volcanic National Park in
California. Jagged peaks
tell the story of the area’s
eruptive past. All four
types of volcanoes found
throughout the world –
plug dome, cinder cone,
shield and composite –
are found within the park.
Gentle trails and scenic
overlooks provide access
into, and views over, the
most dramatic areas.
Inland beach.
One of the largest and
finest stretches of sand in
the United States is located in landlocked Colorado. The tallest dunes
in North America are the
main attraction at Great
Sand Dunes National
Park. Topping them all
is the spectacular Star
Dune, which peaks at 750
feet..
The diverse landscape
also includes rolling
grasslands, wetlands, aspen forests and alpine
lakes. Visitors may walk
on the dunes and, when
summer sand temperatures can reach 150 degrees, cool off by taking
a dip in Medano Creek.
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Southwest, another family helped to establish and
lead the new nation that
was born along the eastern seaboard. A mansion
in Quincy, Massachusetts named “Peacefield”
served as home to John
Adams, John Quincy
Adams and subsequent
generations of the famous family from 1720
to 1927.The house, now
preserved in the Adams
National Historical Park,
was originally purchased
in 1787 by John Adams,
then the minister to Great
Britain, who later served
as vice president and second president of the United States (1797-1801).
John Quincy won fame
as a diplomat, member
of Congress, Secretary
of State and the sixth
president (1825-1829).
Furnishings in the house
include items acquired
by each generation of the
family.
Park Patron.
A lot of credit for the
National Park system
goes to President Theodore Roosevelt. During
his stint as chief executive (1901-1909), “Teddy” pushed through legislation that established
five national parks, along
with a bill which empowered presidents who followed him to designate
historic and other landmarks as national monuments.
His conservation and
preservation efforts are
honored on a 91-acre
outcrop in the Potomac
River. What now is Theodore Roosevelt Island
was used in the past by
This landmark can be found at Theodore Roosevelt Island.
Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado boasts the
tallest dunes in North America
The “City of Rocks,” located in Idaho.
Native Americans as a tem, including both its fafishing spot, and Union mous and not-so-famous
Troops encamped there sites, call (202) 208-4747
during the Civil War. or log onto nps.gov.
Victor Block is an
Visitors today learn about
travel
the legacy of our 26th award-winning
president at a memorial journalist who lives
that includes his statue in Washington, D.C.,
and most memorable and spends summers in
quotes. Teddy would be Rangeley, Maine. He is
delighted to stroll along a guidebook author who
a boardwalk which leads has traveled to more than
through the quiet marsh 70 countries. His articles
appear in newspapers
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