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The Readfield Historical Society will hold its Annual Meeting on Sat., Feb. 6, upstairs in the Town Office on Old Kents Hill Rd. The business meeting will begin at 1:00, followed by home-baked refreshments. The program, to which the public is invited, will begin at 2:00 and will feature a presentation by Marius Peladeau on the Readfield Union Meeting House, its past, its present, and its future. Built in 1828, the Meeting House is on the National Register of Historic Buildings, in part because of rare trompe l’oeil paintings within. Mr. Peladeau will give a Powerpoint presentation that will describe the

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Relay For Life of All-Star Event Award

Relay For Life of Androscoggin County was presented with an All-Star Event Award at November's New England Conference. Janet Miles (center) of Relay Androscoggin accepted the award presented by Peg Camp and Don Gudaitis. Join millions of other American Cancer Society Relay For Life participants across the country in the fight against cancer. Find out how to get involved in the annual Relay For Life event in Auburn at a Relay Rally at 6:00pm on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010, at Andover College, classroom 5, Lisbon Street, Lewiston. The event will feature registration materials (team captain packets), fundraising ideas, photos and testimony from last year's Relay, and other ways to get involved in Relay. Relay For Life Event Chair Rebecca Branagan encourages everyone to join her in making this Relay one to remember. "Relay is such a unique and inspiring event - it is fun to plan and even more fun to attend with non-stop activity from beginning to end." For more information or to RSVP to the kick-off contact Rebecca at 754-1705 or via email at androscogginrelay@gmail.com. The Relay For Life event in Androscoggin County is scheduled for Friday & Sat-

urday June 11-12, 2010 at Edward Little High School track. Anyone interested in joining the planning committee, becoming a team captain, volunteering, or just finding out more about Relay For Life is encouraged to attend the Rally. Relay teams representing families, clubs, religious organizations, neighborhoods, and corporations will join the race to beat cancer by celebrating survivorship and taking turns walking around the track. Teams are encouraged to enjoy the great music, food and camaraderie of the event. Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society’s largest signature event as well as the most successful national fundraiser. Last year Relay For Life of Androscoggin in Auburn raised over $80,000 toward the fight against cancer. This year, we want our Relay to be even bigger and better! Please join us to find out how you can make a difference. View our official fundraising website at http://www.relayforlife.org/

androscogginme. Relays in more than 15 communities in Maine raised funds last year for local programs of cancer research, education, advocacy, and patient services, including transportation for cancer patients to treatments, one-on-one support for women with breast cancer, cosmetologist consultations for women being treated for cancer, tobacco control education, and mammography outreach. For more information about Relay For Life, to find out how to volunteer, or to RSVP for the Relay Rally, please contact the American Cancer Society at 1-800-ACS-2345 or online at www.cancer.org. The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer through research, education, advocacy, and service. n

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Western Maine Ca$H Coalition To Offer Free Tax Preparation

Janet Smith of Women, Work and Community, and the Western Maine CA$H Coalition, joins representatives from CA$H coalitions across the state at a Hall of Flags event at the Statehouse on January 12, 2010. The Western Maine CA$H (Creating Assets, Savings, and Hope) Coalition is once again offering free tax preparation this tax season at the University of Maine at Farmington. Taxes are prepared by IRScertified community volunteers. These community tax preparers undergo a rigorous training to be able to help individuals claim all the benefits they deserve, including the Earned Income Tax Credit where one may qualify for up to $5,657, and the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit. The Western Maine CA$H Coalition Tax Assistance Program assists working families earning less than $50,000 achieve their financial goals. This is done through free tax assistance and connection to community resources that will help build a secure financial future. Volunteer tax preparation begins January 23, and is offered on Thursdays from 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. and Saturdays 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Call 778-7954 to schedule an appointment. Western Maine CA$H

Coalition members include: The University of Maine, Farmington; Casey Family Services; United Way of the Tri-Valley Area; Bangor Savings Bank; The Annie E. Casey Foundation; Women, Work & Community; and the Internal Revenue Service. Last year, 251 tax returns were prepared by community members and University of Maine, Farmington students. (All volunteer tax preparers undergo thorough IRS training.) The 251 returns represent a 27 percent increase in returns from the previous year. Total refunds were $419,186, which is a 36 percent increase. 112 clients requested and received follow up resources on budgeting, credit counseling, home buying, matched savings programs and more. In addition, 18 IRS certified volunteers and 10 asset coaches were mobilized to work tirelessly throughout last year’s tax season. For more information on how you can get your

taxes done for free, learn how you may qualify for benefits that you were not even aware of, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, AND connect to community resources, please call 1-207-778-7954. The Western Maine CA$H Coalition is part of a statewide network of eight community-based programs that offer free tax preparation and assetbuilding services to low and moderate income workers and their families. The 40+ non-profit and for-profit members and IRS certified volunteers collaborate to help hard-working Maine families move from financial uncertainty to financial security. CA$H coalitions have collectively served over 3,000 Maine households and saved clients an estimated $486,000.00 in income tax return filing fees. Generated $4.8 million in federal and state income tax refunds, including $1.57 million in EITC refunds. n

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Good News in Bad Times

A Doggy Doo Pet Center is now accepting adoptable cats and dogs in their brand new facility located on Kennedy Memorial Drive in Waterville. A Doggy Doo Pet Care Center is now a State of Maine licensed dog and cat adoption facility. This program was developed to help the local people and their pets during these tough times. The owner of A Doggy Doo, Lisa Carl, finds safe and quality homes for each and every dog and cat at no charge to the present pet owner. There is no drop off fee required to place your adoptable cat or dog at A

Doggy Doo. Lisa feels that if you cannot afford to feed your pet, how can you afford a drop off fee? A Doggy Doo does ask that all pets be fixed and have current shot records. This helps the program by keeping the costs down and makes the facility a safe and healthy temporary home. Their adoptable dogs spend the day in Doggy Day Care, where they are allowed to roam and play with other dogs. Lisa feels that kennels are for eating and sleeping only. A Doggy Doo is a non-kill facility and every pet will be placed to a loving home. They do not accept strays at this time. Stop by and see the pets available for adoption or call 207-8779010 for additional information. n

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Your Pollution Prevention Insurance In Our Back Yard: Certified Contractors

Having some earth moving done around your home or business? Then you should get a certified contractor. A what, you say? A contractor certified in erosion and sediment control practices. Hiring a certified contractor will help protect nearby rivers, streams and ponds and will help you comply with Maine’s environmental laws. Why do you need a certified contractor? Just imagine your car breaking down

in a strange place. As you check the yellow pages under automotive repair, you see an ad for a local repair shop with the ASE certification insignia. You think, “These guys are certified just like my mechanic back home; I’ll give them a try.” ASE stands for “automotive service excellence.” To be certified, a mechanic must pass exams pertaining to the service of various motor vehicle components. Using an ASE certified mechanic provides you

with some confidence that work on your vehicle will be done properly. This same level of confidence can be obtained when you undertake a project at your home or business that requires earth moving or excavation. These activities expose soil to the action of wind and rain, a process called erosion. Eroded soil is recognized as the biggest pollutant on earth and has harmed many of Maine’s waters. The issue prompted the Maine Legislature to pass the State’s Erosion and Sediment Control Law in 1996. Under that law, as landowners, we are responsible to ensure that adequate erosion control practices are used if earthmoving work occurs on our property. Hiring contractors who are certified in erosion and sediment control practices by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) provides some assurance that erosion control methods used by the contractors will comply with the state’s law.

Depending on the site, erosion control can sometimes be tricky. Certified contractors have been trained to use a number of effective techniques to prevent eroded soil from leaving a project. They have also been trained on the requirements of various environmental laws. In addition, as a benefit to certification, they have the ability to obtain certain environmental permits more quickly than noncertified contractors. What this means for you as a property owner is that Certified Contractors can help protect the state’s waters and assist you to efficiently meet the requirements of environmental laws affecting your project. Where can you find these contractors? There are a hundreds of them throughout the state from Kittery to Madawaska. You can obtain a list at: http:// w w w. m a i n e . g o v / d e p / blwq/training/ccec.htm or by contacting the DEP’s Nonpoint Source Training and Resource Center at 207-287-7726. Just like ASE certified mechanics, certified contractors, armed with their knowledge of erosion control techniques can help ensure that your job is done right! This column was submitted by William Laflamme, an Environmental Specialist with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Bureau of Land and Water Quality. In Our Back Yard is a weekly column of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. E-mail your environmental questions to infodep@maine.gov or send them to In Our Back Yard, Maine DEP, 17 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333. n

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Belgrade Regional Health Center First HealthReach Location to Launch Integrated Behavioral Health Initiative “Refocusing on each patient rather than just treating disease” – this is one of the purposes of the new Integrated Behavioral Health Initiative at HealthReach Community Health Centers (HRCHC) according to Amy Madden, MD, physician at Belgrade Regional Health Center. “Adding a Behavioral Health Consultant to our team at the health center will help us reach our goal of providing comprehensive health care for our patients,” shares Madden. The dual role of the BHC will be to assist patients in developing selfcare strategies and to help the medical providers better assess and treat the patient through consultations. This year, HRCHC developed the program with the support of a Planning Grant from the Maine Health Access Foundation (MeHAF). “In January, we will be ready to hire a BHC to assist the patient with diabe-

tes better manage overall health, to help the parent whose child has trouble handling peer relationships, to provide on-site BH services for patients who utilize the health center for their health care,” states Connie Coggins, HRCHC President/ CEO. “We are grateful for the support of MeHAF and The Davis Family Foundation which have both recognized the importance of our new program and provided necessary startup funding to enable us to launch this program. With their generous support, we will be able to launch services at several of our health centers, including two locations in 2010 – Belgrade and Western Maine Family Health Center in Livermore Falls. “ The overall goal is to improve the quality of primary care by including problemfocused BH interventions, prevent or alleviate the consequences of chronic disease, and increase preven-

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Concert To Benefit Norlands

Phil Poirier. (Photo by Harold Strout) Phil Poirier, a local musician with a focus on original contemporary, folk and blues, will perform a benefit concert for the barn rebuilding efforts of the Washburn Norlands

Living History Center. The event will be held at The Treat Memorial Library Auditorium (downstairs) at 56 Main Street in Livermore Falls. It will take place on

Friday, February 5 from 7-9PM. A donation of $5 is requested. Refreshments will also be available. The Washburn-Norlands Living History Center offers a variety of interactive programs to enable guests to experience life as it truly was in 18th and 19th century Maine. Norlands is the family home of the Washburns, one of the great political and industrial dynasties of the 19th century. Of the ten children born to Israel and Martha Washburn, seven sons rose to serve as governors, congressmen, a United States Senator, Secretary of State, foreign ministers, a Civil War general, and a Navy captain. As industrialists, the brothers’ achievements included founding of the Washburn-Crosby Gold Medal Flour Company, invention of a typewriter, and serving as president of a railroad. A fire destroyed the barn portion of the property. n

MeHAF was founded in 2000 and each year provides approximately $5 million in grants and program funding to expand access to health care (particularly for people who are uninsured and medically underserved) and improve the health of all Maine residents: www.MeHAF.org. The Davis Family Foundation is a public charitable foundation established by Phyllis C. Davis and H. Halsey Davis of Falmouth, Maine, to support educational, medical and cultural/ arts organizations located primarily in Maine “to make

grants where they will do the most good and where our gifts make a real difference.” www.davisfoundations.org Belgrade Regional Health Center, located at 4 Clement Way in Belgrade, is part of HealthReach Community Health Centers, a system of eleven federally qualified health centers and two dental practices in central and western Maine. Additional locations are in Albion, Bingham, Bethel, Coopers Mills, Kingfield, Livermore Falls, Madison, Rangeley, Richmond and Strong. Dedicated providers de-

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Out and About at the Maine Ag Show

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George Richardson, Steve Bosinger and Carol Richardson of Austin Associates work with lots of Maine farmers.

The friendly staff of Paris Farmers Union always have a great turnout for the show.

Scott Davis and Jeff Brannen of Hammond Tractor Company with locations in Auburn, Fairfield and Union.

Tom Eikenberg of Johnny’s Selected Seeds gives out some free advice during the show.

Adrian Wadsworth of Turner and Brian Collins of Waterman Farm Machinery in Sabattus.

Sen. John Nutting of Leeds with Neil Piper of Farm Credit of Maine.

Hartford Soldiers/Veterans New Monument

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leen Violette and serving in WWII was Carlton Newton. Please let me know if any other personnel have entered the service while living in Hartford. Thank you. A new monument is in the conference stage. Joe Bedard is the instrumental and important gentleman for this event. Cassidy Bedard will be riding her horse with a special war message. I hope the Tardiff family

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Do I Hear an Amen? John McDonald

Like all small Maine towns, mine has its share of churches. We have Catholic, Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian, Fundamentalist and three Baptist. I bring the whole subject up not to start an argument about religion. I learned not to do something like that soon after I started doing a talk show on WGAN radio in Portland. I raise the subject to tell about an embarrassing incident down to one of the Baptist churches a few weeks ago. Hometown boy Frank Kellogg, who had just graduated from the seminary up there in Bangor, was supposed to deliver his first sermon at the church on a recent weekend. No one is quite sure how it happened, but the special invitations to the service went out to the wrong people, with the wrong date and time on them. It was a mess. So, it wasn’t surprising that when the new preacher stood in the pulpit to deliver his first sermon, there was only one lonely soul sitting in the pews to hear it. It’s not known how this lone fella happened to be there at the time, but there he was. Not knowing exactly what to do, and feeling

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a little embarrassed, the young reverend climbed down from the pulpit and walked over to the fella. “I’m at a loss as to what to do here,” said Reverend Kellogg. “I was supposed to preach my first sermon here this morning and was told all my friends and neighbors for miles around would be sitting here in the pews to hear me. But you’re the only one here. What do you think I should do?” The fella, a local farmer who didn’t attend church all that often, sat there looking down at his worn boots, then said, “Well, Reverend, I ain’t a preacher, and I don’t pretend to know anything about it. I’m just a farmer. But I can tell you one thing: If I went down to the pasture to feed my cows and only one showed up, I guess I’d feed her.” Nodding his head knowingly, the Reverend said, “That’s an excellent answer! You are absolutely right. If only one cow showed up, of course you’d feed her.” With that he spun around on his heels, and with all the determination he could muster, he marched right back up to the pulpit and started the sermon that had taken him so long to prepare. I’m not sure how word got out, but it did. It’s been said the new preacher unleashed a sermon the likes of which had seldom been heard. They say the young Reverend Kellogg began preaching about the Old

Testament and without skipping a beat he moved on to the New Testament. They say he preached about every one of the Ten Commandments before moving on to the parables and the beatitudes. Before he finished, he began preaching against sins that hadn’t even been committed yet, just for good measure. For over two hours, the walls of that old church rang; the large candelabra began swaying; organ pipes in the choir loft were vibrating. His voice rose to such a pitch that the paint blistered right off the walls. Finally, the young preacher brought his first sermon to a thundering conclusion and just stood there looking out over the empty church. After a minute or two, he climbed down from the pulpit and walked over to the farmer. “Well,” he said, “what did you think?” “It’s like I said, Reverend,” began the farmer, “ ain’t a preacher and don’t pretend to know anything about it. And like I told you, if I went down to the pasture to feed my cow and only one cow showed up, I said I’d feed her. But good Lord almighty, Reverend, I wouldn’t give her the whole damn load!” Have John McDonald bring “A taste of Maine humor” to your next banquet or convention. Email him at: mainestoryteller@ yahoo.com or phone: 899.1868. n

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less antioxidants and plant extracts. The manufacturer claims that a quick shake of the stuff removes 100 percent of the chlorine (and its odor) from a glass a tap water. A year’s supply of WaterYouWant retails for under $30. Of course, an easier way to get rid of chlorine from your tap water is by installing a carbon-based filter, which absorbs chlorine and other contaminants before they get into your glass or body. Tap-based filters from the likes of Paragon, Aquasana, Kenmore, Seagul and others remove most if not all of the chlorine in tap water, and are relatively inexpensive to boot. CONTACTS: Aquasana, www.aquasana.com; WaterYouWant, www.wateryouwant.com. SEND YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL QUESTIONS TO: EarthTalk®, P.O. Box 5098, Westport, CT 06881; e a r t h t a l k @ e m ag a z i n e. com. Read past columns at: www.emagazine.com/ earthtalk/archives.php. EarthTalk®is now a book! Details and order information at: www.emagazine. com/earthtalkbook. n

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A Community Update On Good Health From Your Friends & Neighbors at DFD Russell Medical Centers

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Resolutions

A message from our CEO, Laurie Kane-Lewis:

It is that time of year again, to make New Year’s resolutions, and start on our way with high hopes of achieving whatever goal we have set for ourselves. On the face of it. changing our behavior seems easy, for example taking controlling your weight: eat less and exercise more. But it is much harder than it sounds; daily stressors interfere with our best laid plans to get adequate exercise and it is easier to pick up a prepackaged meal or fast food than to cook a healthy one with fresh fruits and vegetables. Yet we continue to pursue our goals resolutely with the idea that this might be the time that we make effectual change and the behavior sticks.

At DFD Russell Medical Center we are committed to helping you achieve your resolutions, and our Medical Assistants will be asking you about Self Management Goals at each of your visits and help you break them into manageable steps. We will also ask about your progress toward those goals at subsequent visits to remind you of the benets. We have Behavioral Health Consultants on staff trained to assist you with behavioral modication techniques and who are versed in smoking cessation counseling. In addition if weight loss is your goal, we have a nutritionist to assist with a healthy eating plan that ts within your life style. Let us know how we can help you with your goal to a healthier New Year and new you.

A Letter To Our Patients

After careful consideration we will no longer be able to supply free drug samples to our patients after February 1, 2010. We take this action because it is not a reliable source of medicaResearch shows that by making a solemn tion for our patients.

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resolution and telling our family and close friends about it, we tilt the scales against succumbing to temptation. If we fail to keep our resolution, we will have to admit that we are less in control of our behavior than we had

This ts well with what psychologists have discovered about how we can improve the odds that we will keep our resolutions. According to a recent study, only about one in 10 individuals managed to stick to what they had resolved. However there are steps that you can take to improve your odds at success: Break your resolution into a series of small steps; tell your family and friends about your resolution; regularly remind yourself of the benets of achieving your goal; give yourself a small reward each time you achieve one of the steps towards your goal; and keep track of your progress towards your goal, for example by keeping a journal or putting a chart on the fridge door. Individually, each of these factors may seem trivial; collectively, they are ways of exerting our self-control now and in the future. If we succeed, the behavior we are hoping for becomes habitual and part of our daily routine. These tools for keeping a New Year’s resolution can help us to make progress in losing weight, increasing exercise, or quitting smoking – all goals with proven health benets.

For several years we have actively helped with access to assistance programs that are administered by pharmaceutical companies based on the ability to pay. This has been a valuable service to many of our patients. However this program takes some time and often patients have to wait for medications that are critical to their health. In the past we have used samples as an unreliable way to close this gap. However we now have access to a program which will provide medication quickly while the patient waits for the Pharmaceutical assistance program. There is a fee for this service but the DFD Russell Medical Center will bear that cost. As always, if you have any question about any of the programs at the DFD Russell Medical Center, please contact us. By John Yindra MD, Medical Director

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Knowing your Health Plan

By Laurie Kane-Lewis, CEO

While reading the latest issue from the Journal of Family Practice, I came across an article that left me roaring with laughter and I’m sure drew suspicion from my fellow colleagues who share ofce space next to mine; but laughter is the best medicine – right? The article was by Dr. Timothy Laird and was entitled “What if Quiznos Were Run Like Health Care?” The premise of the article is that if a restaurant customer came in to order a sandwich, chips and soda but said, “Oh, just bill my insurance” when in fact they didn’t know if their policy paid for the entire lunch it would create a bogged down system of food delivery. After being served the lunch, the patron was then enraged to receive a bill two months later for the soda that was not covered. However, they did consume the soda (but they were very thirsty at the time) and did not read their insurance coverage contract (which was their responsibility but had tiny print). The article was a very tongue in cheek way of explaining the astronomical costs of delivering health care these days because patients have hundreds of individual insurance plans with varying levels of coverage and deductibles. There is no way for medical facility staff to determine what an individual plan covers or doesn’t until we receive payment or denial from the insurance company. For a family practice facility with 10 clinicians we need to employ 3 individuals to bill insurances and collect

from patients in order to ensure that we are compensated for services. In fact it costs us on average $10 to send out a statement for a copay of $20, if it is not collected at the time of service, and that cost goes up with each successive billing if patients don’t pay within 30 days. While the health care debate was raging in Congress, DFD’s health insurance premiums for our employees increased by 32% in January, requiring us to increase deductibles to hold our premiums at a level where we could afford to provide coverage at all. Now our staff also has to navigate new insurance plans, deductibles and copays but they understand all too well the impact of not “knowing your plan” or reading the contract from the delivery side so I’m sure that they are informed consumers. As health consumers we are all called upon to perform the same due diligence and know our plans so that we are not surprised by invoices or lab charges (billed by Quest or DFD) and so that we can responsibly plan to pay for the soda that isn’t covered at the time of visit. In the article Quiznos responded to the consumer outrage by installing a complex computer system to read every membership card, collect payment or refuse services. It led to longer lines, patient dissatisfaction and the sandwich shop going out of business due to cash ow issues. Ultimately clients had to make their own sandwiches from ingredients purchased at the grocery store where they paid with cash, check or a credit card.

If you have difculty interpreting your health plan or need nancial assistance with health costs, contact our Patient Assistance Coordinator, Tia Knapp at 207-524-3501. Tia has been providing information and assistance to our patients at DFD since December, 2004. She has assisted patients with community resources, understanding their healthcare and prescription coverage, transportation, housing resource information, and nancial assistance program options. Tia also provides special focus to elders and disabled individuals who have Medicare and/or Maine Care health coverage.

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Winthrop Area Chamber’s New England Sports Scene January 2010 February Breakfast Meeting

At the Winthrop Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting on Thursday, February 4, Maine State Representative Patrick Flood (District 82) and Ryan Low, Commissioner of the Maine Department of Administration and Financial Services, will present information about the state budget process. Flood and Low will offer their perspectives, from the Executive and Legislative branches respectively, on the state’s plans to reduce a $438 million budget shortfall. In addition, Flood and Low will provide updates on other current legislative activities, particularly those before the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee. Both Flood and Low are residents of Winthrop. Flood is serving his third term in the Maine Legislature representing

House District 82, which includes Readfield and Winthrop. Prior to serving in the Maine Legislature, he worked as a forest products company manager and held various management positions in the forest products industry until his retirement in 2004. Flood serves on the House Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee and the Joint Select Committee on Joint Rules. Low’s responsibilities include forecasting Maine’s revenues, conducting cost analyses, and recommending allocations for every aspect of the state’s budget. Prior to assuming his current position in 2008, Low served as associate commissioner of the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, as deputy chief of staff for Governor Baldacci, and as a state budget officer.

The Winthrop Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting on Thursday, February 4 will be held at the Winthrop Area Federal Credit Union (located at the intersection of Route 202 and Highland Avenue in Winthrop). The cost is $5 per person, to be paid at the door. A light breakfast will be provided beginning at 7:15 am and the meeting will start at 7:30 am and end promptly at 8:30 am. The meeting, which is generously sponsored by Brian S. Berry & Associates, CPAs, is open to the public. No reservations are required. For more detailed information about this event and/or the Winthrop Area Chamber of Commerce, please go to www.winthropchamber.org, call 207-377-8020, or send an email to info@winthropchamber.org. n

Local Modern Woodmen Members Address Family Issues Local Modern Woodmen of America families gathered on January 21, 2010, to learn more about identity theft. The program, which was held at Pizza Hut, in Augusta, where members and guests received a special meal deal. It was presented by Detective Seth Blodgett from the Office of The Maine Attorney General, and included information on identifying your risk of identity theft,

and ways to help prevent thieves from stealing your identity, with emphasis what to do if you become a victim of identity theft. This presentation was one of many Family Life Programs Modern Woodmen camps (chapters) present nationwide, which provide the organization’s members with information about health, safety, parenting and other family-related issues. “American families face

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By: Deb Heroux Sox Thoughts… The hot stove heated up in December with the acquisition of two solid players. 31 year-old pitcher John Lackey, an eight-year member of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, was a mere steal at five years and $82.5 million dollars. The buzz about this deal is his wife is a Sanford, Maine high school graduate whose family are lifelong Sox fans. I’m just guessing but I bet she had something to do with the three thousand mile move to the left coast. Kudos to Krista! 37 year-old outfielder Mike Cameron also signed a two-year deal to play left field. Cameron is a three-time Gold Glover having played in 1,829 MLB games. He is a solid outfielder; however with a lifetime batting average

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in the cold weather. Then December 20th against the Bills in Buffalo (game time temp 10 degrees) Moss had the most receiving yards he’s had in five games; and with a TD, he also tied Jerry Rice with his ninth season with 10 or more touchdowns. Sounds to me like Randy Moss is doing just fine. Tom Brady and his wife Gisele finally named their newborn son, Benjamin. This kid has it made. Will he be a supermodel like Mommy or a supermodel star quarterback like Daddy? Good genes! December 27th against Jacksonville was an AFC East clinching game, and the Pats put the pedal to the metal and tamed those Jaguars. Randy Moss continued to show why he is one of the best wide receivers in the NFL with three TD catches. He was on the sidelines sitting there with Tom Brady, laughing, being teammates. A very See Sports on page 14

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Just off Route 4 across from the Chickadee you can find The Nezinscot Guild. The business has entered its fourth decade of employing people with developmental disabilities and producing some of Maine’s finest Pine Gift Boxes. The Guild began its history in Turner Center in 1979, producing corrugated boxes for the shoe industry, rivet cards for Fancy Stitchers in Lewiston, dye buckets for Union Corp in Auburn and some of its first wooden pieces on consignment. In the mid 1980s they began making custom designed wooden boxes. Many of these boxes can be found

Thirty Years for Nezinscot Guild

The Director of Internet Marketing and Web Development, Kevin Ellingwood, explains to visitors what goes on in the repackaging room. This aspect of the Nezinscot Guild's business was established in 1987. Employees with develomental disabilities who could not work in the wood shop could be gainfully established in this department. (Photo by Bill Van Tassel) for sale now in their Maine Made Catalogue. Over the years the box-making aspect of the Guild grew and served customers like Tom’s of Maine, Burt’s Bees and Rayes Mustard Mill. Their

reputation for excellent gift boxes and crates grew, as did their capacity to employ workers with special needs and abilities. It currently operates with about 20 workers and 5 full-time

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Jonathan Fortin is the Wood Operations Manager at The Nezinscot Guild in Turner. During a January 12 Open House he was busy showing visitors like Patty Eastman and Karen MacDonald some of the gift boxes made at the facility. Many guests, such as Mrs. MacDonald, had a special interest in the Guild, as they had relatives or friends that worked there. (Photo by Bill Van Tassel) They were able to team up with Idexx Corporation to assemble many of their medical diagnostic kits. The repackaged kits are used by biotechnicians and veterinarians to take biological

samples from livestock, poultry and domestic animals. In 1992 the Guild was offered a Rural Development loan from the U.S. Farmers Home Adminstration to construct a light-industrial facility at its present location on Conant Road. The FHA recognized the Guild’s goal of self-sufficiency (now at 90%) and its commitment to its social purpose of keeping people with developmental disabilities gainfully employed. Over the last 30 years the Nezinscot Guild has paid over 1.75 million dollars in wages and done $10,266,185.00 in sales and service. In a brief talk during a January 12 Open House, Executive Director Dan O’Shea noted that with recent federal and state money cut back to nil, it is more challenging to make up the 10% of funding needs to remain in the black. He also told the visitors and supporters at the Open House that the Guild has been engaging more companies for the repackaging business and developing a few more retail products, hoping to fill the funding gap. As The Nezinscot Guild moves into its fourth decade of operation, he asked everyone present to think about signing up to assist the Guild in one of four categories: Fundraising, Recruitment, Advisory or Volunteering. A table of snack food was available to Open House guests, and a complimentary Mini Pine Box made at Nezinscot. The gift was a great little cube with sliding top and company name branded on the cover. n

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58. Famous Chicago mayor 59. Space within a boundary 60. Links game 61. Shaded colors 62. ____upine - quilled animal 63. Small ornamental ladies’ bag 64. Set to end 65. A domed or vaulted recess 66. Sew a hawk’s eyes closed CLUES DOWN 1. Not bright 2. Continent 3. 13-19 4. Able to be drawn out 5. Jewish state est. 1948 6. Those who get things done 7. Mild yellow Dutch cheese 8. Egyptian cobras 9. Athenian philosopher 10. A ______ - law term, acceptance 11. ____gate - lengthen 12. Not short 13. 33 1/3 records 21. Tokyo

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good sign for our last game against Houston and then on to the playoffs… could it be four? Going Green… When you visit “the Garden” for a Celtics game, the music plays, the lights go wild and P.A. announcer Eddie Palladino introduces the players. It seems to me that Rajon Rondo has the greatest name to announce. Speaking of Rajon, he is really turning it on night after night. Double doubles are nothing and triple doubles are only a point or two away. With the two-week loss of our Captain Paul Pierce, the Celtics called up Bill Walker from our own Maine Red Claws. Walker played in nine Red Claws games and averaged 17.4 points a game and 6.4 rebounds. Wishing him luck in the big city. It was a green Christmas for the C’s as they beat Orlando 86-77. No magic necessary, just some good old fashion b-ball. We are

one of the best teams in the NBA and hopefully 2010 will bring good knees to Pierce and KG. What’s Bruin? On January 1, 2010 Fenway Park will host the 2010 Winter Classic between the Boston Bruins and the Philadelphia Flyers. I think this is a great idea – how historic to be at Fenway Park for a hockey game. Some people complain about the cold; my advice, wear layers and bring your honey. When you get there, scream really loud and jump up and down, you won’t be cold. As a teenager back in the day, my Dad and I watched the Bruins about every night they were on. In those days there were no helmets for protection and the saying was, “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.” The Flyers had a bad boy named Bobby Clark, and when he played the B’s, Terry O’Reilly and he would beat the snot out of each other. Rumor has it that Kevin

Youkilis will be lacing up the skates for the Bruins in case of emergency. (Hey, it can’t be any worse then left field.) Kicking it Around… It is off season for the New England Revolution, so what do they do, go on vacation? No, they play soccer. Kenny Mansally and Sainey Nyassiboth, 20 years old, will be playing for the Gambia National team in three games. The United States national men’s soccer team has invited two Rev’s to their first training camp. Kevin Alston and Jeff Larentowicz are among the 30 players invited. This camp is in preparation for the 2010 World Cup. The season starts March 27th. Wishing everyone peace, love and happiness in 2010. This is the New England Sports Scene for this month, as seen by this woman. Please email me your thoughts at dheroux@turnerpublishing. net. Thanks for reading! n

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Deer Survival Equation

V. Paul Reynolds The November deer season was one to forget. Oh, it was pleasant in the woods. Sunny, mild. The weather, though perhaps not conducive to deer movement, was a darn sight better than last November's unrelenting gale force winds. Although some deer were taken, and a few braggingsize bucks, most hunters wound up the season shaking their heads. Deer were exceedingly scarce, and not just in the Big Woods either. Most Maine deer hunters are accustomed to working hard for their deer.

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tivity – tracks, droppings, scrapes and rubs – that keep it interesting. A hunter likes to think that there are deer around, even if he is not seeing them. Yes, it was discouraging even for the most optimistic, super-charged deer hunter. Although Maine won't have a deer-kill tally until as late as early spring, you don't have to be Lee Kantar to know that, when all the tags are counted, Maine will look back at a 2009 deer harvest that will be considerably lower than even the biologists' gloomy predictions. A crisis? It appears so, especially in northernmost Maine, a once legendary big deer country that this year saw few hunters and even fewer deer. More than halfway through the season, the tagging station in Portage had reportedly tagged zero deer! Unheard of. Another report was that deer registrations at the North Maine Woods gates were about as low as they have ever been. As most hunters are aware, Maine had a deer population worry in Eastern and Northern Maine even before the past two record-setting winters, which were killers for wintering whitetails. Record protracted cold and deep snow was, as one hunter put it, "the Perfect Storm," killing a lot of deer that might have otherwise survived. Former Maine deer biologist Gerry Lavigne believes that deer survival rates in some areas of northern Maine are so bad that the Big Woods whitetail may face extirpation! Who is to blame? As Maine deer biologist Lee Kantar explained recently, during an enlightening talk to the Penobscot Fly Fishers (PFF) in Brewer, the deer-survival equation is exceedingly complex. There are many factors, many of which have been building for years. Some of these include but are not limited to: spruce budworm clearcuts, a growing network of logging roads, big increase in predators, and loss of deer wintering areas due to excessive or unregulated logging practices. Vehicle strikes and poachers also take a toll on our deer. In fact, each year, an estimated 3,000 - 4,000 deer are killed on our roadways! According to Kantar, deer management population targets for deer are 1520 deer per square mile in southern Maine and 10 deer per square mile in northern and eastern Maine. Even before the Perfect Storm, Maine's deer numbers have been below target in most (7) of our Wildlife Management Districts (WMDs). If you ask Kantar about why Maine does not have the deer over-population problems of many other states, he responds with a statistic that many of us may not have considered in discussions about deer survival. Kantar points out that in Maine, in 1890, about 35 percent of the state was land in agricultural production; today that figure

is a pathetic seven percent! During Kantar's power point presentation, he also showed some graphs on deer wintering mortality that drive home the point about how the vagaries of winter dictate the survival of our deer. Boiled down, a Maine whitetail deer, buck or doe, that is forced to endure more than 90100 days of real winter is in trouble. A deer's fat reserves just won't sustain it much beyond 100 days. In the 2008 and 2009 "winters from Hell," deer struggled in the cold and deep snow, and were restrained from movement (warmth and forage) for 130 days! What's the solution to this tragic deer situation? As Kantar notes, there are only so many facets of the deer-survival equation that deer managers and Augusta policymakers can control. The obvious ones are deer hunt regulations, habitat to some extent, road kills and poaching, predation and, to a limited extent, disease. Kantar also believes that as deer populations begin to recover better in some areas than others, that we need to do a better job distributing hunters. The last few years, low fawn recruitment (fawn mortality) has really hurt our deer numbers. As Kantar contends, there is no way to distinguish between fawns lost to starvation or those killed by bears and coyotes. Although Kantar doesn't say it, I have observed that he – like his predecessor Gerry Lavigne – becomes the convenient scapegoat who takes the heat when deer seasons don't go well. Not fair, really. Still IF&W appointed leadership does deserve to take a lot more heat from sportsmen for every year that goes by without a coyote control program. (It's been almost seven years now since Commissioner Martin imposed what was supposed to be a 1-year ban on programmatic coyote snaring in deeryards.) IF&W could do itself a favor, and sportsmen as well, by freeing Kantar up to tell his eye-opening deersurvival story to sportsmen and fish and game clubs throughout the state. Kantar knows his stuff. A statewide give-and-take with sportsmen has the potential to bridge some deepening divides and help all of us better appreciate the frustrations and complexities of managing the whitetail deer in a geographically disparate state like Maine. The author is editor of the Northwoods Sporting Journal and has written his first book, A Maine Deer Hunter's Logbook. He is also a Maine Guide, co-host of a weekly radio program "Maine Outdoors" heard Sundays at 7 p.m. on The Voice of Maine News-Talk Network (WVOM-FM 103.9, WQVM 101.3) and former information officer for the Maine Dept. of Fish and Wildlife. His e-mail address is paul@sportingjournal.com. n

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