Four Ways To Show Your School Spirit

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(NAPSI)—Class is back in session, which reunites friends after a summer apart and kicks off the football season. Back-to-school can also be a time of nostalgia for those who have already graduated, but staying connected to your alma mater doesn’t have to be a challenge. Whether it’s football season, basketball season or all year long, here are four fun ways to show your school pride:

1. Join sporting events and alumni meetups. Plan a trip to your old stomping grounds for homecoming week. During the sports season, attend a game and cheer on your favorite team with fellow graduates. If campus is too far away for a visit, try catching an away game closer to home or root for your team at a local sports bar. Team Bar Finder (www.teambarfinder.com) can be a great resource to find one nearby. Many schools also have alumni meetups across the country. Check with your alumni association to see when networking meetups, watch parties and other gatherings are happening.

2. Start giving back. Show your support by donating time or money to your alma mater. Every donation helps your school become more successful and expand the pool of students and future alumni. Volunteer your time to mentor the next generation of alumni and pass down the traditions that make your school unique.

3. Stay connected on social media. Follow your college on all its social channels to stay up to date on campus news, find nearby events and connect with fellow alumni. Showcase your campus pride for the whole world to see and add your school’s logo to your profile picture, include a mention in your bio, or join an online group to share your school spirit with other die-hard fans. You never know whom you will meet online as a result.

4. Deck out your home with school decor. Showing support for your alma mater doesn’t have to be limited to your garage or man cave. Display your diploma with pride in your home office or decorate the game room to match. You can even incorporate your school spirit into your home gym with a limited edition collegiate-branded Bowflex Max Trainer M5 (http://www.bowflex.com/max-trainer/college-max.html). It combines the movements of an elliptical and stair stepper for a one-of-a-kind cardio workout. Cheer on your favorite team while completing the 14-minute interval workout and burn up to 2.5 times the calories as compared to a traditional cardio machine.

Just as your college years helped tone your mind, your college-branded Max Trainer can help you tone your muscles to achieve a healthy body to match.

Week of September 7, 2017

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Week of September 7, 2017

Local square dancers enjoy summer magic weekend in Canada

On August 24, four local couples traveled to Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, for the annual Summer Magic Square & Round Dance weekend. The eight dancers were Larry and Kathleen Hillman, of Fairfield, Cindy Fairfield and Bob Brown, of Newport, (both couples are members of the Central Maine Square Dance Club of Waterville), Bruce and Margaret Carter, of Ellsworth, and Nancy and Fred Temple, of Richmond. On August 24, four local couples traveled to Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, for the annual Summer Magic Square & Round Dance weekend. The eight dancers were Larry and Kathleen Hillman, of Fairfield, Cindy Fairfield and Bob Brown, of Newport, (both couples are members of the Central Maine Square Dance Club of Waterville), Bruce and Margaret Carter, of Ellsworth, and Nancy and Fred Temple, of Richmond.  They enjoyed an early welcoming dance on Friday with 25 squares of dancers… [read more…]

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Obituaries, Week of September 7, 2017

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McGinnis presented with LakeSmart award

Bolyns receive LakeSmart designation

Bike ride to honor tragically killed doctor

One last fling

Youth football season kicks off

Kicking off soccer season

Sexual assault crisis volunteers sought

Area students achieve dean’s list

King earns spot on WPI field hockey team

Town Line Original Columnists

Scores and OutdoorsThe sounds of nature vs. the sounds of the city

TRAINING YOUR PERFORMANCE DOGIn competition, how important is the judge?

If Walls Could TalkIf WALLS Could Talk

Marilyn Rogers-Bull & PercySOLON & BEYOND

Review PotpouriSinging Duo: The Captain & Tennille; Novelist: Graham Greene

Southern superstitions

For Your HealthFour Ways To Show Your School Spirit

Kicking off soccer season

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Lawrence High School Bulldogs senior Izak Collins (6) battles for the ball with Maine Central Institute Huskies, of Pittsfield, junior (35) Derek Patterson, during the opening day at Lawrence. MCI won the game, 5-1. Photo by Mark Huard, owner of Central Maine Photography

SCORES & OUTDOORS: The sounds of nature vs. the sounds of the city

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Roland D. HalleeSCORES & OUTDOORS

by Roland D. Hallee

Well, we are approaching that sad time of year when my wife and I are readying to shutter camp for the winter. It’s with mixed emotions because we really enjoy camp (we live there from May to October), but it’s football season, and we are both avid New England Patriots fans, and home is where we like to be for Sunday afternoon kickoffs.

The big question that comes to mind is which do we prefer, the sounds of the loons’ eerie calls in the night, the barred owls caterwauling at each other in the early morning hours, peepers in the spring and all the other wonderful sounds of nature, or… the sounds of ridiculously large pickup trucks revving their oversized gas-guzzling engines with the loud exhaust belching fumes and smoke into the air, squealing tires, police sirens blaring at all hours of the night, barking dogs, arguing neighbors, etc? Living in the middle of Waterville, those sounds always make me think, “Welcome home.” I think the answer to my question is a no-brainer.

With that in mind, here are some of the more memorable things that I witnessed this past summer at camp.

First, we’ll talk about the bald eagles consistently seen circling over Webber Pond in search of food. On two occasions this past summer, while fishing, we witnessed bald eagles come swooping down from a high perch in the trees, to scoop up fish from the surface of the water with their sharp, deadly talons. One time the bird came as close as 20 yards from our boat. The second time, it was a little further away, but still as magnificent.

Then, there was the morning when, on my way to work on the Seaward Mills Road, in Vassalboro, I saw a rafter of geese crossing the road in front of me. I had to come to a standstill because one of the adult turkeys was stationed smack in the middle of the road while the rest of the brood crossed, in single file, with an adult leading the way. That turkey resembled a school crossing guard as he stopped traffic for the kids to cross.

Not too long after, on the same road, I saw another flock of turkeys crossing the road, but this time they were accompanied by a house cat, who showed all the techniques of a border collie herding sheep. It would move around the flock to keep the young ones in line as they navigated the asphalt. Quite something to see. The cat showed no interest in harming any of the fowl.

There was also the night, which I mentioned before in this column, of the barred owls as they caterwauled to each other late one night. They started quite innocently as you would expect to hear an owl. These, being barred owls, would call out “who cooks for you, who cooks for you, all.” However, the calling began to intensify and before long the calls began to sound like barking dogs, something I had never heard before from barred owls.

Finally, in mid-May, there was the night we heard noises off in the distance that sounded like a small dog wailing from discomfort. It was a yelping sound, followed by a whine. “An injured dog,” was the first thought. However, as the sound persisted, it became clear that the calling was from red foxes calling out to each other during the mating season. The foxes have been around all summer, but the callings have stopped.

Nature has sounds of its own, and even though they can be loud at times, still trump (Oops, there’s that word, again) the sounds of the city.

Every year, the weekend after Labor Day, we make a fishing trip to Nesowadnehunk Lake, in a remote area abutting Baxter Park to the west, where we can lay in our cots in the tent, and listen to the coyotes howl in the distance. Ah, the wonderful sounds to which to fall asleep.

Legal Notices, Week of September 7, 2017

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STATE OF MAINE
PROBATE COURT
COURT ST.,
SKOWHEGAN, ME
SOMERSET, ss
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
18-A MRSA sec. 3-801

The following Personal Representatives have been appointed in the estates noted. The first publication date of this notice is September 7, 2017.

If you are a creditor of an estate listed below, you must present your claim within four months of the first publication date of this Notice to Creditors by filing a written statement of your claim on a proper form with the Register of Probate of this Court or by delivering or mailing to the Personal Representative listed below at the address published by his name, a written statement of the claim indicating the basis therefore, the name and address of the claimant and the amount claimed or in such other manner as the law may provide. See 18-A MRSA 3-804.

2017-219 – Estate of REJEAN LEBEL, late of Skowhegan, Me deceased. Vickie Gamache of P.O. Box 758, Skowhegan, Maine 04976 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-220 – Estate of MICHAEL RALPH SPAULDING, late of Madison, Me deceased. Ellen Tewksbury, 229 Mayfield Road, Moscow, Me 04920 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-221- Estate of CHARLES W. OLIVER, late of Canaan, Me deceased. Brenda K. Jones, PO Box 361, Norridgewock, Me 04957 and Richard T. Oliver, 397 Phillips Road, Winn, Me 04495 appointed Co-Personal Representatives.

2017-225 – Estate of JOHN J. SHAW, late of Fairfield, Me deceased. Debra C. Knese, 44 Wood Street, Fairfield, Me 04937 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-228 – Estate of MARIE M. ALTON, late of Pittsfield, Me deceased. Timothy A. Alton, 236 N Main Street, Pittsfield, Me 04967 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-229 – Estate of GUY B. WORSTER, late of Skowhegan, Me deceased. Marjory Clukey, 88 S Factory Street, Skowhegan, Me 04976 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-231 – Estate of EDWARD F. GAUDREAU, late of Ripley, Me deceased. Ann Carol J. Gaudreau, 251 West Ripley Road, Ripley, Me 04930 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-235 – Estate of ROBERT E. FOISY, late of Palmyra, Me deceased. Elizabeth O’Haverty-Foisy, 1037 Warren Hill Road, Palmyra, Me 04965 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-236 – Estate of LORRAINE R. GAGNON, late of Skowhegan, Me deceased. Richard E. Gagnon, 83 Coburn Avenue, Skowhegan, Me 04976 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-238 – Estate of J. WALLACE BISSON, late of Jackman, Me deceased. Constance B. Bouchard, 96 Tenny Hill Road, Raymond, Me 04071 appointed personal Representative.

2017-239 – Estate of JOSEPH J. McNICHOL, late of Pittsfield, ME deceased. Stephen R. McNichol, 412 Morrill Pond Road, Hartland, Me 04953 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-240 – Estate of ALSTON W. RACKLIFF, late of Madison, Me deceased. Lorraine M. Rackliff, 12 Cedar Street, Madison, Me 04950 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-242 – Estate of MICHAEL K. TAYLOR, SR., late of Madison, Me deceased. Michael K. Taylor, Jr., 95 Westview Lane, Oxford, Me 04270 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-148 – Estate of KEVIN TRUDEAU, late of Pittsfield, Me deceased. Marlene Cullity, 122 Waverly Street, Pittsfield, Me 04967 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-192 – Estate of WILLIAM H. HANNAFORD, late of Jackman, Me deceased. William D. Trahan, PO Box 147, Jackman, Me 04945 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-244 – Estate of MARK WILLIAM SCHINZEL, late of Anson, Me deceased. Leif Schinzel, 377 Frederic Corner Road, Norridgewock, Me 04957 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-245 – Estate of BARBARA A. LEIGHTON, late of Fairfield, Me deceased. Scott F. Leighton, 12 Baker Street, Clinton, Me 04927 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-246 – Estate of SHEILA M. DOWNING, late of St. Albans, Me deceased. Allen P. Downing, PSC 814, Box 139, FPO, AE 09865 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-248 – Estate of THERESA KNOWLES, late of Pittsfield, Me deceased. Michael A. Knowles, 207 Harriet Street, Pittsfield, Me 04967 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-249 – Estate of DAVID W. FROST, late of Norridgewock, Me deceased. Lois Greenleaf, 1432 Industry Road, Industry, Me 04938 appointed Personal Representative.

2015-250 – Estate of BEATRICE ANNA POOLER, late of Canaan, Me deceased. Robert A. Pooler, 359 Salisbury Road, Canaan, Me 04924 appointed Personal Representative.

2017-255 – Estate of DANNEL LAUREN GOLDSMITH, late of Fairfield, Me deceased. Christopher L. Goldsmith, PO Box 125, Shawmut, Me 04975 appointed Personal Representative.

To be published on September 7 & September 14, 2017
Dated: September 1, 2017
/s/ Victoria Hatch,
Register of Probate
(9/14)

STATE OF MAINE
PROBATE COURT
41 COURT ST.
SOMERSET, ss
SKOWHEGAN, ME
PROBATE NOTICES

TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN ANY OF THE ESTATES LISTED BELOW

Notice is hereby given by the respective petitioners that they have filed petitions for appointment of personal representatives in the following estates. These matters will be heard at 10 a.m. or as soon thereafter as they may be, on September 20, 2017. The requested appointments may be made on or after the hearing date if no sufficient objection be heard. This notice complies with the requirements of 18-A MRSA §3-403 and Probate Rule 4.

2017-223 – Estate of BROOKE JEAN HAYDEN, adult of Skowhegan, Me. Petition for Change of Name (Adult) filed by Brooke Jean Hayden, 30 Winter Street, Skowhegan, Me 04976 requesting her name be changed to Brooke Jean Knox for reasons set forth therein.

2017-224 – Estate of TIANA BELLE MUBALAMA. Petition for Change of Name (Minor) filed by Michele Perkins, 6 River Road, Norridgewock, Me 04957 requesting minor’s name be changed to Tiana Belle Mubalama Perkins for reasons set forth therein.

2017-241 – Estate of SAMANTHA JEAN CROCKETT. Petition for Change of Name (Adult) filed by Samantha Jean Crockett, 70 Waterville Road, Norridgewock, Me 04957 requesting that her name be changed to Samantha Jean Delorie for reasons set forth therein.

2017-172 – Estate of AMELIA RAE MARIE BROWN. Petition for Change of Name Minor) filed by petitioner Karen M. Dhuy, 7 Wesserunsett Road, Madison, Me 04950 requesting that minor’s name be changed to Amelia Marie Calder for reasons set forth therein.

2017-243 – Estate of ANGELA M. BRUNETTE, adult of Pittsfield, Me. Petition for Change of Name (Adult) filed by Angela Marie Brunette, 187 Peltoma Avenue, Pittsfield, Me 04967 requesting her name be changed to Angela Marie Hallee for reasons set forth therein.

2017-253 – Estate of LILY MAY WHITNEY, minor of Harmony, Me. Petition for Change of Name (Minor) filed by Sarah Whitney & Travis Carr, 143 Wellington Road, Harmony, Me 04942 requesting minor’s name be changed to Lily May Whitney Carr for reasons set forth therein.

Dated: September 1, 2017
/s/ Victoria M. Hatch
Register of Probate
(9/14)

I’m Just Curious: Southern superstitions

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by Debbie Walker

So… I told you this week we would be doing the Southern superstitions and there are a lot of them. Don’t worry we won’t print them all. What follows is just a few that I found in 2001 Southern Superstitions, by Bil Dwyer:

If two spoons are accidentally put into a cup, a wedding will result.

To put on any one’s engagement ring is a sure sign that you will never have one of your own.

If you do not wish to dream, put both shoes under the foot of your bed at night.

If you dream of flying, pleasant things await you the next day.

If you lick your plate at breakfast (must have been good!) there will be rain before supper.

If you drop a dish cloth, step over it and make a wish.

If your shoe string comes untied, somebody is talking about you.

If you wear your shoes out on the side, you will be a rich man’s bride.

If you wear your shoes out on the toe, you will spend money as you go.

If you wear your shoes out in the middle of the sole first, you will be rich some day.

Slips from plants should be stolen. Only stolen ones will grow. (I can see how some of these appear to bring bad luck!)

It is bad luck to burn grape vines. (Evidently it’s not good to cut them back either, I did and mom’s favorite grapes still haven’t showed up again!)

It brings bad luck to count freight cars. (Especially if you are driving while counting, sounds like an accident to me!)

Eat a dozen onions before you go to bed, to become beautiful, (you’ll probably be lonely and I really doubt the beautiful, too!)

If you eat the crust of bread, your hair will become curly. (Wow! Bread is a lot cheaper than a perm!)

If you eat burnt bread, your hair will become curly. (That must be why I have some curl in my hair, I like burnt bread! Maybe I ought to eat a little more now that I know the cause!)

You never carry your old broom into your new home.

Before you enter your new home you throw your new broom through the door first.

OH, OH, OH, I had to use what follows:

Married in white, you have chosen right; Married in red, you’d better be dead;
Married in yellow, ashamed of the fellow; Married in blue, your lover is true;
Married in blue, your lover is true; Married in green, ashamed to be seen;
Married in black, you’ll ride in a hack; Married in pearl, you’ll live in a whirl;
Married in pink, your spirits will sink; Married in brown, you’ll live out of town;

(Just for a note here: I was married in white but it turns out I had not chosen right!)

Okay, well that is enough of that. Now you get to decide who is more superstitious. As usual I Am Just Curious what your answer will be. You can find me at the other end of dwdaffy@yahoo.com. Can’t wait to hear from you! Enjoy your paper or find us online.

Singing Duo: The Captain & Tennille; Novelist: Graham Greene

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Peter CatesREVIEW POTPOURRI

by Peter Cates

The Captain and Tennille

Love Will Keep Us Together/Gentle Stranger
A t M- 1672, seven-inch stereo vinyl 45, recorded 1975.

The Captain & Tennille

This highly successful duo, married for 39 years until 2014, were both keyboardists, Toni Tennille playing with the Beach Boys for one to two years and jokingly referred to as the only Beach Girl in its history! Meanwhile Daryl Dragon was the son of the Capitol records conductor, Carmen Dragon, whose LPs have given me much listening pleasure for over 40 years.

Love Will Keep Us Together was not only a megahit for Daryl and Toni but a first class Neil Sedaka composition superbly arranged and performed. Finally, one of my favorite five sides from the ‘70s. The B side went in one ear and out the other!

Graham Greene

The Human Factor
a novel; Avon paperback, 1978, 302 pages.

Graham Greene

I am an admirer of Graham Greene the writer, 1904-1991, and have been since I read the 1951 End of the Affair 40 years ago. I just finished the above novel for the third time, itself one that has also stood out in my mind since my first reading of it, almost 40 years ago just after its publication. Both books deal with different forms of treachery, a favorite Greene theme; the compulsion to do it; the knowledge of its terrible effects, not only on one’s life but the lives of those one loves; and, in the end, the sense one has been damned irrevocably in the aftermath.

End of the Affair dealt with a selfish, very hateful man who has an affair with a friend’s wife, won’t take no for an answer when she ends it and causes a tragic death through his manipulative behavior.

The Human Factor deals with two intelligence clerks for England’s MI6, its own CIA, who read and assess mostly minor stuff from branch offices around the world; they are friends, but soon run into trouble when the boss spies smell a leak. The older friend, Castle, is a traitor; the younger colleague, Davis, is not but he is reckless, drinks and talks way too much and take reports out of the building to read at lunch. To protect himself, Castle deviously sets up Davis, and more treachery with a high cost in relationships with family and friends ensues.

Greene further had a unique gift for filling an often ordinary scene with fear, simply by using a tinkling cocktail, a damp morning waiting for a bus or noticing a butterfly struggling to fly on a village green picnic.

To close with a quote: “From the window on the 12th floor of the great gray building, Castle could see the red star over the University. There was a certain beauty in the view as there is in all cities at night. Only the daylight was drab.” There is very little comfort in the fiction of Graham Greene and what little there is will quickly prove an illusion.

Youth football season kicks off

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Above, Kennebec Timber Wolves team member Trevor Pellerin, 9, of Albion, and below, VFW team member Connor Letourneau, 9, of Fairfield, move the ball for their respective team as the Fairfield PAL football season got underway on Super Sunday, August 27. Photos by Kevin Giguere, Central Maine Photography staff

Letters to the editor, Week of September 7, 2017

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Roadside trash overwhelming

To the editor:

My wife and I and another couple took a road trip to the St. Lawrence River, in Quebec, [recently] to watch whales. We saw quite a few of these large, gentle creatures, ate well and enjoyed the beautiful scenery and great people. However when we crossed the international border from Edmundston, New Brunswick, to Madawaska, we noticed a great change and it wasn’t Belugas swimming in the potato fields of Aroostook County. No, it was the incredible amount of roadside trash.

All four of us are avid cyclists and as such, we are subjected to the disgusting amount of detritus along the roads here in central Maine. From “nip” bottles, to beer cans and bottles, to McDonald’s wrappers and cups, to plastic bags and paper trash, the amount of stuff thrown out of car windows in this part of our world is overwhelming. It almost seems like no one has waste containers in their vehicles or at home any more. This is even more distressing when one reads of the environmental impact that this waste has, not only here but on the world as a whole. By some accounts, by 2050, there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish.

In Canada, we saw hardly any roadside waste. The areas in which we traveled are just as rural, just as economically challenged and just as beautiful as our own state. And yet, the residents are seemingly much more thoughtful for and caring of their surroundings; why can’t we have the same respect for our environment?

I know that there is no simple answer to this issue, but I hope that those of you who read this letter at least think a bit before you toss your Dunkin Donuts wrapper or Bud Light can out the window as you cruise down Lakeview Drive or Rte. 3. It will be better for all of us in the long run.

Bob Bennett
South China

Historical facts can’t be erased

To the editor:

Just a few historical facts concerning this lame-brained antifa and BLM, destroying all statues and memorabilia concerning the Civil  War history.

It would take too much writing to straighten some of the myths concerning some, not all, of the people of that era so I will just give one example: General Robert Edward Lee, one of the best soldiers on either side of the Civil War. Through his leadership the army of northern Virginia repeatedly defeated Union army contingents two and three times the size of his army. He graduated second in his class at West Point Military Academy, never receiving a demerit. He believed slavery to be immoral and inherited some from his family, but released them from bondage. To all who today besmirch and slander the name of Lee by taking down his statues and hiding them, as symbols of public disapprobation, I say shame on you. A black friend of mine years ago down south, and in the military, once told me he thought Lee was the greatest general the south ever had. Wish he was still alive to discuss this with me. [I will] close with the old sage words of someone much wiser than me, who said, “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.”

Frank Slason
Somerville

Red Cross helping Vassalboro family

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A Disaster Action Team from the American Red Cross of Maine is working with a family of five Friday to ensure that they have food, a safe place to sleep and other essentials after a tree fell on their home, making it unhabitable.

Over the next several days, the Red Cross will remain in contact with the family to provide financial assistance and community referrals as they begin to make their road to recovery.

The American Red Cross provides food, clothing and emotional support to people affected by home fires and other disasters. Individuals wishing to support Red Cross Disaster Services can call (800) RED-CROSS or visit MaineRedCross.org.