tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71526937077452969632024-03-05T00:27:19.177-08:00The Fryeburg Free PressThe Fryeburg Free Press is a News Letter for the Greater Conway - Fryeburg - Western Maine Area. Mike Corthell, Editor & PublisherMichael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-2115258497422541152014-02-08T09:32:00.001-08:002014-02-08T10:54:11.694-08:00FRYEBURG, Emerson and Swedenborg<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">''There is one man of genius, who has done much for this philosophy of life, whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated; — I mean Emanuel Swedenborg. The most imaginative of men, yet writing with the precision of a mathematician, he endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time. Such an attempt, of course, must have difficulty, which no genius could surmount. But he saw and showed the connection between nature and the affections of the soul. He pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of the visible, audible, tangible world. Especially did his shade-loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature; he showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms, and has given in epical parables a theory of isanity, of beasts, of unclean and fearful things.''</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia;">- <a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/emerson/">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a> (excerpted from his oratory, ''</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia;">The American Scholar'')</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.571428298950195px; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;">(Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of fellow Transcendentalist </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 12.571428298950195px; line-height: 19.19999885559082px; text-decoration: none;" title="Henry David Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.571428298950195px; line-height: 19.19999885559082px;">.)</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia;">(Established as The church of the New Jerusalem in 1879)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #363636;">The <a href="http://www.fryeburgnewchurch.org/New_Church_teachings.html#divinity">Fryeburg New Church</a> is actually not so new! We’ve been an active part of the Fryeburg community for well over 100 years. We are part of the Church of the New Jerusalem, a denomination which has been in existence for nearly 300 years. Johnny Appleseed, Helen Keller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln and many others have been readers of Emanuel Swedenborg, the 18th Century scientist and philosopher whose teachings, along with the Bible, form the basis of our Church.</span><span style="color: #363636;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today, we are a unique Christian church that places freedom and responsibility with the individual. While we believe that there is good and truth to be found in all spiritual traditions and that heaven is not exclusively for Christians, there are three essential beliefs that are the basis of our faith:</span><br />
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Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-68424920670453647172014-02-08T07:54:00.003-08:002014-02-08T08:35:34.540-08:00ESSAY: Compensation by Ralph Waldo Emerson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">"Let us learn the revelation of all Nature and thought, that the Highest dwells within us, that the sources of Nature are in our own minds. As there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so there is no bar or wall in the soul where we, the effect, cease, and God, the cause begins. Within us is the soul of the whole; the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One. When it breaks through our intellect, it is Genius; when it breaths through our will, it is Virtue; when it flows through our affections, it is Love."</span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The wings of <u>Time</u> are <u>black</u> and <u>white</u>,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In changing moon, in tidal wave,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine;</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Hast not thy share? On winged feet,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">ESSAY III _Compensation_</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Ever since I was a boy, I have wished to write a discourse on Compensation: for it seemed to me when very young, that on this subject life was ahead of theology, and the people knew more than the preachers taught. The documents, too, from which the doctrine is to be drawn, charmed my fancy by their endless variety, and lay always before me, even in sleep; for they are the tools in our hands, the bread in our basket, the transactions of the street, the farm, and the dwelling-house, greetings, relations, debts and credits, the influence of character, the nature and endowment of all men. It seemed to me, also, that in it might be shown men a ray of divinity, the present action of the soul of this world, clean from all vestige of tradition, and so the heart of man might be bathed by an inundation of eternal love, conversing with that which he knows was always and always must be, because it really is now. It appeared, moreover, that if this doctrine could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours and crooked passages in our journey that would not suffer us to lose our way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I was lately confirmed in these desires by hearing a sermon at church. The preacher, a man esteemed for his orthodoxy, unfolded in the ordinary manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment. He assumed, that judgment is not executed in this world; that the wicked are successful; that the good are miserable; and then urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties in the next life. No offence appeared to be taken by the congregation at this doctrine. As far as I could observe, when the meeting broke up, they separated without remark on the sermon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Yet what was the import of this teaching? What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men, whilst the saints are poor and despised; and that a compensation is to be made to these last hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day, — bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne? This must be the compensation intended; for what else? Is it that they are to have leave to pray and praise? to love and serve men? Why, that they can do now. The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was, — 'We are to have _such_ a good time as the sinners have now'; — or, to push it to its extreme import, — 'You sin now; we shall sin by and by; we would sin now, if we could; not being successful, we expect our revenge to-morrow.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The fallacy lay in the immense concession, that the bad are successful; that justice is not done now. The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of confronting and convicting the world from the truth; announcing the presence of the soul; the omnipotence of the will: and so establishing the standard of good and ill, of success and falsehood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day, and the same doctrines assumed by the literary men when occasionally they treat the related topics. I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced. But men are better than this theology. Their daily life gives it the lie. Every ingenuous and aspiring soul leaves the doctrine behind him in his own experience; and all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot demonstrate. For men are wiser than they know. That which they hear in schools and pulpits without after-thought, if said in conversation, would probably be questioned in silence. If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I shall attempt in this and the following chapter to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation; happy beyond my expectation, if I shall truly draw the smallest arc of this circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">POLARITY, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole of the heart; in the undulations of fluids, and of sound; in the centrifugal and centripetal gravity; in electricity, galvanism, and chemical affinity. Superinduce magnetism at one end of a needle; the opposite magnetism takes place at the other end. If the south attracts, the north repels. To empty here, you must condense there. An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as, spirit, matter; man, woman; odd, even; subjective, objective; in, out; upper, under; motion, rest; yea, nay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Whilst the world is thus dual, so is every one of its parts. The entire system of things gets represented in every particle. There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea, day and night, man and woman, in a single needle of the pine, in a kernel of corn, in each individual of every animal tribe. The reaction, so grand in the elements, is repeated within these small boundaries. For example, in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that no creatures are favorites, but a certain compensation balances every gift and every defect. A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature. If the head and neck are enlarged, the trunk and extremities are cut short.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The theory of the mechanic forces is another example. What we gain in power is lost in time; and the converse. The periodic or compensating errors of the planets is another instance. The influences of climate and soil in political history are another. The cold climate invigorates. The barren soil does not breed fevers, crocodiles, tigers, or scorpions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The same dualism underlies the nature and condition of man. Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess. Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good. Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse. It is to answer for its moderation with its life. For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something. If riches increase, they are increased that use them. If the gatherer gathers too much, nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates monopolies and exceptions. The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing, than the varieties of condition tend to equalize themselves. There is always some levelling circumstance that puts down the overbearing, the strong, the rich, the fortunate, substantially on the same ground with all others. Is a man too strong and fierce for society, and by temper and position a bad citizen, — a morose ruffian, with a dash of the pirate in him;—— nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters, who are getting along in the dame's classes at the village school, and love and fear for them smooths his grim scowl to courtesy. Thus she contrives to intenerate the granite and felspar, takes the boar out and puts the lamb in, and keeps her balance true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne. Or, do men desire the more substantial and permanent grandeur of genius? Neither has this an immunity. He who by force of will or of thought is great, and overlooks thousands, has the charges of that eminence. With every influx of light comes new danger. Has he light? he must bear witness to the light, and always outrun that sympathy which gives him such keen satisfaction, by his fidelity to new revelations of the incessant soul. He must hate father and mother, wife and child. Has he all that the world loves and admires and covets? — he must cast behind him their admiration, and afflict them by faithfulness to his truth, and become a byword and a hissing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This law writes the laws of cities and nations. It is in vain to build or plot or combine against it. Things refuse to be mismanaged long. _Res nolunt diu male administrari_. Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist, and will appear. If the government is cruel, the governor's life is not safe. If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing. If you make the criminal code sanguinary, juries will not convict. If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in. If the government is a terrific democracy, the pressure is resisted by an overcharge of energy in the citizen, and life glows with a fiercer flame. The true life and satisfactions of man seem to elude the utmost rigors or felicities of condition, and to establish themselves with great indifferency under all varieties of circumstances. Under all governments the influence of character remains the same, — in Turkey and in New England about alike. Under the primeval despots of Egypt, history honestly confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">These appearances indicate the fact that the universe is represented in every one of its particles. Every thing in nature contains all the powers of nature. Every thing is made of one hidden stuff; as the naturalist sees one type under every metamorphosis, and regards a horse as a running man, a fish as a swimming man, a bird as a flying man, a tree as a rooted man. Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type, but part for part all the details, all the aims, furtherances, hindrances, energies, and whole system of every other. Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compend of the world, and a correlative of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life; of its good and ill, its trials, its enemies, its course and its end. And each one must somehow accommodate the whole man, and recite all his destiny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The microscope cannot find the animalcule which is less perfect for being little. Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity, — all find room to consist in the small creature. So do we put our life into every act. The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the evil; if the affinity, so the repulsion; if the force, so the limitation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Thus is the universe alive. All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength. "It is in the world, and the world was made by it." Justice is not postponed. A perfect equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life. {Oi chusoi Dios aei enpiptousi}, — The dice of God are always loaded. The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you. Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears. If you see smoke, there must be fire. If you see a hand or a limb, you know that the trunk to which it belongs is there behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Every act rewards itself, or, in other words, integrates itself, in a twofold manner; first, in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly, in the circumstance, or in apparent nature. Men call the circumstance the retribution. The causal retribution is in the thing, and is seen by the soul. The retribution in the circumstance is seen by the understanding; it is inseparable from the thing, but is often spread over a long time, and so does not become distinct until after many years. The specific stripes may follow late after the offence, but they follow because they accompany it. Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Whilst thus the world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted, we seek to act partially, to sunder, to appropriate; for example, — to gratify the senses, we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character. The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem, — how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, &c., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless; to get a _one end_, without an _other end_. The soul says, Eat; the body would feast. The soul says, The man and woman shall be one flesh and one soul; the body would join the flesh only. The soul says, Have dominion over all things to the ends of virtue; the body would have the power over things to its own ends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The soul strives amain to live and work through all things. It would be the only fact. All things shall be added unto it power, pleasure, knowledge, beauty. The particular man aims to be somebody; to set up for himself; to truck and higgle for a private good; and, in particulars, to ride, that he may ride; to dress, that he may be dressed; to eat, that he may eat; and to govern, that he may be seen. Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature, — the sweet, without the other side, — the bitter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This dividing and detaching is steadily counteracted. Up to this day, it must be owned, no projector has had the smallest success. The parted water reunites behind our hand. Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things, power out of strong things, as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole. We can no more halve things and get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get an inside that shall have no outside, or a light without a shadow. "Drive out nature with a fork, she comes running back."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Life invests itself with inevitable conditions, which the unwise seek to dodge, which one and another brags that he does not know; that they do not touch him; — but the brag is on his lips, the conditions are in his soul. If he escapes them in one part, they attack him in another more vital part. If he has escaped them in form, and in the appearance, it is because he has resisted his life, and fled from himself, and the retribution is so much death. So signal is the failure of all attempts to make this separation of the good from the tax, that the experiment would not be tried, — since to try it is to be mad, — but for the circumstance, that when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man ceases to see God whole in each object, but is able to see the sensual allurement of an object, and not see the sensual hurt; he sees the mermaid's head, but not the dragon's tail; and thinks he can cut off that which he would have, from that which he would not have. "How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied Providence certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The human soul is true to these facts in the painting of fable, of history, of law, of proverbs, of conversation. It finds a tongue in literature unawares. Thus the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they involuntarily made amends to reason, by tying up the hands of so bad a god. He is made as helpless as a king of England. Prometheus knows one secret which Jove must bargain for; Minerva, another. He cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A plain confession of the in-working of the All, and of its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics; and it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral. Aurora forgot to ask youth for her lover, and though Tithonus is immortal, he is old. Achilles is not quite invulnerable; the sacred waters did not wash the heel by which Thetis held him. Siegfried, in the Nibelungen, is not quite immortal, for a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the dragon's blood, and that spot which it covered is mortal. And so it must be. There is a crack in every thing God has made. It would seem, there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares, even into the wild poesy in which the human fancy attempted to make bold holiday, and to shake itself free of the old laws, — this back-stroke, this kick of the gun, certifying that the law is fatal; that in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who keeps watch in the universe, and lets no offence go unchastised. The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path, they would punish him. The poets related that stone walls, and iron swords, and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners; that the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero over the field at the wheels of the car of Achilles, and the sword which Hector gave Ajax was that on whose point Ajax fell. They recorded, that when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night, and endeavoured to throw it down by repeated blows, until at last he moved it from its pedestal, and was crushed to death beneath its fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This voice of fable has in it somewhat divine. It came from thought above the will of the writer. That is the best part of each writer, which has nothing private in it; that which he does not know; that which flowed out of his constitution, and not from his too active invention; that which in the study of a single artist you might not easily find, but in the study of many, you would abstract as the spirit of them all. Phidias it is not, but the work of man in that early Hellenic world, that I would know. The name and circumstance of Phidias, however convenient for history, embarrass when we come to the highest criticism. We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period, and was hindered, or, if you will, modified in doing, by the interfering volitions of Phidias, of Dante, of Shakspeare, the organ whereby man at the moment wrought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Still more striking is the expression of this fact in the proverbs of all nations, which are always the literature of reason, or the statements of an absolute truth, without qualification. Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction. And this law of laws which the pulpit, the senate, and the college deny, is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs, whose teaching is as true and as omnipresent as that of birds and flies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">All things are double, one against another. — Tit for tat; an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; blood for blood; measure for measure; love for love. — Give and it shall be given you. — He that watereth shall be watered himself. — What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it. — Nothing venture, nothing have. — Thou shalt be paid exactly for what thou hast done, no more, no less. — Who doth not work shall not eat. — Harm watch, harm catch. — Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. — If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. — Bad counsel confounds the adviser. — The Devil is an ass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It is thus written, because it is thus in life. Our action is overmastered and characterized above our will by the law of nature. We aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good, but our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will, or against his will, he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a thread-ball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains in the thrower's bag. Or, rather, it is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and if the harpoon is not good, or not well thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain, or to sink the boat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. "No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him," said Burke. The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it. The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself, in striving to shut out others. Treat men as pawns and ninepins, and you shall suffer as well as they. If you leave out their heart, you shall lose your own. The senses would make things of all persons; of women, of children, of the poor. The vulgar proverb, "I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin," is sound philosophy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished. They are punished by fear. Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet as water meets water, or as two currents of air mix, with perfect diffusion and interpenetration of nature. But as soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbour feels the wrong; he shrinks from me as far as I have shrunk from him; his eyes no longer seek mine; there is war between us; there is hate in him and fear in me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">All the old abuses in society, universal and particular, all unjust accumulations of property and power, are avenged in the same manner. Fear is an instructer of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. One thing he teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears. He is a carrion crow, and though you see not well what he hovers for, there is death somewhere. Our property is timid, our laws are timid, our cultivated classes are timid. Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property. That obscene bird is not there for nothing. He indicates great wrongs which must be revised.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Of the like nature is that expectation of change which instantly follows the suspension of our voluntary activity. The terror of cloudless noon, the emerald of Polycrates, the awe of prosperity, the instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along, and that a man often pays dear for a small frugality. The borrower runs in his own debt. Has a man gained any thing who has received a hundred favors and rendered none? Has he gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbour's wares, or horses, or money? There arises on the deed the instant acknowledgment of benefit on the one part, and of debt on the other; that is, of superiority and inferiority. The transaction remains in the memory of himself and his neighbour; and every new transaction alters, according to its nature, their relation to each other. He may soon come to see that he had better have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbour's coach, and that "the highest price he can pay for a thing is to ask for it."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A wise man will extend this lesson to all parts of life, and know that it is the part of prudence to face every claimant, and pay every just demand on your time, your talents, or your heart. Always pay; for, first or last, you must pay your entire debt. Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement. You must pay at last your own debt. If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. Benefit is the end of nature. But for every benefit which you receive, a tax is levied. He is great who confers the most benefits. He is base — and that is the one base thing in the universe — to receive favors and render none. In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Labor is watched over by the same pitiless laws. Cheapest, say the prudent, is the dearest labor. What we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon, a knife, is some application of good sense to a common want. It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener, or to buy good sense applied to gardening; in your sailor, good sense applied to navigation; in the house, good sense applied to cooking, sewing, serving; in your agent, good sense applied to accounts and affairs. So do you multiply your presence, or spread yourself throughout your estate. But because of the dual constitution of things, in labor as in life there can be no cheating. The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen. These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedience to pure motives. The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative. The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Human labor, through all its forms, from the sharpening of a stake to the construction of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe. The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that every thing has its price, — and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get any thing without its price, — is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states, in the laws of light and darkness, in all the action and reaction of nature. I cannot doubt that the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics which sparkle on his chisel-edge, which are measured out by his plumb and foot-rule, which stand as manifest in the footing of the shop-bill as in the history of a state, — do recommend to him his trade, and though seldom named, exalt his business to his imagination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The league between virtue and nature engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice. The beautiful laws and substances of the world persecute and whip the traitor. He finds that things are arranged for truth and benefit, but there is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You cannot recall the spoken word, you cannot wipe out the foot-track, you cannot draw up the ladder, so as to leave no inlet or clew. Some damning circumstance always transpires. The laws and substances of nature — water, snow, wind, gravitation — become penalties to the thief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. The good man has absolute good, which like fire turns every thing to its own nature, so that you cannot do him any harm; but as the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached, cast down their colors and from enemies became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors: —</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"Winds blow and waters roll</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired his horns and blamed his feet, but when the hunter came, his feet saved him, and afterwards, caught in the thicket, his horns destroyed him. Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. As no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it, so no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men, until he has suffered from the one, and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same. Has he a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to entertain himself alone, and acquire habits of self-help; and thus, like the wounded oyster, he mends his shell with pearl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Our strength grows out of our weakness. The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed. A great man is always willing to be little. Whilst he sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep. When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill. The wise man throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point. The wound cicatrizes and falls off from him like a dead skin, and when they would triumph, lo! he has passed on invulnerable. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies. In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The same guards which protect us from disaster, defect, and enmity, defend us, if we will, from selfishness and fraud. Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions, nor is shrewdness in trade a mark of wisdom. Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfilment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The history of persecution is a history of endeavours to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant or a mob. A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason, and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars. The inviolate spirit turns their spite against the wrongdoers. The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison, a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. Hours of sanity and consideration are always arriving to communities, as to individuals, when the truth is seen, and the martyrs are justified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Thus do all things preach the indifferency of circumstances. The man is all. Every thing has two sides, a good and an evil. Every advantage has its tax. I learn to be content. But the doctrine of compensation is not the doctrine of indifferency. The thoughtless say, on hearing these representations, — What boots it to do well? there is one event to good and evil; if I gain any good, I must pay for it; if I lose any good, I gain some other; all actions are indifferent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">There is a deeper fact in the soul than compensation, to wit, its own nature. The soul is not a compensation, but a life. The soul _is_. Under all this running sea of circumstance, whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance, lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being. Essence, or God, is not a relation, or a part, but the whole. Being is the vast affirmative, excluding negation, self-balanced, and swallowing up all relations, parts, and times within itself. Nature, truth, virtue, are the influx from thence. Vice is the absence or departure of the same. Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade, on which, as a background, the living universe paints itself forth; but no fact is begotten by it; it cannot work; for it is not. It cannot work any good; it cannot work any harm. It is harm inasmuch as it is worse not to be than to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We feel defrauded of the retribution due to evil acts, because the criminal adheres to his vice and contumacy, and does not come to a crisis or judgment anywhere in visible nature. There is no stunning confutation of his nonsense before men and angels. Has he therefore outwitted the law? Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature. In some manner there will be a demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also; but should we not see it, this deadly deduction makes square the eternal account.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Neither can it be said, on the other hand, that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss. There is no penalty to virtue; no penalty to wisdom; they are proper additions of being. In a virtuous action, I properly _am_; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon. There can be no excess to love; none to knowledge; none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. The soul refuses limits, and always affirms an Optimism, never a Pessimism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">His life is a progress, and not a station. His instinct is trust. Our instinct uses "more" and "less" in application to man, of the _presence of the soul_, and not of its absence; the brave man is greater than the coward; the true, the benevolent, the wise, is more a man, and not less, than the fool and knave. There is no tax on the good of virtue; for that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence, without any comparative. Material good has its tax, and if it came without desert or sweat, has no root in me, and the next wind will blow it away. But all the good of nature is the soul's, and may be had, if paid for in nature's lawful coin, that is, by labor which the heart and the head allow. I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn, for example, to find a pot of buried gold, knowing that it brings with it new burdens. I do not wish more external goods, — neither possessions, nor honors, nor powers, nor persons. The gain is apparent; the tax is certain. But there is no tax on the knowledge that the compensation exists, and that it is not desirable to dig up treasure. Herein I rejoice with a serene eternal peace. I contract the boundaries of possible mischief. I learn the wisdom of St. Bernard, — "Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In the nature of the soul is the compensation for the inequalities of condition. The radical tragedy of nature seems to be the distinction of More and Less. How can Less not feel the pain; how not feel indignation or malevolence towards More? Look at those who have less faculty, and one feels sad, and knows not well what to make of it. He almost shuns their eye; he fears they will upbraid God. What should they do? It seems a great injustice. But see the facts nearly, and these mountainous inequalities vanish. Love reduces them, as the sun melts the iceberg in the sea. The heart and soul of all men being one, this bitterness of _His_ and _Mine_ ceases. His is mine. I am my brother, and my brother is me. If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbours, I can yet love; I can still receive; and he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves. Thereby I make the discovery that my brother is my guardian, acting for me with the friendliest designs, and the estate I so admired and envied is my own. It is the nature of the soul to appropriate all things. Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue, — is not that mine? His wit, — if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Such, also, is the natural history of calamity. The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth. Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends, and home, and laws, and faith, as the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case, because it no longer admits of its growth, and slowly forms a new house. In proportion to the vigor of the individual, these revolutions are frequent, until in some happier mind they are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming, as it were, a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates, and of no settled character in which the man is imprisoned. Then there can be enlargement, and the man of to-day scarcely recognizes the man of yesterday. And such should be the outward biography of man in time, a putting off of dead circumstances day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day. But to us, in our lapsed estate, resting, not advancing, resisting, not cooperating with the divine expansion, this growth comes by shocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts. The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character. It permits or constrains the formation of new acquaintances, and the reception of new influences that prove of the first importance to the next years; and the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower, with no room for its roots and too much sunshine for its head, by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener, is made the banian of the forest, yielding shade and fruit to wide neighbourhoods of men.</span></div>
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Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-20845358651205461192013-08-10T02:01:00.001-07:002013-08-10T02:01:41.230-07:00Things to do in GREATER FRYEBURG Saturday August 10, 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Silver Lake Railroad.</strong> Silver Lake Railroad Trains depart Silver Lake Depot Fridays in August at 4:30, 5:30 and 6:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday departures are 11 a.m., 12, 1, 2, 3 p.m.. As always, the 55-minute train rides are by donation. Silver Lake Railroad is located on Route 113 in Silver Lake. Visit us www.silverlakerailroad.com for more information.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Freedom Old Home Week.</strong> Freedom Old Home week continues today with: 7-7:30 a.m., annual Old Home Week 5K Road Race registration and sign-in; 8 a.m., race begins for walkers; 8:30 a.m., race begins for runners; 9:15 a.m., free kids fun run (around ball field and back to school yard); 10 a.m.-1 p.m., friends of the library book and bake sale at the library; 5 p.m., fireman’s lobster supper, town hall. Contact the Freedom Fire Department for tickets at 539-4261.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Forests for the People: The Story of America's Eastern National Forests.</strong> In Forests for the People: The Story of America's Eastern National Forests, writer Christopher Johnson and forester David Govatski team up to tell the story of the history of that landmark legislation and its successors, how it paved the way for the survival of eastern forests, and the lessons it offers for those looking to preserve the future of these important natural resources. Coupled with current narratives detailing how forest managers from across the region are meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century, this new book offers insight into both the past and the future of eastern forests. Join David Govatski for a presentation on this recent publication at 8 p.m. at the Appalachian Mountain Club Pinkham Notch Visitor Center. . For more information contact the AMC at (603) 466-2727.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Home Food Preservation Workshop.</strong> UNH Cooperative Extension will give a home food preservation workshop on Aug. 10, from 9 – 11 a.m. at the UNH Cooperative Extension office, 73 Main Street, Conway to help people learn about preserving homegrown food and find out about the latest methods and recipes. Pre-registration is required: Contact Betty Lou Canty at 603-447-3834 or email her at <a href="mailto:BettyLou.Canty@unh.edu" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BettyLou.Canty@unh.edu</a>. Registration fee: $5 per person, pay at the door.<br />
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Greater Lovell Land Trust Hike.</strong> The Greater Lovell Land Trust will lead a hike, 1-3 p.m. at the Chip Stockford Reserve. Meet at the trailhead off Ladies Delight Road in Lovell, Maine. The Chip Stockford Reserve offers a unique glimpse into the geological and cultural history of the region, with its exposed bedrock, foundations and stonewalls. Plus, it is right around the corner from a great ice cream shop. So, join us for the annual meeting, stay for the walk and top of the day with a tasty treat. Activity level: Gentle with limited elevation change and relatively even terrain. For more information call the Greater Lovell Land Trust at 925-1056 or email: <a href="mailto:info@gllt.org" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">info@gllt.org</a> or www.gllt.org.<br />
<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></strong></strong><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">'Much Ado About Nothing</strong>.'</strong> Advice to the Players presents Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" at 2 p.m. Aug. 9-11 and 15-18 on the Sandwich Fairgrounds Stage. There will also be a performance Aug. 13 at 7:30 p.m., in the Sandwich Town Hall Theatre. Visit <a href="http://artstamworth.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><a href="http://artstamworth.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://artstamworth.org</a> for more information.<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong><br />
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arts and Craft Fair.</strong> There will be an arts and craft fair, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Bradley Park on Main Street in Fryeburg to benefit the Church of the New Jerusalm. In the event of rain the fair will be held at the Fryeburg Fair Crafts Pavillion.<br />
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contra Dance.</strong> The Tamworth Outing Club is sponsoring contra dances at the Tamworth Town House every Saturday evening this summer. The time is 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. The club is enthusiastic about having families and children are welcome. The rate for a family is $15; adults $7. People are asked to bring snacks to share. Call Helen Steele at 323-8687 for inspiration and details. Music will be provided by the following performers this month: Dudley and Jackie Laufman Aug. 3 and 24; Puckerbrush Aug. 10; Frank Woodward and New Boston Fancy Aug. 17; and Eric Rollnick Aug. 31.<br />
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yard Sale.</strong> There will be a yard sale to benefit the Church of the New Jerusalem, at 9 a.m. at 12 Oxford Street in Fryeburg.<br />
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Eagle Jazz Band.</strong> The Black Eagle Jazz Band will perform at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center in Fryeburg, Maine at 7:30 p.m. The Black Eagle Jazz Band has been playing traditional jazz for more than 40 years, and are still going strong. For more information call the box office at (207) 935-9232 or visit www.fryeburgacademy.org/pac.<br />
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cemetery Program.</strong> See the fascinating things our old cemeteries can teach us at a program of the Hiram Historical Society at 1 p.m. Following refreshments at 2 p.m., there will be a hands-on workshop to restore gravestones in the Hiram Village Cemetery. Participants should dress for dirty work and bring gloves. For more information call (207) 625-4762.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">'Steel Magnolias.' </strong>The Barnstormers Theatre in Tamworth presents "Steel Magnolias" by Robert Harling at 2 and 8 p.m. Laughter, pathos, friendship and new hairdos bond a group of women as strong as steel, as fragrant as southern magnolias. For more information or to make reservations call 323-8500.<br />
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Madison Old Home Week.</strong> Madison Old Home Week continues with a free yoga class at 8:30 a.m. at Madison Elementary School. For more information call 367-9911. There will two kayaking events: a poker run and separate time course from 9 a.m. to noon. For more information call Ron/Kim Force at 367-4643. There will be train rides from 12 to 3 p.m. at Silver Lake Railroad Company. A corn husking contest will be at the edge of Silver Lake at 1 p.m. The Historical Society Museum will be open from 2 to 4 p.m. There will be cardboard boat races at 4 p.m. Pick up directions and information at the post office. There is a $5 entry fee. There will be a bean hole supper at the foot of Silver Lake at 5 p.m. The cost is $8 for adults, $5 for children ages 6 to 12, and free for children under 6.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Family Movie Matinee.</strong> The Effingham Public Library summer reading program continues with a family movie matinee at 12:30 p.m. Today’s movie is one of the few animated features that is “hilariously great entertainment for kids, and absolutely engaging entertainment for adults.” Featuring the voice talent of George Clooney and Meryl Streep, this film is rated PG. Free popcorn. For more information call 539-1537. The library is located at 30 Town House Road just off Route 153.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chicken Barbecue.</strong> The Saco valley fire dept. will be having their annual chicken barbecue at the Saco Valley Fire Station, Route 113 in North Fryeburg from 1 to 6 p.m. Food served is a large half chicken grilled with a secret marinade, homemade Maine-grown potato salad, local grown sweet corn, fresh dinner roll and a choice o homemade desserts with a soft drink or water for $10. There will also be large amount of local items are being raffled off to support this volunteer department. Dennis and Davey will be performing from 1 to 3:30 p.m. All are welcomed to attend.<br />
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Get Wild.</strong> Ossipee Conservation Commission is sponsoring a fishing day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Sumner Brook Farm. Kids catch their first fish free. Snack and refreshments will be provided. A display of two moose with locked horns will be on display. Sumner Brook Farm is at 277 Route 16, Ossipee. For more information, call (603) 264-9700.</div>
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<strong>The
summer is high, and the work is long here at the DAC. Play rehearsals have taken
the place of (kind of) lazy afternoons and we have Artists in Residence
clammering at the doors, waiting to come in. Only one event is planned for this
weekend, but it is a big one - and you would be a fool to miss it. Find out why
<a href="http://denmarkarts.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cd8bb115f0897c34fd2ccd3c&id=85866e3173&e=4bf03620c3" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_self">here. </a><br />Also, if you're a town dump regular, you would have
noticed that the DAC has commissioned two strange Dutch women to pick through
your trash and make it into art. Their residency will come to an end every
shortly, but it is highly encouraged that you will decide to lend them a helping
hand. They will divulge that they require assistance in splitting and cleaning
shards of <em>mica</em>. So, if you could donate an hour here or an hour there -
they (and we!) would surely appreciate it. Give us a call at (207) 452-2412, and
we'll love you forever. Volunteers make a non-profit soar, and we're definitely
in need.<br />Our kid's camps registration has come to a close - because they're
all full! Film camp is going wonderfully this week, and Mary Bastoni's much
awaited Theater camp is just around the corner.</strong><br /><br /><strong>The
gallery is open this weekend, Friday through Sunday from 1pm to 4pm. Come by and
see what's hanging on the walls!<br /><br />See you around at the
DAC...</strong><br /></div>
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<span style="color: darkslategrey;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Stories from the Past; Sounds from the Future,
</strong>w/Jeff Beam & Friends </span></span><br />7:30 pm, $10<br /><br />
Join the DAC for a very special night of rare film and live music, as we
welcome celebrated Portland musician <a href="http://denmarkarts.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cd8bb115f0897c34fd2ccd3c&id=45b69c7fc1&e=4bf03620c3" style="color: #336699;" target="_self">Jeff Beam</a> to Denmark for the world premiere of a new DAC
commission, Stories from the Past; Sounds from the Future. Working closely with
Bucksport’s own Northeast Historic Film archives, Beam has selected a handful of
silent-film curiosities from throughout New England around which to build an
eclectic songspiel. From scenes of blueberry farming in Hiram, to ice harvesting
in Machias, via anonymous family tales on the shores of any old Maine lake,
these forgotten historical documents provide the perfect foils for Beam’s
elegant, evocative scores and songs. So come on down and see Maine like you’ve
never seen it before!<br />
<em>NOTE: This screening will be followed by a panel discussion about
representations of Maine, Past &
Future.</em></div>
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Thursday,
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<span style="color: darkslategrey;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Grand Unveiling of Karpinski/Hendrix Dump
Creation</strong></span></span><br /><br />The specifics are yet to be figured, but
the grand (and secret!) Denmark Transfer Station Artist Residency will be
unveiled this coming Thursday. Either in the DAC or at the dump, the event will
be black tie with champagne. Look forward to an email coming
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">Our August meeting
will be in Fryeburg on Tuesday the 13th at 5:30pm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">The
Guest Speaker for this meeting is <strong>Maine GOP Vice Chair Susan
Morissette</strong>.<br /><br /><img height="200" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/7a43b93dc7fdb58727219a613/images/SM.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; display: inline; height: 200px; line-height: 100%; outline-style: none; width: 200px;" width="200" /></span><br /><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">The
Oxford County GOP will also be conducting our annual Pie Auction!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">Pies
will be available from First Lady Ann LePage , Linda Bean, and many
more.</span></div>
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meeting will be at the Fryeburg Fair Grounds in the cafeteria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">1154
Main St Fryeburg Maine</span></div>
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Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-65731986413703455712013-08-08T04:31:00.005-07:002013-08-08T04:37:31.031-07:00Wealth? What is it? Why do certain people have it? By Mike Corthell<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: large;">What is the first thing we think of
when we hear ''They're WEALTHY! Probably we think that they have
money and lots of it. But are they completely wealthy? The dictionary
defines wealthy as: #1. ''having great wealth, rich affluent.'' But
definition #2 says, ''Rich in character, ample...'' </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> By my definition
being wealthy also includes having a loving family, lots and lots of
friends to love and they love you back. Further, a wealthy life is
also a full life. Certain people have great wealth simply because
they think abundance all the time. They attract that wealth... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> They
think abundance in ALL things. And as you receive abundantly, give
abundantly - in all things good; love, faith, charity and hope - a
helping hand - everything good in your life. Give all good things to
all people all the time and it will all come back to you, just like a
circle. Over and over again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://0.0.0.33/"><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>True wealth</b> is abundance in all that is good. True love is paying it forward forever...</span></i></div>
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Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-17383679359876180092013-08-04T05:17:00.001-07:002013-08-04T05:20:59.590-07:00Human Machine, Divine Engineer by Mike Corthell<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Good morning my friends.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman">Walt
Whitman</a> said, ''... your very flesh shall be a great
poem.'' </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> Except
for mature red blood cells all of the cells that make up our bodies
contain DNA. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA">DNA</a>
carries </span>all
of the information for your physical characteristics plus it has
recently been determined - collective memory. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> The <a href="http://geneticssuite.net/node/2">spiral
helix</a> is an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/dna-memory-rewritable-bit_n_1539032.html">exquisite
storage device</a> and has been considered a model for future organic
computer memory. </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 0.21in;"> Our
future on this planet depends on the lessons of our past, mistakes we
made but also our successes. Do you wonder were inventions come from, all those </span><span style="line-height: 20.15625px;">foundational</span><span style="line-height: 0.21in;"> ideas from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid" style="line-height: 0.21in;">Euclid</a><span style="line-height: 0.21in;">
to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci" style="line-height: 0.21in;">da Vinci</a><span style="line-height: 0.21in;">
to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein" style="line-height: 0.21in;">Einstein</a><span style="line-height: 0.21in;">?</span></span></span></div>
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in Bradley Park ” to the community once again. This year the park event has
expanded to include a business fair as well. As a way to help promote and build
commerce in Fryeburg all businesses, crafters, and food vendors are invited
-free of charge - to set up and be part of the fun in the park on Tuesday
evenings. You can learn more about area businesses, shop the different venues,
and sample great foods while enjoying a fun night of entertainment with friends
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Each Tuesday evening will start with a community dinner at 5:00pm at one of
the local churches or non-profits. All dinners are $8 for adults, $4 for
children, and under five are free. Vendors are open for business by 5:30pm in
the park and the concerts start at 6:30pm. Bring your blanket, family, and
friends and come spend some time in Bradley Park in Fryeburg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The first concert night on Tuesday, July 9th is known as “All About Kids”
starting with the PuppeTree Theatre from Vermont. PuppeTree tells stories
through the art of Marionettes and Rod Puppets. Come enjoy a highly visual, fun,
and memorable evening designed to entertain as well as educate all ages. The
PuppeTree Theatre is known as the best puppet show on earth. But that is not all
the evening offers! Our very favorite children’s entertainer, Bob Rutherford
will be with us with songs to dance and sing to. What better way to wrap up an
evening of fun than with free cake and ice cream sponsored by the Rotary of
Fryeburg. Pre-concert dinner will be held at the American Legion Hall on Bradley
Street in Fryeburg starting at 5:00pm to benefit Harvest Hills Animal
Shelter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On Tuesday, July 16th the fabulous acoustic duo, Middle Ground will have
you tapping your feet as they play a variety of genres with guitar, banjo,
fiddle, and flair. Peter and Cindy will entertain all age groups with folk and
bluegrass that will put a smile on your face. Pre-concert dinner will be held at
the American Legion Hall on Bradley Street in Fryeburg starting at 5:00pm to
benefit the North Fryeburg Community Chapel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Week three, Tuesday July 23rd, brings the ever popular Bennett
& Perkins. From the White Mountains of NH comes this unique blend of
harmonies and guitars. Kathy and Thom perform a startling array of originals
with powerful lyrics and melodies. You will not want to miss an evening of
exceptionally strong vocals and guitar playing. Pre-concert dinner will be held
at the Fryeburg New Church on Oxford Street in Fryeburg starting at
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Rounding out the month on Tuesday July 30th get your groove on with Al
Shafner & the Revtones. Dance and sing to the top 40 hits of the 50’s, 60’s,
and 70’s as the Revtones perform songs “you know by heart”. Put on your dancing
shoes and come wrap up the concerts in the park with a lively fun group.
Pre-concert dinner will be held at the Assembly of God Church (behind the Mobile
Station) in Fryeburg starting at 5:00pm.</span></div>
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these free concerts to the community. Thank you to the Bradley Park Committee
and the many people who help make these concerts possible. Rain location will be
at The Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Adacemy thanks to their generous
offering of a dry, safe, and awesome location. For more information please
email <a href="mailto:fba@fryebrugbusiness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:fba@fryebrugbusiness.com">fba@fryebrugbusiness.com</a></span></div>
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Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-36675241926953772412013-07-01T03:29:00.002-07:002013-07-01T03:29:37.525-07:00A High-Tech Tattoo Can Replace Your Passwords<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Motorola's senior vice president of advance research, Regina Dugan, shows off an electronic tattoo at the D11 conference in California. The tattoos, designed by Massachusetts-based firm MC10, are made from silicon and contain electronic circuits that bend and move with the wearer's body. The tattoos, called Biostamps, were designed for medical purposes to track a patient's health, but Motorola thinks the technology can be used for authentication purposes, as an alternative to traditional passwords.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">The hi-tech tattoo that could replace ALL your passwords: Motorola reveals plans for ink and even pills to identify us. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">The Moto X is expected to launch later this year and will be 'more contextually aware than other phones'. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">The Biostamp electronic tattoo is made of silicon and contains an electrical circuit, antennae and sensors that bend and move with the wearer's body. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Proteus Digital Health's 'vitamin authentication pill' is powered by acid in the wearer's stomach and creates an 18-bit signal picked up by mobile phone. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Motorola is trialling the technologies as authentication alternatives to non-secure traditional passwords...</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">This image shows the various parts that make up the MC10 electronic tattoo called the Biostamp. It can be stuck to the body using a rubber stamp, and protected using spray-on bandages. The circuit can be worn for two weeks and Motorola believes this makes it perfect for authentication purposes.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Another idea presented during the keynote talk at the Wall Street Journal conference with head of Motorola Dennis Woodside and senior vice president for advanced technology and products, Regina Dugan, was a swallowable pill. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Proteus Digital Health pill has already been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration and was given European regulatory approval in 2010.</span></div>
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Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-29681690458086452032013-06-28T14:25:00.000-07:002013-06-28T15:00:31.756-07:00Lakeview Management, Inc. (formerly New Medico) 21 Years of Disservice to Humanity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The following article appeared in the New York Times. The year? 1992. Very little has changed during these past 21 years. How many patients have suffered during that time? Hundreds? Thousands? How much money has been lost? Money that could have been spent to provide quality patient care. Much of the money lost is <u>your</u> money.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: #faf9f5;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 21px;">David Armstrong graduated from Perth College of Nursing (Scotland) in 1978. His 15 years of clinical psychiatric nursing included 4 years in a forensic unit. </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Since coming to America in 1988, Mr. Armstrong has worked for Lakeview NeuroRehabilitation Center. [Previously New Medico]</span></b><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> He held the positions of Case Manager, Program Director and Director of Quality Assurance prior to assuming the role of Administrator in 2005. </span><a href="http://lakeviewsystem.com/about/our-team/NH-Professional-team">MORE</a></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Bad care. Parents who said they were promised intensive therapy report finding quadriplegic children unattended, having lain for hours or days in vomit or feces. Others said their children's condition seriously deteriorated from neglect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Expensive rehabilitation programs that admit and keep patients who cannot benefit from them, simply to garner insurance payments. One researcher found that for an average nine-month stay, patients were charged $106,000 for treatment not justified by the results. Patients released after less than six months did just as well, the researcher found.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Companies instructing medical staff members to file false or misleading reports of patient progress to insurance companies, to keep patients in their programs until insurance coverage was exhausted. Robert E. Brabham, executive director of the National Association of Rehabilitation Facilities, an industry trade group, said the complaints represented only a small percentage of head-injury facilities.</span></div>
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<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Fri. May 31</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">5:30-7:30PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl71" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Barn Warming Party at Hardy Farm <span class="font5">- to celebrate the new look, 254 W. Fryeburg. Rd. - door prize</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Deb & Greg Link, owners</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl84" colspan="2" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0.5pt;" width="288"> RSVP AT: http://hardybarnwarming.eventbrite.com/#</td></tr>
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<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Fri. June 7</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">5PM & 6PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl71" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">First Friday Fireside Chats <span class="font5">at the Christian Science Readiing Room, Main St.</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">First Church of Christ, Scientist</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Linda Bradstreet</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl75" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134"> </td></tr>
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<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Sat. June 8</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">events begin at 10AM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl71" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">FA Alumni Weekend Events -<span class="font5">2PM annual meeting; parade 3PM; photos beginning 4 PM; banquet 6:15 PM</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Rachel Damon</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl73" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">935-2001 x3134</td></tr>
<tr height="84" style="height: 63pt;"><td class="xl67" height="84" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 63pt;" width="92">Sat. June 8</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">6:30-10 PM</td><td class="xl65" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503"><span class="font6">Sock Hop Dance</span><span class="font5">w/live band </span><span class="font8">The Spectras</span><span class="font5"> at Fryeburg Fair Specialty Food Pavilion - benefits Scholarship Fund. $10 single/$20 couple</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Mt. Washington Valley Old Car Club</td><td class="xl80" colspan="2" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0.5pt;" width="288">Limited Tickets. Order ahead or by chance at the door Bob & Anne Hatch 935-2081 Henry & Holly Foster 935-2915</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Sun. June 9</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">10AM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl71" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">FA Alumni Golf Ball Drop Fundraiser</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy Football Field</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Rachel Damon</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl73" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">935-2001 x3134</td></tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 15.75pt;" width="92">Fri. June 14</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">11-4PM</td><td class="xl71" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Fundraiser for Harvest Hills </td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Bridgton Printery</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Robby Bergeron</td><td class="xl73" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">647-8182</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Sat. June 15</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">8AM </td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl71" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Saco River Spring Cleanup</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Saco River Recreational Council</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Michelle Broyer</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">935-3395</td></tr>
<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Wed. June 19</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">7-10PM</td><td class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center<span class="font5"> - The Met Encore Series presents</span><span class="font8">Carmen</span><span class="font5">/dinner available</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Box Office Manager</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">935-9232</td></tr>
<tr height="84" style="height: 63pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="84" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 63pt;" width="92">June 19-23</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129"> </td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Family and Children's Activites<span class="font5">for the public at Fryeburg Fairgrounds</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Christian Motocyclists Assoc./ concessions at First Cong. Church Dairy Bar</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159"> </td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134"> </td></tr>
<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Fri. June 21</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">5-6:30PM</td><td class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Bradley Memorial Methodist Church [Fryeburg Harbor] -<span class="font5"> Turkey Dinner</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Bradley Memorial Methodist Church</td><td class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Linda Brown</td><td class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">890.5388</td></tr>
<tr height="105" style="height: 78.75pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="105" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 78.75pt;" width="92">Fri. June 21</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">5PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl82" width="502">First Day of Summer Beach Party <span class="font5">-beach wear, live music, all-you-can-eat buffet, giveaways. Profits from tiki bar to Fryeburg Rec. Dept. Sponsored by Twisted Tea.</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">302 West Smokehouse & Tavern</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Bob Wenthworth</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">935-3021</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td class="xl65" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Sat. June 22</td><td class="xl72" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">9:00AM</td><td class="xl76" width="502"><span class="font7">No. Fryeburg Chapel Yard Sale</span><span class="font0"> - on lawn of Chapel</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">North Fryeburg Community Chapel</td><td class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Faylene Rogers</td><td class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">697-3021</td></tr>
<tr height="40" style="height: 30pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl65" height="40" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 30pt;" width="92">Sat. June 22</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl72" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">8:00AM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl74" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="502">Golf Tournament<span class="font0">: shotgun start at Kezar Lake Country Club</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Area Rotary</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Judy Raymond</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">935-2155</td></tr>
<tr height="84" style="height: 63pt;"><td class="xl67" height="84" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 63pt;" width="92">Wed. June 26</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">7-9:45PM</td><td class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center <span class="font5">-</span><span class="font6"> </span><span class="font5">The Met Encore Series presents II</span><span class="font8">Trovatore</span><span class="font5">/dinner available</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Box Office Manager</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">935-9232</td></tr>
<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Sat. June 29</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">7PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center <span class="font5">- Fashion Show to benefit Mother Seton House</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy for Mother Seton House</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Ellen Belcastro</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">603-520-9828 tickets $10 at door</td></tr>
<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Thurs. July 4</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">10AM</td><td class="xl71" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">July 4th Parade -<span class="font5">from Fryeburg Academy Main Building to Bradley Park. Activities in the park to follow.</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Business Association</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Jeanne Andrews & Donna Woodward</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">925-1163 </td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Fri. July 5</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">4-7PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl71" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">First Friday Art Walk, <span class="font5">Main & Portland St. - serving refreshments</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Water's Edge Gallery</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Ivy Jordan</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl75" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">253-9060</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Sat. July 6</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">8-12AM</td><td class="xl71" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">First Church Missions Yard Sale<span class="font5">- on lawn of church</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Congregational Church</td><td class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Linda Russell</td><td class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">935-2972</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Sat. July 6</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">7:30PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl71" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center <span class="font5">- </span><span class="font8">Tim Sample</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Box Office Manager</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">935-9232</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Tues. July 9 </td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">5PM</td><td class="xl78" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="502">Benefit Spagetti Dinner <span class="font5">at American Legion Building, Bradley St.</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Harvest Hills Animal Shelter</td><td class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159"> </td><td class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134"> </td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Tues. July 9 </td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl72" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">5-8PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl79" width="502">Bradley Park Business Fair <span class="font0">- fair weather only</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="109">Fryeburg Business Association</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">David Chaffee</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">240.1643</td></tr>
<tr height="60" style="height: 45pt;"><td class="xl67" height="60" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 45pt;" width="92">Tues. July 9 </td><td class="xl72" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">6:30-8PM</td><td class="xl74" width="502">Bradley Park Concert Series <span class="font0">- PuppeTree - It's all about kids - Rain: PAC</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Business Association</td><td class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Donna Woodward</td><td class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">441.817</td></tr>
<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Wed. July 10</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">7-10PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center <span class="font5">- The Met Encore Series presents</span><span class="font8">Armida</span><span class="font5">/dinner available</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Box Office Manager</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">935-9232</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Tues. July 16 </td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">5PM</td><td class="xl78" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="502">Benefit Dinner <span class="font5">at American Legion Building, Bradley St.</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">North Fryeburg Community Chapel</td><td class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159"> </td><td class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134"> </td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Tues. July 16 </td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl72" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">5-8PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl79" width="502">Bradley Park Business Fair <span class="font0">- fair weather only</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="109">Fryeburg Business Association</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">David Chaffee</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">240.1643</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Tues. July 16 </td><td class="xl72" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">6:30-8PM</td><td class="xl74" width="502">Bradley Park Concert Series <span class="font0">-</span><span class="font10">Middle Ground</span><span class="font0"> - acoustic duo Rain: PAC</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Business Association</td><td class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Donna Woodward</td><td class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">441.817</td></tr>
<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Wed. July 17</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">7-9:30PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center - <span class="font5">The Met Encore Series presents LaTraviata/dinner available</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Box Office Manager</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">935-9232</td></tr>
<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Mon. July 22</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">7:30PM</td><td class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center<span class="font5"> -</span><span class="font6"> </span><span class="font8">Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival FA Concert 2013</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Box Office Manager</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">935-9232</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Tues. July 23 </td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">5PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl78" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="502">Benefit Dinner <span class="font5">at Church of the New Jerusalem, Oxford St.</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Church of the New Jerusalem</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159"> </td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134"> </td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Tues. July 23 </td><td class="xl72" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">5-8PM</td><td class="xl79" width="502">Bradley Park Business Fair <span class="font0">- fair weather only</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="109">Fryeburg Business Association</td><td class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">David Chaffee</td><td class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">240.1643</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Tues. July 23 </td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl72" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">6:30-8PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl74" width="502">Bradley Park Concert Series <span class="font0">-</span><span class="font10">Bennett & Perkins</span><span class="font0">- original songs duo, Rain: PAC</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Business Association</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Donna Woodward</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">441.817</td></tr>
<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Wed. July 24</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">7-9:20PM</td><td class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center<span class="font5"> -</span><span class="font6"> </span><span class="font5">The Met Encore Series presents</span><span class="font8">Turandot</span><span class="font5">/dinner available</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Box Office Manager</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">935-9232</td></tr>
<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Fri. July 26</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">5-6:30PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl82" width="502">Bradley Memorial Methodist Church [Fryeburg Harbor] -<span class="font5"> Turkey Dinner</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Bradley Memorial Methodist Church, 454 McNeil Rd.</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Linda Brown</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">890.5388</td></tr>
<tr height="84" style="height: 63pt;"><td class="xl67" height="84" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 63pt;" width="92">Sat. July 27</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">all day [1PM luncheon]</td><td class="xl71" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium;" width="503">Fryeburg Historical Society New Home Dedication, Portland St.<span class="font5"> -</span><span class="font6"> </span><span class="font5">AM horse drawn rides; 1PM luncheon & ice cream social; guided house tours</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Historial Society</td><td class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Diane & Ed Jones</td><td class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">697-3484</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Sat. July 27</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">4:30-7:00 PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl71" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Blueberry Festival<span class="font5">at the Masonic Hall, Portland St.</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">First Congregational Church</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Gail Nixon</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">697-3520</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Sat. July 27</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">7:30PM</td><td class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center - <span class="font8">Ricky Nelson Remembered</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Box Office Manager</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">935-9232</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Tues. July 23 </td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl72" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">5-8PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl79" width="502">Bradley Park Business Fair <span class="font0">- fair weather only</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="109">Fryeburg Business Association</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">David Chaffee</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">240.1643</td></tr>
<tr height="60" style="height: 45pt;"><td class="xl67" height="60" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 45pt;" width="92">Tues. July 30 </td><td class="xl72" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">6:30-8PM</td><td class="xl74" width="502">Bradley Park Concert Series <span class="font0">- </span><span class="font10">Al Shafner & the Revtone</span><span class="font0">s music from 50's, 60's & 70's, Rain: PAC</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Business Association</td><td class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Donna Woodward</td><td class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">441.817</td></tr>
<tr height="84" style="height: 63pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="84" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 63pt;" width="92">Wed. July 31</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">7-10PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center<span class="font5"> -</span><span class="font6"> </span><span class="font5">The Met Encore Series presents </span><span class="font8">II Barbiere di Siviglia</span><span class="font5">/dinner available</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Box Office Manager</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">935-9232</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Fri. Aug 2</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">4-7PM</td><td class="xl71" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">First Friday Art Walk, <span class="font5">Main & Portland St. - serving refreshments</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Water's Edge Gallery</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Ivy Jordan</td><td class="xl75" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">253-9060</td></tr>
<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Sat. Aug. 3</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">7:30PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center <span class="font5">- </span><span class="font8">The Corvettes Doo Wop Revue</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Box Office Manager</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">935-9232</td></tr>
<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Fri. Aug. 7</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">7PM</td><td class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center <span class="font5">- </span><span class="font8">Beauty and the Beast</span><span class="font5">, donations appreciated at the door</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Center Stage Theater</td><td class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Mary Bastoni-Rebmann</td><td class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">603-986-2221</td></tr>
<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Sat. Aug. 10</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">9AM-3PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Maine Street Arts and Craft Fair<span class="font5">, Bradley Park</span><span class="font6"> </span><span class="font5">- rain location at the Fryeburg Fair Crafts Pavillion</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Church of the New Jerusalem</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Jennifer Richardson</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">935-4509</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Sat. Aug. 10</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">9AM</td><td class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">New Church Annual Yard Sale <span class="font5">- 12 Oxford St.</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Church of the New Jerusalem</td><td class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159"> </td><td class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134"> </td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Sat. Aug. 10</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">1-6PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl71" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">North Fryeburg Chicken BBQ</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl65" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Saco Valley Fire Dept.</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl80" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">John Plowden, Chief</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="134">890.7576</td></tr>
<tr height="42" style="height: 31.5pt;"><td class="xl67" height="42" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 31.5pt;" width="92">Sat. Aug. 10</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">7:30PM</td><td class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center <span class="font5">- </span><span class="font8">Black Eagle Jazz Band</span></td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Box Office Manager</td><td class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">935-9232</td></tr>
<tr height="63" style="height: 47.25pt;"><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" height="63" style="border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 47.25pt;" width="92">Mon. Aug 12</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="129">7:30PM</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl70" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="503">Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center<span class="font5"> -</span><span class="font9"> </span><span class="font8">Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival FA Concert 2013</span></td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="110">Fryeburg Academy</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="159">Box Office Manager</td><td bgcolor="#e9e6d1" class="xl67" style="border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium;" width="135">935-9232</td></tr>
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Jim Dutton 935-2818</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bridgton Printery owner, Robby Bergeron speaks</span><span style="font-size: small;"> with<br /> Bridgton Town Manager, Mitch <strong><span class="style5">Berkowitz</span></strong></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The Bridgton Recreation Advancement Group was founded in 1997 in response to growing community interest in developing recreational facilities and programs to serve the entire community. A volunteer organization, BRAG has worked with local groups including the Bridgton Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Network for Coordinating Services for Elders and the Bridgton Congregational Church Outreach Committee to get a lot done! <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Laurie Carter-Bergin Memorial Field</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">community establish gymnasiums, helped create a multi-</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">generation center at the Bridgton Armory, sponsored Pondicherry Days’ Iron Kid competition and initiated the annual 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament, which has been running strong since 1998! One of the group’s greatest accomplishments came to fruition when, in 2005, we held a grand opening for the Bridgton Skate Park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> But the Bridgton Recreation Advancement Group’s greatest project to date is the Bridgton Community Recreation Complex. The Field was designed in 2006 around a 15.5 acre parcel of land donated by Ed and Rex Rolfe. More land came soon after, when first the town and then Ed donated additional acres, creating a total field area of over 21 acres. This would be enough land to build the facility we dreamt of. It truly is, as the Bridgton News’ Mike Corrigan put it, “One heck of a deal”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The Bridgton Community Recreation Complex will feature lighted fields for football, soccer, softball, and baseball, with 4 tennis courts, 2 basketball courts and a walking path that will circle the entire complex.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Though a lot of work has already been done, the Recreation Complex is in its early phases. Cost estimates for lighting and construction have been collected. The retention ponds have been designed, the field has been cleared, and initial funds have been raised. Grant applications have been filled out, providing us with thousands of dollars of free money - but only if we can raise matching funds through community donations.</span></div>
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Infield groomed and ready to go!</h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But why donate money to a town program? Because the Bridgton Recreation Advancement Group is NOT a town program. We have 501 c-3 status – in other words, we’re entirely volunteer driven. This is how we plan to bring a $2 million dollar field project to the region for a fraction of that cost and at practically no cost at all to the town. But we need help. We ask that community members donate time, lend their business to the local businesses who support us, and make whatever financial contributions they are capable of.</span></div>
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The Brag thanks its generous sponsors!</h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One way we are requesting donations is through sponsorship of one of our many athletic fields. Any community group or member can put his or her name on one of our fields, or on the entire complex. We are also selling benches and walking path stones which can be engraved with your name or the name of your family. Every dollar will go towards further developing this complex for community members of today and in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Bridgton Recreation Advancement Group meets at the Bridgton Town Office on the second Wednesday of every month at 7 PM. Please join us to see what we’re doing and find out how you can help this project happen.</span></div>
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Series. We want to know if you are interested in participating on site or just
be displayed with your business cards at the FBA table.<br /><br />Details regarding
the Fryeburg Business Association Business Fair are now in the works and we need
your interest and feedback.<br />*FMI email <a href="mailto:fba@fryebrurgbusiness.com" style="word-wrap: break-word !important;">fba@fryebrurgbusiness.com</a><br /><br />•
Vendor space is free<br />• You May set up an10X10 tent or simply set up a
table<br />• No reserve space - first come first serve<br />• Set up from 4:30 -
5:30<br />• Display time from 5:30 to 8:00<br />How likely are you to take
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concerns by e-mail to: </span><a href="mailto:fba@fryebrurgbusiness.com" style="color: #eb4102; font-size: 14px; word-wrap: break-word !important;">fba@fryebrurgbusiness.com</a><br /><br /></div>
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<tt style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://projects.nytimes.com/live-dashboard/2013-06-26-supreme-court-gay-marriage">'DOMA singles out class of persons deemed by State entitled to recognition and protection to enhance their own liberty'<br />Scalia dissent: 'Diseased root: an exalted notion of the role of this court in American democratic society'</a><br /><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/26/doma-ruling-means-gay-couples-can-immigrate/?cache">RULING: Gays can now sponsor foreign partners for immigration to USA</a><br /><a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/scalia-high-handed-kennedy-has-declared-us-enemies-of-the-human-race-20130626">SCALIA: Kennedy Has Declared Us 'Enemies of the Human Race'</a><br /><a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/in-supreme-court-gay-marriage-decision-justices-reach-for-equality-20130626">ALITO: 'Constitution Does Not Guarantee the Right to Enter Into a Same-Sex Marriage'</a> </span></b></tt></center>
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Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-82711645248221709252013-06-26T05:54:00.001-07:002013-06-26T06:21:47.342-07:00Stephen King! Professor Paddy-Whack is Looking for YOU!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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to benefit Harvest Hills Animal Shelter
I was pleasantly surprised when my old friend <a href="http://www.paddywhackmusic.com/">Rick Adam</a> stopped by. He said, ''Hi, Mike!
It's good to see you! Have you seen Stephen King today''? After talking with
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and around Bridgton because he lived here at one time and now summers in nearby
Lovell. On this particular day Stephen King was in town with a CBS production
crew shooting a promo for the new CBS summer mini-series, <a href="http://www.cbs.com/shows/under-the-dome/"><i><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Under the Dome</span></i></a>, which,
you guessed it, takes place in Bridgton, Maine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Rick wanted to show an
illustration he had drawn for his new singing book, <i><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Soup Can Sam</span></i>
– based on his <a href="http://www.rickadam.info/pages/videos/video-collection.html">vaudeville act for children</a>. Rick has included a drawing of King
in his book. (as it turned out, another friend of mine did see Stephen King
that day, across town at the <a href="http://www.bridgtonhospital.org/guild-thriftstore.html"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bridgton
Hospital Thrift Shop</span></a> and Rick did get the King illustration to
Stephen via the owner of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bridgton-Books/179021899789"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bridgton
Books</span></a>.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"His uncanny ability to both educate </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and delight, share and learn, and provoke </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">both laughter and tears for all ages </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">was evident throughout."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.rickadam.info/---resume.html">Rick Adam</a> has been performing, teaching, and inspiring people of all ages for over 20 years. Rick has combined his extensive theatrical and musical experience to create original theatrical performances that both educate and entertain. He has toured widely, from <a href="http://www.rickadam.info/--schoolprograms.html">elementary schools</a> to colleges to maximum-security prisons, from Rhode Island to Russia. Featured on stage, television, radio and film, Rick Adam has shared venues with Garth Brooks, Phyllis Diller, Dick Cavett, and the rock band Phish. He was featured on a PBS special about one-man bands, which is now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute. In 1998 & 2000 he performed for Bruce Springsteen at his home in New Jersey.</span><br />
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Rick Adam (<a href="http://www.rickadam.info/pages/theater/paddywhack.html">Professor Paddy-Whack</a>) is truly one of Maine's greatest entertainment treasures and this year, as in many years past, will be performing at the <a href="http://www.fryeburgfair.com/">Fryeburg Fair</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>- Mike Corthell, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fryeburg-Free-Press/247170108658677?ref=hl"><span style="color: black;">Fryeburg Free Press</span></a></b></span><br />
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Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-55140025400197451772013-06-25T18:11:00.004-07:002013-06-25T18:11:57.688-07:00Obama Names Himself Earth's SAVIOR<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-81430656211970344132013-06-25T16:51:00.002-07:002013-06-26T08:06:12.355-07:00New Ch. 3 Valley Vision Television Show: VALLEY FORUM <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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will have a new, one hour, issues driven television show named <i>Valley
Forum</i>. Initially we will be taping the show but eventually I would like to
go to a live, viewer call-in format much like the former <i>Point of View</i>
that aired a few years ago on Valley Vision.<br /><br /><b>WHAT WE
NEED:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Three regular panelists. (plus several
alternates)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Guests. (I will need from one to three guests per one
hour show, depending on the subject/issue)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Sponsors, (businesses and individuals) to defer
production costs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Volunteer Staff. (assistant director, continuity
editor, set design and public/guest relations)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Your ideas and suggestions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">If you would like to be part of this exciting
opportunity, either as a regular panelist, alternate, guest, staff or sponsor,
please get in touch with me as soon as possible.<br /><br />With the many political
issues that are ongoing and a brighter economy looming, I see this television
program as a great vehicle for all of us who care about our communities as well
as the greater business community.<br /><br />If you know of anyone that would like
to be part of this production, please feel free to forward this
memorandum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mike Corthell, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Executive Producer, </span><i style="font-family: Arial;">Valley
Forum</i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">603.986.8110</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><a href="mailto:mikecorthell@roadrunner.com">EMAIL</a> </span></div>
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Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-5381948251687890862013-06-25T03:41:00.003-07:002013-06-25T03:41:41.824-07:00OSHA Alleges 'Workplace Violence' in Citation Against Lakeview<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Another 'what the meaning of IS, is'?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">By Daymond Steer</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">EFFINGHAM — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued Lakeview NeuroRehabilitation Center a citation for allegedly exposing employees to aggressive clients who physically assault them. Lakeview is contesting OSHA.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"> According to OSHA, employees are "exposed to physical abuse while working with abusive patients by themselves." The citation is based on an inspection conducted between Dec. 6 and May 20. The inspection was a result of a complaint that was brought forward by former Lakeview employee Nancylee Berman who had been a teacher's assistant at Lakeview for about three months. Berman worked at Lakeview until the end of 2012.<br /> </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"> Berman said she left Lakeview so quickly because she felt the clients were not being served and because she felt her safety was in jeopardy because Lakeview admitted dangerous clients it couldn't handle. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.conwaydailysun.com/index.php/newsx/local-news/107791-osha-issues-citation-to-lakeview"><span style="color: #660000;">READ MORE</span></a><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span></div>
Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-53337621990230828662013-06-18T18:07:00.003-07:002013-06-18T18:07:35.330-07:00Endless Debate Over Genetically Modified Crops<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.pressherald.com/blogs/mainealacarte/149491605.html"><span style="color: black;">Nisha Swinton</span></a>, Food & Water Watch's organizer in Maine</span></h3>
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I’ll admit—I’ve never quite understood the obsession surrounding genetically modified (GM) crops. To environmentalist opponents, GM foods are simply evil, an understudied, possibly harmful tool used by big agribusiness to control global seed markets and crush local farmers. They argue that GM foods have never delivered on their supposed promise, that money spent on GM crops would be better funneled to organic farming and that <a href="http://topics.time.com/consumers/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">consumers</a> should be protected with warning labels on any products that contain genetically modified ingredients. To supporters, GM crops are a key part of the effort to sustainably provide food to meet a global population that is growing by the billions. But more than that, supporters see the knee-jerk GM opposition of many environmentalists as fundamentally anti-science, no different than the deniers on the other side of the political spectrum who question the basics of man-made <a href="http://topics.time.com/climate-change/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">climate change</a>. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Considering their agenda is a shade of red, <br />Food & Water Watch's graphic is quite droll.</span></h3>
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<a href="http://food%20%26%20water%20watch%20-%20wikipedia%2C%20the%20free%20encyclopedia/"><span style="color: black;">Here is one of the more rabid groups that are anti-corporate and some would say pro-communist. </span></a></div>
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For both sides, GM foods seem to act as a symbol: you’re pro-agribusiness or anti-science. But science is exactly what we need more of when it comes to GM foods, which is why I was happy to see the venerable journal <em>Nature</em> devote a special series of articles to the GM food controversy. You can download most of them for free <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/specials/gmcrops/index.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Nature">here</a>, and they’re well worth reading. The upshot: while GM crops haven’t yet realized their initial promise and have been dominated by agribusiness, there is reason to continue to use and develop them to help meet the enormous challenge of sustainably feeding a growing planet.</div>
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<a href="http://healthland.time.com/2010/09/20/6-genetically-modified-foods-that-changed-the-world/" style="color: black;">6 Genetically Modified Foods That Changed the World</a></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://science.time.com/2013/05/14/modifying-the-endless-genetically-modified-crop-debate/#ixzz2WcRa4Oxn" style="color: #003399; text-decoration: none;">http://science.time.com/2013/05/14/modifying-the-endless-genetically-modified-crop-debate/#ixzz2WcRa4Oxn</a></span></div>
Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-42315795434011162922013-06-18T17:39:00.001-07:002013-06-18T17:43:47.135-07:00HELP CELEBRATE FRYEBURG’S 250th BIRTHDAY!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE:</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">HELP CELEBRATE FRYEBURG’S
250th BIRTHDAY!</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Contacts: Jean Andrews,
207-925-1163, frogalley@fairpoint.net</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fryeburg will come alive on
the Fourth of July with its annual Children's Parade which will kick off
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Parade will be held on Thursday July 4,
2013</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> and will begin at 10:00 a.m. sharp (9:30</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a.m. line up) at the Main
Building of Fryeburg Academy and proceed down Main Street to Bradley
Park.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Organizers encourage
individuals, clubs, groups, camps and businesses to adorn your red, white and
blue, </span></strong><strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">join us and show your support
for our Community, Town and Nation. </span></strong><br />
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<strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Show the children of our
Community </span></strong><strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">that you are never to old to
have fun and help celebrate Fryeburg's 250th Birthday!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fryeburg Village businesses
are encouraged to decorate your store front for the festivities for a chance
to </span></strong><strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">win the "Spirit Award". </span></strong></div>
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<strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A
beautiful award is given each year for the business who puts forth effort
in </span></strong><strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">decorating for the holiday
and showing their Town Spirit. </span></strong><br />
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<strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">NEW this year is an additional award for
the </span></strong><strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">BEST FLOAT OR GROUP entry
into the Parade.</span></strong><br />
<strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Gather your friends, co-workers or club members
and</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">put together a float in
celebration of the holiday or Fryeburg's Birthday and you could walk away
with</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">bragging rights and a
trophy.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Everyone is encouraged and
welcome to join us immediately after the Parade, as the celebration
continues </span></strong><strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in Bradley Park with free
entertainment including: music, interactive play, prizes and contests. This
FREE </span></strong><strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">family event will help kick
off the start of the busy summer season. Nancy Ray and Audley Williams will </span></strong><strong style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">perform in Bradley Park
during the festivities.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Bakers are needed for the
Patriotic Pie contest, a crowd favorite! Please preregister by contacting
Jean</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Andrews at 207-925-1163.
Organizers are looking for volunteers to help with this event because “we
can’t</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></strong>
<strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We are looking
for judges, popcorn handlers, bouncy house guards, parade leaders and
more.</span></strong></div>
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contact Jean Andrews, 207-925-1163 or <a href="mailto:frogalley@fairpoint.net" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;">frogalley@fairpoint.net</a>.</span></strong></div>
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Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-23535525153643255012013-06-18T13:54:00.001-07:002013-06-18T13:54:00.406-07:00Fryeburg: Maine's Western Gateway <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The good citizens of the western Maine town of Fryeburg have a strong sense of pride in their community. As a new member of this community I share this pride. We have the Fryeburg Academy, the annual Fryeburg Fair, a beautiful welcoming residential area and a strong and growing group of businesses. But most of all we have us! We have an active, friendly and responsive citizenry that are ready, willing and able to make Fryeburg an even better place to live and work. We can become known as <i>Maine's</i> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>Western Gateway</i>. Read on for some ideas.....</span></div>
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About SFRRP</h3>
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The purpose of the Department of Housing and Community Development’s (DHCD) Single Family Residential Rehabilitation Program (SFRRP) is to help households finance home repairs that will:</div>
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Address building code violations,</div>
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Repair roofs,</div>
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Remove threats to health and safety, including lead-based paint hazards, and</div>
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Remove barriers to accessibility for persons with mobility or other physical impairments.</div>
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SFRRP Programs</h3>
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The Single Family Residential Rehabilitation Program (SFRRP) provides loans and grants with a possible maximum usage of up to $75,000 for home repairs. The funds assist households finance home repairs that will address DC building code violations, threats to health and safety, and roof repairs or replacement.</div>
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Roof Repair Program</h4>
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This Program is part of the SFRRP and provides grant of up to $15,000 to replace the roof. This grant pays for exterior roofing and gutter work only.</div>
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Handicapped Accessibility Improvement Program (HAIP)</h4>
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This Program provides a grant of up to $30,000 for improvements needed to remove physical barriers within a home for persons with mobility or other physical impairments.</div>
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Additional Benefit for Seniors</h4>
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Households where the head of household is 62 years or older may have the first $10,000 of their loan, provided as a permanently deferred loan. Deferral of additional amounts will be considered on a case-by-case basis.</div>
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Lead Water Service Line Replacement Program</h4>
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DHCD may provide up to $5,000 in grant funding to eligible homeowners to replace the privately-owned portion of the lead water service line. This funding is only available in cases where WASA is replacing the publicly-owned portion of the lead water service line.</div>
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Note: Loans and Grants under these Programs may be combined but cannot exceed the overall program maximum of $75,000. All Programs are subject to homeowner eligibility which is based upon the homeowner’s income</div>
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Assistance</h3>
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Under the SFRRP Program, DHCD provides funding of loans and grants, not to exceed a total of $75,000, to the household. The program provides financing through low or 0% amortized loans, for up to 20 years and deferred loans (not payable until the home is sold, transferred or refinanced).</div>
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Under the SFRRP umbrella, homeowners can use the funding for two of the following grant programs:</div>
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A Roof Repair grant of up to $15,000 to replace the roof. This grant pays for exterior roofing and gutter work only.</div>
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The “Handicapped Accessibility Improvement Program” (HAIP), provides a grant of up to $30,000 for improvements needed to remove physical barriers within a home for persons with mobility or other physical impairments. In addition, households where the head of household is 62 years or older may have the first $10,000 of assistance provided as a permanently deferred loan. Deferral of additional amounts will be considered on a case-by-case basis.</div>
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Eligible applicants must:</div>
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Own and live in their homes as their primary residence for at least 3 years,</div>
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Be current on all District and federal taxes,</div>
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Be unable to obtain private financing for the needed repairs,</div>
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Have an acceptable credit report,</div>
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Have current homeowners insurance, and</div>
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Have household incomes that are no greater than the levels shown below.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">** I truly believe that Fryeburg, Maine, positioned between the very popular North Conway and the up and coming tourist powerhouse of Bridgton-Naples, is absolutely primed for measured progress and indeed excellence as model for the American experience. An experience that will show respect for the past, an unparalleled quality of life in the present - for all our residents. We have a friendly business environment that will provide a solid tax base for town services.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">I have a vision for Fryeburg and it is a bright one. I was drawn to this wonderful town by a strong sense of belonging and opportunity. I call on of you now to join me in this exciting endeavor.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div>
Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-19978146396547181252013-06-18T05:02:00.002-07:002013-06-18T05:47:14.526-07:00Newburyport Massachusetts: An Example for Fryeburg, Maine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Despite its former prosperity, in the 1950s and 1960s Newburyport's center fell into disrepair because of several factors, most notably strip malls taking away from local business and increased use of the automobile. At this time construction of major highways brought larger cities such as Lawrence and Lowell into shopping range. Consequently, by 1970 Newburyport's historic downtown section was scheduled to be razed prior to reconstruction with federal money. Ideas to rebuild the city's downtown were numerous, ranging from hotels and new stores to, ironically, a strip mall, with few buildings left for historical reasons. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><u>At the last moment, however, the city changed its mind and signed a federal grant that allowed it to keep most of its historic architecture.</u></span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Renovation and restorations began during the early 1970s, and continued throughout most of the decade, initially along State Street, and culminating with creation of a pedestrian mall along Inn Street. Newburyport is often cited as an example by preservationists of how to maintain a city's architecture and heritage, while still having it remain functional and livable. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I lived close by in Amesbury and witnessed Newburyport's transformation - it was absolutely stunning.</span><br />
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Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-16138426653268906102013-06-18T03:59:00.002-07:002013-06-18T03:59:44.029-07:00SHADY DEALING: Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in MAINE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LEWISTON — Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield wants to form a new insurance plan with MaineHealth. And it wants the state to keep the details of that plan secret as it seeks approval from the Maine Bureau of Insurance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now it's asking a judge to make Anthem's application public and to give the public more time to comment on it before the bureau decides whether to approve the new insurance plan. </span></div>
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Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-78417270791084927082013-06-18T02:38:00.002-07:002013-06-18T02:40:10.633-07:00Expanding Fryeburg's TAX BASE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Last Thursday we held our annual town meeting at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center. Most of the articles passed easily and things went smoothly except for a few articles which were questioned about their cost.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">The article asking to spend up to $700,000 to build a new town office and police station at 395 Portland Street, was rejected by secret ballot, 100 to 31 votes. Even though I voted for the purchase, I understand that most tax payers are reluctant to fork over their hard-earned money — but we need to upgrade Fryeburg’s infrastructure — now. It will only get more expensive as the years roll on.</span></span></div>
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Michael Corthellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008362659696340222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7152693707745296963.post-13818375727381702752013-06-16T16:53:00.000-07:002013-06-16T17:04:00.569-07:00Expand Fryeburg's Tax Base<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #073763;">Fryeburg:</span></i>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We
Expand Fryeburg's Tax Base:</span></div>
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<li><span style="line-height: 0.2in;">Nurture
and support local businesses to create new jobs, which will in turn
increase tax revenues.<br /></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 0.2in;">Recruit
new, larger employers to the community, focusing on those that have
values in common with Fryeburg's vision – they will bring with
them good paying jobs and new residents.<br /></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 0.2in;">Strategically
market the town to new residents, targeting middle and high-income
families, and young professionals.<br /></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 0.2in;">Instill
in the community the philosophy that shopping and conducting
business locally gives Fryeburg the resources it needs to maintain
and improve its quality of life.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>''For anyone to carry on a successful business they must have imagination. They must <a href="http://www.empowernetwork.com/annexempower/why-visualization-is-so-vital-to-your-success/">visualize success</a>, and dream the whole thing in advance.'' </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">- Mike Corthell</span></blockquote>
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