Morning Sentinel from Waterville, Maine • 9

WATERVILLE: Board to review plans for the Alfond Youth Center on Monday Page 16 Hloniiiui rntincL I Saturday November 1 1997 9 Waterville editor: Timothy Allen 873 3341 Ext 248 A new wrinkle Colin Hickey A lunchroom visit with 6 year olds riday is the day I join my first grader for lunch at the ele mentary school cafeteria It is not a dining experience This is the first lesson you learn when eating with about 190 6 year olds Dining is the last activity on their minds when they enter the room that is the pedagogic equivalent of a Transformer w'hich if you know is a cool toy that looks like a robot but with a few twists there and a few turns here becomes a racing car or a space ship or an ocean liner or a fire truck or a triple headed lizard mon ster you get the idea This is not to say the cafeteria sometimes becomes a triple headed lizard monster although from the sounds of the place at times think a triple headed lizard monster with a big appetitevas at large This incidentally if it were actually ever to occur would not be cause for alarm fellow parents Your children would be perfectly safe because the triple headed lizard monster could easily gorge on uneaten cafeteria food to his belly breaking limit on a daily basis and thus would have no room left to eat even the smallest first grader TRANSORMER But let me get back to the trans former analogy Elementary school cafeterias are the ultimate in multi purpose rooms and this possibly is one explanation of why lunch with first graders and a dining experience are mutually exclusive terms At any given time the cafeteria might be a gymnasium or an assem bly hall or a voting center or a book fair or the theater for the school play My theory is this causes great confu sion among some young learners: not sure whether they should eat their lasagna with buttered roll and side dish of sliced pears or exer rise their suffirage rather practice the suffrage they are bound lo obtain in the next millennium But more likely the problem has to do with exercise in the more tradi tional sense irst graders would rather chew the fat on the monkey bars than digest the fat on their lunch trays This is a general truth among young human beings They prefer swing sets to sustenance At some point and it varies among individuals Uiis flip flops and the child who be bothered to eat a fraction of his or her lunch becomes the adult who would rather cut off a few fingers than exercise for 20 minutes three times a week On the other hand a hand that assume still has all its digits intact this same adult has developed the ability to eat with a healthy appetite at any time and at any location even in a cafeteria that can transform into a gymnasium or assembly hall or vot ing center or book fair or theater for the school play PLAY THEN EAT What we have here then is a most out of balance situation in regard to eating and exercise But fear not a possible solution to Ulis sit uation a strategy that just might make lunch with first graders a din ing experience and at the same time prevent the dining experience from turning these same children into the scale busting sloths of the future Pfeow HICKEY Page 10 Council seats on airfield ballot By DARIA PICKETT Stall Writer AIRIELD our residents will be vying for two seats on the airfield Town Council when polls open Tues day at the airfield Community Cen ter Polls will be open from 8 am to 8 pm Voters will be choosing from be tween ranklin Bouchard William Chinnock Carolyn Iovine and Richard Spear Candidates were asked why they were running for office and polled for opinion on construction of the Williamson Arts Technology Center hope to bring to the town council continued stability and encourage new businesses to settle in airfield to broaden our tax said Bouchard a certified public account with an of fice in airfield The candidate said he would also work to or hold the mill rate in Bouchard said he is supportive of having the Williamson Arts and Tech nology Center built and currently is treasurer of the group trying to raise funds for the center Bouchard said he grew up in air field graduated from Lawrence High School and in 1979 after finishing col lege began working at his ac counting practice He has operated the business with his mother since his fatherdiedin 1989 Currently treasurer for the YMCA gymnastic boosters club Bouchard is member of the Parish Planning Min istry at his church the Immaculate Heart of Mary Involved with his children's sports RICHARD SPEAR Age: 51 Residence: Lawrence Avenue TH Occupation: Latin history English instruc tor at Law rence High School Education: Bowdoin Col lege degree Brown University amily: Wife Shyla Spear 26 years Daughter Alison in California RANKLIN BOUCHARD Age: 42 Residence: High Street Maria (erris) 2 daughters Danielle 8 Occupation: Certified Public Accountant Education: Bachelor of sci ence in ac counting mas ter's degree in taxation Bent ley College amily: wife Christina 11 teams and religious education Bouchard said the town needs people to become involved in the community need to be dealt with in a professional manner step by he said Chinnock said he wants to take an active role in improving the communi ty He has a plan on how that can be accomplished irst said Chinnock he would work to cut taxes which he believes are too high also would bring businesspeople into the running of the Chin nock said the economy slows down you need to make the hard calls so that the town is still an affordable place for people to live until (the econ omy) turns Chinnock supports development of a strategic plan for future including a plan for downtown water is not he I would look hard at our ed ucation system and decide what we could do to improve the quality of our education and lower tk Chinnoik said Chinnock said he was in the initial talks with the Williamn project but has been of the since then Iovine said of her candidacy she hopes to be able to do her share for a town she enjoys is something wanted to do for a while she said been interested in politics and this opportu nity became available so I threw my hat in the Raised in Staten Island NY Iovine has lived in Maine for eightyears and WILLIAM CHINNOCK Age: 49 Residence: Ridge Road years one son Occupation! president' owner of The Artist Group Inc Education: Newark Acade my Upsala College amily Wife Terry 21 CAROLYN IOVINE Age: 33 Residence: Silver Street Occupation: Certified Educa tion Technician working in spe cial education at Lawrence Ju nior High School Education aith School of Theology amily: Husband red and daughter Rachel 4 Charleston Maine in airfield for about four months She said she has no opinion on the Williamson Center issue but hopes to work hard for thepity like to come up with a plan where we can have our services and perhaps find other ways to pay for them besides constantly raising Iovine said Iovine said she has worked in schools out of state and is in the pro cess of getting her Maine certification Of the council slot Iovine said a quick learner and a good listener" A teacher of Latin history and En glish at Lawrence High School and 16 year resident in town Spear is anx ious to do his share for the town continuing success of our Maine tradition of local self govern ment depends upon the willingness of citizens to take time from their busy personal lives in order to serve the community" Sear said Spear says he hopes to bring the community together ago I concluded that town government works best when elected officials recall that they are part of a cooperative effort not warriors cho sen to undermine particular measures or harass public employees" Spear said he has been vocal on on public issues and voters should have little doubt as to his priorities Of the Williamson Center Spear says: is long overdue 1 urge people to vote for the referendum and money for additional seating so it be too small right from day Spear said the trust fund offers the school system and town a Please set CQUNCIL Page 10 Voters to decide proposal to tap more from endowment By DARLA PICKETT Staff Writer AIRIELD A referendum that would hand the school system another 514 million from a town managed trust fund will appear on the Nov 4 ballots of the four towns that comprise School Administrative District 49 Albion Benton Clinton and airfield voters will be asked to allocate the money from the Bert Williamson endow ment for more auditorium seats equip ment and technology for the Williamson Arts and Technology Center The trust fimd already was tapped last year for $33 million to build the center airfield is the only one of the towns that has an additional local referen dum and local elections A second referendum question asks airfield voters to transfer $20000 from surplus to provide more money for economic developmenL Town officials have said the money will be used in part to expand the hours of the economic development director and hire clerical help in that office to work on reports and brochures to promote airfield The airfield ballot includes a four way race for a vacancy on the town council and a three way challenge for two scats on the school board In other elections William Bois is the only candidate for the remaining year of a three year term on the coun cil from which Councilor rank Stankevitz recently resigned Karen Kusiak is the only candidate for one two year term on the SAD 49 board and James A Grenier is the single candidate for a one year term as school board director cigarettes the new tax Another convenience store the Big Apple on Elm Street also reported sales were up and supplies down been pretty said clerk Jeff Clark have much left But if we had them we would have sold them I heard a lot of people pay ing they were going to red Karter owner of Jokas Dis count Beverage Mart on ront Street said cigarette sales were two or three times more than normal Mike DroleL a manager at Shop Save on Kennedy Memorial Drive reported a similar jump in sales had quite a few people mention to me that they were buying two or three cartons instead of one" Drolet said fact we ran out of cartons of certain brands and customer? were asking if they could buy 10 packs and pay the price of a Russ Wheeler manager of Rite Aid on Main Street said he saw no dra matic sales increase the last couple of weeks had an increase of 10 or 15 per cent" Wheeler said today the only big run is on Halloween candy" Smokers stock up on By JOHN BANKS Staff Writer WATERVILLE Many local smok ers have found a temporary way to beat the new cigarette tax which kicks in Saturday and increases the price of a carton of cigarettes by as much as $4 They took time riday to buy cigarettes in volume Luke Murdock a clerk at Smoke Shop on Main Street in Water ville said sales riday were far greater than usual Some customers spent as mudi as $100 on cigarettes had a mad run on cigarettes today" Murdock said is also the day we do a lot of business be cause state checks are given out That combined with the fact that cigarettes are going up tomorrow made for a heck of a Murdock said cartons not packs were the hottest sellers soldinany more cartons than usual At least four customers bought eight cartons" Murdock said customers bought 10 cartons each guy bought seven cartons and said he had another eight at Luke Murdock Smoke Shop One guy bought seven cartons and said he had another eight at home if teen cartons ought to last him through the weekend I Murdock said those sales all took place during his four hour shift riday afternoon Some smokers who do not want to stop puffing stopped at the Puffin Stop to stock up Cindy Nielsen deck at the Pleasant Street convenience store said cigarette sales had been heavy all day have a lot left" Nielsen said (management) cut the supply way down and kept the supply low so they wouldn't have to deal with Remembering Maggie the Proceeds will go to a fond that helps By JOE RANKINStall' Writer SKOWHEGAN Teacher Blaine Sites remembers the time in 1992 when Margaret Chase Smith captivat ed some skeptical teen agers with her complete attentiveness her interest in teen issues and got a hug ana a rose in return ormer con gressional staffer Eliza beth Bryden re members the day Sen Smith got into line in the carry out section of the Senate Office Rnilrlinff cafete ria and rather SMITH than using her clout to go to the front of the line said You were all here first take my place in Tamara Anderson remembers how Smith helped her a per bom in China of Russian parents make it to the United States The three are among 50 neighbors friends acquaintances and admirers who share their reminiscences of one erf best known citizens in an upcoming book: Can I do for You: The People Remember Mar garet Chase Smith" The 170 page book is being pub lished by Central Maine Printing and Publishing I is scheduled for release in December in honor of what would have been 100th birthday schoolchildren visit the Margaret Chase Smith Library Smith died on Memorial Day in 1995 There have been other books writ tea about the woman senator from Maine who spent 33 years in the US House and Senate and was famous for standing up to Red baiting Sen Joseph McCarthy But Smith admirer Herbert Par adis Jr who came up with the idea for the latest work said this one is differ ent book win be testimony to the type of person she really was as told by her many friends across the coun try This is the human element It comes from the heart of each of thecontributors" said Paradis Gregory Gallant director of the Margaret Chase Smith Library said the book will help emphasize humanity and solidify her as an ideal public who truly cared about her constituents will address a side of Sen Smith that a standard scholarly biography said Gallant important aspect of Sen legacy as a role model is that she truly cared about people and their problems as much as sitting on the Armed Services Committee or ham mering out a treaty with the Soviet 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