Kennebec Journal from Augusta, Maine • 1

iOTlS --I I -r -rV-s- 1 1 -w rt --4 'r 7 e- 4 I ifH Ittfc ilH Wfl J( fr i 1 SPORTS John Jenkins helps students learn about self-esteem PAGE 9 9 we make It Gov Angus King i- i i i-- i i I Pieces all come official: King is 71st governor the inauguration By GARY 1 REMAL Staff Writer AUGUSTA Long after 4-year-old Beqjamin King was bedded down at the Blaine House his father still was at the Augusta Civic Center shaking hands after his inauguration as Maine's newest governor Angus King was true to his pledge to shake the hand of everyone who Maine National Guard troops to guard King The governor's body-: guard tried to use a barricade to separate him from the crowd but King soon asked to have it removed and the meetings became much more personal And at the end of an exhausting day 71st governor and the new first lady Mary Herman looked weary but happy tired elated excited And King said as he embraced his wife after the last wellwisher had filed past felt good about it At least everything -happened on time the video worked and the tape Few people among the audience of nearly 6000 remained unmoved by thematic but emotional speech and his narration of a short movie about Maine I like the the ceremony set King said afterward lot of people came through and said they liked the speech and that it would bring us As the audience fcpplauded after his inaugural address mother Ellen King beckoned to her By NANCY PERRY aad JOSHUA WEINSTEIN Gay Gaaaett Service Seven hours before being sworn in as governor Angus King was hunched over a laptop computer typing tweaking my the governor-elect sud Actually he was doing more than tweaking He was feeding his inaugural address into the TdePrompTer Then his cellular plume fang It was state Sens Beverly Bustin and Norm Ferguson told me officially been elected" King said a good thing I have my speech ready" Then he glanced at the laptop di Maine people tell me ready Our legislators tell me ready I am ready This will be the year pp Gov Angus King comes in" Broder explained we call him And in past inaugurations the governor-elect was introduced with the same musical flourish that opens "Hail to the Very bad form Broder learned and is for the president she said So she turned to Kavqh Haghker dar commander of the Maine Maritime Academy Baiid for help Haghkerdar whose father wrote the Maine Inaugural Processional March wrote a new introduction a 15-second gubernatorial salutation Two hours before being' inaugurated Angus King showed he can rule a pool table After a Blaine House luncheon King and his three sons stepped into the billiard room There King made a seemingly impossible shot resting the cue behind his back and banking a ball off two rails before it dropped gracefully See: PIECES Page! son wanted to greet him after taking the oath of office For more than two hours after the ceremony King Chief Justice Daniel Wathen Senate President Jeffrey Rutland and House Speaker Dan Gwadosky stood and talked with thousands of wellwishers Security wu extraordinary with State Police Augusta Police and For Lee Broder who organized Thursday inauguration details are everything In past inaugurations the incoming governor was introduced as Not Thursday be governor yet when he "She said I say King quoted his mother See: KING Page 2 Gov Angus King is kissed by his wife Mery Herman after taking the oath of office In Augusta on Thursday IB Gardiner cold shoulders plan to end committees Mobile homes roll into in WEATHER: Morning sun Increasing Clouds later in the day High 32 Snow likely after midnight Low of 25 Saturday snow may mix with sled at times High 33 The lowest temperature Thursday was 22 below zero ip West Yellowstone Mont the high was 77 in Tavernier Fla PAGES LOTTERY: The Tri-State Lottery daily numbers drawn Thursday were 1 3 3 and 2 8 9 8 homes-likely is because of two factors said dty services director Mark Guimont: increases in both' young families just starting out and older residents moving from larger homes to smaller more affordable mobile homes But he noted he be those are the reasons why the increase is taking Iilace nor what the mpact on dty services will productive Issues can become bogged down she said especially if they are bounced between commitltees Sometimes not everyone knows what has happened when the issues do reach the full council seems to me that it really slows dowp the process of getting things Kulow told councilors we had the whole council listening to all the issues all the time it-wotud eliminate a lot of -the problems having with some councilors saying hear or get this Kulow said she had worked without committees as manager in East port and in Platteville Wis slightly larger than' Gardiner The system worked well in both places she said Gardiner councilors used to resolve issues in full session Colwell See: GARDINER Page 2 By MIKE LABERGE Staff Writer GARDINER City Manager Rosemary Kulow was trying to speed things up when she suggested dissolving the City network of committees But she quickly learned that some things are better left untouched When Kulow introduced the idea Tuesday night councilors defended their turf The committees they' argued allow councilors to work out issues in advance of votes Eliminating them could drag things out see the value of Councilor Patrick Colwell of Ward 5 and head of the coordinating committee said of proposal seems to me going to get dragged down even further in trying to get everyone up to In proposing an end to the five standing committees Kulow- had hoped to make the council more -I- By DOUG VANDERWEIDE Staff Writer AUGUSTA Through the outskirts of the dty there's a boom going on Mobile homes and manufactured housing units are popping up everywhere in Augusta growing from an estimated 85 units in 1980 to nearly 800 in 1990 according to census date nearly a tenfold increase in just 10 years At an average of two per home this puts about eight in 100 residents in a manufactured or mobile home The growth in that' type of housing is keeping a quick pace today Last year 16 new stick-built homes went up in town 39 mobile hornet were placed on lots the only Kind of private home ownership some people can afford" said Robert Gingras of the master planning committee good and bad If they are well-maintained and well-constructed mobile homes 1 see it as a detriment at all Butjiike other housing if it well-maintained or well-built it can be a The boon in mobile and manufactured Am Landers 19 Classified Ads 22-28 Comics 19 Community 1 2 Crossword 119 Entertainment 21 Horoscope 9 Letters 7 Local News 9-11 Maine News 11 Nation News 3 14 Obituaries 10 Opinion 6-7 Sports 15-1820 Stocks 5 Tonight's TV 21 World News 414 increase) is not disturbing to he said is important for policy-makers to understand been little research at City Center into why the explosion in mobile homes has occurred said Guimont Implications of the growth are unknown although Guimont suspects schools will be affected See: CITY Page!.