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January 30, 2015
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Employment
New Year’s Resolutions for
Wisdom on the go
By Rebecca Webber.
Holidays in December
are upon us and it's time
for family members to
seek legal advice at family gatherings...my Aunt
Gladys is one example.
She cornered me at a
family gathering and told
me she was a landlord of
several buildings with a
number of "helpers" and
asked if her helpers were
employees. She said she
was just doing business as
herself to keep it simple.
Fortunately, panic around
the holidays is nothing
new.
What's the first concern
here? That she's running a
business without the protection of incorporating
and it's one full of liability
issues ranging from accidents on her properties to
lawsuits for not meeting
code to employee claims.
Running a sole proprietorship means that all
that you own personally
is there for a successful
lawsuit to take away from
you. Time for Aunt Gladys to meet with an accountant about what corporate
form makes tax sense and
an attorney about setting
that corporation up as
soon as possible.
Second
concern?
Sounds like Aunt Gladys has employees, or at
least some who may be
employees. She needs
to look at the new (as of
Jan. 2013) combined test
for independent contractors under Maine law and
also the test that the IRS
has. The analysis will be
an individual one for each
person.
Finally, Aunt Gladys
needs to keep records on
her "helpers", particularly
the ones she ought to be
calling employees (the
word now in HR terms is
not workers or employees
but "talent"). So here are
some tips for dealing with
your "talent":
Have one or more employees? Then make
"document" into a verb.
All you need is one employee to be covered by
the Maine Human Rights
Act as well as a number
of other state and federal
laws. To protect yourself
from claims against you,
you will need to "docu-
ment" what happens with
that employee; for example, discipline needed,
attendance, work habits,
hours, money paid, important communications
with them. The time taken
now is a lot less time and
expense later . . . It is all
about reducing risk. Documentation in a file need
not be fancy but it should
be readable, professional
in tone and language, and
done at the time of the
events it describes. It's
ok to document behavior
later on but best to do it at
the time.
Be accurate.
Be accurate, proofread,
get your facts straight, and
check your sources when
writing up something
about an employee, especially paperwork about
discipline or termination.
Errors in the document
you write up not only create a distraction from the
point of what you're trying
to document but also can
lead to claims later that
the documentation about
bad behavior is just as inaccurate as your dates or
other details you didn't get
right.
Let's say you are writing
up a warning for an employee and you get your
dates wrong on when they
were a no-call, no show,
AND you have a couple
days in there when the employee actually worked. If
the issue ever went to a
court or the Maine Human
Rights Commission, it's
going to be harder to find
your write-up reliable and
believable when it has so
many mistakes.
Provide details.
I had a case where the
employee was fired for
"lack of professionalism."
That was it for detail. The
employer lost at the unemployment hearing because the documentation
was so vague and the attempts to explain it later
sounded weak because it
hadn't been provided the
first time around.
The employee had actually failed to follow a
client's treatment plan,
had gotten involved in the
treatment of a person not
their client, and had purposefully undermined the
Wisdom conti. pg. 7
Business Owners
Like anyone else, business owners can begin
the New Year by vowing to lose weight and revisit
their insurance coverages during 2015. However,
you probably should make (and implement) a separate set of resolutions to help your company prosper this year. Here are some suggestions you can
consider:
• Turn over your paperwork. Finish your financial
statements and related supporting materials from
2014. Make hard copies of online files and store
them where they'll be accessible for tax return preparation. Be sure you can locate your 2014 appointment book, in order to substantiate business meetings, and that you have recorded odometer readings
of vehicles that were used for business in 2014.
Then start new files for your 2015 financials,
travel, entertainment, and so on.
• Follow through on the forms. In January, you'll
need to send W-2 forms to employees, reporting
their wages, as well as Form 1099 to contractors
and other recipients to whom you paid over $600
last year. If you use a payroll service, follow up to
make sure it has the needed information; if you use
a software program to track outside payments, pick
up blank 1099 forms at an office supply store for
printing the documents you must send.
Our office can help if you run into obstacles
sending these required forms on time.
• Execute a buy-sell agreement. If you don't already have a formal buy-sell in place, work on
getting it done in 2015. Without a buy-sell, your
family may not get full value for your stake in the
company in case of your death or disability.
• Update your buy-sell. A buysell often will set a
price for the buyout, or a method for arriving at an
acceptable amount. If you already have a buy-sell
in place, check on the stated price and revise it, if
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• Hold meetings. If you operate your business as
a corporation, you may be required to hold directors' and shareholders' meetings at least annually.
The beginning of the year can be an excellent time
to hold such meetings, to set formal plans for 2015.
At these meetings, you can update bylaws, cover
buy-sell agreements, and generally take care of
business. Make sure the meeting's discussions are
well-documented and a record is entered into your
corporate minutes.
If relevant, hold your directors' meeting first, so
you'll be prepared to answer questions at the shareholders' meeting. In any event, you also might want
to hold a meeting for employees, to tell them your
plans for the year ahead and boost their enthusiasm.
• Review your website. Change all 2014 references to 2015. Remove any references to year-end
holidays and replace with more timely materials.
Go over all the content on your site, from personnel bios to company news, to be sure everything is
up to date.
• Scrutinize your social media presence. Savvy
participation can be a key to future growth. Do
you have accounts at the major networks as well
as those that are gaining ground? Do your website
and marketing materials reflect those connections?
You might want to have young employees (or the
teenage children of older ones) evaluate your efforts there and make suggestions.
On a related topic, does your company offer
products or services that are evaluated on thirdparty websites? If so, you might want to assign
an employee or hire a contractor to monitor such
sites and see what people are saying about your
firm. Any negative comments can be addressed by
online responses and by in-house attention to any
revealed problems.
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Ice: Is It Safe?
V. Paul Reynolds
Each year about this
time, the Maine Warden
Service urges us to use
extreme caution before
venturing out onto any
ice that may be covering
Maine’s waterways.
This is timely advice.
Last winter three nighttime snowsledders all
perished in one night on
Rangeley Lake when they
and their machines broke
through thin ice.
Many of Maine’s lakes
and ponds may appear to
be frozen, however safe
ice conditions cannot be
assumed.
Ice conditions vary
greatly throughout the
state, and while ice
conditions may be safe
in some spots, conditions
can be very dangerous in
others. The Maine Warden
Service is recommending
that people check the
thickness of any ice before
venturing out for any
activity on frozen water.
If you must go on the
ice, the Maine Warden
Service offers these tips
for ice safety:
· Never guess the
thickness of the ice Check it! Check the ice
in several different places
using an auger or some
other means to make a test
hole and determine the
thickness. Make several,
beginning at the shore,
and continuing as you go
out.
1) Check the ice with a
partner, so if something
does happen, someone is
there to help you. If you
are doing it alone, wear a
lifejacket.
· If ice at the shoreline
is cracked or squishy, stay
off! Watch out for thin,
clear or honeycombed ice.
Dark snow and dark ice
are other signs of weak
spots.
· Avoid areas with
currents, around bridges
and pressure ridges. Wind
and currents can break ice.
· Parents should alert
children of unsafe ice in
their area, and make sure
that they stay off the ice. If
they insist on using their
new skates, suggest an
indoor skating rink.
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Inches of Ice
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Clear Blue Ice
1) Unsafe for humans
2) One person on foot
3) Group in a single file
4) Snowmobiles &
ATV’s
7) Passenger car (2 tons)
8) Light truck (2.5 tons)
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baked bean supper on Saturday, Feb 21st from 4:30 to
6:00PM in the Fellowship
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The home cooked menu
includes homemade baked
beans, hotdogs, coleslaw,
rolls, dessert and beverage.
Take outs are available.
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for clear blue ice on lakes
and ponds.
Reduce the strength
values by 15% for clear
blue river ice.
Slush ice is only 50%
the strength of blue ice.
If you break through the
ice, remember:
· Don’t panic.
· Don’t try to climb out
immediately - you will
probably break the ice
again. Reach for solid ice.
· Lay both arms on the
unbroken ice and kick
hard. This will help lift
your body onto the ice.
Once on the ice, roll,
DON’T WALK, to safety.
· To help someone who
has fallen through the ice,
lie down flat and reach
with a branch, plank or
rope or form a human
chain. Don’t stand. After
securing
the
victim,
wiggle backwards to the
solid ice.
Again,
snowsledders
take note. Snowsledding
at night on frozen
waterways can be tricky
business, especially for
those unfamiliar with the
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Thatcher Freund To Speak
at Readfield HS Meeting
Readfield
Historical
Society’s Annual Winter
Meeting will take place
on Saturday, February
7th, upstairs in the Town
Office, the usual place.
The business meeting
will be first, at 1:00PM
after which there will be
yummy refreshments. At
2:00PM the speaker will
begin.
This year, RHS is fortunate to have a gentleman who will be speaking on the importance of
saving people’s memories, including one's own.
Thatcher Freund, a published author, former journalist and editor living in
Portland, has been going
all over New England to
inform and remind folks
that everyone has a story,
and that when that person
dies, their story dies with
them unless someone has
documented it in some
way.
Whether on video, audio, or plain old-fashioned
handwriting, what everyone has to say is important.
Maybe the importance is
only for the family, maybe
for people who aren’t even
born yet, maybe it is the
missing piece in a larger
story – but it is important.
Nobody is a “nobody”, and
for anyone not convinced
of that, Mr. Freund will
help them to understand.
According to reports,
he’s a very dynamic
speaker who inspires folks
to get the job done, or at
least started.
Here is what he says
about his mission: “Writing down the stories of our
lives is one of the most
important things we can
do for those who follow
us. We live. We learn. In
telling our stories we help
our children and our children’s children remember
who we were, and, from
remembering us, to better
know themselves.”
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Acappella!” on Sunday, February 8 at 2 p.m. at Jewett Hall on the UMA campus in Augusta. Featured will
be award-winning men's quartet, Back Bay Four. This performance is part of the UMA College of Arts and
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Solstice
John McDonald
I am not a pagan,
a wiccan or even a
Unitarian,
but
I’ve
always been curious - in
summer and winter –
about the solstice. Each
season has their own
personal solstice.
We’re told that the
earliest people, who had
little to do at night after
sundown, so they would
leave their dreary caves,
go outside and stare at
the sky a lot. After doing
this for a very long time,
someone in the group
noticed that the sun’s
path across the sky was
somehow connected to
the length of daylight,
and where the sun came
up and went down,
shifted in a regular way
throughout the year.
Except the “year” hadn’t
been invented yet. That
would come later.
We’re
told
that
monuments
like
Stonehenge in England
had something to do
with early attempts to
track the sun’s annual
progress, all of which
lead to the invention
of the “year” and other
useful inventions - like
calendars.
A relative of my
father’s from Halifax,
N.S. spent many years
at sea and knew all
about the annual paths of
planets and stars. I can’t
remember how old I was
when Uncle Earl told me
about how here in the
Northern
Hemisphere
our days start getting
longer around the 20th of
December. The bad news
is that our days start
getting shorter in late
June before we’ve even
begun to enjoy summer.
I’ve
learned
that
solstice – summer and
winter - is an astronomical
event, caused by Earth’s
tilt on its axis, and by
its rocking motion, as it
orbits around the sun. If
you ever wondered why
everything around you
looked like it was half
a bubble off plumb you
weren’t going crazy. Well,
maybe you were going
crazy but it had nothing
to do with the earth
being tilted. Somewhere,
I learned that the Earth
doesn’t orbit upright,
but is instead tilted on
its axis by 23-and-a-half
degrees. So, it’s not halfa-bubble, but more like
a quarter-of- a bubble
off
plumb.
Earth’s
Northern and Southern
Hemispheres
trade
places in receiving the
sun’s light and warmth
most directly. People
who know such things
say the tilt of the Earth
– not our distance from
the sun – is what causes
winter and summer. At
the December solstice,
the Northern Hemisphere
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is leaning most away
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At the December
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Earth
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positioned in its orbit so
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the north pole horizon.
As seen from 23-and-ahalf degrees south of the
equator, at the imaginary
line encircling the globe
known as the Tropic of
Capricorn, the sun shines
directly overhead at
noon. This is as far south
as the sun ever gets, so
don’t expect it to go any
further. All locations
south of the equator have
day lengths greater than
12 hours at the December
solstice. Meanwhile, all
locations north of the
equator have day lengths
less than 12 hours.
For us, in the northern
part of Earth, the shortest
day comes at the winter
solstice. So, now that the
winter solstice is over and
done with, our days will
start getting longer, and
the nights, of course will
get shorter. And that’s all
I wanted to say – winter
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Library to Host Cathy Billings
The Bailey Public Library will host educator,
writer, and conservationist Cathy Billings on
Tuesday, February 3 at
6:30pm.
All library events are
being held at the temporary library location on
the first floor of the Winthrop Commerce Center
at 149 Main Street during construction of the
addition to the historic
Bowdoin Street building.
Billings grew up near
the Kittery Navy Yard,
where her dad worked.
She attended the Uni-
versity of Maine, graduating with a degree in
education in 1978 and a
master’s degree in Public
Administration in 1995.
She worked in the floral
business for 10 years before starting her career at
the University of Maine.
Billings is the Associate Director of Communications and Development for the Lobster
Institute at the University of Maine Orono.
She also serves on the
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instructor with Lobster
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partners.
In her new book, Billings embarks on a journey from trap to plate,
introducing readers to
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Cathy Billings will be at the Bailey Public Library on Tuesday, Feb. 3rd.
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board are Vassalboro resident Cathy DeMerchant
and Fairfield resident Joey
Joseph. Elissa Emmons
of Richmond will join the
board in February.
Stephanie Calkins, MD
of Oakland was elected
board chair. Calkins is a
family medicine physician
at MaineGeneral’s Four
Seasons Family Practice
in Fairfield. She succeeds
William Sprague of Manchester, who held that position since January 2012.
DeMerchant has been
president and co-owner
of Capital Area Staffing
Solutions, Inc. in Augusta
and Bangor since 2003.
A graduate of Cony High
School, she has been a
member of the Maine
Board of Overseers of
the Bar since 2012 and
treasurer of the Maine
Staffing Association since
2010.
She also serves as board
president for the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine
and is an active member
of the Kennebec Valley
Chamber of Commerce,
National Rifle Association, Society for Human
Resource Management,
American Staffing Association, Maine Staffing
Association,
Kennebec
Valley Human Resource
Association, Mid-Maine
Chamber of Commerce
and Maine Department of
Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Advisory Council.
Joseph is president of
Cold Brook Saab / Cold
Brook Mitsubishi in
Skowhegan. A graduate
of Waterville High School
and the University of
Maine, where he earned a
bachelor’s degree in public management, he joined
Cold Brook Saab in 1988
and opened Cold Brook
Mitsubishi in September
2013. An avid golfer, Joseph is a member of the
Waterville Country Club
and also is affiliated with
Sugarloaf and Sunday
River ski resorts.
Emmons is general
manager and vice president of Charlie’s Honda in
Augusta. A 2003 graduate
of the University of Maine
at Orono, where she
earned a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology, Emmons also graduated from
the National Automobile
Dealers Association’s Dealer Academy in McLean, VA
in 2004. She and her father
Charlie purchased the Honda dealership in 2005 and
she has managed it since its
opening.
Emmons has served
on a number of community boards, including the
United Way of Kennebec
Valley, Maine Children’s
Trust and Kennebec Valley Humane Society.
Also serving on MaineGeneral’s board of directors are: Peter Alfond;
Douglas Cutchin; Peter
Guzzetti, DO, DDS; David Hay, MD; Chuck
Hays;
Jeffrey Hubert;
Mark Johnston; Janice
Arno Kassman; James
LaLiberty, Esq.; Barbara Mayer; Roy Miller,
MD; Gary Peachey; Gordon Pow; Tobi Schneider, Esq.; and William
Sprague.
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Kindergarten Registration at Readfield Elementary
Readfield Elementary
School would like to
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be held at Readfield Elementary School on the
following dates:
Wednesday,
March
25th
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CLUES ACROSS
1. Contradicted
7. The Donald’s Marla
13. Mediterranean
sandstorm
14. Shoulder
adornment
16. Earth crust’s 5th
element
17. Rainbow prize
19. NCIS star’s initials
20. Mischa __, violinist
22. Constitution Hall org.
23. More dried-up
25. First on moon
26. Braid
28. 11% of Guinea
population
29. Sea eagle
30. Scottish variant of “to”
31. A border for a picture
33. Belonging to a thing
34. On top
36. Automobile hood (Brit.)
38. Skewered Thai dish
40. Clamors
41. Eggs cooked until just set
43. Flat
44. 13th Hebrew letter
45. Short poking stroke
47. Japanese classical theater
48. 007’s creator
51. Romanian Mures Page 7
river city
53. Music term for silence
55. A crane
56. Ringworm
58. Romanian money
59. True frog
60. Integrated circuit
61. “Highway Patrol’s” Crawford
64. Point midway
between S and E
65. On a whim
67. Protagonist
69. Quantity with only magnitude
70. Oversights
CLUES DOWN
1. One who operates a dial
2. Trauma center
3. Prickly pear pads
4. Fashion superstar
5. Shock treatment
6. Mindless drawing
7. AKA migraine
8. Military mailbox
9. Buddies
10. Heavy tranquilizers (slang)
11. Raised railroad track
12. School session
13. Picture
15. Stabs
18. Supervises flying
21. Early American militiaman
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22
Express your feelings without any inhibition, Virgo.
Others will appreciate your honesty, especially if you
employ some tact when sharing your opinions.
JANUARY 25
Alicia Keys, Singer (34)
LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23
Libra, no matter how crazy your life is right now, you
still manage to come out looking no worse for wear.
You have a handy way of making lemonade out of sour
lemons.
ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20
There is no harm in being ambitious, Aries. But a little humility to accompany that ambition can go a long way. Accept any recognition you earn in an appropriate manner.
SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22
Your long-term career opportunities are looking good,
Scorpio. If you do what makes you happy, you will always end up on top and financial rewards will follow.
TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21
Your desires make it seem like anything is within reach
this week, Taurus. You may have to work a little harder
to achieve your goals, but hard work is its own reward.
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21
Sagittarius, although you see lucrative career opportunities at every bend, you are not ready to make a big
change. You will know when the moment has come to
make a change.
CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22
Cancer, try to avoid stretching yourself too thin in the
coming weeks. Your ambition and energy are at an alltime high, but if you do not slow down, you can easily
get burnt out.
LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23
It’s impossible for people to try to contain all of your
energy this week, Leo. Direct your energy in a positive
way and use it to reach your goals.
give accurate directions to
employee X, leading X to
leave the vault unlocked,
and failed to check that all
locks were activated."
Tell the truth.
It doesn't help to embellish details to try to ensure
that someone won't get unemployment and it is equally
unhelpful when an employer
sidesteps what happened in
order to allow the employee
to get unemployment. It's
nice to want to make sure
the person receives some
income but white lies can
come back to bite you when
the employee then files a
claim at the Maine Human
JANUARY 27
Rosamund Pike, Actress (36)
JANUARY 28
Nick Carter, Singer (35)
JANUARY 29
Greg Louganis, Athlete (55)
JANUARY 30
Vanessa Redgrave, Actress (78)
CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20
Proceed gently if you want to make any real progress,
Capricorn. You’re feeling more optimistic, but you still
need to exercise caution. Common sense can keep you
grounded.
AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18
Aquarius, friends may arrive at your home with plans
for fun and adventure. Any kind of celebration or social
situation is what you crave right now. Go ahead and
enjoy yourself.
PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20
Don’t worry about a potential conflict, Pisces. In due time
you will realize this was nothing to get worked up about.
Rights Commission and
points to your nice dismissal
letter as proof that the real
reason they were let go was
because of bias and not bad
conduct.
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advice but should be considered as general guidance
in the area of employment
and corporate law. Rebecca
Webber is an employment
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treatment by giving the
client what that employee
thought they should have,
contrary to what the doctor had advised. That may
be "lack of professionalism" but a term so vague
gave the hearing officer at
the Department of Labor
no idea of how serious the
problem really was.
Spell it out. So, instead
of writing "the employee
used poor communication skills," write "the employee shouted 'f--- you' to
a supervisor when asked
to re-do her filing work"
or "the employee failed to
JANUARY 26
Eddie Van Halen, Guitarist (60)
M
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21
Postpone chores that are not essential, Gemini. This
way you can make the most of your upcoming free time
with friends and family. You deserve a little break now
and again.
24. Downfall
26. Cooking vessel
27. Check
30. In a way, manipulated
32. Sacred book of
Judaism
35. Chum
37. Negating word
38. Relating to the body
39. W. hemisphere
continents
42. Make lacework
43. Witty remark
46. More hairless
47. Relating to a nerve
49. Originates
50. Consumer advocate Ralph
52. Actress Winger
54. Center for Excellence in Education (abbr.)
55. Japanese brews
57. Fleshy seed covering
59. Canadian law
enforcers
62. So. Am. wood sorrel
63. Actress Lupino
66. Personal computer
68. Do over prefix
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When it comes to winter car care, many motorists think of antifreeze
and batteries, but vehicles
need extra attention when
temperatures drop below
zero. These six quick tips
will help your vehicle
perform at its best during
cold weather months.
1. Keep the gas tank
at least half
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this
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possibly freezing.
2. Check the tire pressure, including the spare,
as tires can lose pressure
when temperatures drop.
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snow and ice are a problem in your area.
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it is cold. Drivers in subzero temperatures should
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6. Consider using cold
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Maine Government
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Program
State Senator Roger
Katz (R-Kennebec) has announced that the Maine
Government Summer Internship Program is currently taking applications
for talented college students to intern in various
departments of state government.
"This is a full-time, paid,
summer work experience
that provides a terrific
opportunity for college
students to get hands–on
experience in a variety of
state departments from the
Department of Education
to the Department of Environmental Protection, and
10 others,” said Katz.
"The program has been
going on since 1967 and
has provided a great way
for students to experience
government firsthand and
explore potential careers
in public service. I hope
many area students will
take advantage of this excellent opportunity."
To be eligible for the
Internship Program, students must currently be
enrolled in a Maine college
or be a Maine resident enrolled elsewhere, and have
successfully completed a
minimum of two years of
college. Students currently
graduating from undergraduate and graduate
programs are also eligible.
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The Wilton Fish &
Game First Annual Michael J. Rowe Memorial
Ice Fishing Derby will
take place Saturday, February 14, 2015, at Wilson
Lake in Wilton.
Presale tickets are
available at Shelley’s
Hometown Market and
Mosher’s Seafood. Tickets will be available on
derby day at 6:00 am at
the boat launch. Registration is $5.
Adult categories include: Togue, Trout and
Salmon. Heaviest fish
will win $150 cash. Remaining species will win
$25, a jet sled, fishing rod
or $25, two nights camping and a fishing rod.
Youth categories (age
15 and uder) include:
Togue, Trout, Salmon,
Pickerel and Bass. The
heaviest fish will receive
a commemorative box of
Max Traps donated by
Max Traps, in memory of
Michael J. Rowe.
The winner of the
smallest fish will receive
a surprise prize from Max
Traps.
Remaining
category
winners will receive $25,
one Max Trap, a Bucket
Buddy and two movie
tickets to Narrow Gauge.
There will be multiple
door prizes to be picked
up at the boat launch at
4:00 pm.
A free Family Fishing
Clinic will also be offered
from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
at the Wilson Lake boat
launch. No experience
required, bait and equipment will be provided!
Free Family Fishing Days
are taking place Feb. 1415, when any person (except those whose license
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tax preparation and electronic filing to low and
moderate-income
individuals.
Provisions of the Affordable Care Act (health
insurance coverage) will
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table organization.
Assistance is available
by appointment at the following sites from February 1 to April 15.
MT VERNON: Dr.
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344 Pond Rd., Mt Vernon.
Saturdays: February 14 &
28, March 14 & 28 from
10:30 am to 12:30 pm.
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Cheese Making 101
Cheese Making 101:
Hands-on Make & Take,
Yogurt, Mozzarella, and
Ricotta will take place at
Echo Ridge Farm, 2080
North Rd, Mt. Vernon, on
Febraury 7, 2015, from
10:00am-2:00 pm. The
event will benefit The Dr.
Shaw Memorial Library.
The cost is $50 per person or $75 for a couple/
family member.
To register: call the
library at 293-2565 or
email
DrShaw@shaw.
lib.me.us or contact Alice
Olson at 293-2502 or [email protected]
All materials will be
provided - just bring a
few small jars to take
home your yogurt, and
heavy duty washing
gloves if you have them.
Snow date is February
14. Space is limited to 6
participants. Preregistration is required.
Winthrop Grade School
Preschool and Kindergarten
Registration
If you would like to
register your child for the
2015-2016 preschool or
kindergarten class, please
call us at 377-2241, to
put your child on the list.
Screenings will not be
held until the spring. Age
requirements by October
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CMCC Fall 2014 Dean’s List
President Scott Knapp of
Central Maine Community
College has announced the
Dean’s List for the Fall
2014 Semester.
Students on the President’s List earned a semester grade point average
(GPA) of 3.9 or higher (on
a 4.0 scale). High honors
denote a minimum GPA of
3.6 and honors recognizes
those with a minimum GPA
of 3.3.
All students from Belgrade, Belgrade Lakes,
Sidney, Oakland, Wayne,
Fayette, Kents Hill, Readfield, Vienna, Winthrop,
Mount Vernon and Rome,
who have achieved academic honors are listed
below.
President’s List
Wayne:
Brianna M.
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Fayette: Eben Campbell.
Winthrop:
Nicole
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Logan L.
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Wayne: Elaine M. Cros-
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Vienna: William G. Ellis.
Winthrop: Jessica L.
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Mount Vernon: Megan
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The Journal of the
American Medical Association (JAMA) published
a study today authored
by Daniel Onion, MD
MPH and his colleagues
in Franklin County for
groundbreaking
community health strategies.
Their work over the past
four decades significantly
reduced
hospitalization
and death rates overall and
those due to cardiovascular disease there.
Dr. Onion has served
as faculty member of
Maine-Dartmouth Family
Medicine Residency for
35 years, and was director
17 years. He continues to
teach community medicine at the residency and
also serves as a geriatric
consultant for MaineGeneral. During this time he
also continues his connections to Franklin County
by serving on the hospital
board of directors there
and in other volunteer capacities.
“Dr. Onion is a leader
in the state in developing clinical and community health strategies
to improve health in the
Kennebec Valley and
beyond,” said Dr. Steve
Diaz, chief medical officer
of MaineGeneral Medical
Center.
“The strategies Dr. Onion and his former colleagues
implemented
more than 40 years ago
provide a model for addressing today’s community health challenges. Dr.
Onion remains a wealth
of knowledge and skill,
and we are fortunate to
have him at MaineGeneral
where he continues to provide leadership in addressing public health strategies
and geriatric care.”
Starting in the 1970s,
Dr. Onion and his team
developed screening programs to address risk factors such as bad diet, lack
of physical activity, hypertension, high cholesterol
and tobacco use. According to today’s published
study, their efforts in the
rural and largely lowincome community led to
targeting individuals with
cardiovascular risk factors unhealthy behaviors
as well as communitywide programs to support
healthier lifestyles. Other
major efforts were accom-
plished to improve health
care access successfully.
“Communities can improve health by improving access to medical care
and identifying and reducing health risks over the
long haul with significant
improvements in mortality and health care costs,”
Dr. Onion said. “The gains
can be dramatic especially
in low-income counties,
but all citizens can realize
improved health.
“In my work as a primary care physician and
the medical director of
Maine-Dartmouth Family
Practice Residency, I’ve
tried to impress the importance within the medical
community of getting engaged in community-wide
health maintenance and
prevention work. As medical staff, we need to look
beyond the patient visit
and work toward community health improvements
and access.”
A link to the abstract
of the article can be
found at http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.
aspx?articleid=2089352.n
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So you plan to remain in
your own home as long as
you live? Maine Seniors
have repeatedly expressed
this as their goal. Have you
made the best plans for
optimizing your savings,
protecting them from fraud
and scams and keeping
yourself safe from physical and emotional abuse?
Unfortunately there are
too many accounts of elders being taken advantage
of by people – even friends
and family – whom they
thought they could trust or
these persons thought they
knew best.
These questions, including what you can do if you
or others you know, have
been exploited, will be addressed by a panel of experts at public forum sponsored by the University of
Maine at Augusta(UMA)
Forum on the Future
Senior College. This is the
third of a series of forums
on how older citizens can
successfully – and safely –
“Age in place… at Home.”
The panel will include
Judith Shaw, Securities
Administrator for the
Maine Office of Securities,
and co- chair of the Maine
Council for Elder Abuse
Prevention. Shaw will describe key rules for maximizing your retirement
investments, and the many
things you must do – or not
do – to avoid fraud and deception. She will talk about
whom you can turn to for
help if you fear you are being tricked or cheated.
Denis Culley, the second
panelist, is Legal Services
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P. Downing Jr. Award for
outstanding legal service
to low income clients,
Culley will talk about his
practice in representing
and advocating for senior
citizens. He will describe
dealing with the aftermath
of financial exploitation of
the elderly, including obtaining judgments against,
and return of funds and
property from, relatives
who cheated their elders.
And the third member
of the panel is Nan Bell,
Community Educator of
the Family Violence Project. A fierce proponent
for the protection of the
elderly from physical and
emotional abuse, Bell will
describe the extent, circumstances and different
aspects of abuse, where
you can turn for help and
how you can help yourself
or someone else you observe being subjected to
abuse.
The forum will take
place at Jewett Hall Auditorium at UMA on Sunday, February 1, from 2:00
– 4:00 PM. Refreshments
will be served at the 3:00
PM break, and the break
will be followed by questions and answers between
the panel and the audience.
A snow date will be the
same time in the afternoon
on February 22.
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All Senior College forums are free and open to
the public. The UMA Senior college is open to all
persons 50 years of age
and older, their spouses
and partners. For further
information about the college or the forum, contact
us at [email protected] or
call 621-3551. Also visit
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January 30, 2015
Fairfield Police Cops Care for Kids Christmas Program
By Mark Huard
The officers at the Fairfield Police Department
give of themselves everyday that they step into uniform, but this Christmas
season they carried on a
tradition that went above
and beyond their normal
call of duty.
Over eight years ago,
Retired Detective Captain
Kingston Paul started the
Cops Care For Kids Christmas program in the community. In the early stages,
the program consisted of
giving approximately 60
children a stuffed animal
with a tag that said "Cops
Care for Kids". The officers in the Community
continued to believe in
the mission and have been
able to expand the program
to touch over 200 children
in the community.
Officers such as Shanna
Blodgett have seen the
program through from the
very beginning and have
taken on a year round commitment to ensure the success of the program.
This begs the question of
how this program is able
to be funded. One of the
major funding sources is
from the full time officers
donating a portion of their
paycheck to the program.
They also receive donations from local businesses
and community members
that support the goal of
helping children in need.
This year, the officers
were able to give each
child three small gifts
as well as the traditional
stuffed animal with the
commemorative tag. This
year the tag contained even
more meaning for the officers because they held a
memorial of Officer Karen
Nightingale who passed
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Chief Tom Gould, left, and Sgt. Paul St.Amand, right, packing the gifts for area
children. (Photo by Terri Dessent/Central Maine Photography Staff)
away in 2014.
The amount of effort it
takes to make this program
a success is without a doubt
noteworthy and commendable. They started with a
mission to help children at
the holidays and have carried it out from the ground
up. They have increased
their funds and have their
own little Santa's workshop that employs none
other than Fairfield's fin-
est law enforcement officers. They do all of the
shopping, the sorting and
the wrapping themselves.
Each family receiving the
gifts gets a special delivery
from the officers dressed in
uniform as well as a special Santa hat.
So why do they do it?
Well if you ask them its
because of the joy they see
in the eyes of the children
they serve. Its because
they believe in the magic
of Christmas would like
to make sure that children
in their community get to
share in that as well. Officer Blodgett reports that
seeing the happiness on
the faces of the children
not only changes their
lives, but is equally as life
changing and memorable
for the Officers that make
it happen. n
CENTRAL MAINE
U RO LO GY C E N T E R
Christopher Henry, M.D.
An author, researcher, and skilled urologist, Dr. Henry joins the
surgical team at Central Maine Urology Center.
After earning his medical degree from the
University of Missouri School of Medicine,
Dr. Henry completed a general surgery
internship and urologic surgery residency at
the University of Tennessee Health Science
Center in Memphis.
Christopher Henry, M.D.
SPECIALTY
Surgical Urology
MEDICAL SCHOOL
University of Missouri School of Medicine,
Columbia, Mo.
RESIDENCY & INTERNSHIP
University of Tennessee Health Science
Center, Memphis, Tenn.
Co author of numerous professional
articles, Dr. Henry has worked as a
research associate at the University of
Kansas Health Science Center and at
Proteon Therapeutics in Kansas City.
His healthcare background also includes work
as an EKG technician and an emergency room
technician at North Kansas City Hospital.
Dr. Henry’s diverse educational background
includes time at the Goethe Institute in Munich,
where he studied German, and Bowdoin College
in Brunswick where he earned his bachelor’s
degree and graduated with honors. He subsequently studied at Western State College in
Gunnison, Co., Rockhurst University in Kansas
City, Mo., and the University of Missouri.
A member of the American Urological Association, Dr. Henry is eligible to gain certification
from the American Board of Urology.
Dr. Henry is pleased to join urologists Michael
Corea, M.D., Jordan M. Kurta, and Paul R. Mailhot,
M.D., nurse practitioner Rosa Hamilton, and
physician assistant Heather Renihan at Central
Maine Urology Center.
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