Page 4. MAINE COASTAL NEWS August 2013
Maine Coastal News Winterport, Maine 04496-0710 U.S.A.
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It is a bubble fi lled with our daily routine. Day after day, week after week and year after year. We do not know th e deck of cards that we have been dealt. We can only hope that they allow for a healthy, happy and long life, some depends on the choices we make others we have no control over. No matter whose life, there are people and events that can alter the bubble’s environment. Most of these events are just part of life no matter how devastating they are. There are those that we allow into our world, family and friends. They can have some interesting infl uences. It is how those events change the way we think and do things that can be interesting. However what is sad is that at times we can be oblivious to the obvious. I happened to be at the Tri-for-a-Cure in Portland on 21 June, a women’s triathlon, and that was an eye opening event. A life altering event can be hearing those words that you have cancer. We all have been affected by someone close to us having a form of cancer and when it hits someone very special in makes you look very dif- ferently at life. There were approximately 1,000 women participating in this event, all
Publisher Editor-in-Chief Writer/photographer
Jon B. Johansen Rachel Elward Molly Dugas
Advertising Deadlines: The deadline for the September issue is August 9. The deadline for the October issue is September 12.
MCN's Calendar of Coastal Events
On-Going Exhibits: - 15 October 2013 Beyond the Breakers: Lighthouses, Life-Saving and the U.S. Coast Guard Maine Maritime Museum, Bath General Admission
Beyond the Breakers presents the story of the heroic service of the United States Coast Guard in Maine and how it evolved from the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, the U.S. Lighthouse Service and U.S. Life-Saving Service. Rarely seen artifacts, from iconic to humble, tell this exciting narrative. FMI visit
www.Maine-
MaritimeMuseum.org.
- 1 December 2013 That Flaunting Rag! Maine’s Mar-
itime War Against the Confederacy Maine Maritime Museum, Bath General Admission
This exhibit sheds light on the more obscure war against the Confederate sea raiders that played out in an ear of click- ing telegraphs – a maritime chess game of espionage, long distance sleuthing and diplomatic double-entendre. FMI visit
www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org.
JULY 30 Historic Photography Lecture Series 1900 hrs, Free “Winter Harbor: The Postcard View” By Photo Curator Kevin Johnson Schoodic Center for the Arts Hammond Hall 427 Main St. Winter Harbor Info: (207)963-2569
31 Demonstration: Abandon Ship Drill 1100 Hrs., Free McMillan Offshore Survival Training
demonstrates an “abandon ship” drill. The drill covers “Mayday”, visual distress sig- nals, immersion suits and life rafts. Searsport Town Dock Steamboat Avenue
Info: (207) 548-2529 or go to www.
penobscotmarinemuseum.org
31 Castine Class Yacht Symposium Delano Auditorium, 1600 hrs. Maine Maritime Academy Castine
Info: (212) 471-4709
AUGUST 1 Castine Classic Yacht Race Castine to Camden Info: (212) 471-4709
2 Camden to Brooklin Yacht Race
3 Eggemoggin Reach Regatta WoodenBoat Waterfront Brooklin
3 Whaleback Regatta Kittery Point Yacht Club Kittery Point
3-4 Boothbay Harbor YC Regatta Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club Boothbay Harbor
4 Tom Morris Memorial Pursuit Race Northeast Harbor Fleet Northeast Harbor
6-8 USODA NE Championship Regatta SailMaine 58 Fore Street Portland
Info: (207) 772-7245
8-11 Shipyard Cup Hodgdon Yachts East Boothbay
9-10 Downeast Race Weekend Northeast Harbor Fleet Northeast Harbor
9-11 MBH&H Boat Show Rockland
10 Winter Harbor Lobster Boat Races Town Dock Winter Harbor
Info: Chris Byers, (207) 963-7139
11 Merritt Brackett Lobster Boat Races State Park Restaurant Pemaquid
Info: Don Drisko & Laurie Crane (207) 677-2432
14 Children’s Workshop: Watercolor Jour- naling 1100 hrs, Admission Free Lucinda Hathaway, author of Takashi’s
Voyage: The Wreck of the Sindia, leads this workshop. The children will learn a quick sketch technique with waterproof pens and application of watercolor paints. Materials for use that day will be provided Penobscot Marine Museum PMM’s Peapod Church Street Searsport
Info: (207) 548-2529 or go to www.
penobscotmarinemuseum.org
15 Thursday Night Lecture Series 1900 hrs, Tickets in advance $8 mem- bers, $10 non-members, or at the door $12 members, $15 non-members Tim Garrold, a Searsport native and US Naval War College professor, tells hair-rais-
16-18 Belfast Harbor Fest Belfast Waterfront
16-18 Penobscot Bay Rendezous Wayfarer Marine & Lyman-Morse
Boatbuilding Co. Camden/Thomaston
17 Maine Retired Skipper’s Race Maine Maritime Academy Waterfront Castine
17 MS Regatta Portland Yacht Services 58 Fore Street Portland
17 Lobster Regatta Kittery Point Yacht Club Kittery Point
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ing stories of rescues at sea, including the rescue of the crew from the burning SS KRISTA MARINOVIK in the Mediterra- nean Sea in 1982, the rescue of a private sailing vessel that had pitch-poled and demasted in a storm off Cape Hatteras in 1985, the search for a fi ghter jet lost at sea from USS AMERICA during Carrier Battle Group work-ops for Operation DESERT STORM in 1990, and the rescue of the crew of an SH-60B helicopter that crashed in the Persian Gulf during Oper- ation DESERT STORM in 1991. Penobscot Marine Museum Stephen Phillips Memorial Library 11 Church Street Searsport
Info: (207) 548-2529 or go to www.
penobscotmarinemuseum.org
ages, with a hope that from the money they and others raise they can fi nd a cure for this deadly disease. Over the last few decades huge strides have been made in many forms of cancer. It is interesting when the Boston Red Sox hold the Jimmy Fund Telethon and they bring on doctors from the fi eld, they tell of what they can do now, which was unheard of years before.
Before the race there were introductions and if you listened it opened your world to those affected and it made you think. We need to open our world to the need of others, those truly in need of support. Some are better at helping than others, but it will be those that lend their support that really make a change, whether it be fi nding a cure or just putting a meal on a needy person’s table. One also learns from a day like this to al- ways live life to the fullest. The future could change in an instant and too often it does. Too many people put off what they would like to do to a future date, but unfortunately something happens and they never get to do it when planned. Life is fi nite and those golden years are usually not very golden. We do not know the future so make sure you get to enjoy now when you can.
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