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Volume 13 Issue 3 • November 2016 Home of www.centralmainetoday.com
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Maine Students’ Award-Winning Essays
Published in New Book on Inclusion
The Maine Developmental Disabilities Council (MDDC) has released
a book of essays featuring
the winning entries from
its inaugural annual contest
that asks Maine students to
write about the inclusion of
individuals with disabilities
and how well the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ACA) has been implemented.
The book, Visions of
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school students. Many of
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Mark Doty, secretary
of the MFPC Board, began by saying “I am honored to present the Abby
Holman Public Service
Award and second I’m
honored to present it to
Dave Struble, the third
outstanding recipient tonight. I think we’ve got
just a slate of outstanding
people up here.”
“As everybody knows,
the Abby Holman Public Service Award is an
annual award given by
the Maine Forest Products Council to an individual in recognition of
outstanding service on
behalf of Maine’s forest
products industry,” Doty
said.
In recognition of his
leadership,
effective
outreach, and strong determination to insure a
well-researched response
to the impending spruce
budworm infestation and
also in honor of his ex-
Veterans Day is November 11th and just around
the corner. This makes for a
great time to acknowledge
and say thank you to those
who have served in our
military protecting our nation. According to the U.S.
Census Bureau, there are
over 19 million veterans in
the United States. Veterans
have left or retired from the
military, work hard every
day, and many are still in
need of your support. The
good news for those of you
that want to give back is
that there are many simple
ways to support veterans
across the country.
“Our nation’s veterans
deserve our gratitude and
support every day. I find
that especially around Veterans Day, there are people
looking for ways to help
assist with the needs of our
nations’ veterans,” explains
Nicole Motsek, the executive director of the EOD
Warrior Foundation. “Veterans are always thankful
for support from their com-
Struble Receives Abby Holman
Public Service Award
emplary career, which
has been devoted to the
protection and stewardship of Maine’s forests
the Maine Forest Products Council proudly
presents the 2016 Abby
Holman Public Service
Award to Dave Struble.
“The criterion for this
award is simple. The recipient must demonstrate
a level of passion, loyalty, and dedication to
Maine’s forest products
industry, to good government, and a robust economy much the same way
that our former Executive
Director and friend Abigail “Abby” Holman did.
“David Struble has
demonstrated these qualities over a distinguished
career spanning more
than 40 years in state
government, almost 30 of
those as state entomologist and for nearly 20 of
those years looking after
the forest inventory ef-
fort. So he has had protection of the forests in
his goals for a long time.
He has been a rock providing continuity through
many
administration
changes.
“David has consistently gone above and
beyond the call of duty.
He was a founding stakeholder /cooperator and/
or chair of numerous
councils, commissions,
committees and projects
at the state, regional and
national level. And he’s
got Maine’s back when
he’s doing that.
“He has built a great
deal of respect within the
federal system, a solid
and valuable knowledge
of the system and a collaborative network of
contacts, which – once
again — helps him have
Maine’s back.
“Most recently his collaboration with industry
and landowners on set-
ting up a spruce budworm (SBW) data collection system – a very
collaborative system that
has worked out very well
— as well as his collaboration with the MFPC
and UMaine on the budworm report, which is
where I had the pleasure
of getting to know David and his commitment
to Maine, and found out
that there is a big smile
behind that mustache, often a mischievous grin.
“So in recognition of
his leadership, effective outreach, and strong
determination to insure
a well-researched response to the impending
spruce budworm infestation, which tonight he
told me he thinks is two
years away, and also in
honor of his exemplary
career, which has been
devoted to the protection and stewardship of
Maine’s forests, it is my
great pleasure to present
the Abby Holman Public
Service Award to David
Struble.”
Struble spoke briefly
and with feeling, saying,
“Having known Abby,
I know I don’t begin
to have her formidable
presence as an advocate.
I don’t have her energy.
But I do believe in the
value of service. When
I was first hired – God
knows why they hired
me – some people had
my back in those days.
“I was not the model
student. It’s a wonder I
got into grad school. To
echo what Jimmy Robbins said earlier, I also
was a guy who went
from the Dean’s list to
the other dean’s list in
one semester. I got that
talk about “Do you really
want to be in forestry?”
And I did struggle, but
people had my back and
helped me along the way.
Simple Ways to Help Support Veterans
munities, and appreciate
that there are people who
want to assist them.”
Here are some simple
ways you can help support
veterans:
Say thank you. One of
the easiest things to do. It’s
free, and often it’s overlooked. Thanking a veteran
for their service is one of
the best ways you can show
support and care to them,
but don’t just make it a
simple thank you. Use your
thank you to start a conversation around their service.
Pick up the tab. If you
see veterans having breakfast in a diner or ordering
a donut at the bakery, why
not pick up the tab for them.
This simple gesture goes a
long way toward putting a
smile on their face and pep
in their step.
Run or bike. There are
many running, walking,
and biking events around
the nation each year that
benefit veterans. Whether
running a 5K or taking part
in the annual EOD Warriors
Foundation
Undefeated
bike ride, you can do something you enjoy while also
helping veterans. Exercise
and positive relationships
are two very healthy ways
helping to provide military
veterans with second careers is a win-win situation
for both the veteran and the
employer.
Patronize their busi-
to live our lives.
Host a fundraiser.
Those who like to help raise
funds for veteran charities
can host events like garage
sales, car washes, or bake
sales.
Provide jobs. Veterans
make great employees,
ness. The U.S. Census
Bureau reports that 9 percent of all businesses in
the country are owned and
operated by veterans. Seek
out those places of business
and show your support.
There are many volunteer opportunities with
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much-needed services Volunteering is good for the
charity and makes you, the
volunteer, feel good!
“There are many ways
for people to be creative
supporting veterans and
veteran causes,” added
Motsek. “We offer many
events throughout the year,
like golf tournaments, a polar bear plunge, runs and
a bike ride. Each successful event that benefits the
Foundation is a success
because of our volunteers.
Their time and service adds
up to a huge amount of
“free” support.”
EOD Warrior Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to
improve the quality of life
for the EOD family by providing emergency financial
relief, scholarship opportunities, physical, social,
and emotional support. The
Foundation serves activeduty and veteran wounded,
injured or ill EOD warriors,
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“When I got the job at
the Maine Forest Service,
Bob Nash (former Maine
state entomologist), who
some of you probably remember sat me down and
said, ‘Now Mr. Struble
this is not a research organization– (which was
a good thing, because I’m
not particularly great research entomologist) and
he said, ‘You’re not going
to be famous and you’re
not going to be rich. This
is about providing public
service. It’s about professional assistance. That’s
what this is about.’”
“You know he was
right. That is what this
is about. I’ve always
thought that’s kind of
how I paid back all the
help that other people
gave me to get to here.
And I’m humbled. Thank
you so much.” n
and families of wounded
and fallen EOD warriors.
They offer four pillars of
support and handle each
request on a case-by case
basis. The immediate and
ongoing assistance and resources provided by the
EOD Warrior Foundation
to those in the EOD community are intended to
provide support above and
beyond the budgetary constraints of the Department
of Defense (DoD) and
Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA). The Foundation also provides ongoing
care and maintenance for
the EOD Memorial Wall
at Eglin Air Force Base in
Florida, in remembrance of
over 300 EOD technicians
who have made the ultimate sacrifice while carrying out an EOD mission. To
learn more about the EOD
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their fundraising events
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UNSOLVED MYSTERIES:
We Heard This Story, But is it True? UPDATE
By Denise Scammon
TPI Production Leader
Do you like a good
mystery? October is a
great month to appreciate and talk about folklore
and mysteries. In the news
world, we base our stories
on fact. How can you tell
fact from fiction if the
mystery has been passed
down for generations and
no physical evidence has
been found to refute or
establish the mystery as
fact?
We did a bit of browsing of some of the wellknown folklore stories
circulating in various
communities throughout
Maine. We would love
to hear more about these
mysteries.
If you, dear reader,
want to participate in
this discussion of folklore and mysteries, type
up and email your mystery or your response to a
mystery published in this
“Unsolved
Mysteries”
column, to [email protected] and put
MYSTERY in the subject
line. We contacted a few
people we thought might
want to know what we’ve
heard or read about a location and have included
any responses we have received. We look forward
to hearing from you and
learning more about the
ghosts, spirits, paranormal
activity, and false stories
that abound in your world.
ACTON: Some say
there is a three-legged,
glowing ghost dog that
roams the shore of Loon
Pond in Acton. True or
false?
GREENE: Local legend says a train disappeared in Mine Meadows
bog near Sullivan Road. Is
it under quicksand? True
or false?
MANCHESTER: A
stone in a wall around
a cemetery near North
Manchester
Meeting
House is reported to display the devil’s footprint.
The stone was once in
the way of a construction
crew building a road and
one of the workers said
he would give his soul to
the devil to have the stone
gone. True or false?
POLAND: Hasn’t everyone heard of a female
hitchhiker who disappears
after getting in the car of
whoever stops to give her
a ride? Sometimes she is
dressed in white as if a
bride. True or false?
RANGELEY: Many
old inns are reported to
be home to ghosts. The
Rangeley Inn and Tavern
may have shown signs of
paranormal activity such
as doors opening and
closing by themselves,
the smell of cigar smoke
when no one is smoking,
and the sound of footsteps
when no one is walking.
Some believe there are
five ghosts that haunt the
inn. True or false?
READFIELD: Whispers, moans and screams
have been heard in the
Readfield Historical Society and Museum building.
The ghost of a young girl
appeared when the building was privately owned.
True or false?
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I don’t know
where you got the young
girl story, but I have been
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line. Help us solve a mystery or add to the list of unexplained phenomena.
young girl ghost we have
encountered is a threeyear-old who turns flashlights on and off in answer
to questions.
Yes, we have ghosts,
but not much noise. The
only sounds have been
through the radios set up
by the paranormal groups.
Through those there have
been conversations with
the spirits.
There have been two
instances of people being
touched.
We have had numerous
paranormal investigators
in and they have all found
something. In many cases, they have found the
same spirits, because I
don’t tell them what other
groups have found until
they present me with their
results.
So quit it with the whispers, moans and screams
and report the real findings Thank you, Florence
Drake, President Readfield Historical Society.
ROCKLAND:
We
heard about a young woman who disappeared from
Rockland on Halloween
in 1940. The stepfather
confessed to killing her.
The stepfather dismembered his stepdaughter’s
body and put the pieces
in burlap bags. Five bags
were found but none contained her head. True or
false?
SACO RIVER: There
was once a curse placed
on the Saco River by a
Native American chief
whose infant child had
been thrown in the water
by three white men who
wanted to see if it was true
that Native Americans can
swim at birth. The curse
was that three white men
drown in the river each
year which was fulfilled
until the mid 1940s. True
or false?
SKOWHEGAN: The
Strand Cinema is home
to ghosts that unplug devices, throw objects, and
leave handprints on the
movie screen. True or
false?
WALES: Oak Hill
High School is supposedly built on the site of
where a home had burned.
The children who lived in
that home visit the school.
One time they pranked
the custodian at 5 a.m.
by throwing rolls of toilet
paper around the gymnasium. True or false?
WILTON: The Wilton
Farm and Home Museum
is home to ghosts that
touch visitors, yell and
play musical instruments.
True or false?
RESPONSE:
Pam
Brown of the Wilton Farm
and Home Museum called
to give us the facts. As
far as ghosts “touching”
visitors, sensitive visitors may feel a cold draft
or feel a spirit go right
through their body, but
no touching like a tap on
the shoulder. No yelling
has been heard but there
is believed to be the ghost
of a grouchy old man in
the military room who
hates women and apparently scares the little boy
and girl ghosts into staying on a different floor
away from him. Visitors
believe they have heard a
ghost banging the drum.
Pam has been present for
various paranormal investigations and although
the investigations are held
separately and the results
are not shared among the
investigators, the results
of the investigations are
almost always the same
as to what spirits dwell
in the museum. Pam has
watched the monitor set
up by the investigators
and says that watching the
monitor for two hours is
like watching paint dry.
There is not much activity
on the monitor although
she has seen a lot of orbs
zip across the room. Occasionally a door will
open and close on its own.
She had a lot more to save
which we will save for a
future column.
So, there you have a
list of some of the more
well-known
mysteries
that we’ve heard about.
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heard about? We hope
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Augusta Completes Active Living Assessment
Augusta Boys and Girls Club members Salemn Chapman, Samantha Chase and Kaleb
Brann present report to Leif Dahlin.
Have you ever stepped
outside on that fresh,
crispy air morning to
admire the many trees
of gorgeous changing
leaves? That amazing gorgeous season where all the
leaves change color and
the air gets crisp and cold
and hot chocolate breaks
out across the country is
known as the beautiful fall
season.
Everyone has their own
traditions during the holi-
Healthy
Communities of the Capital Area
(HCCA), the City of Augusta through the Conservation Commission, and
other community partners
have recently completed
a Rural Active Living
Assessment (RALA) of
the city. RALA is a tool
developed by the Maine
Rural Health Research
Center at the University
of Southern Maine to help
assess the “friendliness”
of a community for things
like biking, walking, and
playing, especially for
youth.
The Augusta Conservation Commission, HCCA
staff, youth from Augusta
Boys and Girls Club, city
staff, and HCCA staff
looked at the city’s programs and policies as well
as measuring the bikeability, walkability and access
to physical opportunities.
They found areas that
were very bike and pedestrian friendly, areas that
could use small improvements, and areas that will
need further review and
planning.
The Gorgeous Season of Leaves
day by doing different
seasonal things but you
don’t want to miss out
on all the festivities of
the gorgeous season
of leaves. One of
the first things to do
during this beautiful season of colorful leaves is going to
the apple orchard with
your family where you
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gorgeous clear water. As
your driving down the
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gorgeous scenes of fall foliage with a scenic background.
During this breath taking season of gorgeous
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all look forward to that
one sports season of our
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Teenagers look forward
to two hand touch football
in that cool refreshing air
and hot chocolate waiting
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Hiking up a beautiful trail or breath taking
mountain is one of the
best activities many find
in fall time because of the
breath taking views and
aerobic exercise before
the winter season hits.
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Part I: Touring Japan
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17th-century Buddhist temple, Ueno Park, Tokyo
Victor Block
The
traffic-clogged
streets, sleek towering
skyscrapers and dazzling
lighted billboards could
be in any city in the United States. So too could
familiar fast food chain
restaurants and signs promoting brands of electronics, clothing and other
goods that are popular
with Americans.
But this setting is half
a world away in Tokyo,
Japan. For visitors to that
country, it is among many
similarities that the two
nations share – along with
dramatic differences in
their history and culture.
These discrepancies – foreign and familiar, old and
new – provide unexpected
pleasures of a visit to that
intriguing destination.
The roots of modern Tokyo were planted during
the so-called Edo period,
which lasted from 1603 to
1868. In the early 17th
century, Edo (as presentday Tokyo was known)
was a modest fishing village, until a powerful
shogun (military dictator)
made it his seat of power.
Today, with 13.5 million
people living in the city
and another 9 million in
its suburbs, it is the most
populous
metropolitan
area in the world.
A good place to begin
a tour is sprawling Ueno
Park, which is home to
elegant temples, graceful
pagodas, a number of major museums and a large
zoo.
Not surprisingly,
resident giant pandas are
the most popular zoo inhabitants.
Any visit to Tokyo also
should include the Edo
Castle, which was built
in 1457 and served as the
residence of the shoguns.
The present Imperial Palace, which is the primary
residence of the emperor
of Japan, sits on the base
of the former castle, and
the original main gate,
some walls, turrets and
moats survive.
A more in-depth plunge
into Japan’s feudal past
is provided at the Edo
Museum, where exhibits demonstrate how the
small village evolved into
the vast metropolis of
today. Among exhibits
are intricate scale models
realistically
representing buildings and towns
from the 17th through
20th centuries. Cultural
icons include a life-size
reconstruction of a kabuki
theater, where that classical dance-drama form of
entertainment has been
popular since the early
17th century.
The history and tradi-
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Golden Pavilion,Ryoani Temple Zen Garden Kyoto
tions of Japan also are
well preserved in the city
of Kyoto. So endowed
is it with historical and
artistic treasures that during World War II it was
removed from the list of
possible bombing targets
by the United States.
With some 1,600 Buddhist temples, 400 Shinto
shrines, magnificent palaces, lovely gardens and
more, the welcome challenge for visitors is how
to experience and enjoy as
much as possible in a limited time.
A must-see is the Ryoanji Temple, which is famous for its lovely rock
garden. Created around
1500 as a place for Zen
meditation, it consists of
a field of immaculately
manicured white gravel
raked into a wave-like
design surrounding rock
islands.
One of the most popular
buildings in Japan is the
Rokuon-ji (Temple of the
Golden Pavilion), a Buddhist hall which stands at
the edge of a small pond.
Built in the architectural
style of aristocratic mansions in Kyoto during the
8th-to-12th centuries, its
most distinctive feature is
a gold leaf coating which
covers the upper two
levels of the three-story
structure.
A delightful tea house
was the setting for an-
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Edo Museum, Tokyo: Nihonbashi Bridge
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Lights in downtown Tokyo
other immersion into
Japanese culture. A tea
master demonstrated the
time, precision and ritual
involved in the simple act
of preparing the beverage,
attributes that pervade
many aspects of Japanese
life.
No matter how interesting centuries old traditions, how magnificent
the temples and shrines
that grace Kyoto and how
beautiful
architectural
gems from the Edo period
hidden beneath the modern veneer of Tokyo, it
was five days that I spent
walking along a section of
an ancient trail between
those cities which provided the most meaningful
immersion in the history,
heart and soul of Japan.
That part of the story will
be told in next month’s article.
As for a good way to
visit that country, I traveled with Walk Japan,
which has conducted tours
there since 1992 and certainly lives up to its name.
Its trips range from city
sightseeing to trail walking to more strenuous experiences, and even in Tokyo and Kyoto my group
logged several miles by
foot each day.
The tours stay at local
inns, dine at family-run
restaurants and have other
features that bring travelers (a maximum of 12
on most itineraries) into
close contact with Japanese people from various
walks of life.
In addition to accommodations, meals, sightseeing and outstanding
guides, Walk Japan provides participants with an
in-depth introduction to
both Japanese history and
contemporary life that is
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Catching Health with Diane Atwood:
How Art Therapy Helps Relieve Some of the Pain and
Suffering of a Life-Altering Illness
Stephanie McLeod-Estevez is an expressive arts
therapist who recently used
the tools of her trade to help
heal herself. Stephanie was
diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014.
As a therapist, she had
noticed how pervasive
grief was in people’s lives.
She realized that helping
people through the process
of grieving and letting go
was important work. Because sometimes people
aren’t able to express their
feelings in words, she began to use art as a therapy
tool.
“Using the arts is a way
of accessing some of the
process — to enable you
to bring it outside of you
and, like a suitcase, unpack
what has been inside and
ultimately putting it back
together again.”
Using Art to Heal
Herself
As she went through her
own grieving process after
finding out she had breast
cancer, Stephanie decided
to try some art therapy on
herself. At different stages
of her journey, she created
plaster casts of her breasts.
“My process,” she explains, “was to sit down
separately and connect to
the feelings, sensations,
and thoughts of each experience and then creatively
express that on each cast.”
Diagnosis
With her first cast, Stephanie described her feelings
about being diagnosed with
breast cancer.
“An uproar of mixed
thoughts, feelings and reactions all happening at once.
My heart is in the pit of my
stomach. Things are moving fast and I feel off kilter
trying to keep up with the
testing, information, new
reality, recommendations
for treatment, fear, the implications for myself, my
family, my children, fragility and vulnerability. Yet, I
can see a glimmer of hope,
peacefulness, a deep reservoir of strength that is holding me in place, helping me
to surrender to the process
and trust that I was going to
be ok.”
Submitted photos
Molly Anderson, above, used teachings from Stephanie
McLeod-Estevez in art and meditation to heal, the mind,
body, spirit and self. Below, Stephanie created plaster
casts of her breasts during various phases of treatment
and recovery.
body is responding to the
toxic medicine.”
Helping Others Get
on with their Lives
Chemotherapy
A second cast, depicting
chemotherapy, is almost
devoid of the feelings she
expressed about her diagnosis.
“This is the moment
where I am on my knees,
pleading for my life, asking
the red devil (aka Adryomicin) and the other chemos
to do their job and kill this
cancer. I am acutely aware
of the port that has surgically entered my body, my
veins, and I’m a little fear-
ful of how the port could
carry an infection straight
to my heart. The cast is
stark, the path is clear cut in
terms of what we are doing
and why. I can now feel my
cancer (seen on left side of
breast), my tumor, when I
dance and then — one week
into treatment — there is a
palpable difference to how
the tumor feels. It is no lon-
ger rock hard, but soft and
more malleable. My oncologist and I share this moment of triumph and hope.
I have never felt so close to
a provider — a lifesaver —
than I have in this moment.
Yet the risks of treatment to
the heart must be carefully
monitored. We are in a
clinical moment. My blood
tells the story of how my
Making the plaster casts
was powerful healing medicine for Stephanie. She
also reached out for support in other ways and discovered that when it came
to dealing with life after
cancer, there seemed to be
a hole.
As a result, she founded her business Creative
Transformations and now
teaches people how to use
art and meditation to heal
the mind, body, spirit and
self, people like Molly Anderson, who was also diagnosed with breast cancer.
Molly Anderson
Doing the Tri for a
Cure
“I had thought about
doing traditional support
groups or traditional therapy, but just never did it,”
Molly told me. “Stephanie
explained what she was
doing and it sounded like
something that would be
great. I’m not the least bit
artistic, in fact, very far
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Funny things kids say!
Years ago, my 3-yearold niece Brianna came
running into the laundry
room, phone in hand, yelling, “Momma, Momma,
it’s Millie Importure, it’s
Millie Importure!”
My sister knew no one
named Millie and when
she got on the phone, no
one was there. This happened several times over
the next few months until
my sister finally realized
her daughter was mimicking her, as kids so often do
to their parents.
Whenever my sister was
on the phone and the kids
started getting loud, she
would say to them, “Shh,
it’s really important!”
– Catherine White, Wilton.
Back in 2003 our daugh-
ter and her husband and
4-year-old son lived with
us in our farmhouse. During a thunderstorm with
heavy rain, we lost power
in the middle of the night.
Out in the country, when
you lose power, it is dark!
A louc clap of thunder
woke up our grandson who
then yelled for his father.
His father felt and worked
his way through the living room and up the hall
to his son’s room, telling
him all was well and that it
was just the storm that had
knocked out the power.
Our grandson said, “Oh,
thank God. I thought I had
gone blind.”
– Mo Lizotte in Jay.
I heard a funny one from
my granddaughter a few
years back. She was visit-
ing in New England from
Kentucky. I took her to the
beach and she could not get
to the water fast enough.
All of a sudden she
called out, “Grandma,
help! My feet have headaches!”
This was her first time in
our cold waters. The “feet
headaches” soon disappeared and she had a great
time.
– Evelyn Wedding in
Norway.
It has been an unspoken
ritual at our house for many
years: the grandkid(s)
come in, get Gramp’s underwear out of his bureau,
and quickly stuff ‘em in
the freezer. Next morning, Gramps gets up, rants
and raves, “When will they
ever learn that this is NOT
funny!”
Grandkid(s) tee-hee and
it’s another memory never
to be forgotten. Only this
time it was the three- and
four-year-olds who did it
for their first time, after
observing their siblings or
cousins.
There was only one
problem. They hurriedly
stuck the underwear in
the freezer in the ice cube
maker! In the middle of
the night, I could hear
grinding noises in the
kitchen.
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Catching Health with Diane Atwood: Continued from page 9
How Art Therapy Helps Relieve Some of the Pain and
Suffering of a Life-Altering Illness
from it. But she gets you
comfortable with the materials you’re working with
before you start to get your
expressions out on paper.
You get comfortable with
just doing it.”
Molly and Stephanie
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a meditation and deep
breathing. Then Stephanie
led her through a particular
topic — her body, for instance. “She would prompt
me,” says Molly. “Your
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these changes. How would
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asked how I would describe
it now. We would talk and
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Molly created a bright
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“Every time I go into the
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She drew another image
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represented the devastation she felt when she got
her diagnosis. The point
was not to draw something
recognizable but simply to
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in, but to process it.”
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Along the way, she came to
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and resilient and able to focus on all the things I needed to do,” she says.
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hand — no brushes. I wanted to feel it go on. It’s such
a visceral loss to undertake,
even when you have no
regrets. Feeling tainted by
the disease and grieving
the loss of my breasts that
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However, given the aggressive nature of my particular
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they become the breeding
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In fact, they find stage 0
DCIS in the other breast
(non-cancer breast) when
the pathology is done. My
body betrays me again. I
painted this completely by
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The Accountant (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Lucas Allen
Ben Affleck has gotten
praise from both critics and
audiences playing Batman
in last March’s polarizing
but entertaining Batman v.
Superman: Dawn of Justice. But before his character joins the Justice League,
the Oscar-winning writer/
director uses his experience
to star in his own action/
thriller called The Accountant. It seems Affleck wants
to emulate what his buddy
Matt Damon does in the
Bourne series, but he still
does something different
which makes him stand out
from the usual pack.
When he was young,
Christian Wolff (Affleck)
was diagnosed with high
functioning autism which
his military father (Robert
C. Treveiler) took it for
granted and trained him
to defend for himself. He
then becomes an accountant secretly working for
some dangerous people
around the world. His actions caught the attention
of Treasury agent Ray King
(J.K. Simmons), who has
his new associate Marybeth
Medina (Cynthia AddaiRobinson) try to find out
his identity. However, King
himself may have known
him from the past.
Wolff’s latest job was to
look through all the account
numbers of a robotic prosthetics institute run by Lamar Black (John Lithgow)
and see if any of the money was missing. With the
help of another accountant
named Dana Cummings
(Anna Kendrick), he was
able to gather enough information to fix some details.
But Black’s hired hitmen
led by the mysterious Brax
(Jon Bernthal) wants both
Wolff and Cummings dead
for what they know. With
the two of them on the run,
he will have to finish the
fight on his own.
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Affleck is the real reason
to see this movie not just
his performance. He is a believable action hero no matter when he picks up a gun
or packs a punch. As for
his performance, he gives
a pretty accurate portrayal
of someone with autism
between his way of talking,
his tics, and his routines. It
feels a little more grounded
in reality compared to some
other Hollywood interpretations of anyone with a
mental disorder.
The rest of the movie
doesn’t live up to its star
performance. It does offer
some good action scenes
to keep you entertained,
but much of the movie
has characters dumping
exposition all over the
place. While it is impor-
tant to explain crucial plot
points, the movie went a
little overboard explaining
details that could’ve been
edited down to meet audience needs. It almost ruins
the experience, but the film
itself remains well made
despite the troubles.
Besides Affleck, it has
a good cast to boot. Simmons make good use of his
scenes even when he’s delivering gigantic amounts
of dialogue. Bernthal livens
things up as a hitman with
his own personal connections. Lithgow and Jeffrey
Tambor (as an old mob
informant) only have very
brief scenes that don’t add
much. The biggest weak
spot in the cast is Kendrick
who’s basically giving a
one note performance with-
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out displaying much of her
talents. She does have some
good scenes with Affleck,
but her presence has not
much effect on the overall
story.
The Accountant is best
recommended as a rental
unless you really want to
see Affleck be the great action hero he’s trying to be.
It’s like watching a Batman
prequel where Christian
Wolff was actually Bruce
Wayne before becoming
the Caped Crusader. But
as it is, it’s a solid thriller
that’s nothing more and
nothing less.
THE MOVIE’S RATING: R (for strong violence
and language throughout)
THE CRITIC’S RATING: 2.75 Stars (Out of
Four) n
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