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Thursday, October 11, 2012 • 60 cents
Sorry, kitchen’s closed
Soup kitchen shutdown leaves food gap as Bath Area Food Bank seeks manager
BY LARRY GRARD
Times Record Staff
BATH
Living
Varied license laws
for older drivers
The Bath Area Food Bank
is seeking a new manager and
site for its soup kitchen after
it closed its doors at the First
Baptist Church five weeks
ago.
Judy Wiseman, chairwoman of the Food Bank
board, said Wednesday there
is no time frame for re-opening the soup kitchen, which
fed as many as 30 people a day.
Wiseman said the food
pantry at the Neighborhood
Faith Community, United
Church of Christ, 150 Congress Ave., is providing the
hungry two boxes a month
instead of one during the
soup kitchen shutdown.
The pantry is open twice a
week, on Tuesdays and Fridays.
“Right now we’re looking
for a new location for the
soup kitchen, and a new manager,” Wiseman said. “We
have a couple of options on
the location.”
Pastor Steve Rowe has said
that the Baptist church
remains available, but at least
one board member wants to
consolidate soup kitchen and
the food pantry under one
roof.
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Durham
explores
dispatch
options
Page B8
Local ______________
1 hurt in
Brunswick crash
Page A2
Topsham winter
market to open
Nov. 2
BY JT LEONARD
Times Record Staff
Page A3
DURHAM
hospitals, government
research institutions and private laboratories around the
world.
Town officials are weighing
the possibility of shifting dispatch services from Androscoggin County Sheriff ’s
Office across the river to Lisbon Emergency.
Durham
Fire
Chief
William St. Michel is waiting
on final numbers from Lisbon
before he makes an official
recommendation to the Board
of Selectmen, but he said preliminary estimates are that
the town would save about
$1,200 per year.
“There certainly would be a
savings, but that’s not the primary reason — and it should
not be the primary reason —
for changing to dispatch
through Lisbon,” St. Michel
said. “The quality and reliability of service should
remain the same if not better,
and that’s why the town is
considering the change.”
Depending on whether
someone calls 911 from a landline or which wireless signal
tower relays calls made on
mobile phones, all calls go
either to the sheriff or state
police, because they are public safety answering points, or
PSAPs.
That wouldn’t change.
The difference will be in
the management of fire
trucks and ambulances after
the initial call.
Right now, county emergency dispatchers manage
the response to a call; if Lisbon Emergency takes over,
town dispatchers manage
which trucks and people
respond to a call from its
switchboard behind Town
Hall on outer Lisbon Street.
When that happens, quality
and reliability of communication should improve because
with Lisbon, the dispatch
process would be entirely
through VHF, or very high
frequency, two-way radio signal. Currently, communication between the Androscoggin County Sheriff ’s Office
and the town is by radio-telephone
loop,
necessary
because of topography and
interference from other
antenna arrays on the roof of
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Light at the end of
the tunnel?
Freeport field hockey
team plays well in loss
to Traip
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Yankees down
Orioles in 12
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Maine ______________
Boat involved in
fatal collision
seized
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Amtrak,
Downeaster set
records
Page A5
World/Nation ________
Foreclosure filings
hit 5-year low
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COMICS..............................A7
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LOCAL NEWS ...................A2-3
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DARCIE MOORE / THE TIMES RECORD
KATHY ALBASINI, a supervisor at FHC who has been with the company 16 years, sits at her workstation where she uses a
microscope with a light plate to work with wire thinner than a strand of hair. On Wednesday, she spoke with Rep. Seth Berry, DBowdoinham, about what she does and the kind of wire she is using, noting the measurements she works with are mostly in
millimeters.
Manufacturing in the spotlight
FHC Inc.
honored for
excellence,
efficiency
BY DARCIE MOORE
Times Record Staff
BOWDOIN
D
onning lab
coats and
safety glasses, a pack of
visitors snaked through a lab
Wednesday at FHC Inc.,
watching 16-year employee
Kathy Albasini work with
wire thinner than a strand of
hair over a microscope and
light plate.
Albasini was making electrodes for the company’s electrode store, true to a key
Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership principal of
“lean manufacturing.”
The tour came as FHC Inc.,
a Bowdoin-based company
specializing in manufactur-
ing state-of-the-art instruments for global neurosurgery customers, was presented a 2012 Manufacturing
Excellence Award by the
Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
The group examined a deep
brain stimulation electrode
the company developed, and
President and CEO Keri Seitz
talked about the advantages
of FHC’s “microTargeting”
equipment, which may help
researchers treat disorders
such as Parkinson’s disease,
Alzheimer’s disease and
depression.
Department of Economic
and Community Development
Commissioner George Gervais said the company has
“institutionalized the process
for generating new ideas and
rapidly testing them for commercial success,” which has
allowed FHC to “bring new
products to market in exceptionally short time-frames
with minimal waste of
money and time and hence
minimal risk.”
Founded in 1970, FHC has
designed and manufactured
more than 7,000 metal micro-
DARCIE MOORE / THE TIMES RECORD
KARI SEITZ, president and CEO of FHC Inc., shows Bruce
Pulkkinen, chairman of the Maine Manufacturing Extension
Partnership board of directors, far left, Jim Pineau of Congresswoman Chellie Pingree’s office, and other state officials
who joined in a tour of the Bowdoin facility Wednesday, how
the company’s “microTargeting” technology for deep brain
stimulation and other cranial targeting, works. FHC was awarded the Maine MEP’s Manufactoring Excellence Award on
Wednesday just prior to the tour.
electrodes and a broad range
of clinical and research
devices. Its clients include scientists and clinicians studying at major universities,
medical schools, research
Smaller Maine ports seeing increase in cruise ships
BY STEPHEN BETTS
Bangor Daily News
SARA GRAVES
WOOLWICH CENTRAL SCHOOL
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Midcoast communities are
increasingly the destination
of cruise ships from around
the world — vessels that
bring with them the all
important tourist dollars.
Maine overall has seen a
doubling of the number of
cruise ships making port
calls in the past 10 years but
that increase has been much
greater for harbors such as
Belfast and Rockland, according to statistics compiled by
CruiseMaine.
Rockland, for example,
recorded eight cruise ships
coming to its harbor in 2003.
By last year and again in
2012, that number had nearly
quadrupled to 29. Belfast
went from eight in 2003 to a
projected 27 this year.
Rockland will see two large
ships make port calls in the
next week, although one is
not a cruise ship but a floating high-end residential condominium complex.
The World is scheduled to
arrive in Rockland Harbor on
Friday at 1 p.m. and remain
in port through Sunday at 8
p.m. The World bills itself as
the “only private residential
community at sea where its
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residents may travel the globe
without ever leaving home.”
The 644-foot The World has
165 individual residences
aboard the 12-deck high vessel, with an average occupancy of 150 to 200 residents with
a crew of 260. This week the
ship is visiting Maine ports
in Eastport, Bar Harbor,
Rockland and Portland.
The visit by The World in
Rockland will be followed by
the second visit this season of
the 684-passenger cruise ship
the MS Regatta. The 594-foot
Regatta will be moored in
Rockland Harbor on Tuesday
from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m. Pas-
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sengers, and some of the 400
crew members, will be
brought ashore to the public
landing by smaller tender vessels.
Lorain Francis, executive
director of Rockland Main
Street Inc., said local merchants are happy to have visitors whether they are from
small cruise ships, larger
cruise ships, or aboard the
Maine Eastern Railroad.
She classified the Regatta
as a midsize cruise ship.
“She creates a busy day.
There are people on the
street,” Francis said of cruise
ships such as the Regatta.
Rockland got its first, and
so far, only taste of a large
cruise ship in October 2009,
when the Jewel of the Seas
made a one-day port call. That
962-foot ship carried 2,500 passengers and a crew of 760.
Rockland businesses and
government had been working for several years to attract
such large ships as a way to
generate more customer traffic for the region.
Francis said the Jewel of
the Seas brought in a large
amount of visitors, but that
the smaller ships also make it
a good day on Main Street
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2012
5-Day Forecast for Mid-coast Region
Tonight
Partly Cloudy
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Sun and Moon
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Record High . . . . . .79º in 1997
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Precipitation
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Heating Degree Days
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FHC
From Page A1
The business, which
employs 100, is located in the
town’s former elementary
school along Route 125. The
former classrooms now house
a child care service FHC provides its employees, a fitness
center and a gym that’s open
to the public.
“The company has an outstanding record both as an
innovative leader in its industry as well as being a great
corporate citizen in the community,” Maine MEP Board of
Directors Chairman Bruce
Pulkkinen said.
Maine Manufacturing
Extension Partnership is supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. Department of Commerce and the
state of Maine to help smalland medium-sized manufacturers identify and implement advanced manufacturing and management technologies.
The award to FHC was
being presented as part of
Maine MEP’s designation of
October as manufacturing
month, to highlight the
importance of manufacturing
in the U.S. economy.
“Manufacturing is a highly
skilled technology-driven
industry these days that
engages some of the best scientific minds in the world,”
Pulkkinen said. However,
“Too many young people
don’t always think of manufacturing as a career option.”
“To some, American manufacturing is seen as a declining industry with not much
future,” he said. “The public
image of manufacturing
more often may be of the oldfashioned heavy industry
shop floors of the past, rather
than the clean rooms and
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in Brunswick will close its
doors Saturday, Oct. 20, its
owners said in a news
release. The date was incorrect in Wednesday’s editions.
Regional Forecast
Monday
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home to a cold house.
Boston: Expect partly cloudy skies tonight. Partly
cloudy skies will continue Friday. Saturday we will
see sunny skies.
Few Showers
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a 70 percent chance of showers. Friday, skies will
be partly cloudy with showers possible.
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Rumford
36/49
Concord
39/52
Boston
48/55
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highly sophisticated operations that you might find here
at FHC.”
Pulkkinen said the Maine
Manufacturing Extension
Partnership is encouraging
high school and college students to consider job opportunities in manufacturing in
Maine.
“Manufacturing needs to
attract our best, most talented
students,” he said. “To do
this, we need to let them
know that manufacturing in
Maine has a bright future
with good paying jobs.”
Gervais said his department is working with 16 businesses considering expansion
or relocation in Maine that
could bring millions of dollars and 200 new jobs here.
“We certainly would love to
connect these people considering Maine with companies
who have a success story to
tell like FHC,” he told employees Wednesday, “to help sell
what Maine has got to offer
the rest of the world.”
John Butera, senior economic advisor to Gov. Paul
LePage, congratulated the
FHC team, telling them,
“Folks, manufacturing is
alive and well and not only in
the country but most importantly in Maine.”
FHC has demonstrated
characteristics manufacturers must have today to be
competitive in the marketplace, Butera said. They must
innovate, and when they
innovate, bring those products to market.
“Nothing happens until the
cash register rings,” he said.
Seitz said the company
learned of Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership
through FHC board member
Heather Blease, who had
heard about a program it
offered allowing FHC to learn
about a new innovative engi-
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A little over a year since the
company started the program, “we have completely
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process, the whole Innovating
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As a result of the program,
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The “fail fast fail cheap”
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to our advantage to develop
new products,” Seitz said.
Whether lean manufacturing or new production planning software, “our group;
the entire team, remains open
to new ideas and ways of
doing things, which I believe
makes us more successful as
a company.”
For more information
about FHC Inc. visit www.fhco.com and visit www.mainemep.org to learn more about
the Maine Manufacturing
Extension Partnership.
Please Join Us!
Healthcare in Our Community
is at a Crossroads.
Learn what is at stake.
Monday, October 15 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Mid Coast Hospital Café & Conference Rooms
123 Medical Center Drive, Brunswick
Refreshments will be served.
Important issues for community understanding:
s Mid Coast Hospital has a proposal that will help our community preserve
local control of its healthcare services. We would like to work with Parkview
Adventist Medical Center to strengthen healthcare in our community.
We believe that collaboration and consolidation can begin to reverse the
trend of rising healthcare costs.
sOur proposal is in contrast to the plan of Lewiston’s Central Maine Medical
Center, which is to take ownership of Parkview.
s
We seek an open, honest, and transparent discussion with our community
about this important issue.
Lois N. Skillings, President & CEO of Mid Coast Health Services, will provide an
overview and facilitate a public discussion about what is at stake for our
community. Please bring your ideas and questions to this forum.
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