Sailors share reasons for joining Tall Ships parade
Three crew members reveal motives for sailing to New York for the bicentennial parade. Susan Wade, a Canadian-born American citizen, seeks citizenship papers and hospital administration training while aboard the Sir Winston Churchill. Max Gilroy, an Australian tugboat master, quit his job to race tall ships, chasing a last minute berth on several vessels before joining a Polish square-rigger. George Paradise, a Florida cadet supervisor, describes his rehab mission aboard the Unicorn and his drive toward public relations work after a troubled youth.
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Susan Wade
Long Island
Winston Churchill
Susan
Canada
San Diego
England
Bethpage
Britain
United States
States
Watergate
Max Gilroy
Sydney
Australia
Atlantic
Newport
R.I
New York Harbor
Gilroy
Ship Training Association of Great Britain
STA
Churchill
Tenerife
Dar Pormorza
George Paradise
Unicorn
Paradise
Florida
The
Canadian runner ends Maine trek with bicentennial ties
Latulippe, 58, finished a 223 mile run from Quebec to Augusta delivering Canadian greetings to Maine Governor Longley. He highlighted US Canadian friendship as a beacon for world peace, receiving a Maine Bicentennial medal before fine weather and rain interruptions.
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Augusta
Maine
United States
Phillip Yong
Canada
James Longley
Latulippe
Longley
Quebec City
Que
U.S
Capitol
State House
Red Cross
Lance Aveeridah
Hearing set on ad ban for Maine furniture ads
Maine attorney general won a temporary order halting a Connecticut firm’s ads in Bangor and Portland that portrayed damaged and discontinued furniture as court ordered bankruptcy sales. The ads misled by citing a wrong statute and failing to disclose extra charges or that items were damaged. A Superior Court hearing Tuesday will decide if the ban becomes permanent.
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Augusta
Maine
Connecticut
1St Bank Management Co., Inc
East Hartford
Conn
Arnwood R. Skendarian
Enfield
Joseph E. Brennan
Bangor
Portland
Pe i
Brennan
Rennan
Discount Furniture King of Bangor
Heritage House Furniture of Gray
Superior Court
William F. McCarthy
Ex inmate testifies seeing prisoner stab Gary Lawrence in Maine
Milton Wallace testified in Melvin murder trial that Donald Melvin stabbed Gary Lawrence three times during a prison disturbance at Maine State Prison on Nov 15. Wallace described Melvin switching hands with a knife and a cup as Lawrence begged for his life. The warden, Arrell Mullaney, reported inmates negotiated for inmate releases amid the incident.
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Rockland, Maine
Maine
Milton Wallace
Donald Melvin
Gary Lawrence
Wallace
Melvin
Lawrence
Bee
Arrell Mullaney
Augusta Heald
Richard Dyer
Newport reels from Tall Ships awe and traffic pause
Newport, RI saw more than 100000 visitors as the Operation Sail fleet departed for New York Harbor. City crews cleared signs and roadblocks, and police reported generally orderly crowds despite brief thunder squalls and traffic jams on Aquidneck Island.
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Newport
Mary Murphy
Operation Sail
New York Harbor
Murphy
Walter Potter
Aquidneck Island
National Guard
Potter
Reginald Nalle
Jeremiah Sullivan
Jamestown Island
Bay
Hey
Newport Harbor
Fort Adams
Baking pears in rosy sugar syrup with grenadine
Pears are peeled and baked in a sugar syrup with grenadine. The process involves adding grenadine during baking and cooling to achieve a rosy hue.
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Plymouth
Oldsmobile
Methot
Elm Street
Biddeford
Marc Charney
Associated Press
Coast Guard Bark Eagle
New York
Bermuda
Dar Parmeza
Newport Bridge
Dar Pomorza
Gorch Fock
UPI
Pontiac
Main Street
Saco, Maine
Roland Belisle
Sakrete
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