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W' Inside iO Serving Waterville Winslow Oakland airfield Northern Kennebec and Waldo County communities Reno to address police grads in Waterville By JOE RANKIN Sentinel Staff Chancellor inally available in Elm City its Sentinel Staff Campus votes coming By KARLENE HALE Guy Gannett Service Related story: 10 3' Sentinel photo by Ron Maxwell More on PLATES Page 2 More on ORENDU Page 2 By JOE RANKIN Sentinel Staff Sentinel photo by Ron Maxwell Maine news14 7 March 21 1995 28 Pages 50 Cents CJ 15a friend and former teammate says Reggie Lewis and he did drugs together which provides $88 billion over six years to put 100000 officers on the streets More than 50 Maine towns and cities and eight counties have received money under the ast Cops program including Waterville Oakland and airfield presence is expected to boost attendance at the ceremony from the usual 300 to between 400 and 500 In addition to families and friends of the graduates representatives of dozens of police departments will attend never had anyone of this stature speak at the said Maine Public Safety Department spokesman Steve McCausland 'changes your The Mid Maine Medical Center IWo Mld Malne Medical Center nurses spent a week with a church sponsored medical team Mayor Thomas Brazier and City Accountant Carol Blier show off the new license plates available at Waterville City Hall i WATERVILLE US Attorney General Janet Reno is expected to share her philosophy of community policing with the cops who will be doing it when she speaks here riday The feisty and frank Reno the chief law enforcement officer will be the keynote speaker when 34 new city policemen and deputies graduate from the 12 week police school at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy Some of those new officers were hired with funds from President crime bill nnMiNiCAi HAITI REPUBLIC A Commissioner of Public Safety Alfred Skolfield US Attorney for Maine Jay McCloskey Reno king Wathen and Skolfield will hold a press conference at 11:15 am Reno will lunch with King legislative leaders and members of the Judiciary Committee Reno spokesman Nicholas Gess said his boss wants to use the opportunity of the graduation to emphasize community policing a model that aims to get officers out of the patrol car and back among the people a concept that is applicable whether a cop patrols beat of a few city blocks or thousands of square miles of rural said Gess really pleased about the exposure this is going to give the officers of this said the director Steven Giorgetti The graduation is set for 1 pm at the Thomas College gym Area officers graduating are William Beaulieu of the Skowhegan Police Department Mark Desjardins of the Augusta Police Department Lincoln Ryder of the Waterville Police Department and Thomas White II of the ranklin County Sheriff's Department Other VIPs attending: Maine Attorney General Andrew Ketterer who will also speak Gov Angus King Maine Supreme Court Chief Justice Daniel Wathen Maine Index Calendar21 Inside Vol 92 No 14 WatervilleWinslow Maine (207) 873 3341 treating the people ot the bateye sugar company owned towns populated by Haitians who come mere to find work The medical team worked out of the city of La Romans Lottery Monday's winners: 623 and 6133 is time for people to say some thing The chancellor is just a very different sort of person all Goheen said Votes are due Wednesday at Orono and they will be counted Thursday Professor Earl Beard said have a real good idea how going to come out going to be an almost overwhelming vote against Beard said aculty also are voting or dis cussing votes at the University of Southern Maine the Machias cam pus and at armington aculty Senate is meeting Tuesday (today) to decide what action should be said Pro fessor Daniel Gunn president of the faculty assembly at arming ton Orenduff was president of UM before taking over as chancellor of the system about 2 years ago Dunn said Orenduff was somewhat WATERVILLE Carol Thi bodeau and Jan Osborn will look at a packet of sugar the same way again Instead of a sweet powder see small dusty villages smoldering under a Caribbean sky Ramshackle cottages People toiling away in sug arcane fields riendly black chil dren with smiles that beam through a life of grinding poverty disease and lack of hope Sugar and life take on a whole new meaning when spent time among the workers who tend the cane on the Dominican Republic side of the border splitting the island of Hispaniola of the things we put as important now seem said Thibodeau 42 of China Osborn 54 of Oakland said a visit Verses God is a very present help in trouble Therefore will not we fear though the earth be removed and through the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea Be still and know that I am God Psalms 46:1210 WATERVILLE isherman bird watcher or intellectual City Hall has a plate under the counter for you a license plate that is On Monday for the first time ever the department opened its windows with 500 new license plates on the shelves displaying a choice of lobsters loons or the University of Maine in the background Waterville motorists no longer have to traipse off to Augusta to transfer a registration or be issued a new license plate The City inance Department is now doing the task in house used to send them either to Benton or Augusta until Benton said it was not going to do it for anybody but their residents so it was just Director of inance Nancy Orr said Monday Orr remembered when the police used to help out a long time you were able to give the police a dollar to go do it for you Then you had a problem for the staff and the security of the she said Orr said it was exciting to finally be able to offer the service locally Mayor Thomas Brazier said he lit a fire under a plan that had been on the back burner for a long time city has been wanting to do this for years There have been a lot of complaints and some activity I was just here to make sure it happened There is nothing more frustrating than walking up to the window and not being able to get your plates or a Brazier said The ability to perform the service was JANET RENO To speak at Thomas College Sports True friend? funrutug Commentary Children need adults to give them guidance and one US city is trying to find some Goodman: Page 4 at City Hall By DARLA GILBERT PICKETT Sentinel graphic by Josh amola company owned towns populated by Haitians who come there to find nurses spent a week with a church work sponsored medical team treating The work they do is backbreaking the people of the bateys sugar Their wages are paltry $2 to $4 for a Nerve gas toll hits 8 Police in protective gear seized five packages of nerve gas that spread death Monday through crowded subway system hunting for clues in a chilling new chapter in urban terrorism: the use of chemical weapons No one claimed responsibility for the attack which by Tuesday morning had killed eight people and sickened nearly 4700 others Page 2 Emissions 2 King holds talks on meeting clean air requirements License plate service debuts to keep job trustee says AUGUSTA University of Maine System Chancellor Michael Orenduff will keep his job regard less of how many votes of nb confi dence he receives a trustee said Monday has the full support of the Board ot Trustees The board supports his goals The criticism is in the implemen tation of said trustee Bennett Katz of Augusta Meanwhile four of the sevencampus ORENDU es are gearing up this week for votes on the chan performance The Presque Isle campus last week voted no confidence in Orenduff by a wide margin a spokesman there said was a veiy very substantial margin about 8 1 said Professor Royal Goheen chairman of the faculty assembly Nurses treat sugar workers MMMC volunteers help Haitians in Dominican Republic 12 hour day in the cane fields and the sugar companies get much of that back by running the only store' in town The Haitians are treated as lowest of the low virtual slaves in a countiy not their own said Thi bodeau and Osborn Mission organizations try to bet ter that existence by bringing medi cal care Thibodeau Osborn and three other nurses eight doctors a nutri tionist and a pharmacist spent a week in late January and ebruary in the Dominican Republic under the auspices of the American Bap tist churches of Maine Another 33 volunteers worked on a hospital that will one day treat Haitian immigrants The Dominican Republic occupies half of the island of Hispaniola in the Jan Osborn left and Carol Thibodeau pediatric nurses at Mid Maine Medical Thayer Unit have returned from a volunteer stint More on NURSES Page 2 caring for Haitian sugarcane workers in the Dominican Republic Tuesday Clinton Sewer vote tonight 9 A sewer project that would breate and retain jobs in Clinton will be voted on in a special town meeting at 7 pm Tuesday at Clinton Elementary School base Outside Showers 1 40s Page 8 A1 GMHWBIHMitMr if warikha a i store Saa' jfWTlI 1 rf '4 7vf Mr 5 Classified24 26 Movies19 Comics20 21 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