Kennebec Journal from Augusta, Maine • 2

I Kennebec Journal Augutta Thursdoy May 24 1SS3 Football to stay Tuesday's temperatures at UMSgaaB IRf IvHiKla UHsIIb IvBsHwnl 'partly sunny high SO to 65 Light winds Tonight cloudy for SAD 75 endorsed Intent moatly rain or with 30 percent chines of night loir in the 40a cloudy with chance of high 56 to 10 variable of a ahotrer light occasional light rain or low in the 40s Ugh Friday the Ceumy Valley Today partly nauqC high 00 to Light Friday likely late at night 49 to 60 high Friday in the 50a Chanty Bay Mt Desert Today partW sonny high la the 50a Southeast winds five to 13 mph Tonight and Friday becoming foggy with occasional light rain or drizxle likely low in the 40s high Friday near 50 1 i Extended outlook Rain ending Saturday Fair Sunday but with a chance dl ihowen north Chance of showers Monday Daily highs in the upper Ms north and cast with 00s elsewhere lows In the Ms Almanac Sue rises Sun length 5:14 1:00 14:36 5:51 Hum bteriar Today variable cloudineaa with 40 percent chance of a shower high in the Me Light aouth winds Tonight and Friday occasional light rain or drizzle likely low in the 40a high Friday in the joothweet Cheat Today variable cloudiness with a chance of a shower high in the i to low 60a Winds becoming i to 15 mph Tonight and Friday I foggy with occasional light rain or drixxle likely low in the 40a high Friday to five TIME TABUS OF HIGH TIDES ALONG MAINE COAST Working on the Maine Central Railroad empieyee Gerard toaca Wednesday between raibaad tiea aloag iagdalc (Staff photo fey Cheryl Deaz) Dept ef Marine Resources) Standard Time) --Beethbay Rockland' Wlscasnet pm am pm am pm am pm 12:00 10:48 10:57 10:38 10:47 11:10 12:00 12:40 11:33 11:29 11:23 11:29 11:56 12:00 1:23 12:00 12:16 12:00 12:06 12:01 12:38 (Contributed by lid May 26 5- Auguste am pm 2:24 2:57 3:06 3:43 3:41 4:25 am 11:55 12:04 12:46 I 1 SAD 1 6 budget OK'd without questions Attorneys to haggle over -convenience store issue By KATHLEEN WAGNER Gardlaer 1 TOPSHAM About 75 voters in the four-town SAD 75 voted the budget intact Wednesday night blocking an attempt to cut 610000 for the football program Sandra Crehore the mother of two ML Ararat students and one graduate moved the 610000 cut (ran the 'extracurricular activities with a finger pointed at football The percentage of the ML Ararat students who sign up and stick with football is low and the money could be better used for soccer and track she said personally fed after IQ since the high school opened time has come to drop should Principal Michael Smith uid later about 25 or 30 boys Joined the 615000 to 617000 program in 1962 out of 860 high school students and that 19 finished the season Chairman Joanne Rogers advised that it would be up to the school board to decide where to cut the 610000 from football or other extracurricular accounts The motion however was defeated by voice vote The 67-1 million for 1963-84 was kept as proposed but Mrs: Rogers moved for some transfers between accounts The 'share of the regional vocational budget was reduced by 87-067 and that amount was switched to the extracurricular account which Mrs Rogers said was inadvertently short 68000 The district's vocational cost dropped in the fine-tuning of that budget she uid Another point extensive debate during the 2 meeting at Mt Ararat was the 633000 budgeted for one new computer and software at each of the five elementary schools' Speakers complained that cbmput-epeducation is planned for the sixth grade in those schools but not for the seventh and eighth grades- at Mt AraraL'- The original computer proposal which included the junior high level totaled 6342000 which was pared down byJhe board's subcommittee uid Johnston One man later moved to apply the entire 140000 contingency account to Junior high computers but the motion failed for lack of a second A non-money article allowing the board to accept more tuition students than the current maximum of five for Mt Ararat also passed The 671 million budget an 879 increase over this spending level will boost school cost 106 percent to 61-5 million Bowdoin 115 percent to 6406338 Harps well 115 percent to 81-2 million and Bow-doinham 109 percent to 6444061 Fire damages storage building The Augusta Fire Dept responded late Wednesday night to a two-alarm fire in a two-stray garage and storage building located behind an apartment building at 18 Green St Fire Chief Leon Folger said Die fire Which was under control by mid night started beneath the building in a storage area that contained lum-berThe building owned by Richard Fleury of Augusta was unoccupied Folger uid Cause of the fire which began shortly after 11 pm is unknown 614 percent more from Farmingdale Superintendent -of Schools George -D Stewart said the speed of the budget's adoption was due to heavy public attendance at many budget-related board meetings in April and May "The frustrations were taken care of there and exhibit themselves here" he said The board briefly after the meeting to deal with matters that had to wait until the voters had acted on the budget In accordance' with its1 plan to cut Obituaries' Funerals Gardtaeburean GARDINER Two Portland lawyers are due in (own tonight to argue whether Cumberland Farms should be allowed to construct a building that is almost finished understand construction has pro-ceeded at a more rapid pace than it was when I filed our uid Attorney Geoffrey Hole who Represents JiipBenedix and Benedix Enterprises Benedix appealed to the city's Board of Appeals April 27 after Cum-berland'fiarms was awarded a building permit for the store at the corner of Bridge and Spring streets Cumberland Farms is represented by Attorney David Cohen The Massachusetts-based convenience store chain wilt carry the defense of the approval of construction plans The meeting is scheduled to begin at 7:20 pm at city hall 'Chairman Charles Martel was unable to predict whether the appeals board would make- a decision after tearing the care Three underground gasoline tanks were installed last week and masons began mortaring bricks to the cin-derblock-shell of the building Wednesday Card of Thanks 1100111(101 Wibbir asms tteir tteute Is FARM Rt 27 Ltbuc of Lewiston shovels a stretch of Dock la Farm- two teaching positions because of de--clining pupil enrollments the board voted i to release fifth grade teacher Linda' Davis Stewart said another teacher is expected to resign for health reasons making another layoff unnecessary The board approved a Simmons Trust Fund budget of 129000 the amount of annual interest the fund has generated Board members noted an improvement in the return on the investment in the forid' although not to the level they expect Charles Hewins Jr Burial was In Forest Grove Cemetery where the Rev Mr Bland gave committal prayers i Sorvkos GARDINER FUneral services for 'Herbert Fisher Jr were held Wednesday' afternoon at the Staples FUneral Home 53 Brunswick Avenue Gardiner by the Rev Bruce Hudson pastor of the Highland Avenue United Methodist Church Pallbearers were Joseph and Gregory Fisher Gregory and Dong Mac Master Steve Phyllis Steve Willard Gene Cote tod Glen Amadon --Burial was in the family lot in the Mt Hope Cemetery In South Gardiner where the Rev Hudson said committal prayers Sorvkos''' HALLOWELL A Mass of Christian burial for Catherine Fougere was celebrated Wedneaday morning at' Sacred Heart Catholic Church by the Rev John Bellefontaine pastor Pallbearers were Robert La Fleur Richard Bachelder Norman Ledew John Joseph Washburn and David Burial was iir the family lot in the Hallo-well Cemetery where the Rev Bellefontaine uid committal prayers- Stop Smoking Lose Weight through Hypnosis Reasonable rates FaroiAupuOssppobteiont Cell 1-772-2109 nrsrwy Al JM Main FAR MING DALE Voters at the annual SAD -16 budget fSfeeting -Wedneaday night made it easy for the SAD 16 Board of Directors embru- -ing a 6213 million budget without a word of dissent! i 1 All three money articles on the meeting warrant passed on a ISO vote Nobody asked any questions during the 15 minute session: The new school budget Sis 608 per- 1 cent greater than the 1962-83 budget It will require 035 percent more money from Hallowell taxpayers and Earl Bickford SIDNEY Earl Bickford SS of Goodhue Road died Tuesday evening at a' Waterville bnpital following a long 111- He was bora in Oakland May 20 1915 the son of Walter and Marguritte Bickford He was employed by the Diamond International 45 years and had served the company 'as district fleet supervisor ratiringin 19N He was a former member of the Amon Lodge IOOF of Oakland and past president of the Oakland SnoGoers Club He is survived by his wive Bessie Knox Bickford of Sidney: three sons Neil and Jack both of Sidney and Earl of Rowley Mass twp daughters Janice Dorval of North Vassalboro end Elaine Collier of Sidney: three brothers Lawrence Bicfo ford of Leavitfown Pa Walter Bickford of Watervills and Lynn Pressey of Oakland 10 grandchildren 10 great-grandchildren Funeral Services will bdlield Friday at 1 pm at the Wheeler Funeral Home ChurcM Sfredi Oakland where friends may call today from to 4 and 7 to pm Services GARDINER -Funeral services foe Ellery Robinson were held Wednesday afternoon from the First Baptist Church with the Rev William Dunatan pastor ofthe church officiating Delegations attended from the church' and the Libby Hill Grange of Gardiner Pallbearers were Robert Belgrade Clifford Jamison Cecil Pare Scott Stairs Jeffrey Vowles and Terry Bragg Burial was in the Lisbon Center Cemetery where the Rev Parley Stoat of' Lisbon Falls laidommittal services cJyulana 99TVKCI WINDSOR Funeral services for Lucy HaskelPwere held at the Gray Funeral Home Wedneaday afternoon with the Rev Winifred Reynolds officiating Honorary pallbearers wen Laurence Qiiimby Arthur Smith?) and Kempton Tobey Active pallbearers were Gary Gagnon Daily lottery The Maiae State Lottery CemmissiM i that wiaaiag dally umber 211 In Memory Of My Mother Dorothy Hibbert Who passed away May 26 1982 Sadly missed by Family Friends Neighbors I Monuments Brian York Paul' Cote- John Garrish Wally O'Clair and Donnie Dyer Burial was in Chadwjck Hills Cemetery South China' where committal services were held by Rev Reynolds Services VASSALBORO Committal services for Mrs Louise Glidden who died May 10 will be held at I pm today at the Cross Hill Cemetery Vassalbonn JServkes Funeral services for Frank A- Farring-fop were held Wedneaday at Knowlton A Hewins Fdneral Home Church St with thRev George Bland Jr pastor of the South Parish Congregational Church officiating Delegations attended from the church Augusta Lodge AF A AM' Maine State' Employees Association: Maine Association of Retirees Inc the Maine State Bar: area attorneys: Industrial Acddqpt Commission and the Maine Employment Security Commission Honorary pallbearers were Julius WA KohlerDonovan Lancaster Sanford 'Fogg William Vito and Alan Pierce Farrington Active- pallbearef were Robert 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That the official of the lot should not be Spring Street but Bridge Street which does not have enough frontage to meet zoning requirements That the store's layout absolutely inconsistent with the requirement of in the zoning laws because the Bridge Street -entrance will cause a traffic hazard Traffic from the Gardiner-Ran-dolph bridge will be disrupted by cars turning into the lot Hole fcrgues and will endanger cere maneuvering into the curb cut front parking spaces That the eight parking spaces shown on the lot are not nor is theffcsuf ficient safe maneuvering space nnr curb entrances and the gasoline island That the concrete base of the gasoline island should not have been allow-' ed within 15 feet of a property line Either party may challenge the ap- peals decision in Kennebec' County Superior Court -Benedix has already gone to court once in an effort to force the appeals board to consider ordering a halt to construction The request was denied May 10 Largest Selection i of Quality 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