Bangor officials ask for caution when draining personal pools

Submitted by Bob Evans on Monday, May 13th, 7:23 pm

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER)--The city of Bangor knows that people will soon be getting their pools ready for the summer. That's why the city is starting a campaign to remind people that draining pools into catch basins or storm drains can do a lot of damage to local rivers and streams.

Wynne Guglielmo is the environmental coordinator for the city of Bangor. She says there is a lot of confusion out there on the difference between a catch basin or storm drain and the city sewer system and they want people to understand the difference.

Guglielmo said, "Products that get discharged in to a sanitary sewer are handled by the waste water treatment plant. However a storm sewer or catch basin, you can see the open grate, they come in various sizes, round or square. And everything that flows in here go directly to a water body."

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Don't Lick the Minivan

Submitted by The Page Turner, Community Blogger

Monday, May 13th, 2013, 3:38pm

Things I Should Have Been Doing Yesterday:

1. Laundry

2. Cleaning

3. Going for a training run

Things I Did Instead:

1 Drink coffee.

2. Read Leanne Shirtliffe's Don't Lick the Minivan

3. Howl with laughter.

"Remember the show Survivor? That's what parenting is like. We need to outwit, outlast, and outnumber our kids." (p. 95)

"Parenting tip: Lazy parenting creates kids who are self-starters" (p. 117)

Amen, sister.

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Pig Share!

Submitted by Nate, Community Blogger & Farm Geek

Monday, May 13th, 2013, 9:10am

We are participating in a pig share this year! There are four pigs in a large wooded area that is fenced in with electrical fence. This allows them to root and dig and generally enjoy a very natural habitat. It also cuts down on feed and odor as they spread their manure out over a wider area. These pigs will be at market weight of 250 lbs or so by September when they will be taken to our local butcher for processing.

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Spruce Mtn. coach elected to New England Basketball Hall of Fame

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Sunday, May 12th, 11:59 pm

(NEWS CENTER) - Spruce Mountain girls coach Gavin Kane has a lot of identifiers over his decades of coaching. From coaching boys, girls, men, or women, and stops in Rangeley, Dirigo, Farmington, and Orono, the one constant has been winning.
It's a level of excellence that has him headed to the New England Basketball Hall of Fame.

Here are some of the impressive numbers Kane has been able to accumulate over the years:
- 483 career wins

- 7 gold balls

- 11 straight regional titles as the girls coach at Dirigo

- 4 Mr. and Miss Basketball finalists, including 2009's player of the year Tom Knight.

- 6 years as a college assistant, (four for the UMaine-Farmington men and two for the UMaine wome)

The induction ceremony will take place at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachussets on June 23rd.

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Counseling method offers victim-guided way to talk about past traumas

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Sunday, May 12th, 6:20 pm

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- The devastating fires in Lewiston this month showed that life can be traumatic sometimes. For mental health counselors the goal then becomes getting victims of disaster to talk about them.

Many licensed therapists have been learning one method in Bangor over the last few days. It's called Traumatic Incident Reduction training and essentially is one method where the victim of trauma opens and guides a session from start to finish.

For the most part all the other person has to do is listen. There's no giving advice, evaluating or judging. The hope is by getting a victim of trauma to talk about what's bothering them, they can find a way to put it behind them.

"It brings what's unconscious to the conscious level and it could be something that happened a long long time ago," said Brenda Thompson, who is a licensed mental health counselor and trained in the method.

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UMaine Commencement sends off over 1,600 graduates

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Saturday, May 11th, 6:21 pm

ORONO, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- It was a full house in the Alfond Arena at the University of Maine on Saturday, for the state's largest commencement of 2013.

Thousands of friends and family members packed into the building for this year's graduation to watch as 1,664 seniors received their diplomas. Many like Valedictorian, Spencer Hathaway, credited their big day to the support of others.

"The professors, the friends I've made, mentors. Everybody here is so inviting and they help you do anything you want to accomplish," said Hathaway.

In addition to their diplomas, graduates also received some advice from an academy award winning film producer. UMaine Alumnus, Lawrence Bender, has produced such films as Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, and An Inconvenient Truth. He was also the commencement speaker at UMaine giving graduates three important keys to success.

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Hacking Skills Used to Stop Cyber Attacks

Submitted by Around Town Web... on Friday, May 10th, 11:38 pm

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER)-- Yesterday, U.S. prosecutors announced the arrest of seven suspects involved in a coordinated cyber attack. The suspects are accused of stealing $45 million from banks using ATMs across the world.

This is not the first cyber theft incident that has happened, and with technology constantly growing, it certainly won't be the last. And to stop cyber attacks like this one, first you need to know how to be a hacker.

For cyber security analysts like Sam Gaudet, who works to prevent hackers from accessing sensitive information from the University of Maine systems, knowing the way that hackers and scammers think is the only way to defend against them.

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