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Results of Garland Days

2010 Garland Days PENQUIS Review

On the cover

A note You know it’s news when it makes The Sign at the Garland Store.

Can you s ll see and taste and feel and hear Garland Days? The flaming heat of the barbecue pit, homemade pies, live music, homebrew enthusiasts, rep les and gem-stones, costumes and cake, scarecrows and doodle-bugs, hay rides, skillet throws and tractor pulls and daring ATV drivers.

The squeal of pigs at the scramble, the joy of tak-ing it home or ge ng cash instead, the heartache of not being declared the winner, or of being told you can’t take it home.

A sweet, chewy doughboy, crispy French fries, beau ful horses. The spu ering Dead Car Raffle.

—Emily Adams

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Dumpster-diving, scarecrow entry by Jim Bunn

Mia Nguyen, 6, of Dexter as the character Fancy Nancy in the library costume contest

Jacques Weinstein awai ng the start of the Family Paddle on Garland Pond

Baby Girl, a Quarterhorse-Appaloosa, ridden by Michaela and Rachel Panther in the North Country Riding Club Game Show

Hunter Devan, 9, of Dexter in the pig scramble

Isaac Owens, 5, of Ava, New York with a milk snake during a talk by Tony Sohns

Chicken ready for the Garland Fire Department’s supper in a pit that is a 275-gallon oil tank cut in half with feet and handles welded on

A 1994 Oldsmobile with the an freeze drained from it in the Dead Car Raffle

PENQUIS Review 2010 Garland Days

1st Annual Scarecrow Contest

Honorable Men on: Max and April Doore (Spiderlicious), Wigham Family (Wagon Full of Fun), Devon Peach (Man Res ng in Chair), Mariah Hebert (Paperbag Man), Kim Grant (Boy on Trike), Suzi Grant (Kitchen Witch), Luke Murray (Military Man), Jim Bunn (Dumpster Diver), Jim Bunn (Classic Suspenders)

First Place ($25) Karen and Clarence Buzzell, Fisherman Second Place ($20) Sara Hebert, Country Woman Third Place ($15) Lee Blais, Pumpkins Fourth Place ($10) Brandi Grant, Hawaiian Girl

Fisherman (First Place)


1st Annual Homemade Pie Bake-off

Favorite Overall Pie:

Corice Amazeen’s Lemon Meringue Pie

First Place -- Blue Ribbon Pies Pumpkin, Sandy Surrabian

Cream, Corice Amazeen’s Lemon Me-ringue

Open Top, Sara Hebert’s Mixed Berry Full Crust, Angie Murray

Second -- Red Ribbon Pies Pumpkin, Minerva Wigham

Cream, McCloud’s Chocolate Cream Open Top, Alice Bunn’s Pecan

Full Crust, Susie Packard’s Berry

Third Place -- Yellow Ribbon Pies Pumpkin -- Cheyenne Beem Cream, Tyler Beem Coconut

Open Top, Elyse Wigham’s Blueberry Full Crust, Sandy Surrabian’s Apple

Too-Close-to-Call Honorable Men on Pies

Full Crust, Hannah Wigham’s Apple Full Crust, Cheryl Hebert’s Apple Full Crust, Luke Murray’s Apple

Full Crust, Alice Bunn’s Blueberry

Fire truck for sale. Call (207) 924-6615.


Fire Department’s BBQ Supper

The annual chicken barbecue served over 200 dinners on September 10, 2010. Dorene Ad-ams (le ) collects the fee and Yolanda Burrill ink-stamps hands to verify that the $6 admis-sion has been paid.


The dinner consists of barbe-cue chicken, coleslaw, dinner roll with a pat of bu er, pota-to salad and, for dessert, an ice-cream sandwich. Susan Packard, le , serves potato salad to Mindy

Berryhill. Other servers were Karen Buzzell, Pam Morin, Nathan Morin and David Cur s, a junior firefighter. Other junior firefighters helping were Taran Cur s and Hunter Belanger. Junior firefight-ers do everything the older firefighters do except respond to, and fight, fires at the scene of a fire. They do go to the scene and watch, though, and help where they can, like radio work.

Louise Ernest (le ), 94, now of Harmony, was a long me resident of Garland.

Two fire trucks are parked out-

side to make room for long

tables and metal folding chairs.


Norman Packard (former, long me fire chief) keeps track of the me it takes to parboil the chicken pieces (29 minutes) on his double gas stove (and Steve Gudroe’s burner, not pictured) before applying Sweet Baby Ray’s sauce. Carlos Fer-nandes (le ), Ma Pimental and other firefighters baste, cook and deliver the chicken to the serving area. Fernandes came to Garland from Lisbon, Portugal via Boston. The chicken came from P&L Coun-try Market in Dexter.


Tammy (Green) Beem, le , sells Lucky 7 peel-open ckets for $0.25 each to April Cromeenes, center, and Shirley Fiore. The ckets, printed in the United States and sold through merchants like Mainely Bingo of Au-burn, come in boxes of 2,400 with odds such as 285 per box which might distribute $405 in winnings and result in a net profit to the department of $195. A box was sold Friday night. Beem was the first woman in recent memory to become a firefighter in Garland. Pam Morin be-came the second such woman, and Dorene Adams is signing up. The department trains on the second Sunday of each month.

Pie and Ice Cream Social

Serving a choice of pies are Rita Page (le ), Brenda Philpot (center), to Cara Wolf (right) and, behind her, Bobbye Sauce, who took their pies to go. Also helping were Rita Page, Julie Kimball, Mabel Olson, Brenda Philpot and Jim Bunn. The hand-cra ed vanilla bean ice cream was donated by Stone Farm Fox Creamery in Monroe. Thirty-one pies, includ-ing 16 from the pie contest the day before, were eaten, except for three-and-a-half pies, which were donated to the Grange.


The G.A.R. Hall was open and Raymond Batchelder, 70, was on hand to answer ques ons. Since there is only one set of stairs, he likes to tell people there are two sets and to solve the riddle. He has only had one person guess correctly, and it was a man with carpentry experience. The an-swer is that a second set of stairs was built over the first set. Raymond made the dis-covery one day while replacing some boards on the outside of the building. The first set was not just a staircase, but helped hold up the building, yet its treads had worn down.

One artefact in the building that interests many people is a wooden s ck with two

nes. It was used to pluck, from hot wash water, wet clothing that was then run through a clothes wringer. Another item of interest is a tool that was used to fix stove-pipe. It crimped and punched holes. “I knew what all this was because I grew up with it,” Batchelder explains.

Colored lights deck the porch roof


George Corey George Corey of Garland provided music for the Pie and Ice Cream Social. Corey will perform for 45 minutes at the Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcro on October 8, 2010.

His play list includes Fire and Rain, Something in the Way She Moves, Country Road (all by James Taylor), Country Roads, Leaving on a Jet Plane (both by John Denver), Someday I Will (an old hymn), Soldier's Round (a Civil War era song), The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Circle of Steel (both by Gordon Ligh oot), Old Man and Sugar Mountain (Neil Young), County Down and Kilkelley Ireland (old Irish songs).

Some of the inspira on for Corey’s play list came from Atwater-Donnelly (atwater-donnelly.com), a duet from Rhode Island that travels throughout New England.

Don’t miss

Mayo Auxiliary

Singer-guitarist George Corey The Beecher Boys ’n Girls Hillbilly Band

Admission by

Friday, October 8, at 7 p.m.

donation

Public Service Announcement

20 East Main Street, Dover-Foxcroft to benefit

Variety Show

(207) 564-8943


Family Camp Out This year (2010) marked the third year that the Dexter-area Boy Scout Troop 51 has camped out at the recrea onal field. They also clean up the field. For five years, the troop has directed traffic and manned the admission gate. It is part of their community service. They have produced seven Eagle Scouts since 2001, ac-cording to Scout Master Andy Mitchell. He was joined by Assistant Scout Master Sco Wilson and Commi ee Member Jason Mille e. There are about 17 scouts in the troop currently, and six of them camped out Friday night, Sept. 10. Their biggest fundraiser of the year, popcorn sales, are going on now. Orders will be taken un l October 21. Call 924-7056 to place an or-der.

Caleb Smith, 12, of Dexter ink-stamps the hand of a person who has paid admission.


Chili Cookoff Plus Cornbread

Ma Turek reclaimed the chili cookoff tle with the recipe that has taken first place twice and second place once at previous Garland Days contests. He earned a ribbon and a $25 gi cer ficate to Country Charm Too at 28 Main Street, Dexter.

Turek closely guards one ingredient, but shares the rest, as follows. The chili pow-der he uses is the sweet and sour kind. He uses 85/15 beef and, a er it is cooked, rinses it in water to eliminate fat. He adds sweet sausage made from a grain- and scrap-fed pig raised by Derek Clukey. Turek uses onion powder but real garlic, regu-lar salt and no pepper. He adds green and red pepper. He does not drain the liquid that comes with the canned, dark red kidney beans, but adds the liquid to the chili. He does not use tomato sauce. At the very end, he mixes in mesa flour and shiitake mushrooms. It is cooked in a crockpot. The secret ingredient evaded Turek for

years. A co-worker steadfastly refused to divulge it, so Turek set about to experiment with all man-ner of ingredients and combina ons. It eluded him. He was five years into the challenge when he started cha ng with an older woman in the su-permarket aisle about chili. She had seen him mulling over the chili powder seasonings and wondered whether he was making chili. Turek soon realized that this was no ordinary woman. It was the mother of his co-worker. Did she know how her son made his chili? he asked. Of course, she replied. It was her recipe. Would she be will-ing to tell Turek the ingredients? he wondered. She was only too happy to do so. Turek made the chili and brought it to work; the co-worker real-ized Turek had made the discovery and asked how.

“Your mother told me.”

Chili Cookoff Winners

First Place—Ma Turek

Second Place—Tony Nightengale

Third Place—Karen Buzzell

Ma Turek (right) and Derek Clukey


Hilltop Hoppers Home Brew Contest Ten contestants submi ed 17 entries in the home brew contest that dates to

1990. It took just over an hour and a half for the five judges to sample and score according to a 30-point system. With music playing in the background, observers tasted any remaining samples a er the judges were served, shared their reac ons, and ate chili and cornbread. Ike Morgan and Denise Webber facilitated the event, registering the entries, pour-ing samples, keeping the judges supplied with crackers to clear their palates, and tallying the score results.


Home Brew Judges

Garland Days Home-Brew Grading System

SMELL: WORTH 4 POINTS Desirable is a hop aroma, malt or grainy smell. Undesirable are off-smells.

APPEARANCE(4 POINTS): Clarity and color are ob-served. Beading, the steady rise of gas bubbles, is desirable, as is a nice full clinging head, with small bubbles.

TASTE (6 POINTS): Mal ness and hoppiness are judged, depending on the type of beer being rated. The balance between the two is very important. Off-flavors such as sourness take points away.

CONDITION (6 POINTS): Condi on has to do with carbona on of beer. The beer should have a nice sparkle, a ngle over the tongue, but not a bite. Smoothness and bite are the dis nc on between natural and ar ficially condi oned beer. Head reten-

on is also judged, more being required for full bod-ied dark beers than for light beers.

OVERALL (10 POINTS): All of the above factors are considered and blended into an overall judgment of the beer.

Jim Veilleux, Adam Chandler, Lisa Cronin, David Grant, and

(below) Paul Robbins


Best of Show: Donnie Tibbe s of Garland

Stout: First Place (and only entry), Donnie Tibbe s

Lager: First Place (and only entry), Mike Cooney of Falmouth

Special: First Place, Donnie Tibbe s; Second Place, John Gornall (mead) of Garland

Contestants also included: Jim Loomis, Cambridge; Dana Collins, Athens; Stephen Hopkins, Ripley; Paul Cote, Garland; John Grinnell, Garland; John Gornall, Garland; Darren Gornall; and the Be er Brewing Co. (Ike Morgan, David Grant, Jim Bunn, John Gornall and Stuart Brooks).

Denise Webber and Ike Morgan tally the Judges’ scores.

Oak Pond Brewing Co.

Nancy Chandler Don Chandler

The sponsor of the contest was Oak Pond Brewing Co. in Skowhegan, located just south of Route 2 (Canaan Road) at 101 Oak Pond Road. It distributes within a 50-mile radius, including Garland Store. For a list of stores, restaurants, taverns and pubs that sell it, go to oakpondbrewery.com. Started in 1996, the brewery was acquired by Don and Nancy Chandler in 2003. Their son, Adam Chandler, was a judge of this year’s contest. Their brew-ery is included on the Maine Beer Trail map at mainebrewersguild.org.


Family Concert at the Grange The Abbo Hill Ramblers brought

their bluegrass and American roots music to the Garland Grange Septem-ber 10. Members are middle– and high-school students at the Dexter-area S.A.D. 46 under the mentorship of mu-sician Chris Pricki , a member of Ever-green (evergreenmaine.com). The group currently consists of Moriah Day, Ruth Fogg, Elaina Fogler, Sarah Johnson, Dakota Rudolff-Eastman, Chris Pricki , Jane Strauch, William Strauch, Jake Stutzman, Haleigh White, and Jake White. Audi ons for the band start in September, and membership changes from year to year. For more informa on about the group, go to abbo hillramblers.com. For bookings, contact Chris Pricki (277-3961, chrispricki @gmail.com).

Saturday, October 16

Bangor Grange, 1192 Ohio Street $10 supper and show (supper at 5:30) For More Informa on: ( 207) 973-3976

Five-mile Road Race

Nathan Hebert who usually handily wins the foot race despite pushing a baby jogger, won again this year. He is pictured with daughters Susannah and Moriah. Race organizer and par cipant, Peter Devine, is shown on at the le of this photo.

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Parade judges for 2010 were Lee Blais, Florence Turek and her daughter, Marie a Edgerly. About $200 in prizes were awarded.

The Garland Fire Department led the parade

One of two female firefighters, Pam Morin, at the helm

Boy Scout Troop 51 of Dexter

Dexter Regional High School Band wore aprons in keeping with the theme “Get Cookin’!”


Lyndon Oak Memorial Li-brary costume-contest par ci-pants (right) and assistant librarian Polly Johnson (le ).

Garland Fire Department Steve Rollins scooter

Charleston Fire Department

Anah Temple Shrine Clowns Div-It, Flip-Flop and Sweet Pea

Jim Lally and The Beat Offs


Garland Historical Society train ride

The Hebert Family

Jim Pimental of Stetson (and family) hay ride and, le , Tristan

District 33 state Senator Debra Plowman of Hampden (R-Penobscot County).

Frosty Valley Snow Sledders


Best Vehicle

1st Place — Norman Wy-man, Gray Chevy pick-up truck

2nd Place — Dino DiSo o, Mustang

3rd Place — Melvin Wy-man, Fire truck

Addi onal vehicle entries:

Shawn O’Donnell, 1930 Model A Ford

Thomas School of Dance, Carol Wallace

Glenwood Webber, 1931 Model A Ford

Perly Cur s, 1979 Dodge

Bob Davis, 1987 Corve e

Norman Wyman, 1952 Chevy

Ted Dube, 1980 White Corve e

Raymond Bailey, 1955 Chevy

Rodney Giles, 1953 Ford

Ronald Lewis, 1952 Mer-cury Com.

Steve and Cheryl Burton, 1971 Chevelle

Ron Clukey, 1950 Chrysler

Linal and Carol Getchell of Ripley, 1973 Chevy Ca-price

Peter Beach, 1980 TR7

Dino DiSo o, 1965 Mus-tang conver ble

Brian and Laurie Folsom, 1984 Mustang

Ronnie Dodge, 1976 Ford Gran Torino

Cur s Chase, 1954 Ford

Vern Bodwell, 1931 Ford Victoria

Brandi Hobbs, Mustang


Melvin Wyman and his wife, Cathy, in a 1935 Dodge fire truck with chrome wheels. Melvin is not aware of another vehicle like it. He was fire chief in Dexter for 21 years, un l 2008.

The cruise-in parked in the Ernest Stone field a er the parade.


Hi-Cut Trail Monkeys ATV Club

2010 Mid-Maine Recrea onal So ball Fi h and Sixth Graders (11-0 season)

Doodlebug


Best Dressed/Most Unique Wagon

Debra Kantah’s Lucky Wether Farm $40

Jim Lally & Friends, The Beat Offs $30

Trail Monkeys $20

Best of “Get Cookin’!” Theme

Dexter High School Band $50

Best Float

Central Maine Quarter-scale $40

Frosty Valley Snow

Sledders

Jim Lally and The Beat Offs

Best Mounted Unit

Nicole Schobel, The Sher-iffs

Purple Sash

Chestnut and Braids, Red Helmet

Best Walker

Garland Girls So ball Team, Steve Nicholas

Lyndon Oak Memoral Li-brary

Boy Scouts, Andy Mitchell

Not pictured or iden fied with photo:

Fred Wintle

Dee Amazeen and Gabe

Zoe Owens, Carrie Giles, Haley Loving, Des ny Tib-be s, and Jeremy Jones

Jeremy Kabeb and Jacob, ATV and dirt bike

Parade Awards

Brown’s Cash Fuel

“The Sheriffs” horses of Nicole Schobel

Lucky Wether Farm


Costume Contest, Book Sale

Library board chair-man Wayne Haskell (above), Sarah John-son (le ), assistant librarian Polly John-son (below)

Ten children par cipated in the costume contest. Each re-ceived a dollar coin from Jim Allen on behalf of Bob Callan-an. Age 3-5: Cassidy Fogg, Princess Age 6-8: Tasha Johnson, 7, Princess; Seth Hocking, 8, Cowboy; Draven Montague, 8, Dragon; Maddie Myers, 6, Racecar driver; Carver Myers, 8, Cowboy; Ora Eastman, 6, Lorax; Mia Nguyen, 6, Fancy Nan-cy; Emma Snyder, 8, Princess Age 9-11: Andrew Dunn, 10, Zombie

Bob Callanan and Jim Allen both donated $500 each to the li-brary.


Seth Hocking, 8

Maddie Myers, 6

Carver Myers, 8

Draven Montague, 8 Andrew Dunn, 10

Mia Nguyen, 6


The Dogs of Garland Days

1Jack Russell Terrier, four months old, Bri any Cunningham 2Yellow lab mix, Bonnie, George and Becky Corey 3Italian Grey-hound, six years old, Robert and Joan Sawyer 4West Highland Terrier, five months, Rosco, Bren-da Closson 5Yellow lab, four months old, Crissy Cunningham

Zack Field sings the Na onal Anthem

Thomas Farms of National Anthem

This year’s Garland Days saluted Thomas Farms of Garland, Inc. The farm has 400 milking cows and close to 800 animals in all and has a rapid-exit double 12 parallel parlor.

Started in the 1930s with Charles and Edith (Field) Thomas and their son, Bob Thomas, and his wife, El-eanor (Grinnell) Thomas, it was tak-en over by Jim and Sandra (Rollins). Today the farm employs 14 to 20 individuals depending on the me of year.

Source: Garland Days program book

Garland, Inc.


Build Your Own Crafter’s

Russell Wilson, West Corinth Road, Corinth -- Wooden toys

Norman Nugent, Center Road, Garland -- Trivets and other woodworking

Susan Packard, Campbell Road, Garland -- Quilts

Lyda Koslouski, Elm Street, Or-neville Twp. -- Canvas prod-ucts, wood signs

Jack and Ruth Dunstan, Willi-man c Road, Monson -- Leather goods

Kathy Webber, Center Road, Garland -- Hand-sewn goods

Lorrine Snow, Notch Road, Gar-land -- Jewelry

Carol King, Lyfords Corner Road, Corinna -- Hand-sewn goods and jewlery

Barbara Leighton, Dexter -- Handmade items (and poli -cal theme)

Terry Peal, Morrison Avenue, Corinth -- Mat cross tch

Dennis and Carolyn Madeau, Milo -- Jewelry

Market Birdhouse

Wood was donated by Yoder’s Sawmill and nails by Dexter Lumber. Norm Nugent cut the boards to size and as-sembled kits (the pieces with Ziploc bags of nails). It went over well, accord-ing to organizer Norman Nugent. “I did-n’t think it would be this big.” Of the 50 kits, six remained by the end of the day Saturday, with the rest available for Sunday. Blue-birds like the oval hole.


Train Rides Garland Historical Society train rides were offered Saturday and Sunday all day depar ng from Ernest Stone Field and touring the village. Raymond Batchel-der would wait in his truck un l the train returned to the field and colleged the fares from the next group of passengers. Train conductors were Steve Quatrale, his son, Tor Andresen, and Jim Lally.

Kids’ Games

Finding toys in wood shavings Bounce house


Farmers’ Market

Haskell Farm, Garland Linda Cowan’s mint for tea and mint extract and oil, garlic, and assorted produce

Cooley Farm, Corinna Potatoes, Gar-lic, Spanish onions

Ike Morgan, Exeter Cantaloup, hon-eydew, watermelon, bu ercup squash, pumpkin

Jim Pimental, Stetson Assorted produce


ATV Obstacle Course

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down the mud run, and deposit it in the mail box.


During a break in the ac on, the course was made worse by a backhoe. Jeff Tibbe s, president of the Hi-Cut Trail Monkeys ATV Club, directs backhoe operator Jon Jones of Alltrades, Inc. (master electrician, water quality tes ng and treatment, and radon air and water tes ng and mi ga on).

“I’m going to find a hose.”

Jon and Lois Jones

The Garland Fire Department hoses down the course during a break in the ac on.

—Nick Bragdon, Vice President

Hi-Cut Trail Monkeys ATV Club


American Legion Bingo at the Grange

Chet Har ord, Adjutant, calls out the numbers (le ); Jim Ra gan, Service Officer (lower le ) does the paperwork; Tony Larson (below), Post Commander, checks the chips on a winning card to the numbers on the Bingo board.


Also helping make the Dexter-area American Legion Poulliot-Seavey Post #53 Bingo game possible were Clayton Lancaster, Russell Titus (Finance Officer) and helper Joan Hunt. Below, Freela Lancaster plays four cards and calls Bingo shortly a er this photo was taken. A por on of the proceeds go to the Garland Grange and Garland Days Commi ee.


New Realm Harold Olmstead and Elise Sproul and, for this occasion, Rod Moore on bass guitar, perform as New Realm.

Doodlebugs Results of the doodlebug pull were: Class I 1st — Lloyd Holland E. Corinth (only en-try); Class II 1st — Lloyd Holland with his Class I machine; 2nd — T.W. Clark (Corinna) with Class II machine; 3rd — Lloyd Holland with his Class II machine; Class III 1st Randy Chapman, Troy; 2nd Lloyd Holland, 3rd Rob Clark (Plymouth)

Doodlebug of Lloyd Holland of East Corinth


Full pull distance is to be a con nuous ten feet ( me allowed, a maximum of three minutes from first pull)

Class 1: The vehicle shall be a maximum of nine feet from forward-most point to center of rear axle. The vehicle shall have only one transmission. Weight of vehicle shall not exceed 3,000 pounds.

Class 2: The vehicle shall be a maximum of nine feet from forward-most point to center of rear axle. The vehicle shall have two transmissions. Weight of vehicle shall not exceed 3,500 pounds.

Class 3: The vehicle shall be a maximum of ten feet from forward-most point to center of rear axle. The vehicle shall have two transmissions. Weight of vehicle shall not exceed 4,000 pounds.

Class 1 and 2 will be 1950 or older. Second transmission and rear end will be what you like. Class 3 can have whatever parts you like as long as the front looks somewhat like a vehicle.

For all classes: No tractor parts unless nothing to do with pulling; All pulling vehicles to be equipped with working fire ex nguisher; Minimum of two wheel brakes; No re chains; All weights shall be securely a ached; No four-wheel drive unless front drive sha has been removed.

Only DOT res allowed. Single wheels only. Maximum re size 11:00x22.5 or 12:50x16.5. Drive sha shall be protected. Ba eries, gas tanks, and seats must be securely a ached (no wire, rope or bungee cords). All classes will pull from set drawbar, maximum height of 20” from ground and 20” from cen-ter of rear axle. Hook must stay sta onary. When pulling, you will be disqualified if vehicle rears up more than 1’. All doodlebugs will be equipped with a chain visibly a ached to front axle with 1’ ex-cess from point of touching ground. Driver must put vehicle in neutral, foot off clutch and signal with hand up when ready to be hooked. When not pulling, all doodlebugs must maintain a speed of no more than 3 ½ miles per hour. Only the winner of a class may advance to next higher class. Vehicle owner/driver must abide by all Technical Commi ee decisions. Technical Commi ee decisions are final.

T.W. Clark of Corinna completes a full, ten-foot pull to proceed to the next round. Blocks are 450 lbs. each. His is a 1932 Model A Ford with 5” chrome stack. This is his third year compe ng.

2010 Doodlebug Rules


Garden tractor pull

Ma hew Chase (above) of Brewer is on the drag, which bears the logo of the pull’s biggest sponsor, B.D.S. Waste Disposal. Drew Smith, 13, of Dover-Foxcro took two first-place ribbons, three thirds and one second.

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Club president, Kevin Nicker-son of Corinth announces results. The club has close to 40 member-families and usually meets every other Sunday in St. Albans, plus fairs like Garland Days. The track is 150 feet.

The following are the results from the Saturday, September 12, 2010 Central Maine Quar-terscore Tractor Pullers in Gar-land. The club competed the next day in Clinton.

Pure Stock 800 lbs.

Thorin Saucier 73’ 7”

Deven Cuthbertson 72’ 7 ½”

Aus n Weymouth 71’ 8”

Eddie Witham 64’ 4”

Jay Bowden 60’ 6 ½”

Jorge Malone 58’ 4”

Janice Watson 57’ 11”

Griffin Hurd 56’ 5”

Thomas Maheu 51’ 7”

Owen Knowlton 48’ 8”

Sport Stock 900 lbs.

Wes Davis 77’ 8 ½”

Willy Maheu 71’ 5 ½”

Aus n Weymouth 69’ 10 ½”

Jay Bowden 68’ 6”

Richie Po er 64’ 4”

Tyler Kimball 58’ 3 ½”

Aaron McKenney 57’ 7”

Bre McIntyre 51’ 7 ½”

DeAnn Watson 50’ 10 ½”

Gavin McIntyre 40’ 2”

Griffin Hurd 14’ 5 ½”

Hot Stock 900 lbs.

Drew Smith 77’ 9”

Kassidy Chase 76’ 1”

Travis Kimball 75’ 7”


Dus n Simmons 66’ 5”


Zack Bemis 63’

Pro Stock 900 lbs.

Kaleb Smith 77’ 2 ½”


Drew Smith 71’ 9 ½”

Mason Hurd 71’ 2 ½”

Pro Stock 900 lbs.


Deven Cuthbertson 98’ 11”

Tyler Kimball 96’ 4”



Jorge Malone 87’ 11 ½”

Owen Knowlton 82’ 1 ½”

Janice Watson 78’ 9 ½”

Thomas Maheu 67’ 2 ½”

Pro Stock, Weight Class 900 lbs.- This is Pure Stock, 900 lbs.


Deven Cuthbertson 98’ 11”

Tyler Kimball 96’ 4”



Jorge Malone 87’ 11 ½”

Owen Knowlton 82’ 1 ½”

Janice Watson 78’ 9 ½”

Thomas Maheu 67’ 2 ½”


Wes Davis- 112' 6"

Willy Maheu- 97'7"

Richie Po er- 93' 1 1/2"

Bre McIntyre- 84' 7 1/2'

DeAnn Watson- 83'

Gavin McIntyre- 79' 4"

Griffin Hurd- 66' 4"

Edward Witham- 100' 1"

Aus n Weymouth- 100' 6 1/2"

Aaron McKenny- 89' 6"

Deven Cuthbertson' 96' 5 1/2"

Hot Stock 1100 lbs.

Zach Bemis 88' 11 1/2"

Travis Kimball 110' 6"

Kassidy Chase 109' 5"

Dus n Simmons 95' 6"

Richie Po er 93' 9 1/2"

Drew Smith 101' 3"

Pro Stock 1100 lbs.

Drew Smith 102' 5"

Kaleb Smith 31' 1"

Richie Po er 90' 3 "

Mason Hurd 98' 9"



Bre McIntyre 79' 3 1/2"

DeAnn Watson 118' 7 1/2"

Gavin McIntyre 110' 1 1/2"

Thorin Saucier 104' 4"

Griffin Hurd 90'

Willy Maheu 108' 11"

Wes Davis 124' 5 1/2"

Aus n Weymouth 119' 10 1/2"

Deven Cuthbertson 106' 9 1/2"

Edward Witham 93' 6 1/2"

Hot Stock 1300 lbs.


Zach Bemis 98' 8"

Travis Kimball 117' 10"

Kassidy Chase 110' 8"

Drew Smith 119' 1 1/2"

Pro Stock 1300 lbs.

Richie Po er 120' 10"

Drew Smith 113' 10"

Mason Hurd 125' 4 1/2"

Kaleb Smith 112' 11"

This was the first day of pull-ing for Owen Knowlton, 5, of Corinth who pulled 82’ 1 ½”

on the Cherry Bomb Mike McIntyre of

Kenduskeag.


Bike race (11 mi.) & pleasure ride (5 mi.)

The bike race was 11 miles, except those op ng for the shorter, five-mile course (which some of the women took by mistake). From the start in front of the Garland Bap st Church, the course went north on the Oliver Hill Road, right on the Center Road, right onto Lower Notch Road, right onto Campbell Road, and right again onto Route 94, past the Garland Store and back to the Church.

Two brothers, the Heberts, finished an 11-mile bike race in the same me,

33:08. But the younger sibling, Joshua, finished “perhaps just a li le ahead” of Nathan, “but not by much,“ according to race organizer Jim Bunn. The brothers did several trial runs of the course be-fore race day and alternated wins.

The youngest compe tor was Tristan Pimental, who turns eight years old in November and anxiously awaited the race and completed the en re 11-mile course.

Men, age 18 and under

Joshua Hebert 33:08, 11 miles

Tristan Pimental, seven years old, all 11 miles

Men, age 18 and over

Nathan Hebert 33:08, 11 miles

John Cayford 39:40, 11 miles

John Hebert 39:59, 11 miles

Women

Devan Pease 36:25

Cheryl Hebert 37:11

Sara Hall 38:43

Molina Hall 66:25


Reptiles with Fred Wigham

Fred Wigham returned to Garland Days with his popular rep les. His daughter, Hannah Wigham, is shown here with a milk snake. Fred Wigham holds a garter snake. Wigham also had a snapping turtle, green snake, and red-bellied snake.

Bossy Beano (or, Ma-a-a-sy Beano) Bossy Beano lacked a cow this year be-cause Peter “Bud” Kluchnik to Ripley, to whom this year’s Garland Days was dedicated and who normally supplies the cow, passed away unexpectedly before Garland Days. Since the 4-H goat was on hand, it was recruited to do the job. Guesses were $1.00 each. The win-ner was David Migneault. The event sold $77.00 guesses and Migneault took home half, $38.50.


Stone Fox Farm Ice Cream Kathy Chamberlain and her husband, Bruce, sold from their

“mobilecone” vending truck at Garland Days, and also sell to farmers markets and wholesale accounts such as stout ice cream for Winterport Winery.

They use high quality ingredients and techniques and buy locally whenever possible. They avoid high fructose corn syr-up, buy raspberries from a commercial grower near their home in Monroe, and boast a low “overrun”, which is a measure of air whipped in-to the ice cream. Their commercial counterparts, by contrast, some mes double the volume of their product that way. With Stone Fox, it is more ice cream, less air.

The flavors that sold out on Saturday were chocolate, strawberry, peanut bu er and mint chocolate chip. Their other flavors were vanilla bean, gingery ginger, ma-ple walnut, real rum raisin, chocolate chip, pumpkin ginger, espresso bean, raspber-ry, bu er pecan, and peppermint s ck.

Red Raspberry

Garland Baptist Church The Garland

Bap st Church offered, by do-na on, ice cream, floats, and sundaes. They had a good turnout.

Elyce Wigham, 9, sold Sno Cones

for 50 cents each to benefit the Garland Days

Commi ee.

Rec. Sno Cones


Over 200 doughboys at $3.00 each were sold Sept. 11 by Frosty Valley Snow Sledders. The booth was operated by Frank Machado, Anne e Goodblood, Jake Fick, Ma Nightengale, Connie Nightengale, and Andy (last name unavailable at the me this was published). There’s nothing be er than taking the trail up to High Cut at nigh all to take in the view, according to Machado. “You see how really beau ful it is here.”

Frosty Valley Snow Sledder Dough Boys

Hay Rides Jim Pimental gave hay rides all weekend.


Ann Jenkins and her daughter, Kathleen, exhibited their Oberhasli goats, chick-ens and an English angora rabbit to join two of Jim Bunn’s sheep. Alice Bunn and Kathleen demonstrated the spinning wheel.

Ann Jenkins shared the results of recent 4-H Sheep Club field trips. One of those trips was to Starcro Fiber Mill (www.starcro fiber.com) of Monroe, Maine, to see their equipment from Belfast Mini Mills, Ltd. (www.minimills.net) pick, card and spin washed fiber into yarn before it is dyed. They also have a felter. Starcro buys all of its fiber from Nash Island Wool where about 120 Coopworth-Romney-Corriedale sheep are cared for by Alfred & Eleni Wakeman in keeping with a tradi-

on started by the late Jenny Cirone (d. 2004) whose father became the light-house keeper there in 1916. Starcro sells kits ‘packaged’ in tradi onal, handmade fisherman’s net bags and the pa erns, like the bright-green sea le uce scarf, have coastal mo fs. One of the photographs Jenkins took was of a jar of cochineal bugs that Starcro uses to make a lovely red dye (a healthier alterna ve to com-mercial red dye). The bugs come from South America and the crimson color from them was prized by the Aztecs. It is also used in the processing of various foods today.

Jenkins also shared informa on about how to dye animal fibers with Kool-Aid compiled by technical editor of kni y.com, Kris Porter, at h p://kni y.com/ISSUEfall02/FEATdyedwool.html.

4-H Exhibit

Jim Bunn’s lamb


Grange Supper

Henrie a Burrill serves Harold Wheeler of Dexter.

The grange served about 140 people Satur-day night, Sept. 11. The menu (all you can eat for $6.00 for adults, $3.00 children ages five to 12 and free children under five; the family rate of two parents and two or three children is $12.00) included beans, hot dogs, potato salad, macaroni and cheese, barbecue ribs, homemade bread (including the entries in the Garland Days bread con-

test earlier that day), apple crisp, pies and beverages, in-cluding the first batch of Rollins Apple Orchard cider that came off the cider press at 5:10 p.m. that evening. Suppers (held 5-7 p.m.) for the remainder of 2010 will be October 8 (Harvest Din-ner), November 12 (Hunter’s Supper) and December 10 (Chef’s Choice). They resume in April 2011. Grangers working the sup-

per included: Andrea Rol-lins, Ernest Rollins, Jean Rollins, Tim Wilson, Paul and Jo MacDonald, Bill Be-mis, Stephen Bemis, Claire Smith, Nellie Wilson, Terry Peal, Ron and Rosena Fern, Henrie a Burrill, Corice Amazeen, Gladys Strout, Lisa Newman, Matt New-man, Joan Sawyer, Paul and Becca Myers.


Family Contra Dance

Nancy Rosalie was the caller for the Saturday night contra dance at the former Gar-land Elementary School. She and her partner, John McIn re, lead English country dancing in Thorndike. “Tell people you had a good me,” reminded Jim Bunn. “We hope to do more throughout the year.

Judith Crispell and Peter Devine


Abbott Hill Ramblers & Meanderers

Music for the contra dance was by Abbo Hill Ramblers members Elaina Fogler of Exeter (acous c guitar), Jane Strauch of Exeter (fiddle), and Moriah Day of Exeter (upright, electric bass) and Abbo Hill Meanderers Sam Brown (mandolin), Nancy Strauch (piano), Val Alber ni (accordion) and Chris Pricki (fiddle).

More informa on about both groups is at www.abbo hillramblers.com.


Grange Breakfast

The Pimental family from Stetson fuels up at the Grange Breakfast before the Family Paddle. From le to right are Courtney, 9, Anthony, 3, Crystal and Jim and one-and-a-half-yea-old Charlie.

Ernest Rollins serves breakfast.


North Country Riding Club The Dexter-area North Country Riding Club held games on Sunday, September 12. These are some of the horses.

Lily (Paint), Astro (Quarterhorse/Mustang), Baby Girl (Quarterhorse/Appaloosa), Smorz (Paint).

Uvia (Pasofino), Bella (Standardbred), Sinister (Thoroughbred), Casey (Quarterhorse)

Vegas (Quarterhorse), Goldie (Buckskin-Quarterhorse-cross pony), Rooster (Welsh-cross gelding pony), Not So Status Quo (Quarterhorse)


Dream A Li le Bit Arabian), Major (Quarterhorse), Rex (Paint), Minute (Paint)

King (Quarterhorse), Daisy (Haflinger cross), Trix (Paint), Rafic (Arab)

Snowflake (POA, Pony of the Americas, Appaloosa), Ginger (Quarterhorse/Thoroughbred), Dallas (Paint), Dreamer (Appaloosa), Atlas (Quarterhorse)


Pictured at right is Aaron Partridge on Minute. Organizers of the event Sept. 12 were club President Jillian Marcho, Sec-retary Amanda Sher-burne and Treasurer Dody Boeglin.

Ribbons of Tonya Wozneak and Michaela and Rachael Panther


Waterbug Safari with Tony Sohns

Before the Family Paddle got under-way Sunday morning, Tony Sohns led a waterbug safari . Armed with plas-

c spoons, par cipants discovered freshwater dace, s cklebacks, cray-fish, spiders, ramshorn snails, toe biters, polliwogs, leeches, mosquito larvae and dragonfly nymphs.


Wild Wonders with Tony Sohns

Announcer’s Table

Becky Corey and Andrea Rollins, the voice of Garland Days, facilitated events.

Tony Sohns engaged kids in hands-on learning about a variety of creatures.

walking frog cockroaches

tomato frog

American frog


Quartz var. Rose

Chemical: Silicon dioxide Origin: Brazil Fact: The most common mineral in the crust. Plexoelectric when pressure is applied. Mohs’ hardness: 7

Chemical: Hydrated calcium sulphate Origin: Morocco Fact: Fiber op c technology developed from this mineral Mohs’ hardness: 2

Chemical: Calcium carbonate Origin: Mexico Use: Agricultural, cement Fact: Major component of limestone, marble and caves Mohs’ hardness: 3

Labradorite Feldspar Fluorite Coal

Selenite Green Calcite Sulfur Chrysocolla

Pyrite Ruby Volcanic Ash Muscovite Mica

Chemical: Sodium aluminum silicate Origin: Madagascar Use: Ceramics, gemstones Fact: Feldspar is the second most common mineral in crust. Mohs’ hardness: 6

Chemical: Calcium fluoride Origin: Yuma, Arizona Use: In steel making, dental products Fact: Name means “to flow” because it melts easily. Glows under UV light. Mohs’ hardness: 4

Origin: Pennsylvania Use: Important source of energy Fact: Actually a sedimentary rock, formed from re-mains of ancient plants

Chemical: Elemental Origin: Mexico Use: Gun powder, sulfuric acid, medi-cines, vulcanizing rubber Fact: Found in human hair; a/k/a brimstone; burns with blue flame Mohs’ hardness: 2.5

Chemical: Copper silicate hydroxide Origin: Peru Use: Ore of copper, gemstones Fact: Means “gold glue” Mohs’ hardness: 2-4

Chemical: Sodium aluminum silicate Origin: Madagascar Use: Ceramics, gemstones Fact: Feldspar is the second most common mineral in crust. Mohs’ hardness: 6

Chemical: Aluminum oxide Origin: India Use: Gems, emery board Fact: Name means “red”. Second hardest mineral Mohs’ hardness: 9

Origin: Colorado Use: Source of fossils Fact: This ash se led from an erup on 55 million years ago

Chemical: Potassium aluminum silicate hydroxide fluoride Origin: Maine Use: Electrical insulators; stove window Fact: Named a er Moscow, Russia Mohs’ hardness: 3

Student Rock and Mineral Collection Designed by Tony Sohns, The Rock and Art Shop, Route 1A, Ellsworth, Maine

(207) 667-3213, www.therockandartshop.com

Sedimentary

Sedimentary

Geology Rocks with Tony Sohns Nature lecturer Tony Sohns gave an animated, detailed rock talk to children. He gave them samples to form a collec on like the graphic below. He reminded kids to use safety goggles when using a rock hammer (with a pick on one side; a regular hammer might sha er when it strikes rocks) and to obtain a good rock-guide.

Ephram Owens, 7, of Ava, NY and Tony Sohns strike a geode with a rock hammer.

Rock photography by Sunbury Exchange, LLC


Local Freemasons were on hand Sept. 11, 2010, for three hours to create about 26 child-iden ty packs for parents to use in the event a child goes missing. The free pro-gram uses EZ Child ID so ware de-signed by a Mason specifically for the Masonichip program (www.masonichip.org). The hard-ware includes a camera for s ll and video images and a Digital Persona device that records impressions of fingerprints (www.ezchildid.com). Parents receive a compact disc with all the informa on at no cost. At the invita on of Bob Wetzler of the Pacific Masonic Lodge #64, regional coordinator Jef Hamlin and his wife, Corina, and their daughter, Nanci, operated the specialized equipment. Local Masons, David Grant and Paul Grondin, also as-sisted. Jef Hamlin is coordinator for the 5th, 6th and 21st Masonic Districts encom-passing the Bangor to Millinocket region. Each computer system can process about six packs per hour, and is available to schools and other organiza ons.

Masonic Child ID Program

Paul Grondin Jef Hamlin


Fishers of Men performed without pay, as a minis-try. They include Elijah Gudroe (bass), Rod Gudroe (drummer), Rob Walker (guitar), Storme Shaw (keyboard), Glen Weeks (vocals/harmonica), Jeremy Weeks (soundman; not pictured), Steve Pra (guitar/vocals).

They take an annual mission trip to New Orleans, LA and Pennsylvania. They just started a prison min-istry. Their first compact disc was released last win-ter. More informa on is available at fishersof-menmaine.com.

Fishers of Men


Skillet Toss Age 18-35 1st Natalie Beem 36’ 10 ¼”; 2nd Bridget Neal 29’ 2”; 3rd Jamie Sawtelle26’ 11 ¾”; Par cipant: Crystal Pimental 26’ 9 ¾” Age 36-50 1st Tammy Beem 35’ 5 ½”; 2nd Michelle Kingman 32’ 5 ¾”, 3rd Nicole Schobel 31’ 10 ½”; Par cipants: Lyda Koslouski 26’ 8 ¾”; Terry Peal 24’ 1”; Lynne Lally 19’ 19 ¼”; Pam Morin 25’ 6 ¼” Age 51-60 1st Judy Withee 37’ 10”; 2nd Dorene Adams 33’ 10”; 3rd Vickie Robinson 25’ 1” 60 and over 1st Con-nie Tilton 27’ 7”; 2nd Be y Davis 20’ 7 ½”

Soap Box Derby A father and son team, Lee and Seth Blais, won the soap box derby again this year for the fi h year (virtually consecu-

ve; there was a one-year gap). In ac-cep ng two first-place ribbons (one for each age group) they looked ahead to 2011 by issuing the following statement: “We challenge anybody to come race us.” Their entry consisted of plywood over a Dora the Explorer scooter with a walker for handles and a boat seat.

Judy Withee of Garland throws 28’ 7 ½” on her first try and 37’ 10” on her second a empt. Below are Wayne Withee (right) and Devin Hall (center). The ‘skillet’ weighs five pounds.


Flower Show Bread Competition 1st Cheryl Hebert (honey whole wheat); 2nd Ann Jenkins (sourdough honey wheat); 3rd Sourdough, Kerri Heineman. 1st for sweet bread: Kath-leen Jenkins (cinnamon swirl). The breads were served at the Grange breakfast the next morning.

The Garland Fire Depart-ment sold hot dogs, popcorn and soda Satur-day and Sun-day, along with more Lucky 7 ck-ets.

The one and only entry for the Flow-er Show as submi ed by Lynne Lally and her sister, Sunny Robbins. They were given the first, second and third prizes. The arrangement was a picnic of fruits and vegetables in season, including garden produce of organic, off-the-grid, gardener Irene White of Atkinson.

Garland Fire Dept. Hot Dog Stand


Garland Rec. Dept. Concession Stand

Working the Garland Recrea-on Dept. concession stand

were (top to bo om, le to right) Suzi Grant, Melody Web-ber, Bob Gray, Arthur Je e, Charlie Snow, Lisa Morgan, Jean Pimental, Lynne Lally, and Tammy Aus n Glid-den. Sunny Robbins is not pictured.


Pig Scramble

Jim Bunn reads the names of children for each of seven rounds, separated by gender and age group. All 70 kids who signed up were entered. Norm Cookson sponsors the event. Any child unable to take their pig home, can sell it back to Gudroe for $25. If they keep the pig and keep it well watered, clean and fed grain daily, the pig will dress out at 250 pounds from now (the first week of September) to November, according to Gudroe. Un l now, the seven pigs have been ea ng, per week, 30 gallons of raw milk and 75 pounds of grain. Gudroe gets too a ached to the pigs to eat them. But for those who do, he recommends naming them Bacon or Ham. A pig needs a pen approximately eight-feet square. It will eat in one corner, sleep in one cor-ner and use another as its toilet.

David Williams (le ) and Vinny Greene help Keith Gudroe (right).

Norm Cookson

Jim Bunn


Tyler Smith of Corinth sells his pig back to Keith Gudroe for $25.

Hannah Hurd, 8, of Kenduskeag, takes

her pig home. Wade Worster (le ) of Charleston, helps carry the pig of Seith Hocking, 8, of Garland.

Hunter Devan, 9, of Dexter and another boy ed, ini ally, so they had a run-off.

Evee Blake, 9, of Newport is the clear winner of her group.

The father of Emma Campbell, 11, of Cor-inth put her pig in the family’s horse trailer.

Dus n Belanger, 12, of Garland


Dead Car Raffle

For this year’s Dead Car Raffle, Dave Berry deliv-ered a 1994 Oldsmobile Cutlas Ciera S with 138,000 miles with the an freeze drained from it. A med event, the Oldsmobile was started up and allowed to run before it finally died a er 24.27 minutes. Ed Belisle had guessed a me that was closest to that and won $33.50, represen ng half of the $67.00 collected for the event. His victory interrupted the winning streak of Fred Wigham, whose wins have included the two previous years. Observers were impressed that the engine lasted that long. The event starts a er a Garland Fire Truck arrives in order be on standby

in case of fire. Ed Belisle kept his own, inde-pendent me, explaining, wryly that “I have two dollars riding on this.” Some contestants take the vehicle’s make into considera on when making a guess. Belisle--a self-described “car nut”--theorizes that the me has more to do with whether the car’s final four or five oil changes had been with syn-the c oil, which could cause the engine to last as long as thirty minutes. The event is an annual tradi on started by Raymond Batchel-der with a 1979 Chevy Nova 6-Cyl. That en-gine started the next morning. Again this year, Batchelder returned to the field a er the Oldsmobile had completely cooled. It turned over, but did not start. The event marks the official conclusion of Garland Days. Ed Belisle

Dave Berry

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