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KENNEBEC JOURNAL • Morning SentinelWednesday, July 20, 20112 Women’s QUARTERLY ~ IN PROFILE
KENNEBEC JOURNAL • Morning Sentinel Wednesday, July 20, 2011 3Women’s QUARTERLY ~ IN PROFILE
Women’sQ U A R T E R L Y
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KENNEBEC JOURNAL • Morning SentinelWednesday, July 20, 20114 Women’s QUARTERLY ~ IN PROFILEWednesday, July 22, 2011
BY NANCY P. MCGINNISCorrespondent
Halley Elwell, still in her 20s, has
become an award-winning jazz vocalist and
composer — in part, she said, because
“nobody ever told me I couldn’t.”
The Hallowell native and Hall-Dale class
of 2002 graduate is living her dream.
Currently a resident of San Francisco,
she made a trip east last month to receive
an ASCAP award at Lincoln Center — and
to appear at a gig at the Higher Grounds,
accompanied by her former music teacher,
Marcia Gallagher. ASCAP stands for The
American Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers.
“There was a lot of love in that room,”
Gallagher said afterward. The standing-
room-only crowd was a mix of all ages,
including Elwell’s contemporaries and for-
mer classmates, teachers and parents, local
residents, acquaintances and well-wishers,
and folks who hadn’t known Halley Elwell
at all, but love good jazz
“It was sure a lot of fun,” Elwell said,
recalling the steady stream of faces, many
familiar, and all of them thrilled to witness
and hear the poised, successful performer.
“A great turnout and a crowd that is low-
key and forgiving — performing doesn’t
get any better than that,” she said.
Elwell, who moved to California in
2007, gratefully attributes much of her
musical career success thus far to the edu-
cation and encouragement she received in
Maine. She said she is especially pleased
with the support from the two music teach-
ers to whom she feels indebted for their
confidence in her abilities, and their men-
torship.
“I started taking piano lessons from
Marcia (Gallagher) when I was 12-years-
old. And I was a freshman when Deb Large
began teaching at Hall-Dale, so she and
Marcia were a large part of my musical
support system.”
Before she graduated in 2002, Elwell had
participated in the Hall-Dale musicals as
Reno Sweeney in “Anything Goes” and as
the Queen in Once upon a Mattress. She
also took part in District Chorus, All-State
and Jazz All-State, as well as the popular
Hall-Dale vocal group, Purple Enigma.
Her mother, Robin Miller, has been
impressed with Elwell’s intuitive talent
since she her daughter was a little girl.
“I remember when she was in the fourth
grade, I heard a woman’s voice singing
upstairs. Thinking I was at home by
myself, I assumed someone had left the
radio on…but it was Halley, and she was
really good.”
After Hall-Dale, Elwell graduated with
honors from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst with a bachelor
of music degree in jazz and a degree
African American Studies. “I had the great
privilege of studying with Dr. Catherine
Jensen-Hole, and jazz legend Sheila Jordan,
at the Jazz in July Summer Music pro-
gram,” she recalled.
The immersion experience among jazz
giants was a life-changing experience.
Elwell also debuted one of her first original
songs, “Nobody Bothers Me,” which
received accolades from Jordan, Geri Allen
and John Blake, among others and went on
to eventually earn Elwell the ASCAP
Young Jazz Composer award, which she
was presented in New York City last month.
“After I earned my music degree, I fig-
ured the only way to productively pursue
music — without being swallowed whole
by my student loan debt — would be to get
a day job and do gigs at night. Well, the
day job changed everything, including my
musical goals. I ended up recording for free
at a student-run studio at the San Francisco
art school where I worked as an administra-
tive assistant, and that’s how my first
album, “Last Spring,” was born.
Comprised of five original songs, includ-
ing the ASCAP award winner, and three of
Elwell’s favorite standards, the album fea-
tures some of the Bay area’s best musicians.
With the album in its final stages of produc-
tion this summer, Elwell has launched a
fundraising campaign on www.indiegogo.comto help cover expenses.
She has ambitiously set her sights on rais-
ing $2,500 — a goal that will cover studio
fees for extra production sessions, mastering
costs, album artwork fees, compact disc
duplication and payment of royalties.
Incentives to donors, in addition to sup-
porting emerging talent, range from signed
concert posters and copies of the CD, to
original work created by Elwell’s talented
siblings, Cassie Elwell and Angela Snyder,
under their House of Bouton and Nouveau
Abode design labels, respectively, in a show
of support for their sister.
Elwell landed in San Francisco because
she was looking for a welcoming city with a
jazz scene. She knew that wherever she was,
she would have to work hard: “There are not
many jazz vocalists my age. Part of my chal-
lenge is to sing into the music, but also
engage with the audience and build a rapport
with them.”
Performing in venues on either coast,
both jazz standards and her own composi-
tions, Elwell connects with her audience.
Sharing her own experience, along with the
historical anecdotes about the music, helps
her fulfill her personal mission to educate
contemporary listeners about the genre,
while passing on the jazz legacy. Especially
as a young person still in her 20s, Elwell
feels that mastering and embracing the bal-
ance also helps to validate her as a per-
former.
“In order to sing with intent, I’ve learned
you really have to focus, and put time into
it,” she explains. “To succeed you have to
know your own story and be present, with
all your spirit and soul in the moment, rather
than, as musicians say, ‘phone it in.’ ”
Attending the ASCAP awards was “a
much bigger deal than I had thought it
would be,” Elwell confessed. At the event
hosted at Lincoln Center by ASCAP
President Paul Williams, Elwell was one of
about 20 awardees present, before an audi-
ence of about 100 people.
She said performances that evening to
honor legendary composers, such as Louis
Armstrong and Duke Elliott, demonstrated
“such an incredible level of musicianship
that it really motivated me to continue to
practice and perfect my own skill.”
Samples of Elwell’s music, more informa-
tion and details about how to support her
album through the indiegogo campaign, can
be found at www.halleyelwell.com.
Photo by Nancy McGinnis
Accompanied byher former musicteacher and mentorMarcia Gallagher,Halley Elwell,ASCAP (TheAmerican Society ofComposers,Authors andPublishers) award-winning jazz singerand songwriter, per-formed for anenthusiastic home-town crowd at theHigher Grounds inHallowell lastmonth.
Jazz singer with local roots wins national ASCAP music award
KENNEBEC JOURNAL • Morning Sentinel Wednesday, July 20, 2011 5Women’s QUARTERLY ~ IN PROFILEWednesday, July 20, 2011
“Life is what happens whileyou’re making other plans.”
JOHN LENNON
BY NANCY GALLAGHERCorrespondent
Betty Palmer, Executive Director of
Waterville’s Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter,
unequivocally believes it takes a village to
raise a child.
Palmer was raised in Phillips, Maine, the
daughter of downtown business owners. A
self-described street urchin, she said she
wandered business to business each morn-
ing, visiting the Phillips Shared Ministry
church as well.
“I am the product of a community rais-
ing a child,” Palmer said.
The glamour of the unknown drew her
away from Maine as a young adult.
Memories of her happy, safe childhood
drew her back to Maine as a single parent.
Here, she followed in her father’s footsteps,
owning a series of retail and service busi-
nesses.
Life took a few unexpected turns.
Palmer’s focus shifted from the commer-
cial to the liturgical. She attended Bangor
Theological Seminary and accepted assign-
ments in Downeast Maine. She also fos-
tered dozens of children. She adopted three
of those children, doubling her personal
child count to six.
As pastor of the Machias United
Methodist Church, Palmer urged her con-
gregation to meet their neighbors, saying:
“If you don’t know the five people living
closest to your house, you don’t know your
neighbors. Let’s build community.”
And build community they did. When a
group of parishioners knocked on doors
and discovered numerous neighbors in
need, Palmer founded Neighbors Helping
Neighbors, a mission that annually rehabili-
tates about 70 homes for the elderly, handi-
capped and disabled, with the help of 400
to 600 church and community volunteers.
Centered in an area that hires thousands
of temporary harvest workers, Palmer real-
ized that building community should
extend beyond home-owning neighbors.
Her solution? Form a migrant ministry to
provide clothing, personal care items, liter-
acy, and French-, Spanish- and Micmac-
language Bibles to nearly 5,000 blueberry
rakers a year. The two missions have since
merged to form the Downeast Maine
Missions.
In 2007, life again took other turns.
Palmer returned to central Maine to attend
to pressing family concerns. As outreach
director of Waterville’s Pleasant Street
United Methodist Church, she began volun-
teering with the Waterville Area Homeless
Action Group, a startup gathering of indi-
viduals hoping to make a difference in the
lives of the homeless in Waterville.
This group learned that one of the great-
est needs of the homeless wasn’t occurring
inside the shelter, but rather after they left
the shelter — a dispiriting absence of
household goods with which to furnish a
new living space, not a bed to sleep on, not
a broom to keep the space clean. Palmer
offered a solution: Collect cleaning sup-
plies, linens, used furniture and kitchen
items which are housed in the Pleasant
Street United Methodist Church donation
center for distribution as needed.
Now 250 strong, Homeless Action Group
members also volunteer in the homeless
shelter and at the winter overflow project,
providing winter sleeping quarters in a
church basement when the shelter is full.
They raise funds, and mentor families in
parenting, budgeting and how to find
appropriate support services once they have
left the shelter. They have become a feder-
ated partner of the Mid-Maine Homeless
Shelter.
In September of 2010, Palmer became
Assistant Director of the Mid-Maine
Homeless Shelter. When the executive
director subsequently resigned due to ill
health, she progressed to interim executive
director and then to executive director of a
shelter in the midst of an ambitious capital
campaign.
According to Palmer, the new shelter, in
addition to providing food and shelter to
the homeless, will feature a family life pro-
gram offering a continuum of services
extending beyond the shelter to continue
shaping sustainable, productive, successful
lives.
A portion of the proposed new building
will be dedicated exclusively to homeless
prevention.
“It is so much easier and more effective
in this current economy to intercede and
partner with people when they’re still under
a roof,” Palmer said.
Palmer said her strong religious core
guides her efforts, puts gas in her engine
every single day and fuels her belief that
one person, one family at a time, we can
end homelessness in central Maine.”
For more information about shelter pro-grams, please call (207) 872-6550. Theshelter’s Facebook page features com-ments on recent activities. Contributionsto the capital campaign may be mailedto Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter, P.O.Box 2612, Waterville ME 04903 or visitwww.shelterme.org.
Head of shelter devotes life to homeless
BETTY PALMER
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ON THE COVER: Halley Elwell, ASCAPaward-winning jazz singer and song-writer, at the Higher Grounds inHallowell last month with her formermusic teacher and mentor, MarciaGallagher.
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KENNEBEC JOURNAL • Morning SentinelWednesday, July 20, 20116 Women’s QUARTERLY ~ IN PROFILEWednesday, July 22, 2011
BY JEAN ANN POLLARDCorrespondent
There’s a big blue mailbox and, just
beyond, a gray-shingled Greek Revival house
surrounded by flowers. What better
announcement could there be for the lush,
organically-certified flower and vegetable
gardens of Roberta Bailey of Vassalboro?
For this is no ordinary place, and Roberta
Bailey is no ordinary woman.
Pulling into her driveway, a visitor is greet-
ed by two friendly collies and a big, gray cat.
Nearby, Bearded and Siberian Irises, mounds
of Wild Geranium and Nasturtiums bloom
behind a neatly stacked rock wall.
To the right is a post-and-beam greenhouse
as one goes past another border where lemon
balm smells heavenly, and columbine and
Echinacea stand tall.
“The house is almost as it was when I
moved here 11 years ago,” says Bailey, “but
I’ve added a sunroom where I start all my
seedlings every year, as well as this green-
house where they get moved into larger
growing trays at the end of March before
being transplanted outside.”
Bailey’s soil is heavy clay and water tends
to puddle, but behind the house is some of
the darkest, richest earth in Maine. And it’s
here, in addition to growing most of her food,
that she produces seed for three companies,
including Fedco of Waterville, Wood Prairie
Farm in Bridgewater, and J. L. Hudson of La
Honda, California.
A tour provides a visual feast.
Past a little chicken house, biddies are run-
ning around free, kept in check by Juno the
Border Collie, “who herds them away from
the gardens so they don’t scratch everything
up. He’s so good, that they don’t even come
near the gardens now,” she said with a laugh.
“He also keeps the deer away.”
A small, new herb garden contains lemon
grass, motherwort, black cohosh, arnica
chamissonis and comfrey. “I’m beginning to
take better care of myself,” she said “I’m
going to nurture myself more instead of
working quite so hard. Herbs can help.”
But it’s difficult to envision her ever slow-
ing down. After all, this is a woman who
came to Maine at the age of 18, built a couple
of log cabins in Mt. Vernon, was a ‘back-to-
the-lander’ in Topsfield for 13 years with hus-
band and two children, makes baskets of
spruce tree roots, is a fiber artist, spins,
cooks, and once repaired wood and canvas
canoes.
Not only that, she has bred the popular hot
pepper, Matchbox; is credited with saving a
feathery-leafed cilantro after a seed company
dropped it and who hopes to resurrect
Maestro peas when the strain “got messed up
with another variety. She literally preserves
summer by canning apple cider with grapes
or berries, produces an elixir of Echinacea for
warding off colds and makes as an elderberry
tonic that a friend said is “so tasty it belongs
on ice cream.”
“Ok, but why comfrey?” a visitor asks.
“Isn’t it toxic?”
“Its deep roots bring up minerals,” she
replies. “I cut it for compost, and at times use
the dirt under its leaves for my house plants.
They like it.”
Gooseberry bushes, selected by distin-
guished University of New Hampshire plant
breeder Elwyn Meader for size and taste,
flourish beside elderberry bushes, which
Bailey said “are antiviral and especially good
for bronchitis.”
Turning to one of her large vegetable
patches, plants seem to rocket out of the dark
soil. A 75-foot row of potatoes, including
Carola and Kennebec, wait to be mulched
with hay causing her to say with a groan, “I
need to simplify.”
Next are peas climbing on nets —
Miragreen are a favorite — then a group of
Welsh Onions, clearly in bloom.
“They’re the first thing up every spring,”
Bailey said. “I use them as green onions, save
a little seed for the Seed Savers Exchange,
remove the seed stalks and with fall there are
green scallion types all over again.” The Seed
Savers Exchange is a non-profit organization
dedicated to the preservation of heirloom
seeds on their 890-acre Heritage Farm near
Decorah, Iowa.
Visitors side-step a spatter of tiny, bright
green calendula and Elka Breadseed poppy
leaves.
“I like to have lots of flowers for bees and
love the idea of survivors popping up through
the rows so a little bit of wild peeps through,”
Bailey said.
Beyond are row-after-row of tall garlic
plants including Russian Red, which Bailey
said she has kept for almost 30 years. Nearby
are brassicas, protected by Agribon row-cov-
ers until they get established.
Then come cucumbers, including the
sunny heirloom, Boothby’s Blonde, varieties
of squash, musk melons, watermelons —
Peace has incredible flavor — dozens of
tomato plants producing seed for Fedco, and
rows of covered peppers.
“One row of sweet peppers is for personal
use,” she said. “The others are for seeds.
Peppers self-pollinate, but they could possi-
bly get a little bit of insect pollination, so row
covers keep them isolated. Chilipeno is in the
first year of a 10-year breeding project, while
Thai Hots, repotted into 71, two- and three-
gallon containers, remain in the greenhouse.”
By this time a visitor’s sense of awe has
mushroomed: There will be no Maestro
messes in this garden.
Under High Bush blueberries is a blanket
of Sparkle strawberries; cranberries beneath a
plum tree. There are kiwi vines, 12 varieties
of grapes espaliered along metal wires and a
120-foot-by-80-foot orchard of cherries,
plums and apples enclosed by an eight-foot
fence with bird houses for tree swallows and
bluebirds on 27 posts.
But her greatest surprise comes last.
Several rows of plants look like grass.
“What is that?” the visitor asks.
“Rice.”
“Rice in Maine?” she is asked. She’s
growing a hardy, short-season Russian vari-
ety called Duborskian that, in 2010, actual-
Roberta’s organic gardens grow in life-giving abundance
Jean Ann Pollard photo
Roberta Bailey of Vassalboro washing off garlic bulbs fresh from her garden.
More on GARDENS, Page 7
KENNEBEC JOURNAL • Morning Sentinel Wednesday, July 20, 2011 7Women’s QUARTERLY ~ IN PROFILEWednesday, July 20, 2011
ly produced heads of grain.
“You know,” Bailey says, “as experi-
enced gardeners, it’s rare that we walk into
a garden with no idea of what to do, but
that’s how I felt about trying rice. I didn’t
know what to do or how to do it. I often
work with people who don’t know how to
plant or grow anything, and I have a lot of
patience and am pretty good at educating,
but it’s really good to remember what it
was like at first.
“I feel like I’m at a place in my life now
where it’s time to share and do more teach-
ing. I’m not a doomsday person, but who
knows what’s going to happen with this
society or the financial world?” Bailey
wondered aloud. “ Who knows what’s
coming down the pike? I’m trying to give
people a lot when I can. And if the need
ever arises, I’ll teach the whole town how
to garden.”
Roberta offered me lunch and who could
refuse? In her charming kitchen she served
“Cream of asparagus soup with spring
peas.” Made of new asparagus with some
fresh Miragreen peas scattered on top, it
was a work of art.
“Because I didn’t know if you ate dairy or
not, I thickened it with some cooked oat-
meal, blended in a little potato water and
some very new asparagus,” she said.
There was also a superb salad of Quinoa,
fresh parsley, garlic, mint, lemon and tiny lit-
tle red grape tomatoes; some hard-boiled
fresh eggs from her own hens; herb tea, and
a lovely, strong grape ‘pick me up’ that one
didn’t want to stop drinking.
No matter how much you love it, growing
food is hard work, so she was asked why she
does it to such perfection.
After thinking a moment she said, “It’s
very important to me to have food that tastes
incredibly good. Asparagus picked from the
garden and brought inside is sweet; broccoli
that you get fresh from the garden is sweet.
Once you’ve had truly fresh food there’s no
going back to store-bought. Even “organic
food” in supermarkets is not as good. So
there’s a flavor element.
“Aside from flavor, for me it was original-
ly an attempt at more self sufficiency and
cost-effectiveness, but I think quality became
more and more an important part of it.
“I don’t think it was control of my food at
first but it’s become more that way now with
all the problems of genetically modified
organisms, chemicals, salmonella and E
coli,” she said. “Now I feel that I need to
protect my food and do more for myself
because of that. I know my food is safe. I
think that health issues come in on large-
scale factory farm levels.”
Contributed photos
An overview of Roberta’sbeautiful lush gardens.
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GardensContinued from Page 6
KENNEBEC JOURNAL • Morning SentinelWednesday, July 20, 20118 Women’s QUARTERLY ~ FEATUREWednesday, July 22, 2011
BY BETTY JESPERSENCorrespondent
A generation of men and women, many
of whom contributed to their country, their
state and their community, are quietly living
out their days in nursing homes or residen-
tial care facilities. Often, few people are
aware of their unique or interesting accom-
plishments.
The Maine Health Care Association has
been changing that.
For nine years, its project, known as
Remember ME, has honored those who
spent the best years of their lives making a
difference for their families and communi-
ties.
Each year, the call goes out for nomina-
tions to association members who care for
Maine’s older populations, asking them to
identify honorees who have a history of vol-
unteerism and civic engagement.
Those selected by a panel of judges have
included decorated war heroes, community
leaders, health care professionals, educators,
homemakers, farmers, performing artists,
writers, loggers, mill workers, grange mem-
bers, scientists, entrepreneurs and business
people.
Some overcame extraordinary hardships.
Others helped build strong communities,
were pioneers, broke barriers, or were swept
up in historic events.
Many are veterans, such as the man who
was among the American troops who liber-
ated a Nazi concentration camp and then
became the only survivor of a land mine that
blew up the vehicle in which he was riding.
Or, a woman who helped organize a
secret intelligence, code-breaking team that
analyzed Japanese military and government
communications during World War II.
For Nadine Grosso, vice-president and
director of communications for the Maine
Health Care Association, one woman’s story
as a Holocaust survivor still moves her.
“It’s hard to truly imagine what this
woman witnessed as a child and I was very
impressed with how she used this negative
experience to later have a positive impact on
others as an educator, mentor and parent,”
Grosso said.
“I think the Remember ME program
caught on quickly and has remained strong
for nine years because of the genuine com-
mitment by all involved,” said Grosso, who
launched the project in 2003.
“Not only are we committed to the project
and honoring residents, but so are our mem-
ber facilities and their staff,” she said.
“Maine’s long-term care providers believe
that each individual resident’s life story is
important and worthy of recognition. This
program has simply provided them with a
statewide vehicle to share that belief with
others.”
Each year, the Remember ME project
publishes a booklet and puts on a photogra-
phy exhibit of black and white, current and
past, photos of 35 honorees accompanied by
brief biographies. An additional 20 nomi-
nees receive honorable mentions.
The annual recognition is held in April,
when the residents are presented with
Certificates of Lifetime Achievement in
front of an audience of family members,
staff, officials and legislators.
The event is specifically held in the Hall
of Flags at the State House in Augusta to
remind legislators and the public that state
house decisions have a local impact on
human lives, Grosso said.
Claire Meuse is one of this year’s hon-
orees.
Meuse continues to tutorOnce or twice a week, Meuse, 86, and
Alberta Tracy, 68, find a quiet place to sit at
the Sandy River Center in Farmington where
they are reading together on the young adult
edition of Frank Baum’s “The Wizard of
Oz.”
Meuse, a 25-year tutor with Literacy
Volunteers, has been working with Tracy for
three years.
Originally from Melrose, Mass., Meuse
and her late husband, Robert, had one
daughter, Lori, a veteran English teacher at
Mt. Blue High School in Farmington.
Meuse, over her career, worked as a math
and science junior high and high school
teacher in several states, was a lifelong com-
munity volunteer and for 50 years, a Girl
Scout leader and a Scouts’ summer camp
director.
As a tutor, she taught individuals and
groups, worked with people with develop-
mental disabilities, with youngsters who
needed to improve their skills, and now,
with senior citizens.
“After teaching eighth-grade boys, you
can teach anything,” she said with smile. “I
will take on any student.”
Meuse moved to Farmington 10 years ago
following the death of her husband, so she
could be near her daughter. Shortly after
Seniors are recognized for lifetimes of achievement
Contributed photo
Claire Meuse, one of the honorees of the Maine Health Care Association’s annual recognition project, Remember ME, is congratulatedby First Lady Ann LePage at the event and photographic exhibit in April held in the Hall of Flags at the State House in Augusta. Meuse, ateacher, long-time community volunteer and tutor is a resident of Sandy River Center in Farmington.
More on SENIORS, Page 9
arriving, she contacted Literacy Volunteers
and began tutoring, a commitment she con-
tinued until she suffered a stroke three years
ago that left her wheelchair-bound.
Soon after getting settled at Sandy River,
however, she found a reading student in
Tracy.
“Claire is very compassionate and a
great tutor. For years, she worked with a lot
of youngsters who get referred to us by
parents or their schools, and all the students
liked her because she made learning fun,”
said Joan Moes, the director of Franklin-
Somerset Literacy Volunteers of America
who retired last month.
“I am so pleased. There is a need for
tutors at nursing homes but we don’t have
the people to do it,” Moes said.
Sandy River Center’s activities director,
Lynette Hinkley, said the example Meuse is
setting shows that the elderly want to
remain active and involved.
“This is a very good learning experience
for both of them, and it gives Claire a sense
of being useful and valued,” Hinkley said.
Grosso said the stories she reads through
the Remember ME project inspire her.
“I am consistently amazed by the
responsibilities and goals they took on,” she
said. “I firmly believe that we live in a soci-
ety that tends to forget about its long-term
care residents for a variety of reasons.
Perhaps it’s because they may not be as
visible in their communities as they once
were. But more so, I think it is because of
widely-held misconceptions about the
aging process and even long-term care in
general.”
Grosso said in creating the project and
naming it Remember ME, she wanted to
give long-term care residents the recogni-
tion they have earned and at the same time
remind Maine lawmakers, regulators,
media and the general public of the value
of these residents’ contributions.
“They have spent the best years of their
lives creating families and building com-
munities. As they come to us for long-term
care, it is our privilege to serve them,” she
said.
And the feedback from residents, consis-
tently, is that they are so very humble,
Grosso said.
“While their accomplishments are so
great and their actual experiences are often
once-in-a-lifetime, they can’t imagine why
they deserve this lifetime achievement
award,” she said.
“I can’t tell you how many times in nine
years I’ve heard residents say they were
just living their lives, nothing out of the
ordinary,” she said.
The Maine Health Care Association is a
statewide association of providers of serv-
ices to Maine’s older and disabled popula-
tions. MHCA represents more than 300
adult day service providers, assisted living-
residential care facilities, home health
providers, independent living-congregate
housing providers, nursing facilities, reha-
bilitation and skilled nursing providers,
and other organizations and individuals
who provide housing, health care and sup-
portive services to more than 10,000
Maine residents.
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Contributed photo
Remember ME, a project of the Maine Health Care Association, annually recognizes thelifetime achievements of men and women currently in nursing homes and residential carefacilities. At the recent recognition event held in the Hall of Flags at the State House,Richard A. Erb, president and chief executive officer of the association, addresses hon-orees, their families and officials as he presents the Lifetime Achievement Awards. HouseMajority Leader Rep. Philip Curtis, R-Madison, is on far left, and First Lady Ann LePageand Senate President Kevin Raye are on right.
SeniorsContinued from Page 8
KENNEBEC JOURNAL • Morning SentinelWednesday, July 20, 201110 Women’s QUARTERLY ~ FEATUREWednesday, July 22, 2011
BY J.A. POLLARDCorrespondent
Lesson #1I couldn’t believe what I was doing.
Kneeling right there on the runway. Big jets
grumbling all around and I in my white
trousers and lacy, long-sleeved blouse, silver
loops in my ears, hair all sleek, eyeliner
applied, baby quiet in my tummy as if she
knew this was a special moment. And there I
was, kissing the tarmac!
People stared. I even stared at myself, felt
as if I was floating somewhere above.
Watching. Shocked.
Because I WAS shocked. Culture-shocked.
I’d just landed in New York, 20 hours out of
Libya, a country on the southern shore of the
Mediterranean Sea, northern edge of the
Sahara right next to Egypt — and a woman
stalked past pulling a little wheeled suitcase,
face uncovered, clicking along in stiletto
heels, waggling her bottom.
For a moment I was stunned: “My god!
No barracan!” And suddenly knew fully,
completely, that where I’d been living had
roiled me, burned me into someone else.
Lesson #2Once upon a time the country of Libya
was the breadbasket of Ancient Rome. The
ruins of Leptis Magna and Sabratha — beau-
tiful and golden — still rise out of smother-
ing sand after 2,000 years. Tesserae from
long-ago villas on the coast lie scattered.
Even ochre-pocked Tripoli, once called the
White City, is impressive. It’s a beautiful, dry,
sometimes forbidding world where hippos
once wallowed in rivers, elephants trumpeted
and a forgotten people 10,000 years ago drew
pictures on Saharan sandstone.
I was afraid. It began in Tripoli’s airport
where men in dark trousers, white shirts and
maroon skullcaps stared as if I were wild
game, or maybe a prize goat. Two women
shrouded in pinkish-tan sheets from head to
ankle clutched children’s hands, Barracans,
are worn by Libyan women to prevent them-
being seen by men. We headed for the ‘ladies
room,’ all the men staring at me. I ducked
inside where walls were smeared with feces.
Watch where you step and bring your own
T.P.
Lesson #3Other Arabs, someone said, called Libya
“the armpit of the Arab world.” But my hus-
band was teaching geology at the University
of Tripoli, and I was an author/artist. I’d read
Muslim history, loved the domes of mosques,
minarets, fabulous tiles and desert oases.
This lesson occurred on a sandy peninsula
called Farwa jutting into the Mediterranean
close to the border of Tunisia. With an oil
company secretary and medical doctor friend,
we crossed a shallow lagoon by rickety boat,
chose a picnic spot in dunes, stripped down
to bathing suits. My husband marched off to
find some rocks. We women flung ourselves
onto blankets.
Silence. Peace.
Until a shoeless boy in tattered trousers
and flapping shirt came out of nowhere.
Staring. Followed by more boys and a crowd
of men. All staring. Next, they slaughtered an
unwilling sheep, built a fire and proceeded to
barbecue. There were no women.
“Why do they stare?” I asked the Doc.
“They don’t see many female faces, much
less bodies. They watch Hollywood movies,
believe all of us are evil. Also available.
Quadaffy made Egyptian women furious
when he said that women are biologically
defective. If we were equal to men, he said,
“ ‘we should be willing to jump out of
planes in parachutes while pregnant.’ ”
“You can’t be serious.” I said.
I was carrying my first child.
Lesson #4, Part 1Geologists, as everybody knows, study the
Earth. Scooting along the coast road of Libya
in our Volkswagen ‘bug’, I double-checked
the contents of my husband’s rucksack.
Along with charts from the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers was his geologist’s hammer,
binoculars, research notebooks and a letter
written in English and Arabic from his Head
of Department: “Dr. Peter Garrett, the bearer
of this note, is a staff member of the faculty
of science, University of Tripoli. He is study-
ing the rocks and coast of Tripoli. Please
offer him any assistance you can.” It was
stamped with a blue, official-looking seal.
Turning down a sandy track, we passed a
zariba of stacked brush corralling jumping
goats, scrawny dogs, screeching children and,
just beyond, a domed, whitewashed Holy
Man’s Tomb overlooking a subkha or salt flat
and the sea. Land Rovers were parked beside
it.
We joined the line — and an army came
pouring out like mad hornets.
“Uh oh!” the secretary said.
“Hm,” from the doctor.
Peter got out calmly, shrugging on his
rucksack, juggling binoculars with one hand,
camera with the other. “Salam Alaykam.” he
said.
No one replied.
“Great,” I thought. “Maybe we’ll be shot
for spies.”
He was jostled, rucksack grabbed. Soon
hands were waving charts, trying out binocu-
lars. As he rummaged through pockets, rifles
were raised, but he paid no attention, offered
his official letter to a big black officer who
burst out of the building shouting orders.
I was terrified. The letter was seized, held
upside down, soldiers grabbed it, held it
every which-way, arguing.
“They can’t read,” the secretary said.
“They’ll rip it.” I squeaked.
The officer pocketed the letter, returned the
rucksack, made a gesture saying, “Do your
thing,” and we headed down-slope to the sea.
“What was that about?” I said.
“They were just checking,” Peter said with
a smile.
But I discovered what checking meant.
Lesson #4, Part 2Sliding down the steep, sandy slope to the
wide subkha below the Holy Man’s Tomb, I
was about to say, “I wonder what soldiers are
doing in there?” when one of their Land
Rovers roared to life and came plunging after
us, its driver and buddies braking to a wild
stop, leaping out.
“No!” they shouted, waving away my hus-
band while flapping their arms at we women
like farmers shooing brainless hens.
“They want us to go back up the hill,” the
secretary said.
I couldn’t believe my ears. Awkward with
Local woman learns lessonsfrom Libya; grateful to be home
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Jean Ann Pollard photos
Above, the pregnant authorduring her time in Tripoli, in acitrus, date palm, olive grovewhere plots of barley hadbeen planted between trees.
Left, in the 1970s the Soukal Juma, a market on theHoms road to the west ofTripoli, was busy everyFriday. A market full of menand boys turned hostile ,some even stoning theauthor.
Left, Desert Tuarg in Germa,far south of Tripoli in theSahara.
pregnancy, I stumbled.
Voices barked.
“La!” exclaimed the doctor. “Tabib,” I
heard her say. Then Arabic for “mother,
child.”
I thought of the Koran, Sura 31: “We
enjoined man to show kindness to his par-
ents, for with much pain his mother bears
him….”
The soldiers drove us, flapping. I was
afraid for the baby, shuffled up the slope to
our Volkswagen, threw myself inside and
locked the doors.
They rocked the car. Boys. I thought.
They’re stupid boys.
One rapped the windshield hard and I
heard the doctor say, “La! Imshi!”
Heart pounding, I picked up a book, pre-
tended to read. He fingered his rifle. Then
the big officer reappeared, shouting orders,
and the Rover sped off again. Below, my
husband ambled unconcernedly.
“They’ll kill him!” I could hardly breathe.
The Rover braked, he got aboard.
Delivered to the parking lot, he shrugged.
“They want us to go somewhere.”
So, hemmed in by army vehicles, we
made a tight convoy back to the coast road,
parked before a mud-brick building with an
old green door, a Rover blocking all escape.
I wanted to screech. Until, inside, a hand-
some senior officer took our passports,
checked our photos, fingered the letter,
thought a moment, handed them back.
“I trust you have good researching, Dr.
Garrett,” he said.
Ignoring me, he turned to the unmarried
women. “Why have you no husbands?” he
asked. And got their addresses.
I didn’t know what to feel.
Lesson #5The farm villa my husband and I rented in
Libya was in a citrus grove. Solid and
square, it was built by Italians in the early
1900s before Quadaffy threw them out, con-
fiscated their property, banned foreign lan-
guage signs, pork and alcohol. Close by was
the Souk al Juma — the Friday Market.
The road to the souk wandered between
red-dirt berms topped with prickly pear.
Driving our ‘bug’ we passed a small, white
camel tethered to a date palm, yellow acacia
in bloom, tall eucalyptus lining the way.
Ahead and behind were Peugeot pick-ups
loaded with sheep.
It was hot. I was doing my best to respect
the culture, wearing a flowing dress with
full-length sleeves. Beyond a line of open-
sided, garage-like stalls — one with a
camel’s head dripping blood — was an open
area partly walled by crumbling stone, where
farmers offered pyramids of new potatoes,
fennel, tomatoes, eggplant, green peppers,
onions, broad beans, peas, even bananas
from Ecuador.
Parking, we went inside. I was choosing
peppers when the first stone hit. At first I
didn’t understand. There was no parting of
the crowd. Nobody shouted. The stone hit
me on the side, skittered down my skirt.
Another hit my hand. I stood stock still in
disbelief. Then came a handful of pebbles.
Someone hated me. I remembered the
princess who’d been stoned to death in
Saudi.
Twenty feet away my husband placidly
bought beans. Easing over, I clutched his
arm. “I’m being stoned!”
“Beg pardon?”
“Stoned!”
“I don’t see anything.”
“Get me out of here.”
The souk was crowded. There was no rush
of feet, no yells. But suddenly I realized
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BY NANCY MCGINNIS
Correspondent
In this appealing cookbook, “Jacques Pepin's Kitchen:
Cooking With Claudine,” popular classical French chef
Jacques Pepin is matched up in the kitchen with an
irreverent red-headed twenty-something sous-
chef — his daughter Claudine. No, she didn ‘t
genetically inherit the ability to create memorable
French cuisine.
“If my father were a surgeon, would I necessari-
ly know how to operate?” she asks.
Only after purchasing a copy did I realize that it
is apparently a companion cookbook for a PBS
series by the same name that aired some time ago. I
never saw the TV versions, but the cookbook is
handy to browse through for specific recipes and
entire menus — or for the purpose of armchair day-
dreaming or nitty gritty event planning.
Sprinkled here and there are adorable snapshots of
father and young daughter working together in the
kitchen years ago — but this book, while sometimes
whimsical, is absolutely serious in its dedication to the
pursuit of good food rather than cuteness.
Conversational comments and anecdotes, as well as
practical tips quoted in the margins make the reader feel
as if Jacques and Claudine are right there in the kitchen;
a detailed nutritional analysis of every recipe is helpful
for people with allergies or dietary restrictions.
Pepin’s approach is unabashedly artful but not the
least bit pretentious. It also is mindful that Claudine’s
generation often has limited time and funds, along with
a concern for healthy eating. Respect for tradition and a
willingness to learn are combined with a respect for cre-
ativity and the challenge of making something out of
what one has on hand.
In short, it is simple cooking that pleases and nur-
tures, without straining to impress A cookbook for sum-
mer — or anytime — in Maine.
I know from experience that one can easily Google
any recipe one can imagine on the Internet, but that’s
not the point. Just like curling up with a great fiction
hardcover, in an all too electronic world, sometimes a
person just wants to sit down and flip through the pages
of a well thought out and attractively designed cook-
book.
When I turn my attention to food, I prefer to be think-
ing of the cutting board, not the keyboard. From the
older family members — European and Caribbean her-
itage to Claudine’s childhood summers spent on the
New England coast — this book reinforces Pepin’s
notion of affective memory versus intellect. Simply put,
our own emotional and personal experience that we
bring to the kitchen and to the table is embodied in the
food we eat and how we prepare it.
So this father-daughter pair shows us how to eat
locally and think globally, from New England clam frit-
ters to continental clafoutis (a thick fruit custard dish, a
European classic). Dig in!
Cookbook offers father-daughter team advice
FROZEN WATERMELON SLUSH
Serves 8
Total time about 30 minutes, plus 12 to14 hours freezer and refrigeration time.
1 medium watermelon (about 12 pounds)3/4 cup lime or lemon juice3/4 cup sugar
1. Cut the watermelon into 2-inch wedges.Remove and discard the rind, black seeds
and as many of the softer white seeds aspossible. Cut the flesh into one-inchchunks, and place them in the bowl of afood processor. Process until liquefied.(Some small chunks may remain.) Thiswill yield about 10 cups. Add the limejuice and sugar, and process just untilincorporated.2. Transfer the watermelon mixture to astainless steel bowl, cover, and freezeuntil solid, for 8 to 10 hours.3. At least 3 to 4 hours (but as long as 5hours) before serving, move the bowl to
the refrigerator to soften the mixture. Inthe last hour before serving, use a fork tobreak the softened mixture into shavings.Serve in cold glass goblets or bowls.
NUTRITIONAL ANALYSIS:Calories 209.6Protein 2.6 gm.Fat 1.8 gmSaturated fat 0 gmCholesterol 0 mgSodium 12.1 mg
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Nancy P. McGinnis
A double page spread shows Jacques Pepin’s exuberant, casually hand-drawn and decorated menu for a bridal showerbrunch created for one of daughter Claudine’s friends. On the opposite page, a mouth-watering photo of a tray of open-face sandwiches features several “colorful and complimentary tidbits of food layered on a single thin slice of bread, toastor a cracker,” spotlighting fillings such as salami, mozzarella, scrambled egg, blue cheese, herring, tuna, smoked mus-sels, brie, and more.
something horribly significant: In all that gathering of carts,
donkeys, boys, and men wearing toga-like capes over white
shirts and dark trousers, mine was the only female face. I
was the only woman there.
I thought I’d faint, and for some reason remembered the
small white camel tethered to the palm.
My husband walked me out of there.
I’d never visit the souk again.
Lesson #6So there I was kneeling on the tarmac. The baby kicked.
“Never mind, little one,” I murmured. “We’ll be all right.”
I’d said it so many times in Libya. In so many places. And
for just a moment actually missed the clacking of date palms
overhead rather than the grumbling 767s and 727s and all
the little carts with luggage and men with flags.
Then someone put his hand on me, stood me up.
“Thanks,” I said.
“All right?”
“Yes. Now.”
He looked concerned, eyes bright, uniform immaculate.
“OK,” he said.
Sorry. Sorry. I lied about that, dear reader. There was no
freshly-pressed, official, young American. I was all alone[4].
Cut off. The same way I’d felt in the Sahara, in the World of
Islam.
And wondered what it was like for Muslim women in
America.
Lybia Continued from Page 11
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When 800 hundred adults and children
gathered last month for the Fourth
Annual North End Night at Dave’s Place
— the small park located on Drummond
Avenue between Oak Street and High
Street in Waterville — community advo-
cates saw the fruits of their labor.
Hosted by the North End Boys and
Girls Club and Living Water Community
Church, the community bash offered a
free evening of fun and food in a safe
environment.
People of all backgrounds mingled, as
their children played. The Alfond Youth
Center, the parent organization of the
boys and girls club, offered karate
demonstrations. Dance performances,
face painting, music and games delight-
ed the children.
“I think it’s huge,” Connie Turmelle,
area landlord and neighborhood beautifi-
cation advocate, said about the event and
the presence of the North End Boys and
Girls Club. “Steve Aucoin is amazing.
He’ll go door to door, to all the houses
with kids. It’s a huge draw when people
move to the neighborhood.”
“With each year, I think people now
have an expectation that this event will
happen and they look forward to it; it’s
great to create an event that has longevi-
ty,” said Steve Aucoin, event organizer
and director of the North End Boys and
Girls Club. “Over half the tenants in
public housing were there. The kids con-
ducted themselves very well.”
Turmelle agreed.
“From my end, I have a lot of social
worker skills, people want safe homes,”
she said. “We’re seeing more neighbors
taking care of neighbors and taking pride
in the neighborhood. I just want people
to know that the North End is alive and
well and that we have earnest, hard-
working people in this neighborhood.”
According to Turmelle, her husband
Arthur remembers large North End block
parties from the past. At that time,
Frieda Levine spent countless hours
working to help woman and single moth-
ers in the North End, she said.
“She helped a lot of single women
when no one else would,” Turmelle said.
“One woman, now in her 90s, is still in
the neighborhood. For me, that’s a huge
legacy. To try and fill her shoes is not
easy. It’s not one of my goals, it’s my
destiny.”
When Turmelle and her husband pur-
chased a double square block of the
North End 25 years ago, the property
was added to smaller holdings.
“We wanted to flip the neighborhood,
but not to sell,” Turmelle said. “Besides
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the beautification, you want to offer a
nice place to live — clean and safe, with
respectful neighbors.”
As Ziyadah Montas walked around
the party with her friend’s daughter,
Airyanna, she wore a broad smile.
“I moved here a few months ago from
Massachusetts, so this is really different.
There are things for everyone to do,” she
said. “When I went to school, no one
would talk to me, but I came here and
they do.”
For Jo Horn, the party was a great
place to bring her granddaughters,
Aiydna and Dasey; it was their first
year.
“I think it’s awesome. The lines are
long, but the girls are patient and they’re
having a blast,” Horn said. “A lot of
people are struggling right now, so it’s
great this is free for donations.”
Craig Sargent, sensei of Club Naha —
the karate school at the Alfond Youth
Center — was pleased with the turnout.
“I think the block party is a great
idea,” Sargent said. “It gets the commu-
nity together for bonding and to have a
little fun. We enjoy coming out here and
showing the community the program the
Alfond Youth Center has to offer.”
Aucoin, along with volunteers, gath-
ered goods and funds from local mer-
chants, businesses and individuals so
that free hamburgers, hotdogs, chips,
water and soda could be served at the
block party.
“Food is an introduction to something
larger,” Aucoin said. “Breaking bread
has a unifying quality.”
Mike Nerney, pastor of Living Water
Community Church, and his wife, Sue,
have an active role in the neighborhood,
which includes the North End Ministry
Center located at 10 Toward Street. His
Oakland congregation offered games,
free popcorn and cotton candy. Sue
Nerney provided vouchers for free back-
packs and youth camp. Other church
volunteers offered information on
women’s activities and Bible study
groups.
“Mike brings the spiritual part to the
North End,” Turmelle said. “They offer
support, programs for women and help
you feel like you’re not alone. I loved
seeing the volunteers from Inland.”
Medical assistant Jessica Gammon
felt their Inland Family Care booth —
Bonnie N. Davis photo
Living Water offered a week full of fun for neighborhood kids, free of charge.
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BY WANDA CURTISCorrespondent
The month of July has been designated as Sandwich
Generation Month, an annual national observance.
The purpose is to recognize the thousands of Americans
who are part of the Sandwich Generation, those sand-
wiched between raising children and caring for aging fami-
ly members.
The Pew Research Center has reported that approxi-
mately one of every eight Americans from age 40 to 60 is
raising a child and caring for a parent at the same time.
Plus, seven to 10 million adults are caring for their aging
parents long distance.
In a Feb. 20, 2007 Money Magazine article, Walecia
Konrad described this phenomenon as the “midlife tug of
war.” She offered the following suggestions for dealing
with these difficult situations.
• Talk to parents about their finances and about what
plans they’ve made if they become ill or incapacitated.
• Make sure that parents have a durable power of attor-
ney who can sign checks, pay bills, and make financial
decisions for them if they become unable to do so. They
should also have a living will outlining their wishes
regarding healthcare if life-sustaining medical care is
required.
• Take care of yourself. Make plans for your own retire-
ment and for future college costs.
• Find out about benefits for which parents may qualify.
Visit eldercare.org which can link you to the elder care
agency closest to your parents’ home.
In Maine, Peg Soucy, owner of Elder Care Planning and
Solutions, assists local residents in finding resources to
meet the needs of aging family members. Soucy has
reported an increase in sandwich generation members
seeking her services to find out what is covered by insur-
ance, which resources are available in their area, and how
to plan for aging parents.
Soucy said that sandwich generation members must
juggle the responsibilities involved in maintaining two
households — getting groceries, preparing meals, doing
laundry, managing medications and appointments, paying
bills and splitting time between their spouse, children and
aging family members. She commented that the increased
demands on time, energy, health, and finances involved in
caring for aging family members can place a strain on the
caregiver’s marriage and relationships with their own
children. She explained that, members of the sandwich
generation feel torn between the needs of their own fami-
ly and the needs of their aging parents and “are often left
with feelings of inadequacy.”
Soucy said that professional geriatric care managers,
like herself, are trained to assess family situations, identi-
fy problems, develop a plan, recommend services and
arrange for and monitor services, as well as act as a liai-
son for family members who live at a distance or out of
state.
“Sometimes, they are called in to work with families,
physicians, attorneys and guardians to assess, plan and
coordinate care while maintaining the dignity and respect
of the person needing assistance.”
Soucy travels throughout central Maine visiting homes,
conducting assessments and assisting families in develop-
ing a plan of care.
Her website is www.ecpsme.com, or contact her by
emailing psoucy@ecpsme.com.CBSNews.com has reported that by 2024 there will be
60 million Americans between the ages of 66 and 84
years, many of whom may need part or full-time care.
The website for the National Association of
Professional Geriatric Care Managers is www.caremanag-er.org. Included on that website are frequently asked
questions, information regarding how to find a care man-
ager in a particular geographic area and articles related to
specific topics of interest to caregivers.
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people an opportunity to learn about
health issues in a comfortable forum.
“This is our first year. We wanted to
reach out to the community; not every-
one can afford healthcare,” she said.
“We want to be help for people who
don’t go to the doctor. It’s been mostly
woman. We give them the educational
piece. When we take their blood pres-
sure, we give them a ‘smiley face’ if it’s
normal or we tell them to go to a
provider or the ER(emergency room).”
“It’s such a good example of people
working together to build community; I
hope people in the North End see it and
learn from it,” said Aucoin. The organiz-
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thanks to Arthur and Connie Turmelle.
“It was a great event. About 6 p.m.,
straight overhead, there was a big old
rainbow,” Aucoin said. “It was really
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SUBMITTED BY CRISIS AND COUNSELINGSpecial to Women’s Quarterly
A silent threat rests in many prescrip-
tion cabinets across the state of Maine
and a recent report points to what may
appear to be an unlikely abuser popula-
tion — older women. A recent report by
the federal Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration shows a
49 percent rise in emergency department
visits for drug-related suicide attempts
by women aged 50 and older between
2005 and 2009. These attempted suicides
are closely related to prescription drugs
intended to treat pain, anxiety and
insomnia such as OxyContin,
hydrocodone and zolpidem.
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on the war against prescription drug
abuse.
Making Sense of the Threat“Maine is number one per capita for
the use of pill-form opioids,” said Peter
Wohl, Director of Outpatient Services at
Crisis & Counseling Centers. Many
Mainers – adolescents and older adults,
particularly – mistakenly assume that
prescription medications are safer and
involve no risk.
“There’s fewer stigmas around taking
them so many people get trapped into
addictions by underestimating the dan-
gers associated with taking them,” Wohl
said.
According to Wohl, class and age bar-
riers prevent many from seeking help.
“If you are an older person living a
solid middle-class life, you may feel
uncomfortable with the idea that you are
addicted. You may not seek the help you
need because you don’t want to be asso-
ciated with the stigma of addiction.”
“The sooner people get help, the bet-
ter they will be both in the long term and
the short run.”
Why Middle-Aged women? Why Now?
For many older women, powerful and
addictive prescription drugs are more
available and socially acceptable than
illegal counterparts. Variants are adver-
tised on television, they often don’t carry
the stigma associated with hardcore
street drugs, and American culture often
encourages people to combat pain, anxi-
ety or insomnia with prescription drugs.
In addition, females are more likely to
attempt suicide, according to Abby
Lourie, Director of Crisis Programs at
Crisis and Counseling. “Many choose to
overdose, which may be one reason for
this trend. Older women have easier
access to powerful prescription pain
killer medication than ever before.”
Crisis & Counseling Centers is the sole
provider of 24-hour mobile crisis
response and stabilization in Kennebec
and Somerset counties. Staffing the
emergency response line means Crisis
and Counseling staff are often the first
line of defense. “Approximately 20 per-
cent of our clients are age 60 or older,”
Lourie said, adding that in her experi-
ence all age groups and both sexes
attempt suicide. “Virtually anyone under
the influence is more prone to attempt
suicide,” she said.
Know the Warning SignsWhen in doubt, call the experts if
someone you know seems unstable and
has:
• Sudden change in personality,
increased risk-taking and / or irritability.
• Stopped taking prescribed medi-
cines.
• Stopped seeing a mental health
provider or physician.
Prescription cabinets hold silent threatsMany mistakenly assume prescription medications safer and involve no risk
“Maine is number one per capita for the use of pill-form opioids.There’s fewer stigmas around taking them so many people gettrapped into addictions by underestimating the dangers associatedwith taking them.”
PETER WOHL,DIRECTOR OF OUTPATIENT SERVICES AT CRISIS & COUNSELING CENTERS.
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• Given possessions away.
• Been in or is currently in an abusive
relationship.
• An upcoming anniversary of a loss.
• Started abusing alcohol or drugs.
• Already attempted suicide or has
talked about suicidal thoughts.
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KENNEBEC JOURNAL • Morning SentinelWednesday, July 20, 201120 Women’s QUARTERLY ~ HEALTHTALKWednesday, July 22, 2011
BY DIANE E. PETERSONSenior editor at MaineGeneral Health
Judy MacKenzie’s day started, like so
many do, at a local obstetrician-gynecolo-
gist’s office.
She was there to lend support and guid-
ance to a woman who had called her, des-
perate for help with incontinence. After
reassuring the woman that treatment was
available and learning more about her spe-
cific problem, Judy helped set up the
appointment for her to be evaluated and
have treatment options explained.
For MacKenzie, MaineGeneral’s
women’s health navigator, fielding tele-
phone calls, going with women to doctors’
appointments, helping them understand
often-confusing medical information,
being there for their surgeries, providing
comforting support afterward and check-
ing on their progress is all part of her
day’s work.
“It’s so important for women to have
personal, face-to-face support when deal-
ing with incontinence. They often are
embarrassed or uncomfortable discussing
it. Being there during their appointments
makes it easier to talk about it and I can
help process the medical information,” she
said.
“I often get a big hug after the appoint-
ment so I know I’ve helped,” she said.
Treatments vary from simple changes in
diet, to pelvic floor exercises, medications,
physical therapy and surgery.
“Judy’s role is a unique service
MaineGeneral started last year,” said
Jennifer Riggs, administrative director of
women’s services. “She offers women
personalized and confidential support to
connect them with the services they need,
help coordinate their care and, if neces-
sary, be an advocate.”
Women feel safe and have a friendAfter suffering from incontinence for
more than 10 years, Debbie Hamilton
credits MacKenzie with giving her the
support she needed to have surgery that
has been a huge success.
“I don’t think I would have had the
operation if she hadn’t made me feel safe
in deciding to have it done. She went
with me to every appointment, was there
when I had the surgery and calls me to
keep in touch. She’s awesome.”
Hamilton’s surgery was done by urolo-
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“It’s so important for women to have personal, face-to-face supportwhen dealing with incontinence. They often are embarrassed oruncomfortable discussing it. Being there during their appointmentsmakes it easier to talk about it and I can help process the medicalinformation.”
JUDY MACKENZIE, MAINEGENERAL’S WOMEN’S HEALTH NAVIGATOR
KENNEBEC JOURNAL • Morning Sentinel Wednesday, July 20, 2011 21Women’s QUARTERLY ~ HEALTHTALKWednesday, July 20, 2011
gist Dr. Ravi Kamra, at Kennebec County
Urology. “I had been wearing inconti-
nence pads for more than a decade. Now
I can sneeze, cough, run and it’s wonder-
ful.”
For Doris Jorgensen, MacKenzie has
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“Judy is a newfound friend that I can
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gery last year, which she said gave her a
second chance at life.
She called MacKenzie after her pri-
mary care physician, Dr. Jenny Pisculli at
Maine Dartmouth Family Practice recom-
mended her.
“She has the personality to put you at
ease to be able to talk about personal
things. You need a friend like that
because it’s an intimate thing you don’t
share with everybody,” Doris said.
Physician supportAlthough skeptical about Judy’s role at
first, Dr. William George, an OB/GYN at
Waterville Women’s Care, is a strong
believer in its benefits.
“Having Judy there during appoint-
ments is very reassuring to patients,” he
said. “And it’s good to have someone
who knows our health care system so
well to literally navigate them through it.
People have a hard time knowing where
to go. I think Judy makes their lives a lot
easier. It’s wonderful to have that.”
And, because MacKenzie has already
talked to patients extensively beforehand,
they often are better prepared, he said.
Not just incontinenceTo date, much of Mackenzie’s time has
been devoted to helping women with
incontinence problems.
“We started promoting that because we
knew there are a lot of women in our
communities who don’t realize there are
treatments available. If we can connect
them to those services, they shouldn’t
have to live with the problem,” Riggs
said.
But, she emphasized, the goal of the
Women’s Health Navigator Program is to
help guide women through any services
they need during all stages of their lives.
“A lot of women have felt comfortable
asking her about different services. Any
health care issue has the potential to be
scary and confusing,” Riggs said.
“Having somebody physically go with
you is such a huge relief. Not all women
need that, some just want to know what
to expect.”
HealthContinued from Page 20
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SUBMITTED BY INLAND HOSPITALSpecial to Women’s Quarterly
OneMaine Health, a collaboration betweenEastern Maine Healthcare Systems (which isInland Hospital’s parent company),MaineGeneral Health and MaineHealth,recently announced the release of Maine’sfirst comprehensive, statewide CommunityHealth Needs Assessment.
The three health systems will work closelywith the state’s hospitals and Healthy MainePartnerships to host local forums to share theinformation, begin discussions and developaction plans based on the report’s findings.
The Community Health Needs Assessmentexamined health status, use of health servic-es, access and barriers to care, and other fac-tors affecting the health of Maine people. Thein-depth report will help local communitiesand health-care professionals make decisionsabout the future of health care and preventionin their areas by identifying how their com-munities compare to the state on manydimensions of health
The findings point out several major healthissues facing all communities, includingchronic disease burden, such as diabetes,heart disease and respiratory disease, cancerrates, levels of obesity, smoking and illicitdrug use and access to dental and mentalhealth services. Visit www.chna.emh.org or
www.inlandhospital.org for the full report andfor specific results about Kennebec Countyand Somerset County.
In Kennebec County, the report indicatesthat a high percentage of males are without ausual source of care when compared to thestatewide rate. Tobacco, both smokeless andin the form of cigarettes, continues to be anissue requiring attention and action. Anothercompelling finding is that seniors in centralMaine are more likely than others their age inMaine to be chronic heavy drinkers and bingedrinkers.
Numerous presentations are planned incommunities across the state so healthcareproviders, citizens, business and legislativeleaders can learn firsthand about the report’sfindings. These sessions will also provide anopportunity to share thoughts about the futureof health care in Maine and how to effective-ly address local health issues. For more infor-mation on the Waterville Community HealthNeeds Assessment forum set for Aug. 30,contact Ellen Wells, Inland Hospital’sCommunity Wellness Coordinator at 861-3292 or ewells@emh.org.
OneMaine Health contracted with theUniversity of New England’s Center forCommunity and Public Health to conduct theCommunity Health Needs Assessment. TheMuskie School and Market Decisions, Inc.helped complete the report. The Community
Health Needs Assessment process includeddeveloping and analyzing a comprehensivehealth profile by county using data from a
health survey of more than 6,400 householdsand Maine vital statistics, cancer registry andhospital and emergency department data.
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Inland Hospital is a member of Eastern Maine Health Care Systems (EMHS), whichserves as a foundation for more than 30 healthcare organizations in central, easternand northern Maine. Together EMHS members work to ensure safe, quality care isavailable to Maine people.The OneMaine Health Collaborative was formed in 2007 by EMHS, MaineGeneralHealth and MaineHealth to produce cost savings, share information and collectivelybetter understand Maine’s community health needs. While each system has previouslyoffered its own individual Community Health Needs Assessment focused on its region,the larger OneMaine Health study provided an opportunity to lower costs and delivertimely and comprehensive statewide information.
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