June 27, 1984
Asbestos has become a matter of concern to the Paperworkers Union at Scott Paper Co.’s S.D. Warren mill in Westbrook. The union has asked federal and state agencies to look into the way old asbestos coatings are being protected to keep asbestos out of the air in the mill. William Carver, president of Local 1069, said he wants to set to rest any idea that the union is out to shut the mill down because of asbestos. He said the story has been spread around. Carver said the union knows that it will take a long-term process to remove all asbestos from the workplace but wants tests as precautions, and education to be pushed in the meantime.
In three weeks, three girls’ flutes were stolen from the Westbrook Junior High School music room. The flute of Lucie LaChance, 499 Cumberland St., was valued at $300. Also stolen were the flutes of the daughters of Mrs. Leighton, 16 Turner St., and Mrs. Christensen, 24 Lori Lane.
Donald Metivier, who opened the Village Laundry at 823 Main St., Westbrook, last year, is preparing to open Village Dry Cleaning at 945 Main St., July 11. The building was formerly occupied by Genuine Parts Co., which opened a big new Westbrook distribution center and store this year. For his new dry-cleaning business, Metivier has installed a new-design, self-contained dry cleaning machine, the Electron 85KRD, made in Italy.
Natasha Baker, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baker, North Gorham Road, won $30 in the Grades 1-3 division of a book review-writing contest sponsored by the New England Book Sellers. She reviewed the book “Trapper,” by Stephen Cosgrove,
Natasha is in Grade 1 at White Rock School. She is one of four Maine winners.
Denise Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Hall, New Portland Road, has been recently to Colby College, Waterville, for the Special Olympics program, where she won gold and silver medals for swimming and a certificate for bowling. She represented the Leisure Center for the Handicapped. Her mother and grandmother, Mrs. Edith Cross, South Portland, accompanied her.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Dodge, Flaggy Meadow Road, have been to Stowe, Vt., to visit relatives, and to attend the wedding of her grandnephew, Benjamin Osgood, North Andover, Mass., and Miss Ruth Luneau, St. Albans. Vt. The wedding took place in St. Albans. The bride and bridegroom are both seniors at the University of Vermont.
June 29, 1994
Kenneth Lefebvre took office as Westbrook’s mayor Monday night, and the drama began. It ended with Arnold Gaudet Jr. winning Lefebvre’s alderman-at-large seat, and James Garland winning Lefebvre’s City Council president seat. Gaudet was not really a surprise, although off-stage competition for the alderman-at-large seat was hot. He had been an obvious candidate for 11 months, and won the Democratic City Committee’s endorsement in a contest Sunday.
Westbrook will gain title tomorrow night to those properties on which taxes for 1992 and earlier years still are unpaid.The city sent 250 notices of foreclosure to owners of those properties May 31. It has collected $200,000 as a result of those notices and lien notices sent 18 month earlier. Just how many of the 250 haven’t paid wasn’t clear.
It won’t take long for Gorham’s new Town Planner Debbie Fossum to get a feel for the lay of the land. Until last year she was Gorham’s assistant town planner. After a year as planner for Old Orchard Beach, Fossum returned to Gorham, replacing Jay Grande, who left in April to become city planner for Gloucester, Mass. Fossum graduated from University of Southern Maine in 1982 and has worked for the Greater Portland Council of Governments and Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation Committee.
Pfc. Jason Cook, with the 82nd Airborne, and son of J.R. and Brenda Cook, Mayflower Road, Westbrook, took part two weeks ago in exercises commemorating the 50th anniversary of D-Day.
He and 500 others from the 82nd and 101st Airborne re-enacted the jump at Normandy along with 41 of the original jumpers, who are now ages 68 to 82. On Monday, June 6, Jason sang for President Clinton at Utah Beach along with the All-American Chorus. His parents watched on cable television at 5 a.m. The chorus will be singing with the Boston Pops in Boston July 4. Jason is a 1992 graduate of Westbrook High School, where he was a member of chorus, jazz chorus and the marching band that went to the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade.
Another nationwide show is interested in the story of Nicole Waterhouse, a Westbrook girl, and her encounter with Faces International, talent boosters. Nicole went to New York Monday at the request and expense of Sally Jessy Raphael, whose show is on the air at 11 a.m. weekdays on WMTW-TV, Channel 8. Nicole’s previous national exposure came on “Hard Copy,” of CBS. Nicole’s mother, Carol Waterhouse lives at 1223 Bridgton Road, Westbrook.
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