Welcome to yet another First Friday
And since you've been saving by attending all those freebies on Friday, buck up the $8 admission price to take part in the Maine Lobster Festival in Rockland. Events go on all day and you can watch the competitions and listen to the music for free (after paying to get in). Tour the U.S. Coast Guard station and rescue boats plus a Navy ship and see the Big Parade at 10 a.m.And for you early risers today: Yest another running of the incredibly popular Beach to Beacon 10K in Cape Elizabeth. If you're any kind of racing fan or if you have a friend, neighbor, relative competing, be along the race course for the 8 a.m. start to cheer your heart out.
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28 — Stop and Smell the Roadsters Outdoor Auto Show, The Oregon Garden, Silverton; www.oregongarden.org or 503-874-8100. Sept. 5 — 69th Annual Roy Webster Columbia River Cross-Channel Swim, Hood River; 541-386-2000. Sept. 15 — “Wait Wait.
From 7:30 am to 3 pm today its the annual Par Sem Day & Auto Show at Parsonfield Seminary (504 North Road). Listen to music and other free entertainment, check out the flea market, play games, enjoy good food and, of course, view the cars on display.
"We try to help show them they have the ability to do something else in life," Green says. "You learn the true meaning of patience." On a recent evening, nine Unthank Park Hustlers sit on folding chairs in a semicircle in a Northeast Portland parole
6:30 pm Solar Show: "Black Holes," University of Southern Maine (Southworth Planetarium), Portland. $4, $6. 780-4249. 1 pm today; 7 pm Friday. "ABCs of the Sky," learn a new outer-space word for each letter in the alphabet, University of Southern Maine
I plan to come back to see a real Detroit auto show in January." Miller said the group was disappointed that Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's office never returned calls about meeting with them. Nonetheless, "We've invited Detroit to put a group together and
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The 2009 Portland Auto Show at the Convention Center Feb 6-9,illustrates how the economy has weakened the automotive industry. In an era of $4 a gallon gas and bottomless bail outs and loans to banks and automotive manufacturers and, increasing unemployment the industry is in retreat. The big three American automakers were there in force. GM brought everything but the VOLT, using an interactive display with a multimedia show geared to explaining to the public the goals of the company.To explain this they hired a magician/comedian who ran a show on the hour to fairly weak crowds of not very motivated attendees. In this display the multimedia program explains how GM is moving forward toward alternative fuel sources, mostly in Bio Fuel and the use of Ethanol E-85. The performance was wonderful, especially for the kids in attendance, but the bottom line was or to phrase it differently. Where’s the Beef? or in this case What’s the big deal? Apparently GM has bought an ethanol plant? Looks like more corn folks, not switchgrass, or even hemp, nope just more corn, it helps the farmers…sometimes. Of course the wonderful multimedia program included pictures and details of the car that may just save GM from bankrupcy, too bad it wasn’t in attendance, and that car of course is the DOLT, no wait the VOLT.
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