Maine Track Club Members
I hope you all are staying fit and well during the off season. You continue to set goals, train, and stay injury free. We just had the annual MTC dinner celebrating its 30th anniversary. After awards were given for most improved runners, first time marathoners, and other accomplishments. Out of the 70-80 individuals we have had participate in our Auburn Track workouts, only about 6 of us were present. I also know that many of you accomplished some great things this year. This made me think of you all and to send you a reminder to keep working this off -season. Please request a flier of our on site services if any of you would like help in setting new goals,taking care of acute or old injuries, a conditioning, training, and or nutritional program . For those of you who also train with heart rate monitors this would be a great to have your lactate levels done and validate your heart rate training levels.
Continue to be well, eat healthy, and stay moving. See you all soon.
Call at 783-0018
30 Belgrade Ave., Auburn
Flexible hours, some evening appts.available.
The Healthy Aging Program is very pleased to announce that, effective today, the new Maine Senior Games Coordinator is Jo Dill. Jo is a retired Health and Physical Education teacher in the Kennebunk area school district. She is currently the Executive Director of the Maine Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance – a position she has held for 12 years and will continue to hold while she works 20 hours per week for the MSG. Some of you know Jo from the MSG Women’s Basketball tournament, where she plays on the Maine Pioneers 60+ team. She also coordinates the Corner Cupboard Non-Food Pantry in Sanford, and serves on the board of various organizations including Unlimited Vision Montessori School, and the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, Sports, Health and Wellness.
Jo lives in Lyman, ME. Her office telephone: 207-396-6519. Her email: jdill@smaaa.org.
I am sure all of you wish Anita Chandler the best of times in her retirement and I am sure all of you will enjoy working with Jo. We will soon have Jo’s office telephone linked to her cell phone and I March she will have the capability to send and receive email messages from a portable device.
Also new this year will be the registration for the MSG and the reporting of results. The National Senior Games has a web based registration 207system which is now ready for the rest of us to use. Jo and other staff will learn how to use it later this month and then make it available to everyone.
Edward S. Trainer, Dr.P.H.
Director of Healthy Aging
Southern Maine Agency on Aging
136 US Route One
Scarborough ME 04074
(o) 207-396-6577
(c) 207-468-4535
(f) 207-883-8249
etrainer@smaaa.org
www.smaaa.org
Dear Friends & Fellow Runners!
We have moved over 75,000 photos from the old AOL Maine Running Photos before the doors closed on 31 Dec 2008. Now not all the photos I take are running related but a great number are. We continued to move photos 7 days after the closing date but now the doors are completely closed. We will check the block transfer to “Photo Works” incomplete as it is, still it way contain some of the photo collections we either missed or did not have time to transfer.
Below are the collections we are making public and will try to make more public as we have time.
Youth Open Sub-master to Master Athletes
2009_meusatf_indoor_championship Registration Form
Once again MEUSATF sill be hosting the 2009 Indoor Championship Meet at the University of Maine - Orono Campus @ Memorial Gymnasium on Sunday Feb. 22, 2009.
I’ve attached the Indoor Meet Entry form that has all the information that you may need for your reference: meet registration start time etc.
Please pass this information onto your fellow friends - athletes both young and mature. This information will also be posted on the www.meusatf.org website.
Hope to see you at the meet.
Val Foss
2009_meusatf_indoor_championship Registration Form
Photo Courtesy of Kim Williams
- Photo courtesy of Kim Williams
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Results of the 2009 Jan 3 MECTA Indoor Track Meet
male Results mecta_2009
female Results mecta_2009
relays Results mecta_2009
TEAM SCORES
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| Unum |
522 |
| A-B.E.S.T. Window |
242 |
| MaineHealth |
178 |
| TD Banknorth |
138 |
| Mid Coast Hospital |
112 |
| Bath Iron Works |
96 |
| Pierce Atwood |
54 |
| Anthem |
44 |
| IDEXX Laboratories |
32 |
| Port Resources |
30 |
| Ameriprise Financial |
21 |
courtesy of the Twin City Times
The issues of the Day
Auburn Schools
#1 David Young does not favor a major renovation to the ELHS without state participation. It is not fair to place the total tax burden on Auburn taxpayers especially when cities like Falmouth and Gorham get help. These towns with high incomes remain high on the State of Maine’s list to get money for their local school projects.
Auburn annexing other towns and/or cities
#2 David Young does not favor a rush to consolidate with Lewiston or any other town. Rushing to do this for the sake of immediate cost savings will erode our control and it will not save any money. Savings can be found both in house and with some cooperation with Lewiston and/or other Androscoggin or even Cumberland County towns. Why take the risk of a marriage? We need to look at the total picture. A marriage or civil union means we will pool our resources & debts with another city or town. Lewiston has more debt and different priorities. As we tell our children not to rush into marriage without looking first, this should be no different. This is an unpopular arguement as the vocal supporters are only looking at the good points. They say “We know the other city has debt but after the merger this will change.” Warning! in a 60% Lewiston to 40% Auburn power split, just whose taxes will be paying for whose priorities? As with the teenage son or daughter the more objections you point out the more they dismiss the negatives. Please look at the facts without emotion. In the end it will be the role of the State House & Senate to approve a merger, of course some people mistrust them. This is not to say that the City of Lewiston is bad, only that they have significant financial problems. Auburn should look closely before they become cosigners for Lewiston’s loans. We should build on our similarities and enhance our relationship. If Auburn & Lewiston were the same size with the same interests there would be fewer problems with a merger.
Public Transportation
#3 David Young favors prioritizing transportation by exploring more efficient alternatives such as railroads and bus lines.
Public Service
#4 David Young has experience with the Auburn Schools both as a three term Auburn School Committee member and as the parent of two children who attended Auburn schools. I value education and will seek to collaborate with the school department to ensure that art, music, and theater don’t get left behind in these difficult budget times. I have also have experience on other boards & committees (i.e. Maine Track Club, Maine Genealogical Society, Maine State Grange, Life Underwriters to name a few)
Taxes & Services
#5 I believe that property taxes should be held at a reasonable level while demanding the most efficient delivery of the important services that the City provides. In the end we will have a stronger leaner government.
LA Arts & the Great Falls Performing Arts Center
#6
The CLT, the Share Center and the other renters at Great Falls school should be offered long term leases (five years). I can support the plan #3. More information about plan #3 on request.
Summary
Even if you plan to vote for one of the two others, I value you opinion on the above issues. It helps to see important issues from different perspectives.
2009 01 05 the three of us running for Ward 4 Auburn City Council given one minute to say a
few words.
