Cruise committee, chamber oppose town plan to reduce passengers, seek amendments
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BAR HARBOR, Aug. 13, 2022 - Oops. Did the town manager and council fail to engage key members of their own cruise ship committee when they released the new Cruise Management Plan on Aug. 2?
What is a largely self-interested group of tourism advocates, the committee demonstrated its hawkish stance this week when it voted Wednesday to buck the town manager’s plan, which he rolled out last week, and asked that he put back the months of April and November, and restore the 5,500-passenger daily cap in September and October.
The committee agreed with the 65,000 monthly cap for those two months.
Member Eben Salvatore proposed both amendments. He said the 5,500-passenger cap was needed to give cruise ships more flexibility in scheduling. Salvatore was forced to step down from his chairman seat because elected officials are barred by town ordinance from sitting as an officer on another committee. Salvatore was elected to the Warrant Committee this summer. He is also expected to step down as chair of the parking committee.
Martha Searchfield, the Chamber of Commerce representative, was elected chair to replace him.
The committee voted 6-1 to ask the council to restore April and November. Only John Kelly, Acadia National Park representative, voted no.
The yes votes were Salvatore, Searchfield, Jeremy Dougherty, general manager of Bar Harbor Inn, residents Ken Smith and Sandy McFarland and Lawrence Sweet, who runs Oli’s Trolley.
November is the more important of the two. More than 13,000 passengers are scheduled to arrive this November on seven ships.
On the vote to amend the daily cap back to 5,500, Dougherty joined Kelly in voting no.
Kelly said, “I’m a little wary of the process. We've been at this for a long, long time. We've submitted recommendations to the town council. They've heard those recommendations, established this other work group which they are entitled to do.”
Kelly was referring to the working group of Town Manager Kevin Sutherland, Town Council chair Val Peacock and member Jill Goldthwait, Harbormaster Chris Wharff and Sarah Flink, of the Maine Office of Tourism and a non-voting member of the cruise ship committee.
“That group has worked a long time to get to where the Town Council is now. There's a public comment period … if any one of us has opposition or disagreement with anything that the town council is doing, then we can all do that independently or for organizations, rather than having this group speak for those interests.”
Salvatore replied, “Kevin was very clear. He's looking for feedback on public comments. This is a cruise ship management plan and we are the cruise ship committee. And we we haven't seen their numbers. We haven't seen any of their proposals until just last week. But I think it's almost our job and duty to make a recommendation and I don't think they need to formally asked us to when Kevin was formally asking everybody.”
The working group negotiated directly with industry trade group Cruise Lines International Association, which did not include any local business leaders such as Salvatore in the talks.
The worldwide cruise ship industry reported revenues of more than $27 billion before the pandemic shut it down.
As it returns to normal, does it want a drawn-out legal battle with small port in New England which could set a precedent and lose control for the entire industry?
The cap agreed upon under the cruise management plan is a tiny spec of its global business.
But that tiny spec is large for operators like Eben Salvatore, who runs the town’s only tender service ferrying passengers from the ships for Ocean Properties, which owns the nearest hotels, restaurants and tour boats to where the passengers land.
Clearly, Salvatore and Sutherland are not on the same page, and a face-off between them could have unintended consequences.
Salvatore has an outsized influence on this town council. Will he persuade enough members to accept his amendments? He already has Jeff Dobbs’s support. Dobbs was the only Town Council member who voted to reject the citizens petition.
Will Matt Hochman support Salvatore as he has in the past? Hochman is a member of the cruise ship committee but did not attend Wednesday’s meeting, saving his powder for the the council discussion Aug. 16.
Any watering down of the plan will certainly be opposed by Joe Minutolo, who already said he doesn’t think the plan is sufficient to assuage residents’ concerns about overcrowding.
What is Salvatore’s end game?
Shortly after the cruise committee took its votes Wednesday, an avalanche of letters from downtown businesses, led by the Chamber of Commerce, flooded the town office inbox calling for April and November to be put back and keep the 5,500 cap. A few letters supported the cap, or the citizen’s version.
The letters took up 70 pages. https://www.barharbormaine.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/3038?html=true
The more the plan resembles the status quo, the more likely the citizens petition will pass.
In that case, will Salvatore sue the town while as an elected official?
He was the named client, BH Piers LLC, on documents filed July 18 by lawyers for Eaton Peabody of Bangor seeking to scuttle the citizens petition for a 1,000-person daily cap of cruise ship visitors which the council placed on the November ballot despite the lawyers’ claim the petition us unconstitutional.
Sutherland’s proposal is for a 3,800-passenger daily cap for September and October and a 65,000 monthly cap. That would allow 130,000 passengers for those months. The citizens petition would allow 61,000 persons, including crew, to disembark.
The problem for Salvatore is how the ships are configured.
Eleven ships booked for this fall carry more than 3,800 passengers. They would not be permitted under the proposed plan, which will becomes a giant jigsaw puzzle if adopted.
Sept. 15, 2022 is a perfect example. The Norwegian Pearl with 2,376 passengers and Nieuw Statendam with 2,666 guests are scheduled that day.
Under the plan, they both may not come on the same day next fall. And the pool of qualified replacement ships gets smaller. There will be many days when only one ship fits the puzzle, and Salvatore’s tender business could lose an entire second ship.
The 5,500 cap gives the ships more flexibility.
Like the formula Bob Weir developed for the Grateful Dead: Sell fewer full houses than more half-filled arenas.
Salvatore would rather have 12 full days of operation than a month of spotty visits in a helter skelter manner which would only make Bar Harbor a less desirable destination.
But it flies in the face of what residents are protesting - the swarming of tourists on those days when the passenger count has been deemed unacceptably high.
Harbor Master Chris Wharff said this week that his predecessor permitted a 200-passenger allowance so that a 5,500 cap was actually 5,700. Wharff said his office has continued the practice.
Sutherland did not return the QSJ’s email asking whether his plan will continue the 200-passenger allowance which would bring his cap to 4,000 passengers.
(Salvatore did not return emails asking him to comment on a statement by the assessor in Mount Desert confirming that he has been a principal resident of that town from 2008 to 2021, when he first ran for the Warrant Committee. More on that next week.)
Cruise ship committee warned of ship’s covid history
BAR HARBOR - Jim O’Connell, one of the signatories of the citizens petition, warned the cruise ship committee of seven impending visits, starting Sunday, by the notorious Holland America ship Zaandam, on which four persons died in March 2020 and reportedly had 20 percent of its passengers this July test positive while at sea.
On Facebook O’Connell wrote, “I am getting out of Town. The Zaandam is cursed!”
Here are the seven dates for its Bar Harbor visits: Aug. 14, 26, 28, Sept. 9, 11, 23, 25.
Jim Walker of Cruise Law News reported July 31 that Zaandam had more than 20 percent of its guests test positive for COVID-19 during the ship’s recent voyage from Rotterdam to Boston. Walker cited an online tracker maintained by Andy Bloch (a graduate of MIT and Harvard Law School), using data provided by the cruise lines to the CDC.
The Zaandam was what the Guardian newspaper called the “ship that became a global Covid pariah” back in March 2020.
That episode is the subject of a new book, "Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic" with an inside view of the COVID outbreak aboard the Zaandam in the early days of the pandemic. Multiple countries refused the ship permission to berth, leaving the passengers stuck on board as the infection spread.
SWH ‘sidewalk’ project gets side-swiped again; low bid exceeds approved spending by $400,000
SOUTHWEST HARBOR, AUG. 13, 2022 - The recurring nightmare, “The Main Street Sidewalk Project,” is about to pile on more anguish.
The select board this week voted to go back a third time to citizens for more money because two bids for the overhaul of the most important roadway on the Quietside came in at nosebleed heights.
The lower bid from R.F. Jordan & Sons was for $2,959,769. In May, voters at the annual town meeting added $800,000 to the already approved $1 million from 2019. The belief was that the town’s portion of $1.8 million and grants from the state and federal governments of $800,000 were more than enough to build sidewalks, repair the drainage and replace badly dated infrastructure along a 0.3 mile of Rt. 102 from Apple Lane to the condos at the top of the harbor.
The town’s consulting engineer, Annaleis Hafford then estimated the project could be done for $2,157,000.
That road is is the main egress to Tremont and all points in the southern parts of MDI and deemed in dangerous condition by all involved.
Members of the select board let out audible gags and gasps when reviewing the bids Tuesday night.
Chair Carolyn Ball asked member George Jellison, the most experienced member, for his view, and Jellison said,
“I don't know if I'm in favor of doing this project anymore.
“I don't think I've ever seen bids like this, so inconsistent … Here is one for a six-inch storm drain … Jordan bid $7,920 … Sargent at $29,000.”
Sargent Corp. of Stillwater, Maine, was the high bidder at $3,672,290.
“It just doesn't make sense. Same material,” said Jellison, who then cited the item to remove asbestos pipes:
“RF Jordan says $5,500. Sargent says $325,000.
“I can't imagine the same engineer coming up with the figures. It'd be nice to go through and pick the lower ones and end up with probably $2 million.”
Town Manager Marilyn Lowell said engineer Hafford told her, “It is so hard to figure estimates because everything is so expensive. There are towns and companies that are taking the bids the way they are just because they want it done.”
The select board scheduled a public hearing Aug. 23 to air the third request for funding from voters - $802,769 - even though only $400,000 is needed to meet the Jordan bid because of a technical requirement by the federal government and the state to cover their grants if needed.
In 2018, the cost was estimated at $842,000, and the select board expected the project to have started that fall. Jellison is the only member of the current board who was a select member then.
But the same challenges which delayed the Main Street project in Northeast Harbor by two years - negotiations for easements with abutting homeowners, utility companies and the state which owns the road - slowed the project considerably. The town also had a new town manager at the time who was managing multiple capital projects.
In July 2019, citizens by 9 votes rejected a $1.9 million proposal to rebuild the town garage, which is still in disrepair.
In 2021, the select board fired the town manager and the town did not hire his replacement for one year. An interim town manager worked remotely to try to fill the gap during the pandemic.
The sidewalk component of the project is relatively minor. In the spring the town paved the road which was full of cracks and potholes.
The major work involves repairing the sewer and water lines and drainage.
FOOTNOTE: The town is going to need one more easement, to accommodate any Northern Long-eared Bat which may be clinging to the trees along Rt. 102.
The species is listed as “threatened” in the Endangered Species Act of 2015.
After fertilization in the spring, pregnant females migrate to isolated roosts or colonies underneath bark or in cavities of both live trees and snags.
The town must ensure that the bats are no longer here before clearing trees and limbs before the project starts. The bats usually starting migrating away in the fall.
What other threats lurk out there for this project?
LINCOLN’S LOG:
Lights out at Bass Harbor Lighthouse
TREMONT - An eagle-eyed reader noticed that the navigational light at the Bass Harbor Lighthouse was not working. The QSJ contacted the Coast Guard and was told the light bulb flamed out.
Simple enough, right? Replace the bulb.
But it’s a special LED bulb, I was told. And it’s on back order. Like everything else in the supply chain, the Coast Guard is a victim. Its spokesman said there is no ETA on when the navigation aid will be back.
‘Our Waters’ premiere Wednesday
Frenchman Bay United will host the first public showing of Our Waters, a short documentary film by director Josh “Bones” Murphy about the Frenchman Bay community standing up to the American Aquafarms, Aug. 17 at 4 p.m. at the Schoodic Institute. There is no admission charge and light refreshments will be served.
Why I protested at Leonard Leo’s house
NORTHEAST HARBOR - I had asked readers what it is about Leonard Leo that prompted such intense public protests. MDI has been the summer home to many controversial figures, like Cap Weinberger, former Reagan defense secretary who was indicted in the Iran-Contra scandal.
I found this letter to the editor in the Islander to be the most engaging and illuminating:
By Mariana Sorensen
Sunday, July 31, was a sad day for our community. A 21-year-old Bar Harbor resident was arrested while exercising his First Amendment rights near the Northeast Harbor house of Leonard Leo. Mr. Leo is best known for his outsized role in shaping the lopsided U.S. Supreme Court that recently overturned Roe v. Wade. Protesters have gathered sporadically on the street in front of the conservative activist’s house since the Roe decision, though their complaints about his work go far beyond Roe.
Protests and arrests have not been the norm on Mount Desert Island. Republicans and Democrats, residents and summer people – including many high officials in administrations of both parties – have coexisted, even socialized and sailed together, amicably. What has changed?
The protesters, and the police overreaction, partly reflect the divisiveness that’s tearing the whole country apart. But three things particular to Mr. Leo’s work have led me, reluctantly, to protest outside his property.
First, as a summer resident, I question why Mr. Leo chooses to be in Northeast Harbor. One protester’s series of signs read: “Maine has Marriage Equality; Abortion Rights; and Environmental Regulations. Why on Earth Would Leo Live Here?” (He is against all three.) It’s a good question.
As I understand it, Mr. Leo, while in Northeast Harbor, does not retreat from his crusade to shape our courts, limit our freedoms and deny our rights. On the contrary, when buying his house, he told The Washington Post that he planned to use it to extend hospitality “to our community of personal and professional friends and co-workers.” He has hosted a fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, and is said to have hosted at least one Supreme Court justice. His house seems to be less vacation home than outpost for his nefarious, dark money operations. If this is where he conducts business, it is an appropriate place to protest that business.
Second, Mr. Leo, whose job involves using wealth to exert his influence over the rest of us, seems to be bringing that business model to his dealings with the Mount Desert police. He treats them as his own private security force, though he has plenty of his own people protecting his property. He notifies them when he is expecting protesters, and they regularly drive by checking on the protests. Sometimes they just sit in the NEH Fleet parking lot, across the street from his house.
On Sunday, July 31, Mr. Leo went too far. He pressed the police to arrest an MDI resident for exercising his First Amendment rights. (The 21-year-old allegedly used profanity to insult Mr. Leo on Main Street in Northeast Harbor before the protesters gathered in front of his house.)
As I (a former prosecutor from another state) read Maine’s criminal statute, such name calling does not constitute disorderly conduct unless the expected response would be violence. In any case, only someone who considers themselves special (because of their wealth or importance?) would call the police and demand the arrest of someone who insults them, even with foul language.
The sight of the arresting officers being yelled at by their fellow MDI residents for succumbing to Mr. Leo’s pressure was sad. And last Sunday likely will not be the end of the tear in the community fabric that Mr. Leo has started. If the young protester sues the town of Mount Desert for violating his First Amendment rights, the acrimony will continue. If he wins that lawsuit, Leo Leonard will not be on the hook for the judgment – MDI taxpayers will.
Finally, what makes Mr. Leo and this summer on MDI different are the stakes. The business that Mr. Leo conducts is to remake America by weakening majority rule and degrading democratic norms. And he wants to be left alone to do his dark-money business, using our beautiful island as his backdrop.
It is hard to know what goes on behind Leo’s tall fence. Guests come and go in chauffeured cars with tinted windows. His doings are, by design, secretive. He is involved in a whole network of organizations, largely funded by money from sources that remain hidden from the public. These overlapping groups fill the bench with judges who then rule on cases brought by related groups, interpreting laws that are unconstitutional when written (with the help of like-minded operatives), seeking to reverse Supreme Court precedent. The ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade is one of these cases.
There are other laws and cases in the pipeline – ones that could take away the right of gay Americans to marry, that will make it easier to steal future elections, and that will, intentionally, make it harder for many citizens to vote.
If we aren’t vigilant, a small group of anonymous actors – donating huge amounts of untraceable money to organizations designed to stay in the shadows – will have wrested away all levers of democracy that protect our rights. We need to educate ourselves and our neighbors about where Mr. Leo and his allies are trying to take the country. Please, Google Leonard Leo.
TRIBUTE: Roger G. Ackerman
MOUNT DESERT -Roger G. Ackerman from Corning, N.Y., and Northeast Harbor passed away at home on July 30. He was the retired COO, CEO and chairman of Corning Inc. He was a business visionary and supporter of numerous local charities.
Mr. Ackerman was born on Nov. 25, 1938, to Catherine Scrivens Ackerman and Ivan Ackerman in Wyckoff, N.J. He is survived by his wife, Maureen Egan Ackerman, and four adult children: Kathleen Ackerman, Eileen (Mike) Lacombe, Roger (Bridget) Ackerman and Lysbeth (Steve) Kursh, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
Roger joined Corning in 1962, the year he received a master’s degree in ceramic engineering from Rutgers University. In 1996, he became chairman of the board and CEO of Corning Incorporated. Roger’s visionary leadership helped propel Corning Inc. to the forefront of the Information Age as one of the world’s leading producers of fiber-optic cable and other optical technologies used to create the backbone of the internet. Under his guidance, Corning began to invest more heavily in the booming telecommunications markets, which drove unprecedented growth and stock prices for Corning. After 39 years with the company, Ackerman retired from Corning in June 2001. During his tenure, he transformed a company best known for glass-ceramic cookware into one that is enjoying market-leading positions in some of the hottest areas of technology.
Roger Ackerman was an active volunteer at his beloved Rutgers as well as many other organizations. Mr. Ackerman was involved in numerous company boards and civic and industry associations such as president of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Foundation, chairman of the Business Council of New York State, director of the Corning YMCA, Board of Directors Northeast Regional YMCA, member of the Rutgers University Foundation of Overseers, trustee of Alfred University and lead director of Mass. Mutual. He and his wife, Maureen, sponsored many events and special projects at The Neighborhood House, Maine Seacoast Mission, MDI Historical Society, Mount Desert Island Hospital, NEH Library, Beatrix Ferrand Society and the Land & Garden Preserve.
One of his favorite things to do and a cherished memory of his children, nieces and nephews was sneaking off into the woods that surrounded their lake cabin in Maine. Soon after dinner, someone would say, “Where’s Dad?” and all the kids would begin to excitedly panic because they knew what was next. Out of the pitch black darkness of the Maine woods would come a low-pitched noise signaling all the children to bound outside, flashlights at the ready, to find Dad in the dark. The laughter and squealing would reach a fever pitch as they helplessly tried to find him, Roger always changing his location before calling out once again. Once, the kids were at their wits end in the search for him, he would reveal himself with a howl from a nearby direction that no one thought of and send the children screaming, laughing and racing toward the safety of the cabin. All collapsed in laughter once safe inside and then in would saunter Roger, his eyes twinkling and denying it was ever him outside. The kids were delirious with joy at this annual rite in the Maine woods.
He was an avid golfer, who collected every new golf gadget or club brought to market. The running joke around the golf courses was if you needed a new club or gadget, just go over to Roger’s basement and he will give it to you. He was a self-taught mariner who had no concerns piloting the notoriously dangerous coastal waters of Maine no matter the conditions. He was a strong admirer of the boatbuilding genius of local boat builders and commissioned many boats that are considered classics. One of his most cherished activities was traveling into the hinterlands of his beloved Maine with his wife to search for and observe moose in the wild.
A family service and burial will be held at a later date.
TRIBUTE: Stephen Harrison Richards
MOUNT DESERT - Stephen Harrison Richards died peacefully in his sleep on Aug. 4. He was born on May 7, 1947, in Nashville, Tenn. He grew up in Georgia and Florida, and graduated from Emory University, where he was captain of the swim team. He earned his law degree from the University of Florida School of Law. He was married for 49 years to Judy Cargile Richards, and had two children, Mary Richards and Sal Brann.
Steve was a lawyer, and worked for the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C., for 20 years. He served as general counsel, then as executive vice president and acting president. In 1988, Steve and Judy made a longtime dream come true and bought a house in Seal Harbor. They began spending as much time as possible there, enjoying the natural beauty and making many new friends.
Steve and his family spent 1992 in Moscow, Russia, where he headed the International Red Cross delegation, coordinating international aid and setting up Red Cross and Red Crescent chapters in the new republics of the former Soviet Union. He went on from there to serve as executive vice president of the International Rescue Committee in New York, providing assistance to refugees around the world, and coordinating resettlement programs. In 1998, Steve became president of Elderhostel in Boston, managing education/travel programs for older people. The travel in that job was much more fun than visiting refugee camps.
In 2003, Steve and his family moved to Mount Desert, after 15 years of living here part time. Steve worked for the Maine Seacoast Mission, as director of development. During that time, and after his retirement in 2012, he served in leadership positions on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including the MDI YMCA, the Mount Desert Nursing Association, Seaside United Church of Christ and Sustainable Harvest International. He loved being part of a small, caring community.
Steve’s friends and family will remember him as a kind and generous person. We valued his intelligence, good judgment and quiet sense of humor. He spent his career in nonprofit management, doing his part to make the world a better place. He loved taking walks in Acadia National Park, playing pickleball, traveling, and spending time with his family. His grandchildren entertained and delighted him. He spent his last months enjoying the beauty of nature and the kindness of his friends and family.
Steve was predeceased by his parents, Edwin and Mary Richards, and his sister, Carol Richards. He is survived by his wife, Judy Richards, his brother Jim Richards (and his wife, Cheryl) of Sanford, Fla., his children Mary Richards (and her partner Nathan Harkins) of Mount Desert and Sal Brann of Ellsworth, and four grandchildren, Lily Walton, Eliza Richards, Blixa Brann and Hunter Harkins.
In Steve’s memory, his family asks that you generously support the causes you believe in and try to enjoy every day. We will have a celebration of Steve’s life on Zoom, and burial will be private.
TRIBUTE: Edward B. Gilmore MD
BAR HARBOR - Dr. Edward B. Gilmore, 82, died peacefully at MDI Hospital Aug. 8. He was born Aug. 15, 1939, the son of Harry C. and Emma E. (Hall) Gilmore in Clairton, PA. He graduated from Clairton High School in 1957. In high school he was class president, valedictorian, and resident of the national Honor Society.
In 1961 he graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. with an AB in Chemistry, High Honors and Distinction, and election to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.
On June 10, 1961, after graduating from Wesleyan and before entering Harvard Medical School, he married his high school sweetheart, Marsha Snyder and they enjoyed a loving and intimate marriage of 54 years until her death on July 3, 2015. They were blessed with three wonderful and challenging children, Kristin, Eric, and Britta. Dr. Gilmore was a passionate but often absentee father because of his demanding medical career. Fortunately, his wife Marsha was a quintessential mother and the leader of the family. There was a saying around the Gilmore household, “Dr. Gilmore practices medicine and Marsha does everything else!”
In 1965 Dr. Gilmore graduated from Harvard Medical School, cum laude with election to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical Society. He completed his internship and medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital where he also studied one year as a Fellow in Renal Diseases.
On June 1, 1971, he entered private medical practice at Bar Harbor medical Associates and Mount Desert Island Hospital where he served his patients and the Bar Harbor community for 46 years until his retirement in June 2017. At MDI Hospital he served as Chief of Medicine, Medical Director of Critical Care Services, President of the Medical Staff, and later as Chief Medical Officer.
During his long career he received numerous awards and accolades. In 1990 he received the Laureate Award of the Maine Chapter of the American College of Physicians. In 1997 he received the highest award of that organization when he was elected Master of the American College of Physicians.
In addition to direct patient care he also loved to teach the science and art of medical care. He was a widely respected mentor to medical students, interns and residents, nurses, and physician colleagues. In 1995 he received the Master Teacher Award of the Maine Chapter of the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Gilmore always had a special place in his heart for nurses and the nursing profession. He was known to frequently share anecdotes where alert and astute nurses had saved him from possible oversights and contributed greatly to the care of his patients. He always regarded nurses as colleagues in patient care – not as his handmaidens. He especially treasured the Special Recognition Award he received from the Maine State Nurses’ Association in 1989 for recognition of his Major Advocacy Role for Nursing in the community.
Dr. Gilmore took fashion cues from no one! His signature everyday year-round look was all his: LL Bean short sleeve (rolled up) oxford cloth shirt, bow tie, khaki pants and later tan suspenders.
Years before he retired you could see him every Tuesday afternoon playing tennis with his friends. Rumor has it that he was very competitive and not always a good sport!
After he retired one of his favorite things was to sleep in and drink many cups of coffee while leisurely hanging out in his bathrobe. He loved to read (medical journals, general news, novels, and poetry), watch sports on TV, and drink high quality pure malt scotch at 4 p.m.
He is survived by a very special and dear friend, Melodie Haskell. During his final years with inevitable functional decline, Melodie became the center of his life and a constant source of joy, love, hope and happiness.
A Memorial Service will be planned for September. Friends, patients, and colleagues may make memorial contributions if they wish to MDI Hospital,10 Wyman Lane, Bar Harbor, 04609.
Arrangements by Jordan-Fernald, 1139 Main St., Mt. Desert. Condolences may be expressed at www.jordanfernald.com