After a school assembly at Carrie Ricker School on Wednesday, Abigail Davis, a fifth-grader from Sabattus, passed first lady Ann LePage a card for Gov. Paul LePage.

It included a copy of an email she had sent last year and not gotten a reply.

“I thought this was the perfect time to resend it,” Davis said. “She said she promised he was going to get it.”

When Davis had written the note as a fourth-grader, she wanted to let the governor know that although she initially had reservations, she was glad he got elected.

She was, though, upset about the “Kiss my butt” comment directed at the NAACP.

“Sometimes we get frustrated and say things we DO NOT mean and sometimes we say things we DO mean but could have said them nicer,” Davis wrote.

She said Wednesday that she could relate, letting LePage know “how I make bad decisions sometimes.”

Her long letter ended on an upbeat note:

“I am hoping my ideas help you even just a little. I love living in Maine and we have lots of good people here that need you.”

— Kathryn Skelton

High school ‘inevitable list’

During the graduation ceremony Friday night, Lewiston High School Class President Shawn Ricker shared with fellow graduates his entertaining list of five “inevitable” things that would happen to him during high school, a list he wrote before he started high school.

1. He’d drive a great car.

2. He’d go with the best-looking girl in school.

3. He’d grow to be 6 feet, 6 inches tall, 230 pounds.

4. He’d figure out a way to get rid of his cowlick.

5. He’d grow the best beard ever.

He compared that his reality.

1. “I drive a white ’97 Rav 4 with close to 160,000 miles.”

2. “I’ve never had a steady girlfriend during high school.”

3. He’s 6 feet, 1 inch, 170 pounds.

4. The cowlick’s still there.

5. There is no beard, but there are seven or eight “proud hairs” on his chin, Ricker said.

Congratulating his classmates for their success, Ricker philosophized that high school is about making a glorious plan, watching that plan burn “but still managing a way to make it all happen.”

— Bonnie Washuk