LEWISTON — Hawo Abdille is a political campaign volunteer, an activist and the new community relations coordinator for the Lewiston Public Schools. Some day, she might also like to be mayor. “I love my Lewiston — I’m always going to be Lewistona forever,” said Abdille, 27, who graduated from Lewiston High School in 2008. “You […]
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People You Know: Matt Conde, filling up 'the good deed bank'
Firefighter Matt Conde is the Sabattus Volunteer Fire Department Fire Fighter of the Year and EMS Responder of the Year. SABATTUS — Matt Conde is a busy father of four who regularly rolls out of bed in the middle of the night to run toward a fire or a person having a heart attack. He’s […]
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Benny Benedetto: 98 and still putting on a show
JAY — Every Friday night for the past 15 years, Arthur “Benny” Benedetto has played bass in the VFW open mic house band. The show starts at 6 p.m. Sometime during the night, he’ll take to the microphone and switch over to guitar to sing a song or two, such as “I’ll See You in […]
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People You Know: Fred Jordan, an ME on a mission
LEWISTON — Fred Jordan got his medical start as a teenage orderly at Central Maine General Hospital, asking doctors if he could peek in on operations and autopsies after-shift. He spent the bulk of his career — 32 years — as the chief medical examiner for Oklahoma. He was leading the office when Timothy McVeigh […]
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People You Know: Dorothea Brown, a 101-year-old delight
LEWISTON — Dorothea “Dottie” Brown has a group of friends over to her parents’ farmhouse once a week for knitting and dessert, and has for years. In three weeks, she’ll host Thanksgiving for family, rising early for all that cooking. In her home, there’s no shortage of visitors and guests. A missionary stopped by for […]
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People You Know: Master Sgt. Jose Rivera, Duty drives him
Rivera joined three days after he turned 18 in 1997. He served in four overseas tours and a year in Korea — with plenty of miles logged. Now the master sergeant oversees 99 men, 60 tractors and more than 120 trailers out of the Army Reserve Training Center on Minot Avenue. The 619th Transportation Co. […]
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George Wu: Mixing business and adventure at Lotus
AUBURN — George Wu started his first business venture at age 12, borrowing $250 from his parents to buy a peppermint patty vending machine for the lobby of their Minot Avenue restaurant, Hunan House. He deftly turned one machine into dozens, at multiple restaurants, all the while working at Hunan House after school. Twenty years […]
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People You Know: Hyla Friedman and one amazing life
FARMINGTON — Hyla Friedman started driving at age 12 so she could take her grandmother around the Pennsylvania countryside. “I’d be out on the road, and the chief of police — he was a friend — he would say, ‘Did you get your license yet, Hyla?’ ‘You know I’m not old enough!’ He said, ‘Stay […]
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People You Know: Nurse and nurse-teacher Bonnie Colby
LEWISTON — Bonnie Colby spent more than two decades at Central Maine Medical Center in a unit with sick, scared patients — people with chest pain, heart failure, atrial fibrillation — and talks about loving the work. Now, she brings her students to the very same unit to learn on the job. She graduated from then-Central […]
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People You Know: John Reeder, ‘Following that Dream’
LEWISTON — When John Reeder was 13, living near Seattle, a good friend’s father was a chiropractor. The man was successful, he drove a Cadillac and he was nice, treating Reeder like any average teenager, something the orphan and frequent runaway wasn’t used to. Too often people had written him off as “dumb” or “disadvantaged.” […]