Houlton, ME

The newspapers made it official today although hammering away at it around the economic edges for months.  The country is in a recession...or correction.

Are you thinking Obama will take care of you, that the government will catch you?  Do you kids have the same hand out attitude as they enter adulthood because that's what they saw you do? Deficit spending in the household, keeping up with the Jones has always been a way of life with you a step away from financial ruin ? How will this young adult function without work ethic, lessons in saving, life experience in going without but accepting it?  Making the most of it and not being ungrateful is a bitter medicine but good habit to show them. How are you doing in your household? If you are not up to your eyeballs in debt, do you feel rich, unburdened and ready for whatever comes in the next year with this country's economy?  Do you have some money socked away and seeing these are the best of times with deals on cars, real estate, lots of items that used to be out of your reach? The brightness, joy of your Christmas is not directly tied to the amount of consumer debt you rack up.  Ringing a bell at the Salvation Army for the hungry, cold, homeless is the spirit of the season.  Watching kids at a church Christmas pageant and laughing, sharing, worshiping together is where the happy times are generated. Tree decorating, community light parades and hot chocolate skating around a country pond with a bon fire..that is the spirit you are after that does not come from a mall or cyber shopping on line right?  Enjoying the great outdoors, dressed warmly with a sweater or mittens your grandmother knit for you out of love.  Has that been lost in your household or too Walton Family like for you to get your mind wrapped around? Basics..being warm, loved, fed..having a clean comfortable home without a six digit mortgage hanging over you.  That should be the wish for this December 25th and into 2009! Growing up on a farm taught us what was important, how to save,  how to prepare for tough years and to always to be hopeful, grateful. You always knew you had good parents..but as I get older I am more and more appreciative of the way  they took it all in stride day to day. They ran a tight consistent ship where we were all working members of a family.  Bring back the lessons learned from the family farm! Could you handle the work, being prepared for crop disaster, raising critters and stretching your resources to the max?  Happy Holidays everyone!

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Over $35,000 raised from the 1200 items contributed of goods, services and home made items in the Houlton Maine Rotary 53rd Radio/TV/Internet Auction.

An extra $10,000 on top of that final tally above and beyond to make a dent in the new seating budget for the Houlton Maine Performing Arts Center too! In additon, more funds from the Dead River Oil 50/50 raffle and more pewter "Boy And The  Boot" $1000 statues pledged for the Houlton Regional Hospital's Health Foundation. Auction figures up from last year according to chairman John Tribou...great job all Rotarians, contributors, bidders! Watch night three of the auction...slick operation that helps fund projects this year like the Little League's "Field of Dreams" project and puts a big push into the HHS new music/arts wing! Pictured Nancy Ketch, John Tribou and Houlton Rotary Club President Fred Grant.

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  As a kid, let's have fun, full time. 

     When I was a news director in Bangor Maine at a station Stephen King owns, I learned what "herd journalism" was all about.  News is reported in the Maine Sunday Telegram in Portland and comes out Saturday.  That's what is on the journalist plate for early Monday morning as left overs due to the sunday gap when folks are with their families and until more news is generated Monday.  Making news Friday afternoon in Maine gave you a three day run of exposure. The Associated Press picks up whatever is in the big major newspapers and runs with it.  Every smaller radio, newspaper and television outlet "rips and reads" whatever came across the wire.  All covering the same story, taking our lead from everyone else and trying to dig to add a local approach, bring in someone related to the story on a home town approach to show how it is relevant to our listeners, readers, viewers.  In the cities as the conveyor belt of life speeds up, and as you get older so you feel the time that conveyor belt robs, you look for an escape.  Load on the wagon, bring the kids, head to Maine.  With eleven people per square mile in Northern Maine, Aroostook County, you can get the space, the fresh air, the space and time off the conveyor.  Loosen up your sneakers. Maine is where you spend time with youself to figure out the course your life is on.  To learn what you need to add more of, what you need to weed out, what you are no going to change and basically what course you are on.  In Maine, no traffic, no tons of people to maneuver around or to avoid.  No crime because Maine is the 4th lowest state in that department.  The best part?  If you chose to own a piece of Maine, it is attractive AND affordable.  Maine..the way life should be.

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You work hard.

The week is over, here is something to look forward to in Houlton Maine. "Footloose" based on the 1984 hit movie is a high-energy musical about a young boy who moves to a small town and shakes up the status quo. The Houlton High School music program is well known for its state champion show choirs, jazz bands, percussion ensembles. Houlton has been nicknamed "Music Town Of Maine" so you know this production will be first class in entertainment and performance. Show times November 21 to the 23rd. Visit the

site for more! Or contact 207 532 6551. Cost of show $8 adults, $5 students. See you there!

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Houlton Maine Rotarians make calls, canvas businesses, collect items and services.  Every year the week of Thanksgiving has an exciting three nights of bidding in the Southern Aroostook area.

Local folks of all ages make bids on half hour items.  Bids are read on the air, collected and when the half hour is done, read the winners, reset the bid board, start another set of items. Over $53,000 worth of itreasures collected to peddle on air, being broadcast on Polaris Cable, streamed on the internet thanks to Pioneer Wireless, and broadcast on WHOU FM 100.1.  The local Houlton Pioneer Times inserts the auction program in the local weekly newspaper so listens can be ready to bid on the list of items they would like to own.  With Christmas a short time away, items for loved ones on your list can be found... many items and services unique to Houlton Maine to bid on.  The auction is held at Watson Hall on Main Street and is open to the public.  Lots of food, drinks and Rotary fellowship is available to anyone off the street that wants to watch the operation. Here is a movie of last year's Houlton Rotary Radio Television Internet Auction!  Proceeds fund local projects including this year the new Houlton Performing Arts Center.

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