After getting presents wrapped for him by volunteers, Bobby Miller walks out of the United Volunteers of Maine’s Santa’s Other Workshop, at the Marketplace in Augusta, on Sunday. The workshop is located between the Dress Barn and Home Depot and isopen from Monday to Friday from 4:30 to 8 p.m. this week. In addition to wrapping gifts in exchange for a donation, Santa’s Other Workshop offer pictures with Santa and is a dropoff point for several charity toy drives.
Joe Phelan
Staff Photographer
Joe Phelan is an award winning journalist who makes photos and videos around the capital area for the the Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel and the other Masthead Maine publications. Joe’s first journalism job was as a kid delivering his hometown newspaper, The Blade, in the suburbs of Toledo, Ohio. Then he worked as reporter and editor for the school newspapers in high school and college and started taking pictures to go with his stories for a local running magazine. He graduated from Bowling Green State University with a journalism degree. Before getting hired by MaineToday Media he did a photojournalism internship at the The Plain Dealer and worked as an Associated Press stringer in Cleveland.
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SNAPSHOT: Hemphill’s Christmas parade
Riding in a wagon, Santa Claus leads the 6th annual Hemphill’s Christmas parade down Oak Grove Road on Sunday, in North Vassalboro. The parade started from Hemphill’s stables, proceeded down Oak Grove Road to Route 32, went around a block and returned to the farm, where there was a contest for the best costumed horses and riders.
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SNAPSHOT: Market Square lights
The lights on vehicles driving on Water Street between Market Square, left, and The Olde Federal Building are turned into streaks in this long exposure photograph of the deocrated Christmas tree taken around 5:20 p.m. on Thursday in Augusta.
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SNAPSHOT: Rain on my parade
Thekla Jubinville wears a rain poncho over her wrapped present costume, as she marches down Water Street in the “Who’s Your Favorite Who” parade on Saturday, in downtown Gardiner.
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PHOTOS: Model Railroad Celebration at the Maine State Museum
Model Railroad Celebration, at the Maine State Museum on State Street in Augusta, features displays by two clubs; the Great Falls Model Railroad Club and the Maine 3-Railers Club. Members have set up five layouts running O, HO, N and Z-gauge model trains.
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SNAPSHOT: Winter coat
Mary West puts a row cover over plants growing inside a hoop house on Thursday afternoon at 3 Level Farm in Vassalboro. The double layer of protection should keep the greens and other plants alive over the winter, she said.
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PHOTOS: Blaine House Christmas decorations
About 30 members of the Kennebec Valley Garden Club decorated the downstairs, public areas of the governor’s mansion, at the corner of State and Capital streets in Augusta, on Tuesday.
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SNAPSHOT: Gardiner library book sale
Nan Spaulding, standing left, and Mary Perkins, seated right, look for books to buy on Monday morning at the Gardiner Public Library. Monday was a “buck-a-bag” sale day following the semiannual book sale held on Saturday. The next one will be held in June 2013, according to Library Director Anne Davis.
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SNAPSHOT: Sign painter
Tim Wing, of Northeast Painting and Coating, puts another coat of blue onto a Marketplace at Augusta sign on Monday afternoon in Augusta. The letters are inset, so he was able to just go over them with a roller. He said that the signs would be topped off with a new sign for the Walmart Supercenter.
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SNAPSHOT: In the red
Carol Frey, of Salem Township, tries to decide on what type of poinsettia to buy on Monday afternoon at Longfellow’s Greenhouses in Manchester. They have different 60 varieties of the plant and raised about 30,000 of them according, to employee Dave LeBlanc.