While store-bought snowballs, devil dogs and creme pastries were childhood delights that lost their luster, home-baked apple pie, applesauce cake and apple crisp came with flavor, ingenuity and love.
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Amy Calder: Farewell to a regular figure from Waterville
Peter Michaud, who paced the downtown with a bayonet at his side, but was best friends with the police chief, died in April at 72, a veteran “not without tribulations,” who was loved by family, writes Amy Calder.
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Amy Calder: Kindness fulfills tree house promise to 8-year-old
When lung cancer took Nina Rose Mitchell’s father, his pledge to build her a tree house fell to a contractor salesman and a carpenter who thought she was a sweetheart.
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Amy Calder: Waterville’s Lebanese community honors Mary Ayoob
A registered nurse, Ayoob has delivered many of her nieces and nephews and may be the oldest living member of the local community.
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Amy Calder: Governor’s Board of Executive Clemency hears litany of life lessons
The 18 cases presented to the pardon board recently were felons’ presentations of life lessons painfully learned, Amy Calder writes.
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Amy Calder: Registered nurse offers hope to sufferers of postpartum depression
Amanda Brown has made the most of her own experience to help others deal with postpartum anxiety and depression.
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Amy Calder: Historian keeps memories of WWI soldiers from Skowhegan alive
Former high school history teacher David Harville details the stories of two Skowhegan men who fought and died in the Battle of Chateau-Thierry in France, one of the first actions of the American Expeditionary Force.
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Amy Calder: Waterville couple makes hospice work a model of compassion
Luxy and Marie LeClair devote hours on end volunteering to support families in need, including stocking the service’s resale shop, which funds its work.
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Amy Calder: The past will seem like yesterday when bonds of love are renewed
The passing of a friend’s mother will bring our families back together, awaken memories, and renew friendship in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Amy Calder writes.
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Amy Calder: Behind the scenes with police dispatchers
The first “first responders,” the men and women who take the calls, collect vital information that police and firefighters deal with, from whether a threatening spouse is armed or intoxicated to the details of a woman giving birth.