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CITY OF ROCKLAND, MAINE

 270 Pleasant Street

Rockland, Maine  04841

 CITY CLERK’S OFFICE

                                                                                           December 30, 2021

 YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE ROCKLAND CITY COUNCIL WILL BE HELD ELECTRONICALLY VIA ZOOM ON MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 2022 AT 5:00 P.M.  FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSE(S):

 [Please Note Starting Time and Date]

                     5:00 P.M.     Executive Session pursuant to 1 M.R.S. §405(6)(F) for                                              consideration of a Haines Fund Request

5:30 P.M.     Set Agenda for 01/10/2022 Regular Meeting

THIS MEETING CAN BE VIEWED VIA ZOOM AT  www.zoom.com

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THIS MEETING IS ALSO BEING LIVE STREAMED THROUGH THE CITY’S WEBSITE AT www.rocklandmaine.gov, AND BROADCAST OVER SPECTRUM CABLE CHANNEL 1303. 

______Stuart H. Sylvester____

                                                                                 STUART H. SYLVESTER

                                                     CITY CLERK

Enjoy a themed musical storytime, with dancing, songs, rhymes, and 2 books. This program is great for toddlers – early elementary. We meet in the Community Room; masks are recommended.

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Enjoy your favorite picture books as Miss Katie reads them to you! We meet down in the Community Room, masks are recommended.

Let’s take a walk!

Wednesday Walkers is back! Join Patty or Jessie every Wednesday at 10:30 for a 45-60 minute stroll around town. Promoting healthy activity and social connections; all abilities are welcome- no walker is left behind! Meet promptly at 10:30 in the Library lobby (White St. entrance).

Sing and sway along with new and familiar nursery rhymes and songs. This storytime is for little ones and music lovers, with lots of songs and one short story at the end. We meet in the Community Room; masks are recommended.

ROCKLAND PARKS & RECREATION AGENDA

JANUARY 6, 2022  6:00PM VIA ZOOM

1) Approve Minutes

Nov only (no meeting in Dec)

2) Public Comment and Introductions

3 minutes per person

ONGOING and NEW BUSINESS

3) Toy Library Committee Dissolution / Gifting

Toy gift acceptance, storage, location for playroom (Tori)

4) Assistant Director Report (Donald)

Basketball, seniors, toddlers, art, other programming

Building maintenance, staffing, check-in system, covid

5) FCC Advisory Committee (Jen)

Website, cleaning, overall vision

Allowable rentals (Katrina)

6) Trails / Trees / Flowers / Gardening

Status of Tree City designation, ongoing projects (Richard)

Status of projects (Kate)

7) Kiwanis/Warren Street Park

Status, upcoming work (Jake)

8) Breakwater Lighthouse Committee

Seeking member(s) (Terri)

9) Budget Request

voting required

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Page Herrlinger

Approximately one million Holocaust victims were murdered on Nazi-occupied Soviet soil, yet Soviet and Russian narratives of the Great Patriotic War have traditionally focused on the collective experience of the Soviet people as “victims of fascism,” in effect covering up the unique suffering of the Jewish people. As a result, many Russians today know very little about the Holocaust. Putin’s participation in recent Holocaust commemoration events indicates a shift in official policy, however. What is the meaning of this change? What do contemporary historical practices and memory politics related to the Russian experience in WWII reveal about the construction of national identity in Russia today? What do they tell us about Russia’s approach towards human rights and other democratic practices, including freedom of speech, information, and research? And what does Russia’s evolving approach to the Holocaust suggest about its current relationship to Europe? In an effort to shed light on these questions, this talk will explore Russia’s record on the Holocaust within the context of Western and Eastern European Holocaust narratives and commemorations.

Page Herrlinger is Associate Professor of History at Bowdoin College, where she has taught since 1998; her courses include Modern Russia and the Soviet Union, Germany, 1918-1945, and the Holocaust. She received her B.A. at Yale and her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, and her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. She is currently co-director of an NEH summer seminar for middle and high school teachers, “Teaching the Holocaust through Visual Culture.”

For a link to the Zoom event to watch from home, please email elewis@rocklandmaine.gov. This program will be recorded and archived to the library’s YouTube channel and the Camden Conference website after the event.

The Midcoast Internet Development Corporation (MIDC) Board of Directors will meet via Zoom due to the unavailability of the Town of Rockport, Richardson Room. Public Notice has been given and posted through the participating Town Offices. There will be no YouTube Livestream. Interested parties can request a Zoom link to listen to the meeting. Please contact Diane Hamilton at the Rockport Town Office.

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Enjoy a themed musical storytime, with dancing, songs, rhymes, and 2 books. This program is great for toddlers – early elementary. We meet in the Community Room; masks are recommended.

Enjoy your favorite picture books as Miss Katie reads them to you! We meet down in the Community Room, masks are recommended.

Let’s take a walk!

Wednesday Walkers is back! Join Patty or Jessie every Wednesday at 10:30 for a 45-60 minute stroll around town. Promoting healthy activity and social connections; all abilities are welcome- no walker is left behind! Meet promptly at 10:30 in the Library lobby (White St. entrance).

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5:30 PM  Comprehensive Plan

6:15 PM  Fire Department Staffing

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FOR A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE

ROCKLAND CITY COUNCIL WHICH WILL

ELECTRONICALLY ON ZOOM

ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2022 BEGINNING AT 5:30 P.M.

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Sing and sway along with new and familiar nursery rhymes and songs. This storytime is for little ones and music lovers, with lots of songs and one short story at the end. We meet in the Community Room; masks are recommended.

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Chuck Radis

PLEASE NOTE, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED, DATE TBD.

“Doc Martin meets All Creatures Great and Small” sets the tone for this uniquely American true tale about an island physician off the coast of Maine. Fresh out of training, Dr. Chuck Radis convinces his wife, Sandi, to move to Peaks Island to fulfill a Public Health scholarship obligation. Absent-minded and initially oblivious to island mores, Dr. Radis slowly adapts to a medical practice where x-rays and advanced laboratory testing are available only on the mainland. When he travels to the outer islands of Casco Bay for house calls, he relies on his physical examination skills and a Bass-Master tackle box filled with emergency medications to successfully manage his patients. Go by Boat is a respite from contemporary living, immersing the reader in the distinct cultures of four Maine Island communities, Peaks, Chebeague, Long, and Cliff Islands. In this event, Dr. Radis will share stories about the book and his experiences as an island physician.

After graduating from Bates College in 1976 with a degree in biology, Dr. Radis committed to a career in osteopathic medicine after meeting a D.O. family practice bush pilot in Baja, Mexico. After completing his internal medicine residency, the young doctor moved his family to Peaks Island off the coast of Maine and provided primary care to four year-round islands in Casco Bay. In addition to his clinic duties on Peaks and Chebeague Islands, he traveled year-round by boat to the outer islands and logged more than 100 yearly house calls. For more than three decades, he has lived on Peaks Island with his wife, Sandi Korpela Radis, commuting year-round on his boat to the mainland. His public health work continues on the island, where he assisted in the design of a new health center, lobbied for senior housing, and is active in developing an assisted living facility. He has been a member of the Peaks Island Health Center Board of Directors for more than 30 years.

This event will take place in the Community Room, with limited seating. For more information, please email elewis@rocklandmaine.gov.

Enjoy a themed musical storytime, with dancing, songs, rhymes, and 2 books. This program is great for toddlers – early elementary. We meet in the Community Room; masks are recommended.

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Enjoy your favorite picture books as Miss Katie reads them to you! We meet down in the Community Room, masks are recommended.

Let’s take a walk!

Wednesday Walkers is back! Join Patty or Jessie every Wednesday at 10:30 for a 45-60 minute stroll around town. Promoting healthy activity and social connections; all abilities are welcome- no walker is left behind! Meet promptly at 10:30 in the Library lobby (White St. entrance).

Broaden Your Literary Horizons with Contemporary Fiction Discussion Group!

Launched in 2020, the Contemporary Fiction Discussion Group (CFDG) enjoys lively and thought-provoking conversations about celebrated novels by prize-winning international authors. The group currently meets via Zoom at 3:00 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month and welcomes new members. The Library invites interested readers to contact: pking@ rocklandmaine.gov for more information.

Maureen Anne Jennings facilitates the CFDG. Maureen is an author and editor who lives in Rockland. Her fiction includes Bartender Wanted and One Too Many, as well as work published in various anthologies.

We’ll start the year with Girl, Woman, Other, by Linda Evaristo.

The CFDG’s 2020 reading list covered novels that received or were finalists for major international literary prizes, such as the Pulitzer, Booker, National Book, Pen Faulkner, and Dublin International Literary awards. Selected titles included Sing, Unburied Sing; The Underground Railroad; Elsey Come Home; An American Marriage; The Friend; Fates and Furies; Exit West; Machines Like Me; Behold the Dreamers; and Clock Dance.

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FOR A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE

ROCKLAND CITY COUNCIL WHICH WILL

ELECTRONICALLY ON ZOOM

ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2022 BEGINNING AT 5:30 P.M.

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THIS MEETING CAN ALSO BE VIEW ON THE CITY’S WEBSITE

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OR ON SPRECTRUM CABLE CHANNEL 1303.

Special Council Meeting – Council Goal Setting and discussion on increasing revenue streams.

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Sing and sway along with new and familiar nursery rhymes and songs. This storytime is for little ones and music lovers, with lots of songs and one short story at the end. We meet in the Community Room; masks are recommended.

Thursday Nights 5:30-6:30pm with Trina

Rock your week with our Rock out Work Out! No experience necessary! You can do this at any age or physical ability! Come see what the fun is all about! $10 drop in

About Trina

In the small Mexican coastal village of El Roblito, 16-year-old Ñoño lives what seems to be an idyllic existence with his loving family. But he holds a secret. Defying gender norms, Ñoño works up the courage to tell his family he wants to live his life as a woman. Yet when violence interrupts a community celebration, he must face the reality of a country shrouded in machismo and transphobia.

This event is a collaboration with the award-winning documentary series POV (www.pbs.org/pov).

The film will be screened in the Community Room, with limited seating. For more information, please email elewis@rocklandmaine.gov.

Monday Nights 5:30-6:30pm

40mins of Zumba with some stretching for the body

All Fitness Levels welcome!

Coached by Emily Lawry

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Catching Up With The Classics is a book group that meets monthly. We will now being meeting in person, in the Children’s Garden, while the weather is nice. The book for January is I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. Happy New Year!

We’re always looking for new readers! Email pking@rocklandmaine.gov for more info, or call the Library, 207-594-0310, to request a book title.

Enjoy a themed musical storytime, with dancing, songs, rhymes, and 2 books. This program is great for toddlers – early elementary. We meet in the Community Room; masks are recommended.

January HMC meeting will be on 1/25/2022 at 6PM via Zoom.  Zoom Link is below:

Ryan Murry is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: January HMC Meeting

Time: Jan 25, 2022 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Enjoy your favorite picture books as Miss Katie reads them to you! We meet down in the Community Room, masks are recommended.

Let’s take a walk!

Wednesday Walkers is back! Join Patty or Jessie every Wednesday at 10:30 for a 45-60 minute stroll around town. Promoting healthy activity and social connections; all abilities are welcome- no walker is left behind! Meet promptly at 10:30 in the Library lobby (White St. entrance).

5:30 p.m.      Energy & Sustainability Presentation – Bicycling

5:45 p.m.      Downtown discussion, outdoor space for summer 2022  and long term planning

6:45 p.m.      Metered Parking

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FOR A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE

ROCKLAND CITY COUNCIL WHICH WILL

BE HELD ELECTRONICALLY ONLY VIA ZOOM

ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2022 BEGINNING AT 5:30 P.M.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOW TO VIEW THIS MEETING

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Sing and sway along with new and familiar nursery rhymes and songs. This storytime is for little ones and music lovers, with lots of songs and one short story at the end. We meet in the Community Room; masks are recommended.

Thursday Nights 5:30-6:30pm with Trina

Rock your week with our Rock out Work Out! No experience necessary! You can do this at any age or physical ability! Come see what the fun is all about! $10 drop in

About Trina

First meeting!

via Zoom

Historian Bob Greene

Did you know that Maine’s Black history goes back to at least 12 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock? The history of the Pine Tree State includes many Black builders, farmers, fishermen, ship captains, educators, and more whose lives have often been forgotten or ignored. In fact, the first doctor in Maine may have been a Black man, and the nation’s first Black lawyer practiced in Portland after passing the bar. Rockland Public Library will host historian Bob Greene, who will explore and celebrate this often hidden side of Maine’s history.

Bob Greene is a retired journalist and genealogist who has researched the Black history of his native state for years. A native of Portland, Greene is the eighth generation of his family to be born in Cumberland County. His roots in Maine stretch back into the 1700s. After retiring, he returned home to Maine; his genealogical research has led to his deep knowledge about Maine’s Black history. He contributed to Maine’s Visible Black History, The First Chronicle of its People, co-authored by H.H. Price and Gerald E. Talbot. Greene currently lives in South Portland and is on the Board of Trustees of the Maine Historical Society as well as the Board of Directors of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Southern Maine. He currently teaches a course on Maine’s Black history at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine. Greene is also the 2021 recipient of the Maine History Society’s Neal Allen Award, which is presented each year for exceptional contributions to Maine History.

This event will be held in-person in the Community Room, with limited seating. For more information, please email elewis@rocklandmaine.gov.

Monday Nights 5:30-6:30pm

40mins of Zumba with some stretching for the body

All Fitness Levels welcome!

Coached by Emily Lawry