China Community: Obits
Brown, Glen A., 21, of Augusta died Feb. 16; memorial service 6 p.m. Monday,Chelsea Praise and Worship, Route 17, Chelsea. Brown, Myra E., 97, of South Gardiner died Feb. 18; funeral service 1 p.m. Saturday, Staples Funeral Home, 53 Brunswick Ave., Gardiner.Farrington, Hazel May "Nana," 100, of South China died Feb. 17; memorial service 2 p.m. Sunday, South China Community Fellowship Church.Hickey Thomas J., died Feb. 17; visiting hours 3-6 p.m. Sunday,...
China Community: Obits
Cormier, Marie Pauline, 77, of Winthrop died April 14; burial in Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery, Augusta. Holt, Mary F., 87, of Freeport and formerly of South Gardiner, died April 15; visiting hour 1-2 p.m. Tuesday, Amesbury, White & Harmon Funeral Home, 39 Washington Ave., Gardiner; funeral to take place there at 2 p.m.; burial at Mount Hope Cemetery, South Gardiner, later in the spring.Williams, Eileen C., 100, of South China, died April 14; memorial service...
China Community: Why was 'Big Nanny' taken?,
Friends, family recount day leading up to stabbing death of Carolyn Beatty
The day before Carolyn Peace Beatty was stabbed to death, her estranged husband called her at work several times.At the China Community Clinic, where the 37-year-old Beatty was a popular nurse's assistant, she was known for her cheerful demeanor. "She was always happy and smiling," coworker Brandy Foot said the day of Beatty's death. "If she had a problem, no one knew about it."But on Feb. 4, Foot overheard part...
China Community: Local & State
RECIPIENTS n Augusta Food Bank n Fayette Baptist Church n Litchfield Community Food Bank n North Monmouth Food Pantry n China Community Food Pantry n St. Andrew/Mt. Vernon Food Pantry n Belgrade-Rome Special Needs n Clinton Community Food Bank n Monmouth United Church Food Pantry n Windsor Food Bank n Grace Baptist Church Food Pantry n Greater Waterville Area Food Pantry n Winthrop Food Pantry n Hallowell Food Bank, Inc.n Hope Baptist...
China Community: Shift Toward Beijing in Bay Area
Numerous Chinese Americans back trade, investment with homeland
Public opinion among Bay Area Chinese Americans has swung solidly behind President Clinton's proposal for permanent trade relations with China, community leaders and activists say. After decades during which many local Chinese Americans were hostile to the Beijing government, even the anti-communist old guard is softening its stance.Protests against Beijing's human- rights abuses are out, and trade and investment with the homeland is in.Economic and political...
