REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK CITY Edition

The brochures were distributed through Portland public schools, local service agencies and major employers such as Barber Foods and Cozy Harbor Seafood. School programs teaching English as a second language are important, [Philip Chin] said. "The student is the primary translator for most famil...

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Published inPortland press herald
Main Author Joshua L. Weinstein, Mark Shanahan, David Hench and Kelley Bouchard, staff writers, contributed to this column
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Portland, Me Portland Newspapers 03.06.2000
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Chin, Philip
Dion, Mark
Dion, Patricia
Dion, Sheriff Mark N
Twomey, Joanne
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Summary:The brochures were distributed through Portland public schools, local service agencies and major employers such as Barber Foods and Cozy Harbor Seafood. School programs teaching English as a second language are important, [Philip Chin] said. "The student is the primary translator for most families. If we can help the students understand how to ride the bus, I think they can further their families' understanding of the bus." [Joanne Twomey] didn't need a report to tell her that dioxin is bad. For more than a decade, she has fought to stop dioxin emissions from the Maine Energy Recovery Co.'s trash-burning plant in downtown Biddeford. MERC officials say dioxin emissions from the plant are less than 1 percent of the amount allowed by the federal Food and Drug Administration. But Twomey says FDA limits underestimate the cumulative affects of dioxin, which stays in the body for decades.
ISSN:2689-5900
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