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(10/8/08)

Bald Rock Yard Sale on Columbus Day Weekend (Sat. only)
will Help Pay Legal Bills

((Concert to benefit Bald Rock Community October 26th))
((Scroll Down for info...))


Another Huge Indoor/Outdoor Yard Sale October 11 (Sat.)
atLincolnville Beach


Last weekend's yard sale was a grand success. We raised over $1,100
for the 80B Appeal legal bills!

Lovely weather is forecast for Columbus Day Weekend. While you are
out enjoying the Autumn colors along the midcoast, please stop by our
Saturday Yard Sale.

COME SEE the big, beautiful, COPPER-LINED SHAKER WOODBOX with a shelf
on top; antique PEDESTAL SINK; antique GLENWOOD PARLOR STOVE with
cherubs frolicking in grapevines on the door; VINTAGE FINE LINENS --
many in mint condition, some never used; new SAKS FIFTH AVENUE
KIMONO; beautiful DINING ROOM SET in excellent condition (table,
buffet, chairs); along with wooden chairs that need to be recaned
(make an offer for one or more chairs and we'll probably agree!) and
a lot of other interesting, attractive, useful, nonsensical, or
curious stuff...

Thanks to the support of you, the Bald Rock Community -- your
donations to & purchases from our eight yard sales -- along with that
of other residents and visitors in the area, we've raised about $8,100.

This has enabled us to make our monthly payments on the 80B Appeal
legal bill through the summer and early fall.

We are still awaiting the decision of the Waldo County Superior Court
Judge. Total legal expenses have added up to over $56,000. Through
all our fundraising events and individual cash donations, we've
raised almost $51,000 with your help!

Regular payments enable our legal team to continue to advise us when
necessary and to advocate for Bald Rock. Together, we can raise the
remaining amount needed to protect this spectacular viewshed for all
of us.

REDUCING (NEW PURCHASES), REUSING, RECYCLING: YARD SALES ARE GREEN!

Bald Rock Rocks, and so does our yard sale!

DETAILS:
Dates: Saturday October 11th
Location: The old Hillside Market (renovated), on Rte 173, just off Rt 1 at Lincolnville Beach
Hours: 8 am to 2 pm
Goods: Shaker woodbox (copper-lined); Pedestal Sink; Dining Room Set
& other Furniture; Antique Glenwood Parlor Stove; and a big box of
Beanie Babies, Housewares, Tools, Sports/Exercise Equip, Clothing,
Sinks, Doors, Windows, Bedding, Fabric, Radios, Musical Instruments,
Toys, Videos/DVDs/Music Cassettes/CDs, and a large selection of Books
(fiction, poetry, mysteries/thrillers, Sci-Fi; travel/adventure,
nature, crafts, holistic health, cooking, spiritual, psychology,
child-rearing, children's...)

Donations for the Sale: Quality goods in GOOD CONDITION welcomed. Call Will Brown, 789-5276, or Jim Dunham, 789-5233, to arrange a drop- off time. Help is available for large items.

(Please note that WE CANNOT USE stained, torn, broken, dirty (dusty is okay), or obsolete items. Please no computers or keyboards, television sets, old electric blankets, scratched Teflon frying pans, old bed-pillows, etc. It costs us money, time, & energy to sort them out and dispose of them at the dump for you.)

Comments made at our yard sales: "This is the best yard sale I've ever been to!"; "Your books are the best organized and greatest selection I've ever seen at a yard sale..."; "This is my favorite social event of the weekend!"

See you at the Sale!

Cash donations are also greatly needed and appreciated.

Checks can be sent directly to:

Bald Rock Community,
PO 892, Camden, ME 04843.

 For a tax deduction: make checks payable to NRCM and be sure to write "Bald Rock" in the memo section of your check.

National Resource Council Maine:
3 Wade Street, Augusta, ME 04330. 

You can also Make a donation on-line!


Prince Edward Island's Finest
Roy Johnstone and Steve Sharrat
The best Atlantic Maritime, and Acadian Music
Sunday, October 26th at 7PM
Unitarian Universalist Church: 37 Miller St., Belfast, Maine

Tickets: $12 at the door Refreshments available

(12/09/07)
Greg Brown Benefit Concert
Live CD in the Works!
(Release planned for late fall or early winter 2008)
Thank you, Greg Brown, for singing for Bald Rock

Internationally acclaimed minstrel-poet Greg Brown performed a benefit
concert for Bald Rock on Thursday, December 6, at the Camden Opera House.

A large crowd attended the event, and many people signed up to join the Bald Rock Community as supporters. They asked to be kept informed about the progress of our legal case against Gridcom and the 190-foot monopole cell tower the company intends to build just below Bald Rock, in the middle of the viewshed. We also received much-needed donations to the legal fund. We thank everyone who helped with or attended the event, and we give a heartfelt thanks to Greg Brown for his generosity and the good spirits and wry words about mindless development in inappropriate places that he contributed to our cause.

Read more about Greg Brown, the concert and the CD project...


(10/28/07) Bald Rock in a Nutshell, Updated:
A Summary and the Recent Legal Brief Filed in Court by BRC...
(more)

(7/24/07) Residents take cell-tower appeal back to court
By Lynda Clancy
VillageSoup/Knox County Times Reporter

(6/5/07) Shop for Bald Rock!

Bald Rock Community has just joined www.iGive.com

This is a great deal for Bald Rock. www.iGive.com is a shopping portal site. When you register with them and pick our cause we get $5. Then you shop for the things you normally shop for and the cause you pick (us!) gets a percentage. Try it out!

To join through us click here...

Give your friends the short link to join through us: www.iGive.com/brc

There are many name brand stores to chose from once you join.

Tell your friends and put a link in your email signature.

(5//1/07)

Article on Appeal Hearing 4/26/07:

Lincolnville citizens absorb legal arguments, prepare for cell-tower debate
By Lynda Clancy 
VillageSoup/Knox County

imes Reporter

(3/5/07)

Bald Rock Community Meeting

Date: Wednesday evening, March 7th details


(3/2/07)

On Wednesday 2/28/07 the Planning Board denies cell-tower permit for the 3rd time!

Excellent Article:

Lincolnville denies cell-tower permit
By Lynda Clancy


Letter to the CEO of National Grid Wireless/Gridcom

Thank you to the 129 people who signed this letter!

NEW!
See engineer's report on alternatives to this tower...

In a hurry? Here is a summary of the report...


Download our fundraising letter


Bald Rock Community is a citizen group, fundraising to protect the view from Bald Rock Mountain in Lincolnville Maine from a proposed cell phone tower.

(read our fundraising letter for more info)

Points to Consider

• We support improved cell phone service, but not at the expense of a vital scenic resource and our local economy.

• This proposed cell tower will only improve coverage for Unicel customers along a 4-mile stretch of Rt. 1 south of Lincolnville Beach (and a portion of the Bay). Other areas of Lincolnville and Camden will not benefit.

NEW! (click here) See the engineer's report, there are technological alternatives
to this tower.

• The Camden-Rockport-Lincolnville Chamber of Commerce opposes the location of this tower: “Communities through-out the United States have chosen [alternative technology] to help preserve their natural assets. Maintaining the unspoiled beauty of our region is essential to our visitors, our businesses, and our way of life.”

• When local and tourist related businesses thrive, an ongoing economic benefit ripples through-out the state, supporting businesses of all kinds, from auto shops to banks, farms to furniture stores, health services to graphic design.