Articles labeled: Maine

Yeesh, we’ve read a couple similar stories this summer, and let’s just say that our backyard fire pit has gone unused this year.

A toddler was taken to a Boston hospital for treatment after suffering serious burns when he tripped and fell into a campfire at a Wells campground.

A Wells Fire Department official said the one-and-a-half-year-old boy lost his footing about 7 p.m. Saturday and fell into the flames at the Wells Beach Resort campground.

That salt water must be hell on playground equipment. Town of York, Maine, may I suggest perhaps a fiberglass or plastic slide?

John Connor said his 3-year-old son was going down a metal slide at the park’s playground, barefoot, when he was stopped short toward the bottom.

“The slide had a rust hole, and his little toe went in,” said York police Sgt. Gary Finley.

Connor, who described the hole as about 2.5 inches to 3 inches wide, said it appeared as if someone had previously tried to cover it with duct tape. He estimated it was a few minutes after an emergency call was placed before the paramedics arrived, and another 15 minutes before his son’s bleeding toe was freed.

York Beach Fire Department Capt. Mark Gay ultimately tried several pairs of pliers to bend the rusted metal from around the toe, according to a report from the Ffire Department. A paramedic gave pain medicine to the boy while he was stuck.

“Everyone was amazed he didn’t lose his toe,” said Connor.

Minor Topics HQ sits along a river, and we’re ultra-paranoid whenever our children go anywhere near it. Stories like this doesn’t help. Poor kid.

Divers have recovered the body of a 12-year-old boy who fell into the Saco River and was swept away by the current.
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The Maine Marine Patrol said the body of Raymond Rivera of Saco was found Sunday 14 feet below the surface, trapped in debris that had accumulated on a sandbar.

How can a parent go on after accidently killing their own toddler.

NEWRY, Maine (AP) — The death of a 2 1/2-year-old boy who was run over by his father’s pickup truck in a ski area was the second accident in four years in which the family lost a toddler.

…especially when only 4 years earlier, a freak accident claimed another one of their babies?

The family lost another son, 2-year-old Samuel, in 2003 following a freak accident in which he was struck by a tree that his father was cutting down at their house lot in Bethel, Fire Chief Michael Jodrey said.

The title says it all.

What has this world come to?? Giving out birth control to 11 - 13 year olds, diminishing the consequences of children having sex. This is a clear example of parents and the government failing children — encouraging children to have sex. What’s next? Legalized prostitution with prepubescent children?

The 17 pregnancies in the middle schools in Maine is not the result of not having birth control, it’s a result of negligence on the schools part and terrible, absent parenting. (There — I said it.)

The whole thing makes me ill…

School officials voted last night to OK a plan to distribute contraceptives to children as young as 11 in Portland, Maine.

The Associated Press says the decision follows at least 17 pregnancies in the last four years among students at the city’s three middle schools. Children who have parental permission to visit the health center at King Middle School will have confidential access to birth-control pills, condoms and other contraceptives, according to the wire service.

Hmmm…tough call. A woman who is offended by a certain book, takes the book and pays retail price for them. The library threatens to sue, they don’t want the money, they want their books back.

Tax dollars support a library, don’t they have to answer to the people? Plus, given that the woman paid retail value for the books, can’t the library re-buy them at wholesale and they’d be ahead? Doesn’t everybody win?

Unfortunately, I still don’t think you can knowingly steal from a library, even if you do pay for the books.

JoAn Karkos was “horrified” by the contents of It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health. Instead of burning the books, which she describes as “pornographic,” the Maine mother borrowed copies from two local libraries and refused to bring them back.

“Since I have been sufficiently horrified of the illustrations and the sexually graphic, amoral abnormal contents, I will not be returning the books,” Karkos wrote in a letter the Lewiston and Auburn public libraries last month, according to the Associated Press. She enclosed a check for the MSRP of the book.