China Friends: MAN SENTENCED IN WELLS ATTACK
A gas pipeline worker from Texas will spend six months in jail for what prosecutors say was a racially motivated attack against a Wells family.Nicholas Alan Franck, 21, pleaded guilty Friday to charges of burglary, assault and criminal mischief stemming from an Aug. 30 incident at China Friends restaurant on Route 1. Franck, who moved to Maine with his wife to work on a natural gas pipeline, was one of two men who broke into the upstairs apartment of restaurant owner Michael Lau,...
China Friends: RENO ON SUNDAY / Trade War Always Beats a Real One
EVEN AS the United States plotted last week to escalate a trade war with its historical allies in the European Union, Congress was rushing toward approval of a historic trade rapprochement with the People's Republic of China. Friends pulling hair while enemies slobber all over each other-has the world gone historically mad? More likely, it has become an infinitely saner place. Imagine that the 21st Century will be an era in which nations compete through nasty trade disputes,...
China Friends: Mainer back from Taiwan with students in tow,
A former Windham man brings some of his students here to learn about the culture and the language.
When Nate Bennett first went to Taiwan, he knew it was sink or swim."People either love it or hate it. I went over with the intention of staying for a year. Instead I stayed for six," said the former Windham resident.Now he's back in his home state and has brought with him students from the two English-language schools he started in Taiwan.To all appearances the children are swimming quite well in their new surrounds."They...
China Friends: Shia, Sr. Ursula OSF
Shia, Sr. Ursula OSF (Anna) Born to Eternal Life Tues., March 9, 2004 at age 91. Survivors include the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, with whom she shared Life for 72 years and her family in China. Friends and relatives are invited to join the Congregation for the following: Visitation Thurs., 2-6:40 PM at St. Francis of Assisi Convent Chapel, 3221 S. Lake Dr. A Time of Remembering will be held at 6:40 PM followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 7 PM. Prayer and Committal will be held Fri.,...
China Friends: Walking tour to mark China Baptist Church's 200 years
CHINA - Friends of the China Baptist Church will celebrate 200 years of service Saturday with a walking tour of historic China village. "If there has been a worship service every Sunday since that first Sunday, that would mean that the people who have made up this church have met at least 10,400 times for public worship," church Pastor Ronald E. Morrell Sr. wrote.According to China history, 37 community members started China Baptist Church on May 23, 1801, 26 years...