March Birthdays
3/8    Bruce Publicover
         Peter Hansen (Kay)
3/11  Rosemary Mitchell (Don)
3/20  Shirley Gruber (George)
3/31  Kay Hansen

March Wedding Anniversaries
3/31  Kay & Peter Hansen

March Service Anniversaries
3/23  Ed Blanchard         6 yrs

"There was blood all over. I couldn't see where the wound was," explained William Robbins of the Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Department. James died in the hoispital shortly thereafter.
A friend of the deceased believes that Leigh abused James's affection. "He spent thousands of dollars on calls, email, computers," she said, "and also helped that woman pay her bills." Debra received a desperate phone call just hours before he took his life. She reported that he begged, "Tell me you forgive me." His friend did so, and then the phone went dead. She attempted to alert authorities but had insufficient information regarding his whereabouts.
James had attempted suicide five years earlier, and had seemingly recovered his equilibrium. He purchased the chainsaw in Maine a week prior to his sensational death.

World's Stupidest Criminals

A would-be burglar broke down an apartment door in Hartford, Connecticut, in January 1991. He was immediately confronted by the two police officers who lived there, and arrested on the sopt.
In Foggia, Italy, policeman Antonio Demma was so keen to get ahead in his job that he issued bogus traffic tickets and then paid the fines himself. He got a 6-month suspended sentence in May 1992.
An armed thief who tried to hold up a bakery in Kiel, Germany, in June 1995, was sent packing by a torrent of cream cakes. A shop clerk hurled a tray of freshly filled tortes into his face, then ran into the street crying for help. Passersby overpowered the cream-splattered masked raider.

Darwin Award Winner
Maine Chainsaw Romance
July 5^th, 1999, Maine

An internet romance blossomed then faded, after a Missouri man traveled to Maine to meet his destiny. In a bizarre merging of "You've Got Mail" with "Texas Chainsaw Massacre, James swung a chainsaw and severed his own neck in a futile effort to prove his love to the woman who had spurned his face-to-face romance.
His relationship with Leigh (not her real name) began over the internet in 1998 , and James moved from Missouri to Mine on June 23 to further the yearlong affair. Instead Leigh insisted upon ending the relationship post-haste.
Distraught, James drove to her house in Topsham, knocked on the door, and asked her adult son to get his mother. The son refused and locked all the doors. James pulled a chainsaw from his trunk, stood on the lawn, and performed his macho act in a vain attempt to impress the depth of his feelings upon the woman. Police arrived to find him barely alive.