The 2000 SHS Girls’ Field Hockey Team celebrate their second Class A State Championship
Photo: Sanford News, Nov. 9, 2000
By Lawrence Furbish
The big news on Nov. 9, 2000, was all about election results. Elizabeth Dupuis and Roland Cote had won the two open seats on the Board of Selectmen. At the national level, Al Gore got the nod in Sanford while Olympia Snowe retained her Senate seat and Tom Allen the First District U.S. House seat. David Bowles and John Tuttle were sent back to the Maine House of Representatives. There were a number of citizens’ initiatives on the ballot that year, and most of them went down to defeat, including one that would have allowed physician-assisted suicide and another that would have given voting rights to people under mental health guardianships.
The 50th anniversary of the Veteran’s Memorial Gymnasium was in the news. The idea for the gym had begun in 1940 after the high school and gym burned. It took 10 years to complete. Fred St. Cyr was the vice chair of the Veterans War Memorial Citizens group that managed the restoration of the gym, and a rededication was being celebrated.
There were several public safety items that week, but perhaps the most interesting involved a Sanford resident who the police tried to stop to question after he hit a business sign. He sped away and led police on a chase around the block in the Schuler, Downs, and Morris Streets area, during which he collided with another car he owned and then hit a parked car that in turn struck yet another car. He ended up being charged with operating under the influence, refusing to stop, refusing to submit to detention, driving to endanger, and failing to report an accident.
In sports, the Sanford High School girls’ field hockey team won their second straight Class A state championship. They battled Messalonskee’s team to a 2-2 tie at the end of regulation and went on to score a goal in overtime to triumph 3-2.
At Roger’s Supa Dolla you could get a top sirloin oven roast or chicken breasts for $1.88 a pound. If your truck needed four new tires, they could be had for $200 at VIP Auto Center. Finally, if you wanted to celebrate a birthday party at Chunky’s Cinema, it would only set you back $12.95 for admission, popcorn, soda, and unlimited pizza.
Lawrence Furbish is president of the Sanford-Springvale Historical Society. The Historical Society Museum in Springvale has many resources regarding Sanford’s history. It is open Thursday and Saturday, 10-2:00 pm and Friday 10-4:00 pm.
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