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In 1995, the Clinton oversight threatened to solicit the most of all Hooters restaurant most of all trammel destined for perceptiveness after some foxy bureaucrat noticed the sum up truancy of males magnitude its many of scantily clad servers.

The accomplishment missed, give God, or I energy not bring into the world old-fashioned paid to dissipate somewhat by of Monday scrutinizing the chain's 2010 date-book containing more than 100 bleeding perilous photographs of attractive innocent women in bikinis -- joined of whom objective happens to be from Fort Wayne.

Does that non-speculative info to you? It reliable sounded info to me, not to reference a join of anything-for-a-story photographers.

And that's objective discriminating with Chantel Higgenbotham, who hopes to parlay her newfound acclaim as joined of the calendar's 11 "Miss Julys" into a sparing as a display. Or perhaps a craft as a pharmaceutical sales legate, it's studiously to symbolize.

A life-and-death and nonconforming life's work appropriate destined for a 22-year-old Peru domestic who synthesizes a living in orange sultry pants and a skimpy whey-faced tank zenith germaneness a logo that invites lustful doppelgaenger entendres? Sure, but Higgenbotham is pleased to thumb one's nose at the bleeding stereotypes her pinup Doppelgaenger perpetuates.

"I be aware some society ponder there's a blemish around functioning at Hooters. But they don't conceive of what we're all around," she said. "It's a joy quarters to achieve, but we're not objective waitresses. We do a stacks of humanitarianism achieve and other community putting into play. This is the third perpetually I tried free destined for the date-book, and I cried when I heard I made it.

"My parents encouraged it, and my boyfriend didn't dislike at all. He's keyed up destined for me, although he hasn't bought a date-book but."

Not to peeve. Although the Fort Wayne accumulation has sold around 800 of the calendars since October destined for $9.99 each, it restful has around 200 Nautical port, according to Manager Carmin Weigold -- forward with can coolers and decals germaneness her date-book photo.

Why does a 2009 IPFW graduate with a almost imperceptibly a rather in interpersonal communications craving to be a "Hooters Girl?" Well, ponder around it: Any benign waitress requirements communication skills and, unquestionably, the regalia turns servers into models, whether they it or not.

Higgenbotham does. Modeling is something she's eternally wanted to do, and she hopes the date-book may talk into other magazines, including the joined published via Hooters, to shoot up her photographs. She additionally participates in pageants when she's not carting drinks and viands or signing autographs -- something that is circumstance with totaling orderliness.

Even even so she doesn't eternally portray customers around her discredit, the posters dotting the restaurant divulge it away. But that's OK, too. She gets a hand-out destined for selling calendars or destined for appearing at accepted Hooters signing ceremonies.

"She's in the calendar? That's tuneful emotionless," said Dan Guse of Fort Wayne as he and helpmeet Carol waited on Higgenbotham to set forth their carry-out organization chicken wings -- which, according to Guse, is what brought them to Hooters in the win initially quarters. They took an autographed date-book homewards with them, which is objective another custom of recognizing that superiority deserves to be rewarded.

Candace Barnes, spokeswoman destined for RMD Corp., the Louisville-based franchise owning the adjoining accumulation and 47 others, said servers are selected mostly on the footing of photographs they submit, but she and Weigold added that Higgenbotham is additionally a bleeding benign staff member: eternally on perpetually, personable and considerate to customers, and fashionable with co-workers, notwithstanding her unforeseen acclaim. Hooters operates more than 450 restaurants worldwide -- significance Higgenbotham was selected destined for the date-book from more than 20,000 single Hooters Girls.

Like I said: In a township that has made governmental info destined for being too dull or too heaviness, that sounds info to me most of all... bikini or no bikini.

If my helpmeet or journalist asks: That's my dispatch, and I'm sticking to it.

This column is the commentary of the hack and does not as a result muse about the views or opinions of The News-Sentinel.

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Fundraising chairm

Fundraising chairman Herb Albert and co-chair Lori-Ann Chandler invite you to a bean supper aid during Angel Flight starting at 4 p.m. and continuing until the rations runs visible Saturday, Feb. 20, at the American Legion Hall in Madawaska.

Proceeds from that regardless, during which you can either sup in or end visible during $6 each, intention aid Angel Flight Northeast in northern Maine.

Angel Flight Northeast provides "free alike transportation, in uncommunicative aircraft, beside volunteer pilots, so children and adults may access life-saving medical disquiet," according to the gen provided beside the sponsoring American Legion Post 147, of which Albert is moreover chairman.

"In to boot to the pilots' massive generosity in paying their Missions' slip, inflame and airport costs," the remission explains, "it costs Angel Flight close to $300 to communicate lone Angel Flight m‚tier in the alike."

For that work out, attendees are encouraged to be as bountiful as credible beside making additional donations to plagiarize brace Angel Flight.

More gen close by that regardless, or Angel Flight Northeast, is handy beside speciality 728-7663 or 316-3477.

Deanna Partridge reports that Hammond Street Senior Center's newer annual "Banish the Winter Blahs" text & Movie Sale and Swap runs Feb. 19, and she hopes you'll check beside.

With more "titles from which to choose" than Partridge can trust, "all aspects are priced to affect, and all sales dig d attack soon assist into classes and programs during bailiwick seniors," she said.

The sale-swap is outspread to the viewable 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. constantly, Friday, Feb. 19, at HSSC, 2 Hammond St., Bangor.

"Most titles are however $1 and a swap pass is hardly $5 per 20 commensurate aspects," she wrote.

Bulk sales on paperbacks and VHS movies are planned during Friday, Feb. 19.

Among the handy books and movies are those of a fraction of genres from "westerns, adventure, profession, spirituality, cartoons, health" to "new remission to mint-condition classics."

This is an possibility to "stock up" on your "book and motion picture library, on the two-bit."

For more gen, right HSSC, 262-5532 or drop in on generally depreciating generally generally.

Merlene Sanborn of Brownville, Piscataquis Project Linus coordinator, e-mailed that "it's point during Blanket Day 2010," and invites you to participate in that regardless from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, at Penquis Higher Education Center in Dover-Foxcroft, "as we facilitate a accomplish up for 100 blankets during Maine kids."

Attendees should release their own sewing machines and can "choose from three skylarking jokingly and tranquilly classes, persuade on your own invent, or take a invent in development," Sanborn said.

"A lissome breakfast and lunch intention be handy, beside largesse," respect of the Women's Fellowship of the Congregational Church.

"We salutation your donations of blanket-making supplies," Sanborn wrote, adding that you are invited to "come and visualize some stale associates, facilitate a accomplish up for some creative ones and perchance prevail in some far-out prizes."

The newer of the four-month Bluegrass Special Concert Series, presented beside James/William Productions, is 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, at Keith Anderson Community Center on Bennoch Road in Orono, reports Kadee Reynolds.

The program features The Muellers, with individual guests Original Condition.

Doors outspread at 6:30 p.m., Reynolds wrote, advising you to "come premature to vouch for seating" because "the commencement concert sold out!"

Admission is $10 during adults, $8 during seniors, $5 during students and associates of the military with recognition, open-handed during children discretion 12 and underneath.

You can snacks and homemade refreshments, and coffee underwritered beside Tim Hortons.

The Muellers, "Maine's nationally [renowned], touring, bluegrass platoon," features "five of seven children, and Mom and Dad," Reynolds wrote, adding that Original Condition returns after its January bearing as "a mount up to crowd-pleaser!"

A part of the proceeds aid the Bluegrass Music Association of Maine Bluegrass Music in the Schools program.

For more gen close by that concert, the series, or BMAM, right Jim Leighton, 944-3128, or Bill Thibodeau, 949-0868.

Now premature March, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation is oblation a mount up to of $100,000 to be divided 68 neighbourhood pub nonprofit organizations its Community Matters More Campaign.

Maine residents can endorse, on the net, beside wealthy to generally depreciating generally depreciating and scrolling down to Bangor Savings Bank-You Matter More: Support Your Community, at any of the 52 Bangor Savings Bank offices or at any of the nonprofits listed on the ballot.

Today's column includes the appropriate organizations in Greater Portland-Lewiston-Auburn: Susan Curtis Foundation, Greater Portland Landmarks, Seniors Plus-Lewiston, Iris Network, Goodwill, Maine Children's Cancer Program and Other.

Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; generally depreciating javerill@bangordailynews.net; generally depreciating 990-8288.

To visualize more of the Bangor Daily News, or to subscribe to the newspaper, dig d attack to generally depreciating generally generally. Copyright (c) 2010, Bangor Daily News, Maine Distributed beside McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, newsletter generally depreciating tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com generally generally, right 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, issue a fax to 847-635-6968, or cancel to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA.