Meet the GOP candidates

Former State Sen. Ron Usher will interview two Republican gubernatorial candidates this week in his regular monthly televised program.

Usher will talk with Chandler Woodcock of Farmington and Peter Mills of Cornville. Both are seeking their party’s nomination in the June primary for governor. The program, “Legislative Update,” will be aired live on local cable TV3 at 7 p.m. on Thursday from room 114 in Westbrook High School.

The program will be taped and replayed on Saturday and Sunday, Usher said.

Tenney in culinary demo

Brandon Tenney, a former culinary arts student at Westbrook Regional Vocational Center, returned from college last week to give a demonstration.

Tenney is a student at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., a four-year school. “I love it there, it’s the best school,” Tenney said.

He is the son of Craig Tenney of Scarborough and Kimberly Burnham of Windham. Tenney graduated from Windham High School in 2005.

He created a sautA?© chicken with finis sauce, potato gratin and maple glazed carrots. “I’m doing a demo for all the kids in this class,” said Tenney, who was home in Maine visiting last week.

As part of an internship, Tenney landed a job at TV chef Bobby Flay’s restaurant in New York. Tenney, who applied and interviewed for the job, will be working at the restaurant for 18 weeks, beginning Monday, April 10, in Manhattan, where Tenney has an apartment. “I’m taking a quick vacation before going off to work,” Tenney said, as he prepared his demonstration. “I’m so excited that I can’t wait. This will be the best experience possible.”

Tenney plans to travel to Paris, France, and around the United States. Then, he hopes to own a restaurant.

Norman Sprague, director of the culinary arts program at WRVC, said Tenney is a good student. “I knew he was going to make it,” said Sprague, who taught Tenney as a student for two years.

Sprague hopes to visit Tenney at the New York restaurant this summer.

The culinary arts dining room at WRVC is open to the public on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. For lunch reservations, call Sprague at 854-0820.

Kindergarten orientation

The Westbrook School department is inviting parents of all incoming 2006 kindergarten students to an orientation meeting on April 6, to be held at two locations.

The orientation meeting at Saccarappa School, 110 Huntress Ave., will be 6:30-7:30 p.m. and at Prides Corner School, 375 Pride St., 7-8 p.m. Student screening will be by appointment on May 10, 11 and 12 at both schools.

For more information, contact Janet Crawford, principal at Prides Corner School, at 797-5222 or Kate Hersom, principal at Saccarappa School, at 854-0847.

The orientation meeting is an opportunity for parents to meet teachers and learn about the registration process.

Iron cross photo wanted

Suzan Norton of the Westbrook Historical Society is hoping that someone has a photo of the “old black iron” crosses that once marked graves at St. Hyacinth’s Cemetery.

She said that the crosses, which were numbered, were given for scrap during World War II. She said they marked the graves of about 300 people.

Norton said the historical society has the history of St. Hyacinth’s written by Phil LaViolet. However, she said the history doesn’t have a photo of the crosses.

The Westbrook Historical Society can be contacted at 854-5588.

LaChance on dean’s list

Nicholas LaChance has been recognized for the winter term’s dean’s list for superior academic achievements at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, R.I.

A senior, LaChance will graduate in May. He is the son of Darrell and Judy LaChance.

Borelli academic honors

Kara Borelli has earned dean’s list honors at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., for the fall semester.

(Brandon Tenney 3) – Brandon Tenney demonstrates his chef skills for culinary arts students at Westbrook Regional Vocational Center last week. Tenney, who is studying culinary arts in New York, begins at 18-week internship this month at a Manhattan restaurant.