![]() ![]() "And to please tell friends and relatives to stop coming." ![]() "It was written on city stationary, although it wasn’t really an official city declaration, saying that the Somali community that has already come is supported and welcomed, and they were done," Bass says. In October of 2002, he wrote an open letter to the growing Somali community in town. Or one of them did, and he was the mayor of Lewiston, Larry Raymond. ![]() ![]() Mainers didn’t have much experience with refugees, but if people wanted to move to Lewiston and help repopulate the place, why should anybody object? Assistant coach Abdijabar Hersi (left). Lewiston certainly had the space: vacant apartments and storefronts. 'Please Tell Friends And Relatives To Stop Coming'Īnd at first it looked like a good fit. They wanted space for larger families, they wanted security and safety and they wanted good schools." "So a lot of these folks were coming from other refugee relocation sites, particularly in the outskirts of Atlanta," she says. "Things that Maine deals with in terms of younger population moving away."īut Bass became intrigued with Lewiston a little under 20 years ago, when she learned about an influx of families from Somalia. There wasn’t much reason to stay after she graduated in 1992. Bass was in Lewiston, Maine, to attend Bates College. ![]()
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