Week of July 17, 2017

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Bluenose Inn General Manager Kent Leonard (right) moves some furniture to reach a phone terminal as he helps Leslie Rodriques in her seasonal apartment near the Bluenose Inn in Bar Harbor recently. Rodriques, of Kingston, Jamaica, is a housekeeper at the Inn and is among a handful of seasonal employees participating in the U.S. visa program who were drawn to the U.S. by labor shortages in seasonal nonagricultural businesses. (BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY JOHN CLARKE RUSS)

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Bluenose Inn general manager Kent Leonard, right, moves some furniture to access a phone terminal as he helps Leslie Rodriques (cq) in her seasonal apartment near the Bluenose Inn in Bar Harbor Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Rodriques of Kingston, Jamaica, is a housekeeper at the inn and is among a handful of seasonal employees participating in the U.S. H-2B program who come to the U.S. to supplement labor shortages in seasonal nonagricultural businesses. ( Bangor Daily News/John Clarke Russ)