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- Engineer Mandy Ottone, Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival zip lines crewwoman, throws a hook and line over the Androscoggin River in Rumford on Tuesday to catch the cables at top right. Ottone was working with her father, engineer Jim Sysko, and Bob Westfall, Ed Bennett and Jim Rinaldo to pull two zip lines across the river. The festival is set for Saturday, May 4. Once the 600-foot-long zip lines are installed, they have to be inspected by the state Fire Marshal’s Office.
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- Engineer Jim Sysko of Newry unsuccessfully flings a hook across the Androscoggin River in Rumford on Tuesday afternoon to try and snag a zip line cable being pulled along the rope at top. The zip lines will be used during the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival on Saturday.
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- Engineer Mandy Ottone, top left, directs her father, engineer Jim Sysko of Newry, bottom, and Bob Westfall as the trio tries to fight the Androscoggin River’s current while dragging twin zip lines Tuesday afternoon in Rumford. The lines will be used at the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival on Saturday.
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- Newry engineer Jim Sysko carries a line attached to twin zip lines across a plank over the Androscoggin River in Rumford on Tuesday afternoon while Bob Westfall, top right, and Sysko’s daughter, engineer Mandy Ottone, watch. The trio and Jim Rinaldo and Ed Bennett were trying to pull the 600-foot-long zip lines across a rope strung between a skidder beside Memorial Bridge over the river to a landing point near the Rumford snow dump lot. The zip lines are one of the attractions for Rumford’s debut Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival on Saturday, May 4.
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