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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1976
Page
6
Twenty eight Senior Girl Scouts left Morrison School by chartered bus for a four day Bicentennial tour of Philadelphia New York and Atlantic City. They earned the trip with Easter bunny cakes car washes bake sales and yard sales. They travel with Scout leaders and mothers and will stay at the YWCA in Philadelphia.
The Athens Messenger girls will tour historic Philadelphia sites including Independence Hall and the U S Mint then visit New York attractions such as the Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building. They will also tour Atlantic City and Gettysburg Battlefield before returning home, funds raised offset by a rainy popcorn sale and a church bazaar donation.
Abigail Van Buren presents a column urging careful teen driving. A reader asks to publish an anti crash piece and includes a sobering monologue by a 17 year old who dies in a car crash and pleads for one more chance to drive safely. The letter encourages credit to the author and newspaper of origin.
Angela Kay Struble wed Jeffery Lee Chapman on May 21 at 3 p.m. in Sugar Grove United Methodist Church parsonage. The couple, Logan High School graduates employed by Essex, were honored at a Millersport home dinner with family from Logan Sugar Grove and surrounding areas.
Hooper Ridge Church hosts Vacation Bible School June 20 to 24 for ages 2 to adult with theme Gods Love Is Jesus. Athens Nazarene Church offers VBS June 20 to 24 for ages 2 to 16 at 9 to 11 45 a.m. with Jesus Now theme and activities. Also notes Chuck Wagon traveling kitchen from cattle drive inventor Charles Goodnight in the 1850s.
Girl Scout leaders held a fly-up service at Morrison School where the Brownie Troop 262 transitioned to Junior level. All members earned Bicentennial patches and 80 percent received the Pioneer Women Badge as they joined Stephanie Bandy and 22 others in the new grade.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Carter of Haydenville celebrate 50 years of marriage with an open house at their home Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. They wed June 24, 1926. He worked at NATCO Haydenville and later in the company store. They have three children Ned Carter Nelsonville Colleen Ahart Talmidge Ohio and Ray Lancaster plus eight grandchildren and six step-grandchildren.
Mrs. Agnes Lasko hosts a Jacksonville reunion with son Leo Hobocienski and Irene from San Diego. Guests include siblings Helen and Eunice, cousins, and many relatives from Ohio, West Virginia, and Florida in a Navy retiree homecoming gathering.
The Wesleyan Kenny Memorial Church at State and Carpenter Streets hosts a singing youth group from West Gate United Methodist Church Columbus on Friday at 7 p.m. The Narrow Way, seventh to ninth graders directed by Bob and Elaine Mahaffey of Robinson Trailer Court, present a bicentennial program with sacred and patriotic music and narrated slides. Open to the public.
James R. Gilham and Laura E. Brookins wed at Helen Mauck Galbreath Memorial Chapel. The bride, daughter of Robert and Mrs Brookins, wore ivory gown with beaded cap. The couple resides in New Marshfield. He studies mechanical engineering at Ohio University. she is library assistant at OU music library.
The column presents a simple cottage fried potatoes dish. Dice cold boiled potatoes and sauté in hot fat until browned. Season with salt and pepper and minced fresh onion or garlic, adding aromatics to hot fat before potatoes for a hashed brown finish.
Mr and Mrs Roy Gaston of Athens announce the birth of daughter Carrie Megan born May 30 at O Bleness Memorial Hospital. Grandparents are Charles Gaston of Athens and Robert Powers of Marietta with great grandmother Berdetta Powers of Walton Kentucky.
Mr and Mrs Marion Zarley of Jacksonville marked their 19th wedding anniversary on Monday. They are parents of Kathy Ethel Patty and John of Chauncey and have four grandchildren. Mr Zarley works as a custodian at Trimble High School.
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