Conservation Conversation What Does Agricultural Conservation Have in Common with Drunk Donkey
Lawrence Pratt recounts the 1968 Agricultural Conservation Program plans offering cost sharing for wildlife habitat, land management, and beautification practices. The piece blends ACP details with a local anecdote about a drunken donkey and a Vermont vacation mishap, concluding with a humorous moral.
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ACP
Vermont
Here
Salvation Army Launches Annual Drive for Funds
Fred H. Welling of The Salvation Army Bennington Area Service Unit announces the annual fund drive in full swing. Local letters request contributions to support ongoing services. The Bennington unit, founded in 1939 as New England’s first service unit, remains active today.
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Fred H. Welling
Salvation Army
Bennington
New England
United States
William Booth
London
North
Old Bennington
Pownal
Shaftsbury
Woodford
Fred. H. Welling
James W. Merunowicz
John T. Litster Jr
Alfred Hertz
Lucien Loomis
Burton W. Potter
George VanSantvoord
Herbert H. Leonard
James Merunowicz
County National Bank
401
Main Street
Anti Poverty Group Sets Thursday Meeting in Manchester
The Bennington Rutland Opportunity Council will hold its bi monthly meeting Thursday at Manchester Elementary School starting at 8. Open to the public the group invites input on Office of Economic Opportunity programs and poverty efforts. Transportation or info requests should contact the council office at North Bennington Congregational Church or John Riddle in the evening.
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Bennington - Rutland
John Riddle
Therrien Completes Combat Training at Camp Lejeune
Marine Pvt. Howard J. Therrien, son of Mr and Mrs Howard Therrien of Benninton, completed four weeks of individual combat training at Camp Lejeune North Carolina. He logged over 200 hours learning about weapons patrols mine and booby trap removal and Marine infantry weapons from combat veteran instructors. He will then undertake at least four weeks of specialist training before joining his first permanent unit.
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Camp Lejeune
N.C
Howard J. Therrien
Howard Therrien
School St., Bennington
Marine Corps
New Books at Bennington Free Library Fiction Spotlight
The list highlights Spillane titles I The Jury and Long Wait as fiction, with many nonfiction and juvenile works by Adler Bloom Boulding Hulme Jacobson Langi Mecham Overstreet Patek Russett Snyder Baker Wilson and others. It notes gift memorials to Raymond E Howard and varied subjects from arithmetic to world politics and geography.
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Spillane
Mickey
General Adler
Bloom
United States Navy
Navy
Raymond E. Howard
Goodrich
Hulme
Jacobson
Langi
Mecham
Raymond E, Howard
Overstreet
Patek
Russett
Raymond E, Howard, Snyder
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Rose Swineski
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Knights of Columbus
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U.S. 7
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England
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