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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1966
Page
6
WALLOOMSAC N Y Officers of the 31st Internal Security Battalion commanded by Lt Col Willard J Walsh of Troy will compose the lead color guard details at the Bennington Battle Day celebration marking the anniversary in Walloomsac New York.
Hoosick Falls hosts a farewell party for Hellenkamp of Dusseldorf who has stayed with local residents and worked in Bennington. She departs to Germany after being gifts from Bennington and Hoosick Falls guests. The town also marks Battle Day anniversary with parade at 6 45 p.m. and ceremonies at Battle Field Park led by First Hoosac Constabulary and local organizations. Featured speakers include Dr. Hugh Flick, with Eagle Scout honor guards and multiple local groups represented.
Londonderry and Peru fire departments staged a donkey ball game drawing a large crowd on a Wednesday evening. The contest was tied 2-2 late, before Londonderry won 3-2 with a bottom seventh inning home run. Players rode and sometimes spooked donkeys as spectators enjoyed hot dogs and sodas.
Whitingham opens its seventh Old Home Week with parachute jumps by Parachutes Inc. from a 5200 foot Cessna to kick off four days of Vermont history and modern culture. The town cleans up with painted church, new storefront, antique displays, and a Saturday street parade and minstrel show at the high school auditorium.
Nearly 200 people attended a farewell reception at the First United Church parlors in Hoosick Falls for Rev. Wesley Miles and his family as they prepare to relocate to Athens Greece where he will teach at Athens College. The event featured gifts, volunteers, and a diverse schedule of community activities and meals leading to his final Sunday pulpit service. Brigham Young descendants placed a granite monument on Town Hill, honoring the Mormon leader. Wendell P. Morse of Whitingham chairs the arrangements with 80 residents assisting.
George E. Ketteridge, assistant to the director, will retire at the end of September after nearly four decades in old silver. A native of England who came to the U.S. in 1929, he helped catalog Clark silver and continental porcelain, researched owner engravings, and served in World War I with the British Army. He became a U.S. citizen in 1936 and lives with Mrs. Ketteridge at 30 Harwood St. in Williamstown.
The Women of St James announce a turkey supper for the public at Dunbar Hall on Saturday at 5 30 pm. Elise Phillips is official hostess with kitchen under Mrs Fred Grout and Mrs C G Belcher. Tickets sold at the door by Jeffrey Hard. Gift table run by Nathalie L Borg. Also community calendar notes Little League baseball and civic group meetings. Mr and Mrs James Mills returned from a bar association meeting in Montreal and vacation in the Adirondacks.
Mrs Helen Stafford wife of Congressman Robert T Stafford toured the Sunderland Head Start project at the Chiselville School this morning meeting Supt Neil E Cross and then visiting Sunderland She was accompanied by John S Coombs executive director of the Bennington Rutland Opportunity Council Inc Her longstanding interest lies in Head Start programs.
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