Abergavenny Lass Visits Manchester
Gail Hicks an 18 year old visitor from Abergavenny stays in Manchester three weeks with the Otis family. She tours New York with Melanie Otis, notes unfriendly cabbies and Broadway underwhelming while marveling at Liberty and Macy’s. Side trips include Weston Stratton chairlift Saratoga parade Deerfield and Sturbridge Village. Her family details contrast Welsh and American life and she finds people friendly overall.
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Manchester
Abergavenny
Gail Hicks
Gail
Don B. Otis
Vermont
New York City
Melanie Otis
Sally Ameden
New York
Broadway
Macy’s
Kennedy International Airport
Weston
Stratton
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Bennington
Monument and Battlefield
Old Deerfield
Old Sturbridge Village
Sturbridge Village
America
Deerfield
Wales
Paul H. Bullock
Hoosick Falls Work Projects End This Week
Five boys at the Water Works grounds finish a joint state village summer program with the state funding seven of eight weeks and the village paying this final week. Workers include Peter Sennett John Sennett Donald Fleming Michael Chapman and Robert Isherwood. Layton James began painting the water works reservoir on Rensselaer Street with a $600 contract. Village clerk Doris M McGuire is on vacation and deputy clerk Dorothy Boys fills in. William Marani seeks to organize six mixed couples bowling teams with an organizational meeting set for Sunday Sept 7 at 8 45 p.m. Bowling Sundays also planned.
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Water Works
Peter and
John Sennett
Donald Fleming
Michael Chapman
Robert Isherwood
Layton James
Rensselaer Street
Doris M. McGuire
Dorothy Boys
William Marani
Bar-Blue Recreational
Marani
HFCS Football Exams Kick Off Season
Hoosick Falls Central School opens football season with student exams and conditioning. Coach Anthony R. Turi, aided by Richard Reeve Kalmer Greenberger and Kenneth Baker, will oversee varsity and junior varsity. Seven game schedule starts Sept 20 at Perth. Two night games Sept 26 versus Mt Anthony and St. Peter's Saratoga. Home games Oct 4 Schuylerville and Oct 25 Cambridge. JV hosts Mt Anthony Sept 9 Stillwater Oct 20 Greenwich Nov 3. All games at 4 pm.
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Anthony R. Turi
Richard Reeve
Kalmer Greenberger
Kenneth Baker
Perth
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Bennington
St. Peter’s
Saratoga
Schuylerville
Cambridge
Mt. Anthony of Bennington
Stillwater
Greenwich
Manchester Lions Turkey-Chicken Shoot set for Sept 14
Manchester Lion's Club will host its annual Turkey-Chicken Shoot at Wilcox Flats starting 10 a.m. on September 14, with a rain date of September 21. Raffle tickets sold by club members, drawings during the event, extra tickets via Ken Johnston at Ken's Sports Shop, food by Town Delicatessen on profit sharing, refreshments available, proceeds to fund the Manchester Lion's Club Convention Fund.
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Manchester
Manchester Lion’s Club
Wilcox Flats
Manchester Village
Lion’s Club
Ken Johnston
Ken
Town
The
Manchester Lion’s Club Convention Fund
Pownal Schools Hire Four New Teachers
Pownal schools plan double sessions for Grades 1-6 at Center School and kindergarten at Oak Hill with 7:45 start times. Four new teachers join Grades 1,3,4, and 5-6 from area colleges, alongside returning staff including kindergarten and grades 1-6 teachers. Principal Bernard J. Bisson returns as head, and enrollments are expected to rise.
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Pownal
Center
Oak Hill
Bernard J. Bisson
Pows Nal
Betsey Porter
Gracemary Keith
Florence Harries
Dorothy Pudvar
Irma Shoff
Mae Bostwick
Jane Satullo
Richard Singleton
Richard Zampini
Frances Snyder
Marjorie Porter
Madalyn Green
Arthur James
Manchester Couple Returns From New England Vacation
Manchester residents Mr and Mrs Richard Ameden and their son Adam came back from a trip to northern Vermont New Hampshire and they reported a two car collision in front of the Orvis store Monday morning Chief George F Hoag said Chester Frank Day of Southboro Massachusetts drove a 1965 Falcon and Dorothy Glenna Clough of Dorset drove a 1965 Chevelle with moderate damage and no injuries were reported Officers Eugene Ginotti and Chief Hoag had completed a police ment course at Norwich University last week.
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Richard Ameden
Adam
Vermont
Canada
New Hampshire
Eugene Ginotti
George F. Hoag
Norwich University
Northfield
Orvis
George F
Chester Frank Day
Southboro
Mass
Dorothy Glenna Clough
Dorset
Children's Aid Society To Begin Fund Drive
Manchester Vermont. Carleton E Howe and Mrs Malcolm Cooper announce the 1969 fund drive for the Vermont Children's Aid Society in Manchester and Dorset. Rising costs of living and child care push average community costs for fostered children to $25000. Those not yet contacted may contribute via Mrs Cooper in Dorset or Miss Mary A Porter in Manchester.
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Manchester
Carleton E. Howe
Vermont Children’s Aid Society
Malcolm Cooper
Dorset
Cooper
Howe
Mary A. Porter
Wildlife Display Expands At Chatham Fair
The Chatham Fair wildlife exhibit grows for 1950 with 100 foot frontage and 500 square feet more space. New animals include honey bears from South America a yearling six point buck deer porcupines a ferret Canadian wild geese a turkey buzzard and a sea gull. Returning are Amos Susie and Bamby the display uses a topographic map of Columbia County lakes and streams.
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Chatham
N.Y
Columbia County Federation of Sportsmen
Robert Snow
Chatham Fair
South America
Frieda
Amos
Susie
Bamby
Bennington County Council plans bus tour to Shelburne Museum
The Bennington County Council will run a bus tour to Shelburne Museum on Wednesday September 10 with dinner at Dog Team Tavern in Middlebury on the return. Buses depart Bennington at 8 a.m. from the city terminal with stops in Shaftsbury Arlington and Manchester. The all inclusive price excluding lunch is 14 dollars. Six seats remain and interested people should send payment to Mrs Walter Jones tour chairman Dorset at once.
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Bennington
Dorset Man Becomes Air Controller
Glynco Ga Air Controlman 2.C. Howard M. O'Donovan USN son of Mr and Mrs Cornelius H O'Donovan of Dorset VT has graduated from the Carrier Air Traffic Control Center operator course. Ceremonies were held at the Naval Air Training Center Glynco Ga The course taught him the theoretical and practical knowledge to a CATCC unit. He learned procedures controlling positions duties of each member and basics of the Navy tactical data systems concept. Before entering the service in February 1967 Air Controlman 2.C. O'Donovan attended the University of Vermont in Burlington VT.
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Glynco
C. Howard M. O’donovan
USN
Cornelius H. O’donovan
Dorset
Carrier Air Traffic Control Center
CATCC
Naval Air Training Center
Navy
2.C. O'Donovan
University of Vermont
Burlington
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