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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1962
Page
5
NORTH BENNINGTON The school closed for Christmas vacation with festive parties in every grade and a high school assembly. Santa Claus visited the North Bennington School and students decorated rooms. Home economics classes produced decorations and students donated over 200 gifts to Brandon Training School residents.
Christmas services and programs marked the weekend in Pownal. Rev Isabel G King officiated at the Pownal Center Community Church with a sermon The Carols and special music led by Mrs Fletcher Hall. Methodist and Baptist churches presented nativity and carol events featuring many local children. The Pownal Pioneers 4 H Club held a Christmas party with caroling and games at the Mason home. Snowy scenes and Christmas lights brighten the town. A Christmas Eve service at North Pownal Congregational Church featured an Allen organ recital by Dr Elmer Tidmarsh and Rev John C Hatch in charge.
Hoosick Falls residents attend St Mary’s Academy elementary and high school performance at the high school auditorium. The Awakening of Little Boy Blue tableau and Choralers impressed audiences. James Thurber, son of Mr and Mrs William Thurber, played Little Boy Blue. Many parents returned for the evening show.
A daughter Mary Theresa was born Friday at Putnam Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs Walter Wirmusky of Elm Street. Donna Murphy of Williamsport Pa visits her father William J Murphy of Lyman Street for Christmas with Seaman 2nd Class Robert J Murphy home on leave from Guantanamo Bay. Kenneth Lester of Bovie Hill Road will move to Charlotte Harbor Florida for winter. Cub Scout Pack 63 held a Christmas party in First United Church Hall with badges awarded to Charles Crowley Michael Stempek and Gary Miller. Refreshments by Den Mathers and several Mrs Har rison McGuire Stempek Leonard Cluett families.
Hoosick Falls Zoning Board of Appeals grants a variance for Eugene E Avery to open a musical instrument shop at 27 Mechanic St in a property already standing in a residential district. Hearing last Wednesday produced no objections. Board members were J Joseph Hayden John Cuddihy and Kenneth Bulson.
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