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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1976
Page
6
Dorset officials and the school board discussed using a projected town equipment shed in East Dorset with one bus bay and a storage area. They also tackled trimming $52,000 in Federal Revenue Sharing requests to $37,000 for this year and planned a full board meeting for January 20.
Manchester town records summarize 1975 activity including 2035 complaints 118 alarms 96 assists to other departments 69 assists to motorists 4 untimely deaths 130 criminal arrests 42 breaches of peace 154 accidents 15 with injuries 4 motor vehicle arrests 103 Vermont traffic citations 493 driving while intoxicated 73 defective equipment 93 breaking and entering 56 auto theft 10 autos recovered 12 vandalism 82 bad checks 28 larcenies 84 suicides 3 escort duty 245 recovered stolen property 21 cases.
McCullough Library adds many large print titles across adult and juvenile shelves led by A Bride For Hampton House In A Year of Grace The Wrong Case and The Clairvoyant Countess Also new large print editions including Love Story Robert Kennedy A Memoir America America Snow Stars and Wild Honey Growing Up Rich The Dark Backward The Lonely Hunter The Deep Blue Good-By and Mr Willowby s Christmas Tree plus juvenile picks Miss Pickerell Goes To Mars Anatole and the Thirty Thieves Smoking and You The Team That Stopped Moving Sam the Minuteman and Christmas Trees and How They Grow
Arlington events list shows Tuesday games with Union 40 at home 7:30 p.m. Also AA meets at St. Margaret Mary Hall and the Area bicentennial group at Community House. Later meetings include DeMolay introductory session Wednesday at Masonic Temple FOE Auxiliary West Arlington Battenhill Grange and First Aid Course at Arlington Rescue Squad. Friday features Arlington vs Otter Valley away and Saturday Battenkill Grange social. A DeMolay Board of Advisors reorganization invites members and interested boys age 13 to 20 for Jan 21 meeting with snowmobile safety film and refreshments. Marilyn Whitley offers a standard First Aid Course Thursdays 6 to 8 p.m. for ages 14 and up at the Rescue Squad.
The North Pownal Volunteer Fire Department and Pownal Fire Protective Association meet at 7 p m at their firehouses with a special 7 30 p m session urged for all members. A senior luncheon reservations line is available for Wednesday at noon at the Pownal Baptist Church. Women’s Fellowship, East Pownal groups meet tonight at 7 30. Solomon Wright Library hours are listed and Girl Scout cookie orders run Jan 17 to 24. Newly elected officers of the Pownal Recreational Community Center are Delores Kimball president and a new vice president.
On January 13 the Zion Parish House hosted the Red Cross Bloodmobile as 124 donors contributed 115 pints of blood. A few potential donors were sidelined by colds and illnesses. Medical and support staff included Dr. C B Harwood, Dr. Songho Hong, and a long list of nurses, volunteers, registrars, and coordinators organized by Mrs. Martha Bowen and others.
Shaftsbury Fire Department Auxiliary will meet at the firehouse at 7 30 Wednesday night to discuss the state meeting. Members unable to attend should contact Mrs Allyn Lindsey at 442 9630. Fire crews secured a chimney fire on Griffin Avenue by 11 am Sunday with no damage reported.
One hundred sixty people enroll in a 10 week ice skating course at Reynolds Gilchrest Skating Rink in Hoosick Falls with Nancy Lynn Homa as instructor. The group includes 80 children under 11, teenagers, and 27 adults, meeting 9 to 11 a.m. for progress, with sister Diane Homa and Ray Campbell assisting and several local skaters serving as coaches. The program covers basics like falling safely, getting up, spins, spirals, bunnyhops, backward skating and sculling as outdoor ice weather remains favorable.
Bennington Opportunity Council reports Jan 1 increases in coupons for one and three to eight person households by three to five percent while larger families gain at least twelve percent. Two person allotments unchanged after July 1975 raise. Applicants denied due to income now urged to reapply at 203 North Street. FRAC suit against USDA cited for higher caps. USDA notes under ten percent reach Recommended Dietary Allowance. Economy Plan deemed insufficient for diet quality.
Zion Episcopal Pre-School, Manchester, invites three and four year olds for three and three openings respectively. Learning occurs through counting embedded in daily activities such as bead stringing, sorting, cooking, singing, puzzles, and outdoor play. Call 362-1987 mornings for information.
William J. Murphy of Hoosick Falls and 36 others were chosen in Albany on Jan 6 as delegates and alternates to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City Aug 16 to 19. The NY delegation will be uncommitted, with a second group of 117 delegates to be elected in the April 6 primary.
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