St Peters Fair Saturday promises summer fun and finds
The annual St Peter's Church Fair opens at 11 a.m. Saturday July 16 with the Garden Mart Pantry Shelf and Book Mart offering books linens antiques baked goods and crafts. Local volunteers from Katrina Hemenway to Win Frantz orchestrate activities for children face painting raffles and a quilt drawing at close.
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St. Peter’s Church
Garden Mart
Ted Watsons
Bill McGoverns
Stella Hall
Katrina Hemenway
Lucy Johnson
Averell Brown
Debbie
Margie Riddle
Laura DuPres
Heather Spitler
St. Peter’s
Tom Foster
Dorothy Loemker
Arthur Muchmore
Hildegarde Kincade
David Hapgood
Katie Meyer
Barbara
Elizabeth Hoar
Win
Peter Frantz
Bill
Bobby Castle
Natalie Wolfe
Russell Bagley
Ronald Cox
Mitzi Spitler
Bennington Fire Department announces Battle Day roles Aug 8 14
The Bennington Fire Department outlines Battle Day committees for the week of August 8 to 14 with roles assigned to Chief Erwin Mattison as general chairman and others handling finance treasurer parade invitations sports Kids Day trophies publicity refreshments floats concessions wheelbarrow ads for book fireworks and banquet. Invitations have been sent to dignitaries colonial brigades bands drum and bugle corps fire departments National Guard units and fraternal organizations. Organizations wishing to enter floats should contact Robert Kenyon or John Proud.
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Bennington Fire Department
Erwin Mattison
Mike Walker
Ormal Pierce Sr
John Proud
Charles Boyle
Richard Knapp
Lynn Bunk
George Raymond
Walter Gavin
Leo Farrington
Robert Kenyon
John Kennedy
Dave Luther
Erwin
National Guard
Bennington Bicentennial Parade Preparations and Events
The Bennington Bicentennial Committee seeks help to ready Willow Park for the Aug 13 reenactment and lists activities from Aug 8 to 14. Dignitaries include Gov Richard Snelling and Sen Robert Stafford. The schedule features donkey softball, band concert, chicken barbecue, dances, Kids Day events, a battle reenactment, and a large Sunday parade with multiple New England bands and colonial units.
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Bennington
Willow Park
Bruce Beh
St. Peter’s
Globe Union
Richard Snelling
T. Garry Buckley
U.S
Robert T. Stafford
Bennington Fire Department
Bennington Rural Fire Department
Bennington Police Department
MAUHS
Vermont Firefighters Convention Plans Aug 12 14 In Bennington
Vermont State Firefighters Association schedules a three day convention August 12 to 14 hosted by Bennington Fire Department. activities include executive board meeting dinner and cocktail hour on Friday. muster competition water polo and business meetings on Saturday. a banquet with roast sirloin and dancing. and a Battle Day parade on Sunday. trophies awarded in several events and admission set at 7.50. all fraternal groups and firehouses to hold open houses.
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Bennington
USFA
Silver Grays
Adams
Mass
Meriden
Conn
Vermont State Firefighters Association
Bennington Fire Department
VSFA
BPOE
Washington Avenue
Mauhs
Park Street
New England Association Master Teams Event Schedule 1977
Events held Sunday August 14 under New England Association rules include Pumping centrifugal and rotary after parade with $50 prize and trophies for 2nd and 3rd, a five man ladder climb after parade with $25 prize and trophies for 2nd and 3rd, men's midnight alarm after parade with $25 prize and trophies for 2nd, and ladies midnight alarm after parade with a first place trophy. Invited units replies come from Terryville Connecticut Avon Connecticut Unionville Connecticut Keene New Hampshire Rensselaer New York.
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New England Association
Terryville
Conn
Avon
Bennington Judge handles multiple district court cases
Bennington District Court Judge George M. Fienberg presided Monday over numerous cases. Defendants included Earl Green guilty of public intoxication with one day jail deemed served, Paul Woodward remanded on aggravated assault, Meyers and Parizo pleading not guilty on multiple charges, Torregrossa and Pratt released on recognizance, Bruso Jr charged with first degree arson, Vien given suspended sentence with rehab order, Bessotte placed on probation with restitution, and Doucette changing plea to driving while licensed suspended with a $50 fine.
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George M. Fienberg
Bennington District Court
Earl J. Green
Manchester Center
Paul G. Woodward
Arlington
Ernest B. Cross
Michael E. Meyers
Manchester
Laurence R. Parizo
Bennington
Parizo
Linda Parizo
Jesse F. Torregrossa
East Dorset
William Szirbik
Keith Mattison
Karl L. Brown
Wilmington
Francis L. Bruso Jr
United Counseling Service
Steven C. Pratt
George J. Vien
Pownal
Veteran’s Administration Hospital
Robert F. Bessotte
Eagle Bridge
N.Y
Bessette
Pauline Dowling
Edward C. Doucette
Senior Citizens Card Party and Social at Center
A public card party is set for 8 p.m. Friday July 15 at the Senior Citizens Center 168 North St with prizes for winners. Last week's winners were Alice Wright first Isabelle LaBarge second and Margaret Doyle won the door prize Hostess was Isabelle LaBarge. A social will follow at 1 30 p m Sunday July 17. Dues for 1977 were due July 1. Please get them paid.
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Senior Citizens Center
North St
Alice Wright
Isabelle LaBarge
Margaret Doyle
Engaged Ida Jones to Fredrick Bessette in Bennington
Engagement announced for Ida M. Jones daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Jones Sr. of Bennington to Fredrick Bessette with a July 16 wedding planned. ARLINGTON The Federated Church in East Arlington hosted the June 25 wedding of Dianne Dusha and Bruce Mosher.
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Richard E. Jones Sr
Bennington
Ida M
Fredrick Bessette
Arlington
Federated Church In
East Arlington
Dianne Dusha
Donald Dusha
Bruce Mosher
William Mosher
David Andrews
Barry Mattison
Phil Elwell
Laurel Zinn
Ann Coley
Ann Hoyt Benini
Portland
Kathleen Collier
Durant
Iowa
Karen Mosher
Laura Dusha
Nicholas Oldman
Leo Tetreault
Essex
David Redmond
Burlington
Charles Dusha
Keith Mosher
Mosher-Dusha Wedding News Card at Fisher School
Mosher-Dusha wed with the bride given in marriage by her father. She wore a full length empire waist gown of blue dotted Swiss with white lace and daisies on a picture hat. Attendants wore blue dotted Swiss. a daisied bouquet. flower girl with yellow and white daisies. Reception at Fisher Elementary. trip to White Mountains. couple to reside in Swanton. Bride a 1974 Arlington Memorial graduate intending UVM. groom MAUHS 1971, VTC 1973.
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Fisher Elementary School
Sally King
Cambridge
N.Y
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Moshers
Swanton
Mosher
Arlington Memorial High School
UVM
MAUHS
VTC
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St. Peter’s Fair
Carolyn Moors
Lillian Newberg
Laura Phillips
Fred Welling
Leon Eldred
Hugh McCabe
William Maitland
Wally Smith
George Spitler
Beau
Dot Aja
Diane McLellan
Lucinda Thomson
Laila Stout
Deborah Williams
Anne Williams
Hazel Wilson
Anne Fay
Ethel Breese
Martha Roy
Betty Wadsworth
Bertha Denio
Ginny Buck
Edna Kemmerer
Claire Haytke
Joan Kevorkian
Helen Wood
Mab DuHamel
Muriel Jacobs
Serendipity
Elizabeth Armstrong
Pauline Jacobs
Marjorie Tollison
Petite Parisienne
Eleanor Murphy
Luise Horne
Vermont
Josie Baczek
Martha Weeks
Louise Philpott
Isabel Peacock
Audrey Maitland
Grace la Grange
Margaret Muchmore
Jean Cameron
Jean Leake
CVPS
Main Street
Firemen’s Battle
Mattison
Banquet
ADV
Knapp’s Pets & Hobbies
Putnam Square
West Main Street
Bennington Battle Monument
New England
George Jones
Spartans
Nashua
N.H
St. Mary’s
Pittsfield
Shoreliners
Classics
West Haven
Centurions
Enfield
Vanguards
Seymour
Paradise
ST. Peter's Church
School and
Pleasant Streets
Merry
Meert
KODAK
Drysdale Building
SOUTH
Jones-Bessette
White Sale
Nichols
Mrs
Pyan Talem
Yourol
TD Ae
Fienberg
Main ST
Bennington, VT
Vermont National
FDIC
Bacon Swift
Walker
Buster Brown
Main
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