Panama Canal Through Cristobal and Balboa Travel Log
Isabel Gwinn reports from Port Simon Costa Rica on the canal's history and current traffic. She describes Cristobal and Balboa in the Canal Zone, duty free shopping, hotel life at Washington Hyatt, street life, police presence, and a train trip along Gatun Locks. The piece notes 15,000 annual ship passages and tolls around 6651 dollars, plus local prices like 400 dollar SONY TVs and 80 cent gasoline. It ends with a McDonalds sighting and Panamanian appetite for American hamburgers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabel Gwinnport Simon
Costa Rica
Caribbean Sea
Pacific Ocean
Panama Canal
Horn
Cristobal
Japan
Norway
Australia
Canal Zone
Panama
Hong Kong
SONY
U.S
Canal
Colon
Washington-H
Balboa
Gatun
Vermont
McDonalds
Red Cross fund drive starts this Sunday
On Sunday March 16 nearly 190 volunteers will start ringing doorbells in Bennington to solicit contributions for the annual Red Cross fund drive. The goal is 20000 to support more than 150000 in free services in Bennington County including Blood Bank Gray Ladies at Putnam Memorial Hospital and local veterans home visits. The drive funds 12 hour daily free help from Gray Ladies and more than 1000 people trained in first aid life saving and water safety each year. The fund also covers disaster supplies and military family assistance with the drive running through Easter weekend in 17 county towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Red Cross
Bennington County
Blood Bank
Gray Ladies
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Vermont Veterans’ Home
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Herons Amidst the Herd Tour Journal in Costa Rica
Banner correspondent Isabel Guinn chronicles a Mare Antico voyage to Port Simon Costa Rica. The trip includes park scenes with banyan trees and street markets, a southbound train through cocoa plantations past former banana-worker towns, and observations of life without electricity. The piece notes a late return to Port Simon with a lively harbor park scene as readers receive the second installment of her journal aboard the Marc Artico.
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Mare Antico
Port Simon
Costa Rica
Panama
Central Park
Beverly
Mountain Cow
Penzhurst
United Fruit Company
Ethan Allen Pomona Grange Notes and College Registration
Ethan Allen Pomona Grange met March 11 in West Arlington with Battenhill Grange youth as hosts and Mrs. Lillian Wood presiding. Reports by home economics and youth chairs, plus plans for May 10 sewing contest at 105 Grant St Bennington. Auction raised 26.20 for youth, 1200 Betty Crocker coupons sent to Homer Ailes. Next meeting April 8 in South Shaftsbury with dues supper. Ethan Allen Community College spring registration begins March 17 with new faculty and courses.
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Ethan Allen
Pomona Grange
West Arlington
Battenhill Grange
Lillian Wood
Hazel Hogan
Grange
Grant St. Bennington
Pomona
National Youth Training Fund
IFYE
Mt. Equinox
Bennington
Helen Clough
Williamstown
James Jeffords
Grange Center
Marion Thompson
Manchester Center
Blanchard Stone
Wood
Betty Crocker
Homer Ailes
State Grange
Susan Dawley
Mt. Holly
Howard Sharman
State Grange Prince
Duxbury
Shirley Matteson
Arlington
Belle Decker
Pawlet
Manchester
Kathy Denko
Springfield
Middletown Springs
Mettowee Valley
Mt. Anthony
Gassetts
Perkinsville
Ethan Allen Community College
Bonnet Street
Dennis Burden
Peggy Leder
Margaret Toolen
Mary Gale
Alice Murphy
Richard Vickery
Andrea Amedeo
Law
Edmond Reid
Arlington school board weighs state reimbursements and security upgrades
Arlington School Board discussed direct state reimbursement to Sandgate and Sunderland students attending Mt. Anthony vocational center. High water pressure and field drainage issues at Fisher Elementary prompt consideration of a new service line and pumps. A March 1 high school break-in and theft of a record player parts are under investigation. $70 lunch money stolen from the elementary office. board seeks a community safe to acquire. A NYC trip for an advanced biology class was approved if scheduled on a vacation day.
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Manross
Fisher
New York City
North Shire Senior Center Calendar Highlights Week
Tabby Hastings offers bridge lessons at 2 p m with call-ins for arrangements. Ceramics and dry skin care demo by Priscilla Whipple’s Pharmacy March 17. Meals program March 18 at Eagles Hall with transportation or diet needs note by Monday noon. Bowling, tax help, art class, card party March 19 20 21. Center seeks cheaper facility options and welcomes suggestions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tabby Hastings
Priscilla of
Whipple’s Pharmacy
Eagles Hall
Bill Bryan
Ernest Schmidt
Ann Carmon
Charles Lathrope
Hazel Kett
Vincent Costantino
Monasta
Dorothy Ferrance
Roy Draper
Burton Barber
Belle Prebble
Nellie Barry
St. Patrick’s Day
Bennington Lanes
Trustees prepare for Village Meeting in North Bennington
North Bennington voters will consider revenue sharing allocations for water main work on North Street, guard rails on Water Street, and funding for a new fire truck. They will also vote on a BOR funded multi use building at Norshaft Park with local cash and in kind Lions support, plus annual village budget and officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Dwyer
North Bennington
Norshaft Lions Memorial Park
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
North Street
Water Street
Fire Department
Hall Park McCullough
Norshaft Park
Houghton Street
Fred Welling
BOR
Welling
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Arlington Dairy Bar
Ron and
Donna
Banner
Isabel Guinn
Central America
Marc Artico
Ethan Allen Grange
North Shire Senior Center
Bromley
First Vermont Bank and Trust
First Vermont Bank and Trust Company
Lawrence F. Powers
Phoebe R. Crosier
Arthur E. Wickenden
Duane Muckle
Lloyd Pratt
Edward Legacy Jr
Donald Cherbonneau
Promenadors
Mass
Mt. Greylock Regional High School
Earl W. Turner
Lenox
Arlington Memorial High School
Samrocks
Fisher School
Hoosick
NBC
Pulsar
The
New York Times
Shultz Sewalere Inc
American Gem Society
Main Street
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