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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1976
Page
3
Recipes for ham and chicken bake and yam biscuits share a collection featuring eggplant casserole tenderloin noodle variety and a tomato topped macaroni and cheese. Dishes use ham, chicken, pork, blue cheese, mozzarella, and seasonal produce with baking times around 25 to 35 minutes at 350 degrees.
A sequence of weekly school lunch menus lists meals for Monday through Friday featuring juice, sandwiches, hot vegetables, fruit, milk, and sides like fish sticks and macaroni. A separate note reports a recent bingo party at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington, sponsored by Disabled American Veterans, with details on hosts, door prizes, and bingo winners.
The military funeral for Lewie V. Montgomery of 44 Elm St Rutland a native of East Arlington and former Arlington resident was held March 12 at the Joseph Smith Memorial in South Royalton with American Legion Post 31 honors the flag presented to the family. Eulogies readings and benediction followed and entombment is planned for Maple Hill Cemetery Shaftsbury at a later date. Pallbearers included Jeffrey Fields William Rice John Murphy Roger Geckler and others from Rutland. New TOPS officers were elected March 8 in Rutland with installation planned March 22 at Molly Stark School.
The U S Army Corps of Engineers will build a 2 million flood control system in Fort Kent Maine. The plan includes a 4000 foot long 15 foot high dike to shield Main Street from the St John River and a pumping station for interior drainage. Construction starts late May over two seasons with bids in mid April. Fort Kent has suffered spring floods including a 1974 ice jam flood.
A bicentennial philatelic fair sponsored by the Troy New York Stamp Club will be held at the Bennington venue. Organizers invite stamp collectors to attend, with event specifics including date and location to follow in later notices.
Multiple admissions listed for Patricia Masi Robert Little Susan Woelber Virginia Ferris Sonya Ryan Marie Nugent Mary Medbett Betty Rufus Madeleine Butler Frank Hodeck Fred Palmer Lillian Gates Gertrude Monroe and others with locals from Bennington Troy N Y Cam bridge N Y Granville N Y and Shaftsbury area. Troy Holiday Inn Troy Post Office and Troy City Hall host free admission events April 3 4 with door prizes and area singers rehearsing Calabro s Voyage tonight at 730 at Mt Anthony Union High School chorus room FOE Aerie 1861 officers meet March 23 with a member business follow up March 20 junior mini horse show Dornhof Farm Shafts bury open to public refreshments available no admission. Shea Agency Inc sponsors insurance at 503 Main St Bennington.
A Bennington column reflects on reading choices centered on Ireland England and Vermont inspired by St Patrick's Day. Authors Maurice Walsh D E Stevenson Una Troy and Alice Dwyer Joyce are praised for strength humor and tenderness with notes on The English Air The Rainbow Glass and The Graces of Ballyheen. A cancer crusade meeting in Bennington is announced.
Deadline is next Wednesday March 24 to sign up for the April 19 to May 14 voyage costing $533. It covers motel lodging bus transportation and sightseeing with stops at oil wells near Oklahoma's capital Grand Canyon Disneyland movie studio winery Fisherman's Wharf Utah's Mormon Tabernacle and Nebraska's Father Flanagan's Boys Town. Contact Mary Seidel, director of Senior Citizens Center, at 442-3543 for details.
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