Woods Fire Adds Excitement To Manchester Fishing Derby
Manchester youths aged up to 15 fished two hours at a pond behind Mr and Mrs Eugene Kayatta as two logs started a small fire across the road. VFW Post 6471 volunteers kept children from entering the flames until local firefighters extinguished it. Winners included Keith Porter Debbie Ellis and Bill Roberts with prizes from Ken's Sport Shop Horton Hardware Orvis Walker's Hardware Sendra's Market and Balch's Bait Shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Harned-Fowler Post 6471
VFW
Eugene Kayatta
Vt. Fish and Game Department
Mill Pond
Manchester Center
Keith Porter
Debbie Ellis
Bill Roberts
Kathy Griffis
Joe Roberts
Linda Thurin
Bobby Phillips
Jebb Balch
Allen Hosley
Gary Tuttle
Skip Kent
Jeff Kilburn
Mike Hanlon
Susan Scribner
Mike Hill
Allen Markey
John West
Jean Averill
John Balch
Post
Ken‘s Sport Shop
Horton Hardware
Orvis Co
Walker’s Hardware
Sendra’s Market
Balch
Harned-Fowler Post
Kayatta
Local Kindergarten Graduation at Pownal Center School
Budding local thespians performed at the Pownal Center School graduation exercises for Mrs. Ann Hathaway's Kindergarten Class. The program opened with a flag salute and a seasonally themed musical hour, with nursery rhymes recited by the graduates and a play The Boy and the Wolf staged by cast members. Presentations included diplomas by Mrs. Hathaway, a poem by Pamela Pettit, and a hymn. Nearby church events include a cabinet meeting, a chicken on biscuits supper May 22, Boy Scout Troop 47 meeting, and a note of a May 5 birth of H. Peter Bassen, sibling to Betsy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pownal Center
Ann Hathaway
Jack Frost
Lincoln
Valentines
ABC Song
Thomas Pizzano
Miss Muffet
Rick Green
Hickory
Gretchen Strohmaier
Jack and
Jill
Toni Mantello
Ding
Dong Bell
Patricia Carlson
Little Boy Blue
Cindi Armstrong
Tom
Pamela Pettit
Peter
Scott Chenaille
Jack Be Nimble
Tori Mantello
Old King Cole
H. John Hathaway
Boy and the Wolf
Wolf
Toni
Teri Mantello
Henry W. Bassen
H. Peter Bassen
Betsy
Shaftsbury Woman Joins VISTA Program
Mrs. Irene Gallant leaves Shaftsbury for a year long VISTA assignment in Chicago training at Hull House six weeks then serving under the War on Poverty program. She will earn 50 dollars monthly plus living expenses while guiding communities toward self help with potential extension to three years and aims to help 60 000 volunteers nationwide by July 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaftsbury
Irene Gallant
VISTA
America
Chicago
Hull House
United States
Jane Adams
Johnson
Peace Corps
Gallant
North Bennington Dedicates New Firehouse on Prospect Street
North Bennington celebrates the formal opening of its new firehouse on Prospect Street with a 10 am ceremony attended by the town’s leaders, mutual aid from nearby departments, and more than 300 guests. Fire Chief Martin Percey and Fred Welling emphasize community pride as architect Ben Thompson and volunteers are praised for a building described as the nicest in the state. The facility features three bays, riverfront setting by Paran Creek, landscaped grounds, a second floor hall with windows and drapes, and a waterfall view. Construction cost about 55,000 dollars with 38,000 funded by taxpayers and 5,000 by the fire department, the rest from anonymous locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Prospect Street
Martin Percey
Pownal
Shaftsbury
Bennington Rural
Bennington
Fred Welling
Welling
Ben Thompson
Cambridge
Mass
North
Gunnar Schonbeck
Paran
Gerald E. Morrissey
Paran Creek
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Bulova
Main
Tee
Peet Ae Ie
The
Pownals
Vera Langlais
Arlington
Helene Thompson
Fisher Elementary School
Arlington High School
Arlington Choral Group
West Arlington Community Rooms
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Rooms
WWI
Red Mountain
CBS
Masonic Temple
Red Mt. Lodge No. 63
St. James Episcopal Church
Tanzania
Williams
Williamstown
Eliel P. Mualuko
Councellor
United Republic of Tanzania
United Nations
Cluett House
Williams College
George Mbowe
Center For Development Economics
Mbowe
Seaman Vachon
J.P. Kennedy
Richard H. Vachon Jr
USN
Richard H. Vachon Sr
Route 2
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr
Newport
R.I
Singer Sewing Machine Co
Miami
Dayton
Wichita Falls
Tex
Raymond
Shirley
Windthurst
Ruth Gallant
Marquett University
Milwaukee
Wis
Mrs
Depot Street
Bennington, VT
DIAL
Oxford
Batiste Oxford
Adams
Clothes
Elizabeth Dwyer
Grand Union
London
Florida
Etunias Great Lakes
Michigan
HOT House Tomatoes
Land O'Lakes
Nancy Lynn
Deodorizer Lysol
LUX Liquid
Howard Johnson
Swan Liquid
Bot
Ible
Inver House
Hugh
Scotland
Inver House Distillers, Ltd
PHILA
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