House Doctor advises on glazing and refinishing furniture
A reader asks about disguising damage on a garage sale dining table. The House Doctor explains glazing can enhance but not conceal chips, recommends smoothing surfaces, base coats, and a glaze with precise steps and colors, then sealing with urethane.
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S.J
Study links employee theft to $30 billion in losses
A Commerce Department report titled Crime in Service Industries cites employee theft as the leading cause of crime losses, accounting for at least 60 percent of costs. It covers banks, schools, hospitals, hotels, and more, highlighting preventive screening and noting computer abuse as a growing, highly skilled threat with 110,000 business computers and many undetected crimes.
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Washington
UPI
Commerce Department
Bromley Ski Area Opens 40th Season on Thanksgiving Day
Bromley Ski Area opened its 40th season on Thanksgiving Day with help from expanded snowmaking capacity. General Manager Robert Paron said the ski area has begun by Thanksgiving for over a decade and noted two new Hedcos added this month. The facility, installed 11 years ago under late owner Fred Pabst, can now produce machine-made snow across 83 percent of the mountain quickly.
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R.C.G
Manchester
Bromley
Robert Paron
Paron
Hedcos
Fred Pabst
Delaney Retires After 32 Years at Stanley Tools Shaftsbury
Delaney, foreman in shipping and receiving, ends a 32 year career at the Stanley Tools Eagle Square plant Shaftsbury with retirement on November 1. He started as a kiln operator in 1946 and rose to group leader and yard foreman. He is a noted expert on kiln drying beech stock with published papers.
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George J. Delaney
Stanley Tools
Eagle Square
Shaftsbury
Delaney
Stanley Works
Paul J. DeConinck
Barney Betit prize winners in Stanley contest
Mrs. Gladys Barney of North Bennington wins a Lenox 24K Gold Trim Symphony Centerpiece as the Fourth Prize in Stanley Home Products Changed My World contest. The prize goes to the customer entry chosen for originality and impact, with Mrs. Sandra Betit of Bennington named as the fourth prize recipient.
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Gladys Barney
North Bennington
Stanley
Stanley Home Products
Stanley Hostess
Sandra Betit
Bennington
Rodolfy Named Manager at Norton Sealants Granville
Joseph H. Rodolfy joins Norton Sealants Granville as manager for administrative services. He will plan USA procurement strategy oversee Granville purchasing and direct HR programs including employment compensation health and safety EEO AAP OSHA and community relations. Rodolfy holds a masters in personnel and psychology from Montclair State College with 20 years in education and industry formerly GM of H Blumenfeld Co NYC. He and his wife Lee and five children live in Man…
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Granville
N.Y
Joseph H. Rodolfy
Norton Sealants
Rodolfy
U.S.A
Tiffts invest in Sentinel Bond Fund shares at Oct. 19
Danby residents Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Tifft bought 475 shares of Sentinel Bond Fund Inc. on October 19 after the fund changed name from Sentinel Income Fund Inc. The sale was arranged by David A. Keenan of Equity Services Vermont. The fund manager is National Life Investment Management Co. The Tiffts considered CDs before choosing monthly-compounded dividends. Mr. Tifft serves as caretaker at the Four Winds Motel in Manchester.
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DANBY
Edgar Tifft
Rfdi, Danby
Sentinel Bond Fund Inc
National Life Insurance Company
Mutual Investment Company
Tiffts
Sentinel Income Fund, Inc
Sentinel Bond Fund, Inc
National Life Investment Management Company, Inc
David A. Keenan
Chartered Life
Equity Services, Inc
Vermont General Agency
Sentinel
Corporations must act ethically says Chemical Bank chief
Boston UPI Donald C. Platten, chairman of Chemical Bank, urged Harvard Business School Finance Club members to pursue profits alongside moral conduct. He acknowledged past failings under bank secrecy act provisions and said management controls and top leadership direction were inadequate.
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Boston
UPI
Chemical Bank
Donald C. Platten
Harvard Business School
Finance Club
Platten
Christmas shopping bus service runs Friday and Saturday loops
Bennington Regional Transit Inc plans special pre Christmas minibuses operating Friday nights at 7 p.m. and Saturdays from November 25 to December 24, looping through N Bennington Stone Church Corner and Putnam Square then returning to Shaftesbury. For more information call 442-2754.
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N. Bennington Park
Stone Church Corner
North St
Gage
East Main
Down Main
Putnam Square
County and Hunt Sts
N. Bennington
Shaftesbury
Bennington Regional Transit Inc
North Bennington
BRTI
N. Benn. Park
Mammoth Mart
Monument Plaza
North & County (S
Park & Gage
Division & Gage
Bradford & Gage
Ays
Harvard & Main
Pinu
Gage & Main
JR. High School
Depot & River
North & County
Eo N. Benn. Park
Denny Blinker
Shaftsbury
N. Benn
Park
Stone Church
Division & Gage Tek
Bradford & Gage Veces
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