Sacred Heart Fall Festival At Sacred Heart Bennington
The Sacred Heart Fall Festival hosted by the parish parents group runs this Saturday at 11 am on the church grounds at Gage and School streets Bennington. It features crafts from parish members a Christmas Table home decorations lunch sausage and pepper grinders hamburgers hot dogs and drinks. Activities include pony rides games balloons clowns and a cake walk every 20 minutes. Proceeds support Sacred Heart School with a rain date set for October 12.
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Sacred Heart
Sacred Heart Parent-Teacher’s Group
Gage
School Streets
Bennington
Sacred Heart School
Coin Collecting Lecture Sunday at Park McCullough House
Kenneth Clayton leads a Sunday talk on The Whys and Wherefores of Coin Collecting at Park McCullough House, Oct 19 at 4 pm. The event features a Vermont and US coin focus, an exhibit and sale, and a Catamount Coin Club Q&A. Admission is free.
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Kenneth Clayton
Park McCullough House
Vermont
United States
Gerald LeBeau
Catamount Coin Club
Clayton
Philadelphia
Rupert
Southern Vermont College elects Nancy Ingraham senior rep
Nancy Ingraham of Bennington was elected senior class representative to the Southern Vermont College student government. Other officers elected last week include vice president Tom Jozitis and junior and freshman representatives Joyce Trumble Irene Gilson Sarah Traynor and Tom Howard with continuing officers Colleen Kenna Marie Best Andrew Patrick Michael Tranchida Hope Gaucher and Carol Waters. The SG oversees student life activities and funds and the president serves on the college board of trustees.
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Southern Vermont College
Herb Albrycht
Bennington
Tom Jozitis
Nashua
N.H
Joyce Trumble
Lake George
N.Y
Irene Gilson
Highland Springs
N.J
Sarah Traynor
Warwick
R.I
Tom Howard
Milo
Maine
Colleen Kenna
Stamford
Pownal cranberry bog described as plantlife wonderland
The Bennington Garden Club hosted a program on the Pownal cranberry bog titled New Light on the Bog. It covered the bog’s geology over 11,000 years, palynology studies, pollination in bog orchids, and the bog’s flora and fauna. Caution about Poison Sumas was issued. Also notes St Francis de Sales parish religion classes start Oct 13 at Catamount Elementary School with times for different grade levels.
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Bennington Garden Club
Bennington Museum
Thomas Foster
Pownal
Hubert Vogelmann
University of Vermont
Cranberry Bog
Lucien Hanks
David Whitehead
Williams College
Elizabeth Titus
Frederick Beecher
Thomas’ Brockway
Garden Club
St. Francis de Sales Parish
Catamount
Hospital Notes October 8 Admissions and Discharges
On Wednesday October 8 admissions include Irene Mears Joann Ballance Raymond Watson and Bennington. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Joseph Holts of North Bennington. Discharges include James Bishop Shaftsbury Maude Langworthy Hoosick Falls Penelope Saddlemire and baby girl Arlington Elizabeth Harnett Berlin.
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Irene Mears
Joann Ballance
Raymond Watson
Bennington
Joseph Holts
North Bennington
James Bishop
Shaftsbury
Maude Langworthy
Hoosick Falls
Penelope Saddlemire
Arlington
Elizabeth Harnett
Berlin
Laryngectomee Club Forms in Vermont and Massachusetts
The Green Mountain Berkshire Echoes Laryngectomee Club of Southern Vermont and Northern Massachusetts met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Reichel in Pownal. Attending were Stephen Mikita and Dr. Stuart Freyer from Putnam Memorial Hospital, plus Mrs. D. Dexter Davis, president of the Bennington County Unit of the Vermont American Cancer Society. The club, organized this year, is Vermont’s only laryngectomee group, drawing members from southern Vermont and parts of Massachusetts near North Adams and Pittsfield. The group aims for total rehabilitation and discussed public education on laryngeal cancer symptoms and detection. Refreshments were served. another meeting is planned.
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Pownal
Green Mountain-Berkshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Louis Reichel
Stephen Mikita
Stuart Freyer
Putnam Memorial Hospital
D. Dexter Davis
North Adams
Pittsfield
Bennington
BenMont Avenue
Jennie Marker
Adolph Marker
Emma Halliday
Herrick
Bennington Elks raffle deadline set for Oct 14
Bennington Elks must submit ticket stubs and money from the Silver Towers raffle by Tuesday Oct 14. The drawing occurs Saturday Oct 18 at the Windsor lodge during a dinner dance open to all Bennington lodge members. a members meeting is planned next Tuesday. State Elks trustee Max Perrotta thanked locals for past help and urged continued ticket sales.
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Bennington Elks
Windsor Lodge
Bennington Lodge
State Elks
Max Perrotta
Elks
Navy admiral Rickover to stay on active duty past 75
Defense Secretary Schlesinger extends Admiral Rickover’s active duty to age 78, keeping him as head of the Navy’s nuclear propulsion program until January 1976. Rickover, born January 27, 1900, is hailed as father of the nuclear navy and helped press for his promotions through years of lobbying and congressional testimony.
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Washington
UPI
Defense
James Schlesinger
Adm
Ryman George Rickover
Navy
Rickover
Schlesinger
Congressional
Atomic Energy
Armed Services
Appropriations
Congress
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Howland Cemetery
Oxford Pickle Co
South Deerfield
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Monsarito
Pownal Cranberry Bog
St. Francis
Bennington County
American Cancer Society
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Elks News
Bennington Briefs
Friends of Music
Mt. Anthony Union High School
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Bennington Club
VFW
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Napolitano’s
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Bennington Banner
Main St
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United Press International
New York Times News Service
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen, Inc
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D-S.c
House Armed Services Committee
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South Egremont
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Schenectady
12Th Regiment
William F. Hartigan
Alberta St
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Suni
Market Corner
Otafford & Gage Papers
Montreal
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S/DEWALK SALE
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Ennington, VT
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Williamstown, Mass
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Metropolitan Life Ins
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Bud Peterson
Joe Hall
Luther
Jack Morse
Bill Bullock
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