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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1970
Page
6
First Officer Anthony W. Romeo advised residents to use the firehouse phone if the police line is busy. Romeo noted both departments share connections, and Chairman John J. Pignatelli said complaints of unreachable police prompted a plea to avoid using the lines for non police matters.
The Royals beat the Nats 8 to 6 in Pee Wee action as Chris Ryan and Michael Coakley led with 8 and 5 points while Chris Vree land starred for the Nats with 6. Warriors 15 Knicks 8, Bullets 38 Celtics 16 led by Billy Lahart 18 and Steven Omellenchuck 10. 76ers 29 Lakers 26, Stephen Choquette 15 for the victors. Upcoming games set Nats vs Warriors on Court St and Knicks vs Troyals on Court 2, Lenox Elementary. Celtics vs 7thers and Lakers vs Bullets next, with times noted. CORRECTION: GE zoning hearing date is Feb 18. Pizza tonight. Joe's Grill. Ade
Lenox selectmen name Joseph C. Smith of Under Mountain Road as special police officer for watershed area. Smith, a Water Department employee, succeeds Donald Harrington who retired six months ago. Kiwanis Snowmobile Race and related events listed with registration at 11 a.m. and ads for loan opportunities.
Worthington resident Harry L. Bates of Buffington Hill Road marked his 85th birthday last Sunday. Born in 1885, he built many local houses, learned stone masonry, and led a musical life as violinist, pianist, and drummer with his orchestra. A charter Worthington Golf Club member and former baseball player, Bates also shared a silver wedding anniversary in 1961 with Florence Berry after his first wife’s death.
Registration for the Imm. Heart Seminary event at Lenox is set for Siam with race one at 1 PM and a 3 dollar advance fare.
The Lee High School booster club launches a fundraising drive with a food sale at Hyatt's Laundromat next Saturday from 1 PM to 2 PM to benefit the football team. Other events planned include a late February dance, a March basketball game, and an early April car wash. The goal is 1200 for team jackets, with committees led by William H. O'Brien and others.
The Lee High School honor roll for the second marking period includes six percent of students with high honors and lists names by class. Seniors Jeffrey Barton Kevin Barazzi Richard Brazee Ann Chandler Rindalee Crandall Philip Decker Susan Fabian Joan L Heureux Barbara Sabin Mary Serra Richard Wheeler Lawrence Whitman Debora Zerneri. Juniors Carolyn Barton Jean Buffoni Ruth Cornock MariSucrite Gaudetic Linda Jones Jon Kegler Nancy Wheeler. Sophomores Beverly Allen Susan Bowers Thomas Brown Robert Carrington Richard Consolati Robert Greenleaf Shelly Ketchen Glenn Langs Paul Monachina Alan Pavoni Susan Poulin Melanie Silver Deborah Simmons Patricia Skowron Sandra Tart William Turner James Wright Robert Wright. Freshmen Michael Dignard Laurie Fulton Mark Gaudette Carolyn Kennedy Wayne Larrige Joseph Miller James Nesti Carol Prinz Mareia Slaminsky Susan Slater Mark Thorne Stephanie Valihora.
The fifth annual ice race on Hoosac Lake in Cheshire will begin Sunday at 11. Fifty top drivers from New England, New York and New Jersey entered the four hour event sponsored by the Adams Lodge of Elks.
Miss Terri Louise Comstock of Cheshire has been accepted at Pierce College for Women East Concord NH to study airline travel secretariat. A public supper tonight at United Methodist Fellowship Hall will benefit the Hoosac Valley High School scholarship fund after a New England Ice Race Associations sanction. The race drew an estimated 3000 to 5890 spectators last year. Tickets will be available at the door featuring baked beans frankfurters potatoes au gratin salad homemade pie and beverage.
A fragment notes a registration time for a seminar or event tied to Imm Heart Seminar Lenon with a 1 pm race slot and an accompanying note Ady 3, reflecting a local event listing.
A town meeting at Hancock Central School Monday at 7 30 will vote on a 42 article warrant totaling 158 293 84 dollars. The School Department budget leads with 106 405 09 dollars a 12 percent rise driven by transport tuition and salaries. Articles cover routine appropriations plus purchases of town office equipment 400 dollars road salt spreader 930 dollars and a five member veteran plaque committee to list names of World War I Korean and Vietnam veterans. Corey Road public way status and town reports will be discussed.
Bernt Treu, born in Riga 1928, named manager of the Eagle Mill in Lee. His assistant is Michael Gallenberger, a Syracuse University forestry graduate with an MBA from UMass. Both are Lee residents. Treu previously supervised film plant design and worked for Crown Zellerbach and Black Clawson in Ohio and Canada.
Lee plans a town meeting article to adopt a BOCA abridged building code. Planning Board secretary Martin H Deely says the code creates a building inspector post and a board of appeals, with shared inspector duties possible for Stockbridge and Lenox.
St. Luke's School of Nursing students from Pittsfield will visit the Lee Visiting Nurse Association for a one week training session each in March June and September. The program is supervised by clinical instructor Sandra Driscoll with St. Luke's Marguerite Tristany and Lee VNA nurse director Mrs. Charles Darbe coordinating. A color movie The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad will be shown this afternoon at 1 at Lee Central School gymnasium.
Poughkeepsie’s Jack Reynolds, District 200 Lions International governor, will officially visit the Lebanon Valley Lions Club in New Lebanon. The dinner meeting is set for 1:30 p.m. at Shuji’s, with Elton A. Wilson, club president, aiming for a 100 percent turnout. Also listed is a Kiwanis Snowmobile Race in Lenox on February 5, with registration at 11 a.m. and the race at 1 p.m.
Harriet E. Swift of Golden Hill observed her West birthday on January 18 at her Golden Hill home. A Messina, New York native, she lives with grandson Arthur E. Swift and recalls a 1688 blizzard. Her late husband A. C. Swift ran a 200 tree orchard and hosted 10 to 12 summer boarders around 1900.
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