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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1974
Page
6
Bristol activates Emergency Employment Act and CETA jobs with pay from 670 to 10000 dollars a year. Positions include bilingual social worker, parks superintendent, police dispatchers, secretaries, and trainee roles. Additional hires promised, funds expected to continue, with veteran minority and unemployed priorities.
Town officials plan to expand services by about a third using several hundred thousand dollars in federal public employment funds arriving this month. Proposed hires include deputy finance director tax assessor public works director and police, plus a second bilingual social worker. Langelo calls for skilled highway crew to build a new garage dog pound and basketball court at Sowams playground and to repair vehicles seawalls drainage and the old armory. Nunes mentions a possible fire station or Wood St extension and a town planner.
Supt Edward P. Travers says schools will be open Thursday and Friday. Bristol is among 11 state communities re opening January 2 instead of January 6. Travers notes the board denied extending holidays, calling January a better educational setting than late June, while teachers described the extension as energy saving.
Everready Engine and Hose Co announces its regular monthly meeting moved to Thursday January 2 at 8 pm in the usual location due to the holiday. Only the day changes. the time and place remain the same.
Gail Eastwood profiles a Peace Corps volunteer serving in Ecuador detailing daily duties, cultural exchanges, and the impact of grassroots projects in rural communities.
Linda Biden and her husband Richard serve in Quito and Salasaca Ecuador as Peace Corps volunteers. They adapt to primitive living with mud huts electricity and limited water while teaching the Indians to ease daily struggles. Linda former Bristol High School graduate and Bryant College student adjusts from a comfortable home to high altitude life and shared memories with her parents George and …
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