Isolated Maine family runs year-round Bowlin Camps to school
Four Smallwood brothers from Township 5, Range 8 Maine travel by plane boat and snowmobile to attend Patten grammar and Katahdin junior high. The journey can take hours and depends on weather. They fly from Shin Pond to Bowlin Pond for pickup, or drive when fog or ice blocks flights.
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Range
Maine
Betty
Jon Smallwood
Smallwoods
Mike
Paul
Dave
Don
Penobscot River
Range 8
Patten
Bowlin Pond
Shin Pond
Patten Grammar School
Katahdin Junior High School
Sherman
Civilization
Doris
Virgil Lynch
Lynch
Smallwood
Dear Abby column on psychiatric treatment and love questions
A reader argues about how private psychiatric treatment affects job eligibility while Dear Abby notes laws and biases label mental health history. Other letters discuss love versus sex, noting love is selective and sex for its own sake often lacks a lasting connection.
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Abby
M. R
State PEO Convention This Week in Des Moines
The 85th Iowa chapter PEO Sisterhood convention runs Wednesday to Friday at Drake University Des Moines with all 358 chapters represented. Four projects are highlighted including Cottey College Educational Loan Fund International Peace Scholarships and the Continuing Education Fund. New Iowa chapters receive charters and speakers include Lillian Corley Sukanya Sirtantikorn Jeanette Aurelius Marilyn Abbas and William Wagner in a banquet slide show on Iowa history.
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Des Moines
Iowa State
PEO Sisterhood
Iowa
Drake University
PEO
Cottey College
Nevada
Educational Loan Fund
United States
Canada
Vinton
Iowa City
Center
Sukanya Sirtantikorn
Thailand
University of Iowa
Jeanette Aurelius
Marilyn Abbas
Drake
Corley
William Wagner
Simonsens celebrate 50th wedding anniversary
Mr and Mrs Earl Simonsen marked their fiftieth wedding anniversary last Monday. They wed the former Ethel McBurney on May 23 1927 in Marion.
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Earl Simonsen
N Street
Simonsen
Ethel McBurney
Marion
Kennedys mark 50th wedding anniversary in Oxford
The Kennedy couple Dennis and Mrs. Kennedy will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house Sunday from 2 to 5 at St. Marys parish hall in Oxford. They were wed June 1, 1927, in Oxford and have two children James of Fairfield and Mrs. Kite Knowling of Oxford.
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Oxford
Dennis Kennedy
St. Mary’s
Rachel Linkhart
Kennedy
James
Fairfield
Kite Knowling
Club Activities and Meetings Noted in Gazette Listings
CSA Members will meet for a potluck dinner at 6 30 Wednesday at the CSPS hall. Take a covered dish meat dish and table service. Council and lodge meetings will follow. OES Auxiliary to the Children's Home hosts Mrs Marshal Jones Wednesday at 1 at Bishops Lindale Plaza. Home Garden Club Hostess Wednesday at 12 30 will be Mrs Russell Knapp 529 Knollwood Drive SE. Jane Wylie and Jan Ashman present a program Herbs for All Seasons.
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CSA
CSPS
OES
Marshal Jones
Bishops, Lindale Plaza
Home Garden Club
Russell Knapp
Knollwood Drive
Jane Wylie
Jan Ashman
Netcott Votroubek MARRY AT St Patrick's Fairfax
Debra Kay Netcott and Todd Steven Votroubek wed at St Patrick's Catholic church in Fairfax with a 10 am ceremony officiated by Rev William Arquitt. 150 guests attended a reception and the couple plans to reside at 3000 J Street SW.
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Fairfax
Debra Kay Netcott
Todd Steven Votroubek
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
William A. Arquitt
Legal Secretaries Elect Officers in Linn County
Judy Engelken 3720 Twelfth Avenue SW installed as president of the Linn County Legal Secretaries Assn. She works with Attorneys Shea Jackson and Irvine. New officers include Carol Myers vice president Deb Flory recording secretary Genette Mason corresponding secretary Carol Carpenter treasurer Toni Krejci governor Dianne Mills NALS representative and Dee Thurston parliamentarian. Frozen baby green lima beans and canned whole kernel corn are suggested as a pairing with butter and package directions.
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Judy Engelken
Twelfth Avenue
Linn County Legal Secretaries Assn
Shea, Jackson and
Irvine
Carol Myers
Deb Flory
Genette Mason
Carol Carpenter
Toni Krejci
Dianne Mills
NALS
Dee Thurston
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Ferthairilizer
Ann OE
St. Louis
Bill Black
Hassle
By Molly Bolton
Mrrs. Smallwood
Pattenn
Abigail van Buren
Memory Lane
U.S
Pat
Los Angeles Times
Simonsens
The
Kennedys
the Gazette
Hach Brothers Co. Inc
First Street
Netcott-Votroubek
Paul Netcott
Irwin Votroubek
Terri Stearns
Walford
Richard Aitchison
Craig Votroubek
Ames
Jim Netcott
Miss Stearns
J Street
Amana Refrigeration, Inc
Joanne
First Avenue S.E
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