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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1974
Page
5
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Today in Corry several residents are named in community notices including Steven Holton Stephen Hornick Thomas Miller Thomas Puckly Patrick Stockton Susan Burkhart and Judith Drayer, with further details pending.
St Thomas School first and fourth graders plus teachers and Sister Dominica held a Thanksgiving feast in the school auditorium. Students wrote original graces inspired by the first Thanksgiving. The event featured costumes, scenery and reflections linking reading, listening, and independent research to the holiday.
The Stanford Hose Company hosted the 88th Thanksgiving Eve Ball at the Elks Lodge. Grand prizes went to David Hallberg of Spartansburg for 300 dollars, James Hickey of Corry for 150 dollars, and S L Stanbro of Spartansburg for 50 dollars. Door prize winners included Walter Miller and others. notable attendees included Mrs Phyllis Maloney and firefighters Charles Weston and Leo Neckers with their wives.
The Corry Area Flower and Garden Club met at Mrs. Richard Daniels’ Worth Street home with Mrs. Daniels presiding. Members shared Thanksgiving gratitude, and the club set the December 10 dinner at Venture in for 7 p.m. followed by a gift exchange at Mrs. Michael Piccirillo’s Essex Street home. the December 24 meeting is canceled and the next session is in January. Dinner reservations were requested with Mrs. Bill Kingsley or Mrs. Piccirillo.
On Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the United Way Building in Erie eleven Homemaker Home Health Aide Trainees received certificates after completing a sixty hour training program. Wendell Wright presented the certificates and sits on the agency’s board. The staff additions include Barbara Johnson Sherry Phelps from Corry and several from North East Girard and Erie. Wright helped form the agency and led it to United Way and National Council accreditation. He recently resigned from the board to join the United Way Planning Division and the Episcopal Diocese of Erie.
Arctic cold blanketed the midcontinent with scattered snow and below freezing temperatures across the Plains Rockies Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. Snow ranged up to two inches in northeastern New Mexico and southeastern Colorado with lighter amounts elsewhere and travel advisories remained in effect in several states. Temperatures fell below zero in parts of Wyoming and near zero readings stretched from the northern Rockies into the Dakotas and Nebraska.
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